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2012-09-21 12.40.04
OUTSIDE BY THE BINS-

Would be a lie. Yeah, it's a raccoon, no, it's not alive. Last Friday we went on a school trip to NHK's Studio Park  



(NHK is the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation; they broadcast TV and radio publicly) to experience what goes on behind the scenes of making news, dramas, that sort of thing. The raccoon was part of the Nature Documentary exhibit, to show the application of night-vision cameras. There were interactive remote controls for you to move cameras to zoom in on bird statues and shiny glossy plastic bugs stuck onto trees. Or control a little camera stuck on a littler tank to zoom in on this gorgeous Monster:

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Yeaaaaaaaa man. The head moves side to side and the tongue comes out to lick the air all sexy-like and altogether it's much more lifelike than it had any right to be. I want to work on nature documentaries. I want to be camped out somewhere remote with a stick and an umbrella and a camera and then run after things while whispering furiously to fellow researchers who inevitably have grizzled short curly hair about how the thing with the rice the natives had us eat yesterday's given me indigestion but running after the komodo dragon is fixing it all right up right up. It was a tiny exhibition, but it was marvelous c: 

Another section that I found interesting was the anime section. 'course, most of the anime you and me are familiar with are made and distributed by their respective companies (sunrise, etc.) but Bakuman for example is, I think, an NHK production. There were booths with two microphones, and you sat down and could select a scene from an anime. The spoken words are written at the bottom of the screen, karaoke style, and the actual voice actors' voices are removed so that once you've hollered down the mike, it's you and your partner's voice that comes out.

Theoretically, this would've been an excellent and mildly serious exercise to see how good we'd be at emoting our feelings via voice, you know? And I'd be lying if I said I never considered being a voice actor (one of those 'face perfect for radio' kind of things), so I was all PUMPED UP YEAH!11!111 LET'S DO THIS mode, on. 

Then it started, and it was basically "fine fine fine fine fine GARBLELAKJSDJ KANJI ASLKJDAKLJ GARBLE fine fine fine" because we can't read kanji well to begin with, and are even shittier when we're supposed to do it live, and spent most of the time just laughing hysterically into the mic while sobbing gently. So our teacher was all, oi, don't overextend yourself, go for an easier scene with all the words that you can read, then pour your Heart and Soul into it.

So I bring you, this masterpiece.





I'M THE MAN. So basically all I did was go 'Ojyaaaaaaaaaa' while my sister professionally bluffed her way through lines neither of us in any way registered or understood. If I'd left the camera on recording longer, you'd just hear the shrieking laughter of three adults, wheezing away in our pink booths while school children lined up and waited for their turn to have a go. Till now, my sole regret of the trip is not just staying at that booth and doing all of the scenes until we passed out from lack of oxygen due to hysterics. They'd have to pry me from the mic by my cold, unresponsive fingers, man. It was bloody amazing.

Bloody. Amazing. I'd do it all again, I tell you.

Then we went to Denny's and I had udon and tenpura and it was delicious but if I start taking pictures of meals as plaid as that I would never stop so I didn't start. But it was delicious, honestly, and not too expensive either. Denny's has an excellent selection of desserts! 

And, next up. 

I've moved house! The old house was tiny and cramped, and so's this current one, but it's less tiny and less cramped and severely lessens travel time to get to school and the train station! And restaurants! And grocery stores! There's more space for luggage, and there's somewhere to hang clothes outside. I hate dryers, they make clothes not smell right. So having somewhere to hang my clothes really, really makes me happy c:

But it's not like, a small building cramped with people, ten kids to a bathroom stall style affair. It's more an actual apartment, with two bedrooms, a kitchenette and a bathroom suite. Creepily, this is my first time staying somewhere like this. Usually it's the standard student-y thing, with lots of us in a small space, and an all-encompassing feeling of lack-of-alone-ness. Sometimes of course it's irritating as hell to hear people screaming or parties or too loud chatter, but it's never quiet (except when everyone went home on long holidays and creeped me the hell out), which felt safe. In this new place, it's just me and one other girl, but she's away on holiday for the time being, so it's just me. Yeah, Japan's the safest country ever and I'm notoriously paranoid about making sure everything that needs locking is locked and fastened securely and all that stuff. Logically, there's nothing to fear that wouldn't be also worth fearing in a big shared house.

Actually, it's scary as all crap. I had trouble falling asleep, keeping my ears peeled for any odd sound (of an intruder trying to jimmy the front door, but of course). It's lonely and gloomy and it's probably got as much to do with the weather going from hot and startling sunny summer-yness to rainy and gloomy and dreary autumn, but still! 

Still!

It takes a bit of getting used to. I'm adjusting by way of loudly playing music wherever in the apartment I go to. Oddly enough it reminds me most of staying in the tent by myself while I was on that field trip in Belize. Yeah, there're loads of people within screaming distance, but if an axe-wielding murderer jerks the door open it's still going to be just me staring at him, probably with my music player in hand,

Can't imagine moving out and into my own apartment, where this'll be the way of things until I get a partner to stay with (me). SUCH COWARDICE. But such factual cowardice. Alone-ness is a terrible thing, you know.

That said, it'll be October in a bit, and then I'll be 21 and more likely than not freaking out about other things to do with being alive and pretty happy and wanting to stay that way.



I dunno, man. Maudlin weather puts me in a hell of a mood. I should be studying, or eating proper meals, but I haven't moved foodstuffs over yet and for now it's whatever I can mooch off my sister and nearby restaurants that we're slowly but surely getting sick off.

2012 (and possibly, and I use this term loosely, the rest of the world) will be over so bloody fast.

From: [identity profile] mugen-edamame.livejournal.com
There's a chance that the vacation'll be moved up to November, just so that everyone can make it! I've been saving money so I don't trouble my parents too much >A<

According to the teachers, it's gotten a lot colder a lot faster this year than usual. Ain't coping tooooo well, but I'm still coping c:

:c Really sorry to hear that, baby. It's been a rough couple of years all around, eh? I'm scheduled for correctional surgery next march, but I've got no idea how it'll turn out. Replacement surgery is even more terrifying, but please just do it when you need to! God knows what putting it off might result in. Also way douchey, apple-support.

Periods are demonic. Just have ice cream and try and not to scream/cry/punch people. This month's been exceptionally aggressive for me ahahaha

With school and work and stuff, I really haven't found much motivation to watch anything /)A(\ Manga's just about all I can handle on top of my workload.

(OAO) No nice cushy Christmas holidays?

Thank you as ever, bb, and same to you o/
From: [identity profile] sekitx2.livejournal.com
Hard tofind my smile much this month. Need anime/manga for distractions/enjoyment. Browsing pr0n fanart on pixiv helps too ;)

As long as you get your family vacation in be it November or December!

Thanks for the advice ^____^

YAAAAAAAAAAAWN. Hormone sea-saw not helping my sleep pattern either. *sigh*
Oyasumi!

PS Christmas Day and Boxing Day have off. Anything else not likely.
Edited Date: 2012-10-21 06:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mugen-edamame.livejournal.com
:c Damn it. Are you still fond of Lavi and Kanda? There's a new kinkfill I can throw your way, if it'll help drag out a smile ;~;

I know, right?! I'm so excited to see everyone again, it's unreal. Neither of my older siblings were around when I went home for summer vaykay, so this'll be majorly nice!

It's remarkably easy to give manly advice when I'm not the one who needs to worry about replacement surgeries >A< BUT IF WE LIVED NEAR EACH OTHER I'D SO BE YOUR KNEE-PAIN BUDDY BB.

Hahaha it'll be two am soon and I can't sleep, while on Tuesday I slept thirteen hours. *rubs back* I hope you get more sleep!

Two days is better than none.... orz End of the year is only easy on schoolkids, really /)A(\ HANG TOUGH BABE
From: [identity profile] sekitx2.livejournal.com
Never lose the LXK love. If not too long I can read it soon. Work landslide already starting. :/

Got very little sleep last night and not for lack of trying. Planes flying overhead (not normally hear those this way), shoulders pinched nerves leading to hands going num and yeah periods.

Your other post: Wow, you've fit in a job into your schedule. And double wow, story all in Japanese writing already? Sugoi.

2 days not enough if doing more than 40 hrs /w eek working for previous 2+ months though.

The day has sucked for various compounding reasons. *sigh*
From: [identity profile] mugen-edamame.livejournal.com
http://dgm-kinkmeme.livejournal.com/336.html?thread=54608#t54608 here you *rubs back to help prepare for work* Hopefully you can at least have a leisurely birthday this month, god.

:c Your body sounds all in a jumble. Maybe those calming pills that help sleep might help?

Mostly weekends. It's crap, but it's cash. And in all fairness, the story isn't highbrow literature XD more young adult, it's written in simple easily understood words. It's fun.

Have the days that followed it been any better? :c
From: [identity profile] sekitx2.livejournal.com
Didn't know there was a 4th version to the kinkmeme oO

Uum, in first post you have
"Kanda had turned out to be amenable to sex, even of the gay kind, and about two and a half months after the first free meal Lavi realized he’s amenable to all the colours of Kanda. "

But then you have that Lavi left and only been a MONTH.
"I'll remember. Bye, boss. 's been a hell 'f a month."

Thanks for sharing. It's not grabbing me as much as your other ones. *cough* unfinished still and hopefully will still get done one day? :>

Doctors useless. Can't get answers to questions.
Work defintiely upping the stress level.

"And in all fairness, the story isn't highbrow literature XD more young adult, it's written in simple easily understood words. It's fun." Well I still think it's amazing. I'm no further ahead in my JP after many years (no classes or time for though).

Hope you had some fun, fun, fun for your birthday!!
Edited Date: 2012-11-02 05:13 am (UTC)

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