Killing Time

Happy New Year! It's Chinese New Years today! In celebration of it, I'm wearing red for good luck, and I'm going to clean my room (according to wikipedia) to wipe away the bad luck of last year. I've got a lot of work to do when I get home today!

I'm just sitting in the library right now, super bored. I'm just trying to kill time I suppose. I'm talking to some guy I just met, and getting to know him. He's a really nice guy! I've been eating these interesting bags of dried noodles. It's like when you take top ramen, crush it all up, and then pour the broth powder into it. It's making me thursty though.. Plus each bag is like $2.50.. Interesting to eat, but a little over my budget for a snack of that size.

I've been practicing a lot of piano lately, but mainly sight reading. I noticed that when I spend a lot of time sight reading, I start to get kinda iffy with all of the songs I have memorized. Sounds like the most obvious solution would be to practice sight reading AND practice memorized songs in the same session, yet I still struggle to do so successfully.. Oh well!

I've been pretty addicted to Minecraft lately, but I've hit a roadblock. There are these amazingly huge cliffs in my world and I wanted to flood the ground in water, then build wooden bridges everywhere. Then I wanted to put wooden houses on all the cliffs and dig canals inside the cliffs connecting the houses. It would be like a city amongst cliffs hovering above a world flooded in water with wooden bridges everywhere. The vision I had in mind was perfect, but when it finally came down to it, it proved to be a LOT more challenging than I thought to be. Flooding the ground is extremely difficult. Having to constantly refill my buckets and pour water on uneven ground was tedious. The uneven ground made my river look retarded and a lot less pleasant than I expected it to be. I'm even considering cleaning up the water then spending hours flattening out the dirt ground with shovels. But I have a bad attention span so I thought I'd try building a house. I climbed my way up one of the cliffs and started randomly placing wood. The house didn't turn quite the way I expected it to look.. I guess I'm going to need some graph paper and a hell of a lot more planning for this one.

I couldn't stop thinking about last weekend's sealed Magic tournament so I definitely plan to go again this Saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to go. Speaking of Magic, my cube is almost finished and I'm even thinking about adding cards to it! I'm actually looking for people to play with now. I almost have four people to play with. Seems like a long shot, but if I can actually convince them to find time out of their day to play magic with me that would be really fun.