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I'm weird
I always liked what a teacher of mine said once about how music is often for what we are unable to verbalize. In the last week and a half I've been listening to the soundtrack for "How to Train Your Dragon" (which has great music) and with a few tracks in particular, I'm struck by the sense of how the music sort of sounds like what idea ( Read more... ) -
Remember how I made a joke about falling off the horse? Yeah, it ended up not being too funny.
So, I woke up around 1:00, made it to the bathroom and back before I started feeling light-headed and my vision went all wonky and my ears rang like I've never heard them do. Stumbled (literally) across the hall because I couldn't have dialed 911 if I wanted to (though I nearly made it. I had the 9 and the first 1 dialed). They let me sit there for ( Read more... ) -
The Cat Lady
So I've decided to get a cat. To be honest, I'd really prefer a dog (I'm a dog person at heart), but I grew up with cats and like them a lot. I just think a dog is a bigger thing to deal with than I really want to right now, but I'm a little tired of coming home to an empty apartment. It didn't bother me too much in Japan because I saw ( Read more... ) -
Oh, *books*
So yesterday I went and bought the first book in English of the Spice and Wolf novel series. I've enjoyed the tv series and the first two comics, and I have the first three books in Japanese...but I thought I'd read the first book in English and take a stab at the rest in Japanese. So, I'm reading this book and I dunno if it's because I know it's a ( Read more... ) -
Not that I believe in them, but...
I had something of an, ahem, Xmas miracle :P Really what it was was someone at the post office not catching something but hey, I'll take it. I mailed a get well card to Sarah that ended up just having a 44 cent stamp on it (it had gotten mixed in with U.S. Christmas cards) and, somehow, it got there. I'm not sure if this makes me uncomfortable ( Read more... ) -
And now for my next trick: Fannish babblings as usual! Proceed with caution
Whaaaaaat! That's right. Here I am. Again. Even though I said back in October that I was going to start writing more. Well, this time I mean it. Really.
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Advice needed
Okay, esteemed friend's list, I'm looking for a bit of advice from the lot of you. As many of you may know, I've been thinking about grad school. For a while, I was thinking of applying to University of Illinois' (Champaign/Urbana) East Asian Languages and Cultures Masters program. But I've just heard that the EALC department there is in the ( Read more... ) -
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program...
No doubt ageha_ya will write up something on it, too, and even I find it odd that of all things, a movie should prompt me to return to my LJ, but there it is. At any rate, ageha_ya, Jason, and I headed over to the movie theater (my first since being back home and my first at home in five years...certainly I saw more than my fair share *cougclosetoeightycough* in ( Read more... ) -
Tanabata!
I really like Google Japan`s image for Tanabata! I wouldn't mind that being the image for Google Japan all year round. Although it has now served to remind me that I have totally forgotten about Tanabata completely. It would be such a help if it were a national holiday.
ageha_ya and I are trying to make arrangements for our stuff to be sent home via a ( Read more... ) -
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I have really got to start updating more often. I dunno why I'm so lazy about it these days. I should write more while I've got more to say, considering things will probably get very, very normal once I get home (events in California notwithstanding).
Anyway, kikibatsu directed me to check out this series called Toradora which, while I had heard of, I'd ( Read more... )