JOURNAL: Kusoyaro (Hsien Lee)

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  • living makes me sick... 2002-01-07 15:58:34 Thanks, EK. I'm leaving in 5 minutes. My company has the coolest sick policy for salaried employees...it's simply an excused absense, and they let it slide unless it gets excessive. I wonder if I could apply that to the two hours I'll be missing tonight :(

    I start "The Great and Secret Show" 7 or 8 years ago, but I could never get through it. When "Everville" came out, I tried again, but to no avail. I've also started and stopped "Imagica" about 4 times...I've gotten as far as 3/4 of the way through that monster, but I just can't make it all the way for some reason...I LOVED "Thief of Always" and "Weaveworld," though. 
  • dorothy said..."scarecrow...i like you the most"... 2002-01-07 15:29:12 In the past 2 hours I think I've crossed over from feeling like crap to being full-on ill now. Just what I need, at a time when I'm trying to build up extra hours so I can take an important day off.

    But at least something funny happened to me at the Motor Vehicles Agency during lunch. After I got my license transfered, the guy at the counter noticed that I was carrying a copy of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." He asked me what it was about, so I gave him a quick explanation. Then he asked me which religion I followed. At this point I was like "WTF?" and there was a long line behind me, but I answered that I was agnostic. Then he started speaking in a low, conspiratorial voice. It turns out he was a Jehovah's Witness, and he was trying to convert me right then and there at the MVA counter! With a long line of people waiting to get their driver's licenses behind me, no less. Now, I'm not a person who laughs all that easily, so this was the first time in my life that a perfect stranger was talking to me and I was struggling not to burst out laughing. I was just getting ready to tell him that I was late in getting back to work (which I was) when he finally started to wind it down. He ended by informing me that I could get the pamphlets and texts in Chinese if I so desired.

    I'm almost tempted to write a rant about this for www.iwillpretendtocare.com, but there's really nothing upsetting about it. I just think it's funny.

    I feel so crappy right now I'm tempted just go to home early...but then I'd probably have to come in on a weekend to make up hours. But I wouldn't have any work to do, so I'd be sitting here for hours doing nothing on a Saturday. Not fun.

    I think part of the reason I feel so shitty is because I stayed up too late last night playing FFX >_< I was stuck on the first battle with _____ (minor spoiler). I was convinced that it was a horridly unfair battle, and it took me about 3 hours and countless tries to beat it, and that was with the assistance of two different online FAQs and some long-distance advice from Paizuri, who was getting a play-by-play from me and offering suggestions based on FAQs (he's never played the game himself). How badly do I suck at FFX?

    I wish the Moulin Rouge soundtrack had the actual songs from the movie, not Lil Kim or Fatboy Slim renditions of those songs.

    ...kimochi warui...
    If I don't feel better by 4, I'm getting the fuck out of here. 
  • my angel wings were bruised and restrained...my belly stings... 2002-01-07 11:25:56 Boy do I feel like ass today. Don't know why, just do. Maybe it has to do with having a large glass of lemonade for breakfast...lemonade + empty stomach = pain.

    Trying to decide which video to do next. Most likely it'll be Ayashi No Ceres, but I can't bring myself to finish the damn series (a little over halfway through). My main complaint with it is that it piles on weirdnesses and twists at breakneck speed, and never gives the story a chance to catch up with itself. It just keeps on moving forward without allowing any sufficient for things to be developed and clarified. And based on my experience w/ anime, in the majority of shows that throw out mysteries of such quantity and magnitude, a very limited number of them will be addressed by the end.

    Another option is to start the Beatles video that EK did some work for me on. But something tells me it just isn't the right time for that yet. Don't ask me why.

    There's the Trigun vid, which scares the fuck out of me. I still have 7 episodes of Trigun left to watch, and I'm still hoping that some specific scenes that I need for the video actually exist! Not only that, I'm simply not sure if I have the technical cajones to pull this off. I've consulted with Pat Bohnet, Tim Park and Bill Milberry about this, and I have emails and IM messages from them tucked away and saved that I can look over later when I finally get into the nitty-gritty technical work.

    There's DDR2, which I haven't really thought about yet.

    New computer coming soon, which means that at the end of this month, my actual, bottom-line balance in the bank will be somewhere around $100. Scary to think about, but at least this computer represents my final initial-settling-into-own-home large expense. I'm out of debt to my parents for spotting me money for new furniture before my first paycheck came in...and as always, I absolutely refuse to spend above my means and incur credit card interest. After this it should be smooth (or should I say smoove) sailing.

    Finally saw LoTR, which I liked a lot. I read the first book and 3/4 of the second book almost 10 years ago and didn't like them at all. I think having read the books gave me a greater appreciation of the movie, though...I was aware of some of the detail and depth that was in the book, yet at the same time I could appreciate the pumped-up pace and action level of the film. I'll read the whole series again before Two Towers comes out.

    In this day and age though, I wonder just how tightly a studio can keep TWO completed and very highly awaited movies under wraps for 1 and 2 years, respectively. It's just a matter of time before parts 2 and 3 end up on the internet, methinks.

    Last night = sad, sad day for Duke basketball :( Fucking Seminoles...one of my damn exes was a Seminole >_<

    Whee, time to take a long lunch so I can spend 2 hours waiting in line to get my driver's license switched over to Maryland. I have to work late almost every day for the next couple of weeks so I can comp a day off near the end of January. No more frivolously throwing away vacation days. 
  • in you i feel so hungry...in you i crash cars... 2002-01-04 17:20:47 Just finished Sommerset Maughm's "Of Human Bondage." Wow. Good book.

    A bit long-winded now and then, and the author tended to ramble on philosophically for no apparent reason, but I guess the philosophy was the point of it. The ending was telegraphed like mad near the end, and then it happened and the book ended pretty abruptly.

    But well-written, very well developed characters (GOD, Mildred was a stupid bitch), and it thoroughly explored lower-class life in 19th century London and Paris.

    Next up: Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Doriam Gray." 
  • serve yourself...no you else can do for you like you...no one else fails like me... 2002-01-02 08:59:52 Minna-san, oshougatsu omedetou....

    And now it's back to work. New cube-mate should be moving in this morning, but she hasn't arrived yet. Damnit, I liked having my own cube ^_^ And I'll have to make a concerted effort at conversation on less than 4 hours of sleep.

    Hopefully the new year will bring in more work for me to do.

    Gotta go pick up the mail I've had held for nearly two weeks at the post office today...I'll have a lot of DDR VCDs to copy tonight. 
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