Thursday, September 18, 2008

Turning Tables Versus Flipping Them Over
9月 17日 「水曜日」
<<I am the bastard lovechild of
Tegan Quin and Ben Gibbard. xD


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I gave myself some weird mixture of Tegan and Sara's haircuts last week. I haven't been feeling very creative. My hair was beginning to get so long. Justin was "for-shame"-ing me about looking too much like a girl.

Le, have I mentioned how much I love your comments? Your last one gave me such a good laugh.

Anyhow: I'll definitely work on being a happier gay. Ha-ha.

My text book also mentions the influence of a culture's individualism-collectivism spectrum: "Members of collectivistic cultures (such as Japan and India) prize harmony among members of their "in-group" and discourage expression of any negative emotions that might upset relationships among people who belong to it. By contrast, members of highly individualistic cultures like the United States and Canada feel comfortable revealing their feelings to people with whom they are close (Gallois, 1993; Matsumoto, 1991)."

And then with people on the outside of their "in-group," it's the opposite. Individualists find it more difficult to show negativity towards strangers, and feel a need to spare their feelings, while Collectivists have a lesser problem doing so.

There was also something else about how people living in warmer climates were more emotionally expressive, while people in colder regions seemed to hold back. That just seemed a little odd to me and not totally accurate. But what do I know, I've never left California.

Also, the game Portal is fantastic. I feel bad because I'm not articulate enough to explain what it was about the game that I liked so much. The game's description sounds so vague. "It's a shooter, but you're only given one gun, and you are only able to make portals with it . . ." y'know? Ha-ha.

And hearing, "It was very funny/delightful," is true, but doesn't necessarily sound like a good reason to play a game either. It's a fun game though, and I hope you do try it.

If you're not as impressed as I was with the game, however, The Orange Box comes with, like, five other games on the disc that I hear are pretty great themselves.

Terentia, I think I'm going to get two fish now. An orange Oranda Goldfish and a blue one. The orange one will be Noah and the blue will be Jonah. xD Jonah was the man who was swallowed by a fish, correct?

Man, this was such a sloppy blog. o ~ o"
I'm going to end it quick and get into bed. Ha-ha. I've been staying up really late this week and it's really killing me. I stayed up Sunday night (until six in the morning) studying, and then Justin called waking me up at ten in the morning, because he thought I might have wanted to go marker-shopping with him and Rudy -- Which was thoughtful, but being woken up after four hours of sleep . . . I was pretty angry. xD
I got over it though, fairly quickly.

Anyhow:
Tori, get off the dial up. D: That's shaemful, like my dead sound card. Also, I hear you have a boyfriend. That's also shameful. (kidding) Who is it? >:I How can I be your and Cota's child and not know this stuff?

'Dgette, I don't /ever/ want to see Cota in a mini skirt. Ever. Ever, ever, ever, ever. o ~ o"
The asian's name is Hiro and he is the absolute best. I want his sword, but I'd probably cut off someone's arm with it.

Morgorat, you'd want to meet someone you really wanted to? My friend Justin is in love with Slipknot, and we saw one of the guys, Mick Thompson, inside the mall a few hours ago, and Justin was too afraid to say, "hi." I was like, "D:< You were five inches away from Mick. You could have grabbed his ass!"

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Productivity +1


Ross's gift came in today. :D
He had me thinking they'd be atrocious looking shoes,
but it turned out to be a belt buckle.
What a sneaky kid.

[edit] The second part of his gift came in this morning. o-o" I have no clue what it is, but it is really cute . . .


Mood: Irritable
Listening to: Kaki King
Eating: Melatonin pills to sleep.
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