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Friday, September 3, 2004 04:19 p.m.
Owatta....Yokatta
Ah the end of the week. Sweet. I finished accounting homework to discover that I probably could have done it with much less reading than I even did. That stupid book has a habit of explaining terms by using terms it hasn't even explained! Like it kept mentioning revenue. I was like, "what the f is that??" Now I know, but before I didn't know what was going on... Oh, well...
MU has a good number of Japanese students. Enough that you can see some everyday. You can go a day without seeing a black person here. Not to say the Japanese outnumber the blacks. Point is, I have a problem with Japanese men. Don't ask me why, but I generally don't like those I see on campus. I have yet to really talk to one, and all I have to go on is what I read in books and ann no aku's accounts. Regardless, I'm cautious of becoming friendly with them. I just think that a great majority of Japanese males look down on females. I saw a group of Japanese guys smoking in front of the door way of the campus chapel. Yeah...smoking in front of a church (don't know if it can be qualify as one but it's a religious building). Dunno, but it did make me laugh. They looked like punks. Especially this one guy who was crouched down on the ground, head kinda hanging down. If he doesn't have the energy to huddle up in that doorway with the other four (who were at least standing) maybe he shouldn't be smoking. Who knows. I like a lot of Japanese guys' haircuts, but as for their other looks...no. Japanese girls are okay. I guess I'm just little biased against men in general. *shrugs* I'll change that opinion when I get the opportunity to speak to one who can prove my ideas wrong.
Finally, I can kick back and watch some anime. Also I can arrange my manga and set up my posters. It's been too long since I stared up at Sanzou's (Saiyuki) face. I also got a new Akabane Kuroudo poster that I'm going to find a place for. Since Yuri (my room mate) and I have bunk beds, it changes the scheme of how the room is divided and wall space. I don't want to overwhelm the room with anime clutter, but that's the way I like it! Hmm, I should post a picture of how I set up my anime posters. I have more than I have wall space and yet I desire more. Mostly certain Sanzou ones and any new Kuroudo ones they come out with.
I can't wait until I get some money. I want to buy some DVDs--actually some shows that are not anime! Actually I own very little anime on DVD. Most of it is on burned CDs. Anime is too costly and I don't like to risk that I might see an English dubbed version. I hate most dubbed stuff with a passion. I hate licensing with a passion. Let me tell you, if you are an internet anime downloader, licensing is your worst enemy. Why? Because companies go out of their way to make sure any fansubbed anime floating around stops official distribution. Not to say you couldn't find licensed animes on the internet still. It's just a little harder. The easiest anime to download is current or anything that's been fansubbed and not been licensed. Goes the same with manga. Actually it's kinda harder to find licensed manga than anime, but maybe that's my imagination.
The next manga set I wanna buy is Akuma de Sorou. I forgot what it means in English. You can buy 1-10 on Sasugabooks.com for only 50 bucks and like 5 or so dollars for shipping them all. Then there's only one additional book in the series. It's pretty good. The guy of the main girl's affection, Takeru, is too cute. He's got really, really nice hair. And he styles it different from time to time, making it even better! He's one of those who seem like a really mean or cruel person, but in actuality is very kind. Can't think of another anime character equivalent off the top of my head... Hmm...maybe...actually maybe Sanzou. A little bit. Okay, Sanzou's damn rude and is always shooting at people, but he's really, uh, kinda a good person. He does what should be done, but he doesn't make it his business to be a good guy. Sanzou's exterior appearance is a bit more extreme than Takeru. It's hard to see the good in Sanzou (yet he's my favorite anime/manga character of all time). Then again, Kuroudo has few good in him and he's number two on my list. Gosh, there's that GAP commercial again! I want him to get rid of that hair. It's driving me crazy because I can't decide whether I should be frightened or admiring it. *sweat-drop*
Think I'll go see what ann no aku's up to. Online, of course. She's in a different state than me. Zan'nen desu (It's a shame)--I could use an anime friend around here. I doubt anyone is as serious about it as I am. ^_^
Quote from Genjou Sanzou: Sonna ni kami ni chikazukita kattara shinjimae! Shineba dare darou ga hotoke ni nareru zo soko no bouzu-tachi mitai ni na
(If you want to get that close to God then just drop dead! Anyone who dies can become "buddha" just like those [dead] monks over there.)
Thursday, September 2, 2004 08:16 p.m.
Thursday. Love them (not going to go into story why). I can finally listen to Nina Simone's "Feeling Good." It's my song whenever I have a rare period of goodness at this school. Yeah, it'll fade soon. It's still early.
I can't for the life of me do my accounting homework. I'm behind in it, so I need to complete two assignments. Plus, I need to go out and email some lab activity to a professor. I can't do it on this computer because I have to use some email program on the school network. Shouldn't take me long, yet I don't look forward to going out. I'd rather just sleep, but I gotta get this crap done. As long as I email this thing, I can skip my computer class at 11:00, which will give me extra time if I haven't finished my accounting homework.
I haven't gotten the chance to watch any anime! Okay, that's kinda a lie. I had chances, but I was doing other things. I still wanna get to watch episode 46 of Full Metal Alchemist before I go to sleep. Okay, well, I started to read my accounting stuff, but then I started thinking about Halloween. Most likely I won't dress up, but then I wondered which anime character would be fun to dress up as? I thought Akabane Kuroudo, but I've done him before on his birthday. And I plan to dress up in a Akabane Kuroudo-fashion come his birthday this year. So then I thought about Kuroro aka Danchou from Hunter x Hunter. I thought maybe I could pull it off. Now, I don't have the resources I had back in Mugenjou when I was trying to get my Akabane Kuroudo thing together--that day I went all around to nearby stores to gather items. The coat. The gloves. The hat. Didn't get a tie, but I borrowed one from my room mate. I had some black pants and shoes, so I didn't buy any at the time. It was pretty sweet even if it could have been better. Danchou's a bit harder. Those boots of his... Not uncommon, yet I don't know where I'd get them in Jigoku Dani. I don't have the means to travel other places so... Guess I'll try to Ebay it together. If I can pull this off, it be amazing. I mean, of all the evil/villainous people I love, he's the best dresser. Then again I could always go with the "Kuroro" Danchou look. And what I mean by that is the "other identity" of Danchou--the one you see about once in the series. Where he has the head band around the cross on his head and he's dressed kinda in a low-key Kuroudo fashion (minus the hat).
Uh, anyways, I've been looking for shoes the past couple of minutes instead of doing accounting stuff. Like I care. Man, I already hate that class. I have other things I need to do too. Like the reading for my African American Lit. So far, I'm only succeeding in being a slacker. I think I'm restless (slightly) because I haven't been able to watch TV in a while. So, now I'm finally in control of the amount I watch (though no great channels), but I need to do less of it and more studying.
Oh, God! That commercial's on again! The one where Lenny Kravitz and Sarah Jessica Parker are advertising Gap (aka the "Gay" as I like to call it). Lenny's hair in there... First couple of times I saw it I was like, "why is that scarily attractive. At first I thought it was because an American man had an anime-ish hair cut. I thought it reminded me of Yukimura from Samurai Deeper Kyo. I mean, it kinda does. But after a couple more times, I decided that it reminded me of that guy who, uh, does Snape on those Harry Potter movies. That would explain why it would be scarily attractive. Lenny's pretty good looking on his own, but to think he's hotter because he's got a hair cut that reminds me of Snape (why, I don't really know. His hair doesn't look like that, but it reminds me of him for some reason!) that is scary. I feel like I should inform ann no aku and ask her opinion. But I don't want her to think I'm more insane than I already am. Besides, engaging in HP conversation with her--dangerous. HP is my enemy. Some may say I secretly like HP. I very much doubt it. It'll be an exciting day in Jigoku Dani (exciting day in Alliance...yeah, right) before I read an HP book. I'll let some people go on about them, but I'm not going to defile my eyes by reading those stories. Mainly I hate HP because of Harry Potter himself. If the main character was someone else, maybe I could like it. I don't like him. I want him to die. Now if the author of those books was planning to kill him, I'd read those books in anticipation of reading about his death. That I could get into. Hehe. Sorry ann no aku!
Guess I should return to the evil accounting stuff. Gotta move my self from this chair and go see about email this lab activity. Somewhere in all this I'll watch some anime--damnit! It's becoming those times when I have too much of an anime surplus with a constant downloading. I'm downloading now and haven't watched but one since I've been here. Gotta cut that out with as little hard drive as I have. *shakes head*
Quote from one of Nina Simone's Songs: Tin can at my feet, I think I'll kick it down the street. Why not? That's the way to treat a friend. -- "I Think It's Going to Rain"
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 04:22 p.m.
Kono machi wa...
Actually not too bad today. Only thing that truly sucked today was eating, books, and my accounting class. By the time I ate, all there was left to eat was some weird combo of potatoes, onions (I think), peppers--I saw some sausage in there somewhere. Nothing I wanted to eat. So I opted for a very light salad and a tiny bowl of chilli. Anyone who knows me would realize this is something I'd rarely eat. However, I've had more meager meals at MU, so not that bad.
Couldn't buy my books today, but what can you do? Accounting seems like it's going to be a bit difficult. I don't think even have been there the first day I would have understood what was going on. Other classes seem fine. Except there's this really squeaky floor in my computer class. The floor makes a sound like it's going to crack under you. It makes you seem as though you are so fat! I hate it. I don't like to feel so self-conscious when I'm simply walking.
Japanese class was pretty fun. At one point Furuhata-sensei kept saying "This city" in Japanese to help a student complete a sentence he was instructed to say. So in his struggling to complete in the sentence he also kept saying "kono machi wa," which is only funny because it reminded me of this sound mix I made of Akabane Kuroudo from Get Backers. In said mix, I have him saying "kono machi wa" over and over in the background for about ten seconds. It's hard not to chuckle at things in class that remind me of anime.
Recently, the only anime I watched was episode 16 of Kyou Kara Maou. I don't know why, but Wolfram is really becoming obsessed with Yuuri. Yes, the two are engaged, but his rising jealous attitude is bordering on annoying. Sometimes I want him to shut the hell up. Partly that comes from the fact that his voice actress is the same who did MAKUBEX from Get Backers (also Okita from Peacemaker Kurogane). Anyway, there was some Gunter swordplay! Yay! I'd like to see more of him. He's so ridiculously fruity (though several characters in there are). Typically I like fruity male characters who are good with a sword. A good example of that is Yukimura from Samurai Deeper Kyo (my fifth favorite anime character). It was a pretty good episode, but I just wanna see what's going to become of all this Maou business. Seems like every other episode is about them retrieving some "ma" objective. The Maseki...Mateki... Goes on and on. Then again, I watch it more for the yaoi-ness. You could pair Yuuri with almost all the main male characters. Hehe.
I suppose I'll watch the recently subtitled episode of Full Metal Alchemist tomorrow. I got some stuff to do and other anime episodes to watch. Full Metal Alchemist is great! It could become one of my favorites. I can't wait to see the conclusion. I'm hoping Ed will get his limbs back from that stupid kid Wrath. He and that another annoying guy, Envy, need to die or just get their asses kicked throughly. And I want Al to get his body back! Al is so adorable. In episode 45 (last one I saw) I think he was going to meet Tucker (also need a little beat down). I hope that will go without too much bad consquence. I'd also like to see some more Roy Mustang. Man! He is great. Part of it is how he uses alchemy. I have thing for gloves now (thank you Akabane Kuroudo). Only white ones though. I'd be looking forward to watching that tomorrow.
Guess now I'll do some work or either watch Naruto episode 98. It's almost up to the part where Shikamaru leads Naruto and some others on a mission! Shikamaru rocks! I could listen to him say, "mendokuse (a pain/annoying)" all day long. Can't wait for that part. Also I'm gonna check out Paranoia Agent. Seems like a decent anime despite there's no seiyuu in there I like (or know). Gotta check out some different anime from time to time. Unless it's too shoujo. I hate bishounen-less animes now. You know, the kind with ten girls after one guy who's a loser? Yeah. No more Love Hina's for me.
Quote from Akabane Kuroudo (Get Backers): Shigoto o owarimashita. Kokokara suki ni sasete itadakimasu. Watashi wa jibun no tanoshimi o jama sareru no ga ichiban kirai de ne.
(My work is done. From now on I'll do as I please. What I hate the most are those who interfere with my fun.)
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 05:23 p.m.
Settled in
Wow, after the past couple of days I had, I never thought I'd write another entry into this blog from MU until the Spring. I could just vomit after all the crap I went through just to be sitting here.
Friday, my dad and I traveled to Jigoku Dani. Never you mind I didn't eat breakfast that morning, being there made me sick. And all the drama created by my stepmom--Ms. G--only increased that feeling. No, she wasn't there, but we did call her in the hopes she'd be able to resolve some financial paperwork we needed from her. And had been requesting for the longest time. To make a long story short she didn't do a damn thing to help me complete my financial aid. And this is from last semester I'm talking. The balance I had left over still was not paid and the financial aid I would have received would have chopped it down about 2,000 dollars.
So my dad tried a loan--he was denied. Don't know exactly why. The point is that was how we were going to pay the majority of my balance. Now I didn't mention that among this being in the financial office at MU we were sent up to an unfriendly woman up in the business office. That lady there sucks. One of the things that pisses me off that people do is tell me stuff I already know. And I'm talking about stuff that like, "duh! I know that!" I'm not talking about politely reminding someone. Yes, that lady reminded me I couldn't not register nor move in until my balance was cleared. She's lucky it's not the day that I'm surely going to snap after enduring some many idiots like her and explode with ghetto-like anger.
Defeated, my dad and I traveled to Taco Bell. He assured me he'd get my Uncle to co-sign for the loan I needed. Yet, he didn't ask him until yesterday! Instead, we had my brother try it out only to find out we couldn't call this loan program on the weekend. When Jahson failed, then my dad asked me, though originally we were going to ask my uncle. To make matters worse on Monday when we rode back to Jigoku Dani, my dad didn't alert my uncle to the fact that all he had to do was call in. Yes, he could have done that before they came and threw all my stuff into the van.
I was positive that all would turn to hell. I was in the valley of it, so what not to expect? I expected my uncle would fail and then my father would not be able to pay off the rest. Anyway, loans take time to approve. However, by the magic of the stubborness of my dad plus his brother, they pulled it off and I am finally off the business hold. Really, it was like having my dad times two who does not hardly ever quit until he gets what he wants. I was in the "well, I'm gonna have to live with my brother and get a job" mode, so I was thoroughly surprised even though I did bring my stuff to move in. Not all of it, but the necessary portion.
I'm back with my Japanese room mate Yuri. Same old Yuri. I haven't eaten anything since yesterday, so it's been a full day no eating. Not unusual here. I was having problems with my ID card earlier so I couldn't eat on campus anyway until like...one-ish or so. I finally got my schedule together, though I missed all but one class already. So tomorrow is my "catch-up" day. Also my five-class day. I tried to have it so I get out at noon or one, but no luck. My day ends at three.
Japanese Literature seems like a breeze. Reminds me of this literature class I had at Mugenjou where the professor assigned essays with barely any guidelines. He was like, "just write a little short paper for me." We'd read stuff like Ovid and Virgil. At first it was hard, but eventually I started to do better and better. I had a lot of fun in the class, though I would sleep often. One girl beside me would knit, another played games on her laptop, and another read a romance novel. Like only three kids participated in discussion. Quite entertaining.
Not very entertaining at MU. I probably laughed five times (and not counting "polite" laughter) in all for all my classes last semester. Do I expect a change? Hell no. And why the f are the books so expensive?? God, might have to take out a loan just for them. If I only had the VA benefits... Those are great. You get a check after each month of school you're in enrolled in. Starting October it's going to be like 900 bucks! Yes, this is why I don't work when I'm in school. If only I had some cool stores to spend that on. Might just have to use that for fast food every day... Guess I'll make a run down to Taco Bell after the Simpsns come on. Tomorrow's gonna be another long day. Yay. I can hardly wait. *eye roll*
Quote from Fat Tony (Simpons): I don't get mad--I get stabby.
Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:37 p.m.
Hisashiburi desu ne, Ohaio
Back in Ohio (Ohaio). God, my dad kept pushing back our departure. "We're leaving Friday. No, Tuesday because we need to pick up your brother on Monday (it was actually Sunday because I didn't read his flight schedule right)." Then he said Tuesday evening. Then Tuesday evening came around and he suggested we leave at 5am on Wednesday. I'm still tired from the trip. It was long, but it was worse once I got to my uncle's house. I love my uncle, but his house is boring. TV-wise all you will ever watch there is sports and news. Probably the two least things I'll watch on television.
Today I just wanted to catch up on sleep. So of course, I opted to stay with my brother at his apartment. If I stayed with my uncle he'd probably wake me up at the crack of dawn talking about breakfast. Yeah, at Jahson's (my brother) you can sleep until 3:00pm, the same time he goes to work. Then after that you can hop on his computer and use the internet and also watch his television. He doesn't have one outside his own room. Anyway, I slept pretty well and ate some of the food I had left at his house when I stayed over the summer. I had some eggs I bought from May, but hey, they were still good. My policy is to test food by eating it and seeing if I live. If I don't, I learned the most valuable lesson of all. ^_^
My uncle called me at ten (lucky for him I wasn't sleeping because I hate to be woken up) and said I was supposed to be dropped off at his house. No, I didn't want to go. And do what there? I thought my dad and I were going down to Jigoku Dani to take care of things. Nope. What did we do? Uh, we went to the racetrack for like an hour and a half so my uncle could win about fifteen dollars. Yeah... I don't mind it too much, but I hate being stuck in a real smokey area for an extended period of time. Lord. Then I ate dinner at their house and was ready to leave. However, I wasn't able to leave until 9:30. My dad wouldn't take me back to my brother's (he didn't know I had a key nor where Jahson lived). *Sigh* Luckily my uncle drove me back because I was not about to be stuck there all night like Wednesday. I was there until 2am! I was tired. I didn't get any sleep before I left SC, so I was really annoyed.
So I'm heading to Jigoku Dani tomorrow. I dread going back there even if I'm not moving in. Brings back bad memories of starvation and boredom. Hopefully all will go well and I won't have to ram my head into a wall and can return to Jahson's. Crossing my fingers I won't be stuck at my uncle's watching news from 6 to 11.
Quote from Homer Simpson: I didn't lie--I was making fiction with my mouth.
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 07:21 p.m.
Gonna Blog Again
I think I know exactly what to do with my blog now--I'm going to use it to record the crappiness of the school I now attend. For those who don't know, I used to go to a fine school in Boston (aka Mugenjou) called Emerson. However, with my love of Japanese I ventured to a new school in Alliance, Ohio called Mount Union. The past semester I had there majorly sucked. Perhaps, however, the crappiness of those days will turn into a good personal essay. Top three things that suck about Mount Union:
1. Food - I lost a lot of weight, not to say that I didn't when I went to Emerson. However, now that I in Jigoku Dani (Hell Valley--my nickname for MU), I'm starting to look like I'm on an extreme diet or something. I swear I would bomb the school simply because they insist on somehow serving the worst (sometimes weirdest) food.
2. People - I'm not saying everyone there is annoying or boring, but most are! I mean, it might just have to do with being at Emerson (where people are endlessly insane/lively personalities/anything but normal), but students and teachers there drive me insane. It reminds me of being at my hellish school in the 'Ville in SC. MU's pretty big on sports so lots of kids are in sports. Even my room mate (oversea student from Japan) was in sports. I don't like sports much, so obviously a sports-oriented school is going to piss me off.
3. Cable - Yeah, I put it up there. Okay, I need good TV to function. I don't like HBO too much because they had a tendency to show the same bad (usually) movies over and over again over their various channels. And yes, MU has four or five of them! Probably you'd ask, "so what? Watch something else." Frankly, I have almost nothing to watch. Thank the Lord they have Comedy Central. Otherwise I'd blow out my brains. Dave Chapelle and Comedy Central Presents kept me on the edge of sanity. No Cartoon Network (how can I function without Adult Swim or good cartoons like Courage the Cowardly Dog?), no Nickeledeon. I need cartoons somewhere! No Disney either. I don't like Disney cartoons that much, but they're better than nothing, which is what I have at MU. Finally, they don't have Bravo. No, I don't watch the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy--I'm a West Wing fan. So it majorly sucks for me. Not big on MTV, yet they have both of those channels.
So, those are the top three. There are others, but I'm rating them a little less crappy. My point really in doing this is to record some of my experiences in Jigoku Dani, as well as supply anyone thinking of attending there with some information about it. It's not a bad school if you are the type who eats anything, likes any type of people, and not a big watcher of TV. But for the oddball, picky-eater, couch potatoe, it's hell. You work a lot too. Laid back? Hell no. That almost makes the top three, but I'm supposed to understand that college is work? Since when? Tell that to people at Emerson. You work, but not like you're in high school or something. Anyway, I'm off to Ohio tomorrow after a quick visit to see my little sister at USC (in South Carolina--not California). One can almost hope that there will be better days at MU this semester but...unless it has burned down, I doubt that.
Quote: I like the diet where you can eat as much as you want. That's my favorite. It's always like real specific things--like from nine to twelve you can eat asparagus. As much as you want. You can just eat eat as much as you want. Then from twelve to seven, you drink water. As much as you want. You can just drink as much as you want. Then from seven till whenever you go to bed you cry. You just cry cry as much as you want. Cuz you're starving--you're really hungry. You're gonna wanna cry." -- Ted Alexandro from Comedy Central Presents
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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
Currently Downloading/Watching Anime:
- Kyou Kara Maou
- Full Metal Alchemist
- The Melody of Oblivion
- Naruto
- Tenjou Tenge
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