I let the drawing bug bite at 1am! :D I'm forcing myself to bed after I type this. There's an unfinished sketch of Reilly sitting on my desk. I'm trying not to look at it lest I grab the sketchbook and pencil again.

I keep watching the video of Lola I posted on YouTube, which leads me to watch Oliver's video since it always comes up in the suggestions. I miss my baby. ^^; Lola's not really mine, you know? It was Mom's decision to get her from the Figueroas. I mean, Lola slept in my room the first couple nights and all, but I didn't find her, I didn't pick her out, I haven't been responsible for her. Oliver was my baby. I'm not sad about him anymore, though. I'm at peace with it. I can watch the video now without feeling like I'm going to cry, and that's a good thing. Now I just laugh at how adamant he was that Mom always had food. XD; Next dog I get will definitely be another Lhasa. I really like that breed. Ollie was a stubborn little bastard, but he was awesome.

Oliver!icon just because his underbite still amuses me and makes me "aww". ^_^

Lola broke out of my room yesterday. XD I'd blocked part of my room off for her to stay in before I came back to the college, and Mom and Craig both had to leave the apartment yesterday... and when Craig came home, Lola greeted him at the door. Needless to say, Mom bought her a nice-sized crate to stay in when they have to leave. ^^;;

Been staring at a Java problem for the past few hours, tinkering with the code to fix a bit of an error I'm getting. Not an error, more like a miscalculation. It's something very simple, I'm sure, but I haven't been able to figure it out. It's a problem to do with compound interest. I got the yearly amount to come out right, but the monthly and daily amounts are off, and nothing I do fixes the problem. The program is due tomorrow, so I think I'm going to hold off on submitting my files, and ask John about it after class, before I submit them. I'll run it for him so he knows I've done it. The loops work, and I think that's the most important thing. The issue is that we have to have the program give us a balance, after the user inputs an initial balance and interest rate, with interest compounded over 10 years, and the interest has to be compounded yearly, monthly, and daily. We can't use math to do it, though. It has to be done through loops. Right now I have two loops, an inner and an outer. (Was originally three inner loops, but I realized it wasn't necessary and I could just consolidate everything into one while statement, which got rid of a couple variables. At least, I've done that and there's been no change to the result, so I'm assuming it's valid.) The outer loop was the first thing I did, and that's just a sentinel to tell the program to stop. Easiest part, right there. And the rest, I'm stuck. Yearly comes out perfectly (John sent us his results, so we know what we're supposed to get), but the other two are off.

Rediscovering old music! So glad I brought the 2TB HD with me. I was able to put ALL my old files on, including all of my music. Sometimes I get the urge to look through the really old stuff, plop some music onto the laptop so I don't have to have the HD connected, and just remember. This band was one of my gateway groups in terms of Japanese music. I think it was them, GLAY, and Chisato that dragged me into it. I still have the Chisato stuff I downloaded a good ten or rmore years ago. (Was it that long ago? Napster wasn't targeted for infringement then... but I didn't use Napster. I used to get my Japanese stuff from Audiogalaxy before the RIAA screwed everything up. And then AG became Rhapsody.) I need to find my GLAY stuff. I don't recall seeing it on the drive, and I have a bad feeling it was a casualty from the laptop crash of 2004.

Tomorrow, hanging out with Heather again--she wants to play more Sonic. I whupped her ass last time we played. XD Of course, I am much older than she is, and I've memorized so much of old-school Sonic it's ridiculous. I've lost all my skill at Sonic Spinball. I only got up to the very beginning of The Machine before I died. Hate that level with a fiery passion. -_-

Okay. Bed. Two classes tomorrow morning, and I am done. This weekend I have to glaze three cups for Clay, and maybe fix up my vessel a bit more. I meant to take a picture of it before I left today. We had our critique, and everyone liked my design, but it did have some flaws I needed to deal with, like the horrible rim and the handles. Those were the last things I did last night, so I was TOO through with the entire process and didn't really do as well as I should have. I stayed behind after class to fix the issues, and it looks much better now. I can't wait until it gets fired. :D I'll probably go back this weekend and fix the coloring. I needed a much smaller paintbrush than the one I was using, so the slip is really messy in some places. Not terrible, but I drew figures on the surface and I want them to look good.

Holy crap, 1:36. All right. Good night.

So yesterday, I developed a cold. This is because the temperature dropped a good 20-30 degrees between Wednesday and Thursday, and I rushed out to class without looking at the weather widget on my desktop, so I was wearing short sleeves and my thin hoodie. All day. Because at that point it was Thursday, and Thursday is my no-time-to-do-anything day, which meant I came upstairs after religion and CS, dropped off my laptop, and ran back out to the studio. I think, between that, lack of good sleep, and the fire alarm being set off at around 9pm because one of the guys burned popcorn and forcing everyone to wait outside in no clothes for ten minutes, I woke up yesterday not feeling quite right. But I'd already skipped a set of Friday classes, last week, so I got up and went. By the time I got home two hours later, I was ready to die. -_- I talked on the phone with Mom (the laptop will be fixed during winter break) and Craig, and decided I needed a nap. I don't recall exactly what time this was. I think I ended up getting off the phone at two-something. I didn't wake up until almost seven. (My first thought: "Well, so much for going to Art Alliance's first meeting." Which was at 5pm.) Emma went to a dance show they had at the theater, and I stayed behind because I knew I'd be a sniffling, coughing, miserable mess, and ended up missing what was probably a great show. (Keigwin + Company, I believe, is the name.) Emma thankfully went back out to party, so I was left alone to work on homework. Eventually that turned into a marathon session of HetaOni watching. New obsession. I'm torn between being patient for the author to upload new episodes, because she is from Japan and they had/have a lot to deal with after the quake and tsunami, and ripping my hair out. It's that good. But anyway.

And TODAY. Oh gods, today. Today sucks.

My body's been acting really strangely lately, I think because of the stress of a new environment or schoolwork or something. Long story short, and being vague (but not vague enough--TMI, menfolk), something was supposed to get here early this week. Something started to come two weeks early and then disappeared. Then it showed up again, and disappeared. It did this three times. I've been wasting supplies because I didn't know when it would come back. Guess when it came back, with a freaking vengeance? And the extremely aggravating thing is, because it wasn't normal this time, I have no idea what day I'm on. It's been on and off for two weeks. I'd guess (hope) and say four. With my luck? One.

So, I'm sitting in bed, sniffling and achy, waiting for painkillers to kick in, and hoping that MAYBE this crap will go away so I can actually get some work done. What I have to do at the studio is going to take several days, and I have to have it done by Thursday morning's class, which is not my class, but the one before it... which really means I need to have it done by sometime Wednesday. Also have a math project that I forgot about, that I've had for a week now, that's due this coming Friday. And I have lots of studying to do for tests this week, and I'm in the process of rewriting that religion paper. CJ is a sad bunny right now. CJ would rather be drawing or writing at the moment. ._. I might actually do a little of that a little later. Right now, religion paper. I need a good one and a half more pages of material, I think. I wish we didn't have to write it from the student's point of view. It's so alien to me. ^^; I am happy to be in bed, though. I'd rather be sitting in my bed than on a hard chair, or worse, one of the stools in the studio. My back does not like those things at all, and because I'm always looking down at my work surface, I get serious low back pains when working in there. I wish they had a chair that could sit as high as the stools do; I could use something with back support.

Plus side? CS homework is done. Programs weren't all that difficult. Although I did have a bit of an issue with the outputs. We had to write a program to ask the user "Is it raining?" and "Is it freezing?" and give four outputs based on the answers: "Oh rainy day" for rain but no cold, "Oh cold day" for cold but no rain, "Oh great snow" for both, and "Oh sunny day" for neither. I could get every output to work but "Oh great snow". When I removed the first part of the if statements (the "raining" part), it worked. So, as a workaround, I just moved the bit to display "Oh great snow" to the top of the if-else part of the program, and it works. Prof didn't say that part has to be written into the program in order (yay, loopholes!), and I'll explain it to him if he asks (at which point he'll look at it, tell me exactly what was the matter, and I'll slap my head and feel like an idiot). What matters, I think, are that the outputs work, and they do. It's probably something very simple that I'm missing, but I couldn't work it out. And originally I had three boolean variables (which was part of my trying to fix the output problem--I added an extra boolean for snowing), but then I looked at the assignment again and realized I could only have two. Removing the snowing boolean didn't affect the program at all, so it's something with the order. For some reason, if I put "raining" first, it doesn't connect raining + freezing to equal snowing. But ANYWAY, screw it, the outputs work. More important things to deal with!

Later, if I feel better, I am totally going to Weis and picking up some chocolate syrup. I've been able to have chocolate milk, but out of a machine. I need some real chocolate milk. And maybe a thing of ice cream. I totally want some ice cream that's not in one of those huge tubs that I have to break my arm scooping out of. ^^; I might get more of those small Stouffer's lasagnas, too. I had one last night, because I skipped breakfast (as usual) and didn't go to lunch because I didn't feel like going back out, and missed dinner due to sleeping... and I figured I had to eat something, so I finally took one of the lasagnas out of the freezer and nuked it. The small one's actually better than the 21-oz one. The smaller one has more types of cheese, I think.

Okay. Back to work. I am determined to get the religion paper and my math homework out of the way today so I can focus on starting the math project and glazing my teapot. And studying for tests.