Some days I feel really, really ignorant of my own culture. The kids at school will be talking about this or that music artist and I'll have no idea who they're talking about. Kayne West? Who's that. I'll usually know about a Japanese music artist, though.
I understand, on some level, that that's just how my tastes in music/entertainment lie. And I do watch American TV - Shark Week! Dirty Jobs! Mythbusters! - but not a whole lot. I'd rather chill at my computer and watch Wada Masato in Shigeshoshi - which ya'll should see if you like dorky shows full of camp.
But today, when I found out that one of my favorite members of staff at the college resigned and is moving to Ft. Logan, I started to think: what if this whole plan to go to Japan doesn't work out? What then?
I couldn't think of anything. Since March my brain has been geared toward making this shift in my living but...what if it doesn't pull through and I stay here in the States? What will I do with myself then?
Another in my Denver Natural History Museum series.
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I only got five hours of sleep. That's not nearly enough to function.
The horrible thing is that, as I get older, I realize the value of sleep more and more. I can't stay up to insane hours of the night like I did three, four years ago. Now, at 10pm I want to be snug in bed, ready for sleeping. Instead, I'm up doing homework and things, since I don't get to during normal hours.
Okay, so I watched some TV with Val yesterday and shirked my duties, which is why I had to stay up. Also, Tara called.
Still, I won't get to sleep tonight because I have to read for class and prepare my presentation. No fun.
It's all for the 4th of May, though. Then I'll be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Mizuki seems to be a little less キラキラ right now. I really hope he isn't getting some kind of fish disease.
Zaphod, on the other hand, is just fine, even though the water in his tank got a little murky because I fed him too much the other day. I took out half the water and replaced it, so it should be fine.
And...and! Today I went to the pet store and bought some bloodworms for them. Zaphod gobbled them up and was a happy fish, but Mizuki doesn't seem to care for them too much. He didn't dive after them like Zaphod did. So, the quest to find a food that Mizuki likes continues on!
I got to bed at 10::30 last night but...I'm still exhausted.
Now, it's 5:30AM MST and all I want to do is crawl into bed and go back to sleep. It's 47F (8C) out this morning and, really, that's too cold to be functional.
Today was a good day. I haven't done anything that needs to be written for tomorrow, but Val and I had a good time watching TV, making a pizza, and baking a pie.
Pumpkin pie season is the best, and the pie is so easy to make, especially with a ready-made crust.
I did buy things to try Leigh's pumpkin muffin recipe, but I don't have any muffin pans and, right now, I don't have enough extra cash to spare to buy a muffin pan. The nice ones are at least $7. Ridiculous.
Now I need to get to business and write these papers before it's time for bed.
This is a picture of last year's winter. They're saying that we'll get more of the same this year.
I hope not. (_ _。)
I've grown to like the cold since I moved to Colorado, but I'm still a bit of a Californian at hear, and too much cold muck gets on my nerves. I like it best when it snows, sits a day or two, then melts away. Last year, we had snow on the ground for, more or less, the whole winter.
Disgusting.
Right now...at 11am...it's....49 degrees fahrenheit (9C).
RAG FAIRの『赤い糸』 - I finally listened to it for the first time today on Music Fighter.
I....like it in general, but I don't think it will be one of my favorites. The song didn't seem to use the range of the band's talent. In that respect, it was a little disappointing. I felt that way about the last single, too, though I enjoy this one more.
I'll wait until my CD comes - two weeks! How am I supposed to wait two weeks!? - to make my final conclusions. I'll post my full review once I've had time to think the CD through.
This is a stall door in the women's room of the Denver Zoo.
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Today, despite sleeping in, I got a good bit done.
I did five loads of laundry, made a pizza with Val, and watched Galaxy Quest and some episodes of Magiranger.
I still have to read through this essay on ekphrasis in Jane Eyre and break it down for my slackass research group. Why oh why couldn't I have had decent group-mates? Why!?
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This essay....it makes no sense - and not even in a "I'm so brilliant you can't understand me" way, but more of a "I'm so full of it, I can't properly carry an idea through three pages" way. Still, I need to break it down and explain why the argument isn't valid, and I can't rightly do that if I can't comprehend what's going on in the piece.
*sigh*
Also, I broke down and bought the 嵐 Around Asia Dome DVD. It ships out October 16th. I wanted to buy the new RAG FAIR single, and needed something else to make it worth the shipping. Of course, now I'll have to wait another two weeks for my single *cries* but there wasn't much I could do about that other than pay yet more for shipping, which I wasn't willing to do.
International shipping really makes being a fan tough.
But hey, JET applications are out and I'll begin compiling my documents next week. With any luck, I'll get things in quickly, though interviews won't be until February.
Pray that I get accepted, k?
Right, time to get back to reading this hideous essay.
