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[Oct. 31st, 2009|05:04 pm] |
Frigging LJ deleted this the first time >_____>
I meant to update this a long time ago. Oops.
I've had my midterms already. I got 88 on my oral (better than I expected, since I was 5 minutes late to the 15-minute test >_< and there was one part where I barely knew what sensei was saying and basically kept saying yes) 98.5 on kanji and 100 on writing (3 off, but then I got 3 for using kanji for some reason).
I also had a dream where I spoke in Japanese! Real Japanese! I even said something, and then immediately wondered if I had said it in the right context.
I'm also taking a writing course online at the university. *will rewrite later*
Unfortunately, I've been sick the past few days. *also rewrite later*
I can't believe NaNo's almost here! I have characters and a vague plot and research, I just hope it can all come together for 50k words. |
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[Aug. 30th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
A little late, but I'm home! Our planes didn't crash, and I had a delicious cake for my birthday. Here's the rest of the trip log. Photos should come sometime.
( Day 13~21 ) |
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[Aug. 15th, 2009|11:03 pm] |
Day 12, with more Comiket. None tomorrow, though - my mom's had enough and I don't see anything that looks terribly interesting to me.
( Day 12: Comiket part 2 ) |
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[Aug. 13th, 2009|08:38 pm] |
My bookmarks were not recoverable. :(
In more recent news, Japan! I fail at updating, so there's our first ten days here, which includes Kyoto and two days of Tokyo. We had a really nice view from our Kyoto hotel, and we have an even better one here! The Tokyo Tower looks so pretty at night~
Warning, first day is a bit weirdly written. I might edit it when we get back. It's also a bit long.
( allekha's ~Amazing Japan Adventure~ days 1~10 )
Fsking html. Why can't I just copy&paste from Open Office? >_>
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[Jul. 31st, 2009|10:19 pm] |
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Well, I have most of my data back now. However. I do not have my bookmarks, which upset me a lot. They copied the 'Favorites', which is for IE ( = have not used in forever) and a .html file for Firefox that was created a bit more than a year ago (probably when upgrading). I have bookmarked a lot of sites since then, possibly more than 200. So my mom's going to e-mail the people again about where to find my actual bookmarks, and hopefully they'll be willing to e-mail them to her.
I mean, I really appreciate that they've gotten back my other stuff, especially my writing and my Mnemosyne data, but this is annoying, and some of those were for the trip :/ At least many of those bookmarks were links from one site, which helps. |
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[Jul. 30th, 2009|04:39 pm] |
Yes, I'm still alive, I just took far too long to actually sit down and update >_>
But since I just actually went through with a name change, I thought I might as well do so. It wasn't that I minded nekastale, but I usually use allekha now and I don't want to be named after my character any more. (Except on FP, but that's so ingrained that I wouldn't be able to stand to change it. Plus, my tags all have 'Neka' on them. They'd be a pain to change around.) 'Allekha' was something I actually came up with for a name of a town in my book, but I actually never used it.
On Sunday, when I tried to bring my laptop out of sleep mode, it froze at a black screen, so I shut it off. And tried to boot it up again. But it didn't. It wouldn't boot in safe mood, either. There was one point where it said 'Hit ESC to skip loading sptd.sys' and if I hit that key then it came up with a different message. The next day, my mom took it into the university computer center. Yesterday, the people there said that something was wrong with the hard drive, and it was unfixable, but they could get data off of it. They said that they would put it on a DVD.
This morning as I was showering I started agonizing over the ways it could go wrong, since the amount they supposedly had seemed low (something like... 2.5 gigs? I'm really sure I have more than that) and one of them came true. They only copied my mom's files. None of mine. Immediately we sent a message about that, but they don't work on weekends, we're leaving on Monday, and tomorrow is Friday. Yeah, I'm not happy about that. At least I won't lose the files for forever, but I really would like my Mnemosyne files and bookmarks back before we leave. I had a fair amount of sites bookmarked to find at Comiket, and it'd be a bit of a pain if I have to find all of them over again...
Aaaand just as I finished typing the above my mom finished a call. They said that if she got there this evening with her 32-gig USB stick, they think they can get what I need off before we go. It's 20 gigabytes (5 DVDs) so they preferred the USB. *crosses fingers*
For something completely different, I typed this up a few weeks ago. I just updated they exchange rates.
( This is why I want to start tutoring... )
And now I need a new laptop. Maybe if I don't get anything else for my birthday? At least I can get one with higher specs and without broken hinges now. |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2009|09:03 pm] |
Had a very short, very fierce bit of storm earlier. I was glad I brought Whisp in because I saw the light changing and it seemed like rain was on its way. And just a few moments after I thought 'this might knock the power out' the power went out. We just got it back fifteen or twenty minutes ago as it was getting too dark outside to read. It went out about 3:30, I think. That was today's adventure.
My mom's getting back from China tonight. She climbed a lot of mountains - some on foot, some by horse - and visited several temples and caves. She also crossed a couple of very scary-sounding gaps.
I've been having trouble sleeping again. A few nights ago I was up until at least four, and the night after at least three thirty, and last night it was closer to four again. At least one good thing did come of it... I was making up a story as I went to sleep, as usual, and all of a sudden I realized that I really liked the story, so I got up and wrote a summary the mini-notebook I keep on my desk. It filled nine and a half pages and my hand was hurting, but I wrote the whole thing down. I should write it up properly. It kind of surprised me, since it was/is rather dark and includes characters dying, which I don't usually write. Especially not about characters I care about (this was/is fanfic), since I have done it sometimes for oneoff characters.
My summer chem course starts next Monday. |
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[May. 23rd, 2009|12:40 am] |
The kid with the lymphoma that's not getting treatment and has been spirited off to Mexico or wherever? I'm watching a thing about it on the news and it's making me angry like news stories rarely do. This kid is not old enough to refuse therapy. You should not be able to deny proven medical treatment to a child in your care that will die without it. Ugh. I really hope they find him and get him back here for treatment. His parents make me sick. That is not religion, that is... I don't even know what. In any case, I think denying proven, applicable medical treatment that will save your child's life is murder.
The antiscience people are getting to me. The month-old baby that died because not enough people were vaccinated, the Jenny-McCarthy-getting-on-Oprah thing, the lady on the tv right now not being scientific at all about fighting off her cancer half-chemo-half-'therapy'. People die because of people who spout anti-scientific things. Children especially suffer, I think. The whole thing just makes me feel sick. I can't even understand why. It's one thing to want to save your life/someone elses' life and look at alternatives, it's another altogether to do things without any research behind them at all and no proof that they work.
...and on a completely different note, my best dog ever so far on Furry-Paws - level 58! - hit 100 days today. Woo.
An LJ, I'm fairly sure that 'proven' is a word.
(Oops, left the tab open all night - below was written last night.)
Writing and oral finals are over, and I'm getting an A.
Watched Mulan yesterday and just rewatched most of it. I love this movie. Besides the general awesome of Mulan, there were several frames I loved the look of, usually because of the body language or perspective. I'd find screen shots and write something up, but I doubt anybody cares. I liked the music, too. |
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[May. 19th, 2009|11:28 am] |
Just finished up my kanji final. It wasn't as bad as I feared (as usual), and I probably have Mnemosyne (like flashcards but much better) to thank for that. It really makes it easy to remember so much. And I did study, so I wasn't really surprised that it wasn't that hard.
On a completely different subject, I wore knee-high socks and mary-jane shoes for the first time today. I just got them a little while ago and wanted to try them out for a 'test run'. The shoes have some little wrinkles that they may or may not have had before hand, and one has a small scuff mark from when I tripped, but they still look okay when you're more than two feet away. It was different from what I usually wear to class - black pants, maybe shorts or occasionally a skirt, and flexible sneakers - and it felt a bit weird going up and down stairs, but I think they're fit to wear.
I think this might be the first time I've talked about clothes here except for whining about how my favorite kind of shoes are hard to find.
Tomorrow I have my written final, and at 2 on Friday I have my final oral exam. *breathes* |
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[May. 15th, 2009|10:59 pm] |
Hey, body? Guess what is the appropriate amount of time to fall asleep when the next day is Monday? Hint: not more than two hours.
I fiddled around with the journal layout thing. I wonder why it reset mine when I upgraded to the new engine? Anyway, I hope it's readable on other peoples' monitors too. Now I just have to get used to it...
Just added 14 stories and 1 author to my favorites list at ffdotnet. They've been building up for a few days. My number of tabs is now down from their obscene level from when I finished Fruits Basket and went on a fic binge. And I've added some fanart sites to my bookmarks, ~10 I think. I'm glad I've got some Yami no Matsuei sites now, most of the ones on the link list I found were dead - more than three-fourths of them, I'm sure. 404s should stay in nightmares.
I recently discover that I've bred the top Tibetan Spaniel on Furry-Paws ever. The top 2 even. When I told my dad this, he said I could write an essay on it, so I did. There's still a little more I want to do with it before calling it finished, but it's three thousand words and four and a half pages (with internet formatting). |
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[May. 10th, 2009|06:42 pm] |
I just finished Fruits Basket.
Oh. My. Goodness.
I cried/teared up through chapters 130-132. And then again through the last two chapters. Stories rarely make me cry.
The whole thing was amazing. The characters and their interaction and development... wow. I wouldn't be able to count how many times I said "Poor (character name)" and "Aww..." and "Freaking...!". The art was pretty decent, too. The little!characters were cute as they should be. The only real complaints I have about the whole thing are pretty minor: occasionally, someone's face would look weird, and sometimes the speech bubble order was a bit hard to follow. I kind of wish I'd read it sooner.
( Cut for vague spoilers )
And I don't regret that I read 100 chapters of it in 5 days. |
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[May. 9th, 2009|08:45 pm] |
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Newest obsession: Fruits Basket. I've been reading 20 chapters of it a day inbetween school for the past 4? days. It's so good I can't help it.
I was on the driveway last week and it had been rainy for most of the day, so the worms came out onto the driveway. For once, I moved one (that was still alive) into the grass so I wouldn't step on it. I hope I didn't sign its death warrant, but I went back later and it had moved away from the spot where I put it. If I had stepped on it, it probably would die for sure anyway. And I had just watched Seven Years in Tibet the day before, and there's a scene where they insist on carefully moving all of the worms away from where they're digging into the ground so they don't hurt the worms. There was a slug, too, but it turned back to the grass on its own.
Late last night I was half-watching the end of a tv show and it had something to do with bridal dresses. The prices made me choke. Why would someone ever pay thousands of dollars for a dress they'll mostly likely only wear once?! I feel almost guilty for wanting a high-quality dress that's three hundred dollars from a foreign country that I would actually wear. (Plus, imo, most of the dresses they were showing weren't even that nice-looking >_> Then again, I didn't share taste with the people on the show afterward....) I think I would rather get married (should I ever do so) in a nice suit that can be used afterward, or possibly even in my mom's wedding dress, should it fit. Skip the elaboarate ceremony, just go and sign the certificate. With a small party afterward with family and close friends.
I just can't understand how people can justify spending a so much money on a one-day event. What am I missing, I wonder. |
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[May. 3rd, 2009|11:25 am] |
My mom let me install the Sims 2 on her computer, and it runs so much better on there. I can even see fish in the ponds now. And it's nice to have it load faster.
Last Saturday (not yesterday, the week before) my mom and I witnessed a car accident. Well, we didn't see it, but we were at the place it happened and heard it. Somebody got hit from behind as they were turning in. Thankfully, it seems like they weren't too badly hurt, as the ambulance took them off without lights or sirens.
( Click for long, weird dream ) |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2009|10:37 pm] |
I got sick on Monday :( At first it was just a drippy nose, but in the afternoon my stomach started cramping up, and I threw up three times and had a hard time falling asleep for a while because it was hard to keep a position that didn't hurt and if it hurt too much I couldn't sleep. And I hadn't done Furry-Paws yet, but I got my mom to lock it. So that evening kinda sucked.
It still hurt in the morning, but I still went to class (where the combination of sitting + Japanese distraction made it not really hurt). Today I feel just fine, except I still have a runny nose.
When I went to Girl Scouts last week, it was my turn to bring snack. I chose pocky! And more people than I expected actually recognized it. That was kind of fun.
I've also been getting some offline reading done recently, especially thanks to gaps of time at the graveyard (silver award project (for girl scouts) location) where there's not much else to do. I got through The Hammer of God and 3001: The Final Odyssey, both by Arthur C. Clark, and reread Good Omens. Plus I've been reading lots of fanfiction, and even practicing my Japanese a bit with fanart sites. And I still have tabs open for fanfic, and another novel, and an autobiography. So much to read~
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[Apr. 3rd, 2009|09:50 pm] |
Midterms were over last week. I got 103/100 on my written (!) and hopefully did okay on my oral.
I've gotten started again on editing my book (the first one, I mean). And am resisting the temptation to get started on a third. No brain, I have enough projects for the moment!
I love spring. Not particularly more so than any other season, but we have a ton of daffodils and the forsythias are in bloom, and the air is so fresh. And it's raining and warm again. It's been a while since I've felt mud under my feet.
I can hardly believe it's April already.
Today I started playing Chrono Trigger, which I got for Christmas never got around to starting. I'm not very far into it yet, but I'm having fun. |
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[Mar. 7th, 2009|10:06 pm] |
We were part of the area that got hit with snow, so I took the opportunity to go sledding (which I didn't get to do last year). I had a lot of fun, but my dad got blasted by the wind at the top of the hill. I also managed to collide with some other people on another sled because I didn't seem them in time to break very much, but nobody got very hurt. I bruised my thumb when I landed on it, and thankfully that seems to be it.
Today it was really nice out. Above 70, even.
I got a dog on Furry-Paws to level 50 today. That's my highest ever (and I just set a new record a few weeks ago!) and she's only 46 days old. This generation is sure doing well; I have three dogs above fourty (including them, I've had ten total) plus the one above fifty and nine over thirty. Most of them are Tibbies. My Border Collies are kinda just moving along...
Last night I had a little bit of a weird dream. It started out as Matt/Near and they were just sitting on a king-sized bed in a small room. And at some point Matt said something about Mello being right outside the door (even though he wasn't, and Matt knew that) but I don't quite remember the context. And then it changed to something about a murder case, and everybody was in the style of the Sims, and I was the murderer at first. But then the police used dogs to track it down to my neighborhood, and me and my parents were collecting DNA from the entrance road (?!) and comparing it to my parents' DNA (I think) using a little hand-held device. But when it came up a match it suddenly changed and I wasn't the murderer anymore, so the DNA didn't match.
If there's such a thing as a 'normal' dream, I don't think I have them.
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[Mar. 2nd, 2009|08:11 pm] |
We got snow last night, so yay :) Classes got canceled.
Saw the end of the Death Note anime a couple days ago. I liked it, but it surprised me since it's so different from the manga ending. I was also surprised at how little Mello appeared. Did he have that little time in the manga? I don't think so... At least they didn't skip out on Near, too.
Exactly 1500 cards in Mnemosyne atm. 1236 of them are for Japanese. I love this program ♥
Moving bookshelves can be fun, except for the fact that you have to get all the books off of them first. And then put them back on. At least they're sort of sorted now. In some vague order. That mostly has to do with series going together.
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[Feb. 22nd, 2009|09:40 pm] |
Today I spent two hours in freezing rain to help sell Girl Scout cookies. We sold maybe three dozen. That was fun.
I also got to help cut wood with a power saw, although we had to stop right away for me to go get hearing protection. I doubt a career constantly using powertools ist in my future. Anyway, that's the start of a new desk in my room (that I can actually sit at, since my current one is way too low for me to sit at properly).
The newest thing I'm watching is Strawberry Panic. It's... interesting. Not a lot of plot, but I think it's still fun to watch. |
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[Feb. 21st, 2009|11:39 pm] |
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Now that we have our living room mostly redone (except for the bookshelves) we're working on the bedrooms. We moved my dresser downstairs and my dad's dresser into mine... I didn't like it very much at first, but after seeing it in daylight (not bright light at night) I like it a lot more.
We also moved all the stuff off a couple of the shelves near the ground and took them out to make room for smaller dresser. Gives me lots of room for the clothes my mom found that fit me but not her. And when we clean off the other shelves, there will be lots more room for books too. It looks nice, anyway. |
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