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Does anyone else think that Justin Timberlake’s new single, “Sexy/Back” sounds an awful lot like it should have been on JC’s album? Doesn’t he kinda sound like JC? Just a little? Is it just me? And is it wrong for me to not totally like JT’s new single? I’m still on the fence about it right now but…ETA:You Passed the US Citizenship TestCongratulations - you got 10 out of 10 correct!Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:531352006-08-18T23:50:00miriad @ 2006-08-18T23:50:002006-08-19T06:59:50Z2006-08-19T06:59:50ZEveryone must download the fanvid “This Is How It Works” bylim. Wait, wait, WAIT! Before you go running off, all willy nilly, you must know that it isn’t on her LJ (which is friends locked and only for people she (he? I have no fucking clue…) knows) you must know this. The link is locatedhere.The wonderful, amazingsynecdochicis hosting it, or at the very least, linking to it so head over to her page, via the link up there, and check out the vid. It’s a prequel/homage to the storyFreedom’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose.Yeah. You read that right. The vid was inspired by that story and it rocks. Totally amazing. I bought the album by Regina Spektor, who sings the song in the video, because she rocked my fucking world. Anyone wants the song, let me know.In regards to the Gates tonight, a few comments (NO SPOILERS):1) Rules for Stargate are the same as for Buffy. I don’t answer the phone during the show, even for mutual squeeage. Sorry.2) Daniel. The eyebrows. The coffee mug. So little and yet way too much. If you saw it, you know what I mean.3) Anyone watch the special beforehand? The practical joke with Amanda Tapping and RDA on the block of ice? I almost peed my pants.4) Apparently,lily_shrike,als_wonderlandand I are apparently on the official Sci-Fi page, in the special feature from the Comic Con. You can see us squeeing, bouncing and taking pictures to the left of the lady in the pink shirt. Apparently. Which is cool.5) If I liked Elizabeth more, or even a little, I would have given a shit. And the whole John thing? Didn’t buy it for one freaking minute. Not one.More squeeage later.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:529572006-08-06T00:44:00miriad @ 2006-08-06T00:44:002006-08-06T07:44:36Z2006-08-06T07:44:36Zals_wonderland- you have to read this. Fucking GUH. Hottness. Whoo boy. Just… guh.Like Water, Lying by synecdochicurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:522252006-07-24T21:33:00miriad @ 2006-07-24T21:33:002006-07-25T04:35:20Z2006-07-25T04:36:05Zals_wonderland,lily_shrikeand I have decided that for those of us who want to be writer, professionally or otherwise, we need some help staying on track. For that purpose, we have createdscooby_writing, a place where assignments, writing and feedback will be posted and given for us and our fellow scoobies.Go here to join up.Once we get people signed up, we’ll get started on prompts and writing assignments. We are not only looking for writers but for people willing to beta and give feedback so if that’s you, let us know.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:521702006-07-09T22:32:00miriad @ 2006-07-09T22:32:002006-07-10T05:59:44Z2006-07-10T05:59:44ZMovie and TV meme ganked fromslodwick.13 Going on 3050 First DatesA Bronx TaleA Cinderella StoryA Walk to RememberAirplane!Almost FamousAlong Came PollyAmerican PieAmerican Pie 2American Pie Band CampAmerican WeddingAnchorManAnger ManagementBad Boys 2BedazzledBench WarmersBest BetBig Trouble in Little ChinaBlazing SaddlesBoogeymanBoondock SaintsBride of ChuckyButterfly EffectCalendar GirlsCatch Me If You CanChicagoChildren of the CornChild’s PlayChristineCoach CarterCruel IntentionsCruel Intentions 2CujoDarkness FallsDeep ImpactDodgeball: A True Underdog StoryDumb & DumberDumber & DumbererEight Crazy NightsETEvent HorizonEver AfterFight ClubFinal DestinationFinal Destination 2Final Destination 3Finding NemoFinding NeverlandFlubberForrest GumpFrailtyFreaky FridayFrom HellFull Metal JacketGarden StateGhost ShipGothikaGreaseHalf BakedHalloweenHarold & Kumar Go To White CastleHarry Potter and the (Philosopher/Sorceror)’s StoneHarry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanHellboyHow to Lose a Guy in 10 DaysI Am SamI, RobotIce AgeIce Age 2: The MeltdownIdentityIndependence DayJeepers CreepersJeepers Creepers 2Joe DirtJoy RideJust MarriedKing KongKingPinK-PaxLabyrinthLemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate EventsLilo & StitchLittle Black BookLone StarLord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingLord of the Rings: The Return of the KingLord of the Rings: The Two TowersLucky Number SlevinMaid in ManhattanMars AttacksMeet the FockersMeet The ParentsMiracleMunichMy Boss’ DaughterNapoleon DynamiteNever Been KissedNeverending StoryNightmare on Elm StreetOcean’s ElevenOcean’s TwelveOld SchoolOne Flew Over the Cukoo’s NestPassion of the ChristPassport to ParisPirates of the CaribbeanPoseidonPractical MagicPredator IPredator IIReign of FireRemember the TitansRentResident EvilResident Evil 2Road to PerditionRobotsRocky Horror Picture ShowRush HourRush Hour 2Saving Private RyanSawSaw IIScary MovieScary Movie 2Scary Movie 3Scary Movie 4ScreamScream 2Scream 3Secret WindowSeed of ChuckyShe’s All ThatShrekShrek 2SidewaysSignsSixteen CandlesSky HighSon Of The MaskSpider-ManSpider-Man 2Starsky and HutchSuper TroopersSurviving X-MASSwimfanT2Team America : World PoliceTen Things I Hate About YouTerminalTerminator 3Texas Chainsaw MassacreThe 40-Year Old VirginThe Big LebowskiThe Da Vinci CodeThe Day After TomorrowThe Fog (I’m assuming this is the re-make)The GrinchThe GrudgeThe Hot ChickThe Lizzie McGuire MovieThe MaskThe NotebookThe OthersThe Princess BrideThe Princess DiariesThe Princess Diaries 2: Royal EngagementThe RingThe Ring 2The RingerThe TerminatorThe VillageThe Wedding SingerThe Whole Nine YardsUniversal SoldierWar of the WorldsWhite ChicksWhite NoiseWhite OleanderX2X3X-MenI only counted those I’ve seen 3 or more episodes of.247th HeavenAdam-12Alfred Hitchcock PresentsAliasAngelArrested DevelopmentBattlestar GalacticaBaywatchBeverly Hills 90210BonanzaBoy Meets WorldBuffy the Vampire SlayerBug JuiceChappelle’s ShowCharlie’s AngelsCharmedCheersColumboCommander in ChiefCouplingCowboy BebopCSICSI: MiamiCSI: NYCurb Your EnthusiasmDanny PhantomDawson’s CreekDead Like MeDeadwoodDegrassi: The Next GenerationDesperate HousewivesDoctor WhoEntourageEREverwoodFamily GuyFarscapeFather TedFawlty TowersFelicityFireflyFriendsFuturamaGet SmartGilligan’s IslandGilmore GirlsGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.Grey’s AnatomyGunsmokeHannah MontanaHappy DaysHogan’s HeroesHome ImprovementHomicide: Life on the StreetHouseI Dream of JeannieI Love LucyInuyashaInvader ZimInvasionJackassJoeyLaguna BeachLas VegasLaverne and ShirleyLaw and OrderLeave it to BeaverLittle House on the PrairieLois and Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanLostLost in SpaceLove, American StyleM*A*S*HMacGyverMalcolm in the MiddleMarried… With ChildrenMelrose PlaceMiami ViceMonkMy Three SonsNCISNip/TuckNumb3rsOne Tree HillOzPerry MasonPokemonPower RangersPrison BreakRescue MeRoseanneRoswellSaved by the BellScooby-Doo, Where Are You?ScrubsSeinfeld(even though I hate this damn show)Sex and the CitySix Feet UnderSmallvilleSo WeirdSouth ParkSpongebob SquarepantsStar TrekStar Trek: Deep Space NineStargate AtlantisStargate SG-1SupermanSupernaturalSurfaceTaxiTeen TitansThat 70s ShowThat’s So RavenThe 4400The Addams FamilyThe Andy Griffith ShowThe A-TeamThe AvengersThe Beverly HillbilliesThe Brady BunchThe Cosby ShowThe Daily ShowThe FlintstonesThe Fresh Prince of Bel-AirThe HoneymoonersThe JetsonsThe Love BoatThe MunstersThe O.C.The Office *UK*The ShieldThe SimpsonsThe Six Million Dollar ManThe SopranosThe Suite Life of Zack and CodyThe Twilight ZoneThe WaltonsThe West WingThe Wonder YearsThe X-FilesThird WatchThree’s CompanyTwin PeaksVeronica MarsWhose Line is it Anyway?Will and GraceWingsXena: Warrior Princessurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:514722006-06-25T14:05:00miriad @ 2006-06-25T14:05:002006-06-25T21:10:15Z2006-06-25T21:10:15ZSo hey! Long time, no see.1) I will be heading home to the midwest/tristate area for a visit with my boy beginning on June 30th and we will be home until about the 9th. This was just finalized (mostly… still waiting on dad with the ticket info) on Saturday morning. I have plans to be at the Lake for the 4th but nothing else is set in stone. What are YOUR schedules and where will you be during that time? I will do my best to visit and see you all, because I love you!2) Bear’s sister had her baby. We are the proud aunt and uncle of a ten pound(!) baby boy. Yay!3) The jobs that I was so excited about? The interviews that I thought went so well? Not so much. Haven’t heard a damn thing from anyone and that’s a bad sign. I have a few other things that may pan out but no gaurentees and so, I am feeling a bit on the down side. :(4) Asked crazy neighbor to cat sit. I may find my whole apartment rearranged when I return. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. *shrugs*5) Comicon is coming and people are heading out to see me! Yay!!!!!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:510932006-05-26T02:28:00miriad @ 2006-05-26T02:28:002006-05-26T06:40:08Z2006-05-26T06:40:08ZHey guys!Quick, insta-rec for y’all.Late Nights and Other Irrelevancies by AriThis is aHouse/Rodney McKay fic. Yeah. You read that right. And it’s awesome. To quote the author, from her warnings, “There’s a little bit of sarcasm. But only a little. Because naturally neither man snarks. Ever..”I love this story. It is awesome.lily_shrike, you must read, then call or write me. Seriously. You too,als_wonderland. *winks*Excerpt:-the easy, unashamed way House could shrug his clothes off and present himself to Rodney, crooked leg and hairy chest and scruffy beard all. It made Rodney able to shed his own clothes, paunchy belly and untanned skin, “about twenty pounds overweight. You should probably go the gym three, no, four times a week and go on a strict diet.” Beat. “But since that’s out, fellatio first tonight?”urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:507252006-05-24T20:44:00miriad @ 2006-05-24T20:44:002006-05-25T00:48:20Z2006-05-25T00:48:20ZHappy Birthdayloveprincess524!!!!!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:505182006-05-19T20:43:00miriad @ 2006-05-19T20:43:002006-05-20T00:53:44Z2006-05-20T00:53:44ZSo, I started taking stock of what I’m doing out here. I’m supposed to be trying to get a job in the “industry” but how hard have I been working to do that? I am working at CBS but I am dealing with the audiences, not any sort of production or writing tasks that I went to school for and what I really want to do.So, last night I logged on toEntertainment Careers.net, paid the stupid $4.95 membership fee and sent out seven resumes. At 1am.I got a call today.There was a posting for a writers assistant but it was a few days old and I was sure that they had already found someone but I decided to go for it anyway and wrote this quippy little cover letter about how they probably already had someone but I would give it a go anyway and here’s my resume. And they called me. I have an interview on Tuesday at 11am.It’s only part-time at this point- 1 day a week- but it’s better than nothing and this woman is an established writer working on a new Tracy Ullman show so I could really make some awesome connections with this position.It makes me feel better about everything. I was starting to get down about my lack of progress but maybe the slow but steady wins the race deal is better than flash in the pan, you know? So, fingers crossed, things will go well on Tuesday and I will have good news to put before y’all then. *fingers crossed*urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:498392006-05-11T19:05:00miriad @ 2006-05-11T19:05:002006-05-12T02:12:45Z2006-05-12T02:12:45ZI am reading this AWESOME SG/SGA/HP crossover story and it totally rules.als_wonderlandandlily_shrike- you both need to read it and pass he good word along. It is of the good.John, Rodney, DANIEL at Hogwarts, which is so weird that I know you all want to go and read right now, with good reason. They aren’t in school with Harry, et al, you see but in school way AFTER them and there is a great mixing of the two worlds to combine them into something awesome.Also, John as chaser in quidditch? Hott. That’s right. With 2 t’s.BagglevargerJohn glanced up at McKay from his PotionsEyebrows arched, John snatched the paper out of his hands. He snickered.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:495272006-05-07T22:57:00miriad @ 2006-05-07T22:57:002006-05-08T06:08:53Z2006-05-08T07:37:40ZSo, the end of another day at Blockbuster Video. I was supposed to be at work until 10pm but I felt sick. Not cool. I left early, went to Borders, where I spent my gift card from Katie on books I already had but had loaned out and NEVER GOT BACK. I was talking to Bear about it and he told me that if they were the really great books, then I needed to buy them again because those really great ones are worth it.So I bought myself:Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierA Very Long Engagement by Sebastien JaprisotThe Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerThe Ha-Ha by Dave King(which I haven’t read before but it looked good so… it was my only new novel.)oh, I think that I have to move to the other computer so that Bear can get rid of stuff off the desktop. So… later, I guess.ETA:I am the worst typist EVER and I just corrected like 8 MILLION typos in this post and it’s not even very long! Egads!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:493262006-05-03T04:08:00I have lived through 66 of these 158 (actually 83) things2006-05-03T08:21:31Z2006-05-03T08:21:31Zmeme ganked frommoongirli1. Put numbers in the boxes instead of x’s (example: 1, 2, 3, 4, …)2. Repost as “I have lived through ____ of these 158 (actually 83) things.” Note: It’s actually only 83 items so… for all you sticklers out there… I’m going to change the meme![1] I have read a lot of books.[2] I have been on some sort of varsity team.[3] I have run more than 2 miles without stopping.[4] I have been to Canada.[5] I have been to Europe.[6] I have watched cartoons for hours.[7] I have tripped UP the stairs.[8] I have fallen down an entire flight of stairs.[9] I have been snowboarding/skiing.[10] I have played ping pong.[11] I swam in the ocean.[ ] I have been on a whale watch.[12] I have seen fireworks.[13] I have seen a shooting star.[14] I have seen a meteor shower.[ ] I have almost drowned.[15] I have been so embarrassed I wanted to disappear.[16] I have listened to one CD over and over and over again.[17] I have had stitches.[ ] I have had frostbite.[ ] I have licked a frozen pole and got stuck there.[18] I have stayed up til 2 doing homework/projects.[19] I currently have a job.[20] I have been ice skating.[21] I have been rollerblading.[22] I have fallen flat on my face.[23] I have tripped over my own two feet.[24] I have been in a fist fight.[25] I have played videogames for more than 3 hours straight.[26] I have watched the power rangers.[ ] I attend Church regularly.[27] I have played truth or dare.[28] I have already had my 16th birthday.[29] I have already had my 17th birthday.[30] I’ve called someone stupid.[31] I’ve been in a verbal argument.[32] I’ve cried in school.[ ] I’ve played basketball on a team.[ ] I’ve played baseball on a team.[ ] I’ve played football on a team.[33] I’ve played soccer on a team.[ ] I’ve done cheerleading on a team.[34] I’ve played softball on a team.[35] I’ve played volleyball on a team.[36] I’ve played tennis on a team.[37] I’ve been on a track or cross country team.[38] I’ve been swimming more than 20 times in my life.[ ] I’ve bungee jumped.[ ] I’ve climbed a rock wall.[39] I’ve lost more than $20.[40] I’ve called myself an idiot.[41] I’ve called someone else an idiot.[42] I’ve cried myself to sleep.[43] I’ve had (or have) pets.[44] I’ve owned a spice girls CD.[45] I’ve owned a britney spears CD.[46] I’ve owned an N*Sync CD. (hells yeah!)[47] I’ve owned a backstreet boys CD.[ ] I’ve mooned someone.[48] I have sworn at someone of authority before.[49] I’ve been in the newspaper.[50] I’ve been on TV.[51] I’ve been to Hawaii.[52] I’ve eaten sushi.[ ] I’ve been on the other side of a waterfall.[53] I’ve watched all of the Lord of the Rings movies.[54] I’ve watched all the Harry Potter movies.[55] I’ve watched all of the Rocky movies.[56] I’ve watched the 3 stooges.[57] I’ve watched “Newlyweds” Nick & Jessica.[58] I’ve watched Looney Tunes.[ ] I’ve been stuffed into a locker/I have stuffed others into lockers.[59] I’ve been called a geek.[60] I’ve studied hard for a test and got a bad grade.[61] I’ve not studied at all for a test and aced it.[ ] I’ve hugged my mom within the past 24 hrs.[ ] I’ve hugged my dad within the past 24 hours.[62] I’ve met a celebrity/music artist.[63] I’ve written poetry.[ ] I’ve been arrested.[64] I’ve been attracted to someone much older than me.[65] I’ve been tickled till I’ve cried.[66] I’ve tickled someone else until they cried.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:491042006-04-16T03:36:00miriad @ 2006-04-16T03:36:002006-04-16T07:39:11Z2006-04-16T07:39:11ZHey,als_wonderland. I found two Labyrinth drabbles that you have to read. The first one is good. The second will rock your world.Click here. They are the second and third drabbles in the post.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:487942006-04-11T02:30:00miriad @ 2006-04-11T02:30:002006-04-11T06:40:22Z2006-04-11T06:46:05Z1) Am working on the prompts that I was given. They were awesome, by the way, and thank you everyone who stopped by to help out. THey should be posted fairly soon.2) Just sent a resume toThe Meltdown Comics Shophere in Los Angeles as my excitement for the Labyrinth grows and grows. I miss comics, I miss selling them, reading them and talking about them. This needs to change. Sooo… when I saw a posting on their My Space page saying that they were hiring, I sent them my resume. They are looking for experience and I think that four years hocking comics has to count for something, eh?3) I am reading this awesome Dead Like Me/Stargate: SG-1/Stargate: Atlantis crossover fic and it fucking rocks. Snarky, funny, awesomely in character (Daniel as the reaper that has, in the past, yelled “Get out of the way!”)- y’all have to check this out.Dead Like Thembymad_gaters4) Thank you to the wonderful person who hooked me up with the Simpsons. I know that it was a friends locked post and I’m not sure of the etiquette of letting people know who has what and where but thank you. I laughed SO hard. I appreciate it very, very much.ETA:You know, when you make a stupid mistake, like type in a fellow LJ-er’s name wrong and then you post it, then realize that you were an idiot and typed it wrong and try to fix it and LJ will not let you because it’s in “read only mode”, it makes a chick want to choke a bitch.I’m just saying.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:486292006-04-10T00:27:00miriad @ 2006-04-10T00:27:002006-04-10T04:30:03Z2006-04-10T04:49:09ZOh my god. Was talking to my mother on the phone and totally missed Richard Dean Anderson on the Simpsons! Oh NO!Does anyone have a copy or know where I could get/dowlaod a copy? I’m sure that it will start popping up in a few days (hell, who am I kidding, a few hours) but I really wanted to see it and I missed it. Stupid phone.ETA:als_wonderland- Thank you for the rec on your LJ. I have one for you.The Roads Never Lead Where They’re Supposed to GoQuote to Entice you:”Botanist, actually,” the guy said, raising both eyebrows this time. “Dr John Sheppard.”Rodney stared. “Ah, so the fabled Sheppard does exist.” His gaze travelled from the tips of Sheppard’s Nikes to the top of his spiky head. “You seriously have a doctorate?”Sheppard looked amused. “My thesis was on tumbleweeds.”And the one that made me think of you, my lovely dear one, is this:”What’s with you, anyway? Shouldn’t you be talking my ear off about potatoes, or beans, or whatever?”"The first rule of botany is you don’t talk about botany,” Sheppard said easily.Sorry I missed you call today. Will try to catch you tomorrow. *kisses*urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:483432006-04-09T05:25:00miriad @ 2006-04-09T05:25:002006-04-09T09:32:09Z2006-04-09T09:32:09ZYou are spoiled if your score is over 40.Do you have:(x) your own cell phone(x) a tv in your bedroom() an ipod() a photo printer() your own phone line() TiVo or a generic digital video recorder(x) high-speed internet access (aka not dialup)() a surround sound system in bedroom(x) dvd player in bedroom(x) at least a hundred DVDs(x) a childfree bathroom(x) your own in-house office() a pool() a guest house() a game room(x) a queen-size bed (I() a stocked bar() a working dishwasher() an icemaker() a working washer and dryer() more than 20 pairs of shoes() at least ten things from a designer store() expensive sunglasses() framed authentic art (not lithographs)() Egyptian cotton sheets or towels() a multi-speed bike() a gym membership() large exercise equipment at home() your own set of golf clubs() a pool table() a tennis court(x) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea() your own pair of skis() enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area() a boat() a jet ski() a neighborhood committee membership() a beach house or a vacation house/cabin(x) wealthy family members() two or more family cars() a walk-in closet or pantry() a yard() a hammock() a personal trainer() good credit(x) expensive jewelry() a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get() at least $100 cash in your possession right now(x) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards)(x) a stock portfolio(x) a passport() a horse(x) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)(x) private medical insurance(x) a college degree, but no student loansDo you:() shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week() do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores() pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)(x) go on weekend mini-vacations() send dinners back with every flaw() wear perfume or cologne (not body spray)() regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon() have a job but don’t need the money OR() stay at home with little financial sacrifice() pay someone else to cook your meals() pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs() regularly pay someone else to drive you() expect a gift after you fight with your partnerAre you:() an only child() married/partnered to a wealthy person() baffled/surprised when you don’t get your wayHave you:(x) been on a cruise(x) traveled out of the country(x) met a celebrity(x) been to the Caribbean(x) been to Europe(x) been to Hawaii() been to New York (well, I() eaten at the space needle in Seattle() been to the Mall of America(x) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris() been on the Statue of Liberty in New York(x) moved more than three times because you wanted to (as opposed to losing your house or being evicted)() dined with local political figures(x) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast (in any country)Did you:() go to another country for your honeymoon(x) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party(x) take riding or swimming lessons as a child() attend private school() have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for youMy score = 29</lj-user>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:478802006-04-04T04:21:00miriad @ 2006-04-04T04:21:002006-04-04T18:43:38Z2006-04-04T18:43:38Zganked fromeboniorchidChoose twelve “characters” from your fandoms, then answer the questions under the link. Do not look at the questions beforehand.1. John Sheppard2. Rodney McKay3. Daniel Jackson4. Jack O’Neill5. John Crichton6. Fox Mulder7. Xander Harris8. Gregory House9. Carson Beckett10. Lex Luthor11. Aeryn Sun12. Han Solo1. Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11? What subjects would they teach?Well… Mulder. Sorry Aeryn, but Mulder has that need to preach, er, lecture at almost everyone even the people who like him so I assume that if he hadn’t gone into crime fighting and alien hunting that he would have eventually been a professor. So, yeah. Mulder.2. Do you think 4 is hot? How hot?Um, yeah. Hot. Maybe even HOTT. With TWO T’s. I likes me the older men and have you looked at the man? Listened to anything that he has said EVER? Yeah, he is totally hot. Whoo. If you need a scale-type measurement, I give him a 9.5. (Although I give most of the people on this list about that but Jack? Oh yeah.)3. 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?Han sends House out on a mission. Wow. Where do I even begin with that one? Okay, so, I see this as something along the lines in that X-Files/Star Wars crossover from back in the day called X-Jedi II, in which the SW gang ends up on earth (don’t even ask. Just… don’t.) aaaannnd Leia’s sick. (Just go with me here… this is a stretch for me too, okay?) And Han finds out that the best doctor on earth- nay, in the universe is not far from where he is (in Maryland) and goes to him, blaster in hand. He says, “Fix her. I shoot first, you know. Seriously.” And, of course, House succeeds but not before there are at least three close calls, two misdiagnoses and he argues with Chase et al about symptoms, tests and actually being able to prove that he’s right. And he and Wilson make out. Wait…4. What is or would be 9’s favorite book?The Cartoon Guide to Geneticsby Larry Gonick (I don’t really know… google helped with this one).5. Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?The other way around, if only because Rodney KNOWS real aliens and can introduce Mulder to a few greys. And seriously? Rodney gets to work with Aliens, hot men and women and everyone knows that he’s not crazy, just really, really smart, which puts him heads and tails (heh) above Mulder. So yeah, Mulder would totally swear fealty to Rodney. Because he just rocks.6. For some reason, 5 is looking for a roommate. Should s/he share a studio apartment with 9 or with 10?10. With Lex. Because Crichton and Lex is just hot. Hott even. Oh, the hotness.7. 2, 7 and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?They (Rodney, Xander and Han) would totally go to some bar with a huge back booth and where the beer just keeps coming. They’d talk about girls, having crazy zealots try to kill you and the specs of the Millennium Falcon.8. 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?Okay. Daniel challenges Lex to a duel. Like that would happen but, just to play along, I guess that while Lex was pulling up some arcane knowledge about Alexander the Great and his battle tactics, Daniel would start talking and before Lex knew what was up, he would be asleep dreaming dreams of tall farm boys with blue eyes. Daniel would disarm him and slip away quietly without causing physical harm because, seriously, when does he start the fight?9. If 1 stole 8’s most precious possession, how would s/he get it back?Um, you know, I don’t know House that well but my guess would be that it would be sneaky and devious and utterly amazing. Although he would have to get around John’s brain/tactical skills but still, it’s House and he would do it. With snark.10. Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.First You Get The Money, Then You Get The Women. Mostly I think this because both Han and Xander want to be well taken care of, both financially and in terms of women/love. They want to be happy and I think that on one level, this is what they desire because they think it will make them happy and they’re half right.11. What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?Ummm… I would make it so that the SGC lost all contact with Pegasus and Jack sends an SG team on the Daedalus to find out what’s going on. When they too lose contact, he rounds up SG-1 to go after THEM. Because their ship is gone, they need to hop a ride with the Asgard, who will only agree to give them a life if Jack comes along. He agrees, having missed the field, and they arrive in the Pegasus galaxy to find it in the middle of a war. John (1) and Jack (4) end up stranded together, trying to find the remainders of their respective teams. Much snark and hot war action ensue.12. If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?Well, I think that he and I would get along great. I have a PS2, I know some D&D gamers and I live in LA. Games to play, evil to fight- what else could a demon fighter/dork ask for?13. If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?Can I say something dirty? ‘Cause Daniel has that mouth and really? Anything I want? *edited for inappropriate porn*14. Does anyone on your friends list write or draw 11?Yeah but I don’t think that I have any (still) hard core ‘Scapers on my list. I think that many are fans of the show and used to write and/or draw Aeryn Sun but now, they’ve moved onto to other fandoms and will still read Aeryn but aren’t actively writing her. I will say, however, that when I was hard core into Farscape, I found Aeryn difficult to figure out when I was writing her, much more so than John and so it was easier to write John, so I did. And that might account for even less Aeryn writing. Unless it was just me.15. If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?Wow, if Rodney McKay had to choose between Jack O’Neill and John Crichton, who would he choose. That’s actually a tough question. Jack doesn’t like Rodney, after the Teal’c stuck in the Stargate thing and Rodney knows it. John Crichton is an astronaut and an astrophysicist- I’m not sure they ever stated what his degrees were actually in but he’s an aerospace engineer or scientist of some sort, as he designed the Farscape module. In the end, however, I think that Rodney would go with the known entity that is Jack O’Neill, because John Crichton in an unknown, black leather wearing lunatic and Rodney seems to go for the military guys. So, Jack is my answer.16. What might 10 shout while charging into battle?He wouldn’t shout anything. Lex would shoot you before you even knew he was there. If I had to go with something for him to shout, it would either be a quote from Alexander the great or it would be in Latin. Content wise, not sure. But Latin? Oh, yeah.17. If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?I get House for this question? Oh man! I think that this may be cheating, but I’m going to sayYou Can’t Always Get What You Wantby the Rolling Stones.18. 1, 6 and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?Another tough one, as all three (John Sheppard, Fox Mulder and Han Solo) are sneaky. But, as John never sees it coming, Mulder always loses his gun and Han shoots first, I would have to say that Han gets it.19. What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?Rodney to use on Lex: “I know about your research. Amateur. Wanna see some real science? I’ve got wormholes….”20. What would 5 most likely be arrested for?Assault? Murder? Resisting arrest? Where are we talking about getting arrested? Because it we are talking about the Uncharteds or Peace Keeper space, then he’d get hit up on almost anything and, to be honest, be guilty on all charges. In the US or on earth… assault when someone said something in appropriate to Aeryn or something like that.21. What is 6’s secret?Mulder’s secret is that he knows that Samantha is dead but he keeps looking and keeps letting others get hurt in the process because his ego can’t let go of the fact that he is so smart and so talented, that he can find serial killers and rapists but he can’t find his own sister. It’s a mind thing for him, perpetuated by the treatment he gets from his father and his mother and the only person who has ever really said that enough was enough already is Scully, whom he has even more guilt about because of her abduction. He can’t let go of this because if he does, that means that he has truly failed and his ego will not let him do that.22. If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?A race between Aeryn and Carson. Oh, this is the easiest question ever. Carson. One word: Stargate.23. 3 and 7 tell conflicting versions of events. Which is more reliable?Gosh, I don’t know. Daniel is usually more reliable in that he doesn’t jump to conclusions in the way that Xander has done before. He asks questions, does research and has such a deep wealth of knowledge already that his interpretation of an even is usually pretty accurate. However, Xander got pretty good there towards the end but I still say Daniel.24.”1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4’s sinister secret organization. 11 volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that 11 is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12 in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3, who gives them what they need to complete their quest.” What title would you give this fic? Name three people on your friends list who might read it. Name one person who should write it.Okay, lets get all the names attached with events first. John Sheppard and Carson Beckett reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by Jack O’Neill’s sinister secret organization. Aeryn Sun volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that Aeryn is really a spy for Jack. Meanwhile, Jack has kidnapped Han Solo in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of John Crichton, they seek out Daniel Jackson, who gives them what they need to complete their quest.Okay. Wow. That’s quite the story. A title is pinging in my brain and I really don’t have that great on an explanation for it but “Hockey Night In Canada” just seems to fit my idea of what Jack’s secret organization is. It may be the crack, I don’t know.lily_shrikewill read it because Danny, Jack, John C and John S cannot be a bad thing.little5150dbecause if Crichton is there, so is she.als_wonderlandbecause she will read anything if it has a interesting premise. She might feel dirty but what’s life without a little adventure?As for writers, I cannot name but one. There are three people whom I think could rock this out and make it totally awesome.ltljbecause she has written the oddest and yet coolest crossovers I have ever read,rageprufrock, because nothing she has ever written has been bad (crack!fic- yes, bad- not in a million years) orsynecdochicbecause have you readFreedom’s Just Another Word? Read it and then you’ll get why I think thatsynecdochiccould totally rock this one out.25. If you had to walk home through a bad neighbourhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?Sorry House, but I’d have to go with Xander. Seriously, the guy has saved the world a few times, has saved BUFFY a few times and if we’re talking about Xander after season 5, he kicks some ass. House may have some moves but he is hindered by the cane and while I generally don’t discriminate, I will have to end this with a definitive answer of Xander.That was seriously long. Holy crap. Long but way, way too much fun.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:477672006-03-29T01:18:00miriad @ 2006-03-29T01:18:002006-03-29T06:25:59Z2006-03-29T06:25:59ZHaving a bit of writers block and am looking for a little bit of help. Taking a page from some of my fandom friends, I was hoping that you guys could comment with things that you’d like me to write about or an idea that could be fun/interesting to write about. I’ll write you all what you asked for (more or less) and post them all here in about a week. This kind of thing has helped in the past to get the writing juices flowing and usually I try to get Bear to suggest things but… he hasn’t been very helpful on this front lately. Fandom, original, whatever, just throw out some ideas and I’ll get to work and hopefully some of my other projects will get a needed boost as well.Thanks so much, guys!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:473952006-03-23T21:27:00miriad @ 2006-03-23T21:27:002006-03-24T02:47:16Z2006-03-24T04:09:41ZWow. What a day. Finally seem to be over my flu or whatever it was. Got some dishwashing done and thank god I hit that pile now. I think it was about to climb out of the sink and kill me in my sleep. *guh*Was reminded of a fic rec that I wanted to pass on to all y’all. Do you guys rememberWhen Hellmouths Collide, the Buffy/Hercules crossover that was SO. DAMN. GOOD? Well, that author is now writing Stargate Atlantis and it is good.The first story that you have to read is calledRetrogradeand is the awesome AU in which the Atlantis expedition is lost for, oh, three years and when the Daedalus goes to check up on them, chaos has ensued. So, you get a great Jack O’Neill, great Daniel Jackson, awesome John and Rodney (which may or may not be slash- there is evidence to go either way) and an incredible plot. Fan-fucking-tastic. I mean, seriously? John *and* Jack in the same damn story by someone who knows how to write both of them well?ETA:here’s a little sample fromRetrogradefor you:”You shouldn’t have tried to keep Sheppard,” Hammond said, shaking his head. “They obviously took that as an attack.”Jack shrugged, rubbing at a scratch on the console. “I thought it would be easier to talk things out if he was up here. And couldn’t escape. These people are great at escaping. They should teach courses. And those were the scariest Marines I’ve ever seen.” He gestured vaguely. “And they have tiny little local Amazon women.”And now, she’s started a second part to the story, of whichPart one, Recovery can be found here. Good stuff. Great for those Stargate-less Friday nights from now until July.On a totally unrelated note, got the new issue ofBUSTtoday and something stood out to me as totally, really wrong. Seems that there are a few senators out there who would like to make all sorts of reproductive and fertility treatments off limits unless you are married. Yeah, you heard me. Married. So, those single women who just can’t find Mr. Right and those lesbian ladies who would love a kid (and would, in fact, make great parents) are just going to be shit out of luck. Unless we attempt to keep crazy shit like this from happening.I’m just gonna put this out there- I don’t know what I would do if I found out that I was pregnant and wasn’t ready of if I found out that I couldn’t have kids but I would just like there to be options- for me and for the millions of other women out there, whatever their circumstances are. Old, white men telling me what can and can’t go in and come out of me pisses me off.*grrr*ETA:I hate NCAA basketball. I hate March Madness. And I hate that they run it when they should be running new episodes of CSI. Also? Hate American Fucking Idol. House should be on and insted I get Paula Fucking Abdul and Simon Whatever the Fuck His Name Is. Over House? Are you out of your fucking MINDS?urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:472562006-03-23T04:00:00miriad @ 2006-03-23T04:00:002006-03-23T09:05:06Z2006-03-23T09:05:06ZFound something awesome while perusing my friends list as I am sick and have nothing better to do.Apparently the president of the Ogala Sioux Tribe is pissed at the South Dakota abortion law and has decided to set up a branch of planned parenthood on the reservation where they have soverign authority over their own land. Which is awesome.Here is a link to all the pertinent info if you would like to make a donation or just drop a lineto the President who just happen to be a female. And who happens to rock hard.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:469572006-03-15T01:22:00miriad @ 2006-03-15T01:22:002006-03-15T06:25:05Z2006-03-15T06:25:05ZTonight, I was in a room with both Lance Bass (yes! Three down, two to go!) and Dean McDermott (Turnbull! Turnbull!). I workedAmerican Idoltonight at CBS and it was mass chaos. Loved the Stevie WOnder songs but some of the contestants murdered the music. That guy who sang Superstition? Killed it. Ded.Crap!You scored asSerenity (Firefly). You like to live your own way and donSerenity (Firefly)100%Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)94%Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)88%Moya (Farscape)88%SG-1 (Stargate)81%Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)63%Enterprise D (Star Trek)63%Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)63%FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)63%Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)63%Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)56%Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)38%Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics)created withQuizFarm.comurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:467052006-03-11T16:45:00miriad @ 2006-03-11T16:45:002006-03-11T21:54:47Z2006-03-11T21:55:59ZHey y’all. Remember back a few years ago when I rec’d that great storyRake At That Gates Of Hell? Well, that author,synecdochic, is now writing Stargate: Atlantis and has she written a hell of a fic. Just read it last night it blew me away. Awesome. If you like Rake, check out her new fic. I’m giving the link for the LJ version but she has a link to her new SGA website and the version posted there if you prefer reading like that.Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose by SynecdochicExcerpt:SGC finally stops calling him by December. Rodney celebrates by writing a final exam for his relativity class so difficult that it reduces four students to tears in the exam hall. Upon reflection, he decides to be merciful and offer partial credit.Go. Read.lily_shrikeandals_wonderland- you think I’m kidding but I’m so very not. Seriously.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:464722006-03-05T09:35:00miriad @ 2006-03-05T09:35:002006-03-05T10:04:43Z2006-03-05T10:06:31ZI just realized that while I have been doing quite a bit of reading around these parts, I haven’t done all that much posting. My bad. Moo moo moo moo.sentinel_h, I got your message and I have been receiving your packages. I, in fact, got one on Friday. Thank you so much, by the way. And, to something that you sent me way back in the day,Veronica Marstotally rocks my world. I love it! It took me awhile to finally get the time to sit and watch it and I did, I was hooked. And I have to say that you called it first- you know me too well. ;)I sent off my resumes to various television shows, as per the rules of theWriter’s Guild of America, west Writers Training Program. I have heard back from only one show so far and that wasStargate: Atlantis. They don’t accept guild trainees but they were really cool in telling me that and thanked me for my interest in the show. It was short but sweet and I have nothing but love and respect for them as I sent out my letters and they responded within twodays. No one else has responded at all. Now is the time at Sprockets where we call up the rest of those mother fuckers and ask them why they don’t have the class the sci-fi dork Canadians have. You hear that Jerry Bruckheimer Productions? No class!I met with October Kingsly, who is the writer that I wrote about last year. She read some of my pages and liked them a lot. I called her earlier this year and we spoke, then eventually met for dinner in Hollywood at this cool little rock’n'roll thai place called Toi. Scoobies, when you come to visit me (and you will… oh yes, you will…) we are going there.lily_shrike, you will LOVE this place- I thought of you lots that night. Anyway, she and I talked and she thinks that we should work on a screenplay about my family and we would sell the concept and the Royal Tennenbaums but fucked up.No lie, that’s what she said.And, for the love of Pete, it’s totally true. *hangs head*Bear is quitting his job at Blockbuster because they have it out for him at his location and the store that he was going to transfer to is now going to be closed by the end of April, or so the rumor goes. It makes me angry because the store that is closing is my old store and I loved it muchly, as it was a neat building with a great variety of movies and great people, both those who came in and those who work there. I think that some of the folks from that store will come to Larchmont, where I work now but it won’t be the same…. And, anyway, back to the Bear thing, he dreads going so much that he makes himself sick and I just can’t deal with that. It’s not fair to him or to me and really, if he’s miserable out here, it makes it that much harder for me to get things done so we can get the hell out. So, I have to help him draft his letter of resignation and get him to actually take it in to work so that he can get the hell out of there.I am eternally frustrated with CBS. Everyone else in the page program seems to be getting all these jobs as regular CBS employees- like, real 9-5 type jobs and I have no idea how there are finding this stuff out. I ask and they are vague to the point that I’m not sure they know how they got the damn jobs. One of them told me to look online but it can’t be that simple can it? Am I making this harder than it needs to be? Well, this is me so the answer has to be yes to that one but….I’m getting sick of all theBrokeback Mountainjokes. I wish I knew how to quit them.*gah*I methossmasterjoe’s little sister. It’s weird to see his features on a girl. She doesn’t look like a guy or anything, it’s just that there are certain… things that are just so *him* in my head that when I see them on her, I have to remind myself that they came from the same parents and thus the chances of them looking somewhat alike is quite high. Also, I think I missed the boat on this but apparently the big trend is to wear nothing but flip-flops all the time. When did this happen? Seriously? His sister and her friend brought about six pairs *each* for the trip out here and bought more while here. Holy Moses.I was messing around on MySpace or whatever, just to see if anyone I knew was on there from my hometown and, long story short, found out that not only does a guy I graduated with from high school, have a band but that band has an album out and performs at bars and festivals around Ohio. I played around on the band’s site,the band is, by the way, called Longfellow, and ordered the CD just to support an old friend (more like acquaintance, really) and when my stuff came, there was this little note attached to the bottom:”Alison!Holy crap! Hahaha… luckily I noticed your e-mail address 
Wow, so a new last name and living in LA! Fill me in here! Hope you have been well!- Nick LongPS- Have a free sticker :)”I never thought he’s give a shit, to be honest and I wonder if it’s more polite curiosity what that led him to write but whatever the reason, I’ll send him a friendly e-mail and chitchat. I also gave his bands info to this guy I know that does music licensing, like for TV and movies, just because, you know, friends help each other out, right? Do I tell him that I passed on his info or is that something that only comes out if the guy actually calls and trying to buy something from them?geek_mentality, what do you think that proper behavior is here?Well, have to get the sheets out of the dryer and finish making the bed so that I can get some damn sleep. More later.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:461912006-02-10T10:57:00I’ve been tagged!2006-02-10T19:27:20Z2006-02-10T19:27:20ZI’ve been tagged!Tagged bygeek_mentality1. Thank the person who tagged you.2. List five random/strange/weird things about you.3. Tag five other people.1. Thank you Sparky.2. a) I have giant pupils. It’s my mutation.b) I have a belly button thing and that’s all I’m going to say about that.c) I used to bend spoons and forks into “art” with my bare hands.d) I have a crush on Craig Ferguson just because he knows my name.c) I get drunk off one beer. (That one was lame but i can’t THINK of anything…)3. I tagang_al2,lily_shrike,celli,mm_dynamiteandsentinel_h.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:miriad:458152006-01-29T17:07:00miriad @ 2006-01-29T17:07:002006-01-30T01:25:41Z2006-01-30T01:25:41ZSo I’m reading this book,Good Grief by Lolly Winston, which is one of those chick-lit books, but instead of bing the successful, single chick, it’s about a woman who got her man but lost him. He died. After only three years of marriage. The story is about how she’s trying to cope with her loss and not entirely sure how to go about doing that.I’m not sure why, exactly, I’m reading it, as this is one of my greatest nightmares.It’s not as if I’m one of those women, like my former roommate, the Fetterfreak, who could not live without a man, any man, in her life and her bed. Fetterfreak was so desperate just to have a guy that she dated a dude that showered ever sunday, whether he needed to or not. And I used to hear all the gory (*ewwwww*) sex stories about this guy. I know that I can live without a guy, because I’ve done it. But I’ve discovered that there is a difference between the woman who needs a man, any man and the woman who has one man that she can’t live without.I think that I always knew that I would be one of those girls, if and when I found the right guy. I knew that if I found him, that that would be it, I would be gone and we better either die at the same time or I better go first because I would not be able to breathe without him. Some people might say that that’s taking things a bit too far but to be honest, that’s just how I feel.And I’ve found the guy. Bear, my husband, is nearest and dearest to my heart and it causes me physical pain to even contemplate living on this earth without him. I want to have his and only his kids. I want his face to be the last thing I see before I go to bed and the first thing I see when I wake up in the morning. I simply can’t imagine kissing, loving, making love to, etc anyone else. It hurts me, makes me feel anxious and clingy just thinking about a world with out Bear.And so I ask myself *why* on God’s green earth would I read this book?The answer is, to be honest, I really don’t know. The writing is great, the humor is great but the story is breaking my heart. I want Bear to get home right now so I can hug him and kiss him and make sure that he’s fine and alive and still with me. There’s this heart squeezing terror in me that I’ll lose him before I’m ready, which quite honestly will be never.Another woman coming between us is easy enough to fix. Slash the bitch’s tires and pound her fucking face in. Before I kill her. But death, that’s one that isn’t easy to get around and I think that I would go completely insane.So, I’m trying to stop reading, trying to put it down but the story is really good so I have to decide if I want to read the rest of it and deal with the tightness in my chest until I’m done or if I can take it back to Border’s and trade it for something else less… quality but without the hurt.This book, by the way, has the same feel at the beginning and through the first 30+ pages as theThe Time Traveler’s Wifehad at the end, for those who have read it. Hurts so good, is all I can say.
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summer slave labor
tomorrow i have an interview withdialoguedirect, a company dedicated to helping those in need through global fundraising.in other words, i’m gonna be one of those annoying people on the street who harrass you into signing random pledges. in this case, it’ssave the children. gosh, i’m such an angel. <–*sarcasm* if you’re tone-deafthis position pays $12 an hour for 9 hours a day (i’m sure 1 of those hours is a break period), 5 days a week, plus whatever commission i can syphon out of you tasty pledgers (averaging about $500-1000 according to their website).now, i’m not normally a good salesman type of person (i envision greasy bespectacled baldies wearing bowties and cheap plaid suits at a used car dealership now), but i’m in a sort of era of desperation this summer. as i have just under $100 in my account right now, and my $450~ rent is due at the end of september, i better start crackin’.so here’s the plan. you (points left), you (points right), you (up in the sky): i don’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you did, as long as you love m–i mean, i will stalk you to your pinto until you cough up the money (or your signature). you gotta save the kids, you know. they’re starving and shit.man, somehow i feel this isn’t worth it…——————————————————job number 2a local children’s clothing supplier just called me. they’re looking for sales help, at, i dunno, normal retail wage per hour. now maybe that’s not as high as what i would make running around san francisco with a clipboard in my hand (reminder: $12), but the shop is right around the corner from my mom’s house and the lady on the phone seemed sweet as a baby’s butt cheek (what?). furthermore, i wouldn’t have to pay $3.50 of BART money every day just to commute to work. wait, so in actuality, the people-harrassing job would give me $8.50 instead? and time wasted being hit on by bums on BART? fuck that…on the other hand, selling clothing to children without clothing–doesn’t that more directly “save” them? i know i wouldn’t want to be a naked little boy walking around albany. i mean,who knows what kinds of creepy men lurk among these tree-lined residential neighborhoods*.let me sit by the phone a few more minutes.*actually, albany isn’t that bad at all.here’s vallejo, my hometown!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1245502006-08-24T16:22:00and a note on “being poor”2006-08-24T23:23:37Z2006-08-24T23:23:37Z(taken from an early early morning 08/24/06 myspace entry)i don’t ever want to hear the words “i’m too poor” coming out of ANY of my american friends’ mouths again, because YOU DO NOT KNOW what it means to be poor.are any of you financially independent?are any of you fully cut off from your parents?are you still living with your parents and they pay for your cell phone and you eat meals at their house and they either pay your apartment rent or half (or more) of your tuition?if you cast your eyes down in shame at the first two questions and reluctantly agreed to every condition in the third question…FUCK YOU! don’t tell me you don’t have money! if you were a real virtuous person, LEND ME MONEY (or at least shut the fuck up about your supposed money problems), because i completely fulfill questions one AND two, and cannot answer yes to ANY condition in question three. and while you’re at it, PLEASE STOP TIPPING THE PEOPLE at coldstone, starbucks, etc. because you know for a fucking fact those part-time jobs are just adding to the pile of cash mommy and daddy gives them each week, so if you REALLY wanted to save up, do me and your mentally deficient self a fucking favor!god, i’m so stressed out about money and shit lately… and all i hear from the people around me is their own “financial situations”. give me a break. or allow me to spit on your face.if only i had just stayed in japan! i never wanted to come back here in the first place. and now everyone is breathing down my neck on completely unrelated matters blaming me for every single thing THEY did wrong… i don’t care about custom! i don’t even want to go to my mom’s wedding reception! if you want a souvenir buy one yourself! i don’t have the time nor resources for ANY ONE OF YOU! and if you really mattered to me (and the other way around) you’d understand me and humor my ass till mid-september rolls around! all i’ve encountered since i’ve gotten back from japan is STRESS STRESS STRESS!i asked my grandma if she’d rather i just kill myself (since she had been shouting at my ears all day how i’m crazy and the worst child ever and an embarrassment to her family and that she wants to take me to the “hospital” because there’s something wrong with me and oh, blahblahblah’s fucked-up kids are wayyyyyyyy better than me and all i do is fight and no one wants me here and everyone is happier without me), to which she replied “if you want to kill yourself, go ahead.” i love the way she never listens to anything i say and just twists it around and when i get mad at her for not listening to anything i say, SHE, in turn, yells at me and tells me to shut up and that i’m the worst most disrespectful child ever…1) i’m not a child2) you and everyone else told me to come back, so don’t act like i fucking landed myself here and invited myself over to bother you and your precious familyhmm… family. it’s almost an oxymoron in itself, when you take all the connotations and implied meanings into consideration.if i don’t get out of here i just might take the woman up on her offer (killing myself, if you weren’t paying attention or if you skipped the majority of what i wrote and just decided to read the bottom).i feel so anti-america right now. anti-family, anti-morbidly obese people (if violence weren’t a crime, they’d make the perfect punching bags), anti-american attitude, anti-american bullshit, anti-american lies, anti-american pride, anti-american culture and custom and getting married and wedding receptions and the fakeness surrounding the word “i miss you.”fuuuuuuck that. if you really missed me, then BE NICE TO ME in all cases, unless i happen to transform into a serial killer in the span of one day. which hasn’t happened… yet.ohmygoshihateitheresavemesomeonebuymeatickettojapan.*if you are offended by anything i said just now, you don’t know me and i could care less about you and your misguided judgments so a double fuck you to you.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1242242006-08-24T16:21:00bbblllaaahhh.2006-08-24T23:22:42Z2006-08-24T23:23:58Z(taken from an 08/23/06 myspace entry)i’m sure there’s a feeling for this.you know, returning “home” and not getting that warm “no place like…” feeling; yet the “i’m a stranger in my own…” vibe isn’t present either.what is it? my life isn’t supposed to exist on a plane of stagnancy! time doesn’t stop for me nor anyone in my surroundings! why am i on a 4am infomercial right now?if i could give you a more eloquent word for “blah…”i simultaneously want to cry and go on a murderous rampage on my family. the latter reaction is a whole different story altogether, but let’s just say my stay in hawaii was far from tranquil and idyllic. fuck paradise, fuck blood, fuck being poor.i miss tokyo. the end.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1241412006-08-22T04:06:00zobar @ 2006-08-22T04:06:002006-08-22T14:06:01Z2006-08-22T14:06:01Z”an age-old feud”by me, 08/21/06″Blood is thicker than water,” so the old folks like to say–but I would rather plod through the murkiest lakesthan swim in boiling plasma rivers any day.After all, the saltiest sea could never sour me(in contrast to this lick of bitter copper cyanide)and while one may fall adrift in morning’s roaring tide,nothing compares to the inside disgust one feels fromguts exploding and nerves imploding in a mess ofcrimson poison, defected genes and ancestral hate.Why open wounds that have rotted to a gangrene state?Any attempt to wipe them off results in a telling stain–no way to erase the odor or desensitize the pain.Now, swipe a swig from shining glasses, taste the clash of difference:while the first drink cleanses me, brings comfort to my famished soul,the next one’s sting will kill me lest I spill its contents whole.And will I risk precious life for this vacuous substance vilejust because I share a fond brother’s bond so infantile?No, throw at me leeches and attach them to my filthy limbs;cut my family ties and allow the letting to begin._______________________________________anyone wanna guess who/what/where this is about? extra cookie if you can find the OBSCURE reference in the 5th line (i think only other family members know this, and even that’s a stretch.)urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1238332006-08-21T00:52:00her prose has two faces2006-08-21T10:52:37Z2006-08-21T10:54:52Zevery now and then i feel this cramp in my hand, a block in my thinking, and a sensation of suffocation by my own words. this usually occurs when i happen upon some vulnerable piece of work someone has written, something that stirs something inside me and makes me think “why can’t i be that honest? what am i hiding from? i feel like a fraud.” it’s hard to explain, but, i have this constant struggle within myself, where, when pouring the contents of my mind onto paper or print, i have to decide which is of more value at the current point in time: soul, or entertainment?and at different times, it’s easier to pick one over the other. say i have an interesting story, obviously side-splitting and sure to induce laughter in the most skeptical of readers. then, sure, let’s go for the “beat them over with your wit” route. so i write my piece, edit here and there for clarity, while trying to keep the story as true to the original intent as possible, leaving out unnecessary emotions when they obstruct the humor.when i hear feedback on these pieces, when i feel my offbeat sense of humor has connected with someone and sparked a good reaction in them, this in turn makes my heart smile. i suppose writing an enjoyable work is my way of helping others live their lives the way some of my friends like to do, but in a less direct, “oh ma’am, let me hold your bags” sort of way. it’s not in me to go out of my way to mollycoddle others, but to know i’ve touched someone in some way, tickled their funnybones or inspired a “wow, that’s so true!” sort of chill, now that’s success.there are times, though, when i get carried away in a “winning streak”-period of writing, wherein i feel like whatever i’m doing is less my thing and more a vehicle to please others. it’s a sort of losing-yourself-amongst-the-masses sort of feeling, i suppose. another term would be “selling out,” or “conforming to the norm” or whatever. many bands have this problem throughout their careers and struggle to snap out of a fan-driven rut by changing their images. it’s not always one’s intent to sell-out, but some people, when left to their own devices and others’ influences, stray from their personal paths and end up in a land of formulas and mediocrity and boredom.so, sometimes when i’m stuck in this position, and i’m idly wandering around reading the works of others, i suddenly get a guilty/shameful/annoyed feeling in my chest and i feel compelled to return my writing to the roots–that is, from the very core of my thoughts and feelings (my prose, after all, comes to fruit inside my brain and the act of writing is merely transcribing those thoughts and feelings onto paper or some other medium). i look back on my “entertaining” pieces and scour them for holes and sharp edges and “missing soul”… that is, sometimes i lose my voice without realizing it and reading stuff over helps me see where i went wrong.then i return to my phase of writing from within, for myself rather than for the outside world. the transformation can be both manic and soothing at the same time; the former because opening myself up throws all my emotions into the open and sparks discussions in all directions, and the latter because burdens i once held under my skin are brought to the surface and scrubbed off until relief bubbles through my pores. but while doing this is both honest and therapeutic, it unfortunately alienates any sort of audience (whom i wanted to inspire in the first place) and causes awkwardness and discomfort, for here i am laying my life out, naked for everyone to observe and weigh against their own without touching it in the wrong places or handling it too roughly so as to accidentally kill it.then there are the people who care less for the underlying message and just want a good story. so what do you want to do and who would you rather please? yourself or them? is writing from your soul and for your own benefit selfish and elitist? is trying to capture an audience’s attention empty and without merit? i don’t like exposing myself all the time, especially when my current surface feeling is one of happiness, so sometimes i’d rather have my head in the clouds than wallow in my depression and lament the world for how cruel it is. then again, sometimes i’m an attention whore and i crave the opposite. i suppose it just depends on which i’ve been overloading on; and lately, i feel my writing’s gone down a slightly superficial road.one of these days you will be seeing either an emo- or dramatically-infused entry from me, and you’re going to have to swallow it even if i have to shove it down your throat. just warning you in advance, because i can’t be all fun and games and satire and sarcasm all the time.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1235582006-08-21T00:49:00i think i’m turning japanese, i really think so (not finished, but whatever…)2006-08-21T10:52:06Z2006-08-21T11:07:42Zi knew it would be an inevitable occurrence. i was given a pep-talk, a debriefing, if you will, beforehand, and i understand the psychology of it all. still, i wouldn’t have thought i would long for and despise the things i did.today’s topic of discussion: reverse culture shock.after 5 excruciatingly long months (hah, a lie) in japan, i have finally returned to the US–off the mainland and in hawaii, rather, to be precise. this is a decision which, i feel, serves me better than if i had landed in san francisco instead. hawaii is similar to japan for a number of reasons: it has a tropical climate, a shitload of asian-looking people, and it’s situated on a number of islands rather than floating as a mass turd of land. still, hawaii is an american state, and being so, carries with it the weight of US culture (grimace) and overall atmosphere.upon arrival at honolulu international airport, i felt the wave of difference instantaneously. being the ever-observer that i am, i began to notice many different things even before i made it to the baggage claim area.dude, americans are FUCKING FAT. it’s bad enough that we have earned a not-very-positive reputation for scarfing down mcdonald’s and all sorts of saturated, hydrogenated artery-clogging goodness, but keep in mind that the particular kind of people who vacation in exotic lands and return to america tend to be wealthy retirees or lazy, eyes-glued-to-the-tv-at-all-times families with lots of time (and blubber) on their hands. this being the case, i saw lots of roly-poly married couples and their augustus gloop-looking children, slowly duck-waddling their way through customs, their enormous tree trunk-like legs making sounds akin to thunderclaps (i’m not exaggerating that much) as they wandered the floor searching for their luggage (were they all filled with snacks?), creating mini-earthquakes along the way. after being surrounded by near-anorexics and overall small frames for almost half a year, my standards for “normalcy” have obviously changed and i was at once in awe and disgusted at the sight of these living, breathing, walking (more like plodding) tubs of lard.side note (because i always have to clarify my points): although it sounds like i’ve become an actual fat-people-hater, this is not wholly the case. the people i’m talking about at the airport are of the MORBIDLY OBESE variety; that is, some of these women cannot fit into any articles of clothing other than muumuus (and i saw quite a number of muumuus). it was like observing a whale playing dress-up with a beach blanket or something. seriously, i’m not making fun of chubs over there or cellulite queen jiggling around town, but really, the people you see featured on the news: 5 chins, unable to see their own genitalia and feet, probably bought 2 seat tickets to fit each ass cheek on the plane ride over here… I THINK YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE I’M TALKING ABOUT, SO NO NEED TO BRING IN THE FATTY PITY PARTY.oh, what a gross feeling. my eyes, my eyes!———————————————–while in japan i used to bitch over and over about what a hassle it is to separate your garbage into burnables, non-burnables, plastics, papers, trays, cans, glasses, bottles, PET bottles, condoms, etc. i even wrote an entry about it a few days previous. who the fuck wants to touch something they already threw away, much less organize the waste into neat little bags in order to humor the lowly garbagemen who are paid to do such tasks themselves? and, why are we given such a retardedly complicated rule, and then, are deprived of opportunities to dispose of said waste except at special locations like convenience stores and the front of vending machines? (the latter is actually illegal, but tell that to any self-righteous obaasan and the only answer you’ll get is a bag of dog shit/toe nails/baby oil shoved in your face and an “arigato gozaimasu” to pay for your loss)while in japan, i grumble grumble grumble, but…yesterday morning i was at the airport snackbar and had just finished my meal of croissant (wrapped in plastic and paper), hot dog (paper wrapping and enclosed within a cardboard tray), and chips (foil), and did the arduous task of sorting each raw material into tray, paper, plastic, and foil. after, i got up and prepared to thrust each component into their respective bins, only to discover…one monstrously gigantic throw-all garbage can.for a second, i was confused. i did a double take, bug-eyed and caught off-guard. where was the marking for “burnable” and the one for “non-bornable”? did i just get away with throwing ALL of my garbage into one container while under the watchful eye of the hotdog stand lady–and i DIDN’T GET CAUGHT? huh? after the puzzled expression slowly disappeared, my face fell and i realized i wasn’t in japan anymore and my civic duty was merely to get all my shit to fit down that hole. as i threw all my hard work down the drain, literally, i felt a wave of guilt, like i had sneakily gone to the convenience store on tohachi-dori and tossed my personal garbage into the community bin without telling anyone, much less the owner who would have to sort the mess all by himself later on. life can’t be this easy, i thought to myself. there must be a consequence for throwing everything into one disposal apparatus! society just doesn’t work this way!after fighting my urge to dig into the bin and re-separate every existing piece of waste in there, i gave myself a mental pat on the back and inwardly rocked back and forth, muttering the mantra it’s gonna be ok, it’s gonna be ok as i headed back to my waiting area at baggage claim, anticipating my impending meeting with the family…———————————————-i’ll add more to this later, but for now, i’m sleepy.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1232782006-08-19T19:03:00loss of face. or, makeup is a girl’s LIFE.2006-08-20T05:03:50Z2006-08-20T05:03:50Zfirst, i would like to introduce the following commentary on the current state of world affairs: I FUCKING HATE TERRORISTS AND THEY NEED TO DIE.now, on any given day, i am not one to get uber-politically involved and harbor so strongly an opinion on such individuals, unless the problem concerns religion, abortion, homosexuality, or other issues which i feel need a shove forward and away from traditional “christian ideals” (coughBIGOTRYand CONSERVATISMcough), BUT–and i stress this BUT–last night at narita airport was the exception.allow me to explain, but bear with me, as i am in an emotionally weakened state right now and may cry at any moment. i shall do my best to persevere.now you’ve all heard the news about the attempted attacks on recent US flights, and the subsequent increased probability of threats to our safety (according to our lovely president) has spawned changes in airport regulations: meaner inspections officers, more thorough cavity searches, and ludicrous limits on carry-on items, among other things. calculate these added efforts to quell terrorism on a local level, and you’ve got an extra 30-40 minutes or so spent at all security checkpoints (yeah, they added more) combined.but yes, although i was functioning within a very narrow time-frame as a result of me being late to my flight yet again (which is another story altogether…), for me TIME CONSUMPTION was not the main issue. in fact, having to deal with verbal harassment and extra body frisking did little to nothing in terms of agitating my fragile nerves. rather, my beef with united airlines arose at the point of departure, at the final gate, wherein i was subjected to one last search…the woman at the counter, a slightly husky japanese woman in her mid-30s, did me the honor of tearing open my favorite generic ross purse and subsequently dumping its contents onto her worktable. one by one, she started to place each of the most EXPENSIVE toiletry items of mine into a separate pile for god-knows-what’s purpose. she conducted her work mechanically, without feeling, inhumane and a tad bit sociopathic, almost, as if she didn’t know what it was like to be a girl being robbed of her most prized possession: the makeup kit.a split second after she began her wickedry, i realized that i would have to part with these items forever–there was no time left to seal them in plastic and ship them off to hawaii in advance. i recalled what my friend had mentioned earlier about liquids being banned aboard flights, and realized she had literally meant ALL liquids: lotions, foundations, sunblock, lube…i had assumed only things like beverages, rubbing alcohol, that sort of thing would have to be tossed out. seriously, who in their right mind would think of using natural beige #4 to bomb the hell out of her fellow passengers aboard UA 880? some horribly acne-scarred chick on a mission to rid the world of anyone and everyone with a silky-smooth complexion? (if so, it sort of makes sense, since people in japan tend to have really really really good skin… or the opposite, depending.)anyway, as the woman flashed each item at me and quickly threw them to the side (HER side), i mentally took tally of all my losses (which happened to all be of japanese name brand): mascara, moisture UV lotion, UV milk, lip gloss–i think i’ll stop now before i break into a fit of sobs, for these particular goods were my personal favorites–and i know, if you are a girl as well, you MOST DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND how i feel (jullie? rachel?). but the point is, some of those things were, to me, irreplaceable products (at least now that i’m in hawaii and will be in the states for another month) which have now found their way into the hands of some evil senior flight attendant, free for personal use and gain.i had been in a rush earlier at check-in, so i wish someone, anyone could have reiterated the exact rules for carry-on items on my flight. after all, i had so much extra space in my checked-in bag, and could have easily shoved 3 or 4 bottles of silky japanese lotion in there. but no, i was too late…therefore, i mourn. i mourn, and my tears roll down a face no longer silky, without shine or glow–for i have yet to replenish my cherished beauty supply. ;_; and somewhere, right now, an evil middle-aged japanese lady is cackling to herself as she rubs my lotion over her leathery skin, soaking up its magical moisturizers and stealing my smooth sheen. maybe she’s sharing the lip gloss with her other cronies, and they’re all having a good old time with their fasio- and biore-labeled loot. i hope i secretly have AIDs and they’re absorbing the disease into their pores right now.maybe i’m not that vengeful, and for sure not that dirty, but it would comfort me somewhat. *sob*urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1229612006-08-16T17:47:00my current worry and present annoyance2006-08-16T08:47:52Z2006-08-16T09:18:26Zi have a problem. let me lay my tumultuous emotions out on the table for you: i SWEAR, am i the FIRST AND ONLY JAPANESE NORTH AMERICAN (with american citizenship only) who has decided she wants to live in japan? tell me there’s, like, i mean–since there are percentages for EVERYTHING in existence (people like using statistics to fool other people)–there MUST be a 0.8 percent japanese-american-without-japanese-citizenship-but-with-a-long-term-residency-in-japan slice on the pie chart, RIGHT???i’m trying to find out how i can change my status from ryugakusee (for-FREAKING-eign student) to a long-term resident because, having japanese blood flowing through my veins, being able to wander to and fro within japan freely is my BIRTHRIGHT. in other words, since my grandma is japanese, that therefore makes me japanese, and as such, i should get to live in japan FOR AS LONG AS I WANT TO without fear of the po-lice chasing me down every 5 minutes. and, just to clarify, within japan’s immigration policy is a law specifically designed for japanese descendants from other countries which permits this freedom (hah, “permits this freedom”–i’m funny). however, herein lies my problem.it seems that, through the years, even with the whole “nikkei invasion” (”nikkei”: first- and later-generation descendants of japanese who migrated to other countries and now hold citizenship other than japanese) and all, not one japanese NORTH AMERICAN has ever sat down in a corner and pondered the thought, “hmm, i’m kinda japanese, why don’t i use this japaneseness to my advantage and move to japan? no reason, of course–just because i can!” and subsequently used their nikkei card to pass go and collect long-term residency.no, through my research, i’ve discovered the visa-related plights of only brazilians, peruvians, and other south americans coming to japan for the purposes of finding work. 100+ pages of the same exact search result, not one concerning the story of a poor NORTH AMERICAN japanese descendant who simply wants to immerse herself in her motherland’s roots. the latin american nikkei diaspora is not new to me, as i have at least one friend whose own parents experienced the same journey some many years ago (hi flavi!).i already know the hardships of the latin american nikkeijin, and i understand all the discrimination they incur and language barriers they face as hybridized not-quite-japanese-but-no-longer-in-south-america individuals subject to poor living conditions and underemployment, and yes, i sympathize. however, while i was googling and yahooing and generic search engine-ing just now, my own frustrations overruled those of the other nikkeijin, because what the fuck, bill gates says you can find anything on the internet, even child porn of your mother, BUT WHY THE HELL COULDN’T I FIND VISA INFORMATION FORNORTH AMERICANNIKKEI?i suppose that american pride myth, or at least the uber egocentric “we’re at the top of the world! god bless america! who would even think of EVER living somewhere else OTHER than this beautiful land of opportunity?” way of thinking is pervasive and widespread. no, every american loves america! we don’t need to write news articles on our nationals living better, more enriching lives in other countries; in fact, we shouldn’t, because those people don’t exist! every american in the world lives in–where?–america! why? because we’re the best!that was bitter sarcasm talking just now, but… what if it’s true? what if i am the ONLY japanese-descended american (north american, i mean) who intends to live in japan? how sad is that? is this how the system works? i know plenty of japanese-japanese who want to live in america, and is this a one-sided norm? does this make me a self-loathing american?*side note: i have quite a few “american” friends living in japan, but they are dual citizens, and as such, do not encounter any of the same immigrations-related obstacles as me. if anything, these double nationals have a two-for-one deal: in america they can be american (on paper and to the government), and in japan they can be japanese (on paper and to the government). we’re leaving out the problem of identity crises here; for the purposes of my discussion, because they can freely (and “freely” is the key word) move back and forth between the two countries, undetected and without suspicion, they are in a totally different–almost superhuman–residential status category. and for that, i am monstrously jealous. why couldn’t I have been born on japanese soil?*ok guys, please give me a loophole, an instruction manual, a guidebook, anything. i really don’t want to resort to being adopted by or, worse comes to worse, marrying my uncle. that’s kinda alabama-ish, and jessy don’t roll like that. my best (and most legal) option is trying to get my name on my grandma’s family registry; however, i have a feeling it’s not as easy as me scribbling my name in kanji between a few lines. in fact, most likely i’ll have to prove i’m a member in my own family. how sad is that?and so the saga of the ever-thrown to the fringes of society, socially-marginalized jessy continues…will i get news of my status by tomorrow? will i need a FOREIGNER’S RE-ENTRY PERMIT (despite not being a foreigner) to bide me some time for the moment? will i be shut out of my true home (japan) forever? and what of gomen ne and the starbucks guy? stay tuned!urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1226342006-08-15T17:28:00my new friend2006-08-15T10:17:50Z2006-08-16T09:16:40Zdo any of you remember the movie cast away? this film holds a special place in my heart because it marked the transformation of tom hanks, for me, as a retard who has sex with a druggie AIDs-infested whore, into a charismatic trauma survivor who just happens to look like my favorite bum on westwood boulevard. he really knows how to pick them tearjerker roles, this tom hanks guy.really, his cast away character is someone to admire. an everyday businessman, trapped in the confines of his comfortable suburban life and generic-looking blonde wife’s (girlfriend? fiance?) suffocating embrace, is suddenly freed from bondage and unleashed into a paradise-like island where he alone can rule like a king, without any sort of outside interference, annoyance, or bitching from that insecure ball-and-chain in desperate need of a nose job. and you know what? adapting to such a novel situation is freaking hard, man. so to deal, you grow your hair out, you roll around in dirt, you talk to yourself, and you make yourself an imaginary friend out of a volleyball when you’ve grown tired of playing a grunting schizo for the past few months. as i said, you deal.i’ve never been one to make fun of odd people, especially those living on deserted islands for years without any sort of human contact, because they have a lot to handle on their meager little plates. now i can sort of relate, and it sucks. since moving into my new apartment, i’ve been spending quite some time alone (about 3 out of every 24 hours in a day, excluding sleeping time) and it gets lonely during that period where it’s too early to go to bed yet too late for anyone to want to roll off their couches and hang out with you. from around 9pm-midnight, it gets LONELY, man! not to mention this is the time of night in which my inner paranoia awakens and i start worrying that some strange pervert is watching me from outside or my house is haunted or i might happen upon a cockroach on the ceiling again. what do you do when you’re a slightly crazy, co-dependent girl living alone in japan?you let the movies influence you, that’s what. some people go on shooting rampages after watching the matrix; however, i am not that bold. nor does that movie suit my particular situation anyway. whose ass would i bust a cap into? the next door neighbor’s husky? i like dogs, so no. plus, trench coats are kinda expensive in tokyo, so i wouldn’t have the style to go with the substance, and that’s just not sexy.so… i picked something low-budget and equally lonely as my muse. CASTAWAY! i remember crying during that movie. tom hanks was so helpless, so lacking in natural and man-made resources, yet he made it work. he found a fucking volleyball, and he turned that volleyball into a best buddy and gave it a cool name: “WILSON”. he didn’t even have to give wilson a nametag because this friend wilson is a fucking genius and came prepared, red-stamped and ready for action.here’s a picture of wilson, in case you guys might’ve forgotten this gem of an epic adventure:now i don’t know about you, but wilson looks a bit scary. i haven’t seen cast away in awhile, so i’m not quite sure if that’s tom hanks’ blood smattered across wilson’s face or some ketchup or something (i learned from the movie scream that corn syrup produces an equal effect), but i knew i didn’t want to risk iron loss while making my new late-night friend, so i picked a ready-made one instead. don quixote in mitaka is the shit. walmart can go to hell along with bush and his inability to patrol the skies (i know i will probably be cavity-searched at narita airport in two days and that’s why i am angry) and distinguish between middle eastern groups… but yeah, anyway, so i bought a new friend at don quixote. please pick a name for him, as i am not nearly as creative or badass as tom hanks.i’ve only just met him, and he’s already acting like some bitchy mom trying to get me to study japanese. but you all know i hate textbook learning. fuck that shit.oh yeah, if you’re wondering what he is, on his ass is written the words “natiral green tea pudding,” the “natiral” part being either an engrish typo or a really cool alien name. i really hope it’s the latter. “zobar” is another really cool alien name, by the way.ok, now i gotta suffocate my new friend with my face and try to get some sleep. you can tell this is an evening post because if you re-read everything, you’ll find i had no point at all. but if you got this far, thanks for reading. good night.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1225772006-08-14T14:49:00an american felon in tokyo2006-08-14T05:49:45Z2006-08-14T05:49:45Zbeing in japan for almost 5 months now, i’ve slowly transformed from an innocent, law-abiding little asian girl (hah, what a lie, but whatev) to a rough-necked, street-walking criminal. believe it or not, i’ve engaged in my fair share of criminal activity over here. mind you, they have been low-grade offenses, but nonetheless, i feel my morals are slowly deteriorating into dust.today i was walking down the street, a large bulky shopping bag filled with oblong cardboard objects to be discarded and a 2 liter bottle of iced tea (2 weeks old and no longer iced) in one hand, my purse and 99 yen (that’s about 99 US cents) ramen in the other. yes, it was hot outside, and yes, i get pissed having to carry such heavy items in said weather conditions for long distances.i continued on, jesus-style, persevering despite the figurative cross on my back and thorns piercing through my forehead. it was a long march to school, and even more so this particular moment, since i was carrying smelly garbage and there was no sign of a dumpster-type receptacle for miles.a flash of insight entered my weary brain. an earlier image from a previous day, just as sweltering but not as heavy. and i wasn’t carrying trash.in fact, i was simply thirsty as a motherfucker and decided to purchase an ice-cold drink at one of the many available roadside vending machines (unlike america, where these magical apparati are only seen outside of stadiums and on school campuses [why isn’t the plural of campus “campi” instead?], here in japan you can literally step out your front door and boom, get a coke in under .5 seconds).so there i was, standing in front of the lit plastic window, unable to decide between an array of thirst-quenching beverages, when i noticed a small obaasan (older japanese woman) inching her way towards me. in her tiny fingers was a rumpled plastic bag, and those weren’t shiny new clothes in there! i could tell by the somewhat putrid smell, which grew to epic proportions as she brought the bag and herself closer to my location.i turned my gaze back to the automated drink dispenser and my mind continued to weigh back and forth the prospects of getting iced green tea or iced brown tea; it was such a difficult decision. as i did this, i heard the sound of rumpled plastic hitting the ground next to me. at the same time, like a small bomb, the smell of last night’s dinner coupled with maybe dog shit and toenails and baby oil (i think old women like to put baby oil in their hair universally, as i’ve found this the case in america as well. moreover, since i was a child i’ve associated the scent of baby oil with “old lady” and as such, hate the fucking odor… unless it’s my grandma who’s wearing it. but she never does–only stinky old ladies do) overcame my senses and i felt like fainting. but before i could, i was startled by the sound of a high-pitched, OLD-sounding “arigato gozaimasu!” uttered by, i assume, the sneaky obaasan as she made her getaway and framed me with her heinous deed.*side note: in japan, at least on the surface, everyone throws their garbage in special, SEPARATE, receptacles according to raw material/flammability. generally, it is your civic duty to dispose of any trash in their respective bins, and to do otherwise is equivalent to killing a small child or shitting on someone’s face– _you just don’t do it_. so, the fact that i witnessed someone conduct themselves in such a way, much less an old, supposedly conservative, traditional japanese woman, is at once a miracle and an evil omen of tragedies to come–maybe a monster typhoon will come and punish us all one of these days.*that was very fluffy prose right there, so let me sum it up for all the stupid people reading this:1. i was standing at a vending machine trying to buy a drink2. i noticed an old woman coming towards my general direction, holding a bag of trash, with obvious malevolent intent3. as i was still deciding, the woman dropped her bag next to me and ran off (where did she get this sudden superhuman speed?), calling out “thank you!” as she left me there to clean up after herstupid old whore. i’ll bet she’s the same woman who gossips to her neighbors about the evil gaijin (foreign people) who don’t know how to adapt to japanese culture. i’m not really mad; i just find it funny and i want you guys to find it funny too. but i digress.anyway, it’s time for psychoanalysis! where were we? so, i had just witnessed a crime. think of a little girl who witnesses a murder. being subjected to such brutality will of course result in some psychological unrest, and the ensuing shock may result in any number of consequences, depending on the individual and their personality/background/adaptability to novel situations level/etc. here’s ONE consequence:to deal with the mental instability caused by witnessing a murder at such a young age, the little girl’s psyche slowly warps its cognitive processes as she herself begins to exhibit serial killer-like tendencies until finally, she grows up and the next time you turn on the news you see little suzie, hands all bloodied, eyes rolling madly, headed to either the crazy house or death row….all because she saw her older brother kill a pigeon when she was 5.ok, maybe this type of thing wouldn’t go to that much of an extreme, but hear me out!so keep in mind, i had witnessed that old woman–not just ANY member of japanese society, an OLD OLD OLD WOMAN–throw her trash next to a street vending machine and either expect me to keep her crime a secret or dispose of the evidence for her. (japanese women can be sneaky sometimes.) i was too scared people would see me as the bad bad american who likes to break all the rules (as opposed to the bad bad japanese woman who likes to break all the rules), so i ran from the spot as quickly as i could, guilt weighing down my heart and slowly crushing the walls of my arteries.after that, i was never the same.so flash forward to today again, me holding that boulder of a bag filled with all this useless shit i didn’t need. i HAD to get to school, and this burden wasn’t helping me reach my destination any quicker. “what should i do?” i thought to myself. the closest trash bin was AT school, so my struggle was futile. unless…*flash of the old obaasan throwing her trash next to me expecting me to either take the blame or follow in her lead and flee the scene*this old woman was the murderer, and i, the witness. time only planted the seed that would lead to my career as a juvenile (japanese legal age is 20, so yeah, i’m still a kid here) delinquent. and so i had two choices. allow the instinctual psychological processes to take over my brain, or fight the feeling and try to live life as a normal upstanding citizen as best i could?i saw a delivery company building, the name of the company being “delivery service”. creative enough, eh? well, in MY creative mind, i used my logic skills to figure some things out: delivery companies deliver big things, and big things come in big boxes, and after they deliver these big things they probably have to take the big boxes back and dispose of them themselves, right?and so my rationale went: if they do this sort of thing on a regular basis, MY garbage (consisting of random boxes and yes, spoiled tea, but maybe they could drink that after a long day of delivery servicing) would merely be a bird’s feather taking the top spot in a pile of… boxes. so yeah, it wouldn’t hurt, right?(bad old lady… bad old lady… bad old lady…)i ran up to the building, threw the heaviest boxes in the world (to me at least) against the “delivery service” garage door, and ran like jesse owens (when i was a kid, i read a book that called him the fastest runner ever, at 28mph) to school. i don’t think i’ve ever run so fast, so purposefully towards school like that, ever.oh yeah, while i made my getaway, i remembered to say “arigato gozaimasu!” and then looked back to see if anyone had been watching. when i saw the street was completely empty and had been for the past few minutes, a smirk slowly crept across my face and i felt my heart harden just a little more.muahahahaha. take that, japan!the end.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1221712006-08-14T13:02:00zobar @ 2006-08-14T13:02:002006-08-14T04:02:37Z2006-08-14T04:02:37ZA- Available: kinda? my… whatever… lives like an hour away.A - Age: 19A - Annoyance: liars, shit-talkers, bullshitters, and whiny girls!B - Best Friends: honestly don’t know, but if we’re still talkin’ 10 years from now, then that’ll prove somethingB - Beer: gross, but i’ll down one if nothing else is thereB - Birthday: 30.01.87C - Crush: i dunno, i’m actually content for now! how weird is thatC - Car: s are overrated… trains are cooler (i wouldn’t drive one though and it kinda sucks when you encounter suicides on the tracks, but hey, there’s a con for every pro!)C - Candy: japanese kind (!) ESP. cheap chocolate! japanese cheap chocolate > GODIVA CHOCOLATED - Day or night: nightD - Dream Car: porsche 911 carrera… i don’t ask for much but i do like investmentsD - Dog or Cat: catE - Easy: only when i really want itE - Eggs: scrambled, omelette du frommageE - E-mail: gmailF - Favorite Month: summer months maybe. this summer’s pretty damn cool.F - Favorite Color(s): green, brown, black, stripes… around my room, i like bright onesF - Favorite Memory: anything that brings a random smile/laugh to my face and causes others around me to question my sanityG - Gummy Bears or Worms: i have a phobia of the latter so the first oneG - Giver or Taker: taker, mostly.. i give when it’s warrantedG - Gum: sure why not.. i’m all for fresh breath and indigestible substances in my mouthH - Hair Color: brown, but currently weird red-black-brownH - Height: 5′5H - Happy: lately… listen to “life” by des’ree (it’s my theme song in japan)I - Ice Cream: green tea, mocha almond fudge, cheesecakeI - Instrument: piano (cuz i’m fucking good at it, bitches!)I - Idol(s): satanJ - Jewelry: um, aimal, i hope you were joking about the toe rings…i like necklacesJ - Job: none. if i don’t find one soon, i will throw away all decency and whore myself out at roppongi. please visit me if you ever come to japan; it’s a tourist hotspot (all the seedy americans and nigerians hang out there).J - Jail: my dad’s been there a couple of times! yayyy i’m white trashK - Kids: are delicious–i mean, delightfulK - Kickboxing or Karate: kickboxing to techno music–WTF SOLANO COMMUNITY COLLEGEK - Kindergarden: first of all, “kindergarten”second of all, worst year of my lifeL - Longest Car Ride: canada. either that, or my road trip to hawaii with ronnie (needless to say, we never made it)L - Longest Relationship: 2 years. my advice to you: if you get into a 2 year relationship (aka black hole) with anyone, find out first whether or not they’re dyslexic, have a small penis, or carry emotional baggage heavier than your average american fattyM - Milk Flavor: gross, but ok, bananaM - Most Missed Person(s): cristina, were you talking about me??? anywho, i don’t know who i miss, actuallyM - Movie Last Watched: wait, are all johnny depp’s movies going to suck from now on? is that the consequence he gets for being in a relationship with a model for so long? maybe she’s dyslexic, has small boobies, and carries a brain lighter than a featherN - Number of Siblings: 2N - Number of Tattoos: 0N - Name: jesssayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyO - One Wish: to be able to eat unlimited amounts of food (especially sweets) and not gain any weight or pimples (i think this is the smartest wish anyone could possibly come up with, because eating makes people happy and less depressed)O - One Phobia: feetO - One Regret: not researching my ancestral immigration benefits sooner… i didn’t have to get a fucking visa, goddamitP - Pet Peeves: whiners, airheads, bullshitters, liars, smelliness (deodorant costs only $4 sir)P - Part of Your Appearance You Like Best: i have nice body proportions, it’s true. except for my sasquatchian feet.P - Part of Your Personality You Like Best: i’m relatively unbiased except for when i’m joking around. i have insights and can look at things from many perspectives.Q - Quick or Slow: quick, but if i’m hungry i cannot even speak without sounding like a mentally retarded personQ - Quiet or Loud: dependsQ - Quails: i used to like smashing their eggs because they were so small. now you know why i have serial killer tendencies.R - Reason to Smile: memories, irony, stupid goings-onR - Reality TV Show: fuck that, take me to neverlandR - Reasons to Cry: MONEY PROBLEMSS - Song Last Heard: “get in the car” -hail socialS - Season: summer/winter i guessS - Shoe: right now? black slip-on imitation vans with music notes on themT - Time You Woke Up: 6:30am. why? i don’t know, but i fell asleep sitting down and that probably wasn’t very conducive to my slumberT - Time Now: almost 1pmT - Time For Bed: if i get bored or there’s no one with whom i can hang outU - U love someone: noU - Unpredictable: yeah, read my myspace headlineU - Unicorns: make good pets. and when you’re done with them you can cut their hair off and sell them for $300. i know. i had a unicorn once.V - Vegetable You Hate: i forgot what vegetables taste like (this is not entirely true, but close to it)V - Vegetable You Love: carrotsV - Vacation Spot: here, there, anywhere.. i’m a nomadW- Worst Habits: picking nail cuticles, picking skin and scabsW- Where Are You Going To Travel Next: don’t knowW- Weather Right Now: hot and humidX - X-Rays: chest (nipple rings! hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh), teeth, whole body and brain (after the car accident)X - XXX: huh? porn? sure.X - X-Men: not my favorite.Y - Year You Were Born: 87Y - Year It Is Now: 2006 or 18, depending on who you askY - Yellow: when i don’t drink enough water…Z - Zoo Animal: i think giraffes could be delicious but they aren’t my favorite zoo animal. maybe foxes. (do they have foxes in zoos?)Z - Zodiac: aquarius. i don’t believe in astrology but i swear i fit my sign to a tee: eccentric, psychic, psycho, misunderstood by people cuz i either live in the 60s or the future, distant at times, free-spirited, artistic (funny, i forgot all the bad characteristics… enlighten me)urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1219602006-08-09T16:38:00zobar @ 2006-08-09T16:38:002006-08-09T07:44:17Z2006-08-09T07:46:21Zi know i will come off as an elitist saying the following (yet i feel it’s my prerogative, as i’ve honed enough talent to be able to critique shit–and by shit, i mean dirty, rotting, crusty feces left on the bottom of an unwashed toilet bowl–i come across day by day), but here i go:some people don’t know how to write. give up, give up i say! who are you fooling? there’s a difference between minimalist- and “wow, i have no style at all!”-type prose. yeah, people will cheer you on for making an effort, but in the end, your hard work reaps no rewards. seriously.wait a minute, i think there’s hope for you talentless children of the ordinary just yet.because…didn’t aimal just tell me pirates of the caribbean: dead man’s chest has weaseled its way to the top of one of those “greatest blockbusters of all time” lists? so you CAN package trash and sell it to the public (the public is STUPID, but ok) as genuine article.oh, shoot me, shoot me now.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1216802006-08-03T18:40:00figured it out2006-08-03T09:44:13Z2006-08-03T09:52:25Zstaying here is not a vacation nor an excuse to party, but rather, a field study in cultural nuances and international relations, privately funded and conducted without outside aid or resources, of course. if you were here (i’m talking about the casual observer, not any specific person! so get that stick out of your ass) you’d probably blink and miss the whole meaning of what i’m talking about. you really do learn more by opening your eyes and ears outside of a classroom, instead of being cooped up staring at walls and listening to broken records for 9 hours every day.and my lesson: hey, teacher–leave those kids alone!pink floyd said it well, 15 years ago (when i first heard the wall playing on the old cassette deck during the morning ride to my grandma’s house, right before my mom headed off to work at 6 in the morning), and i feel the same sentiment right now, minus the anxiety stomachaches i incurred at the age of 5.this is the first and only time you will EVER see licensed third-party song lyrics of any sort in my journal.and by the way, i like to change up my writing style sometimes (notice the haughty tone in this entry?) just because it’s fun.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1215302006-08-03T16:41:00zobar @ 2006-08-03T16:41:002006-08-03T07:53:33Z2006-08-03T07:55:18Z”underneath the bridge by asakusa”07/31/06-08/03/06i remember the time, a long time agowe walked past that ancient shrine, over therewithout a care in this world nor our ownand even now, mid-may rains permittingi can feel those sweet mists hitting my facetasting the open air when you stared into my eyeswind entwining locks of hair and sand on our legsyou had a way of reading my mind, you knownone of that “lost in translation” bullshitpeople tend to spit out on days like thesei mean, you’ve already crossed the fine linebetween “miss” and a real “understanding”so use me as your map and we’ll stay on courselife is more demanding than dreams, of courseharder to wander, easier to fall and slip through the seamsbut whatever the universe hands us, throws our wayi think we can face it together and weather the stormtill we feel in our arms that same sea breeze once moreurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1212952006-07-31T14:54:00weekend of the pimp2006-07-31T05:53:21Z2006-07-31T05:53:21Zi write this now because this shit never happens to me; therefore, i deserve all bragging rights humanly possible for successfully doing what i did the past 3 days. allow me to explain. by the way, i`m currently hooked up to an internet cafe in shinjuku since my home is both broadband- and dial-up-less.friday night i went karaoke-ing with sora, her childhood friend, and a bunch of summer program kids. first off, let me say this: if i had any inkling of a presupposition that the new “real world tokyo” would be less fun than a bag of squares, i was wrong–they are some crazy ass motherfuckers! a loud, rowdy, hyperbolic representation of america, if you will.so, in celebration of this revelation, we drank our fill and sang. yes, we sang till our larynxes couldn`t take the pain anymore. and then we sang some more.my night didn`t end there, but i`m getting tired so i`ll just summarize. i hooked up with someone (as always, I didn`t do anything and I didn`t go all the way) and ended up with still-visible hickeys saturday morning. (i hate american guys and their selfish “look what i did!” assholedness.) saturday night, i went to a japanese festival in the famous shrine town of asakusa with “gomen ne” (if any of you remember, he`s the same japanese guy from early april who repeatedly said “gomen ne” for a reason i shall not explain here). we were supposed to watch the fireworks, which are famous over there, but–and i`m sure none of you are surprised–i was two hours late so we missed them.why was i two hours late? well, in the spirit of any japanese summertime celebration, i wanted to dress up in yukata, which is the summer version of a kimono. the problem was, i had no idea how the fuck you`re supposed to put one on, so i spent quite some time running around town trying to find SOMEONE who knew the yukata method. turns out even born and raised japanese girls can`t do it themselves without the help of an okaasan, so i was kinda shit out of luck when i tried to ask my friends. doki doki doki (sound of an almost heart attack).i went to uniqlo, which is the japanese equivalent of… i dunno, some cheap clothing store that is still relatively fashionable?… and had one of the workers over there assist me, “pretty woman” or maybe “princess diaries” style. can you say MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT IN THE WORLD? good thing i was wearing a good bra and thong, and good thing i`ve been keeping up with my diet, because that chick had to see everything and wrap a large piece of cloth around everything. it was a very tough time… and i barely had any time! i had no idea how much work it takes wrapping fabric around your body and making it look pretty. i now have respect for every mukashi-style japanese grandma in the world. (mine not included, since i`m sure she couldn`t have helped me even if she tried)i finally got all my things together, geta, bag, and whatever, 2 hours late (like i said earlier) and made my way to asakusa drenched in sweat and dripping makeup. long story short, we missed the fireworks but did get to walk around and talk and do date stuff like visit the temple and pray and blahblah and then we went to tgi fridays and had a nice meal with girly alcohol, which, i found out, this guy cannot handle.another small story: that night after i parted with gomen ne, i missed my stop and somehow ended up in yokohama. if you know anything about locations in japan, going to yokohama instead of where i live in tokyo is something like accidentally going to santa barbara instead of LA. or something. i dunno. but by the time i realized the fact and backtracked to tokyo station, the last train had already gone and deserted me, so i was left standing outside with a bunch of bums and perverts and ugly old women.after some slow thinking and processes of elimination, i ended up taking a taxi back to musashi sakai (the closest “everything town” to school) and talking the driver down from the equivalent of $108 to $100. he was kinda gross–interspersed with his indecipherable japanese were phrases like “service” and “my house” and i really didn`t want to know what he was saying to me. i left as quick as i can, but not before he spotted the other $100 in my wallet. i did a bad job talking myself out of the situation again, and after i left i became wrought with paranoia thinking he would call the cops on me for being short $8. i ended up hiding in the bike parking lot adjacent to my friend`s house until i felt the coast was clear.blahblah, skip a few scenes, when i finally walked all the way back home (around 4am, no less), i discovered a few apologetic emails from gomen ne taking up space in my cell phone… and one such mail which read “i like you.” this is almost the equivalent of someone in america saying “i love you,” and needless to say, i was a bit scared but a bit flattered at the same time. to tell the truth, i actually started thinking more of the guy during the date, since it turns out he`s kinda funny and smart and not as wishy washy as i thought. but i digress. i will attempt to watch hanabi (fireworks) with him again next weekend.one more small bit: he said he would`ve let me stay at his place instead of having to ride the train and miss the train home, but he thought i had a boyfriend. in my head i was like, where the hell did you get that idea? then i remembered i had friday`s evidence marking the spot on my neck. can i say again that I HATE AMERICANS? wow, how arrogant can you be that you have to basically stake your claim on someone`s body? i digress again.so sunday, i had a date with… dundundun… the starbucks guy! funny thing is, this would`ve been my second outing with him if only i hadn`t overslept the last time i was supposed to go out with him (i swear this must`ve been almost a month ago). do you guys see a pattern here? soon i will lose any chance with even the worst guy in the world, and i won`t have any friends to bother anymore, just because I CAN NEVER BE ON TIME ANYWHERE! but anyway, wow, this guy knows the ins and outs of where in japan to take a girl if you want to impress her. first we went to his hometown, which is by ochanomizu, and he took me to his “natsukashi tokoro” (someplace that gives you nostalgia): a really cute italian restaurant with extremely delicious pasta. (first comparison to saturday: at tgi fridays with gomen ne, we had pasta as well…) he told me about this town and how he wished he could come back more often, and we discussed our childhood interests (dinosaurs, power rangers, iron chef, legos) and cultural differences and linguistical nuances and the like. this guys knows his japanese history too. (i don`t know any american history except for slavery and the harlem renaissance and jazz era–why do i know so much about dead black people?) afterwards, we went to asakusa (2nd day in a row for me!) and i had to pretend i hadn`t been there since may. thus, it was my feigned “natsukashi tokoro” (in reality, i don`t usually miss places, things, or people that i parted with less than 24 hours ago) and since it was daytime instead of a nighttime famous holiday, we had a more comfortable time. less of a crowd and more to do. we made ourselves smarter using incense smoke, prayed (again, 2nd time in a row for me), and received our omikuji fortunes. mine was labeled average and his best, but my… outcomes?… seemed better than his. go figure.after the temple run, we went and sat by the river, which, i have to say, has a pretty amazing view of the surrounding landscape. we watched boats go by, couples on a stroll, old men sitting down for a rest, pigeons taking a shit… etc. and we did cute stuff or whatever, like japanese/english writing practice, and insulting bush (the guy who claims to run america), and other stuff. no physical contact–NOW you guys are surprised, yeah?after that, it was slowly getting dark, and we headed over to tokyo dome, which–and i didn`t know this–has a pretty dope theme park! the design is really cool. the roller coaster intersects with the ferris wheel and even loops through a building. we ate ramen while watching a lightshow at a water fountain in the center of the park. afterwards took a walk which included a path lit by neon hearts, a stop at a baseball cafe, and a wall lined with zodiac horoscopes. he translated mine for me.after that, it was, what, 10 or something, and we made plans for this coming weekend: hanging out at inogashira park in kichijoji (my favorite “everything town”), maybe taking one of the boats out at the lake over there, and possibly doing hanabi! (the little fireworks, which are actually legal in japan)yeah, japan-2, america-0 when it comes to guys and date etiquette.and the vampire american emailed me yesterday saying he would take me to some nice chinese restaurant by my house sometime soon if i admitted “green day rocks.” they don`t, but i did, because as you all know, i can`t turn down free food.the end.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:zobar:1209052006-07-26T15:03:00simple stream of consciousness2006-07-26T08:43:25Z2006-07-26T09:58:57Zi don’t know if any of you know, but i’ve been hermitized and isolated from the world wide web in recent weeks. this is the first time i’ve checked livejournal since june, if my memory serves me right. i kinda like the way the top right corner of the screen greets me with “konnichiwa, zobar-san!” (in japanese hiragana, of course) a shining example amongst many of the exceptional politenesses and cutesy quirks you’ll find in this country. the widest smiles in the world, but always at a distance. hypocritical yet understandable. is that what you guys think of me?many are wondering why i have decided to stay here. maybe i’m having too much fun, maybe i’m living my dream and eating like a king or something. _no, dude, you’re wrong._ my reasons are pretty freaking practical if you ask me. it hasn’t been all fun and games and sugarplums and gumdrops, though the pictures on facebook seem to indicate my time in japan as such.i’m a drifter, a wanderer, a nomad, i’ve finally figured it out–and seeming contradictions are a huge part of my life. you find that a lot here, contradictions. maybe i wouldn’t call them that if i had grown up japanese-japanese instead. then again, i probably wouldn’t think as much as i do with each passing second (my biggest problem and greatest strength) and i might’ve turned into a robot at the age of 19. guess my mom did one thing the right way in her life of “i should’ve”s and “why didn’t i…” i might get my chronic has-been mentality from her.so here’s the simple explanation: at this point in my life, japan is more conducive to my thinking, writing, and breathing. for some odd reason, here inspiration hits me like a drunkard to his wife, and not because i’m living in some kind of fantasy land, but rather, because this atmosphere is more becoming to me. i’m comfortable living on the fringes of society, and i like to embrace being outside the box looking into a goldfish bowl of conformity. in america you have a place where each worker bee wants to elevate himself to godlike levels of importance, “the individual spirit” and the like, whereas in japan the ordinary man accepts his mediocrity and is comfortable blending into the masses. if you think about it, then, it’s a bit more honest here. the lines are drawn, clear-cut. another example: people like to say that japanese are racist and unaccepti
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You affect me. I become a child when I am with you.
Chapter 1: The Little PrinceOnce when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.”I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked something like this:I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.But they answered: “Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?”My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:The grown-ups’ response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:”That is a hat.”Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:177332006-08-29T09:26:00Ominous2006-08-29T01:18:49Z2006-08-29T01:18:49ZIt’s funny how it is. We were happy. And now, we aren’t. Things are uncertain and everywhere, there are dark clouds covering our bodies that we have become one with them.You will never know this, but on most days, I am afraid that we will disappear. Dark cannot abide the light and a dark secret’s life is ephemeral. Certainly, we cannot stay hidden forever. Come daybreak, we will disappear with the clouds that gave birth to us. And it would be like we never existed.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:175812006-08-13T23:39:00When I’m Busy, My Heart Grows Mold2006-08-13T15:50:14Z2006-08-13T15:51:40ZI spent today in the office, bouncing balls on random walls–trying to figure out something very puzzling. Hours later, I am done with the puzzling.And yet, something is still puzzling me.It is inside–in the place that drives the pulse, that drives the brain, that makes every nerve of my body work and beat with such furious emotion. I don’t claim to understand what I feel except I do. And it’s there, most of the time.Except when it’s not.You know, when they said that absence makes the heart grow fungus, I never agreed.Only that I do.Today. Only for today when my heart and head are busy with something else.PSI painted my nails French. Erased it. Pastel. Deleted it. Finally, glossy clear. Clear..ly satisfied. (Corny, but I like playing with words and it’s my blog so shut up.)urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:173552006-08-13T12:53:00Untogether, Belly2006-08-13T04:45:43Z2006-08-13T04:45:43ZSometimes there’s no poison like a dream.Untogether, I couldn’t help it, it got hard.You can dry your eyes,but you can’t hold the impossiblyUntogether.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:170882006-08-09T23:47:00Silver Lining, David Gray2006-08-09T15:39:43Z2006-08-09T15:42:06ZStep into the silenceTake it in your own two handsAnd scatter it like diamondsAll across these landsBlaze it in the morningWear it like an iron skinOnly things worth living forInnocence and magic–Amen.We were born with our eyes wide openSo alive with wild hopeNow can you tell me whyTime after timeThey drag you downDown in the darkness deepFools in their madness all aroundKnow that the light dont sleepurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:162132006-08-06T15:28:00…2006-08-06T07:30:10Z2006-08-06T07:34:50ZI find it funny that when I decide to leave, people never try to convince me to stay.No one ever does….urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:155272006-08-04T03:50:00Living in The Moment2006-08-03T19:51:17Z2006-08-03T19:51:17ZBe patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.-Rainer Maria Rilkeurn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:153342006-08-02T22:21:00Of Possibilities and Such2006-08-02T15:10:39Z2006-08-02T16:24:11ZThere is an ocean before us.And I would like you to know that there is nothing that I would want to hide. I want to see how you see, to feel how you feel, to breathe in the salty air of the bright blue in front of us–the both of us.You see, I wonder about a lot of things. How certain decisions can shape who we are. Twisted moralities or genuine freedom? Can we be truly self-absorbed and not think about the rest of the world? Of hearts broken in the aftermath? Or of that single moment which might one day come that we will regret all this. We will regret what we’ve done.Of the time that we will leave each other. Of the time that we will wish these memories away.Stand beside me and let me call you beautiful. Let me call you the things that I see you are. Heady, mysterious, bright, and all things wonderful. And you will not know you, because you have not yet seen who you are. You do not see yourself as I see you.And when the day comes to decide, we will be able to see the ocean as it is to us.Freedom. Possibility. New beginnings. Change. Of leaving caution to the wind and taking a blind leap forwards–holding hands.Or must it be what it truly is. Two people landlocked, surrounded by a blue expanse that is caging them.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:148532006-07-31T01:05:00At Night2006-07-30T18:13:50Z2006-07-31T18:05:45Zthe secret between my heart and its heartbeatis my hand holding yours under the covers of my bedof thrumminghummingand steady strummingof things often breathed but always unsaid.it was the perfect adventure(as lips often lovers do)we cup our hands and drink from each otherand do what feels true than say what we wooi’d say it was only rightthat the kiss gave birth to a universebecause it should be never allowedto give birth to a dream(you are rareyou are differentthat nighti meant everythingthat nightit was everything)must we live in the night, dark secret?denying heaven will make us sin once againcatching falling leaveswill only make the fallenfall even faster(because the secret between my heartand its heartbeat will always be my handwith yoursand yours with mineunder the coversunder the coversin bedin the darkin the nightwhere there is no life.)at night, we are the only ones livingin night, we can dream that we were alivethat night i wished we were(i will say no morei will leave it at this)urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:147832006-07-30T16:12:0070 Means Slightly No Life2006-07-30T08:21:37Z2006-07-30T08:21:37ZSUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 80 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 168 movie titles on this list. Put your score in header and repost.(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show(x) Grease(x) Pirates of the Caribbean( ) Boondock Saints( ) Fight Club(x) Starsky and Hutch(x) Neverending Story( ) Blazing Saddles( ) Airplane( ) My First Mister(x) The Virgin SuicidesTotal: 6/11( ) The Princess Bride( ) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy( ) Napoleon Dynamite( ) Labyrinth( ) Saw( ) Saw II( ) White Noise(x) White Oleander( ) Anger Management( ) 50 First Dates(x) The Princess Diaries(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal EngagementTotal: 3/12( ) Scream( ) Scream 2( ) Scream 3(x) Scary Movie(x) Scary Movie 2( ) Scary Movie 3( ) Scary Movie 4(x) American Pie(x) American Pie 2(x) American Wedding(x) American Pie Band CampTotal: 6/11(x) Harry Potter(x) Harry Potter 2(x) Harry Potter 3(x) Harry Potter 4( ) Resident Evil I( ) Resident Evil 2(x) The Wedding Singer( ) Little Black Book( ) The Village(x) Lilo & StitchTotal: 6/10(x) Finding Nemo( ) Finding Neverland( ) Signs(x) The Grinch( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre( ) White Chicks( ) Butterfly Effect(x) 13 Going on 30( ) I, Robot(x) RobotsTotal: 4/10( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story( ) Universal Soldier( ) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events( ) Along Came Polly(x) Deep Impact( ) KingPin(x) Never Been Kissed(x) Meet The Parents(x) Meet the Fockers( ) Eight Crazy Nights( ) Joe Dirt(x) KING KONGTotal: 5/12(x) A Cinderella Story( ) The Terminal(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie( ) Passport to Paris(x) Dumb & Dumber( ) Dumber & Dumberer( ) Final Destination( ) Final Destination 2( ) Final Destination 3( ) Halloween( ) The Ring( ) The Ring 2( ) Surviving X-MAS(x) FlubberTotal: 4/14( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle(x) Practical Magic(x) Chicago( ) Ghost Ship( ) From Hell( ) Hellboy( ) Secret Window(x) I Am Sam(x) The Whole Nine YardsTotal: 4/9( ) The Day After Tomorrow( ) Child’s Play( ) Seed of Chucky( ) Bride of Chucky(x) Ten Things I Hate About You(x) Just Married( ) Gothika( ) Nightmare on Elm Street( ) Sixteen Candles(x) Remember the Titans( ) Coach Carter( ) The Grudge(x) the Mask( ) Son Of The MaskTotal: 4/14( ) Bad Boys 2( ) Joy Ride( ) Se7en(x) Ocean’s Eleven(x) Ocean’s Twelve( ) Identity( ) Lone Star(x) Bedazzled( ) Predator I( ) Predator II( ) The Fog(x ) Ice Age(x) Ice Age 2: The MeltdownTotal: 5/13(x) Independence Day( ) Cujo( ) A Bronx Tale( ) Darkness Falls(x) ET( ) Children of the Corn( ) My Boss’ Daughter(x) Maid in Manhattan( ) Frailty(x) War of the Worlds( ) Rush Hour( ) Rush Hour 2Total: 4/12( ) Best Bet(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days(x) She’s All That( ) Calendar Girls( ) Sideways(x) Mars Attacks( ) Event Horizon(x) Ever After(x) Forrest Gump( ) Big Trouble in Little China( ) The Terminator( ) Terminator 2Total: 5/12(x) X-Men(x) X2(x) Spider-Man(x) Spider-Man 2(x) Sky High( ) Jeepers Creepers( ) Jeepers Creepers 2(x) Catch Me If You Can( ) The Others( ) Freaky Friday( ) Reign of Fire( ) Cruel Intentions( ) Cruel Intentions 2( ) Cruel Intentions 3( ) The Hot Chick(x) Shrek(x) Shrek 2Total: 8/17( ) Swimfan( ) Miracle( ) Old School(x) The Notebook( ) K-Pax(x) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(x) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(x) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(x) A Walk to Remember( ) Boogeyman(x) The 40-year-old-virginTotal: 6/11GRAND TOTAL: 70/16870 means having slightly no life, hehe.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:145502006-07-03T12:33:00To the Philippine Elders2006-07-03T04:29:14Z2006-07-03T04:33:47ZI dug this up. Wrote it for Creative Nonfiction. Quite angsty/emo so proceed with caution. Might send to Inquirer, too. So can someone please give constructive criticism? Thanks.–To the Philippine EldersAmidst all the mudslinging, backbiting, front-stabbing, and theatrics that is our government, life in the Philippines goes on as usual. Itlongganisayousinangagburning? This is the Philippines. What gives?Unlike others, however, I choose to insulate myself from possible early morning depression by giving up newspapers. Waking up to a fresh pot of coffee and a long list of what the government is doing wrong again isnBut I did, once.In fact, when I used to care, you would tell me that it was just a phase and that I would outgrow it sooner or later in the same way I suddenly stopped sashaying slowly around the house, pretending I was Ms. Universe or the ratty old sneakers that I desperately held on to, kicking and screaming, while my mother tried to throw them away. Except that I never allowed myself to believe it to be trueBut still, the nowhere comes. The nothing haunts. Soon enough, I was left grasping at straws. How did we come this way? How will we get through this? My voice rises when I tell you that the Motherland is hurting. But youNow, I am like youBeginning life like a flameIt shouldnNow, this is the Philippines. What gives?urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:140862006-06-16T00:13:00Starbucks Live, Researching, and Marketing2006-06-15T16:42:50Z2006-06-15T16:42:50ZI just got home and I’m dead tired. I worked until around 11:30 P.M. in Starbucks at the ground floor of our office building. Nice place, by the way. Hardly crowded. Saying it was crowded, in fact, would be the overstatement of the century. They once had a live band playing there, because they were losing out to Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Honestly, the idea of Starbucks with a live band as appealing is just BEYOND me. Someone should shoot their marketing manager.Anyway, was working on a business valuation of an LPG company. I seriously love what I am doing and, at the same time, I seriously wonder how long I can keep this up. Research helps me exercise my braincells, but I can only do it at night. Or when I’m away from the office, because the phone just keeps on ringing off the hook there.Honestly, I shouldn’t be complaining that clients just keep on coming, BUT (because there always is a but in everything) I am getting extremely rattled on my inability to work in the office. People just come in and go all the time. More than that, there constantly seems to be an EMERGENCY. I’m just putting out fires the entire day. I can’t do research if I’m constantly being interrupted.Gah. When will I stop wishing for more five more hours in my day? It’s come to a point that I’m beginning to dread Friday, because I need to get more work done.Please. Someone just slap me.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:139812006-06-12T19:46:00Maturing Backwards2006-06-12T11:47:44Z2006-06-12T11:47:44ZIs there such a thing as maturing backwards? I read that in MonetteCan people mature backwards? I would like to know, honestly.Or getting old backwards.Or thinking backwards.Or drinking backwards.Or screaming backwards.Or living backwards.But isnSo does maturing backwards mean you never grow up at all?urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:135262006-05-09T22:38:00Head Over Heels2006-05-09T14:58:37Z2006-05-09T15:01:19ZThe world becomes maddeningly slow when things of great importance happen in your life. When I fell down the stairs and hit my head this morning, I felt the every single time my body made dull contact with each step. Must have been twenty steps all in all.Things are especially silent when you know something is wrong. When you ache too much for the daily grind of the ordinary just to shrug off the unsettling feeling. Like the uncomfortably numb feeling on the side of my face as I dutifully return all the phonecalls for work.After a few calls, I notice my hand is trembling. Observing it with a macabre clinical detachment, I wonder if it was because I hit my head or because of the shock of it all.I hit my head and I fell down and my laptop is not working and I still have to return phonecalls and I still have to finish my research I still have to make the required number of sales meetings and even if I should take care of this, the world isn’t stopping–it isn’t going to stop for me.When I fell down, I got up immediately, dusted myself off, and examined my laptop. Went to the shop to get it repaired. As soon as I was satisfied that it could be repaired, I went and took care of ME–a testament to my screwed-up set of priorities in life.They x-rayed my skull, gave me painkillers, and told me to monitor my condition for 48 hours.On a lighter note, a friend of mine told me that if after the fall, I start enjoying the beach then maybe it’s a good thing. Haha. Hmm, wonder if I’ll have personality changes.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:132072006-04-07T09:25:00Blogging from the Office2006-04-07T09:34:46Z2006-04-07T09:34:46ZThis is the first time I’ve blogged here.Why, you ask? I do not have the luxury of time or the Internet. And I’m deathly afraid that someone would discover my blog.If I should describe my job, I would have to say that I semi-enjoy it. I meet a lot of people and they’re interesting. A priest even hit on me. That’s interesting, too. Inward screaming though especially when he started promising me a car sticker so that I could always go to mass there.Am afraid that my braincells are slowly dying though. All I do is follow-up reports and charm our clients into paying for our expensive services. It’s getting boring.The worst part of it all probably is that I’ve been a very sneaky girl. At night, instead of relaxing, I find myself doing research for our business consulting division–helping out even if it isn’t technically my job.I’m not even getting paid. It’s so pathetic. Haha.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:130482006-03-27T21:37:00V for Vendetta2006-03-27T13:38:40Z2006-03-27T13:38:40ZWatch V for Vendetta! I love the movie so much that I will be buying the original DVD when it comes out.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:125122006-03-23T21:11:00On The 20 Years of Not Knowing You2006-03-23T13:13:33Z2006-03-23T13:28:57ZYou only find out what you cannot do without after the unfortunate experience of having it. Having it and realizing that this was the happiest you have ever been, you will begin to think how you could have ever done without.It’s like someone’s first experience of chocolate. Once you’ve eaten it, you forget that you were once born without it.Except that chocolate is loyal and will never leave you brokenhearted. It will always be on the grocery shelf, waiting for the slightest bit of your attention. Even if the attention merits its clothes being ripped from its brown body, forcibly raped, and consumed alive.All for your enjoyment.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:122612006-03-19T23:44:00On Religion2006-03-19T15:57:31Z2006-03-19T15:57:31ZEvery Sunday, I get this urge to go to church to profess faith to the nameless. And I stop myself. Most of my friends have this perception of me being an atheist, which is quite funny. I know that I might seem unconventional at times, but never did I say I was godless.I just never liked church. In the office, I crack jokes about shopping for a religion and they laugh. I suppose they just don’t know how much I mean it.Just to set the record straight, I was baptized in the Roman Catholic faith when I was knee-deep in high school. I went to a Mormon church when I was in pre-school all the way to grade school. My dad brought me to the Roman Catholic church during high school to college. I stopped somewhere in the middle, because I was getting too bitter about the sermons. I almost became pagan and I always say that if I was born a boy, I would’ve been a Jesuit.These days, my Saturdays and Sundays have been quiet. Except shopping for corporate wear and having dinner with friends, I no longer have my thesis and other academic things to worry about–or use as an excuse for not remembering.I don’t know what’s up with me. Maybe I’m getting older? Or maybe I’ve grown up. I used to be so bitter about these things, but now, it just feels sort of empty and right.Obviously, the question now is: Which church?urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:119142006-03-13T01:41:00Another One on Break-ups2006-03-12T17:44:07Z2006-03-12T17:44:07ZI know you’ve told you before that we’ve broken up. New development: We’re not seeing each other anymore. At least for a month. That’ll give us ample time to move on, I think. It’s hard to still see him, do the same things, act the same way, and not be together. R- thinks it’s all about the label and it’s true. Having that label while you’re still the same can of fruit is markedly difficult.I think I must have succeeded in confusing everyone else except R- and I. Anyway, off to bed. Good night.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:116862006-03-06T05:32:00thenumber33 @ 2006-03-06T05:32:002006-03-05T21:36:33Z2006-03-05T21:36:33ZI wrote this once upon a time ago. Reposted from my Tabulas blog. Just had the urge to reread the past couple of years. Life was good most of the time. I kind of miss it.Okay okay, the truth is I was just looking for ways to procrastinate. Am doing a mighty fine job of it, too. :P–Unfiction: The LoveletterPosted by ophelia at 03:15 am on December 27th, 2003 in UnFiction.Same place, different time. I laugh. You smile. The once denied awkwardness evident between us.Well, I’m here again.Overhere.Butnotover you.Because I’m never over you.And it’s nice to pretend that it didn’t all happen. But journal entries speak, scars are louder, and memories resurface.Was I ever over you?Maybe, yes. For a time. Thrice in sleep and once in dreaming. Forgotten in times of remembering and eventhathas left a bitter taste in my mouth.Crazy the way things turn out. My life has now come down to a sonnet to the one person I would never dream of marrying. And that’s why I am here, with my 3-quatrain of sorrow and 1-couplet of pain,alone.Alwaysalmostover you.Nevertruly over you.Never want to be over. Never want to be with. Quite a conundrum. I will never wish to own you, and yet I will never wish this tragedy away.In love?Out?Out of love? Never.If you would just keep still. Be you. And promise you will never love me.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:113542006-03-06T02:53:00Now Playing2006-03-05T18:53:49Z2006-03-05T18:53:49ZOther than than some small talk with my family, odd questions by my siblings, and other miscellaneous text messages by my friends, I’d rather not talk about the break-up just yet. It’s too new to subject to the quite familiar post-break up dissection that I’ve done with my other friends’ relationships.And truthfully, I don’t want to. I don’t want to press stop, rewind, and replay all things good, bad, ugly, and beautiful about this particular part of my life. It’s still hard. During the quieter parts of the day, I wonder if we should get back together just to settle this growing uneasiness of being part of the single crowd.Take note, I will never regret breaking up with him. Maybe it was too much of a sudden move? Yes. But I made that decision and I will not cry over spilt milk.What I do not like about being single, however, is the notion that I am up for grabs. One of my officemates just proposed sending a memo to the entire technical department of our office that I was single since apparently, a lot were asking for my name.I was, “Excuse me?” And cracked a polite smile. The fact that someone would actually say that even if it was a joke is flattering, but I actually missed the relationship even more. I guess I’ve grown accustomed to giving the standard “I’m taken” answer to swat all the probing questions.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:112492006-02-27T01:37:00Breaking Up2006-02-26T18:00:11Z2006-02-26T18:03:50ZWe broke up on a Friday night. It was a happy break-up and a mutual decision.We’re still friends and we still talk to each other. No bad blood. In fact, I just got off the phone with him.We don’t disregard the fact that wemayget together again. We also don’t disregard the fact that it is entirely possible that we’ll never do.It’s funny how we never thought it would happen to us, you know. How we would never be one of those couples who’d break up because they needed to focus on their career.But we are. And it’s still painful in that sad silly way when all things happy draw to a close. Because it is an ending after all, despite everything else.And since it was my decision, I should be happy, right?…:(urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:109552006-02-10T23:02:00Happy Joy Joy2006-02-10T15:37:53Z2006-02-10T15:44:19ZA part of me doesn’t want to believe I’m happy.Or that my life’s finally falling into place.My job is everything that I’ve ever wanted. I get paid to talk up a storm, meet new people, and have a pleasing personality. I’m also paid to use my brain. I also get paid to meet the movers and shakers of the third-world archipelago I call home.(edit: Now that I think about it, the above job description makes me sound like I prostitute myself for a living.)I also get to be a nonconformist in my own right. Really, what is an AB Humanities student doing in an appraisal company? I get to defy the normal conception of a Humanities student and that makes me happy (in the Donna way that it does) even if I don’t get to wear the kind of corporate wear I’d like. I have to look like a consultant from head to toe.My only consolation is that I can wear funny underwear. At least no one will see that.But I’m happy. I look forward to work. I look forward to.. *drumroll* working overtime without pay. Haha. But yes, I have huge stacks of paper on my desk waiting to be read.And also dictionary.You know, those hardbound 700-paged thick ones that can actually kill a person? They gave me that on my first day, “Here, read this.” *shoves an appraisal dictionary in my hands* I found it hilarious.That is, until I found out that they were serious.But then again, I’m a readaholic. Term which I coined myself, because I’m not exactly a bookworm. I just have this compulsive need to read everything. Page to page. From start to finish. The level of attention I devote to it differ depending on the material, obviously. But most of the time, I find myself really trying to finish everything–even if it is through scanning.Mrr-ffrrr. Me love the world.urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:thenumber33:105162006-02-09T02:41:00(sigh)2006-02-08T18:41:27Z2006-02-08T18:41:27ZAll I ask is that I be given sleep.
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Just when I thought that it was all business in his head, he said this me while in the car on the way home from the gym.S: I think we should go back to singapore to get your gown for the photo shoot and the rings too.B: =)I was taken by surprised as I’ve totally put all wedding plans on hold at the moment. We just have no time. But by him saying that made me kinda feel happy that he has still been thinking about things and secure in the fact that he is dead dead serious about getting hitched some time in the near future!Well, I might hear something from work today. I’ve prepared myself for the worst. We’ll see……Breathe….
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