Mundane news? (Why news, anyway ( Read more... )

A lot, but not much seems to be happening these days.

My internship right now consists of becoming very close friends with the Xerox machine and the full-size scanner. It's a shame because they're giving me so much and I'm not making much progress into actually helping them with picking out problems or doing inventory checks or... well, just ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I hate going to the Fillmore. As much as I hate to sound prejudiced, the Fillmore, or really -- just the area around the Western Addition is a traditionally black neighborhood and sometimes, Things happen. Kids get into fights, people throw profanities at each other, and there are times when I am as quiet as possible and hold my ( Read more... )

It was Hanabi's birthday yesterday and Chii's today, and I guess I should be worrying about Chii because she's legal and no longer a long-legged, hyper ball of energy. (Whether she really is or isn't, I don't know, because I haven't been following for some time now ( Read more... )

determined to do some more spring cleaning, I cleaned out most of the things in the H!P folder. This is not a problem since as of March (3/3, to be exact), I have jumped onto the SNSD bandwagon. (...this is so damn embarrassing.) I think it'll be more permanent than the JE thing two years ago, and it's definitely much better than AKB, although ( Read more... )

haven't been writing in here for quite a while. Heck, I haven't been writing much lately (and I choose, of all times, a PANIC PANIC PANIC exam on Wednesday and another one next Monday and I just went through one last Friday and there are still at least another two more to go ( Read more... )

I wave funny. Forget the whole shaking-hand thing (which is what every normal person does) I close and open my fingers, and usually just my thumb, index and middle fingers. (I blame Domoto Tsuyoshi and his questionably fashionable gloves ( Read more... )

伊倉一恵さま、お誕生日おめでとうございます ( Read more... )

A lot of times, I wish my landlady would use some stricter form of discipline with her five-year old. Taking away books (reading time) and dessert is really not enough. I want to hear the spatula. I want to hear him scared into submission FAST, as part of instant gratification and all that. Ignoring someone isn't efficient enough, especially ( Read more... )

a miracle has to happen in order to get me into Madison. this is not your usual happy story; it will need the following:

(1) for non academic reasons (maybe because I'm from out-out-out of state) the selection committee is interested in me ( Read more... )