"I folow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park / Listening to the wind of change "
--Wind of Change, The Scorpions

So I've been thoroughly chastized for not updating. And just so you don't let me off the hook cuz my updates are usually far apart, I'll let you know that I promised I'd update earlier this week.

I'm a bad, bad kitty.

And I haven't updated in a while, either. So I'm gonna go back in time, and talk a little about the end of the year at AU first. Maybe in reverse order, to keep with the theme, and because it might be fun.

So first is leaving, which is last (And if I get to type sentences like that, this idea is brilliant). Things were a little suck, for a few reasons. One is the standard fact that I'm really not going to see my friends for the whole summer. A few might visit, I might visit a few, but it's a change from living with each other for a whole year. And my friends here don't live in the same building with me. Which was strange, since I got home, unpacked, and immediately wanted to hang around with people. It was only 9PM, there's nothing strange about this! At school, at least. Home, it doesn't work. The next reason things sucked are the permanent changes. Chris Burns is no longer my roommate, and although Rob is a really cool guy, it's still a weird change, considering we roomed together for a year and a half. Much more importantly than this, Daniel is leaving and not coming back. Hopefully he'll visit from Jackson every once in a while. He's basically my best friend at school, and by basically I mean actually. I'm going to be at school for a week next year and still be asking people if they know when Daniel's getting in. I'm really gonna miss him. The last thing that sucks ass is that there's no Laura here. Strange drama aside, she's a cool, cool chick who I like a lot. Not only is she no longer next door, she's not even in the same state. I miss her already. But hopefully I'll see her this summer.

Further back, we have Finals. Writing papers till the odd hours of the morning was stressful, but entirely my fault. The tests themselves went well - I was even excused from my Survey of American Lit II final. Here's what happened. As a survey course, the whole idea is to make sure you read a lot of stuff. So Prof. Turaj, who I've mentioned in previous entries, makes the tests the way they used to be back in junior high - what's this character's name, which author wrote this story, what poem are these lines from, what's the next line? It's more difficult than all the bullshit interpretive essay tests that you get. Anyways, on the first test, I got a perfect score. The second one, a more than perfect score (he curved it by five questions). So at the beginning of the inal, he takes roll, and then reads off four names, none of which are me. These people are excused from taking the final, and should talk to him out in the hall. This is done because they scored so high on the two previous tests, leaving me rather confused as to why I haven't joined them. But whatever - I figure I'll ace the test like I did the others. So he starts passing the final out, gets halfway around the room, and then looks back and says: "Schneider, what the hell are you still doing here? Get out in the hallway." Rock. No Final for me. In return, I had to proctor the final 35 minutes of the exam. A nice exchange.

A basset hound puppy wandered into my Oxford: Perennial Center of Philosophy final. It sniffed at people's feet, tail wagging. A large man then came into the room, swept up the puppy, apologized, and left. The professor noticed none of this.

I have this funny feeling that this entry is going to be too short for my taste. This is what y'all get for rushing me.

So yeah, I'm home now. Had Waffle House on the way home, which was good. Saw Donnie Darko big screen again on Friday night, and saw Cris before she left for the Isles. Good again. But the best part, of course, was seeing Sasha. By now, you should know how I feel about her, so I won't really elaborate on the love/like/miss stuff now, except to say that I do, and we're going out for the summer. The important part is what she's done to me.

We'll start with the least bad part. I'm addicted to Animal Crossing now. I just finished paying off my house, and it was glorious. Running errands amuses me. I'm dead set on finishing up the museum. And I spent about an hour copying a clothing pattern off the internet onto the GameCube. And I plan on hoarding a week's worth of trees so I can find the perfect number of them and getting the Golden Axe. It's a sad, sad day in the life of Justin.

Next, we have the fact that she has renewed an old addiction of mine: Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I watched Seasons 1 & 2 religiously way back when, and a good chunk of Season 3. Then I just sort of stopped around the same time I totally stopped watching TV in general. I've vaguely kept up with the goingson, mostly through Sasha and Leanora. And now, the show is ending. Very, very sad. So I've decided to watch the last 4 episodes. And Sasha made me download random Buffy music videos when she visited me. And I watched the LJ icon communities over her shoulder. And she told me to download the rest of Season 7 so I can catch up. And now I'm hooked again. I'm back in. I have favorite characters again(Spike, Xander, Andrew), hates again (Angel, Angel, Angel), pairings and jokes again... it's sick.

The final thing is simply the depths to which the previous depravity has sunken. Sunk? Whatever. We're making a Buffy LJ icon set. We've got like, 20 or so images lined up. Sick sick sick. Then comes the music video. *Twitch*

And then there was a riot.

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