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feeling: la la...
listening to: Marmalade Boy drama OP - Wen Shi De Hua
Up to episode 7. >> This song is the devil...
These wasabi noodles Miwa gave me during the tour are really good. o.o I always shied away from wasabi before since I knew it was so spicy and my mutilated stomach doesn't handle spicy stuff well, but these... like, it's spicy on the tongue for a couple of seconds, and then it just fades away and by the time it slides down the throat it's not spicy at all. And since these little dried soba noodles are all healthy and non-filling and stuff, I can snack on them all evening with no guilt. >> I don't know why, but I've been constantly hungry for the past week or so... making up for lost time, maybe. And lost pounds. >> Stupid metabolism.
Anyway... still have that annoying urge to DO stuff ever since I came back from the tour. Good thing, I suppose, but on the other hand I can never figure out what exactly to do. BLOOD translations only keep me busy for a few minutes a day (when Kiwamu doesn't go crazy and post freakin' novels :p), and I'm stumped on all the other side projects I've attempted. So today I decided to go back and review my written Japanese textbooks again, starting from the very beginning of the kanji lessons. Because I know I've forgotten how to write literally hundreds of kanji after not writing them at all for a couple years; I could write about 500 when I graduated, and I can still read most of them, but writing is another story. So hopefully I'll be able to keep that up over the next few days/weeks, commit all those kanji to my memory again, and then start picking up some new ones from my regular online translations and whatnot. Have also been playing with my spoken language software for the past month or so now. Darn it, by the next time BLOOD comes here I'm gonna be a better translator and not stutter and stumble and choke so much when I'm trying to help them. >>;
Also... acting on my recent urges to create "real" graphics, I've tried a few times to download Photoshop 7 (shhhhh ¬_¬), but I can never get it to work. All the torrents I've found for it have been in .rar format, and when I extract them, I get just a few files and the only one I can recognize is a .txt containing a serial number. All the rest have these crazy extensions that I can't even recognize, and my computer doesn't know how to open them. I'm sure these torrents are all full versions and everything, since the filesizes match and all... I just have no idea what to do with them once extracted. Maybe they're not even extracting right. Guess I'll keep trying... maybe try a Photoshop 9 torrent... brushes that were made for versions 6 and 7 would still work in 9, right? *ditz* [EDIT: never mind... YAY, I have Photoshop 7 at last! and of course, along with it came ImageReady... >:D]
My main motivation for this is that I want to make Winamp skins that actually have decent graphics. Yeah, I know... massive and tedious undertaking. But there aren't enough cool skins out there for me in the fandoms that I frequent and I've been wanting to change that for a very long time.
And I can't think of anything else... aaaa wasabi soba tte umai naa...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 8/22/2006 07:44:00 PM
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