"It's been a bad day~"

Monday was awful! And it was an awful end of an awful work-week. AWFULNESS ABOUNDS. Thankfully, today is a blessedly work-free day. No work! Finally! A day off! Now I whine about yesterday, but I will put all of that under a cut so it can be avoided easily.

( Please don't take a picture. )

To celebrate my finally having a day off, last night I stole my brother's copy of Knights of the Old Republic, installed it on my laptop, and created a character. In typical fashion, after I'd picked a face and placed some of her stats, she peered out and decided to name herself. My characters always name themselves. It's very bizarre. I don't know when it started, because I have clear memories of struggling to come up with names for some of my earlier Diablo II characters.

Anyway, I was planning on either using Jade (even though Jade's claimed that one, because the face I chose is similar. Skin's too light and eyes are too blue and not green, but still similar), but, no. She wanted Kyra, but apparently there's an actor who spells her name like that and pronounces it "Kira," so I went with "Kaira." She's warming up to it well enough. (The good news is, despite her physical similarities to Jade, Kaira appears to be much nicer. Hooray!)

Though I can't complain too much, really. I'd rather they chose their own identities right from the beginning, rather than just deciding they weren't going to listen to me one day (like Jade, argh), or sneaking up on me. The sneaks usually tweak the spelling of their name (like Zil), or something similar.


And, really, today has already proven The Best Day Ever. I started my laptop up to find a message waiting over YIM telling me to get on FFXI as soon as I could, so I logged in and boggled for a minute over what the heck I was doing in South Gustaberg when I logged out in West Ronfaure (Gustaberg is several zones away) and macro-swapped my Summerfest Sunbreeze Fest outfit for my normal gear (yes, the fact that I macro-swapped is important, because it means I didn't open my inventory). Also hadn't thought much of the fact that I was standing in the spawning area for Leaping Lizzy (a Notorious Monster who drops a really nice pair of boots).

Anyway, finally Aniko told me to just check my equipment, so, uh. Dude.

Dude.

I have been after that miserable hairpin for about as long as I've been playing this game (we're approaching four years now). It has eluded me! For years! The drop rate is horrible, everyone tries to kill the monster it drops off (because everyone wants it) and the non-rare/ex version (meaning it's tradable) sells for more money than I will ever have. I FLAIL.

And also I owe Aniko a piece of my soul.

And now we (she managed to bring people with her!) are camping the aforementioned Leaping Lizzy and I need to stop being distracted.

NO BOOTS OBTAINED

But the day was not a bust!

Went with my mother when she went for her haircut. Sat around bored until that was finished, then we went down to Burlington where I registered for classes. Whee? I have absolutely got to stop putting myself into two back-to-back three hour classes. SIX HOURS IS TOO LOOOOONG.

Anyway. Classes. Hoorah. Anyone saying, "Jecca, I thought you graduated in June" would be absolutely correct. But back to school again I go.


The course book had an unfortunate entry. I do not think they were reading what they had written very well. "Intro to Substance Abuse."

... yeah. Think I know a few people who must've taken that one.



We also bought groceries and went to the Big Lots (ie, cheap stuff for cheap) where Mom finally bought my brother a desk for his school-provided apartment, and I found Transformers Knock-offs in the toy department! They had some Beast Wars copies (dragon Megatron! In black and ... reddish! And "Optimal" Optimus Primal in the wrong colors) that had Beast Machines Cheetor on the packaging, and then they had some other things. I actually ended up buying a couple, heh.

The one I spotted first, well... It's WST-Prowl made larger to about the size of G1 Prowl. He has less articulation than G1 Prowl! How is that possible? And his chevron is yellow, but whatever. Clearly WST-only-bigger. The packaging killed me! "SPACE WARRIORS: TRANSFORMABLE AUTO-BOTS" I do not think they are even trying anymore, honestly. Auto-Bots. Yes.

I think some of them were minicons made big, too. Was funny. You can see them in this thread. I've got the yellow one, the police car one, and the red one with police lights. I'm calling them "Wants-To-Be Sunstreaker," "Wants-To-Be Prowl," and "Wants-To-Be Sideswipe" (respectively).


Doing amazingly better in Jak II this time around. I only ran into the walls maybe three or four times each on the races. Erol's been the hardest one so far, but I've yet to run the final race. We are getting near the end, though. I am fairly certain she does not suspect the Big Reveal that I had guessed ten minutes into things. Though at another time... She was asking if Torn and Ashelin look similar for any reason (my reaction: Torn and Ashelin look similar?) but I misinterpreted the very generic statement ("Woah, is it just me or do they look alike?" Eh? Oh, it, er... "Do you even know who I'm talking about?" [Spoilers (you can probably guess who if you've played or read my rambles): er, character-v1 and character-v.5]? "No, I meant Torn and Ashelin."). Oh, well.