Hahah. XD I think I might have broken my best friend. Which is actually not a good thing. Too much bad news in the span of like, 3 hours, or however long we were on aim.
Part of the point is that it wasn't Rowan-that-is-Fen that ate Cal, it was Anasta-that-is-Fen; who is demon that thinks in very black and white terms: Cal = threat her tighern was worried about, worried tighern = bad, Anasta kill things that make worried tighern. She just doesn't have an advanced thought process. Rowan and Anasta not being merged is a bad thing in Fenwraith terms. Give Cal a few years and he'll show back up in faery, reborn. Unless Fen used some blood steel on him but I don't think he has access to any unless he stole Stone's sword.
I will not even try to defend Colin and Fox. ^^; Mainly because I don't have an arguement for a reason anyone should like them.
My dad doesn't like lawyer books, isn't that funny? I was showing him my current business law book and after I said, "...lawyer wrote it...." he dropped it like it burned him. XD He says he hates lawyer books and never reads them. I bet it is because most lawyer books seem to have a theme of "I am so great!" (and yes, that was suppose to have been voiced as "Teen Girl Squad"). And then I saw an ad for "Bowling for Columbine" and I said, "I want to see that." and my dad, "That is made by that jackass who makes movies telling lies in order for people to agree to his viewpoint." [he had some GM example "not that GM is a saint of course, but his movie was full of things he just made-up because he wanted other people to hate GM." - I haven't seen that film so I don't know if that is true or not or just my Dad's opinion] me: "I don't know why everyone hates him so much, at least he kept to his time limit at the freaking academy awards - I don't like Adrien Brody because he talked for 10 freaking minutes and everyone loved him for it just because he is young, hot, and managed to get teary-eyed. Dad: "Who is that now?" Me:"Best actor from "The Pianist"." Dad: "Oh yeah...Why do people feel they need to share their political views at award ceremonies from nonrelated fields[insert story about accountant awards or something, Platoon was on TV so I was zoning a bit]?" Me: *big shiney anime eyes* "I feel exactly the same way!" Hahah, so the moral of the story is that even though I disagree with my dad on 80% of his politics we can still agree about other people's being stupid and isn't that what America is about? Not knowing a lick about polictics (well, in my case) but still agreeing that the other guy's is stupid. Which reminds me that I hope the democratic field slims out pretty quick because I don't want to research 15 different candidates, I'll just wait for one to chew his way to the party nomination. Contention is out of control this year! Between California and the demorcratic president bid every other America is running for some office it seems. XD
Mmm, Platoon - what an awesome movie. I totally see that DeFoe was hotness when he was younger, spooky hotness but hotness neither the less. Plus, war movies of that like generally rock because they have messages without being all preachy. I can't decide if I like Platoon better than Full Metal Jacket, which is also an awesome movie but about WWII instead of Vietnam.
I have bounced from topic to topic long enough, I'm out.
How come Christy isn't on when I finally am on aim for long periods of time? I'm bored, I got aim to work, and my girl isn't on. Boo. Amber imed me, which would have been fun except she logged off 30 seconds later. Talking to the man of a million screen names now, which isn't so bad. He is a nice person - especially once he found himself a woman.
I ate lunch with Megan today. It was good talking to her, even if she knows of my slackassness now. Oh well, I am sure my sickness will get better soon. And then I can do cardio without the breathing issues and have more energy and feel better all around. A'right.
Well, that worked in a mention of several of my life's adventures. I got my hair cut at the Avada student place again - love that place - even if I did spent actual salon price today because I ended up buying a lipstick, curse Dee and her evil student ways! Actually, I was really happy I ended up with a stylist like Dee, my hair has turned really fine in the last six months; gone are my thick psuedo curls/waves that I have had since 4th grade. I don't know why my hair has decided to regress to the straight blonde days of yore but it is kinda annoying as it now only hangs in my face and looks yuck forcing me to invent new ways to pull it back and out of my face. So it it is just below my shoulders now, got my slight layers and framing bangs updated and had many talks with Dee about what to do with my hair, she actually suggested short first - after mentioning how baby fine my hair was as she was working. I said I was thinking that route since my hair appears to have changed texture/style/etcetc completely. I mentioned my color issue, not liking how light my hair is; she suggested lowlights (the opposite of highlights) so I don't have all the upkeep of dye. Only issue of going short is that I have to fit all my hair including any bangs under my helmet when I ride (ha, Dee said my tendrils would look cute under my helmet - it is not an issue of "cute" but being a serious rider/the professional look and all that. And having done a number of my girls' hair for the student shows I know the hardest ones to work with are the short fine haired girls - everything is so slippery. Then I got a free makeup touch-up and Dee told me somes tips for easy application since I mentioned I hardly ever wear makeup for the time factor. And I liked my hair a little better after eyes and lips because I didn't look so washed out under my blonde and she did nice neutral stuff. Of course she also "did" my hair, so we will have to see how I feel about it "undone" (because I cannot begin to tell you how much I won't be blowing it dry with a straighting brush and product). My hair is especially blonde because she used a protein removing treatment before my wash and erk, that is why I stopped using a clarifying shampoo. Eh.
Also bought my GBL book and it is a very interesting read so that is fun - always good to read the book before the essay test. Buuut! Right outside of Ned's my jacket pockets dumped and I thought I got everything but nope! I left my ID, Argh! So when I noticed right before Poly Sci I was very worried since I didn't drop it any place on campus so I thought I was screwed and I had Sparty cash and I just about called to close my account when I thought to check my email and some grad TA had found my card and emailed me and yay! Heh, I emailed him back and was my normal chatty self and was all casual and cheery because I was thinking grad TA = still young person but then after I mailed him I looked him up and he is a doctorate TA XD Oops! That could mean he is an older person and I should have used 'mister' last name instead of first name, D'oh.
I hung out with some of the kaizoku onnatachi at Dani's house while her parents were gone. Lots of fun, it is always good to be social. Met some of Dani's nonkaizoku friends, hung with Cristy and Crysta, and it watched lots of pretty jpop boys and got addicted to a new manga called "Paradise Kiss" which I want to read the next volume of so bad it hurts but it isn't out in Japan yet so of course TOKYOPOP doesn't have it! Curses! I wish I had known how hard it rocked I would have picked up the backstory of Mawako, Arashi and Hiroyuki while I was in Japan. So things were good even though none of my JPN posse was there and our gay porn ended up being a lot of guys who couldn't keep an erection - I mean, what is up with that?! (This brings us to the dick portion of my blog title). The straight porn featured a woman who bragged about her orgasms but I doubt came once (for real) because she had NO lubrication real or otherwise. The straight porn also pretended to have a plot, making us get it because porn plots are funny but there was no attempt at plot beyond this woman wanting to buy an ugly house (for reasons unknown since her home was very lovely - maybe just to have sex with Asia Camerra and Iamuglypornman).
I am on the prowl for new cardio videos because my cardio has gotten stale and boring and while I still like weights, weights burn very little fat and not as quickly as cardio. I have also been in research mode and figured out some things for myself. Another thing about myself is that I don't like my happiness level but am not sure how to change it. I also have decided that I am not as good a friend as I used to be, and feel badly about this. I used to be better at relationships. sigh. I also ran across some old entries while checking my referrals and was struck about how young and optimistic I sounded just a year ago. I was so sure things would work out.
I am in a lab printing econ and poly sci notes because my printer is dead and Zechs is still critical. Now, one of two things is wrong 1) I need to findle with my RAM to get my uncached speed to go up, enabling my computer to you know, actually use RAM, and by doing so, actually work or 2) I need a new hard drive and the RAM issue is not the RAM inself but how my drive is no longer able to read it or is bad in some other way. Actually, my video card may be bad as well, I am not sure on that - I think the above two would take care of the video issues, God knows I get on with my crappy soundcard. If I need a new drive I think I might just let Zechs suck for as long as he can still work on his last legs and buy a new system after school. This would basically mean never watching any anime for the rest of Zechs natural life as I can't watch avi or mpeg without horrible choppyness and drag. I know my Dad would get me a new computer if I showed him how horrible Zechs is working but I think he is buying the family a new computer for Christmas (Darsh will be 7 this year) and that is unreasonable. The boys deserve a new computer as well, even if they will probably fuck him up too. And ugh, it will run XP. Of course if we can get a new computer at home then I could just burn and watch at home on the weekends. Whatever, Zechs still runs...mostly and I don't like asking for big things because I know I can get them for the most part.
Oh, and if anyone knows the files I have to delete to manually uninstall windows media player 7.1 that would be of great help - the bastard didn't come with an uninstall function for some reason. I got rid of 6.4 when I was messing around with programs I could lose when I noticed its uninstall function was missing as well, so I unistalled it by getting rid of the system files and when I figured out it wasn't an wmp issue I tried to redownload but ended up with ucky 7.1. I did find a lovely little player called Sasami2k and I just love it, even though Zechs isn't running .avi and .mpeg well (but he will still play quicktime).
So, Zechs is still not good, haven't been doing much with him lately, can't watch anime, stay on aim for long periods of time, or basically do more than one program at a time. So I can post real quick on Megan's computer. We just finished watching 1-3 of Tokyo MewMew, Megan's new favorite series, though she says the manga is much different that how they are doing the anime. So far the villian is my favorite, and he was only briefly in episode three. I also took a character selector and here that is:
I haven't seen Pudding yet, but it sure sounds like me! Even if she is only eight, heh. This show is waaay too cute and sailor moony, also very straight forward because the target audience is so young. ^^
I don't think I have anything else to say, I wish I could watch GetBackers 46. Megan is slightly drunk right now. I decided not to drink because I ate cake for dinner. ^^ Ja na.
GrrGrrGRRR!! I have been at this school for a day, classes haven't started and already I am pissed. Irresponsible bastards have infected the MSU network with all sorts of fun things like the Blaster worm, I thought the mircolab computers were protected but apparently not because I got a bunch of returned email things from AOL mailer daemon and others telling me horrible flesh eating worms had been sent out from my address. I don't know whether I should be happy or not that my hotmail addy is not suffering the same problems as my msu account. I run 98 second edition which doesn't allow Zechs to be infected by Blaster but 2nd edition is open to...whatever that new virus running around is that isn't the Blaster worm or that other worm. Darsh runs 98 first edition and can't get any of the above so at least I know he is clean (John used to download Trojans for fun and profit before he learned to watch what .zips he downloaded no matter what the file name).
I can't get my internet connection up and running, Zechs is behaving INCREDIBLY odd and I would worry that he was already been infected with something heinous (Whoa, Bill&Ted flashback) but for the fact that he has not had an internet connection since I left school last May. My room doesn't have cable, we have no dial-up service (Which Zechs isn't even configured for) so I know my sibs couldn't have used him for 'net activities like the could do when we had dial-up and I could gank the first line for internet goodness. Zechs is too young to die! He is only 4 years old! (come September) - Everything is aaaalllll messed up. I watched some anime to fill the void. I had episode three of Scrapped Princess and episode 1 of DNAngel left over from pre-summer to watch but that is it, no more anime on Zechs.
I forgot how yucky Shaw is, so boxy and the WORST LAYOUT EVER for a dorm with lofted furtniture. Western's long thing dealie in Hoekja (I know longer remember how to spell that) is MUCH better for new modular furtniture that is so popular now. Also, I had a ladder to get in my bed instead of climbing up slates with no could handholds. Yup, guess who already fell out of her bed. At least I was halfway down before my tender early morning I-am-filled-with-blood-that-settled-close-to-the-surface feet gave out and I lurched to one side scraped up my shin as I racked it over my crates to the right side of my loft. Grr! I hope my Mason room comes through. The roommate doesn't move in until Sunday because she is dog sitting, I finally managed to reach her after I realized she must not use her student account or msu mail had another spectacular failure or...somehow Darsh is running a worm and he is the infected machine and her virus protection zapped my email. But Darsh has updated Norton running, so that would be odd. I had one hurried discussion but need to talk to her a bit more because I ended up bringing a rug since uni tile = icky and she had talked about buying a rug from Target and that is a little silly (unless she hates my Zebra rug heh), so unless she wants that semi wall to wall thing dorm dwellers do she should save her money. Also, my mom is saying no to my futon going up this year because I may move out and blahblahblah, so if she wants a futon I can't bring mine anymore.
Okay, I need to go play with my configurations just in case I missed anything. Then probably dinner or something. Party@the Aud is tonight, maybe I will call someone to see if they want to hang. And now you know why I am not on aim. The End
Youj- Johnny had a varsity soccer game (actually three) at Portage Northern High School today - you could have watched him and all the other high school boys run around and be sweaty. ^_~
Righto, been awhile hasn't it, kids? I was planning on doing a huge post Japan goodness entry but keep getting sidetracked. Well, I can be sidetracked no longer because I am just so. distrubed. Alice Louise has PEED on my bed, it is 12:30, I am getting comfy with a book before bed, but wait, that is...a wet spot? Did I spill water? I don't remember drinking in bed today. Alice is in the chair, I remember the kittens peeing in the bathing suit basket when they were sad that no one was home for over a week. [Cats pee in soft places that aren't their litter as a plea for attention] Alice is locked in my room while she recovers from nasty upper respitory gunk and her milk to dry up. Alice meows, I have horrible thought, lean over *sniffsniff* Argh! Alice Louise you have peed in my BED! It was horrible, I just came back from dumping all of my bedding in the laundry room, I don't even know if I can wash my comforter in our machine so that will have to wait for my mom to get home. And now I will have to go over everything in my room to check for cat pee, oh joy. Wait a minute...my sweat sleep shorts were damp when I pulled them on from their resting place of the bathroom floor...Please no...Please hang on a moment while I pantz myself. ARGHH!!!! Ewwewwwewwww! I must go shower now. Major ick, I was wearing cat pee. Argh!
Wah! I don't want to leave Japan! It doesn't matter than I only have 500 or so yen to my name (and 100 dollars in Traveler's checks, but still) I wanna stay! We leave tomorrow, I think the bus comes at 9 to take us to the Nagoya airport where we leave at 1 and arrive in Detroit one hour before we actually left Japan - we will all be living the longest Tuesday in exsistance. ^^
The net was down yesterday so I will have to go delete my 114 messages and fed my pets. I haven't written in here much lately - what can I say, I just don't have the fan base that Youji seems to have. Heh. Man, I am dripping sweat just sitting here, this is gross - I am retreating back to my room.
So in summary, I moved out of home stay, homestay was awesome, I loved it even if it was awkward at times not ever talking to the kids. Christy`s birthday was fun, I bought a steam egged cake thing and put some incense in it for a candle - also gave her a porring from Ragnarok (both those words are probably spelled incorrectly ^^;) Christy is better now that classes have ended. I leave in less than 24 hours, my family is in Idaho so I will not see them for another week, how sad. But I will be with my babies and see the kittens again. So yay.
It wasn`t that bad actually, after taste is a little funny and the sticky consistancy is a little off putting but it certainly isn't as disgusting as everyone says.
Host Family is going well, I will have been there one week come Saturday. Okaasan is awesome and super nice and otousan is never at home, I actually have no idea when he gets home from work. I do my kaiwa renshuu with okaasan and I am sorry that otousan isn't there because I think he really wants to study English with me. Okaasan is picking up on my slight lisp (my tongue placement on s and z is slightly not good) and I feel horrible about that. Eri still doesn`t talk to me but neither does Yusuke, I have no idea if they hate me or not. And lately I feel like otousan doesn`t like me much either. I really don`t know how to read the average nihonjin, I am pretty skilled at reading sensei but body language is hard and nihonjin use body language and tone a lot. I speak so much Japanese now that I don't even want to meet with my language partner, which works out because she called in sick.
I have to alien register with Hikone City and that is a slight pain. I should just tell my okaasan and see if I could get a ride/nihongo help.
Probably food is the most interesting thing about homestay because I get to eat food everyday I normally would eat in nihon restaraunt. Here is the food breakdown:
Saturday
Lunch: Spagetti. XD
Dinner: We went to a restaurant on Bell and they proceeded to order a lot of dishes we shared and I was so full and they kept trying to give me food.
Sunday:
Breakfast: Toast, cheese, aloe in plain yogurt (yum), some fruit.
Lunch: yaki soba and ramen
Dinner: Tempura - shrimp, sweet potato, fish, eggplant, onion - ‚¨‚¢‚µ‚¢
Monday;
Breakfast: toast, cheese, blueberries in yogurt, scrambled egg
Dinner: fried rice (with tako), some sabusabu niku, and lots of yummy veggies. This was also the night of the unforunate incident where okaasan asked if I wanted another bowl and I didn't know what she said so said yes and it was horrible because I had to eat another bowl.
So that is homestay, I wake up at 6:20, eat breakfast at 7, leave at 7:30, arrive at school at 8, go to school, arrive home at 6. I never get to just hang anymore at the center - it totally sucks. I go to bed before 12 because there is just nothing else do to. I miss hanging with my posse and Christy and being able to stay up 'til all hours and being silly. Le sigh, I guess living with the nihonjin is more useful but I wish I was only doing it for two weeks now instead of 4.
I am getting tired of avoiding Harry Potter spoilers as well. There are two copies one British and one American floating around the center and I want to snag one! Also, I think the British cover is cooler.
Wow, today was one of the most awesome days of my life! Today a bunch of us; me, Christy, Kiri chan, Doot san, Crysta, Jen, Danielle, and Jannie - went to Osaka, and it was of the awesomeness. We arrived around 11 and promptly met a Japanese woman named Yuri who heard our English wondering which direction we were supposed to head in to the fabled denden town near nanba station, and helped us out. It was obvious she wanted to be able to use her English so I talked with her and just chatted about little things - her English is very good - much better than my Japanese. She ended up staying with us through lunch at McDonald`s and a long stay and Mandarake(!), although at several points I think we scared her with our geekdom. Hee. Mandarake was beautiful, the entire second floor was doujin, entire walls of Gundam Wing, Trigun, One Piece, Naruto, HikaGo, game doujin, jpop doujin (of the slightly scary, I didn`t actually look at it) - doujin EVERYWHERE; henati to one side and yaoi and gag to the other. Gaggles of high school girls speeding through each book looking for a circle or image to catch their eye. It was brillant - but not even the best part. Not by far.
We head out, me suprised that I had only spend 20 dollars on a couple Naruto and Hikago doujin, one GW, and some used manga, a 100 yen pencial board, and a shanks keychain. After stopping in a disappointing duty free store [with expenive touristy crap that you can actually one buy in crappy tourist shops but everything thinks of when they think of Japan] we started to discuss where we wanted to go, at which point Christy wandered away into a seeminly mild-mannered manga store, me being the loyal friend I am, when after her. And oh baby, how sweet it was, words cannot discribe how cool this store was but here is the short version; three floors; manga, merchandise, and CDs/DVDs. The long version includes Christy and I staying in that store for what was probably at least two hours but concepts such as time at escaped us. After wandering to the second floor and seeing merchandise who started poking around - at this point I see a fairly large GETBACKERS section!!! I stammer and squeal and have to use hand gestures and fangirl speak to get Christy over to the incredible bounty before us. At this point Doot san comes in to tell us that everyone is impatient and wants to leave and we have to go and Christy and I practically scream at him "Then go! Leave us!", I don`t think he expected that response but there was no way we were leaving that store without buying them out -which we practically did, buying most of the GetBackers section, some One Piece, Christy bought some Youko Nitta mansex, I bought two of the RahXephon soundtracks, and oh yeah, my total bill was over 200 dollars. Basically I won`t be buying food for a while. Man my swag is cool, here is a list:
Get Backers
mini pencil boards of main cast
offcial Midou Ban sunglasses
deco sticker set
set of suction cup window hanging things
set of pins
door hanging things a la `do not disturb` signs
random of the above to put on ebay
Hikaru no Go
Sai zipper hanging thing
One Piece
picture frame
pencial boards
pins
Also random stuff to put on ebay.
I found a Naruto forehead protector as well, so rock on with that. I am wearing both my sunglasses and the protector, Christy says I look a bit like Paul from GetBackers. Heh.
And that is all she wrote, I really can`t put the coolness into words: check out Christy`s blog for more of our adventures. My host family is coming tomorrow to check me out/get to know me. Gah! I am so scared they will not like me! Stressful. But hopefully everything with work out great.
The other people that were with Yuri just came back, apparently Yuri showed them a really good time, and they ate yakiniku, yup. I hope Yuri does come to visit, Christy and I left a bit abruptly.
I know how to write the "kirai" kanji now Wednesday, June 11, 2003 03:19 p.m.
I would like to take this time to type in all caps to show my rage, frustration, and depression. About half of it is my own damn fault to. Ahem. I FUCKING HATE JCMU I AM SORRY I EVER CAME HERE, AND I AM ALSO SORRY THAT THESE CAPS ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR ME, BUT EH, well, since it isn`t actually making me feel better I guess I should stop. I don`t have a language partner yet, grammar class is boring as fuck, I never actually see Japanese people. I hate that I was so pressured to move down, I hate that they are actually right to put me in two because I suck except for grammar - seriously I am right on with that class for non grammar things. I hate that I feel like I am wasting my time and money. It would have been better to travel by myself for the two months after short program. I hate that this program has managed to accomplish what before was impossible. It is turned me into a bitchy shrew and made Christy and I snap at each other, never saw that one coming.
Whatever, I just...I can`t even name one thing about this program that I like. I hope it passes, I hope at the end I can say good things about it. I hope I get my language partner soon and my host family talks to me and I improve my speaking. I don`t want to feel like such a fucking loser anymore.
I really do want to look at another program, a homesstay one would be the best, I`ll have to look into it once I am home.
I am going to go buy fish now. Bell road makes me happy.
Yeah it is a lame title but the creative juices just don`t flow like they used to, but the good news is my dry cleaning bill is less.
Right. So everything pretty much sucks, I probably should have wrote in here before because my violent mood swings from rage and depression were probably really amusing. The end of that story is that I am going to be in level two starting on Monday, hopefully this will end up being the best decision. I have a lot of homework sheets to do but I did two of them already; my hope is that I will still be able to do the level 3 homework.
I am calming down but before I hated everyone in this fucking program, the rage was high, heh. I felt major pressure from Aisawa sensei and Melville sensei to go down, only Oonishi sensei gave me any kind of realy feedback but even she thought I should go down. I hope that the total dissatisfaction with JCMU will go away after I settle into my program (which btw is a complete waste of money since I already have credit for 201/202 and because I got a 3.0 I can`t replace it - even if I got a 4.0 here), and get my language partner and hopefully my speaking will improve a lot maybe I will even be able to get rid of my horrible horrible american accent.
I have a host family starting on June 28th, the Koresawa family. I am very excited about that and hope that they will also help my speaking improve - plus they are 40 minutes away by bike and my ass should definitly improve, heheheh. I have a okaasan and otousan plus otouto to imouto to hitorizutsu imasu. My otouto is 8, his name is Yusuke and his hobbies are baseball and soccer, my imouto is 5, name, Eri, and likes to draw. The okaasan`s hobby is baking cakes and the otousan likes computers - maybe they have a really fly setup. ^^ They also have a miniture duckshound that lives in the house and no smoking - sounds awesome!
Mrr, I really need to email my parents and tell them everything but my mail is down right now because msu is a bitch. I feel like I will disappoint them with all that is going on, after much phone consultation and calling both my mom at home and my dad at the office and spending probablt 60 dollars on phone card time and the decision that I would stay in level 3 made... and now this, I mean, do they think I didn`t try hard enough? I don`t know, I feel like such a loser sometimes. I think I disappointed my posse just a little and Christy`s rage, while for different reasons, was still quite scary. Especially because she doesn`t have rgae often and never at me. I`m not sure I haven`t disappointed her, I don`t think so but that would be the one person here I would want to keep happy. And while she is right that her opinion should count more I have to think about what other people think because I know she will still love me even if I am a moron - as long as I am still a loveable moron and don`t turn into the things that she hates about Crysta.
On the boy front, there is no boy, a bit disappointing because I was hoping to try out a bit of my semi found self confidence but apparently it isn`t that high yet. Because I am not confident in my body I can`t really outright flirt and if I don`t like my body, guys can`t and grr! If I was weight appropriate I would be able to just go for it. Most guys here having interested me though. Gavin, when he came early I thought maybe I could try something there but now I never see him and I am sure he wouldn`t be attracted to me anyway so that is a no. He does like pirates though and I think these are important things for me to know I like in a boy. Heh. Everyone should like pirates - and he loves ankou too. Next is Casey (what are the odds of having two Caseys in a small program like this?), little Casey as we call him to distinguish him from the other Casey is a total cutie, very nice and pocket sized (heh, like Stone). Anyway, he is a nice person and I wish I saw him more, just as a friend even (the rumour amoung the girls is that he is gay, but that is just conjecture and you never know unless you are told). Right, so that is about it - although I do know a guy who works at a basketball jersey outlet in Viva City and he remembered me because he grinned at me but maybe that was nothing. Heh. I am so pathetic.
On the buying front I have a Kakashi action figure (still in the packaging), some capsule toys (of the plush variety), the Stand Alone Complex CD, Wolf`s Rain CD, volumes 9-11 of Fruits Basket (12 comes out in a couple weeks, the suspense is killing me!), some GetBackers, Naruto, and a new series I am trying out. Christy found a Naruto Hidden Leaf ninja forehead protector, because she rocks. She wears it when we study and looks quite powerful.
And I am hungry now so I am going to make Christy walk to Lawson with me.
Today was so draining I can`t even stand it. I can`t even rant here, I have to email my parents and give them the drama so they know I am alive and what is on the up and up but I should really get these horoscopes in advance.
You're in the right place with the right equipment. The outcome isn't certain, but your prospects look good. Add a touch of caution to your already potent mix of strengths.
The short version, in case I never write it down and for some reason the shame and pain fades from memory. I placed into level 2 and was highly upset, so much I cried (but not in front of sensei). It wouldn`t have upset me as much as it did but Dr. Boles still doesn`t have my paper, may SVSU email rot in hell, so I was very upset, not knowing what to do with that issue and Japanese was just too much. I did get into 3 on trial basis and I can change to level 2 if it is too hard, but I don`t think it will be - I mean, the first 6 lessons are the same and language should be challenging. I mean, yes I will have to study hard and maybe miss some stuff, trips, whatever that the more jouzu students will go on but level two is Endo sensei`s blue books and would be a wonderful review, being in that class wouldn`t kill me and it would give me a really really firm basis BUT it would still be review. I need to keeo moving on with Japanese and take some higher level economics and you know...GET OUT OF SCHOOL. And become a stupid social scientist because that what an economics degree makes you; the universal laws of supply and demand, blah - You're in the right place with the right equipment. The outcome isn't certain, but your prospects look good. Add a touch of caution to your already potent mix of strengths. it is kinda bullshit when you think about it. This isn`t the short version anymore.
Whatever, sigh. I went running, Lauren (who is a distance runner and ichinensei) and her roommate, Katie (who is ninensei and MSU gakusei) went with me, I took them to the shrine, probably over 2 but under 3 miles - I dunno. We then walked up the steps, although Lauren probably could have run, then we ran back, and I fell down trying to avoid the herd of high school boys on bikes taking up the whole sidewalk, my scraped left leg will probably become gangrenous and I'll die but whatever. I am beginning to get tried, crying makes me so weak. I feel like the world`s biggest loser, in all time, ever.
I don`t think anyone is aware of this besides Megan but I am running on 2 hours of sleep thanks to my own stupid self. I went to bed at 4:30 after writing the majority of my 10 page ainu paper and reading too many comics in the Penny Arcade archives, no big, I know. Buuuut, I proceed to semi wake up at 5, sleep until 6:30 where the stupidity starts, I leap out of bed brush my teeth, fash my face, throw some clothes on after I quite head check out the window, all of this takes under 5 minutes. And know you are all wondering - why? Why did she had to leap out of bed after only two hours sleep? Why is she a dumb blonde that thought it was 6:30PM? It all comes back to the coke. Mid morning I had walked to the far Lawson`s and bought an ice cream (mmm, lunch) and a liter of diet coke, I actually only wanted the 500ml one but for some reason the faraway Lawson`s only had the bigger size and over the course of the day I drank the entire liter (oh, and it came with Sasuke, bonus!). Did I mention that I only started buying coke was for the incredibly cheap ass plastic figurines that are attached to the top? Of course you can`t tell which one you are getting, it is part of the scheme - I don`t even like coke that much. Anyway the coke right, did I mention I have had no sleep but am a hyperactive machine? Wheee! Kati and I walked to the faraway Lawson`s and we got on the subject of the coke, this is when we discussed our various theories about it, finally deciding that it was special Japanese coke to make kids stay up to stay for entrance exams, this is why it was on sale when I bought it, no entrance exams at this time. We also talked about how we could bring Japanese coke to America and sell it to gamers, where no only would the super ability to not need sleep attract them but also! it is Japanese, I added that we could offer a free import game after so many cases.
I turned in my cultures paper, my ainu paper is done, the creative ainu paper still needs to be hacked down and have a contained 5 page story that makes sense. I am waiting for Christy to get her to beta both those, the 10 pager just to make sure it makes sense (I jumped a bit at the end) and the creative because I desperately need a second opinon on what content to leave in, delete, or add. The story itself is in a mess right now since I just randomly had to stop writing when class was over. Christy`s grammar skillz will improve my grade by making it more user friendly.
The newbies started arriving today, I wouldn`t have thought to call them that but Seif left a CD tacked to the wall with a message written "to the newbies". They were all jetlagged and mostly stupid in the head but they all seemed nice. Celeste arrived first, she has been in Japan five times before, including a three month homestay last summer. She has been in Japan for a couple days already but was staying with her old host family until she could come to JCMU, because she had been here a bit she wasn`t as jetlagged as the boys. Gavin from Eastern, Casey/KC/Kasey? from Oakland, Bennet from some Ohio school sounds like Whitmoore or something like that, and Jeffery, who I think is from MSU because he said he had met me before....Ummm, you did just step in the door five minutes ago right? Trying to find out about school got me "from Lansing" and a really weird look. Sorry, dude, but I was just trying to make sure that is how you know me. He just finished first year but did say he knows Borowics san. Jeffery and Bennet are both going to homestay after everyone else gets her and the homestay families come to pick up their kids. I walked with Gavin and Kasey to the close Lawson`s and watched them dart into traffic -_-, got Bennet two glasses off water because he looked like he was going to die, and stood around with Jeffery because Kakuta san`s line was busy for a bit. Hahah, that is a funny thing that happened, all the boys must have been too jetlagged to see straight because non of them read the sign about dialing 205 and getting Kakuta san, so I after it was after Kasey, when we were leaving that I thought to check to see if Kakuta san had left phone instructions by the JCMU inhouse line in the entrance and she had so yay, Kasey was able to check in after we returned from Lawson`s. After that I would just listen for the doors from the computer lab where I was pointing final touches on Cultures paper, I would introduce myself, get his name, and call Kakuta san who would come down with their key, she thanked me for helping out. It was amusing that I called her 3 times though, none of them saw the sign. And are boys going to outnumber girls this semester? We had more girls than boys for short program. It is even right now, 4 girls and 4 boys, but it is odd that only boys would show up except for Celeste.
After we sent Jaime off with her homestay dad I found out that my homestay family has little kids, and a little dog. I hope the little kid thing will be okay and not distracting and frustrating, plus little kids? That could mean my host parents could be really young, even less than 10 years wouldn`t be out of the question for little kids. But I am sure homestay will work out great, I am just happy I recieved homestay, families are limited.
The coke could talk for longer but I think I should stop now, maybe even try and sleep. Big day tomorrow (night) everyone will be here! Oh, on the way back Kati and I walked around a large truck at the edge of the road by the beach in order to avoid getting hit with an oncoming car but there was a hole, and we both fell into it, luckily it just startled us and we kept our feet but we thought it was very amusing that we could have hurt ourselves non drunk, walking back from the faraway Lawson, at 10:30 at night, by falling in a hole at the side of the road. It is not a good how I got hurt story.
I don`t like it, it is way too quiet now that the CMU kids, the UofM kids, and Sterlin` and Chris are gone. Seth and Sam are the only ones left and they are leaving tomorrow. Jaime and I are the only ones in the lab and it is just too weird, normally the lab is the most crowded, loud room in this joint. We are both writing the paper of doom which is due on the 28th, Ainu papers aren`t due until two weeks after class but he is giving a bonus if you turn them in by a week, so I have to get the other Ainu paper done and in before the 28th, as well. Besides, if I don`t get these done before summer session I am not going to give them the attention they need.
I came on to post my horoscopes from the last couple days, some of them were so very right and I want to remember them.
May 18, 2003
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
A movie or an overheard conversation makes unusual sense although it's in a foreign language. A global society grows from common human experiences. Everyone recognizes a good opportunity.
Hahah! Story of my life right now. XD
May 19, 2003
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
Aries has some duties to address with nowhere to hide. Forget about the frivolous things for now. Your first and only priority is doing your duty and then patting yourself on the back for a job well done.
Okay, so I am running a little behind on this one.
May 20, 2003
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
Don't let someone sense your weakness. Watching the clock only prolongs your discomfort. Stay grounded -- flight is definitely not a good option at this time. Get your bearings.
This works for a couple of people, mainly it was talking about Cultures though. That was a funny day.
May 23, 2003
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
Aries can justify an early quitting time. Over the last two days, you've more than made up for any previous setbacks. If you're hungry for something different, excellent times lie ahead.
Ummm, right...Maybe because that was the day I past the 5 page point on my creative paper.
May 24, 2003
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
Don't waste your magic on people who won't be moved by it. Under these Stars, you're quieter and more reflective than usual. Checks and sales slips signed today might soon take on a life of their own.
I should listen to advice like this more often, but it is so hard for me.
Right, I meant to do this eariler while it was really clear in my head but I forgot so I am doing it now. Dream recording time, because it was just THAT MESSED UP.
It started out with us [short program kids and possibly summer program too, I remember Christy and some of my posse being there] at some Sea World type place, feeding the fishies, looking at the dolphins, and then there was some insidious plot that I remember had something to do with a magic show that used the animals and it was mean and you think I would remember more about that but no. What the dream centered on was me trying to buy food for everyone. Heh, it was soooo lame! The rest of the gang [now that I think about it the big evil was very scooby doo] had been..doing something and Dr. Hammer (who is on all these fieldtrips so I guess he had to be in the dream) went to go fetch them telling me to buy food for everyone at the Mos Burger and I would get paid back later. Great, no problem. So I go in and start to order in Japanese, the whole setup is very McDonalds, but there are McDonalds in Japan, so not so weird. But then the lady asks me, "What size was that?" in English after I ordered R size fried potato. The fuck? I was so startled, she was American, black American, I hadn`t noticed, and only spoke English, I wasn`t in Japan anymore or some crap. Because after I ordered like 20 mos burgers and fried potato she wouldn`t let me pay in yen, and I didn`t have enough American money to cover that much food. It was sooo strange and I kept trying to get her to explain why I couldn`t pay in yen, I didn`t understand - I was in that place for what seemed like forever. I don`t think that related much to the second part of the dream which was lifted straight from a book or drama.
I was a being targeted by some people and I didn`t know it, and the dream ended right when I had figured out that people were trying to kill me, my baby, and my dog...well, I don`t know if they wanted to kill my dog or not but he had been traveling with me and my kid across several states and was cute. We had a truck. I am pretty sure the kid`s dad was the big love of my life but had died during my pregancy and everything at home had fallen apart because the bad guys were sabataging my life because they think I might know something about whatever my man had known about, of course I didn`t know that until the end when some guy ran into my house with a truck, naplmed everything and the kid and dog and I were running through some nasty moisture laden corn field running from the other guy who had a gun. I remembered kicking him in the balls after I had fallen and he made the classic stupid badguy move of standing over me, and my mad Tae Kwon Do skills saved me. And I don`t remember much after that. Heh.
Papers. Gragh. It sucks. They are due on the 28th, I will get them done before summer program people get here, because then I will just be screwed. The 5 page ainu creative paper is done in the sense that I have five pages, more than 5 pages unfortunatly. >.< Why must `puk have so much freaking baggage? All this back story needs to be told and I channeled stupid Tasum and he is being all wordy and badguyish. The Japanese guy hasn`t been mentioned and I don`t think I will have time to go into that angle. Sekisu talks a lot but it is from `puk`s POV so it is easy to keep her in control, I don`t know a lot of her thoughts because I am purposely not talking to her, that would fuck up my POV and give me too much to work with. Edit edit edit. Dammit! Who the hell can write a creative paper with dialogue in 5 pages?! And right now I left off in `puk`s world of flashback angst with the death and the blood and Ramon is pissed about the blood and is trying to get me to send the ainu away but dammit Ramon it is my brain and I want blood everywhere it will damn well be there! And I can`t help it if you can`t speak to the Ainu, not that you would want to you elitist bastard. I had no idea you would get so pissy about some indigenious people sharing some of your space. Grrr, no don`t, stop talking. I can`t handle you and them at the same time. Tasum, you shut up and go to your corner, this is `puk`s story, you are support so stop floating around trying to look like a bad ass kamui. Gah! This story is going to suck even MORE once I hack it down. I STILL need to do the 10 page ainu paper, which is just spitting back the info from the book and lecture, that won`t be hard at all. I`ll just babble and edit my babble.
Cultures paper was supposed to be 6 pages but he said we probably won`t be able to get it done in under 10-12, however `get it done` is rather vague because WE DON`T HAVE A TOPIC!!! Argh! He said write whatever we want but since that class was USELESS and the guy is sooo...narrowminded, it that he wants us to discuss but in the end he wants us to agree with him, we didn`t even finish reading C&S, or Lummis. I think Sheryl had the best plan, go home and take a day to reread Lummis and then write critque of Benedict using Lummis` critique. I have some notes of my own take on Lummis so that will be a good start. Blargh. The CMU kids are leaving tomorrow, Sheryl and Ju Wei left early this morning, Seth is leaving Monday, and I don`t know when Sterlin` and Chris are leaving. Jamie is going to homestay on the 26/27 there about. Kati, Jamie, and I will probably write Sunday/Monday while the lab should be pretty empty.
Whee! That was long. I haven`t blogged in a while, it feels good.
Right On Me! Thursday, May 22, 2003 12:43 a.m. Australia -
Founded as a gigantic prison colony, Australia has turned into a Mid-Level world power. Known for its wildlife and culture.
Positives:
Reformed.
Culturally Admired.
Mid-Level Power.
Renouned Flora and Fauna.
Negatives:
Founded by Criminals.
Island Nation (Isolated).
Talk Funny.
I don`t think this test is highly accurate, the seme description fits me a bit better, but my favorite test is the one were I get both seme and uke, because that fits me the best. Anyone who spends enough time with me will realize that I LOVE to take care of people, coddle, (and if more people would let me get away with/hadn`t trained it out of me) cuddle. But on the same side I also like being taken care off when I am in one of those moods, which while I can`t think of a good way to describe it, uke, in the fangirl sense, and not the literal sense of the verb, fits very well (how the hell many commas did I just use?). That more..helpless and "damsel in distress" mind set, I guess. That makes me sound girly and stupid, and to qualify that I don`t think just because a person wants to be taken care of makes them girly or stupid, they just need to find a partner that wants that. But in the majority I am attracted to a more low key person probably because I am...not. But I think that the switch of power appeals to me.
And...the fuck? I demand a retest, my sidekickcannot be more seme than me, `specially not Muraki seme, that going beyond the whole seme thing. ...Unless, that is what will happen to Tomoyo when she grows up, sure that whole sidekick/stalker to the Magical girl deal is cute when she is 10, but then they turn into Muraki. Whoo, scary.
I swear, I need to figure out how to get this things sent on time, now that I am 13 hours ahead. This was so perfect for today.
Aries
(March 21-April 19)
You can't have it all, but you can still get a lot. If you want to keep others involved, they too must be comfortable. Imagine the best instead of assuming that you're wasting your time.
Monday was Osaka day, I was there from 9-8, it was fun, and tiring, and apparently I managed to deeply offend Kati and possibly Jaime, who could just be giving me the silent treatment because Kati is her roommate and it is a show of solidary. No blows or words have actually been exchanged, but hey, I remember middle school AND I started reading "Odd Girl Out" before school ended I had had to leave it unfinished in the MSU bookstore. Ironically, I feel better about my roommate, I think it was just a mild phase of getting to know someone; I guess I can only get along with so many people at one time. This does however, just make me wish that my JPN posse and my girl would get here all the sooner. I feel like I can`t participate with the girls anymore, two outweighting one. Class was awkward enough with Kati never acknowledging I said anything and never looking at me. Of course she has to be in both the classes and Cultures in so freakin` small as it is.
Anyway, now that I have got that off my chest, Osaka. We had to be at the museum at 10 so we wanted to leave in plenty of time, so we were out to catch the bus at 7:10 (I had been up since 5:30, Chris and Sterlin` rolled out of bed 10 minutes beforehand) - the bus didn`t come. Troop back to the Center and call two taxis, one shows up, 4 of us got into that one and proceeded to wait ages for the others to show up and entertain ourselves with watching the SEA of school kids. And their exceeding short skirts. I was also highly disappointed to realize that boys` uniforms are not sexy at all, and I am also old. In anime the boys always look good in almost any style of uniform, nice chests, legs, etc. IRL, they are BOYS, young boys, no fully developed muscles in the majority of the cases, and the military style uniform isn`t flattering and the blazer one makes them look like preppy yacth boys (which is actually kinda amusing to see). Saw middle school girls at the musuem and am relieved to see that they have longer skirts.
Board train to Osaka area - 1450yen, blargh. Stand in crowded train for almost two hours, blargh. Look at cute Japanese boys, yay. Listen to rockin` Porno Graffitti, yay. Be amazed that everyone would take these little power naps - even standing up, have decided that it is a social coping mechanism to avoid having to talk to anyone. Take taxi to musuem, and have sneaking suspicion that taxi driver took the long way to rake up a bill for the gaijin (2100 total). Buy tickets using university ID and recieve student discount, Mwahahahah (in Japan the student discount stops at high school). Hours we managed to be late: 3/4. And we were starving! In no condition to wander a musuem, even the people that ate McDonald`s before we left Hikone were starving (they just made me nauseous, even looking at the eat that grease in the morning, I had a soy bar at 6).
So the musuem itself, The Osaka Museum of Ethnology, is on par with the Smithsonian. The exhbit was a bit small but very informative, Sheryl and Jaime were pissed because they really didn`t want to be there (them not being in the class, they just followed us to Osaka), and were a bit disagreeable. But we were really really hungry so we did the Ainu thing, I toured the rest of that floor and we jetted for some food. Ju Wei, Jessica, Sterlin`, and I decided to eat in the museum restaurant, everyone else said it was too expensive (but still ended up eating inside, at some food court or something, whatever), I had some very nice kitsune soba with rice and fish for 900 yen.
Cute elementary boys in their short shorts would say "hello" to us and we would respond with "Hello" or "Konnichiwa" depending on who was talking. Blondie Jessica talked to a few toddlers once we were back on the grounds (very beautiful flower gardens).
Our group was separate from the CMU group almost the whole time and leaving was no different, but the boys were hungry again and the girls that hadn`t eaten with us were too and we ended up seeing them in a Pizza Hut in...someplace in Osaka by the musuem, it was by the eki. I didn`t eat but I bought a cute kogepan kychain plush at the store nextdoor while Ju Wei and I were buying drinks.
Again we left, Kati, Seth, and I went to the bookstore I had seen on the way to Pizza Hut. I bought the latest three of Fruits Basket, the issue of Bronze that was out (a later one), and a random Cobalt novel with furigana. I think I may have to order in the Mirage of Blaze novels. I was going to ask the clerk but figured a store in Osaka wouldn`t help much. They did have an autographed drawing of Ban and Ginji, in the anime style, not the manga style (where they look about 12...including Akabane, which is amusing/scary). Kati bought Bronze too, plus some shoujo titles and what I think was yaoi. By this time she had begun speaking to me in short cold sentences. Too bad, I think she might be a yaoi fan. When Christy gets here maybe they will be friends, I hope as my roommate and friend they don`t try and brush her off as well, that would piss me off. (A day before Osaka they asked if she was my best friend and stuff, I don`t know if this was some premediated plot or just something I did on that trip). Although I think it might be because I didn`t like Amanda at first, and they thought I was being harsh, because I even said that I didn`t like her as well as I should because she reminds me of the things I don`t like about myself.
We then took the train to Osaka proper to meet with the rest of the group who had gone while we were in the bookstore. Wow, Osaka is HUGE, and busy! It was great! I like small towns but I don`t think I would ever stay for lanaguage/study aboard purposes in a small town again. You have so much more exposure in a city. Osaka is great because you can find things for cheap there! Hikone only has small stores without selection and it is expensive, depedning. Osaka has large clearance type stores. I may buy a digital camera when we go back, although Kati tried and her card was denied (they were doing credit check for almost a half hour). We then took a train to denden town for cheap electronics but ended up just shopping in a huge...not open air market but some what like that. Many many store in a block grid opening to the same covered street. And guess what?! I found a crepe vendor (who was cute). Mmm, crepes, I LOVE crepe vendors, they have to be the best thing about cities. I didn`t get matcha ice cream at 31 because I knew I would find a crepe vendor, and I did. I got a chocolate syrup, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream crepe, so yummy. I want the double ichigo one next time, I really don`t care for whipped cream in crepe. I later bought an anman at a dumpling store and that was dinner, crepe and a dumpling with red beans inside, it was a good dinner (and I ate the other anman for breakfast).
We ended up leaving Osaka near 8 and got back to Hikone at 10, we got to have seats for about half the ride. I wanted to walk back because I am a cheap ass when it comes to things that don`t entertain me, and so did Jaime and Kati and Seth did to because the maximum you can fit in a taxi is gonin and that is if you are lucky. It took about 45 minutes to walk back (I think, I wasn`t keeping track). And it was a nice stretch for my legs that had stiffened up on the train after walking all day and carrying a heavy backback (note: never take 10 pound text book on fieldtip again). Jaime and Kati were moving their short little legs because they wouldn`t let Seth be ahead of them, so we power walked, which was good. Then I did pilates, took a lukewarm shower, and crashed. I actually had to wait for my alarm to go off at 6:30 to get up. Oh! And I made sushi for the first time today! I made cucumber rolls for lunch with miso and tea.
I also think I am dying. My coldness is so complete that while I was warm in Osaka when it was 70 and direct sun, I am cold all the time in Hikone. I thought maybe it was the fact that we are right next to the lake and everyone feels cold when it rains. But today it was almost 70 and I was just..not cold, but not warm either. Everyone was stripping down to Tshirts in Cultures and fanning themselves, I took of my jacket, but ended up putting it back on. My people will have to come and tell me if I look like I am dying, they will have comparison unlike people here. I look the same to me.
Oh yeah, and traveling sucks because you have to spend money, even though it isn`t a lot when you are spliting taxis it feels like a lot, and it sucks. But Osaka was still good.
I was going to write this in email so everyone could hear but really, I don`t think everyone cares, and my last email was much too long I think. So I`ll write in here and then filter it to send to my parents.
Friday class started and I have Ainu from 8:30-12:30 and Cultures and Critics from 1:30-5:30. Ainu is taught by a CMU prof Dr. Hammer, who is a gaijin that also teaches first year Japanese at CMU - Ha! You know a college is poor when a gaijin has to teach Japanese. All the CMU kids are beginning to get on my nerves, just because they are all CMU ichinensei but try and act cool. As far as I can tell they only can read, and barely speak. I am probably blowing it out of proportion because I am a little miffed at my roommate for a few things (including not correcting me when I was calling her Andrea and not Amanda - -, if you introduce yourself in the middle of the night can you please just correct me when I misheard it and call you Andrea for THREE DAYS). Then there is CMU Jessica who is a sweetie and not a Japanese student and so was not allowed to go to Kyoto with the CMU kids and there prof. because they were going there to practice their Japanese or some bullshit like that. The CMU kids payed a different fee because they are traveling some other places together, but Jessica said she would pay, even extra. So I am pissed on her behalf, that is just beyond rude. So Ainu class is large (14) and seems interesting. Cultures class is with SVU Dr. Boles, and very small (5). Kati (no e) (MSU), Steve (CMU), and myself are taking both classes, Sheryl (Vanderbilt) and Jaime (UoVirgina) are joining us. Dr. Boles is a excitable, standard professor look, probably younger than he looks. I have a feeling as long as we do the reading and argue with him this class will be fine.
Hammer decided to have our papers merged into one 10 page and it isn`t due until two weeks after the class is over. Plus, final exam (probably T/F), and a creative paper from the prespective of the Ainu, he has told us he has to idea how to grade creative papers, so I think all we need to do is entertain him with factual basis - I am so going to kick this thing`s ass. Christy - expect beta duties. ^^;
Dr. Boles cut down the work a lot when he realized we only had two weeks of class. Only one paper 6 pages in length. Sweet. Despite his annoying habit of trying to confuse the hell out of us before he will teach us a new thing, the small class size and his nature will make this class entertaining, at the very least.
So, the CMU kids minus Jessie left at 2:30 on Friday, so Steve left Cultures and it was just us four girls for the rest of the time. After when we found poor Jessie we included her in our evening plans...Karaoke. Heh, only here a week and already it got me. Sterlin` had asked us to go to the bars with them in Kyoto but we were leery of our first time there being stuck out all night in the bar, with expensive cover, and not being able to come home until morning when the trains start again. However, Seth stayed and escorted us 6 girls (Jaime, Kati, Sheryl, Ju Wei, Jessica, and I) to Karaoke when was a lot of fun! And I can`t even sing, at all. We were there for three hours and Seth wasn`t kidding when he said time would fly! It was amusing too because a couple times people would come stare into our booth just to watch the gaijin do karaoke. Afterwards Seth even paid for us, saying it would have been a lot more if he had gone clubbing. He is so nice, also, because I always notice these things, he has a sweet sweet machine, the new slim titanium G4; man, it is nice. Staying out until 2AM will cure my jetlag I think. I slept until 8 this morning and that is even too late since I have class at 8:30. I was sooo cold though, everyone was hot in the booth and turned on the AC but I was freezing once they did that! And biking back in the dark, brrr! At least no one fell into a rice paddy. ^^;
On Monday we have an Ainu fieldtrip to Osaka to a musuem, we were given premission to miss Cultures and Jaime and Sheryl got premission too, so they will come with us on the train at least. Class is so sweet right now, *Oh, you want to go to Osaka? Sure, no class on Monday.* Dr. Boles was going to take them to Hikone Castle but we said we wanted to go Saturday and would he like to come with us.
Hikone Castle was very interesting, we took a ton of pictures. Also, a man told Jessica, that it is a national treasure because there are only 4 castles in Japan from that period left after the war and Meiji. Heh, we also have pictures of us with Japanese school girls, their uniforms looked jr high. So Dr. Boles and Jessica took like 20 pictures of us with everyones` cameras. Then the girls wanted their pictures with Jessica (who is a cute natural blonde) and Dr. Boles because he was gaijin man. Apparently kids don`t say *BaiBai* anymore, they say *ShiYu*. It was cute. But they are schoolgirls, what else can they be?
After Hikone Castle we went to the Plaza for grocery shopping. I also bought my own chopsticks and tea mug because the wooden chopsticks provided look a bit sketchy and possibly housing bacteria and I wanted a big tea mug I can carry around with me. I have also lost my right to bitch about how cold I am because I didn`t buy a sweater. A) The summer fashions were in so no sweaters B)The one I did find was for ojiisan and would have been tight and C) Clothes are freaking expensive in Japan! I was NOT spending almost 6000yen for a sweater that could be used for cooler things. To prove this I went and spent 1700 on manga, heh. GetBackers 1-3 and something that looks yaoiish. Don`t know as I haven`t read anything, I wanted to get some schoolwork done and then came out here. And that was my day from 10 to 8, it was very full. Yay.
Heh, I am amused, being outside of America and on a Japanese computer I just encountered my very first unique popup. It wanted to tell me how I could obtain a greencard and work in Japan if only I would click on it. And I am still cold, the rain has stopped but the wind is going like no one`s business. I should go feed my neopets.
Hahah, I'm with the virturous pagans, this is what I get for believing both in God and several "pagan" religions. I love the Inferno, and hanging with the VP isn't bad, although their world seemed pretty blah, if I remember correctly.
GetBackers 26. Huh. May I first say a hardy "What the Fuck?" here. I think GetBackers got hijacked by the yaoi fans after the Makubex story arc and they have proceeded to write a yaoi show about the GetBacker boys. Maybe it was just the fact that episode 26 was the hot spring episode. OMG, does every anime now have to have an onsen episode? I giggled when I saw the episode preview but nothing compared me for the hot man chests...and Kazuki's bishonen back . ^______^ And then there is the weirdness of Ban wearing a shower cap, Kazuki wearing his hair up (not so strange with the water and all) and wearing his towel like a woman. And dear God, for my sanity we will not discuss Jubei's behaviour, it makes the veins in my temple throb.
Even the new opening is yaoitastic - for the love of mansex they even pair everyone off for you, lest you strain your brain deciding who should be with whom. Start off with Ban and Ginji, each getting screen time to themselves, then Shido and Emishi grimacing/grinning on split screen, next Jubei and Kazu looking sexy on their spilt screen. Then some love that shouldn't be named with Himiko and some guy that may or may not be Akabane, back to back, with Ban voyouring in the background. Heh. (on an aside, even though Christy will disown me, I can see Akabane and Himiko having sex, I think they even like each other). The more I look the more I think it isn't Akabane though, maybe it is her brother, although it looks so sexual : P. Next are the ladies, for everyone that thought Heven and Paul were having the sex, nonono, it is Heven and Natsumi chan rounding out our group with the femslash. Then Akabane and Gin fighting and a bunch of group shots of Madoka, cross dressing lady, Sakura, and Makubex with a hawk and then the shadowy evil of this arc, they look like Babylon City people, maybe Temishini (or something like that)...and young Ban? huh, dunno. The opening theme also sounded really Weiss to me, it was amusing.
The new ending is just full of centerfold spreads, heheh. Sexy Raite Ginji, Shido and O.o holy sexy! Madoka spread over his lap - IS that Madoka?! Geez. If it is, she blossomed, and if it isn't who the heck is she and why is Shido cheating on Madoka...and Emishi.
We are taking this break because the fact that I can see them all together is hurting my brain, Emishi and Madoka would probably like each other. ...I feel I should get over my growing obsession with faithful polygamy, but dammit, it is so much fun to picture the dynamics.
Next is such a beautiful picture of Kazuki and Jubei wrapped around each other - you can't even tell me these two aren't suposed to be together. Ban time, crying large eyes Himiko, Akabane tying Makubex up with Yaoi Ribbon(TM), Ban against someone's chest (older brother again?), sexy Raite Ginji, and "I love you so much, always"! ending shot of Ban and Ginji. Another way you can tell that the fangirls have hijacked the show is that although Ginji is one tiny centimeter taller than Ban; Ban is drawn looking down on Ginji, this reminds me of American Heero/Duo art or Japanese Duo/Heero art, two boys of the same height but in order to have sex one of them must be enlarged. Hahah. Although Ban is coming from an angle, I think he just stretched himself in order to wrap that arm around Ginji's shoulders...Because it is all about the angle...XD
Mrr, I need to study, I shouldn't have watched TV, it has fucked with my brain tonight. I mean, Spike and Andrew were discussing how to make a blooming onion! Surely a sign of the end of time. At least Xander is back home, although Christy's tainted love will probably cause him to burst into flames. I can only be glad her curse doesn't seem to apply to people she cares about in RL. I think this entry is suitibly long and babblerific. Going now.
And yes, I am ignoring you. If I start talking I won't stop, more so than usual. ^^ Later, I promise. Only two more to go.
I wonder if I could go to hell for reading smut and reciting The Lord's Prayer at the same time? Not that the smut made me start to pray, I was just seeing how much I remembered. Then I had to go look it up and got all...sorta wigged by how many different versions there are. The real modern ones just sound bad. I dunno, it isn't like I pray in old school English or translated from Aremaic or Hebrew English, but something about set prayers shouldn't be updated, ya know? It sounds very blah.
I've been struck with the Original Character Slash bug and have been reading a bunch of boys that live in LJ. Ramon wants a story, he might need a past for that to happen, he says if I actually would talk to him anymore maybe I would find one. I think he is just mad that we have seen a couple Ramon's in OCS but they have all been pretty boy one night stands with zero personality. I think that girl he talks to is named Cindy, she now sports a pink streak near the front of her curly dark brown hair, however, Ramon didn't say anything so I think it has always been there. Fred doesn't actually have a real name, he doesn't talk to me much, and never looks me in the eye (if that made sense), and has a habit of squatting and rocking on his heels while picking at his hands or shoelaces. Ramon refers to him as a puppy, in his head, so that doesn't help. Ramon just boldly stated that he wants to get laid, so my universe better start expanding. Also, since Ramon moved out of my dorm room (Shaw) they have been at a lake and a cabin (good sized), mainly Ramon is out on the deck feet dangling over the water. I have no idea where they are.
Alice Lousie has given birth to 4 kittens in my parent's closet, on my mom's clothes. I can't wait to get home and see them. Mom (whom I have talked to like 7 times today) says there are two black and white ones (like Alice Lousie), one black one, and one orangy one. I have a dentist appointment on Monday morning so I am going home tonight, going back to school for my exams (first one is Stats 8-10PM monday night) and coming home again Thursday afternoon. Ee, sorry mom. ^^;
Today was non stop busy busy - unless you count the 10 minutes I fell asleep in the bookstore sitting upright, legs crossed, and book in hand. ^^; I had my last Marketing exam - boy next to me smelled of stale cigarette smoke and when ever he would sneeze (which he did a lot) I would get overwhelming smoker's breath. Ugh. Boy behind me had a wet flu of death sounding cough. So no luck with the boys today. ^^; Then had to read my haiku sakubun, did not have time to memorize it, but no one else seemed to be even attempting to beyond the old college try, so I don't feel too badly, this being the first Japanese speech type dealie that I haven't memorized. I reaaaally wish I had remembered we had to read these aloud when I had to rewrite my lame tanka after I lost my JPN binder. So EMBARRASSING! I did feel happy that I picked out the best haiku of the lot (apparently), one girl had a pretty blah sakubun but when she read her haiku, I was like, "Wah?" It was awesome. I can't remember it, and it had the ohisama theme a lot of them did but it wasn't just a poem about the seasons in 5-7-5. It was real Haiku. It had the tempo, the rhythem, it was excellent. I wrote on her comments "Sutto san no hiakuwa totemo kirei to omou!" And then apparently Sakakibara sensei had given our poems to some Japanese lady in the lit department or maybe Asian Studies, and Sutto san's haiku won the best overall certificate. See? I remember something about poetry. ^^ And I am totally guessing on this girl's name, I don't know her at all, and I am just trying to picture her katakana.
Next up was Tae Kwon Do final, te gok (probably horribly butchered spelling) number one for our yellow belt. Sarah and I both passed. Ron said he loved my focus and it was really outstanding and he hoped we would be continuing with Tae Kwon Do. Having a yellow belt makes me feel more powerful, like I actually accomplished something. Squee. Oh, and on the way back home we saw the ducks mating. Dude. You never see that, our ducks usually don't go for the public sex. It was like Discovery Channel. Ugh, now I have that silly Beastie Boys' song in my head, and that song is only fun the first time you hear it.
And I didn't sleep last night, I drank no caffeine, I did excersize to give me some energy, and I napped from 6AM-7:40AM. Oh, and I haven't eaten since breakfast at 8:30, a little odd.
Every day now I have been screeching "What was I thinking?" Whenever I dwell that I will be in Japan in one week and 4 days combined with the fact that I get out of school on the 1st and leave on the 5th. "What the hell was I thinking?!" AAaaahhh!!
Where to start, where to start. This is what happens when you don't post anything in forever. You get all in withdrawl and realize that every fun detail of your life is relavent to be put in your blog. Eh, Christy's the only one that reads this on a regular basis anyway. And if I could scare her away with my insane babble it would have happened ages ago. *g*
To compliement by squirrel opening I shall start with the squirrel episode this morning. This morning when I was walking to Japanese, I fed some squirrels, it was great fun and contray to Bell san's opinon that they probably were rabid, I think they were just happy to partake of my slightly smashed from- being in my bookbag for weeks on end- peanut butter granola bar. The first squirrel I fed was kinda freaky. I saw one in the cool morning dewy grass and it was sooo picturesque and lovely that I said, "Hey, I think I have a smushed granola bar I will probably never eat in my backpack, I should feed that squirrel." But, oops, don't want to scare him, so I stopped about 15 feet away from him after the squirrel and I watched each other for a bit and reached into my pack and pulled out the granola bar. Now, I probably will not use words well enough to give you a picture that does justice to this moment, but I shall try. Granola bar in hand I straigten and swing my pack back over my shoulder and then start to walk slowly towards the squirrel - that was the plan anyway. It turned out to be unnecessary. I straigtened, turned, looked up, and three pounds of squirrel were hurtling towards me at maximum squirrel speed. I managed a shuffling half step that didn't move me in any difinite direction since my body and brain could not decide whether to move forward to met the squirrel or morph into a UofM girl and run screaming in the opposite direction from this obviously demented woodland...campus creature. I also was having very unhelpful mental images of giant squrriels cum venus fly traps screaming, "FEED ME!!" in a deep and menacing voice.
At this point the squirrel is dancing across my shoes and pant cuffs, begging for food but still darting away from me at times. I told him he was lucky I didn't want to hurt him and felt I shouldn't encourage his association of human and food, but figured since he was obviously campus born and raised he was unlikely to ever leave and die in lonely and harsh woods. So I broke off three pieces of granola and he went to town, very cute. There was another squirrel before I made it to Wells, but that story isn't as entertaining and I have already talked enough of the squirrels for today. And...I think I will post this and maybe talk about two other things on my mind later. Oh, and I will archive before I post this. That will be good.
