Saturday, June 5, 2004

random bytes
// begin disjointed thinking

I'm going away this weekend (oops, it's a Sunday to Tuesday trip, I suppose), though I should really stick around here and study. I wouldn't get any studying done anyway.

I'm delaying the RPG I mentioned in my last post for a little while, but I still think it'll be cool. I also think it might just be too complicated but I don't really care and want to see how far it'll go.

The Adventure Arena is looking prettily healthy these days. And I enjoy the backstory behind this RPG.

The Arcade on Tony's forum is just a brilliant idea. Now that there are more than ten members it's getting difficult for me to read everything again :-P I'm so lazy.

I saw Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind today, and that has to be the hardest title to remember ever. While we were there my friend's away message was "seeing eternal sunshine moon spotless" and I thought that was hysterical.

I have a really interesting fantasy story/novel/epic that I want to start writing, and have wanted to start writing for a week now, and I don't think I'll ever get around to it. But if I do, I think it might bring me to start a thread in the Literature forum for perhaps the first time.

For all the RPing I do, I never put any of my stories in the Literature forum. That is interesting.

I'll be going home in three weeks from today!!! :)

// end disjointed thinking
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Monday, May 31, 2004

Recently (well, yesterday, I had a lot of time on my hands) I've been thinking about starting a new RPG. I've had several game ideas in the past, most of which I developed into a full Recruitment post and then never put up. A couple of these were because the plot ideas I had were too intricate for RPG purposes, but most of them were because the three or four RPGs I've ever started have died quickly. :-P

Incidentally, I looked at my own OB info yesterday too -- I've only started twenty-five threads since I registered, and that's counting the four stickies in the Adventure Arena and Recruitment forums. Heh ... I'm not the most ... instigative of people. (Wow, that's actually a word. I thought I was just making it up out of its verb form.)

Anyway, this newest RPG idea of mine (though not really the newest, I thought of it several months ago and then left it until now) is interesting to me because I'm really not sure how it would work out. The members would have a lot of freedom, but I'd also want to be doing some strange things that I've only seen in the Arena a few times before, and never quite in the way I want to do them. I do have a specific idea of where I'd want the story to go, but I'd be controlling -- and yet not controlling -- the members of the RPG in a very strange way. Though, after a certain point, I might lose all control (well, that's probably not true).

That is, of course, if it made it off the first page.

Anyway, I'm kind of curious as to how it'll work, a sort of experimental thing, so maybe I will put it up within the next couple days. I'm just thinking about the kinks and things first.

I think from now on I'll fill in the subject last. Also, sometimes I can see when I have things on my nose and it's a really weird feeling.
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Sunday, May 30, 2004

kerblam
Well, I finally clicked on the "Edit Styles" button for the first time the other day. Though I didn't exactly do anything drastic. In fact, it's nearly exactly the same as it always was. But green, if you couldn't tell.

I wasn't feeling very original at the moment ... in fact, I was probably leaning closer to something like "extremely lazy."

Though, that's not entirely surprising, because I changed the layout of my personal homepage, so I wasn't feeling exactly up to coming up with any new ideas. You should go look at it and let me know what you think, because I think I hate it already.

I think I'm also going to move my site off my university's server at some point soon, maybe the beginning of next semester. It's been annoying recently, loading slowly (though that may in part be my dial-up and, on the index page, the off-and-on hostedscripts.com), and the other weekend it completely shut down and all the files off one of the directories (where I am, of course) were deleted. Plus, it screws with my mind with its FTP ... I'll upload something and it won't show up until hours later, or I'll delete something and you'll still be able to access it.

So yeah, all that nerdy complaining aside, I'm ready to get off the Pantheon, though I know it's not their fault. I'd be kicked off next year anyway. Now the only question is to if I want to buy my own domain and hosting or not ... I can't think of any domain names I'd want.

I think this post just isolated me from nearly everybody on myO for its extreme coolness. That's right, run away and never come back.
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Sunday, May 23, 2004

oh. so busy.
Man, I've been busy recently. I have things I intend to do -- like make new banners for my signature, and change my myOtaku so it actually matches, oh and little things like write my final paper for a class, and clean my room -- but I've been running all over the place.

I realized I didn't make it clear at all where I am or what I'm doing; I'm still in Auckland, New Zealand, studying. The semester here runs from February to June instead of January to May like American schools, so I'll be here until pretty much the very end of June.

Also, my parents visited this last weekend, and my boyfriend has been here since last Tuesday :) :) :). So I pretty much haven't done any schoolwork, just been trying to take him around the city and stuff like that. And, our parents took us out for meals several times over the weekend. Have to love that.

I wanted to post because I had the funniest dream. I have a cell phone here, and most people in New Zealand text message each other instead of actually calling each other's phones because it's really expensive (up to $1.29 a minute to call, and only 20 cents per text message). Somehow, in my dream, OtakuBoards had gotten so advanced (and overtaking of our lives, I might add) that every time someone reported a post, I received a text message on my phone about it.

I thought that was fairly amusing.
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Sunday, May 9, 2004

such unproductivity it's almost ridiculous.
It was one of those wasted weekends again ... I had a paper to write so, of course, I wasted a lot of time on the Internet. I should cut my losses, go to bed, and wake up early tomorrow, but I know I won't.

Oh, I also spent some time designing a new template for my personal website; most of the coding is finished, but I still have to move the rest of the content over. I like it, though it's not particularly exciting. Um, yeah, I'm just really rambling now, forgive me.

The one thing I did do this weekend was go bungy jumping off the Auckland Harbor Bridge. (Ha, I say that with such calm.) It's a 40m jump, which is probably one of the shortest around (the big one in New Zealand is on the South Island and is 134m) (I don't remember how to convert meters to feet, so if you're curious look it up somewhere :-P). Not that that means it wasn't scary as all hell. It was.

My two friends and I agreed, you jump -- and then there's this one moment when you're in the air just before you start falling and you're like, "Oh, #$*@." Then you fall forever, complete with that stomach-in-your-throat feeling, and you near the bottom and think, "Thank goodness that's over. -- OH WAIT, I'm bouncing nearly as high and have to do it a second time." Man, I'm actually getting the feeling again just writing about it. It was certainly way scarier than skydiving. (Which I also did in New Zealand, a couple weeks ago.)

Man. Now my heart rate's up.
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Thursday, May 6, 2004

to let you know I'm returning

For those of you who were worried New Zealand (or its sheep) ate me alive, that is not actually the case. I'm pretty sure, at least.

Ben has been expecting from me some massive update and explanation for where I've been. Unfortunately, aside from the obvious fact that I moved to New Zealand and had a rather fundamental change to my way of life, there really isn't one. I haven't even had as much to do here as I usually do at home. I just sort of ... wasn't in the mood to be involved in an online life, to tell you the truth.

Eh? I don't know. And then I actually felt quite guilty about it and that delayed my return to myO and OB even longer. Then I decided to suck it up and come back because I missed the friends I'd made. And, um, RPing. (<-- That's not sarcastic, though it sounded that way.)

So that all wasn't very exciting. Maybe if I throw some pictures in your face you'll forget about my three-month absence. Hmmmm? *throws photos, runs away*



One of the many beautiful beaches I've been to while here.


We visited a marae, which looks just like what you'd see in Whale Rider.


Winetasting on Waiheke Island (legally, since the drinking age is 18).


A vineyard on Waiheke Island.


A visit to Cathedral Cove on Coromandel Peninsula.


The dormant volcano Mt. Taranaki from a distance, before we hiked it. (My first hike ever!)


At the summit of Mt. Taranaki.


The famous Emerald Lakes on another hike I did, the Tongariro Crossing.


They weren't kidding when they said there were more sheep than people in New Zealand.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2004

meep and meh and muah

So, I'm in New Zealand at the moment.

I left home a week ago yesterday on a Wednesday, though I didn't arrive in the country until Friday morning. Early as anything, though, like 7:45am, pleasantly enough. Then ... we did some things ... saw some things ... yeeaaaaaah.

I don't know, I've done a heck of a lot in the past week, but I'm kind of experiencing some sort of mild shock. It took a bit to get used to the online here (I thought it would cost per minute, but thankfully, it doesn't; it is much slower than what I'm used to, but I'm still grateful!) ... Actually, what I think I mean is it's taking me a bit to get used to *everything* here. Which is perfectly understandable, of course.

Thanks for the good-bye comments, by the way -- they made me smile. :)

Anyway, I've heard I mostly missed a ton of myO posts while I was away ... I didn't even know OB would be shutting down for v7, but yay! I didn't miss as much OB activity as I'd anticipated. And I'm looking forward to starting up another RPG, which may or may not succeed, but will have to wait until I'm feeling more settled in and that I have enough time to give to it.

Classes haven't even started here, actually, so it's not like I'm busy with schoolwork yet. The days are kind of long, but I've mostly been spending them getting used to the city, feeling out how I'm going to be spending my days here. To be honest I hate moving somewhere new, and I'm surprised I even ended up studying abroad ... but I definitely think it'll be a good experience in the end. Right now I'm just too jittery to spend a lot of time online, though, plus the city has tons to offer. In fact, I think I'm going away this weekend, though our plans aren't completely fleshed out yet ...

Right, basically, I'm feeling jittery just sitting here typing up this post. But I'll be back, and sooner rather than later. :-P
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Monday, February 2, 2004

puzzlement, as always.

For all those curious, I can't really do anything about thinking about pre-med right now, as any classes taken at a foreign institution don't usually count toward pre-med requirements anyway. So I'm "not thinking about it." Yeah right.

Anyway, I was noticing something today when I finally went to vote for the Otaku Awards. I did get some votes in the "Best Newbie" category ... and most of those votes were from people I have never seen posts of or talked to before. Whereas most of the people I have seen or talked to before voted for someone else (I'm honestly not offended, so don't think I am!! this is just very odd).

That means MEETING ME CAUSES PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE FOR ME!!! *weeps*

Or else it means I've been making the wrong friends and should be off talking to those people. >:O I really should go find those people though. They seem super cool.

Hahahaha, just thought I'd point that out to you all.

Anyway, I had a very fun weekend. Last night I saw Lost in Translation, which turned out to be the exact type of movie that I really dislike. That's me, I don't like having to think during movies. I also saw The Big Bounce, which was really horrible and nearly exactly the opposite from Lost in Translation. I didn't really enjoy either of them. Which doesn't sound like a fun weekend.

But I got to spend time with some of my friends from high school who I'd really missed. Actually, I've seen them plenty, but it just hadn't felt like old times and I felt really odd about it all. But over the past couple days it finally did feel like old times, and it was fantastic.

Anyway, I need to spend more time on OB. I miss it. But I'm so freaked out about going to New Zealand, it's hard. I'm seriously nervous. Even though I know I'll have fun when I get there and I've traveled plenty of times before. I can't believe I'm leaving my best friends and my boyfriend and nearly everybody I know for three and a half months to go to a country with a 3:1 sheep:human ratio (no offense to any kiwis out there).

I'm psyched! Really. *is confused*
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Thursday, January 29, 2004

explanation time

Okay, so last time's post was because I was considering switching the entire direction of my life from something in publishing to perhaps going pre-med. Ridiculous, I know, but I have nearly all of the pre-med requirements done, plus I have always done fairly well in those courses so I think I'd have a chance. The only problem would be a) the year of biology I have left, b) the fact I don't want to ask my mother, who probably knows a ton about pre-med stuff as she once wanted to be a doctor herself, for any help because she'd get so excited that I'd be afraid of disappointing her if I did eventually decide this wasn't right for me, and c) if I really would like to be a doctor. It's all about career and how I once said, "I don't care how much money I make as long as I'm happy with my job" and how I don't know if that's true anymore ... I was a bit confused.

Still don't know what to do, but figured I owed you guys an explanation, if brief and run-on sentence-y. And many thanks to you guys for your varied forms of support, advice, or just-being-weird. :-P

Now that you've gotten through all that, here is a reward, one of the funniest links I have seen this year.

For the fans of Fellowship of the Ring, which had better be all of you.
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Monday, January 26, 2004

impossible

I can't decide what I'm going to do with my life.

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