The Ramblings of Karen Knight

Is coming out soon! Yay!!! I can't wait, must watch new L word episodes....

I've pretty much put all of my journal entries to friends being able to view them only. I still update from time to time, so if you want to read my entries, you'll have to add me as a friend. :)

Ok well I suck at updating, so I'll do a quick recap of since I hit level 70 with my NE druid.

First... I managed to get gear up well enough, I also managed to start going on raids and applied to raid. Took a little while, but I finally got promoted to raider status. The guild changed how people in raids were picked by a way of signing up, which allowed me to have more experience raiding.

I also got a job at the ministry of natural resources that lasted about 7 weeks, and gave me back pain for months. My back still gets a bit sore, however most of the pain is gone now thankfully.

I also got a kitten on June 8th, the day before a friend of mine, Rebekah's, wedding happened (her wedding was June 9th). She looked gorgeous, and it made me think of how single I was. But of course, I was incredibly happy for her. I named my kitten Amber, based on a character in a book series that I like. She's a medium length pastel tortoise-shell kitten.

I continued to raid on and off while at the ministry, although I got lonely since Carrie went to europe so my sister came to visit me for the last 2-3 weeks of working which was a lot of fun.

Once done at the ministry I didn't apply for any other job, I took the rest of the summer to relax. I went to sauble beach with my family for a week which was pretty nice, I did a bit of reading, and I ended up watching all of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Also watched all of Gilmore Girls. It was a very tv series summer. lol

In any case... I continued to raid. As a healing druid and gearing my druid up.

Eventually just shortly after school starts back up, our guild/raid leader who's also our main tank, gets tired of raiding. Other officers get tired, and other members too. Some people leave the guild, and the guild is no longer a raiding guild. It was a sad day when Guardians of Dawn no longer raided. :(

Thankfully some people who use to be in GoD created a guild around the time of TBC, a guild called Bloodline, which one of the guild leaders (previous GoD member) approached me about joining and so I have. I was accepted as a member a little while ago, still applying for raider rank.

However... funny that as soon as I apply, I'm not online as much. I've been busy with rl and school, mainly with non-school related stuff. I probably will not be given raider status, and only be kept at casual, but it's fine with me. How things are going in real life right now, I'm pretty happy with.

Anyway that's a very brief recap.

Now I must head to my class, and I shall attempt to update more later!

So I'm back at school, and I start thinking of stuff I'd like to write. I then remember I haven't mentioned anything in my livejournal in ages.

It has literally been months since my last post, and I have many things that had gone on in between. I should really learn to document more stuff then I do, but such is the way of lazyness.

One thing I'd like to try, it to get myself to update more frequently to practice writing. My ideal job would actually be a fantasy author writing novels. Hmmm seems like I choose the wrong subject to major in, biology really is nothing close to fantasy writing. At the same time, I guess I know myself well. I tend to be unable to continue what I'd like to write, I get an idea, I can ramble, but I have never got past one or two pages of writing a story.

One day, maybe that'll change.

Until then, my goal is to write stuff down here in my livejournal. And not just depressed rants. Although rants are enjoyable and easy to write about.

So yeah, I figure I shall try to write more.

Although it always seems that the longer the time between an entry, more interesting things happen, but the hard it is to update. For the sake of me wanting to be odd, I'm going to do multiple entries. That way should I decide to get entirely bored of it, I can stop, but still have some updates.

It's also difficult because currently I have something I want to write a lot about, but I don't want to skip anything I would've wanted to write before my new news arrived.

So in any case, I shall wrap up this entry, and then consider writing another depending on my lazyness levels. :)

I'm procrastinating yet again. :) I realized all of my entries that are public are pretty old and haven't been updated in a while... so I'm updating.

I really should be working on one of the many things I have due. I have a lab report due wed, a presenation on thursday, and then an essay on friday. >_<

Evil school.

And I keep going on world of warcraft instead of doing my work. Since the expansion it's been a lot of fun, I really like the new area, the outlands.

My warlock is now at level 70, but because the guild already has some very awesome warlocks, and is more likely to need a healer than a warlock, I've been leveling my druid up.

My druid right now is level 67! Only 3 more levels.. but it feels like ages. Once I get to 68 I get a flight form which'll be awesome. :)

I'm really enjoying playing my druid. When I first started leveling her up after playing my warlock, I didn't enjoy playing her much. Now I'm really getting to like being a druid. Each day that goes by, I associate myself more with my druid Alliera, than I do with my warlock Rivinn.

I'm a feral druid atm, though when I hit 70 I'll go restore. I just hope I don't miss feral too much, it's pretty fun... but I dislike tanking so I doubt I'll miss it that much. I'll probably use my warlock to farm stuff, and use my druid for instances. I'm looking forward to being level 70 with my druid, although once I hit that, there will be so much stuff I'll have to do... at least I won't get bored. lol

I'm also excited about my birthday being soon. It's March 31st, although Carrie, Emily and I are all busy, we'll probably still go out to a pub for food on my birthday and it'll be fun.

We're doing a big, let's celebrate everyone's birthday later around april 14th. It'll be Tom, Carrie, Emily and I and we'll be celebrating all of our birthdays, mainly because Carrie and Emily have birthdays in the summer and we won't be able to celebrate their birthdays then. And Tom's birthday is pretty close to the 14th.

Oh, another bit of update, James and I broke up a few weeks ago. He and I are still good friends though, and it was a mutual break up, so it's all good. :)

Anyway... time to actually get to work.

I have an evil quiz tomorrow (monday)at 3pm which I haven't started studying for yet! >_<

plus I have this poster group assignment thing that I haven't started yet and I'm meeting my group members at 7pm monday, and I need to be done it.

how am I suppose to get both studying and the poster thing done in time?

what sucks is that this stress could be far less, if my group members had decided to do the poster thing tuesday instead. it's due wed, so it doesn't technically need to be done monday. argh, such bad timing. oh well, last night I stayed up until 9am doing my essay, I just need to reference the essay now. And yeah, I'm almost nocturnal now... I got up today (sunday) at 6pm.

At least I'm not actually tired. I won't be going to any of my classes except for my 3pm quiz on monday though, as I'll probably need to stay up until 5am or later and to get 8 hours sleep, going to bed at 5am means I get up at 1pm. Though I need to get up at like 1:40pm to make it in time for my quiz at 3pm, and I can function on 5-6 hours of sleep.

Latest I can stay up is until 7:40 I guess... so I have a max of 7 hours, but I'd prefer to go to bed earlier and get 7-8 hours of sleep instead of 5-6 hours.

I'm worried about this quiz... I've failed the last two quizes in the course, and atm I have a 56% in the course. >_< I need to get 60% as my final mark in the course, or higher... not lower. And the exam is worth 35%... I'm worried, especially since I don't think I can actually drop this course.

however... once the quiz and the getting together with the group at 7pm tomorrow is done, I can fianlly install world of warcraft again! (I uninstalled to try to get more work done)

It's been almost a week that I've been without world of warcraft... and I'm feeling the withdrawl, yes I am that addicted to it. (hey, I don't have tv channels so it's wow or play ps2 or watch movies I own and have already seen... or do work, wow is the most entertaining out of those options)

Anyway, I'm excited to be nearly done the uber stressful part... then that'll leave and assignment due on next monday, and a major group project due next week tuesday... and then I'll be done all my assignments!

after that, I'll have two exams on sat dec 9th, and then an exam wed dec 13th, and an exam mon dec 18th. then the semester will be done...

so far to go... but at least I end earlier this year then last year. And I'll probably stay up in peterborough until closer to christmas, so that I don't have the parents driving me crazy about the hours I keep (they hate me staying up late, and I like staying up late).

after my last exam, I am getting my level 43 night elf druid up to level 60. I want her at 60 before the expansion pack, in case I decide to make my druid my main.

or maybe I should level up my tiny little level 8 warrior. lol doubt I'd have time for that. my druid is the closest to 60.

anyway guess I should get to work.

*smooches*

I'm surprisingly in a pretty good mood, not sure why. I'm just happy. :)

maybe it's the calm before the storm (the storm being my evil quiz at 3pm)

bye for now!

stupid essay.

icky weather out. *shudders* I don't like it.

it's all cold and wet out. *tries to crawl back into bed but it kept from doing so due to all her work*

stupid work.

I'm bored...

I really should learn to update happy or more interesting events... if only to make it seem like I'm not always like how I rant. The thing is, usually people complain about the bad stuff, the happy stuff gets forgotten to be mentioned. Or at least it is with me.

And no, this isn't to update on something happy actually, it was more I felt like ranting, then I looked at my last two entries, and felt kinda guilty for always ranting. lol

Well, I guess I'll give some happy info... even though I'm not exactly in a happy mood.

James visited on Sat (Nov 11th), and we went to Riley's with my housemate Carrie, after we rented some movies and he and I watched them, while drinking rum and coke. :) He stayed the night and went home sunday.

It was great to have him up, especially since it had been 2 weeks since I had seen him last. :)

Also, we've been together for just over 7 weeks. And yes, yes I am counting, mainly cause I always forget stuff like that, so I'm trying not to. lol :P

Unfortunately we didn't get to hang out that much, yes he did stay over but when it's after two weeks, a day/night doesn't really seem long. And we probably won't see eachother for another two or more weeks, which is kinda sucky.

Thank God for World of Warcraft.... and msn too of course. Both of us play World of Warcraft so we're able to talk to eachother on the game, if we aren't too distracted in game. (yes I'm a nerd! deal with it! :P)

Anyway, that's the positive stuff...

the negative stuff... I'm depressed, and anxious, and kinda going crazy. I'm waiting to find out if I'll be allowed to become a raider in the guild I'm in, Guardian of Dawn (on world of warcraft), but there hasn't been any response to my application to go from my non-raider status to a raider status. Yes, I know I posted like, only a day ago, but there have been other applicants (though not from the guild) who have posted and recieved some responses... it makes me nervous. It's like... if they decide I shouldn't be a raider and they don't have need of me as one, each hour/day I wait for a response, the more let down I'm going to be. I'm already really hoping I'll get in, even if I'm just an alternate (for when they need an extra member, I don't mind not having to raid all the time, and I don't mind sitting out for regular, older members, I just sorta want to know that sometimes I will be able to)... and I know I'm making a big deal out of nothing, since my gear isn't that good, I'm not that experienced, and I'm not even attuned to Naxx. But still... I keep worrying and wanting to know. It's like going into a job interview and not hearing back... or like seeing if you'll get a job promotion.

The thing is, the wait wouldn't seem so long, if I wasn't so bored atm. Yes, yes I have tons of work I need to do, but that isn't something that's interesting. I'm just... really bored. When I get bored I get fidgety and start thinking way too much about stuff... or attempting to find something to entertain myself with. There's nothing really interesting for me to do on world of warcraft at the moment, so my main distraction from stuff is gone... and I don't talk on msn to people that much.. and when I talk to James he's usually distracted with a bunch of other stuff, which I understand that he has responsibilities and stuff he has to do, and afterall, it's not his fault I'm bored. So it's like, I'm sitting at my computer, refreshing the Guardian of Dawn message board every 15 minutes in hope of a response, and checking all the comic sites I visit like every 10 minutes to see if a new comic has been posted, even though it hasn't... and then starting at the msn screen hoping James'll reply but every 15 minutes or so feels like hours upon hours of waiting. I'm not really an impatient person, except when I get really bored. When I'm bored... I get impatient, I get frustrated with my life, and I get depressed. I think it's a sign that either I have ADD, need to do school work, or get a social life or read a book or find a new game or movie to watch. It's probably a mix of all those except the ADD bit. I doubt I have ADD, people with ADD are suppose to multi-task like crazy and I for sure don't. I can't deal with more then one thing at a time... which is kinda odd that I get so bored so easily.

I also really miss James, even though I saw him on sat. I think it's cause I know that I won't get to see him for a while. Whenever I hang out with him, I miss him a lot for the first few days, by the next week it's like, I want to see him again, but I don't think that much about missing him. (probably cause I get use to not being around him again and end up finding something else that's interesting for me to do or think about)

Yeah... ok sorry I said I wasn't going to rant, and then I totally did. At least it wasn't as depressive a rant... and it was a bit more light-hearted.

I also probably sound like a very crazy freak. At the same time, this is my livejournal, and it's here for me to type out all of my thoughts, and exactly what is going on in my head at the time. If you don't like it, don't read it. And I hope no one judges me on it, cause all in all, it's my ramblings and it's my online-diary... although it is public cause it's more entertaining to write to an audience and actually potentially have other people be able to see it, as oposed to a diary where you're just talking to a book that no one sees... so I guess i'm being a bit hypocritical here... I can make this private and not be judged, or I can make it public, have more fun writing it, and hope no one thinks I'm too horribly crazy.

I think the real conclusion of me is that I'm just someone that's a bit too bored, wants to procrastinate work, and is therefore thinking WAY too into things. That's probably what sums it all up. *shrugs*

to anyone who managed to read all of this... grats on actually reading it all. *gives them a cookie* I'll give you another if you actually reply. lol :P

*smooches*

I'm depressed. And lonely. I kinda hate life atm.

Sometimes, I just wonder if anything is worth it... I mean, I don't give a shit about school, and I have no idea what I want to do with my life. And I'm in debt cause of OSAP.

*sigh*

well... I'm trying to do an assignment that has to be in by 4:30pm today, am I anywhere near complete? nope. I'll probably end up handing it in late, and here's hoping the proff'll still accept it at like 5pm or so, or a bit later then that. lol

But anyway, I found the ct profile thing for world of warcraft, where you can add equipment, rep, talent points and such to your character for others to see outside of the game, so I decided to do that... instead of work.

here's the link:
http://ctprofiles.net/4365640

And I actually am guilded... but you need to have the password to join the guild profiles and I don't have that. I'm in Guardian of Dawn, on the realm Eonar.

I also couldn't find where you can put your pvp rank. I'm rank 3, which really isn't very high considering there's 14 ranks in total. lol, I'll work on it.

*smooches*

back to attempting to work. :(

where I stay up all night procrastinating and not doing work... and being tired. lol

I have a 15 minute presentation I need to present at noon on monday (oct 2nd). Have I started the presentation? nope. I have some research and information, but I haven't made any slides yet


So yes... I'm doing my livejournal update because I've run out of comics to read to procrastinate and now I'm doing this.

In any case... in World of Warcraft news....


I FINALLY MADE LEVEL 60!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm very happy about that. hehe. ^_^

my guild also got a level 59 druid, who tanks which is very good as well. and I got lots of pretty equipment in the game today, which is totally awesome! :)


and of course.. in more important news,

James and I are dating. :)

James came up to visit me last weekend, on the friday, and we decided to get back together, and I'm really happy about it. ^_^

He stayed the entire weekend, and left on sunday, which was really cool. :) I'll also get to see him this coming friday evening, which I'm looking forward to! :)

in any case... besides the stupid presentation and being up so late and being tired, this has been a pretty good school year so far. :)

*smooches*

bye!

So it's now another year at Trent University... I wonder if I'll manage to do better this year. Hopefully since I sorta need to. I'm takng four courses this semester.

I've also become addicted to World of Warcraft. My warlock is at level 55 now. ^_^

I ended up running scholo today, which was of course, totally cool. James got two people from his guild, and a friend of his, along with himself to run through scholo with me.

For those who don't know WoW... I can't explain much. But let me say that scholo is an instance (area) where the things you kill (mobs) are really hard, and are at the level 58-60 range, and I'm level 55...and was 54 when I went through it. So basically I was way too low leveled to be in there, but James got people to take me through anyway. So awesome. ^_^ unfortunately the equipment piece I wanted didn't drop, but it was still really cool going in.

And of course I have a 9am class and am going to be soooooo tired from being up right now. Bleh. well I may post more frequently now that I'm back at school, but I might not.

James might be coming up this weekend as well. I had really wanted Emily (one of my housemates) to be there are well, so James could hang out with Emily and Carrie (my other housemate) and myself... but Emily's going home this weekend. :(

Oh well, probably the best time is this weekend, since I don't have that much work to do right now, and James said it was the best time for him for a little while.

Anyway, time for bed. :)

*smooches*

Well not just yet, but tomorrow (Monday Aug 7th) I'll be going camping with my family at Killbear (sp?) until Friday (Aug 11th). So if anyone emails me or whatever I won't respond during that time as I'll be camping.

I'm looking forward to going camping, though I'd probably have more fun if I had friends there instead of my parents. Oh well, it'll still be a lot of fun. Here's hoping that the mosquitos don't eat me alive.

*smooches*

back on friday or sat.

So now I'm back home in Toronto. It's kinda nice to be home, but at the same time almost as soon as I got home, my mom's started her nagging again. Guess I'll never be able to escape it.

Anyway, just thought I'd say that I'm back now in Toronto. :)

well here I am, at 2:30am, putting off going to bed.

before I begin, near the end of this entry, there's something hidden. I'm sure it's easy to find. Let me know if you found it.

I had a lot of fun on sat, I ended up going to see the movie The Devil Wears Proda (sp?) with my mom, and then after the entire family had supper at home, we got one of the mammoth bbq chickens from dominions, which is one of my favourite types of chicken, and there were yummy cookies too. ^_^

Anyway, here's my update: I finally got a job. It's with Pizza Pizza at Ontario Place, and it pays $9/hour, and it's just a summer job which is what I want. I start wed as far as I know, and I hope I'll get decent hours. It's not exactly the job I want, but it's money and I need money. lol

In gaming news... I finished final fantasy X, and I'm now playing final fantasy x-2 again, attempting to get 100% completion.

Also, I will hopefully be heading up to Peterborough to celebrate my close friend Emily's 21st birthday on the weekend of July 8th. hopefully I'll get the weekend off.

In dieting news... I'm not sure how much weight I have lost. I started out at 170 pounds *winces and blushes* and I've lost anywhere between 11-14 pounds. I have two scales at home, both give different weights, and neither is very reliable... so some days I'm 156 pounds, sometimes 159 or 160, depending on the time of day, and so on. However, I have lost 10 pounds at the very least, which is nice... but it's taking ages for me to lose weight now. It's discouraging so I've started cheating on my diet by eating cookies now and again and other stuff... it's hard to stay on a diet when after a week of dieting there's been no for sure weight loss. (as in one day my scale will say 156... then a couple days later when I haven't even cheated on the diet it'll say 159 or something on me). Oh well, I still have the rest of the summer. My goal is to get down to at least 140 pounds. So I still have a lot to lose. Probably once I start working and moving around more the weight'll be lost a bit faster...maybe. That or I'll gain weight because I'm working at Pizza Pizza and I like pizza... mmmm pizza. I want beer too. beer and pizza... *sigh*

I have also taste tested diet pepsi, diet coke, and coke zero, and although my favourite regular non-diet pop is coke, and I much prefer coke over pepsi, I like diet pepsi far better then the diet coke brands. weird eh? I think it's because pepsi has a weird taste compared to coke, so to me diet pepsi doesn't taste much different from regular pepsi, but the difference of diet coke to regular coke is too much for me to like it... that or I'm just odd.

In any case, anyone wanting to contact me, just email me or post a message on my livejournal. If you post a comment an email is sent to my hotmail address and I see it right away.

I should probably head to bed now,

Happy Canada's Day everyone! or rather... belated Canada's day, as technically it's around 2 and a half to 3 hours past July 1. meh oh well.

*smooches*
Also, another update, I really want to break up with Jeff but I don't know how to. Oh well, I guess I'll have to figure it out. Jeff, if you happen to see this, not that you ever read my livejournal at all, I want to break up with you.
bye!

My book is finished. I was reading a Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin and now it's done. I'll have to wait for a year or more to get to read the book after it. It was a really good book, although it only had half of the characters point of views, I still really liked it. And I still really want the Starks to make a come back. lol!

It took George R.R. Martin YEARS to finally finish A Feast For Crows, I really hope he's able to finish A Dance With Dragons sooner. Would be nice to be able to read that book next year during the summer.

In other news, if you see me on msn, and I don't respond, it's because I'm either 1) not there, 2) reading 3) playing ps2 4) playing WoW 5) watching tv or a movie or 6) too lazy to bother talking on msn. Please don't get offended, I just get lazy during the summer.

I'm more likely to respond to emails, or reply to comments on my livejournal.

An update of my life (not that anyone cares or is reading this lol):
I've been relaxing and being lazy around the house for the last while and enjoyed it. I put in more applications to places, and contacted the place I worked last year, so it's just a waiting game at the moment for a job... well I should go hunt for more jobs soon, but not this week. :P

I haven't been playing games much, or watching tv, I've been reading mainly. Next week I'm going on a diet... I think I'm going to die. *mutters* I hate going on a diet, but I gained far too much weight during the school year so I'll need to lose 20-35 pounds. bleh.

I'll update later if I feel like it.

I think I'll start on Robert Jordon's newest book now. Hopefully I'll be able to remember all the names of the important characters... there are so many names, and I read the books a while ago.

*smooches*

bye! ^_^

Yesterday I hung out with James. It was a lot of fun. ^_^ We played soulcalibur 3 for a bit, though I got bored so we stopped, we went to the Keg, and we also watching final fantasy 7, which was a pretty good movie.

All in all, it was nice being out of the house for a day, and it was nice to hang out with James again. :)

oh, btw, James do you still have my final fantasy X-2 guide book? I'm thinking I might want to play the game again after watching final fantasy 7, and I'll need the guide. ^_^


On another note, I stepped on the scale a few days ago, and almost died at how much I weigh.. *shudders* So I'm going on the South Beach diet again, probably on monday, maybe on tuesday, depends on if my family is doing anything on the long weekend. Anyway I'm going on a diet and I'm really hoping I can lose like 30 pounds, because I need to. *nodself*.

dammit why?

why do I feel the way I do? and why am I so cold hearted sometimes?

oh well.

on the plus side it's my sister's 17th birthday today and I think she had a good day. I had a good day as well. :)

oh... and the why do I feel this way comment has nothing to do with my sister at all. :)

I'll rant later maybe.

I want flowers... I rarely ever get flowers.

back in Toronto btw.

I want flowers... did I mention that?