I'm a dork fish.
Mar. 9th, 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kazariI 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.
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Date: 2009-03-10 07:02 am (UTC)I know Naruto has a hotel for the weekend, but is Sari crashing at your place?
I still think it was a good idea to fill out the application. It's better then not trying at all, methinks. ♥
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Date: 2009-03-10 07:47 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNojuJKGjk
It's under Island/Def Jam like Exodus except that this time the albums is gonna be more contemporary and less experimental. Hope it does well, I've actually heard it on local Top 40 radio here in Louisiana.
The dress is looking great, too. I hope you have a wonderful time at con, Mercury-hime.
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Date: 2009-03-10 11:29 am (UTC)Thanks! I'm hoping it will turn out well.
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Date: 2009-03-10 11:32 am (UTC)Yeah, Sari is crashing here. We're gonna chill and play video games and raid music for Wed/Thurs.
I agree. Thinking that way made it easier to just plow through the HOURS of online application BS. But, I slept better that night for it, you know?
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Date: 2009-03-10 01:36 pm (UTC)I agree with the Watchmen business for the most part. If you ever have time you should read the graphic novel as it really is a lot better and takes the time to build up everything the movie simplifies.
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Date: 2009-03-10 02:57 pm (UTC)*nod, nod* The application process sucks, but finishing it always makes me feel better. ^.^
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Date: 2009-03-10 03:34 pm (UTC)Good idea about applying to be a flight attendent. Maybe not your ideal, but at least it's something that's utilizing your mad japaneze skillz. Who knows, it could work out and you could really enjoy it!
And major kudos for starting to exercise, it's never easy. And~ if you're up for it, maybe I could join you one morning during my visit?? *poke poke* You know me and my obsession with fitness. ^^;;
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Date: 2009-03-10 05:02 pm (UTC)I dunno. I might after the hoopla dies down. I've been a scifi novel and anime kind of person for ages. I'm not sure American comics, even the thoughty thought kind, would ever satisfy in comparison.
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Date: 2009-03-10 05:05 pm (UTC)I'm thinking that the airline industry is suffering too much to hire me at this point. I'm just gonna be a bump on a log for a while longer.
I do! And actually I mentioned that possibility to my mum the other day. I was so sleepy I forgot to look up the day rate or visitor policy with card holders. =/ I'm just using the bikes, though. Nothing intense.
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Date: 2009-03-10 05:54 pm (UTC)LoL dude, good luck with the job search! I've been working on a grad school app...crossing my fingers that I make it in, because otherwise I'm not sure what I'm gonna do T_T
Not sure what I think of Utada Hikaru's domestic song. It has a lot of the same sounds that I've heard in other recent pop stuff (Mariah Carey comes to mind for some reason). Some of it isn't really to my taste, but it'd be cool if she could get a successful release here in the states.
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:11 pm (UTC)Gawd this shit is insane. Meh. We'll work this stuff out eventually.
I neither loved nor hated it. But, I did request it on VH1's countdown thing. It would be nice to get a GOOD Asian pop star in the spotlight over here. BoA's recent attempt sucked balls. I'm losing hope. -_-;
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Date: 2009-03-10 11:42 pm (UTC)Have you ever seen the bike machines where you are in a "race" with other bikers? And it keeps track of how you did on your last ride, so you are supposed to try and beat it the next time? It's insane.
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:51 am (UTC)Eh?! That's awesome! Wish these did that. They have a simulated circular bike track and a visualization of what the hills you're going up and down look like but no races.
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Date: 2009-03-11 02:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 02:49 am (UTC)true. it got me thinking about applying for a similar position, but then i quickly remembered the chinese people i met on the plane and some of them...let's just say i'd rue serving them for 14 hours in a confined space.
I WOULD TOTALLY BE UP FOR THAT! even if the rate is a little high. i've been back for 2 weeks exactly and i've gained 9 lbs so i'm freaking out. though i blame the diet transition more than anything else.
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Date: 2009-03-11 04:15 am (UTC)