AS FOR REPLY TO THE LONG VM... here we go!
Haha, my school is like... 80% East Asian? Like, the arts faculty where I take classes for my minor is mostly caucasian but my school is really big on Engineering and Math and those students are all either Middle Eastern or Chinese/Korean. I was the ONLY white female CS major when I started here and apparently I gained a bit of a reputation for it. (During orientation there was a big scavenger hunt and a "white female CS student" was one of the items to find. xD) I'm very used to that accent. Omg homework was the worst in earlier grades though. I'd always get in trouble for finishing it in class instead of taking it home... so I guess the opposite of you. (WTF at getting in trouble for taking it home though? Like when did she expect you to do it...? >:|)
It's great that your principal did something though! I complained about teachers a few times and the complaints were always thoroughly ignored. 8( Luckily my complaints were usually just like "this teacher isn't TEACHING us anything and this other teacher is giving university-level assignments for things he hasn't taught...." LOL at Cali sinking into the sea though. That's actually kind of funny. Although horrible for people who actually live on the coast, I suppose. But I want to see more houses on stilts.
I'm pretty sure tryptophan is also in uhhh... bananas? All sorts of things, it's just more common to hear about sleepiness after thanksgiving dinners or something which are usually turkey. xD; Haha, no, I don't think that's super healthy. D: Try melatonin? It helps regulate your sleep and that's all it's for so it should be safe to take regularly. @_@
Probably! Even if... uhh... that's kind of a true stereotype here. @_@;; Nah, there are two sets of public schools here (in Ontario anyway)... the regular public schools and the Catholic public schools. I'm sure there are also private Catholic schools too but you'd have to pay for them... hence the private thing. I think the only difference between Catholic and regular schools is that the curriculum in Catholic schools includes religion classes and a lot of them have uniforms which *does* get kind of pricy. I think you also need proof of your baptism as a Catholic? I think that's why I wasn't allowed to go to school for the first half of the day when I moved to Ontario. We couldn't find my baptism certificate in all the boxes. XD; (It was fine by me because I was an annoying entitled atheist back then and was SO pissed off about having to go to a religious school all of a sudden.)
I think faith is important to have if it's something that is important to you but you have to find what works. The bible is a great book so long as it's not taken literally and it sounds like a lot of churches in the US definitely take it too seriously. Christianity has a lot of great messages and on the whole it's about loving and accepting others for who they are because everyone is a sinner. The people who take that message and twist it around are horrible but the religion itself has pretty great foundations. The bible is very outdated and if you're taking it literally, I firmly believe that ALL of it should be taken literally. It's not fair to pick and choose. So if someone believes 100% that the line about not lying with another man is still relevant today, it should still be relevant that we can't eat shellfish, we should never ever cut our hair, and cows aren't allowed to be in the same pasture with cows of different species. Oh, and we're required to outright kill anyone with a different religion, iirc. So uhhh a lot of the things in the bible just don't make any sense to follow today. XD; It's fine to consider yourself a member of a religion and only pick and choose which rules you follow, imo, so long as you're keeping the original message of the faith to heart. It seems to me like it would be easier to just keep religion as a spiritual, personal thing as opposed to trying to find a church that fits all of your individual beliefs. :P [/religion rant]
Religion stuff was always easy to BS because it was all about Catholicism. Most of our assignments were ~reflections~. So like, we'd go on a field trip or have a mass and then write a reflection on it. So long as your reflection mentioned God, how you try to be a good person, and something about heaven, you pretty much aced it. XD; The hardest part was just making that last 600 words or something. In grade 11 we got to take "World Religions" as our religion class but everything still had a Catholic slant (although that was so long ago I can't really give any specific examples of the slant). Overall it was still a good school. We learnt the theory of evolution, proper science, and most of the teachers were really laid back about faith so even if you were gay/atheist/whatever and open about it, there were no problems. It was a very liberal school, all things considered. (And there was a mall right next to it so skipping masses and going to see a movie was pretty damn easy. >8D)
I imagine it's banned pretty much anywhere now. It's fun amongst your friends but it's really creepy when it happens and you don't even know the person. @_@;; Never happened to me personally but an friend had part of her awesome costume ruined when someone from the same series decided it made more sense to glomp her from behind out of nowhere instead of asking for a hug/picture/whatever. >:/ So I definitely understand the rule. Something about long drives in cars is really relaxing for me. So long as we're on a highway and I have a pillow, I can usually sleep no problem. XD; It makes nooo sense because I can't even sleep well in beds. Then again, I don't think I've been on a proper road trip since my insomnia hit anyway so maybe it's changed? I'll find out in a few weeks, I guess! And I have no idea what the Wii U is about. I think it's more focussed on the touch screen on the main controller than movement controls. Which is nice but omg the battery on said controller will probably last like 3 hours tops haha. ;_;
I liked the second version a bit more than the first. I'm very on the edge when it comes to vocaloids. XD; There are some songs I absolutely love and I love the designs of the vocaloids themselves but generally I prefer versions of the songs actually sung by humans haha. I dunno if it's an acquired taste or just something you either like or you don't. T_T; But yeah, it looks like you could probably just get a red hoodie and sew the additions onto the hood for a lot cheaper!
;_; I can't even imagine my life without Cherrim now! I'm glad for PC because I felt obliged to keep buying the Pokemon games if I was gonna stick around for a decade at a Pokemon forum lmao. I don't mind most of the Pokemon from Gen 3 now--a lot of them grew on me by the time I got back into the games in Gen 4. But I think if I went through Hoenn again I'd probably be taking all gen 4/5 Pokemon with me to make it tolerable. XD;
Only sort of. XD; It goes away when you go beat Sora's boss until you beat the rest of the game but for the endgame grinding? Stiiill there. *grumble* Re:Coded is not worth finishing. XD; Especially if you know the ending because iirc the last world is absolutely ridiculous in difficulty and when you beat it and have already seen the cutscenes it's just so not worth the effort. ;~;
W-well, I don't think she has over 100 pairs of boots. Her bag isn't THAT big. XD
I imported Pokemon Black and didn't miiind playing it, but I find Pokemon games kind of annoying to play in Japanese for some reason. I guess it's probably the lack of voice acting but they're so much harder for me to get through (and understand) than KH games. Which is ridiculous. I don't really WANT to play these ones in Japanese but if it's the only way to avoid spoilers... :c
aaah that version was adorable ahhaha.