Gesundheit!

Commencement, shamelessly stolen from a scene in 90210, or 門出

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:05:12 GMT

So, here we are. We moved house, yesterday to be precise though today is technically when the keys are exchanged. A's house is much, much, much more modern than ours - I'm almost completely convinced that her lovely kitchen came airlifted straight out of an Ikea warehouse.

It is a time of new beginnings, to be perfectly trite and sappy. It feels damn weird that the house I was born and raised in, from age 0 to the present, is now not my home. It isn't sad, not really, because I spent so much of my life being sad in that house that it sort of feels like I can breathe again. I'm a firm believer that sadness stays in a place, takes up residence in the walls and smothers the air quietly in the night. I sincerely hope none of the people that move in read this. It's a lovely house, honest!

I really need to talk to people again, actual people. At the minute I'm pretty much stewing in my own depression, which is lonely and sad and angry and guilty and horrible.

So many things in my life haven't turned out the way I planned them. I realised it late last night that I'm nearly a third of the way to being 24 (counting from when I turned the age I am now, which is 22), which will be horrific and depressing. 24 was the year I'd planned to be working, paying off my student loan, in a nice rental somewhere and Tom would propose in a completely Tom way, and it would be hilarious and hark back to when he told me he wanted to marry me and I told him me too, but if you want to propose do it properly with a ring when I'm 24 and I'll consider it *wink wink*. That was, not really a plan per se, but something I would have held him to, and something he would have done for me, because I wanted it.

I miss him so much. It's really sad and pathetic, but I actually write to him. Like notes between the stories in my notebook as if he can read them. I keep wishing that he would come back, though not in a creepy zombie or scary poltergeist way. But then cremation probably puts a pretty big crimp in that idea - I know, I know, I have been watching far too much Supernatural for my own good recently (I'd say it helps me deal, but mostly it just makes me afraid of the dark again). But there's times when I feel such a deep-seated lonliness, it makes me so miserable. I obsess over things I said that I shouldn't have, things I should have done but didn't, things I'm still doing which I'm sure would make him think I'm crazy and vindictive and selfish. I feel like a horrible person and I start to wonder what on earth he saw in me. Then I find a birthday card or something he gave me or wrote in my notebooks and it makes me so damn happy and sad at the same time, because I can never have that back. I really loved him. I still do really love him. I will certainly never stop loving him. But god, I wish he was here. I wish I could see him again and talk to him.

So this is me - Adolescent Female in Despair, the museum label would read - seeing in a new era (and by seeing in, mostly I mean standing back and trying not to get hit in the face with it) and considering antidepressants. This Christmas will be less bright than the last, but at least there will be Christmas! I'm starting to sound drunk. I'm not, I promise! Just tired.

I would toast, but my mug is downstairs and tea is an odd toast drink. I swear that when I die, all they'll find in my veins is tea, I drink so much of the damn stuff. That would be pretty horrible though lol so let's hope not, for the poor mortician's sake.

My cat hates me. My dad and I pretty much had to forcibly wrestle her into the box she was delivered to us in when she was a kitten, which is now quite small for her, and then we uprooted her from the only home she (and I) have ever known and moved her to the county next door. So she hates me, not in a glarey sort of way, oh no she's much too cruel for that! At the minute she's esconced in the kitchen - she trod on some broken glass and has a poorly foot, so until we can get her to the vet tomorrow she's staying off her feet. Whenever I go in there, she looks up at me and blinks contentedly like we're all friends, but as soon as I get near enough for snuggles she does a really annoying slow recoil, whereby she slowly inches away while trying to make it look all innocent like she only got up for a stretch, the tease!

*le sigh*

(>_<)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:31:15 GMT

'Lo all. Bleurgh, I feel yucky. It's times like these that I hate being a girl. (>_<)

So H isn't talking to me again. I don't get it! All I said was that I didn't want to go shopping today because I feel rubbish and I can't be bothered, and she stormed off in a huff like I'd threatened her first born! Do sentences like that really require so much melodrama in return? If I asked her if she wanted to go shopping and she said no, I'd just shrug and go by myself and think nothing of it. I don't get it!

Have to apply to some unis soon. I've got Kansai Gaidai and Osaka-U as my top two and then unsure about either TUFS or Meiji Gakuin for the others. TUFS has less interesting course choices and according to Anna looks like a prison, but it's cheap. 20,000 yen a month is not bad! But Emily reckons MG has things like learning tea ceremony which sounds so cool! Plus the Shirokane campus is close to Ayaka's university so we could go and visit (depending on if we get to the same one that is). It's making me worry. Plus they need financial information too and it's like agh! How do I sort this out!? =(

NaNoWriMo has been a spectacular failure. Truth be told I did get a really bad cold and I stayed in bed for about three days straight pretty early on, but now I'm just being lazy. And my ideas are flitting away like butterflies from the Big-ass Net of My Imagination. (T_T)

There we go, a nice general whine for everybody. XD

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:45:38 GMT

I HAVE INTERTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahem. So yeah, I has the net again. Life is good! I can return to my life of downloading manga, reading slash, attempting to make icons. Oh no, wait, left Photoshop at home. Damn it! *headdeskheaddeskheaddesk*

Er, what else? Life is interesting. The house is big. Of course, my room is small in this house that is big. That doesn't really bother me, and it means I don't have to spend lots of money on posters to cover the walls. I can manage with six posters and a scrolly poster that I forgot I had.

It looks purty!

I need to cook my own food. Heidi needs to fatten up so she makes huge portions of stuff and it's making me fatter than I was to start with! (T_T)

Ugh. Friends. Now strictly on an ordinary basis, Friends is not something I bother about. I don't particularly like it nor dislike it, and because of this fact, when watching it regularly, it just makes me bored. I can't help it. It's funny, but not quite funny enough to provoke a laugh.

Although the turkey thing is making me snicker, so I can't complain too much.

Er, have not much else to say so I'll keep it short.

THE INTERNET IS ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a Thought

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:25:53 GMT

Falling into that beautiful thing called Love
(Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.)

Attraction, flirtation, euphoria, doubt, the truth
(Or: You love me too!)

You feel fizzy. You feel funny. You don't want to stop and breathe. You don't want to think. You just want to hold onto this unblievable rush.
You tell yourself, I could learn to live with this feeling.
You tell yourself, this love, I won't question.
This love, I will simply enjoy.
Because this love is, quite possibly, the one...

.....I thought that was quite deep for a chocolate bar.

ひさしぶり。(^_^)

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:32:49 GMT

Me love you long time.

Yeah, it's kinda been a while. After much persuasion (read demanding and threatening to withhold certain things) from my wife (haha, bet that's thrown ya =P) I have finally decided to update. Fanfare, please!

No, seriously, I want a fanfare. Go find a trumpet. Make me happy. Please? =) *flutters eyelashes*

*strokes chin* I am contemplating the person in the window opposite mine. I swear that before yesterday, it was a girl in there, but she appears to have changed gender somehow. And possibly nationality as well. I'm sure she was Asian, but now it's some pale-haired European dude. And everything that was in the room when she was there is still there now. *ponders* I don't get it. And I swear I just got dripped on. Not sure how that happened with my window all but shut, but that's life. You get dripped on.

Anyway, I was wondering what might have happened. So, because my imagination tends to run away with me a bit:

1. She's a shape-shifting alien.
2. She's part of a secret government organisation and her mission is finished, so they swapped in the new guy.
3. She ran away in the dead of night, and he's her long lost cousin thrice removed trying to find her.
4. He's a hitman sent to take her out, and now disguises himself as her when he leaves the house.
5. He was her pet fish and she spilt dangerous chemicals into the bowl turning him into a human. She ran off and left him to do her exams for her.
6. He's a fugitive that she's hiding away from the public eye (though she's not doing a very good job if I can see him).
7. She abducted him off the street and left him to do her exams for her.
8. She's a man-eating alien, and she's left him in there for her next meal.
9. There's some very strange roleplay situation going on.
10. Her room is on top of a Rift and he accidentally slipped through.
11. Going on in that vein, he's waiting for the TARDIS.
12. Her room is part of Howl's Moving Castle, and he's Howl.
13. She was a figment of my imagination, and he's actually been there all along.
14. He is a figment of my imagination, and she's still there.
15. She's actually an Ewok. No idea what that makes him, but she's an Ewok!
16. She was sent to Gaea, and he's trying to get there too.
17. Equivalent exchange by the Gate.
18. She's a cyborg, and he's the scientist keeping her running.
19. He's keeping her prisoner until she donates to the Intergalactic Librarians' Rights Association.
20. She is his mind slave. *makes creepy hand movements* Binky-boy.
21. He is her mind slave. *makes creepy hand movements* Binky-boy.
22. He's Death and she is Rincewind.
23. She is actually a man, and he is his lover.
24. He is actually a woman, and she is her lover.
25. They're both the genders they appear to be, and are lovers anyway.
26. It's a conspiracy and they're just trying to confuse me.

So sue me, I'm bored. I'm homeward bound on Sunday and until then, aside from packing and cleaning up, I have zilch to do. =P

Ah well, this ramble ought to make someone happy. *gives the evil eye*

The Many Facets of Ianto Jones

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:23:19 GMT

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
What have I done?
I'm having an Ianto war.

So,

mrs_cj_harkness and I were chatting away, as per usual (seriously, we've posted enough comments to fill a small warehouse) and we started debating Ianto Jones.

You can see the Ianto masterlist on her journal, so I'm just posting the ones I've nicked, so I remember.

I (in the middle of the night, giggling like a loon) gleefully abducted:

embarassed!Ianto
swapthecoffeequick!Ianto
~~cateringmanager!Ianto~~
stalkingyouwithcoffee!Ianto
archiveworm!Ianto
waistcoat!Ianto
forgotten!Ianto
evilmastermind!Ianto
evilhotwithleathergloves!Ianto
fondlyreminiscing!Ianto
untuckedshirt!Ianto
buyingitforhis"friend"!Ianto
slightlypsychicbutler!Ianto
lurethepterodactyl!Ianto
housewife!Ianto
pensive!Ianto
actingignorantbutfailing!Ianto
painedbuttoopolitetosayanything!Ianto
perchedondesk!Ianto
weddingfairy!Ianto
gentlemanly!Ianto
caughtwithhisflydown!Ianto
houdini!Ianto
speedracer!Ianto
notebook!Ianto
~~déshabillé!Ianto~~

Being sad has never been so much fun! I'll hopefully be posting an icon!spam of all these up here when I'm done. Though how long that'll take is anyone's guess. (-_-;)

The Devil's Advocat

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:18:40 GMT

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So sue me, I feel like growling.

Yeuch, I need a bath *grimaces* I'm sat in my unreasonably dark living room, despite the sunshine outside, debating over buying a book from amazon. Problem is, I'm just really bored with reading material at the minute, so I don't know exactly what I want, I just want something.
It's a pain in the arse.

And why isn't Zathura here yet????? *plaintive*

Cat's curled up on the blanket, looking cute as a button. I just want to sit and poke her. Sleepydrawers.

I want to wriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite *PLAINTIVE* but I don't know what to write. It's bloody hard to keep things in my head these days.
Also realising, as a side note, just how close it's coming to NaNoWriMo. Okay, so it's what? Just over seven months away. But still! It's making me paranoid, because I don't know what to write about. (T__T)
And my essays are making me nervous.

*lesigh* At least I have snowballs. *stares desolately at near empty bottle* Though not for much longer. (T_T)

Happy belated-but-not-really Easter, everybody.

*sigh*........I'm so bored...........*tears hair out*

*eyes up Torchwood series 2* To preorder, or not to preorder? That is, indeed, the question...

家に帰った！

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:15:53 GMT

I'm hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hallelu! God, I missed it here. The cat. The being alone for most of the day. The quiet. The ability to play music/anime/dvds at full volume. The channels! The downloading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*is HYPER!*

I'm watching Queer as Folk on the big tv screen. It's brill. And I have Torchwood!!! *dies*

And the fridge is full of food. Myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fooooooooooooooood. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Yes, I'm going to stop now as I've degenerated into incoherent mumbles. Cheese on Polish toast will do that to you.

（ｘ＿ｘ）ふつかよい！

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:08:40 GMT

Okay, okay, so I'm not really. I didn't even have all that much to drink!

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo very dead. Hence the kaomoji.

It was Sarah's birthday on Tuesday, and last night we celebrated and went out. This was of course, the perfect way for Heidi to guilt me into going into the great outdoors of the Manchester night life. *shudders*

I had in total, one bottle of orange bacardi, a shot of something that smelt like aniseed....oh christ, that better not have been absinthe (though I seriously doubt it was, else I would actually be dead), and two cups of Archers and lemonade.

It was.........bizarre. Alice and Scott were "playing it straight" LMAO. How I love them. We went to the Grovel first, then 5th Avenue. My God, was it ever loud! I went to my lecture today half deaf. And dead on my feet for being awake until quarter to two in the morning. (x_x)

It was fun, but I don't fancy going all the time. Maybe once every six months...But thank God there's no seminar for MJS today. That would have killed me. And I look like something the literal cat dragged in. (T_T)

So now I am watching anime, drinking tea and eating nutella'd sandwiches. Ah the student lifestyle.

One more week to go! One more week to go! \(^o\) (/o^)/

What else? Lorna gave me a scarf! Well, a pashmina. Really pretty one too. We like Lorna. Lorna can stay! =(^.^)=

Hmmmmmmm, I think that's it for now. Gonna go either (-_-)zzz or {(-_-)}

Mweh. Yes. That is a good word.

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:33:28 GMT

Mwardy hardy har. I have no idea why I'm suddenly spelling words with mw, but I am, so there!

The weekend was largely uneventful. Ow, sun in eye! And now after closing the curtain, it's suddenly like a batcave in here O_o.

Sooooooooo, the spring cleaning I promised certain people.....well.......it didn't exactly happen -_-; But now I'm determined! *victorypose!* It will be done before I leave for Easter. So I have......mweh.....just about two weeks to do it. *dies* Damn myself for being a procrastinator.

So, I have the dreaded Chinese History seminar today. What's the betting there'll be death glares all round as I skived the last one? *cries* I hate assigned readings (mainly because our library is crap with books) and I hate how Yangwen forces us to say something. So, I really should be opening another page on here to scour China Quarterly with...*crickets chirp*

Started to translate my racy manga. *eyeroll* Oh shut it, practically everyone knows by now. It took me an entire day to do the front cover. *cries* Just means I have to work harder! *does some strange yakuza pose thing* It's got some damn weird kanji on the front though. O_o? ぜんぜん知らない。

But yeah, boring weekend really. Heidi left so I basically became a hermit and only left my room when I was hungry. And I was so hungry! *sobs* I've pretty much run out of food. I have pasta, rice, some instant rice mealy things and some carrots, and the Magic Stars I bought last night.

Last night we went to the opera and had a cultured night out. XD Went to see Madame Butterfly. It was amazing! We were in the Gallery, and it was reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally high up. The stairs were like building blocks. And Heidi was petrified all night that if she leaned forward she'd fall and die.

But it was incredible. *sigh*

Right that's today's update done. =P

BLEGH! hack hack HACK!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:38:40 GMT

I'm ill. T_T Why is it that I seem to post more when I'm ill? Attention-seeking much? Gosh, you learn something about yourself everyday!

So I have a cold. My eye has finally stopped watering (why???! It never used to do that!!) so I don't have a ridiculous case of blood-shottedness today. I'm just sniffly and keep coughing like I've got a frog stuck in my throat and just generally feel really quite miserable. Yay for oxymorons!

Was supposed to be getting up at three this morning to watch an eclipse. Crazy I know, but I thought it'd be fun. So I set my alarm, and I swear it never went off! That's the second time it's done that. I definitely set it because I checked for the little bell icon that means it's on and it was there! So either it just decided to turn itself off or I managed to switch it off when it went off in my sleep. It's ridiculous! Now would be a good time to bribe dad for a new phone. "The alarm on this one is broken, and if it doesn't go off then I won't get up in time for lectures and I'll FAIL." *nods*

I've discovered Queer as Folk. It's super special awesome. =D Vince is love, especially with his manga. =DD The only thing that upset me (not drastically, but made me go 'goddammnit!' and smack my desk (which was not a good idea)) was the fact that there is no visible long-awaited sex scene (is chuckling at herself, because this could be construed as either being very perverted or very sad) between Stuart and Vince. Okay, okay, in my heart of hearts, I knew it wasn't ever going to happen. It teased and teased and gave hints that could mean anything or nothing, but there was no, for lack of a better term, gratification.

I'm really, really beginning to wonder when exactly I turned into this much of a perve, seriously.

But goddammnit! *fist narrowly misses desk* I was still hoping that they'd pleasantly surprise me! But awwwwwww, it's cute anyway.

Darn it, I've run out of mocha in my mug. I've run out of milk full stop anyway, so no more tea. T_T I may start going mad from withdrawal. Still, I still have vanilla tea, green tea, cappuccino, and some chocolate Horlicksy stuff. Might have some of that tonight. Help me sleep better.

I've been avoiding doing work for ages. T_T I've been writing QAF fiction instead. And thinking about NaNoWriMo. Can't decide whether to do my Bob the Ninja story or my fantastic Mates idea. Probably the latter. It'll be more fun. And more slashy. =D

I'm sehr impressed with Heidi. She hasn't freaked out (much) over my innumerable stacks of.......pretty much full-on yaoi. It's aestheticism I tell you, aestheticism! I just like looking at pretty men. =D

SEE! You see how perverted I'm getting in my old age?!?!?!?!? *gesticulates wildly* Anyway. What was I going to say? Oh yes, I always tend to assume that people who are my age and I know read fanfiction read about the same rating range that I do (read, anything). But it's not true! I know a girl who's a year older than me and didn't discover AFF until she met me. Then she told me about it and I was like yeah, I already know. I've read stuff there before. *crickets chirp merrily* Well done Kat. Announce to the world that you read x-rated things.

I'm doing the same thing right now, but who cares.

*sigh* I've become so blythe.

T_T I want to go back to bed. It's raining outside, and I can hear it on my window. Pitter-patter is not the term I would use to describe how it sounds.

Thump.                                                                   Thump.
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           Thu-thump.                                                                                                     Thump.
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                                             Thump.                                                            Thu-thump.
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Thu-thump.                                                            Thump.
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That's more accurate. Ah crap, gonna sneeze.
                Oh damn, that works. Thinking about it makes you stop. T_T

I have dark circles under my eyes like a raccoon. It's not attractive at all. T_T Blegh.

*SIIIIIIIGH* Well, I'm gonna go back to reading Janto, as it makes me feel better. Thanks for letting me complain. =)

Life is Gooooooooooooooood!

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:29:23 GMT

Except for the absolutely splitting headache which has come on quite literally from out of the blue...or out of the grey maybe, considering all the cloud.

Watched Torchwood this morning. It was a good episode. Made even better by the SNOGGING! I went off to my lecture in throes of happiness after having played those 45 seconds over and over and over and over.

Realised Kat still has my dvd. *pouts* I want it baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.

Am watching anime Poirot and Miss Marple! It's wicked.

Oh head hurts. Maa, back to the Janto =D

Update

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:54:40 GMT

Hell. Um, I mean, hello.

I've been so lazy all this weekend. I have to put my dossier together, and I've still not made a move towards doing it other than emtying my folder into meaningless little piles. I blame the weather. My internal mood regulator's been thrown off course because it decided to rain and be sunny at the same time, so I didn't know whether to curl up in bed listening to the rain or to sit in the sunshine from the window and do work. Unfortunately, the rain won out, and I've been sat in my pjs all day. Bleurgh.

I'm nearly out of food AGAIN. What is wrong with me? I swear I never used to be so constantly hungry all the time! I'm sure I must be annoying someone playing my j-pop at full blast (even though it is through my crappy speaker, so it's actually not as loud as it would be if I didn't have the speaker attached) but I can't bring myself to care.

I'm....frustrated. And kind of worried. Applications for accomodation have to be in by February next year, and though I'm not particularly relishing the thought of living in halls again, I may have no other choice. I was kind of banking on Heidi, as she was complaining about it too and that she'd have no one to share with if she got a flat. A flat would be sort of the next logical step to independence, but despite how much I like to have my own space, I don't want to rent one by myself. And now that Heidi is treating me like I no longer exist, I've kind of got no one else to ask. I suppose I could ask K-chan, but she probably has plans for herself. So I'm a bit stuck. The J-tachi are all making plans amongst themselves, though whether these plans will actually happen remains to be seen, and I'm not really close enough to them to assume that I'd be living with them too. On the whole, it's really annoying and it's making me stress over something that I really don't want to be stressing about.

Ah well, the dossier calls.

Oh Happy Day!

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:05:01 GMT

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy! Life is amazing!

Today I found out that we're going to have a karaoke competition with the Uni of Lancaster, singing J-pop! It's going to be so good! There'll be beer, so that no one will notice that I really can't sing. I can't wait!

And, since the semester ends on the fourteenth, we're making Christmas dinner. Marc's doing the sides, I am supposedly doing the starter, Ruben's bringing the booze, Tom's doing the bird and Kat's bringing crackers and playing hostess (supposedly).

And I've just found out I'm getting another grant from the university. I was like 'ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh?' So that should be interesting.

Waaaaaaaaaaaah, so happy!

Waffles!

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:47:37 GMT

So, last night I was watching Amelie. And I saw a bra strap.

No, seriously, it was a huge deal for me, because you never ever see bra straps under shirts in movies, and it makes you wonder if there's actually a bra there at all. But no, I saw a bra strap. And it was a different colour than the top she was wearing. I was like "Oh, bra strap. *double take* Hah???????????"

This morning I had strawberry yoghurt, and the aftertaste was like miso soup. It was really weird.

Today I am lounging about watching One Piece, and for some reason, it reminded me of a doujinshi involving Zoro, Sanji and a bathtub that I'm sure I have somewhere. It only took me forty or so pages until I started trying to actually read the raw script, and I understood it! Two whole speech bubbles! I don't care if it was only hiragana, I'm damn proud! There was a word that I can say but can't spell. It means roughly "Quit screwing around!" and then there was "Gomen ne, Nami-san, Robin-chan!" and that had katakana in it!!! I don't even know katakana!

So here I am with my waffles, insanely proud of myself. This is why I love university =DDDDDD

Update!

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:48:26 GMT

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, minna-san, hisashiburi da ne??

Maa, not really, but it's the principle of the thing.

Umami was great! It's pretty much just like Wagamama, but smaller and less crowded, and they do bento boxes! It's great. They also do chicken katsu, which is fantabulous for me =D

We all went to the Cornerhouse for coffee afterwards, and I got laughed at when I said I came from the sunny part of Nottingham *pout*

The hiragana is coming along nicely, I'm pleased to inform you. Test on Friday, which is a bit of a downer, but hopefully it should be okay. Most things I can just guess.

And now the highlight of today - the speed dating. Not to be taken literally, this involved going along to a nice lecture room and sitting down and being numb with dread for about ten minutes until the Japanese exchange students showed up. Then it was all go!

I feel so embarrassed. They all speak English so well, and there's the beginner's class that knows basically five sentences of Japanese.

Anyway, first up was Megumi. She was so cute! She's from Nagoya, and she has an otouto and an imouto. She said she'd show me around Nagoya! *squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!* She was so sweet, and I didn't think to get her e-mail, darn it!
Anyway, those that I did get were Sayaka and Rina. Rina's from Tokyo and she has a very serious face, and there was another girl with Sayaka called Kurumi, I think. I know she has three brothers and she comes from Aichi, near/in Toyota! Sayaka is from Shizuoka, I think she said. There was also a girl I think is called Rei from Yokohama. I was like "I know where that is!"

It was much more fun than I expected it to be, but I ended up speaking far too much English. Maa, it's so easy to get carried away. And all the Japanese I'd learnt went VSHOOOOM! out of my head.

We're supposed to be arranging to meet again, but who knows when that will happen.

I have tomodachi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tea Solves Everything

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:27:53 GMT

Yep, it really does. After my lecture, I went to the Refectory with Ross and finally got my hands on some tea! I was in bliss, and now I am also depressed to have finished it. It was crappy tea as far as my tea standards go, but it was still a cuppa!

I'm tired. I need to eat more healthily. Must find a sushi bar of some kind as that is the only way I'm going to be getting vegetables if it's left up to me. I have finished my waffles; two packs and they've not even lasted two days! So I'm stuck with eating crackers until I can be arsed to go shopping again. I'm far too lazy for my own good.

I saw my flytrap close up! It was totally by accident, as I'm using a cola bottle as a makeshift watering can, and I accidentally poured some right into the middle of a mouth and it closed so quickly, poor thing.

Life is good. Was chucking it down this morning, but it's been beautifully sunny since about midday. Blue skies are lovely to look at.

I don't think anything else of note has happened. We decorated the kitchen, and now have a newspaper cutout of Che Guevara or Chera, as he's apparently called, guarding the stairwell. I only realised this morning that it's a manga drawing of him - Youko Kano, maybe? I can't remember exactly. We also have pink fairy lights, and a paper bag proclaiming "I <3 vodka!" stuck to the fridge, among other things.

Also, I am pizza and pizza is me!

Gardening for Beginners

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:52:35 GMT

Just when I thought things couldn't get any more complicated, I went and bought houseplants.

Say hello to Raspberry the Cactus and Ducky the Flytrap. I'm starting to sense a pattern in my plant-buying. I started, well, many years ago with chrysanthemums at school, then geraniums, though they weren't actually mine; I just picked the colours. But actually, I properly started with a bonsai tree. It sits on my living room window sill at home and mostly wilts. Note to self, ask dad how it's doing. But seriously, I think I buy plants for the challenge. Bonsai are supposed to be hard to look after because they take a lot of clipping and cutting and jinning and so on if you do it like a pro. And now I seem to have gone from the sophisticated plants to looking after two of the driest and boggiest plants anywhere. I had no idea flytraps needed so much water! But there it is, tiddy little thing on my desk. And my cactus is so cute!

I found out that one of the guys on my course lives in the same residence place *squeeeeeeeeee* And I've made friends with a polish girl too. It's all very exciting!

Anywho, now I am going on facebook to find this society that's supposedly on there. See you next time!

'Sunny Manchester'

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:07:02 GMT

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored!

Well actually, no I'm not, because I finally have the internet! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiii! On the downside, I don't think I can download anymore slash *pouts* Which is crappy, as the group that I want the manga from has only just approved me! But I always feel really nervous using other people's internet, like I can't go on any of my favourite sites, the majority of which are all slash *poooouuuuuuuuut*

Anyway, all is good for the most part. I still feel unbelievably disorganised, as I've only actually just registered with the Humanities school properly. My extra credit is going to a Chinese history course, which was apparently recommmended if you're doing Japanese. I'm sort of a bit lost at the minute. One good thing is that I can buy most of my books at one store which is reportedly better than Blackwell's.

Mah, not much else to say really.

Ja.

A Good Day

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:27:21 GMT

'Lo all! I'm watching Top Gear. Well, best of anyway.

I've had quite a good day. I had to cash in some money today, so of course, dad took that as an invitation for chores, first to pick up some bread, though we didn't really need any, some coffee, the damn expensive brand that he likes, and some milk, which we really did need, all playing second fiddle to his fags. I'm starting to wonder if the owners of our corner shop are starting to think that I'm smoking. Ick.

Anyway, I got the stuff done, for some reason, every time I go into my bank, they keep giving me things. Not freebies either. Stuff about extra cards and account upgrades, when all I really want to do is pay in some money! Still, the lady that served me was really lovely. She was asking about my degree and stuff and it was nice.

I was in such a good mood that I smiled all the way through co-op and frantically flagged down the ice cream man who's known me since I was yay high, to buy a strawberry cornetto. Haven't had one of those for years.

I started cleaning my room, certain people will be glad to know ;). Strangely enough, I haven't felt so liberated for years either. Maybe it's true that being surrounded (and I mean this literally) by clutter really does kind of bury you under it all. That sounded far better before QI came on. Anyway, now you can see a much bigger ammount of floor than before.

I've been tossing schoolwork left and right, and damn it, I like it!

And on that bombshell, adieu!

Ja.

Oha...Konnichiwa!

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:49:03 GMT

Yeah, it's not really morning any more is it?

I'm bored. In fact, scratch that, I am on strike. Someone's pretending to hit someone with a candlestick on tv. Bet you can't guess what programme it is.

I had a horrible dream last night, though it could've been this morning. You see, I have a pattern that never fails. If I stay up until some godawful hour after midnight, I sleep, usually without dreaming unless I set my alarm for half six. Since I don't have to get up that early anymore unless I have an exam, I usually set my alarm, if indeed I set it at all, to either seven or eight. Which means I wake up at my alarm, turn it off, say "five more minutes..." and fall asleep for normally about two hours. During that time, I dream most often. This one was crap.

The dreams are nearly always connected to things I'm worrying about, unlike the really random ones I get otherwise. Since I'm fretting about the Sociology paper tomorrow (oh God!) because it's synoptic, I dreamt that I'd missed it. So I had to go in to find out what I could do, and the guy from that Disaster show (I think) where people get electrocuted for wrong answers or something gave me a list of my results which were Ds on everything and an F on the one I didn't do. Yeah, weird.

Then I think I woke up and was like "OMG, I'm even dreaming about the stupid thing!" So I'm on strike. Until about five o'clock anyway.

I hate my brain sometimes. Especially when it comes to revision. I can't concentrate without getting distracted. Not just by the tv, but my own mind conspires against me. Not sure who with, but it does.

Apparently King Akhenaten was sculpted with no sign of genitalia, in case you were wondering.

There has never been a worse time to be a creative genius and a yaoi fangirl. Okay, so maybe genius was a bit too strong a word, but you know what I mean. My brain won't shut up about Yamagata and Kai or Yuuri and Wolfram or God help me, Leo and Jin if my fics turn that way. By the way, the Goodbye Lenin! slash is begun. Six pages longer than I had envisioned, there's uh....some kissing. Don't look at me like that, the smut needs plot, no matter how crap the plot happens to be.

So yeah. I have too many ideas bubbling around and around. Strange how that used to be a good thing. But I'm well on the way with my variety pack. Just got 96 more left *cries* All good fun though.

I was trying to work out what I thought I'd got on exams so far. Here are my calculations, based mostly on averages and guesswork.

If I get what I usually get in the listenings and readings, that'll get me low Bs and average Cs. That's about a high C bordering on borderline. Then the German essay was crap. I reckon an average C so that makes German a slightly lower high C. French essay was great, but I'm not getting my hopes up, so we'll say a slightly lower than average B which bumps French up to a borderline C/B.

Now, I think the orals were about the same. Certainly not terrible was the verdict and I got a B on the French mock, so I think that makes them both just under average Bs which makes German a rather a high C and French a low but not too low B.

Coursework in French was supremely shite. Both Ds so that pulls French back down to a high C. The first bit in German was a B, low one I think, and I don't know what the second piece was, but I think it was worse than the first one which I'll say is an average C. Together that's a high C, practically borderline darling, which doesn't change German.

Theory and Methods had crap questions with an average essay. So I think that's a C for Sociology. But then Religion was amazing (for me anyway) so I reckon an average B, which so far is a low B, I think. More likely borderline.

Now that seems pretty bad, considering I need three Bs, but then it hit me. It's technically only half the exam. Yes, I know I'm slow.

So, I don't think my Sociology resits were any better than before, so that's an unchanged B from last year. Same goes for French, which means I should still have my A. German, on the other hand, seemed too easy to be true. So, I think that even if the grade boundaries are higher, that should be enough to hopefully get me at least a higher B, if not an A.

Which means that at the moment Sociology is an average B, German should at least be a borderline, if not low, B and French should be an average B too, by my reckoning.

I feel so much better about myself now :)

The Story Begins....

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:15:56 GMT

And so, armed with tea, notebook and lemon cake, she sat down to begin her Sociology revision.....

Dad would kill me if he knew I was using his chair as a table. I'm being a good girl, only eating one piece at a time like he asked me to.

So how is everyone? Life treating you well? Hair behaving itself?

Let it be known that I detest exams. Especially ones where I can't get away with just reading a grammar book.

Anyway, just posted in to let you know I haven't died yet. Have to revise now, ugh.

Ja.

My Eardrums!

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:34:29 GMT

Dad is blasting music like you wouldn't believe, so they bloody hurt! On a side note, I think I'm losing my ability to touch-type. Not that I ever really had one in the first place..... And I swear these keys keep moving around......It's all a big conspiracy, you know.

I've been feeling really sick all weekend. Not sick like I need to be sick, but worry sick. Y'see, my bestest best friend has fallen out with me, and I only found out why today. And I've been going over and over and over in my head, asking myself what I've done to piss her off so much, but I can't think of anything. I'm not saying that because I'm trying to be funny, I honestly have no idea.

It is driving me INSANE. Quite literally. I've been worrying so much that I can't eat. I just don't get it! It's like one minute everything was fine and dandy and now it's all gone to pot and I feel like I have no way of salvaging it.

But I promised not to be depressing anymore, didn't I?

So, I shall endeavour to tell you of my mishap in the Chinese supermarket. It's really not as funny as all that, it was just extremely silly of me. So, they have an alcohol section. I go to said alcohol section, looking for sake. Come on, nothing else looked anything like it! So, I found sake. It was in a long, rectangular white box. It was standing up, and behind it were stacks of long, rectangular white boxes. Are we making the same connection? Now, I lift up one of the boxes at the back, pay for it along with my dried kelp, light soy sauce and white instant miso (sounds delicious, doesn't it?) and take it home, only to get there and realise that it wasn't sake at all.

It was bloody Chinese sherry!

It doesn't taste that bad though, so it's not too much of a disaster.

I'm also convinced that I'm gaining a talent for hearing words wrong (aka Kat is going deaf) since I managed to hear mountain pie instead of mountain pine. Among other things.

Alas, my powers of description haven't waned! When describing wasabi, I said "It's really spicy and gets right up your nose like when you accidentally inhale saltwater.....also, it tastes a bit like feet....." So yes. Wasabi officially equals spicy feet.

Don't look at me like that! Someone has to come up with these things!

What else? Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Eragon is out on DVD. I know, you were just dying to know that, weren't you?

And will someone tell my keyboard to stop moving!?!?!

I had a mock French oral today. I remembered the subjunctive under pressure! *is stupidly happy* Nah, for some reason it seems harder when we practice them in class than when you actually do it pseudo for real. Pseudo is my new favourite word. Pseudo, pseudo, pseudo.

Last, but not at all least, remember: when in doubt, be an empty basement.

Ja.

SNERK

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:02:34 GMT

Okay, I've decided not to do what I did last time and give you a run down on every single thing that's wrong with me, suffice it to say that I'm ill and have been since last Monday. Ugh. So dizzy.

Anywho, while lying around on the sofa drinking about sixty cups of tea a day, I present this to you. My TIT should find this extremely amusing. Especially this last bit.

Your Deadly Sins

Sloth: 80%

Envy: 40%

Greed: 20%

Gluttony: 0%

Lust: 0%

Pride: 0%

Wrath: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 20%

You will die with your hand down your underwear, watching Star Trek.

How Sinful Are You?

How Totally Pointless Was That Last Post?

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:45:21 GMT

I be bored. Sadly, here there be no monsters to entertain me.

I've been singing Everybody Dance Now like hell all day. I'm beginning to get on my own nerves.

Coursework is bugging me, again. Why can't there be topics that I actually find interesting? And why is the sky blue? And why have I not gotten anything to eat yet?! *shakes head*

I have inadvertently messed up the sofa. And my cat's tap-dancing upstairs. I've tripped over, well, almost over, five times today because of my pointy-toed boots. They kept catching on my trousers and now there's a big slit up one leg. It's actually rather amusing.

Right now I'm laughing at the adverts on the side bar of this page. They say Slash - The Top Recommended Sites for Slash at InfoSearch311.com, Japan - Save on all the great artists. Find japan now! at ebay (*snorts*) Japan - Travelling to Hungary? (WTF?) These are so odd.

I am eating Luxury Maple Syrup Peanuts and Cashews. Delicious. They're actually Dad's but I haven't seen him eat them, so what the heck. Nothing particularly amazing has happened since the last filler-post. I am now called Bessie, apparently. But then C's always been a little on the strange side, so I really shouldn't be surprised.

I'm deliberating ways of putting off coursework until Dad gets home. I could watch something. I could eat. I could just keep filling this space with unnecessary commentry. I could even annoy my cat some more. Now I've made an even bigger mess of the sofa with the sugary stuff on the nuts. I could go find some more Star Trek slash *grins evilly* I never realised how much friends can amuse a girl.

Whoo, I've nearly finished the tin! Hee hee hee! (I have no idea why I just wrote that. Maybe it's the sugar.)

On a random note, I like Wales (and that statement deserves to have a pint slammed down after it). It's a magickalish type of place (and ugh, that sugar's getting bitterer) and I'm dreaming up a story about a house. The plot is starting to sound like a strange cross between The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Howl's Moving Castle. (The cat does not appreciate being made to dance to Grease with me. *pouts*)

Well, I go to dance to Grease, with or without my cat.

Ja.