I cringe every time I read an email between my friends on our mutual club-related listserv when it reads something like “Thanks Jim. It looks very complete. I look forward to talking with you about it on Wednesday!”
Gahh! It just sounds so … I don’t know. so keigo. So, over-polite. so.. so much [...]
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I love arya. yes I do.
he helped me fix fink and helped me figure out python version problems. :) and now in 40 minutes or so, I’ll discover if Zope will FINALLY be happy with me and bloody install.
*hugs arya*
and then we spent about 5 minutes doing this:
arya (9:58):
へ へ
し
ーー
me (9:59): that’s so cute!
hahahaha
へ へ
し
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Oxymoron of the day: significant minorities.
Word of the day: kokusaika (国際化）：the discourse of “internationalization”. I’m reading about how that word actually seems to mean “Americanization” and the significance of that disparity. Kinda interesting.
discouraging/funny pun thing that’s only amusing if you know nihongo:
For kicks, I was composing in Japanese what I would like to say to SC/ongaku boy next time I saw him.
The phrase “I want to say something” is nanika itai. coincidence, or not, nanika itai is also “something hurts”.
Funny? no?
I laughed.
And then I [...]
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Anno Hideaki has a new movie. And I wish that I could understand more of what it is about. It looks like a real-life type of exploration of the same kinds of psychological um… stuff that he tried to explore in Evangelion… but I could be wrong. It could have just been that clip [...]
Japanese class is starting to kick my ass. I never thought it would finally happen. But yesterday, I found myself looking at the class notes and realizing that none of what we were learning was review from my high school classes anymore.
This means I’m going to have to actually study now. [...]
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Frustration No. 001:
I’m chicken. Nothing but a big bloody chicken. I want to ask my Japanese teacher a question… but I have so far come up with about 7 different excuses not to. And the three times I actually have gone to her office with the intention of asking, she hasn’t [...]
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Tomo has been asking me to tell him a story… daily… in Japanese so that I can practice my speech and conversation skills. It’s been helpful, but extremely difficult as I have been needing to look up every other word, and I must confine myself to very simple subject/object/verb sentences. Often times he [...]
I’ve decided that this could quite possibly be the most beautiful song in the world.
Yubiwa
By: Sakamoto Maaya
Namida ga ato kara afuredashite
Saigo no egao ga nijinde mienai no
Ikanaide, Ikanaide. . . koko ni ite
Sora e hikari kakenukete – yuku
Konna ni chiisa na watashi dakedo
Anata wo dare yori sei ippai aishita
Arigatou ikutsumo no
Taisetsu [...]
James Iha singing in Japanese!!!!!
Oh my god!!!
Arigatou to Dean-sama and MaruChan for bringing the existence of this other side of the Iha God to my attention.
Long live the Pumpkins’ Legacy!
Anyways… on another subject… Yeah I believe I was a little harsh and violent and… well, angry in my last entry which included a rant [...]