i really love badly drawn boy. the soundtrack to about a boy is one of the best soundtracks ever and it just makes me want to wear a track jacket and walk around a city park with a lake. specific! but true. it also now reminds me of being in seattle and eating at a taco time that randomly played a bunch of his songs. amazing. fyi: taco time will taste the same whether you are six or twenty-two: DELICIOUS.
the up-and-downs continue for me. yesterday was a bad day! but today feels better. mostly everything is tied to what i'm doing with my life right now. in one week i have: decided that i want to go to culinary school, got really excited about culinary school, realized that culinary was way too expensive, got really sad about culinary school, re-looked at pima, decided that i could go to culinary school through pima, got really excited about culinary school again, started feeling weird about not getting a 'traditional' education, looked at ua again, hated it again, started thinking about canada, looked at the other ua [university of alberta!], fell in love with it, realized that it would also be way too expensive unless i was canadian or had dual citizenship [if only my dad had lived there longer, the jerk], looked at summer courses at arizona ua again, and randomly found four i wanted to take. it's a little...well, insane, really. i just don't know what i really want to do right now. i knew what i wanted to do, and i had it planned out to the semester, but then i ended up really hating it at ua. i think what i am going to do is just go to summer school and use it as a litmus test. if summer school goes really well, then i will keep going on the path i wanted to go on before everything got de-railed, but at an accelerated pace and more simplified [no double and triple majors, jesus, self] so i can get through it faster. then after i go to japan for a year [waseda daigakusei ni naritai yo!] i will graduate! all the while, i will be taking sporadic culinary classes so theoretically, when i graduate from ua, i will also be graduating from pima's culinary program! however, if summer school goes badly, then it's straight to culinary school i guess! i am hoping to get a lot of scholarships so i can help my parents get through all these schemes in one piece. but that is my plan for right now. it will probably change in an hour and i will decide that my true calling is rock climbing. but it really helped to write that out so thanks, blogger!
that is probably more than enough for now so i will shut it. good luck at your circus, bree and steph!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
pastaaa!
so. i have this secret love. and its name is axis power hetalia. and i am going to talk about it now because it's...pretty awesome. it's about...well, here is how some random person on the internetz described it:
Axis Powers Hetalia is basically a webcomic-turned-manga-turned-anime about the world's countries turned into bishonen and left to play out World History, cracky boys' love style. All the countries have their intense stereotypes (Canada covers everything in maple syrup, Russia's snow-crazy, and America loves pizza). Countries merging mean a marriage, alliances (usually) mean a relationship, countries splitting are a divorce.
do you see why i love it so much? bl and history put together, what more do i need. it's basically the nerdiest thing ever and i only understand what's going on like a third of the time but it's fantastic. the stereotypes really are ridiculous but it's just too funny to really care about. the history part is a little more bothersome to me because at times you feel like a lot of these really serious events are being totally trivialized and glossed over in a major, not-so-good way. i mean, it sort of goes against western [and especially american] thought to be suddenly presented with chibi versions of the axis powers. i think in the end it's one of those things where everybody's being made fun of and stereotyped so it's okay-ish and america just put a hamburger on his head so it's all good.
so! after that whole thing, in case anyone is interested, these three are good web comics to start with [russia is awesome], and here is where you can watch the episodes online. there's only three so far and they're only five minutes long! the end song is way catchy. and now i am watching the first episode again and it is making me wonder if i am just crazy for loving this the way i do. ah well. let's have a toast with our boots!
Axis Powers Hetalia is basically a webcomic-turned-manga-turned-anime about the world's countries turned into bishonen and left to play out World History, cracky boys' love style. All the countries have their intense stereotypes (Canada covers everything in maple syrup, Russia's snow-crazy, and America loves pizza). Countries merging mean a marriage, alliances (usually) mean a relationship, countries splitting are a divorce.
do you see why i love it so much? bl and history put together, what more do i need. it's basically the nerdiest thing ever and i only understand what's going on like a third of the time but it's fantastic. the stereotypes really are ridiculous but it's just too funny to really care about. the history part is a little more bothersome to me because at times you feel like a lot of these really serious events are being totally trivialized and glossed over in a major, not-so-good way. i mean, it sort of goes against western [and especially american] thought to be suddenly presented with chibi versions of the axis powers. i think in the end it's one of those things where everybody's being made fun of and stereotyped so it's okay-ish and america just put a hamburger on his head so it's all good.
so! after that whole thing, in case anyone is interested, these three are good web comics to start with [russia is awesome], and here is where you can watch the episodes online. there's only three so far and they're only five minutes long! the end song is way catchy. and now i am watching the first episode again and it is making me wonder if i am just crazy for loving this the way i do. ah well. let's have a toast with our boots!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
when i last spoke to carol.
i feel like i haven't updated in forever, mostly because i sort of haven't. december was a busy month filled with lots of working and dealing with my cousin and living my life in both my parents' house and my house and then going to seattle, which was so, so fantastic and needed and lovely, and then january was all coming home and jumping back into school and work and basically living out the life of a typical twenty-two-year-old, or trying to, i guess.
actually, 'trying to' is the perfect way to describe it. lately i feel very...poorly held together, let's say. like i've been taped together but the tape's getting kind of stretched out and not sticking all that well and everything is about a good push away from falling apart. i always hesitate when i start to write entries like these because i've been traumatized by past blogs wherein i wrote long entries talking about my issues and feelings and other crap like that in a way that i thought was tasteful and not looking for attention, when really they were whiny and melodramatic and purple prose-y. also i have a tendency of going through the same cycles of problems over and over again without any real resolution and that gets old so. you know. i have just sort of stopped writing regularly over the years. the jury's out on whether it's been good or bad for my head. probably the latter but c'est la vie.
but with all that said. lately i've been all over the place. the ups are good but the downs are crushing and i have vague ideas of what i can do about it all but usually i just press on and walk to class or drive to work or sweep the front porch and play morrissey a little more frequently and hope that the next day will be better. the anne shirley way, more or less. it just gets old sometimes. and there's a lot more to it but for tonight i'll just leave it here because i'm getting tired and i should probably read about queen anne and her dozens of miscarriages before i go to sleep. quelle excitement.
actually, 'trying to' is the perfect way to describe it. lately i feel very...poorly held together, let's say. like i've been taped together but the tape's getting kind of stretched out and not sticking all that well and everything is about a good push away from falling apart. i always hesitate when i start to write entries like these because i've been traumatized by past blogs wherein i wrote long entries talking about my issues and feelings and other crap like that in a way that i thought was tasteful and not looking for attention, when really they were whiny and melodramatic and purple prose-y. also i have a tendency of going through the same cycles of problems over and over again without any real resolution and that gets old so. you know. i have just sort of stopped writing regularly over the years. the jury's out on whether it's been good or bad for my head. probably the latter but c'est la vie.
but with all that said. lately i've been all over the place. the ups are good but the downs are crushing and i have vague ideas of what i can do about it all but usually i just press on and walk to class or drive to work or sweep the front porch and play morrissey a little more frequently and hope that the next day will be better. the anne shirley way, more or less. it just gets old sometimes. and there's a lot more to it but for tonight i'll just leave it here because i'm getting tired and i should probably read about queen anne and her dozens of miscarriages before i go to sleep. quelle excitement.
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