Bleh, I'm not going to Otakon this year. There are a few things I'd like to see and the shopping is always fun, but without any "must see" guests, I just can't justify the $65 cost to gain entry to an already overpriced dealer's room. Otakon's lost touch with the core otaku fanbase and with the industry. (I could probably ramble on about various ( Read more... )

I've been endeavoring to bring a relatively healthy lunch to work so I won't be so tempted to snack on junk food, but I fail at cooking anything that doesn't come from a box. So, I usually grab a family-size vegetable dish from the Korean grocery on the way to work on Monday, stash it in the fridge, and eat it for the rest of the week. But I have ( Read more... )

I met the 11-year-old daughter of my uncle's girlfriend today... and ended up discussing how Bleach really sucks these days and how the Nelvana dub of Card Captor Sakura was a crime against humanity. AN OTAKU. IN MY FAMILY. Finally, I have a semi-relative I can relate to on an intellectual level... even if she is less than half my age ( Read more... )

[meme ganked from chomiji]

Preface to "Spring and Asura"

The phenomenon called I
Is one postulated, organic alternating-current-lamp
Blue illumination
(A complex of all transparent ghosts)
Together with scenes and with everyone
Busily, busily flickering
Very surely to keep on lighting,
One karmic alternating-current-lamp
Blue illumination
( Light persisting, its electric lamp lost )

So, today I was dragged out of bed at the asscrack of dawn to head to court for the hit-and-run trial of the kid who destroyed Car #1 back in September. All I can say is that his lawyer must have been as high as he was at the time of the accident to recommend that he plead not guilty despite, well, admitting that he'd hit the cars, drove away, and ( Read more... )

I was going to post about school, but the computer froze up while I was writing a nice long rant about by boring and ineffectual instructional design professor so that will have to wait. But clearly any moron can get a degree in education because there are plenty of morons teaching it.

( Instead I will rant about Gundam and prostitutes. )

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Remember back in September when my car got totaled by a drunk driver who plowed into my driveway ( Read more... )

Ah, now that Mia has defriended me without so much as an email, I don't have to bite my tongue and play mediator anymore. She burns through friends like they'd been pre-soaked in gasoline, so it doesn't come as a surprise. Her current team of cronies (a job with a higher turnover rate than McDonalds demanding roughly the same intellectual ( Read more... )

Remember my batshit insane boss? The one who has bought so much crappy jewelry from eBay in anticipation of opening an online store that the thousands of tiny bags have consumed her bedroom and forced her to sleep on the living room couch for the past six months, the one who twice in the past two weeks gave her credit card and personal information ( Read more... )