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Grr to t35...
Stupid t35. The site is back up, but of course the forums are still dead. I need a new free webserver with all the same features, I think... Not that I'll find one of course. Anyway, I'm posting from uni this morning, having finished my classes for the day. Yes, I'm aware that it is only 10.20am, but I only have one class on mondays and it's at 9am, giving me plenty of time for the rest of the day.

I had a nice talk with the teacher when I got my wavier form signed. He, very thoughtfully, reminded me of the fact that I had to do phys301 twice since I failed it last year (well, got a pc, which amounts to the same thing). But he did point out that I actually did fairly well on the quantum half of that exam, and it was just as I had thought, that I'd failed one half of the exam were you have to pass both. *sighs* But still, I aced both halves this time around and he acknowledged not only that he was shocked by my results last year but that he was muchly relieved to see that I was still wanting to do quantum physics this year. I'm sure I'll do great this semester too, since it was just first semester last year that I messed up so badly. *shakes head* And much to my surprise I was bloomin' close to tears when the Dr Cresser brought up how surprised he'd been to see my exam results last year. But I recovered well, smiled and said I had had problems last year, but I sorted them out and am now on top of everything!!! And yeah, I think I might have put those extra exclaimation marks in there. *smiles*

Okay, and the strangest thing ever happened! There are three people in my quantum physics class, fair enough, lots of people did it last year so there aren't many this year. But, this is the most unbelievable thing, they are all girls!!!!

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These computers are still being stupid...
So I'll keep this brief. Here are another three of the chibi images I was mucking around with the other night.

And I've decided I need to write more this semester. We'll just have to wait and see on that front though.

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Sleep time...
Well anyway, t35 is playing up, so I have no idea if anything will ever get posted here again. *big sighs* Course, I still have my diary backed up on blogger, so for now at least this will be happy.

Grr... And my computer has died, so I'll post this, and then reboot before coming back.
*hugs*

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Going to bed now
Anyway, just thought I'd point peoples again to my message board and also show off the new images that I was mucking around with today. The first was done just for me:

And these others were put together for the message board. There's a few more in this line coming, I think.


As always, send comments to me.

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*yawns* Today has been a real waste of time, or so it seems. My room is still a mess, but my cupboard has been reorganised, Heidi hates my guts and I have a stomach ache which is really bugging me. Anyway, I can't be bothered writing anymore.

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More Mochi
Yo all. I'm a little tired today, and I can't really remember what I was going to post about, so I'll just have to write a couple of different posts in between doing my housework.

But first thing's first. For those who requested it, here is the recipe for mochi that I made:
Mochi in Peanut Sauce

I've got some other recipes that I'll post as I try them, along with reviews and stuff.

James and I are currently up to Sailor Moon ep42, for anyone who is keeping up with that story.

Oh, and I spent two hours last night setting up a message board on this site. You can view it here.

Labels: cake, cooking, japan, mmm food, mochi, sailor moon, this was before tags

The Mochi of the Moon is sticky, but it puffs up when you cook it...
Today I made mochi.
Weirdest stuff on earth.
Actually, I'm not sure that I made it right, well, at least, maybe my shop's definition of mochiko is different to that of the person who wrote the recipe, for I made it exactly to the recipe.
But the peanut butter sauce was yummy.
So was the mochi, truth be told.
Yet it was the strangest stuff... It was really odd, in that when a light pressure is applied, the mochi dough behaved as a liquid, but when you put some omph in it, it seems to shatter like a solid. Really weird.
But I had fun anyway.
In the interests of improving my mochi, I'm going to put a formal request here:
Send me your recipes!!!!
Oh, and odango recipes are also welcome!!!
*hugs*

Labels: cake, cooking, japan, mmm food, mochi, sailor moon, this was before tags

Ghostwriting...
Well, maybe not, but I thought I'd better continue on with my list of everything that has been going on with my life. So, where was I?

Oh yeah, I was up to friday.
So anyway, there I was on friday morning, getting up blooming early and dashing into uni by 11am (so early... *giggles*) so that I could hunch up in an uncomfortable seat in the Mason theatre and watch Niea under 7, which rocked! Although, I must admit, 13 episodes is a few too many for any given sitting. But I got a lot of my knitting done. I'm almost finished the scarf I'm working on at the moment, which is the same colour as my shawl that almost everyone is always bagging out but I love.
Anyway, James and I stayed in at uni, bought ourselves a pullapart for dinner and then walked over to the observatory. (Long walk when you're that tired) to work my night away. But only six people turned up, to everyone's absolute astonishment! And they didn't even stay to 8.30, which is our normal closing time (though we're often there til 9.30-ish if the grown-ups want to hang around longer, but we mostly cater to families).
So that was when Jeff (who was in charge since Lesa was elsewhere) asked if we wanted to have a go mucking around with the Meade (16-inch) and look at stuff we wanted to see... So of course we said yes. And that is where the title for yesterday's post came from. We got to observe each of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto through the telescope, and although they really didn't appear to be more than just bright points of light, we did get to see colour (well, not in the case of pluto, but anyway) and it was all very very cool. I've never seen the outer planets before, and it's just a shame that Saturn was below the horizon. I would have to say that James and I playing with the big telescope was one of the best things of my holidays. I hope I get the chance to do so again one time.

I'm rambling and this post isn't nearly as good as I had planned it to be, so I think I will quit my yawning and go to bed. Goodnight all ye who visit here.

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Uranus, Neptune, Pluto - No Action
Grrr at the lack of dubbed Sailormoon in my life. Just when I thought I would finally get video copies of 67-68, Channel ten is showing garbage. But anyway, moving on to an account of the past few days in my life...

On Wednesday, I did have to go into uni for fun and not-profit. Yup, the observatory was open to a bunch of vacation-care kids who all wanted to look through the telescopes at pretty things. Well, actually, because it was the middle of the day, we started things off by taking them into the planetarium, because it's fun and because in the planetarium they get to see stars even at lunchtime (which it was). Once again I didn't do the presentation, but that's okay, because I love watching them and it is always a lot of fun. The little girl sitting next to me was scared of the dark, so I had to hold her hand throughout, but she was okay and ended up feeling brave enough to whisper to me about what stars she knew and how her mum had shown her how to find Libra and Gemini. So kawaii!!!!
Anyway, after that, we did walk the group over to the observatory, doing the scale model of the solar system as we went. It was fun also, for the kids enjoyed running around holding stakes with the names of the planets on them and one boy especially enjoyed calling out "I am Uranus" as he ran across the field. It was all kinda amusing really. Then we got to the observatory, where Geoff (according to Lesa his name is pronounced "Ge-Off" which pisses a bunch of us off) had set up the 16-inch telescope for observing of venus. Now Venus is absolutely gorgeous at the moment, half-phased, and full of shining planety goodness. And of course, once someone points it out to you, you can see Venus naked-eye during the day. Very, very nice.
As we were all gaping at Venus, James, my uber-sexy boyfriend, had set up another telescope for observing the moon, which is also half-phased at the moment. And everyone loves staring at the moon, which I'm sure will come as a shock to Lesa, who always insists we find lots of globular clusters to show people when they come to the observatory. But anyway, they could see craters and things and it was very exciting.
Ooh, and as I was helping James with showing off the moon, Lesa set up her 6-inch telescope with the uber-cool filter on it so that we could observe the sun! Don't try this at home without the proper equipment, but looking at the sun through a telescope was definitely one of the coolest things ever. Even James being afraid his eyeballs would be fried was cool. But yeah. Sunspots are pretty...
So, after the chibis went home and we packed up, I headed off to James' house, where we curled up watching Sailor Moon for a few hours... More than a few actually, but that's beside the point.

Thursday...
Umm, I watched some more Sailor Moon with my boy. We got through a lot, right up until Endymion is captured by the Dark Kingdom. *whimpers softly* But yeah, lots of fun. And there was chocolate and coke to be consumed. Oh, and pancakes too! I love pancakes, as James can now doubt attest to. *grins* But yeah, it was so much fun. And his mum is a good cook. I should steal more of her recipes, I think. *smiles*

*yawns* Actually, it's past my bedtime now, I believe, so I'm going to leave you. I'll finish bringing this up to date tomorrow or something.
Goodnight world.

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Goodmorning world.
Well, I got up extra early this morning so I could watch Sailor Moon on Cheez tv, and of course it's not on. What does this mean? Could it all add up to mean that Channel Ten is bastardly and didn't buy the rights to all of Sailormoon R? Let alone S and SuperS? *sighs* I just knew it was too good to be true.

But I will tell you one thing: Spiderman Unlimited sucks big time. What is with that cape? It's so incredibly ugly. I'd show a picture here, but of course I can't find any on the place called the internet. But I did find an almost unlimited number of sites saying just how sucky it is. So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks it's terrible. First time for everything.

So yeah. Story of my morning. Hopefully tomorrow Sailormoon will be back on and all will be well.

Right now I'm downloading episode i of Hikaru No Go, which seems interesting enough. Actually, episode i just finished, so I guess I'm downloading episode ii now. *smiles* Mmm... burning my bandwidth... Well, it's not like anyone else in my family takes advantage of the high amount of downloads we can get, well, 'cept my brother who is constantly downloading pr0n. Anyway, the only real limit to the amount of anime I can get would be the fact that I only have a 2Gb harddisk in this computer. But on the other computer (which will hopefully become linked to the network soon) I do have 2Gb just of chobits, which is so cool... *giggles* I probably should get my boyfriend on the case and get him to burn those to cd so that I can have the space back for something else. Or I could invest in a burner of my own...

Anyway, I have some washing to go put on the clothesline now, so I'd best go do that.

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Sleepy...
Well, in grand Catherine tradition, I've decided to go to bed before I really get started on making this pretty. At the moment all I really have is the rough layout, but I guess that will just have to do. Talk to you tomorrow peoples.

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Check it out.
I started this new diary because I was bored and because I had nothing better to do since everyone online was ignoring me. I thought it would be something fun to do, and who knows, maybe I'll get a few hits every so often. I do like this idea, and what the heck, maybe it will help keep me from going insane.
It's very pretty, don't you think? Of course, this is the same design as is featured on my normal webpage, but still. I like it. Anyway...

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