Friday, October 14, 2005

   Delirium...a little test.
So, how delirious are you?

You hear a joke, it's funny. you...
--laugh
--snort
--cackle
--none of the above. I don't laugh

You're driving and you get cut off. you...
--make an indecent hand gesture
--"what was that?" and run off the road
--shrug and hex them
--rear end them and beat them up

Your favorite song is on. you...
--sing at the top of your lungs
--bob your head
--song? what song?
--"oh, you can hear that too?"

You haven't slept in______days?
--1
--2
--3
--4 or more

After a couple of days, I'll let you all know how bad off you are. I promise, you're not as bad as me.

a.j.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005

   bleach and tests...which will win?
Hmm. I have a test on Tuesday. I watched 25 episodes of Bleach last night until around 2:30am. I want to download more, but it doesn't look like there really are any more batch files. I can get them one at a time, which would most likely be better, but it really is satisfying when I get home and a really huge download is finished. It's like getting a present!

Anyway, since I HAVE watched them, I think I can refrain from overindulging with that for a while, and therefore, I should be able to study, too.

Hopefully.

It's just really tempting to sit and watch them over again. They're really funny, well drawn, and the characters are very well developed, or have the air of mystery that surrounds some characters that is necessary for them.

Ok, I think I'm done babbling for the day.

A.J.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

   Casa des Floaties....RANT WARNING...
Ok. Today was a BAD day. I woke up late, got to school later than I intended, and had a hard time waking up as usual, but that's just the beginning.

I went to my first class, and that was no big deal. I ate my lunch (bad idea, it turns out), and then went to work.

I hope YOU haven't eaten recently.

CAUTION: NASTY MENTAL IMAGES AHEAD.

Today, I was made to work in some of the most disgusting conditions that I have had to deal with to date. Since I work in a museum that has all sorts of materials in it, there are natural history things like fossils and the like, but there are also "wet collections," which are those icky speicmens preserved in jars of alcohol.

That's what I was dealing with today for way too long. I had to take all of these jars out of boxes, wipe them down with Windex (in a poorly ventilated room), and put them in order on shelving. Not too bad, right?

That's what I thought while I was dealing with snakes, large insects, and other creepy-crawlies. Then I got to the mammal speicmens. That meant that there were cute little fuzzy creatures suspended in an alcohol solution, and that these particular specimens have been that way for longer than I've been alive.

Among these distressing specimens were two jars of baby chimpanzees, a little baby rabbit, a squirrel, and then the one that really takes the cake. They had a baby deer--

that's right...Bambi in a freaking JAR!!!

I very nearly lost my lunch and started crying all at once. It was all I could do to focus on the outsides of the jars while I was cleaning them. The bad thing was, I was stuck in that horrible building by myself for the entire time, and I had to wait for someone to come and get me, because I was locked in.

I felt like I was in some kind of horror movie!!!

My stomach still siezes up when I think about it. It's even worse because I have to go back there again tomorrow.

Oh, and the reason for the title of the post is that Casa des Floaties is what that building is called.

Sorry for the length of this post, guys.

:(

A.J.
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Monday, October 10, 2005

   After all that stalling!!!
Wow. I wrote a six-page paper in less than three hours. I don't know if that means it will be utter crap, or if it will be brilliant. Either way, all I have to do is look at it again tomorrow so I can edit it, and then I'm DONE.

Yay! I never thought I could put that many references into such a short paper. Oh, well. Now I have to look over the readings for tomorrow.

School is not fun. It gets in the way of the things I would rather be doing, like sleeping, or having FUN.

A.J.
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Sunday, October 9, 2005

   Now I know I'm stalling.
Yep. I have only gotten a little of my paper's work done. It's due on Thursday, but I'm setting myself an earlier time to have it done, since I have to start studying for the next exam. It's going to be the Thursday after next, I think. In any event, I am stalling a little. I finished all of my episodes of Bleach, and my Naruto download was moving so slowly that I was sure that I'd finish my paper before they were done. Now, I'm not sure how 2 gigs of Naruto got downloaded in less than five hours, but it happened, and they're calling me. But I can't watch them yet. I have to at least pull the information from all of my sources tonight. I have five pretty much done, so that leaves the four books on social stratification, the three articles I got from the University of Leicester website, and that stupid article on art. I'm not sure, but I think I might have stumbled onto my thesis topic!
There's not too much information on it, but all in all, I haven't fallen asleep while reading it, so it's not bad. Anyway, I guess I should get back to it.

Oh, I just remembered something my first college professor told me.

That which we gain easily, we esteem lightly. That which we take pains to earn, we hold tightly, and remember.

He was a strange little Italian man, a marine biologist. The man once saved his wife from being attacked by a shark, and he reminded me of Gonzo from the Muppet Show. How that man could come up with something so poetic, I have no idea.

Oh, and another thing. I have a book that lets you construct your own Shakespearean insults. I thought I would inclued one.
-Ahem-
Next time someone does something really mean, you just tell them that
"Thou art a covetous pale-hearted miscreant."
They'll be so confused, they won't know what to say, and then you can run or beat them up at your pleasure, whichever you prefer.

A.J.
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   Er, wigs, anyone?
Ok. I know that this is a totally lame thing to ask, but has anyone ever worn a wig before? I haven't, and I am going to be wearing one with my Rukia costume for Oni-con. I ordered the thing already, but I'm not sure exactly how it all works. I have a friend who is into cosplay, but I can't really call her. I don't really have her number in Japan, and she doesn't really post on our Yahoo group much anymore. So if anyone has experience with wigs, I am in need of help. My knowledge extends to the little hairpiece that I wore at Dragon Con.

Professing ignorance at every turn,

A.J.
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Saturday, October 8, 2005

   My brain has left the building
That's right. I'm a total idiot. I've been working so hard on my Haku costme that I never really stopped to look at what I was doing. As of now, I have halted work on it. I got the haori done, finally, but there are elements of that costume that are going to have to wait. Also, I have developed a new obsession...It really doesn't take much.

My new obsession: BLEACH. Oh, I love it. Of course, I have always liked the anxty type. Ichigo is wonderful, and the costume I'll be wearing for the con is Ruukia's death god costume. I don't have a katana, and I don't plan to have one. That's because Ichigo has it, and I don't need it right now. Hehe. At least that's what I'll be telling people. Oh, laugh, you know you want to. I'm a total dumbass. Baka, baka. That's me. I have to do my paper today, tomorrow and Monday, but I still have ten episodes of Bleach to finish. So, off to finish that so I can do constructive things.

A.J.
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Friday, October 7, 2005

   Ha, Ha. Double Ha.
You guys are sooooo funny. I'm not going to work at the post office any time soon.

Oh, and for anyone who has never heard of skinheads: basically, a skinhead is a Neo-Nazi or similar, who usually shaves his or her head (hence the "skin" part). They're usually guys who have way too much testosterone, and way too little brains. These guys go around having meetings and rallys saying things like "White Power" and stuff like that. They are pretty scary, and it is best to avoid them at all costs, if at all possible.

Anyway,

ttfn

A.J.
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   Will it never end?
Another paper. I know that I have to get used to this, but there's just too much crap going on. The weather is totally crazy. I am wearing a sweater today, even though two doays ago, I could have fried eggs and bacon on the sidwalk. Besides the weather, I have a term paper, a test, and the con coming up. Ack!

So after I'm done with my research today, I have to take a break, otherwise, I'll go totally insane and the men in white coats will take me away.

But, I suppose that being insane wouldn't be such a bad thing. At this point, I'm not that far off, according to most people.

Oh, a lovely thing happend to me this afternoon. I was walking down the street, and I had to cross one of the side streets near my apartment to get to the restaurant I was going to get lunch from. Because I was crossing the street, a guy (who looked very much like a skinhead) in a truck had to wait for me to cross. He stuck his head out of his window and yelled, "Can you walk any slower? Get out of the way, BITCH!!!" I shot him my most evil look as I stepped up onto the opposite curb, and he squealed his tires and looked scared. I love being able to do that sort of thing.

Being evil is fun.

Mwahahaha!

A.J.
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Thursday, October 6, 2005

   This is basically the guy's Personality...and a bit about the story, too.
He was, up until he had a major (albeit involuntary) crisis of conscience, a total womanizer. He isn't anymore, due to circumstances beyond his control (i.e., the girl did a little bit of a Jedi mind-trick thing on him), and now he's a more or less well adjusted person, except for occasional flares of temper.

The basic story setting:

Present day, different society setup (total D&D cliche here) with magic users as the upper class who pull the strings behind the government, but more openly, not quite Illuminati style. The guy in question is in the most powerful family in the western hemisphere. He has loads of servants, and really likes women. His brother is the noble one. You know, the do-good type, but he's also the family's enforcer, so you really shouldn't make him mad. The girl is the illegitimate child of a friend of the family, but they only just discovered that. The big problem is that her bio-dad wants to use her as a tool to get at the family (a little bit of gangster mentality here). There's the aforementioned love triangle thing, as well as other factors, like class and status issues, bitchy mothers, spies, and the ugly chick, who actually was just "testing" the girl. She works for th girl's dad, but came down on her own to see what the girl was like. So, after they get away from her and back to the house, they're trying to figure out what to do about the ugly chick. So that's basically where I am in the story.
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