Guess what I got for Christmas???? Lotsa stuffs, but I'm especially excited about my new games and CDs. You know, this is first year in... I think the last five that I got more than one CD and NO Border's bookstore gift cards. Crazy, ne?
Well, the last week or so has been pretty crazy for me. You know that big blizzard that pretty much turned the entire south central U.S. into frozen pastry? Yeah, my dad had us all pile into a car with all our presents and the food we were supposed to bring and drive through that, after 2pm. You know, it was ridiculous! I'm just thankful we had 4-wheel drive (my dad is adamant that we never would have left if we didn't have a car with 4-wheel drive but I wonder...) or we would have gotten stuck. We passed a LOT of accidents because people were dumb and out in their low to the ground sports cars. Stupidest. People. EVER.
But my family survived. We had to stop in a different town than we expected, since visibility was already difficult without it being night time. We were a little less than half-way to our destination... Normally, when we go to the city to see my grandparents it takes us less than 2 hours to get there. We were barely half-way there... and it took us over 3 hours, and we had to stop for the night. Yeah. It was a blast. 9_6
I'm currently trying to blast my way through Persona 3 (PS2) but I had forgotten how absolutely crazy the dungeon in that game is. It's a tower, for those of you who don't know. It's over 200 levels high. And certain levels won't let you pass until enough game-days have passed. Yeah. I'm about half-way through it and I've been grinding those dungeons for over 60 hours now. I'm about ready to put it to bed, but I need to finish that game or I can't join something amazing. I'll tell you more about it if I get to that point. Until then, wish me luck!
............... This is my last post of the OLD YEAR. In less than 6 hours it will be the NEW YEAR. I'm a little anxious, as I always am on New Years Eve. It's non-specific anxiety. General anxiety. You know.
But I don't wanna let it get to me. This last year I hung out with two people I didn't realize were so dear to me, both of which I sorta only met this last year anyway. One is definitely a kindred spirit but the other is more of a foil of myself. I love them for their differences. But I know I get on their nerves ALL THE TIME. Hopefully it's not going to be an every day thing this next year.
I also discovered that writing is not my forte. I love to write. It's what I want to do. But I don't think I'm particularly great at it. It's just... what it is. I want to do something spectacular with my talents but sometime I don't think even I know what they are. Perhaps my future forever lives within the realms of sandwich crafting............. You know what the sad part is? I think that may be true.
I'm not depressed. I've never been a depressed person, but I'm rambling now because I'm being sentimental about last year. Maybe I should take up the Japanese tradition of blocking out the old year with booze and just focusing on the future! That would be great. Except I might nix the booze part. I'll replace it with chocolate..... or tea.
Anyway, I wish you get more out of this year than the last. May your harvest yield ten-fold, and may your children and oxen forever be healthy. Kanpai! Ciao~! Fuzzy pickles! And all that rot.
~H.D., who sometimes feels like Elphaba though maybe I don't deserve such a sentiment
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Den of Woe has a Christmas Tree at the end of it!
So, how were finals for all of you? Mine.... pretty much were okay. In hindsight, I wish I had done better but I can only do so much after all that carnage.
My novel, as you all know I've been diligently writing since the beginning of the semester for my PW class, was a huge fiasco. Honestly, I was literally just vomiting words onto the document. I just had to stop because it was getting rediculously stupid. For real, I just hated it. But I think I'll be able to write a little easier next semester. I plan on finishing it before the school year is done and over, but we'll see. Please keep rooting for me! I want to finish it! Then some of you will read it and tell me what you think.
The rest of my finals were fine (despite the lack of study due to novel and inherint laziness) BUT IT WAS WORK THAT NEARLY DID ME IN!!!!!
Okay, so we expected to be slow the rest on the last day of finals. Just about everyone had moved out and there was just about one customer every hour after eight that night. We spent our time reading, talking, working on projects (nothing for school, just fun stuffs) all the way up until about 11:30pm. Then, They started coming. You know, They. The people who are determined to spend every last one of their exchanges before we close. They are also the ones who never changed their dumb 12 meal/150 point plans to something more managable and, therefore, had about 10 more meals left to spend. 10 more meals = AHEKOVALOTTASAMICHES!!!
One of the orders was 10 of the same sandwiches.
One order had four different sandwiches plus three soups.
Another had three different sandwiches plus one soup and two salads.
IT WAS JUST.... I almost wanted to go to the back and scream. Luckily, one of our more vocal employees made his complaints very well known the whole time we worked, slaved over those 50 or so sandwiches. It was a great stress reliever to hear our resident Lord the Poet rant and rage while I piled at least 3 different sandwiches with all veggies and three meats.
Yes, yes, it was death and destruction. I usually can keep my own cool under even the most stressful of situations (at least I won't show my anger to customers) but I felt incredibly abused after all of that. One guy even had the gall to come up and try to play the "I been where you've been, I understand what you're going through" card, but our Lord Poet told him up-front that we didn't want or need to hear that kind of crap (though with a much more colorful dialog than my own, as you can imagine). Here's a newsflash for people like that: IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN THERE, THE WHY IN BLOODY, BURNING HELL ARE YOU HERE?!?!?! Seriously, if you really know what we're going through then obviously you know it's freakin' rude to show up at a place that's just about to close and order tons and tons of food like that. Rude and dumb. Like they're even going to be able to eat all that food anyway.
Yeah. It was that bad. And was I tired after I reached home that night. I realized about 20 or so minutes before I got back home that my muscles were aching a bit. My mom said it's probably due to me finally releasing all my stress; now that finals and work is done for the semester my body is finally able to relieve all the tension that had been building up. Kinda crazy how this stuff works, you know?
Anyway, now that I'm home I plan on playing a bunch of Phoenix Wright and Persona 3. I need to work on my application for a new game I'm trying to pick up on and then I'll also be helping to clean house and cook a little (that is a very little) for when we have company/go visit family. Christmas promises to be nearly a whole week-long affair and while I'm excited about the holidays and seeing family, I know I'm going to be exhausted the entire time. I'll probably lose my temper a time or two, and being grouchy is one of my specialties. Hopefully, I'll be infected by Chirstmas spirit and my mood will reflect a much more Christ-like attitude. I think it would do me good to immerse myself in that kind of feeling, rather than cold, prickly doubts and insecurites.
Peace out,
~H.D., who's plans to avoid listening to too much Christmas music before the holidays seems to be a success, so Take That! those of you who let yourself get sick and tired of holiday tunes before the season is even over
My novel, as you all know I've been diligently writing since the beginning of the semester for my PW class, was a huge fiasco. Honestly, I was literally just vomiting words onto the document. I just had to stop because it was getting rediculously stupid. For real, I just hated it. But I think I'll be able to write a little easier next semester. I plan on finishing it before the school year is done and over, but we'll see. Please keep rooting for me! I want to finish it! Then some of you will read it and tell me what you think.
The rest of my finals were fine (despite the lack of study due to novel and inherint laziness) BUT IT WAS WORK THAT NEARLY DID ME IN!!!!!
Okay, so we expected to be slow the rest on the last day of finals. Just about everyone had moved out and there was just about one customer every hour after eight that night. We spent our time reading, talking, working on projects (nothing for school, just fun stuffs) all the way up until about 11:30pm. Then, They started coming. You know, They. The people who are determined to spend every last one of their exchanges before we close. They are also the ones who never changed their dumb 12 meal/150 point plans to something more managable and, therefore, had about 10 more meals left to spend. 10 more meals = AHEKOVALOTTASAMICHES!!!
One of the orders was 10 of the same sandwiches.
One order had four different sandwiches plus three soups.
Another had three different sandwiches plus one soup and two salads.
IT WAS JUST.... I almost wanted to go to the back and scream. Luckily, one of our more vocal employees made his complaints very well known the whole time we worked, slaved over those 50 or so sandwiches. It was a great stress reliever to hear our resident Lord the Poet rant and rage while I piled at least 3 different sandwiches with all veggies and three meats.
Yes, yes, it was death and destruction. I usually can keep my own cool under even the most stressful of situations (at least I won't show my anger to customers) but I felt incredibly abused after all of that. One guy even had the gall to come up and try to play the "I been where you've been, I understand what you're going through" card, but our Lord Poet told him up-front that we didn't want or need to hear that kind of crap (though with a much more colorful dialog than my own, as you can imagine). Here's a newsflash for people like that: IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN THERE, THE WHY IN BLOODY, BURNING HELL ARE YOU HERE?!?!?! Seriously, if you really know what we're going through then obviously you know it's freakin' rude to show up at a place that's just about to close and order tons and tons of food like that. Rude and dumb. Like they're even going to be able to eat all that food anyway.
Yeah. It was that bad. And was I tired after I reached home that night. I realized about 20 or so minutes before I got back home that my muscles were aching a bit. My mom said it's probably due to me finally releasing all my stress; now that finals and work is done for the semester my body is finally able to relieve all the tension that had been building up. Kinda crazy how this stuff works, you know?
Anyway, now that I'm home I plan on playing a bunch of Phoenix Wright and Persona 3. I need to work on my application for a new game I'm trying to pick up on and then I'll also be helping to clean house and cook a little (that is a very little) for when we have company/go visit family. Christmas promises to be nearly a whole week-long affair and while I'm excited about the holidays and seeing family, I know I'm going to be exhausted the entire time. I'll probably lose my temper a time or two, and being grouchy is one of my specialties. Hopefully, I'll be infected by Chirstmas spirit and my mood will reflect a much more Christ-like attitude. I think it would do me good to immerse myself in that kind of feeling, rather than cold, prickly doubts and insecurites.
Peace out,
~H.D., who's plans to avoid listening to too much Christmas music before the holidays seems to be a success, so Take That! those of you who let yourself get sick and tired of holiday tunes before the season is even over
Monday, December 14, 2009
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Losing my mind... and something to relieve my woes
(art by zarla; Phoenix Wright, Edgeworth and Gumshoe (C) are property of CAPCOM)
I just can't seem to concentrate, you know? I need to practice my presentation more but I did manage to finish my power point in time at least. Now I just have to write 10,000 words before December 15 and maybe I won't die. The pains I'm taking to be a writer are more than you can imagine.
SO LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!!!!!! TIME FOR SOMETHING FUNNY!
So, at work we generally have to say goofy things and come up with reasons to be happy we're alive at all and not depressed that all we're doing is feeding the endless droves of students that flood our campus and get messier and lazier every semester. Sometimes we sing songs and sometimes we crack jokes. I have the annoying habit of ranting on whatever fandom I'm into at the moment, AND YES I KNOW I'M ANNOYING YOU ALL SO JUST STOP JUDGING ME BEHIND MY BACK!!
Well, one particular night a few of the girls and I were talking about something random and I started singing The Fun Song from Spongebob Squarepants. You know, from the episode when he tries to become friends with plankton and everything majorly backfires but not until he and plankton share a time of singing and dancing. Here's the lyrics if you still don't know what I'm talking about:
F is for "friends" who do stuff together
Now, that's all nice and sweet and fun if you hear Spongebob singing it to a grumpy bottom feeder like plankton, but apparently ANG Mark II had never heard this song before. As a result... she started looking at me like I was some crazy sicko. Apparently, she thought the lyrics were a bit... suggestive. And when you actually take the time to sing it nice and slow, and then lower you voice and try to make it sexy.... yeah, the lyrics do seem a bit racy, don't they? Isn't that odd?
This comic is pretty much hilarious if you've played Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, case file 1-4. Zar said this is how she imagined the ending scene to go, which is pretty funny since Gumshoe really does worship the ground Edgeworth walks on. Poor Edgy looks like he's having troubles breathing.
But in other news, I've been trying my best not to put a figurative gun to my head and pull its imaginary trigger. Finals are upon my doorstep and my time seems to be falling away... falling away...
I just can't seem to concentrate, you know? I need to practice my presentation more but I did manage to finish my power point in time at least. Now I just have to write 10,000 words before December 15 and maybe I won't die. The pains I'm taking to be a writer are more than you can imagine.
SO LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT IT!!!!!!! TIME FOR SOMETHING FUNNY!
So, at work we generally have to say goofy things and come up with reasons to be happy we're alive at all and not depressed that all we're doing is feeding the endless droves of students that flood our campus and get messier and lazier every semester. Sometimes we sing songs and sometimes we crack jokes. I have the annoying habit of ranting on whatever fandom I'm into at the moment, AND YES I KNOW I'M ANNOYING YOU ALL SO JUST STOP JUDGING ME BEHIND MY BACK!!
Well, one particular night a few of the girls and I were talking about something random and I started singing The Fun Song from Spongebob Squarepants. You know, from the episode when he tries to become friends with plankton and everything majorly backfires but not until he and plankton share a time of singing and dancing. Here's the lyrics if you still don't know what I'm talking about:
F is for "friends" who do stuff together
U is for "you and me"
N is for "any time" and "any where at all"
Down here in the deep blue sea!
Now, that's all nice and sweet and fun if you hear Spongebob singing it to a grumpy bottom feeder like plankton, but apparently ANG Mark II had never heard this song before. As a result... she started looking at me like I was some crazy sicko. Apparently, she thought the lyrics were a bit... suggestive. And when you actually take the time to sing it nice and slow, and then lower you voice and try to make it sexy.... yeah, the lyrics do seem a bit racy, don't they? Isn't that odd?
Who knows? Maybe Mark II is right and Spongebob has more innuendo (after which she would turn and say "in your endo!") than previously believed. I don't know myself, but I don't think I'll be able to hear that song in the same impartial, innocent way I used to.
~H. D., and God speed to any others who are lonely tonight
~H. D., and God speed to any others who are lonely tonight
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Totally for Turkey
Ready for Thanksgiving later today (it's very very very early after all!) even though I had turkey for lunch yesterday with the other half of my family. I always feel tired during this break, but hopefully I'll have the time to read my last novel for Category Fiction on Black Friday. It's a fantasy so it should go fast.
I'm about to start playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney (for real, I HAVE THE GAME RIGHT HERE!!!) but I figured I'd blog first. Nothing really important to blog about, and sorry if I'm not very interesting. I should probably not blog right before I sleep. I'm sure nothing I say makes much sense. And my sense of humor deserts me.
I turned in my novel pages a bit late this last Tuesday but my teacher is so cool in that class. Most people seem to give JMD a hard time, but I like him. Sure, we talk about a bunch of silly tangent things but it's not un-interesting. My only beef with that class is it's TOO LATE at night. 6-9 on Tuesdays is no bueno.
But I have three papers due next week, at least two quizzes in Japanese, and I'll have to finish my final draft for my Japanese presentation before the end of the week. Yeah, I'm kinda screwed when school starts back up, but whateva. I have most of my books read (JUST ONE MORE) and I'm pretty good at kanji. The presentation's gonna kick my butt (why did I choose kendo as my subject??) but that's my own fault. Like how my schedule this semester was also my own fault. Mah.
~H.D., still in denial of boredom
I'm about to start playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney (for real, I HAVE THE GAME RIGHT HERE!!!) but I figured I'd blog first. Nothing really important to blog about, and sorry if I'm not very interesting. I should probably not blog right before I sleep. I'm sure nothing I say makes much sense. And my sense of humor deserts me.
I turned in my novel pages a bit late this last Tuesday but my teacher is so cool in that class. Most people seem to give JMD a hard time, but I like him. Sure, we talk about a bunch of silly tangent things but it's not un-interesting. My only beef with that class is it's TOO LATE at night. 6-9 on Tuesdays is no bueno.
But I have three papers due next week, at least two quizzes in Japanese, and I'll have to finish my final draft for my Japanese presentation before the end of the week. Yeah, I'm kinda screwed when school starts back up, but whateva. I have most of my books read (JUST ONE MORE) and I'm pretty good at kanji. The presentation's gonna kick my butt (why did I choose kendo as my subject??) but that's my own fault. Like how my schedule this semester was also my own fault. Mah.
~H.D., still in denial of boredom
Monday, November 23, 2009
Spiraling into Fandom
First, a comic! (by zarla - click it to view in a easier way, then click the picture again to enlarge to see it properly) Yeah, I pretty much love Otacon. He's hilarious. And he's a great support for Snake, despite being a huge nerd/anime-otaku scientist guy.
On to the real thing: So, I recently realized I've gotten into the habit of just falling into fandoms at random. Well, maybe not random, but close enough.
Truth is, I seem to fall in love with fandoms before I even become a fan of any series now. Happened with some games recently, like for Metal Gear Solid and Star Control II. I have some online friends who are into both, so I happen to hear a lot about the crack-crazy things fans come up with about the games and I get hooked. Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright games worked the same way for me.
Truth is, I seem to fall in love with fandoms before I even become a fan of any series now. Happened with some games recently, like for Metal Gear Solid and Star Control II. I have some online friends who are into both, so I happen to hear a lot about the crack-crazy things fans come up with about the games and I get hooked. Ace Attorney/Phoenix Wright games worked the same way for me.
Usually, I fall in love with a particular character (that is, love in a "that's a cool or fun or awesome or interesting character" kind of sense. I don't get crushes on characters... usually) then I move on from there. I find comics, fanfiction, fanart, etc. of this particular character and just find myself falling into the fandom.
I kind of wish I didn't do this but I guess there's no helping it. I really end up spoiled for a lot of things when this happens but I don't take being spoiled as hard as most gamers do. As long as I don't know about the truth behind some epic fail I'm generally okay with a little spoiler or two. No HUGE plot points, thank you.
I don't tend to really care what people say online either, but can I really ever call myself a fan if I just fell into being a fan and didn't build it up myself over time, playing the game and failing and wining and doing it all by myself first? I don't know. I just.... should I even be worrying about it? Probably not, but I do wish I had known these games when they first came out.
Don't you just love it when you get a game and you play it and it's amazing and then it becomes popular? Then you can rightfully say "I knew this was an awesome game." For serious, I think I'm just over thinking because of lack of sleep. Maybe I'll elaborate more coherently later. *sleep*
~H.D., resident otaku
Sunday, November 22, 2009
The silly of stupidity
You know, funny things happen when you work at a place full of young college students. They're very independent peoples so they like to do what they want to do, even if it makes them look like totally sillies/idiots/dummies/etc.
So, you know. I see a lot of drunk people who come in completely high after a night on the town (BEFORE 12!!!) on days when I close at O'Henry's. Well, last Friday there was this completely floored guy who came in and ordered a sandwich in all caps. I MEAN HE TALKED LIKE THIS THE ENTIRE TIME HE ORDERED!!! I wonder if drunkenness makes it hard to hear? I wouldn't know.
Okay, so then he starts talking to us, mostly to the girl making his sandwich, and he says some bizarre things. He unwrapped his sandwich after we got it to him to make sure we cut it (surprising, since we always cut sandwiches and most people don't do that even when they're not drunk) then decided he needed to thank us by blessing us. He said something about being from a different country and asking a spirit to bless us (he was totally Caucasian and wore a cowboy hat and everything, what) and decided one of our workers, a Korean friend of mine, would be called Oliver Asian. He also said it was something "beyond Jesus" apparently totally without a thought of possibly offending someone, but yeah. He was drunk.
So, in short, it was kinda funny. But there were a lot of drunk people that night, and the sad thing is that when we have drunks it also means we'll have a big mess because they don't know how to throw away their trash. My freshman year a group of drunk guys came in one night and turned all the couches in the main Cate lobby upside-down. Very impressive, guys. Girls are TOTALLY into completely crashed dudes, especially when they're LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS!!
Totally a rant, but it was kinda funny. Maybe if you work with me someday, you'll see it too.
~H.K., tired but not dead
So, you know. I see a lot of drunk people who come in completely high after a night on the town (BEFORE 12!!!) on days when I close at O'Henry's. Well, last Friday there was this completely floored guy who came in and ordered a sandwich in all caps. I MEAN HE TALKED LIKE THIS THE ENTIRE TIME HE ORDERED!!! I wonder if drunkenness makes it hard to hear? I wouldn't know.
Okay, so then he starts talking to us, mostly to the girl making his sandwich, and he says some bizarre things. He unwrapped his sandwich after we got it to him to make sure we cut it (surprising, since we always cut sandwiches and most people don't do that even when they're not drunk) then decided he needed to thank us by blessing us. He said something about being from a different country and asking a spirit to bless us (he was totally Caucasian and wore a cowboy hat and everything, what) and decided one of our workers, a Korean friend of mine, would be called Oliver Asian. He also said it was something "beyond Jesus" apparently totally without a thought of possibly offending someone, but yeah. He was drunk.
So, in short, it was kinda funny. But there were a lot of drunk people that night, and the sad thing is that when we have drunks it also means we'll have a big mess because they don't know how to throw away their trash. My freshman year a group of drunk guys came in one night and turned all the couches in the main Cate lobby upside-down. Very impressive, guys. Girls are TOTALLY into completely crashed dudes, especially when they're LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS!!
Totally a rant, but it was kinda funny. Maybe if you work with me someday, you'll see it too.
~H.K., tired but not dead
I don't get this internet stuffs...
Yeah, so I started this blog tonight in an effort to de-stress a bit, but it kinda backfired.
Lately all I've been able to learn is how terribly bad I am at the internets. I mean bad. Really bad. I just can't seem to do anything right with anything. I'm terrible at making pictures, I can't draw or use photoshop or anything like that, I'm too shy to comment on other people's blogs and stuffs and why am I this way? I mean, when you think about it, the internet is supposed to be the final frontier in a way, where you can be anyone and not have to care what others think about you. But I'm so far behind most other people in my generation, I just can't do anything.
I'm trying to get into some new games and learn more about chatspeak and whatnot, but I'm still at a loss. I mean, I keep finding acronyms I don't understand. It's cool to learn new stuffs, but I sometimes even find one or two I don't know about, like this one: NSMILF. I'm totally lost with it. Maybe it's something bad, but I really couldn't say. The urban dictionary doesn't even say anything about it (or I overlooked it in my bmudness).
I also wish I were a better artist. I know it's random to mention that here, so maybe I'll talk about these specific woes in a later post.
Anyway, yeah, I wish I understood this internets thing better. I kinda feel disconnected and its an anxious feeling. Like, I should understand more about it since I'm part of the information age, but I'm too far behind I'll never catch up, but if I don't catch up then I'll be swallowed up by the oceans of cyberspace when I need to get something done the most.
*sigh* Yeah, sorry for the rant. I'm just trying to sort out some feelings, though.
~H.D., still making sandwiches
Lately all I've been able to learn is how terribly bad I am at the internets. I mean bad. Really bad. I just can't seem to do anything right with anything. I'm terrible at making pictures, I can't draw or use photoshop or anything like that, I'm too shy to comment on other people's blogs and stuffs and why am I this way? I mean, when you think about it, the internet is supposed to be the final frontier in a way, where you can be anyone and not have to care what others think about you. But I'm so far behind most other people in my generation, I just can't do anything.
I'm trying to get into some new games and learn more about chatspeak and whatnot, but I'm still at a loss. I mean, I keep finding acronyms I don't understand. It's cool to learn new stuffs, but I sometimes even find one or two I don't know about, like this one: NSMILF. I'm totally lost with it. Maybe it's something bad, but I really couldn't say. The urban dictionary doesn't even say anything about it (or I overlooked it in my bmudness).
I also wish I were a better artist. I know it's random to mention that here, so maybe I'll talk about these specific woes in a later post.
Anyway, yeah, I wish I understood this internets thing better. I kinda feel disconnected and its an anxious feeling. Like, I should understand more about it since I'm part of the information age, but I'm too far behind I'll never catch up, but if I don't catch up then I'll be swallowed up by the oceans of cyberspace when I need to get something done the most.
*sigh* Yeah, sorry for the rant. I'm just trying to sort out some feelings, though.
~H.D., still making sandwiches
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