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So, B term has started, with all the ensuing craziness of new classes. Calculus 2 looks like it may be pretty good, even if it's at 8 am. The professor is friendly and funny, even if he looks young enough that I thought he was a TA when he first walked in and started passing the syllabus out. Suspect some of his little quirks or quotes or tangents will end up being appropriated for Isaac. Literature of Sin looks good so far - same professor as my Shakespeare class, but a much better class - the in-class discussion doesn't want make me want to bang my head against the desk repeatedly, although we're reading Titus Andronicus first, which I'm having trouble getting through. Object-Oriented Design Concepts (it's a Java class, really)...I'm not sure yet. Apparently the class is supposed to be really hard, but we haven't done enough to tell yet. The professor has a great sense of humor, though.

MIT apps for Early Action have to be mailed by Tuesday...mine is mostly done, but I'm kind of on edge anyway. Which may be part of the reason I've had about five hours of sleep each night this week x.x Random HP fic rec of the moment - Cartographer's Craft. Set post-HBP, blends seamlessly with canon in the best way possible. I've spent my free time the last few days reading it, including several hours this morning in a nice, quiet, warm computer lab Michelle and I found on the second floor of the library.

And now, a poll for the readers! I'm waffling on a Halloween costume this year, mostly because I didn't have the time or energy to do something big and new. So - I've got professor robes!Lupin, which is always fun, and probably warm enough with something underneath, although I still don't have a stuffed wolf to go with it, or I can make a totally ghetto Virgil outfit and cary around my hardcover copy of a translation of the Aeneid. Thoughts, particularly from anyone I'm likely to be hanging out with?

Date: 2005-10-28 05:41 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_76778 (from dreamwidth.org)
Titus Andronicus! My favorite play ever! Dude, if you're having trouble getting through it - have you ever seen Titus? The movie, with Anthony Hopkins? Fantastic movie; watch that first, and reading it will be a breeze.

Also, I vote Virgil, because there are always Harry Potter costumes but I have yet to see a Virgil. Though recognizability is an issue. Still.

Date: 2005-10-28 05:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
We're watching part it in class Monday - I suspect my half-dead state this week probably doesn't help much.

Recognizability is an issue in either case, I think, mostly because I don't do the student robes - the professor-robes are entirely my own design. Being able to say that I dressed up as Virgil for Halloween has it's merits, though XD;

Date: 2005-10-28 06:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
You would be the only Virgil cosplayer EVER, I think. This means you have an obligation to go for it.

Date: 2005-10-28 06:31 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
...You have a point XD; (It would be more fun with a Dante, but I don't think I can can convince anyone to wear a hat that silly looking - guess he gets to join Seymour and Braska in the Silly Hat Club)

Also, damnit, now you've got me addicted to DMC, and Michelle's copy of DMC3 has gone missing - I crave mooooore ;.;

Date: 2005-10-28 07:14 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
If you ever move out to the west or visit the west during Halloween, I swear on my Playstation that I will be your Dante.

Or we could just do it at a Con ;3. I mean, if there's HP and LotR cosplay, there can damn well be cosplay of some much better books.

Date: 2005-10-28 07:27 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
...I am so totally holding you to that XD; <3

Date: 2005-10-28 07:29 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
Oh dude, I'm so there.

Date: 2005-10-28 07:34 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
And this is why I love you XD;

Date: 2005-10-28 07:35 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
We'll also ambush any DMC cosplayer we see, and start talking like we know them.

Date: 2005-10-28 08:00 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
I'll be amused if we get anybody else who's as clueless as that engineering intern XD;

(I'm trying to force myself away from DMC cosplay...I totally can not pull off red and purple velvet like Sparda can)

Date: 2005-10-28 08:02 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
EHhhEEEHEEEhhhEeee. You should do it. Then all we'd need is an Eva... >.>.

Date: 2005-10-28 08:07 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
...You are such an enabler XD;

Date: 2005-10-28 08:14 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
I LIVE to enable this kind of thing. I mean, what I think is good is clearly good, and thus other people should know its greatness.

Date: 2005-10-28 08:27 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Well, usually you're right, so I can't argue.

(...*gropes your icon* >.>)

Date: 2005-10-28 07:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
Speaking of the next con...

I NEED A BATTLESTAR GROUP. ;_____;

Date: 2005-10-28 07:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
But who would _I_ be? I mean, you're an obvious Boomer, but I don't have the body for the hawt!Cyclon.

Date: 2005-10-28 07:50 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
You're such a Starbuck, dude.

Date: 2005-10-28 07:51 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
Hahhahahah, I need to lighten my hair for Leon anyway. Nice.

Date: 2005-10-28 07:59 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
I don't think we'd ever be able to find anybody up to Six standards. Cause seriously, once you're being played by a supermodel, there's no cosplayers EVER who are going to match up.

I got bored one day and found this:
http://www.battlestarblog.com/images/3epsn1103med.jpg

And then I just kind of sat there and laughed my ass off.

Six is off limits to anybody but Tricia Helfer herself. O_o

Date: 2005-10-28 08:01 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_25570 (from dreamwidth.org)
Hrm... I've seen some that wouldn't be half-bad - the kind of chicks that cosplay the skanky bikini-clad girls from DoA and whatnot, but yeah, still not matching up.

Besides, I'd rather stab myself than curl my hair, and a wig would look terrible in this case.

Date: 2005-10-28 08:02 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] doctorskuld.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
I think you're also missing the crucial ingredient.

Boobies.

But you know, that might just be me. X3

I don't think I'll ever see a woman at a con more gorgeous than Tricia Helfer. :/ Seriously. Some cosplay girls are cute...but dude. Not Tricia Helfer.

You'd make a good Starbuck I think. You've got the attitude. :p

Date: 2005-10-28 09:07 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_297251 (from dreamwidth.org)
Oh, dood, have to go Virgil. It's no contest, despite how it pains me to say that about the dearest Professor the likes of Harry Potter has ever seen. But Virgil is just so... so Toga-tastic. *nods*

Date: 2005-10-29 09:38 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] gentlemanfriend.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
you're taking a Literature of SIN class :D ? that's awesome XD

and.... are your classes all sped up so they only last one term :O? how are you done with Calc 1 already ... ? @@ ? (Cocoa is a bigsuperbrain...)

Date: 2005-10-29 09:39 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] gentlemanfriend.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org)
and P.S. do Virgil XD <3

Date: 2005-10-29 11:55 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
It is totally awesome - Professor Ephraim (she's teaching this, and did my Shakespeare class) is teh win.

Yeah, we've got four terms instead of the usual two most colleges do.

Date: 2005-10-29 03:13 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_9476 (from dreamwidth.org)
This is random, but where do you attend college? I'm trying to do my college research, and I was wondering how much you like wherever you are at the moment. Or, rather, why you'd feel the need to transfer to MIT.

Date: 2005-10-29 03:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Well, I'm only sorta in college XD; I'm actually a senior in high school, but I'm in an accelerated program where I take all my classes at a university this year.

It's WPI, which has really good science/engineering/math programs, but not so much in the way of Humanities and stuff. The city it's in is a bit stagnant, too.

Date: 2005-11-23 02:22 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)
Virgil and Remus Lupin rock the house. Good idea going as Virgil. I've been up all night trying to locate some good Dante/Virgil slash, and somehow I stumbled upon tis site.

Date: 2005-11-23 05:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
I unfortunately haven't found any good Dante/Virgil slash - if you stumble across any, point it my way XD;

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