I hate my suitemate, that is---the girl I happen to share a bathroom with here in my crappy dorm. She is a very annoying and disgusting Chinese exchange student who finds new ways to piss me off each day; from things like putting her dirty underwear up on display via ALL the towel racks and leaving fish to rot in the sink. No, I am not racist. Hell, my former roommate was also a Chinese exchange student and was an awesome person (and somehow this retard's best friend), but this kid...no. The biggest thing that gets me with her is that I try to be rational and talk things out, but she pretends she doesn't understand English and walks away. When I've seen/heard her having full conversations in English with our Community Assistants.

I could list more, but what fuels this post is that yesterday she locked herself out. For a good hour, I hear her and a couple other Chinese kids beating, scratching, and clawing at her room door. Yea, as if that's going to make it magically pop open. She asks to walk through my room, so I let her, but apparently she also locked her bathroom door. Her boyfriend, who invites himself in (yea, I should really start locking my door) decides he wants to break into the room using a broken key chain and a screwdriver. So, for another hour, they are now beating, clawing, and scratching at her bathroom door. In this time, I'm trying desperately to not have an aneurysm or a "nigga moment". After a while, I want to take a piss and a shower, but they aren't answering when I knock. When I finally just open the door, they look offended when I tell them I need to use the bathroom. I mention that they could just solve all this by calling a Community Assistant. Then she tells me (while I'm in awe of the fact that she can understand and answer in a full sentence/paragraph) that she checked out of the dorms in December and told them she was out of the country. Which technically means she's not supposed to be here, and would be dismissed and probably escorted away if she called. Fun.

Alright, so the routine is simple at this dorm. After your last final you are required to either check out (which is just a tidy-up-and-get-your-arse-out kind of thing) or sign up for break housing, which costs $10 a day. They change the locks on the main doors (but not the room ones) and those who paid to stay get the new keys. What people tend to do, and I have even helped a friend do so for a couple days in the past, is check out, leave for a week or two, and then have a friend who paid let them in one of the main doors. It's not hard cause security is sparse and cadets don't know who's supposed to be here or not.

Yea, so while this all sucks for her...I still really need to piss. It took a good amount of bitching to get them out of the bathroom and then out of my room (yea, they thought they could just wait there, on my bed). After I'm done, they decide to waltz right back in (yea, about that lock...) and this time they bring more friends. They go back to fumbling with the bathroom door, and like 2 hours later they manage to get it open. Finally, Christ-effing-hell!

All I can say is, the housing office better process my room change form before she has an...accident.

I got a little bored over the break, shuffling between World of Warcraft and Tales of Vesperia, so I decided to start playing The Sims 2 again. But after playing the Sims for over 6 years, even that can get dull...so I forced myself to finally get in on this Legacy Challenge thing I always hear Simfanatics going on about. And like everyone else I'm going to be blogging about it. Though, don't expect it to be an elegantly written story...it's really not my style to make up long stories for Sims. I'm also not really playing for points. Just making sure I don't cheat and hold out for 10 generations.

So, my founder, Robert Weiland is an avid fisher, cook, and naturefreak who began his legacy in a trailer out in the middle of nowhere. I was going for a hippy/green family since it's more entertaining for me to have Sims grow and catch their own food. Reminds me of Harvest Moon without the animals and, therefore, makes it less painful to play without cheating. I always have something to keep up with that doesn't involve love and relationships, which equals less gag-time for me. Robert ended up marrying this (seemingly) half-Japanese, Lounge Singer/Artist named April Okuma, and now has two sons, Nathan and Patrick.


While you have to have some sort of God-complex to be playing these games, I also love watching what Sims do autonomously. Hell, what I want to happen normally doesn't without cheating. Example: I planned on making the first son, Nathan, the heir. I tried really hard while he was a child and early teen to get him into nature so he'd take up the gardening and fishing. Somehow, the actions would be mysteriously canceled after a few seconds and he'd either be playing with his RC car or jumping rope. I also managed to roll a Romance aspiration for him, which means he's more likely to knock a few chicks up and not get married. His interests include Tinkering/Mechanics and Fitness, his Life Aspiration is to become a Rock God, and he's currently going steady with a playable alien. All in all, as far as the challenge goes...he would make one useless heir. A perfect candidate for a black sheep if I were really into the storytelling though. I'm hoping for better luck with the second son, who's only a toddler at the moment.

It's nice to have the domain back after about 3 months. I found a pretty cool free host that offered the same features I was paying for...the only drawback has been no CGI support. I've spent the last 2 days trying to find an alternative to MovableType. And what a pain in the ass!! I think I've tried like 6-8 scripts, and all have sucked.

No matter how many times I've tried over the years, even with a fairly decent knowledge of PHP, I can't grasp Wordpress's or b2's template system. It just seems very messy for my tastes, and their particular way of doing things seems to make it easier to conjure parse errors that will frustrate you to the point of chucking your monitor out the nearest window (and I usually enjoy the debugging end of programming). Also, just like MovableType, they add tons of features that I will never use. I'm sure it's all in my head, but MT seemed to be a lot easier to dumb down for my simple use.

After hours of deleting, uploading, and hair-pulling, I'm now using bBlog. It's been simple enough to tweak and such, but some problems. The main one being a lack of support and documentation. Apparently, the project has been renamed Loquacity, but I haven't seen an upgrade feature. I'd hate to see all my work go to waste with a new install of yet another blogging program. I will just have to deal for the time being.

But, Umm...I'm back! Yayz!