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April 28th, 2009
06:51 am - You're so vain
So yesterday the radio was playing that song "You're so vain", and this one line in the chorus always bothers me, "You're so vain you probably think this song is about you". But the song is about the vain guy, so isnt he in this case, not vain but right?
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April 24th, 2009
07:49 pm - The freaky squirrel
So i think a squirrel just freaked me out. I went outside to take out my trash and i heard an odd sound. Sounded like a bird. Now there are lots of strange bird here in florida, and they make all sorts of weird noises. (i was woken up once at 7:30am on a saturday by a bird outside my window which made an "ahh" sound, like a kid playing, over and over again) So i turned around my head and looked up at the building to locate the strange bird. Only i found out it was no bird at all, it was a squirrel!!! It was sitting on the corner of our 3 story building just curling its tail and making an odd noise over and over again. I have never heard a squirrel make any sort of noise. But to me, this sounded like an angry sound. It seemed to be looking down on me making that creepy noise (as well i was the only one around), as if it were going to leap off the building and attack me. (which, lets face it, from 3 stories up would only work if this were a Monty Python movie) Freaky squirrel
Current Mood:  intimidated
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February 28th, 2009
11:03 pm - everyone likes HHGTTG
I just started watching a new anime (i currently am watching around 18 right now, mind you most only have one 1/2 hr ep each week), and in the first episode i saw something i had to post about.
In the anime "Full Metal Panic", in the first episode, the main character is getting her book bag searched as she entered school. The teacher is reading off the names of the books, one was "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish". And on the cover was a dolphin. I was so excited! The character likes Hitchhiker's guide! Or i should say one of the writers or directors in the show is a Douglas Adams fan! Lol!!
Current Mood:  excited
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06:23 pm - Spring is coming
The secretary in my physical therapist's office remarked to me that February was nearly over. And how soon it would be March (tomorrow!). Its hard to think that soon it will be springtime! Then today i was at the supermarket, and there it was, passover food is already out! Ahh!! now truly this isnt so surprising, it if afterall, just about 5 weeks till Passover. (i really need to buy my airline ticket) But wow, soon it will be passover! Then it truly will be spring. And soon after that it will be May, i'll have to move out of my apartment (as i have planned) and goto Brickell. And then when it's may it will be incredibly hot and sticky. I hate Miami in the summer. Y'all in the north are freezing right now and cant wait till spring and summer, but me now, i dread it. Too hot. Time is going by so fast!!
Current Mood: surprised
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February 27th, 2009
08:54 pm - My vacation
So i am back from my mini-vacation at Daytona Beach! It was good! Of course there were bad things too, and a few surprises.
Here was my vacation in a nutshell:
Sunday: Arrive at 4pm. Eat dinner at A1A chinese buffet, go back to the hotel and watch the end of "Baccano!". (an anime taking place in 1930's manhattan, very unique) Have insomnia
Monday: Woke up early (i think i only slept 5 hrs). At breakfast in the hotel, shitty breakfast buffet, but good enough. Went to the beach, tried to read but froze my ass off. I went to the boardwalk for lunch, looked around the crap souvenirs. Then i went to the chocolate factory after lunch, came back to the hotel room, read a bit more, went out to an italian restaurant, came back andn watched "Ef - a tale of memories" (kinda like a teenage "50 first dates" in part), before all the good Monday night TV came on.
Tuesday: Slept in (yay!). Went to IHOP for breakfast (big crowd) then came back and read on the beach (warmer now, but still cold). Ate my leftovers for lunch, then went to get a massage (my first!). Got Thai curry for dinner, spicy! Watched the rest of "Ef".
Wednesday: Read quite a bit, but went back and forth because of the damn seagulls on the beach. Freaking kids near me threw them food, then i couldnt get rid of them. I left, tried to watch some anime but mostly not working and came back and read some more. Ate fish for dinner and went to the Daytona Ghost Tour. Missed "Lost". Watched "Mushi-shi" from my netflix dvd's (everything else not working, and i have no way to quickly explain "Mushi-shi"), to wind down from the scariness of the tour.
Thursday: Ate breakfast and went home, took me 5 hrs.
I didnt realize that Daytona was back in the South. Now the joke in Miami is that the city is so far south, its actually north again. You cant get sweet tea here, and not at all in this city at all resembles the southern US states. But Daytona, less than 300 miles away, is back in the south, as was evident by the multiple confederate flag souvenirs in the gift shops.
I also didnt realize Daytona is a biker destination. I left (thankfully) right before the official start of Bike week. I was told during this time, over 1 million bikers will descend on Daytona Beach. I sort of get it, we're in the South, and Daytona has this big racetrack. It makes sense bikers would also like Nascar. But wow, if i wasnt around people old enough to be my grandparents, i was by bikers and their families.
I didnt realize how much crime has taken Daytona over the years as evident by my ghost tour. The ghost tour was fun, and headed by a woman originally from Northport! (Long islanders everywhere!) We walked around probably an 8 block radius, and she stopped at various points, told us what crime or murder had taken place at that spot, and what ghost sitings resulted from it. Now i'm sure anywhere, over a long enough period of time, has lots of crime, but it seems like there was a lot right there in Daytona! (i didnt spot any ghosts on the tour, but i also didnt stand in the spot where a ghost tends to pinch women's asses) At the end of it though, i wished i had someone back in my room with me. After a creepy ghost tour, its nice to have company in a strange hotel room.
I was also quite surprised by the hit Daytona has taken in this economy. Now i havent seen Daytona prior to Bush, but there were many restaurants closed, many for sale signs, it just seemed in bad shape. Now frankly, it is not a fair assessment, i am coming on the off season, but i would expect in general more restaurants on the beach. There were more gift shops than restaurants on the beach. i went back to the mainland occasionally for food.
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January 19th, 2009
11:44 am - holidays & saturdays
The other day i got a notice of a missed delivery from fedex. I'm pretty sure i know exactly what it is, my tv tuner PCI card that i ordered from buy.com. buy.com has had an interesting fluke lately for me. I pay for the free, budget shipping, and it winds up coming quickly via fedex. This was on friday, so i figured that i would be home on monday and could get it then. On saturday i went out to Ulta with Jessica (yay Ulta!!), and came home with much new makeup and a second door hanger. This was surprising given that you have to pay Fedex extra for saturday delivery. Well i figure, the third attempt will be on monday, no problem. Today it occurs to me, it's MLK day! Postal holiday! And lo and behold, Fedex is not delivering today! Bah! The day i thought they wouldnt deliver they did, and wheni thought they would they dont (though i did forget about MLK day, we dont get off, though i am having an office day today).
Not that in any scheme of things this is a big deal, i will call fedex and have them deliver it to my workplace on tuesday. and in worst case scenario i will drive to the fedex in Homestead and pick it up (boo to homestead!). Then i will turn brian's computer into a DVR and can throw out my vcr!
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January 3rd, 2009
09:32 pm - the stalker returns
Now my hesitation in joining facebook was that people i did not to find me would. And sadly a few have (but my profile is VERY limited if you're not on my friends list, and then you can always block em, so i dont really worry now). This last one was funny in a sense.
So this was my pseudo-stalker as i call him. I dated him back in like 2002-2003. We went on a total of 3 dates. He was an asshole, and treated me so badly our last date (not so bad the first two), that i told him he was an asshole and i didnt wish to date him later on that night on AIM. Later on he started to IM me, and back then, not having a spine or any realization that i can control my life, i thought that if someone IMed me i had to respond (yes i know that's stupid, now). Sometimes the conversations were very neutral, but often he was an asshole to me. He would tell me things like that i had an aggression problem, and that when he was a famous screenwriter i'd be sorry (i wont be sorry but if he's famous i'm so selling this story to the inquirer). After i moved to North Carolina (late 2004), i realized that i had power to control my own life (hooray for the latent spine!). So i said to him over AIM "I get nothing out of talking to you. You always insult me and act rudely. I am not going to speak to you ever again. Dont IM me anymore i will not respond". And i have not since then. He however, continued to IM me. I figured eventually he'd get the point and stop, but after 6 months of him still IMing me even though i would never say a word back, and him saying crazy things like that he loved me, i decided this was too creepy and i blocked him. (so now we're talking early 2005)
Still every few months he would send a friend request in YIM under a different screenname than what he had used prior but i knew they were him, so i always blocked him. The last time he did this was late 2006.
So a little while ago i got a friend request from a guy who i did not recognize, figured it was someone random and ignored the request. Then i got a message and it was like "how are you doing? long time no talk". And i thought "he knows me? who the fuck is this?". And after a while it hit me that it was my stalker! So guess what? i blocked him on facebook. I saw from his profile he's in a relationship, poor woman. i think now i have eliminated the ways for him to find me minus drastic means, i am not on my space.
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January 2nd, 2009
04:11 pm - I am ridiculous
Today i decided to goto Borders because of the nice sale they were having and the 30% off coupon i had. (if you join border's rewards they send you coupons like this nearly every week) I knew exactly what i wanted to buy, a calendar to put in my kitchen (which were 50% off), and the second volume of the "Claymore" manga (graphic novel/comic). (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=5743) I had watched the anime a long time ago, and enjoyed it (women with giant swords protecting everyone and kicking ass, good stuff!), but it had ended rather abruptly (26 episodes which isnt so short but the story didnt feel finished). I had heard from my friend that the reason it ended so quickly was because the writers had diverged from the original manga (most anime are originally based on manga). And having killed off a major character and diverged so much, they couldnt go back and they couldnt think of anything else to do so they just ended it. So i wanted to see how the original story went. While i was at the anime convention i decided to buy the first volume of this manga and quickly read it in about an hour (it was 150 pages long, but still the same as the anime at this point, and well mostly illustrations).
Here is where i am ridiculous: I went to Borders and was embarrassed to goto the manga section! I actually circled quite a bit before looking in the aisle. I knew i was being an idiot, but frankly, the manga aisle is an embarrassing aisle! You usually have two types of people loafing there: The fat middle aged guy, and the teenaged guy. Both were in the aisle! And neither of whom i wanted to seem akin to! After much circling, and happily claymore was at the end of the bookshelf i saw that many volumes were missing including the essential #2 that i need to read before #3. So i decided not to buy it.
But why do i care? What does it matter what other people think? Arent i an independent person who does not subscribe to herd mentality? Who really will know and judge me either?
And, havent i already somewhat publicly declared myself a fan of this? first of all there is last week's anime convention. I was dressed as Nyu/Lucy (from Elfen Lied)! Bright pink wig and everything! Random people took pictures of me, as i did of them, also the staff of the Con, which makes me believe eventually my pic may be on their website (mizucon.com) and i did enter their cosplay contest as well. I have shown my pics from the con to everyone i know including posting them on facebook. And from the Con i have bought a plush Ichigo (from Bleach) which is hanging on one of the back windows of my car (which i so love), and a little Byakuya (also Bleach), which will eventually be hanging on my cell phone. Pretty much all my friends and family know i am a fan, i talk incessantly about my favorite shows (if someone asks me something about anime i usually warn them within the first sentences to stop me if i start rambling on).
So why now do i feel embarrassed? I guess because most of my anime fandom is in a somewhat private manner. I watch anime at home, which i get from netflix and other sources, never bought in a store. The people i talk to about anime are friends, family, or in the case of the con, other anime fans. I am within my safe zone. No one will have any idea wtf my plush Ichigo is, so i am "safe". Borders is much more public and outside my safe zone. And i am adult enough to know that in general, watching anime and reading manga seems more childish or geeky, and can be judged harshly (from being though as kiddy, even just as porn).
Still frankly, i should just have the balls to buy the manga if i want it.
Current Mood:  disappointed
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December 25th, 2008
07:01 pm - A note to TV stations
Dear TV stations,
I must pose a question for the stuff on TV on christmas day. I have made my piece with the odd tradition of the "yule log". An airing of a fireplace with christmas music i could see being a decent background when the kids are opening their presents, though for everyone else it's utterly useless.
My gripe today is with the movie marathons. Now, on holidays i know often there are marathons of different shows, like the "twilight zone" marathon that usually happens on new year's, or a "law and order" marathon. But movie marathons which involve the same exact movie repeated over and over again for the entire day is non-sensical.
For myself, the jew on christmas who has little to do when all friends are away or busy with their families for christmas, and nothing is open, tv is a necessity. And while i may be interested in watching one airing of the movie you are showing, that would be the extent of the usefulness. After that it just leaves the channel unwatchable. And that would be the same case for anyone else wanting to watch tv. So why do it?
I get that there is probably a low amount of people watching tv on christmas day, but there must be better solutions. Have a marathon of a movie with sequels. Like a harry potter movie marathon or a star wars marathon, or a similar movie with several sequels. That way it is still a marathon but there is some variety. I would watch then for a long period of time. Then the time would be bankable.
And my last question, why is it always a crap movie? Now, i somewhat get that one station does 'a christmas story' on christmas, but another did "ice age 2" all day. Why that one? WTF? Why not something better or even something more christmasy, like "a miracle of 42nd street", i might watch an airing of that. I know that some of my more fav movies are too violent to be on all day (eg fight club, the usual suspects), but there are many many movies out there, and many which are better than what is airing and still family friendly.
Current Mood:  annoyed
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December 24th, 2008
06:48 pm - Christmas woes
So i'm a baby. I've gotten pouty and annoyed that everyone else has vacation while i'm working. The reason that is stupid, is that i volunteered to work now. I even told my boss like 10x that i wouldnt take vacation now and that i can work. I did this because all of my friends are busy during this time, and would only be coming home for Hanukkah which is not so much to do, and most of my friends from home left long island too. And after coming home for thanksgiving it doesnt make any sense. So instead of sitting at home and doing nothing, why not save up my vacation days for a real vacation? This is my logic.
That is the best course of action. The problem is that when you see yourself working and everyone not working, you start thinking "why am i working?". A group i belong to, the jewish young professionals is having a movie night on the 30th. The 30th is a tuesday, i am working tuesday and wednesday. I cant go since it's in a different county and it'll end late at night. And i start to feel pouty that i am still at work! So it's really stupid, and entirely my own fault.
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