The Best Day Ever

I don't think I've blogged in three months. I guess my New Year's resolution is blown. Well, it lasted almost half a year! That has to count for something, right?
I blame my absentee wireless mouse. It's hard enough to use Paint; how much harder would it be with only a laptop mouse? I found it when I moved to Rice, but I didn't have batteries in it, which really sucked. Then I decided to use the batteries I had from home. The problem? They were the wrong size! Finally, one of my awesome new friends gave me two AAA batteries, and the red light flashed, and I thought it was working again! But, a few hours later, the mouse wouldn't work and the light wasn't on. I gave up on it for a while, until today, when I took out the part that attached to the USB port, only to have it break because it was stuck. But then, I put the part back together!
I'd make an awesome engineer. Yep, bioengineering is the major for me!
(By the way, the USB ended up breaking permanently and so I bought a new mouse from Amazon. Amazon is my new best friend. As is Wolfram Alpha.)
Rice is an amazing university. One of my main concerns about moving so far from home was making friends. I really suck at making friends. I'm either too clingy, or too distant because I'm afraid of being too clingy. When Clingy Sana comes out to play, it's doomtime for everyone else.

(Ughhh, my Paint skills leave much to be desired.)

Luckily for me, everyone here is super friendly!

Also, I had the most amazing day yesterday. Unfortunately, one of the problems with having an awesome day is that the next days kind of suck in comparison. 

Let me show you what I mean.

Yesterday morning, I got TWO packages in the mail. I was just checking to see if my USB headphone adapter (my headphone port on my laptop doesn't work) had come in, and it did come, along with a bag from the associate (adult associated with the residential college) who had us at her house for a dinner during Orientation Week. Guess what was in the bag (along with a sweet note)?

AND THEY WERE DELICIOUS.

They disappeared entirely too quickly, though. 

Later, I got a 92.5% on my Psychology 101 test that I had taken on Tuesday and I had freaked out about so much since it was the first college midterm I had ever taken. After that, I got out of chemistry lab thirty minutes early (as opposed to the last time we had a lab, when I got out ten minutes late!), and then, at seven pm, there was a birthday celebration for all the August- and September-born freshmen and new students with CAKE!
Obviously, that was a super amazing day. What else could a day that begins with COOKIES and ends with CAKE be?!

And now for the next day.

I didn't get greeted by cookies. I got greeted instead, by this:

To fully understand the gravity of this situation, one must understand that I'm supposed to be downstairs at the servery eating breakfast at 7:30, not waking up at 7:30! My first class is at 8:00! (It takes me a while to eat!)
Other than this, the day was pretty average, but compared to the awesome day I'd had before, it seemed pretty awful. But I can't have awesome days everyday, otherwise, they wouldn't be as awesome!

Discoveries and Updates on Life

I was really sick last week. My nose spurted out so much mucus that I could actually smell it. And believe me, it smells disgusting. Well, at least I wasn't as sick as I was last month. Last month, I coughed so much that I used up one bag of Halls per day, and when I coughed, I sounded like a dying seal.

That's a seal. Not a shark. A seal.

And at least it cleared up somewhat in time for my AP Spanish exam. I'm bad enough at the hablar portions already...I didn't need a stuffy nose to make me even more incomprehensible.

Well, that kills my New Year's resolution to not get sick at all this year. And it killed it twice! 
Surprisingly, one new year's resolution is still intact, and (believe it or not) it is the resolution to post at least once a month. I've done that!
During the past month of not posting anything (so sorry!), I've discovered many things. I've discovered my future...for the next four years, anyway, academically speaking. I'm going to be in Houston for the next four years. I'm going to Rice University! YAY!
I have also discovered that I am a Ravenclaw. I finally got a Pottermore account two weeks ago, and until I got sorted by the Sorting Hat, I was never sure if I was a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff. Now I know! Though I wouldn't have made a good Hufflepuff anyway, seeing that I'm a terrible finder. Entropy, I blame you!

Another discovery I have made is that, as far as children's channels go, Nickelodeon is slightly better than Disney Channel. But only slightly. And that's really not saying much since Disney Channel is crap, regardless of what my sister might think. She had block scheduling recently due to state testing [it's called the CST (California Standards Test) and the STAR (Standardized Testing and Reporting), but I call it the CSTAR--California Standardized Testing and Reporting)], and so, her band teacher allowed them to watch movies during his period. They had to vote on a movie, and they had a choice between High School Musical (blargh) and Mulan (huzzah!).

Speaking of movies, I really want to watch the Avengers. One day...one day, I shall.

I have also discovered that I am an INTJ. Or an INFJ...pretty sure I'm an INFJ, but I get classified as an INTJ very often. I'm either an INFJ or an INFP. I've never been classified as an INFP by a personality test, but the descriptions of an INFP seem to fit me really well. But I'm definitely Judging over Perceiving...I love order and structure...
I think I'm just confused.

April Fools!

NOTE: Because today is April Fool's Day, one of the things I say in this post after this note will be a lie. Try and guess which part of the ramblings that follow is a lie!

There's something I've always wondered. How exactly do you punctuate "April Fools!"? The holiday is called "April Fool's Day," so the phrase should probably look like this: "April Fool's"...but that makes no sense! AGH. I AM CONFUDDLED.
Anyway, DID YOU KNOW THAT...April Fool's Day started because April used to be the first month of the year, so April 1 was New Years Day. Then the pope at the time (or some other important guy) moved the start of the year to January. But old habits die hard, I guess, so some people stubbornly continued celebrating the start of the new year when April 1 came by. They were called "April Fools." People who followed the new calendar pranked these "fools" by sending them on "fool's errands."
...NOW YOU KNOW!
Yes, that was a Bill Nye the Science Guy reference. Two points for you if you caught that!
In other news, I love Google so much. I've only pulled two April Fool's pranks today, both of which could not have been possible without the prankery-ness of our favorite company.

This should totally be Google's logo for today. Seriously.

It's weird...I wasn't even trying to fool my sister (well, the first time, anyway). She had wanted to know what Google's pranks were this year, so I looked it up on...well, Google...and found Chrome multi-task mode. I showed it to her. She watched the video first, and then clicked "try multitask mode." After a while, the screen looked like this:

She wasn't pleased.

I then showed her YouTube's prank, which was an advertisement for the YouTube Collection, a collection of all the YouTube videos ever made on DVD (or even VHS or older forms of videorecording for people who prefer that sort of thing). My sister was suspicious at first. 

I did tell the truth...evasively. She seemed to take it as a justification for how the prank was NOT a prank. That was odd. Obviously, she was pranked again, and, once again, she was unhappy about the situation.

Oh, I do love April Fool's Day.

FOLLOW-UP TO THE NOTE: So, I bet you all are wondering what the lie in this post was.

And if you're a cheater, you probably just scrolled all the way down here to find out the answer. Well, too bad! I know your tricks, all you cheaters out there! Scroll back up!


















I'm waiting.

































Okay, so now that the cheaters are gone (or maybe not, I don't care right now), I'll tell you the lie.


There was no lie!

And for you nitpickers, the note said that "one of the things I say in this post after this note will be a lie." So, no points for you if you said the note was the lie!

New Webcomic! Possibly! Depending on whether you like it or not (pleaselikeitpleaselikeitpleaselikeit)

Some people just shouldn't write comics. Ever.
Well, now, you're about to see if I'm one of those people. Now introducing....THE ZOOKEEPER'S DAUGHTER!

(I started planning this monstrosity a while ago, so the first panel looks a bit different than the rest of the panels. I didn't feel like redrawing it.)

Soo...what do you think? Is it good? Horrible? Should I continue it? And if I should, what should I name the zookeeper's daughter? (I don't have a name for her yet.) And the female monkey?

Changes

Have you noticed something WEIRD about my blog?
Yup, that's right, the background changed again. I thought a new background would be nice since I now draw sclera in eyes and the art has just generally changed. Or maybe it was because I was bored of the old background.
So, what do you all think? COMMENT POR FAVOR. Oh, and vote on the poll on the upper right-hand corner. Yep, that one. Answer it. You know you want to.

A Farewell to Gabi's Blog

Gabi is ending her awesome blog, and I wanted to make a farewell post in memory of it! Thankfully, she isn't going to stop blogging! :) So here's a post with multiple personalities, Randomly Yakking-style!

OOH OOH YAY, DO I GET TO BE FIRST?! I DO! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

NO FAIR! I wanted to be first! You cheated!

No, she did not cheat. In fact, according to my observations and subsequent analysis, because cheating is defined to mean "a breakage of rules in order to obtain an unfair advantage", and because there were no rules for her to break, it would be impossible for her to cheat.

I don't understand anything that you just said. Why do you getta wear a monocle? I wanna monocle!

A monocle is a sign of scholarship and refinement. Very few people in this brain have achieved this. I'm sure Scientist Sana would agree. What do you think, Scientist Sana?



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 *sigh*...I do believe blowing things up is NOT a very refined thing to do. I believe I am alone in being refined and worthy of the monocle.

Now you know how I feel all the time.

Ooh! Your shirt says "Only Sane Man," doesn't it?

Oh no, you linked to TV Tropes...you really are evi--ooh! So many links!

Is that your insightful way of saying that you feel alone in a crowd, Sane Sana? Do you feel misunderstood? Is that what causes your loneliness?





(I am quite proud of that couch. It took FOREVER to draw, but it looks awesome.)

Yeah, I guess--Hey! Why am I the one being evaluated by a shrink? I'm the ONLY SANE ONE HERE! IT'S IN THE NAME! Evaluate the other people!

ALIENS ARE INVADING NEWTS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE WORLD I HAVE A CIVICS COMP ON WEDNESDAY AAAAAAAUGGGGHHHHH!!!!

I see what you mean.

And if you say I'm crazy, then, then, then...THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! I AM THE VERY DEFINITION OF SANE! IT'S IN MY FRIGGIN' NAME! IT'S WHO I AM!

Teehee! That rhymed! You're a poet and you didn't even know it!

 I understand.

Then why am I still being evaluated?

I am not evaluating you. I feel that you are going through a difficult time and I wish to support you.

Reeeally. Then why do you still have that clipboard in your hand? HUH?

You should leave, Sane Sana.

 No, I won't! The people need me here!

Oh really? Who listens to you, anyway? Everyone else here thinks you're a stick-in-the-mud because you're not as insane as the rest of them. You're invisible here, unnoticed. No one cares about you.

 Um...lots of people listen to me! ...Right, Scientist Sana?

Can't talk...testing chemicals...

See?

Why aren't we on topic? We should be on topic.

What's even the topic?

Gabi's blog. We should talk about Gabi's blog.

But limiting our talking to one subject would stifle our creativity.

Pish posh. Creativity? Bah! Why focus on what's not real?

Creativity brings about new awesome things that BECOME real! And, you like quotes, right?

Only quotes from scholarly people.






I think Scholarly Sana is kind of a pretentious asshole.

I did hear that. You do realize that, right?






Yeah. I do. Whatever. The only reason I keep her around is because of the monocle. That monocle is awesomesauce, even if Scholarly Sana is not.

I wanna monocle!

ANYWAY, Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." What do you think of that? HUH?

Um...uh...um...





(Oh, HELL yeah! That stupid smug smile got wiped clean off of Scholarly Sana's face!)

CAN WE GET BACK ON TOPIC? WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT GABI'S BLOG!

I like its title! Especially the "Ninja Bunnies" part. I like ninjas and I like bunnies. I dunno which I like better. I wish I was a ninja. Ninjas are cool! The class that graduated two years ago had a ninja as its mascot. I think dragons are better mascots though. Dragons are awesome. OMG, LOOK, IT'S A NINJA!

You shouldn't be able to SEE ninjas if they are effective ninjas.

Hey, look, it's a hippie!

Omm...I am no hippie....ommm...I seek nirvana...ommm...

There's no time for meditation! There are things to be done! You have a biology test on Monday to prepare for and finals, too! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE INTERNET?!

Whatever. I have tomorrow.

NO, YOU DON'T! THE BIOLOGY TEST IS TOMORROW! AND IN THE MORNING, TOO! DO YOU WANT TO LOSE YOUR A IN BIOLOGY? HUH? DO YA?

Zzzzzzz....

Aww, don't be mean. She's tired.

No, she's not! She's lazy! LAZY!

OMG, LOOK! A NINJA!

Okay, okay. Ninja Sana counts as a real ninja. But why did she have to scare us like that?

Never question the ninja ways of a ninja. *vanishes*

Um, okay, that was weird.

Is there anything else you'd like to talk about?

AUGH! Where'd you come from? And why are you here?

OH MY GOD, ARE YOU A NINJA, TOO? A ninja psychiatrist? That's SO cool!

I am here to comfort you. And...no. I am no ninja.

NO YOU AREN'T! YOU WANT TO CONVINCE ME THAT I'M CRAZY! BUT I'M NOT CRAZY! I SWEAR!

You sure sounded crazy just now...are you sure you're completely and totally stable? Because I don't think so.

I guess I'm not sane after all! WAAAAAH! *poofs*

Guys, Sane Sana is gone.

So what?

SO THAT MEANS WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE BECAUSE SANE SANA WAS THE ONLY SANE ONE AMONG US OH NOOOO!

But she was sooo boring!

A puzzle cannot be completed if it misses a single, seemingly insignificant piece.

WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THAT TO SANE SANA BEFORE?!

The ways of God are not understandable to the simple minds of men.

What about women? Huh? Male is not the default gender of humankind! After all, fetuses start off as females!

Actually, your gender is determined from day one. It's just that the sex organs start off looking female.

 Uh...

WHAT ARE WE GONNA DOOO OH MY GAWSH!

Eh.









She's probably right. Sane Sana is overrated. 

Yeah, who cares about her? She was boring. Wanna play Sorry?

MWAHAHAHAHA. Now with Sane Sana out of the way, I CAN TAKE OVER THE WORRRLD! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!








Beware the nice ones, indeed. World domination, HERE I COME!