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[16 Sep 2009|06:28am] |
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All American Rejects - I Wanna |
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<-- Must See
What: Harrod's dept. store
Location: London, England
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[25 Aug 2009|10:07am] |
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Mute Math - Typical |
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Got my apartment. Battery in my car also choose to stall out even before the ink was dry. Foreboding?...quite.
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[11 Aug 2009|08:36am] |
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Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves |
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my lethargic brain just got a shot of adrenaline today. i checked my student account a few days ago and saw that my balance still hadn't been paid for. back-story:
usually once i fill out that online form and click send, it's all fluff and squeals after that. the school handles the rest. i get a note via e-mail saying my paperwork is being processed and come august, my tuition balance is happily nulled to zero. low and behold, i didn't get any reply from the office and therefore e-mailed them. my usual counselor is completely mute; no reply for weeks. i freak and e-mail the everyone within remote connection to this issue...i get informed that my counselor no longer works for my school. thanks Houdini. my new counselor then proceeds to give me a crap answer that is remarkably unhelpful. i try to follow what he tells me to do and cross my fingers and toes that everything is fixed.
apparently it wasn't. i email my ass-hat counselor again and get the same crap answer with the same wrong app form, but i fill it out anyway and fax it get it processed myself (which should be the school's job...it has been for the last three years). i get a call the next day saying that the form wasn't the right thing i need to send in, it was a letter that was need and more importantly...it was too late to file...too late by one day. meaning now i have to round up a few thousand dollars with weeks if i still want to attend school this semester. my counselor is VERY luck i do not know his face; otherwise he would not have it anymore and i would have guaranteed it was a slow and painful process...i would have been smiling cheerfully the whole time.
either way, i'm ready to cry by this point. my hand feel numb and my face tingles from lose of blood. i can barely breathe as i ask if there is anything i can do to bypass the due date, telling them about ass-hat counselor and that it has always been the schools job to do the processing. they check their records and, fancy that, what i said was true. i see hope at the end of the tunnel when they say that they'll talk to their superiors to see what they could do. hour later i get a call telling me i'm in the clear, my app process and tuition paid within the week; i know there is a God and i am eternally grateful.
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[20 Jul 2009|04:58am] |
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My American Heart - Hiding Inside Horrible Weather |
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with this a/c unit in my window, i don't have the full effect of sound-proofing a closed window can provide. meaning it sounds like a "rythmes of the city" noise-track playing 24/7 in my room.
apparently, when the dogs of the neighbors across the street fight... they sound remarkably like a horde of zombies... coming for snack time. i peeked out of my window, pale-faced and wobbly-kneed, hoping to God i wouldn't be re-enacting the house scene from 28 Days Later from the comfort of my own bedroom. i only saw an empty street, which in itself ranks a fair amount of its own creepiness (especially with the unfortunate addition of mysterious sounds of undead cannibals). then i proceeded to take the next few minutes to decipher that the noise was really canine oriented, but also simultaneously configuring Plan B of how long it would take to get to the nearest Walmart to stock up on ammo and ramen...
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[19 Jul 2009|02:43am] |
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They Might be Giants - I'm Impressed |
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New Author --> Neil Gaiman
currently reading Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of short works by him; also went and got his book Fragile Things and Neverwhere (have yet to partake, but still very excited). very whimsical in a "Alfred- Hitchcock-on-acid-while-chatting-up-the-green-fairy" kind of way. he's interesting...and british.
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[01 Jul 2009|07:17pm] |
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Tegan & Sara - Relief Next to Me |
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New Movie --> Public Enemies
"I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars... and you. What else you need to know?"
-John Dillinger (Johnny Depp)
One of my favorite actors in 1930s mobster garbs; asymmetric smiles and with more confidence than Michelangelo's naked statute of David. tissue anyone, i think i just drooled a little. other than the fact that i could barely bring myself to blink when that man was on the screen, the movie itself was brilliant - "making your emotions cry 'mommy'" good. i'm also a sucker for romance, Dillinger and Billie rocketed themselves up there to Big and Carrie ranking. I almost wish more of the plot line could have been there to follow the sweethearts' story. His face when she gets caught...definitely nailed that one, felt my heart clench while curling into protective fetal position and everything, you feel so bad for him. Very tempted to buy the book as well.
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[30 Jun 2009|05:32am] |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out |
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HIATUS
EKGing back to life as we speak (figuratively).
July 08 - July 09
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[08 Jul 2008|11:44pm] |
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L'arc en ciel - Drink it Down |
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2008.6.07 - Kyocera Dome Osaka
2008.6.08 - Kyocera Dome Osaka
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I think I just saw god...twice.
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[31 May 2008|09:46pm] |
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Lupe Fiasco - Superstar Feat. Matthew Santos (Clean) |
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the first week finally over. i have to say, 6 hours straight of remedial japanese is like to equivalent of shooting myself in the foot, repeatedly...for 6 hours...oh and let's not forget the rubbing alcohol. wouldn't want it to get infected. homework is killer. i'm basically doing work for both the japanese program and the american program at the same time.
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right, so the bright side to all this is that it's helping with my communication with my host family. brushing out those skills i learned all the way back from fall semester. my host mother, the sweet lady that she is, feels terrible for not being able to speak english as well as she feels she needs to. she had only started english classes two weeks before i came. but with my japanese getting better, i don't think she feels as bad. i'm pretty sure that first night scared her, a 11 hour flight without sleeping for the last 24+ hours doesn't do well for speaking a language your haven't studied for a good month. we're but trying, that's all that matters i think.
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and now for the memorable moment of the week. now christened the "lunch from hell". just thinking about it sending shivers and the distinct urge to pour hot miso on the closest wannabe toast and his other freakishly identical not-so-toasty friends. there are two lunch rooms in the university. one is above the bookstore, which we now know is populated by the "starers". the other is a floor below the global center.
on the first day, when lunch time finally rolled around, we unsuspectingly decide on the first of the two lunch rooms. bad mistake #1. as we go in, we see that it's a little crowded, but think nothing of it, we're "sure" we'll find a seat somewhere... deciding on what to eat, majority of us chose katsu, which happened to be non-bento variety. bad mistake #2-4. after paying we went to go sit down... or at least tried. for a good 10 minutes. after rounding the lunch room for the second time, finding that all seat were taken or marked as someone else's territory by a book bag and that NO ONE was leaving (choosing the stay in their seat with empty plate and all to just see what we might do next), we're beginning to feel like fish in a bowl a little more than we'd like. the urge to scream "what the hell are you looking at?!", whether we'd understand or not, is starting to seem all to appealing. we finally decide the say 'fuck it' and take the trays outside, whether we're allowed to do this or not is something we're far from caring about at this point. we leave as the stares follow us right out the door.
i have to say, that i'm a bit in awe on how similar this is to those stereotypical high school scenes you see in movies. but i've also never been more disappointed in such a large group of people in my life. the fact that this is college, not high school, just makes it more ridiculous and down right sad.
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at least i know i have a new-found respect for fishes.
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[24 May 2008|08:55pm] |
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Boys Like Girls - Thunder (Acoustic) |
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okay, so it raining. and humid. i'm not quite sure what i expected, but i know it wasn't my hair puffy up to the size of a beach ball. my white genes are laughing and very well could be pointing a finger or two, can you hear? we had to go straight to the university after we arrived to meet our host families... so much for a breather and that final frantic scan threw your japanese-english dictionary (if you remembered to bring one). how do you say "hello" again?
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my host mother doesn't speak english... at all. but the my host sisters do. kayo, the one with the german husband, speaking english extremely well. but she's only here thrusday to saturday for her second job. i haven't meet the other sister, she off on a tennis retreat and won't be back until monday. for the record, i don't even know how to say, "how's the weather?"
we'll see how this turns out. now excuse me while i shake off the urge to run screaming for my mommy and a hot bowl of good ol' spaghetti o's, tiny chopped up hot dogs included.
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