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| Time: | 6:28 pm. |
| Mood: | exhausted. | | Music: | Analog Fish--Matenroo. |
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Graduation is over and done with and I am tired, if vaguely ecstatic at never having to grace York with my presence ever again. EVER AGAIN. ROCK.
... I really am too tired to form anything resembling to a thought process, though. I should probably get myself to Sam's graduation party at some point. If I can manage to get out of bed.
Bed. :D Good.
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| Time: | 9:15 am. |
| Mood: | ehhh. | | Music: | THE MOON IS DISTANT FROM THE SEA.. |
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:D School's out.
I found our Winter Concert CD from last year this morning and I've been listening to it... the one with "Amor De Mi Alma" and "The Moon Is Distant From The Sea" and shit on it? Yeah. ... We were so much better last year (I disagreed with Steph Ziemann when I heard her say that when listening to the same CD, but seriously, we were. ... I blame the altos). It's giving me shivers all over the place. :D Nice.
But yeah, summer. Shit. It doesn't quite feel like it yet, which makes sense, I guess, since it's still May and everything, but... God. I don't know.
We must do dumb shit this summer. DUMB SHIT. ... Someone call me, I'm restless.
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HAHAHA I JUST POSTED SOMETHING BUT I WAS JUST READING AN ARTICLE THAT EQUATED HOMOSEXUAL DESIRE TO SOME FREUDIAN THING AND IT MADE LAUGHHHH. :D Oh how I laughed. ... Shit, the bell rang.
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I'm looking up conservative viewpoints on homosexuality for my Pop List project (... okay, because it's funny) and I just learned the term 'uterine-infanticide.' With the dash included. GOD THAT'S FUNNY.
All of these people keep talking about how the 'homosexual agenda' is biased by labelling it as disgusting and saying, well, shit, I'm not a homophobe, but that doesn't mean I have to agree with their behavior! ... You don't, sure--that's a basic component of free speech and free thought. But it's none of your business, all right? Let them do what they want. If you're going to whine about how your kids being taught that homosexuality is normal in school is ruining this country you're obviously got some denial issues to work out. The point is tolerance, not brainwashing, and if the kids don't get it at school it's pretty obvious they're sure as fuck not going to get it at home. If your kids learn that BEING GAY IS A-OKAY when they 're seven it'll probably stop a bunch of their classmates from committing suicide ten years later.
The point is, if you can ignore genocide in Africa and the horrors of factory-farming, you can ignore gay people. It's like seeing a homeless person on the street! Just avert your eyes and pretend it doesn't exist. :D AND THAT'S HOW WE'LL PROMOTE EQUALITY!
... So there's my liberal rant for today. But seriously, this is entertaining. I don't even know if I'm going to use this topic for my project (as much as I would love to get back at my Pop Lit experience by preaching to my classmates about tolerance and peace and love and gay without them being able to do anything about it), but I'd also pretty much like to rant about parents who baby their children and ruin their relationships with their kids around the teenage years. ... I don't know. It'll be fun either way, though.
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| Time: | 9:14 am. |
| Music: | Shiina Ringo--Ishiki. |
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Considering I didn't really have any expectations other than "I kind of hate dances, so I hope this doesn't suck," prom was pretty decent. Assorted shit went down, but nothing explosive, which is really more than I could have hoped for. Aside from being cold and pretty much the whole night, it was okay. ... And post-prom was better, but everyone knows that.
I suppose I'll post my pictures on Facebook or whatever soon enough. And I think it's kind of bad that my brain formulated a Shakespeare-related joke just from that sentence.
... Goddddd.
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
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My throat shouldn't hurt this much. It's really unnecessary. I was going to go to Borders to pick up some manga or something, but I'm not feeling so into that anymore, I don't know.
And I found two more new anime series to watch! The first one is called Hayate no Gotoku and it's about this kid who starts working as a butler (a combat butler) for this rich girl after his parents sell him out to the mafia. ... And it can get pretty cutesy, okay, but it also reminds me of Excel Saga, so I don't know what to make of that. Kind of sold me with its squishing both a Black Lagoon and a One Piece shoutout into about ten seconds, though. :D
They've also come out with an anime based on Romeo & Juliet--entitled Romeo x Juliet--and it seems pretty decent so far, I have to say, even if they've taken some liberties with the story. I do not remember, for example, Juliet being an Anastasia figure who's posing as a boy and living in William Shakespeare's basement. ... And she's a superhero. And flying horses! And I'm really loving all of these recent anime series based on classic literature. Since I've read a lot of the classic literature and it just makes it fun (I will see Moby Dick in Space). ... But yeah! Romeo and Juliet. God.
... My kitty loves me. :D
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
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| Time: | 10:17 am. |
| Mood: | pissed. |
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It's unbelievable how pissed-off I am right now. I'm in Pop Lit, so it might have grown from the usual simmering irritation at being coddled and talked down to, but giving me a project based on liberal values in this environment really wasn't a good idea, as the importance of the stuff we're being asked to use as barely educational fodder juxtaposed with the ignorance and apathy of seemingly everyone else in my class is just... OH MY GOD I AM ANGRY. If I'm not allowed to do a presentation on apathy in which I'll condescend to the class in an entirely ironic way I don't know what I'll do.
I'm tired of people disregarding things as bad or stupid because they don't understand them; I'm tired of people not caring about everything that matters and wrapping themselves up in their own petty dramas to the point that nothing else can permeate that shell; I'm tired of the conservatives running our country talking about equality and the American dream while everything they stand for continually contradicts that dream. I am so glad it's Day of Silence tomorrow; I really need to feel like I'm doing something good for something that actually matters.
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I'm pretty sure we all need to go to Belmont at some time in life, since if I go somewhere with my dad and actually enjoy it it's got to be pretty awesome; on Sunday we went down there and had lunch at this amazing Italian restaurant called Leona's (their cheese ravioli=AMAZING) before going down to one of those tiny Chicago theaters to see Ragtime. The place was crawling with old people who insisted on standing too close to me in line when we got there, so that turned me off a bit, but the play turned out to be the best thing I've seen in a while, so it didn't matter. They managed to do this massive Broadway musical on this stage that was about fifteen square feet big, so... props to them, first of all, and the people in it were all awesome. And that kid who played Anna Faris's nephew in Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4? Cody? He was in it. How random is that?
But yeah, I woke up this morning all gross and fevery and I was all, "... Yeah, not going to school." And my mom decided to be a lazy ass and stay home with me to "take care of me," so we partied all day. It was kind of nice. I can't take any more sick days this year, since I'm already planning on taking off the first day of ACen and... you know... senior ditch day... but whatever. Kids who miss classes at Knox pretty much have to drop the classes, so I'm taking advantage of being able to stay home while I can.
... Ummm. So I'm going to... go watch more anime now! Which I have basically been doing all day. ... Sooo.
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So this is my new meat regimen: stuff from fast food restaurants and other greasy places of establishment is out. Pretty much everything else--frozen stuff from grocery stores, for example, since I can't think of anything else I eat that wouldn't fall under that greasy category--is okay. Which gives me license to enjoy the spaghetti and meatballs my mother threw at me for a late-night dinner. :D The meatballs are fabulous.
They do, however, leave a nasty aftertaste in the mouth that I only discovered when I woke up the next morning. And no one wants that.
That aside, I did a lot of nerding done yesterday (quite apart from our impromptu Nabeshin party); it's the *beginning of a new anime season*, so I sampled a bunch of new shows today. I'm not done with them yet and I'm sure there are more for me to download somewhere (I have not, for example, gotten my hands on a fansub of that Les Mis anime that's supposed to be running right now), but there are three that I've decided thus far to follow:
El Cazador de la Bruja is strongly reminiscent of Noir, what with the two female leads in an action/adventure setting and the music by Kajiura Yuki, but set in Mexico instead of France. It looks pretty decent from what I've seen so far, even if I never really got into Noir. ... The fact that the same female leads share seiyuu with Rhode Camelot and Linalee Lee from D.Gray-man hasn't been lost on me, either (not that it would be).
Speaking of D.Gray-man, I think I'm going to swear off the anime entirely, just because I can't figure out what the hell they think they're doing--the beginning of the first episode of the second season made it seem like they were getting into the whole 'find the generals!' plotline, which is still the major focus for the manga, but then Allen started talking about being best friends with some Indian kid and I was just like... "Goddammit D.Gray-man. Could we stay true to the manga for once? Please?" ... I do like the new opening theme by Tamaki Nami, though.
... But yeah. Another show I really enjoyed was Claymore, which is this season's new adaptation of a Jump manga. I can't say this series is too typical of Jump, though, as the art's super-sophisticated-style and the protagonist is a woman (an awesome, ass-kicking woman who isn't too high on her own assertiveness). It looks promising, anyway (and the animation is gorgeous).
And I'm pretty sure Darker Than Black is going to turn out to be my favorite. :D A Studio BONES show with music by Kanno Yoko? Fuck yes. Not to mention the fact that the first episode was pretty sweet in itself (oh! Oh! And abingdon boys school does the ending. Sweet).
... AHHHHH WHATEVER. I need to go watch Naruto Shippuuden or something (since I haven't watched the new special yet. God, I suck).
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Nerding's under the cut.
( Naruto 350 )
( Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle 149 )
( Bleach 271 )
On another note, I have to remember to watch Naruto on Toonami tomorrow night, just because they've gotten into the Itachi stuff and I need to see it. :D I missed the episode(s) where he first shows up and pulls the Mangekyou Sharingan out on Kakashi's ass--I'm sure they'd edit the crucifixion references somehow and I feel the need to see that--but hell, I need to see some Itachi. Because the only other anime stuff he's actually shown up in were Sasuke's flashbacks. ... That's so depressing.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
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| Subject: | I won't spew Hamlet cliches, I swear I won't |
| Time: | 7:36 pm. |
| Mood: | introspective. | | Music: | Placebo--Blind. |
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I keep finding the thought of eating processed food really disgusting ever since Ms. Lindberg threw Fast Food Nation at us to peruse in Pop Lit. Not that we're actually reading the whole thing, no; she assigns us twenty-thirty page sections to read and asks us ever-so-sweetly to do a presentation on what we've learned. ... Pathetic.
But yeah, the book this time isn't so nauseatingly pointless, which makes it a whole lot easier to stomach--which is just so ironic, since I was starting to feel sick this morning as I read about McDonald's and its numerous international exploits in an increasingly Americanized (and, consequently, commercialized) world--like passing out leaflets in a concentration camp parking lot; yeah, that's really classy.
But whatever. I'm considering swearing off fast food until further notice, so we'll see how well that goes. We don't eat out too much, so I'll probably be able to pull it off. I'm also toying with going back to vegetarianism for a third time, but I don't think I'll try that again until I go to college, since my dad always responds with a vaguely irritated patience that makes it clear he believes it's just a phase. Maybe when I was ten, dad, but now? I don't think so.
In any case, I'll just try to eat less and less as time goes on, and eventually I won't really think about not eating any... I guess. I refuse to obsess about it like Sam does, but I can't really deny the fact that the more I think about the process by which meat is processed to be eaten the more it turns my stomach. That and the corporate mindset really just makes me want to punch someone in the face.
... Hell. I need to get out more (not that listening to music and watching Xiaolin Showdown with the sound off isn't enlightening). I'm going to call Sam and see if he's up for doing some stupid shit somewhere. And then I'll change into something that's halfway flattering. I feel like feeling good about myself.
... I think my face did get a little sunburned (as Lissa prophesized). Fuuuuuck.
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