*... everyone around me is a total stranger...everyone avoids me like a psyched lone ranger...everyone... ((turning japanese, i think i'm turning japanese, i really think so)) ...*
Saturday, August 10, 2002
*... rAnDoM tHoUgHtS iN mY hEaD ...* *up, up and awaaaay... Not as in SuperMan. More as in The Fifth Dimension. damn those oldies in the morning. ((my beautiful, my beautiful, ballllllooooooon!))
*shika-shika-bow-bow... thanks to EW, I now know how to spell 70s porn music. how onomatopoetic.
*carrie's right... the pity party can be thrown AFTER i leave.
*it ain't no secret... in fact, it's a downright lie. i suppose the success of Victoria's Secret is that they make women think that they are a bigger size than they actually are. Which may be great for some girls totin' 32As (i'm not knockin', just using an example) but for me, if i were to go to any other lingerie store and ask for the same size bra that i have to hunt down in VS, then i could probably campout in whatever they brought me. and have an extra room. Cuz i know for a fact that i did NOT grow a cup size and full 2 inches bigger last night.
*yay to darius..., boo to oysters. 3:00 PM
Friday, August 09, 2002
*... it's a numbers thing ...* The man behind me in line at 'Berto's today ordered 47 carne asada burritos. 47. That's like an entire cow of carne asada. And all I could think of was "man, I'm glad I ordered my 2 tacos first." 11:31 AM
Wednesday, August 07, 2002
*... and again ...* For the record, I had another ESP-ish incident happen tonight... I'm on a roll, yo. I should skip Japan and go to Vegas, baby! 1:57 PM *... CuRiOuS ...* anybody have any thoughts as to why my horoscope advises me to stay away from cheese tonight? Not just "don't eat cheese, but actually . Is there some cosmic force, something fated in the stars, that would cause mass chaos should the delectable dairy product happen to cross my digestive tract? My curiousity might just win out on this one... 7:49 AM
Tuesday, August 06, 2002
*... call me now for your free readin' ...* I believe we all have a 6th sense. Haley Joel Osmond saw dead people, and my mom has the uncanny knack for pinpointing the type of wood used when food is "smoked". For me, I'm clairvoyant. By definition
clairvoyant-adj 1: perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses 2: foreseeing the future
And damn if I haven't been on target this past month. Kinda scary. I can think of now 4 incidents in the past 3 weeks where I've predicted something happening, and it has happened.
Now, for your clarification, it's not like I'm struck suddenly with visions of impending doom (necessarily). More like I start musing on unlikely topics, and wham! a week or 3 days or the next day it happens. I'd also like to point out that this great ability tends to really only apply to my life and future (sorry). Take for instance, the Japan people calling me. I guessed that one 2 days before they called me. And another instance where I predicted the actions of a friend (details too sordid to hash out here) before he even made a move and, most recently and most importantly, was being a little pessimist and saying to myself "hmm, I leave in 2 weeks... how much you wanna bet I get in a car accident?"
And so I did. Some fool, with the help of said fool's son's big ass truck crunched into me today. I'm fine, my car is dented but functional, but doesn't it just figure? Totally his fault, but now it's one more thing to deal with. As if I didn't have enough on my mind.
*... rAnDoM tHoUgHtS iN mY hEaD ...* * "there's just so much time and so little to do! Wait, strike that. Reverse it. Thanks."
* I'm a demi-perfectionist. I'll work on something until I get tired of it.
* YAY! I'm not going to be homeless! But I'm a little concerned. The letter I got that talks about my apartment implies that my refrigerator will be in the bathroom... hmm...
* I'm the most popular person I know right now. It's a very strange feeling. All of a sudden everyone is like "oh, let's hang out before you go!" Not that I don't want to see everyone. But being the social butterfly that I am (you know, buzz buzz) I feel quite the obligation and desire to fulfill every request. And if that happens, I'll wind up dead from exhaustion. Death by socializing... perhaps not an entirely bad way to go...
* ShoutOuts to Ryan ("PUJA!!!") and Cynthia (you're on my mind, sista! I think we're sharing sympathy pains for each other... ouch.)
* I'd just like to point out that I am acutely aware that many people will think the prettyprettyprincess color scheme I've chosen is absolutely hideous...Yes, pink is cool. No, the Easter Bunny did not have any say in the decision. Deal. 3:28 PM *... whew ...* re-vamping is hard work. I'm plum tuckered out. But you let me know if you like the new look... I'm rather a big fan, of course. 2:36 PM
*a bit o' *britt*
In Niigata City, Japan it is:
* vItAl StAtS: *
* eYeS/hAiR/wEiGhT. brown/reddish?/yes. * cUrRenT wHeReAbOuTs. back back to cali, cali * bEdTiMe. my body has decided to forgo sleep for now. * fOoD. it has also decided it's anti-food. * pHrAsE. ahh! too many people speaking English! * mOoD. i feel weird, yo. Like twilight zoney, in another world weird. * tUnEs. i get to listen to the radio in my car again! * qUoTe: "whereas i am trying to read in the succession of things presented to me every day the world's intentions towards me, and I grope my way, knowing that there can exist no dictionary that will translate into words the burden of obscure allusions that lurks in these things."
*"One, seven, three, five -- The truth you search for cannot be grasped. As night advances, a bright moon illuminates the whole ocean; the dragon's jewels are found in every wave. Looking for the moon, it is here, in this wave, and in the next." Zen Master Hsueh-tou
* tHiNgS i WiLl MiSs... *
* kaori (kojima) and mariko, kaori (honma), marika and etsuko, setsuko, nakano and sakai (aka "the boys"), kelly, alan
* most of my students
* some of my teachers
* the Shin Ken Kan crew
* my granny bike (a little)
* speaking Japanese
* traveling
* tHiNgS i WoN't MiSs... *
* the staring
* the bus
* being bored outta my gourd
* sleeping on the floor
* the Japanese Way
* secondhand smoke
* the fashion
* jApAn, AkA tHe LaNd oF... *
* "We Don't Believe in Cilantro"
* "We Don't Believe in Towels"
* "Obscurely-Sized Paper"
* "Flouride is Foreign"
* "It's Rude to Eat on the Streets, but it is Perfectly Acceptable to Blow Smoke in your Face"
* "9am is Too Early for Stores to Open"
* "We Just Make the Technology, We Don't Use It"
* "Central Air? Never Heard of It. Central Heating? Nuh-uh. Heated Toilet Seats? Well duh, of course!!"
* "Deodor-what?"
* "Open 24Hrs = 7am - 10pm"
* "Our Knees Don't Freeze"
* "We Want to Speak Like Americans and Look Like Americans and Act Like Americans, But We Don't Actually Like Americans"
* "Hey, Free Beer!"
