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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
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7:56 pm - Comment stats. XD
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Yaaaay! I FINALLY MANAGED TO GET THIS TO WORK!!
And oh my god, it's a crazy blast from the past. I'm going to have to try and remember who some of these people are!! Almost all of the top commenters are people that I've been friends with since 2002 or so. Bit of a headstart. XD Except for certain awesome people!!
Also a bunch of these people aren't even active anymore. Awww. (Whatever version I used does not filter only for people on your flist, too, it seems. Also it seems to include EVERYONE ever. So, all the people who commented on the pimp post, also this girl who once posted pictures of Bobby from X-Men/Jake from Animorphs/. . . Shawn Ashmore? something like that. . . in his underwear. I don't know why she was leaving a comment on my journal, but hey!)
Basically what I'm trying to say is you won't know many of these people? Wow, a lot of the people in the top 25 are actually people I unfriended because they annoyed me. O_O
Porn to come later.
p.s. this is why I feel like I'm making more of an effort than some of you. Yeah, yeah, I don't post that much.
Also, oh man. Am still boggling over all the crazy blasts from the past!
( Who comments the most on this journal? )
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| Monday, August 11th, 2008
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5:59 pm - I've decided cuts are for weenies? Whatever - tough it out, make a polite request, or unfriend me
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I've been discussing this with a few people so I kind of want to gauge interest levels. Also, curious. I haven't been particularly creative or even filthy these days so I make no promises, but. . . the mind wanders. Mostly right now it's wandering to Hyde but I could try to direct it. :D
Poll #1238961 Sempai Smut, OR trying to focus Laura's dirty mind - NO GUARANTEES!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All1.If Laura was going to try to craft delicious old-guy porn during her 35 minute subway rides, who would you most like it to be about? Who would you like them paired with? (Please choose someone else) 3. If I got to choose the pairing/threesome, which of the following would you be most interested in? (remember, order matters to Laura) 4. Higashiyama/your mom
Making sloppy joes tonight! Yum!
Still enjoying the Olympics a lot.
Saw roommate!Corey yesterday, and she saw the apartment and it was super-happy fun times. I finally got to give her presents i got her in England two years ago.
current mood:  calm
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| Friday, August 8th, 2008
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10:16 pm - Olympics opening parade = AWESOME
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GUYS. I am enjoying the Olympic opening Parade of Nations thingie SOOOOO MUCH. Some might say way too much. It has all my favorite things! Athletes gathering in an international community, brought together by the shared language of healthy competition and an understanding of the difficulties of dedicating yourself to a sport. Normal (relatively) people marking in a parade, being really excited to be there. Awesome and varied clothes. And, most importantly, fun facts!!
I seriously have had several moments where I've teared up. I love sports stories and stuff like that? The Olympics has so many good ones. I guess because the Olympics are for non-sports fans, so they really try to play up the human interest aspect and do all sorts of athlete profiles? And then it's less about money than some things are. And so many of the athletes come from poorer countries and difficult situations. Seeing the countries sending teams of 4 athletes, stuff like that, and the athletes are so excited to be there, so happy. And for the US, like, yeah we do well in the Olympics but it's not our main chance to interact with other countries, it's not our main athletic event. So this whole time they've been like "here comes the US! We'll show the US soon!" but it's way less exciting. Of course there are some events where the Olympics is the big thing but they spent a fair amount of time showing the basketball players. . . anyway, it has a different feel.
Wow, Norway's won more medals than any other countries at the winter games.
Aww, the US dressed all adorable and golf-y. Apparently it's Ralph Lauren. Definitely sufficiently preppy. Basically you put enough people wearing the same thing all together they look sort of silly. It's very cute. I have been enjoying the clothes. Like, oh man, the Virgin Islands in, well, Hawaiian-print shirts. XD
Buh, China has only one time zone! O_O
Sorry, I really do like fun facts. I'm totally interested. XD I'm looking at the populations and the flags and especially the number of athletes sent and all that. And of course Bob's got my back and is providing more fun facts.
I love hearing about the famous athletes in the countries, and the medal history, great olympians of the past and stuff. These are the sorts of things that I imagine having more impact in countries other than the US, where our sports heroes are usually not Olympians. I know, i'm being excessively sentimental. I just like to think about these people being heroes in their countries and stuff like that? And getting their chance to show their stuff on the international level. (Cos even if they compete on the international level it probably doesn't get much attention?)
Also, the commentators are doing a whole politically-aware commentary. It's very new millenium, I think.
By the way, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ayamachi is currently getting olympic commentary from me which consists of stuff much like parts of this entry and also this sort of thing: "LESOTHO- TRIANGLE SHAPED STRAW HATS AND ALSO CAPES" and "female weightlifters are awesome" and "trinidad and tobago has a goatee" and, most recently, "the new zealand flagbearer is a rowing competitor and he is draped in furs and is holding the flag up with one hand". Fierce, New Zealand!
Also, apparently Swaziland is the Switzerland of Africa, and Vietnam goes better at the world mathematics olympics (100+ medals) than the summer olympics (1 medal) (so far!!)
Aww, I always feel really happy for the flagbearers and really proud of them.
Also the commentators are talking about how the Olympic ideal is not entirely fakeness and hypocrisy! I AGREE. These days I only hear bitterness about the Olympics but I really like them, and not just because I enjoy Olympic sports better than regular team sports.
I was seriously pretty bored during the dancing part but I am enjoying this parade so much!
Must stop typing. Am missing facts. Awww, also a guy with a Cameroon flag in both hands, waving them over his head and grinning. :D
I like when they call northern European countries "a Winter Powerhouse". However, I still think the Austrian team was slightly drunk.
current mood:  bouncy
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| Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
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9:07 pm - Apartment, Work, Hellboy
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So, am living in the new apartment. Alone, which means lots and lots of singing along to stuff loudly. We're really not adjacent to anyone - only one tiny shared wall.
It's been fun but I'm really not something who's that well suited to being alone at night. XD Way too overactive imagination. Also, a huge bug attacked me Monday night. It was more horrifying than you are imagining, probably. ::sigh:: But I dispatched it. With much luck and much muted shrieking as it was 3:30 AM. But since then it's been good? And I am keeping everything very clean and doing a good job washing dishes and stuff like that. :D It's interesting. I'm still really, like. . . I want to get into a routine and have everything become familiar. Which, of course, it will, and quickly. But I like the familiar. XD It'll be fun when this big beautiful apartment starts to feel like home! It's still exciting. :D
In the meantime, I've been timing stuff a lot. How long it takes me to do all this different stuff, especially commute-wise. It's a 7-8 minute walk to the subway, which leaves at 7:45 (HAHA my train from home left at 7!!) and takes 35 minutes to get to work. It stops running on numbered streets (I live on the last stop, 95th St, and the last numbered stop is 9th) about halfway through the trip (and then runs on named streets).
Other news. . . I miss Ninja Warrior. :( I don't get G4 here. ::sigh::
Work has been crazy but good lately. I've been busy and feeling useful, which makes me really happy. And i think I'm starting to get on top of things. This is my fifth week. We just did something totally new for the first time, so it's stirred up all these crazy problems that we're dealing with. I've been talking to campaigns and stuff, it's fierce. But I actually have to talk with them much less than I was afraid I would because the Candidate Services Unit is fielding most of the calls, I think. I'm so relieved! They're my heroes. So are the Systems Unit who are always doing technical favors for us like generating spreadsheets of different combinations of transactions, and also who developed the program that enabled us to automatically email these reports. Instead of me preparing 78 envelopes and mailings. O_O It took me half a day to do three. Bad scene. It's. . . really complicated? XD Also, we have these labels to put on brown envelopes to show they're from us and they do NOT come off their backing! I think I spent about 20 minutes on them.
Oh, and I saw Hellboy II!! And I loved it!! It was so much fun. I totally, utterly adore Ron Perlman. Although strangely, Katie and I both felt that Hellboy looked. . . small in this one. Not that Ron Perlman isn't huge, but. . . It was weird because we thought his shoulders looked small - probably because the prosthetics make his head so big? But I was like "Man, Hellboy shouldn't have that narrow shoulders." And then I laughed and laughed at myself. What was I thinking? Hellboy has the worst posture in comic book history. XD But the best fucking stone hand. Also this is like the best panel in comic book history. Possibly only in context, I'm not sure. I think it's funny on it's own!
Anyway, yeah. The movie was lots and lots of fun. I laughed a lot and only had to cover my eyes for one scene, really. And there were lots of fucking awesome fight scenes that I could enjoy. Lots of Hellboy punching people.
For the record, however, in the comic, Hellboy does not have to hide. He does not freak out about being ugly and red and apocalyptic. He just rolls with it. And the BPRD get called to help people and Hellboy shows up and they're like "Hellboy, save us!!" Also, Abe is all tough and manly, like an old-timey cop. And he's with Liz. Hellboy is with Kate, who is kind of like the Jeffrey Tambor character - she started out as a BPRD supervisor type person but later started to do more field work. And Johann is a man of science, I think - not so much with the uptight shouties. I haven't read much with him though, I kind of stopped when Mignola stopped drawing them. I ADORE his art! And Dave Stewart's colors, of course. They blow my mind!
Oh, and roommate!Kelly is employed. Yay for her! Also whew, because I could not pay the rent on my own. XD
Also, it is a day for lusting after hyde again. My god, he is tiny and pretty. Uh, still. >.>
And I've been watching figure skating videos on the subway a lot. Still love them like a big dork. Especially pairs skating, although I was noting how hot Alexei Yagudin is today. Other guys should not wear the same costume as him at the same time, it does them no favors. I'm basically crushing on lots of Russians. In addition to Alexei, I'm seriously crushing on Elena Berezhnaya because you kind of have to. And of course, Katia. Ahhh! Who you also have to adore, really. And Sergei, because he's the most gorgeous thing even though he has 80's hair. Oh, and not-Russians! French Canadian David Pelletier. He's AWESOME. But really, all the men have amazing bodies. And the women, too, so tiny and cute. I love the contrast. I need videos that are either pairs skating or group numbers.
current mood: calm
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| Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
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10:13 pm - vibrations, not just in my pants. does that even make sense? no, it doesn't.
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So, I'm basically addicted to V6 these days. And I am in love with Vibrations. But i have to say. . . a lot of the people on my flist who are interested in V6 seem to be really into Nagano. I seriously DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
I have to admit, I find him totally boring! And, like, in V6, where everyone else is soooo cute and attractive, why Nagano?? I'm always all "buh?" I mean, in general I don't like the ones that are just "nice." Nagano, Yasu, Massu. . . I think I might like Massu best of those three because I suspect he's actually really strange. But whatever, he's boring and I can't get excited about him. But the ones that it's like "What are they like, why do you like them?" And it's cos they're nice and sweet. Bah, I say!
What is good about Nagano? I mean, he gets major, major points for being Ultraman. That is awesome. And he gets points for being super-strong and for Okada being able to climb his butt to stand on his shoulders. Okada gets points for that too! (Okada has all the points.) Is there anything else? He's cute as the mama to Sakamoto's papa? And I mean, he is nice. And he's Ultraman.
On the other hand, he's boring. And that restaurant thing? Frankly, it's weird. 500 restaurants in a year is too goddamn many. You are too into restaurants, Nagano!! And I don't find him attractive at all. Like, his balance between masculine and feminine is off. Actually, I think the same way about Koichi. He's not pretty enough to be pretty, but too pretty to be handsome, and it creates a really awkward unbalance. Not that i think he's ugly but it really does nothing for me. Also, sometimes Nagano just kind of. . . it feels like he's dropping an awkward bomb and he makes me feel uncomfortable.
And I find it even more inexplicable that I see so much Nagano enthusiasm when I think I wouldn't even notice if he wasn't in the latest PV, because the rest of V6 is SO GREAT.
( because I had a long day, I put the mean bitching outside the cut and the nice enthusing behind it. )
current mood:  tired
current music: UTAO UTAO - V6
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| Friday, July 25th, 2008
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7:56 am - Meme answers, also. . . icon? :D
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So, I'm at work butt-crack early, way before my start time. But instead of catching up on my correspondence, I'm going to post the answers to that 25 pictures of musicians thing that I posted a while ago. Maybe I'll have time to do both.
aello_lime, you get lots of points, by the way. And you should do this meme next time you're around the internet! :D
( now with names )
Woo. Still got 15 minutes left. But am too tired to write anyone emails. Stupid early train. At least it's Friday. What else can I write about? Went to the mall yesterday, got four blouses and a dress. Maybe now I will have stuff to wear to work. >.< Annnnnnnnd, then Katie and I watched episode 7 of Osen and fell in love with Tome.
Kelly's in the city today, having an interview and then moving stuff into the apartment. She signed the lease, which is a huge relief. I won't get to see her, though, which is weird. But my dad is hopefully going to take her to the apartment. I wish I could be there to show it to her because I'm really proud of it.
Doop doop. OK. I'll start work early. I have things to put into folders. Even though I need to go over EVERYONE THAT'S RECEIVING NOTIFICATION again. :( (Also, I have a double monitor now. It makes me feel really cool. I'm like, I will always look busy with a double monitor!!) (I have been busy, by the way. :D And busy with lots of different windows simultaneously, so it's really nice to have this.)
By the way, I notice that certain people that I mention too often here have thinned out their friends list. Nicely done! I-it looks trim and classy? Haha, I recognize a couple of the names that we didn't talk about, too. XD (Wow, I'm like the world's most indiscrete person. >.>)
current mood: sleepy
current music: Opus 17, I think. By the Four Seasons. XD damn them and their catchiness!!
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| Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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11:06 pm - TOKIO starter kit
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OK, the following is pretty comprehensive. I'm a thorough and long-winded person. Also, it's full of youtube links, which will drive me crazy when they all get taken down. XD Lemme know if there's grammar mistakes or anything like that and. . . I can't think of anything good to say up here. Except - please! Link everyone you know to this post! :D Spread the TOKIO love!
So, it's been a while since I made this post, and a lot of the youtube and tudou links expired. I've gone through a lot of them and checked things out and updated them, but a bunch of them are untested and may or may not work. All the youtube links in the "Members" sections do work as of 7-7-08, though!
From left: Yamaguchi Tatsuya (bass), Kokubun Taichi (keyboards), Nagase Tomoya (vocals), Matsuoka Masahiro (drums), and Joshima Shigeru (guitar)
( cut in an attempt to contain the overwhelming wonder that will commence? )
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| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
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11:50 pm - Musician Picture Meme
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ayamachi made me do this and then was super duper slow about doing it herself so now I'm posting it first. >.>
1. Open a music player.
2. Go to 'all music'/'library'.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomise.
4. Find photos of the first 25 artists/bands that come up (no repeats and no cheating).
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are.
Good times! Mine actually ended up both startlingly not embarrassing, and also in many cases an indicator of artists that I have a lot of songs by. Very few little weird random things came up.
I tried to keep the images reasonably sized but there's 25 of them. (I also tried to nab them from places that seemed stable because I'm too lazy to reup.)
I'm not screening comments cos I'm too lazy so don't cheat. yoda4554, I have high expectations of you. The rest of you. . . perhaps less so. But a lot of them are big famous classics so you should see some people you know! Others you might know but not recognize by face.
( musicians await! and not musicians too! with comments cos it's me. )
Edit: Have noticed that 17 of these were popular before 1975. XD
current mood:  amused
current music: that would be telling
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| Monday, July 14th, 2008
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6:59 pm - TOKIO PLUSHIES!!!! :D
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YAAAAAAY! I mentioned them earlier and now they're done - I am now the proud mama of a full compliment of tiny TOKIO dolls! :D
LOOK HOW CUTE. Click to view it full sized to see Mabo's tiny glasses!! Also, look how happy I am to have them! XD
( more pics behind cut )
Leave a comment and tell Katie how awesome they are, cos she worked hard on them. ^_^
Also, I have to say, I am way too into that appearance Nagase made on Love Love Aishiteru that BlueStorm subbed. It's from October 1997 and he is really at a peak of cute, innocent, slightly dim shyness. And a peak of hair. Haaaaaaair. But it's all, like, Koichi giving the audience a hard time and Nagase just having these sweet little smiles. It kills me. I don't get sick of watching it. I took a couple caps to memorialize it. (They're always saying that at work - the agency is really big into keeping very careful and accurate records. Which is a good thing, of course (although loads of paper is wasted!) but I'm not used to hearing people say "Let's print that so we have a memorial of me fixing that bug.")
Apartment stress is depriving me of sleep. XD Hopefully it'll all be done with soon. Was really sleepy today. And am sick of living in suspense. But the Doing Business review of the latest disclosure statement submissions began today, and it went well so far! We have twenty days (three weeks, not 20 business days) to finish it up and notify everyone. ::bites nails::
current mood:  giggly, but stressed
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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7:37 am - sempais are awesome and make adorable ickle dolls
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Funny things have been happening this weekend, and I can't remember what some of them were.
So first, awesomeness - Katie crocheted me little TOKIO dolls!! :D THEY'RE AMAZING!! I don't have any pictures of them yet because Taichi needs a cardigan so we were going to wait til they were totally done, but this picture of the Gimli doll she made should show you what they're like. (The LOTR dolls are all amazing - here's Sam and Merry.) Of course, the LOTR babies were easier cos they have one costume and one hairstyle, so we just sort of had to find outfits that suited them. She's making V6 next, and they're going to all wear variations on one of their Jasmine costumes - cute brightly colored shirts and dark pants. ::bouncebounce::
Having the TOKIO dolls is amazing! We watched the 10th Anniversary Concert, which I adore way too much, and I was finally able to squeeze them when I wanted to!! :D Like when Taichi cried, I got to give tiny!Taichi snuggles!
Also, episode 7 of Kuitan was AWESOME! I found episode 6 a big let-down, the plot was really weak and lame. SO I was very happy that episode 7 was so fantastic.
Yes, this is what we spent the fourth of July weekend doing. Our parents went to help our brother move, so we stayed at home with grandpa. It was great! I really needed to relax. We also created a new hobby of (somewhat sloppily) drawing muttonchops onto pictures of JE boys. . . I have an icon of the results of this but I really wanted to use my new Makoto Nagano icon. :D Aaaaaand we also got into a whole discussion of Jun touching people with his penis. It started with us not understanding why he was a heartthrob, because we both love him and find him adorable, but why is he so popular and why is he considered sexy? Katie and I both agree that we would not let him touch us with his penis. And that became a whole discussion about Jun running around, trying to touch people with his penis. ::pokepoke::
I also decided I really want to see a 3000 steps with Levi Meeuwenberg, free-runner and very impressive Ninja Warrior competitor.
Oh man, I just realized my birthday is two days after our first 20-day turnaround time for analyzing financial disclosure statements for doing business reports begins. XD This one shouldn't be too bad in some ways, because we have 20 days, but as the first one that's more than 4 people (WAY MORE) a lot of problems could crop up. Also I'm not fully trained yet. XD But I've got a little more time!
Also, does anyone know why I've suddenly started getting a bunch of comments on the TOKIO pimp post lately? It's awesome and always makes me really really happy, except a lot of the youtube links no longer work and it's really embarrassing. I gave some thought to putting them on Megavideo but now I was thinking I'd just wimp out and write a "if the youtube link doesn't work, I'm sorry, just ask me for the video if you really want it cos i've probably got it."
current mood:  content
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008
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11:44 pm - day 1: completed!!
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First day of work: Okay! Didn't do much, met lots of people, so far everything went well and everyone was nice. I will be able to commute with my dad while I'm living at home (meaning, I can work 8:30-4:30), there is a lunchroom and a fridge. Will not be able to wear jeans even on Fridays. :( Must get more blouses - slightly more formal than the people I worked with at the DOB (who were no shlumps).
Ohno in Maou: surprisingly creepy, based on Ousama no Brunch preview thingie. Whoa. I heard about the drama when Katie was reading me segments from enshinge's Recomen translations while I ironed yesterday - Toma was filling in for Hina. Normally I'd be sad about no Hina, much as I adore Toma and Toma on Recomen, but they used the opportunity to share Murakami Legends. Such as, "Yokoyama-kun was talking with the staff that Murakami-kun's is huge, and this is what Murakami-kun said: I've got three legs!"
Talk about Hina's penis=my favorite thing ever.
ANYWAY. They were discussing the drama cos Toma's all in it and I was like "NO WAY can Ohno do that part, what the hell???" and he was SO CREEPY actually.
Board meeting tomorrow. Third day of work at my first job ever I went to a big managing committee meeting and it was horrible. Hopefully tomorrow will not be like that.
Still nervous cos there's still a lot of unknowns and a lot of adjusting and settling in to do, but feeling much better.
current mood: tired
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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11:52 pm - extreme not-really-sports, aka stuff I'll never do
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OK, I'm totally about to go to sleep because I'm super-tired (I also still don't have an apartment but that's as expected - the place wasn't really set up for two bedrooms) but I just discovered parkour and free running and they're SO COOL. And they're making me really excited because all of a sudden, Batman actually existing seems a lot more likely.
Free running, which I kind of love the name of, is a sort of performance in which acrobatic moves are done while interacting with an urban environment - bouncing off buildings and jumping on things and all that sort of thing. I guess not necessarily urban, I saw a guy do it in a mall and stuff.
And parkour is the non-arty version - where you use your body to cover ground as efficiently as possible, just climbing over and around and on things. And I watched a video of it and these guys were jumping from building to building and all that and I was like "holy shit it's like Batman!" At the moment the sort of direct, focused nature of parkour sort of appeals to me more than the artistic, performance-oriented nature of free running, in terms of watching stuff.
Anyway, I found this because I've been watching Ninja Warrior waaaaaay too much lately, both on G4 and on youtube. I have a big crush on Makoto Nagano, he's both amazing at ninja warrioring and seems just kinda cool and awesome and has a really good attitude. He's one of the only two people to ever win the regular competition, in the 17th version. It's AMAZING. Sadly that's not the G4 video with subtitles, but I guess that means there's no logo in the corner! He just tears through the first and second stages like they're nothing.
So yeah, in the 20th competition this American dude did the best, Levi Meeuwenberg, and he's a freerunner, so that's how I found out about it. But I couldn't find a video of him completing stage 2. What gives, internet?
I also spent the evening working on forms to get hired. So complicated!! Tomorrow I call more realtors. :/ Oh, and former boss!Helen to talk to her about her commute. And to thank her for helping me get hired, as I gave her as a reference. She's really awesome and I both like and respect her! :D
I had other stuff to say and it was awesome but now I can't remember so neener.
ETA: I don't think this is it but I want to mention it anyway - I saw the building where my dad grew up today! He lived on the second floor in the back. And I saw the street where he played stickball and his elementary school and the movie theater where he saw Superman! (The movie, not the dude.) This was all in Bensonhurst. :) And we drove past from a distance where my grandparents used to live, in Brighton Beach (after my dad moved out). Oh yeah, getting my Brooklyn geography down. We used to visit them every weekend so it brought back memories. Actually, the traffic on the drive into Brooklyn brought back even sharper memories. ::sigh:: Luckily I'll be using subways and trains to get around, like a cool kid. But yeah, it was really really neat to see all those places from my dad's childhood. I'd always imagined the apartment building he grew up in was like the one my grandparents lived in and it wasn't, it just had 6 apartments and stuff. Still the largest building on his block, though. And he explained the rules of stickball to me! So if anyone wants to know, I'm your gal. :D
current mood:  enterntained
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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11:17 pm - squooshy squooshy squooshy
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Today, I am enfolded in the warmth of family. :) My aunt and uncle, cousin and husband, and their two twin baby girls came over today. Well, I say "babies". . . they were born February of my first year at Smith. So that makes them. . . 3 and a half, I guess? They're talking for real now and congratulated me on my graduation when they arrived. :D Which, in toddler-talk, is "gradulations on your graduation." I know, I know, it's too squishy and sappy. By the way, even though they're twins, one of them is only up to the other's chin, pretty much. Such a big height difference! It's really cute. It's cos of all sorts of complications around the birth but I was thinking if they were on Japanese TV (as many white babies are) they would not be able to play twins.
Additionally, I just chatted with my parents for about 45 minutes. If I was the type of person to say "blessed" I would say I was. But I'm totally not, so I don't know why I just said that. I'm more the type to say I'm unbelievably, ridiculously lucky. Just in general. It's kind of amazing and I try to not take things for granted. That's not to say that my apartment search is a somewhat stressful pain in the ass, but nonetheless. I go to look at a place tomorrow. Ack, I need to make a check list!
I'm currently, uh, finally watching the last episode of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e Ikemen Paradise (I like when things have stupid long names. Much like Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crews Hosted by Mario Lopez.) and wow, in the drag fashion show the guys finally looked really, really hot dressed as women. I could have gone for some lingering shots. Normally I only like the idea of guys in drag and not the reality, especially as executed on that show. (Although Toma looked super-cute in a nurse costume and glasses!) I never actually watched episodes 6 through 11 but it turns out it isn't really necessary to do so.
Ah, crapsicles. Just looked to my left for the first time in a while and I remembered that my bed is full of clothes and crap from cleaning up for company.
Has anything else interesting happened in the last few days? Nope, just the apartment stress, and some visiting Katie. Oh, and the buying of nice work clothes! Now that I'm a full-time real person working woman, I needed to expand my wardrobe. . . to include more pants. I wear a lot of skirts to work in summer cos it's hot. I also got loads of forms to fill out for work today. And, uhm. . . I've been sharing ayamachi's interest in Big Cook Ben of Big Cook Little Cook. And when I say sharing, I mean "mocking." But I'll make it up to you and make the pimp post I've been talking about soon! Probably! :D I've got a bunch of pictures collected to use for it, which makes me seem like an even bigger creeper than I am yay!
current mood:  loved
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| Monday, June 2nd, 2008
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12:22 am - dramas from various time periods
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Is anyone watching Osen? People must be, right? I just don't feel like I've been hearing anything about it. Anyway, Katie and I have just watched the first two episodes and I totally love it so far!! Possibly because I'm in love with Aoi Yu. And her hair. She's so cute and charming! If her character wasn't such a drunk she'd be even more charming, but even as is I find her very interesting as a character and totally enchanting. And Uchi's pretty. Even though his character is a dick. But yeah, so far I'm really enjoying the show. Of course, I loved Haikei, Chichiue-sama, and this kind of feels like a really similar show but intended to be more popular. But yeah, shows about old-style Japanese restaurants are cool. XD I just hope Uchi doesn't quit in every single episode.
I've also been watching Yamaguchi's parts in Dousoukai, his 1993 gay naked drama with gay!Taichi and gay!Sakamoto, at an extremely slow-loading Chinese site. WELL WORTH IT. He's so naked and gay and uke. UKE YAMAGUCHI. And so young. Holy crapsicles. And Sakamoto wears a bandana and sometimes Taichi wears a little red hat. And there are shower scenes.
And I just watched Mukodono 2003 and really enjoyed it! I started the original and had to stop because his wife's sisters all pissed me off a lot, but they weren't that bad in the 2003 one. Or I'd built up a resistance. PLUS. I looooooooove Matsushita Yuki, who I first saw in Yoiko no Mikata. She plays Suji-san the manager in Mukodono 2003 (but isn't in the first one) and is just soooooo pretty and so classy and cool. And, uhm, Nagase is hot.
Interlude: there's this doll that was given to me by my cousin when I was pretty young, so I've had her as long as I can remember. And she's more or less baby-shaped, but she's soft and covered in plush. She's actually a Hugga Bunch doll, I think her name was supposed to be Huggins. But she has a hospital-type bracelet on with her name on it, and I saw the Huggabunch side first so that's what I call her. So, yeah, Huggabunch was my favorite doll for my entire youth, and then at some point at a sleepover, I suddenly noticed that her eyes followed you wherever you go, and we all sort of noticed that she actually looked really creepy and now I can't keep her around anymore. Except we were just cleaning out my closet and she's now sitting across the room from me staring at me. I don't understand it. She went from being my favorite doll that I took with me whenever I went on trips and everything, to all of a sudden totally freaking me out.
Back to dramas: I rewatched a bit of Yamada Taro and Tiger & Dragon this week, too. Am suddenly way more attracted to Itoh Masaki than I've ever been before. I think it's because I saw her in the SMAP segment that ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) je_mix_fansubs subbed, where KimuTaku was trying to make her heart beat faster. (::miniswoon::) I think she had slightly more meat on her bones or something, but whatever it was, she looked healthier and therefore way hotter and now I'm all "oh my god she's so attractive." Yamada Taro is still hilariously awesome, if anyone was wondering. XD Katie hadn't seen it and I kept references things so we watched the first two episodes and enjoyed it immensely. Nino's a riot.
Am really excited about the new Drabo. Gangster-turned-mangaka, the part Mabo was born to play! Also, I love when TOKIO members have new dramas, just on principle. ^_^
( real life )
current mood:  agitated
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| Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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11:03 pm - Written more for my benefit than yours, neener neener
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So, it's been a while. Since I last posted, I. . . graduated. From college. I'm done with Smith. This is really really sad but it's not really hitting me so it's OK. I kinda still feel like I'll be back in fall, and by the time fall hits hopefully I'll be all embroiled in life and getting started on my own and stuff. We went furniture shopping for Katie today and it was lots of fun, so that's got me kinda excited about getting an apartment. I'm very concerned about finding a good one, though, and about paying for it, because I won't be making a lot of money. But I'm a low maintenance woman, I'll be ok.
( bragging, shamelessly - it'll probably be the last time for a while )
OK, sorry for that. Commencement was lovely. Smith does a whole two-day extravaganza. ( about ceremonies and traditions and what-not. yay for going to 100+ year old women's colleges! )
After I woke up on Sunday afternoon, mom and I went to explore the other houses! Most of my friends are in my house, so I haven't gotten to visit the other ones that much and there's significant variation and character to each house - there's a lot that I've really been dying to see, and it was so much fun! It was the perfect time for it because a lot of people were moving out so the doors were propped open - I got to see all the ones I wanted to except one. And a lot of the doors to the rooms were open too! It was great. It was lots of fun exploring and it just felt like a really good way to spend my last afternoon at Smith. Very satisfying.
Since we've been home things have been pretty busy. I had my interview on Tuesday, which I think went fairly well. I'm still interesting in the job and he seemed genuinely interested in hiring me. I have an interview with the DOB this coming Wednesday for a job that I'm less interested in. I haven't done any job searching since I've been home. :( I suck.
But after the interview I got to see Katie's new apartment, which is in Queens and it's absolutely fantastic!! It's got me nervous, I'm all "I won't be able to find an apartment like that, and if I did I wouldn't be able to afford it." Plus she used a real estate agent which cost her $1500 which I don't really have to spend. But I'm trying for nervous optimism. XD Anyway, I'm really happy for Katie. It's really a great apartment, so so nice. In a really nice neighborhood, and it's got a large family room and a large living room. Small kitchen, but enough room in this little open area in the hallway to put a little dining room table for two.
Then I think Wednesday we went to my grandpa's to see family, and on Thursday people came here and I unpacked and cleaned up and stuff.
And tomorrow I'm going to meet Carlito in Brooklyn and we're going to wander around and scope out some neighborhoods that I might want to look for apartments in. Which is such a great thing to do, to give me some idea of where to start and get a feel for places. Factors are cost, safety, commute. Commute means primarily subway access, but the specific subways are important, and we don't want to be too far from the city even though it means higher cost. Plus, my roommate will have to get to school, and I'll have to get to work and I don't know where that will be, plus I'd like to have fairly easy access to Katie, too.
And then a week from Monday I'm going to Manchester, from the 3rd to the 11th. I'm really excited. It's a really good thing to be doing right now, as I start real life. It gives me this little time before I go to relax and it really creates a gap, and I have an excuse to take a break. Plus, I'm really excited about seeing my friends again.
So yeah. That's what I've been up to. Lots and lots of stuff. Which is why I haven't written. If i haven't been physically tired, I've been emotionally tired. The last week at Smith was so intense. And since then not only have I been busy either doing stuff or just watching JE stuff with Katie, I've also been off caffeine so i'm sleeping a fair amount. XD I'm trying to cleanse my body a little before I start 9 to 5-ing it again. I should have been in bed at least half an hour ago, actually, but I wanted to get some of this stuff down.
current mood: strong
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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4:24 pm - why did I just start listening to billy joel? preparing myself to return to LI?
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You know what's awesome about being a kid when I was? Michael Jordan was playing basketball. I feel bad for kids who grow up when he's already in the past as a player.
Not that I'm a big sports fan. My knowledge of sports depends on how much interest my brother had in a particular sport at any given moment, basically.
Am really sleepy cos I didn't nap today. I did start packing! I need to get a lot more done by tomorrow when my parents get here but I made a really good start and sorted loads of things and its mostly boxing up that's left. XP
Yesterday was a lovely "senior week" day - slept in, had a delicious brunch, napped a bit, went out to dinner with friends. Then we all went "free box hopping" - every house has a free box (more in the quad where the kids are wealthy and too lazy to go down a few flights to upload their stuff) where they get rid of items they don't want, usually clothes, and you can paw through it at any time and take stuff. I usually don't because even though people usually find it cool, I don't like to run into people while wearing their clothes. Especially if I don't like them. XD But yesterday we went to half a dozen houses and went through their free boxes and I got a bunch of blouses to help start my work wardrobe! So I'm really happy about that. And then we watched the end of Mary Poppins and all of Now and Then - an excellent "watching with friends right before graduating" movie. And I ate lots of Oreos with peanut butter. :)
I just got an email from my rabbinic literature professor saying that I did really well on the exam and final paper and that she actually really enjoyed reading them because they showed how much I'd learned and that my thoughts on rabbinic literature are interesting, and she said, "I really do see a future in this field for you, if you ever think seriously about it," which is really awesome. :D I really enjoyed studying Rabbinic Lit. And her email made me really really happy. And now there's just one class that I want to do well in. And two that I want to find out if I passed. XD
Mother's Day was yesterday, as many of you probably know. My mom is COMPLETELY AWESOME but I will write about her another time because I have to go return library books now. And I'm too sleepy to do her justice. :)
current music: Don't Ask Me Why - Billy Joel
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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10:38 pm - written with a slightly burnt and crispy brain
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( school stuff and some complainies )
Also, wow. Why is Firefly the best fucking thing ever? I got addicted to watching bloopers reels on youtube yesterday. . . addicted might be a bit of a strong word. But anyway, I was watching Angel bloopers and oh my god, David Boreanaz is SO CUTE. And I loff him. But that reminded me of how FUCKING AWESOME the Firefly bloopers reel and oh my god I love that show. The show was so amazing, the cast was amazing, the bond between the cast was amazing, the cast's appearance at conventions was amazing. All of it, beautiful. And it's still at 35 on Amazon's TV DVD bestsellers list which is kind of really cool SIX YEARS after it came out. And was cancelled. But, good side: when something ends early, you're allowed to idealize it. Firefly is frozen as this beautiful perfect thing with all beautiful perfect episodes and an amazing cast and shit-hot bloopers. Um. The moustaches. And Mal being in every shot oh my god best thing ever. And everything Alan says when Wash is being interrogated.
OK, so we all know that Torchwood is quite the rip off of Buffy and Angel? (Hilariously illustrated in this fic by the way) So this causes me to make a lot of comparisons between Whoverse and Whedonverse. In particular, ok, you guys know about my crushing pattern, right? Or, well, my fanfic crush pattern? Cos I'll have crushes on other actors and characters but I'll only want to read fanfic about one particular bottom. No switching positions! It's a whole thing.
( onto crushes, and torchwood, and fic, and firefly. . . all those things that I love thinking about way too much. Lots of Sean Maher. )
That was. . . really pointless. XD But yeah, that's what I've been doing with my time when I'm not enthusing about rabbinic literature. XD I seriously am proud of the content of my website. And of how I did today! I didn't know which tractate something came from which pisses me off because I memorized SO MANY tractates. Like Qiddushin, and Hullin - HULLIN! It's non-meat sacrifice, or something. And Berakhot. I was all over it. But the frikkin Bavli, I didn't look at what tractate things were from. OK, I got sidetracked. My point is that with my free time I've been reading Ianto fic and playing Grow Games. (You can google search and find solutions, by the way. I love playing them but I need the solutions and I don't care!)
It feels good to be out of JE fandom (I'm only slightly out of it - out of the fandom community mostly but even then not completely). Really relaxed. The latest batch of secrets made me feel even better. I love being in a sci-fi fandom! And not having to be so immersed, as well. Like, I don't need to get information or anything like that from people - just by its nature it's going to have less stupidity because there's no need to share rumors or anything like that. Just reading the fanfic. Which, yay, is waaaay more naughty because the fanbase is older! And it's not RPS! And there's a sci-fi fantasy element so I even got to read a sex pollen fic! So yeah, lately I've just been going to tokio_suki, tokioteatime (where I've been sending everyone lately to go and download the 1999 concert because it's BEAUTIFUL) and occasionally onlyarashifiles. I'm getting caught up on arashi a bit today. They're busy little munchkins and so are their fans.
Holy shit, huge discount on The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset!
Tomorrow, studying. But that's it. So maybe I'll do laundry. None of my good luck shirts are clean so I had to wear a dirty t-shirt today. :( Except I've been saying I'll do laundry for the past whatever and a half.
By the way, the reason my entries are so long is that i just sit and write whatever's in my head. XD There's usually a lot going on in there. A lot of Sean Maher.
I know, I know, I've been using this icon EVERYWHERE but I love it!! Guys, Superman is a dick.
Also, oh, I should not that my intention with my previous entry was not to make anyone paranoid and I honestly thought there wouldn't be that much response because I thought the people to whom it did not apply would know it wasn't them and move on and the people to whom it did apply I thought weren't reading. XD So, yeah, sorry if I spread insecurity or anything, I feel bad!
current mood: silly
current music: The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) - Otis Redding
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| Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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11:40 pm - Not as emo as it sounds, really!
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OK, so I didn't want to do this sort of thing because it felt like a desperate plea for attention, but now that I really know that it's definitely not a desperate plea for attention, I'm going to say this.
If you've never commented on my posts, or maybe commented on one or two fandom things; if I've made a good effort to reach out to you and become your friend (actual friend, not just on the list) and you've never made any effort towards me, or just the barest effort of responding and no actual action; if we've never really communicated about anything. . . I'm considering removing you from my friends list.
People that just aren't that active, or people that I haven't made an effort to talk to are actually more likely to stay. It's when people post a lot that I don't feel like are anything like a friend that I get annoyed. And if it's people that I feel I've made a concerted effort to befriend and feel like that effort hasn't been reciprocated, it can actually feel a little bad when I see your entries. So I'm thinking I should probably not be feeling that way when I read my friends list
I might not do an unfriending, it depends on how much things annoy me and how I feel about staying in the JE fandom, but I definitely think about it fairly regularly! The other problem, in addition to the extent to which I want to maintain any ties in fandom, is that I do like an active friends list, I like to have something to read. So there's definitely mixed feelings.
But yeah, I'm posting this just in case anyone does actually care. If someone thinks this applies to them and wants to say "I really like reading your entries, I just never know what to say," or even "I love getting your comments, I just can never check my friends list," or any form of "I actually like you," please let me know. Or if you read this and think "Ahh, that's me and yeah, we're just not going to hit it off!" you can let me know that as well. Really. I think there's some people that I've just turned out to be incompatible with and that's not a big deal and it doesn't mean I hate you or will be angry with you or will form some weird faction against you if wank erupts. I think pretty much most of the people I've friended are good people - they're just not necessarily my friends and I want them to be. And I care less about the factors in the above paragraph these days, so it's becoming increasingly likely that I will do an unfriending. And this is your warning - I'm probably not going to talk to people individually, so if you find yourself unfriended, this is why and hopefully no hard feelings, and if you do have hard feelings, leave me a comment or send me a message and I can explain myself more specifically or whatever. But if you'd care that much I guess you should comment here?
Also. irrelevantheart. Who are you? Where did you come from? XD I don't remember you in any way.
Anyway. I need to meet some new people.
( I know this is long already but here's a little cut. . .! )
current mood:  okay
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| Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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9:31 am - Why Smith College Is An Awesome Place To Be A Doctor Who (or Harry Potter) Fan
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Someone chalked "Bad Wolf" on the wall by one of the walkways. I was FLIPPING OUT when I noticed it. XD I love Smith!!
Also, last night I went to an event where faculty members read us bedtime stories. One of the deans is named Tom Riddell. . . and he read us the first chapter of Harry Potter. IT WAS AWESOME and slightly trippy. He's the first year class dean, so on one of our first days here, four years ago, he introduced us by saying "I am not Tom Riddle and this is not Hogwarts!" I'm just sayin', though, we're totally divided into Houses.
On the subject of Doctor Who references that make me way more pumped than they possibly should, I was watching Coupling the other day, and one of the characters, Steve, had this whole monologue about how men find cushions pointless. I'll admit I don't think I've ever seen a guy use a cushion, except my grandpa who sits on them, but I use them all the time. Anyway. They tell him cushions provide padding, and he's saying sitting on a sofa isn't a situation where you need padding, saying, ". . .this is a sofa. It is designed by clever scientists in such a way as to shield the unprotected user from the risk of skin abrasions, serious head trauma, and, of course... [drops behind sofa, then sticks head out] Daleks."
I'd watched the episode loads of times before and never had any clue what he was saying, so when I watched it again I was so excited! "AHHHH! DALEKS! AWESOME!!" XD And this was before the new series started, so we know that Steven Moffat is just a big Doctor Who geek.
current mood:  geeky
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| Friday, April 25th, 2008
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10:53 am - Senior Banquet, good times
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay I had a really good time last night. And in fact, I think i'm still slightly tipsy? It could just be tiredness, though. I went to bed after 3:30 and woke up before 8:30. And then did computer science for an hour and a half!
( slight sadditude )
ANYWAY. Last night was senior banquet, which is a Smith tradition in which each house has a party for the graduating seniors who live in the house. Or people who have moved out but lived in the house for 2+ years. The seniors get to order food from restaurants (everyone else gets pizza) and there are skits in which the first years act out funny incidents involving the seniors and stuff like that, and this year we did prophesies - where people will be in 5-10 years, and then seniors will their shit to underclassmen. Except I'm a packrat and am always like "Ahh, I bet I could use this!" But I did find stuff to give to the handful of people I wanted to give things to. Although there was one girl that I kind of forgot about that I think is sweet, but I don't see her very often so it's excusable.
( about the skits. well, about my skit. :D )
After senior banquet I talked with friendandformerroommate!Corey about deep, sad things. But it was good to talk about - obviously stuff like that has been on my mind. But we also talked about future plans to become rich by writing casually retold stories from serious religious sources. She's going to do saints, I'm going to bible and rabbis. I ended up walking back to her apartment with her.
When I got back, awesome lovely friend!Steph WATCHED HANA YORI DANGO WITH ME!! But it doesn't get really charming til the third episode so I'm hoping I can at least keep her interested that long. ^_^ In the meantime, I'm cracking up at Jun cos he's hilarious and ridiculous. And I love Oguri Shun (or should I say "papa shun"!) much more now than when I last saw it, even though I still don't think he looks that good in it. Of course, my heart belongs to Akira.
Then Steph and I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother and then we talked and talked and drank and drank and talked and drank. :D ALTHOUGH I got back to my room at 3 and went to the bathroom and there was this freaky dark purple ring around the inside of my lips and even on my front teeth, I can only assume from the red wine I was drinking. Which Steph did not mention to me. XD
( sentiment might take over? )
I probably need to go back to sleep except I feel strangely energetic. Most of the coding for my site is worked out. I'm still questioning my design choices, but. . . meh. This weekend I need to try and write my 5 page paper for my rabbinic class, need to definitely write my 1-2 page reaction paper for my history class, finish up the coding, and maybe try to work on my 7 minute presentation (well, my part would be 7 minutes or so. It's 15 total.) for my rabbinic literature class. ::sigh:: It sucks cos after senior banquet and the festivities I'm really ready for relaxing and senior week and good times. . . but I still have oodles of finishing up to do. Not too bad, certainly, as long as I can motivate myself to do them.
Tonight I'm going to a bedtime stories event where professors read to us. :D And tomorrow is Senior Ball! My first ball - actually, I didn't even go to prom. I'm not sure what to wear because my nicer dress isn't at all summery, so I'm undecided. Once again, Steph is going to help me out.
Ah! Steph and I also invented the word "shmoogle," used for men's backs, especially in a positive connotation. As in, "oooh, he's got a nice shmoogle." Or "What do you think of that shmoogle?" Or "I like a nice, muscular shmoogle." It needed a word, right? It's one of the only parts of the body that I prefer the male version to the female version.
EDIT: Watching new subbed MuchaBuri - I've said this before, I fucking love Hina. Also, I always forget how ridiculously hot Ryo is. But the real reason I made this edit: Why is EVERYTHING "very popular with young ladies"?? XD Even food is supposed to be popular with young women! Young women in Japan appear to 1) be into loads of different really random fads and 2) be a major, major market force. (Although it makes sense that idol shows would feature things young women like, but there's just so freaking many things that they're supposed to be into!)
current mood: chipper but slightly stressed
current music: Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
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