I found my journal today. The one I started right before Christmas of '06. Hand written journal, that is. Lovely how my first entry was about how terrible the Christmas season had started off. Hahahahaaaa!

Anywho, it really made me want to start writing again. Which is really a very good idea simply because I've become terrible at spelling. Having taken mostly business, foreign language, and econ classes the past year and a half I've only had to write maybe three 10 page papers.

One of which was last week and, um, I'm pretty sure my spell check considered disowning me.


Also a little worried by the fact that the more I study French the more I end up instead reviewing Japanese on the weekends. Which is odd because I'm really loving French. A lot. I just miss Japanese a lot more?

SPEAKING OF JAPANESE! HOW ABOUT THAT JET PROGRAM =D??

Spoke to my parents about it and they're a little lot disappointed that, instead of taking my lovely Berkeley degree to get me a fancy job, I'd very much rather do a 1-2 year stint in some rural area of Japan making ~$38,000 a year. WHICH ACTUALLY APPARENTLY, some non-tenured profs at Berkeley barely make. They've gotten over it though. Because, really, they can't really do much about it anyways.

Have a bit more planned this summer than expected. Do hope I actually get through it all!

Julia came back from Thailand and brought a bunch of goodies from Japan too. Including The Prisoner of Azkaban in Japanese, VERY EXCITED!




Hopefully this will be the summer where I actually Do Stuff.
-fingers crossed-

So I taught Julia how to use torrents and whatnot. &then we found out that demonoid has a nice collection of American shows/movies dubbed in Italian.

So she's been watching this vampire show and everytime I listen in I keep hearing 'bambino. Bambino' (which, I thought meant baby, but actually means little boy). I finally confront her, concerned that this show was about baby-eating vampires. Apparently, the Italian word for vampire is 'vampiro' which sounds an awful lot like 'bambino'<-IT DOES.

I was disappointed.


I should really learn how to cook something that isn't baked macaroni and cheese.

I've never really been a big fan of the Beastie Boys (other than a song here & there, maybe?)

But I've listened to "Sabotage" like, 5 times in the past hour. &Yes. It has everything to do with Star Trek.

On a completely different note that doesn't involve Star Trek:

If I had my own stable household/family, I would totally get him:
http://www.ahan.org/adoptions/animaldetails.php?aid=831&page=2

What a gorgeous dog! But I wouldn't be able to be as attentive as necessary for a deaf dog =/
This shelter is killing me. There is something about Jojo's face that I love and Benny really looks like he needs a hug.

And then there are these puppies: http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=13722679

BUT!
firstoff: I'd hate to separate them =/
second : they have the 'no kids' symbol.

WHY can't someone just drop an adorable young dog that is good with babies, other dogs, with minimal shedding, likes car rides, and (preferably) has reddish brown coloring into my lap?

Oh Gallifrey, how hard you are to find!


I love how my parents are letting me get MY OWN dog yet it's taking me forever to find one.

The kitchen is not completely disgusting anymore so unexpected guests are now welcome!
Awkwardness like this will no longer be a part of my life:

manager: HAY GUYS! We're showing your apartment today!
us: uhmm shit.
me: well, this is the kitchen door and inside is a kitchen that looks like a kitchen, aaand since we all know what a kitchen looks like we'll just... y'know, not look in there.
roomie: oh yes! let's go stand in the closet because that's not the kitchen.
Manager: errr didn't you guys get the notice?
me: yeahhhh we though that was y'know, for the bathtub that's clogged
roomie: OH YEAH BYTHEBY! The shower looks like a shower sooo, let's not open the shower curtains kay?thanks.

Also, I wonder if we should've tried to explain why we have a picture of a goat taped up in our bathroom.

I've been using Twitter.
I never really understood why people used it, but I always liked facebook status updates and, well, facebook isn't twitter so constant status updates are kind of spammy.

I'm meeting up with Julian to practice for our Japanese Conversation test tomorrow morning. Kinda bummed that we're going first,but at least that means that after 9:20am tomorrow morning I have the rest of the week to study for the first part of the final (which is on Friday).





You know what else is on Friday?

STAR TREK!! Kel is making a trip up to Berkeley to see it with me =]
Hopefully Julia and I will be able to contain ourselves.
...which is highly unlikely in any scene with little Spock (who looks absolutely adorable in the trailers). Sure, we saw little Spock in Star Trek III, but he was pon farring like, every 7 minutes. That was really awkward and needs to not happen ever again.

Neil Patrick Harris was at the premier & that makes me happy. Though he might've just been there to support John Cho, buuuut whatevs, still happened.

What is up with Captain Kirk's shirt ripping apart at his right shoulder in practically every fight he gets in? FOR REALS. As Julia said "Design flaw much?"

Okay, you have a manly right shoulder we totes get it! His shirt getting ripped in most of his fights wouldn't be nearly as ridiculous if it didn't rip in the same place at least half of the time.

&Spock's shade of green/yellow seems to vary. Also, Zachary Quinto was a fantastic pick for the movie. && I TOTALLY THOUGHT JOHN CHO WAS PLAYING A BAD-GUY OF SORTS! I didn't realize he was going to be Sulu =O

Julia and I have estimated that we have about 90 hours free (&together) to watch the remaining 54 episodes of The Original Series within the next two weeks. We really just rationed out our hours you guys. Really, we did. (I have 10 hours to write my 10 page paper, hahaha)



ON A COMPLETELY UNRELATED NOTE:
Congratulations to Takamasa Ishihara (aka Miyavi <3) (&melody.)for his new company, marriage, and future child. It's amazing to see how far he's come in the past 9-10 years and it's really unfortunate that he felt any need to apologize to his fans for all the drama that's been going on surrounding the whole thing.
In all honesty, I'm truly happy to officially hear the news because he'll probably make an awesome father and I know that, for a while, he seemed to not have any intentions of starting a family.

Best of Luck to you.

SO UM.

I think my parents are starting to regret the whole 'Hey Daughter. Move back okay?' thing because apparently I leave wire nests (I didn't realize I had so much shit to plug in) everywhere I go and once I set up camp. I SET UP CAMP.

But being here this week made me realize how much I'm okay moving back. I've known what hours my parents have been working, but I never realized that it meant William was in school by the time they woke up, they were at work by the time he was back from school, and he was asleep by the time they came home. WHO IS RAISING MY BROTHER?

Did I mention he's going to be in high school? ALSO he is almost as tall/er than me. It's unacceptable.

&&he's turned out to be a really good kid. The thought of being able to give him a good high school experience is enough to make me want to move back seeing as how he can't actually do shit outside of school with how isolated our neighborhood is since no one can drive him anywhere (&you know other stuff like being able to get my future dog Gallifrey and blue car The Tardis).


P.S.
Wes and I are going to completely give my room a makeover once I move back this summer. So any recommendations on where to look for cute room stuff would be much appreciated <3

SO! I'm watching the Jdrama Love Shuffle and I'm probably the only person who became ridiculously giddy when I heard Tristan Prettyman playing in the background in Episode 5.

&& I actully did take a picture today, but I forgot the wires for the camera back in Berkeley, we'll see how this works out this week.

Haha I've obviously stuck to my 'pic-a-day' decision.

Because, you know, I actually have taken photos, at least.

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This is in front of Dwinelle. I really do love my campus. Which means I'll probably be posting a lot of pictures of campus/lecture halls/people...

EXCEPT! I'm going home tomorrow so I guess you'll get a break from Berkeley for the next week (assuming I can actually stay on a regular updating schedule).


I really like this mashup of the Killers and the Arctic Monkeys. I think it has to do with how much I love the bass line for 'When The Sun Goes Down'.

So, you know how I said I was going to do that whole pic-a-day thing? I know it's practically been a week or so, but I'm starting now =D

I was going to take a picture of something I see everyday like the Campanile or Sproul, but I decided to do the opposite.



I heard there was a T-rex fossil in the VLSB (Valley Life Sciences Building), but I've never seen it despite having two classes in the building in the past year. I finally went and found it. Apparently it was just on the other side of the courtyard.


Errr I don't have much else to say right now, hm.

They were showing our apartment today. Julia and I spent quite a bit of time cleaning up so they'd actually be able to walk around.

Then we stood back and felt quite proud of our apartment and congratulated eachother for seeming so awesome. Not only did it look like we were cultured with Oscar Wilde books, The New York Times, a piano, and various language books strewn across the room, we also have fantastic Jrock/movies/The Beatles posters covering our walls.

Hahaha in actuality, I think the only thing people actually took any note of was the fact that we had a light saber lying around.


Julia and I are going to start checking out animal shelters to find the perfect Gallifrey. I'm really afraid that I'm going to find the perfect dog and it'll end up being adopted before I can actually take it home at the end of May. I wonder how long I can stretch the application process.


Also!!

Barty Crouch Jr is David Tennant. Maaaan I wish he was in the movie more.

Who The Fuck is taking my New York Times Sunday paper?

OKAY. So maybe I never go out to get it until noon, but SERIOUSLY.


At least they have an online edition that I can read. Which totally doesn't justify taking my hard copy!



I guess I should go to sleep now. I'm quite proud at the lack of bold and italics abuse in this entry.


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I think I told Peter that I was gonna do that 'post a picture per day' thing, maybe I should get on that, haha.

Berkeley's Flashback Thursdays is fantastic. What is not fantastic is Guy With An Obnoxiously Loud Laugh Who Laughs At Inappropriate Times during Starship Troopers.

My parents are really pushing for me to move back to Fairfield and just commute next semester. They've even agreed to buy me a car and let me get my own dog =O

I can still very much stay in Berkeley if I find a cheap enough apartment (Julia and I would end up splitting a studio), but at this point? Living at home is actually sounding a bit appealing.

Except for the commuting part. I still really really don't want to drive and park in Berkeley. UGH.


BUT! I'd totally have a dog and I'd name it Gallifrey. Also, I'm trying to convince my dad to get me a blue car so I can call it the TARDIS. I really need to stop watching British shows.


Well, actually... Doctor Who and Torchwood are both BBC Wales.


I'm thinking about typing some of my entries in Japanese, you know, just for practice. <-- I'll probably never actually get around to this.

I take it back. Scruffy is fine. Neck beard is going a bit far though.


Apparently, the Parents aren't cool with me spending another summer here in Berkeley since the only class I plan on taking is French. I guess I'll just take it at Solano? Perhaps I can take a Japanese conversation class while I'm at it, talk about weak point. One thing that won't be pleasant is having to find another job over the summer. It still surprises me a bit how awkward it is for me to call Fairfield 'home' and how, increasingly, I just refer to it as "visiting the 'rents".

I just realized, seeing as how I went to Europe the summer between Junior and Senior year of high school, I haven't actually spent a full summer in Fairfield for the past 3 years. Huh.


I've also been listening to Lily Allen quite a lot. Particularly The Fear, Guess Who Batman, and Who'd of Known.
Not really of much relevance, but you know, whatever. I haven't had tea in a while, I quite miss it.

Mr. Happyhappyhappy is back. I've also done a terrible job getting around to updating daily, as I intended.

I'll blame it on Doctor Who. I will give Doctor Who all the credit for my being completely reasonable in this whole my-ipod-just-died issue that's popped up.

&ofcourse by reasonable I mean I just got a paycheck and spent the entire thing on a new ipod.

BUT! I did it all quite painlessly and without a total panic attack.

I signed up for a New York Times subscription as required for my International and Area Studies lecture ($98 for the semester~).

It makes me feel responsible, getting up in the morning, reading a newspaper as I spill cereal and milk all over the place...

But what do I do with the newspapers? I already have piles of The Daily Cal lying around. I mean, yeah I guess I could just throw them away when I'm done, but I'm such a packrat that I feel like having them on hand might come in handy one day. Maybe?

Honestly, I think I'm just in love with the idea of looking back and pinpointing an exact date. Which is why I really should start regularly updating this journal. I love being able to look back and go 'Aha! February 24, 2001: the first day I dissected a frog!'


Or perhaps I've just watched too much Doogie Howser.

I didn't realize hissing is the new booing. &Oh boy was Rick Warren hissed at when he came on screen. Equality and Justice for all? You've done a fantastic job at proving how much you believe in that.

It's unfortunate that President Obama stumbled during his oath because I know people who won't be letting it go.

Never have I wanted to be more politically active. Never have I wanted to be more interested in history. Never have I been more amused by closed captioning. "witnesses shopping in heaven" harhar.

BeeTeeDub.

I have the Dr. Horrible's Sing-along-blog soundtrack repeating over and over in my head. It was interesting to have the line "Amazing how sheeple show up for the slaughter" playing in my head as we all clapped everytime 'Obama' was said.

We receive 24 hour notices about people coming in to do annual/safety/maintenance checks in our unit, but no one ever shows up.

It's not really a complaint since our managament's lack of following through with their notice gave Jeff plenty of time to get back from Oregon and pick up his ferret, Tashie.
We were originally only supposed to be petsitting her for about a week in December when he came back for Bowl Game while the dorms were closed, but his ride fell through and he ended up having to fly down to SoCal. Which was unfortunate because California has this thing where ferrets are kind of illegal.

I really want a dog =/


To continue with cute things I'm awfully fond of (at the moment), Julia and I have been on a Neil Patrick Harris binge lately. &Jane Austen movies, now that I think about it. <-NOT following along with the cute things I'm awfully fond of (ATM) line of thought

Also I'd like to give a big Fuck You to Berkeley for being ridiculously hot these past few days. Whatever happened to WINTER, Berkeley? Fairfield is cooler than this. Fairfield is NOT right next to the ocean BTW.

Pleasepleaseplease be pleasantly cool on the 20th at least? I'd really like to watch the Inauguration on the huge TV they'll be setting up on Sproul. PLEASE.

How I Met Your Mother anyone?

Please?