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Good plan.

Well, if literary theories didn't make more sense to me than math, I probably would have picked the wrong major ^_~.

Well in practice I don't see that offtrack thing working at all, that is ridiculous, but in practice it makes sense. Assuming they are planning to make you finish whatever you are doing. Your school sounds too rigid to me, I liked the freedom to virtually do whatever I want at my own pace. I mean after 6 - 7 years I'm sure they'd throw you out, done or not. However if I wanted to dedicate a year to history and classics courses (which, save for a workshop or two in English, I totally did) I could.

Haha...oh total pun intended, I'm onto you!! Hehe, j/k, but yea, they REALLY can.

Birthday is August 4th...same as president Obama's - which is why he is the only president ever whose birthday I will always remember ^_^. It's also the same as the Sprouse twins, aka Zach and Cody - which randomly plays into what I think about whenever those two end up on TAS, birthday stealing twins!! Although it's also the reason I got morbidly curious enough to watch the show. So yea I still have half a year until my birthday, but I can usually be pretty patient about waiting for things - except for sequels. Though once the burn from finishing one book wears off I can usually hold out through the wait for the next book in that regard as well.

I think I'm usually drawn to extremely rational, and/or angry/unemotional characters, those who can't cope with their own feelings but tend to suffer in silence. Characters who are arrogant, yet usually willing to sacrifice themselves because on some level they are self-loathing, or don't feel as worthy as a certain loved one. With villains, usually it's simple viciousness and cool calculation that attracts me. Characters like Seto, Yami no Bakura, Kyouya (OHC), Kaoru (OHC) Ed (FMA), Roy (FMA), Soubi (Loveless) would be examples - obviously none fit into ALL of that, but they all fit into at least one aspect of that. I also tend to like characters that are a tad ersatz, flamboyant, yet obviously more aware and controlled than what they let on. People that seem to wear two faces. Like Pegasus...^_^. Given things that attract me, it's rarely "good guys" that I end up liking, and usually good guys I like it's over time after a lot of different things. Seto I liked right away, Jou I didn't like for a very long time, I had to learn more to like him, he didn't have any instant attractors.

Yea...totally ripping on TAS, but, that's what parody series are for right? ^_~.

I could probably get along with that group, still wouldn't be the people I'm closest with though. Not any potential for fire or conflict. More reflective of the circles of friends I keep, I'd end up with Jounouchi, Anzu, Otogi, Bakura, Honda. Taking out Yuugi and Yami no Yuugi removes centering from the group, and throwing in Otogi adds more competitive power play. Shizuka might be around too, but she wouldn't be central to the group, which means obviously I'm just saying her personality type rather than her specifically as Jou's sister. I have friends who are friends with their siblings, but I don't have any who have that kind of protective relationship with them. They are all more equals to the groups. Like say, I doubt Jou would be ok with hearing that a sex life even existed for Shizuka, she'd have to keep up too many fronts for her brother, I'm not used to that with friends. I'm used to brass and blunt, which is why in spite of Anzu annoying me as a character, she's more likely the kind of person I'd be friends with. Even if I'd have to quell a cheesy speech or two ^_~.

Btw...assuming you'll get to the TAS thread again before this to know what I'm talking about...I actually have been listening to Blind Panic...no love, but it's alright as background noise...^_~. If you are here first, well, go to TAS... razz

How big is your school? Because at my school most people didn't even see their advisers, ever. You could find out your major requirements online, so unless someone had a specific question or needed something signed off, a lot didn't go to their advisers. I saw the design adviser at the end of Freshmen year once, to find out what I needed to do to get into that major, because that one is a bit tricky as far as registration goes. After that it wasn't until I went in to officially declare English (never officially declared anything else, didn't finish enough Design classes to declare the major before I'd decided I didn't want to do it anymore anyhow) junior year. I went in one other time to (a) talk about finishing my emphasis (creative writing) - I'd figured and done most of it on my own and (b) replacing a course requirement with a different course so I could graduate on time and still take everything I wanted to take.

However, my university had 35,000+ undergrads, so I don't even think they could handle it if the majority of students decided to see their advisers on a regular basis. And again, exempting certain majors (like Design) you pretty much just needed to follow course outlines at whatever pace and in whatever order you wish, and can take other misc courses/minors at your own luxury around that.

Hey, my brother's birthday is December 5th...siblings born on the 5th...idk, means nothing, hahaha. When's your birthday?

Yea, I don't think you could have a lot of those type of characters in the majority of animes, nor would I want them. Even with only a few per series I still have plenty of loves ^_~.

Yea Silentshipping definitely doesn't do it for me, but I do agree the reaction would at least be funny.

Hahaha, the way you described Anzu in theory describes someone I also wouldn't like/treatment I couldn't stand. However, it also describes a large part of several good friends I have, and yes, they drive me up a wall and inadvertently make me feel awful over and over again (but like you said, they are only doing what they thought was best). I think maybe this is why I dislike Anzu, I place the blame for things that I dislike about certain friends onto her. Sometimes though, I do like being mothered, and I hate hate hate to admit it, but, I guess I just don't feel loved very often. As irritating as it is, it feels like love, and for that reason I can't help liking it...~_~.

That is rather insane...I mean pretty much the only people who have to continually see advisers and get locked into tracks are engineering majors. And you could apply undeclared or exploratory as well (exploratory does not mean wanting to be an explorer, haha, get that all the time. It just means undeclared in the College of Agg rather than Letters and Sciences).

Ahh...Scorpio then, I've got friends with Nov 15th and 16th birthdays...I almost have a straight ^_~.

It would be VERY overwhelming, and I possibly wouldn't like them as much, against each other they'd definitely be at their worst I'm sure.

I've got a bunch of know-it-alls for friends. Hahaha. But I managed to somehow end up loving them, and in spite of the frustration and heartache, I honestly wouldn't change that for anything. Besides, I won't lie, I love to argue, and they definitely fuel that passion well ^_~.

Aww...well maybe you can go to a better school for a postgrad degree!

Hmm...never thought about November being Valentines babies, haha, guess so though ^_~. I do have a rather high number of Scorpio friends. Though I also have a rather high number of Aries/Gemini/Cancer/Leo friends. Makes sense though, people snuggling up in the cold winter months ^_~. I was just thinking how I have very few Capricorn/Aquarius/Pisces friends (because I am not having to remember to say happy birthday/make a card/buy a gift/etc etc very often now) and it makes sense. Whose snuggling up late spring into summer? Too warm! Haha, aww, and me I'm 100% Playstation, so I'd have loved that! Granted still don't have a PS3, all the games I'm into thus far keep coming out for PS2.

Haha, yes, only worse because neither would be "fake" and would thus have no need to take a break and live their own life.

Yea, I'm just a fan of debate, so I do kind of like that I have a lot of friends who are hotheaded, but intellectual about it. It can be really stimulating. Sometimes it gets angry, but for the most part in can just be mentally motivating.

I have more March and April friends as well, but that's bleeding out the end of summer into fall, a lot of people also tend to get married then (August/Sept), it's getting to be orange and pretty without being hot. Well, here, don't know about the dessert ^_~. That sister situation is kind of eerie though. Maybe your friends parents are just really gung ho about Labor Day ^_~.

Hahaha, I haven't played LBP, watched my friends husband play a bit of it though, does look kind of cute.

Well you are in the desert, frankly I'm not sure how AZ gets populated at all, hahahaha, j/k j/k!!!

It does look kinda cute, actually just reminds me of old Crash games - just WAY better graphics.

How did I miss replying to this?! Fail Gail! (rhymes...one of the many reasons I dislike my first name, hehe, fails not even the worst).

Haha, apparently. And the only way to keep the grubby native hands from taking it back, make more idiots to take over!!! This is making me think of that Ana Johnson song, We Are I think it's called? Just that line, we've never been so many, and we've never been so alone.

Aww, that sounds cute...well maybe I'll have to take over my friend's husbands PS3 someday. Going to their new house next Sunday for le Superbowl (ok not really into football, but I do try to be social and normal sometimes razz ), maybe I can sneak off with the PS3 and the game while they are rooting for...whoever is playing. Whatever, it's not MY job to know whose playing ^_~.

Yea it is, and it bores me, but at least it's not overly common. Although the only other Gail I know (a 40 something year old swim team mom) spells her name the same as I do, nobody ever gets my name right. So I presume the rest of the Gail's running around their are really Gayle's (and maybe a Gale - though that's technically both a wind and a male spelling - or Gaile or two). I tend to like longer names, because I like nicknames, I even kind of like Abigail, I find Abby cute. However my mom hates the nickname Abby. The only thing I do like is that my initials are GEM, which is kind of cool.

At least it's not Christine/Christina - I know about two dozen of those. And a half dozen or so Katie's a swell.

Well, I doubt I'll be successful, but if somehow I am I'd definitely start a new game...^_^.