BRB, leaving for CANADA in 14 hours!!!

DONE.

• Last night, a couple friends and I basically went through the previous year's psychology exam paper with a fine comb.
• Today, we sat down to write our exam.
• Which was completely identical to last year's exam paper.
• Well, no. The 5 short answer questions were different, but all 90 multiple choice questions were exactly the same omg.
• Tonight, we celebrated by watching Aladdin and Blade (I originally wanted to go to the pub, but apparently that's the plan for tomorrow night)
• I'm basically spending all of tomorrow packing but OMG ONLY 2 MORE DAYS UNTIL I'M HOME!!!

WTF LJ, really? So not impressed with you right now.

Copy past-ed from cesia:

* Gender will be a mandatory field at account creation, and it will be able to appear public on one's profile. (I can't tell if people with existing gender specification will be defaulted to "nobody can see it" or "everybody can see it".) (Subsequent changelog reading indicates that the public specificity has since been removed. It is unknown whether this is to require public specificity in the future or if it will remain private.)

* LiveJournal is removing the Unspecified option for the gender field. That's right: you get to be male or female. Period. That's it. (Source.)

If this pisses you off as much as it pisses me off, go to Edit Profile and select Unspecified for your gender option. Then, go to http://www.livejournal.com/contact/?dept=feedback and politely register your displeasure. (The people who read and process Feedback are not the people who make the decisions. They are often the people who are yelling internally about the decisions.)

(This will likely take place at the next code push, which given LJ's history will be either this Thursday or next, so spread the word fast, especially to the genderqueer community. After that point, you will no longer be able to pick "Unspecified" as your gender.)

Here is what I wrote; copy and paste as much as you'd like:

( Feedback letter )

To also reach someone who's higher up the food chain than the poor staff members who have to read and reply to Feedback, also email anjelika@livejournalinc.com who is Anjelika, GM of US operations.

So. Tomorrow I have my philosophy exam from 9:00 to 11:30 and my psychology exam from 2:00 to 5:00 ;o;

BUT IN OTHER NEWS...

Right now, in order from most fluent to CAN BARELY EVEN SPEAK IT, I speak English, enough Cantonese to get me around Hong Kong if I ever get lost, a bit of German, and only a smidgen of Mandarin. Like, not even.

I just finished my German exam two days ago and while I do love learning it, I decided in the end that if I'm not going to take it again for the rest of my life, I might as well use the extra slot for Astronomy next semester.

I took Latin for 3 years in high school, loved it, and am going to take it again in university next year. It's not so much as learning how to speak Latin so much as it is learning how to translate because a) no one speaks it anymore and b) it would be really, really, really hard to construct just a sentence. Imagine having an entire conversation.

I'm also going to take Mandarin again because lololo I fail as an Asian in that aspect and it had been either that or Japanese (which, while very tempting, is much harder to learn).

Fail linguistics major wannabe is fail.

General update!

• My first exam (art history) is on Tuesday but I'm actually pretty zen about it. I basically went through all my notes today with a fine comb and while I'm sure I'll have forgotten some of the dates by tomorrow (today?), I'm not worried! We're going to have an art history jeopardy session and it's going to be awesome.
• The only exam I'm actually worried about is philosophy because holy crap, so many notes and isms @.@
• Tru fax: I love Christmas but I haven't felt genuinely excited for it since I was... 14, I think. But this year, I'm actually really excited and happy for the holidays! I'm not like my friends who are willing to invest time and effort in decorating (at least without supervision. But if someone else suggests it, I'm all for it! ... It's just that I would never come up with the idea myself XD) and I'm more of a quiet person in regards to celebrating the holidays, but I'm just really excited for them this year! I guess it's because this is my first year away from my family (I'M GOING BACK HOME IN 10 DAYS) so Christmas holds more meaning to me, but yeah, ~*Christmas cheer*~
• Aaand that's basically it!

So. Tonight's Merlin episode was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

Steve, vimasi and I agree that Mordred is the cutest creepy child ever. Steve and I also agree that Morgana is undeniably hot.

... Then we watched Strictly Come Dancing and now I'm filled with an urge to write a Merlin/SCD crossover even though I know almost nothing about the latter show. DAMMIT, BRAIN. I'M TRYING TO BE A GOOD STUDENT. STOP PROVIDING ME DISTRACTIONS.

At least wait until after exams.

Stolen from cesia!

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

( Meme~ )

And now I'm off to get ready for our end-of-term celebration. My friend Alex offered to "feather" my hair with a straightener because I know nothing about straighteners and curling irons. Did I mention Alex is a guy? My friends are special but I love them ♥