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Mar. 9th, 2009 11:37 pmI know I'm supposed to be jaded and elitist but I'm browsing the Naka-Kon program and I'm really liking the look of the panels. Usually my big nerdcon interests, cosplay and jmusic, are under-represented and only addressed generally at panels. Gawd. There are about 6 that I'm already dying to go to. T minus four days until con time, yeah?
Man, I haven't posted since I put up that poll, have I? Bad me. I ultimately decided upon the Utada Hikaru outfit from her PV for the single "Passion" as my primary and started the low key and cheap red dress getup for Chizuru from Tokyo Marble Chocolate as a backup just in case something went wrong with the Utada dress. But the Passion dress is shaping up nicely so I think I'll let the Chizuru ensemble simmer on the back burner and finish it up a little later. I might consider pushing myself to complete it as I've got about 90% of the elements purchased and ready- even the pieces are cut out!- but I'm not that crazy. One Sarah is coming up on Wednesday and the other is coming up on Thursday. I've got to scrub the bathroom to make it nice for company and I've got a new schedule to follow.
Ah! That's also new. After too many unemployed weeks of waking up late and not getting anything done with my day, I asked my mother if I could tag along on her 5AM trips to the Gladstone Community Center for some exercise. She loved the idea and promptly bought me a 3 month membership. Now, every morning when she goes to swim laps I program a 30 minute stationary bike ride into the so-advanced-they-might-be-sentient exercise bikes and have at it. These things are crazy. The handlebars monitor your heart rate and there is a TV built into the display. It's nice. I'm able to wake up, catch up on recent videos via VH1, and move around a bit. My mother is also taking the opportunity to teach me to drive on the trips to and from the GCC. It isn't much, but it's enough to make me feel like I'm doing something with my days.
I applied to another place. My father was using the MySpace job search engine as a joke and found some interesting things. Among them: a Delta listing for new flight attendants who are American but speak Japanese. I laughed it off at first, but 20 minutes later shut my skeptical yapper and went ahead and completed the 4 stage application process. I think my chances are slim to none, but whether I'm interviewed, hired, or not I'm happy. It isn't the dream job, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't on my internal list of jobs I could easily glamorize and would happily take. Full salary and benefits and regular trips to Japan that I'm paid to take? Access to free or discounted plane tickets to visit my friends in other states and countries? And as cheesy as it is, I get a decent sense of satisfaction from customer service-type jobs. Oh well. Too bad I have just as much of an ice cube's chance in hell of getting that gig. Same as the English teaching stuff.
Saw Watchmen like the rest of the grown-up continental nerd US. Hotaru's insistance. It really got under my skin somehow. I've had two nightmares about the characters. Also, the whole philosophical end about human nature boiling down to a need to scare the fear of god back into people just to get them to behave? Oh, that pissed me off. I'm sorry, but I would like to believe that people are capable of doing good without fear of divine retribution. I feel that sort of philosophy cheapens any and all moral acts. Also, as an anime nerd I really had to roll my eyes at the end. For all the richness of the characters and depth to the universe, Evangelion examined the human condition much more deeply and Gundam Wing is still my number one idiot conspiracy-to-end-all-war show. Though, I hear the original had an ending more like the fake alien version of 9/11? Dated as it might be, the recent Bush-era legal memos on the near dictatorship the Bush Administration built around themselves leaves even that possible ending with a bitter taste in my mouth that I can't get past. Meh. It just isn't my thing, I suppose.
Man, I haven't posted since I put up that poll, have I? Bad me. I ultimately decided upon the Utada Hikaru outfit from her PV for the single "Passion" as my primary and started the low key and cheap red dress getup for Chizuru from Tokyo Marble Chocolate as a backup just in case something went wrong with the Utada dress. But the Passion dress is shaping up nicely so I think I'll let the Chizuru ensemble simmer on the back burner and finish it up a little later. I might consider pushing myself to complete it as I've got about 90% of the elements purchased and ready- even the pieces are cut out!- but I'm not that crazy. One Sarah is coming up on Wednesday and the other is coming up on Thursday. I've got to scrub the bathroom to make it nice for company and I've got a new schedule to follow.
Ah! That's also new. After too many unemployed weeks of waking up late and not getting anything done with my day, I asked my mother if I could tag along on her 5AM trips to the Gladstone Community Center for some exercise. She loved the idea and promptly bought me a 3 month membership. Now, every morning when she goes to swim laps I program a 30 minute stationary bike ride into the so-advanced-they-might-be-sentient exercise bikes and have at it. These things are crazy. The handlebars monitor your heart rate and there is a TV built into the display. It's nice. I'm able to wake up, catch up on recent videos via VH1, and move around a bit. My mother is also taking the opportunity to teach me to drive on the trips to and from the GCC. It isn't much, but it's enough to make me feel like I'm doing something with my days.
I applied to another place. My father was using the MySpace job search engine as a joke and found some interesting things. Among them: a Delta listing for new flight attendants who are American but speak Japanese. I laughed it off at first, but 20 minutes later shut my skeptical yapper and went ahead and completed the 4 stage application process. I think my chances are slim to none, but whether I'm interviewed, hired, or not I'm happy. It isn't the dream job, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't on my internal list of jobs I could easily glamorize and would happily take. Full salary and benefits and regular trips to Japan that I'm paid to take? Access to free or discounted plane tickets to visit my friends in other states and countries? And as cheesy as it is, I get a decent sense of satisfaction from customer service-type jobs. Oh well. Too bad I have just as much of an ice cube's chance in hell of getting that gig. Same as the English teaching stuff.
Saw Watchmen like the rest of the grown-up continental nerd US. Hotaru's insistance. It really got under my skin somehow. I've had two nightmares about the characters. Also, the whole philosophical end about human nature boiling down to a need to scare the fear of god back into people just to get them to behave? Oh, that pissed me off. I'm sorry, but I would like to believe that people are capable of doing good without fear of divine retribution. I feel that sort of philosophy cheapens any and all moral acts. Also, as an anime nerd I really had to roll my eyes at the end. For all the richness of the characters and depth to the universe, Evangelion examined the human condition much more deeply and Gundam Wing is still my number one idiot conspiracy-to-end-all-war show. Though, I hear the original had an ending more like the fake alien version of 9/11? Dated as it might be, the recent Bush-era legal memos on the near dictatorship the Bush Administration built around themselves leaves even that possible ending with a bitter taste in my mouth that I can't get past. Meh. It just isn't my thing, I suppose.
