8/30/23
16% done with final review!
I should keep going… but I haven’t been to bed before midnight in several weeks now, and I have an early meeting at work. Good night!
Yesterday I took mini exam 3 covering units 5 and 6, and got a 75. It had me feeling a little confident, so I tried mini exam 2 (which includes the unit I haven’t finished yet)…. 40. Meh. I wasn’t planning to take it until my final review is done, but I didn’t want to take a simulated exam tonight and wanted to do some kind of test. I’m mildly annoyed but not surprised! I’ll retake it before my exam next week, and hopefully I’ll do better.
I have a decent game plan for the rest of the days before my test! Thank god for the weekend and labor day, I should finish final review early on Saturday which leaves plenty of time to finish up unit 4 and take a simulated exam!
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wip wtuesday
as the worst season of academia befalls us (finals) and i have to hide in my cave (the studio) for the next couple weeks in order to make it through, here's a little wip update :) these are short excerpts from the five fics currently filed under my "working" folder, in no particular order:
second hand heart — girldad nico au (or: recently put on ltir captain of the new jersey devils jack hughes accidentally gets roped into babysitting au)
hallmark au — currently untitled holiday vacation resort au where jack is the owner of this cute little cabin getaway and nico's an exec who's in desperate need of some r&r... this is basically just a quest to see how many hallmark tropes i can smush into one fic (answer? a lot.)
time loop au — currently untitled twist on a time loop au... :)
certain as the sun — beauty and the beast/swan lake fusion au... fantasy and magic and stuck in close quarters with rising tensions (and stakes)! oh my!
natural causes — you know how jack and nico both went on ir at the same time for a bit? yeah. i have nothing else to say for myself here.
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Hi Laur! Hope you’re doing well. 💛 I wanted to ask how you keep legacy gameplay interesting for yourself & if you go with the flow or have some things planned when playing?
hi fae!! i'm good, thank you! ❤️
i think the way that i keep myself interested is by setting up a plan, actually. like i have the entirety of gen 3 planned out in my head, just with little milestones/plot points. i keep pushing myself to meet the next goal, and that's what keeps me motivated to play!
do i expect myself to be able to carry out the plan perfectly? absolutely not. there are always things going to happen in game that completely screw over all your plans, so i think going with the flow is also important.
my gameplay mantra is something like: have a general idea of what you want to happen, so you have something to work towards, but don't be afraid to say yes to every crazy random pop, even if it ruins your storyline lmao. that'll keep it interesting!
also, just mods mods mods. all the good gameplay mods add so much random stuff to the game, and adding in new ones every once in a while will refresh the gameplay experience.
but, if you're just not feeling it, definitely take breaks. i could play for a 7 hour session and then not play for another 3 weeks. it's important not to force yourself to play or else you'll end up hating it.
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Hey Quil!
I was just curious if you had done any April Fools jokes on people yesterday, or if you had any pranks played on you (online or in person.) I saw the booping thing and it looked really fun!
I wasn’t able to do anything major, but I did do a few minor pranks, including:
trying to convince someone that it was actually March 32 and we got an extra day of March because April was so short (and then they realized it was a leap year)
switching the language on one of my family member’s phones to French (I did end up learning some new words!)
pretending to see a gigantic seagull outside (makes slightly more sense in context)
Anyway, happy April! I’m wishing you good luck with all of your schoolwork! (Also I’m emotionally time traveling to boop you!)
- Amethyst
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Hi, Amethyst! I did not play any april fools jokes nor have any played on me outside of the booping. I must confess that I forgot both that it was april fools and that pranking people on april fools was a thing. It did not occur to me in the slightest
Instead I spent most of the day finalizing my homework before the week started (my weeks start on Tuesday this semester). So I’m glad you got to play some pranks!
Love the language one! Though I’m sure that’s no surprise. Are you studying French? I took 2 semesters in order to get my associates in Spanish, but I have forgotten practically everything. i think I still mostly know how to properly pronounce things though, but then again that’s just a general strength of mine when learning new languages (so far).
Happy April to you too! Thank you for the luck; I’ve got a few bigger things I need to knock out, so here’s hoping it goes relatively smooth. And I hope your schoolwork foes well, too!
Boop <3
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I had my last singing lesson today and I honestly feel a bit sad that it’s over. Like, sure, I absolutely don’t want to continue and have never been happy over having a lesson scheduled, not even once, but I’ve been at it twice a week for four months, I got used to it, it’ll feel strange to not have to go again. The relief will probably come flooding in on Thursday when, due to a free period, I can go home an hour early and then not have lessons after, and that will hopefully overpower the melancholy
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Apologies for the lack of activity this weekend too after an entire week of not being productive IC. I had to recover hours of sleep and besides that I felt like I needed a bit of a break to rest, which did wonders to me. Just four days more to go and I'll be on Christmas break which is of two weeks, enough to get back in full swing!
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