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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
dursula
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July 6th, 2008 | 11:02am
My Birthday Party
My birthday part was amazing...and I don't even know where to start. Well, I'll try:
Yesterday I had a birthday at the Peace Cafe in my neighborhood. So, I really stopped keeping a good record of who I had invited, and also, I invited a good number of teachers, but wasn't sure how many were going to show up to the gig. My proudest moment of the day was when I found out that 40 guests showed up!!! About half were teachers, and the other half were friends from my different walks of life, like yosakoi, and Yukari's family, and, of course, my non-Japanese friends. Here was exactly the schedule as planned:
1:00 Arrival
1:30 CAKE
2:00 Games
3:00 CAKE
4:00 Bye bye speech
4:00 ~ Bonus Karaoke
And indeed we ate cake TWICE in a cake lottery. I had each person bring two pieces of cake, and OH, the patisserie in Japan are GOOOOOOOOOOOOD. There was so much amazing cake!! and we did in fact number each dish of cake and then passed out numbers. It was super fun and great for me, because I didn't even bring cake!! Coffees, etc were served by the cafe. I invited just the right amount of people. The room was nicely arranged for different groups to have little circles together. And, I also invited just the right amount of people so that they could safely stick together (like my teachers just chatted with themselves) and a lot of people arrived t the party and were surprised to see someone they knew!! (like two English teachers had studied together years ago, but hadn't seen each other in a while). Then, GAME time was a Zara-trivia game! That was super fun and everyone was trying to guess the correct answers (How tall is Zara? 175cm or 180cm and Is Zara's dream to dance in a Takarazuka play? YES or NO). At about 3 we had another CAKE lottery, then sang the birthday song, and then I gave a thank you speech (made up on the spot, WHUT? I'm so grood at J-panese). Afterward many people started to go home, and soon only only my young friends were left. And so, we turned on the karaoke machine and started belting them out. The son of the owner is 23 (and attractive), and his two other friends were there to help serve drinks all afternoon. We invited them down to sing, too. Once we had exhausted singing after maybe an hour, Ko-chan insisted on putting on a hip hop song...and then we ALL STARTED TO DANCE!!!!!! My birthday party seriously broke down into a dance party for about 20 minutes. We stopped because it was HOT! Then, only 8 of us went to dinner (the high school girls got permission from their parents and they were SO THRILLED to be out!! It was super cute). Anyway, that was my birthday!! Here are pictures...
And the rest
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
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kawaiimiaka
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July 5th, 2008 | 3:26pm
Yay! Explosions!
Yesterday was a lot of fun. Andrew and I went and watched the fireworks down on the water with a couple of friends. We packed a picnic-style dinner (big sandwiches, Sun chips, soda, and some Coronas) and lit a few fireworks of our own (nothing super special, a few mortars and some Saturn Batteries...mostly stuff that makes a cool bang). The weather was perfect for being out, too, which made me really happy--warm, but not too hot, and only slightly cloudy.
I took a lot more pictures, but my battery died, so it's charging now. I only pulled a few pictures off the camera before it died. The one above was one of my faves, but I also liked this one, ( which was a complete accident. )
current mood:  calm
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
wyndstar
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July 4th, 2008 | 9:01pm
i hate this holiday / favortism at work :(
well. i hate any holiday that includes fireworks/firecrackers (*snorts*). I have this weird phobia of LOUD NOISES!!! Sure, fireworks are pretty. But the noises scare me.
in my sf neighborhood, we always have people tossing cherry bombs and all those illegal thingies. and i can't handle that. i freak out -_-; i started listening to my CD player/mp3 player SUPER loud to ward off the exploding noises. *nods*
work sucked ass. my feet hurt so bad.
well, i was talking to Linda C. about checks and stuff. Everyone knows I'm on 90 day probation. Well, Linda C. was saying that she took a bad check for $1000+ also. BUT! She just got lectured and NO probation. :/ I was kind of mad about that. Why did I get 90 day probation and she got only a lecture? :( it's not fair.
anyways! there was a sale at our store for photo paper (4" x 6" - 400 sheets!) for $10; and i bought it. I'm gonna make my prints on those. *nods*
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kawaiimiaka
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July 4th, 2008 | 1:55pm
Happy 4th of July!
Happy Independence Day for all my friends in the US. When some people think of the 4th, they think of fireworks, backyard grilling....me? I always think of this scene from the Simpsons.
I dunno. I'm weird. XD
Have a happy and safe holiday!
current mood:  amused
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scarletseraph
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July 4th, 2008 | 3:16pm
Oh. My. God.
I got my mum to run me to Fred's to look for hair (the crappy artificial extensions I use in my SCA and show wefts - I need to make a new batch), and right as we were coming out the door, we realized we'd forgotten to look for something she wanted. We decided we didn't want to go back in, though, and headed over to Big Lots instead.
And on the way up to the health and beauty section...at the end of an aisle in the seasonal section...
Do y'all remember jellies? Those pastel plastic waffle-weave shoes from back in the eighties?
THEY HAD JELLIES. IN BIG-GIRL SIZES. For three bucks. I mean, I've seen...similar things every now-and-then in the past few years, but none that are the real thing - or if they are, they're for kids. These only went up to an eight, but that's okay, because I wear a seven and a half. We actually thought they were lying about being women's sizes at first because the '8's I tried on (according to the number on the plastic hanger) were much, much too small - then we looked on the bottom and found out they were a four. So then we started pawing through the rest.
So now I have a pair of pretty pink jellies again. *Hugs them* I would have gotten a pair in blue, too, but they only had one in size eight - and by 'one', I mean literally, 'one shoe'. Where was the other? Who knows. But I was so disappointed, because who knows if or when I'll ever find any again? *Sniff*
This has made my day. I was tired before we left, damnit! Now? Not so much. It has also made up for something earlier in the day - unrelated to the pig-boy and the gay elf orgy - that ended up depressing the hell out of me after it had started off so well.
current mood:  bouncy
current music: "I'm not your boyfriend. I'm not your boyfriend! I'm not your boyfriend~"
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supiluliumas
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July 4th, 2008 | 11:19am
Metropolis Restored! FOR REAL THIS TIME!
A news item for which I hereby and summarily confer the 'HOLY SHIT' award to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ornithorhynque for 2008!!!
METROPOLIS HAS BEEN FOUND! After 81 years, a almost-totally-near-complete print of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, one of the most legendary and influential science-fiction film of all time (not to mention legendarily obscure), has been discovered in the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina!
The director flew to Germany to screen the long-lost version for the Murnau Foundation, and it is genuine!
CHUD.com says that this gives us hope for all the other orphan films out there, estimating that nearly 80% of all movies from the silent era to the first talkies are currently believed lost, including the first Japanese monster movie, 'King Kong Arrives in Edo', which predated Godzilla by 16 years. I did not know that.
But I digress. Where was I. Oh yeah. METROPOLIS! The fact that I am alive to see this is actually something of a surprise. Might be time to trade in my 2002 DVD when this new one comes out! Although knowing from the extras that the Murnau Foundation painstakingly removes every single artifact from every single frame of film with a hand-held digital comb, that might still be a minute. But I'm fine with that. Make it perfect!
current mood:  astonished
current music: "New World Symphony" -- Dvorak
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dursula
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July 4th, 2008 | 11:52pm
MY BIRTHDAY
It's my birthday IN ELEVEN MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I'm going to be a quarter of a century old!!)
It's also the best because it's extra long when you take into consideration the national dateline.
Look forward to the upcoming party post...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
kailangel
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July 3rd, 2008 | 3:22pm
Shit, shit, shit
I lost one of the Wii Fit Feet.
I was schlepping the whole thing to Denver and somewhere between my backdoor and my friend's apartment the foot has disappeared. It's not in the car, it's not on the block between where my car is parked and my friend's apartment...it's not at my house (says a marginally unreliable source).
Shit, shit, shit.
Best Buy and Circuit City don't carry them yet. Is it possible that I am the first person the U.S. who has lost this piece and requires a replacement? I find that very hard to believe...
My Wii Fit is DEEEEEAAAAAAAD!
current mood:  Bummed Out
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kawaiimiaka
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July 3rd, 2008 | 11:34am
Go figure, part 2
Just the other day, I was talking to my mother about how I needed to get a new desktop computer, since mine is getting old and just not working as well as I'd like anymore. And this morning, I wake up to use my computer, and it doesn't even want to stay on. *laughs* So I'm on my laptop right now. I'll probably just end up buying a newer computer from my dad, since Andrew and his brother seemed interested in using my old computer for spare parts (don't ask me for what, they like playing MacGyver). Kinda lame, yeah, but it's probably for the best. I've been putting it off, seeing if I could make it last til the holidays so I could've just asked for a new desktop for Christmas, but that was just wishful thinking.
But on the plus side, the thunderstorms are still going, off and on. I love it. XD Not only has it finally cooled off a bit, but it's fun to watch. Last night, we turned everything off and fell asleep looking out the window and just watching the lightening. It was really cool. Although now the weather report is giving us cloudy weather for tomorrow's 4th of July afternoon and evening. (We've had nothing but clear skies all week, and now that there's a holiday coming where people WANT it to be nice, it clouds up. Didn't see that coming, right? *eyeroll*)
current mood: amused
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kailangel
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July 3rd, 2008 | 9:00am
Mentors & Mistakes
Is the most important part of having a mentor learning from their mistakes? Does it just give you an exceptional individual whose mistakes you learn from on your path to "wise person?"
Who is your mentor(s) -- and what are the most important bits of information they've imparted to you?
current mood:  curious
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1word1day
[ pipetti ]
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July 3rd, 2008 | 5:21am
Semiotics
[sem-ee-AH-tix] –noun-
1. the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior;
the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
2. a general theory of signs and symbolism,
usually divided into the branches of pragmatics, semantics, and syntactics.
Dictionary.com entry for semiotics
Over the past three decades the semiotics of men's athletic wear has been puzzling. 
Back in the 1900s, when I was a kid, their basketball shorts and swim trunks were as short
as the day is long. God Bless America.
Online Etymology Dictionary entry for semiotics
study of signs and symbols with special regard to function and origin, 1880, from Gk. semeiotikos "observant of signs," adj. form of semeiosis "indication," from semeioun "to signal," from sema "sign."
Contrarians-- Everyone is already aware of what all is wrong with everything under the sun -- make good use of yourself and come up with a better example sentence for that word, and /or explain to me what the parachute-dimension of men's shorts is all about, as a communicative gesture of the past several years... please and thanks!
current mood: communicative
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wyndstar
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July 3rd, 2008 | 1:08am
selling FOR SURE
@ Sac-Anime, I'll be selling FOR SURE:
-15 copies of "The Queen & the Court Jester" (w/ permission from Leslie, since she wrote it. I plan on re-doing the last page of the text to make it legible and toning it)
-15 copies of "ALPHABET: Adele"
-15 copies of "Destination:Fabrication"
-15 copies of "Another Tomorrow" (must finish this!!! *kicks self*)
or do you think i should make a few more copies? like 20 each instead? I dunno! :P~ I really don't!
Here's how many pages there are for each thingy, including covers (all are half-sized)
-"The Queen & the Court Jester" 6 pages
-"Adele" 10 pages
-"DF" 18 pages
-"AT" 22 pages
*nods*
I found a few drawings in my gallery to want to make them into prints. I think I'm just going to make 15 each. Also, half sized ;) lol! wait,... no! forget the half-sized. i'll make the full-sized.
I have to figure out what to put on my business card and flyer... *nods* I have no website XD~ I only have devart, myspace *gags*, lj, and my smackjeeves. I guess i could put those?
Anyone want me to advertise for you?! Let me know :D~ Betsy's gonna go too. She thought this was located somewhere far.
I don't know how she can not know where SAC-anime is (pfft! it's in the title!!!) @__@;;
I'm not sure if i'm still going to do the on the spot commissions. i'm still not very confident on my fanart-ing (lol. looks/sounds like farting) skills. But, i DO want to bring my markers cuz i wanna color XD~~ <--i'm lame :D! i'll get bessy to draw and i'll color?
I plan on getting a few buttons made, via yamiko_michi ^_^ but I don't know of what! *brainfarts* -_-; *sigh* I know I have over a month left, but DUDE! -_-; I'd rather be PREPARED!!! *nods*
i don't think I'll be doing any fanart prints. I was planning on drawing random fanart, scanning em and printing them. But, I don't think that'll fit well into my LAZY schedule ;)
ahhh! brain! why are you being uncooperative!
SO! for those who've had booths before. How would you "decorate"(?) your booth?! Please let me know :D If you have pix of your booths, ooh! show me! I've looked on youtube and stuffs, but it doesn't help since the people seem to ZOOOM past booths -_-;
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scarletseraph
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July 3rd, 2008 | 3:45am
Rampant commercialism, round...whatever.
So there's an advertisment that runs on Cartoon Network now and then for a DVD called Lots and Lots of Trains. Sort of things kids would like, right? Makes perfect sense for it to be on that channel. (Well, I usually catch it during Adult Swim, but I assume it's there because someone isn't too worried about the timeslot.)
But. But! There's a ticker that scrolls across the bottom partway through, and that ticker reads, Kids love it, too! So if kids love it, too... Er...
Just who is the target audience, here? (I mean, I'm not saying I wouldn't sit down and watch, say, Lots and Lots of Ponies if it happened to be on, but I wouldn't expect it to be marketed to me. *Owl-blink*)
current mood: amused
current music: "No one knows he's down here! C'mon!"
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
wyndstar
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July 2nd, 2008 | 8:26pm
...>(
i come home from work, and my room was ransacked. they were looking for my checkbook. they always wanna know how much money i have? isn't it enough that i have to pay for the fucking house when it's my turn? and isn't it enough that i pay for whatever they want me to pay for??
apparently, it's NOT enough!
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yuki_snowcraft
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July 2nd, 2008 | 11:07pm
God, they must be so proud
My parents must be so proud of me. Born in the winter of 1985, they couldn't have imagined that 23 years later on a hot summer day I would be somewhere in Ohio dressed up as some dead fictional character from a Japanese comic book, with 30-odd other equally disturbed individuals on a deck at a Hilton hotel, surrounded by thousands of people potentially even more disturbed.
Of all the hundreds of things I do in life, I just had to end up with this being my niche.
And you thought Civil War re-enactment fanatics were strange?
In other news, getting tons of clinical experience this summer, gearing my mind towards USMLE Step I for next spring, and homing in on aspects of medicine I do and do not like, hence zooming in on the specialties I know I'd like. Studying for the boards will be ramped up accordingly in order to provide the best score I can get, and as many doors open as possible.
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kawaiimiaka
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July 2nd, 2008 | 6:28pm
Go figure.
I got a jury duty summons in the mail today. *sigh* How is it that I get summoned 2 years ago and have to go through it again, and Andrew's only done it once in his whole life? LAME.
On the plus side, it looks like we're getting some thunder storms, which I love. Finally a change from no clouds and no breeze!
current mood:  blah
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le_truand
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July 2nd, 2008 | 1:48pm
neither edson or dre appear in the actual motion picture. the idea behind this not-so-much-a-trailer trailer was just more just an excuse to hear these guys cover that song from "the jerk" because at the time i was making fragments i'd become obsessed with the song. in case you're ever on the fence about checking out their band:dusty rhodes and the riverband on their current tour they close out their show with really rad renditions of the joe cocker version of "a little help from my friends" and boyz2men's "end of the road" as well as ripping through some amazing original musics as well. dope shit.
oh and in case you didn't know this SUNDAY is our official premier (even though the movies still aren't finished)
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wyndstar
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July 2nd, 2008 | 10:34am
dundunndunnnn!!!
It's a good thing i ditched work to get my permit and did my application cuz i just heard from them today-- I got the last table!!!! *gaspssss*!!!!
*nods* now, it's a matter of drawing till i wanna punch someone :D
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hokuto
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July 2nd, 2008 | 1:07pm
Shenanigans!
Though I've worked at Convenient for over a year now this is the first summer I've worked the night shift. I began my stint as a local deli celebrity as a "day walker" which saw me waking up far earlier than my body cared to before dragging myself for a fifteen minute walk to work since the Volvo was pre-resurrection back then.
Though I did enjoy getting out by four and frolicking in the sunshine it was next to impossible to get enough hours without getting up at a time that makes my brain innately malfunction. A 7 in the morning shift here and there isn't awful but throw me into them for five days in a row and by the fourth I'll start staring at the eggs I'm making on the grill with such hatred and vengeance that my eye's rays will cook them faster than the heat coming up from underneath.
Kathy eventually caught on that I'm simply not a morning person and shifted me to the 4-12s, which I took to like a fish in water. I blaze through the tasks making everything shiny and pretty and no eggs fear for their lives. Though I like to pick up the occasional day shift, I get along much better with my fellow night owls and my body is much happier not waking until after 11 am.
So, all is right in the world....except apparently over the summer the night shift only has one of two modes. So slow and quiet that you start inventing tasks to do like "Hey, lets see if this item scans correctly" or "OMG WHERE DID ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM MAN THE BATTLE STATIONS!"
Seriously, there is no in between. Last night, for example, I managed to get all my tasks done by 7 and then by 10 it was Orientation-palooza. We're talking over a hundred impending freshman descending like locust, acting as if they never saw a deli before.
I know you guys were born in 1990 and all (WTFBBQ in its own right) but, seriously, I bet you've seen chips and soda somewhere in your travels, right?
It was maddening, to say the least. And sometime during all the insanity Liam snuck in but was corralled by the Red Bulls by the mob before I could save him.
When I finally was able to save him from the clutches of the young'uns I found out a mutual friend of ours had accidentally flooded our house by leaving a faucet running. Thankfully nothing was damaged but every story from the third to the basement had a very wet floor when I got home. The friend felt really bad and is such a sweetheart that there's no hard feelings but what a way to end yesterday.
Sadly, I get to repeat half of that today as orientation group part two is attacking but, at the very least, I have off tomorrow and am pretty sure my house will be dry this time when I return.
current mood:  good
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charmedseed
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July 2nd, 2008 | 10:23am
Live Long and Marry Charity Auction
I'm offering an auction of a wordspell piece over at this post on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) livelongnmarry. What a great cause!
What is this?
Live Long And Marry is a fandom auction to benefit marriage equality. Bidding begins on July 1, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, 2008, and closes on July 15, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, 2008. Please do not bid until bidding opens.
What's the cause?
The auction will raise money for the fight against the California initiative which will legally destroy existing same-sex marriages and ban any further ones. If the initiative passes, it will write discrimination into the state constitution, annull existing marriages, and make Mr. Sulu cry.
How can I help?
You can bid on fanfic, original fic, vids, cookies, memorabilia, critique/betas, and much more! Or you can offer your skills and services as a writer, vidder, baker, knitter, or whatever else you'd like.
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