Japanese umbrella food
Dec. 23rd, 2003 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Umbrella: Turns out we get Christmas gifts from work, and it's better than a fruitcake AND better than nothing! An umbrella. I think it has the company's name printed on it, but I didn't want to open it to find out. It's very small, seems nice. (Hope this means the company might be approaching profitability. First we get umbrellas, then we get stock that's worth something! The world will be ours, baby! ...unless buying 200 or so umbrellas puts us into bankruptcy...)
Japan: See, there are a couple different parts of me. One part goes "You got the money! You can take the vacation time! What're you sitting around here for! Go to Japan! You might even find a job there and can stay there forever!", but luckily the more reasonable part of me keeps that part in control. It'd be really, really stupid to go off on some long trip to far off lands far based on a couple of months of infatuation with anime. However, if I continue with this love, it will be something to look at in the future. Much planning is needed before then, though. Much planning and prep work and such. Down, fangirl! Down!
Food: Hungry, hungry, hungry. Been eating worse than usual lately, which is pretty darned bad. Ate a little cereal this morning and a couple forkfuls of noodles for lunch. Hungry. At the rate I'm going, I'll end up living on a diet of cardboard. Okay, cardboard and pizza. I feel like a college student; I'm back to living on pizza and 5/$5 boxes of pasta... Need to hunt up more veggie-like things to include.
Work: Gah. The only thing that keeps me from jumping out a window (from being bored, not stress) is that I've been listening to the PoT musical for two days straight. I don't like music in general, but when a lot of men sing "strongly" together, I love it. (I don't know how to describe "strongly" better -- when their voices are loud and firm. Recall the song 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' from Disney's Mulan? Like that.) While tomorrow will be a short-er day, it'll still be hard. (I think we get to leave at 3. For me that's only two hours early; for most others it's a half-day. :/ )
The world is my LJ filter: Okay, not exactly, but I find myself reading others' friends pages as much as my own. I read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
peppygrowlithe's to read the PokeMUSH players' pages, I read mallen's to read about the local CA folks as well as the busy ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
food_porn comm (plus he has a collection of interesting gay guys friended), and I read beckymarie's because she's the biggest "center" of LJ TeniPuri stuff I've found so far. (mctabby filled that role for HP fandom, before I got deep enough into the fandom to find enough HP folks I liked on my own.)
I think it's time to pay a visit to eBay and see what sort of interesting stuff might be available today...
Umbrella: Turns out we get Christmas gifts from work, and it's better than a fruitcake AND better than nothing! An umbrella. I think it has the company's name printed on it, but I didn't want to open it to find out. It's very small, seems nice. (Hope this means the company might be approaching profitability. First we get umbrellas, then we get stock that's worth something! The world will be ours, baby! ...unless buying 200 or so umbrellas puts us into bankruptcy...)
Japan: See, there are a couple different parts of me. One part goes "You got the money! You can take the vacation time! What're you sitting around here for! Go to Japan! You might even find a job there and can stay there forever!", but luckily the more reasonable part of me keeps that part in control. It'd be really, really stupid to go off on some long trip to far off lands far based on a couple of months of infatuation with anime. However, if I continue with this love, it will be something to look at in the future. Much planning is needed before then, though. Much planning and prep work and such. Down, fangirl! Down!
Food: Hungry, hungry, hungry. Been eating worse than usual lately, which is pretty darned bad. Ate a little cereal this morning and a couple forkfuls of noodles for lunch. Hungry. At the rate I'm going, I'll end up living on a diet of cardboard. Okay, cardboard and pizza. I feel like a college student; I'm back to living on pizza and 5/$5 boxes of pasta... Need to hunt up more veggie-like things to include.
Work: Gah. The only thing that keeps me from jumping out a window (from being bored, not stress) is that I've been listening to the PoT musical for two days straight. I don't like music in general, but when a lot of men sing "strongly" together, I love it. (I don't know how to describe "strongly" better -- when their voices are loud and firm. Recall the song 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' from Disney's Mulan? Like that.) While tomorrow will be a short-er day, it'll still be hard. (I think we get to leave at 3. For me that's only two hours early; for most others it's a half-day. :/ )
The world is my LJ filter: Okay, not exactly, but I find myself reading others' friends pages as much as my own. I read
peppygrowlithe's to read the PokeMUSH players' pages, I read mallen's to read about the local CA folks as well as the busy food_porn comm (plus he has a collection of interesting gay guys friended), and I read beckymarie's because she's the biggest "center" of LJ TeniPuri stuff I've found so far. (mctabby filled that role for HP fandom, before I got deep enough into the fandom to find enough HP folks I liked on my own.)I think it's time to pay a visit to eBay and see what sort of interesting stuff might be available today...
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Date: 2003-12-23 03:33 pm (UTC)But I know, the crowds would bother you. ;)
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Date: 2003-12-23 03:55 pm (UTC)But I know, the crowds would bother you. ;)
Alas, Japan would have crowds, too! I'll just have to cope and hide in my hotel room as needed. :)
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Date: 2003-12-23 04:37 pm (UTC)(Wow, that sounded wrong...)
We can go and squeal and retreat into the hotel for awhile, and go and squeal s'more! It'd be fun! And I'd fight off all those evil crowds for you! And cook! And clean! And stuff!
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Date: 2003-12-23 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-23 06:45 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I wish I could take a trip there too. If I had the time and money, I would probably do it.
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Date: 2003-12-23 07:02 pm (UTC)Well, not just to molest guys! I'd also go shopping for anime goodies! ;)
Seriously though, it seems like a great place to visit, even for totally non-fangirling reasons -- an anime convention just wouldn't be a substitute for a trip there. However, since I do need to get more of my ducks into a row before I can consider taking such a long trip, a con could be like a tide-me-over.
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Date: 2003-12-23 07:54 pm (UTC)I agree. A con is a lot of fun of course, but I want to go Japan for many other reasons than just fangirl reasons. ^^ So, just pack me in with your suitcase when you decide to go, ok? :p
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Date: 2003-12-23 08:53 pm (UTC)And if you go to Japan, take me too! I want to tower over most of the population of a city at least one time in my life.
"It is Matrixzilla! Run!"
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Date: 2003-12-23 09:55 pm (UTC)And yay! Staff trip to Japan!
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Date: 2003-12-23 09:57 pm (UTC)(Then I woke up, as the kids say. ;) )
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Date: 2003-12-24 03:45 am (UTC)Re: Japan
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