00:10 — Today (okay, yesterday now) was the day for the traditional fun-making of first-year university students. Or however you'd translate fuksijäynä into English. Nevertheless, there just can't be a better event thing than that organized by the university's RPG club. Full-scale epic LARP, complete with plot, character sheets and silly costumes. The main bad evil antagonist stole our student hats and shirts. Our healing potions were regular beer and the cleric had some really weird stuff in his bag (lots of alcoholic beverages serving as Speak with dead, Haste, Bull's Strength and whatnot). (I had to repost this thing because I forgot to write about the random encounter with the lawyer.)

First the evil bad guy had us locked into the club's backroom. Well, some people thought it would be very cool to play bridge right then, so they played bridge. Some wondered how they'll get out of the room. One of the organizers was with us and started panicking because of the bridge and beat the door until the others let her out. Shortly after that we decided to stop playing bridge and try the door to get out. Yay, it worked!
After that we were told that (to get our student hats and shirts back as the bad guy had stolen them) we'd have to go to the great mage in Herwood's great tower. Yay, for the water tower of Hervanta, it's just too bad that the most experienced person with respect to that was the group's half-orc barbarian. Oh well, we went for the tower then. I was given the dice bag since I didn't have a weapon. Biiig dice made of paper!
Our first random encounter was two orcs, who we whacked. The orc retired and gave us a morningstar as well as a gift horse for our dwarf. Well, the dwarf got stuck to the horse (pushable wagon or whatever kottikärryt is in English), so we had to push him around in it. Note that water towers are in high places.
Can you imagine how awesome it looks when a group of about ten people walk around in extremely silly costumes wile speaking RPG slang?
Well, we arrived at the water tower where we found the mighty mage who challenged us to wizards' duel (MTG cards). Well, due to the elevator limitation of 475 kg and 6 people, only half of our party actually was there and none of them (except the half-orc) knew MTG. Thus the Necromancer cast some spell on him and he could play. He was of course given a false pack of cards, but luckily the great blue 1,5 l drink that we had along was a mana potion. Lots of mana and we pnwed the game! The wizard said we need to go to the mall in the great Metropolis (Tampere) to find someone who can help us with our quest.
So we went to Tampere by a bus. The first bus that got to us was totally full, but about half of our party fit there. Again the awesomeness that is about five extremely sillily dressed people in an absolutely filled bus.
Well, in Tampere we got stared at a lot. Our target was a pizzeria, where we met something who had lost a miniature-sized giant-space-hamster and we needed to save it before he'd give us information about someone who knew the lair of the bad guy. Well, we ate and got going. A new party member joined us at this point. At this point we walked through one of the busiest places in Tampere.
The hamster-nabbers were along the Tammerkoski river. It was probably our toughest encounter, because the offenders, when we approached, did nothing, and we just giggled because one was a large guy in a bra made of Shell logos and the other a balding guy in a top and see-through pink/orange bag-pants. When we got close enough, they just turned around suddenly and started singing some totally lame-ass lovesong. Most of our party just cracked up (especially the half-orc, he laughed so hard he fell down to the ground). After that no one would attack them and the singing hurt our ears, so we had to stuff our ears with parsley that the Druid conveniently had along. Well, even after that we had trouble because no one really wanted to attack and obviously no one heard anything because of the parsley. The half-orc got sat on, too. Meanwhile, the Necromacer shifted through their bags. We were just supposed to search their pockets for the damn hamster, and eventually we got around doing that. By that time, the kidnappers were holding the hamster in their hands and we snatched it. Once we'd taken it, the enemies bawled.
The hamster told us that the great lair of the evil guy is in the great Tower of Seeing (the sight-seeing tower of Pispala) and we would have to cross the land of the dead (graveyard) to get there. Well, off we go!
In front of the church in the graveyard The first orc we ran into came to us as a zombie and said that since they don't let him or his partner into the great church of Peelor (peelo meaning idiot in Finnish) to be married, our party would need to do it. Well, no problem, the Paladin does the ceremony while the druid plays a song on the pixie's flute and the rest of us formed an arc with our weapons (except me since I had no weapon, but I made great use of the paper dice). After that the zombie orc gave us some really foul highly alcoholic beverage. Well, that's according to the others since I didn't drink it.
The journey continued and in the graveyard we met a dead vamipe whose tree-stub grave ad been disturbed by four bridge-playing undead things. Well, we got to get rid of them for her before we could pass, but they couldn't hear us. Therefore we needed that Speak with dead drink, and though we negotiated a long time, they didn't move. However, our party stole altogether three cards from the pack while they were playing as we negotiated about playing bridge for the freedom of the tree stub. Then, as the undead discovered they were missing cards, they started blaming each other for cheating and quit playing, so the tree stub was saved.
The final trip was a painstaking one up the ridge in Pispala to the sight-seeing tower. There was also a random encounter, we got approached by a lawyer who gave us her business card (it read "Random encounter") and accused us of breaking copyright laws. We then discovered the dark elf was the violator, imitating Drizzt Do'urden. We discussed about killing the lawyer or the dark elf or doing mething, and then, half-accidentally, the half-orc stabbed the dark elf in the stomach and killed him. Well, case resolved and the cleric cured critical wounds.
There was a damn crapload of people at the tower! Glare to the power of ten! There we saw we final boss of a bad guy and his minions. Then our parties needed to pose for the final battle and the initiatives were decided by the height of people. The bad guy had the finger of death, and he said "Pull on this", after which at least one of our party pulled the finger and died. While hitting, the bad guy hit the holy symbol of the Cleric (it was an ideal target), but the GM said that doing that doesn't do damage because it hit the holy symbol! All in all, a lot of people were killed, a lot of zombies were raised and a lot of damage was dealt (and I pnwed with my paper dice), but finally (after divine intervention) the bad guy was surrounded and whacked to death. After that he tried to go fall on our loot, but he missed and we got our student hats and shirts over his dead body!

Afterwards we went to listen to the Vapputervehdys by Captain Pirk.

16:08 — I went to the (a?) city administrative court today to change my name. Well, didn't go too smoothly, but also not too bad since at least I wasn't told to sod off. I had to write an explanation for the change after initially being told that I can just change it without any explanations. The stuff got sent to Nokia, I wonder if I have to go there. Even the place in Tampere had moved, I had to walk a few kilometers more and my feet protested a little. Was too hot, apparently.

17:30 — I changed the tires to our bigger car last weekend. I think the summer tires are a bit more noisy than the friction tires, but then again the roads are dry and noisy too. Either way, the tires have been changed and I didn't even hurt a place on my body!
I've been having fun playing Pokémon. We're getting the "new" games fairly soon, too. Two GBA consoles and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. And chargers and the connecting cable thing or whatever it is.
My dad confessed. >_>

17:48 — I forgot to say that I pnwed the math exercises. I did one of nine yesterday and the rest eight today during the two skip hours I had. Then there were five people in the exercise checking class, two of whom had actually done exercises (and I was one of them). And I was probably the only one who'd done them all (besides the assistant of course). So I ended up doing altogether three exercises on the board, yay. Oh well. I pwn. That's the most important thing.

15:45 — Stars fuck it. Last Friday, I took Battlestar Galactica on tape because I needed the sleep. Well, today I watched what I had on the tape. Guess what.
Two thirds of the show was there, no problem, but during the second commercial break the channel changed to SexTV. SexTV. Okay, but when I want to watch BSG... really. Fuck I say.

17:20 — Okay. I played Pokémon for about six hours. I'm awesome.

12:38 — Hmm. I've been watching that "Lost" series. Well, this night I apparently dreamed some new episode. With more death and blood, obviously, and I'm pretty sure they were in a Finnish evergreen forest instead.

16:16 — I did indeed chage the tires yesterday. Of course I screwed with the pressure checking, but oh well.
Today my forearms are scrap. Ow.

23:53 — Update on limb scrapness. My right thigh and left forearm are scrapped.

12:53 — The day before yesterday, after I'd gotten my referral, I thwacked the yard with an iron rod. You know, to break up the 20 cm thick layer of ice. It was probably as thick as 25 cm in some places, but mostly probably about 10 cm. I did the same yesterday too and we managed to make a bare patch big enough for the little car to change the tires. I suppose today I'll change the tires.

08:27 — I slept well this night, though it was only 7 hours. Oh well. Our net connection was an asshole and didn't work, though.

09:53 — Whoo! My doctor appointment went great and I got my referral.
I saw a car wreck yesterday or on Monday. It wasn't too serious as far as I saw; a white car bumped into a blue one and the blue one skidded, stopping sideways on its lane. The white one swayed but regained control and stopped later. It happened right behind me.

13:05 — I finally managed to change my bedsheets yesterday. I last changed them like last year. Too damn busy I say. I also typed up the notes from a lab, but tactfully forgot to do my physics exercises. Oh well, I had three hours time to do them now after finishing the math PC exercises. Took only about two hours; either they were damn easy or I really missed something there.
It was O °C today. I went to wipe the snow off the car in a T-shirt and it felt great to not feel warm or excessively cold. Whee.
However, when I tried to start the car, it didn't start. After a few tries I got it going, though. I don't know what's with it, but I sure hope it will start also when I try to leave. Maybe the accu (or battery, whatever) is running low. I wonder if this is why there were footprints around the car. Of course, in that case I'd have thought they'd have cleaned up the car – unless the snow came down already after they were gone. This is the little car I'm talking about, the big one is damn great.

11:45 — I've felt damn good lately. Sucks that it's probably temporary, but well. I haven't slept properly though, but that doesn't seem to bother me too much. Yesterday I was a bit dead on lectures, though.
My foot is being an asshole. A couple of weeks ago I think my left foot was left in the cold while I slept and in the night I suppose a vein or something in my sole cramped. Hurt like hell, but the feeling when the vein unclenched itself was just awesome. A couple of nights ago and the day before yesterday (when I was driving back from the movie theater after having just watched "V for Vendetta") my right foot made annoucements that its sole would like to have a cramp too. Well, I can't allow that since it hurts too much to have while driving... Oh well, at least it isn't force-cramping itself.

08:01 — I'm damn happy that it's still cold and snowy. I haven't felt really tired in a while. Maybe the fact that it's both light and cold during day, morning and evening is enough to not make me tired or something. I wish it wouldn't get warm this year. Or the next year. And so on. Heat be damned. I'm happy when it's cold.

19:04 — It kinda makes me glee. http://transsexual.org/cherish.html

13:43 — I think my brain has the ability to blush. Normally blushing happens in embarrassing situations, like if I go explain a physics exercise and screw up, stuff like that, and my face goes red, mostly cheeks or that's how it feels. Now, if my brain blushes (I'm not yet sure in which cases that happens), my temples and the areas between my ear and eye get red. It's weird, but strangely funny.

13:48 — I also bought a collection of translated short stories by Le Guin, among them two Heinian (?) stories of which one is about Gethen. :D I feel kinda squeaky.

13:09 — I've accomplished a lot during the last few days (and last week). It kinda makes me squee. However, it probably isn't desirable that during mathematics lectures, I find the way how the lecturer uses his right hand to write on a transparency and his left hand for writing on the blackboard more interesting than the stuff he's trying to explain, of which I don't get anything because he sucks. I think the lecturer's right upper arm is atrophied and he can't write on the blackboard because of that. At least it looks that way.
It's still cold and snowy! Yay! They say it's been an exceptionally cold winter. I didn't notice. I can only hope that the summer will be exceptionally cold, too. Maybe for once I could be comfortable during summer.
I'm getting withdrawal symptoms from not having been played D&D for a long time.
I really should be reading physics for that exam tomorrow.

21:01 — Thought you were going to get rid of my diary entries? Huhahaha.
Yesterday I changed the visit time of the chimney-cleaner (whatever nuohooja really is in English) and had to decipher the ambiguous writing on the little piece of paper. Today I spoke with three strangers and walked around the city with two of them. (Just guess where we went! Hah!) Now my legs hurt and I'm tried, but it's a good tired. :)
Tomorrow I'll go speak to yet another stranger and apparently drive around. On Friday the chimney-sweeper will come and I'll be the only one home, yay. On Saturday I have a maths test. I should write up that lab and do my physics exercises. Gaa.

17:07 — Puhuu omasta puolestaan. http://ircquotes.net/?94697
Excuse my Finnish. I really haven't had much to say lately. It's exam week next week and I'll just complain about having to go to my 80-year-old grandmother's birthday on Saturday. Two times six hours of almost non-stop driving! Bloody damnit.

18:38 — Huhahaha. http://www.geocities.jp/lledoece/nanaca-crash.html
Record 2467,24 m.

20:28 — HAHAHA! Record 5177,55 m! and got a maximum height of about 370 m! XD

20:38 — It was about -20 °C today again. Anyway, I've been reading a forum and caught this and it just makes me laugh. "Korpiseksuaali, latinankieliseltä nimeltään Sexual rurales, on täysin varma seksuaalisesta suuntautumisestaan, mutta koska korvessa ei ole valinnanvaraa, kaikki kelpaa..." And an imagiative translation follows: "The forestsexual (in-the-middle-of-nowhere-sexual), called Sexual rurales in Latin, is perfectly certain of eir sexual preference, but since there is no choice in the middle of nowhere, everything goes..."

07:45 — Speaking of records... I broke it again. 28 minutes from home to school in the morning "rush". That winter vacation is far more effective than you'd think.
I'm 20! Yay! My parents gave me a board game! I've got a six-hour schoolday! I get to return a lab!

07:55 — Bloody damnit, I fumbled my last entry. Nevertheless... I must've struck a new record. It's the highest rush hour of the day (I think) and there was no traffic. At all. I suppose some of it it because of the winter vacation of the lower education system, but still. Nevetheless, 31 mintues from home to Hervanta. Geez. When I got up at about 6, it was -20 °C outside. When I left, it was -18, and when I got to Hervanta, it was -17 (but Hervanta is a cold and windy place, I like it here). There was a patch I drove through next to the construction site where it was all foggy. It was funny. I didn't notice when it started nor when it ended, but it was there.
I didn't sleep too much last night.

08:08 — Tragedy! I can't print math handouts! I bet the computer class that will print them is going to be full when I get there.