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Name:
Jamie
Age:
22
Interests:
Japan, Japan, Japan. And reading :P My world revolves around things Japanese
I am also a complete and utter addict of the tv show The West Wing, and a Josh/Donna shipper 100% ^_^v
Ever been to Japan?:
Yup, three times. First time, 6 weeks, summer of 1998, Nagareyama-shi, Chiba-ken. Second time, Fall 2001, 4 months, Nagoya, Aichi-ken ^.^v And finally, summer 2003 for a 10 day trip(Nagoya, Kyouto, Nara, Gifu, Mie)
Manga:
Okay, here goes, in no particular order:
Mars, Kanata-kara, HikaGo, IY, SekaKira, HanaKimi, NY NY, Massugu ni ikou, ItaKiss, Gertrude no Recipe, Bleach, Koucha Ouji, Nanji nayamu koto nakare, Hot Gimmick, Mekakushi no kuni, Psychometrer Eiji, KimiPe, Renai Catalogue, LoveCon, Mahou wo shinjirukai, Hime-chan no Ribon,
and a TON more!
Fav. j-pop groups, in no particular order:
V6!, Yuzu, Porno Graffiti, Spitz, Kiroro, Misia, Something ELse, Fukuyama Masaharu, Chemistry, Gospellers, Kuwata Keisuke, Skoop on Somebody, Arashi, Kinki Kids, SMAP, Matsu Takako, Exile, Mitsunaga Ryouta, Moriyama Naotarou, Tokio
and again, a ton more
Non-Japanese Adored Artists: Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley
Fav. Japanese dramas:
Long Vacation, Virgin Road, Meguri Ai, Love Story, Namida o fuite, Aishiteiru to itte kure, Nemureru Mori, Koi wa aserazu, Bokura no Yuuki, Beautiful Life, Summer Snow, Long Love Letter, Asunaro Hakusho, Perfect Love, Team, PS Genki desu Shunpei, Hitotsu Yane no Shita 1 & 2, Oishii Kankei, Itazura na Kiss, Mukodono, Kimi wa Pet! etc.
Contact:
e-mail: jun_inohara@hotmail.com
AIM: JunInohara
MSN: sueyoshi03@hotmail.com
Layout: v. 10.0! Done oh so graciously and fantastically by Kiripin, so run to her page and e-mail her about how amazing it looks. It features Nibimaru and Irori from the Konami Shouko series Nibiirogenshikou, which I love.
My Japanese Dorama List
My manga list
My j-poplist!
This gif of Jamie ddr-ing was made by Amy and it was edited from the ddring bunny. YAY AMY!
Friends:
+Kiripin
+Katherine
+Megan
+Talia
+Melissa
+Kira
+Elizabeth
+Rachael
+Masanari
+Cali
+Kevin
+Jenny
Links:
+Nagoya
+Nanzan
+Yoridori
+Masanari's Page: Serendipity
+Pitas' Main Page
+J-Ent
+Sengoku o togi zoushi
+WGN Radio
+Nakajo Hisaya
+Uta-Net
+Engrish
+Oricon
+Peoria Greyhound Adoption
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Saturday, November 29th, 2003 :: Comments []
And Now For Something Less Complicated...
Listening to: the tv
Just finished watching The Iron Giant on Cartoon Network. Holy crap, it's great to be reminded how fantastic a movie that is. And beautiful to boot. It's one of those films that you forget is so good until you see it again. But really, I watch it and it's got everything: humor, drama, friendship, heart-wrenching..ness >D And it's smart. I watch it, and it makes me just smile to watch.
One thing that shocked the hell out of me to realize....Vin Diesel is the voice of the Iron Giant. O_____O I find that difficult to wrap my puny head around that idea...don't you? It's just...."does not compute", as it were ^^;;
On a side note, was watching an episode of My Life As a Teenage Robot which is this cute cartoon that runs on Nickelodeon and the plot is basically as it sounds: teenage robot built to save the world just wants to be a normal teenager (in this case a girl :P based on her code number, her friends call her Jenny). It's an adorable series. I love the way it's animated and it's quite funny even for someone my age, the one disadvantage is the episodes are only 15 minutes each.
Anyway, this particular episode involved Jenny's language "disc" being out of wack, so that all she could do was speak Japanese. For me, it was hilarious and I solidly applaud the voice actress's pronunciation. It was downright stellar. But really, it was fun to sit there and watch, and listen to it >D Especially the part where the townspeople couldn't understand her and kept asking if "this" or "that" was what she was trying to convey and she kept repeating "Chigau! chigau!". Had me collapsing in giggles for real :P That, and when she gets downright rude and says to one of the citizens "Anta baka!" >D Oh my, it was amusing. Yes indeed.
Thursday, November 27th, 2003 :: Comments []
On This Day of Thanksgiving...
Listening to: WGN Radio
From 5 p.m.-7 p.m. this evening I listened to the broadcast of "John and TJ's Excellent Adventure" on WGN. I know that sounds weird, and silly to a certain degree, but I assure you it's exactly the opposite.
Those of you who know me know I'm a die-hard listener of WGN radio out of Chicago. The afternoon drive-home guy is man by the name of John Williams, who for some time now as a guest on his show has had a man who's made part of his living as a donning the persona of the 3rd president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. And for the last several years, he and John Williams have done this "Execellent Adventures" thing, in which people basically go to watch this man speak, all the while being able to ask questions as well. No lavish sets, not bells and whistles. Just talk. It's wonderful.
This man is, put simply, amazing. He's a Jefferson scholar. Knows the man inside and out, and it's absolutely fascinating to listen to him speak about his life and times, and how and what Jefferson thought about it, and also what responses Jefferson would have concerning the climate of our country today.
One thing sort of hit home to me while listening to the broadcast of the November 8th recording was a question from a woman in the audience regarding Jackson being put on the $20 bill while he, Jefferson, was only on the $2 bill. His response was something to the effect that he didn't believe any statesmen should be on our money (although he also disapproved of paper money, especially one not backed by a "gold" standard) but rather men of letters (Mark Twain, etc.) or natural wonders of the country (the buffalo, the Grand Canyon or some such).
The reason this hit home with me was that I was reading a thread on a forum the other day about "patriotism" and how the author of the thread basically thought it was essentially disgusting and why should you feel so strongly toward a place you were born into "by chance" (which I think is CRAP, I was born into my family "by chance" as it were....should I love them less?). And so many people in the thread seemed to equate patriotism and love of your country directly with supporting politically the government and everything it did.
This deeply irritated me. Not only do I think someone who is a true patriot to be someone who would and should question the actions of the government, I also abosolutely do not think a love of your country is tied to it, and "Jefferson's" point about non-political figures on money hit the mark. For me, so of what I love about being American has nothing to do even remotely with the government, unless it's historically so. I find pride in certain traditions, a way of doing things. American made music or American ingenuity, the pioneer spirit or the first flight at Kittyhawk. Benjamin Franklin, the aforementioned Mark Twain, or Harriett Tubman. Baseball, the engineering feat that was the Brooklyn Bridge. The list goes on and on.
I just...I don't know. For me, pride and patriotism in my country is so much more than being about government that it's almost not worth mentioning. It's about taking the good with the bad, understanding that the bad should never happen again, and taking the good and being proud of it. For me, so much cynicism while necessary also seems blinding. Should a German citizen not be proud of his heritage because of Hitler and his government? Should an Iraqi not be a proud Iraqi because Saddam was in power? I think to tie pride and patriotism soley with government is completely unfair. A real patriot, to me, questions the government in favor of the best interests of the country O.o;;
I dunno, maybe my definition of patriotism is different than other people's. Or maybe I confuse pride with patriotism :P Cause I'm a proud American. Not even for a second would I consider citizenship anywhere else. I don't agree with everything that goes on, but I don't agree with my parents all the time either, but I'm still proud to be in my family.
And it's not to say I think those people shouldn't have their opinion or be able to voice it. Certainly not :P I just think their definition on what makes one patriotic is rather limited. Or perhaps mine is too broad, I don't know anymore *lol*
Monday, November 24, 2003 :: Comments []
I am Brilliant
Listening to: Nothing
Really, I am. I should get an award or something. I somehow managed to completely forget that today I worked from 11:30-8:00 not 8:00-4:30. So I got up and got ready for work at 8:00 and only realized I'd gotten it wrong as mom and I pulled up to the store ^^;;
Needless to say, I went straight back to bed after returning home and got back up at 10:30...I really don't know why I went back to sleep. Once I'm up it's usually a bad idea to go back to sleep, because I end up feeling MORE tired after I wake up, which is exactly what happened >D
Anyway, I'm really irritated with my sister-in-law at the moment. Meg and I have decided that we didn't want to attend Commencement because of the way our majors have worked out. It really bothers us to go to graduation and walk across the stage under the "General Studies" department. It's bad enough we have a contract-major, even if that major IS Japanese Studies.
I respect the fact not everyone is going to agree with our decision, but all she did was start saying how stupid it was. And then started (admittedly, mostly likely joking) saying she and my brother weren't going to come to our Graduation Party nor would they give us any gifts (as if we're expecting any >_<) if we didn't "Walk across the stage". As if walking across a stage and getting an empty diploma holder is tantemont to 4 1/2 years of work >_________< Honestly, the way she kept at it just pissed me off. If she wanted to change our minds that was definetly not the way to do it T____________________________T
Friday, November 21, 2003 :: Comments []
Remembering 9.11
Listening to: Nothing ^^
Was reading in yesterday's newspaper (don't ask which, I can't remember now) about both the finalists for the WTC Memorial and the fact that the subway line that ran to and under the World Trade Center will resume running on Monday.
I honestly can't decide which design I liked the best...which design I thought would best commemorate the memory of those that died there. In a way I'm miffed that the general public can't vote on it but by the same token I understand that many of the "jurors" (as they're called) are far more aware of what would best suit the site with a mind for what would be there in the future. That is to say, they know better what would work in the space considering a new WTC will be built.
One thing that irked me though was a quote from a wife of one of the firefighters. In one of the designs (one of my favorites, even if I can't decide on one spefically) the names of the firefighters, policeman and port authority workers are separate from everyone else in a strip that runs through the rest of the names. The wife commented that she thought the rescuers names should be separate, as "these guys wouldn't want to be remembered as victims".
I'm sorry, but the other two-thousand odd people do? It just irritated the hell out of me. Yes they are heroes, yes they went up into those towers without a second thought that morning and none of us will ever forget that, but I think it incredibly dimishes the memory of the two thousand + people that died there that day, who's only mistake was to get up and go to work like normal.
That's not to say I'm disapproving of the design. I really like it, I just don't like the comment at all. They should be remembered for their heroism, not because they wouldn't want to be seen as victims.
And then there's the re-opening of the subway line to the WTC site. It's weird how emotional reading the article got me. Haha, not crying certainly, just glad that things are starting to happen at the site. I like that despite the buildings not being there anymore, the stop is still called World Trade Center. Call me weirdly sentimental or whatnot :P
Wednesday, November 20th, 2003 :: Comments []
This was drawn brilliantly by Kiripin, after slogging through whiny HP fangirl comments who can't stand that fannon does not equal reality :P
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 :: Comments []
Hot Damn, I got Written Up
Listening to: One (English version)/V6 feat. Shoo
That's right ladies and gentlemen, yours truly got written up at work >D Apparently on Sunday I missed a crapload of out-of-code stuff when I opened the department. This is primarily for the majority of the day I thought it was the 15th, when in actuality it was the 16th, which is apparently the date on all these packages.
So, I didn't realize it was the 16th, but then when I did later, I went through the salads (I thought O.o;;) thoroughly, but got side tracked and completely forgot about checking everything else. To be sure, this is not a habit of mine, or someone would have said something by now.
And that's it?! I'm sure you're thinking. No no....see, things tend to run pretty slow in the store most days...so I've developed this habit of putting in some reading time when things are slow (don't give me any looks! I know people in cubicles in office buildings are HARDLY staying away from personal internet time :P)...and the store manager caught me ^^;; Only I didn't know it at the time.
So the manager on duty talked to me today...I guess they think cause I was reading I missed those codes? Nope, that was just on tope of forgetting the codes. What really miffs me about the book reading is that countless other people are taking smoking breaks, standing in the aisles talking to each other, or in their backrooms all on TOP of their scheduled breaks, and *I* a real bad guy cause I'm reading? T____T It's ridiculous. I never let the department look bad, or someone would have told me about it.
Of course I shouldn't have been reading, and I made a mistake on Sunday, but I hate having to apologize to my manager when I know he's just gonna talk to me about how I need to pay more attention blah, blah, blah, as if I'm not a great employee the rest of the time. But I suppose he has to look like he's on top of things. Nevermind the fact, I read ALL THE TIME and this hasn't happened before...even tho I know they're going to think it's because of the reading THIS time :P
Monday, November 17, 2003 :: Comments []
Omedetou gozaimasu ^o^/
Listening to: Country Roads, Take me Home/John Denver
A big OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU goes out to Elizabeth, who applied to Aeon and got a call back from them offering her a job in Niigata ^O^/ I swear, if I hadn't put so much damned effort into this JET application I'd throw it out and apply to Aeon. >D But no, gotta do it ^^;; So congrats Elizabeth =D
Anyway, I posted a thread at AnimeNation today. I've seen many people as of late referring to the "live-action" of GTO and Taihou shichauzo and figured, as a fan of Japanese dramas, I'd just offer that these particular kinds of shows are called "dorama" (drama) in Japan. O____o Christ all you wouldn't believe the opposition! One person specifically told me that people are just "too used" to the English usage and would be confused...and what's more, that "we're in the states, not Japan".
Pardon my language, but what a fucking hypocrite. How someone on a Japanese "anime" where liberal usage of a foreign language is the norm, someone tells me we're "not in Japan"?! That's the BEST argument they can come up with? O.o Nevermind the fact they think it's a stretch to understand a term based on context? O.o The HELL.
Don't get me wrong. It's not as if I think "live-action" is an incorrect, wrong term. Just that there's a word for them. A category. A word that fans of them are already using "in the states" anyway. I was merely trying to be helpful and all these ppl are saying the word is "too confusing". Well, I've managed to be a fan of Japanese animation, manga and dramas for more than 7 years now with no trouble distinguishing the term. Nevermind the fact, the term dorama is already used in the "anime" world in reference to drama CDs (which certainly aren't ALL dramatic either!). Lord, these people must think everyone else are complete morons O.o;;
Friday, November 14, 2003 :: Comments []
Manga mochi
Listening to: Ai wo yobuhou/Porno Graffiti
Got up at 8 and headed with Mom to Mitsuwa this morning ^^;; Stopped off at the Eddie Bauer outlet store first. Mom bought me a sweater...only I can't wear it because it's a Christmas present, and she's strict about things like that. So even tho I know she's bought it, tried it on, I can't have it for a month yet *lol* But we did split the cost of another thing I wanted: a robe. As warm as it is in our house, it's not perfect, so I wanted a bathrobe to wear in the morning and night before bed. This one's uber soft, slightly too big for me, and red...in other words, it's perfect ^^;;
So we then made our way to Mitsuwa ^^ It was a pretty good haul. I got HanaKimi 21 (sorry Tacchan T___T I totally should have gotten you a copy), as well as volume 4 of Kabukinasai, which I honestly thought had ended with volume 3, so bonus ^O^ I also bought the current issues of Hana to Yume (hmm scratch that, I have 21 but they had issue 22...but neither HanaKimi no KO were in 22), LaLa, Betsuma, and Jump (as well as getting the newest BetsuComi for Megan). I am ECSTACTIC with the way the chapters for LoveCon, Mekakushi no Kuni, and HanaKimi went ^___^ Simply thrilled =D Bleach I'm utterly confused on, and Koucha Ouji I haven't read through thoroughly, but it was a great success just for those ^____^/ That, and the Betsuma came with a great furoku:
It's this short drama CD for Lovely Complex (Generally, as I called it above, shortened to "LoveCon")(by Nakahara Aya, and written entirely in Kansai-ben) that's only available to those who bought this issue of Betsuma (although it may at some point turn up in a store like Mandarake). I haven't listened to it much yet, but I love the voices for Koizumi and Ootani (this is why the story is "funny"...Koizumi Risa is an overly tall girl, and Ootani Atsuhi is an overly short guy...and fun ensues). They're about as close to what I thought they should be as you can get ^_____^/
Oh right, got the newest Porno Graffiti single for myself and Fukuyama Masaharu's single "Niji" for Meg (although I LOVE "Niji" especially, because it was the theme for the Waterboys drama ^^;;).
And can I just say, damn I'd love that book Kimura Takuya "wrote" called KAI-HO-KU. I flipped through it at Mitsuwa today...and woo....MANY, MANY nice pictures.
Thursday, November 13, 2003 :: Comments []
Woo Hoo!
Listening to: Nothing
Wa-----i ^O^ The teaser trailer for Prisoner of Azkaban is out ^_______^ It's only about a minute long but....WOO, I can't wait!! Book three is still my favorite ^^;; although it's somewhat odd to have this movie coming out in the summer, instead of the fall. It feels much more like a fall kind of movie than a potential "summer blockbuster"...of course, that could simply be the result of the fact the first two movies were released in the fall...but still ^^
And dear lord, would I love to ride the Knight Bus U___U
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 :: Comments []
WOO!
Listening to: Two Feet of Topsoil/Brad Paisley
Okay, I am entirely too happy to have just seen the video for Brad Paisley's Little Moments. It's a song on the last new album (Mud on the Tires) that they decided to release as the next single >D I've always liked it, just never thought it was something special, but the more I've listened to it, the more and more I've really come to love it ^O^
The video for it's adorable U_______U So cute...Especially at the end where it features him with his wife, actress Kimberly Williams (who inspired the song, apparently) The sad part is the way Meg and I are :P We absolutely love him as an artist but also tend to react the same way we do about V6 >D! As I've said before, there were never artists we adored as teenagers, so I think we're making up for lost time ^^;; But at least in Brad Paisley we adore a legitimately good, talented artist ^^;;
Ohhhh >D forgot to mention that during Monday's class, when my professor handed around one of the weekly issues of Jump (which I don't read itself, simply because I live far enough away from Mitsuwa that it's impractical to try and get it, so I just wait for the tankoubon) and I was reading the chapter of Bleach that was contained therein (which was from the end of August? I can't remember...it was #34 at any rate), and from it came a quote I very much enjoyed ^^ It's when Ichigo's fighting Renji, and Renji's telling him that there are all these guys he has to defeat in order to "rescue" Rukia, that the only way to do anything to help her he has to defeath these guys, there's just simply no other course, and Ichigo replies:
"Taichou ga nan nin?! Fukutaichou ga nan nin?! Kankeineeyo! Taoshiteyaru!!"
My god Ichigo. I adore you.
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 :: Comments []
Not So Bad
Listening to: *blink* Nada
So class didn't turn out to be too bad. I think I spoke where necessary and kept my mouth shut when I needed to, though lord knows I could have kept talking for quite some time ^^;;
My biggest problem with how the class went is that although my professor mentioned numerous times that there is manga written for just about anyone, by only having Shounen Jump there as an example, I think it only served to make the class think there really wasn't that much more out there....well, aside from the handful of other students in the class who are obvious Japanese anime fans ^^;;
But oh well. I hardly care if the rest of the class developes an interest in Japanese manga ^^;; What I do really like is the kind of anthropological view this class gives to everything. I think it keeps you from getting too cynical about the lesser aspects of Japanese culture, and appreciating the good stuff even more :P~
Monday, November 10, 2003 :: Comments []
Atashi no kaita e
Listening to: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald/Gordon Lighfoot
This is just something I drew whilst looking at pics from Mekakushi no Kuni....The guy's name is Someya Narihira (Narihira, if I remember correctly, is a Japanese folk hero? I forget who exactly he was or what his story is >D but I like the name):
click here for the pic!
Friday, November 7th, 2003 :: Comments []
I Have To Read...
Listening to: ~the tv~
...The English version of Shounen Jump. Can't even remember what issue it is I have to read. Call me snobby, call me elitist, call me stuck-up, but ew. It's for our Japanese Society & Culture class and we're just supposed to read through this one particular issue. I can't help it, though. I sound like one of those high-and-mighty students of Japanese who just blanket shun something in English simply because it's in English.
Not really, though. Part of it's because nothing I'm all that interested in runs in the English version (and even if Hikaru no Go starts running, I've read all of that anyway). I have the first 5 volumes of Naruto, but I've never picked up any past that. I own volume 1 of Shaman King, but it's so long I'm really not in the mood to invest in it at the moment.
The other part of it has largely to do with the fact I've worked so long to be this bad at Japanese that reading Japanese manga in English seems completely pointless ^^;; For me, mind you. I don't mean to suggest Japanese manga shouldn't be in English. Heavens no O.o But it just feels wrong to read it in English >D Kind of like how it's strange to try to read Harry Potter in Japanese. Sure the translation might be good, great even,but many of the words are never going to have the same impact, the same ring, that the original language brings to the characters. Even if you adjust the lines to help that.
Hrmmmm, maybe I'm just a snob? :P
But anyway, we all have to read it, which means it's going to be a topic of discussion during Monday's class. That'd be fine, except Meg and I....well especially me >D tend to make comments in class, raise our hands a lot...and that was just for stuff we knew a tiny bit about T______T Honestly, discussing this subject it's going to be utterly impossible for me not to have a lot to say. It's akin to the teacher suddenly deciding to talk about Japanese dramas.
In other words, we're going to come out of that class looking even more like know-it-alls than before T_____T I just hope that for once the 3 or 4 other people in the class whom I know like Japanese anime and manga will say something...I've actually felt bad in the past when he's asked a question related to the subject and Megan and I were the only one's willing to raise their hands and comment.
Well, we'll see how it goes...@_@
Thursday, November 7th 2003 :: Comments []
Two Years!
Listening to: Loveland Island/Yamashita Tatsurou
That's right, ladies and gentleman, I have been writing this blog for two whole years. And here I was afraid, in the beginning, that I'd just forget about, get lazy, and stop doing it. And boom, it's now two years later. Of course, it's been two years of pretty much un-exciting nothings (thoughts on manga, Japanese dramas, and so forth) but ah well. What else are these kinds of things for. ^^ Hopefully, by next summer, it'll be a record of my time in Japan as a JET. Keep your fingers crossed for me, guys =)
Oh yes, Meg and I watched 28 Days Later last night. Scary, interesting...and I have no idea which ending was the original one that was with the movie when released in England. I'm assuming the one that's before the credits is the "American" version, while the one tacked on after the credits is the "original". Honestly, I prefer the "American" ending, as I'm vastly more approving of it's "happy ending" O.o But then, I always am, right? Happy ending = happy Jamie. I rarely, if ever, like a "realistic" ending :P
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003 :: Comments []
< Random >
Listening to: Long Time Gone/Dixie Chicks
Okay, so I guess most of you on my friends list didn't think I was serious about my request? Or don't care? Or don't ever read my blog O.o Because I've gotten all of three people telling me what address they want me to use. Really guys, it's not difficult. You know my addy, it's right here on the page. Just a couple clicks and you're done. Otherwise I'm just taking it down. Even if it's NOT a blog/livejournal/whatever, as long as it's something you want me to link that's for you ^^;;
Anyway, we started in on the Christmas music for the holiday concert. Damn, but there's nothing like Christmas carols to make you feel warm and cozy ^O^ and makes you forget Halloween fast. I know it's not yet even Thanksgiving, but still, ^__________^ it's one thing I'm going to miss sorely when I get accepted by JET (and dammit, I will)...of course they play some of the same Christmas songs in Japan, but they're fewer and far between.
Started re-reading Mekakushi no Kuni ^o^ Although, I don't have volume 8 O.o which is semi-frustrating, but ah well. It's a great series, if you've never read it. Nothing too out of the ordinary, aside from the main girl who can see the future (close future) of people she touches, and the two main guys, Arou (the main guy) who can see people's pasts, and Namiki who also sees the future. Aside from that, it's largely a typical shoujo manga. Which is great, because I highly approve of typical shoujo manga. That is, I don't have to have big twists, as long as I like the characters enough to enjoy walking down the plot-road that I already know where the end is ^^
Also, as it turns out, I will be graduating this semester :P At least according to my advisor at this time. But what I'm completely frustrated by is the fact that my major is still going to be called a General Studies major. All this time our advisors given us the impression that it'll be called and Interdisciplinary Studies major...granted, it's basically the same thing, but it just sounds better...General Studies sounds as if we didn't have a focus, which most certainly have. I've taken as many classes dealing with my major as anyone else has, and I hate the way this looks. I doubt I'll attend my graduation ceremony now. I just don't want to cross a stage in front of that many people to hear them say "General Studies" T________________T I've had very specific studies, dammit.
Monday, November 3rd, 2003 :: Comments []
Link Updating
Listening to: Ambitious Japan/TOKIO
Okay, I obviously have old links in my friends list for some of you. I want to update it and get the right address. So, please check the link I have for you out there and if it's wrong or you would prefer another address in the link, e-mail it to me please. If, in the next few days, I don't get an e-mail regarding this, I'm just going to take the link off and won't pursue if further, so don't get mad at me if you notice you're missing from the list one day. I posted this and I'll point you back to it! :P So muh!
Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 :: Comments []
In Lieu of a Real Update
Shall just leave the lyrics to one of my favorite Brad Paisley songs ^O^ It's quite clever....although the words alone don't do it justice. Hearing it with the music makes it very funny:
Brad Paisley Come On Over Tonight lyrics
You know I'm stubborn, set in my ways, said I'd never
Fall in love, used all the old cliches
But just now when you called and my heart rate hit the roof
I realized it's time to eat my words and face the truth
So come on over tonight we'll sit on the swing
Watch the pigs fly by flappin' their brand new wings
Just sit back and relax and watch me eat my hat
While the oak trees sprout dollar bills
And I look you in the eye
To finally say the words I swore I'd never say
In my whole life
So come on over tonight
I called my buddies, they're comin' too
After the way I ran my mouth they can't
Believe it's true
They're bringin' pizza and sweet tea
And I hope that you don't mind
But they said they've gotta see this
And they promise to be quiet
So come on over tonight we'll sit on the swing
Watch the pigs fly by flappin' their brand new wings
Just sit back and relax and watch me eat my hat
While a big ol' bolt of lightning
Strikes me not just once, but twice
As I say the words I swore I'd never say
In my whole life
Yeah, come on over tonight
Me fallin' in love, that's one of those things
That I swore would never come true
But I'm startin' to think that nothin' is impossible now
That I found you, nothin'
Yeah, come on over tonight we'll sit on the swing
Watch the pigs fly by flappin' their brand new wings
Just sit back and relax and watch me eat my hat
See the premiere performance of demons on ice
As I say the words I swore I'd never say
In my whole life
Say, come on over
Hey, come on over
Said, come on over tonight
Saturday, November 1st, 2003 :: Comments []
A Little Help Would Go A Long Way
Listening to: Little Moments/Brad Paisley
Ooooooooookay, I have a paper due in my Japanese Society and Culture class in....at the least 4 weeks....and I can't think of what to write about. It's supposed to be 10-15 pages, and my professor has thrown the door SO wide open I can't decide on one thing that I'll also find a great deal about in the library. T_________T Suggestions PLEASE!! (Leave in the comments) I'm wracking my brain here! ^^;;
Saturday, November 1, 2003 :: Comments []
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