Gyaaaah, stupid cat....
Right now he's on my lap rubbing his nose on my hand while I try to type. I love Oliver and all, but geez! >.< Can't he go sleep somewhere and leave me alone for a while?? Um. I'm not dead.
I had a good winter break. I babysat my cousin's two-and-a-half-year-old daughter kind of a lot, and that was fun. She's a really good kid and she likes me, which is a plus. I also spent a lot of time hanging out with Kathleen. I even went to her house for New Year's and ended up throwing up all over her basement. Okay, so that part of break wasn't so great. (And whenever I tell people this story, their immediate response is, "Were you drunk?" NO! I was NOT drunk! I had some stomach flu or something. I have never drank enough alcohol to get more than dizzy and sleepy, and I don't ever plan to.)
I'm still jobless, and it still sucks. I might end up just applying at fast food places, even though I really don't want to. At least I know I could get a job at one of them. The Little Caeser's in the Bernhard Center seems to be hiring. I think I could handle making pizza... that wouldn't be too bad. I could pretend it was giving me useful cooking experience. And that one day I would sail off and be a Sea Cook!
Oh yeah. The one thing I have been doing a lot of lately is watching One Piece. I'm up to episode... 34-ish? Seriously, that show is so awesome I think it must be breaking some laws. Is one show allowed to have so many awesome characters? The second ending credits sequence actually gets me a little sniffly. And it's a happy hyper upbeat song, too, but... it has this sequence at the beginning where it goes through all the main cast and shows a shot of whoever their mentor/inspiration is, and then then as a little kid running. Like, first it shows a picture of Shanks, with Beckman and the one fat guy whose name I don't know. And then there's little kid Luffy, running and running. And then there's Nojiko and Bellemere and little-kid Nami running and running. And then Kuina and her father and little-kid Zoro running... you get the idea. It's just so adorable and so weirdly moving. Watching One Piece makes me a little depressed sometimes, though, because I realize that I don't really have any dreams any more. I don't know WHAT I want to do with my life, so I don't really have anything to strive for. It's kind of sad really.
I also watched an episode of Ashita no Nadja yesterday. And I already love it. It's cute in just the right way (you know, so that it's endearing rather than annoying.) I keep getting the opening song in my head, and I barely know it. (Also the "odorimashou" song. It's all catchy and repetitive and cute. The verses all go like,
Hello, hello, konnichiwa
And then the chorus is like
Lalalalala lalalalala lala odorimashou
And then it just KEEPS DOING THAT, with different phrases from around the world. There's like, Arabic in there. It's crazy. And one line is "I love you, I love you, aishitemasu", which is interesting just because you NEVER hear the "masu" form of that verb. Yeah, I'm a dork. And I'm babbling.
I really want to go on Go Gaia for a while, but I don't know if I could get away with it in the computer lab. It's not all that busy right now, and they don't exactly monitor what you're doing anyway, but... eh. I dunno. Maybe next time I'll bring my laptop and hope the wireless connection works. Then I can not only go to any sites I want, I can also bring headphones and listen to stuff. Whoo.
Closing note: I downloaded a whole pile of One Piece songs, and despite all the cool silly happy upbeat ones, my favorite is "Sea Moon Sea You". Which, as far as I can tell, is a Little Kid Sanji image song. Little Kid Sanji's voice actress also plays Chopper but the song came out before Chopper was introduced in the anime and I think the lyrics fit little Sanji dreaming about All Blue pretty well.
Little Sanji and Chopper's voice actress is Ohtani Ikue.
Ohtani Ikue also plays Pikachu.
I feel like I just gave out a public service announcement, heh. Now I'm going to go wander the Internet. I killed like... fifteen minutes! Yay! I should archive this thing, shouldn't I? It's been a while.
I'm going to spend the weekend with Kathleen, although we haven't figured out the details yet. I think my car needs more oil but, uh, I can't open the hood. This isn't because I'm horribly inept but because the hood-opening mechanism is screwed up. My dad has a hard time with it too. Anyway, so I need that, and I need money, since driving takes gas, and I'll have to eat sometime. If I put in some more job applications today I'll have a better chance of getting some money off my mom, I think, but I feel bad because she already gave me $25 to pay that stupid parking ticket from way back. I really need a job just so I can stop leeching off her so much. Plus, my life is pretty boring most of the time. Working a few times a week would be kind of nice, honestly.
Anyway. Today the Herald had an opinion article about porn. It was one of those point/counterpoint ones where two articles are put back to back. I didn't think either was particularly well-written, but I still wonder what's up with the popular theory that porn is "degrading to women". The girl writing the anti-porn article seemed to think that the fact that some women are in porn somehow reflects on her, which is just stupid. And I still want to know what these people think about gay porn. I.E., porn that has no women in it. I'm sure there's some reason they think that's horrible, too. But geez - women have sex drives. Women masturbate. And sometimes (this is shocking, I know) women watch porn. Man. I should write a letter to the editor about it.
And hey, it's after one... I guess I can head to Brown now, although it's still pretty early. Maybe I can pick up the article for Japanese Language and Culture to read, too. My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R... Help.
The beginning of the dream involved Loki from Matantei Loki and caterpillars that were spawning out of some girl's room, but I don't remember that at all really. Holy crap! Yay, revived. Fushigi Mystery!!! Ore no kachi!
See, a sad thing happened in episode 21. (Note how I am avoiding spoilers. You may thank me later.) The thing in 21 didn't sadden me all that much on its own, but then in episode 22, Frey was really sad. = / Seeing super-genki Frey be depressed just got to me. He needs hugs, and I don't know who should give them to him, heh. He happened to be talking to Narugami in that scene, but that's just a tad weird a pairing to me. But hey, if they DID hook up they'd make lots of great food together. Yeah. There's a certain kind of pain I like.
I'm sitting in the computer lab right now, having finished a nice Big & Tasty meal at McDonald's that was one of the most delicious things ever. They really do have awesome fries, don't they? Maybe I should've gone the healthier Subway route but there's just nothing like greasy burgers, heavily salted fries, and a caffeine-laden Coke to take the edge off your depression. The reason I haven't gone home is because Art Spiegelman is going to be doing a talk in Schneider at 7:30. He's the author of the Maus books (although I've actually only read Maus II), which tell of his father's experiences as a holocaust survivor and are made much more interesting by being told in graphic novel form with all the characters portrayed by different anthropomorphic animals. Apparently his talk is going to have to do with comics and graphic novels as an art form - he seems to firmly belive that comics don't have to be for kids, so I already think he must be pretty awesome, heh. I want to try to get there before seven, because I think it's going to be really busy and I want a seat, but that still gives me over an hour, so I may as well amuse myself on the computer for a while. I'm in the very back corner of the lab, too, so nobody will ever notice I'm not doing school work. Heck, I bet I could look at porn back here and nobody would notice. Er, not that I'm going to. But I could.
The other thing I could be doing right now is reading Tom Jones, which is our next book in my Studies in the Novel class, and which I am loving immensely despite being slightly overwhelmed by its length. It has a really crazy sense of humor that has actually made me laugh out loud a couple of times, and one of those narrators who knows he's an author writing a story and talks like it. I love those; nobody writes that way any more that I know of except Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events books, and those are obnoxious because he totally talks to his readers like they're little kids and/or morons. It's just annoying. Henry Fielding talks to his readers as though they generally understand things, but he might clarify points just in case. He also likes being a total tease. It's just great fun, and I'm loving the book immensly, although getting through all 400 pages in this tiny print is a bit daunting nonetheless.
Yeah, so Kathleen, I'm feeling much happier now, just so you know, partly due to the fact that my Advanced Fiction Writing teacher liked my Tracy-and-Ira scenes in my writing exercise. I just have to come up with a plot for those boys, and all will be well.
P.S. Akabane really does play Ryo. It's so scary. It's four a.m. I really wish it wasn't four a.m. Haven't had a quiz in a while.
I like this one just because it's such a bizarre idea. Quizzes are fun, anyway. Dang. Aggggggh. "Man, Miroku really sucks."
In other news, my school is messed up. Bronco Bash was Wednesday, so I expected that classes started at four that day, so I went to class yesterday only to find that they weren't meeting. Today, I didn't even bother to go down to my one class (aerobics), but according to Aaron, classes actually started at four yesterday. I love how my school is so good about letting people know this. You'd think they'd send out a massive mail or something; they send us a "remember to drink responsibly" letter, how hard would it be to tell us when classes start? Oh well, I guess I'll start on Tuesday. Today I should really be looking for a job. I wish I wasn't such a spineless wimp about things like that. >.<
Monday, February 2, 2004
11:01 a.m.
I just slept right through my Astronomy lecture. >.< My parents are in Florida this weekend and the stupid cat kept waking me up. When my alarm went off at 8:50 I realized I was so exhausted I wouldn't be able to keep my eyes open in the lecture anyway, so I slept for a couple more hours instead.
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
11:18 a.m.
I just realized that I haven't posted in here in two months. Oops. I guess I just haven't had a lot to say. But right now I have almost three hours to kill between classes, so I may as well babble for a while, even though I type so fast it'll probably take only five minutes or so. Ah well.
Igirisu no minasan
Bonjour, bonjour, konnichiwa
Furansu no minasan
Lalalalala lalalalala lala utaimashou!
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
12:58 p.m.
This takes me back. It's been a long time since I've been stuck in the computer lab between classes with nothing much to do but ramble in Pitas. I usually spend this time reading, but I finished my book (just reread The Bone Doll's Twin, and loved it more the second time... now I just have to get my hands on Kathleen's copy of Hidden Warrior). Yeah, so... here I am. Bored. Slightly ill. Actually, I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday; just a little sleepy, but I don't have much of a headache any more. I do, however, have a small mark on my finger where I burned it on the toaster oven. Ow.
Monday, November 3, 2003
12:11 p.m.
I only quoted that because that ad happens to be on right now. ^_^* Anyway. Halloween was fun, seeing everyone was fun, watching the end of GetBackers with Kathleen on Saturday was fun... boy, is that show fangirl service or what? Anyway. Last night I decided to beat Suikoden III. I tore Yuber apart (that's what you get for calling me a maggot, loser!), and Sarah was mildly difficult but not too bad. Then I got to the final boss. Oh man. Couldn't beat it last night, couldn't beat it again today... I'd probably have no trouble if I had the hear to take a different party, but not only do I love the mercenaries, I hear you get a special scene after the boss fight if you do it with them. But dang, is it difficult. I may have to do some more leveling up, hee.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
11:14 a.m.
I had an absolutely bizarre dream last night. It involved Mozenrath going to some cove that was supposedly cursed. There were pirates there if I recall. Anyway, I was with Aladdin and Jasmine trying to stop him or something. And in the cove there were lots of pickles floating in the water. We discovered what the "curse" was the hard way - if you ate one of the pickles while watching someone else eat one, you'd fall madly in love with them. So Mozenrath fell in love with Jasmine, and I fell in love with him (or maybe that was just me, without any cursed-pickle help, heh). Mozenrath was all pissed off and I guess eventually broke his end of the curse somehow, but I kept following him around 'cause I was all in love with him. I think I helped him escape from pirates at one point, because I could fly, sort of. It was more like floating just out of reach and it took a lot of concentration. I remember in the end of the dream we were both hiding out in the top of a barn, where there was a perfectly modern-looking kitchen (with a sink and dishwasher and everything) while the pirates wandered around outside. Strange.
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
10:11 a.m.
I don't believe it o.O
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
12:19 a.m.
Pitas has returned! Yay. I missed it. I really do like posting here better than LJ, even if I do like LJ's comment function. Anyway... what I had to come on and say is that Emeril just mentioned that whatever he was just doing in his cooking was "just a little trick I learned from you-know-who." There you have it, Kathleen. I never understood your grudge against Emeril, but apparently you were right about him all along -- he's in league with Voldemort. And Voldemort gives him cooking tips.
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
11:27 a.m.
I just finished Matantei Loki and it was good. It ended the way I wanted it to end! How often does that happen? Well, except for the very strange final shot, which I don't understand at all... ^_^* Anyway, I really should leave about now. That's all I had to say, heh.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
05:36 p.m.
I finally succeeded in applying for a job at Barnes and Noble. Yeah, yeah, applying doesn't mean I'll actually GET a job, but at least I did it. I also watched some Loki today, which made me sad.
Thursday, January 22, 2004
05:34 p.m.
It's the dull, throbbing kind of pain you get when you got hurt and then it starts feeling better but isn't quite healed yet. I currently have that kind of pain in my elbow, which I banged very hard against the doorframe of my closet Sunday evening. It was bleeding and hurt like hell at the time but now it feels weirdly nice. Not that I'm a masochist or anything.
Sunday, September 21, 2003
04:01 a.m.
Especially since I went to bed at 1:30, and then tossed and turned for two full hours. Finally I just gave up. If I'm not going to sleep I'd rather not be trying to sleep, if that makes sense. It's just a lot less stressful this way. I'm really pissed off, though, because my lack of being able to sleep is solely because I'm hung up on the Chalcedony thing in the latest Stone-and-Fen story post. (Anyone reading this who is not Kathleen probably has no idea what I'm talking about, so brief summary: It's a story I've been reading that the author puts on her LJ, and in the latest chapter it was pretty heavily implied that my favorite character got eaten.) Really, I'm just plain pissed at Fen right now. That was just moronic. Does he really think the Eorlking will just forget he sent Chalcedony and not send someone else in after him? Doesn't he realize that Chalcedony wants Stone to be happy? Seriously, Stone needs more people like that around. Don't fucking eat them. Fen, I hate you right now. I hope Stone hates you right now too. If not, it won't be realistic at all. Yeah. The end.
Thursday, September 11, 2003
06:35 p.m.
You are "Welcome to the Caribbean, love."
You're more than a little world-weary, but also
intelligent and you keep your head when things
get dodgy. You're everybody's favorite
drinking buddy, but your stubbornness does get
in the way sometimes.
Which one of Captain Jack Sparrow's bizarre sayings from Pirates of the Caribbean are you?
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Tuesday, September 9, 2003
10:24 p.m.
I hate writer's block. Especially when I'm supposed to be doing a writing excersize as homework. T-T
Friday, September 5, 2003
01:00 p.m.
I'm having a definite "I hate myself and my life" moment right now. I have no money and no job, I just put $150 on my credit card for books, and I don't even know what the point of me going to college is since I have no career goals at all and probably never will. And to make matters even worse I parked in the lot by the rec center today because I thought they weren't ticketing yet, but guess what! They are! So I got a $30 parking ticket, and when I talked to the lady at Parking Services about it she said that they started ticketing at midnight last night and that it was "everywhere" so I should know about it, but instead of paying, which I could not do due to having no money, I swore a lot and tore my ticket up in the parking lot and threw the pieces to the winds. Now I'm just going to get in some kind of bigger trouble or something in the long run. I'm not actually sure what they do to you if you don't pay your parking ticket, but I'm sure it has to do with the fine going up and grades being withheld and fun stuff like that. Fuck it, I'm just going to sit here and eat the rest of the day.
Friday, August 29, 2003
01:42 p.m.
I gots me a new layout! I actually had already made one of Shido from GetBackers, but hadn't put it up yet... and then I watched a nice big chunk of Inu Yasha last night and figured I was entitled to a Miroku layout. Miroku actually isn't my favorite character... Shippo is. I think Shippo appeals to my maternal side; I want to take him home with me and take care of him and feed him cookies and brush his tail. Miroku is pretty darn awesome, though. I also have a strange liking for Naraku, in that "wow, he's a pretty darn awesome villain" kind of way, but Naraku pictures are much harder to find, and I liked this one. Every time Miroku sucks things into his hand I think about the fact that there are already a bunch of chickens and horses and stuff in there from when he first showed up. Last night Patches and I were discussing that he could be really useful for getting rid of garbage, or maybe toxic waste - but then we realized that if sucking up bees poisons him, maybe toxic waste isn't that great of an idea. He could still really help with overcrowded landfills, though.
I just started really getting into Inu Yasha; it's a series I'd think about buying if it wasn't already pushing 130 episodes in Japan, and they're giving it a three-episode-per-DVD release over here. That just means I'm stuck watching it on Cartoon Network. The dub is pretty good, actually, except for some horrible name mispronunciations. ("Lord SeSHOmaroo!") Miroku is the resident lecherous monk; that swirling vortex in his hand is a curse that will probably kill him one day, which is why he wants to have descendents to carry on his mission of vengeance against the demon who's responsible for it, which is why he asks every woman he meets to please bear his child. He sucks all kind of stuff into his hand; I imagine inside it looks something like Guu's stomach from "Hale Nochi Guu".
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Name: Christy
Birthdate: 8-2-82
Zodiac: Leo
Chinese Zodiac: Dog
Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI
Interests: Anime, writing, reading, yaoi, RPGs
Current Shows Being Watched: Demon Detective Loki, GetBackers, Inu
Yasha, Spiral
Current Fave. Characters: Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun), Clive Northy
(Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu), Quent Yaiden and Hubb Lebowski (Wolf's
Rain), Akabane Kuroudo and Haruki Emishi(GetBackers), Shippo, Miroku, and
Naraku (Inu Yasha - yes, I have very assorted tastes here)
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