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Fumo, fumo fumo fumo, fumo! FUMOFFU!

No, I am not obsessed, I just really enjoy watching Sousuke and his stupid military antics. I can't imagine what life after Full Metal Panic will be!! Guess I'll have to buy the manga and novels (in Japanese) and read 'em.

Tonight was yet another weird exhibition of bizarre German films considered "art." For once, things ran smoothly and for once, I watched one of the films. Twiddly and I were both very upset, though, that we both had our heads turned from the film when the movie we were watching had something reeeeeally interesting happen. It was some weird show/movie about these twins (Me: "They look like Alanis Morissette." Twiddly: "Hmmm..." Me: "Or Sigourney Weaver?" Twiddly: "OK, yeah I can see that."), who come to stay with a ballet instructor at her apartment/studio, and some blind man wanting to learn how to tango. The twins were apparently living the good life because they had this Japanese man come in with a basket full of raw fish and make tons and tons of sushi (ohhhh, suuuuushiiii....). For some weird reason there was this miniature piano and a swing in the studio... anyway, my head was momentarily turned when Twiddly said, "Hey, did she fall out the window?!" and the image we seen on the screen is the swing still swinging and the blind man still there, but the twin who had been on the swing was missing, and the window was open. "Nahh, she didn't, did she?" "Don't tell me we missed her FALLING OUT OF THE WINDOW!" And then you see her lying dead on the sidewalk outside. "Aww, damn, we missed the best part! We missed seeing her fall off the swing and out the window!!"

If you had been there too, you would have been upset that you missed seeing her fall out the window, too.

Wednesday, November 5, 2003 10:15 p.m.

Congrats Aimee-chan for getting the fellowship! ^_^ And thankee thankee for lending me your car tonight - the weather was AWFUL and carrying all that camera equipment to and from Knapp would have made me gone insane. You are a lifesaver, dearie ^_^

I've gotten the two people needed to write me a recommendation for the JET program - woo hoo! When I was talking with someone earlier (was it you?), about how I had asked these same two people to write recommendations for me in the past, she mentioned that since I didn't actually get accepted into the programs I was applying at the time, if she were me she wouldn't ask the same people. Which makes sense. But really who else can I ask so freely? I don't want to ask a prof to write me a recommendation when they might have trouble doing it because they don't know me well enough.

Man, these people are such liars. They said today was suppose to be cold and wet and rainy and 40 in the morning, but by later in the day it would get warmer and nicer and even up to 60 degrees. LIARS. Liars liars liars liars! Only a politician could be a bigger liar than a meteorologist!

Tomorrow's my Japanese presentation on the interview where basically I asked a person who didn't know anything about soccer all these questions on the World Cup. Yeah, doesn't that have "doomed" written all over it?

Wednesday, November 5, 2003 02:07 a.m.

Dude. This is not good. The hair dye has practically washed out in the shower. What the hell?

Tuesday, November 4, 2003 06:41 p.m.

*gasp* You finally updated your blog after three months! *GASP*

Blech, am so glad Tanner is over with and tomorrow is Wednesday, although I've got lots of work-related stuff I have to do. First thing that greeted me when I woke up this morning was my period, so I've spent the entire day pretty much on Advil in a dreary haze. I guess my boss must've seen I wasn't too swell in the morning because in the afternoon she switched me with another student worker and I didn't have to carry the videocamera around (hurrah!). Instead, I vegitated while all these neuroscience people talked about brain diseases and lab rats (I'm not kidding - I thought lab rats were stereotypical of lab geeks, but they really do torture these poor rodents!). Anyway. Yes, vegitating while people are talking about the brains is a good way to end your day.

Speaking of vegitation, I still just want to curl up on my bed and fall asleep - it seems the best way of getting over cramps... well, that, and keeping my stomach, so it doesn't make me feel worse. Maybe I will lie down. For a teeny. Tiny. Bit.

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Monday, November 3, 2003 11:45 p.m.

Oh, and good luck everyone with your Tanner presentations. Knock 'em dead =)

Monday, November 3, 2003 11:33 p.m.

*sigh* So many things to have to worry about for the JET application... so early in the applying stage and I'm already feeling disheartened about it. Because, in the rare, amazing, miraculous chance that I do get accepted, there's still the issue of my orthognatic surgery that's suppose to take place sometime next summer, and that just automatically complicates things. I hate how my life has to revolve around this whole teeth issue so much - at dinner this one girl who sat with us commented that she felt like a pig, after looking at our dinner plates. She had several plates full of food while the rest of us (including myself) had more meager portions on one plate. I was like, Dude, if only I could eat like you can; don't be ashamed of it. Not being able to eat like an average person is such a drag.

But yeah, back to this application - Thinking of going abroad, and watching Trang and Aimee practice their presentations for the Tanner conference tomorrow, kinda made me feel sad and regretful. Y'all's presentations were really good, you know. I wish I had taken more initiative to study abroad during the year instead of just assuming that I was going to get accepted to a summer program (because I obviously didn't). Well I'll have to keep searching for more options you know? I just wish I didn't have to worry about the surgery...

Saturday, November 1, 2003 06:08 p.m.

Stupid Prism Jazz. They didn't bother returning the drums to their usual positions after taking them out yesterday for the concert - I went to the rehearsal room today to find the drums dismantled and in their cases. I spent about half an hour trying to reassmble the set but gave up when I realized I didn't know how to put the hi hat together. So I sent someone in Prism Jazz what I hope will come off as an angry complaining email, asking them to return the drums the way they found them after each use... And they keep telling me their rehearsals are at different times, so what the hell? Tuesdays? Sundays? Thursdays? Can't they keep it straight so I know when to avoid them? So far they're not being very considerate of us private students (who are friggin' PAYING a lot to use the set).

So, don't you believe that I really practice 5 times a week anymore - I haven't been all this week, and since I couldn't get the drums together today I didn't practice today either. I'll try again but hopefully stupid Prism Jazz will actually remember that other people are using the set and stop being such jerks.

Saturday, November 1, 2003 09:27 a.m.

Oh my god. Oh my GOD. I am such a nerd. You know what I did last night, LAST NIGHT, A HALLOWEEN FRIDAY? I SLEPT. I think I went to take a nap at like 7:30 PM and now it's 9:30 AM and I've been asleep for like the past FOURTEEN HOURS. I am SUCH a nerd!! I didn't even go to the Obs party last night like I was planning. Was I really that tired? *sigh* I think I would win out for having The Saddest Social Life Award on campus... Actually, wait, no, I hope you got as much sleep as I did last night, judging from your away message.

And while I was sleeping, you sounded like you were enjoying yourself. I thought you didn't get drunk - were you just faking it or something, as a form of bragging? You really ARE a frat boy!

Friday, October 31, 2003 10:44 a.m.

Finally dyed it purple... you can hardly tell it's there, if you didn't know I had bleached it previously. Dark yet subtle (and no, it didn't turn out brown).

Would say more but as you can notice by the time I've got like 26 minutes til my exam!

Thursday, October 30, 2003 04:53 p.m.

Poundcake's having a stupid day today. In Astro I tried to keep myself awake by putting my cold water bottle to my head - but I'd conveniently forgotten that the cap was off. Out goes the water, straight onto my notes!

And I think in Novel today the professor kept staring in my direction because I was nodding off - I couldn't help it!!!! Not even that one-can-of-Coke-a-day is helping. It makes me so nervous when she stares in my direction and I get the feeling she's ALWAYS staring in my direction.

You sound positively frat-boy. *pauses to think* ARE you a frat-boy?

And why did your site just crash my browser? (I'm in the SBOG office by the way - good ol' Windows 95.)

On the whole package theft thing going on in my dorm - apparently a suspect has been ID'd and she's signed a written confession. I wonder how they found her out and if they're going to tell us (victims) anything about it - the officer I talked to did say he was going to get back to me eventually. Well, I'm resigned though, there's no getting those cookies back - but nice to know we don't have to be as paranoid with leaving packages at the bell desk. Still, I've pretty much lost faith in the system - because it happens all the time, every year; this just happened to be a bad string of thefts by one person. Stupid people who do stupid things. Huh.

And Shakespeare exam tomorrow - wuuuuuuugh. This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have that STUPID Japanese interview to present and the Novel paper on Monday. *growls*

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 04:15 p.m.

*sigh* Well, am finally working on an updated resume and got an account with MonsterTrak... although if I could get paper applications like the JET one that would be nicer, I think - this online business and this weird formatting in Microsoft Word just isn't my cup of tea.

You know what? Last night I had a dream where you got your acceptance letter to med school - not only a very prestigious med school, but you were like the highest-ranking applicant. If anything, I would take that as a good omen! My subconscious can't making these kinds of things up now, can it? I bet not.

Rocky Horror's tonight - with the weather being miserable as it is, I really don't feel up to it, and I ESPECIALLY don't feel up to dressing in costume (sorry, I'm a party pooper). I would gripe about its timing with my monthly cycle but that's not really the kind of thing I should be putting on the Internet huh? Huh. This is definitely a "I like to gripe" kind of day. (Yeah, yeah, PMS whatever.)

Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:02 a.m.

And - SHIT!!!!! We're suppose to be registering for spring semester's courses NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!! Dammit dammit dammit!!!!!!!!!!

(no wonder everyone online was asking registration questions X_x)

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:57 p.m.

Hey you, the new layout looks nice. Kudos for the drawings - although the fact that your self-portrait creepily resembles a James Bond baddie is kinda... well, creepy. ^_^

But - A HA! Have taken that FIRST INITIATING STEP towards answering the "what will you do after college" question! The JET program applications came into the Japanese department today so I grabbed one. Have I opened it yet? Yes. Have I glimpsed at it yet? Yes. Have I read the thing or started working on it yet?

Um, get back to me in a week or something. ^_^

Monday, October 27, 2003 11:55 p.m.

...and I swear... is my neighbor somehow getting glimpses of my playlist? It's frighteningly uncanny how much of the music she plays is *EXACTLY* what I play.

...except, I have yet to hear her play Wallflowers.

...man, does she HAVE to play music at these hours? @_@

Monday, October 27, 2003 11:41 p.m.

I am so dead. Tomorrow me and Naka-chan are suppose to be interviewing a Wellesley resident in Japanese, plus I've had to catch up on all this Japanese that's due tomorrow. I knew I shouldn't have slacked off so over the weekend! See, I'm paying for it! I didn't even go to Sbog tonight, I spent practically all evening at Knapp tonight. Plus Rocky Horror's this Wednesday (have to go, especially since I'm in charge of some equipment), *and* Ko's midterm on Friday (that shouldn't be *too* bad), AND Lee's essay on the following Monday (which is optional, but like heck I'm gonna screw around and make it worse for myself later in the semester!).

And the people in charge of payroll *still* haven't listed me with two pay rates - I must be the only one they haven't taken care of, all the other Media Services workers have their extra pay rate entered into the system. I wish they would get on their butts and do it already - I feel bad for pestering the student worker supervisor about it X_x

And of course the weather is sucky fucky outside. Man, Mondays just don't get any worse than this...

Oh but kudos to ATD for the pies and the singing tonight =)

Sunday, October 26, 2003 08:53 p.m.

Ahhhh, la dee da... this has been a weekend totally lacking in stress. I love it... Of course, what I don't stress over now, I'll stress over tomorrow, so it's not *entirely* stress free.

Can you believe I bought .00 worth of groceries today? I stocked up on soda, Snapple Lemon Ice Tea (god I love that stuff!), Easy Mac (it runs in my veins - although I wish it didn't), cds from Staples (good deals)... Luckily I won't have to go out shopping like this again for the rest of the semester - that's my hope at least.

And THEN - I finally made it out to Borders. The biggest quandary of the day definitely had to be, Al Franken or Michael Moore? (I finally decided on Al Franken.) Dude, though, it took me weeks to get to Borders but once I did get there, that gift certificate went FAST. I also couldn't resist buying The DaVinci Code, Bend it Like Beckham, The Eyre Affair and another Battle Angel Alita manga. I actually went over the certificate X_x and now have a grand total of in my wallet! (Well, just remember where that extra money came from: my Emo. =)

And oops. I never actually got around to dying my hair - I don't want to do it now, it feels too late (9:00 PM too late?!). Eh heh heh.

Sunday, October 26, 2003 01:36 a.m.

Colors I have died my hair:

various shades of brown

blue (junior year - didn't show)

red (either sophomore or junior year)

yellow (bleached today! but it won't last long)

and tomorrow: violet planned!

Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:49 p.m.

SQUICK!

I really like that word now, heh heh. I think I have to thank you for introducing it to me.

Anyway - tonight a group of us had Brazillian for dinner. YUMMM. The restaurant is called... Ipameda? Something like that - I'll have to ask Izzy again. Anyway, it was a MEAT FEAST. Soooo good. I rarely have a tolerance for that much meat (pork, chicken, beef, and I think lamb), but splurging at a place like this once in a while does a pasta-feeder good. It was me, Izzy, Kitsu, Tetchan, Yilun and Bocchan. Afterwards we did DDR at Kitsu's for an eternity - Yilun got really, really, REALLY obsessed. @_@

Ohhh and get this get this - I finally bleached my hair today. Thanks for your help. It looks different now (at midnight) than it did hours ago - the color has lightened even more at it looks less spotty, more streaky (which is good). On the left side of my head, where I usually part my hair, is an area of bright, bright BRIGHT yellow - for some reason that area really got bleached out more than the rest of my hair. Anyway, if I part it on the other side of my head it's not as noticeable, but overall the bleaching looks good, I think. Next step tomorrow: dying it violet!

Friday, October 24, 2003 04:38 p.m.

HEH. Kinda didn't go to Japanese class today. Didn't think sensee would mind that much, but I got an email (encrypted in Japanese, of course - I had to ask Aimee help in translating it!) and nearly went into a panic... because she mentioned something about my "namae" (name) being written on something. First reaction: OH MY GOD she gave my name to the authorities, she's going after me for skipping class! 0.o

And *finally* got my hands on the homework I had lost - another gulp. I remember now sensee saying something about borrowing the listening assignment from Knapp, but I still can't find the papers anywhere. Am going to copy them now (THANK YOU Naka-chan!). Then, huzzah!, can finally relax for a bit - weeeeekend!

Friday, October 24, 2003 12:24 a.m.

Ooh! I just watched the first episode of Full Metal Alchemist, not to be confused with the Full Metal Panic series. Was leery of the title, but it proved to be quite fun - the first episode is definitely one that hooks and grabs. Go watch.

SHAZIA is coming back next semester!!! *bounce bounce* I can't wait - Shazia, if you're reading this, you've been away too long! Apparently you've turned more otaku than I am ^_^ ahh I feel so proud of that. Now you better come back and visit us when Shazia gets here, and then all we'd need is our Brown compadre, and we'd be complete again ^_^

It was more weird German art again at Collins tonight - although this time I had company, so it wasn't that bad - the two hours didn't feel as long as last time. But there were no people in the audience - the evening started with maybe 6 people, but by the end it was down to the speaker, the coordinator of the event, and 1 other person. Lah. And to think, Twiddly and I get to spend two more evenings in November doing this. Fun fun.

Oh, and I got sick this afternoon - completely missed Tetchan's dinner visit on campus. Sorry, guys - but kimochi ga warukattan desu. =(