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| Sep. 19th, 2009 @ 10:22 pm Japan Festival 2009 adventures | |||
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| Do I have your attention? Good. If I don't, I really don't care anyway. :P Sooooooooo....went to Japan Festival today with Eric. We were suitably impressed by the loveliness of the Johnson County Community College buildings and campus overall. Looks very modern, clean and pretty. Depending, I may take classes there sometime, but that's a story for a different time. Or not. We'd walked around, gazed at wares, walked around some more, had a little food, and met a friend from work. Then we had more food (spicy tuna....so good! XD) and walked a little more, and sat in on a panel on conversation. The work friend ended up leaving, and I ended up giving a great impression of my ability to pick up Japanese entirely by accident. Just so happens, I already knew most of that vocabulary. -_- At this point, I began having severe wardrobe difficulties, to the point that I needed to change. My kimono is woefully incomplete and I need to acquire all the proper garments and ties before trying to wear it again. Or my second, more favored solution: buy a yukata and yukata obi. Much less difficult, lol. Having changed out of aforementioned kimono, I wanted to put it in Eric's car rather than carry it around for the rest of the day. So we went to the garage, which had ominous amounts of smoke rising from it. Didn't know what was burning, but there were a lot of people standing around talking about the smoke, but seemingly not doing anything else about it. We were parked in the underground portion of the garage, so we went down. And saw a car in flames. Flames visible from where we were standing. And a hell of a lot more smoke. So we backtracked, Eric called 911 and I hit the emergency button and spoke to campus police about the fire and where it was. Then we sat outside and waited for the garage to be safe to get down to again. Found out that one car had burned, spreading to the cars on either side of it. Eric's car was directly across from the car that burned initially. Luckily there was a concrete column between his car and the other car. His car ended up having minor damage, whereas the burning car wouldn't be going anywhere, the van to one side had its hood up, and probably wasn't good to go anywhere either. The car on the other side had had it's front passenger tire melted off by the fire. It wasn't going anywhere. We got very lucky. I'd heard a minor explosion while I was calling the campus police, and there was another explosion after that. If we'd just gone on, who knows what would have happened. Just glad that nobody got hurt. Then we stuck around while the firefighters and police took down information. Then we went back to the festival, to buy more food. (this time spicy crab salad...yum! ^^) Also, to shop. I didn't acquire any of my initial targets, but I'm happy with the things I ended up getting. I bought a shirt that I'm pretty sure is ripping off Bleach, but the proceeds go to Children's Mercy Hospital. I'm all for that, so I'll deal and the shirt still looks pretty cool. Besides buying it got me a coupon for a free haircut, and I've been needing one, so hey. There may be a haircut in my future. Also got a windsock for the house, and bought some Japanese manga. My thought is that maybe it'll help motivate me to learn more Japanese, especially since it's cheaper in it's native language. Those were my adventures today. I've gotta say I hope not everyday ends up being this hectic. Whoo buddy. |
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| Sep. 3rd, 2009 @ 08:20 pm I wanna always feel like part of this was mine... | |||
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Current Music: Truth a Great Detective of Love - Two-Mix
I need to start journaling again I think. At the very least, it'll help in my writing...if I do any, heh. I write, but at the moment most of it is blogging, and I'm not too sure of the quality of the writing in my blog. I'm treating that largely as writing practice also. I used to be pretty decent at writing, but since I got out of school (high school at that) I haven't really done any kind of writing at all, so my skill's gotten rusty.It'll be the same if I ever get another set of color markers...I'll have forgotten how to use them and will have to practice quite a bit before I feel confident with them again. My biggest problem is that I start too many projects all at once, don't bother with any kind of time management, then I end up leaving them all in the middle. Also, I'm currently sick and in debt, so time management is just a tad harder than it would be usually....nothing kills my motivation quite like being depressed :P I don't know. I'll get through and hopefully have some wonderful stuff come out of all this :D |
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| Jul. 20th, 2009 @ 10:42 pm So angry D | |||
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| A buddy of mine couldn't make it to series night this weekend. Today I found out why: he'd been depressed because he got into a screaming match with someone else in his group, and is now certain that if he steps one bit out of line, he'll be fired. Which sucks. He's a good worker, and it's all stupidity. The woman got angry about a joke he'd made, in regards to being gay and Christianity. It wasn't even all that extreme. All he'd said was that the lady that sits across from him is a holy roller sort, and he'd joked to her that her prayers were making him straight. Not really that bad, in my opinion. Still makes me mad though. What a load of bull. This is a great deal of why I just keep my head down and don't talk about a lot of stuff. I have no problem having people know that I'm a geek :D Just not the important stuff. -_- Stuff like this makes it seem like tolerance of all people is still just a dream. :( |
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| Jul. 19th, 2009 @ 01:57 am What goes up must come down | |||
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Current Music: Light's Theme - Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi
Been a while since I posted, think I *may* just remedy that. Or not.I was actually amazed when a coworker of mine told me he had a livejournal. But I am NOT telling him what mine is, mostly because...this is personal, and we're not that good of buddies. And this is my safe place to complain about coworkers. AFW was fun, but for me it was kinda just half fun. I absolutely hated my cosplay to the point that I don't even want to see pictures of it. Maybe in another month or so I will have calmed down about it to where I can see pictures, but right now I don't care. I'd rather look at pictures of my Onee-san, and that in itself is amazing cause I have a gut, and those pics show it x_x Ugh. Why did I hate my cosplay? #1. It was a dual project with someone I don't know, which turned out to be awkward. When I'm initially trying to be buddies with someone I don't know, I get nervously chatty. But there was hardly any kind of response so I gave up on that fairly quick. They didn't seem to really want to go to any panel, but they also didn't want to just sit. At least that's what it seemed like, and I was perfectly happy in the panels and sitting. I felt too ill at east to pull out my DS or sketchbook...until I was sitting in the cosplay green room anyway. #2. Excessive prep time. There was the costume, there was the wig, and there was the makeup. If it was just my face and hands, it would have been fine, but my arms were bare too, so they needed makeup. I ran out of makeup after Saturday, and altogether it seemed like I took 2 hours to get ready. It was probably more like half an hour to an hour prep-time, but it was a real pain. #3. More strangers. And lack of communication, because I'm very wary of giving strangers my phone number. I get enough calls that I don't really want :P It just didn't turn out very well, which has led to my resolution to only cosplay with people I know, or by myself. No more of this. I don't even like the character, but I spent a lot of time and effort on them. -_- Standing in line for autographs, the last lady gave me an idea of what else I can use the vest for. Yay :o Might be selling the wig after I wash the makeup out of it. The positive...I did have fun, and I'm looking forward to going again next year. With a cosplay I'll definitely enjoy. |
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| May. 5th, 2009 @ 10:51 pm I've known a lot of girls before.... | |||
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Current Music: When the Saints - Sara Groves
So I feel the need to share my incredible paranoia here.I was just outside. I go out to the backyard pretty much every night, cause I like night time, and it seems like the only time I might not be observed back there. Having lived in the country for most of my life where my neighbors are definitely not in visible range, having these people close is just weird. I am not used to suburban living, lol. Puts me on edge. I'm actually surprised Cynthia puts up with me as much as she does. I'd definitely be annoyed by myself. Heck, I am annoyed with myself. Anyway. I'm out there, minding my own business. I realize it's pretty creepy to run around in the yard after dark, but it doesn't make all that much noise, and it isn't disturbing anyone. As in keeping them awake...like say...neighbors chilling outside and shouting conversations on their phone would. Or having loud conversations in the street. And since my room faces the street and I leave the window open I do have problems with people being loud outside waking me up. So I'm out there, and one of the neighbors comes out. For all I know, they just want a little fresh air. It's entirely possible. I know I'm very paranoid. But I refuse to just go back in cause that seems like retreat and I have as much right to be out there as they do :P Besides that was one of the neighbors of the street conversation earlier tonight. Good thing I have tomorrow off. Which brings me to my job. I find myself not caring much which is dangerous. It means I may just do something stupid and lose my job which would pretty much ruin me. And is a very bad idea, not having a job in this economy -_- So I may actually start being serious about getting a new job, especially if it's closer and I don't have to get up so early. That's my main problem, currently. The early mornings are just killing me. I'm a night person, myself and it's still very hard to hop in bed when I'm at my peak energetically and creatively. *sigh* Hopefully I'll get my act together. |
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| Apr. 15th, 2009 @ 12:41 am Writer's Block: Looking Back | |||
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I do believe it was about joining LiveJournal. Good times :) |
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| Apr. 2nd, 2009 @ 07:58 pm Too legit...too legit to quit! | |||
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Current Music: My Dingaling - Chuck Berry
Heh. MC Hammer ftw.Today was pretty damn blah. I forgot my iPod so no podcast/music goodness to keep me going through work. Although I'm finding that music more almost puts me to sleep rather than helps. Surprisingly my coworkers were pretty quiet today. I even managed conversation a couple times. Apparently I've made one happy that there's 'another geek' in the group :D And it was rainy all day. I don't like rainy days. But it wasn't all that bad really. Chatted up some coworkers...talked about the trip I'm taking this weekend. Looking forward to it. I'm packing now, and later I'll finish my jacket. I've found it's ridiculously easy to change the foot on my sewing machine :D It should make zippers less of a pain ;p Hm...that's it for today I think. I've decided I need to post more often. Daily, if I can, even if I can't think of much of anything to post. It's all good practice. Think I may try and make a little something for dinner. |
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| Apr. 1st, 2009 @ 07:40 pm A Machine, a soul and tragedy | |||
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Current Mood:
Haven't posted here in a while. cheerfulCurrent Music: D. Gray Man dub Same old, same old. Still have my job. I work for a different company now though...SI got bought out by Serco. Been watching my whole anime collection, by how I put them in the binder. So far I've watched Samurai 7, Chrono Crusade, Loveless, Trigun, and Ouran Host Club. Now I'm watching Serial Experiments Lain. Haven't been playing anything lately. More I've been working on my sewing stuff. After this weekend, I'm going to start working on a costume for Mistral from the .hack games. :D I've recorded audio for a podcast with Tommie, I just need to edit it up some, and I'll probably post links all over for anyone interested. |
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| Mar. 11th, 2009 @ 11:04 am I'm not locked up here with you, You're locked up here with me. | |||
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Went to see Watchmen this weekend. It was awesome for various reasons. I liked the movie itself because it did the thing I wish more comic book adaptations would do...it was a direct translation to film. Not 'oh we have to modernize the story', or 'add a new character that doesn't fit' (*coughcoughleagueofextraordinarygentlem I will agree that with most of the superhero movies modernization of the origins is actually necessary, seeing as how they're action flicks mostly. And I've found a new pet peeve. Listening to people talk about Watchmen who have obviously never touched the comic. That just pisses me off. It amounts to being the same thing as acting like an expert on a subject you never even researched. And we went to Screenland Armour in North Kansas City to watch the movie. Only one screen, but there's a lovely lobby with chairs and tables, you can wait and have a little food. And there's a row of armchairs in the theater itself. It's pretty nice, I really liked it. Work's been about the same, except there's the open contract hanging over our heads, as well as whether or not we work for the new company or upon reward of the contract, be subcontracted out to a different company. I'm not too especially worried about it. After all, even a new company's gonna want people that have already been trained to start with anyhow. And this is pretty important work, it would be very damaging to fire everyone and train up new. There's just no real time frame for that. And in the event of a layoff, I'll have time and money to work with while I frantically search for a new job. I'm kinda prepared either way. |
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| Feb. 20th, 2009 @ 08:01 pm Got a weird thing to show ya, so tell all the boys and girls | |||
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So it's February....which apparently is the time of year where I decide I can just blithely ignore the weather and dress for the weather that I wish for. Or drive with my windows down. Which I did today although it wasn't even 40 degrees out, but that's mostly cause by the end of my day I'm happy enough to get some fresh air rather than keeping the car all stuffy, whereas in the morning I'd rather have the warm stuffiness. Ah well. And the fate of my job hangs over my head too. Might have to start the job search anew come the end of March. Yaaaaaaaay. |
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| Jan. 18th, 2009 @ 05:47 pm New year, new issues? Not really :P | |||
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Current Music: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle playing on the television
If you were to ask me if I liked my job I would probably look into the distance some, think a little bit and tell you that it wasn't too bad really.Of course that would be because I would ONLY think of the job that I do, not the workplace itself which I would tell you could be much better. My group's pretty negative -_- Most all the time. No matter what my supervisor does, they're gonna bitch about it. And there's still overtime. Overtime and overtime and more overtime yay. But yeah, the job itself I don't mind at all...except maybe the sitting for ten hours bit. I do wish I'd get to move around more. But I do get to listen to my iPod all day, and consolidate files. I get paid pretty well for it to, so I'm doing pretty good. That was it. I was much more irritated about work yesterday, but...I forgot most of the particulars. Heh. |
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| Dec. 26th, 2008 @ 07:32 pm Christmas? Pretty good, thanks. | |||
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Current Location: eric's
Still at Cyn's parents' place. -_-; I had thoughts of moving myself somewhere, but I've run into financial difficulties and cannot afford it right now.Current Mood:  blahCurrent Music: something on eric's computer...not sure what There is a closing date in January...the beginning even. Who knows? *shrugs* In better news (for me anyway) the cord I ordered for my little videocam came in and it's just the right one! Woohoo! So far, I've documented Jiggy and Grimmy's (that would be Cyn and William's cats respectively) standoffs over the top bunk. Mostly that Jigsaw gets up to the top bunk and refuses to let Grimlin up with her. She growls. He stares for a while. Then he leaves. Nonchalant-like of course. Gotta retain that male kitty pride. He's gotten better with being angry and all too. I picked him up when he was mad and although he bit me multiple times (even once on the nose - my nose), he didn't bite hard, more just a threat with teeth. He didn't dig in his claws and let go the way he did just a month ago. So anyway, I am toying with the vlog idea. May give that a try some. Thought I might start with hobbies or some such. Once I'm able to get back into my stuff too, I might try and start up a podcast too. One with guests, cause I think I'm kinda boring to listen to on my own. And of course, I've been a sketching away, so once I get back to my own scanner, I'm gonna be doing a lot of uploading to deviantart. ^^ I'll seem productive all at once, lol. |
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| Nov. 9th, 2008 @ 08:52 pm I won't be afraid | |||
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Man,it's been so long since I've been able to do internet stuff, I'm not sure what to do... Facebook and Myspace seem to work pretty well more when you do stuff often and check up often too. *shrug* All I really miss at the moment is being able to play WoW. If I could, I'd be whiling away the hours at it. I'd definitely have my mage up to 55 so I could make a death knight. :D As it is, I've been reading A LOT, playing some portable games, and doing other stuff cause I get so very very bored. It really sucks cause usually I feel like going out (I notice that happens once cold weather hits...I get weirdly antsy), but I have no real reason to, so I don't and I feel restless and it's a nice version of my personal little hell. Especially when I don't want to read or play portable games. I've been sulking a lot too. I'm finding I'm pretty good at it :P I've watched the first two seasons of Heroes. I probably won't be watching this latest season until it hits dvd too. I do have free access to a television. I'm just too lazy to turn it on. I've read about 4 to 6 books, too. More like a dozen if you count manga, but those tend to go so fast I don't really count them. I tend to prefer those over anime just because it's much easier to re-read a manga, I think. I'll read it once, but then I'll go over my favorite part 20 more times :D Just like when I find a new favorite song. It'll be the only thing I listen to for a while. So I'm visiting Tommie and stealing his internet for a little while. Maybe I'll scan some of the excessive drawing I've been doing, and post those to deviantart. It's weird cause he's got headphones on and is walking around talking to himself. It makes me think that there's someone else here, but it's just my crazy brother. Who's informed me that it's technically my fault he got into that whole 9/11 conspiracy mess....and he's right. Damnit. >_< My apologies to all, lol. There's required overtime at work too, yaaaaay. But at least my group FINALLY has a supervisor. That's something, at least. And one of the processes we're doing may be going to night shift so I won't be in charge of it anymore! I could be a grunt again! YAY! Although since the trainer treats me like I'm in charge of the whole group, the rest of my group tends to follow suit. I don't really mind that as long as I don't have to run any kind of desk anymore. It's a pain. All it means is that the rest of the group doesn't have to think or pay attention and then I run myself ragged to fix things because we're too behind to take the entire group away from what we're doing so THEY can fix it, seeing as how they screwed things up. Most of the group isn't like that, just enough to keep things irritating. I still don't like the overall atmosphere where I work either. For the first time ever, I found myself wondering if it was really safe to admit to any kind of Halloween plans. Not good. I'm finding myself being somewhat careful about what I tell people of my hobbies and outside life, just to be safe. -_- But I have vacation! I can actually have a little vacation for the first time in about four years!! Will I? I have no idea. Maybe not :P After all, I'm pretty used to just working all the time with only the occasional long weekend for breaks. |
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| Sep. 30th, 2008 @ 08:52 pm I wanna know why the spider spins so beautiful | |||
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Current Mood:
I want a bento box. awakeCurrent Music: Ichirin no Hana -Huge Hollow Mix- High and Mighty Color I took a nap. I was pretty tired. Granted, I've worked 10 hour days before but that was at night. After getting used to 8 hours it's kinda rough. The group I was in got split up into two seperate groups, which I'm glad about because I was getting tired of the attitudes from some of the other half of the team. But my team doesn't have a supervisor right now. Our old supervisor has a whole new team, although he's overseeing our team until we get a supervisor. Just please, not Bud ><; And surprisingly, Bill actually had an entire conversation with me, started of his own free will :P We really didn't talk to each other at all when we were all on the same team, so I was surprised, but I think it's because all the people he used to talk to have been split up. I think maybe it was more laid back where we are than it is where they are. But it wasn't unpleasant. I told him it was quieter without them there, and etc etc. BS'd about how the day was going, that kind of thing. I can't visit Jackie on breaks anymore, cause our breaks have been split into different times T-T I think her lunch changed too, and for the moment ours hasn't. T-T I'm gonna have to resort to sending an e-mail sometime, dang it. So now I'll probably spend my breaks reading books, drawing, or playing games. |
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| Sep. 30th, 2008 @ 05:54 pm first 10 hour day.... | |||
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| I'm tiiiiired. -_- 10 hours is a long time. Especially since I didn't sleep at all well, being worried that I'd oversleep and end up late. So I woke up quite a few times. And the floor isn't really all that comfy. And I wore a small bra today, and now my chest hurts because of it T-T. And I swear if ONE MORE rock hits the door, I'm going out and beating the guy on the lawnmower. With the weed eater. |
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| Sep. 28th, 2008 @ 10:42 pm *spam spam spam* | |||
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| Sep. 28th, 2008 @ 10:35 pm lj quiz time *spam warning* | |||
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| Sep. 26th, 2008 @ 11:52 pm Tell me what it's for | |||
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Current Music: Why Worry - the All-American Rejects
Augh, I slept all afternoon/evening. Sooo tired.I went to bed especially late last night. I go to bed later than I should anyway, but especially late last night. I was busy packing up some books, and I have the near fatal 'gotta flip through 'em' disease. I forget that even that takes much longer than I think it does -_- Soooo yeah. Slept the afternoon away. And I was gonna pack more today and watch an episode of Gurren Lagann. Oh well *sigh* My group's being split up at work. All the roadrunner team's going to the other side of the fileroom and the consolidators are moving somewhere....haven't been told where yet DX Also don't know who our new supervisor is, cause the supervisor we have now is getting a whole new group. There's a possibility of getting a supervisor I don't want T-T but there's also chances that it will be someone else. And of course, I'm glad for the split. I was getting tired of hearing a little something everyday about teamwork and 'it's all for the team' and know that the consolidators weren't cosnidered 'part of the team'. Complete and utter hypocrisy. That makes me mad. That, and hearing how much more important the roadrunner half of the team was, cause 'all we do is pull files'. Pfft, whatever. All they do is sit on their butts and look through files. OOOOOh, tough work. Whatever. Aaaaand next week starts the four 10 hour days on both shifts. Yaaaaay. I bet I spend my Friday off asleep, lol. I am just not doing good with the sleep. Maybe I should have stayed on night shift >_< I have considered seeing if I could transfer back. On a brighter note, I got my Disgaea DS set! The prinny stylus is awesome! XD And since I've recently started Disgaea on PSP, I'm just playing Rhapsody on DS. I couldn't take that much repetition so close together, lol. Now to find other Disgaea DS players, so I can do versus play.... :] |
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