As I continue to slip down the rabbit hole into all things Japanese, I find a fascinating, often hilarious, disconnect between English and Japanese. Well, of course there'd be one, duh, but when I studied French in college it wasn't all that far off from how my brain processes verbal thought. Before long I was able to think a little bit in French. ( Read more... )

So I'm getting really excited about my Japanese about now because I've finally crossed that hurdle where I finally know enough words and sentence formulations to actually understand a few lines of anime and J-pop sans subtitles. Common phrases for the most part, but it's like this light bulb came on recently and it's really starting to click. Heee ( Read more... )

 Squeeeee!!!!

I've been so busy this week I'm just now reporting that my three hours of sitting on hold and hitting the reload button Thursday finally paid off in two tickets to the Paley Center's evening with Pushing Daisies and Buffy Cast Reunion!!!! (Two Hollywood events in March.)

That's Lee Pace and James Marsters in the SAME MONTH!!!!!!!

I may ( Read more... )

How'd I wind up with a trip to the tax man, a bone density scan and a Japanese exam on the same day??? No wonder I can't get anything written. Busy schedule aside, they adjusted my meds last week and I'm still reeling from the ups and downs of insulin and estrogen battling the tide of hormonal flux for stasis. Blerg. Getting old is SO FUN! Don't ( Read more... )

I know a lot of you have seen this, but:

"Lots of talk has been going down this past week," Daisies boss Bryan Fuller told me earlier today. "Essentially, even if the strike is resolved in the next week or two, we wouldn't be back until next season. There was a preliminary conversation that involved a plan to hit the ground running and try to get ( Read more... )

Odds are looking good I'll be seeing both Lee Pace and James Marsters at the Arclight in Hollywood this March! That is if my fangirl heart can take it! The Paley Center is hosting special events for both Pushing Daisies and Buffy in their 2008 Events Line-Up!!!!! You gotta be a member, yada, yada, so I just bled my wallet all over their website.

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So my kid had a show today at school, a little song and dance deal. No big. Trouble was, it was pouring down rain and everyone on the planet was trying to drive into the school and park today for said show which resulted in a bottleneck so bad I sat for 40 minutes in the car  just to park four blocks away. So of course by the time I ran him up to ( Read more... )

 So I've got this client who decided last Friday that they HAD TO HAVE their online store up and running by this morning. When all they've ever sent me is a disk of product shots. No financial info, no SKU numbers, no prices, no legal statements, no contact info for the online shopper, no gateway preference or indication if they already had a ( Read more... )

Been getting some really weird feeds on ff.net of late. (I know, it's ff.net, by definition the feed is weird) but I don't get why people get so steamed when you decide to write a story outside of the main ship when the story is CLEARLY MARKED AS SUCH! No, I'm not kidding when I say Spike/Faith. It's not Buffy in a wig, it's Spike with his dick in ( Read more... )

Okay, here's a weird situation I'm dealing with:

There's this little girl who's in my son's first grade class. She lives in the same building we do with her older sister, mom and dad. My son and the little girl have played together a few times together either at our place or out front with big sister watching them. I've had maybe three conversations ( Read more... )