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So she sayeth...
Monday, May 21, 2001 01:05 a.m.
Ok, I'm guessing that little webage error message thingy is on my end. X_x Today Matt and I couldn't reach 3/4 of the websites we tried to get to--including blogs. But now most of them are reachable for me, but I'm getting there very very slowly. I dunno what's going on with this, but pitas went down all day today, so if I stop updating this week or reading blogs, it's because of that. o.o; I'll be back in CR on Saturday, so I'll slap one up then if not before. Hopefully before. See ya.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Push, Doggett, push!"
Sunday, May 20, 2001 12:43 a.m.
Um...what's up with all the webpages with the boxed message, "Your Domain Not Found: The requested URL was not found on this server." Is this just on my end or is this a widespread problem? Hen na koto na... o.o;
Saturday, May 19, 2001 02:05 a.m.
I hate ending my stories. I just hate it. >_< I can never think of ways to easily and cleanly wrap things up. Anyway, here I am on a Friday night trying to do just that. I should be in bed, but I just can't seem to get my story to end. Grr. I think I'm trying to accomplish too much with the piece. It's 30 pages long, double spaced of course. Anyway, I think I have somesort of an ending--good enough to hand in to conference, but I think it might be walking a fine line of sentimentality, which is a big no no. Unfortunatly thanks to all those shoujo anime I've seen, it's hard to break away. -_- Grr. Darn you Marmalade Boy and Sailor Moon.
Oh, and speaking of alcohol, I just wanted to mention in passing I've come to the conclusion that contrary to many of my friends, I'm probably a sleepy drunk. How you know that, you ask? Well, everytime I sit down and drink something alcoholic, I always get sleepy right afterward. Really sleepy. Sleepy enough to wish I was tucked in bed rather than anywhere else. Maybe it's due to the meal I just ate (I've only drank after & during meals) but still, I don't get *that* tired when I just eat a meal. o.o That said, you can imagine how much fun an inebriated Rachel would have been at ACen amongst all the happy folk. ^^; Oh, and also, before anyone concludes that I'm basing my story on recent events, I'm not. I thought up the general plot well before. However, they've helped with a few details I couldn't have known otherwise--oh, and none of them are bad things, so yeah.
I've rattled enough. The plot. My story is about two friends name Morgan (female) and Trish who are going to celebrate Trish's 21st birthday with a bang as well as their friends Kimmy, Roger, and Jonathan. (Yup, same Morgan and Jonathan, if you remember at all, Karen. o.o) Anyway, so story opens at Trista's birthday party at her house and we get to meet her dad, who we notice is an alcoholic. They make wishes and blow out candles on cupcakes. After some scene, they go back to college to eat out with their aforementioned friends and attend a party for some drinking. They go to eat. Trista gets gifts. They go back to school and head off to the party. As the story's been progressing we notice and have it pointed out that Trista's not too keen on going out and getting smashed. Morgan chalks this up to fear of getting drunk for the first time. Also, Morgan's been having vague, random flashbacks to Trista's 7th birthday and what went on there. At the party, the 5 characters meet Gabriel, a guy Morgan's been fawning over for awhile. Her wish that morning had been to get him, but he's got a girlfriend.
But wait! So after having a cold one, the 6 of them realize the party isn't that fun, so they go off to play a fun drinking game. There they get very happy and very drunk, despite Trista's half-willingness to go along with all this. So then they're drunk. After various dialouge, Gabriel kisses Morgan. Trista asks "doesn't he have a girlfriend." He did. They had broken up 3 weeks earlier. Morgan's giddy as a result and Trista takes off, very upset about something. Morgan and Jonathan follow. Out by the river that flows by campus, they find her crying and upset. They soon learn that she's upset because Morgan always gets what she wishes for, but she doesn't. Her wish has always been for her dad to stop drinking and her mother to be alive again (she died when Tris was 5). So, when Gabriel latches onto Morgan, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. To add to all that, after four months of not saying anything, Trista admits her dad is also sick with cirrosis of the liver and is probably dying from it.
At the same time we're at the river, Morgan is suddenly remembering in whole the 7th birthday party where she remembers having a dream of Trista going outside and stealing two stars. Trista then puts them in Tupperware, wishes on them, and blows them out like candles. Here's where I'm unsure of my ending. Where do I go from here? o.o; Morgan and Trish are both upset. I want it to end, but with all the crying going on, I feel as if I've become sentimental and lost any sort of real crisis. Ah...but I'll work out something. I'll blog about my new ending once I get it functioning. Wish me luck. Oh...bad thing to say considering my piece. o.o; Anyway, I need sleep.
*slaps an "owari" sign on the blog*
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "The center is hollow...hollow...hollow..." -- badly translated Utena lyric
Friday, May 18, 2001 12:10 p.m.
I'm fending off insanity with a stick. And it seems to be working. XD
Anyway, I haven't updated since Weds. in the a.m. since I've started that downward spiral into finals. A week from Saturday I'm going home. Even more frightening to me right now, is that two weeks from today I will be sitting in Japan. o_o; In other words, the nervousness is setting in. Questions like: Is anyone going to understand me? Can I manage to speak Japanese to people who aren't my teachers or friends? Am I going to get into third year? X_x I'd damn well better or I'm screwed. No third year level means no transfer credit to Knox and no 300 level credit for my major. I desperately need this credit since I'm counting on one of my advisors not coming back from Japan in time to teach the other 300 class I need. He's been there since last fall and isn't coming back until spring of 2002. However, that's still up in the air if he will or not. -_- But part of the joke (if there is one; I'm certainly not laughing) is on him since I'm probably going to be doing my senior project for my East Asian Studies major during winter term since I should (if all goes well) have three other classes I need to take during the spring. Three is basically the limit on classes per term. Trimester systems have some benefit. Anyway, luckily I know almost exactly what to study for the placment exam because the 1st and 2nd year texts for JCMU are the same ones I used at Knox. Is that not simply kickass? (Not that I didn't factor that into my selection of this program. *cough cough* ^^!)
Well, what have I been up to though? Writing. Yup. I've been working on my two fiction stories for workshop. (I WILL finish one today, dagnabit! That is the goal!) I think I'll tell you all about the story I'm writing next blog. It's about alcohol. Ooooh. I also finished a book called "Ceremony" for a quiz today, which was fairly easy. All the quizzes in that class are short and easy. For that I'm thankful. I'm thinking of skipping J-Club tonight since we're watching "Grave of the Fireflies." Not that I hate the movie--on the contrary, it's awesome--but it's that I've seen it twice, I know what happens, and it's sad. I've been depressed enough lately, and I don't need more help. I almost cried while watching "Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey" the other day. X_x; I think I miss my cats.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Spoon!" -- the Tick
Wednesday, May 16, 2001 1:10 a.m.
Karen: I'm glad I'm of some entertainment value. o_o;; Also, fear this. Straight from ANN:
TokyoPop Acquires Two TV series (2001-05-15 15:08:13)
Tokyopop has silently announced their acquisition of Saint Tail TV and Vampire Princess Miyu TV by adding it to their anime catalog. Source: islerjohn on the Anime On DVD forums
Some day I'll update my sidebar. Pooh. The day wasn't much to speak of and consisted of me racing from thing to thing wishing I could get my work done sometime soon and then me actually sitting down and doing some of it, so that is all. Oh, well I decided on my paper topic: disappearing Native American languages. Oh, well I guess Sherwood Kirly performed part of his play at the Caxton Club meeting today. That was funny and cool. And J-Table was today (which is always interesting). I still don't understand how a chibi Totoro eating a nut can be that scary though. And I've also discovered I'm a master of cookie theiving. (Although it helps when no one pays attention to you often times in the first place. It's always the unassuming, quiet ones you have to watch out for. Remember that. ^^) (...and also it really isn't excruiatingly hard when the person you steal from isn't paying attention anyway. ^^;) But, THAT is all.
Really.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Gotchabaguse!" -- one of the sisters on Elf Princess Rane
Monday, May 14, 2001 01:26 p.m.
Blip.
No more list-type items. All due to that weird feeling one (read: I) gets after unusual things happen. Not that ACen was unusual in the full sense of the word, just out of the ordinary. But yeah, I always get that feeling after I wake up and question whether that unusual thing (whatever it was) really happened to me. It always seems so long ago, but then I realize, "Hey, stupid, that happened last night." o.o Er, what an unecessary babble that was.
I talked with my sensei about my paper today--the 40 page monster I wrote on 6 Kurosawa films last term. In the end I need to fix my plethora typos, relook at various points, and chop it down to 20 pages. *choke, gag* ;_; My baby that I spent two months on, chopped to bits. oy. That will be difficult, but it's not getting done till August. That's for certain. Also, I don't think Sensei realizes exactly how into manga/anime I am. He told me that Banana Yoshimoto's books contain a lot of shoujo manga themes and such, and that I'd be surprised. I just sat there grinning to myself thinking, Suuuuure I'd be surprised. ^_^; I noticed some of them, but then again I've only read 2 of her novels, so I can't say that much. Amrita is still sitting on my shelf unread. He also mentioned today that he's looking at taking Japanese language students to visit U of I sometime in the future too meet professors and whatnot. ^^!
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "You know, no matter what happens to you, no matter where you go, just remember there are chocolate chip cookies, and they are tasty."
Sunday, May 13, 2001 11:42 p.m.
Embers of time we had
and now here I stand, lost in a memory,
I see your face and smile.
Excruiatingly tired is what I am right now, even though I did manage to get 12 hours of sleep last night. I'm back from ACen. Unfortunatly I didn't get to stay past 6 on Saturday night because one member of my returning party had too much homework to do. -_-; So I had to miss the cosplay and my second chance at karaoke. And I didn't get to say goodbye to people. So, if I didn't say so to you, "Goodbye, I had fun! See you again sometime! AnimeIowa, perhaps? :D" So, I guess I'll tell you what I did at the con, even though some of my readers were with me at the time, although partially indisposed at some times.
Friday I took my quiz early and headed out with my friend for Chicago. She made me drive halfway. And I mean that in the sense of she didn't ask if I wanted to or could. I told me flat I was going to. I don't like highway driving, and I've never done much of it before, but it actually went very well. We made it to Des Plaines and we carried stuff into her house. Then we finally drove to the hotel. I got there about 3:30 and registered. I cruised around the dealer's room for a bit, but then went to Iron Guest. XD It was a riot, and almost exactly like the show only tweaked to reflect drawing instead of cooking. Halloween was the theme. Robert deJesus (sp?) was the Iron Guest of that event and won by drawing a picture of the challenger's head cut like a jack o'lantern with a candle in his mouth. Standing in the background was a grinning Robert deJesus with a bloody knife in his hand. ^^ After that I wandered more looking for people. Hunting, like I said before. I cruised various places, finding no one. I "ate dinner" in the con suite about 7, but then on my way to somewhere I ran into Karen-tachi on their way to dinner. So then I ate with them at the Olive Garden despite attempts by a certain host to thwart the intentions of we "punk kids" as Greg termed us. After that we made our way back to the con and bopped around until the yaoi panel. Fangirls. Wow. o_o But if you thought they were bad there, then you didn't go to the Scott McNeil and Kirby Morrow panel!
After educational yaoi goodness some of us and I returned to their room to find Dom (and this girl whose name I don't think I caught) playing Bust a Groove 2. They left and the happy beverages (like my fun euphemisms? :D) appeared. They drank, I sipped and watched, which I think might have been just as fun as they were having. In order to protect the guilty, find out some highlights in my "things I learned" section. Unless you *want* me to post details. Then I'd be all to happy to fill in any blanks for folks. hee hee. :D Anyway, after awhile of that Priya left. Then Karen left. I followed. We went to Juri's room, a room party, and wandered on the first floor gathering party members until we settled on playing video games where we could find an electrical outlet. After that was breakfast at the IHOP. Then I met my Knox people, went off to shower, and returned to my people to cruise the dealer's rooms once again.
Then, of course, I got separated from them. -.- And over the next 5 hours, while I was attending events I wandered around looking for them to no avail. In all, I went to the Wendee Lee panel, back to dealer's room, the Fushigi Yuugi panel, the MegaTokyo panel, and the Scott McNeil/Kirby Morrow panel. All were great. The SM/KM panel was by far the funniest and the best. Like I said, fangirls fangirls FANGIRLS. I've never seen so much squealing and sparkling in my life! :D I guess it was well deserved too. Find me pictures of those two and tell me they aren't good, glompable targets. Anyway, they answered questions (even some inane questions) and did voices for the crowd. There was a mock battle between the two. One girl proposed to Scott, and he got up and hugged her. X_x
Then after MegaTokyo panel I wandered off and found the Knox people who told me we were leaving at 6. ;_; So I went off wandering again, and along the way I met a fellow SMUer. o.o I was not too surprised since he said he was going to be there, but it was cool to at last meet someone from SMU after 3 years of frequenting the site. We left Chicagoland a little after 6 and finally returned to Knox near 11. O_o Don't ask me how. It only takes 3.5 hours from Chicago to Knox. I was half asleep in the backseat. I think the driver 'n navigator weren't sure how to get out of Chicago and onto a highway. Then I crashed for the night.
But was this an educational event? Of course! ^^ So what did I learn? Read on for ACen-derived life lessons, observations, and general oddness.
1a. Don't let waitresses in halfway fancy restaurants see your attempts at yaoi. But if they do...
1b. Waitresses are good at ignoring the strangeness of customers as long as a big enough tip is involved. ^^;
2. Fangirls can be fairly frightening especially when they're in large numbers and cute boys doing questionable things are involved. But questionable things aren't necessarily needed. Cute boys are good enough!
3. Oreos and goldfish crackers are not a good dinner. -.-;
4. However, Italian food is. :D
5. Happy drunkeness is an understatement. Giggling bliss is not. :P
6. People pyramids are fun!
7. The phrase "It puts a fire in your belly" is no freaking lie. o.o; Just don't light any matches.
8. If the bottle says 50% alcohol, it really means that the bottle contains no less than cleaning solution you can drink without dying. X_x
9. There really are hyaku go juu ichi no yorokobi to yume. o.o
10. When Priya is doing DDR, just pay attention! :P
11. No matter where you are or what you're doing, shoes are a good thing.
12. A con hotel at 4 in the morning is just like an RPG. You can pick up party members, stay at an inn (well, until you're kicked out by security because of the noise), play mini games, etc.
13. That guy's name was Travis. :P
14. I really *can* go for 36 hours without sleep and still function relatively well.
15. But I kinda appear drunk. o.o;
16. When a fangirl walks up to a cute guy and says "Spread 'em!" she probably means his wings. (Note: I really didn't learn this at the con, but I thought of it randomly while paging through my Escaflowne doujinshi. ^_^;;)
I'll tell a bit about my new doujinshi tomorrow along with more items on the list. I'm too tired to continue now I need my bed.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "I saw this movie with Japanese people in it."
Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:27 p.m.
Why do I feel so...alone?
For some reason I think
of home.
Maybe it's because everyone's gone to ACen. I shouldn't be blogging. I should be packing my backpack and finishing my paper for tomorrow. Silly me. Well, our last fencing practice was today. It was very fun! We did this drill where we could only hit in a certain way the instructor told us before the match. That was difficult at first, but once you got used to it, it was really amusing. ^.^! Surprised to say my mom got her Mother's Day gift today in the mail. That means it took exactly 24 hours to get there. I'm impressed. o.o It was a purple T-shirt that says "Knox College" on it. I did my presentation. I can't speak de English...>.< Grr. How the hell am I gonna fair in Japan with Japanese if I can't speak my own native language without triping up all the time... But I think I did well anyway.
Blah. I've gotta get off. Thunderstorm.
Random Celestial Thought OTD:
"Matt: So then they had to eat MRI's instead."
"Me: O_o; You mean MRE's?"
"Matt: o.o Oh. Yeah. Right."
"Me: Mmm! MRI's! Yummy brain food! XD"
"Matt: :P Shut up."
Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:05 a.m.
-.- Oh so tired. I just got back from fiction workshop, so if I don't make sense, that's because I've been in class for the past 4 and a half hours. My day in a nutshell is class, homework, class. My presentation is tomorrow and I still need to gather musical instruments of the cheap, plastic, and non-traditional kind. Like pop cans. Which aren't plastic, but they'll do. Yeah. That'll get done tomorrow morning.
As to ACen, since I haven't heard from anyone since...o.o ok, I don't remember when, but here's my little plan. I leave on Friday with my friend (who is not coming to the con) for Des Plaines. I will --> meet people at the hotel <-- somewhere between --> 2 and 3 <-- in the afternoon. Someone *please* show their bright, happy face to me during that time. o.o Onegai? If not I swear I will hunt you down and follow you around making embarassing squeaky noises. XD Tabun. o.o; After I find people (or while I'm hunting you) I will do the con thing until whenever on Friday/Saturday morning. Am I not making wild assumptions that, Karen-tachi, you will not be leaving the con that night at all due to drinking? Then I will be meeting my Knox folk (all two of them...) early Saturday morning. I'll be getting my bed with them Saturday night and leaving on Sunday. Clear? As mud, ma'am! :D And if anyone wants/needs to meet me in a place other than the hotel, tell me ON THURSDAY or else I can't get directions. ^.^ Ooh, the anticipation is mounting.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "And then I woke up."
Wednesday, May 9, 2001 12:15 a.m.
Dagnabit. >.< I'm still sick. I forgot to mention I caught some sort of minor bug last Thursday. I woke up with a swollen throat and couldn't talk very well for a few hours into the day. After that I developed a cough which has been getting worse bit by tiny bit. I feel fine otherwise, but no communal bowls or cups for me this weekend. Hold me to that. Blah.
Well, I'm for certain going to ACen now! Got transport and a floor/bed. ^^ For those who didn't know already. I could kiss all of you who offered me help, but I'd infect you (and you might not like me kissing you oo;) so I nice domo arigato gozaimashita! and handshake will have to do. ^^; I can't wait to see folks and do the con. Ohoho! I'm not planning on buying a lot. I got money from state tax return a few weeks ago which is burning a hole in my pocket (er...checking account) but I'm still saving for buying things in Japan, so the spending will be kept to a minimum. Unless there are plushies. >:D
I bought my mother's Mother's Day present today. o.o A Knox T-shirt. Purple of course. The bookstore had lousy Mother's Day cards too so I got cute blank ones that I'll put my own message in. My presentation on Cin Salach is in two days. I think I'll have it done by then. I'm just not motivated to finish though. I know what I want to do, I just don't want to plan it all out on paper. I took a weapons selector test. My second choice was a scythe. ^^ Awesome. Erm...I had something else, but it's completely slipped my mind. o.o Oh well.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "You're a louse, Roger Smith." -- R. Dorothy
Monday, May 7, 2001 11:54 p.m.
This is one of the funniest music videos I have ever seen. It's the Sailor Moon one I'm referring to. XD The funny thing that a good chunk of that is true. I was actually running out of air I was laughing so hard when I first saw this. It's so detailed too, spans all 5 seasons. I linked to the site itself because I thought Karen and Kya-chan might get a kick out of the Ebichu video. ^^
Well, I think my weekend wasn't as lively as some. ^^ But it was full and unfortunatly little work was accomplished, but not much was immediately due. In fact nothing was due. It's all due in coming weeks. I envy all of you who get out of school for the summer this week. :P I'm still in school til Memorial Day weekend. Lousy trimester system. Fortunatly though my workload isn't horribly bad...yet. Not when compared to last term, at least.
So, this weekend. I went to a student play on Friday night called "Three Days of Rain." It was very good. They actually rigged the set so it would rain. ^^ So afterward I wandered (an hour late) over to J-Club movie to discover only five club members sitting in the Union basement doing absolutely nothing. O_o; Apparently our illustrious president hadn't emailed the club that he wasn't going to be there and those of us who don't see him on a daily basis had no clue what was up. So, since I was craving anime I took command (in the barest, loosest sense of the word) and brought over some of my stuff. We ended up watching the first tape of Escaflowne, and not by my request either. I didn't care since I'd obviously seen everything I brought. Someone else wanted to.
Saturday was my choir concert and also our dress rehearsal for that very concert thanks to scheduling problems with the church. It's the Galesburg Community Chorus, btw. We just hold our concerts at a church since it's got great acoustics. So our rehearsal was 1-3:30 and my parents showed up at 4:45 to take me for food and groceries. Call was at 6:45 and the concert was done by 9. We went out for Dairy Queen afterward. ^^ Yum. So, I did little other than sing all day. Sunday my fiction workshop made up our missed class from Weds. That lasted 4 and a half hours during the afternoon. I also got half invited to a birthday party 20 minutes before it started. So I dropped by that for a bit before class.
I've realized today how much ADV irks me. They're very seemingly very money hungry. I was thinking about getting the EVA DVDs when they all come out and I have money to spare, so I checked pricing and how many there are. Turns out they're only putting 3 episodes on 6 DVDs and 4 on 2 others. Am I the only one who thinks it's just silly to put no less than 4 episodes on a DVD? Putting only 2 on (like I think the way Mahou Tsukaitai! is being sold) should be a punishable offense. Luckily buy.com just kicks ass and is selling the EVA DVDs cheap(er).
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Necrophilia? You mean Nekophilia!" -- that video
Friday, May 4, 2001 03:20 p.m.
Katherine: Congrats on the Japan study abroad! I guess now Karen really will be set for anime suppliers for the year now. ^^ Which leads me to think whether I should also bring a hefty supply of blank video tapes. ^^
This is no blog.
It's Friday, right? I'm so messed up on what day it is thanks to Flunk Day. Actually, I'm usually messed up on what day it is during normal weeks. Blah. So my escapades on Weds were many. The campus was blissfully awakened over a period of 2 hours (3:00-5:30 a.m.) with shouts and screams of people who just *knew* that it would be Flunk Day. Well, I'm glad they were right because otherwise I would have had to hurt all of them. So set with three hours of interrupted sleep and a granola bar, I set out to watch all the drunk people roaming and running amok the the Quads. Again, there was a mud pit this year and it got very dirty. ^^ I didn't though. Party pooper? Maybe. But I don't like being dirty very much. Matt and I shot people, and each other, with our squirtguns. It was a really long day after that so I'll just give the highlights. We watched a bootleg copy of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" thus reminding me how much that movie kicks ass. We roamed the campus searching for things to do. We forgot that sunscreen is a necessity for preventing sunburns. >_<;;;; We sang "Sweet Dreams are Made of This" on karaoke. We ate picnic-type caf food on the Gizmo patio. We drank rather un-tasty strawberry daiquiris sans-alcohol for Matt. We just tried to stay awake. We went down the happy fun slide. ^^ Whee. We watched part of the faculty vs. Flunk Day Friars softball game. We took plenty of pictures.
Thursday was catch up day while all the while falling behind. Thank god my quiz and papers are done for Native American culture. Only two more books to go. Finals are in 3 weeks. Gah, where the heck did the year go? I still need more time to brush up on Japanese before I leave. o.o; Darn my well-meaning, lazy hide.... Anyway, today I've got fine arts galore things to do. Gotta go to the Catch (Knox's literary mag.) reception (not that I was accepted in this...or any...issue *isn't bitter :P*). Then it's dinner and a student play "Three Days of Rain." After that of course is J-Club movie/OAV/whatever. Busy night. ^^ Begin...now.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Curses. Foiled again."
Wednesday, May 2, 2001 06:22 a.m.
Well, after three hours of interrupted sleep due to three uninterupted hours (2:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m.) of people outside roaming the campus shouting it was Flunk Day, Flunk Day actually and officially began at 5:30 a.m. this morning. ^^ Now you won't have to hear about me blabbing about it anymore. Yay! Enjoy your day, folks! Bai! :D
Tuesday, May 1, 2001 10:06 p.m.
I saw you palming those little green things. ^_^; Yeah...
I'm back. Been back since Sunday night, but I've been super busy with catching up on all the work that I failed miserably to do over the weekend. I've got three things due and a quiz in my first class tomorrow and four story critiques for Fiction. I have two of the three things done or almost done. The other is reading, so I guess I can skip the last part if it comes down to it. Oy...right now it looks like I might be saved though. Everyone and their dog is saying Flunk Day is tomorrow. I'm actually hoping they're right. o.o That will put off all my assignments until Friday and Sunday.
So I went to Lynette's wedding this weekend. Stephanie and her mom were there and so everyone got to see Matt. It was a very beautiful ceremony and Lynette looked wonderful. She's still the same person we knew in high school. ^^ I'm not sure what she'll be doing now, but I'm going to write her a nice, fat letter sometime in the next month to ask her and all that. Of an interesting note, she and her now husband met at Bishop's Buffet. They both work (worked?) there. Stephanie and I, who also worked there (Stephanie for only a few weeks or months, me for a year and a half), only at a different local in CR, both had to restrain ourselves from bursting into gasps and giggling when we discovered this fact. It was during the ceremony, so we had to keep quiet. ^^ I think Lynette noticed though... ^^;;;;
Well, also on the day of the wedding, Matt and I bought water guns. We're packin' now. >:D And we also rented and watched Dogma and ate DQ ice cream. I tried in vain to get myself to do some sort of work on Saturday, but it didn't quite work. Actually, it didn't at all. Sunday we just lounged and came back to school for X-files fun. (Trapped on an oil rig with Fox Mulder? I'm game! hehe...Unless there's an alien virus roaming about...) Monday I went on a field trip for Native American culture class to Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown, IL. An interesting trip. Sad to say I was very tired during the whole thing and ended up zoning in and out of parts of the tour. The people who talked to us talked for a *long* stretch of time (over an hour each) which encouraged me to slack off in paying attention. -.-; One of my assignments that I'm doing now is to critique the tour. Lucky me. *smacks self*
Also on Monday night we had a three hour dress rehearsal for our choir concert on Saturday. It was hot and we were on our feet for almost all of that time. Needless to say after that and the 2 hours in the car driving to the museum and the four hour tour, I was a little tired and miserable after I got home for the final time. Today nothing much happened. Oh, except J-Table and my meeting with my advisor was canceled by him and then rescheduled. This was because he emailed me yesterday while I was gone asking if we could meet a half hour to 15 minutes early because he had an appointment at 2:30, the time we were supposed to meet. I signed up last Tuesday, btw... Well, I have class from 1-2:30 so I couldn't do that. I dunno, it's really not a big deal if you think about it, but it's just irksome to me to find out "the day before" you need to change things like meeting people. o_o Anywayz, enough thoughts. Ja.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Hah! 'Gorilla!' Right there!" -- Adventurers!
Friday, April 27, 2001 12:33 p.m.
Well, in three hours I'm leaving for home again. I've never gone home this much in one term before. O_o; Ok, it it's only twice, but my parents are (I think) coming over here for my concert on the 5th. I think we the choir will do very well. I really enjoy all the songs we're singing. Especially the freaky animal song. It's a fun mix of strange music and odd poetry.
I haven't done much but flit about my homework and things for a day or two. I fenced last night and as always the gym was ungodly warm and stuffy. At least they finally turned the heat off. ¬_¬ We learned how to flick last night. That's where you flick your opponent's jacket, just setting off the electrical equipment. It's fun, sneaky, difficult to do, and painful to learn. I haven't bothered to check, but I'm sure I have bruises on my shoulder now. I bruise like a grape. o_o
Among other things this weekend, Matt and I are going to buy waterguns for Flunk Day. XD For much mischief causing fun. I have a few people in mind who I'd like to get. Hehe. In other news, I'm going to be a TA next year for Japan: Art and Idea, that Japanese art history class I took in the fall. That'll be interesting. I'm not sure of all the TA's duties right now, but we'll find out soonly. I'm sort of half-regretting my decision now since there's several more classes that I want to take next year that don't fit into my schedule. On the other hand, I'm sure being a TA will look very lovely on a grad school application. ^^ The things we do to make ourselves marketable.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "What do I see here? / after midnight caresses: / dew on a petal."
Wednesday, April 25, 2001 09:00 p.m.
^.^ Hiiii. I should be working, reading, whatever, but instead I choose to blog. Well, thankfully there have been no more Flunk Day scares or "scares" in the past few days so I've gotten more sleep, but still not as much as I want. I've actually been very tired since Monday's incidents. Maybe because I haven't gotten caught up on sleep since I've been getting the usual amount. ah. *shrug* But enough about that.
I wrote 11 pages worth of fiction over the past few days and I'm not done. I'm so happy to get back to characters I enjoy. I just didn't care about the characters of my last story (which is still unfinished -.-), but we've changed all that. I brought back a couple of my characters from several high school works and plunked them down into a college environment. I figure since I grew up they're going to as well. Actually, my inspiration for that was I saw a group of HS/college age folks on a commercial that really looked like my group of characters and I thought to myself how much I just loved my characters. ^^; So I brought two back. I would have brought them all, but I didn't want the current story's content to conflict with the older stuff since the new story has much to do with the past. Actually < dramatic chord > it has everything to do with the past. < /dramatic chord > My favorite character is probably Jonathan. After many false leads with his character, he finally ended up a cartoon and video game addict. ^^ What we would today call a otaku. It's funny the things you do back in the day and then (when you're so, so much brighter) that you learn what it was you did. Fascinating. :P
In other news, I got elected to Mortar Board. Can't imagine how that happened. My GPA is good enough and I'm in clubs and stuff, but my service is...quite low. Next to nothing actually. But who cares? I got in. ^^ We had a meeting tonight, which was interesting. What I'm waiting to hear on is the Asian History and General History paper contests. I wanna win. I need money. ^^ That's the only contest I'm going to be entering this year that I just might win. I'm entering some stuff for a poetry and (maybe)a short story contest, but I'm 99% sure I won't win. I can't even get into Catch, our literary magazine. *pity party* ^^ Nah. I'm in too good of a mood to feel self-pity right now.
Oh, I'm just filled with stuff today. I've been watching Big O and enjoying it. Everyone is just plain cool on that show. I was utterly confused by the last episode, but that's because I started watching on episode 4 and then I missed 4 or episodes due to J-Club and my class. I only made the connection yesterday that it's not just Dorothy, but "R. Dorothy." The sheer dazzle coming from the light bulbs that popped up on my head when I heard that could have been seen by the blind. XD *snicker* I'm still confused though. I think there are still a couple of episodes I haven't seen (like the one tonight). I also missed the first 5 minutes of episode 13 too. We shall see.
Hmm...one last thing before I bounce off. One of my pet peeves is now people who talk too loudly into the phone. And then when you ask them to lower their volume or mention that they're speaking loudly, they have no clue what you're talking about and just keep right on going in the same tone. X_x That just happened to me and now my ear hurts. And why do goldfish crackers have smiles on them now? To tick off vegetarians? o_o I think it's creepy, myself. Kinda like when Mr. Potato Head was the spokesperson for Burger King fries. Well, it's nice to know they die (er, well, are eaten) happy.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Cheese: it's the stuff that makes the world go 'round."
Monday, April 23, 2001 01:27 p.m.
2:30 a.m. I finally fall asleep.
5:30 a.m. I wake up to a pretty good (read: almost convincing) and loud Flunk Day scare.
6:30 a.m. I wake up to a second Flunk Day scare thanks to the frat house down the street and their blasting rock music out of their house that people in the next county could probably hear.
7:15 a.m. Group of abnoxious college students decide to chant "Happy Birthday" at the top of their lungs (and shout that it's Flunk Day -.-) toward the dorm next to mine.
9:40 a.m. I get up for class.
Total amount of uninterrupted sleep: 5 1/2 hours.
Likelyhood of construction of frozen water balloons: increasing.
Grr...
Monday, April 23, 2001 1:31 a.m.
Inspiration finally struck. I've got a new story on the way for fiction workshop. Woo hoo! Now I just have to write the draft by Weds. *cringe* Hmm...I'm at that point of being tired that I'm having trouble realizing whether the word "cringe" is a real word or not. O_o; Anyway, the weekend. Friday night was J-Club. Quick story: this girl who most we J-Clubbers know (and who attends sometimes) comes in between movies and tells us we should go to this dance party. After she left someone was said something like, "Why would we want to go to the party? We'd have to get up and leave, and we have anime to watch...!" XD We ended up watching an interesting combination of films. The first was Dragon Knight...a hentai video. No sex or anything, just naked women being held hostage and tortured from time to time (er, twice). It was the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Even worse than Hobgoblins. But at the same time it was also hilarious. XD Because it was stupid, of course. I haven't laughed so hard it quite a while. Then we watched Laputa: Castle in the Sky. (Quite the contrast, eh? ^^) It was a really nice movie filled with cuteness and good storyline. I think the most amusing part of the night was actually the entire club sitting around and hitting an alien head balloon back and forth, trying not to let it hit the floor. My fault for bringing such a toy. But it was so green and just lying there on the sidewalk... XD (it had blown out of the aforementioned party.)
Saturday I dragged Matt off to the symphony. ^^ hehe. It was really good. Among other things they played a piece that I recognized from Fantasia. It was the one with all the mythical creatures running about. It was really really warm in the theater and the seats were like places in a sardine can. There was literally no room to cross your legs. Of course, the seats down front might have been a little better than ours. We were in the upper balcony--the second highest row in the entire theater. X_x Well, the tickets were free, so I guess we shouldn't expect a whole lot.
I finally got myself in gear per my poetry portfolio. It's actually almost done. *proud!* I've got a half a page to go on the review and half a paragraph on the paper. I hate the poem I wrote. I tried and tried to get it to sound like Cin Salach, but it's not quite up to par. I'm just not very good at thinking up fresh images. It's especially hard when you have to write in the voice of another author *and* think up subject matter. Blech. Flunk Day is supposedly tomorrow. I hope not since I'd have to cut the festivities early and go to choir. ¬_¬ Our concert is a week from Saturday, so it would be bad to skip. And I swear if there's one more "flunk day scare" at 2 in the morning, I'm going to start bombing those who participate in them with water balloons. XP The bloody fools. Hmm...perhaps water balloons filled with Jello...
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "Strawberry fields forever!!"
Friday, April 20, 2001 1:40 a.m.
~.~ Sigh...
Yo. I added three more comics to my list. Mmm...Slightly titalating magical boy transformation. *_* They really need to have more anime with that sort of thing in it. *snicker*
I've been very distracted lately. By what, I don't know. I've been trying to do this portfolio for poetry lit for the past couple of weeks, but it hasn't been going at *quite* the speed I had in mind. Basically I have six out of eight pages left to write plus a poem done in the style of the poet I chose. That's so much harder than you think. Argh. The thing that's tripping me up so much (other than the fact that I just don't feel like doing it...) is the 2-3 page review of the poet's book. I've never done one before so I'm not sure what needs to go into it. I've changed my mind about five different times, and I just need to focus and do it. O_o The other five pages shouldn't be that hard. I pretty much know what I'm doing. That poem on the other hand. ugh. There's not only so much to include but I have to do it in a style that's very VERY hard for me.
Hmm...I really want a stuffed owl. Like a toy--stuffed animal, you know. Not a taxidermy thing. ^^ It's because I had this dream last night that had the cutest owl burrowing around in my bed covers and hooting. (I was not in the bed at the time. :P) Yeah, my dreams are weird, but they're just so fun. ^^ I've noticed that I have a ton of recuring themes and images in my dreams. Some of your standard being chased, flying, etc. etc. But there are weird things too like elevators and big, old style hotels. The elevators aren't necessarily always in hotels, but when there's a hotel, there's an elevator. And they usually go to weird places too. For instance, last night there was this elevator (in a hotel ^^;) that opened inside a very large bathroom set off this bedroom. (I actually wondered to myself in the dream why the elevator would lead to a bathroom. ^^;) When I dream about places I know I tend to dream of only three places: my house, my grandparent's old house, my church. Yeah, my church. o_o Don't ask me why, but when I'm there what's going on has absolutely nothing to do with church stuffs. And the places are usually changed and warped in some strange way. I've actually formed a dream world that comes up from time to time that's just like 7th Avenue in Marion right across from my church and the Drug Town, but it's not *really* that area since the road leads to different places (into some hills) and the stores are all different. Actually I dream that the Hy-Vee is still there too. o.o That closed like 12 years ago. Deja vu dreams are the worst, or best perhaps. I sometimes wonder if I actually have dreamed those dreams before sometime in my life.
Hmm...I really don't know why I felt like writing all that. But I think dreams are interesting and I don't often tell people what I dream. Basically because they're weird, but I'm willing to bet that most people have really strange dreams they don't tell anyone. ^^ Oh, what I wrote isn't half as interesting as some of the other things I've dreamed. The aforementioned is pretty vague actually. One thing that does bug me about my dreams is that I'm just not *that* creative in reallife. Damn. I still want that owl.
This game is so addicting, and I don't know why.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "This water glass window view of what dream this ache this loss for words." -- Cin Salach
Wednesday, April 18, 2001 01:20 a.m.
I archived. And mini-note as to the last entry. I forgot to mention (although it might have been apparent...o.o) that no student or faculty member knows when Flunk Day is. So it could come at anytime spring term. Likelyhood now is increased since the term is 5 weeks from ending. End mini-thing.
Short entry today. I'm tired and procrastinating again. ^^ But I'm proud. I actually got off my butt and translated something. Here it is, the translation to "Green Bird" from CB's No Disc.
Spring came.
Earthworms show their faces.
Little birds eat insects.
Spring came.
Children go to school.
Many puppies are born to stray dogs.
Spring came.
Women look in their mirrors.
Egg pies burn up.
Surprised? I am. As to the translation, I'm unsure of all that earthworm business at the beginning. I guessed the meaning from the kanji. :P Actually, I'm very unsure of the last line. It's "Tamago no pai ga yakiagaru." What a tamago no pai is I do not know, and maybe it's cooked up or roasted for yakiagaru. The dictionary couldn't tell me what it meant.
Random Celestial Thought OTD: "There was a hole in you where all your words slipped through." -- Cin Salach
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