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EDIT: Thanks for all the support everyone. After tomolo evening I AM FINALLY DONE.

Remember I was totalleh stresseth a few days ago? OK, well it exponentially grew to the point in which my head is about to pop off. Again.

1. I really thought it was Saturday but somehow I lost 18 hours of my life (it's actually Sunday; last I recall it was about 6AM Saturday). This comes after losing 16 of them to ONE essay novel.

2. Pretty much it means I still have another 300 pages to go in one day now instead of two. And write another novel.

3. I highly doubt I will get any extra credit done now, and I really need to.

4. My computer is broken. To be more specific, either the monitor or the video card is bust. That means severely limited... well actually, NO internet access except when I decide to trek up to the library (where I am now).

5. I have not had enough sleep.


So yeah. Thought I should let you know how far into the black hole my life has gone.

Globalization: Read chapter 8 (41 pages) and write 1 page essay on it, due tomolo at 2 PM.

Globalization: Read rest of textbook excluding ch. 8 and ch. 9, final at 10:15 AM on Monday.
Japan: 4-8 page final essay due by 5 PM on Monday. No idea how much of the text I'm going to need to reread.
Japan: Rewrite 2-3 page essay from midterm, due by 5 PM on Monday.

Soc Thru Film: 5-8 [single-spaced] page final essay due by 5 PM on Tuesday. This essay will make or break the grade in this course. I'm gonna need to review 300~500 pages of text to write a stellar essay. :x

(...Which is just not happening. FML.)

This has been my life recently. 'Cept now everything comes crashing within two days of each other instead of throughout the week.

I also said thank-you and good-bye to my favorite lecturer today. I'm emo I can't attend another one of his classes, but I never really knew him personally so I don't think I'm as depressed as I normally would be. I'm fine knowing if I continue down this road, I will inevitably meet him again (whereas I don't feel that way about people I know personally; I want to see them more often than just a couple times in a lifetime by chance). I still think it's a pretty optimistic statement to make though; I really am certain we'll meet again one day.

Oh well. There you have it. I'm going to stop procrastinating now and go get a sammich.

This is just hilarious.

The ducks in the bathroom are not mine.

I love this boy. That is all.


(For the record, he is bamboozling Hard Gay here.)

(omg) Star Trek (2009) was so great. I did not expect to be so engaged - it doesn't miss a beat. It sucks you in and keeps you there 'till the very end. Oh, Spock. :'

Does anyone else think that two weeks without seeing/barely responding to e-mails or texts from someone you're seeing (but not necessarily going out with) due to being busy with lots of RL issues is a little long?

How long is too long?

Atashinchi no Danshi
Every season there appears to be a clear winner for me, and this is it. I'm actually following softsubs because I can't wait for the hardsubs!

20 year-old Chisato is on the run from the yakuza because her father had become addicted to gambling and signed her name in his place (or co-sign? I was unclear but it seems he's not worried about being caught by them like she is). Due to strange, crazy, extraordinary circumstances, she agrees to marry a multi-millionaire for a month and in exchange, her debt will be paid for her. After a month passes, however, he suddenly dies and Chisato discovers that there was more to the contract than she had known about - now she must take care of and bring together his six adopted (eccentric) sons and form something of a family within 3 months, or the contract will be nullified.

It's kept me on my toes, and I was surprised they threw in a twist already in episode two. It feels a little bit rushed but I don't feel that I've seen enough of it to say for sure (as of this writing I've seen three episodes), and to be honest, I do like the constant action... I just hope it'll dive deeper into everyone's lives. I have high expectations, though.

Although I don't care for this show as much as previous other weird comedic dramas (possibly because the romance aspect seems to have been largely taken out of this one?), it's still very much entertaining and feel-good. And I'm a sucker for the weird/crazy shows.

Ghost Friends
After having seen one episode, I'm dropping it. The story revolves around a girl, Asuka, who can see ghosts. Ghosts are still wandering the world because they have some regret, or something they wish to accomplish before moving on. Asuka is the type of person who can't turn down a request, and so ends up spending her free time helping the ghosts she encounters.

My biggest problem is that I don't like any of the characters. Asuka is a little bit of a Mary-Sue character, which causes her to appear boring and dull to me. Perhaps later on the show will reveal some problem she faces that needs resolution, but I'm not willing to wait that long. Her best friends, who are ghosts, aren't very interesting either. Miku is overly happy but gets extremely moody in a pinch, and the other friend... how many lines did she even have in the episode? Three? I know absolutely nothing about her except that she's dead. Asuka's mother is supposed to serve as a guide and comedic relief, but the hula gag fell flat with me immediately. And the love interest? Flat, flat, flat. Every single character falls flat. Show emotion, PLEASE! Stop being pieces of wood! If Asuka would just get angry or humiliated every once in a while, I may have continued.

Smile
Truthfully, I only watched the first 15 or so minutes of it. It looks as if it'll be very good. I just don't have the guts to watch it, as it seems it'll get pretty intense and is only for the strong-of-heart (which is not me). I dunno, I just have a horrible feeling that it's going to have a mono-no-aware ending. Maybe someone will die. It's a hunch.


Aside from those three, I intend to check out Boku no Imouto, Ikemen Sobaya Tantei, Hyoryu Net Cafe, and maybe BOSS. Tee hee.

http://blip.tv/file/1703477/

http://www.tweenbots.com/

I dunno. This kind of *simple yet happy* stuff reminds me of you x]

I'm slowly turning into the biggest BENNIE K fan ever(?)!

(Even their live shows are amaaazing!!)

I also have become fond of indie group Swinging Popsicle, and have been listening to The Brilliant Green like nonstop crazy, except when listening to BENNIE K or Swinging Popsicle.

http://currentconfig.com/2005/02/22/essential-life-lesson-1-over-is-right-under-is-wrong/

Just humourous :P

It's one of my pet peeves though. I really don't know why it bugs me, but it does and often to the point that I'll quietly "fix" the toilet paper if it's under.

Reading The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary. I wanted to reread Sophie's World: A Novel About The History Of Philosophy but it was checked out. :[ And I'm uh, flabbergasted that my library doesn't carry an engrish translation of The Little Prince.

when I meet someone my age who seems to have a handle on life... 'Cause I'm still trying to figure it out. But I think in the end it suits me more to be around those with more questions than answers anyways. So, so, socrates~

Anyways (!) I have been thinking of something interesting lately! Public restrooms (and washrooms) often are divided between male/female and often include a blocky stick-figure picture above the signs that say "men" and "women", right? What if you switched the pictures but not the text? What would happen? Would women be offended portrayed as a man? Or (more likely, my guess) men would be offended being portrayed as wearing a dress? Would people raise a fuss or just laugh at it?

Random: my comp finally reached its limit and so I went and freed up 7 GB. By moving 1,245 songs to the external. I feel so naked. ;__;

Only 7% alcohol and I still dilute it. I'm ashamed.

But anyways, I finally was able to get advice today. Three main points:
- "I'm a light-weight and don't wanna taste it!"
- Irish cream coffee
- If it's beer (*remembers the last time she had beer, shivers and dies*), then try a wheat beer.

The #1 point is to do whatever it takes to make them make it extremely weak. This reminds me of when I first had B make a blue hawaii cocktail for me and I sent back the first one. He looked at me in disbelief, "that is too much!?" But I was already so tippy that I didn't even get embarrassed when he said that, and in the end I stole someone else's super strong pineapple-coconut drink and got super zingy and ... don't remember anything that happened after that on that night, haha. Good times! After that is when I started getting interested in working there. Actually, Alex tonight mentioned that I should work in a bar again, since I enjoyed it so much last time, and that it'd help raise my tolerance as well. But I dunno... I want to, but it's totally scary to work in a bar in the U.S. without having anyone in to keep an eye on me. :/

I really miss those days when I could depend on him to get me through any situation I was uncomfortable in :/... Selfish to say, I know. But now I have to look out for myself! Meep-meep! Uuuuuuuu...

This is somehow so much more difficult in the U.S. than it was for me in Japan. At least over there it was OK for me to look like a puss!

Taken in Vancouver. I LOL'd, got over-excited and caused a scene, then got made fun of. :(

But it was so worth it!

( ONNA GA SUKI. HOMO JA NAI. HOO~MO JA NAI~ )

*does the I'm Going To Vancouver Dance*

YESSSSS

http://www.mysoju.com/uta-no-oniisan/episode-7/part-1/

Watch just until the intro starts. Less than 5 min desu!! When there's two lines, just read the top part (it's what they're saying in the background). It really cracked me up~ I LOL'd so much XD

There's one spoilery part but it's not major, IMO

everytime I see "Debussy", I have to do a double-take because I always initially read it as "Depussy".

I bought my first lotto ticket today. I am completely aware I have only a 1 in 36 shot of winning back the dollar that I spent on it.

AND I GOT A SLURPEE WEEEE

I'm actually not a big Ikuta Toma 大-fan, but seeing an image of him sucking on a sucker (lolli~) makes me foam at the mouth, it's so hot.

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