Saturday, March 20, 2004 01:32 a.m. LiveJournal, so I've heard, is thinking of adding features that would allow users to block strangers from friending them and also hide friends lists and basically make things more restrictive. So I heard from the Mungerites. If that happens soon then maybe hopefully you will reconsider? Well, it's pretty much official. I'm spending more and more time on LiveJournal so might as well bookmark me as being at that address now. I'll still keep good ol' Pitas around but don't expect as many updates here in the future. OK, Mr. Crazy Weatherman. You can either (a) have everything clear enough tomorrow so that tomorrow goes on as usual or (b) cancel everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, not just classes. My boss sent me an email with instructions in case she were to get delayed by the weather but the problem is to complete the tasks I'd need access to certain storage rooms that (I think) only she has. It would be easier for me if tomorrow was either all canceled or all on schedule. (I don't even have Wednesday classes, so canceling just classes would make me rather bitter.) Y'know, I'm moving more and more to LJ these days. Tonight there was pumpkin pie for dinner. YUMMMM. Nothing like a slice of pumpkin pie to compensate for all the snow that's falling outside. Nothing like two slices to make you have stomach problems after dinner. But hey, it's pumpkin pie - anything else just wouldn't be worth it. I'm gonna be annoyed if school gets cancelled tomorrow - because I don't have any classes. It'll be a waste of a good snow day. Grr. I'm almost back to feeling normal today... I woke up angry for some reason (which can be a good thing - it got me right out of bed and I wasn't feeling so sluggish as I was yesterday). I had a dream where I was staffing a school party on campus, but for some reason it was really the basement of my house and I could see my dad's desk in the office next to the entrance I was staffing. And I was getting annoyed at this one ditzy party girl who was trying to sneak her cell phone (with its photo-taking abilities) into the party - I was playing the tough-as-nails security person and confiscated it. And then, after she was cleared to enter the party, for some reason she tried stealing something from my dad's office, some gold heirloom or something, and I got really pissed at her and took that away too. Interestingly enough I can still remember this dream and also the anger just carried over into the morning - weird because I don't think I've ever woken up angry before. Heh heh! See, that would be a relatively normal dream. Unlike dreaming about professors who run around naked or people who try to poison their roommates. Ha =P
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P.S. I tend to restrict a lot of the entries so to read some of them you need to open an LJ account and then give me your screenname. Heck, you might as well get an LJ, it's free, and it's easy to set up communities there.
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The thread on Community about the spring concert gives me a headache.
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Today is indeed the Ides of March, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have said that earlier - I've jinxed myself...
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Please, please, please... let my boss say I can have today off... I'm not feeling well, I don't even want to go to Milton... please...
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Warning: conversing with the maternal unit over taboo topics such as yearbooks can be hazardous to your health (not to mention your long-distance phone card).
I find it interesting that my parents, the instigators in this matter, accuse me of making this into an issue. Trust me, it's my mom whose voice is getting high pitched, not me. They're also trying to use the "we paid you to go to college" line which is not going to work because like I mentioned to them before if they were really that interested in knowing more about my college life they could've actually visited me last year instead of saying "no we're not going out there, you come here" when they came to Boston... So they basically spent the conversation scolding me and etc. while I was thinking of how they were using up my phone card minutes much to my dismay...
Oh, and my mother also accused me of trying to "separate the family" when I mentioned that my sister didn't want to spend an extra day in Newport for "sightseeing" (who the hell does sightseeing in Newport?) when we could return to Boston. Heh. At least I get out of THAT one thanks to the Senior Gala. I wasn't that interested in going to the Gala before but if it's my ticket out of Newport then hell sure why not?
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:53 a.m.Bush can't get any stupider... OH YES HE CAN!
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Noodlers! If you have an LJ account there's a new community called "midnitenoodle" - go look for it! (If you don't have one you can set one up for free.)
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Woot! Sailor Mars KICKS ASS. Anyone who's seen the lastest live action Sailor Moon will understand... And although I'm waiting right now and not watching the latest Full Metal Alchemist, you gotta understand IT'S HARD!!! *whimpers*
It was one of those "so close yet so fucking damn far" things today when I was in Boston. I spent the day in Cambridge just shopping and walking around, and I left the Galleria at 3:20 so I could be sure to catch the 4:00 bus on Beacon. You know how going from Lechmere to Hynes the E train branches off at Copley and goes instead to the Prud? Well I figured the chances of my getting on the Prud train were 1 in 5 and that I was probably fine (see, I didn't double check what train I was on til AFTER Copley - bad mistake). FUCK WRONG that! I WAS on the stinking Prudential train! So now I have to get off at Prud, go BACK to Copley, switch trains at Copley and go one measly stop to Hynes (because the time was 3:55 and it would take at least 15 minutes to walk from Prud to Beacon WITHOUT getting lost). And of course at both Prud and Copley if you get off the train you have to pay the fare again to get back on, unlike most other T stops, so there's another $2.50 wasted. And as I re-enter Copley I JUST missed the train I needed. When I FINALLY make it back to Hynes I figured I missed the bus but should walk to Beacon and check - so I do; no bus on Beacon St; as I'm walking back to Newbury at 4:10 GUESS WHAT I SEE TURNING FROM COMMONWEALTH ONTO MASS AVE? STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT! And as I'm running to catch it this time JUST AS I'M ABOUT TO REACH THE BUS the light turns GREEN and there goes the bus onto the interstate... If I had just STAYED up on Newbury St. I probably would have caught it. So you can imagine I was cursing quite a bit just standing there on Mass Ave.
Actually, it wasn't so bad. I just explored Newbury and discovered (well, re-discovered) the world of used bookstores and secondhand DVDs; I love getting things at bargain prices, so at least I had that. And I made it back in time for dinner, which is always important. I kept looking at shoes to replace my current shoes that are falling apart, but the nice pair I found at Aerosole's was too expensive for my tastes. I'm such a cheapstake. But my feet hurt. Whimper.
I think I might just save that last Alchemist for spring break...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:26 p.m. I never got a call back from that Legal Careers woman although I left a message on her voicemail after she emailed me. *sigh* Another one bites the dust... On Monstertrak there's a "Client Service Reporting Associate" position - I read it as "Client Service Reporting Asshole"... maybe I need sleep...
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Freedom! Someone just claimed the Sunday job - I can go see Yuri Kochiyama now!
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I seriously need to get off campus this weekend or I will go insane. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of options. Friday night is out - it's the Women of Color in Comedy show and I've agreed to help out with door duty (I'm gonna miss anime - d'ohhhh). Sunday night is out too - projection job. For a second I nearly panicked because I saw "Job 6-10" written for Saturday as well and I thought I had booked all three nights; turned out I wrote the Sunday job on Saturday in my calendar. Dummy. I'm really pissed at myself about Saturday's job, though. There's an Asian American activist speaking on campus Sunday night whom I really really wanted to go hear!! But instead I have to show this French movie that I swear I show EVERY YEAR, twice in one night, four hours straight. Karma or fate or irony or whatever you want to call it rears its ugly head yet again - this has to be the sixth or eighth time I've shown this movie "Chocolat" (and it's not even the Johnny Depp version! *pouts*).
Anyway, in terms of recreation that leaves Saturday. I don't know what I want to do yet but I know I want to do it.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2004 09:03 p.m.
If you ever find yourself scared of a professor, just think this: sometimes they can be scared of you. I subbed today for another videographer at a panel for new professors (that's right, new, young professors just starting out), where basically the elder profs give advice to the junior profs. These kinds of jobs are always really really interesting, not to mention... unsettling. I did one last semester for the LTC's workshop on time management for the faculty - first, it's weird seeing all these professors you've had in a LECTURE room sitting in the seats like students; second, it's weird seeing them all congregate outside their departments and socialize like normal people; third, it's weird even imagining that your professors would have time management problems and could actually (GASP!) procrastinate; fourth, it's VERY weird hearing professors talk about how demanding students can be - the way professors talk about us, it's like the way we talk about them. I felt like I had discovered the fountain of youth, except it was more like the Fountain of Human Error of Professors.
Anyway, at this particular panel, which was pretty small, three elder profs gave advice and hints to junior profs mostly on how to keep connected with their academic work while teaching at the same time. The new professors, mostly men, were SO YOUNG LOOKING! On any other campus they would have been mistaken for students, I'm almost sure. I felt like I was intruding on some secret societal meeting, despite its total informality. And, I don't know if this is weird or not, but I kept checking the hands of all the junior faculty to see if they had wedding bands. (On the ones I was able to see, they did.) It seems just shocking to me that people can be (look) so young yet start their careers as professors AND be married - how do you cram that much into your life at such an early age? Or, if you appear younger than you really are, how the heck do you keep yourself so youthful?!
I also kept thinking how this is the kind of stuff my sister'll be doing real soon, once she finishes her dissertation. Now THAT is really bizarre. My sister, a professor?? Scholarly work and literature, that I can see her do. Bossing around people, sure. But being responsible enough although she can't even toast her own bread? Or can only get her meals by eating directly from the cereal box??
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Monday, March 8, 2004 11:07 p.m.
How's this for putting your day into perspective: when running an errand in the academic quad today my boss finds a woman lying on the ground outside. She gets the extremely sick woman to the infirmary but not before the woman throws up all over the backseat of her car.
Glad it's not your Monday? (Well I'm just glad Monday's over.)
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Monday, March 8, 2004 05:21 p.m. Ambitions fulfilled!! Momochan and I went sledding down Severance Hill just now!! We dragged Sleepy with us for one ride (we saw the tracks in the snow/grass where your foot kept hitting the ground ^_^). Sledding is the best - especially on the hill, it's soooooo great... and a good way to relieve all that stress~!!
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For Tare Panda images, these two have a lot of animanted gifs, and I know for sure that I borrowed some images from these two. I probably should have asked before borrowing them (oops, sorry!). Enjoy!
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Sunday, March 7, 2004 01:32 a.m.
The released single for the new Ghost in the Shell Innocence movie (Kimiko Itoh, "Follow Me") is so good. But it's making me speculate on what the movie is going to be like - I get the feeling, from all the previews and hints I've seen, that it's going to be - a romance? (Well, not strictly romance, but will have more emotional content that the last one.) It's suppose to pick up from the end of the first movie but I think a lot of the best character development happens in the TV series (which is like an alternate universe version of the movie - story-wise, the two are unrelated), and they seem to want to get more into character development than action/story with this second movie. Having seen the TV series makes me already know and familiar with Batou in the movie preview. I'm sure most people who watch the anime would agree that there are hints that Batou is in love with/has feelings for Kusanagi; and the Innocence preview focuses on Batou "searching for a woman he lost" or something like that. The music so far is very soulful and also very suggestive of this possible love aspect - bluesy soul music. But doesn't it seem odd that Ghost in the Shell would want to focus so much on a potential romance plotline? That series is the last one I would think of for focusing on romance. Not that I would mind, though - I happen to like Batou (and Togusa) a lot. Well. I'll just have to wait a bit more for the movie to come out.
And I'm still waiting on the GitS SAC Second Gig OST to come out. Come ON! Please?? The opening/ending songs are just so damn good!
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Saturday, March 6, 2004 07:34 p.m.
Here's a good way to traumatize yourself: Go to this site and download some of those Japanese music videos. If you think Americans were nuts in the 80s you'll see the Japanese were living those days in the 90s! And apparently the chic way to do your music video is to sing like you're bored or stoned.
I hope Live Evil keeps putting them out ^_^
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004 10:36 a.m.
If I were to say, "The Lord of the Rings is racist" (and that's not really my opinion), people would instantly attack that comment by saying (1) I was reading too much into it and (2) I'm so easily offended and too overly PC. But (response 1) this would be coming from people who write and theorize and overanalyze the books and write mountains upon mountains of fanfics and articles and editorials - who's reading too much into the books? And (response 2) apparently it's okay to call something racist until you put that label on something that too many people are rabidly in love, to a point where they can't step outside of their fanatic minds and into the real world perspective. Besides, all someone has to do is say "The Lord of the Rings sucks" on Community and instantly fans are already offended - you don't have to be PC to be easily offended.
People would also accuse me of not having read the books or watched the movies, when in reality if I point out a specific area of the movie that I'm talking about no one knows what I'm talking about or remembers it. Trust me, I READ the damn things AND saw the movies.
And talk about ruining a good thing - I liked the Lord of the Rings before but now everybody's rabidity has made me sick of it.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2004 11:54 p.m. Man, people sure do panic easily when a new virus comes around... Rather, they're not vigilant enough when they do get viruses, and when they don't they panic so easily.
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Edwards is out of the race. FUUUUUUCK!!
There's no way in heaven Kerry is going to win against Bush. Only if Nader or Kucinich start doing some serious campaigning will there be any hope for 2004.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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Monday, March 1, 2004 11:58 p.m. OK, I lied. I'm back already... Need you people to put input on LJ, but it's restricted - it's the same thing I'm asking on FC's Midnite right now...
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February's entries
Pardon me while I disappear for a while - I've decided to leave my computer off most of the time and hopefully it will make me more productive for this week.
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In real life: a women's college somewhere on the East Coast of the USA
When I dream I am: the Keeper of Bishounen; Keeper and Trainer of Animals and Mascots; Preventer of Unlawful Bishounen Theft by Weenie Chicks; Senior (Class of 2004)
Afficioinado of: anime, manga, English lit (particularly Shakespeare and classic novels), music of all kinds (both playing and listening), civil liberties, certain male celebrities, art (particularly drawing), comics and cartoons...
Currently: pursuing a job after graduation (hopefully in Japan), undertaking drumming lessons, working at the library as an A/V student worker, *thinking* of law school (but have I studied yet? Haa!), trying to enjoy my last year at college as much as possible, undergoing hellish dental treatment, contemplating the meaning of life
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