Another Week

Another week, another raid, more classes. I feel like I am starting to get into a rut. I wouldn't mind, I just want to add some good things to it.
I feel we did really well, getting through 3 bosses with minimal mess. We had a new tank with us, so the boss raps took a bit more time, and we called it quits a tad early. But tonight we should be back on Elegon. I hope my transition from heals to DPS goes a tad smoother this time.

We attempted challenge modes again. They keep whooping us soundly. I run out of mana healing all the time. I'm hoping more practice will make things easier. There were 8 people interested in going last night, made me really sad I couldn't get everyone in. Especially our awesome priest healer, I really wanted to bring the monk along to DPS tonight. This looks to be turning into a weekly thing, maybe with a few more people interested, we can get 2 groups going and I won't feel so bad.

Classes are going swimmingly, but today I was mentally all over the place. Only got 4 hours of sleep the night before, and my attention span was almost zero. Long enough to catch these great quotes from pharmacology though!
To explain, our professor couldn't find any pictures showing drug distribution patterns in the body, but eh did find one showing them in Mexico, so that was in our powerpoint. Our professor also shaves his head. And we were talking about drug testing with hair.

So today's top quotes from class:

Ecstasy- the netherlands is quite well perfused

I just want to be sure if they try and find any drugs on me, they can't find any hairs. ... Beware of this. Grenada is an island where several things grow easily

Back to School

I am back in Grenada, classes are going well. I hate when first impressions make  you predisposed to dislike someone you'll be stuck with all year. One of my professors just rubbed me the wrong way, and I am trying not to let that stick, because it is a tough class and it's only day 3.
We're taking pharmacology this term, which I am excited about. It theory. We'll see how it works out. Physiology is turning out well, and we're already behind in dissection because they were a donkey short, so we haven't even started!

My little panda priest for the Stay Classy guild achievement is coming along fine, level 52 at the moment. I keep forgetting i can't fly and jumping off the mage tower in SW.

Back to the raid tonight, see how well it goes. We're stuck on Elegon. I'm the healer swapping to DPS for that fight,  so I am working on getting a good DPS set together.

I'll see how it goes. Time to get back to dailies- wait that sounded like a queue just popped. See ya

So Much to Do

I feel like there is not enough time in the day to do everything I want. I have 4 90's now, 2 of whom I care about gearing up for healing, which means running all the LFR every week with them, and 1 is my jewelcrafter, so I run LFR and kill stuff to get more meta patterns. My mage hangs around to tailor and make flasks, but I still farm with all 4 of them every day, which takes a decent chunk of time.

Then there are the "we have to do sometime this week" things my boyfriend and I do, like the pet raids. Plus raiding 2 nights a week, and both of us working. Although yesterday was my last day, I go back to school next Monday.

We are leveling a panda priest and warrior to help get the class achievement for our guild, in a bit of a race to get them there by the end of February. We've finally knocked out all the dailies except the Anglers, for the rep grind. So we finally have a little time to level them. They just hit 40 last night, so we have a ways to go.

And isn't it amazing how I can remember perfectly quests I have done maybe twice on my way to leveling my guys, but my classes, where I study for hours, I forget the simplest things sometimes? Makes me wish I could learn pharmacology as I play WoW, maybe it would stick better.

As I write all this, it really doesn't seem like that much. I can knock out 2 of my toons LFRs today, and leave on to do with my boyfriend later in the week. We've got one more day to finish the storage shed, hopefully tomorrow. And hopefully it will stop raining today too. That has been our big project while I am home. We've had a 10X20 storage shed for a few years, packed full since the move. My brother has one too, but he is emptying his (since it was mostly an old car) and we are moving things from my parents to his, getting rid of the one. We've gone through all the boxes, donated a ton to goodwill and throwing away a ton of trash, and we're almost done. Everything has been sorted and gone through, just need to do the last move.

And don't people just annoy you sometimes? I posted Tailoring, LFW last night to see if anyone was interested. Someone wanted me to make a bag for them, trading me the number of windwool bolts that go into the imperial silk to make the bag. With the chest or gloves, I may not have had an issue.  But I could have bought that much windwool for less than 1200g, and I didn't feel like selling a bag for essentially 1200g, since no other offer was made. The guy got pissy, complaining about inflation. I feel like I put a ton of work into getting that pattern, since I hat to grind rep with the GL to unlock the August Celestials, then get to exalted with them, all on an alt for that bag pattern. Making the bag is worth more than just the raw mats. But people like that upset me, just getting mad without any sort of discussion first. I didn't laugh in his face about the offer, I just told him that wasn't a trade I wanted to make for the bag. It takes days to get that much imperial silk. I shouldn't get upset by people in WoW being mean, but it is annoying.

On another note: challenge modes are challenging. Starting to organize guild runs, so hopefully next week will be better.

LF Loot

LFR is so random sometimes. Someone complemented the healers in a group, and there was silence for a minute before someone asked if they were joking. Nice people don't happen often. More common is my group today, where the tank politely introduced himself and said it was his first time here, and the other tank tore into him the whole rest of the run. Very annoying (especially when he died once because he was typing a reply- which at least he admitted).  I don't tank, but to explain the fight enough to get through it usually takes about 30 seconds. Way less time than all these complaints did. I was already grumpy, because no one ever stays out of the purple circle under Garalon like they should, and like I make a point to politely say before each encounter with him. That was a tad rantier than I meant.

Out of all 5 LFR, I got 4 pieces of loot. 3 from 1, and 1 from the last one I did. Kinda annoying, but still 3 were clear improvements, including my second tier piece, and one was a sideways slide I took. Looks like I'll have to make myself a trinket, no drops in LFR. Ah, oh well, I half expected it anyway.

Today was, for all of that, a good day. Sure, we had a horrible run tonight. Took down 2 bosses in 2.5 hours in MSV when we had done way better last week. Feng was buggy, not moving when he shifted phases, and drawing flame as he was shifting messed us up. On the plus side, monk healing is coming along great I feel. I was doing LFR healing on my druid and was actually bored. Just healing wasn't intensive enough in those fights, but with the monk I can at least hit the boss and heal. Still learning a few tricks, things I prefer over out shaman/priest/monk whatever he is this week, but he's helpful to talk to.

We got rid of 5 42 gallon bags on clothes this week, things that had been in the storage shed for over 2 years now, clothes that no longer fit. And a bunch of trash. Feels nice. I finally realized that my parents are never going to get rid of the storage shed completely, even if only to keep my step-dad's harley in over winter. SO, I moved the many boxes of kitchen things from my old apartment out of my bedroom, moved a few bookshelves and boxes of my old stuff in, and will hopefully have a room I really have things in. I've been under the impression I was going to successfully transfer of get accepted into a state school, and have an apartment for 4 years I could fully unpack in, but that didn't happen. It is nice not to have those boxes, even if the space will still be occupied. Here's hoping that tomorrow I can do just as well (only better with the loot- those  3 from on instance were from yesterday).

No Need to Procrastinate

I started this blog to procrastinate, and most of my posts have come from that too. Since I am home for the winter break, with no tests to study for I don't have to procrastinate and posting has slowed down.

Heard back from NCSU and VMRCVM. No transfer for me, back to sunny Grenada I go in a few weeks. A little sad, but with this weather I am looking forward to 85 and sunny. I suppose I'll try again next semester.

I decided to work over break at my old job, which has been interesting. I might look for something that will get me more, new experience over the summer. Maybe with horses again.

Going well on WoW, got my monk into healing. Hard to tell how you're doing in LFR (especially when I think recount in messing up) and you don't know the quality of the healers you are with.  I might try to bring her along to the raid tonight instead of my druid, depending on who comes along. We've been just hitting enrage a few times, and maybe a bit of fistweaving (a small as the DPS is) might help. I'll leave it up to the raid leader. Last time we ran with a full spectrum of druids. It is a shame they changed battle rez, pretty sure with 4 we could've done much better. Ah, probably a good thing. Teaches us to pay better attention. Fire has always been drawn to me, and i just can't help but stand in it. I have gotten tons better at that.

I hope everyone had a nice break, and wish yo all a happy new year. Probably won't hear from me again til I'm back in Grenada. Or the Miami airport. I think they make my layovers so long to sucker me out of the $8 for the daily internet.

Made it!

Finally home. Not as much time to relax and catch up on pet things and achievements in WoW as I had hoped for, I will be working at the vet clinic and with my mom at the shipping store. I probably won't be at both the whole time, but the rush to Christmas is that store's only busy time, and they just had an employee quit at Thanksgiving for some family issues. So busy me for the next few weeks.

No news from NCSU, still hoping. I started the stuff for VMRCVM anyway, and learned apparently the school thinks I owe them some money for a room change that never happened. That's for next semester. Hopefully I get it straight tomorrow, and hear from NCSU. I hung on and have an A in his to, by the skin of my teeth. At the moment, i have an A in anatomy, which is nice, but the final grade isn't in, so... That is another thing I hope to find out tomorrow.

On the WoW front, we downed the dogs in MSV, and got Feng to .02% on our best attempt. People (cough me cough) need to learn the mechanics a bit better. I admit I stand in the lightning on occasion, but it's the last phase that kills us. Finished the Uld 25 run, got my Ironbound Proto-Drake, and I'm working on farming a Brawler's guild invite as we go, as well as the Glorious! achievement. My wonderful boyfriend gave me a moonkin pet, and a personal world destroyer, adding to my list of pets to level to 25. RIght now the goal is 1 of each type to beat the Northrend pet trainers.

Doing well on the raid pet front, mostly. BWL refuses to drop pets for us as readily as the others do. We've started farming Ashes of Alar, hopefully we'll get it eventually. Half an hour once a week isn't that much time to devote to it, and I suppose I could do it 3 times a week if I really wanted to solo it on the druid and mage as well, but  I don't. I think having a druid as my main makes me devalue mounts a bit, cause I am a bird so much of the time, and it's more useful for farming herbs than mounting up.

So goals for the week: work on Shado-Pan, August Celestials, and Klaxxi as well as the raid pets. We've finished GL. Run some heroics to get healing trinkets for my monk, and learn to heal on her. I'd like to bring her to the raid this week, to exchange 1 leather wearer who needs int gear for another. But it would bring us from 3 druids in the raid to 2, and depending on who tanks there will be 1 or 2 monks in the group. We aren't very diverse, we had 3 druids, 2, shammys, and 2 mages. Lots of doubles for a 10 man.

Anyway, time to go to sleep to be ready for working tomorrow. Night!

Waiting

Waiting is the hardest part of an exam, especially these computer exams. Someone inevitable has a problem downloading, especially since we now have to download 45 min before the exam since someone on this campus managed to open their test before the exam. So we get there early, and wait. I hope I remember everything. So much information for this one test.

No news from NCSU, but I sent an e-mail yesterday asking about it, so here's hoping. I also sent my transcripts off to Virginia Tech, just in case, so I can start that process if needed.

Only 1 pet dropped from MC and BWL last night, but we got Jing the OS103D mount. I don't know if 2 90's can solo OS25, but we'l give it a shot next week. Then ask for help :)
I'm hoping to rope a few more people into doing an Uld 10 achievement run. 2 bosses left in the 25 one, we'll get em next Sunday. The plan for today is AQ40 then Naxx for pets, then seeing if that staff from my inscriptionist raises my level enough to give mistweaving a try. I enjoy windwalking a lot, so I hope mistweaving agrees with me,  would give the run a tad more diversity. Well, at least bring the number of druids to 2 from 3.

And still have 10 minutes to go til the exam starts.
I'm going to have to miss the raid on Friday, the plan is to pack and play magic since I fly out Saturday morning. Only a few more days here! And I still haven't gotten a tan. Maybe I can spend some of tomorrow on the beach. I need to look for some spices as gifts for a friend too.