Das Bus

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[	mood	|	tired	]
[	music	|	Espgaluda OST	]

Sit down, won't you, and listen to my adventures on the bus...


Thursday: Well, it happened again. I took the wrong bus. I was hurrying to meet someone (see below), so I took what I thought was a bus to El Monte Station ("487 El Monte"). When it started going up a ramp instead of going straight to the station I got a little worried so I got off at the first stop. I couldn't tell you where I was (I would have taken pics but my camera only had one bar of power left), but I did pass a 99 Ranch Market and a Petrillo's Pizza. Then I walked all the way to Walnut Grove (!)... and then I caught one of those 24-hour buses to the station (near some "K" convenience store). That was probably an hour and a half of wandering around aimlessly (...at night), the same day I happened to jump rope in the morning for about 15 minutes. Now if that bus was going to El Monte Station after all (taking an extremely long, confusing, indirect way)... wouldn't that be funny! HAHAHA... fuck.


Tuesday: This happened, which inspired me to finally make the full page, although only #6 and #7 are up. (I really need to figure out a way to update all my pages to link to my "Things I Hate" page on the side without going through each page to add it manually AND without using frames...)


Last Thursday: On Tuesdays and Thursdays when I'd take the bus from El Monte Station to some place near my house (267 Altadena & N. Lake), I'd see this girl who I somehow remembered from my PCC days, where we both took the same bus. But last Thursday she took the same bus from El Monte Station to Cal State LA, so after much internal debating, I finally decided to OMG talk to her and yes, she is the same girl. She said she remembered me (I'm not sure if it was from this quarter or from PCC, but I'll take that as a good sign anyway...), and now we both know each other's names and majors. After saying to her that I'll "see you tonight" (which felt surreal just saying that), I was stuck in the library having some papers photocopied due to the stupid school not having the books and cheap enough not to make enough copies for everyone, so I missed the bus. Tuesday I was there but she wasn't, and next Thursday... see above.

Okay, so it's not quite along the lines of a certain someone's Steven / Nelson episodes, but it's amusing nonetheless, and here too timing has messed everything up.


(note: I titled this entry "Das Bus" as a parody of the classic "Das Boot," but it turns out there reallyis a movie titled "Das Bus." Time to get my brother to Netflix it.)

Playing catchup

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Isn't this always the case? It's barely the first week of the year and I'm already behind with my LJ entries. I'm back posting here because the MySpace blogging system sucked, but it's still better than the Xanga system ("in the same way," in the words of CJayC, "a 15-car collision is better than a 16-car collision"). Well, maybe not... I can't even enter in any Japanese on MySpace, so screw that.

Let me catch up with Fall '05 grades:

JAPN 315 (Language in Japanese Society): "B+"? WTF... I guess either my project sucked after all or the last test (= final) was harder than I thought. I did all the other crap in the class in a clean and timely matter, too...

JAPN 410 (Modern Japanese Literature): Now this is a surprise... where did that "B+" come from? I won't say it wasn't a struggle, but it wasn't a cake walk either. I prepared myself for a plain old "B", but I'll take it.

JAPN 300A (Advanced Japanese): My grade was "RD" for an unusually long time. Glad I barely cranked out that "A"... though I'm still too scared to look at the stuff Koike-sensei passed back in class today.

Yesterday was the first day of classes. And what a way to start the year - the friggin bookstore and food court were closed! What other university does that? "Blackout from the storm"... pfft. Well, at least I'm proud that I didn't give into the Carl's Jr truck. I actually was hungry and I didn't have fast food for a long time so this probably would have been the perfect excuse... but... I don't know. I just didn't like "giving in," even if that truck was the savior of everyone else at school. Man, I suck. Or maybe I'm just a bigger idiot than I thought.

My class on Tuesdays and Thursdays is JAPN 310 (Japanese Civilization to 1945), with the same small group that made those last two other Japanese classes so enjoyable. They're cool and even though they're better than me in every way, they don't give me an inferiority complex! Love those guys. Without the books available, though, it's hard to keep up with the class. Hard as in "impossible."

Mondays and Wednesdays is JAPN 300B (Advanced Japanese). It doesn't seem too bad and there are two new people... though we lost even more cool people, and earlier than expected. I guess I'm going to have to be more... er, fun to fill in the void. And I (being an idiot) didn't bring enough money to buy the book. $20 short.

There's also some other class after JAPN 300B but who cares lolololomgwtfbbqlmaohaha... ok it's ENGL 200C (British Literature Survey II). It's another class I don't really need, but those 12 credits have to come from somewhere (you can trace that to me being an idiot), and at least I don't need to buy any expensive books because I still have the book from 200B. I got an "A-" in that class and this professor seems to be even better (according to ratemyprofessors.com), so I'm remaining cautiously optimistic.

And this is after I was dropping and adding classes because of a scheduling mistake I only noticedafter I got the official class schedule in the mail. It seems I had two classes at the exact same time. While it's entirely possible that the school suddenly changed the time on me (because how could they not catch the scheduling conflict?), it's even more possible that I was an idiot.

So, this year I'm really going to try to work on the things I should have / should be doing / should have done by now. I do have hopes that this year will be good, but it's all relative - it'll only be good because last year... all things considered... I sucked. But it can't happen twice in a row, right? I've started making lists: not just the usual "things I should have / should be doing / should have done by now" lists, but other lists. One is a list of "Japanese words I don't get" (saving them on POPjisyo and emailing the list to myself on Sundays), and a "things I hate" list, which I'm considering throwing on my site. I'm intending it to be slightly humorous, but there's a good chance I'll be the only one who "gets" it, and I don't want it to turn into a "did you ever notice?" type thing... I mean I'm not Seinfeld!


Things-to-watch backlog

Dreams of Romance (ep 5/12)
A Love to Kill (ep 10/16)
Rurouni Kenshin (ep 22/lots)

How I spent my winter vacation

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By Triple Lei.

- read half a book

- discussed how Batman: The Animated Series > Batman Begins > The early Batman movies (if only for Kevin Conroy) at a Christmas party

- watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith twice at said Christmas party, but didn't understand the finer details of the story due to the volume being turned down and none of us being smart enough to work the DVD remote to add subtitles or captions

- watched Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle three times and Dude, Where's My Car? twice

- actually made some progress in Dodonpachi Dai-ou-jou, won an eBay auction forMushihimesama, and got stuck in Bujingai


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Yeah, I figured I'd get this all down so I don't forget - I'm probably going to have to say it all in Japanese tomorrow. In fact, can MySpace even handle Japanese?


EDIT: NO IT CAN'T. LOOKS LIKE IT'S BACK TO LIVEJOURNAL FOR BLOGGING AFTER ALL.

EDIT #2: Okay, I'll just use my MySpace blog for my really pointless daily rants and my LiveJournal for my slightly better-worded rants.