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I dunno how you found this, but alas, here you are. So enjoy the frightening fruits of my troubled little brain.
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wSunday, May 20, 2007 |
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feeling: ...
listening to: get Michael W. Smith out of my head, please...
I guess I feel a bit less averse to posting here since I got my archives fixed. Wasn't liking how every new post pushed another one off the front page and it couldn't be found again since the archives were gone, but now that they're back they should stay there for all to see. Not that anyone's probably interested enough to actually use them, but still. Blogger also seems to have fixed the login stuff so it actually remembers me when I check the "remember me" box, instead of forcing me to log in twice, once for Blogger and once for Gmail, every time I come here... so that makes things easier. All I need to fix now is graphic-related stuff. So maybe I can ease up on my personal Blogger boycott and start posting here again.
Haven't been wanting to post much at LJ lately anyway, for some reason. Can't really explain why. I doubt anyone there would notice anyway.
Anyway, I watched the first half of some crazy Japanese movie called Shimotsuma Monogatari on AZNTV last night. I wanted to see the whole thing but I was already falling asleep long before it even came on at 2 am, so I'm surprised I even held out through one hour of it. I hope it'll be on again sometime in the future so I can finish it. But yeah... from what I saw it was very, very weird. The main character is this girl named Momoko who had a tough upbringing in a gangster town and who has this twisted obsession with the Baroque period which, long story short, leads to an addiction to cute and frilly (and expensive) lolita clothes. For someone so cute on the outside, she is a strange, twisted little beast on the inside. And over the course of the movie she meets a girl named Ichiko who's part of a biker gang. Ichiko is nasty and vulgar and crude as they come, but at least she's upfront and honest. I'd trust her more than Momoko, seriously. Momoko is whacked. Anyway... what drew me to the movie was that Ichiko is played by Tsuchiya Anna, an actress I've seen a few times in one of my favorite Japanese variety shows, Tensai! Shimura Doubutsuen. Always thought she was sorta cool.
And this sucks. All week I've been feeling sleepy and worn out and ready to crash by 1 or 2 am no matter how much rest I got at night, but tonight, the one night when I want to feel tired early so I can sleep for a few hours before getting up early for church, I'm wide awake. My biological clock sucks.
I really could've used the extra couple hours of sleep tonight too, I think. Not looking forward to tomorrow at all. Dad and I are in charge of junior church, it's graduation Sunday and I know at least four graduates who will be undertaking various festivities in the course of the day, bringing certain people into town that I rarely see anymore, for better or for worse... and yeah... I just have a feeling it's all going to be terribly awkward. Can't I just hide in bed all day?
Oh well...
Thought there was something else I was going to put here, but as usual I can't remember what it was, so I guess that'll be it for now.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/20/2007 02:11:00 AM
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feeling: tired
listening to: Final Fantasy X OST (<3 kitty!)
I really need to do something with this blog's template to bring back my archives. I'm starting to miss browsing through my five years of blogging history. The posts still exist on the Blogger servers as I can read and even edit them on my dashboard, so if I could just figure out the coding for archives... I'm sure there's a way, I'm just too lazy to try to figure it out.
And I'm not sure why I'm so tired right now. I slept the heck out of last night and didn't get up until 11:30. Weird.
But anyway, I figured I should make the grand announcement here too, just because. I got a new computer last week. But I'm still waiting to get the stuff from my old hard drives back, so there's not much on it yet as I'm not willing to cram it too full of songs and videos and then have to figure out later how to organize it all between three hard drives, etc... yeah, I'm weird and make no sense.
I miss my video translating obsession like crazy. I was just minutes away from finishing episode 84 when the old computer croaked its last croak. I know I could pick up again with ep. 85 if I really wanted to (85 being the second of those "two most hilarious things that have ever been shown on television EVER" that I rambled on about two posts ago), or I could make a guess as to where I left off on 84 and finish it up and move on... but for some reason I'm holding back until I have ALL my translation files at my fingertips again. Don't even ask why. I don't know either.
So in the meantime I've just been re-watching some episodes that I've already translated, and re-watching episodes of their other variety shows that I managed to back up on DVDs. Also been tinkering with FFX quite a bit while I wait for my files to come back. Kitty even came down for a few days to hang out and did a lovely job of taking my mind off things. Not that that was the only reason I wanted her to come... >> but it worked out that way too. And it didn't take long after I came back from my computer hiatus before a certain Asian graphic designer started bombarding me with urgent translation jobs again. The last one he needed finished within an hour. *glare* Probably won't get paid for them since they're all just two or three lines each... but oh well. It makes me useful, sort of.
Otherwise I've spent a lot of my unwanted idle time just thinking about various stuff. Realized a few things about myself and life in general as I keep going back over (and over and over) my own history, and even the histories of others around me that I really had very little or nothing at all to do with. Nothing worth talking about openly, really, just random whatever that pops up when the mind is idle... too much of it to ever begin ranting out even if I wanted to, anyway. All I can say in sum would be this: it's funny the way life works. But that's common knowledge, right? Like I said, not worth talking out...
Now I think I'll shut up and go to bed. No idea why I feel so tired at only 1:30 am, but I guess considering I need to find a permanent job in the next couple months, sleeping early can't be a bad habit to get into. I wonder when the OSU transcripts I ordered will come in so I can move on to the next step of getting a resume out...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/16/2007 01:30:00 AM
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wThursday, May 03, 2007 |
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feeling: annoyed
listening to: the jellyfish song... we'll leave it at that
What the? Ok, has Google finally managed to completely pwn every other webhost in existence or something? I swear NOT A SINGLE WEBSITE is loading for me tonight except Google and, conveniently, Blogger. Those with Blogger accounts should know why that's such a convenience. But yeah, I have tried to view a zillion other pages and nothing. Huge database pages, forum pages, small homepages, petsites, journal pages, email hosts, Japanese pages, even Russian pages... and NOTHING. Except Google and Blogger.
Or is it just this laptop suddenly developing a bias toward Google and its minions? I wouldn't know since it's THE ONLY MACHINE AVAILABLE TO ME RIGHT NOW.
Do I appear tense? >> My computer's been out of commission since Saturday and I've spent every minute since wanting to kill things. Not only am I painfully bored without it, but I've also realized that I'm essentially useless without it too. I've already lost a couple translation jobs, I can't take on new ones because this laptop is worthless, I can't even do any of the activities that allowed me to practice my Japanese and thus improve my odds of doing actual translations well. I can't do or practice or contribute ANYthing on a machine that can barely run two programs at the same time and only occasionally spares the decency to let me check my email without crashing the browser. Sad when these things happen to make you realize that not only your entertainment, but also nearly every ounce of your personal value, revolves around a computer.
True, in short spurts throughout some days I find opportunities to use the parents' computer downstairs, which is sort of halfway in between the power of this laptop and my own computer. But I can only use it when they're not using it or the office desk it's set up on. My parents both do a surprising amount of office-type work in there, really. And occasionally I use it after they've gone to bed, but I don't like to because it tends to keep them awake. Not my fault their keyboard is so ridiculously old and rattly. *mutter*
But yeah... not doing that tonight because mom has to get up early in the morning to visit a doctor somewhere and have her shoulder joint broken open. Sounds gruesome, huh? But I guess they determined that the problem was a frozen joint, which means a bunch of little adhesions sort of like cobwebs have formed between the ball and socket of her shoulder joint and locked them together, resulting in lots of immobility and pain. Of course that's going to continue for a few weeks as she recovers from this, but hopefully in the long run it'll help. It's been bothering her for a couple years, so I guess a few additional weeks are a small price to pay if it's effective.
Wow, I really got rambly there.
But again, point is, I WANT MY INTERNET. Stupid technological world. If you're going to strand me on this miserable little laptop for weeks or even months, at least leave me with more of an internet connection than Google.
I'm sure it's just this laptop, but what the heck could've happened to this laptop to make it do that? I'm confused. And annoyed. And grr. I want my computer back.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/03/2007 03:02:00 AM
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