This is what happens when david is not around and I don't see anybody. I burn myself with oil and start carving my feet. Seriously. Don't ask. DOUBLE DOUBLE DOUBLE - work turkey.
I saw some fledgling gays at the MoA today. They still had all their baby plumage, like little tattered jeans. One of them was REALLY obviously gay, so we watched them walk all the way from off the ride to the west entrance, and they started poking each other in the ribs, and doing little gay hand waves, and believe me they were totally gay. I was like "baby gays!"
My wedding is going to be the bomb, because I don't have to hold to tradition. I am going to have a rave. Rave-wedding.
I wish I had kept a better journal when I was in Japan.
As I sit here not being able to fall asleep because of my laziness today / yesterday / this weekend / Japan I began to ponder some things as I often do.
What I pondered doesn't really matter, but I hope the end result will be a change (which I ever long for), a doctor's appointment, a quiz, and a better life. I think something about facebook was in there too.
The point is I'm not making any sense and I feel myself no longer becomming OCD. I feel weird right now.
I wish I had the moments to post my billions of hilarious stories... I wish I did so much.
Just so everyone knows, on the home-front, I tackled all of your LJ's. I am all caught up... yet I still really know nothing. Zoe, yours takes the cake for most entries (and longest) missed. (But it was an interesting read.)
Next I do facebook, pics (I may be taking some down, and reloading them up - don't ask, I'm weird when it comes to organization) - including ones from Japan. After that I move onto "fixing" some aspects of my LJ, and finally beginning to backlog my 2-months here. Around that time I also want to write some (and receive some) personal e-mails and snail mail.
I have so much to accomplish in so very little time. Strangely... learning Japanese is at the bottom of this list..... (IES Tokyo is a joke, people).
For our "halfway" trip (as if I've had a full week of school yet) we go to Nagano this Wednesday. I'll be back Monday, from whence it all goes "downhill."
To satiate you all (because I know you're, so, so deprived) I will write about my day, today.
I have a large "quiz" tomorrow. It's 2:50 am here, and I'm waking up at 6am to study. Always remember, dear friends, that you mean more to be than my own personal health.
I have the internet, finally, on my brand new computer... in my homestay house.
It is cable. It is fast. I will post many pages.
Beware, all ye, my 80 page update. It will come, and if you do not read it, I will be hurt.
I can guarantee you it will be mot amusing. For example "Two days ago srange salary men bought a few rounds of drinks for us all!" and what have you. Not to mention Kabukichou...
No time EVER to be able to read LJs, read comics, read anything on the internet ever. I'm actually at my Japanese field placement right now (and should really get back to work so I'll make this quick).
As I've said in previous posts (but the sentiment persists) I really miss you all and wish I knew what was going on with you. First chance I get I'll write e-mails and personally check each and every LJ page of my friends to see what is what.
I also have about 60 pages of material to post (since the beginning... yeah... I've been keeping notes), and the reason I haven't been able to is because I only have access to KUIS/IES computers and this office computer due to the fact that mine is majorly still broken. (At the afforementioned available computers I'm usually too distracted too be able to accomplish anything worthwhile).
The lowdown on my computer is this. Despite reintalling Windows (which was tricky due to a broken keyboard), the "keyboard issue" still occurs (It only works when you play the function row like a piano, and then only for about 2 seconds). I simply need a new keyboard. I also need them to look at my BIOs which has difficulty completing startup from time to time (it often stalls on the Dell Splash screen). Finally, when attempting to partition my blank disk, it fails about 43% of the way through. So not only is the keyboard going, and the BIOs going, but my actual hardrive is flawed too. To be able to install windows I can only partition less than half my disk space, and that's simply not acceptable.
So I'm sending my computer back tomorrow.
My mother, fed up with this (and in the process of purchasing a new computer herself), is sending me the one she bought yesterday, and sending the broken one to Dell with . It's nice, 1.6 something or other GhZ, 1GB ram, 120GB space, etc. etc. (It's nice than the one I have now, new, at half the price. God damn!)
So next week I should be connected again. Next week I'll be able to update and read my LJ, explore the changes, and dink with this new facebook that came out.
The only "me time" I have is the few hours I'm at home before I go to sleep and start all over again. So I need my comp at home!
I really wanted to use this day to massively update, but instead all I had time for was reading the 110 some odd journals I missed. Yeah.
Computer might be better soon. I want to fix my pictures and facebook. Japan still fun (seriously, more on that in a bit), but unfortunately now I have seemed to catch a very nasty cold.
Probably tomorrow I can post. It's going to be a mother, I wanr you. BUT YOU BETTER ALL POST AND COMMENT BECAUSE I'M IN FUCKING JAPAN AND I MISS EVERYONE.
I have so much to do!!! Facebook changed, the crocodile hunter died, all my devices are everywhere!!!
Japan is awesome! But right now I don't have much time to write so I'll give a quick lowdown. My computer broke, my baggage is all separated because of an issue with my homestay (I'll explain later, problem resolves itself tomorrow), lots of stuff... is broken.
I'm having such a good time! I'll update more later... I have a lot to do and the computer I'm on right now kind of sucks and a lot of people are waiting for mail. Trust me when I do update you'll know about it.
Miss you all, hope things are genki... things are almost all genki here. Jyaa!
YouTube both makes things easier, and harder. I mean, it's great we have this mass video site where everything can be loaded into and searched for and amatuers can make stuff blah blah blah - but it sucks when something gets taken off (NBC) and you can't find it anywhere else on the net. Ah well...
1/2 carton of blueberries 1/2 carton of raspberries 1/2 carton of Rice Dream 1/2 carton of Plain Yogurt 1 tsp Almond Extract 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 2-4 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream (depending on if you want to overflow the blender or not)
*Optional* Add alcohol to level of desired drunkeness (which I'm considering doing at this point).
MMM mmm good ;)
Edit: Good without the alcohol... or at least maybe a different alcohol than what I generally recognize as alcohol is required.
I am very bored in class right now. As such my attention wanders. Armed with a camera, ROM, paint, and teh intranets... it's no wonder how I was inspired to create the following work of art.
I'm on an hour and a half of sleep. I want to get going with my day, but I know I'm just going to go home and fall back asleep. So much for DDr and music today. Errrrg... Plus I'm sick. I'm not saying it was from Mankato (Drew's apartment and room were surprisingly clean in time for the party), but I did go to sleep healthy and wake up with a tickle in my throat I've had now since Saturday.
Ugh. Headache, mild cough, sneezing. I'm sick. I haven't been sick for like a year now? What crazy super bug has finally managed to catch up with me. Maybe I finally got AIDs. I should go get tested. /defeated.
But as per the title of this post - I hate Normandale psychology. I wish I could be taking it at Mac. It's worse, I say worse, than public speaking. At least that class was fun, the students joked, and the teacher had a personality.
In this class the teacher, while meaning well, is an idiot. His analogies drone on and on, he teaches by video (and says "Thanks Phil!" at the end of our movies (he's the professor in the videos), he teaches explicitly from the book (he holds up document camera pictures of the text in class and shows us what he's testing on), and what I consider the ultimate sin - he keeps class going the whole 8:00 - 10:20am slot. I COULD BE HOME SLEEPING! Prof. Gaskill at least let us out early. I'll videotape him tomorrow... you'll see.
I'm in such a wretched mood right now, for, really, no reason. Oh oh oh! Time to walk through the red checkmarks (again, for the second time). Can't miss this. I KNOW WHAT THE FUCK A BRAIN IS!!!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg. I want to take the tests. It's credit I don't care. Really, I'm just upset that I'm spending all this money to spring ahead in school and not learning anything. I'll never bitch about how hard Macalester is again. At least I learn something. Not here, not in town.
He just said "Time to power ranger this back" in reference to handing back things. Mr. Pearson, welcome to the top of my deush list.
Dear Normandale
When a professor retires for six months, do not bring him out of retirement to teach a summer course. Thanks.
I feel like I just want to take down a Zebra or something. I don't know... something worthwhile and rageful. (OMFG Ben, I think I finally, if more a moment, can empathize with how you feel)
1) Go here http://www.1500videos.com/ 2) Find the music video 'Spin Me Round' by 'Dead or Alive' 3) Watch it, all of it (and become freaked out)
While watching it kinda started to seem (to me) like I was watching a typical RPG super villain (like Kefka or Sephiroth) making embarressing teenage home videos.
Does that make me weird?
More substantial post after I find a new battery for my camera. I have a fair deal to account for.
1) The commercial for tents. It opens with two people sleeping, and the girl has a spider on her face. The sounds she makes upon waking are absolutely ridiculously amusing.
2) The chocolate meets M&Ms commercial. It involves chocolate and M&Ms in the back of a car in a lover's lane type situation. The announcer says "M&Ms penetrated deep into chocolate" and then apparently starts to orgasm while listing the two different types of candy bars. WTF?
music: Everytime - That techno-y song on the radio!
DeViL!
Nothing evil about the day so far except for the fact I had to get up at 6am to ride over to Normandale to sit and not pay attention for an hour before taking a 50 minute test in 5 minutes.
There's something quaint about the fact when the first question on your true/false multiple choice SCANTRON (God I missed those!) test is "A symbol can be words, but not gestures."