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[Nov. 8th, 2009|11:14 pm] |
Alrighty.
So a brief look into my recent life, empty as it may be.
Anticipating the new HM game coming out on Tuesday. And how wonderful that I get to buy it right after getting two painful shots into my arms! :D I only wish I'd been smart enough to pre-order it. THE FREE PLUSH WAS A DUCK</b>!
Been playing a huge amount of games in languages that I can't hope to ever understand completely...you know...more than usual. Namely the games Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (don't you judge me) and Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side (don't you DARE judge me). Why I've gotten so into girls games from Japan is beyond me. All I know is that I like 'em, so I'm playing 'em. At least I'm learning more and more hira and kanji every day? TODAY, I LEARNED WHAT THE KANJI FOR SENSEI LOOKS LIKE! 8D
Everything in my classes is the same, as usual.
Everything in my home is the same, as usual.
...I need to start working on making my life exciting. To do the same things almost every day was fine before, when I was in high school. Monotony was expected. But now I get out of classes at NOON every day. There really isn't any excuse for being bored.
Maybe I should...like...fly a plane or something. xD |
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| On The Food Front |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|09:22 pm] |
Right. So I've decided to pretty much cut out meat for now, just having a little non-fat yogurt (made with skim milk, not fake fat), the occasional egg, and maybe some fish. Intead, I'm increasing the number of other things I'm eating. Like salad. I picked up a bag of spinach and a nice lettuce of some sort at farmer's market yesterday. Some of the spinach wound up in my lentil soup, some in M's salad.
I'd also picked up some parsnips and itty bitty potatoes. Today I made parsnip/potatoe/bean soup. Skinned three largish parsnips, diced, then boiled till tender. Added the potatoes and boiled until they were done. Then added both a can of navy beans and northern beans (all rinsed), a couple of bay leaves, and a half teaspoon of salt. Then mixed up a tablespoon of cornstarch and half a cup of 1% milk separately, turned off the soup so it would cool off a touch, and poured in my 'cream sauce', making it a cream of parsnip/potato/bean soup. VERY tasty. But even though I'd boiled the poor parsnips pretty much to death (trust me, totally tender right through), they still made me itch a bit. Worth it, and the leftovers will be my lunch tomorrow.
This evening I tried making a cracker on the fly. Just took a cup of cornmeal and 3/4 cup of water, mixed well. Once I had that on the cookie sheet, I realized my cornmeal was too course to hold together, so I added some brown rice flour. That still seemed too crumbly, so I added one egg. Then flattened and baked. Next time I'll go way heavier on the rice flour, much lighter on the cornmeal, and add something, anything, for flavor. Talk about bland. I had to salt the result after it was out of the oven.
I'm also making a serious effort to boost the fiber I'm getting, to try and make peace with my colon. So lots of beans in just about everything for me now, but it's working. Yesterday I still had some rough moments, but today was finally much better. I'll continue to add back other fruits and vegetables, within reason. I'm still leery of things like cucumbers and peppers, and won't be touching melons. And know better than to go near avocado, at least for now. Later I might eat it in small amounts.
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| Shameless Plug |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|12:51 am] |
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My new video commands you to check out GG-guys.com!
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|03:31 pm] |
DRAWME!
i totally wanted to do everyone else first but I GOTTA RUN IN A COUPLE MINUTES!!!!!
yesterday i helped out at PSA's (read: it's-ok-to-be-gay club) concession stand with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bluecheshirecat and holy shit we sold out like an hour and a half before the game was even supposed to start ahhhhhhh awesome
and then cool stuff happened!!!!!!!!
in other news i'm slowly figuring out how to properly boil water........ |
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| Mar Talk |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|10:56 pm] |
Mar talk on a Friday? What?
Today went by as usual.
Woke up at 9AM (I'm trying to push back my wake up time before 8AM but have been failing miserably .. I blame going to sleep far too late). Just watch, by the time I'm thirty, I'll be in a suspended state of hibernation to make up for my sleep debt.
Well, I was feeling kind of ill, so I skipped breakfast and went directly to class. After handling a few obscure phone calls with my mom about picking up my neighbor on my way home. We ended up on the decision to not drive her back, because I never received any message to do so - phone wise or verbally.
Class went by quickly.. today we talked earthquakes ..
She mentioned the Northridge quake in 1994 .. and I remembered how I slept through it. Even after rolling off my bed. Then how my mom didn't see me in my bed and freaked out.
So where were you guys during the Northridge earthquake?
Went back to my room, where I packed up and set my room up for me to take my leave.
Out of paranoia from some apparent recent thefts in Mesa, I locked my bike to my desk and chair, and my trumpet is locked to the underside of my desk. My valuable yoyos (I only have two) have come home with my in my pockets because they take up very little space. The MarBook also came home with me. So that's it for the valuables in my room.. except the printer, but I'm not too concerned about it.
Yup, I'm paranoid.
At some point, I'm going to have to spend a weekend there..
I know how to do laundry .. I even have to laundry card thing with money loaded on to it.
Because the washer and dryer in my hall use these cards you slide into the machine, instead of quarters.
The idea of a front loading washer still perturbs me. I keep thinking it's going to spill..
So, my brother picked me up, and I wanted to get lunch at the Commons, so we left for lunch.
I got a mushroom panini today. It was also amazing, but not as great as yesterday's panini. And some clam chowder. What I eat from the commons probably isn't worth the money I had to pay for my meal plan, but hey .. Its either this or they simply go to waste. So, I don't think I'll get a meal plan next year. I can live on ramen..
So we randomly drove down a street out of curiosity .. and wound up in a strange neighborhood that looked like it came directly out of an old New England suburban area or something .. complete with farm.
We got some of that really good freshly brewed root beer, and left.
On our way back, along the Five, I promptly dozed off as usual. When I woke up, it was because my brother wanted to explore this strange store near Disneyland that sells discounted stuff that Disneyland has phased out of its own stores.
They were blasting High School Musical, and well over half of the things in there were either from Camp Rock, or High School Musical.
I don't get why or how it got popular so fast O.o
There were also some Grad Night '09 things, but I figured that despite it being my grad night year, I didn't go to it, so I shouldn't get any of it. The spiffy disney things were fun to stare at though.
In the end, I didn't get anything, but my bro picked up a plastic popcorn container that normally sells for like 8 bucks .. but he got it for a buck. The prices in the park are always annoyingly overpriced.
So I generally don't doze off after waking up from my first Let's-Immediately-Doze-Off-In-The-Car moment. Wandered through my ipod for the rest of the trip.
Skipped out on eating because I didn't feel like it..
I remembered how whatever it is, my mom will probably either put it in a Thai Curry/Soup, or stir fry it.
There's got to be other things you can do with the stuff in our house..
So here I am, sitting on my own bed (which feels WAAAAY nicer than the dorm bed), typing up my LJ for the day. Yup, today was boring but unusual.
I'm still somewhat fuming from yesterday's band thing where people were being utter jerks.
Oh, and I guess I'm going to march Impulse this summer .. my mom says she'd pay for it..
I think both for the sake of getting rid of me for the summer, and to let me tour the nation a bit. It sounds fun.. but it'll probably hurt like crazy. But it can't be as bad as All-City, and I figure if I survived that just fine, I should be able to handle this!
What's two and a half hours of nonstop marching compared to a single show? And I'm used to all day training.. it ate my winter break for three years.
AND I'd get to have a huge exclamation point on my chest. .. That's the first thing I end up staring at every time I see the uniform.
I just looked at my calendar of random information ... Today's fact:
The Chinese idiogram for "Trouble" depicts two women living under the same roof.
That is so awkwardly funny .. is this even true?
Well, snoozer time. I'm ready for bed, AND already in one! So the added convenience is compelling me to sleep before midnight today.
-Mar |
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| Hnnng |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
In that one Belle Starr post I screwed up the format of the coolest page in the set, so here it is again.
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| Fever |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|01:29 pm] |
I keep thinking of all the songs with Fever in that I know.
It's down right now and I do feel better, believe it or not - just dizzy. Very difficult to stand up and move about.
Had a request to pick up a friend's daughter at her house - but the daughter is ill and I don't wanna combine the illness there with the illness here. so I said no. I feel guilty. Isn't that funny? |
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| Mar Talk |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|11:30 pm] |
Just got back from a strange adventure with the pep band.
Today was mundane. Woke up at 7:30, morning whatnot, quick breakfast, 9AM discussion, yoyoed with that guy, interwebbed while waiting for 11AM lecture to start, lecture was about kinship and same-sex marriage (it was so boring! One can only say the same things in so many combinations!), then biked back to room.
From there, I switched out some things in my bag and got lunch. I have discovered my new favorite food : Artichoke and Pesto Panini
They are amazing.
Class went by quickly. The professor spent a bit of it telling us about how she brags about this class. We're apparently doing very well.
Then I got back to my dorm
I'll get around to emailing my academic adviser about my classes. I just need to figure something about the web reg system out.
Then pep band.
I got there at 5:30 .. was lost for a few moments, and then found everybody.
I realized that much of NoHo's efficiency came from us being told what to do. Haphazardly figuring things out as we walk really shouldn't happen.. and is easily preventable. So hopefully this will be fixed.
Basketball game was fun. I really don't like how much of the older folks in the band like to yell mean things at the other team. They barely cheered on our own team! It really pissed me off, but I was even more disappointed. I tried to do something about it at first, but it was just so prevalent.. I felt powerless! I'm no better in terms of morals if I just let this happen without doing anything!
But I just don't know how to go about this. I'm a first-year. Unsure, inexperienced, and one of the weaker trumpet players. I'm surprisingly one of the better marchers though.. not that anyone would listen to me. An arc is NOT a freaking straight line. Get that through your stupidly thick skulls! And it's just the trumpet section in that "arc"!
So the game was nice. We won!
But the behavior from the band leaves me feeling appalled. One person listened to me in the beginning, when I said something about having honor.
But what really shocked me, is that the three people doing to most obnoxious yelling were the leader from the altos, the leader from the trumpets, the drummers, the tuba player, and some local high school band director. The last one shocks me the most. I had spoken with him a week ago, and when I said that I had seen his band (the other NHHS) at one of our competitions some time a few years ago, he had replied that they'd do better if there weren't a bunch of "Kids with ADHD." That behavior is easily curbed by discipline. I mean, look at how All City is run! 450 kids, all at attention, ready to snap into whatever command they are told to do. It doesn't look very grand, but given only 70 people, it would make everything more efficient. This band director clearly lacks the discipline, so how would his band have any? I could probably do better in a marching season!
I absolutely support running a marching band in a militaristic way. It gets stuff done!
I also believe in having honor. The other university NEVER made any noise during the times when our team was shooting free throws.. but whether they do so or not shouldn't matter. We should treat them with respect.
Why does no one cheer for the band? Because they act like total assholes.
From a spectator's view, we look like a bunch of loud jerks that make music every now and then.
I can't believe that NoHo's band alone gave me so much more leadership skill than these guys. I already knew there would be no replacement for NoHo, but .. I just didn't expect to feel so depressed at the end of a game.
At this point .. I don't know what to do.
The occasional cheering for our team that did happen had its spirit moments.
There was the Anteater hand motion:
Why yes. We did say "Zot" a bunch.
I hoped to get the depression out a bit.
So I joined them on a trip to Chile's
It was nice. I got a ride from the girl who marched Phantom. Her car was constantly playing their music! Apparently, Phantom did Bachanale all they way back in 1991! I need to go look for it.
Chile's was nice. I got a bowl of soup. In the end, I paid about five bucks.. because the soup was small and already costing four bucks, and the fifth buck was for tip. I think they deserved the tip .. they were about to close when 18 band kids suddenly showed up.
Oh and I asked a bunch about Impulse. It may cost me anywhere between 900 and 1500 bucks. I don't think I can come up with that kind of money.. but apparently they can help me. I'll see what the extent is, but if I can't afford it, then I'm off to try an internship.. I don't have to pay for those. Or at least summer classes.
But I really do want to do at least one year of Drum Corps. Besides En Gard .. because that doesn't look like it'll ever happen. Hell, it apparently cost $2400 to march with Phantom!
That, and the opportunity to tour around the country for a summer sounds really great.
So, all in all:
From an optimist's point of view, I WILL change the band for the better! And let them harness the potential that is going nowhere right now!
From a realist's point of view, I am marching into hell, and doing it purposefully! I'm probably about to make a few dozen people hate me, for the sake of the band's potential.. and honor. Is it worth it?
Zot!
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|12:59 pm] |
I LAUGHED READING THE PROFILE AND FAQ, AND THEN GO TO READ THE ACTUAL ENTRIES AND IT'S DEAD HERE.
WHAT THE HELL. |
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| Episodes 43 & 44 |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|06:45 pm] |
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Hey people! I completely forgot to mention, and a lot of you likely haven't seen them - due to my own idiocy - but Episodes 43 and 44 of my series are now online!
Episode 43 - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mai
Episode 44 - Ishizu Explains It All
I spent probably over a month working on these, trying to nail both the gags and the editing. I'm peripherally aware that there's one or two people suggesting these episodes prove that I'm no longer interested in making this show, and I have to say I'm baffled by that reaction. Unless they're responding to Ishizu's rant about the show's declining quality and the catchphrases, which is purely done for comedic effect.
These went down really well at Youmacon too. That's the first time I've screened new episodes live, and the audience were laughing SO much. They both got huge standing ovations too, it was insane. I had no clue how to respond.
Hope you like them too.
Also, Team Four Star have put their Bardock special up at their official TFS site in which I debut as Freeza. Yep. Freeza. I love playing the villains. I celebrated by uploading my audition for the role. Team Four Star went so far as to announce me as an official member of their group at Youmacon, so yeah. A glorious merger indeed! |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|10:29 pm] |
Somethin' nice happened today.
Went to my Music Appreciation class for the first time in about two weeks today. Absences were due to illness and laziness. Walk in and the first thing I hear is "AUTUMN! So good to see you again! I missed you, are you okay?" Turns out the teacher...knows me by name? I sit in the back and never make a sound, how does she remember my name?! o___o Regardless of how she remembered it, she did. Sorta makes me feel like I exist. ...did that even make sense?
Rode the creeper bus for the first time in about a month or whenever I reported his ass. And he hasn't changed a bit. No, really. He still reached out to grab me and everything. Still saying creeper shits. It's like I never said anything. Soooooo, not only am I reporting him again, I'm gonna have some not-nice words for those assholes that didn't fix anything. ):<
Kaiba's getting his stitches off tomorrow which means NO MORE CONE RAMMING INTO MY ANKLES, THANK GOD.
Veteran's Day is steadily approaching. This year, instead of mourning, I'm going to chill and be less SAD FACE. Besides, if I acted all sad, I think I'd be forcing myself to. What's the point in that?
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| Mar Talk |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|07:40 pm] |
Today's update is a bit earlier because I intend to sleep at or before 10PM today.
Sleep is good for the soul. So is day dreaming, but I get enough of that anyway.
Not much happened today.
Woke up at 9AM, morning whatnot, skipped breakfast, biked to Geo .. where we had all sorts of strange visual explanations on geologic structures. I liked the silly putty.
Then I wandered over to my lab, where I sat on the floor, typing the rest of a simple paper I'd have to turn in later.
The lab went by quickly.. there was a really mean trick question, and a very strange puzzle that would totally be in a Layton game if they incorporated geologic structures. It was like "Here's a picture! It has all the hints you need! Good, now put it all in order!" I actually enjoyed that one question. I like puzzles :D
Then I biked back over to my room. Enjoyed another 19 cent can of Candy Corn Soda. That stuff is delicious!
Printed out some papers, figured out how to convert .flv files to .mp4 so that I can stick them into my ipod.
Went to the discussion in the common room. I really like having the discussion for my class actually be inside my own hall.
Realized that I yoyo subconsciously now. I'll look down, and see that I'm doing a slack catch and binding .. without really thinking of it.
Then I went out and got dinner. Dinner was nice. Today I had some chicken, mashed potatoes, and some "Navy Bean Soup." I really liked the soup. Oh, and the apple juice seems to have been watered down for a while now. I wonder what's going on with it?
Well, I like my apple juice watered down anyway, so it doesn't bug me.
Grabbed a cookie, and walked to my nice perch at the edge of the hall so I could stare off into the distance again. It's a nice view, and the crisp, night air always feels nice. The view is nowhere near as nice as my bedroom window, nor Hansen Dam at night. But I like it.
Finished my cookie, and stared out blankly for a little moment. Then went back inside and checked what I needed to do for tomorrow.
Still trying to decide what to take next quarter. What I want to take conflicts a bit.
And I don't want to simply continue burning through GE's
What should I do during 2010 summer?..
Right now, I'm trying to decide between:
Summer Classes
SPOP Staffer (orientation)
Impulse Drum Corps
Intership
Job
ah well.. I'll hop on it tomorrow.
Oh, and I missed an Anteater yesterday:
Surfing anteater surfs.
Zot!
-Mar |
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| Zulu Time |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|05:24 pm] |
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Best idea I've heard yet (as someone who hates Daylight Savings Time with a passion)....just go with one standardized clock for the whole planet. No matter where you are, it's just one clock. So, for instance, my day might begin at 1400 Zulu time, whereas yours might begin at 0800 Zulu time, depending where you are on the globe. Then we could knock off dicking with the clocks once and for all. |
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| Mar Talk |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:50 pm] |
For the most part, today was mundane, but there were perks.
Woke up at 9AM, morning whatnot, breakfast, biked to anthro (where the professor was clearly getting pissed at the kids who'd pack up and get start leaving five minutes before the lecture was even supposed to end), then biked back to room to switch some things out in my bag, then biked to US 13A (where I got either an A or an almost A on my midterm apparently), and then biked back to my room.
Then I had a meeting with my academic adviser.. I'm kinda iffy on what classes to take next quarter. I don't want a Friday class, but it looks like I'll be taking Math2A (basic calc) to fill a business requirement, but it's a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class. I'll try to figure this out a bit better. By the end of next quarter, I'll be over halfway done with my GE's.. but I need to take classes actually pertaining to a MAJOR!
So that made twenty minutes feel like five minutes.
Then I grabbed dinner and went to pep band. That was fun.. I disagree with the way the "leader" guy in the trumpet section runs things. I think we should tune a bit more, and put people playing the same parts NEXT to each other, rather than as far apart as possible. I still hate playing offbeat stuff.
We also got our band uniform shirt.
It looks like this:
I feel weird wearing a Hawaiian shirt. It just doesn't feel very band uniform like. But hey, it's pep band, not marching band, right?
It is covered with the "U" inside a "C" inside an "I" thingy, and the fancy UCI seal. There's also how it says UC Irvine all over it .. and the random anteaters.
Like these:
This is the BC anteater, which is the one from the Comic strip "B.C." .. which is the original anteater mascot from the '60s
And some anteater reading a book. I'll bet that's the anteater for the literature department or the library or something. Every individual place here seems to have its own anteater. There's even a computer nerd anteater!
Like the scientist anteater:
This guy probably serves many sciences like the med school, and the chem folks, and the bio kids, etc.
Then there's this guy:
The band anteater. I can't seem to get enough of how the band anteater is wearing the band shirt with the band anteater wearing the band shirt with the band anteater wearing the...
And how it's playing a saxophone. It should totally be playing the trumpet. We are THE definitive band instrument! I'm obliged to say so, because we're awesome like that :)
So our uniform for the game on Thursday is this shirt and a pair of jeans. Simple, eh?
Well, after pep band, I decided to join them on a trip to the student center. A bunch of people got food from the Wendy's, but I opted for a drink because I wasn't hungry.
Then I kinda passively took part in some conversations, got pissed at myself for not asserting myself, and began talking a bit more towards the end.
Much of the talk at the table I was sitting at was about drum corps. The girl across from me had marched Phantom Regiment quite a few times and is a staff member for Impulse. The other two guys had marched as well (one also with Phantom, and the other with Santa Clara Vanguard).
There were many horror stories .. of bug bites, marching hell for two weeks (apparently when you get to the band camp, they take away your car keys and phone to make sure you can't run away), some deadly marching moves, getting hit by tubas and rifles and flags (I got to chime in on the latter!), the strange foods they feed the band folks, the "Mobile apartment" and sleeping quarters, how the guy next to me was positioned in between strict staff members and two gay guard members on the bus (which they'd spend many hours on as they toured the country .. apparently he'd occasionally wake up to being touched randomly), and this horrible picture of a mouthpiece filled with blood .. it was like a brass player's worst mouthpiece related nightmare. Being hit, and continuing to play while filling the mouthpiece and horn with blood. I shudder.
So, on our way out, I asked about these things, and I got recommended to try joining Impulse. I'm probably not up for the massive amounts of money needed for a fully touring corps, so Impulse sounds fun. I'd get a ride there pretty easily, and there's an informational meeting on Dec 6th. Not to mention they need horn players :D
And so I walked back to my room. It's apparently 60 degrees out right now, but I was freezing anyway. Bah, I'm always freezing at this time of year!
Zot!
-Mar |
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| doesn't "10 otps" contradict itself, technically |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|12:28 am] |
► Pick up to 10 OTPs.
► Describe them in less than 15 words.
► Have your flist guess the OTP.
► ???
► PROFIT.
1 crossing paths in london but otherwise a long distance relationship
2 hundreds of years of HATE AND RIVALRY AND NAME-CALLING france/england
3 ill go make sum kaffee 4 u america/lithuania
4 lawyer and once-a-lawyer phoenix/apollo
5 LIE BACK AND THINK OF DADDY england/america
6 allies now but still resents that line he drew separating him from his brother america/korea
7 i never kiss you. you're an ape america/italy
8 I'M STILL MAD AT JK ROWLING harry/hermione
9 she's mad at me all because of some stupid hairclip tai/sora
10 NOOO ARUUUUUU korea/china
FUCK YOU GUYS ARE FAST
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| NaNoWriMo |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:17 am] |
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Doing things a little differently this year but I am VERY excited about the possibilities! |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:17 am] |
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Thank you so much for my gifty!!!!! LJ for another year! WOOOT! |
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