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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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...I'm going to censor that dirty joke right there. Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans and Happy Fall to everyone! Hope you have an awesome weekend. :) Is everyone doing somewhat well?; (Aishuu.... really, good luck. Is it possible to have a moratorium of any discussion of religion, politics, or gender roles? And just enjoy (or have a pleasant dinner) each other's company? ._.;;)
....my game applications have increased: Pet Society, Restaurant City, Country Story, Poker Rivals (I'm a complete poker n00b, so I don't see myself digging into this well), Farm Ville, Paradise Island, Happy Aquarium, Happy Pets, and (sort of; these are just gift apps) Green Patch, Fashionista, iHeart, Give Hearts.
:X ...failing to detach and unroot myself from holing up in my trashy room all the time. Trying again, trying to have bare minimum contact with these over this weekend.
Tomorrow's agenda:
Wake up. Crawl out of bed. Attempt to clean room again (some success required). Attempt to tidy junk outside of room and bits of house, if possible.
Cook stuff all afternoon. Bail to Auntie Sandy's house for some turkey, if possible.
Our house is basically a dump (real, real messy), but dad suddenly wanted to have some of his recent classmates for Thanksgiving. He said he wasn't going to after all but today I found out he invited someone, and his wife, for tomorrow. He was saying we don't really have to do anything and we could just order Chinese takeout.
...yeah, well. I don't know how to put together a "traditional" meal (I don't think any of us do) but that's just wrong. (Walnut shrimp in noisemaker? Stir fry seafood?) Picked up some ham and a box of instant potatoes, etc-- going to be putting stuff together and doing emergency cleaning tomorrow. :X :sigh:
Haven't prepared for Black Friday. ._. (But, took it off from work.) Going to try to organize trip to Fashion District+Griffith Park (24 years and I've never been there) Saturday (offered to get an online friend but she really does live... well, 45 min away by freeway on a good day). Then hanging out with some other friends Sunday. Plan pending.
Then work again... being let off on 12/18, which I'm relieved about (I got a jury summons too; check in starts on 12/7). They say they'll contact me again in January, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to continue working there long term. It's an uncertain situation for me since I suck at starting up job hunting. Thanksgiving trip to Florid and Xmas trip to Seattle fell through for the moment (I think I'm going to try to work out a trip after December with my friend though).
PS-- MMM, I saw an article about the Venezuelan President endorsing controlling the weather with man-made machines. I wondered what your reaction to that was. I mean, it's not a very sustainable practice in the long run, imho.
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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I'm going to try to pull back from Pet Society. Pretty much every spare moment the last two months has gone into hammering that game, along with other FB apps. They're very time-consuming.
Feeling a little stressed again and some of that's shocked me out of oblivion a little, haha. My job situation has gotten to the good/bad mix part. I re-contracted for a second month last month, although I was really miserable the last few days of that first month.
I guess a large part of the reason is the work was undone. By this point the work is still unfinished, but the copying I was meant to do has been put on hold for 8 weeks as the department is undergoing reassessment of their workload. They also had their project deadline moved back from December to March. The staff is nice, but the work is tedious. MG, the supervisor said she'll try to keep me to Dec and the see if she can add me to the department through the hiring freeze. The problem is I feel I should get into a job that relates to the green industry or international relations. Of course I'm not even totally clear on the career relations and all that other stuff either. Still.
I probably can stall by agreeing to another month if she asks, and see what I can figure out and if I should (and can get) something more towards what I'm interested in. I probably should stick around if I can't find anything else like some are telling me.
Dad's also been tossing my notes and papers. Found that out tonight and man that totally sucks.
So, back to working on cleaning my room. There is no way everything I got is going to fit in here. I left my junk in my room when I was at college and then built up a whole new room of stuff while I was living at college. So when I got back, I had to move all that in the extra spaces on the patio, etc.
I'll have to go back on working on the sales page and maybe just straight out giveaway stuff to friends. Keep an eye out for that in a few weeks.
I'm horribly out of date on all anime. Going to try to catch up with Hetalia and check out the rest.
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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Sorry about having fallen off the face of the planet. I got into Pet Society and it has consumed my life.
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I think I'm still consumed too. Have I missed anything?
On the flip side, mom got me a temp job with her office. She was talking about it last week but then said, at the end of it, that they were rethinking it because none of the staff wanted to do training, especially for 5 or 6 positions. Apparently they got over it. I'm supposed to start tomorrow.
I haven't quite made it back to waking up before 11, but then again I haven't slept by 2 AM either. Tonight will be a serious effort. I'm thinking of actually jogging around the block if I can't sleep. :X
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
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Happy Birthday, Miyun and Fukki!! ♥~
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Aside from actually drawing at the speed limit and making cars tailgate or speed around me, I could have just stayed overnight at Luce's or not switched to the #1 lane.;;
Got busted and got my first speeding ticket. Not doing fastest time, but well above the recommended rate. There was very few cars though and I was in the flow of traffic... however it was dark enough and I was tired enough I totally did not see the police car until it turned on the lights. The guys told me they were driving alongside me for a while.;;;
Not exactly sure how it works although got a vague description from the officer and some idea from online. Did not realize officer wrote down courthouse from his area of freeway; would prefer to change it to closer to my city rather than his, which is about 30 minutes away. No way I can make that court location at 8 AM, especially 30 minutes away. Fine doesn't sound pretty either. Will probably hear more info from dad tomorrow... :X
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Well.
There is nothing going on in my life. I really seemed to have frozen/imploded on doing anything. ._.
Edit: I sure was asking for it when I declared that.;; Interview tomorrow (probably solely due to my mom's pull) for a position at the bank my mom works at.
I feel a little sorry for my brother.; It's surprising, when I think about it, how my parents are rather conservative whereas I think I'm a decent liberal. It could be too they're rather uptight and. Hm. Isolationist? Twitchy people... I'm bored out of my skull but if I actually had the friends and events to do, I'd probably be out a lot as well and they'd be "garrgghh, stay home!" at me too, probably... (I don't understand why they keep insisting on it when we do nothing, we ignore each other a lot as we don't have common interests, and our house is a something of a dive.)
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Kava + Agave Nectar = BRILLIANT
Miguel held a gathering for his birthday today. He's fun as always! Good times.
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
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I got the spoiler from Pikka earlier, but the English scanlation of the latest One Piece just came out last night on OneManga, so I only saw for myself then.
Ace and Sanji have always been my favorite character for OP (which is still my favorite manga, ever, of any manga I've read [all 175+ of them]), so this latest tidbit on Ace is just FROSTING ON THE FUCKING GIANT DELICIOUS AWESOME CAKE. (Plus the bloody beat up scenes have kept my inner sadist chuffling in glee the last few scenes. ._.;)
That silhouette of his mother (and oh, I like the name!) looks hot! I guess this means he's adopted into the family (I wonder if that's what made Dragon do a bender). I'm interested in hearing how Rouge did it too, but in a world filled with ESP (e.g. Devil Fruit) powers and various other supernatural knickknacks, it can make sense.
And while I'm talking a little about One Piece, I guess I'll talk a little more about some of the other things I've been following.
Fullmetal Alchemist - OMG. OmgomgOMG-- TOO BADASS! I never went past episode 15 or something of the anime, but I'm so happy with the manga, which I've been following all the way.
Soul Eater - Kid has been pretty much the sole reason I'm interested in the story. There was some bitchslapping the last chapter and he just looked really cool. f^^; Meanwhile, I also snagged the last three episodes of the anime... they looked like they fused two arcs together and WTF was that ending? A few points were pretty cool, but they made Ashura a gormless low-class wannabe and Maka (who I never liked) into some Mary Sue. I really don't want to check out the anime anymore, but Bones does great graphics and animated Kid...
Skip Beat - The updates have been slowing down, but the story has been just as tight as ever. I'm usually disinterested in romance/shoujo stories, but this has been great and I'm interested in what's going to happen with the Valentine snafu. Especially with all 3 guys involved. (The little bits the author is tossing out about the interaction of the ESP bits is a serious tease.)
Kekkaishi - I'm waiting for Yoshimori to snap and do something really cool. I like Hiura!
07 Ghost - .... I think I'm about at the "abort" point... the story has turned a little... flat. Gary Stu.
Fairy Tail - It was flagging for a little bit, but it's picking up again. And Mashima-sensei pulled in Leo again!! (I adore him, both Mashima-sensei and Leo.) Last chapter has been pretty interesting with the summoning hijacking, cancellations, and countering. Aries!! (Damn, I pictured her having gone all battle-ax since she fucked Leo over with Karen.) Man, the next chapter shouldn't be pretty, I'm looking forward to it!
Psyren.... I haven't caught up. =_= Ever since they had the old game crew meet up with the ten year's later non-game crew, I've been a bit "ehhh" about catching up... I should, the story hasn't gone bad yet. :<
Hetalia - ....actually, I need to download the anime. I believe I haven't caught up since episode 14... I really hate this shoddy soft-sub MKV crap, The fonts look hideous and are never spaced right on my VLD. Need to raid comm for avi hard-sub links. I've also sort of lost track of the scanlations, which are decent on a good day, a bit confusing on an average day, and incomprehensible on a bad one (re: translations). I'm still quite mad about it of course and all my tiny fanwork output has been in this series... unfortunately. I need/should do some work for my other fandoms.
Zetsubou Sensei - I thought I dropped out of the fandom and aborted, but I'm slightly interested in it again... might try to resume from the second season and such.
D.Gray-Man - It's still on hiatus, but the last chapter's intro to Kanda's past was really intriguing.
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Rise Against dominated. The concert was bloody fantastic. I'm very happy we went.
Their vocals... guh ♥
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Cold War
This was another prime example of the "hey, get that boner out of that country!" kind of thinking. Russia kept poking its peter into various nations around it; we started pushing our pee-pee into all kinds of places around us. Neither of us liked how well the other one seemed to be doing with the lady countries. So we attempted to "nation cockblock" each other as best we could. Eventually we won because they ran out of money. Which is totally a penis victory in the modern world. If a Porsche is an extension of the penis, how much more so is cold, hard cash?
---Jeff Mac, Manslations
I just thought that was a hilarious mental image, as a USSR+US (Hetalia) ship fan.
Finger better, still bit weird, but on mend. Need to figure out way to pull nail shard off as seems to be glued back on with dried blood or something...
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Dear all, have managed to slice sliver of finger while cutting onions. Edge bit of nail and flesh. Seriously wondered if I should peel it off as was marginally attached, but parents have insisted on taping it together and claiming it will grow back together. Will not be typing/doodling/doing much for next few days. orz
Interestingly (and I'm typing this one-handedly), suddenly felt really sick after. Nauseaous. Might have experienced shock.
Please be carefully chopping veggies. G'night. OTL
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So I just saw this "information" post on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) hetalia_daily: http://community.livejournal.com/hetalia/2753593.html
While I would welcome new character designs for Africa, I am extremely skeptical these are genuine. I don't think it's just me, but 4 pages of comments... it seems like people are eating it up.
The poster claims the source has disappeared and then that they heard about it from the "ethnic debate" post (which I did skip because that seemed to be a shit-stirring issue). There is nothing to substantiate Himaruya has made these designs.
Additionally that picture posted doesn't seem drawn in his style (similar to it, but not his style), or COLORED in his style (in fact, it seems like someone did a quick CG patch over the lineart... the colors aren't "multiplied" down onto the lineart (leaving the color blotched short of the lines... while Himaruya has painted over lineart, I don't recall him doing such a bad coloring job where it's like the painter was afraid of coloring to the lines.)) He has done monochrome rather than the fancy blends and highlights he's done, but it's very suspicious. The "Japanese handwriting" is more neatly written and less fluid than his usual scrawl as well.
The "game" shots are so LQ, I'm certain this picture is enlarged by the unfocused pixels (and shopped). I feel like the little heads were "pasted" onto the stills. I'm unsure about the text, but what game was this from anyway? Who's that pudgy man in the bg? (Is that text planted?)
I think this art (it could be the poster just found and reposted it) is fanart for OC nations. :/ So, buddies, if you were thinking of taking it at face-value, I'd caution you not to... :X
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Death metal derails desire for deploying into paint chat.
That sums up last night. Purka and WP and I were banting around how we were interested in the Japanese pchat sessions, but were too gutless to go in alone. So, when I spotted a couple of open invites last night, I popped in to put it on the table. However, Yu came in gushing over something called Detroit Metal City (which they abbreviated into DMC, which I associate with Devil May Cry [even if I have never played or watched it]).
I became promptly distracted after being linked to a clip of utter strangeness and became obsessed in watching the episodes, which turned out to be a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I ended up dling off the Triad channel in IRC.
Honestly, it's a pointless and self-gratifying story, but it has a lot of humorous moments and interesting juxaposition of reality versus representation. Worth a look if you want to kill time. I dled all 10 episodes and watched (skimmed a couple) last night. :D;;; Now I'm haunted by picture Japan (Hetalia) being that crude. ::lol::
Hope everyone's 4th of July (even if you're not American) was fun!
Typically my family fails to celebrate holidays, and even though I wanted to check out the local festival, this didn't really change. My bro went to the beach with his buddies. Mom and dad didn't want to go to anything, but they went to a Chinese singer's concert at night.
I did end up driving to the park, but I left after walking around for 30 minutes. I was lucky enough to catch a pickup leaving its space on the sidewalk just as I drove in, so I got a parking spot that was fairly near the park. Taking it was fortunate because every spot in the lot and around the sidewalks were full.
Perhaps 35% of the area was a stage where local bands played, a few information booths; a couple of rides, some carnival games (toss the ring, throw the ball, etc), and food booths-- the latter of which you had to pay for. My parents had us have lunch so I wasn't hungry, I wasn't interested in the rides or the games, and I was by myself. Hence, all in all, I found it boring. The other 65% of the area was occupied by families who pitched those tented booth setups for picnics and personal BBQs. I went home after walking around and looking at it all. The fireworks were at night, but I didn't drive back for them. I'd seen fireworks at Disneyland before and I figured I can picture what it'd be like in my head.
The most interesting part of my day was when I accidentally flipped my favorite glass off the counter when the juice I was trying to free from the cramped space in my fridge came loose violently. I thought it would shatter when it hit the floor, but it landed on the weighted base and remained perfectly unscathed. That was seriously cool.
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A very frustrated and rude individual from Malysia left this comment on my journal.
Anonymous commenting is now disabled as I unfortunately cannot ban by IP.
And, hmmm. I will not sell anything to anyone who is from Malysia until further notice.
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Cleaning out my doujinshi collection and a few other things. If you're interested in buying, please comment or email at extirpation[at]gmail.com with the following information: items you're interested in, email address, and method of payment. Thanks very much! :)
- Prices are in USD and do not include shipping.
- I accept Verified Paypal, USPS Money Order, and concealed cash (at your risk). I will accept unverified Paypal only if you agree to pay the additional fees Paypal charges.
- Default shipping is Priority Mail. I would prefer not to ship internationally, but if you are willing to ship via USPS Priority International (despite the hideous prices), then okay.
- I will do my best to package the doujinshi (or items) securely and send them to the post office, but please remember once it's in the postal system, it is out of my hands and I cannot be responsible for them. If you have problems receiving packages, I strongly recommended you select the appropriate mailing method and buy insurance or any other secure mailing options to ensure they will arrive safely.
- Warning: Extremely graphic-intensive. [2 pages total; click the 'next' link on the bottom. This list is mostly general or slash, but I do have 2 h-doujinshi (Yugioh and Zetsubou Sensei) available.]
- Unless otherwise stated, all books are secondhand and in excellent to good condition. Good meaning the doujinshi can be worn, scuffed around the edges, and/or having imperfections, but the binding's fine and the pages are in perfect condition. (Condition has already been taken into account for my pricing.) Damage or disfigurement is under "note." Imperfections may not be noted. Please keep in mind I've done my best, but my judgment is subjective; if condition is a deep concern, you may ask for more details or choose to refrain from buying.
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Ahhhh, regressed. Fanfic binged yesterday. Went to sleep at 7 AM. Eyes.... burn. Read fanfics from afternoon until slept. Finally got mom to go see a movie with me (hearing good things about Up! so going to that) so had to get up by noon today. Was doing better at the flipped schedule. Am going to try to hold up until night.
Regressseddd. orz
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depressed.
tired.
sick.
sleepy.