dolphinlover29

Sorry everyone! Been busy with everything going on...work, school, DAC, family, friends, etc....

Last week I was trying to get used to all my classes which are ALL very reading based. I am used to having at least one Japanese class that was less reading intensive but very hw intensive. So this may take some getting used to.

DAC went pretty well. We had such a HUGE turn out that not everyone got seats in Wellman 115. AfterDAC had a few new people. Overall it was quite fun. I hope the rest of the year goes well!

Over the weekend, I went home back to Lodi. I took my cousin Jessica with me as well. Then later than night went bowling with Meghan, Tara, and her boyfriend Cooley. We had a good time with that except for the TERRIBLE mother and father who BROUGHT their young child to bowling from 10 pm - 1 am. WTF...who does that?? On top of that they were trying to feed the child with what LOOKED like soda and cheetos. To make things worse, the mother was drinking Starbucks cappuchino at midnight....who does that??? Maybe she needs caffeine to stay up, but THAT much? It looked like she was going to stay up until 5 am..*shrugs*....sorry....maybe I'm too judgemental..

The next morning I went to help my temple with the Teriyaki chicken sale. Unfortunately, Lodi Buddhist Church's financial committee had UNDERESTIMATED how much should be made...we ran out and had to give re-funds to people who pre-ordered earlier...that's HOW MUCH we were lacking...we cut back 500 boxed lunches...but through a miscount, my family got their share. It also ended UBER EARLY...I'm used to selling lunches until 2-3 pm....we got out at 1 pm.

Afterwards my mother bugged me to get a flu shot at Kaiser in Stockton. Grant and I both went and got it...I HATE SHOTS...T_T!!! HATE THEM SO MUCH! I hate needles...fear them (except for sewing) and that's why NO TATTOOS for me XD!!

Then spend the rest of the day and night watching a couple episodes of Law and Order along with reading for the week and eating a nice homemade dinner my mom made. I ate a lot of it XD!!

The next morning my mom and I went to the Lodi Street Faire and bought a couple purses. I also bought a sweet potato pie and ate it later at work. I had a good time just shopping with my mom. We also had some fried rice and chicken while listening to a girl who used to attend my temple when I was younger sing in a band that she formed with a friend and her father.

After that I took almost an hour to type up the e-mail addresses of every new DAC member to inform them of the new upcoming social mingling event on Friday that I'm hosting.

Work went all right. I like chatting with some of my co-workers and it wasn't too bad. *shrugs*

More soon!!

Today worked out with Jesse again as usual.

We met up with Ariel and her friend Sam at Raja's for lunch. It was SUCH GOOD FOOD and the host is so kind! I will go again for lunch in the future for sure!

I came back and relaxed a bit before going to work. When I got to work I had SO MUCH GLASSWARE TO CLEAN! I cleaned for 2.5 hours and got tired....I told them I was going and would do the rest next week. Danielle (not roommate but PhD student in the lab) told me she was always amazed every time I came to the lab. She remembers when she was a glassware cleaner as well...but she feels that I have to deal with a lot of crap from the others. She is the only one now who will every once in awhile show that she appreciates my help. Everyone else has taken me for granted lately.....*sighs*...oh well...a job is a job....I am considering quitting after this summer...we'll see...

I got back and had some dinner before playing more Dokapon Kingdom.

Headed off to SF tomorrow to see Armay. ARASHI AND DBSK TIMES TOMORROW!! ^^

So if you disagree with me (which I know some of you out there probably will) I accept your views on this topic and your insight. If you can convince me that I'm wrong, go ahead. I won't take offense to it, instead I may change my views.

So I love fanfics overall. I do enjoy them, but don't read them these days. However, I don't like fanfics using real people like K-pop or J-pop stars. I guess my issue is that they are real people and to me that is creeper than using anime characters. Anime characters aren't real and therefore the stories will never happen (unless the animators coincidentally make the same plots...but still...THEY AREN'T REAL PEOPLE). I guess I'm more okay with characters who are not real, but with real life people....I guess it just doesn't settle with me.

I'm mostly posting this b/c in one of my J-pop groups, someone posted a fanfic of a kid version of Jin Akanishi (singer in Kat-tun) talking to someone about puberty or something along those lines....seriously...it seemed kind of ridiculous to me that someone would write a fanfic of a kid version of a celebrity....but maybe that's my problem and it's perfectly legitimate....but for me I don't want to be reading that stuff....

So for some reason my aim portion of Pidgin is not retrieving my buddies list...it's been struggling to find it for the last 4 hours.........T_T....

Can someone help me out there?

So I did some reading for my CMN 103 class this morning...and according to the textbook....the fashion industry considers my size 12 body "plus size"...thanks...that makes me feel SO GOOD....in reality though I know their size standards are completely unrealistic. Still, I'm only 20 pounds overweight...and that means I'm "plus size"? *shrugs* Whatever...

So I've been coughing all morning......and decided to not take my allergy medicine and now have runny nose going on....although I thought it was too hot for the pollen to attack me...now my throat is a little sore......don't know what it is....

So what have I gained from the recent drama?

1) It has confirmed my hatred of prejudice.
2) It has confirmed my hatred of blanket stereotyping.
3) It has confirmed to me that I can not be friends who support #1 and #2 when it comes to issues of my own personal identity.
4) I can become friends with people who fit in category #3 again IF and ONLY IF they realize the error of their ways and apologize to those they have hurt and insulted.

So went to the doctor's today at Kaiser in south Davis after my bowling class (in which the teacher didn't show up so we just bowled for fun. ^^ Oh, also the machine in the arcade has Super Junior M's "U" and Wonder Girls' "Tell Me" to dance to!!) I had to wait quite awhile since five of the doctors had taken the entire week off for Easter. But yes, when my doctor did come in, he said it is an infection and he said I need to take antibiotics 4 times a day. (Now I have a total of 5 medications I have to take daily...just great...)

Then as I was exiting Kaiser hopeful that the pain in my ears would soon stop, I saw it was cloudy outside. I got panicked and tried to bike to campus as fast as I could, but the wind was strong and the rain started to pour on me.....

I only worked 1 and a half hours!! T_T!! Getting slightly worried....

Classes were interesting as usual. I'm seriously enjoying every class this quarter. It's so rare! Most quarters I have that one class I absolutely despise, but this quarter I can honestly say I do like studying the material. Yes, I have tons of reading, papers, and hw, but at least it's material that I find fascinating.

Well wish me luck on a chapter test (my first one this quarter) in JPN 113 for tomorrow. Hope it doesn't rain!! T_T!!

So apparently they have only announced 6 groups or artists for Korean Music Festival so far. I know ShinEE and Girls Generation....only have heard of Lena Park..but don't know the rest! I hope they bring other artists that I'm a fan of...b/c if they don't...I'll be so sad that I'm spending so much money to go to this concert.

I know asking for DBSK to come is a long shot. In fact I had a dream that DBSK came to Fanime. I know that will NEVER happen, but AX getting Morning Musume put hope in me. It's false hope though considering Fanime would never be able to afford to have DBSK come over. True, Changmin and Jaejoong do love anime and video games, but I don't think SM Town or Avex would let them come to California JUST for them to watch cosplayers walk around. I don't think they would get mobbed like crazy though. In fact when people cosplayed in DBSK's Rising Sun outfits at Fanime in 2007, only 1/3rd of us knew who they were (at least that is how it felt to me). I think I was the only one from DAC that year during the masquerade to get excited when they announced the DBSK cosplayers. I thought more fans of anime would be into j-pop,k-pop, or c-pop, but I'm noticing that is not the case. There is overlap, but not always.....

Why can't Fanime be like the Chinese anime conventions that kokoro_no_uta has told me about in which they have TONS of booths dedicated to J-pop fans? I guess we just don't have the fan bases for that here in the states....

I miss my own scratchy washcloth back home...hotel ones just can't compare.

Also hate sunburns.....

Well I'm leaving for a flight for Las Vegas at 2 pm tomorrow. I don't know if I'll have internet access (I probably will with the hotel and all) but we'll see. I'm also going to see the Grand Canyon and shows such as the Beatles special "Love" and I was given money to gamble.

I'll be back Friday March 27th. If you need to contact me feel free to call me or text me. I may not answer right away, but I'll return any calls or texts later when I do get a chance.

For those on spring break now, I hope you are enjoying yourself!

Got up at 6:30 am! It was still dark outside, and cold when I was biking to my 8 am JPN 112 final.

The final wasn't too bad. It was a lot of answering comprehension questions and writing. I didn't like it a whole lot, but I'm hoping to either keep my B+ or get an A+. *shrugs* We'll see.

I'm more happy that it's over.

I went to work right after and Danielle (different from my roommate, one of the people I clean glassware for) told me the green shirt I was wearing doesn't really count as green since it's more turquiose....I still say it's green. No pinching for me today!

I relaxed a bit and then met up Jeremy for lunch at the Gunrock Pub behind the Silo. It's very nice and the food is excellent.

I also had an appointment at 2:30 pm with Kay Nelson at the ICC (Internship and Career Center). She gave me a list of internships and people to call. I think I'll call around tomorrow and try to get interviews for a counseling internship for Spring or Fall.

Now I just have a paper due on Saturday and a final that day. Other than that just some work and tutoring left to do this week. I'm feeling a lot better and am hoping to relax a little this week. Planning on catch up on my stuff AND possibly getting into those cute vocaloids. ^^ Any recommendations people have? I already know a few that I plan on checking out, but now I have time to look at any if people give me links. ^^

So I thought I was doing terribly in my JPN 112 class considering that most of my grades with the exception of the midterm and a couple big quizzes were D's and C's...but then I found out that I have a B+ (88%) before the final. How does that work? She's probably curving.

I'm definitely quite happy about this.

Also I promise to catch up on people's entries after my Tuesday final.

Today:

2:10 pm - CMN 105
4:30 pm - Study session

Overall just planning on studying today. However, I don't have finals on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, which is quite nice. Just have to get through today and tomorrow.

Good luck to everyone on their finals!

Have you ever had a problem on your mind that is bothering you and you want to get it solved before finals or else it's going to stay on your mind and distract you from finals???

I'm kind of wondering if I should wait until after I get back from JET to apply to some sort of graduate studies. I'm thinking between counseling, Japanese, or Education for the jobs of career counselor, school counselor, or English teacher. I'd only really do Japanese graduate studies to either translate or go into some sort of teaching.

What do you all think?

So I put in a repair request because my shower drainer was clogged with hair (knew it was bound to happen with all the hair washing I do). When I came home not only was it cleaned out Jose (the repair man) replaced my shower head with a brand new one! So nice of him!! I need to try it tonight and see how it is. But yes, I was pleasantly surprised.

I want to catch up on people's posts.....but sadly I have a study session that will start in 15 minutes for my PSC 41 midterm. I'll hope to make it to DAC on time but if not I'll show up for the end to see people.

Studying for PSC 41 in Olson lab with very soaked wet pants on is not fun........

So I decided to bike in the rain to school. Now my pants are soaked. Oh well, it was my decision, but I didn't want to be late to my JPN 112 oral exam this morning. I thought I did horribly. I kept messing up, but in the end I'm hoping to come out with a B...we'll see.

Anyway, last Friday was fun. Hung out with Jeremy and Tomo for lunch, then went over and went to Team Caffeine for the first time. It was a lot of fun. Friday made me realize once again that I'm at a point where I enjoy people's company quite a bit. Later, I helped cook stew with Danielle, Rizo, and Chris for his birthday. We also had ice cream cupcakes, played some Brawl, and a random Naruto fighting game.

Saturday I had a meeting back in Lodi. We went over how to make kareoke versions of each song DBSK has ever produced. So before June I have to pretty much subtitle 20 videos with Adobe ENCORE. I think I will develop a new appreciation for those who subtitle anime and dramas by the end of all of this.....

Hung out with my family throughout Saturday, and worked at a spaghetti dinner for the Lodi Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). I used to help them out more, but since I've been at UCD I haven't really had time to volunteer.

Most depressing news though I heard this weekend was that my Uncle Steve has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is now undergoing treatment....my dad doesn't think he has it but his doctor is going to examine him to make sure. My dad has also lost almost 40 pounds in a month (since I last saw him). He says he just eats less, but that is a lot of weight to lose in such a small amount of time.....my grandma is worried that he may be sick, but I'm not sure what is going on at this point.

Next quarter I have some sort of event going on every weekend. It doesn't mean I can't make new plans, but it just means I do have a weekend where I am doing absolutely nothing. I can easily hang out with people at different times throughout the weekends at various times still.

Yesterday, came back to Davis, picked up Danielle, and Satomi helped us with our oral exams. Then did chores and other things while trying to learn more about Shinee.

I'm still thinking about counseling, but we'll see. Thank you to all the comments. I do want to be happy in whatever I do too! I'm not sure at this point though where I'm meant to be in terms of a career. I will apply for what I can and see what I can do. My parents though are already planning what needs to get done before I leave for Japan. It feels as if they are already thinking I've been accepted to JET and are thinking about selling my car and what to do with my room at home.....

Didn't get much work done this weekend....but still got stuff to get done. Wish me luck with the projects, labs, and midterms I have this week.

I have gotten 6 mosquito bites in the last couple days.......isn't it too early for them to be coming out now? T_T!!

I should be in bed......I'll type up all stuff I did today in another post tomorrow probably. For now though I wanted to say:

I miss reader_of_drama

He has been trying to get a hold of me twice today, but I kept missing his call. He finally called me back. Lucky guy who is enjoying wonderful weather, got to see a pod of whales, and was on top of the tallest volcano in the world when he first called me...what do we get? More rain...T_T...

But yeah I'm thinking about treating him to some good food when he gets back. I really do miss him......