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| 02:29pm 08/11/2009 |
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mood:  happy music: "The Ghost of Tom Joad" Junip
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Yesterday's farmer market goodies: a half-gallon of apple cider, a half-gallon of pear cider (from different orchards, so I can compare!), a jar of fresh tomato sauce, a pint of green zebra tomatoes (I am stocking up on them, buying lots and freezing them, before tomatoes disappear from the market for winter), two quarter-pounds of fresh cheese (an Aged Bloomsbury, which sort of tastes like a sharp, nutty piave, and a Dutch Farmstead, very creamy and rich), and a stalk of brussels sprouts (photographic evidence here).
I also have exciting weird beans to try, as I got an order from Rancho Gordo which arrived last week. So far I have tried the Vaquero Beans, which are absolutely gorgeous, mottled black and white and so shiny and bright. They got gray in the cooking, unfortunately, but were delicious, like black beans but more flavorful. I've also had the Scarlet Runner beans which, I swear to God, tasted exactly like baked potatoes with bacon. It was a little eerie.
Today it is warm for the season, but the light is winter light- hazy, dusty and yet too bright, white and glaring. But as much as I disapprove of winter, it does lend itself to strange effects of light: people climbing the subway stairs up into the open always look like they're vanishing into the sun, into light solid and full of dust motes. |
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| WOO HOO hi guys |
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| 01:24am 08/11/2009 |
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mood:  cheerful
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I hope traffic around Chicago isn't toooo bad on a Sunday morning. Must ship out to Mitsuwa and then home. Will try out this newfangled GPS unit. SHOULD BE HOME BY 8PM CST, ONE SHOULD HOPE.
It is 1:25am. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sleepykelvina's wedding was awesome and a hit, and lol being made the technical Maid of Honor the day before. I DID NOT HAVE A SPEECH PREPARED I got handed the microphone at reception tonight and said "Jess is a wonderful person, congratulations." Short. Simple. 8U Uh. I'LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU LATER.
BUT YES, CONGRATS JESS AND ERIC ON YOUR WEDDING. ♥ ♥ ♥ |
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| 02:27pm 08/11/2009 |
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For those of you that care, I think this is legit, which makes this week a lot better:
Doctor Who: Waters of Mars Airdate Set
According to this source, it will be broadcasting on BBC1 on 15 November, and on BBC America 19 December!!! |
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| This post goes in so many directions I don't know where to begin... |
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| 02:31pm 07/11/2009 |
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mood:  crappy
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Soooo....update.
I'm working on getting all my photos from my Kyoto trip uploaded to facebook. You guys are mostly friends with me there--do me a favor and view them there, so I don't have to upload them here as well? 8D;;
Mostly, this is probably going to be TMI about my recent, sudden health condition that just kind of popped up out of nowhere. So, turn away now if you don't want to know. I don't really want to put it behind a cut, because I for one know that people very rarely click on TMI cuts, so. Voila. Basically, apparently, I have a Pilonidal Sinus, which is located in an unfortunate place right above the tailbone. It started developing an abscess right as I was getting back from Kyoto, so I just brushed it off as my jeans irritating the skin, as that has happened before. Alas, it did not go away, and it started to really hurt, so four days later, I went to the clinic, we got an appointment at the hospital for the next day, and here we are. I went to the hospital, they took blood tests, CT scans, the works, and then said to me "We're going to have to cut it open and drain it". And they did, with a local anesthetic, but it still hurt like a bitch. Now I have to go back every day and have them flush it out, because that's just the way it works. On the plus side, they've set me up in a dorm room near the hospital and campus, so I don't have to go the hour commute twice a day every day, nor do I have to wake up at god knows when in the morning to come in.
My host mother, the day before my procedure, though, told me that she "didn't appreciate me making a frowny face at her children, and she knew that I was in pain, but her children are only 6 and 8, and she doesn't appreciate it". I bit my tongue and held back the comment that I could throw up on her children, if it would make her feel better, because the antibiotics were making me really nauseous. Then, the day I returned home after the procedure, she told me "I know that you're in pain, but your room is just too messy, I can't have such a room in my house. You're an adult and you should know better". Where there is an ounce of truth in the fact that I don't often clean, she was referring to my desk, and the fact that there were a lot of papers on there in no particular order. Which is probably because every day, we get a tree and a half of paper, and because Japan doesn't believe in pocket folders, I haven't figured out how to file everything yet. So. Yeah.
THAT IS WHY I WILL BE LIVING IN A DORM NEXT SEMESTER. That, and a whole list of other things that she doesn't like about me. I don't use Japanese table manners (god forbid I put my hand in my lap instead of on the table gripping the bowl I'm eating from), I don't like to wear long sleeves like the Japanese do even though it's November and it's 70 FUCKING DEGREES OUTSIDE, my parents didn't go out and buy gifts for her children to include in the package they sent of my old piano music, I'm not allowed to stay in my room at night because she thinks it's antisocial and breads a bad personality, I don't eat enough, etc., the list goes on and on. Paperwork is already filled out. Now to just break the news to her and the family...
Blegh. Shit has gone down, and I am so tired, what with having to go to the hospital every morning, then to school. I suppose if they can't find me a permanent dorm closer to the school for the remaining of the semester, and I have to go back to my host family's, than it's only 6 more weeks until I move out, right? I feel bad for the kids--they'll probably be sad and cry, and the host mother will probably tell other students she hosts later that I was a disappointment or whatever, but I don't care. This is my experience in Japan, I am here for me, and therefore I am doing what I think is best for me to enjoy myself. CJS has already helped me out a lot more than she has anyway, aside from initially showing me how to get to school. She is planning to go to my chorus concert as of now, and she has bought me tickets to see KODO. Oh well, awkward situations ahoy, but eventually, everything'll work out, right?
Meanwhile, I'm working on finding omiyage for those that want something. So, yeah speak up. Anyone want a present from Japan?
EDIT: Ianto's face in my mood icon = PRICELESS |
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| Yuletide! |
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| 02:29pm 06/11/2009 |
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mood: happy music: "My Skin" Natalie Merchant
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Yuletide sign-ups are open! In case you somehow missed all of fandom talking about it. Important note: if you have been disqualified from Yuletide before, you can still sign up! That's right, all bans have been erased. So come and play!
Sign-ups are open until Thursday the 12th at 9pm EST. I haven't signed up myself yet, as I'm still looking at my requests and offers and deciding what I want. I usually sign up to write for every fandom I've ever heard of, but this year I've decided to narrow down and only offer things I feel passionate about. Also, True Blood is in Yuletide! I feel like it's probably too big, but it's too late to change now, and so I am excited.
Other neat links: Dark_agenda, a Dreamwidth community for the 'Diversity in Yuletide 2009' challenge. You can read more at the community, but the basic idea is: request and offer fandoms with chromatic (aka PoC) creators and characters. |
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| 05:14pm 05/11/2009 |
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I think geoduck has said the best of anyone I've heard about the gay marriage situation. That can be found here. |
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| PoT - LiveJournal |
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| 09:47pm 05/11/2009 |
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mood:  bouncy
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PoT_LJ is under new management. Sporting a new look and looking for new characters.
The following are MUCH needed:
-- Oishi Syuuichirou
-- Kawamura Takashi
-- Chitose Senri
-- Akutsu Jin
-- Taki Haginosuke
-- Kurobane Harukaze
-- Saeki Koujirou
-- Kisarazu Atsushi
-- Mizuki Hajime
AND GIRLS! (As we have only one so far)
-- Tachibana An
-- Fuji Yumiko
-- Ryuuzaki Sakuno
-- Osakada Tomoka
-- Chitose Miyuki
-- Meino Nanako
( PoT LJ --- We Need You~ ) |
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| Vacationnn |
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| 12:56pm 05/11/2009 |
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All righty! I'm headed off to Chicagoland (-area) for sleepykelvina's wedding! Should be there under 8 hours, driving. I'll make a note when I get there.
Remind me!!! The things I should by should I stop at Kinokuniya's/Mitsuwa. Pay me back later.
On another topic, I haven't used the Yami no Matsuei tag this year THIS MAKES ME SAD so I'm using it now. I realize I haven't charged up my iPod so am breaking out my CDs and soundtracks to listen in the car. I have 2 YnM CDs \8D/ and the Tsuzuki FST. ♥ And I joined Microcosm. :U! What was I saying about balancing multiple RPs?
ETA: I'm alive! |
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| NaNoWriMo status update |
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| 04:19pm 04/11/2009 |
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17000 / 50000 words. 34% done!
And I suddenly realise that I have no idea how to get the characters from the current plot point to the next plot point. *scratches head* Time to break out all those inspiration tricks, like Tetris marathons and long walks outside with a notepad (but it's COLD).
PS: Posting to vrondi as I go, as per usual. |
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