Dumbest thing I did today: I left early so I could catch the red bus, but when I got outside, I forgot I wanted to ride the red bus and instead of walking up to that bus stop, waited for the purple bus instead. I realized my mistake as the purple bus pulled up, and didn't want to leave after I'd been waiting there. I rode to the top of the hill in the hopes of catching the red bus at the TSC, but it left just as we reached it.
So, that was lame. I texted the automatic tracker to see when the next one would come. One in eight minutes, one in fourteen minutes. But it's the red bus. So add at least five to each.
Since I hate standing around and waiting, I walked instead, which took me ten minutes. Honestly, riding up to the TSC and then walking is faster than waiting for and riding the red bus. Plus, it gets me exercise. I guess I'll switch it up whether I ride or walk, depending on the snow and cold.
I was half an hour early to stats class, so I sat by Jeff again. He told me about his career plans. He wants to go into human resources and was telling me it seems to be an easy job (hiring, firing, doing career fairs, some meetings, payroll stuff, etc.), and that he'd only need two years of grad school (as opposed to the four or five or six he'd need for other psychology stuff), and that he could potentially start out with $70,000 a year, or something. I didn't fact-check this, but it seemed pretty interesting. I'm proud of him for finding something it seems he'll enjoy. And if you get paid well, bonus!
I actually did ride the red bus all the way back to the TSC today, which is two stops past the one I usually jump off at and walk. The shuttle has to go far down a back hill and curve around again, whereas if I simply walk, I can cut across the quad, pass the TSC, and then reach the bus stop (on the correct side of the street, even). I'm pretty sure it takes longer to ride. As you can see, I'm not a big fan of the red line. It's at least a twenty-minute ride all the way around and is just too slow.
I went home for lunch and to relax before my abnormal psych class at 3:00. It went well, although I waited at the TSC shuttle stop for several minutes afterwards with a steadily-increasing amount of people before some old lady arrived and announced that "the buses had crashed".
I was debating whether to walk home - it was snowing - or hang around the TSC for awhile and grab an early dinner, even though it wasn't even 4:15 yet and I was still mostly full from lunch, when I ran across a girl with whom I went to high school who now lives in Blue Square right next to me and Demetria. We decided to walk and talk on our way back together. On our way, we saw one of the city buses (not the school campus shuttles) on the road, guarded by a few police cars. I think it just slipped on the ice or something, and it didn't look like any cars had been hit. That's slightly less dramatic than "Did you hear the buses hit each other?!?!"
After a bit of a break, I did my reading assignments for English and abnormal psych, typed up some notes, and took an English quiz on citing sources before scooping myself some ice cream and typing up this blog post. I'm planning to do some writing tonight (I think I came up with a great idea for my "Stars and Finches" so Ethel can have her own plot besides "escort Gavin across the country")!
I listened to a short TED talk about world-building the other day and jotted down some notes. I was pretty shocked when I realized that this is one of my only pieces of writing I've never written a history timeline for. It must have slipped my mind since I was more concerned about maps and culture. I definitely need to fix that, and I'm always getting closer to finalizing the magic system. Everything is coming together.
And, because I was in the mood, here is yet another Youngblood and Sitarist sketch I did in my little notebook:
I was debating whether to walk home - it was snowing - or hang around the TSC for awhile and grab an early dinner, even though it wasn't even 4:15 yet and I was still mostly full from lunch, when I ran across a girl with whom I went to high school who now lives in Blue Square right next to me and Demetria. We decided to walk and talk on our way back together. On our way, we saw one of the city buses (not the school campus shuttles) on the road, guarded by a few police cars. I think it just slipped on the ice or something, and it didn't look like any cars had been hit. That's slightly less dramatic than "Did you hear the buses hit each other?!?!"
After a bit of a break, I did my reading assignments for English and abnormal psych, typed up some notes, and took an English quiz on citing sources before scooping myself some ice cream and typing up this blog post. I'm planning to do some writing tonight (I think I came up with a great idea for my "Stars and Finches" so Ethel can have her own plot besides "escort Gavin across the country")!
I listened to a short TED talk about world-building the other day and jotted down some notes. I was pretty shocked when I realized that this is one of my only pieces of writing I've never written a history timeline for. It must have slipped my mind since I was more concerned about maps and culture. I definitely need to fix that, and I'm always getting closer to finalizing the magic system. Everything is coming together.
And, because I was in the mood, here is yet another Youngblood and Sitarist sketch I did in my little notebook:
My all-time favorite character relationship is apparently "devoted child and distant parental figure". It's why I love Cackletta and Fawful from "Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga", and why I love H.P. and Sanderson from "Fairly OddParents", and Jumba and the experiments from "Lilo and Stitch" too. This is my first time replacing "parental figure" with "older brother figure", and I'm enjoying it quite a lot. It's obvious in the show that these two get along swimmingly, except for the fact that one is a brat who keeps fretting over his own grammar and the other is a snooty stuck-up who probably sticks around to feed off that energy field Youngblood puts out that renders him invisible to adults, I guess.
Every one of those characters I listed (Well, maybe not Jumba) seem to be so overlooked in their games or shows and fandoms, which is a shame because they all have so much potential. A pity so many people see a show or book and just cry, "You get a romantic relationship! You get a romantic relationship!" There's so much more to these characters than pairing them off, and I wish people wrote platonic relationships more often. It's nice to shake things up.
