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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
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IT'S TIME TO PARTY.
And no, I will never get tired of alluding to "Nightmare Before Christmas" with this stop-animation devil. EVER!
It's holiday meme time, kids, and this time, M.a.b. means business. I'm not asking for all ten items, but I know there's at least one on here that everyone can do. It's easy, cheap, and a good deed. Oh all right, I'll give it to you: it's #9. There's also #2, some of you already know why I'd be leaning on that one, but I understand that #9 is cheaper, so...onegaishimasu?
( Holiday Meme Steps go here )
Here goes:
1) I know I harass a special someone for this every year, but on one of my frequent trips through Procrastination Land, I discovered that Cashback is now available through Amazon.ca! So, no pressure to anyone - *huggles Nina* - but now that it's become apparent there is no way in Mogwai hell that I will pay money to see "Twilight," my need for cute Harry Potter boys has been rekindled. So...although there's no pressure whatsoever...on anyone(!)...yeah... *hem hem*
2) Heartless Bitches Black Camisole T-Shirt from HBI.com - proceeds will go to the Morrigan Convalescence Fund for an HBI columnist who is critically ill (update: she has been released from the hospital and is/was apparently en route to Toronto. Small world!)
3) LCBO box set with shot glasses or mug (Tequila Rose - even though I've never tried it - or Starbucks would be cool)
4) A cinnabun-bed day!
5) Something educational for my DS, anything that isn't Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. That game is so addictive, but everyone keeps committing perjury and making my life a living, writhing nightmare.
6) The usual Belgian chocolate seashells, nummy nummy num.
7) A new, "makehen" attitude, as demonstrated nah.
8) LUSH gift card - I can do with $10. $5. Anything! Somebody help me out! J'ai besoin une fixe!
9) Send a letter to Hakamada Iwao, a former professional boxer who was wrongfully tried and convicted of the murder of his boss and family in 1966. He's been the longest death row prisoner in Japan's history. Amnesty International gives you the option of writing to Justice Minister Mori Eisuke, but I think it would be a nice gesture to send Hakamada-san some kind of heartwarming card at this time of year. No snarking needed, that's just my two cents/good deed for the year.
And last, but not least...
10) My sanity
But officially, I will smile for every #9 I get! Like this! :D
*hem hem*
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
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My students say the damn funniest things. Anyhoo...
I really don't feel like doing a lot of wangsting on here, so for now I'll just use random, cryptic sentences directed towards people or may or may not know I have an LJ, up to and including people who may or may not exist, using as few syllables as possible:
Here goes:
CONVENTION! ^_^
No, I'm NOT the happiest person in the world. If it wasn't written on the list of requirements, deal with it or sod off.
Thanks for telling me about my replacement LAST, that felt great.
I'm so poor. Stop selling cool clothes, you bastards.
I wanna dance!
But for FREE.
When are you going to climb off the page and into my futon you sexy beast man you?
My patterns came in at last! Thanks again! And thank YOU for NOTHING.
If you're going to exclude me, go ahead. I'm not going to cry about it. Do whatever you want. Just keep in mind that one of these days I'm going to have a magnificent fudge party and you won't be invited! *waft waft...oh wait...dammit*
After the crap I got in Kyoto, what makes you think I'd want to hang out with you in a relatively fun atmosphere ever again? I'm not taking chances. Please. And now YOU are coming to our school every week? Until you tell me your freakin' name, don't expect sunshine lollipops OR rainbows to shoot from my every orifice when you walk through the door.
I'm too lazy and cowardly to call myself a writer. I really ought to remedy that without having to gorge on strange food and induce myself into a dream state.
But we'll see.
I MISS j000000! COME TO KOSHIEN. *holds up a sign....that smells like Lush......waft waft*
How I'd love to waste your time. As you would clearly be a waste of mine.
I hope I see you again tonight. I really fell in love with you the other day.
Today's secret word is うちょううううう or うじょううううう, whichever one is closer to "Nuuuuu!"
Let's try it, shall we?
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
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Christmas good. I can cross item number one off my wish list - I got a boyfriend! At least, a temporary one - he don't know that yet. Will send pictures later. Maiko pretty. Lots of walking, no sleep. Only clementines and sarcasm for breakfast. No work, except for today. Izakaya party cancelled. That was a miracle.
Dude who gave us an 80% discount after the trains stopped running was also a miracle. On Christmas Day! God bless that man.
Mos Burger tomorrow, and hopefully spending money on pretty dresses? I think YESH.
And hopefully, we'll end up at the cat place too.
Frog Summoner says hello.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!
*packs some more*
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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IT'S TIME TO PARTY. (see below:)
For the next week, I'll be cleaning like heck and finding out something cool to make for breakfast/brunch Christmas morning, because SANTA CLAUS FROG SUMMONER IS COMING TO TOWN!!!! ^_____________^ So, yes, apologies to Nina's uncle, but I won't be able to exchange cleaning up after preschoolers for room and board. Maybe next time.
After another fun-filled day of running after children who won't listen to me I went to Nishinomiya central and went hog-wild on Christmas decorations...at a big-ass dollar store. Good times. I now have CUSHIONS to sit on. My bum will be so grateful. Now I just have to get off said bum and get to work decorating the place, which I've been putting off since, well, since I first thought of decorating my place.
Man this place is a mess.
Anyhoo, as I was musing to myself during my shopping spree, it suddenly occurred to me that I can't leave this country without something momentous, being 25 and on my own and actually feeling like my own person. Last week I was talking about piercings with my parents class, so I've been seriously considering getting another three holes - one more in each ear and maybe some sort of ear cuff outlet at the top of my left ear. I chose the left ear so I'll remember what side of my face my huge birthmark is (not that it's really important, it's just that I can never remember). Two seconds after a random middle-aged man greeted me on the street, suddenly it hit me -
M.A.B.
GET.
A.
TATTOO.
:)
Now, I'd consider getting one in Osaka, but I don't know who could help me. Sure as HECK no one from my school. There's Takeshi, but I don't know how well he'd do as a translator, because I'm already making a checklist of things to look for before pulling down my pants and hopping up on the table. So New Years vacation in Tokyo sounds like as good a time as any. Zee-chan, 助けてください! Do you know anyone in Tokyo with a really well-done bitching tattoo that can recommend a place? There are EXTRA pancakes in it for you. That's if you end up coming to Kansai with your sister. We can all party in my tiny apartment, rocking out on pancakes and bishounen dramas. We can party like it's 9.
I've also already decided on what I want and where I want it (sssssh!). =^_____^= Should I go through with this, I just hope I don't regret it. Is it true I'll be banned from onsens forever? I guess I can always cover it up with a band-aid. Yeah, it's going to be tiny. Yes, that tiny. What you gonna do about it. You ain't gonna do shee-it.
Anyhoo, that's my update - from next Sunday I'll be travelling, spending money on things I don't need, shopping for Christmas presents, sending letters and souvenirs home, packing, unpacking, cleaning, baking, chafing, knitting, spazzing, praying and up for anything. Anyone have any plans, let me in on them and we can meet up...somewhere. Still don't know where I want to count down 2007 with Liesl and my aunt (who seems pretty freakin' adventurous), so hit me up for that too. We'll be heading to Tokyo on December 28. I've already bought the shinkansen tickets (reserved, by some miracle) and it looks like I have a hotel booked as well - sadly, the capsule experience will have to wait - so all we need is shite to keep us occupied. Please, give me your ideas pertaining to fun shite.
Until then, 出発!!!
*witness as my horse takes off from under my bum*
Oh yeah, I almost forgot: it's ( meme time - all of you consider yourselves TAGGED! )
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
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Found this on MySpace, just out of the blue since I never really check these blog subscriptions:
Monday, December 03, 2007
The Last show thing
Hello. The last several months we've had some major changes, up and downs, in and outs and so on. The end result is, we've found some great people to make music with, but it's time to refocus, restructure and rethink what LYE is to us and will be to everyone else. We'd like to thank you all for your ongoing cult like support of us and our crazy ideas. So don't freak out! I got a few messages last weekend and just want to assure you guys that we're not going to stop making music.
Here's a blurb for ya!
Toronto's LYE is saying goodbye. (...)
WONDERFUL. FUCKING. WONDERFUL. I threw a good Lelaina-Pierce-fit for a minute there. I knew this would happen. Ugh! See if I get you people ANY souvenir samurai sword/envelope openers. Ever!
The (...) represents more details about their last show that I didn't feel like adding, since it's all USELESS information for me anyway. What a way to end this damn week. Well, at least the majority of my TV shows are still on the air back home.
COCKSUCKERS!
Okay I'm done.
Tomorrow it's off to Kyoto...yes, again...with my school. I'm praying to see/hang out with someone else I know from my company because I doubt anyone will take my warning of "don't talk about school for the next 48 hours in front me or I'll defecate all over the reception desk" seriously. To be honest, I think I'm going to give them until dinnertime to find other things to discuss, and if it doesn't happen I'm going to "get lost" and just meet them back at the hotel later. Oooh, sorry everyone, when I left the bathroom I somehow ended up on a subway train that is now stuck in traffic, oh dear, this could take a while. Man. They better be cool.
"Tell that bitch to be cool."
Oh Samuel. Never change.
Ta for now.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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I'm still in Japan, kids. Just in case anyone was wonderin'. Haven't been around lately...too busy TRAVELLING UP THE HOO-HAH! ^________^
I'm finally starting to have feel like I have a life outside of eikaiwa, which may or may not come to a screeching halt next week when all the successful schools get a free weekend in Kyoto. I've decided to make a rule - it'll probably sound better disguising it as an impromptu idea on the train - but I'm making a point to tell everyone to shut the hell up when it comes to school matters. Honestly, I feel surrounded by drones. And it sucks. No one can talk about anything that is not work-related, and I don't think I can deal with that on my weekend, outside of the school (although this will be a work-related vacation...errgh...). I mean, doesn't anyone have a FAMILY MEMBER they can talk about? Let's hear about Uncle Jiro's fish market in Sapporo, or Obaachan's flatulence finally going down. Anything that is not so-and-so's contract renewal, for crap's sake, NO MORE.
Moving on...
Yet in a similar thread...
I still feel like I have no friends outside of school, which is a load of buttcrap now that I've typed it out, so I guess I feel like I want to make more friends. So I've decided to stop procrastinating and reply to a couple of ads in Kansai Scene magazine looking for language exchange partners. A couple of them sound really good and I like the heavy implications that they are not looking for sex maniacs. The only problem is, I have an ulterior motive. That motive is to find someone cute, fairly intelligent and most importantly, not a psychopath who can hook me up with a spousal visa sometime in the near-to-distant future. That's the sad truth of it. I'm an extremely awkward, eccentric, frizzy-haired book nerd permanently cursed with the mentality of a twelve-year-old girl looking for her prince charming. Aaaand I kinda want to come back to Japan and work here in a few years without all the pain and agony of doing the settling-in work myself.
Maybe I should just put all that in an ad of my own.
Anyhoo, I want to meet someone without going through the whole process of "holy crap she sounded so cool on the internet but it turns out she's HIDEOUS" I get with meeting guys. The internet sounds like a good way of doing so. Then again, when has the internet ever been right?
Hmmmm. This post wasn't as awesome as I wanted it to sound. Ah, this popcorn from the fridge ought to help. Okay, take two - cool post starting now:
I wish I could remember what the party was for. Every week there was something, right down to the most trivial event, like the new king cutting his fourth tooth. I was in no position to ask questions then. My only duty was to serve and protect, and I did just that.
I only wish I could have done more.
All her dresses were beautiful. Or perhaps, it was the fact that she was beautiful that made everything hanging from her frame look like gossamer spun from gold. But on this day, she looked more beautiful than ever. Her dress that night was lotus pink, cut and shredded into thin layers making it light and fluffy. When she bounded down the halls and up the stairs, everything trailed behind her. She looked like she tore her way through a tunnel of pink spider webs. She had just leapt from the bowl of a cotton candy spinner. The rose maze the queen prided herself upon so much had been ripped to shreds in her daughter's delicate piano-player hands, the blood red and snow white seeping into each other like drops of blood and milk, to make this colour now wrapped around her small waist and sleek biceps, with just enough left to strand through her long, black tassel hair.
Our commander wouldn't let us eat lunch that day. Only breakfast, and another meal after all the guests had gone home. That would probably explain why I felt so hungry looking at her, and if I hadn't been threatened with death at her coming to the slightest harm, I would have eaten her.
( There's more, unfortunately...heheh... )
If you liked that, you should have seen the time Voldemort had a demon horse. A demon horse named Sugar. Good times.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
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Personal reward for finishing all Level 3 kanji: somehow making THIS my new ringtone.
I keep expecting a little polygon Barrett to run across the screen and point his arm at the screen. XD
CUTEST. REMIX. EVAR.
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
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(to be fleshed out in detail later, when I'm arsed to do so and not working)
-"Pirate Captain Fuck"
-Karen walking for the first time in class (she started walking the week before) and falling down on the other babies...repeatedly
-Hiyori and her mom fighting over her colouring book and Hiyo giving her mom the death glare. Then her mom stuck her tongue at her when Hiyo turned away
-Hiyori demonstrating "mamachan" (sp)
-Reiki yelling at Honoki for not returning the letter D
That's all I got for now.
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
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Because I'm wearing them, and I just did. O______________________________________________O
We have a PSP at home, right? RIGHT?!
Now don't take this the wrong way - I want this game in my pants as much as you do - but really, will FF7 ever stop?! Everywhere you turn there's a spinoff, an adaptation, a prequel, a presequel...oh my crap. Will this be the Simpsons of the video game world? To answer my own rhetorical question, I certainly hope so.
*wanders off singing*
You'll never stop at VII
Have no fears we've got stories for years like...
Aeris fighting zombies,
The Turks join AA
Sephiroth gets a talk show
Or how about some crazy limit breaks?
Where something happens, and do-do do-do-do
Sorry for the blatant parody!
Have no fears, we've got stories for years...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
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We don't have to do ALL of them this weekend. Any selection of the following would be wonderful, even if it's just one thing. Even if we only have time for one thing, I'll be perfectly happy sitting indoors and watching anime or playing PS games with you until Sunday night. ^____^
-Tokyo Disney
-Studio Ghibli
-Sanrio Puroland
-Find the Kill Bill restaurant
-Go to a putumayo or metamorphose store
-Buy a Hello Kitty keitai charm
-Ice cream on fire! ICE CREAM ON FIRE!
-Pachinko or DDR, maybe
-Nintendo or Squaresoft tour (I forget which one actually lets you do tours...worst-case scenario we can just walk by the buildings)
-Any stores that might sell really old anime or manga
-A live would be cool, if there are any this weekend
-Manga convention as detailed here
-Sensoji prz!
-Any big ferris wheels would rock
-Is Daikanyama near where you live?
-And if USHIKU Buddha is close by I'd love to get a picture of that too
Squee squee squeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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I FINISHED THE DAMN BOOK. Just spiked it down on my futon five minutes ago. I feel like I've just finished giving birth to a twelve-pound baby I've been struggling with for five days. YES!
...now what the hell do I do with myself?
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
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Since my class of psychotic yet adorable two-year-olds have all decided to play hooky today, I have time to write this:
YES, MO FOS! My copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has arrived, even though Amazon Japan tried to convince me I never purchased it. BOO-YAH!!!
Things are indeed looking up: got my Harry Potter today, seeing OotP Monday, renting Marie Antoinette tonight, a sakura bath bomb and Ebisu Burger for dinner, and for dessert - POPCORN AND WINE. And anyone who tries to ruin my day/weekend by spoiling this book or doing otherwise will simply feel my talon-like fingernails gutting deep within their reproductive organs. ^__^
Having said that, I will not be on the internet again until I finish this book. Taaa!
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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I knew that was no garbage truck driving towards my apartment at 200km/hour last night. You can't fool me, Japan. あたまがいいですよ。
(at least I think that's what I wanted to say)
Wow, that only took what - four months??? Is that a gaijin record? Am I gaijin record holder yet???
I'm at work now, so I'll flesh this out later.
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For the past week or so things have been super-craptacular, but they're picking up, and I really do have more interesting things to say, but for now I'm going to try and sleep before 3am and in the meantime leave you all with this work of Youtube art. Because anyone who has ever immersed themselves into any video game will feel this man's pain - heck knows I say my subject line every five seconds when I'm playing Kingdom Hearts. XD
"I could be doing a lot with my life. I could be going out, and solving the problems of the world, but I don't know why, you and me Mario, we gotta do this."
And if your ribs can take it, the first line of part 2 is priceless.
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So guess who's coming to visit me in August?
If you said "no one," you're correct! >:O
*seethes* I knew this would happen. Now look at me. I'm blogging at work!
Ah well, I kinda saw this coming. Maybe now I can go home! *temples fingers*
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I HAVE INTERNET!
I HAVE THE FUCKING INTERNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
But now I really have to get back to planning 30 lessons by dinnertime, so I'll be back. In the meantime I'll be downloading Skype and several episodes of Death Note.
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I'm way too hyper to plan lessons. I'd rather be hoarding internet and gushing over my Dvd came in the mail for me today at school. Squeeeeeeee, no more chest pains climbing the stairs to my apartment!
In other news, I'll be getting internet Monday if all goes well, so I'll prattle on more then.
P.S. Pirates was awesome!
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*hem*.
excited.
lazy.
high.
dorky - tattoos - oh Sifton XD.
crushed.
creative.
PUMPED.
exhausted.
kung-fu grip on coffee table.
chipper.
shocked.