Friday, October 31, 2003

This is why we will never be able to forge a unified society.

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!? {/overblown hysterics}

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Thursday, October 30, 2003

Did a little shopping today. I finally got enough time to grab myself a pot to cook with and some couscous to cook. Finally some food that didn't make me sick.
Went with two girls from my house and now I know why I will never lend my car out to friends. When we got back and were trying to park, Volkswagon's fatal flaw kicked in. See those cars are low as hell and it's so easy to pull up and on to the stone barriers that go at the front of a parking spaces. Well we did that, and the front grill of Elena's Beetle is partially off on one side.
I got so little done today it's crazy. I really need to do more of this translation work I have. My Spanish teacher seems to think that it's a great idea to have 208 level students translate instructions on how to write a legal brief from English in to Spanish for use by the local hispanic population. This is actually very stupid since the text makes very little sense in the original english. I can only dream of how hard it is to read as translated by a non-fluent speaker.
I know this is an awful entry already, but I just want to record one more thing. I'm up for executive election for Calvin + Hobbes. Oh man. I got nominated for VP of activities, which I know I'm not gonna get (thank God. That position is mad hard). I hope I get something, though. I really like the folk in the group and I'd like to be able to help more.
But for right now, I am going to poorly explain how to write a legal brief.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Fuck you, Quentin Tarantino. Fuck you.
I really wanted to hate Kill Bill. You were/are such a pompous ass about it that I wanted it to suck so I could mock it. I wanted to point out all sorts of little directorial flaws and feel as though I'm taking you down a notch or two in my mind.
I saw Resevoir Dogs after it came so highly recommended ("Best movie ever!!!" "Just plain amazing"). I rented it and then returned it the next day. It wasn't bad, mind you, just nothing amazing. I knew who the rat was about a quarter of the way through. Beginning and end were great, but stuff in the middle was just meh. It was so overhyped it was beyond belief. I was hoping for the same with Kill Bill. I wanted to say "Look! Look at how pretentious he got after Resevoir Dogs! His ego lead him to make another mediocre and overhyped movie!"
Kill Bill is amazing.
Since it isn't playing anywhere near here, so I got it off of a friend's computer. From beginning to end I was eager to see what was next. The characters, the fighting, even the choice of music was great. I can't find any fatal flaws.
Curse you, Tarantino! You have foiled me this time, but if Kill Bill vol. 2 fails to measure up I'll be sure to dance with joy at your false hubris.
And now I'm gonna go look for DVD release dates for vol. 1 if there are any out there yet.

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Totally not going to the rest of my classes today.
I went to my first two and acted like I didn't still have the stomach virus that sent me to the hospital on Friday, but after I got back from checking in at the health ceter (on the doctor's suggestion) I promptly threw up in the bathroom.
I've been feeling like I'm gonna puke ever since, so I think I'm just gonna call it a day even though it's only noon.
In other news I had a lovely time at the party last Saturday. I made and excellent ninja, everyone said, but I was wearing more clothes than any of the other girls there (we had a slutty nurse, a playboy bunny, a dancer out of "Fosse", and a lingeire wearing angel).Since I was a little white girl carrying around Samuri swords, people kept asking me if I had seen Kill Bill. I hadn't at that point, but their comments made me want to see it even more. It was alot of fun, but most of the stories I could tell are the "you had to be there" variety.
The one that I *can* mention involves the shittiness of the place. Of all the times that the water pump could burn out it had to be while we were there. So we had the situation of 50 people in one place with no running water. Meaning no washing hands, no washing dishes, and *no toilets*. They told us they were going to have the caretakers house opened up so we could use the toilet there, but that took a few hours that I didn't have...
Have you ever peed in the woods? I swear, I should never be able to commune with my Cocker Spaniel on that kind of level...
But later on I had to pee again and the house was actually opened up. A group of girls all went in a group so no one had to walk in the pitch dark alone. After a very creepy walk across the fiel, we get to the house.
Holy mother of God but that place was scary! For one thing it smelled like no one had lived there in years, secondly there was no furniture, and lastly there was a *big pile of rags and burlap sacks sitting in the middle of the otherwise empty kitchen floor.* When we also discovered that the toilet wasn't working, we all opten to get the FUCK OUT of that house and just use another tree...God damn it...
After lots of fun stuff morning came and before we left one of theguys asked me if I'd got to the Freaky Doom House and get some water to wash dishes with. I went with another girl and I'll tell ya, that place was no less creepy in the daytime.
In other news, I've been a bit bitter this week. Nothing to do but wait until it passes, but I'm sure being healthy will aide in that.
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Things I want: "Sandman" books. I've seen some of the art and know a bit about the story, so I'd love to actually read some of the series.
~ Liz

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Monday, October 20, 2003

It's official! I'm legally blind!
Lemme explain. My father and I almost have a rivalry going over who's eyes are worse, mine or his. That sounds absurd, I know, but it's all in good humor. But I do know that I have won the war by achieving legally blind levels of vision impairment before reaching 20. Go me!
Turns out that the threshold for being considered legally blind is -6.00 in terms of contact lense perscription (I don't remember it for glasses). I passed that awhile ago....Okay it's know occurring to me that by the time I'm 50 I will probably be completely incapable of sight....
Shit...
In other news, I've been mostly snapped out of my funk by, of all things, my political geography research paper. My topic changed, like, four times, but I'm now writing about the different discourses that have affected Ireland from colonialism up to the present. And I'm enjoying it! The materials I'm reading are really fascinating, but some of the stuff I read about British views on the Irish just made me sad. This stuff could easily fit in with KKK literature these days! ::sniff:: I'm not violent, or messy, or lazy....well okay, I'm a bit messy, but nothing out of control!
On a completely different topic (because if I start thinking again about how much spanish work I have to do this week I think I might cry), I'm going to a costume party this weekend. I was originally going to go as a pixie, but I changed my mind and have decided to go as a Ninja....granted, the world's most unintimidating ninja, but a ninja nonetheless. I need to get to some kind of toy store or costume shop soon, too, because I need plastic swords. I want two plastic katana style swords that I can play with and attack my friends. I would make little ninja stars out of black construction paper, but I'm not cool and don't know how. Nunchuku wouldn't be too hard to make, either...all I need are some wooden dowels and the crab-trap line I keep in my room...ah the gleefully anti-social ideas never stop flowing.
Lastly, since marketing executives have decided that November does not exist, I've been thinking about Christmas list stuff. Mostly I'm just thinking about movies. Many things I want must be bought right away so as to satisfy my obsessive tendencies. For instance, I want to go to the mall tomorrow (I don't care which one) to pick up FFX2 on opening day. Another thing I want is a Krakkagar shirt.I love the comic, but really I just think the shirt is adorable. Only thing is that I need to buy that for myself since my mother has no computer skills.
Peace
~ Liz

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Friday, October 17, 2003

Well then....entire month without update.....I'm not even gonna try to explain that. I'll just run from today forward:
So Fall Break has ended and I just got through a three day week. Very nice, except for the little problem of me flat out forgetting to go to recitation for the second week in a row...something tells me I'm in some rather deep fecal matter with that one, but quite fankly the class bores me. I can't wait to pick new classes out. Next semester shouldn't be anywhere *near* as bad as this one. As I told one friend, I would just take introductory Italian if I could. But no...I have to be responsible and crap.
But I must say that my addiction to webcomics is getting to the point of being extreme. I read something to the effect of 15 different webcomics and have their schedules memorized. I guess anything to break away from the shitstorm of papers that litters my existence.
I can pretty much sum it up like this: I've had so many papers that I just got around to finding a topic for the 6 page-er due on Monday. Then there's another important one on Wednesday. Seriously thinking about a 3 class semster next time around....
My nails are orange, too. This isn't cool. I love my nails and like taking care of them, but right now I'm in this awful mobius strip with them. If I paint them to keep them from breaking, they will get stained. When I remove the nailpolish I have orange nails, but instead of letting them breath and go without polish, I get embarrassed and paint them to cover it up, staining any newly grown nail and prepetuating the cycle...I have put way too much thought in to my nails...But I'm trying out this stain remover. Unfortunately it has done little more than turn my nails peach as opposed to orange. I'm this close to just sticking my hand in a bucket of oxi-clean.
So who watched the baseball game last night? I sure did, and I wanted to run Jorge Posada over with a bulldozer after it (I was rooting for the Red Sox, just a little). I'll keep holding out hope for the Sox in the future though. So long as they have Unfrozen Caveman Centerfielder (Johnny Damon. This guy is good) and Ortiz ("AH ATE A BABEH!"), I have to believe it will all be okay.
In the meantime I have come up with a plan to place a curse on the Yankees. My plan consists of me going to a game at Yankee Stadium wearing a blatant image of the Jersey Devil (not necesarily the hockey team logo) and causing such a scene that I get thrown out. On my way out I will vow my revenge on the Yankees. Sounds good, right? I figure it has a pretty good chance of working as it combines a strange image being involved, a slight on the part of the stadium, the wrath of Jersey, and sheer freakishness. Here's lookin' at 04 World Series for the Sox!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go get some food.
~Liz

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