My parents periodically send me packages with good ol' Amurican foods in them. Quite often, this means Mac and Cheese. Today, I picked up a package from the post office, only to find it had been covered in tape, which proudly proclaimed the box had been repackaged by Japanese Customs, and a small slip stuck to the front, saying

"Dear our customer,
This postal item was opened by Customs for inspection and was repacked by our office"


No big deal, I thought to myself, as really, it was bound to happen eventually, with all the packages I get.

Only- when I opened the box, after hacking my way through the tape....

They sliced open the packages of powdered yellow cheese that comes with the Mac. They SLICED THEM OPEN. And. AND. Taped them shut. Only. They only bothered taping ONE SIDE> so the slice on the other side? STILL WIDE OPEN.


My pistachios are very cheesy now :( I'm torn between being amused and being disappointed.

I'm so ready to move on to whatever's next, it's not even funny. It's not that I'm unhappy in my job, or my life or anything like that. I've got a pretty sweet setup, and I get paid ridiculous money for how little work I do. And I do VERY little work. But. It's not a job that's a good fit for me, and I feel like I'm stalling here. Add that to the fact that I KNOW that something else is coming after this, and I just want to GET ON WITH IT already.



I am also starting to realize why people are so reluctant to change their life styles. I have decided to do some little tweaks to my life style, just to see if I can, and while it turns out, Yes, I Can, it is STUPIDLY expensive to change one's life style. There's like- an entire new range of clothing or products or services you have to buy and it's just- stupid.


On a mostly unrelated topic, the other day, ladynorbert alerted me to the existance of THIS wonderful gem:



I was both immediately EXCITED TO DEATH and SO DISSAPOINTED. Excited because: It's my far-fetched Completely-inappropriate boy-whom-I-love, Jamie MadroxLogan Lerman. GUAGH. I just love his face so hard. Disapointed, because, I thought to myself, there is NO WAY that movie's going to make it to Japan.

OH YE OF LITTLE FAITH.

The VERY NEXT DAY, I was in the grocery store, and they HAD A POSTER HANGING UP FOR IT. IN GROCERY STORE. WHERE THEY NEVER HAVE MOVIE POSTERS.

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A few days later, another one showed up at Jusco. I desperately want one. I asked the grocery store, but they seemed hesitant to give it up. That's ok. The movie's not out until the 26th. I'll ask again after the movies out. Again. And again. AND AGAIN.

So. LAST time, I got in trouble because instead of calling my base schools, I called my visiting schools on the days I would be absent. "In the future, please call base school! We will call visiting schools then!" I was chided.

So, last week, when I was home sick, I called my base school. NOW, I'm getting yelled at at my visiting schools. "In the future, please call visiting school directly!"



FUCK YOU, JAPAN. FUCK YOU.

First- anyone want to go to Disneyland/World? kidx4 hipped me to this sweet-ass deal: Give A Day Get a Disney Day. Unfortunately, I'm not in the area to take advantage of it, but any number of ya'll could. Not that you need an excuse to volunteer, but it could be a really fun addition to your upcoming summer.



Next.... This story has to get posted. It just has to. It's the sort of thing I'm going to remember for the rest of my life. I will warn you in advance, however, that it contains FLUIDS. And, though I consider it hilarious, it may be TMI. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

( So for Christmas, I donated blood... )

And THAT was my first blood giving experience. Despite how HORRIBLE it sounds, I actually find the entire thing to be just... hilarious. Just thinking about it now makes me laugh. I'm sure the poor staff doesn't feel the same way, and I do hope that I haven't been flagged in the Red Cross system as a "problem donor" or something, because I think I'd like to donate again, when I'm back in the states, but.... yeah. GOOD TIMES.

This has got to be the shallowest, most materialistic, pathetic measurement of happiness ever. And that's coming from someone who's incredibly shallow and materialistic. Jeeeeezus.

LIEK OMG U GYEZ! I HAF MOAR THEN 2 BFFS! B CUZ TEH WORD "BEST" TTLY DSNT IMPLY TERE CAN ONLY B 1!~!!! EYE ALLSEW HAF MOAR THEN 50 FRNDS ON SPACEBOOK! BEECAUSE THAT'S IMPRTANT 2 MEASURING HOW HAPPY I KIN B!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!!!!!!!!


I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. Yep. Yep. That's vomit.


Time for bed, I think.

I realize that the point of telephone is for the sentences to get all distorted as they get whispered down the alley, but... These still amuse me. I break my class up into teams, and put them in lines. I show a sentence to the last person in each line, and they whisper (and by whisper, they think I mean: Normal indoor speaking voice) it to the front, where the front person writes what they think the sentence is on a sheet of paper. I used to have them write it on the bored, but they would just copy from eachother then.


Spiders are super scary!
--> Spaider super camera
--> Spider sper scall
--> Surprised the woman
--> Spiders a spay cary

I baked a carrot cake.
--> I beigl a carot cake
--> I carrot
--> I bake a carot cake
--> I bake a carot cake

The berry pie was very bad. (I should have known better with this one- "pie" is super close in sound to the Japanese word for "breast." The giggling was massive.)
--> The very pai was very bad
--> The verypai was very bad
--> the bird watching
--> The What berry puy was the berry bad.


It took us over 20 minutes to do 3 rounds of Telephone. Oh yeah. They totally got the "as fast as possible" part of the instructions.



( And now, a RP meme, stolen from ladynorbert ) Spell check is for losers. Losers and people not at work.

So. Usually when I dream, I dream I'm an assassin. I don't know why this is, but I do. The majority of my dreams have me being an assassin/super spy person for whatever reason. Which is pretty cool.

Last night, though, I dreamed I was a demon. Like- creepy winged fang-toothed big teeth demon in human disguise.


And I wanted NOTHING MORE than to eat puppies.


I am not even making this up.

I spent the entire night trying to chase down puppies to eat, but people kept stopping me, and threatening to banish me back to hell.




Sometimes.... I really wonder about myself.





In other news: CANT HAVE NICE THINGS. My laptop is still broken, my Netbook won't connect to the net, and my Zune is now giving me Error 5. I pulled out my iPod, again, and was quickly reminded what a pile of shit THAT thing is.

Cannot. Have. Nice. Things.

So- I keep bouncing back and forth as to weather I want to go all the way to Hong Kong to audition for Hong Kong Disney. The latest swing of the pendulum was saying "Fuck yes, I do!" but just this morning, I found out when the next round of auditions for TOKYO Disney (the one I actually want to work at) are. I had been afraid they wouldn't be until August, but they're in March-April.... which is TOTALLY do-able.


So the question becomes: do I bow out of the the Hong Kong auditions, and put all my money into Tokyo Dis? Or, do I go to Hong Kong, with the recognition of being at an audition for a SECOND time, and possibly get hired there?


I HATE CHOICES SO MUCH.



DISREGARD THAT. APPARENTLY THE AUDITIONS FOR TOKYO DIS ARE ONLY GOING TO BE IN AMERICA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA. HAH.

azrielle_jones- you are my best friend, and I love you SO much. I hope your birthday is AWESOME, and that someone takes you to cold stone. Even though I suck, and am far away, I will hope you have AWESOMENESS without me. All I ever want for you is Awesomeness.


Someday- I'm actually going to send this package I made for you.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY

A Happy New Year.
Thank you last year.
I like English very much.
Stephanie is fun and cute.
Thankyou

Sincerely Yours,
Manami




How are you?
Do you spend a pleasant holidy?
The snow does not fall in Tahara as ever.
I want to play snow. :-)
Even if a cold day continues, do not catch cold.
I want to work as a lot of reereton this year.

Sincerely Yours,
Megumi





What is cold there.
Please be careful with the flu.
Last year was a fun class.
I want to play early game and quizzes this year.
See you at school.

Sincerely Yours,
Serika




A Happy New Year! In this your, I enjoyed class with Stephanie with a lot of smail. I had a lot of fan in the year.
Ms. Stephanie enjoyed class interested!
2010 year smile sheep you :)

Sincerely Yours,
Mika





Last year is I had fun classes thanks of Stephanie. I hope this year is I have more fun classes.
Have you evere see some dream in this year? In Japan, first of year dream if Mt.Fuji, eggplant a falcon you can see, You make happy!
I hope fun for you.

Sincerely Yours,
Anna







I love my girls ^_^

I've been busy. Back home though, so- catching up with things now.

I HAATE BANGCOCK


also; myslf



that i s all

I am pulling a ladynorbert, and going to post my to-do listy thing for the next.... time. Or something. I should mention I'm doing all of this on a tight budget.


Monday
Go to work
Go to Nagoya to get headshots done for Audition. (2 hours there, 2 hours back)

Tuesday
Go to work
Finish calendar piece.
Write up resume

Wednesday
Go to work
HOPEFULLY receive headshots in the mail. If not, buy ink for printer and half ass them myself.
Finish calendar preview

Thursday
Go to Australia

Friday
Arrive in Australia
Find a hotel

Saturday
Audition

Sunday
Return to Japan

Monday
Arrive in Japan
Go to work, directly from airport




In between all that, I'm cleaning, and getting ready for my triumphant return to America.



I am absolutely insane.

Also: A little afraid the Australians are going to hate me for being an American. o.o

My list doesn't look as impressive as ladynorbert's

So. New laptop arrived. I pulled her out of the box, and named her "Baby" on account of her ITTY BITTY SIZE. She is adorable and cute in all ways.

Except one.


In that she doesn't work.


I am, as they say, less than amused. She is a Netbook. She's come equipped with a built in Web cam, and her entire purpose in life is to provide an easily portable connection to the webzorz.

She does not.

I don't know if it's because I'm on the Japanese webs or what, but what should have been as easy as "Plug in cable and surf net" has become an exercise in not throwing the damn thing across the room and screaming.

The entire point of me BUYING this laptop and having it laboriously sent to me (LOVE YOU, SMOOGIE) was so that I could have a working laptop before I came home from Christmas.

HahahaNo. I don't get this.

So now I have one laptop that will connect to the internet, but due to a fried video card, has all the graphic capibilities of a flip book. And I have one laptop that functions in all ways except it won't connect to the internet.

Oh. Also: play DVDs or Scan. Because both require me to "connect to the internet" to download the correct codec to do so.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffff-



I have the depression from being in stupid Japan during Thanksgiving. Bleh.



Also: The auditions for HongKong Disney end on the 13- the day after I go home to Amurika. the Audition on the 13th? Oh yeah. That's in Hong Kong. You know. The place I actually have a conceivable hope of GETTING to.

There is an audition on the 5th that I could CONCEIVABLY get to, in Melbourne. I'm trying to convince myself that I should not do this, but it's depressing the hell out of me. Because I get the feeling that this might be the last opportunity to audition for Hong Kong Disney for quiiiiite a while. And I've decided that Hong Kong Disney would be just as acceptable as Tokyo Disney. Really, ANY Disney is acceptable, but these are the ones I have a .00001% chance of actually getting hired at. As opposed to the others, where I have NO chance.

Except Paris Disney. I have noooo interest in that. Srsly.

I get more packages on Thursday than any other day. I do not know why. Just that this seems to be the case.

ANYWHO.

Yesterday, I received a notification that the postoffice had a package waiting for me. And I was gleeful, for, I have been expecting my new laptop to arrive any day now. I still haven't picked it up (three more hours until I can do that! *squeee*), but I was highly amused upon reading the slip.

They had filled out the "To" portion just fine. However, they seem to have gotten a bit confused on the "From" part, once again.

According to the postoffice, this box is From: HAM


Now I understand where they could be getting this, between the place of origin, and the senders last name, but still: I am amused.


I think I will name the new laptop Bill :3

No seriously. Everyone watch this. It's like- Once More, With Feeling only with freaking BATMAN.




BAT.


MAN.

So.

Last night I dreamed I spat on, and then beat the living hell out of Hitler.





Huh.

Sooooooooo one of my sorta-friends (I like to consider us as "Likeable aquantances- we don't comment or talk much, but we both like eachother's work) on DA is running a contest. An OC contest.

Now normally, I stay the HELL away from OC's, the same way I avoid walking through spiderwebs. It just doesn't end plesently. But... these are Pokemon OCs.

Now, providing you're not creating an OC that is ZOMG ONE OF THE TWIN CHILDREN OF JESSIE AND JAMES or ZOMG TTLY OTP WIF MISTY or whatever... I'm sort of... not offended by Pokemon OCs.

It's a video game. A video game in which you get to NAME your character. Not only does this encourage OCs, it encourages Self Insert. Which, really- MOST video games do.

So yeah. I'm going to enter. The only trouble is- WHO to enter. Every Pokemon game I play, I play a different version of... me. >.> But the teams are different! For example- my very first time through Pokemon, WAY back in the day, I was a fire trainer. AND ONLY FIRE. I was the MASTER of Fire pokemon.

Which... didn't really work out that well for me, as Fire pokemon have SO MANY WEAKNESSES. But I still love them the most.

Another one of my games, I was an Eevee trainer. I had one of all the evolutions on my team. That was pretty cool.

Another game, I built my team around mimicing the Greek/Roman panthion, with all my pokemon named after Green/Roman Gods and Godesses.


I'm only alowd one entry though. So I am a bit torn.


I have not done Pokemon fanart in FOREVERZ. Wuagh. ITS LIKE BEING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGAIN.

( In other, unrelated news... )


Wuagh. Why do I do this to myself?
At work. No spell check -_-

I chuckled.

Anyone else think that this movie would have actually been better than the one it's spoofing?

This update brought to you by my DICK TEACHER who enjoys glaring at me from across the English Department room, and cancled our lesson for this period without telling me. THANKS, DICK. From now on, I'm calling him Richard. >.<



I went to a boring and a game center.
The score in the boring was 105.
We spent two hours pleasantly. I want to go again.

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I went to the Toyota Stadium
My famiry big soccer fan
Do you know "Nagoya Guranpas"??
It is good a team <3 My relative bilong to gurampas!!
The game ended ni a draw
I will keep on aiding \(*O*)/
I went to Tokyo and Yokohama.
Odaiba is now meeting an event.
I look big "Gundam". It is moving face!!! *I don't "Otaku"
Next, wen tto "IkeA". Do you know IkeA??
I like "IkeA"<3<3 Big big furniture store. Very cut <3 <3
"IkeA" struch 3 years ago in Japan.
I bought desk, wall clock and mirror. Happy
Thankyou, my father<3

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I watched 24 TV.
I sad. Very very sad.
I feel emotion.

I'm sleeping.
Very very very....
Bye---!!

I went to Sea
It is very beautiful.
I scream complaints!

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I went to a dentist.
I don't like a dentist.
Oh no~!

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Yesterday we put up at a hotel
We were bought many thing!

Today watching Imoto!
I feel very emotion!
GLEAT

I went to school.
Because Sadou club.
I feel so empty.

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And now: An excerpt from the paper one of my Teachers is writing;


Staying in a farmhouse has somethign to help you unwind as much as staying in a high-end hotel; which is: pleasure of working up a sweat, and breakfast after early day's work. That makes you so hungry. What makes you hungrier is veggies fresh from your garden. That excites you from head to toe as if it's dinner served at a posh three-star restaurant.
There's nothing like taking a bath and having beer after one-day farmwork. You cannot help falling asleep before the date changes. Even an unfamiliar pillow won't disturb your sleep.






In other news: I have finally found the Alice in Wonderland notebook I've been looking for. SCORE.