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  • Long time no post... 2002-09-16 00:03:19 Wow. I can remember when it just wasn't a day without an entry and now it's like this.

    I'm tired. I'm going to bed soon.

    Classes are a load of work, but I think they're definately pointing towards rewarding right now. Good sign, good sign.

    TAS is kicking up again, if you're in the area you are more than encouraged to come. We start our schedule officially next weekend, so you won't have missed a thing. The UMBC club is up too, but come at the risk of seeing a lot of mediocre crap just because it's new. I saw Senta at UMBC this Friday tho so it was cool.

    Not too much is going on in my personal life really. Working on fansubbing Manitu still, only have 3 chapters left to translate. If I'm lucky I'll have a finished script by the end of the week. Guess it's time to start working on finding someone to master again...

    Yasha and Matt are loud. It's like Eric is silent now. Hell, I rarely see him around the apartment at all. It's nice in some ways, but annoying in more others. So it goes.

    I just remembered that I have dishes in the sink. I should do them when I finish this.

    So it is now monday and the week begins again. I went to GW last Friday, saw Clark, and picked up my grad school application. What do I need to do today besides going to class?

    Reading for Sumida, part 3
    Reading for Seminar, part 2
    German for Wednesday
    Translate

    I think that's everything on the to-do list. I may go to the german coffee chat if I'm feeling bored. It's probably a good idea, actually. My skills are lacking greatly and I idle on IRC now far more than I used to. I hate becoming reclusive. Argh.

    Apologies for the short entry and lack of any interesting news. Sometimes it's enough to just post and remind people that I'm alive. 
  • Uhhhhhhh............... 2002-09-10 23:26:17 I'm so worn out. I should be getting ready for bed right now and just crashing but I figured that everyone deserved a new rant to read for a bit, so here goes...

    Classes are going well, things are interesting which is good. My least favorite class is bouncing between German (just for all the homework) and British History (because it's early and I have trouble staying awake and focusing), but I will prevail in both.

    ROTC is fun, I'm the dissenting opinion and apparently the only one who looks outside the US for their news. Military people are too trusting of this country and its media...then again I guess it IS their job to do so, but even when I was working for the feds it made me paranoid as hell to only read the US news...I'd be reading BBC more but it's gotten a bit less prestigious than it was, not always giving the full picture and it's taking a more pro-us side...

    So where do I get my news now? When I feel like reading it, I like spiegel.de and diepresse.at and propagandamatrix.com for conspiracy things...and I still read BBC anyways, and CNN and the Washington Post for headlines. I prefer foreign press, though. Outsider's perspective says things we don't want to.

    In the meantime, I am so damn tired. Still adjusting to the new sleep schedule. Some nights I sleep through fine, some nights I don't. It all depends. Ditto for how well I do at night. I'm already sick of how Saturdays are going to turn out, mostly to be reading days. I should start working now to get ahead.

    I also need to work on retaking the GREs. So much to do, and enough time, but so little motivation. Argh. I suck.

    Some fast stats notes on AMV stuff...
    Haru to Ashura has gotten less than 120 downloads.
    Of those 120 downloads, I have gotten 0 reviews.
    I have never gotten an email from it.

    So fuck you guys. No more additional vids posted for you.

    Vic says I don't get attention because I don't have a 1337 website. I think it's because I use weird shit for my videos and so no one cares...and because my stuff just isn't that great. I had a good early year but I got hit by the slump...and I got some time off from AMV! Mebbe hearing stuff and seeing folks at AUSA will help. At least I know I picked someone good for one of the tracks on the project for Otakon...only 5 remaining. If you read this regularly and are willing to take 2 tracks on a SERIOUS DRAMATIC PROJECT and deal with me as a producer/superviser, send email. Don't do a journal reply, email or PM me on the forum.

    anyhow, sleeptime 
  • Social life? What's that? 2002-09-07 21:44:44 I got stood up. AGAIN. Why the fuck do I believe people when they say they're going to come over anymore? Just fucking tell me that you're not coming, jeez. Especially when I'm the one doing the favors for others. Yes I will probably make you sit through my european vacation pictures, but you want how many cd's of free anime from me in the process and that's the only reason you'd come anyways? Fuck it. Fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it. I'm just going to hear another stupid excuse tomorrow, the two popular ones being either forgetting where my building is and being without change for a bus fare or metrocard.

    Listening to the song right now about the folk singer being forgotten after performing isn't helping either.

    This reminds me of a Sexy Losers comic. Shiunji is being asked by his sexy female coworker why he prefers dead people, at which point he rattles off all of the major problems with dating and relationships - the lying, the games, the image issues, and the piece of shit feeling only another human can make you feel. Welcome to my world. At least I'm not a necrophiliac.

    At least I got stuff done today. Well, I got stuff read. and encoded. I'm halfway through the reading for HIST224 for Thursday (first quiz!), finished with HIST427, and ARSC320. I need to finish (read: do more than the first section of) my GERM301 homework as well. Finished HIST408J during the week so that's taken care of. 224's reading isn't much more, either, and can definately be finished in time.

    A quick rundown of my courses for those not getting all the references:
    HIST224 - Modern Military History 1494-1815
    HIST427 - The Decline of Britain 1914-Present
    HIST408J - 1950's Culture
    ARSC320 - National Security Issues and Entering Active Service (ROTC Classroom)
    GERM301 - German Year 3 Semester 1

    A nice, full schedule.

    The homework for 301 shouldn't be that bad to finish, just have to cross reference to the book and do 4 or 5 questions for each section. Not bad, just a bit time consuming because there's so much of it.

    I also got 3 full tapes encoded today. Yay. Watched an ep of Abeno also.

    X-Men Evolution season 3 starts next Saturday. I actually want to start watching it again - I downloaded about half of season 2 last night and chain smoked it. It got a lot better, but the voice acting still needs some work (send Nightcrawler's VA to Germany and listen to how the people there talk. It ain't like in the cartoon!). So it goes, the writing's gotten better, and that's what counts most.

    Anyhow, I'm off to do some more homework and mebbe translate more Manitu before Dr Who at midnite. 
  • You can't stop the beat! 2002-09-04 00:00:45 After hearing clips of this song I have found myself with the overwhelming desire to see Hairspray on Broadway. I love the movie and the music seems to have been done by good people (read: the music team from the south park movie) and I want to see this show YESTERDAY! I don't know if I find it editable or not, but the music is definately asskicking.

    Classes were pretty cool. Someone from my writing seminar last year is in my Brit History class (which I drifted too frequently during...), someone from French Revolution is in Sumida's class (which is intense and amazing as all his classes are), and someone from HIST225 AND 220 as well as someone I used to live on the same floor as is in the ROTC class (which should be a fun and educational experience.)

    Tomorrow is German and 50's culture...German will be cool because it's German and Barb and a bunch of other people from last semester will be there, but it'll be kinda sad because Jen and Hans won't be...

    I did see Jen at the DMV today though. It took over two hours to get my new license and that was in spite of the fact that I didn't have to even take any exams. Ah well, now I can go buy quality beer...at least as good as import allows.

    I will try to finish the AMST paper tomorrow during the nice long break I have between German and writing, even though that break is getting cut a bit short since I have to deliver my AUSA submission CD to Waldo before seminar...and then as soon as seminar ends I have to rush over to an all nighter meeting to cover for Nik....then I can come home and do the day's homework. It's time to think and work again. w00t.

    And I have got to find this song in full somewhere...I don't want to pay $16 for the CD just to get this track (though I know I'd probably enjoy the full CD) and no one has it ripped yet. Annoying. It just takes time though. I'm also lucky because I *HAVEN'T* gotten a bootleg of the show yet, which means that I get to choreograph it all in my head. I love being able to do this, and it always shatters as soon as I see the show in person...usually the pros do it better but it's fun to dream.

    Anyhow it's midnight. I gotta get cleaned up, change the contents of my bag for tomorrow's lineup, and try to get some sleep with this song going through my head full force. The semester is on! 
  • AMV JOURNAL 101: INTRODUCTION FOR NEW READERS 2002-09-02 22:59:35 For new readers, as well as old ones, this is to serve as a guide for the cast of characters making regular appearances as well as giving some background info to make things easier for readers to understand.

    Characters:

    Me: I'm 21 and a senior history major at the University of Maryland, College Park. My goal in life is to get a PhD in history and then go teach somewhere...preferably somewhere in Germany or Austria where the terrain is nice and the people are smarter. I've been doing AMV since May 2000. I've won one award (3rd place overall, Anime Mid-Atlantic 2002) and keep trying to come up with something new and creative. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't. Never give up or something like that. I share an apartment with Chris, Eric, Kenny, Matt, and Yasha.

    Chris: Chris is a junior biology major, fairly bright, and an apartmentmate. We get along pretty well and tend to be able to work together to get jokes off at Eric's expense. In fact, we get along so well that there's not much more for me to say about him other than that Chris is also otaku.

    Eric: Eric is a senior history major but I have no idea how he's made it this far. We like to tease him because his girlfriend is (at the time of writing) jailbait. He's only seen her once IRL, and the fact that she's in TN means her father was there to keep a close watch. Not the brightest but highly opinionated making for a somewhat dangerous (if not annoying) mix. We used to be roommates but are now just apartmentmates. He is now sharing a room with Chris.

    Matt: Not the Matt from the last year. This is a new Matt, a sophmore business major. A loud sports fan, he came in with Yasha.

    Yasha: 18, a freshman by credits, a sophmore by year, he's louder than Matt and has at least one girlfriend who he loudly shags in the apartment.

    Kenny: Kenny is the oldest one here, a 5th year double major, and the RA. He has the first single (I have the second). Kenny is the straightman of the group, reminding us how nasty we're being or how twisted. He's the normal person of the group and also almost never home as he works two jobs - first as an RA and secondly as a dispatcher and driver for the university's shuttle service.

    Anne: Anne is a good friend with a car. She reads the journal (the only one of all people listed so far!) so I shouldn't have introduced her like that, but so it goes. We also get along pretty well and can usually one-up each other, chris, and eric when it comes to being twisted about various things.

    My sister: 25 and lives in the DC area which makes her easy to visit.

    My mother. 52, divorced, and unemployed up in NYC. She is into religion. I am not.

    I think these are the main characters of our daily events.

    As of now:
    Classes begin tomorrow (3 September). I'm not making predictions, but all I'm going to say is that I think we're in for an interesting semester, at least as far as the house is concerned. I'd be willing to bet that MTV could do a season of The Real World here...we shall see. 
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