Romii

If people didn’t know already, I’m living in DC/Maryland again this summer. This time I’m alone in a basement of a fairly nice house in Takoma – it’s been renovated to be more or less like an apartment. It’s pretty sweet, minus all the bugs (which I can’t avoid no matter where I go).

So these are my plans for the summer:

• Try to wake up by 7am every weekday, by 10am on weekends (so far this has failed…).
• Work office hours (9am-5pm) every weekday to earn some money!
• Bike ride a lot!
• Explore Silver Spring on bike.
• Make my place suitable for living (aka. unpack and clean up the cobwebs…).
• Spend time with Brendan.
• Cook more meals.
• Make a new design!
• Possibly switch to Habari in the process of making a new design.
• Record more solo songs.
• Play Starcraft 2 Beta until it goes retail.
• Play any other games I’ve bought a while back and need to start and/or complete (i.e.: Persona 3 FES, Persona 4, Suikoden Tierkreis, Suikoden IV, Suikoden Tactics, etc).

My class schedule for next year is still a bit wonky, as I haven’t gotten that independent study approved yet. Life’s been pretty good otherwise; Brendan and a few of my friends are graduating this Saturday since they’re seniors, and it feels a bit lonely now.

It’s a bit scary thinking about senior year, as I still haven’t come up with a plan for my senior project that will actually work. All my ideas are kind of lame and web-based showing, as opposed to something you’d want to display as an actual artwork in an exhibit. It’s hard trying to switch to that mentality. Hopefully something will come to mind…soon.

Speaking of classes though, I did fairly worse than last semester on grades, so my GPA has dropped to a 3.377. Personally, I don’t care that much as I’m still good for the loans and grants I have, but it’s still slightly sad. Hopefully next year I’ll be able to do better now that I have most of the boring requirements out of the way.

Yes folks, The Catholic University of America has been closed since Friday. This is our fourth day with classes cancelled! I get the feeling that we’ll have to make up all the snow days at the end of the year, but currently I am totally goofing off and not doing any work at all. Terrible idea, I know, but still! Snow days!

I’ve also been considering getting back into the scanlation world. I used to be an editor primarily for ShoujoMagic when I was in high school, and I tried doing editing jobs with other groups too…but eventually quit when the workload from school got to be too heavy for me to handle the workload from editing. I’ve applied as a Quality Checker at one place that I like so far, so we’ll see how that goes. Hopefully my photoshop skills haven’t gotten rusty in terms of editing…heh.

Speaking of which, I was contemplating switching to Habari as my blogging platform. WordPress is great and all, but it is a bit bulky for me and I don’t use a lot of the awesome features that comes with it. It might encourage me to actually design the next theme for my blog too. Who knows how long we’ve seen a design from me now? Over a year?

In any case, let’s hope that the snow ends soon. It’s a bit tiring to just see white through my windows all day.