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[Jun. 27th, 2009|01:01 am] |
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I saw my mom's new house today. No thoughts really. She's a hyperbitch who has her reasons, I suppose. Still, I can't help but be primarily loyal to Dad b/c he did nothing wrong (she should have told him about her problems) and because he obviously needs someone but has no one. Also, he didn't have an affair and spend hundreds of dollars on jewelery for someone other than his spouse.
Nevertheless, I wish he'd stop with the "don't make the same mistakes I made" speech. Zack and I are solidly in love and have a plan. It should work out, and if it doesn't, we're both tough and responsible. Zack's designated worrier anyway, so I'll leave it to him to freak out, I suppose. I met his mom and stepdad last weekend. They're really great. So's his dad's girlfriend. His dad, not so much, but still okayish more or less. I also almost met John Waters but he had a date. ;_; Maybe next time. It means a lot that Zack's people like me and think I make him happy. It's nice to know it's not all in my head.
In other news, I'm getting pretty good at this cooking thing. Maybe I'll demonstrate at some point.
Furthermore, Craig is being hilarious as usual.
"Actually, I was deported for perkiness."
"It's a penis substitute!"
In conclusion, I'm entirely too sober. Drinking fun should happen soon. |
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[Jun. 5th, 2009|01:26 am] |
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All plans for tomorrow are off, which I'm sure comes as a surprise for those of you who didn't know we had plans for tomorrow. The worst case scenario is apparently the current reality, and I'm not at liberty to say anything more than that my life is about to suck in ways I never expected. |
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[May. 27th, 2009|01:30 am] |
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it's strange to think the funny little world i used to belong to no longer exists. i wonder what will happen to us all as we scatter? will jim follow hayley? will the ties that we forged be flexible enough to connect us over longer distances, around sharp corners, and in spite of the chaos outside? i admit that place was always in disorder, but ours was a benign chaos. leaving high school was different. i wasn't friends with upperclassmen, and i can't really say i feel nostalgia for that once upon a time in that hell dimension. it's true that the core fell apart and the second core didn't last very long either, but we had one hell of an autumn. in the end it was a good place. i think only a few of us really appreciate how it changed over the past three years. honestly, though the golden age was supposedly two years ago, i think this fall was the best for many of us in the long run. new loves, new complexities, a gradual growing together that allowed us to grow apart - or helped us stay together. ribs and movies, board games and word games, video hijinks, interim bliss...it all feels like a fairy tale. after only a week, reality has driven me so far away from that world that it might as well be a castle in the sky. |
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| Random Fandom Meme |
[May. 17th, 2009|12:54 am] |
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Pick up to 10 OTPs/ships.
Describe them in less than 15 words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.
(These are in no real order, and I honestly don't expect anyone to get #1, #8, or #9. They're not terribly popular.)
1. Even when they're completely different people, they still manage to fall in love. ROMANTIC!
2. She's way too tall for him, but so's that cross he's always carrying.
3. It seems the only thing she believes in is his dreamtasticness.
4. What could say love better than matching scars?
5. Badass blonds have to stick together - especially when they're stuck in bed.
6. Who wouldn't fall for a racecar driver/helicopter pilot/general master of everything?
7. That blonde's a bitch, man. You should've gone for the purple-haired one with the rack.
8. It's a shame hers is the kiss of death for giant robot pilots. Both were great.
9. It's too bad he can only show his love by dropping her into bottomless pits. ;_;
10. Why so serious, Doc? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Answers later. |
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| Epic Summer Fail |
[May. 4th, 2009|03:15 pm] |
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| | the raindrops and an X-Files DVD spinning idly in the Playstation | ] |
Guess who's working at a job she doesn't love at $1.50/hour less than she used to make from 9:00 to 5:00 every weekday all summer long?! That's right! And that's in addition to having to complete my Honors thesis work. Oh well. At least I won't have to worry about money for Spain. On the positive side, I won't be sleeping in until noon and feeling guilty, and, as I'm going to be a teacher later in life, I can make sure I work nights somewhere during the summer to make up for the sleeping-in time I'm losing now. Huzzah indeed.
Speaking of the future, I have two more weeks at Lafayette before 8 months of freedom from this miserable hellhole (other than work at the library during the summer, that is). I hope they'll be two really good weeks as they're going to be the last ones spent living with the love of my life for 8 months - which isn't so bad when I remember that when we're finally reunited it'll be for life. Plus I'll be seeing him pretty regularly over the summer - if he knows what's good for him ;P. Anywho, it's nice to know that I'll only be mostly broke during the summer as at least 2/3 of every paycheck has to go toward Spain.
Also, does anyone else think today's weather is absolutely gorgeous? It's so clean and fresh and beautiful the way the raindrops filter through the blossoms. Granted, Lafayette's campus is the most beautiful place within a 15 mile radius or so. |
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| Esos son los dias que me van a definir para siempre. |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|10:15 pm] |
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I want it written that the past six months of adventure, beauty, novelty, and love (most of all love) will be the ones that define me forever. On such a beautiful spring night as this, I can't help but marvel at the romance (and the Romance) that has hijacked my life and look back in wonder at the colorful autumn and sparkling winter that led me to where I sit now. Soon I'll move on to another chapter, safe in the knowledge that whatever I do and wherever I go from here, this is my life.
Hello, halcyon days! |
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| Did anybody ever find Tom Petty's big toe? |
[Mar. 28th, 2009|07:23 pm] |
This is the world's worst poetry. I particularly love the stanza about world peace. If there's a Chaucer of Cheese, I wonder if I can be the Chaucer of something?
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[Mar. 17th, 2009|12:00 am] |
Neil Gaiman was fucking amazing on Colbert tonight - as usual. I nearly died.
Furthermore, this is incredibly badass.
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[Mar. 11th, 2009|11:16 pm] |
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Tengo buenísimas noticias: ¡Voy a España! Recibí la carta de aceptación esta tarde. Soy feliz, por supuesto, pero también tengo miedo de que mi viaje va a arruinar mi relación con Zack. Lo quiere más que puedo decir. Es mi felicidad, mi hogar, mi vida...para mi es todo. Él dice que me esperará, pero me siento dejarlo así. Ahora que recibí la carta, tengo que dejar todo al destino y la suerte. Como dice la canción, qué será, será. |
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| My hair's too sexy for my head... |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|06:37 pm] |
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| | teh dorm | ] |
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| |  unbelieveably cool | ] |
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| | Voltz on the guitar & The Simpsons on the tele | ] |
Q: What's black and red and badass all over?
A: My hair. It must be seen to be believed - so come see it sometime!
I'm actually concerned that I'm not cool enough to live up to my new do. I'm sure I'll learn to live with the higher expectations. |
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| Shut up, Junpei! |
[Dec. 29th, 2008|11:36 am] |
Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3 FES is almost as amazing as my new red knee socks with skulls. Also, the FLCL box set is apparently going out of print because Broccoli International is folding? Tragedy!
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| Holy mother of god! It's Christmas! |
[Dec. 25th, 2008|07:51 pm] |
In descending order of deliciousness, here's this year's traditional post of the xmas haul:
3 Kinder eggs
Lego Batman (PS2)
Second wired controller (PS2) - wireless controllers eat batteries and I hate them
A new 19" HDTV/computer monitor for my dorm (a great idea on my parents' part. The extra space will be MUCH appreciated by Gloriana, who will be occupying it.)
My sister got Chocobo Dungeon and Sam got a train set and the WALL-E game. I'm sure I'll end up playing those as well. This might be my first bookless, dvdless Christmas. To say I'm shocked is an understatement. |
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| A Christmas Curiosity |
[Dec. 24th, 2008|10:41 pm] |
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| | A Christmas Story | ] |
While looking at various websites about medieval/renaissance-y Christmas stuff (b/c Casino Royale ended half an hour ago and I'm home alone with nothing to do), I came across a rather interesting Christmas carol. It's kind of hilarious in that it portrays Jesus doing (and having done to him) some things that one usually doesn't expect. It's certainly a nice counterpart to the other carol I like: the Coventry Carol, which is about the slaughter of the innocents. Of course, there's always "What Child Is This?" - you can't go wrong with Greensleeves.
My Christmas has been dull. Being an atheist (the only one in my house) and also too sick to leave the house (according to my mom anyway), I skipped church, which meant spending almost all day alone. Why they needed to leave at 1:00 for a program that started at 5:00 is beyond me. At any rate, after Love Actually and twice through A Christmas Story, there wasn't much left to do but sit in the dark and bug the other atheists online. It's a shame we're such a select group. At any rate tomorrow should be good. At any rate, it will begin with presents for the kids, be extended family-free, and end in Chinese food.
Merry Jingly, everybody!
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[Dec. 22nd, 2008|09:51 pm] |
Page C4 of the Express-Times (the one on the back of the comics and horoscope) is mine, mine I tells ya! I even have a full-color blurb in left-thumb position on the front page. Not bad, really. Sure, it's not front page, but it is anchoring the feature section and is connected to a part of the paper most people read. It's strangely hot real estate, or so my editor says. At any rate, woohoo for being a minor local person of passing notice (or, as my parents seem to believe, the next Anderson Cooper).
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| NHK ni youkuso! |
[Dec. 20th, 2008|01:25 am] |
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| | my parents' house | ] |
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Today I finished watching Welcome to the NHK, which turns out to be one of the weirder anime series I've ever seen if not one of the better. In style, it's a lot like Beck in that it deals with one guy who's sort of normal and the crazy people (including one girl who looks exactly like Ray's little sister in Beck) who surround him. It's dark in tone but not as morbid as I thought it would be, pessimistic but not entirely bleak, and generally faithful to what happens when a bunch of toxic people are left alone together. It took a while for the characters to grow on me - especially the senpai character and Yamazaki, the otaku neighbor. I did eventually begin to care for them - just in time for the characters to embark on the series of failed suicides that comprise the bulk of the plot of the show's latter episodes. Welcome to the NHK delivers in terms of production values a visual element (character design, setting, etc.) similar to that of Beck (I suspect they're by the same studio but can't be bothered to look) but without the latter's amazing soundtrack. All in all, the show is gentle - even merciful - with the dark realities it probes, but the characters become human a bit too late for such treatment to mean very much. If you're up for something a bit bleaker and closer to reality than the usual happy-go-lucky fare, go for it. If not, you can safely give it a miss.
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| estare cerca calmando la tormenta |
[Dec. 10th, 2008|09:33 am] |
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The conference went well. Due to various emergencies, my cheering section was reduced to Prof. Van Dyke and Sarah, the other presenter from Laf, but the small audience of outsiders (six in all, which is an impressive showing considering the boring title they had for the session I was part of was "Medieval Morality"). There were three of us: one guy did a really dumb paper the thesis of which was "in Hamlet, only Hamlet can see the ghost" and a girl who wrote about how "Thomas More's satirical work Utopia is a satire." Way to state the obvious, guys! My paper got a really enthusiastic response, which I found thrilling. There were tons of relevant and interesting questions that demonstrated people were actually thinking about what I'd said. Much to my surprise, they came mostly from the moderator and non-Laf folk.
This week has been hell. I broke my glasses into 3 pieces while watching Oldboy in bed with the new guy, so now I can't really see very well because my contacts are old enugh to be the wrong prescription. On the plus side, new glasses were necessary. I have two papers, an article, and an exam standing between me and freedom. Woo! Unfortunately, they're all going to come due at once and at a time when I also have to cram in a bunch of hours at the library plus packing up plus spending time with the Frozackary since I won't see him from the 16th of December to the 3rd of January. I'd look on the bright side and say break is coming, but that's small comfort when break will be full of writing a play for my mom and working on the internship from hell, which refuses to end ever apparently.
</whinging>
On a happier note, TDK came out on dvd yesterday, and I got to watch it again with the man who makes it special. Fro, Jim, and I also watched the Christmas ep of Invader Zim. It was fun. I will indeed have a merry jingley.
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