The Small Girl Smiles. One Eyelid Flickers.

Let's have a cheer from everyone!

2008-12-13T07:06:07Z

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?

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true (NB: leave a comment regarding the wish you're granting!). Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

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*

YUUUUUUKI DAAAA!

2008-01-20T00:58:50Z

Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow!!!!!!!

Now it's off to that convention of mine.

うちょううううう！／うじょうううう！

2008-01-18T14:58:06Z

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?

MEEEEERRRRRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-12-27T17:57:30Z

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*

Making Christmas, making Christmas!

2007-12-12T13:37:11Z

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!

HOLIDAY MEME Instructions!

Step One

- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

Here we go, yo.

1) I want a boyfriend. I'm not kidding myself anymore. I'm still pretty sure I'm asexual, but I still want to experience romantic feelings with someone before my ovaries turn to ash. I'll even settle for an acquaitance who likes hugging me and holding my hand every now and then. Oh yeah, and s/he lets me sit in his/her lap. I always feel happy doing that, it's like I'm four years old again. (You all knew I was a nerd before you read this, so don't bother poking fun at me.)

2) Guylian chocolates please.

3) Should I get this tattoo, I just hope I like it.

4) Cashback. *bats eyelids sweetly at Nina* XD Don't worry, I'm willing to wait.

5) To go to Humber and actually get a decent job out of it.

6) A cute language exchange partner.

7) To find a good church, if not here, then when I go back home. I really miss church. Especially now that it's Christmas.

8) To get off my duff and start dancing again.

9) A DS lite with my own custom colour so if anyone steals it I can nail them in seconds, and all the trimmings: carrying pouch with Kingdom Hearts stickers, recharging glow dock, matching stylus pen, Kuromi decal stickers on the inside, screen protector sheets, USB connector, "Kanji Dictionary: Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten," "Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories," the latest LoZ game whose title I can't remember, a game pouch, and a sleek silver briefcase to carry it all in. Said DS shall be named after its own colour: BUTTER.

10) For all my family and friends to be healthy and safe, to take care of each other and themselves (yes I've rearranged that on purpose), for all of us to not worry so much about the little things that bog us down during the day. I wish for everyone to have a moment this Christmas where they just sit back or look up at the sky and realize that they're all right just the way they are. We really are all lucky to have enough to eat, to have a warm safe place to sleep, and to be greeted with smiling loving faces. Merry Christmas everyone and God bless. ^__________^ (yes, all this from someone who listed "easily-obtainable-boyfriend" as number one on her list....TT! ^___^)

THAT'S JUST GREAT. (9ò____ó)=@

2007-12-08T13:15:09Z

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.

It's frickin' freezing in here, Mr. Bigglesworth

2007-12-04T14:59:46Z

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.

Getting paid to follow every move of the woman of your dreams. I was in heaven and in hell that night. In my short career as a knight to the royal family, I had never run so much in my life as I did that night. Who knew this gentle creature who often stood by her mother and father's side, silent and demure as a doe, could outrun the fastest men I knew? I had never wished so hard to enter her mind to know what excited her so. What sign in the stars, what scent on the wind, had warned her to live this night like it was her last on Earth? To throw all her royal demeanor to the wind, to kick off her heels and tear through the world, not giving a damn about the poor slovenly sap charged with death should he lose sight of her. It was the only time I had the courage to speak to her, and yet I barely had enough breath in me. I only lost sight of her for a second from the ballroom to the abandoned fountain room in the east wing - it was the scent of her bandit's load of fondant cakes that drew me to her. I remember collapsing to my knees in relief, gasping to her: "Please, your Highness...not so fast..." She turned to me after a moment, her mouth full of sweets. She finished chewing and swallowed. Her pixie grin warmed my heart. I don't think she heard what I said at all. She only studied me for a moment, then offered me her last cake. It was tiny and pink, like her and her dress. I contemplated eating it from her hand as I knelt in front of her. It would have been worth the punishment.

But I didn't get that chance. Just as I was inching towards it the sound of yammering guests startled me and I jumped to my feet. She dropped the cake. We studied it for a moment like a piece of modern art. She must like me, I thought to myself out of the blue.

That was when the fireworks began.

As I chased after her up four flights of stairs to the castle rooftop, I kept wondering how the hell she got past me. I was blocking the door, and I fancy myself a pretty big guy. This girl was a minx or something. One of those forest creatures you can never catch without having to shoot it in order to slow it down. She could never be caught, with her gorgeous dress and sweet-smelling skin and midnight hair. She would run laps around the world time and time again, while I grew old and useless. I would be an old man, peaceful and content in my bedpan, until I realized that she was still beautiful and powerful and so many things I could never understand, and that would be the moment I would die old and embittered by the cruelty of the world. I stared at her back as she gaped at the bursts of colour in the dark skies, wanting more than anything to wrap my arms around her and taste her, miles above the world where no one could stop me. I probably should have, looking back now...

Then again, I'm an idiot.

What happened next remains a blur. I can't remember when the rainbow sparkles of light turned to fire. I can't remember when my commander pulled me to his side, targeting on my arm through all the nobles and politicians running amok around us. The mob of frightened upstarts trampling to escape, the legions of soldiers that outnumbered us, the retreat into the dark unknown of the forest as we broke ranks. Worst of all, I can't remember what separated me from my charge, who I loved so dearly despite the fact that I knew nothing about her, and pulled me down from the roof to the grounds below. Nor can I remember what made me struggle out of my commander's arms just in time to see her still on the roof. I recognized the silhouette of her dress immediately, backlit by fire. I remember at least three pairs of hands, pulling me deeper into the woods as I saw her shadow turning this way and that as if looking for something or someone, like a lost little girl. My last memory of that night before vomiting and passing out was seeing her shadow fall from the sky, her legs kicking and her arms flailing, but no scream to accompany it.

Now that I think about it, I never heard her say anything. It was quite possible she couldn't talk at all.

We went back, eventually. The castle was in ruins, everything valuable gone the commander told us. What an asshole. He knew damn good and well there was only one thing of value in that place.

Most of the bodies had been tossed into the castle pool, which my fellows and I started working on immediately. A lot of recognizable faces, but not the one I expected to find. The king and queen might be glad to hear that, I surmised grimly. Somehow we drained the water out. The others were still searching through the castle for survivors, be they friend or foe. We were more than happy to get our hands on some of the latter. I however, couldn't pull myself away from the empty pool, deep and dark like a cavern. I must have squatted beside it, immune to the stench of death, for hours, looking for something. Anything.

My time was not wasted.

A small blue light winked at me, tucked away in a corner, like a fallen jewel. I jumped down without a thought and ran to it like a desperate beggar finding gold. It jutted out from the tile several inches taller and wider than the other pieces. Even with my friends and commander bellowing at me that I had gone mad, I struggled to dig it out. In my frustration I pounded it with my fist. It emitted a loud click, accompanied by the sound of grating metal behind me. There, at the bottom of the castle pool five meters into the earth, was a small tunnel.

Over the next few days we worked our way through miles of a sewer labyrinthe, an ancient entrance/escape route that was impossible to navigate without an expert swimmer who could hold his breath for minutes at a stretch. Research would reveal that it was not intended for the royal family, but for the royal guard to penetrate the castle grounds should trouble arise, such as the incident that night. We saw how useful that turned out to be for us.

But I still hope in my heart that it was useful to someone. You know who I mean. We never found her body, nor did we find traces of her on the other side of the maze, which came up through a small pond in a local graveyard days away from the castle. We still wait for her return. The day she will come and overthrow the enemy that took her family out of power and destroyed all we held dear. As I lay here in my bedpan, once peaceful and now bitter, I hope to see her again. Now and then I do, still running through my mind, still beautiful and powerful and so many things I will never understand...

If you liked that, you should have seen the time Voldemort had a demon horse. A demon horse named Sugar. Good times.

I KNOW I should be studying but...

2007-11-18T16:24:56Z

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.

made it home

2007-11-05T11:13:13Z

that is all. :)

Funny things that happen(ed) at work

2007-09-19T04:56:12Z

(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.

Oops I've Crapped My Pants! (they really work!)

2007-09-07T14:01:33Z

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...

To-Do List for my Zee-chan!

2007-08-15T15:15:20Z

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!

Ohhh, that's so much better. I can go on the internet again!

2007-07-26T12:56:46Z

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?

You are, as we say in Latin, a "dorkus malorkus"

2007-07-22T12:25:34Z

My HP7 Predictions:

1) Voldemort and Snape die. Voldemort's end is obvious; Snape will make some sort of Darth Vader self-sacrifice to redeem his previous actions, but he will still have to go.

2) The reappearance of Dumbledore as Inferi or otherwise

3) Something slobbery will happen between Ron and Hermione

4) Bill will be cured of his werewolfism, maybe Lupin too; either way, someone will knock off Fenrir Greyback and ta-da!

5) Draco Malfoy will pull a Lando Calrissian

6) Fred and George keep their store

7) Neville kicks some ass

8) Grawp will speak coherent English

9) Sirius is still alive or will make some form of physical reappearance like Dumbledore

10) Bellatrix Lestrange gets hers

11) Harry will go (or be well on his way) to Auror School

12) "What the hell happened to Buckbeak???"

13) The last Horcrux is a living thing (possibly Harry himself, but not bloody likely as that would be too predictable); odds are it's a main character who will be sorely missed but destroyed nonetheless

14) Percy will return to the family once he has been physically or emotionally scarred for life - something traumatic/significant will happen to him to make him see what a git he is

15) I can't remember if Merope is still alive or not - I can't find where it has been mentioned in HBP that she died, so if she hasn't, she'll make a hardcore appearance in DH

16) The mystery of Crookshanks will be revealed. What that mystery will entail I don't know. All I know is there is something seriously fucked up about that cat. He'll turn out to be Regulus Black or something. That animal is fucked up.

17) An open ending!

TOTAL: ~~TO BE DETERMINED~~ NINE! (although some are not fully true, I'm rounding it up from an 8.5. Not friggin' bad, eh?)

As you can see, I am as we say in Latin, a "dorkus malorkus." And I'm proud of it.

...Slytherins rule!

Harry and Tom: Together at Last (working title)

2007-07-21T04:27:40Z

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!

Goodbye, earthquake cherry......mmm, cherries....

2007-07-11T02:40:53Z

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.

Ho-HAH! Sonuvabitch!

2007-07-03T15:01:05Z

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.

I'm mad, I'm mad, I'm really really mad!

2007-06-19T05:29:04Z

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*

YATTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-11T06:52:44Z

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. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We shall have a magnificent garden party and you're not invited!

2007-06-08T08:33:36Z

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!

FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

2007-05-07T12:44:02Z

I COMPLETELY forgot tomorrow is Nina's birthday. *orz orz orz* I could have bought her something from Osakajo, or I could have really really tried to make fudge in my 2 x 3-foot kitchen. ARRRRRRRRrrrrgghhhh...um, I'll make you something nice when you come to Japan. I pwomise.

*deep bow*

I can't believe Golden Week is over. I feel like I'm going back to prison. I don't want to deal with uptight dillweeds asking "so what did you do for Golden Week? So what did you do for Golden Week?" over and over, expecting me to say I went on some wild Thai adventure with all of my long-term lovers or something just as exciting. They know very well I don't have any friends or family or romantic partners here, so why they keep asking me every Tuesday what I did that weekend and replying with a dejected "oh...well...that sounds nice" is completely beyond my reasoning. Ugh.

Maybe one of my students brought me chocolate from somewhere. Again. XD

Okay, I'm off to enjoy more internet while I still have a couple of yen to spare. Later taters!

Hai, dekimashita!!!

2007-03-31T10:22:51Z

I live!

I'm in Japan!

I'm abusing free internet at work until I can get my own!

Plenty more to say, but for now I have to run, buy expired food from the supermarket before it closes, and dash home for a quick bath with floating doughnut-scented candles before Prisoner of Azkaban comes on.

*huggles you all*

SMEAGOL IS FREEEEEEE!

2007-03-02T22:12:52Z

Yesterday I put 200 CDs and DVDs in the wrong places so no one could ever guess where to look for them. I even went so far as to tuck a couple under the sections themselves. They won't be accounted for until they close the place down and physically move and/or dismantle those big black bunks. Then I took the money from my cash and threw it across the store instead of counting it, ripped off my uniform (i.e. my shirt), soaked it in the vodka I snuck into the store during my 30-minute lunch break, set in on fire and threw it into the lineup of customers as I jumped into the horse-drawn chariot of gold I had organized for my getaway and rode off into the night, all the while flippin' the bird and screaming, "that's for employing me for 27 months!"

And that was my farewell to the retail business.

Now that I look back of my actions with a quiet, satisfied reflection, it has hit me that I'm on the one-way road to real life and a (somewhat) real job. No more BS jobs, ever. If there is no creative and personal fulfillment involved, I won't take it. I'd feel better taking another internship that pays me in jellybeans than get a $10/hour gig serving stuck-up suburban assclowns and their stupid teenage kids. I've done the wage slave thing for six years, and I say enough is enough! Goodbye, retail and food service: hello, bohemian poverty.

T-2 weeks. As Kelly Osbourne would say, I am kakking myself. I don't know what I was thinking when I signed up for this, but it's too late to turn the clock back now. I'm too excited and eager to bail out. The next couple weeks will be packing stuff, buying stuff with money I don't really have and should be saving to buy myself insta-noodles and kleenex for toilet paper when I inevitably go broke and starve for a couple of weeks before pay day (and I squarely place the blame on this vile tempting mistress), fighting with my family over the stupidest shit ever and finally having a nervous breakdown when I can't fit a ten-pound bag of rice into my suitcase.

Wheeeeeeeeee!

Ugh, I feel like crap. That McDonald's from last night just ain't sitting right - now that it should. I'm supposed to be in junk food/sugar/meat detox, but that's easier said than done. *runs off to get some spicy Doritos*

By the way, does 腹を空かす外人 make more sense than ハングリー外人? I can't quite figure out which will make more sense, and websites don't help.

*runs off to get some spicy Doritos*

IFC speaks only the truth!

2007-02-16T04:14:19Z

You know how I get all riled up about wasting time/money on movies that suck?

Let's hope I don't add this to the list. But I guess if it sucks ass, I can go on metamorphique or lalolitas (if it still exists) and sell it to someone. I just won't tell them it sucks.

It Lolita! Lolita! You buy it! YOU BUY IT!

kicks Valentine's Day in the arse part II

2007-02-15T20:08:17Z

Tokyo Grill sushi + "Spirited Away" + sleeping in the middle of it = happy Mab.

This is my new Venereal day tradition, now and forever. Amen.

On a more serious note, if I don't get my airline ticket receipt in the next five business days, I'm gonna choke a bitch.

*bounces away*