Mada. (Not yet.)

I just commented on Guillermo's journal: "It's not winter until I see Orion. I haven't yet." I mused that that was why I'm so unusually happy given how late in the year it is. Let's be honest: winter is not the greatest time of the year for me, for myriad reasons.

Or, y'know, I could be genuinely happy(ish), which is what I think the case is. Oh, I could go on about certain things, something I realized over the weekend that was extremely disheartening (to some), but, no. I don't think I'll dwell on such things anymore. I don't even think I'm included in that "some," anyway. (Then again, it's only 17 November, and still technically autumn for another month. We'll see how I'm feeling a little closer to the end of the year.)

This "happy" thing is kinda scary. I'm not sure I'm doing it right. :|

I do like watching Orion move across the sky, though. When I come home at night and I can see him, I'll say hi. As the winter goes on, I'll comment on how he's progressed across the sky, and eventually our one-sided conversations start to end with "Well, if I don't see you again soon, I'll see you next year!" or something to that effect. It's lame, I know, but I don't know why I do it. XD Possibly because it's the only constellation that I can recognize and see from my light-polluted town?

Last year, when I stayed with Dustin for ConnectiCon, I was amazed by the constellations I saw, even with the glow of New Haven in the background. I saw both dippers, and Cassiopeia, and some other things that I can't recognize. There were so many stars out! *_* And it wasn't even like that was the country, just a suburb.

Huh. I just noticed LJ's clock updates automatically, now. I started this post ten minutes ago....

Eleven.

I like stargazing, what little of it I can do. I can recognize me. And ... the sun? Really, I do like it, even if the stars out here don't do anything. I got Orion, and he keeps me sort of sane. But it's not winter yet. ... Does that mean I have to wait longer for baseball? D:

Holy shit, it's 17 November, happy birthday, Guillermo! :D (And Miyamoto-sensei, too, apparently!)

Augh.

I just got an e-mail from Akai-sensei. Seems she gave out the wrong dates for registration: it doesn't open on 1 December, it opens the 24th, which means I can register, um, today. (Nice to get that e-mail at nine in the evening when I can't do anything about it today, isn't it?) o_o# There's only one level seven class next term, and if I can't get in, I'm SoL until, what is it, June? I have no choice but to go register after work tomorrow -- where the HELL is my checkbook? -- but I'm less than happy about this. I really hope I make it; Akai-sensei is teaching level seven, and I like her teaching method (even if she does abuse handouts. G'bye, trees!), but she said it was really competitive.... D:

On the amusing side, LOL YouTube. Don't you just love it when people make (multiple) accounts for the sole purpose of flaming your shit (and then to support themselves as though another person were in on the antics)? That's when you know you're awesome, I think, when people start doing that. PROTIP: I don't care what you think, kiddo, and your insults provide more entertainment than offense. XD Oh, internet. Thanks for the laughs.

I was up until five last night for some reason, somehow. I'm gonna call it a night pretty early tonight. It's only half-past-nine and I'm DONE. (On the bright side, that equates to ten hours of sleep. I don't get that during the week; I'll take it!)