First, need to remember to put Karla up here.

So, seiyuu stalking is coming along nicely. It brought me to this: Waterboys Official Site and this: Seiyuu pictures. I highly recommend the Seki pictures, as well as the Koyasu pictures as they are dressed up like their Weiss (I think?) characters.

Really, really, really want to go to Japan or anywhere for that matter. Hope hope hope that I will have the time/money/energy to go. It will be fun to have a group trip as the farthest I have gone with the two of you would probably be Boston... and that's not really much to brag about.

Rewatched Waterboys, this time with Jenn, MJ, and Aimee. Aimee knows Japanese. Aimee translates Japanese for Candy. Candy is happy. :)
Looking back at it, I realized how much I missed the first-time around, like the logo on that guys shirt. Satome's glances at the Afro dude (should learn his name). The part where Satome switches with that guy during the routine. It was as cute and funny as the first-time.

Excuse me while I go nuts:

Supplementals are DONE!!!!!

Listened to the Cool E songs I dled yesterday. There was one that sounded all too much like a rap. hehehe Sakuno's voice is still as grating as it could possibly be. Why oh why does she have to whine like that??? Karupin has a guest appearance. :-) If I like Ryoma for any reason other than his snarkiness, it's the cat.

Still think that the voice messages are adorable!

Moriyama Eiji and Tsuda Kenjiro!!! Thank you to Pikun for the information. Damn I wish I were in Japan, because I want to see so much there. It's all because of that musical, I swear. hehehe
Seriously, I think I'm shifting from anime obsession to seiyuu obsession. (Can you hear Sarah groaning? :-P ) Seiyuu stalking is fun. Oh yes, found Tsuda Ken website and Hoshi Soichiro (Gakuto's seiyuu) site.
I think we are having a Waterboys showing this weekend? *hopeful* and even if we have to go without subtitles, Aimee can translate!

Have to vent a little. I warned you. Don't keep reading if you don't want to hear me rant...
So I've been working for campus police since my first year. I've been at this position for 2 years now and am on my 3rd. The chief is a bit, um, incompetent. She doesn't really understand what her workers actually do. Anyway, a lot of supervisors graduated last year so of course this year, they had to hire new ones. She went ahead and hired like 6 new supervisors... which was the number of supervisors in total last year. Now we have maybe 10.
The problem is, the people who were promoted are all people who worked as escort drivers. Yet they were hired to be the supervisors of different positions, jobs they have never done and don't know how to do. There were three seniors who have been guards for 2 years, yet none of us were even asked to take over as the supervisor.
I saw the supervisor from last year and chatted with her for a little while. Apparently, there was a list of guards who were interested in supervising, but the chief did not bother to look at that at all. Instead, the jobs were given to people who don't know what to do. The old supervisor (who was competent) asked who trained the new supervisors.... We couldn't figure it out since she was the person in charge of the position for three years and none of the returning supervisors had ever done the job.
The most ironic part, I get an email from the new supervisor asking me if I needed training..... uh, I don't need to be trained since I've done this job for 2 years.... maybe you should get trained?
Yeah, I just needed to vent, especially because the supervisor was supposed to pick up the keys from me and drop me off, but I waited outside for 10 minutes and she didn't show up. I finally just walked the keys back and walked back to my room. It's really wrong that I didn't get back unti 12:30 when I live five minutes away from where I work.

Words to make me happy:
Checking Helpdesk logs today to see how they were doing with the printer in MF and saw the words
"New printer ordered"
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So excited! New printer in the lab! Hopefully one that works! No more jams, no more crumbly paper, no more me sticking my hands inside a freaking hot printer because there's a little piece of paper stuck inside!
Okay, so those problems won't be completely gone, but they'll be less often!!!

I am a dork, but a happy dork with lots of cute stuff. Just downloaded ALL of the voice messages for the TeniPuri "Best of..." series. Also finally downloaded Akutsu's song, a complete version of Happy X2 Day, the Cool E songs I've missed, and Tenipuri Radio 24!!
I just have to say, Moriyama Eiji's voice message is very very cute. He interviews Shinji who mumbles a lot. It's very cute. So is Duckie and Hannah's. There's a match in there; it's adorable! I also like Oishi's voice message, in which Kondou Takayuki (or TK as he called himself back in a past TeniPuri Radio) does a bunch of voices. Fuji's had Kaida Yuki doing her Yumiko voice before launching into Syusuke's part. Others were cute too, but I can't remember them right now as my head is spinning.
TeniPuri Radio 24 is cute. Both Tachibana's seiyuu and Shinji's seiyuu (henceforth referred to as Eiji) were very cute. I like the Pinpoint Smash corner, though I have no idea what they were saying. It's just cute to hear their "no"s... There was a question about Momo to Eiji, which I'm guessing was referring to the musical.
Wish I knew Japanese because at one point one of them (I think it was Eiji) was talking about something, and the phrase "Oh baby" was used. I wonder what that's about. I think it's an ad for a performance or something, but all I understood was a bunch of numbers. I just want to know what it's about because well, what would deserve that phrase? But then again, Kaidoh's song had the phrase "I want to be a naughty boy, naughty boy"....
Other parts of the show, Tezuka sends Tachibana a message on his phone like he does to Atobe. Message set to the same music as Atobe's. Tachibana's like "Tachibana-kun??" Don't know what the rest of it was, but Tachibana did not want to let Shinji know who had sent him the message.

Enough PoT for now. Save some for another day.

I swear, every time I say I'm getting close to being done, I get farther away from it. Found out that I had indeed gotten a supplemental from the forgotten school, but it was sent to my home, not here. No one bothered to tell me that I had gotten mail, even though I asked them to, and even though they had opened it. grr.

Humidity is eeeeevvvvviiiiiilllll. :( I don't like feeling sticky all the time.
Humidity makes me feel bleh. Today Chris walked by when I was on duty at MF and asked how I was. All I could do was stare for a second and go "uhhh..." Then he told me I looked stressed. (I really needed to hear that.)

I was having a bit of trouble understanding what you meant but then I remembered that Scrabble game. Wow people frighten me with their uber-competitiveness. We must play games if you come visit.

Reasons Candy should not be a surgeon:
I had a dissection lab today. Working on a nice-sized shark (~2.5 ft long).
We were supposed to remove a piece of skin (hard to cut through) to look at the muscle, so I did. Reason no. 1: I was being very slow and careful. Really slow. As in if I were a surgeon, you'd have a 10-hr appendectomy slow. The instructor came by and showed me how I was supposed to be doing it, which was a LOT faster.

So I started doing things the fast way. Reason no. 2: I am less careful when I go fast. So if you'd were my patient and you did not want a 10 hour appendectomy, you had better be prepared for scars or weird pain from me accidentally cutting your muscle.

Some of the muscle really stuck to the skin, so it was hard to get off. Reason no. 3: Candy starts using force when she gets frustrated. This is a correlate of 2 (and apparently I start referring to myself in the 3rd person). I started grabbing the skin and just pulling it off instead of using the scalpel to scrap it off.

The shark was pretty long and hard so it was hard to manuever. Reason no. 4: I am not too aware of the surroundings when I focus on one thing. I was trying to position the shark and hold his head so that I could cut the right areas. Then I realized my finger was in the shark's eye socket. I also realized I had probably squished his eye earlier because it looked slightly deflated compared to when I first started.

Reason no. 5: I get frustrated and indifferent when hot. It was really hot today, especially in our paper lab coats. I'm sure I heard some cracking and crunching sounds when I moved the shark. However, I did not care, as long as the damned thing moved.

It's a good thing the shark was dead.

Cleaned out my computer, it is now up to a whopping 1.25GB! Okay, so that's little compared to most, but when you add in the fact that my little notebook is 6, going on 7, years old, it ain't bad at all.

I hope you feel better. And I hope your room quiets down.

Finally got my ATM card. I can finally get some cash and deposit my checks! woohoo!

Must be my advanced old age, I just opened FC to write a email to my boss, but after checking on all the conferences with red flags, I closed it without writing the email.

I hope the person who did that on Jen's blog did it accidentally and not on purpose. Because that's just mean.

I am an idiot. I-DI-OT. I completely forgot about this one school I applied to until today. Well, probably because I haven't heard anything from them, so maybe it wasn't so bad that I forgot. Before I was just forgetful. Now I'm forgetful and rejected (or at least I will be unless they decide to okay me for the supplemental).
I just wish I knew whether I had requested a rec letter for the school or not.
Idiot.

Went to Sasuga and TokyoKid today. LOTS of PoT stuff in there now! What a difference 3 months make! Before, there was NO PoT stuff at all, and now they have the figurines, bags, cards, and lots of goodies. Still no CDs though. Saw tons of things I wanted, but luckily did not have the cash for.

One more app down (just need to print it out and read it over again). Two more to go. I have to give one of them an "autobiographical sketch". How vague.

Waterboys! That was a cuuuute movie and very funny. And I was wrong, I don't think Ichitaroh was in the movie, I think he was in the TV drama.
Moriyama Eiji, however, was in it as one of the basketball bullies.
Had a strange moment tonight after watching Waterboys when we were trying to figure out the cast thingy. Risa searches on Google and clicks one of the pages. Then a page with an ugly purple background comes up...
Yup, this page's ugly purple! She managed to pull up my blog, and the way I recognized it was by the background color...

Full Metal Panic 3 (or 4-5 according to the fansubbers) was so funny! Sousuke is adorably clueless.

Now for a long and more serious (really) thought:
I am pretty glad that I have so few friends that are applying for med school this year like I am. The process is long and confusing; it'd be nice to have someone going through the same thing to talk to or vent with. However, I know I can be pretty competitive when I really want to, but I'm usually too lazy to be competitive. I do actually know one girl who is also applying. She is also from California, so we are applying to a lot of the same schools. We don't know each other's records or anything, and we don't go around asking each other for her MCAT scores or GPA. But the competitiveness seems to be there. I think more in her part than mine, but it might be that I can't see it in myself.
So in the application process, you send in the primary, which is the AMCAS. Then depending on the school, you either get a supplemental automatically or you have to go through an inital review. If they think you have a chance of getting in, you are approved for a supplemental. This is the case for the UCs, to which the both of us have applied.
Thursday night she saw me when I was putting my application for one of the UCs together. So, it was stupid of me to be doing this in public, but I need to print it out and I was in that lab anyway. But she saw it, and we started talking about the supplementals. Basically she was telling me about how she hasn't received supplementals from the school I was working on and some others.
I just dread that awkwardness. I actually am convinced that her application has been processed later than mine because for another UC, I also received the supplemental before she did. I don't like having to reassure her that it's not that she didn't pass the initial review but that it might just be that the school is slow. On the other hand, I don't know that for sure, so I can't say something as insincere as "I'm sure you'll get it soon". I think that there is a slight bit of resentment on her part, not necessarily directed at me, maybe at the school or maybe at herself. It just made me really glad that no one else is applying. I would like to think that among closer friends we could be supportive, but the stress do strange things. Arg, I wish it were all over soon.

My traveling bookmarks:

Blogs:
Aliditz
Gloria
Koji
Mako
Mme. X
Rachel
Sarah
Tam-Linh - You're not so special anymore. :-P

Archives

I have just a little too much time on my hands this summer. You must be pretty bored too to be here. Anyway, this is a way for me to stave off boredom-induced comas until I find something better to do. Other things I'm doing: watching too much TV, rewatching old episodes of PoT.

Currently obsessed with:

Fruits Basket
Hellsing
PoT

Male Anime Characters:

First Tier:
Hatori (FB) || Alucard (Hellsing) || Fuji (PoT)
(Wow, Fuji made it there with the big boys....)

Others:
Ayame, Shigure, Yuki, Kyou, Haru, Momiji (FB) || Walter, Yan Valentine *cackle* (Hellsing) || Sesshoumaru, Miroku (Inuyasha) || Oishi, Eiji, Tezuka, Ryoma [Seigaku]; Shinji, Kamio, Tachibana [Fudomine]; Yuuta, Mizuki (because I love to hate him) [St. Rudy's]; Jiroh, Atobe [Hyoutei]; Nanjiroh, Karupin (all PoT) || Vash, Wolfwood (Trigun)

Don't know why I assumed that Karupin is male.
That's it for the ones off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.

Female Anime Characters:

Current music:
80-90's HK pop
Jacky Cheung
Anita Mui
Alan Tam
Leslie Cheung
PoT Character Songs
Hellsing soundtracks
Phantom of the Opera
Les Mis