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Past Entries:
Fall Semester 2004
Winter in the Ville: Week Two
Spring Jigoku 05: Week One
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Two
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Three
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Four
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Five
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Six
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Seven
Spring Jigoku 05: Week Eight
Haru Yasumi 05 (Spring Break)
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Friday, March 18, 2005 09:35 p.m.
Prelude to the Week of Hell...
Geez and crackers. I'm totally like so going to get stressed soon. Right now, I'm cool--chilling watching some TV, listening to music, and downloading more manga. I gotta study, in fact, I should be doing so right now. I'm not very motivated, however. For one, I just finished doing a damn management test! Last week we got our tests back and now we have another?? On four chapters?? He said something like it'd be easy, but whatever, sir. Hehe, whenever I use the word "sir," I think about how Lauren commented on one of my phrases--"Shut up, sir." Her comment was something like I'm trying to be both rude and polite at the same time. Usually I say it toward people who should have some respect from me (like if I was listening to Bush or something), but they need to shut up cuz they're dumb.
Anyways, I'm not studying like I should. That 100 on a test went to my head. Actually, I'm just kinda sad-happy right now. It happens to me when I know that soon I'm going to be sitting around loathing in self-pity, so I try to pretend like it's not coming and everything's fine. It ain't. I have to work on that f-ing closing case. I may have to fine-tune my interview for that nameless Thursday class. But I actually did it today! Um, phone interviews are hard. I cannot remember everything someone says. However, the man I interviewed, Jim Caldwell, was really nice. I didn't expect him to have the time to interview today, but he did. I think I got enough info... Most of it was paraphrased. He said a lot. But I think I have a little better idea of what t takes to be a translator and what to expect. I should expect it to be hard to be skillful enough, hard to make a living off it (hello, isn't this supposed to back up my writing career??), and I'm actually planning in the right direction. He said I should spend three years at least in the JET program. I expected a year... Oh, well. I do need to have mastery of it.
I liked that the man said that most translators are strange people. Somehow, it sounds like my sort of profession. You spend a lot of time alone and that's why they're usually so weird (his words). To quote Jahson, though, "I'm glad that's over." If I can get another person to email me an interview, I'll take that maybe. I don't want to call another person. Too hard. I have to talk too much. I think I may do freelance translation while I'm doing JET in Japan and get certified by the ATA (American Translators Association), which Mr. Caldwell also highly reccomended. If I can get some good translating work done, it'll look good on my resume and maybe I can apply at some agency for more stable work. However, I should be aware that most translators are not full-time workers. I don't know why, but somehow that doesn't scare me. It should because I know I'm not the type that likes such instability, but why I'm attracted to lifestyles that cause me to go insane I don't know. Maybe I like being sad and depressed. Or maybe that's how I get my kicks. I'm so boring I need to be entertained by my own misery. Saa (Who knows)...
Plan for the weekend. Study. Management, management, and more management. Damn management. I'm never going to be a manager. Um, something else? No, I guess just that damn closing case... Oh. Maybe check out my theatre crap. I outta. I should. Aw, who cares. Besides memorization, I just have to think of some movements that go along with the lines. Like if I talk about drinking something I should act like I'm drunk or do the motion of drinking or something like that. Should be okay. That happens on the 31 or something like that. Damn. I can't believe it's almost April. And I have yet to have money. I could just slap myself for being so dumb.
I'm just on overload right now... So much to think about. I just want another break. And for some reason, I've been thinking about writing up my own Kuroudo quiz for my MSN group. I wish I remembered how to do those webpages with input data. I've forgotten how to do that and where the hell I put those instructions at. I'll figure out something... I'm trying not to make all the questions related to stuff he's said. Cuz you know I know just about everything he's ever said in the anime. I'm serious. Literally, I can recognize stuff he's said that I didn't realize until I had learned the phrase or word in Japanese class. It's more scary than impressive. Yes, I am a freak. ^_^
Quote from MAD TV: You're sexy in a kind of "Boo Radley" way
--the Cabana Lady commenting on Pauley Shore
Which reminds me of me and my sister one day saying: Stinking up the place like Boo Radley.
--I have no idea what that references to nor why we assume Boo Radley smells (or is ugly). Guess the name just seems like it.
Thursday, March 17, 2005 10:20 p.m.
"...And I Think It's Gonna Rain..."
Just got back from seeing Retta doing stand-up. I've seen her on Comedy Central a couple times and she was great. A lot better than that other guy. There's something about her that makes me think of someone else I know. In some instances, it's like she makes me think of C-S, my old professor from the African-American Literature class. I dunno why. She actually did some of the jokes I had heard her do before. Like the one about her friend who feeds her bird chicken. Which is really funny. My favorite part of the show was when she was talking about how she sweats and to emphasize it she related it to an instance of a slave and master. I was the only black person there. It was like deadly quiet when she did that joke. But she went on as if she hadn't noticed, but a minute later she was like, "what did I make ya'll uncomfortable with that slave reference?" She points toward me, "I know you thought it was funny." And I had. It was great.
Today actually wasn't so bad. Last night I finished my career summaries around 3. Then I got up around 10 and printed them out, along with the two job things. Now all I got to do is interview someone. I emailed like seven people from a website that listed translators, but only three replied. Good thing I did so many... Anyways, two want me to call and one said I could email it. I'm hoping I'll get the emailed back interview, so I don't have to call anyone. I really hate this stupid Thursday assignment--it is incredibly guitar. By accident I wore green today, not really thinking about it being St. Patrick's Day. Had I remembered I might have sent Toya (G) a mocking "birthday" card. It's a funny concidence that her birthday is on a holiday, but the wrong one in my opinion. Hehe, I miss the days of calling her a leprechaun (cuz she used to be shorter than me).
In Wellness we had a powerpoint done by three students (not in our class though) telling us to practice safe drinking. Okay, then we watched this ridiculous movie that's supposed to scare you into not drinking. It kept showing funny white people mostly passing out with a can or cup of beer in their hand. Cracked me up. Especially this one part where two friends drink a bunch and then they start going ski-boating. When they fell and their scream... So funny, it was so hard not to laugh. It was supposed to be serious, but it was totally the opposite. It was worse when these guys in there kept laughing and making comments. After that stupidity, we had to do another. We got into "stations" and tried to do various things with beer-googles on. Writing on the board...catching a ball (um, yeah, I already suck at that and I wasn't able to do it--plus I was f-ing sleepy) ...walking a straight line. Stupid. Just glad to leave there.
I ate lunch with Tomomi and we chatted for a while. Yuri came eventually, but she didn't sit with us. Thought she would, but I guess she didn't think she should intrude. Whatever, I guess. Thursday class, nothing to report... Kinda just guitar. I had to actually take notes. Weird thing was that I ate a fortune cookie just before going to that class, then she passes out fortune cookies with her own text in them. How she pulled out all of the real ones and stuck in her own, I have no idea... Anyway, they were all like career-related fortunes. Mine was like something about trying to find a part-time job after I got kids, but finding out I get paid much less even if I'm highly qualified and skilled. Great to boost up my mood I guess...
Weather has been f-ing nice this week. I stopped wearing my sweatpants under my pants. And haven't been bulking up on coats or whatever. Best thing about today is that I don't have to wake up early tomorrow. However, I do need to finish up my Econ. Stupid Myler-crazy man. I borrowed money from my dad. I just liked called him and up and was like, "I don't have any money." Pretty much true. Man, I don't think I'll be able to go to the Japanese restaurant... I wanna go... Plus, Jennifer from our Japanese class is going to drive us (uh, me, Toya T, that stupid girl who's f-ing annoying and...hmmm. Someone else I'm not sure.). It'd be nice if Yuri could go. Maybe she can. Oh! She's supposed to go to DC this weekend. Iku had a reason to go, so Yuri's tagging along to see the cherry blossoms. I don't know if this means she'll go the formal...
Ann no aku's birthday's soon and I have no money to buy a gift. That sucks, but there's nothing I can about that. Maybe I'll try to send her a card in the mail. Of course, it would be late. Damn VA. Screwed me over. Well, maybe I've just screwed myself over. I can never pay for school. Hehe. You know, I'm planning to go overseas once I graduate, so it might be difficult for me to make payments on my school tuition loans. We'll see. Hehe. Anyway, better finish up Econ and call it a night.
Quote from Retta: I sweat like a slave whose master has newly found out he has the ability to read
--It was dead silent after that--I'm surprised I didn't crack up
Monday, March 14, 2005 11:42 p.m.
To Quote Arika.... "F*** my face!"
I miss Arika. She was something else. I told Lauren about that above quote and she said she didn't get it. But most personal phrases or slang don't make sense until you hear them over and over again. For example, Toya from the 'Ville always used to use the word "ferocious" in the same context as the word "cute" or "ridiculous." For example, she'd describe a boy's eyes: "They were just...ferocious!" Sounds kinda strange, but after a while it became acceptable. And so did Arika's phrases. Every now and then when stuff just sucks for no good reason (and in close succession), I think of her phrase. And yes, I'm thinking of it today and shall be for probably the rest of March.
I finished up my spring break trying to do this horrible assignment for Management. It was a little hard to think of what to write, so I gave up and just put something. I should get a pretty low score on it. I just don't care... I checked out the closing case and it's pretty interesting, but I don't know what I'm going to do with it... Plus, I have yet to contact my partner. He wasn't in class today... I also tried to do stuff for my Thursday class. Harder still. I like stressed out so much over it (mostly because of this interview thingy I have to do) and started to become depressed. I didn't get a chance to write anything. Well, I probably would have if I hadn't wasted the first half of the week doing basically absolutely nothing.
I did watch some anime. I finally got the two missing sounds I needed to complete my Freeza mix. Actually, I think I need to redo the one sound from the GT episode... It sounds crappy. I started Nightwalker, which was less interesting than I had hoped. I decided it will be a watch-and-delete anime, which is good news for my hard-drive. I decided to watch it because it had Toshihiko Seki (Sanzou voice) and Akira Ishida (Xellos voice), but I mistakeningly thought the main character was Seki-sama. That guy sounds so much like him, though... I don't know when he'll appear. The Ishida character sucks, so... It's a very short anime (only 12), so I may just finish it to put another completed anime under my belt.
I actually took the time to see how many animes I've seen at least a little bit (two or more episodes) and it's already over a hundred. I was more surprised that I've seen over 40 animes in completion, but of course, I think that more anime-freaks would think that would be pretty unimpressive. For me, it's interesting... It's more interesting that some people have seen over a hundred animes in completion. How the hell did they manage that kind of time? Okay, the only way I could do that is with this animes that I watch as they are released. In that way, you can't watch more than what is available.
I watched a little of Buzzer Beat or Beat Buzzer, whatever the hell it's called. Not just because it is about basketball does it remind me of Slam Dunk. It's like the animation is pretty, but ugly. I dunno. The women are kind of ugly in there... The girl with the reddish hair is so annoying--especially how she stares at that guy Toma or whatever his name is. Is this anime set in America? I don't really know... It's fairly interesting. I wonder why all the aliens in there have to look like monsters--I mean, they have horns and are colored yellow and green.
Also started Suki na mono, etc, etc, which I will call "Sukisyo" because everyone else calls it that and it's shorter. Um... That show is dumb. And highly shounen-ai. I mean, it might as well be yaoi, but instead of that being good, it's just annoying. Who do I hate? Um, this blonde fruit called Matsuri. His voice is irritating and he's such a bastard. Just hate him. Now the seiyuu in there... So fun! You get the two hottest voices for bishounen (Midorikawa and Hoshi) together often doing and saying things that are yaoi-suggestive! My ears are in paradise... The visuals aren't that great... It reminds me of stupid shoujo stories a little. Another strike against it: the inevitable appearance of damn Koyasu (voice of Zechs, Aya, Hotohori, too many annoying guys). Okay, Sora (Midorikawa character) has another person within him called Yoru who is voiced by Koyasu. And basically Yoru is the anti-/bastard version of Sora. That's why I will now think of Koyasu as the anti-Midorikawa. And it's true if you consider I feel totally opposite about their voices and usually their characters. Take Weiss Kreuz: Aya really sucked and Schuldig (Midorikawa's character) really was great. And they were enemies of each other. Damn Koyasu... Ruins everything. Final strike against Sukisyo (besides that it's just almost as stupid as Tenshi ni Narumon) is this scary science professor at the school... He's creepy. Reminds me of a mesh between Muraki and Kuroudo. Who's he voiced by? None other than the Kurei/Treize/Tetsuda voice--the most repulsive and scary voice in the seiyuu world. That Hisoka voice is scary too, but this other seiyuu is just so reprehensible, I often avoid animes that have him in it at all.
I watched Gankutsou as well, one episode. It was so great! Albert saved Eugine from marrying her psycho half-brother. I totally thought it was all going to hell. And they got to kiss! Yay!! It was the best episode that I thought I would never see because of how badly things were going. Once again, I don't know what's going to happen next. And that episode still had some sad moments of Albert remembering Franz. Even thinking of it now makes me a little teary... It's still sad! I think I saw some Tactics too somewhere. Nothing to note there except that Sugino keeps looking too much like woman. Okay, Hoshi-sama, only Kazuki was your successful woman-looking male character. Plus Haruka is reverting to his old self. I'm looking forward to see that. I'm downloading the next episode, but it's so slow...
School today was decent. The weather was decent. Hare (Sunny) and Kumori (Cloudy). Amari samukunakatta (Wasn't too cold). And of course, I'm in a bad mood. I found out I have Friday off in Theater--can sleep in! I got the same grade on both of my reviews (missed five points out of 50). Still haven't read that acting scene that's due soon... Econ was guitar and he assigned too much homework. At my break I did some work on the Thursday work due and actually got some progress. I was late for accounting, but who cares? That was the first day I had taken notes in a long time...and had learned something...
I totally forgot that we were going to a Japanese resturant soon for Japanese class. Crap!! Now I'm like out of money and crap. Son of a bitch. I really want to go and eat some Japanese food again. Last time I did not get to eat whatever I wanted (because I again had low funds) and now the same thing's happening, just on a greater scale. I think I'll ask my dad for some money cuz I've borrowed enough from my sis. Anyway, after Japanese class, I ate lunch and then briefly went back to my room to get rid of my heavy book bag and replace it with the little blue shoulder bag I use when I have one or two classes that day (Tuesdays and Thursdays).
I intended to read the chapters for Management, but I decided not to. I mean, I really needed to get started on my career summaries for that Thursday class. So I worked on that a little while until it was time to go to the class. Not too soon after I got into the class, my teacher alerted me that I had done something he had never had a student do on an essay test. Man, I f-ing got a 100 on that son-of-a-bitch! Can't believe it. I mean, I did study so well (from Thursday till Sunday). That new technique most definitely works. That pleased me because that SWOT analysis paper I turned in today was pure crap. I'm sure I got like a 2 or 3 on it (it's worth five points). Which is sad because I usually do great on essays. Oh, well... My tests should cushion my bad papers and what not. Hopefully my closing case too. Since we didn't get to chapter 12 today, I'm assuming I won't have to do my presentation until the Monday after the 21st. Great news because I'm f-ing swamped with stupid work. But my partner wasn't in class today... I need to email him and possible meet up with him this week...
All righty--time for bed. I watched Mean Girls for the first time. Pretty good, but it made me somewhat temporarily sick of seeing white girls--I dunno. I just didn't want to see any for a while after seeing that movie. My favorite part was her comment on what the group of black kids were called in the cafeteria. I also liked there was like the nerdy Asians table and then the cool Asians table. I think those girls in there were Korean... Think anyway...
Quote: Unfriendly black hotties...
--commenting on the black table. Why we always gotta be unfriendly?? No, actually, it's pretty true...
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Current Favorite Animes:
- Saiyuki (Gensoumaden, Reload, Gunlock)
- Get Backers
- Hunter x Hunter
- Naruto
- Kodomo no Omocha
Current Favorite Mangas:
- Saiyuki
- Get Backers
- Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge
- Hot Blooded Woman
- Death Note
Currently Downloading/Watching Anime:
- Kyou Kara Maou
- Naruto
- Tenjou Tenge
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka de Hachiyoushou
- Tactics
- Beet the Vandel Buster
- Fantastic Children
- Bleach
- Gakutsuou
- Meine Liebe
- Suki na Mono no wa Suki Dakara Shouganai (Sukisyo)
- Gakkou no Kaidan
- Gundam Seed
- Nightwalker
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