Thursday: 12-13-01 ~ Surrealistic Fancy

If I were a work of art, I would be Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory. I am a surreal landscape composed of several disjointed and bizarre components. I like to keep an eye on the time, although the very concept is fluid for me. People are never sure what they are seeing when they look at me. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test

I think it is actually fairly accurate. Scary. *returns to the blackhole of graduate school hell during finals week*



Tuesday: 12-4-01 ~ ...

HELP!



Monday: 11-26-01 ~ Time... what have you done to me

Days like this make me wish I could pause time, like the character from the old sitcom "Out of this World" could. Of my many assignments due... I have finished my Wife of Bath presentation. I have my notes and a rough outline ready for my M. Butterfly presentation. I have my weekly paper finished in American Lit. Although I still lack 3 abstracts (I'll do that later today). I also am lacking on my revisions and rewrites in my Theory & Criticism class. I have to finish those up today/tonight. Tuesday will be devoted to reading, meeting with my advisor, and working on my M. Butterfly Presentation and major paper over another work by the author David Henry Hwang. After that I have a bit of breathing room, although not much.

For next week I have presentations in Medieval Lit and American Lit over my major papers, AND my major paper in Medieval Lit is due. The sad thing is,. I'm still unsure what I'm writing it over. I've been researching 2 different potential topics. One will examine Christian mysticism (possible from a female gendered perspective), or I may examine the Medieval manuscript "Pearl" through an analysis of a jeweler's craft and trade. The pearl within the text is both a literal pearl, and figuratively symbolic of 1) Christ 2) New Jerusalem, and 3) the narrator's dead daughter.

I suspect that I'll be getting *VERY* little sleep over the next 2 weeks. Heck I've been up all day slaving away on my projects! Not only did I burn the midnight oil, but I'm burning daylight too now. Ah well, I'm gonna try to snag roughly 4 hours of sleep before I have to cover shifts at work.

Pray for me. That the muse of inspiration strikes and I just work through all my projects thoroughly, precisely, and quickly. Heck pray for God to toy with time, if He could do it for the armies of the Israelites, why can't He do it for me?

To my various friends, keep this in mind, if you don't hear from me for the next couple weeks, or I seem particularly grouchy... you know why. >_< The good news is that my back is doing MUCH better and I'd like to thank everyone for their well wishes. Oh and yeah, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, mine was spent in back pain and graduate school hell. >_<



Sunday: 11-25-01 ~ Rence. Lather. Repeat.

I recently received a pissed off I'm leaving the ML e-mail from someone who dragged in Rence's name into her comments. Rence wrote at her own pita about this person and their erroneous usage of Rence's name. And to that I reply: WMC x Rence = Da'ing Yohji. Isn't life grand?

*cackles*



Saturday: 11-24-01 ~ Turkey'd

Well this past Thanksgiving marks my parents 28th wedding anniversary. Mother always says Dad was the biggest Turkey she ever got. :P And you wonder why I'm weird? *snerks*

I managed to do a number on my back, and now my homework is doing a number on me. Expect me to be very incommunicado until at least Dec. 7th.

I'm a very broke woman this Christmas so don't expect much from me. In fact the handful I do plan to spoil with a gift will most likely receive belated gifts. The school screwed up my billing and told me I was paid up 2 months longer than I really was, which threw my budget to hell. As always I do have a shopping guide. I'm not expecting anything really, almost all of my friends are as bad off financially as I am. This so sucks. But for the couple of people inquiring, knock yourselves out.

On an up note, I've heard that a one-way ticket from New York to London on a plane is only $200 some odd dollars. That's cheaper than most domestic flights! If I had money I'd be planning a London trip. Usually the fare is in the thousand dollar plus range! England and Japan are the two places I most want to visit. *sighs* Maybe one of you can capitalize on this deal.

Graduate work due this coming week: 2 oral 15-minute presentations, 3 abstracts written over critical articles on specificallly designated authors, 2 papers over various themes present in different Eugene O'Neill plays, one major paper on any work by David Henry Hwang besides "M. Butterfly." 6 papers revised with corrected grammar and punctuation errors, and 1 paper completely rewritten. On top of a shitload of reading, 3 plays, and around 12 articles in my Theory & Criticism class. After I survive that whirlwind of activity, for next week I have a paper, and one major research paper due plus 2 presentations over my major research papers for my classes. All of this crammed into the next 2-3weeks. I'm so... royally and bloodily screwed. May God have mercy on my masochistic soul. Afterall, I decided to be a graduate student. I also have to meet with my advisor and register for my Spring classes. Gadzooks.

What was I thinking?



Friday: 11-16-01 ~ A Witching Brew

Ah... some friends decided that I needed alcohol. So they took me out last night, I got a couple of daiquiri's, and it really made all the difference. Alcohol makes me sleepy and realxes my muscles, the alcohol managed to relax my spasming muscles far more than a week's worth of Vicodin was able to accomplish. I'm still in pain, but there's is such a *HUGE* difference. So I'm thankful they took me out. ^_^

Tonight I have a ticket to go see the Harry Potter movie! A bunch of us from the anime club are going to a 10:30 showing, hoping we'll at least avoid the very *YOUNG* kids. I haven't had the opportunity to read the books.. but I'm still looking forward to this movie. Granted I'm still looking forward tot he first movie the of the Lord of the Rings trilogy more! Think about it, it's basically a month away. SUGOI!

SailorSpot and I have decided that we want sd Keegander dolls, complete with WMC approved floofy hair. Keegander is driving up from Austin for the weekend. He's gonna get his hair cut tomorrow *wails* But but.. then he have no more floof... *SIGHS* The up side is he's also brining more anime, a book I needed fromt he UT Austin library, and of course himself ^_^ He'll be one of the people tagging along for the movie tonight. Although the rest of the weekend I shall be woefully busy on my various research projects. Bleh, bah, and humbug.

I want to thank Lady Dorothy and Stephen for the research help. Although Stephen turned up everything I had, Lady Dorothy (she's a librarian by day, plotting overlord by night) has in a period of an hour e-mailed over 300 articles on David Henry Hwang to me. Their relevance is yet to be determined. I'll have to wade through them this weekend, but the help is not only appreciated but ... impressive.

I was having dinner with someone this past week who was telling me about recent events in their love life... I remember feeling shocked when said person mentioned they lost their virginity. Um.... and they said so in a public restauarant. I kept giggling and laughing throughout the meal.... WMC is a giggle fiend when tired or when shocked silly.

Instead of enjoying my hour paid lunch today, I sacrificed that hour, and another hour (2 hours of pay) so I could take a long lunch, do my laundry, do the dishes, clean up the place a bit, etc. I know that this weekend I need to crack down and study, and the place was messy enough to be driving me insane. Especially since my floor overfloweth with dirty laundry and NEW still int he box dishes. I figured I needed to get the Blue Willow up in the cabinet before I inadvertingly stepped on it and broke it under my disguising mounds of laundry. Have you ever noticed that laundry multiples like bunnies? Scary.

Ushicon is progressing along... and coming scarily closer and closer. I saw the preliminary sketch today for the t-shirt design, and its great ^+^ ArlingCon, my anime club's con is in a few weeks we're auctioning off Matt aka Vash the Stampede aka our whore at ArlingCon, and we're also auctioning off a gal for the guy fans. She agreed to it. I pray for her sake she gets a decent guy.

The Forth Worth Star Telegram is doing an article on our Anime club in general that will run later this month, and today we got a commentary remark in the University paper, The Shorthorn. In the Guest Column there was an opinion piece titled "Active Campus" where it was listing the organizations both professional, and special interest that were active on this campus providing either entertainment or good industry contacts, and we were mentioned. That was just *GREAT* the bad thing however was... the fact the person got our name wrong. He wrote UTA Anime, when we are Anime UTA. Ah well.





Thursday: 11-15-01 ~ Da Blues...

I realize I have not been around lately. I have far too many grad deadlines in the next 4 weeks, I'm really just being maxed out to my extremes. I did something nasty to my back. I have pain radiating from my neck, into my shoulder, into the collarbone and past it. Down my back. I feel as if on my left hand side I was stabbed two inches below the collarbone and 2 inches to the side of my heart. I feel as if I was speared from in between the bones of my shoulder in a vertical manner. I feel as if there is a rod from my lower back to my shoulder blades of which the muscles surrounded it are spasming. The shoulder feels as if it needs to be in a sling, it hurts if the shoulder moves whatsoever, so I've been holding it against my side as I walk. Looks strange as heck. UGH, UGH, UGH. I hurt so badly, and I've almsot used up all the vicodin I have.

Stephen: Are you running a fever, you actually redesigned the page! I'm impressed. My only quibble with it: the font is really choppy on the graphics. The Clamp series you're looking for is Shirahime something or other, Shirahime is the name of a mythological winter demon, much like the hispanic la Llorona. In the previous case, she looses her children to the winter frost and as a result haunts the winter in her grief, in the later to a drowning. As to my career and yours being scary, look at it this way, as a CIA analyst I'm well prepared. many of my associates want to take over the world, so I'm used to world dominating types and behavior and mannerisms. In my case I just will be analyzing things. I do that daily. Howevewr, *YOU* are talking about being placed in a position with drugs and people and chemical agents that can eat through walls or people, or make nice big explosions.... gee who's career is more dangerous and a scarier thought?

ICQ has been insane lately, it was acting up so I received messages but despite me sending messages, no one ever got the reply, PLUS I was getting constant echos of messages I received days ago.... so I deinstalled and reinstalled a later version, which was squirrely, de-installed that and came back with an older version of ICQ. I have no contact list at the moment, but otherwise I think I'm back. So please everyone message me so I can re-add you to my contact list. But I generally keep aim and ICQ on to keep my connection to the net up during uploads and downloads... so just cause it appears I'm on, in most cases I'm not in the same room.

To some of you intellectual types, I've tried the MLA database and articlefirst and paperfirst for criticism of David henry Hwang's plays (Besides M. Butterfly) and I really can't find anything. HELP! This is a *MAJOR* paper.

Seimei: Go to Strange Candy and read the Nov 10th comic, it makes fun of Clamp's X. I think you'll get a huge kick out of what Tanzy & Co. is up to. Shall I call you mistress *nods to Nakago's whip Seimei is wiedling* Scary. What would Nokoru say?

My roomie left today for Aka-con in Canada on an American Airliner, she was as reported by SailorSpot, nervy. I didn't help matters either. I teasingly reminded her of the fact that all the terrorists involved in both World Trade center attacks either came from the city in which we live, lived here a while, or had training/meetings here. OOOh she can glare real well. In other con news there was supposed to be a con the weekend following Thanksgiving but it was cancelled two days ago, Meri Hazelwood who runs project A-kon in a day put together Itzacon3 at the same time, giving dealers and fans who can't change their plans much now an alternative event. I must say... putting a con together in a day that's running in less than 10 days, I'm impressed.

Heart-sib: Er... I've been rpaying that you'd get to know God better.. so don't hurt me. *SNIFFS* Remember, this too shall pass. *ducks*

Laurelgand: Congrats on finally finishing that mural. I'm like you I'd be hiding my artbooks too o_O that was just WRONG. Actually I think the catfish comes from a Japanese myth... I vaguely recall hearing of one, just now what it was @_@ Hmmmm.... The green layout is nice. And are you ever gonna ship the tapes you owe me, it's been over 6 months! And dang it woman, I want Gundam X.

Rence; Do you realize I do beleive I'm the one who got Jennifer Mondazzi started on The Cheesecake Factory? :P





Thursday: 11-15-01 ~ My da'ling Chichiri

BELOVED! So this is where you have been. I suppose you've been hard at work on the new FY OVA series based off of the gaiden novels... but.. but... but... I've missed you *cries* the bed although quite blue in color is like me blue in feeligns with you not around. We both miss your warmth no da.

*the preceeding have been the delusions of a lunatic, in a great deal of pain, and drugged out on the *GOOD* painkillers, pay her no heed*



Saturday: 11-10-01 ~ 'Da Music

My MP3 site is back up online with some changes. The files are no longer housed on my server, but you can still get to the files. Just read the intro paragraph on the page to find out how to access the files. :)





Thursday: 11-08-01 ~ Bleh...

School kicks my ass no da. Sometimes I'm so fed up with school I'd like to scream! *SIGHS* Currently I have a stack of over 50 books (primarily InterLibrary Loan material) and another stack of xerox articles for my 2 oral presentations this month. I have very little material at the moment for my 2 major 20 page plus research papers that are due in oh.. 3 weeks time. There have been many grumblings around school this week, to which I full6y agree. *WE* need a fall break. In the spring I spend my Spring Break working on my jaor research projects/papers/presentations. As an honors student during my undergraduate career I never once had a "fun" Spring Break. Rather, they were always research and study time.

Now as a graduate student, my homework load is infinitely more complex and lengthy. In the fall I do not have that desperately longed for break, and so somehow in addition with my brutal reading and writing assignments I have weekly for my classes I have to find the time to research all this extra material as well. I just can't do it in the time allotted. It's simply running me haggard. I have no social life to speak of except those rare instances I may find the time to go out for a meal or a movie.

As things stand now the only thing that constitutes a "Fall Break" is the mere fact we are allowed the Thursday and subsequent Friday for Thanksgiving off. Yet this holiday falls barely over a week before finals begin. Last year my Thanksgiving consisted of my parents picking me up, driving me out to dinner, and driving me home. This year looks little better.

It probably wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't required to maintain full time status at 9 hours (3 graduate classes). Many of my fellow classmates are taking one class, and a few are taking two. Even they struggle with getting things done in time. I can't comprehend how at the graduate level when so many people are working that they think we can handle all this with our other classes. Teachers say take an incomplete and finish your work during winter or summer break and turn it in. >_< I really loathe that idea. Winter break is so bloody short (one month) I like to utilize it to catch up on cleaning, my personal reading and correspondance, working on my professional and creative writing. Summer breaks will be dedicated to brushing up on my language skills and possibly taking new languages.

Especially if I want a CIA analyst position I need to brush up my languages and try to get introduced to as many new ones as possible. I'm specifically looking into Russian, Chinese, and Japanese. I'm switching programs of study from English into Humanities, and with Humanities I can take European Studies, Russian studies, religion, history, political science, and anthropolgy classes. This I hope will also help enable me to get that position. (I wish I had a firmer grasp of my career goal back during my undergraduate career. If I had I would have spent all my miscelleaneous credit hours and electives over in the foreign language department.)

Why is it life is never a simple and straight-forward black and white equation? BLEH.

To add to my frustration, it's the time of year I loathe, inventory. So I've gone through 200 computers roughly marking their serial number and their location number. I stayed 2 hours late to do this. All I have to say inr egards to this is, BLEH.





Thursday: 11-01-01 ~ Finger Licking Good

I have come across some fo the best fanart I've ever seen. @_@ The stuff is gorgeous, the men are just so delectably scrumptious! ^+^

here's the site. I mean just look at this illustration of the Weib Kreuz guys : The White Shirt Series

Is it starting to get warm in here?



Sunday: 10-28-01 ~ Geekiness or Genkiness?

I AM 56% GEEK.

Nerd, Freak, Geek, Dweeb. Sound familiar? That's okay, cause I will be the richest person at my 15th year high-school reunion. If a "con" isn't happening that weekend.

Take the GEEK Test at Fuali.com!

Friday: 10-26-01 ~ Men and Phallic Objects

A quote from the recent Anita Blake novel (No spoilers):

" . . . the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives."

*snerks* I found it amusing. I've had a great day at work playing with the G4, Mac OS 10, and the IBook. If PC users had any clue or iota of knowledge they would know MAC's are better without a doubt! They are dual platform, meaning they can run both MAC and PC style. How much better, can you get? And the graphics processing and video card is astounding!



Thursday: 10-25-01 ~ Hot Oil

The topic refers to not only my failed attempt at making tempura, but also to the substance I'd like to rub into the bishounen of my choice :P

Seriously, I heard from Serizawa Kamo on the SASSE ML more details concerning the currently in production Rurouni Kenshin OVA's. The following is quoted:

Well, for those who didn't know already, the first volume of the new Kenshin OVA will be released this December and the second (last) volume in February 2002.

It is set both in Meiji 11 and in Meiji 28, so that we'll get to see many scenes shown in the TV series and some that never made it to the anime.

And now, it has been confirmed: the older Enishi will appear in the new OVA, though it's not certain if we'll have just a glimpse of him or not.

Furubashi Kazuhiro, the director of the new OVA, gave the following statement to the Newtype magazine (November issue):

"The lives of Kenshin and Kaoru are something that is too spectacular and therefore impossible to happen in real life. In the last work, "Tsuioku Hen", I tested some of the important points in order to show such relationship in an anime, which seems a bit far from real life as well. And in that aspect, the "Seisou Hen" is a kind of a sequel to the "Tsuioku Hen". I believe that animation is the only way to express the 'pure spirit', something that is nothing but a utopia actually.

Either way, I would like the people to watch it without any prejudice. It will be great for people who knows nothing about the show. And, of course, it will be highly enjoyable for those who are acquainted with it . There are scenes that are very heavy, psychologically speaking, but they are not dark or melancholic. I strongly recommend this "Seisou Hen" to people who don't feel satisfied with superficial actings and plots. The "Seisou Hen" will draw the maximum of the deepest aspects of the original work, and it will be an another way to see an original work like "Rurouni Kenshin", so please give it a try".

Also, a crucial scene and one of the director's favorites is a scene in the second part of the OVA, when and Kaoru and Enishi are alone at Enishi's hideout. He said that "this is a part that has never been animated before. Moreover, it's a scene where it is needed to show in a clear way the feelings and beliefs of Kaoru, so I put a lot of emphasis in the acting."

OOOOH.. look Enishi will be present... I wonder how much of Jinchuu related arcs they'll animate.





Wednesday: 10-24-01 ~ The World revolves around DA

The following is quoted from Heart-sib's pita:

(The following is taken from p. 61 and 62 of the book “Jambalaya” by Luisah Teish)

“The universe is a sphere which may be compared to two halves of a calabash, the edges of which match exactly; the join line is the line of the horizon. The surface of the Earth, which is flat, lies on this horizontal plane. The first sphere is enclosed in another larger sphere, and between the two are the waters. The smaller sphere is mobil: ‘The little calabash floats in the large one’. The waters outside of it are the source of the rains. But within the smaller sphere there are also waters –they form the sea. It surrounds the earth, not only on the plane of the horizon, but also beneath it; ‘This is why one finds water if one digs deep into the earth,’ says B. Maupoil, adding ‘Water surrounds the earth covering the whole surface of the half calabash.’ The heavenly bodies revolve on the inner surface of the smaller calabash. The process of ordering the world before the creation of man consisted essentially in gathering together the earth, determining the place of the waters, securing the welding together of the whole.”

The preceding quote explains teh world view of the Fon. The waters that surround all things are an analogy for the energy that carries creation, the force field in which creation takes place. The Fon call this energy field the Da, and define it as:

A vodu who incarnates the quality of dynamics in life –it is movement, flexibility, sinuousness, fortune. It manifests itself as serpent, as rainbow, as umbilicus, as plant roots, as the nerves of animal forms, as the gaseous emanations that issue from mountains. It explains how, when an immovable thing like a mountain shows life, it is the Da within that actuates it.

Although all nature contains energy from the Da and is considered fundamentally sacred, trees, rivers, mountains, and thunder-stones (meteorite rocks) are considered particularly so because of their utility and endurance.

In the West African view, both the rock and the human are composed of energy provided by the Da. We can say that the rock has the energy of being, it exists; the plant and animal have instinct, the energy of doing. Humans are favored by Da. We have existence, instinct, and self-reflective consciousness. This complex is energy on all levels (and carries a grave responsibility). This energy can be extracted from and fused into rocks and humans by various ritualistic means. The human is receptive to the energy emanating from the rock, and the rock is responsive to human influence.

(end of quoted section)

*CACKLES* The best things in life stem from DA. ^+^



Saturday: 10-20-01 ~ Chinese Monks...

Ah... despite some bad news (it appears the company providing me server space for my website, Seika.Org, is now defunct) I had a pleasant evening. We had some guests over. it was great to see Chad and the baby, as well as supply a fellow fan of You're Under Arrest with some more of their favorite series. After visiting a bit with Chad, I went out with some other friends who had been over, Sophie & Calvin. We went to see Iron Monkey (the action sequences are phenomenal) and afterwards we played DDR.

How can you go wrong when... I see Chinese men, specificaly monks, showing off their prowess of form, tone, litheness, flexibilty... and the evening capped off with me breathing heavily. ^_~

If I had my own DDR game, that would become a daily exercise regime for me. *SIGHS* But things, are rarely that simple.



Thursday: 10-18-01 ~ Reach out and grope someone...

Tin: What will it take to get you to stay in *ONE* place! I spend more time updating your links than I do updating my anime list! I swear womasn, every month I'm changing your link. I'm getting to the point that I'm going to give you an ultimatum, get a forwarding URL for my sanity, or I'm gonna smite you. Otherwise, how are you doing? *whine, bitch, complain* you never write me anymore. *sniffles* *wmc chibifies and turns on the waterworks, the quivering lower lip, and the wide lost eyes* Don't ya like me anymore?

Seimei: OOOH it's so cute! The page really does remind me of you, sorta POPPING in on silent wings. OOOH I think I should get a seat at this concert of yours.... weeknights are impossible for me (except maybe a Friday night) and you know my car situation -_- but... I'd like to hear! I remember you telling me this whole long story last year. Small world, eh? OH and I have a favor to ask, can you host the images I use for my pita until my site is up again?

Congly: Ah but I always said you *LOOKED* like a mad scientist type, it's jsut you are not that scary. Bill Gates terrifies me more. No more bugging me about the Ayashi no Ceres article, it's done! So BIDA.

Rence: Try talking to your doctor. Maybe they can prescribe something to make it so you don't care *WHAT* happens in flight. Just bring something to distract yourself with, a book, some manga, Yohji... Hmmm think of this. Rence and Yohji as members of the mile high club. Doesn't that encourage you to go fly?

Heart-sib: Take it easy will ya? OH, you should be getting a book in the mail from me sometime next week (so long as Amazon cooperates).

Laurelgand: Should I consider the tapes you owe me lost in the black hole of Calcutta. Lazy. And here I thought that *I* was the Queen of procrastination. Hmph.





Thursday: 10-18-01 ~ Black Panties....

That got your attention, didn't it? *points to title above* Anyway, I came across this article in the University paper the Shorthorn, the article is fromt he Associated press:

Suspicious letter sent with love

Fallon, Nev - A man who received a suspicious lettter with amorous writings and lace panties turned it over to the sheriff's deputies, who stored it in a biohazzard barrel before determining it didn't come from a terrorist.

"It was from a secret admirer," Churhchill County Sheriff Bill Lawry said. "we returned the letter and the underwear."

The 59 year-old-man said he became concerned about the threat of anthrax contanimantion because the unsigned letter was mailed in an envelope with no return address.

Neatly printed on two pages, the sexually suggestive message and black thong panties arrived Thursday.

The woman who made the overture notified the sheriff on Monday when she learned that the letter had been turned over for investigation. She told authorities she was romantincally interested.

-end-

I'm sorry, but.... can you IMAGINE? I can't seem to stop laughing!

In an unrelated note... I realize that Seika.org is down. The e-mail of the server administrator bounced back. And since her e-mail address runs from the same server my webpage does.... I'm waiting to find out what the status is of the page. I'll call tomorrow during business hours.



Wednesday: 10-17-01 ~ Insane Morning Discoveries

Yes I have been quite a bum in regards to keeping up with this pita of mine. I fear that homework, weekends full of activity (one my birthday celebration, the other Ushicon business) and a serious migraine that persisted for a week's time has kept me from updating.

Even now I have homework, quite a pile of it and am desperately trying to catch up after the migraine endurance. But amongst my reading, I have come across a truly priceless and infinitely amusing gem. And here I quote the entirety of line 410 from T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland: "DA"

Indeed the man was a genius. :P



Tuesday: 9-25-01 ~ Ha ho he heeehe

*ROFLMAO* Sometimes... the things people come up with are... disturbing ^+^



Monday: 9-24-01 ~ Thrill me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.

It seems like my life has been a roller coaster event lately, with unexpected surprises. Firstly Seimei who said she didn't want a pita, now has one. Ha Ha! in the words of Davenader, "you've been sucked in!"

Work is chaotic... some well directed complaints have heads rolling in my department. We are no not allowed to touch a computer unless it is for work related purposes. In the past so long as we had finished our duties, we were permitted to surf, e-mail, and even work on our homework. Why are we now being punished? Because several employees at labs other than mine on, were goofing off on the machine and not addressing the lab duties. My job is quiet, painfully so, and my shifts are tediously long. Which means I now have essentially 8 hours of sitting on my rear bored out of my mind to look forward too. I can bring a book to read, problem is, I can't read a book that long in those horrible computer chairs more than a couple of hours. Because after that point I start getting neck and back strain, and then my neck and back are prone to going completely out. Which is not a pleasant experience.

The frame on my bed is broken, one of the legs is twisted under. After laying on my bed at an angle, I have managed to level it out with several phone books. When Dad coems to take me out to dinner this friday for my birthday, he's going to see if he can fix it otherwise, we'll need to replace it.

Why is it that the name of the "attack" plan the US government has devised for the Terrorists, sounds like a cheesy 1960's comic title? Infinite Justice. *shakes her head sadly* Although, it does scarily befit Bush.

I have been having various dreams lately with romantic undertones, no one I know, no movie actors, no characters, no Chichiri... but still. I'm going into an odd romantic mood as my birthday approaches. Don't ask me why @_@

Ugh I have to read Faulkner this week. I LOATHE Faulkner... can we say, I'm procrastinating on this assignment? Bleh. This is probably something you wouldn't expect of an English graduate student, but Faulkner is what I call reserve fuel stash. Meaning if we were every in an energy crisis, it's the first book I'd throw onto the fire to stay warm. He overdoes his own writing, the style is atrocious, and I have always found his stories to feel like so much deadweight, like concrete shoes on a Mafia victim in the Hudson River.





Friday: 9-21-01 ~ NOoo...

Curse vile fate. How dare thee show to me Chichiri merchandise I do not have! *CRIES* All I want is the Chichiri figure, I don't want the rest of the package... it is not fair I tell you! Why can't they sell him separate -_- I don't want to pay over $100 (once shipping is involved) to get the FY Special BOX, when all I bloody want is the figure. >_<



Friday: 9-22-01 ~ Caught Up in Wings..

Flights of Fancy... for many of you who know me, you know I have a rabid imagination. That loves to gnaw and drool over delicious little tidbits, especially bishounen. But of all bishounen, I have always just found absolutely scrumptious, wingéd bishounen.

With my Birthday approaching, and after making a road trip through a city I had spent so much time in when I was 15 last night... I'm in a sentimental mood. Once upon a time, I used to play in RPG's, specifically RIFTS, and I dabbled in a few others. I had an endless fascination for the bountiful rich lore surrounding ravens in so many cultures. My characters wore beaded feathered things in their hair, and I wore these things as well in real life. Some friends lovingly called my featherbrain and featherhead.

I've always teasingly said my fascination with wings and birds comes from my birthday. Back in my Sophomore year of High School my term paper was on Joan of Arc. I was born in New Orleans, and growing up in that heavily predominant catholic community I knew that St. Joan was considered the patron saint of the city and all those born therein. Why? She's called the lady of Orleans, and thus her "protection/watchfullness" carried over to the new city of Orleans. In the midst of this research I found sources that cited Saint Michael aka Michael the Archangel as one of the voices she heard that told Joan to act the way she did. Upon my research of Michael, I discovered that the dau associated with him is my birthday, September 29th. It is called Michaelmas in the Catholic calendar, referring to the feast of Michael.

So I guess I've had feathers on the brain since day one. So it's all Saint Michael's fault that I melt for bishounen with wings... or something like that :P