JOURNAL: Kusoyaro (Hsien Lee)

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  • dorothy said..."scarecrow...i like you the most..." 2002-01-11 21:19:11 MCWagner: Just read your previous journal entry and saw your response to me. Anyway, I liked the second Harry Potter book a bit bitter...enough so to buy the 3rd book. I didn't realize those books cost $8, though o_0 Guess that's what happens when I pay for everything with a credit card.

    American Gods was okay. It had a really neat premise, but the narrative itself was rather lacking. It felt like a huge jumble of ideas and events, and it wasn't tied together very coherently. There are entire chapters set thousands of year in the past that seem like complete non-sequitors. They're somewhat interesting by themselves, but I couldn't really connect them back to the main story. A lot of my friends liked it a lot, despite agreeing with most of my criticisms...so it's your call, really. 
  • monkey smoke...he's in me and he's the king...flash bulbs flash...and corks screw...with a brash dash... 2002-01-11 13:37:59 Does ANYONE know who those lyrics are from? I feel like I'm the only person in the world who knows of this band...damn shame, too.

    I had a funny conversation with Nick Corbo (StealthVisions) last night. He was asking about Waldo's server, and then he finally asked, "Who the hell IS Waldo, anyway?"
    I was kind of surprised, and I replied, "Uh, you partied with him at Anime USA! Don't you remember Omar?"
    "Oh shit, OMAR? I never realized!"
    Haha.

    Damn, I want to go home. 
  • pause without restraint...barren without child...a child is who i was...a child is who i'll die... 2002-01-10 16:42:58 Argh. Still nothing to do at work today. I just talked to my supervisor, who's been promising me work all week, and he can't think of anything for me to do at the moment. I mentioned possibly switching to another department (since I'm on a rotational program right now) instead of spinning my wheels here, but he was like "NO, I don't want to lose you, because I'm going to need someone like you soon!" Right now our project's still in the new year transition phase or something like that.

    My new cubemate is really cool and she's fun to talk to, but it's all the more embarassing with her around, sitting around having nothing to do. She's a mechanical engineer, so it's not like I can help her with her work, either.

    I'm too lazy to set up another FTP server on my computer, and it really isn't worth it with an upload cap...so I just went ahead and shared all my videos on Morpheus. So now up to 3 users can download videos at a time at a combined speed of 15 K/s...all 3 might as well be downloading on 56K modems, but I guess at least it's something. DDR project VCDs are a pain in the ass to copy for some reason, but the SASE packages are coming in, so I'm getting them out as quickly as I can...

    No ski trip this weekend, it appears. The Duke people went and pulled something beyond my comprehension, so I'm a little irritated in addition to disappointed. They say they might reschedule to MLK weekend, but I'm annoyed that I had gone ahead and cancelled some *other* plans I had had for this coming weekend for their sake, so I'm seriously considering telling them not to even bother...not to bother *planning*, that is, not actually *doing*, since doing for them is an almost impossible feat. I think I need this weekend to recover from being sick anyways, since I'm still not feeling 100%. Guess I won't be seeing Thacker, he returns to Ithaca in the middle of next week to resume his graduate studies at Cornell.

    The synth background on "My Mistake" by the Pumpkins is so fucking gorgeous! It tells a story all by itself...I always imagine a sort of ice-bird soaring through a cold, crystal-clear sky when I hear the song. Is there any sort of name for a bird like that? Sort of like a phoenix, but with ice as its element instead...starkly beautiful, yet sad at the same time. I realize ice isn't exactly an element, but "water-bird" isn't quite right. I've thought about doing a video to the song, but I'd want to highlight the background...unfortunately, the sparse, beautiful synth is mostly drowned out by the more pedestrian (but still beautiful) piano and vocal foreground.

    If Duke doesn't crush Georgia Tech tonight, I'm gonna be plenty pissed.

    Parts finally arrived in the mail yesterday, I can finally fix my cousin's PlayStation and mail it back to my aunt..
    Going to see Mulholland Drive in DC this weekend...looking forward to it, I've heard a lot about it.

    I just need to survive two more weeks... 
  • now my gates are high...my friends are even higher... 2002-01-09 09:44:17 My god, am I glad I got out...

    I've always had this deep-down feeling that my college friends were completely incapable of planning anything without my presence. A very arrogant thought, yes, but I spent 4 exhausting years watching them scramble to get things planned, and then having to pull invisible strings (ie, frantically doing ALL the actual planning and arrangements) when all their inept planning fell through at the last minute...while still maintaining a visage of passivity and letting them take all the credit. Maybe it isn't surprising that out of all my "regular" college friends, I was the only one to leave and get a job after graduation. They're my friends and all, but it was exhausting being around them, and I just HAD to get the fuck out of there. They all stayed behind for the sake of grad school/work/med school/underclassmen girls/fear of the real world/etc., and I know many of them are bitterly regretful and unhappy there.

    But anyways, I think my theory about their inability to plan has been confirmed. First was when my friend Thacker regaled me with a humorous and ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS tale of a nearly failed attempt by them to expedite the simple matter of getting together for dinner. It involved three separate parties all leaving at similar times for different destinations, getting to restaurants after they were closed, etc. etc. And then there's the matter of a ski trip/Baltimore visit they've been planning since before Christmas. I'd been looking forward to it, and I had invited Paizuri to come along too (since he's known some of these Dukies even longer than I have), but then...

    I asked one friend about the status of the trip Monday night. Her reply:
    "Bah."

    I asked another friend Tuesday night. His reply:
    "We tried to talk about it last night but somehow failed."

    This trip is supposed to occur in two days. My ass. Friends, yes, goons, definitely.

    But anyways...on an AMV-related note, I was talking to Paizuri one night, and he mentioned a new song he liked. I told him I'd been thinking about doing a video to it but couldn't think of any appropriate footage. Then either he or I suggested a show that neither of us really knew anything about. Then he sat down and watched it (since he has that goonish habit of stock-piling anime and then watching it months and months later) and told me it would fit well. And thus another AMV idea was born ^_^ But I have so much on my plate, I might just suggest that he do it...after all, he already has the DVDs, AND I traded him my DC10+ last month! It's another Pumpkins video, and I've already done 3 of those.

    Sigh...back at work again today...yesterday I finished "American Gods," read most of the second Harry Potter book, and played some FFX. They say sick people are supposed to drink lots of fluids, but maintenance decided to choose yesterday to shut off the water in my complex for about 5 hours...and then replace our water reply with a SEPTIC TANK or something, because the water's been anywhere from brown to black ever since. I was thirsty and feeling too crappy to go out to buy some bottled water. So yeah, yesterday kinda sucked.

    Time to go ask for some work to do. 
  • she said "hey....how do you do?" 2002-01-08 12:04:25 Urgh...went to bed around 10 last night. I was feeling okay at the time and thought maybe I'd be able to go into work today. I dozed off, and then I woke up feeling like ASS. Tossed and turned for what felt like hours, and then glanced at the clock and saw that it was only 11! More hellish tossing and turning, and I think I finally fell back asleep around 1:30 o_0

    I feel kindasorta okay this morning, but after last night, I think that it'd be best for me to stay home today and recover. At least I woke up, came to my computer and saw that Leandra had left me some really nice IM messages. Don't know what I'd do without that girl.

    Guess it's going to be a day of green tea, reading, maybe some PS2, and a thermostat turned up way too high. 
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