Ninx-chama's woman with the nice hair and non-matching face, too. Just now. o_O
EW. MUST WORK ON PAPER.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, October 15, 2002: 02:23 a.m.
Um, and yes. I've been doodling a lot of Agatha lately. o_O; If only some people's characters would leave me alone. ¬_¬
Damn paper. *beats paper with stick*
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, October 15, 2002: 02:09 a.m.
Rewriting paper AGAIN.
AND wasted lots of time. Because I suck. And can't stop coughing, dammit. >______<
Anyways. Class 8-3 tomorrow. o_o Hate Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, THURSDAYS. Fridays are okay. ^^;
~Do you like coffee and lemonade? They taste so good hand-made . . .~
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, October 15, 2002: 01:48 a.m.
RE: Gina Re: Me
Oh, Good Lord (? o_O;), I'm not saying /you/ should get them all. ^^;;;; Besides, I have no doubt that Gundam Seed will be coming out here eventually, Ghost in the Shell (the dub anyways) is gonna be on Cartoon Network really soon (so you can check it out first and see if you'd prefer the sub XD), and some of those series I mentioned aren't coming out 'til next year. ^^; Besides, you're already behind on 546094864 series. It's not like I wanna make you even MORE behind. XDXDXD
I'm just saying I'm going to be making extensive use of my brother's computer this winter break. Oh, and summer break too. XDXDXD
Erm, still haven't studied for Japanese vocab quiz tomorrow. Ooops? Most of the terms are familial tho'. Thank goodness I know Oneesan, Oniisan, Obaasan, Obasan, Ojiisan, Ojisan, Chichi, Haha, Otoutosan, Imoutosan, Kyoudai, Kodomo, (and just because they're random), Uta, and Ame already. XDXD Now to remember the REST of the list. o_O;
P.S. Ahhh, but the temptation of wheat! Or not. *gag* >_<
P.P.S. Don't make me gnaw off my own arm with regards to certain series involving reincarnated pets. >_<
P.P.P.S. LOL the new layout title(s). XDXD Inneresting. color choices. XD
P.P.P.P.S. I've got the first ep of Naruto. Just have to, um, er, send you the pieces?
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Monday, October 14, 2002: 03:48 a.m.
P.S.
Forgot. Do NOT want to watch Nurse Witch Komugi-chan. It's about the girl with the syringe from SOUL TAKER! Soul Taker???!!! BLEEEEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHH!!!!!!
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, October 13, 2002: 08:57 p.m.
Brief (or Not-so) Interlude
Still working on paper. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. I'm probably going to save tbe citations for tomorrow, tho'. After I talk to my GSI and figure out what they're supposed to look like. >_<
Ugh. I have NEVER worked this much on a paper before. But everything I wrote last night was pretty much crap, soooo . . . I think the fact that it's 15% of my grade (AND I have to write it AGAIN for ANOTHER 15% - UNLESS I get an A the first time around *SNORT*Professorbasicallysaidnochanceinhell*/SNORT*) and he keeps saying (and writing) things like "it has to be a flawless gem" are making me nervous. READ: FREAKING ME OUT! >_____<
Look, I went to bed at SIX AM because I was working on the paper and I had to get up at NINE AM so I could get to work. And I STILL was late. And accidentally managed to call 911 on the the emergency phone outside when I was trying to get the Sup(ervisor) to come let me in. Stupid non-responsive security guard!
Dude. I didn't quite want to die at work but I came home, ate something, and passed out. Then got woken up by my alarm. Went back to sleep for ten minutes and then got woken up by both my mother on the phone AND my alarm at the SAME TIME. From a dream. A really LONG dream. And I was at the point where I was hearing about someone's deprived childhood due to my hideous stain-glass patterned plates and poor lighting (errrrm, long dream-story) - I swear I was black in my previous incarnation in the thirties. Because I keep having dreams about African Americans in the thirties for NO REASON WHATSOEVER. Anyways, I think I'm so sleep-deprived lately that I'm hitting REM IMMEDIATELY. >_<
Geh. After I finish this paper - hopefully by 9:30? I'm going to eat something then study Japanese vocab. Then I'm saying SCREW IT to reading and am watching anime. XDXD
I wanna watch Spiral, Princess Tutu (she's a DUCK!), Wolf's Rain, Aquarian Age Second Saga, Gundam Seed, Overman Gainer, Mahoromatic~Something More Beautiful, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Choujoushin Gravion (I think GONZO does animation, Gina-P ^_-), Naruto, Getbackers, Piano, Puchi Puri Yushi (Gainax), and Heat Guy J (I guess). This is in addition to Gina-P's Kiddy Grade, Haibane Renmei, and Platonic Chain. XDXD I guess I'm not so discerning. LOL. (Eh, I'm sure there's more. Like DNAngel. ^^; .hack//DUSK, and the new Sakura TV and OAV series. ^^; Oh, and Harlock. The list goes on and on . . . ^^; Did you want to watch Weiss Kreuz Gluhen, Gidge?)
But series I absolutely do NOT want to see: Sister Princess RePure and Tenshi no Shippo season two - unless season one actually gets a PLOT; I'm afraid to look.
BTW, anyone know if the Vandread OAV coming out on 10/25 is an actual new episode or just a re-edit of the old stuff?
Ick. Back to paper.
Music: Jem and the Holograms - Only Me and the Music
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, October 13, 2002: 08:27 p.m.
What's wrong with me? Staying up this late?
I think someone's vomiting on the stairs again. Just wunnerful.
Yes, I'm still up. Yes, I'm still working on the damn paper. No, I'm not done it. It's going to be an extremely crappy draft since it's late, I can't spell, I can't think of good words and my grammar has gone out the window, but I WILL get it into manageable shape tonight, dammit! Uhhhh . . . I have to work from 10 to 1 today. >_____< I'll errr, work on it for another hour, tops?
(The plan is to come home and sleep until four or something, then hammer the paper into shape - much beating and screaming of legal terms - and then study Japanese, do some reading for class, and watch anime. Or maybe just Japanese and more sleep?)
Soooooooo tired. ;_;
But yes, I did this to myself by being the world's worst procrastinator. >______<
Snoorrrrrre.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, October 13, 2002: 05:14 a.m.
Paper, yo
Yeah yeah yeah. Diligently working on paper. Yeah yeah yeah.
I realize I have the attention span of a two year old. Ferret, that is. >___________<
Ew, but I really AM working on it. Haven't actually written anything, but am pulling out arguments from the opposition and points I have to address. Of course, I've just realized I don't think I can use quotes so I'm just gonna have to do a lot of paraphrasing for my citations. Around 400 words so far from ONE article - the whole paper can't be more than 1250 (~5 pages). Erm. Is this going to be a problem???
Eh. Back to work. It's gonna be a loooooong night. Then work tomorrow morning and catching up on reading for the rest of the day tomorrow. As well as paper revision (assuming I FINISH. But I'd BETTER.) Fuuuu~n. Mmm, may watch anime tomorrow if I get stuff done. *heart* I wanna finish FMP! and watch some Tenshi na Konomaiki or Shaman King or I, My, Me Strawberry Egg or SOMETHING. ;_;
School is sapping the life energy out of me.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, October 12, 2002: 07:00 p.m.
Wait. There's gonna be a Gatekeepers 3?
And Saint Seiya gets new shows??
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, October 9, 2002: 02:38 a.m.
Anime news
There's going to be a Chobits game for Playstation 2. ^_^; Apparently it's a Chii-raising game. ^^;;;;;
Vandread's got an OAV coming out, Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar is going to have a summer special, a second season of NOIR is in planning stages, Aquarian Age is going to have a second season (second series?), and I REALLY wanna see Gundam Seed for the bishies! ^_____^ Oh, and of course D.N.Angel too, since the character designs are SOOOO pretty. O_O
Meeeeeow! *Rolls around in anime* (BTW, Gidge-chan, any way you can find the Candidate for Goddess OAV?)
Now for the bad news . . .
AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Tenshi no Shippo has a second season! NUUUUUUUUUUU~~~~~!!!!!!!!! >__________<
Anyways, for those interested, info found here.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, October 9, 2002: 02:27 a.m.
Talk to me and I will bite off your arm and gouge out your eyeballs :)
I am SOOOO beyond stressed right now. This semester just needs to end. Right now. And I bought National Geo for three years from a guy on Sproul. o_O
He was a nice guy but he needs to stop talking. Goddammit, WHY do people target me?! WHY?!!! I didn't need that today and I certainly DID NOT need the girl from the Bible Study group yesterday.
From now on when people come up to me I'm just going to say, "No. No, I'm in a hurry." And RUN AWAY.
I buried my sorrows in a (Vanilla) Coke float (chocolate chip icecream) and a hysterical call to my mother. Then proceeded to sing (off-key) songs about how I've gone mad and how stressed I am. Loudly. To myself. It's just been one of those days. I forgot to bring my lunch (tho' I packed it >_<), my last class got canceled so I went to work, there was an "emergency" so the library was evacuated ". . . if you would like to leave" and we in the office just . . . kept working. ^^;;;
I'm tired. Dead tired. I got a migraine from sitting in the sun and the metal buttons on my shorts decided they wanted to brand my back. Fuuuuuun. I have literally HUNDREDS of pages to read for class this week but I don't have time to read them - because I have to work on my paper (the rough draft is supposedly supposed to be finished by tomorrow). Pffft. Right. I haven't even figured out my topic! >_____<
And for the last time, it's MY life, DAMN IT, and I don't give a damn if you think I ought to be doing something else with it. My goals are very simple: a job that will allow me to maintain the quality of life I'm used to and support me so that I can do what I really like to do - write. I don't know why everyone acts like I've given up or am dooming myself to unhappiness for the rest of my life. The fact of the matter is, MOST PEOPLE CAN'T SUPPORT THEMSELVES WITH WRITING ALONE. Just LOOK at the bios of any authors. Please. And no, I have absolutely NO desire to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court OR be on it.
What the hell is all this crap about "doing what you like to do?" I like a lot of things. I'm doing them. There's no job that I want to do that doesn't require being a bum half the time and not making enough money to live on (I still remember the study we did in high school which revealed that if I tried to do anything in the publishing industry - after bills and things - I would make enough money to eat a cup of yogurt and an apple. Per day. I don't like yogurt.), so . . . *shrugs* It's not easy for some of us, you know? We don't have our whole lives mapped out from start to finish.
I used to, once. But that fell apart a long time ago. And now I'm just bitter. And old. Mustn't forget the old.
I realized today that I'll never be a teenager in this life again. And of course I've known that intellectually for a long while, but today is the first time that it actually hit me. And then I wondered if I'd be a forty year old and still giggle at cute anime preteens. The answer to that was VERY sad indeed. XD
Oh yeah, in my spate of madness I decided (once again) that my back-up plan is to be a nun. Because maybe God's trying to tell me that men don't like me for a reason - and that's also why I keep attracting bible groups and conversionists (is this a word?). I figure I'd have to pray a lot, take care of the church, and go around helping people . . . but I'd still have time to write. Eh, but there are definite drawbacks to being a nun. Like no anime. Seriously, can you imagine a nun's room with an anime poster on the wall? (Um, assuming we're not talking about the sister-in-training in One Pound Gospel or Seira from KST XD). Hmmm, I wonder if nuns are allowed to read romance novels nondispassionately? Or must they always cluck their tongues at the sinning?
I don't read romance novels so I don't know if that'd be a problem or not?
Eh, well, I suppose I'd have to find faith in God (that God) before becoming a nun. And my parents would whine about my waste of an education and all their money. And I'm sure there are other downsides.
Maybe I won't be a nun after all.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, October 8, 2002: 05:20 p.m.
Because I have no common sense and thus do not sleep
Heh. Heh. Heh. GONNA DIE. XP
THE ABSOLUTE JOY of knowing I have two more midterms after this, three papers, and four finals! ! ! !
. . .
And you know what the saddest part of all this is? I actually started working on Sailormoon 'fic again. It seems a person can only take so much before they start needing to write something slightly more fluffy.
And, and, and . . . NaNoWriMo (which I seem to pronounce Nanirimo - or What Writing Month?) is coming up . . . and I wanted to do it this year. ;_; HAH! FAT CHANCE.
Um, dammit, still need to review those notes. >______< I've got 8 (with .25 margins - WAS 10 but I didn't want to waste the paper) pages worth. Typed. Single-spaced.
I'm still gonna fail.
You know, it's helpful when people volunteer to help you by lending you their notes from when they took the class, but you open them up and realize that the first month's worth (which you need) is absolutely, glaringly absent. ;____;
I wrote a nice, depressing Kisa scene for the Kyou 'fic that will go up on the deadjournal, erm, sometime. Somebody comment, please? My last scenes got no feedback. Maybe it's all just too depressing? Eh, well, gets worse before (if) it gets better.
Speaking of which, I was not at all surprised at the "revelation" of this month's Furuba chapter, since I sort of saw it coming. I mean, what else would explain it? Since I wasn't all too keen on the other theory floating around anyway.
Anybody know what happens in KareKano 72?
Oh yesh, dank yu G-P for the safe return of my wayward groceries. ^__^
Gah, lemme just sum up past events.
Saw Spirited Away (the dub - have seen a subbed version already) with Gina last weekend at the Metreon. .50 and we had to sit in the VERY LAST ROW because the theatre was PACKED, but, eh. Missed a bit of the beginning with Chihiro and parents in car, but, as Gidge says, "I don't like her in the beginning anyway." It was a decent dub. Daveigh Chase really sounded young enough. Jason Marsden did all right too (but was a *bit* too belligerent-sounding at times) but, of course, no dub actor will beat the original Haku's voice for sexiness. ^_^ I wanted to cry near the end of the movie. ;_; Yubaba never ONCE calls her baby by his name - Bo. I thought that was odd. And I know they added the "Haku's a dragon" line for clarification, but they didn't need to add the convo at the very end of the movie. It was nice seeing it on the big screen.
I appreciate it much, much, MUCH more now. I think it's the kind of movie you've got to watch in the theatre to get the full effect. ^_^ An in-focus version didn't hurt, either. ^^;
Kristin's 'fics are loverly. Wai! ^__^
I've been scribbling Chihiro in my notebook while doing Japanese. It's remarkably easy to draw her (um, not quite looking like herself, but - artistic license, okay?) but I'm finding Haku pretty darn impossible.
Oh, also picked up the first volume of the Tokyopop version of Paradise Kiss (the stores here all seem to start with volume 2) at Kinokuniya and read that. Yum. Seems felicitous what with Tin's new layouts popping up right after. I was like O.O - that's Yukari, right???
Have been spending money like water. Must stop.
Carded absent on work for this (errr, Sunday) morning so I could sleep and study.
Had an actual home-cooked Chinese dinner with lovely mother of childhood friend who was visiting him in town. It was lovely. And she gave me leftovers! And watermelon!! I feel loved.
Had a dream about finding the cutest dog in the world. SO CUTE!
Have decided am slothly and slobbish. Must never let anyone into my room EVER AGAIN.
Oh! Saw ten minutes of Inuyasha dub while at Gina's and have decided that if Jaken says "milord" one more time I am beaning him with the Staff of the Two Heads or whatever. And "SesSHOmeru" somehow doesn't quite cut it as the pronunciation of his name. ;___; And people must quit it with the "ye"s dammit!
Oh, erm, Poutonly and I have bonded over Japanese class and anime and fanfiction and Chinese dramas! Meteor Garden, Wan Zhu GhuGhu. And she's seen, owns, and loves Ching-Ching Hui Bien Tsao too! :D Yay! And there was much "whiskey." Errrm.
Japanese skit excerpt:
Me: "Sore wa nan desu ka?"
Her: Mmm, biru ya sake ya whiskey ya wain nado."
Me: "Konban, paartei e ikemasu ka?"
Her: "Iie!"
XD. Yes. Well, the CLASS thought it was amusing, dammit!
Ugh. Must. Study. Sleep.
Night.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Monday, October 7, 2002: 01:51 a.m.
Mmm. Apparently we won the game and while that's good for the school, that automatically means my life's going to get worse. It just seems to work that way. >_<â€
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, October 6, 2002: 03:11 a.m.
My arms are rubbery - feeling tired
Um, Gina-P did you happen to pick up one of my bags of groceries by accident? Contents: Buttertop White Bread, Plain Bagels, Bag of Kit-Kats, and Bag of Dum-Dums? Or does JZ have it? >______<
Oh, and, FUN - LS 177 Midterm is chewing me up and spitting me out. Apparently I don't have enough nutritional value for it. ¬_¬ And I haven't even TAKEN it yet!
Yeesh.
It's not going well, no. -_-;;;
Eww, plan for this week - take the damn midterm Monday, read, read, read, read, read, go to club, skip Chobits and read, read, read, read, read, watch Riui, read, read, read, read, read, some more. Sleep. Do Japanese homework. Read frickin' huge packet of supplements for paper. Read, read, read, read, read, read, read. Look for points/quotes/things I can use in paper. Study for Japanese Written Quiz. Study, study. Read, read, read. Probably read some more. Read, read, read, read, read. Write paper. Die. Um, yeah. That's about it. Oh, and THEN I have to repeat this whole cycle with ANOTHER midterm and the paper rewrite which is ALSO worth 15% of my grade. >_______<
OH MY GOD. >__________<
Do you know how many days there are left in the semester? There are 75. I just counted. Not quite 11 weeks. I can't take it anymore. ;___________;
Very sad. Think sleep now. Well, shower. Then sleep. Then waking up and more reading/studying/going mad. Must also memorize Japanese vocab. Legal Studies is evil, evil major. EVIL. Must find classes with no papers and no midterms and no finals. Must go to fake school. Yes.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, October 6, 2002: 02:44 a.m.
Still alive, wot. Barely. Have lots to talk about, no time to do it . . . so, uhhhh, yeaahhhh. Be seein' ya. Hopefully within the next two weeks. ;_;
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, October 1, 2002: 05:54 p.m.
I'm not a duck
. . . and it's not water off a duck's back or under the bridge or anything like that. >:
Just when I thought this horrid week was over . . . I find out that it's STILL going. Goddammit.
And that's enough of that.
So, I was working on cging a VERY OLD sketch last night (for a place-holder pic for the site of all things) and I like how it's turning out so far. *heart* But it's taking a MASSIVE amount of time to do since I scanned in the pencil and didn't ink it (<-can't ink). ;_; Oh well.
But yeah. I don't know how I should finish it up. o_o;
Also took down most of the extraneous content on the website and deleted some old files (gah! backgrounds I haven't used since 1999!) in order to get back space since Geocities apparently only gives free users 15 MB now ¬_¬ (when did this happen? how did I miss it? somebody tell me?) and I'm using over half of it already. (Nuuuu~! NOW how the hell am I going to find space to put up the AS pages and expand the SRATSS one and stuff . . . Erk. ~yeah, yeah, like I'll ever get around to MAKING them ^^;~). Heh, but anyways, Tsuki no Kage is under construction and hopefully I'll find some time (in a million years) to redo it. Because it sucks. Bricks.
Mew. Also updated with a rather crappy cover for the webcomic the other day.
And no one commented on my Argent Soma wallpaper. ;_; Hell, I like it. So it's okay. ^_^;
Work's been going all right lately. I enjoy (mostly) working there. Too bad I haven't made a perfect truck (Stax lingo for "putting books in order on a cart") for the past four trucks. ¬_¬ Damn. Am never getting out of 4RS. BUT, that's okay. I think I enjoy sorting and shelving in the office more than I would running around the library and sorting and shelving. >_<
Oh, yeah. Uh, made some dumb mistakes at work and got lost. -_-;
It was, of course, embarrassing.
Mmmm, what else have I been up to? Went to the produce market and did laundry today. Did the merest smidgeon of reading for class. *_* Dude, I have to get back on track! Gleeeeehhh . . .
Bought some books (used or very old copy of Neruda's Cien los Sonetos - *heh* can return the library copy now - and "Sign of the Dove" since I love that series <- is only missing "Flight of the Dragon Kyn" now) and felt perfectly justified in doing so since I now have a paycheck (in NOVE~~~~~MBE~~~~R ;_;).
Bought chocolate chip-covered donuts which melted IMMEDIATELY in the sun because it's so gosh-durned HOT out. (Gee, THANKS, Berkeley weather.)
Am going through anime withdrawl . . . watched really lame 2-part shonen-ai OAV wherein I could predict 95% of all the plot points before they happened and found myself going (DUH, the two of you can't be together! You're both UKE!). Really now, if you had two gay anime men together but they were both uke-type, who would get to be seme? Would they just flip or roll (um, this sounds like a bad way of putting it XDXD) for it?
Social blogging:
DUDE, Merr, I am going through doujinshi WITHDRAWL. ;___;
Tin, I finally got around to reading "Revolutionary Hearts" (despite my lack of Esca knowledge) . . . it's really, really good so far. Though partways disturbing ala Chapter one. o_O;
I! Finally! Got! To! Read! Bound! Chapter! Two! Meimi, it was excellent! (And I won't be a meanie and ask for part three anytime soon because you're under SO MUCH stress and such a frickin' huge workload that it would be inhumane to ask any such thing of you. Um, but I don't think you read this pitas anyway, sooo I guess it doesn't matter . . . ? ^^;
Ninx-chama, Your imagery is beautiful! But so sad for parts. And I always knew we were on the same wavelength because (regarding your piece on the girl in the cage) I wrote something rather similar recently . . . but sort of more upbeat because I am still in the process of deluding myself into believing in relatively happy endings.
I'm sorry, I WILL give you proper feedback on "Beast" parts soon . . . Just been sooooo~ busy and rather stressed. >_<
I can't access Michelle's blog. Anyone else having that problem? *looks around*
Shannako's seems to have gone missing quite a while ago so I finally took my link off. >_<
And Ming-Ling took me off her links list. How sad. ;_; But I know I'm not particularly interesting and whine far too much so I'm not offended. ^_^; I would probably not make a habit of reading my blog if I wasn't me, either.
Um, what else? <-can't think right now.
Oh! Yes! Kristin, (who I don't think reads this either) your Sen site is lovely and I LOVE the fanfic! (And the art. Mwah, especially the things that require warnings. ^^; Yes, I know. Me very bad. ^_^;) Even disregarding the fact that I have a thing for hot men who are also dragons. (The result of writing those books since fourth grade . . . o_O;) I'm looking forward to the fanfic that explains the river clean-up pictures!
Meh, I think that's pretty much it since I have to get my butt in gear and read. Yeah. Whoo-hoo. Fun stuff, Kant. ¬_¬ *readies her throwing knives* Damn, buddy, I think I'll subscribe to utilitarianism in this case and say that I think the greater good will be better served if I (and the rest of my class) DIDN'T have to read your god-forsaken, dense as a diamond (they're dense, right?) philosophical blatherings on blah blah blah. Can't you write plain English? Please? For the sake of my grade???
Ugh. Anyways, that's it.
Gina-P, good luck reading! We're DEFINITELY going next week (unless I have to study for my midterm ¬_¬) and darn you for having mooncake! *cries* Eh.
Have a Happy Moon Festival everyone! (Errr, or whatever's the proper saying . . . I feel like I'm saying "Have a Happy Halloween!")
This is me. Out.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 21, 2002: 06:06 p.m.
If it ended like *that* . . . XD
Okay, lots have things have happened (incredibly crappy week, almost got hit by a car, yadda yadda, etc. - and on the upside, got to talk to Jay-onee, and Merritt who always rocks just . . . rocks extra hard this week! XDXDXD *Wai!*) but I'd just like to take this moment to plug:
The Hero in the 21st Century.
I stumbled across it today . . . and my, was that a quick afternoon. ^_^;;; But it's REALLY good and anyone who likes Inuyasha should check it out. ^_- Okay, done now.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Friday, September 20, 2002: 07:04 p.m.
Well, so much for six hours of sleep . . . AGAIN. >_< WTF does my Japanese homework SAY? I've been working on it for THREE HOURS. Half of it is just rewriting the kanji. o_O; I've got a migraine and I haven't actually READ this week's lesson yet. I am SO screwed. -_-
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 18, 2002: 02:14 a.m.
Reading? What reading?
I am thinking of and analyzing "Mugen Ryvius" in legal and philosophical terms ala the "Case of the Speluncean Explorers." Such as:
The society of the Ryvius, being outside the boundaries of "normal society," revert to the law of nature and thereby must form their own social contract with which they must adhere. There actions at this time cannot be tried in these courts because they hold no jurisdiction over the crew of the Ryvius . . . (and on and on it goes)"
And also:
Ikumi Oze is an act-utilitarian.
I would expand upon that (I so can) . . . but then I'd be giving away spoilers. >_< But, yeah. There you go. ^_^;
I'm scaring myself. And since I STILL don't understand adjucation I don't think this is actually helping my legal studies yet. *SIGH*
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Sunday, September 15, 2002: 12:07 a.m.
I'm going to fail my Japanese test tomorrow. I STILL can't memorize all the Katakana, I DON'T KNOW the vocab, and I reviewed all the basic grammar - and now it's too late to go over the new stuff. >_____< (Meimi-san, can I borrow your brain since you don't seem to need it for *your* class? ;_;) Therefore, I am getting up at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning (an HOUR EARLY) . . . to study some more. >_________<
And I 1) dropped my dinner on the kitchen floor 2) got BUTTER in my keyboard from dinner #2 (details tomorrow) and 3) had an EXCRUCIATINGLY crappy evening, thanks. >________<
And to those of you having a hellish time right now . . . I FEEL YOUR PAIN. ;____________; This year is going to be HELL.
Good night.
Oyasumi nasai.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Friday, September 13, 2002: 02:38 a.m.
Next week it's off to the mines! ^^;
Oh. Yes. My brain is going to explode. Therefore, I NEED to catch up on sleep this weekend and write some. And indulge in some type of obsessive anime-watching (nicely fitted around the weekend of READING I have planned >_<), oh, plus, maybe finishing some of them there library books . . . o_O;
;__________; There is not enough time in the world.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Thursday, September 12, 2002: 12:31 a.m.
What I've been doing >_<
I've been *trying* to get to bed earlier so I can stay awake in class. (Gasp! Shock! The HORROR!) It's sort of working. Still not good enough. >___<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Thursday, September 12, 2002: 12:30 a.m.
Having joined the ranks of the gainfully employed . . .
Oh yeah, work tour and training session from 3-5 on Monday. They're full up for the rest of this week so I can't start until next week. -_-;;; (Moneeeee~~~~ is escaping meeeee~! XDXDXD)
I was also initiated today with a quarter of a donut. XD Dude, so far, so good.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 11, 2002: 01:12 a.m.
Just weird things
Yesterday, on my way to club I passed by two people, one of whom was an Asian guy. As soon as I walked by him I immediately started gagging. Sakura-san was NOT kidding about Asian guys and cologne. o_O;;;
I'm from the East Coast. I don't think our Asian boys do that. Isn't it kind of girly? Eh, but then the Asian guys I know are mostly from Chinese school . . . but STILL.
And while waiting for the night safety shuttle I saw a girl in the apartment behind the Boba cafe (that used to be my favorite Japanese restaurant - Chicken Teriyaki and free miso soup! -_-) tossing a LARGE doll (I think it's a Korean character??? She's got black hair in buns, squinchy eyes, and wears red?) in the air and catching it. Over and over and over. She was still at it by the time the shuttle came. o_O; (Just so you know, EVERYONE can see you from the street. ^_^;)
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 11, 2002: 12:39 a.m.
9/11
It's 9/11 again.
It brings back a lot of memories. This day is full of them . . . strange, frightening memories.
I was thinking today that 9/11 was when America realized that it wasn't safe . . . when I realized that even "home" wasn't safe. It's sort of like when you're confronted with death for the first time . . . I mean when it happens to someone close to you, or someone you know, and you realize for the first time that, yes, this can touch me as well. I'm not exempt from this.
It's frightening, isn't it?
*Sigh* My next post will be cheerier.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 11, 2002: 12:31 a.m.
Just a note
P.S. Merr, apparently Frontier started today and it's on UPN over here in the Disney block at 7:00 AM.
Okay, now I'm off to club! Then back for delightful quantities of reading! How fun. -_-;;
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Monday, September 9, 2002: 06:28 p.m.
Snickerdoodleydoo (No, I don't know either. ^^;)
Today has been very, very weird.
I got the library job! Hallelujah! *dances a jig*
I ALSO got the tutoring job. o_O;
Damn, I KNEW I was over-qualified.
Apparently they REALLY want me and thought they had already called me to offer me the job . . . when they hadn't. -_-; So when I said that I'd gotten another job, they said:
"Oh. That's actually . . . kind of terrible."
WTH? o_o;;
Yes, so sorry about the fact that your unintentional negligence made it so I didn't take the job (well, I decided that I wasn't going to take it anyway, but still . . .).
I feel sort of like they were expecting me to jump and touch my nose to the brightly colored ball or something.
*Sigh* I KNOW I'm good at writing. While it would be nice to help people, I don't know how good I'd actually be at helping them. I get impatient a bit too easily, have a tendency to lose my temper, and having to treat adults like they're infants *seriously* gives me a headache. Plus, treading the thin line between being tactful and being critical is tough work. I have enough trouble doing that on a day-to-day basis to not want to have to redouble my efforts in work. (I have this sinking feeling that if I took that job I would eventually get to the point where I looked at the paper, said: "This is crap! And YOU KNOW IT. Okay, rewrite it and do better . . . and for GOD'S SAKE USE A SPELLCHECK!!!" >___<)
Also, the weekly training seminar, videotaping of sessions, daily journal, and final paper that the tutoring job entails is really just not my cup of tea. o_O And I don't drink tea (unless it's iced).
Library job will be bone-numbingly tiresome and ridiculous amounts of running around and doing odd jobs - but I'm looking forward to less human interaction and possibly bowling. XDXD
Yeah, I'm weird.
Now! To make a list of things to buy with yet-to-be-officially-acquired source of income!!! XD
Suggestions??? (Of course, a lot of it is going towards the trip.) Don't say pressies. ^^;;; If I like you enough you'll probably get them eventually, anyway. LOL.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Monday, September 9, 2002: 05:56 p.m.
A is for Apple
NYAARRRRGGGHHHHHHLLLLLUUUURRRRPPPPLLLLEEEEE!!!! >_____<
Still not done with reading for tomorrow and I have to memorize katakana and vocab words for Japanese Quiz still . . . Shit. >_<
My justification . . . we made keiki?
Going to take shower then work on Japanese. *Sigh*
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Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Monday, September 9, 2002: 01:06 a.m.
Well, what do you know?
Yes!
I forgot all about it until now, but it seems that we ACTUALLY WON ANOTHER FOOTBALL GAME. O_O Go BEARS!!
Please forgive that unseemly and downright disturbing display of school spirit. Involving FOOTBALL of all things. FOOTBALL. ^^;
My foot sort of hurts. >_<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 7, 2002: 11:43 p.m.
I must be one of the stupidest people alive. I just slashed my foot open on a TRASHCAN. My little plastic trashcan in my room. I broke the SKIN. >____<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 7, 2002: 11:39 p.m.
The fault lies not in the stars, but in us, that we are underlings
;____; I am the MOST unproductive person in the world! I MEANT to do work today! REALLY. >____< And did I????
Really. This is ME we're talking about. (Someday I want to be able to say that and mean it in a GOOD way. o_O;)
So now I'm stuck with 100+ pages of Legal Studies reading. ;____;
Oh, and my website needs a COMPLETE overhaul. Like, two years ago.
But, since I was productive LAST week, I finally uploaded my Argent Soma wallpaper (which I may still tweak in the future - I think it still needs work) but since the site needs and overhaul, just go look at it here. Comments anyone? I like it, but I think it might be too cluttered for a wall. ^^; And I wanted a quote. >_< Ah well, next one gets a Shakespeare quote!
One from Hamlet.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 7, 2002: 10:56 p.m.
Expect an e-mail from me later today, Onee-chan.
Now . . . sleep. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ . . .
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 7, 2002: 04:18 a.m.
um, trying to be productive
*pats the back of everyone whose day was sucky*
It's okay. Rejoice! 'Tis FRI - er, Saturday now. ^^;
BTW, Linkin Park's "Runaway" is a good song for a Saint Tail music video. No, really. ^_^;
BareNaked Ladies' "Who Needs Sleep" is now playing on SoundApp, right after I finished writing that bit of Guin 'fic. ^^;;;;;;;;;;
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Saturday, September 7, 2002: 12:59 a.m.
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want the library job I interviewd for today. Shelving! Hard work - but okay! I'm all over this! Besides, the Preservation Dept. doesn't want me. >_<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Thursday, September 5, 2002: 10:26 p.m.
AH!!! I just read Chapter 63's translation! NUUUUUUUUU~~~~~~~!!!!!!! >_____________<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Thursday, September 5, 2002: 03:44 p.m.
o_O Who knew?
OMG. My completely cracked out Furuba theory that I came up with a few months back is starting to bear fruit . . . And OTHER people are proposing it. o_O *twitch twitch*
Does this mean that I've watched too much anime? Or just that my soap opera sense is still alive and kicking? XDXDXD
BTW, Meimi, the link for Bound doesn't seem to be working! ;_; Is the domain down?? I wanna read it!!!
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Thursday, September 5, 2002: 03:34 p.m.
long day
Okay, so had my nine o'clock discussion for the first time today. I got up, after getting only around 4 hours of sleep because I was up READING for the class, and walked to class on the faaaaaar side of campus (Cheit).
Now, I knew something was wrong when I got there and I was the ONLY one. o_O; Yeah, I really should've remembered to double-check the discussion room last night when I discovered that this discussion's room was the same as the one for the class I dropped.
Let me clue you all in on something . . . it's NOT.
So, after waiting for seven minutes and deciding that no one was coming, by golly, and it looks like I've done it again(!), I began my frantic search for a computer where I could check infobears or the schedule for the ACTUAL classroom. See, if I don't show up for the first discussion, I'm supposed to get dropped from the class. ¬_¬
Much mayhem ensued and I got advice from a gay (no, really) business major and went to the stupid computing center in Haas (where I need an account >_<) and wasting a sizeable amount of time before discovering that the library I had been directed to was across the hallway. So, got on the computer, found out the correct room, and got out of there in a hell-bent-for-leather sort of way.
It turns out that the classroom is on the diagonal opposite side of campus (Tolman). Those of you who know Berkeley campus geography may now wince in sympathy and/or laugh your asses off.
RAN across campus as I was now over twenty minutes late for class and got there at 9:32 AM. Sat there for 7 minutes and tried to get my breath back and then the GSI dismissed us early. O_o Oh, and I was there for all of the actual discussion. >_< And he DIDN'T EVEN TAKE ROLE. And he reminds me of Richie Cunningham and/or Ron Howard. -_-
Anyways, went to lecture next. Passed out (almost). Was very bad. Went to Japanese lecture next and felt very fatigued and nearly passed out. Hung around outside Dwinelle waiting for Gina-P for 11 minutes but somehow managed to miss her. It was probably because I was distracted by the girl who fell on the steps and spilled her latte right as I came out. She seemed to have injured her knee and I wanted to help but didn't think there was anything I could do since I didn't have anything useful with me and there were already three people helping her. I thought that I'd just be in the way. Anyways, after ten minutes and much running around of random people she managed to limp away so I think she's okay. ^^;; I'm still feeling guilty I didn't do anything . . . but really, I couldn't think of anything to do.
Anyways, after that went to a library interview in the Preservation Department which is in the basement of Doe and REALLY hard to find. Talked with the guy in charge, Maxim, who seems really nice but has a most extensive stutter. I'm not sure if he's always had it or maybe it's like a post-stroke type thing or something? I don't know. Anyways, I could possibly get the job there (depending on whether they want me or not) but it really DOES seem like the most tedious thing in the world (photocopying entire books for HOURS). Oh well, money is money. BTW, I'm just glad I don't have to iron old newspapers like the other people there. You heard me, they were ironing old brown sheets of newspaper in order to stop them from curling at the edges, I think.
Stopped by the library bookstore on the way out and was frightened by massive quantities of scary statistics and physics and calculus books for sale. Picked up Madeleine L'Engle's Summer of the Great-Grandmother which I think is autobiographical in nature.
Went over to the far side of campus again in order to talk to my major advisor, but she was out (for lunch, I think - but it was 1:30). ;_; So I left her a note with the receptionist and made my way back down to Telegraph.
Then I headed home. I stopped by Moe's on the way back and bought two books: Good Omens and All the Weyrs of Pern. I ate an apple and the last of the rice krispies when I got home because I was starving and headed out again. This time, I stopped by Comix & Comics (because I haven't bought ANYTHING from them since I've been back and I feel sort of bad - they KNOW me there o_O) and got volume two of Angelic Layer. -_- Then went back to Moe's and picked up Generation Warriors and Chronicles of Pern: First Fall so I can cross the bloody things off my list (which I brought with me for reference - yes, I have a list). I now own 52 McCaffrey books. Isn't that sort of scary?
Then headed to the ATM machines on Bancroft because I literally had left in my wallet and I hadn't gotten this month's allowance yet, anyway.
I went from there to Berkeley Bowl where the nectarines looked scary, there were NO oranges (o_O - tangelos, ugly, squished grapefruits, yes, but no oranges), and I was rather disappointed in the selection of produce but bought fruit anyway.
I proceeded to trudge home where I encountered my apartment manager in the entranceway (Ah! Finally!) and then took him to task about our long and varied list of complaints and "issues." He paid me our dryer money back! ^_______^ (Which I didn't expect) I also got a flourescent light for the kitchen from him and apparently the vent for the stove fan isn't broken but was replaced and that's the old one that sticks out funny and I'm finally getting blinds, thank goodness!!!
So, yeah. Then I came and stared at the episode I was dling and watched it fall from speeds of 46kbps to 10kbps. But it finished dling so I DON'T CARE!
Now, day was stressful and me no want to go to law thing tonight. So watching anime and reading for LS 182 and LS 151 for the rest of the night. BLECH.
My feet hurt.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 4, 2002: 05:55 p.m.
smurgle
Dude. Today totally sucked.
Details later. Like Kanon, it goes on and on. Or something like that.
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Wednesday, September 4, 2002: 02:45 p.m.
slosh
Mmm. That three-day weekend went fast. And I didn't even finish half of what I had to do. >___<
Oh well. Lots more reading tonight. Joy. -_-
In other news, the dryers in the aparto don't seem to work so I've got a nice forest of dripping, drying clothes hanging about the aparto. Apartomate and I are thinking of getting a clothesline to put across our balcony . . . ^^;;;;
Dogs bark a lot here. They like to get some sort of inter-gang dogwarfare going on in the early mornings and late at night. o_O; I don't understand.
Scryed was good. Weird, but good. The ending was Argent Soma-ish . . . LOL. I still wuv Kazuma! And Kanami's just about the only girl in the series I like. ^^;;;
Gonna try and find time to write some more. *Sigh*
Need to get a router or something for the computers so there's no passing around of Spazz (DSL modem). It gets rather tedious.
Oh, yes, and there was NO hot water last night which was SO fun for me and showering. ¬_¬ Blarrrgh.
I have also decided that if I ever become an established author these pitas/livejournals/deadjournals are gonna be rather highly embarrassing. Sorry parents, I'm not role model material. >.> Well, aside from the no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes thing. But, yeah. ^^;
BTW, I REALLY need a new layout. >_<
Watermelon tasted "oishii" on Tuesday, September 3, 2002: 04:45 p.m.
