this is a twitter/facebook-status-like post.

Mizuki Nana is going to Kouhaku.

Remember back in 2005 when people were freaking out over FictionJunction YUUKA showing up for Pop Jam and Honoo no Tobira making it to the #1 spot on Oricon (the daily chart, that is)?

Well, this one is another score for the anime otaku.

Well.

UC Regents decided to raise undergraduate student fees by a whopping 32 percent, starting in Fall 2010.

Unless financial aid increases, I expect a fair number of people leaving school after this year.

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AKB interest died this week. But that's mainly because I've been watching the KinKi You concerts. :P

Hiroi Ohji scripted, and directed AKB48's first musical, which is as campy and cheezy and stupid as the story can get. (They even called it "AKB Kagekidan"!)

...I forsee a repeat of 2007.

don't drag me into this no no no ---

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my procrastination habit has been getting silly. other than the major deadlines and assignments, I haven't been able to jump onto things and start working. it takes me weeks to work up the courage to call people. it takes me months to write essays. it takes me days to ask for requests. it takes ages to do stuff. I haven't been able to turn in ( Read more... )

My landlady's three-year old starts crying at the drop of a hat. 97% of the time is because he's a brat. The other 3% is because he hurt himself. The frequency is a bit akin to the dog's tendency to mark his territory when I'm walking him.

(There is something very amusing about this analogy, and what kind of little twitter-like details I pick

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Writing 'JC' is so much easier than using 'community college' or 'CC', even though there are differences. (This is Yoss's strategy against wise-cracking or particularly picky people: be as literal and as legal as possible so they can't ever, every get a point in ( Read more... )

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