:: Tensai Shoujo ::

:: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 ::

Well, today's the last day that I'll be home before my mad super duper Matrix and anime adventure (yay!) so I thought I'd blog a little. Don't worry, I'll be back next Monday ^_^

last cigarette: never, unless you count the second hand smoke that hovers over the U of M campus
last car ride: We went to Eric's apartment to drop off my suitcase last night
last good cry: Sunday night/Monday morning, I was having a personal crisis which basically emerged because of having too much schoolwork
last library book checked out: some books for my history research paper. I'm bringing them back today
last movie seen: The Good Girl at Eric's house in Minnetonka
last book read: Hrm, couldn't tell ya
last cuss word uttered: hmm, probably shit or damn
last beverage drank: I can't remember, though I think it might have been apple juice or water last night when I was doing the final edits on my paper.
last food consumed: Crab chips
last crush: Legolas
last phone call: Jill called last night to talk about wedding stuff
last tv show watched: Jeopardy
last time showered: yesterday morning (I just got up this morning and haven't showered yet)
last shoes worn: I tried on my new sandals to make sure they fit
last CD played: some CD I burned yesterday morning that just has some random stuff on it
last item bought: some food from United Noodles
last downloaded: episodes of an anime called "Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai" which I haven't watched any of yet, but I read about it somewhere and was curious. I won't see it now until after I get back, oh well.
last annoyance: the damn dog wouldn't get out of my room yesterday morning. Oh, and I have an oral final later this morning. I hate those, they're pretty annoying.
last disappointment: I don't remember
last soda drank: I had some vanilla coke at Annie's yesterday
last thing written: sadly, it was the edits on my paper so that I could turn it in today.
last key used: probably the ones at work so I could unlock the money drawer.
last word spoken: "yeah" most likely. I don't usually keep track of that kind of stuff.
last sleep: from 1:11am until about 8:00 this morning.
last im: talking to Eric last night
last time wanting to die: like 11th grade, when I had a vast personal crisis and took classes which I didn't feel like keeping up with, so every day was like torture.
last time in love: today?
last time hugged: last night when I dropped off my bags at Eric's apartment.
last chair sat in: this one right in front of my computer :)
last lipstick used: No lipstick, just Chapstick
last underwear worn: Supergirl underwear, red and blue
last bra worn: Supergirl bra, same
last shirt worn: this black Hello Dolly Pit Orchestra shirt which I wear for pajamas sometimes
last time dancing: just for fun goofing around with Eric
last poster looked at: Card Captor Sakura wallscroll. Maybe I'll get a replacement at the con this weekend :)
last show attended: I went to a band concert on Monday night :)
last webpage visited: the MAS oekaki board http://oekakies.com/p/masboard/p.cgi.

Well, I'll tell everyone all about Anime Central when I get back. I know it'll be a total blast :) Laterz
:: Jessi 5/14/2003 08:35:00 AM [+] ::
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From what I understand, Eric was up for most of the night working on an assignment for his journalism class. The poor guy, I know what it's like to be working on something till all hours, having waited for so long to do the assignment because it was a waste of time to begin with. Stupid professors assigning stuff all the time that's worthless. Have I mentioned how I hate how all professors think that their class is the only one students are taking so they all assign like three hours of reading a night? Yeah, probably, or at least I have now. Anyway, I've also waited until the last minute to work on a final paper. Heh heh. I've had weeks and weeks to do it (at least three weeks) and yet I'm starting now of all times. I would have until Friday to turn it in, but I'm going to Chicago of course and leaving on Thursday, so I'm going to try my hardest to finish it this weekend so I can turn both of the papers I have due on Monday. Get it off my mind you know. Plus I want to have a clear mind for my Japanese oral interview on Wednesday. Not that I think I have any chance of not doing well on it... but I like to keep my nervousness to a minimum.

Did I mention how sweet Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening are gonna be? Well, i'm mentioning it again. It's gonna be sweet and a half ^_^ Tuesday we're planning to go to United Noodles, the Asian grocery here in Minneapolis. I've got a mental list of snacks that I need to pick up (shrimp chips, spicy seaweed chips, snow pea snacks, spicy ramen which Eric got last time and was tasty, some candy, and possibly some stuff I haven't even thought of yet ^_^). I love that place, it's so nice.
Then Wednesday is all about the Mall of America and The Matrix. I don't think I have to elaborate on either of those. And then I'll be gone until Sunday night or Monday morning (I don't know technically when we're going to get home.) I will be sooo happy for this vacation after all the crap that's been going on the last couple of weeks, mostly due to assignments and all that sort of shitty stuff. Yay yay yay! Life is looking up.

Well, for the first time in almost two weeks, I've got to stop writing because I have to go and work. Hopefully I can be my amazing self and finish early like I do every time when I close, so that we can all be out of there at a reasonable time. And I can stay up and work a little on my papers ^_^ That is unless I have to get up and work early tomorrow, in which case I'll go to bed. Laterz.
:: Jessi 5/10/2003 04:12:00 PM [+] ::
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Blogging super late tonight. I had a fun day, but I've been up a long time, so forgive me if I don't proofread.

This morning began with my cookie adventure. Today was the Japanese class picnic potluck thing, and I was planning to make cookies for it. So I had all my ingredients... except for flour. I could have sworn we had like a whole bag, but no, there was none to be found in the entire house. So I got myself together and walked six blocks to the stupid convenience store to buy a sack of flour, and then came home all sweaty and miserable because it was humid from having rained the night before. Anyway, things went a little better after that, though the recipe lied about how many cookies it would make... The recipe said 2.5 dozen, but it really made like 3.5 dozen, and I even made them bigger than it said to in the recipe. So I had to make two batches. They turned out well though. Maybe a little dry... but if I make them again I'll just add a little water or something.

Japanese was sort of bittersweet. It was the last day of class with a lot of people, because a lot of them aren't going to continue in Japanese after this year because language is only a two year requirement. For me it's a three year requirement because it's my major. The odd thing is, there are a couple of people who are continuing and I don't know why. There's this one guy who's already got a double major because he's some sort of super genius, and yet the other day after class he was asking me about what it took to major in Japanese. The boy is psycho I tell you. Or masochistic or something. Anyway, he is in no way required to take any language at all because he's in IT and they don't have a language requirement. Oh well. Then there's this other person who's been in my class like every semester. She started off not being very good at the language at all, but in the last year she's really improved a lot, and it seems like she must have really studied hard. And I've found out that she's really actually a very nice person, she just gets a bad rap for being sort of a slack off of sorts. She's continuing on next year, and that's pretty cool. Heh, and then there's this other guy I know who's continuing on, and I've talked about him before because we used to have some sort of relationship thing going on or something. I don't remember, I think I've blocked it out. The interesting thing is, though he's majoring in Japanese, he's missed tons of class this semester. Wow, way to go and be really into what you're learning, chief. Plus he's taken an attitude lately that's a little to snippy for my taste, making weird comments. And also trying to fit in but ending up sounding like a real phony. But I digress. The really hilarious thing is that he comes to anime club where Eric and I can be especially playful and affectionate sometimes, and we've caught him staring at us and we can't figure out why. Is that not totally creepy? Yeah. And all three of us are in the same Japanese class fall semester. Good times. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted on all the passive agressiveness which transpires >:) But I digress... again.

So yeah, there was a Japanese picnic. It was fun, though Eric and I arrived about an hour late due to ::ahem:: "technical difficulties" (that's just a stupid euphemism, I'm sorry, but I didn't want to offend anyone.) So I didn't get to try a lot of the food :( But we're going to United Noodles (Asian grocery store) next week so that will be pretty sweet and it ought to make up for it. After the food went away we played frisbee, and even got our teachers to play. It was fun. It was mostly fun to see the teachers get into it (especially Morita sensei and Matsumoto sensei who would scream like little girls every time the frisbee would come near them.) Totemo tanoshikatta yo.

Oh, oh, guess what I'm gonna do next week! I'm going to see the new Matrix movie the night before we leave for Anime Central. It's gonna be so sweet. Then I get to stay over at Eric's apartment. That'll actually be kind of weird because it'll be the last day that his roommate will be there ever. I feel quite neutral about her leaving. There have been times when I've liked her a lot, and times when I was really mad at her and didn't want to talk to her. So those two things just kind of cancel each other out. Oh well, I wish her luck, because she won't be going to the U next year because she wants to stay closer to home.

Damn, I'm so tired that it's really tiring. Yeah, that's pretty tired. And I have to work tomorrow, oh no!!! How depressing. It's only like five hours though, barely even worth the trouble. hmph. They ought to just pay me for being the best damn employee they have. Yeah, I like that idea.
:: Jessi 5/10/2003 01:48:00 AM [+] ::
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Whoa, okay. I've got to take a step back from this thing that's been going on. No, don't worry, I'm not dying or anything. I'm just extremely pissed off at someone, and the really depressing thing about it is that I don't even know who he really is.

So I belong to my school's anime club, and it has a message board which I hang around from time to time. Lately there's this guy who's really been cramping my style. It's not the fact that he disagrees with the opinions of almost everyone else in the club that bothers me; on the contrary, I think that, were he better-mannered it would really make for some healthy debate on the board. He pisses me off because he condescends to people, deliberately pushes people's buttons, and automatically assumes that his is the only opinion and when someone disagrees he basically picks apart his/her post point by point and decides where he's right and everyone else is wrong.

There are some specific threads that serve as good examples of the extent of his argumentativeness. this is a thread this guy, named "kobold lord," initiated to illustrate how much he doesn't like "Noir," one of the shows we watched this semester in club. He did make valid points about some of the weaknesses of the show, namely its trend to be somewhat episodic until the end of the series. However, his post contained a particularly inflammatory comment about a scene in the last(?) episode in which two of the main female characters took a ritual bath together, in which he basically stated it was done as fanservice and featured "hot lesbian action" which it really didn't. He totally missed what was meant by the scene, and I won't bore you with the details because if you're really interested you can just read my response along with the others. Anyway, I posted a reply, as did some others who agreed with me, and he's spent his last couple of posts picking apart our responses, and it upsets me. What upsets me more is that he's stated repeatedly in the past that he's open to anyone who might like to debate with him, yet it seems more that he's using that ploy to get people to reply just so that he can pick apart the response.

in this thread, we began talking about the procedures that the club officers take when choosing anime to show for the coming semester, and I made an argument that it was better that the club didn't operate as a democracy (one vote per club member) because then the shows that we'd watch would be more mainstream than usual. If you came to club and looked at the attendance, it would be extremely obvious that the majority of people stick around for the funny/outrageous/cute type anime, and then tend to leave when there's something more serious on. I was only making a point based on actual observations taken at our specific club. But he goes on to argue with me about how I should give the club members more credit and how they're all about variety, bla bla bla. I can grant him that if I talked to club members individually, they might say that they're really into a variety of stuff to show at club. But put them together into a massive group, and they gain a group mentality, and they do gravitate towards the less-complicated shows with a wider appeal. And then they leave during the serious shows. Kobold lord can't try to convince me that what I see happening every week doesn't happen, and it insults me that he's trying to.

Auuugh, the stupid fucktard. I want to bury a boot up his ass and cuss him out on the board, but doing that would just delegitimize my own stance and that wouldn't be productive at all. So I'll just keep relplying and replying with my valid and lucid arguments, enduring round after round of devaluation by him until he decides to leave or I run out of ammunition.

*sigh* and I have a presentation for school tomorrow which I haven't started yet.
:: Jessi 5/07/2003 11:54:00 PM [+] ::
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This is the best quiz ever:

Let's not bicker and argue about who killed who!


What Monty Python Character are you?
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Seriously.
:: Jessi 5/07/2003 01:03:00 AM [+] ::
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heh heh

You will sink in a mire. You like to think you're
normal, but deep down you really just want to
strip off your clothes and roll around in
chicken fat.


What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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:: Jessi 5/06/2003 08:38:00 AM [+] ::
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Which member of the Homestar Runner gang are you?


:: Jessi 5/04/2003 09:27:00 PM [+] ::
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Riight, so now I'm really updating. I bet this will show up as being May 1st anyway, so I can say that I did an update for each day and everyone will be happy and stuff. Yes.

So last night I was having some odd dreams, and I can't imagine what had caused them except maybe the sushi that I'd eaten earlier, but anyway. The one part that I remember the clearest was being on the street outside my house, and having Eric with me. Then Eric's roommate Megan and her boyfriend Joe showed up (and I think Joe was on a small firetruck or something, but I really can't remember). Joe had with him a gigantic stuffed bunny rabbit, and some peeps, and he said that he bought them because they were 90% off at Target and he couldn't resist. Then Megan slapped him. I told this dream to Eric and he thought it was really funny.

Today I did that presentation that I was talking about and it wasn't as bad as I had thought. I got nervous, but not as much as usual. I rambled a little though 0_o Hopefully I won't get a bad grade or something. The one thing that really sort of pissed me off was that the time limit for the presentations was supposed to be somewhere around an hour. However, the group who went before us took up an entire hour. The teacher had to tell them to shut up and finish, and even then it took them almost ten minutes to wrap it all up. Aaaaargh. Another thing was that my group was the smallest groupo because our fourth member actually dropped the class. So we each had to talk more than we would have if we'd had our other member, and that kind of thing makes me really nervous. I hate public speaking.

Other than that, today's been a pretty good day, and the week looks like it'll finish off on a high note. I just have a final paper to start working on and a movie to watch for a presentation that I'll have to do either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Oh yeah, and the written part of the GPT on Saturday, but I"m sure I'll do just fine. I'm gonna kick Japanese's ass! Or something like that.

Man, once again I was going to bitch about something, but I'm too tired and in too good of a mood to follow through on such a threat.

Damn it.
:: Jessi 5/01/2003 01:13:00 AM [+] ::
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