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12.27.03/20:35 nagakatta tsuki desu nee!! I have this bad habit of making CD's that I really like, then giving them to people, and then never re-making the CD. But I got lots of blank CD's for Christmas so maybe this won't be such a recurring problem.
So I got back Thursday, but I haven't done any posts yet because I've been bogged down with work and finishing up this holiday madness.
I'd like to thank my mom for getting me this bbspot hoodie that I think is freakin' sweet. Click the link above if you want to purchase your own.
Oh yes, and I took lots of pictures while I was gone. Many thanks to Lorraine and her family for being such gracious hosts. I had a really great time. Tanoshikatta da yo, mata ikitai.
I've been doing some work on a few short stories and they should be dekita relatively soon. And today I found a new chord progression that I really like so maybe there will be a new song up as well.
Also, to relieve some confusion, the Amber in the pictures from Indiana is not the same Amber who makes me delightful CD's and comes to visit, just like the Amanda in the Florida set is not the same Amanda from IU who ice skates. Parents need to be a little more creative in naming their children.
12.21.03/22:47 florida e issyo ni ikimasyoo ka? This is just my temporary layover in Pittsburgh before I catch my flight tomorrow morning. I figured I would take this opportunity to post a few pictures and talk about my week in the 'ville.
It started Monday with a visit to the dentist. Usually, I am really upset to find out that I have a cavity, but any excuse to see my dentist again is worth it, because she is sooo fine. She can massage my gums all day...
And I read the latest Harry Potter book that day, too. All seventeen thousand pages of it. For this whole week my dreams have involved owls and magical powers.
Also, Jason has gotten better at classical guitar. Someday he will be a world-famous musician, but for now he's just one of my favorite drinking buddies.
To sum up the rest of my week: I paid a visit to the Congo man, took Del's mom out to eat, went to the new Wal-Mart a few times, took random pictures with Amanda and Mosha, and saw Return of the King with Jason. I would have gone with Stephanie, but she blew me off. Which brings me to a favorite maxim:
Shallow people make shallow promises.
So here I am, packing and waiting for Amber to come visit. I miss her a lot. I went to Station Square today for dinner with my family and already got some great Christmas presents. My Aunt Mar got me what I am guessing are Sake cups, dad got me a tool set, and Chelsea got me an Escher calendar. Rock. And grades came out. Hooray!
Japanese Society B Stonehenge to Hubble B Creative Writing A 2nd Year Japanese B
Again, there won't be any new updates at least until Friday. I advise everybody to have a festive Christmas, Chanukah, or whatever religious excuse you use to celebrate rampant consumerism. Cheers.
12.13.03/08:55 first itte, then kimasu I'm going away for a week. During this time, there will not be any of those update things I do every couple of days. I will still be checking my e-mail, should you have any urgent concerns.
As kind of a trade-off for this prolonged absence, I will give you new media to consume. There are new quotes on the quotes page. There are new songs in the song downloads section. There is even a new short story.
[tapeworm diet] short story
previously unavailable nicotine fist songs:
[back to the basics] mp3 (lyrics)
As you can see, I have lots of people to visit while I am travelling. I get to be lectured by my dentist, gouged by t-shirt makers, and hopefully I'll get to see the irrefutable Jean. Speaking of Jean, there's this picture from the first time we ever met. If you don't want to be weirded out, don't click here.
12.11.03/22:16 hyrule is safe once again
So I have fought for you all. According to the stats, I am your messiah 47 times over. And your Jesus died for you how many times? Once? Ha. It would have been less but I forgot how to save without dying. It didn't cost you a thing to be saved. You didn't have to pray, or give head to any priests. Do you feel redeemed?
Two things have been keeping me from doing proper updates. The first, most obvious thing is this whole Zelda ordeal, but that's over. The second thing was reading this awful book for my Japanese Society final, but that's over too.
I am hoping to do some kind of massive site renovation before Sunday afternoon, when I leave for the 'ville.
12.10.03/04:24 the glasses make me 10% more evil It's almost 4:30am. I've been up all night being tickled ferociously and then coming home and eating leftover Chinese food and playing old-school Zelda.
We went to see The Flower of Evil at Regent Square. It was pretty good, even though it was in french. So check this out:
The one on the left is completely unedited. The freeze-framing reveals two things:
1. Link is left-handed, like me. 2. He has a very serious problem.
And I've been up all night trying to beat Level 6 and get the bracelet so you can move the tombstone and get the best sword in the game, only to find out that the treasure of Level 6 isn't the bracelet, but just a stupid magic wand.
Tomorrow I am waking up at 11 and grandma is taking me out to lunch and buying me the new Harry Potter book for Christmas. I am so very spoiled.
12.8.03/18:39 the worst thing about x-mas There are some things I don't like about Christmas. I don't like how they can play the same songs every year and they never go out of style. I dislike the fact that Christmas season starts two days after Halloween. And even though I'm by no means Christian, I wonder where Jesus fits into all this? The only place you see him during these festivities is wrapped in a little blanket in one of those nativity scenes.
But the worst thing of all is standing in the check-out line at Best Buy, buying a Rod Stewart CD. Now I am a fan of buying weird things and offering no explanation, but it is hard to reconcile this particular purchase. I feel compelled to tell her,
"It's not for me. It's a present for my grandma. I think the guy's a tool."
Not even that can bring down my mood today, though. I wrapped 61 dollars in coins and took it to the bank today. Yokatta desu nee!
And this weekend, not only did I get a phone call from Jeff (who I haven't seen in the LONGEST time), I got an e-mail from Del. Rock. But it gets better.
Yesterday, Amber brought over Breakfast of Champions and we watched it together. She is completely cool. Bruce Willis is always in weird movies like that. I mean, it was okay, not quite 12 Monkeys, but really, what is?
And yeah, I've been writing, and no, nothing is finished enough to post yet. If you have any desire to do anything with me before next year, now is the time to make plans, because next week I will be gone and my days this week are all but filled.
12.5.03/19:52 shiny new buttons!! Right above this post is a whole row of shiny new buttons that should have mouse-over switching qualities. If they don't, it's because your browser sucks.
And Majima Sensei came into our class and took pictures one day a few weeks ago, then Tsurui Sensei e-mailed them to us. I want to adopt Majima Sensei. I wonder if that's even legally possible? If so, how do you go about adopting a fully grown Japanese woman?
Tonight I might write some new short stories, and tomorrow I hope to track a few songs, but we'll see what happens with that. There is soooo much snow outside today. Pretty soon I get to drive in it.
I'm excited.
Between the Japanese words, the glossary, and all the intentional misspellings, this site is hell on my spell-checker.
12.5.03/00:58 raping drugs and selling women So I had adventures tonight. I got to watch the most terrible porno ever with a roomful of foul-mouthed college girls. But I'm sure you don't want to hear about it.
I've been slacking on the pictures a little too, and I apologize. The battery needs some charging.
I feel a little better since yesterday...it was a rough day. Sometimes all you can do is tell the truth and hope things don't go too badly. Enough of that, though. Enough sadness and misery and inescapable death.
I wrote a new short story. No, it's not based on anything real. I wrote it in the rarely-used second-person style, and it's only about a page and a half long.
[unmentionable foulness] (short story)
12.3.03/23:47 on being defective So don't talk to me. Seriously, if you feel like saying something to me, just stay the hell away. I don't know how to build things, but I sure know thousands of innovative ways to tear things down.
This whole time we're just playing cards, and we have these hands we've been dealt. You smile because you have a straight flush and I keep matching, keep raising the ante, knowing full well a pair of 7's isn't going to win. And you call. And you've won. But it's not the victory you intended.
You're upset, and I sympathize. You've just won ten thousand dollars in chips. You're thinking about making car payments, taking care of your sick aunt in the hospital until you read the sign and realize that they're just chips. There's no money. This isn't a freaking casino.
Maybe that's a stupid analogy. Maybe all analogies are stupid. Maybe I should just come out and say it:
I'm sorry.
It wasn't some calculated machination. It just happened. Had you left me standing there on the corner, things would be completely different.
This is why I don't want to get involved ever again. I'm sick of it. I don't like feeling guilty, don't like twisting up other people's souls. It's much safer to watch other people do this to each other from a distance.
If I loved you, it would be different. I'm not saying I don't love you, but I am saying that I've given up on that idea. And I've explained why. This is a haiku I wrote today, and it didn't make any sense 8 hours ago, but now I think it's completely clear.
mister mike doughty made it a point to tell us "don't fall through the stars"
What the hell does that mean? It means everything is great when your head is in the clouds, when you're living in the moment and having a good time. It means you're dancing, spinning so all the colors blur together. But you're dancing on the Titanic, and if you would just slow down for a few minutes you would see that, would notice that things are crumbling around you, that entropy is happening at a rate far faster than you can match, far faster than you can reconcile. I can't reconcile anymore.
For November's posts, go here.
To relive yesterday's nihongo madness, go here until I make a button for it.
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