Friday, November 3, 2000 04:09 p.m.

P.S. I'm a moron. Next Saturday /is/ the 11th. I definitely want to go, but that would require missing JAC... Ah, descisions, descisions. ._.

Friday, November 3, 2000 01:58 p.m.

Quick notes before I go take a nap.
Emi: Don't fight it. Your attempt to stop buying manga would be like attempting to stop buying groceries ^_-
Puu: *_* Mitsuwa next weekend sounds fun. I'm kinda broke, though....
WAI! T-chan has a pita now, too XD Blog, my pretties! BLOG!...oh wait, that's Emi's line.
Ok, I'm really freaking tired. Baibai...
Music: none, but I have the song 'Brown-Eyed Girl' stuck in my head :P

Friday, November 3, 2000 09:58 a.m.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I gotta love one man til I die...

Hmm. I need to get the Showboat soundtrack. I love that song ^_^

This does feel like a BBS,Kya-chan.And Nekosagi is right; most people in #fy actually don't like Fushigi Yuugi. I do, but that's beside the point ^_-
Nekosagi: I think I remember your nick, but I've only been in #fy for a year or so...right when I came on I was MangaGirl, but now I go by Oruha (or OruWORK when I am at work ^^;) and occasionally Ikuhara..but I think I will turn that nick into a bot. BTW, your description of #fy is right on the money ^_^ and I totally understand how IRC sucks your time away...I've been there ^^;

Ka-chan, I took your manga survey. It was amusing! ^o^

Anyhoo. I am enjoying the fact that it's a Friday and therefore I am the only soul in the lab. Not even my boss; she went to a meeting ^^; Sooo....blast that anime music! >D HO HO HO!

Yes, there is a DDR USA Mix machine at Mitsuwa. It's $3 for two games (up to 6 songs total). It's right across from Asahiya. That toy store where Scandal used to be has hard pads for sale *_* Also, there is a DDR tourney there on the 11th. I may go cheer my friends on, so if any of you want to meet me there, that would be fun ^^ Puu, I'm going to drag your overworked butt up with me ^_^ Hopefully Genri and Janelle will go! I'll make them!

Speaking of DDR, I DDR'd waaay too much last night. The pads were on very squishy carpet, and it did a number on my foot ;_; But I did pretty well at Paranoia Dirty Mix despite that ^_^_v

Music: The Brink of Time - Chrono Trigger. (Yes, Matt, I have Chrono Trigger music...be proud ^^)

Thursday, November 2, 2000 07:22 p.m.

II ONNA DA ZE!!
*Julie beats Maze-kun down with a stick*

No, not you, Yuuhi. ^_-

Let's think of creative ways to destroy all of Netscape! HO HO HO!

You know what really sucks? Trying to make a FrontPage template a multiuser template on Windows NT. Any suggestions? *shoots pointed glance at the Evil Empire's ecchiest worker bee*

You know what else really sucks? Trying to make FrontPage look good in Netscape on a Mac. I really don't get paid enough for this shit :P That's why I like to steer all the professors that want to learn web design over to Dreamweaver....of course, trying to make anything look good in Netscape is a chore. *patpats Emi and Yuuhi*

My browser broke Emi's lovely page. Go look at her blog to learn more...I'm sorry, Emi! I don't know why it does that. Just for the record, I'm on IE 5.5 in Windows 98 SE.

Puu-nyu, I'm going to beat you. I mean that in a bad way :P Your Japanese is not sucky, either. What is up with all the self-depreciation around here? :P

I'm going to Jon's house to DDR tonight. I've been DDR deprived ever since I gave back the modded PSX, and I need to dance, damnit! It'll be fun. We'll be using my copy of 3rd Mix ^^;

Ok, off to finish my laundry and read more Damia.Yay for being able to slack! My only Friday class was cancelled, so my weekend has already begun ^______^

Thursday, November 2, 2000 05:13 p.m.

Sugoi! O_O Nekosagi, Kya-chan, what a small world! Yes, I went to Addison Trail. I ran in the theater and art people crowds, so if either of you know anyone who was a drama freak, I most likely know them ^_- My roomie went to Rolling Ghettos--er, excuse me, Rolling Meadows (don't look at me, my roomie was the one who told me that nickname ^_-)...and a whole lot of people I know ended up at Cod State (aka College of Donuts, UCLA-University Closest to the Lombard Area). Heeheehee.

Kya-chan, I'm lucky my boss is nice. She lets us listen to whatever we want, as long as it's not offensive. Half the time I keep the music really low so as not to offend any faculty or coworkers with strange genki Japanese music ^^;

Oniisan, Kya-chan, you are both in big big trouble ¬_¬ You are both sickeningly good at Japanese :P I'm in my third semester and I feel horribly over my head. So shush! ^_- (I mean that in the nicest possible way, BTW ^^;;;)

Nekosagi, I didn't cosplay at ACen last year ^^; I'm pretty sure I remember you, though ^^ If you saw me, I was most likely causing a ruckus with these people. (There's even a pic of me buried in there somewhere @_@ along with a link to some of my ACen pics)

Kris-san, that FF8 banner cracks me up XD

Emi.... I must have that Vash figure **_**

Ok, my head is starting to hurt and I'm getting hungry. Therefore, I will get food and then go do laundry. Woohoo ._.#

Music: Kaze wa Mirai ni Huku (Trigun ED theme)

Thursday, November 2, 2000 08:59 a.m.

It's raining! It's raining!!! WAI!

I was hoping it would rain. Unfortunately, most of it fell while I was asleep ;_; It's okay, though, because everything is soaking wet, the wind is blowing, and the sky looks like it's about to burst again at any time. I love rain!
K-chan! I'm sorry! I forgot to put your link up. Please don't kill me o_o And don't worry...this is a really stressful time, but it can't stay that way forever. Hang in there! *hugs* And remember, I can always come out to EIU and beat that guy up ^_-

Anyhoo, Puuchan, The Neverending Story was my favorite movie for a long time, and the book is WAY better. Did you know they printed an English version with the green and red text, just like the German version? They have it at the Addison library. It's so pretty *_*

Cat, And let it be known that although JR is really important to you (and most likely he will always be important to you), what he is doing to you is not cool. He's confused and he's taking all his insecurities out on you. You are not a punching bag! I know how hard it is to keep men from fucking with your mind, but you've got to watch out for yourself here. And you're always welcome to come over and scream ^_^ I know I've nagged you with the same word before, but now you can come to my blog and stare at them >D

As for the matter of Japanese textbooks, ISU uses Yookoso!It's a really good textbook, but it doesn't introduce kanji very well at all. It goes by arbitrary topic groupings instead of by frequency...grr. However, it has a great 'cast' of characters that are used in all the examples. Now that I'm in my third semester with the text, I'm starting to feel like I know them o_o

Music: Labyrinth! Wai! As the World Falls Down, to be specific. This song and Within You make the hopeless romantic in me go *_*

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 09:15 p.m.

Ok, so Priya bribed me with helping on my research paper if I blogged. So here I am ^^;;;

First off, hidoi! Priya is so mean to me ;_; Fantasizing about me in Ikuhara leather squicks me. You'd have to kill several cows to do that. Oniisan apparently likes the idea, though o_o

Well, I had a great conversation with oniisan and Tanzy and Emi about being my own person. So I'm going to write up a little manifesto of things that I want to do with my life, and soon. One of those things is going out to SF or Seattle, or both, to visit. I really want to have the freedom and responsibility of planning a trip like that. Who wants to go with? ^_^ *shoots pointed looks at Puu and Kchan*

As for friends drifting apart..I know the feeling all too well. I'm really bad at keeping in contact with people. I only talk to some people that I was best friends with in high school once a month or less. I still love to hang out with them, but distance makes that hard. I'm only regularly in contact with two people from my hometown, and even that can be hard. It's depressing. Fortunately, most of my friends stayed fairly true to who they were in high school, and didn't end up as drunken lushes. Some of my acquaintances, on the other hand....well, we won't go there.

Puu, it's really weird that you read my mind like that. Today I was thinking hard about who I am and how I have changed. I think that I have matured and changed quite a bit from where I was just a year ago, and that's so far removed from where I was the year before that that I wonder if any of the old me is left sometimes. But all it takes is a little reminder from, say, listening to a favorite musical (Jesus Christ Superstar has been a favorite of mine since sixth grade and before o_o) or rereading a book by C.S. Lewis or L.M Montgomery to remind me that I still have some of the old Julie somewhere.
Poor RJ, Matt, and Cat were stuck with my reminiscing last weekend when we went up to my hometown. I went digging for the Atari and Nintendo in the basement and came up with a whole bunch of memories. It was fun, but I'm sure I bored them out of their minds ^^;

I drew this in class today. It's a self-portrait doodle of me at my messy desk with the Lain-esque cords everywhere. Sometimes having a million periphials sucks. :P

Music: FF7 ^_^

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 04:31 p.m.

It's too darn hot...It's too darn hot...

Kiss Me Kate is really appropriate here. It's still too freaking hot in this classroom....I'd guess that it's around 90 degrees and airless. Not to mention that it is freakishly warm outside...in the 80's in November in central Illinois? Yeesh!

I did much better on my Japanese test than I thought I would...a mere 2 points short of a B. I though I would get a low C or a D >_< There were still a whole lot of red marks everywhere, though. I find that I can read a surprising amount of Katherine-san's Japanese pita. I am still missing a lot, but that's ok. I'm still learning ^^;

Melting! I'm meeeeeelting @_@

CATHERINE! Next time ask before stealing my CD :P I told you that I had Komm Süsser Tod on mp3, but noooo, you have to steal my brand new CD :P Hmph *miffed*

Awww...you know I am just picking on you, Cat...
As for Sir Snores-a-lot, all you have to do is play Aa Shuu Dekei oo in his ear until he dies. I have that mp3, too >D

i can't believe we went straight from Powerpoint to freaking Director in this class. Granted, I will be grateful for the comparatively easy Flash when it comes to finals crunch time, but really! Yeesh.

Hey everyone, what's the worst movie you've ever seen? I'm still thinking about the hideous Samurai Reincarnation, and I wonder what other doozies we should try to rent next >D Yes, we are sick and twisted individuals. You should know that by now.

Hey Matt, where is your blog? Hayaku! Hayaku! :P

On the music player: nothing. I'm in class ^^;

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 10:46 a.m.

BRING BACK MY GHOST

Yay for silly Big O titles.Puu...why, may I ask, were you and Matt picturing me in leather? o_o What makes you think I wasn't Ikuhara in his Sailormars costume? Or his scarily-Mamoru-like costume? :P after all, I was only Ikuhara on IRC...

Now, I know I mentioned 'trendy' dhtml and javascript-covered pages in passing before, but the topic keeps coming up, so here is my opinion, from the standpoint of a graphic and web designer:

In web and graphic design, form without function is useless and time-wasting. No matter how pretty a page is, nobody will want to stay if they can't navigate the site. What good is putting in all that work on content if nobody sees it? Most of these pages have very good content, but I'm too frustrated to care by the time i find it.
Okay, I am getting way too into this, and I do believe I will write a full-blown article on this, but until then let me note two things that piss me off:
1. DHTML scroll buttons used incorrectly. They're cool, but most of the time they scroll way too fast, and I can't read the content. Grr.
2. Pretentiousness! Great, your page is really fancy and looks very nice. But when artsy-fartsy pretentious crap like link names that have nothing to do with what they are linking to piss me off. Pet peeve....

Whew, I feel better now. I'll stop ranting. Baibai!

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 08:54 a.m.

Just a quickie before I have to do actual work. Whee. I like Nekosagi's pita ^_^ Are you from the ACen area? I am! ^^ Whee.

I have a meeting as soon as this guy shows up. I'm not looking forward to it. But more info on that later ^_-

I wish that work would update their page. But they are too busy...oops, gotta run..

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 01:46 a.m.

Tired...so tired.

So why am I blogging? Because Matt didn't believe I would have the energy to :P
We watched a movie called Samurai Reincarnation, possibly the worst movie ever. Weird confusing plot, hideous English dubbing (and you thought some anime was badly dubbed!), ghosts, and lots of fire. I fell asleep. We also rented Prom Night starring Jamie Lee Curtis, but we were out of energy for more cheese.

Wai! Thanks for reading this, Tomoyo! ^_^ I feel loved *^^*

In answer to the question of parents and computers...I am an arts technology major, and work in a faculty computer lab, so computers come with the turf. My older brother is an applied computer science major, so he is also a compy nerd. My parents are (hopefully!) learning by osmosis. ^^;

Sorry, Puu-nyu-chan, but I don't have any fun Halloween stories for you. When I was in high school, I was very active in theater, and we always managed to have a show on Halloween >_< It sucked. Oh well...next year we will dress K-chan up as R. Dorothy and go around scaring small chidren! XD
On a lam0r note, I 'dressed' as everyone's favorite cracked out bondage-happy director on IRC by changing my nick to Ikuhara. Woo. Ok, can't type anymore...must sleep....

Music: none. Roomie(being smarter than I) is asleep and I don't feel like putting on headphones :P

Tuesday, October 31, 2000 09:12 p.m.

Under the sea, under the sea!o/~

Yup. Still listening to The Little Mermaid. Read about a third of Damia, didn't get any actual work done. Going out with Matt and Cat to find fun Halloween-ish things to do in a bit. This will probably involve scary movies o_o I don't like scary movies at all (I'm such a wimp!) but I'll do it for the sake of being social.

Maybe I will put some Les Miserablés and listen to my once-again-applicable theme song, from the second act.
I should dig into my collection of musicals more. I've been listening to too much j-music lately :P The next musical CD that I am aching to get is some sort of recording of Martin Guerre by Shoenburg/Boublil. *sigh* And an Aida musical soundtrack, since the concept CD had potential but sucked in general. (Spice Girls? Ew!)

It don't take a word, not a single word, go on and kiss the girl...God, I have to stop listening to this before I explodes sparkles everywhere *_*

Tuesday, October 31, 2000 06:06 p.m.

I know, I know I've let you down
I've been a fool to myself
I thought that I could
live for no one else
But now through all the hurt & pain
It's time for me to respect
the ones you love
mean more than anything
So with sadness in my heart
(I) feel the best thing I could do
is end it all
and leave forever
what's done is done it feels so bad
what once was happy now is sad
I'll never love again
my world is ending
I wish that I could turn back time
cos now the guilt is all mine
can't live without
the trust from those you love
I know we can't forget the past
you can't forget love & pride
because of that it's killing me inside

From Komm Susser Tod (Eva soundtrack).That's kind of how I have been feeling these past couple weeks. Although I've mostly moved on from feeling super guilty, now I am stuck elsewhere o_o how confusing. Fortunately Cat had some good advice for me...but I hate not knowing, and I hate HATE waiting for anything :P I'm a control freak! Yay!

Ok, that was incoherent. I should probably get to work on my freelance illustration so I can make more money. Money is good! Money gets Juri-chan a PS2! ^_^ I need to get a modchip for my Playstation so I can DDR again. I have the pads and the psx and the games... but I had borrowed a modded psx for far too long, and I had to give it back. Shoot. And I had just gotten a B on Paranoia, too ;_; Well, I'll just have to go use Ryan's. Hehehe >D

Currently in the CD player: The Little Mermaid-Original Soundtrack. (Yay Ashman/Menken! ^_^)

Tuesday, October 31, 2000 03:07 p.m.

God, I wrote a lot in the past day. I actually had to archive, so go read that please ^^;

Update:I did very badly on my Japanese test, I think. BLah :P