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[15 May 2008|09:36pm] |
Sometimes I study.
Sometimes I don't.
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[15 May 2008|06:57pm] |
deal or no deal - bad trip channel
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| Say Cheese! |
[15 May 2008|04:31pm] |
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I r soooo nervous and excited and anxious... 1/2 hour to go!
Aaaaaeeee!
breathe, breathe, breathe....
I must really like getting dressed up.
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| evil wolf man |
[15 May 2008|03:37pm] |
It's time I made a canine costume. More specifically, for Halloween. And to squick the shit out of coworkers.
Load paramaters:
* Black wolf mask - modded to look menacing if needed
* Yellow contacts
* Completely and tightly covered in fur...spandex is needed
* Leather harness - perfect for the "Alaska" theme at MFF
* Hands will be painted black with looooong fingernails
* Of course, a tail.
* Footwear...hrmm. Maybe shoe covers or commissioned paws...might look too big.
I want it to be a rather demony/rough/evil/antichrist lookin' thing.
Ideas, suggestions, cries?
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| new bites |
[15 May 2008|03:23pm] |
Err. what?
Nautical humor. Heh.
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| I dream of puppy. |
[15 May 2008|01:55pm] |
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So last night I had a dream that there was this delicious little puppy that needed a home. So I decided to scoop the wiggle-bomb up. He was so tiny and fell asleep a lot, right on your lap! He kind of looked like Luke, Matt's brothers dog (something like a yorkie), but he was a tan-ish color. Then I woke up and realized I had no puppies. Then I lit myself on fire and jumped out my second-story window.
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| last words |
[15 May 2008|01:24am] |
I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.
Executed by injection, Oklahoma.
~~ Thomas J. Grasso, d. March 20, 1995
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| Best day of my Life |
[15 May 2008|12:59am] |
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Earth To Bella (Part II)-Incubus-Light Grenades |
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let it be known that from last night until this hour tonight has been the best day of my life. Never forget, Leanne.
and really, all it took was honesty. honesty to myself, honesty of apology from others, honesty of feelings from others yet, and yeah. i dont know. i feel so whole right now. so great.
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| Thrilling news |
[13 May 2008|09:12pm] |
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I will be wearing my Monday pants on Wednesday.
I thought you would like to know.
Also for my brother's birthday we went to "Fogo de chao" which in English means "Heaven for a meat eating food addict" or. "awesome salad bar and cute waiter place".
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| omg |
[13 May 2008|11:09am] |
God really does love me after all.
I have been having a terrible few days. Yesterday was awful. I wrote a 2 or 3 page entry about how awful my day was, and decided to dump it because it was so damn negative. Everything was eating at me. Mother's day, work, school, the impending reality of adulthood, my fucking twitching eyelid. Everything. I almost cried yesterday at my stupid video class, this bitch...ugh. We had a lighting workshop at night instead of a normal class, and apparently we were supposed to bring our cameras, but SHE DIDN'T TELL US THIS and then did that awful condescending "well exactly what did you think we were going to be doing?" to make herself look like less of a dumbass for NOT TELLING US TO BRING OUR CAMERAS. We haven't brought our cameras to class all quarter, why would we arbitrarily decide to bring them that night?
So yeah, I wanted to hit someone. I went to the gym yesterday to vent, and EVERY MACHINE THAT I'VE EVER USED was taken. That has never happened before. I just went home in a huff. And, finally, this screenwriting class which I've been keeping on the farthest of the backburners is finally catching up to me. I have to finish a screenplay (which is looking like it's going to be at least 120 pages) by the end of the quarter, June 4th. I'm on page 28.
So, naturally, I'm freaking out about when these 92 pages are going to magically write themselves. I have to present some stuff tomorrow, and I wanted to get at least to page 50, but that just isn't happening. So my eyelid's twitching, my heart is racing, my fingers are flailing in surrender, and I am thisclose to giving it all up and hibernating for the rest of the quarter.
But then, a stream of merciful hope broke through my window.
I just got an e-mail from my screenwriting professor. He canceled tomorrow's class.
Every day I'm convinced there's some higher power flicking rubber bands at me in my sleep, you know? Fucking with me. I know giving power to "fate" or "God" or whatever is sort of a cop-out, but you don't really expect me to blame myself for all the shit that goes wrong in my life, do you? Whatever. I feel so much better right now.
Oh sweet, this means I can go to the gym tomorrow to make up for Monday too! AH TODAY IS TURNING OUT SO MUCH BETTER THAN YESTERDAY. I mean, yesterday was bad. I was even toeing that "Holy shit this is so not worth it I hate school I hate life what the fuck am I doing with myself" line of despair. But now I feel great.
Anyway, that's it. I graduate in a month and a day. Isn't that terrifying?
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| Off With Their Heads? |
[13 May 2008|02:34am] |
AND I'm done with the worst of it. The J-Lit paper went well. Ri-kun better eat it up and love it. Now I have two days of relaxation before my next and final two exams, which I'm not worried about. :D
New job training tomorrow!
Oy.
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| The News from Lake Wobegon |
[13 May 2008|04:33pm] |
JUST KIDDING. NOOOOOOWWWWWW IT WORKS.
HERE IT IS. YOU NEED THIS. LISTEN and FEEL THIS.
[here]
[listen i swear to you, best 10 minutes ever]
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| APHC |
[12 May 2008|03:19pm] |
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I juuuuust want the podcast for A Prairie Home Companion to update from Saturday's show so I can share the beauty that I heard that night with you all....gahhhhhh!!! Come on!!!
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| ball CAUGHT |
[12 May 2008|09:46am] |
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| Another Long Silence |
[12 May 2008|02:42am] |
I figure I should let people here know.
I ended up getting the JET job. It was a bit scary for a bit there but things ended up working out.
On retrospect, this year has been one of the best years of school for me since Sophmore year. I haven't seen as many friends as I'd like to because of all the responsibility that was laid at my feet, but I did manage to make three cool new ones and spend some time teaching some of the Japanese exchange students stuff about America just like I was taught in Japan. Giving back to some ill defined "karma" in that way feels really good. My Japanese hasn't stagnated entirely, Yuri Izumi is a fantastic friend and TA.
The beginning of the year and getting back into painting with JT was fun, as was all the puppet stuff we got to do. I wish I could remember more, but I suppose that writing so much allowed me to forget the bad stuff too.
The semester was marked by an intensification with my thesis and more involvement with the Japanese exchange students. Winners all. The Gundam RPG Dave is running isn't half bad either.
And of course there's graduation. I'm glad to be finally leaving college in some sense, but I'm going to miss the good times in Columbia. From the late night Halo sessions with Beth/Chris/et all, to the good times in Hatch Sophmore year, to the rocking times Junior year as I sort of rebuilt things in Twain, to the good times right before I left for Japan with everyone in their respective off campus places...my life has taken an interesting course, especially in the last two years. There were several dark times of note and I would definatly change some of the things I did or didn't do. Still, on the whole, living here and meeting or becoming friends with all of the people in my life has been a lot of fun. I have no doubt that, as happened when I left high school, the bunch of us will keep in touch. Our relationships may change and time may pass but memories and the people associated with them have a habit of becoming welcome touchstones to our pasts.
I imagine that at some point in the future I will get around to revamping and relaunching this journal, probably as its own website as I record my adventures in Japan as a JET. For real this time, since I'll be gone for such long periods of time I assume people will want to keep up with me. But for now I'm just enjoying my last few days as an undergraduate.
It's been a very long, varied, and interesting road. But, here at the end of it, I have to say I'm at the very least happy with a lot of it.
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| "the voters have stolen my nomination." |
[12 May 2008|12:36am] |
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hillary reacts unfavorably to her latest political setback:
thank you, ann, for linking this. you are the light of my life.
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| for your reading enjoyment, a very short story i wrote during two boring law classes |
[10 May 2008|09:38pm] |
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I'm not a writer nor feign to be one, I was just bored. I can't compete with Willy's epic collection of short stories anyway.
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[10 May 2008|02:19pm] |
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I'm dangerously lacking in motivation to finish this semester on a high note. One thing at a time... It's mostly this poli sci final and my j-lit paper that i'm dreading... speed up time, someone.
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[10 May 2008|09:20am] |
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the summaaa tiiiiiiiiiime |
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This quarter rules. I’m having the time of my life and as I said to Em yesterday, I haven’t been this happy in a really, really long time.
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