--> Tuesday, July 10, 2001 <--
    --> 11:00 p.m. <--

    Oh dear. ;;^^

    Well, I took that personality test on Gregly's blog. And since I took Abnormal Psych my last semester of college, I know exactly what this supposedly says about me. Fuck! ;;^_^

    Paranoid: High
    Schizoid: Low
    Schizotypal: Low
    Antisocial: Low
    Borderline: Very High
    Histrionic: Moderate
    Narcissistic: Moderate
    Avoidant: High
    Dependent: Low
    Obsessive-Compulsive: Low

    Oh maaaan! I always score like a lunatic on these exams. XD

    Now Playing: R.E.M - Crush with Eyeliner

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    --> Tuesday, July 10, 2001 <--
    --> 01:57 p.m. <--

    What is that It's just the same
    What is trying in your crown
    I'm spending in my glass And walking back
    So wear my glass You're fading

    If anyone can tell me what the hell that *means*, I'll be amazed. It's from the Berserk ED, " Waiting so long," which I adore as a song but has always confounded me when I tried to understand its meaning. It's entirely in Engrish, and the Engrish is...well, like that. Full lyrics are here. It's a nice moody song, but don't listen to the ririks. XD

    This weekend was pretty fun; Kya, Ka, Krisit, and Erin visited. It was 1337! And I need to join the SNKfic list now, it seems. I paged through Kya's SNK artbook, and discovered I'm even more of a videogame whore than I thought I was. I must have that artbook. O_O I'd blog more about it but everyone else already has, and I'm really tired now. ;;^^

    This morning I had an interview at a publishing company. Got there at 9 am, didn't leave until like 11:45. First was the hour-long test where I proved I could read, write, spell, and proofread English. ;;^^ Then I talked to the managing editor/editing manager/something for over an hour while he showed me what I'd be doing. I'd be...um...project editor for some alternative medicine book. Sounds really neat and all, but it's a full-time job, so AnimeIowa's probably out for me now. ;;^^ Damnation. >_<

    I'm just....really...tired now. At least in this job I might get bitches. I mean, freelance writers.

    I'll blog more when I can think again. Last night I was so exhausted that I went to bed at 9 pm and got up at 7 am. I guess I needed the sleep.

    Tay, I am seriously still working on j00r layout. Gomen!

    Now Playing: Petshop Boys - Money ( o/~ I've got the brains, you've got the looks - let's make lots of money! o/~ )

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    --> Tuesday, July 10, 2001 <--
    --> 11:40 a.m. <--

    Wait a second...

    An email I got over the weekend:
      Subject: Translation mistake...
      Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:58:20 -0500

      You translated for Jupiter Jazz part 1:

      " Callisto's cold this time of year. Bring some warm clothing."
      " I know how to keep warm."
      " Your blood may be warm, but your soul is as cold as the skin of a snake. Vicious...don't forget that a snake can not devour a Dragon..."

      I believe the correct translation is:

      "Callisto is a frigid planet. Take lots of winter clothing"
      "To me, no cold climate is worth taking precautions for"
      "It is true that the planet is warmer than your heart. Colder than snakes skin....Vicious, a snake cannot eat a dragon."

    Um......aren't those essentially the same thing? I did that transration off-the-cuff before the subs came out, and all ;;^^ I'd understand if I'd been totally off, but...

    Now Playing: Yukie Nakama - Two of Me in my Heart

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    --> Thursday, July 5, 2001 <--
    --> 10:47 p.m. <--

    One wonders how much time went into making this.

    As requested: Butterfly - Pikachu Remix.

    I'm uploading the original for comparison: it's here. Don't blame me because it's catchy. It's been on more than one DDR mix because it's SO DAMN CATCHY. I have the upswing mix too, and the vocal techno mix. I don't know why I have so many mixes of it; it makes me want to, I dunno, dance around and break things at the same thing.

    Gregly! I NEED the Paranoia JC mix! XDD

    Now Playing: Guess.

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    --> Thursday, July 5, 2001 <--
    --> 09:48 a.m. <--

    Resistance is futile?

    Got an email from a highschool friend who's working as a paralegal in NYC right now. ( She was a biochem major, IIRC - go figure. I'm not even sure if she graduated college.) Anyways, at the end of her ' hi, i'm here, here's my addy and phone number' email, was the following auto-sig:
      " This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged. Use or disclosure of it by anyone other than a designated addressee is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, please telephone the sender at (phone number) and delete this e-mail from the computer on which you received it."
    They're going to find me and kill me, aren't they?

    Now Playing: Enka 1 - Pander's theme from BAM2

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    --> Thursday, July 5, 2001 <--
    --> 09:11 a.m. <--

    One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it: -- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

    Another 4th of July come and gone. I finally remembered to archive. We didn't go to the fireworks last night because my mother's ankles were fucked up somehow. Turns out that it was all for the best because around 10 pm, it started *pouring* down. Not a drizzle, or even a shower. We're talking rain so heavy it roars, lightning that makes the lights flicker, and thunder that made me wince and cover my ears. No wonder people used to think there were several pissy gods up there in the clouds throwing thunderbolts around. :D

    Heavy rain reminds me of India. I've only been there once during a monsoon, and that was really something to remember. We went to a temple for the evening puja and when we came out, it was raining, and the night was so dark. When I passed under the entrance archway, I saw this *incredible* branch of lightning fill the sky, one end to the other. It was like breaking open the sky and seeing what's behind it.

    I like volunteering in the domestic violence shelter. Once in a while, we'll get walk-ins, and I can't tell you how sick it makes me to see these women with blue marks visible where their clothes can't cover. One woman pulled up her shirt to show me the marks on her lower back. A lot of these women are respectable, middle-class - some of them work for the university, or their husband does. And I wonder - did I have her husband in a class? Since I never find out their last names, I simply don't know. It's a creepy thought.

    At least a couple times a week, however, people call in wanting to donate things to the shelter. Clothes. Diapers. Food. Furniture. Toys. Cell phones. One guy even wanted to donate his *car*. It's amazing what people will do sometimes out of pure generosity - but I'm sure tax credits help, too. :D

    Got my blood donor card in the mail today - I'm O+. So's my dad, but I bet my mother's an A+ - a lot of Indians have the A bloodtype. I ended up with a more Caucasian bloodtype, as luck would have it. It's interesting, different racial groups tend to have different proportions of the ABO alleles - I found this out when doing population genetics. We'd have problems where if you mix two different groups of people for 100 generations, how will the allele frequencies change, etc etc. Heavy on the math, but I used to love slogging through all that math.

    My dad taught me a good game to trick people out of their money the other day. Really simple - it just requires three blank cards, and the dealer has a 2/3 chance of collecting the money. XD Statisticians are corrupting the youth of America!

    Reminds me of an Onion tagline I saw once: " Standard Deviation not enough for perverted statistician."

    I'm feeling old and tired. I really need more sleep. This post-college thing is tiring. ^.- Although I must admit I feel lazy compared to those of you who work during the summer. ( If only the bastiches I interviewed at would get back to me. -_- )

    Now Playing: Smile.dk - Butterfly ( Pikachu remix ) ( if you haven't heard this, you must. Deeply disturbing. Email me, and I can upload it. )

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    Random things about me: ( take with a grain of salt )

    sign: pisces or metal rooster or revati // aura : gold // color: brown // alignment: neutral evil // evil: kinda evil (7.5) // keirsey: INTJ

    Big O - Cowboy Bebop - DiGi Charat - Trigun - Petshop of Horrors - Excel Saga - Gokudo-kun - lain - Saiyuki - Basara

    iggy pop :: david bowie :: rolling stones :: orbital :: BT :: depeche mode :: ABC :: english beat :: velvet underground/lou reed :: brian eno :: roxy music :: dido :: modest mouse :: morphine :: placebo :: adam ant :: siouxsie :: cure :: t rex :: beastie boys :: neuroactive :: bauhaus :: underworld :: air :: juno reactor :: tricky



    This layout is made from a sketch I did 06/15/01. No model, no source series or anything; he's just from the less perverted reaches of my mind. I think. Yeah, I'm pretty sure, otherwise I would have exerted my knowledge of anatomy and drawn him with fewer clothes on. ( Being a biology major has its weird skills. ) As it is, I just want to nadenade him. All I know is his name is 'Rei' ( —ë ) XD so make of him what you will. @_@