Monthly Archives: March 2003

STFU

[img STFU] just got into a big blow up fight with my crazy ass fuckhead of a roommate (the other three are cool, just this one crazy motherfucker). We almost threw down on the front lawn, seriously. *sigh* I need to just calm the fuck down at this point. Doesn't it blow how just one person can ruin your whole life? I mean, your house should be a calm refuge where you can escape from...

My roommate...

Just got back from the bars. To finish off the night, had a couple of (shots?) of sake from a bottle Yu Jia had brought over a few months ago. While the bouncer at one bar in particular always recognizes me and waves me in, without fail, he always cards Steph. It's bizarre, since we always go in together, and he obviously knows us since we've been going there practically every week for the past...

The Draft

I know this is rather old news, but I had wanted to mention something about it for some time, and with the current situation in Iraq now seemed as good a time as ever. As some of you may know, on January 7th, 2003, Representative Charlie Rangel (D-NY) introduced into congress a bill which proposed to re-instate the draft. According to Rangel, this bill is designed not to actually force young men back into a...

Placeholding

okay, so this is taking a little bit longer than i thought. i'll post something of substance tommorrow, i promise! 3:11 am...

Update enroute!

an update is on its way... and let me warn you, it's a doozy. I've been typing for the past 3 hours! Should be up before midnight. 10:57 pm...

Blah blah

Finished my comm arts and physics test. Now busting out some ridiculous 2 page paper about god-knows-what. I am also stuck using a crappy mac. *shakes fists in fury* Nice long update tommorrow, I promise. Now listening to: my youth steadily flushing down the drain while I slog through pointless busy work. 10:23 pm...

Dance Floor Stereotypes

Somebody sent me this via e-mail. It's from thesite.org It's 3am: time to scan the room for that 'right' person. So who's out there? TheSite presents your guide to dance floor stereotypes. DJ wannabes - dressed like a DJ, with the attitude of a DJ... but not a DJ. Usually found hovering near the sides of the stage, nodding knowingly to another great piece of beat-mixing, or boring people senseless with made-up stories of obscure...

Dance floor stereotypes

Violin Trance

It's like trance... only with violins. Great stuff....

Roommates suck

*sigh* roommates suck sometimes. More about my space-cadet pot smoking misogynistic roommate later. Right now, I'm seriously in need of a stiff drink. So I'm off to the bars. Now listening to: "Jonathan Wong: Precursor to a Union" This is from Southern Sun's homepage. I believe he mixed it himself. You should all go over and check it out. (you can download it from the link provided). It's got a little bit of 4 Strings...

Farewell Yuki...

I just said good-bye to Yuki. She is leaving for Washington to go to college. Like I have with so many of my conversation partners in the past, I said good-bye, and then, with a perfuncntory "karada ki wo tsukete ne..." and a lingering hug, I turn around, they turn around, and we walk our seperate ways, knowing that chances are high that we will probably never ever see each other again in this life,...

What do your illegal drugs look like?

Do you know what your illegal drugs look like? Now currently listening to: "Tatu: Things you said" (Bubblegummy, but cute.) 10:28 pm...

Busy Work

I spent all of today getting aquainted with new depths of "busy work". For 5 hours I did nothing at work except weigh metal pans, put cow forage in them, reweigh them, dry them out, weigh them some more, dry them again... well, you get the picture. Perhaps sensing that I was slowly going insane, my boss (who stole the only chair in the lab such that I was forced to stand for most of...

War

So for better or for worse, it finally started. To be honest, despite my inherently left-leaning nature, until today, I found myself torn over which way I stood on the Iraq war issue. On the one hand, Saddam Hussein is a bad person by any stretch of the imagination $B!& (Bhe has slaughtered tens of thousands of his own civilians, actively sought weapons of mass destruction, cruelly oppressed and massacred Kurdish minorities in the North,...

Riding the bus home

A pause, and I turn to stare out the window. Parallel red and white streaks flatten across the parallax between the inner and outer glass panes, reflections playing off of reflections mirroring the interior of the hushed grayness in which I stand. Below me, outstretched, lies the city. It is estimated that the population of Tokyo hovers somewhere around 42 million depending on how you count the various outlying suburbs. While the mind readily accepts...

Visible Noise

sorry for the lack of recent updates, i've been having a crappy week. Now currently in a stretch of working from 8am until 12 midnight... I'll try and post something later. Now currently listening to: "Hybrid: "Visible Noise" (when are they gonna put out their new album for the love of god...!?) 1:41 pm...

Mullets set to make comeback

In honor of Melissa's new haircut... Short on style: Mullets set to make comeback by Erin Rolfs, Louisiana State University February 11, 2003 (U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. -- Some hold onto their parachute pants; for others, no movie will ever reach the creative apex that is "The Goonies," and everyone knows someone who still rocks out to Huey Lewis and the News. Letting go of the past is hard. But there is no greater...

M returns to Japan

M has returned (to Japan, that is). Despite this fact, I have had one of the worst days in recent memory. I will write more about it later, when the seething cauldron of my anger has settled to a slow boil. Right now, I just want to call her and ask all about her trip and all that mess. I don't have any pictures from her trip yet, but for now, lets just settle for...

Generic Lab Work

I had a wonderful dream last night about being stranded on some island off the coast of Thailand, where I hacked out an impressive little bamboo hut and mini-civilization out of the nearby jungle and spent the days soaking up the sun and the nights staring out at a pristine starry sky (like the one scene in "The Beach"). Of course, we all know that in reality, I wouldn't survive more than two days out...

Generic lab work

Grocery lists

[link to grocerylists] have you ever wondered what other people go grocery shopping for? Decided I'm going to Green Bay tommorrow; I decided I just can't afford to be cooped up in this god forsaken little town any longer without some sort of respite, especially with everyone else jetting off to exotic locales for spring break. However, it's sad when in your haste to flee a small town you end up in an even...

Squirrelfight

I talked to M this morning. She's one and a half days out from Tokyo harbor, and was on her way to the final peace boat orientation when I called. She sounded quite genki, which is great, considering how sick she sounded the last time I talked to her! I can't wait to see all her pictures from around the world... Right now I'm at work, far too early on a Thursday morning. I'm only...

Random Errands

yeah!! almost done with my speech for tommorrow's class. The problem is that I only have 6 minutes for the speech, but I tend to be ... verbose . So I had to cut out entire sections on the AAUW, gender and society - which makes for a very choppy speech...! How I am supposed to tackle the issue of gender discrimination against boys in the educational system while using overheads and other visual aids...!...

Cleaning my room.

Now cleaning my room. Our washing machine is working again, so I can finally stop wearing the same pair of pants for a week in a row...! Very little in my room doesn't need a thorough washing at this point. Actually, my room needs a very thorough cleaning, so I suppose I should get on that. I nicked some vanilla insence from downstairs and am now attempting to inject a little bit of (vanilla?) scent...

Southern Sun

Yuki necklace

Having nothing better to do at 12:15 in the evening after work and planning to skip class tommorrow anyway, I decided to scan the ridiculous Taz instructions that came with the Taz Kinderegg. The best part of this is his expression! Yuki told me that she's moving to Washington by the end of March to attend college. This came rather suddenly. I gave her a necklace which I had made for her (out of...

Jenns birthday

Momo has been promising me some Kindereggs ever since she went to Hong Kong over Christmas break. Well, here it is March 11th, and I finally managed to get them yesterday. I had long ago given up all hope of ever seen my chocolate-covered choking-hazard ovoids of yummy goodness, having resigned myself to the idea that she had eaten them one night in a fit of chocolate frenzy, but it turns out she actually...

Waiting till M gets back...

Only 4 more days till M gets back from her cruise!! YEAH!!! *(o.O)*/ The last stop on the peaceboat cruise was in Tahiti, during which a poor bedraggled M complained that she had come down with the flu, presumably as a result of trekking through the jungle to look at what she charitably described as "a crappy pile of rocks". (I am assuming it's some sort of archealogical exhibit or something...). Judging from her...