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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

HEY BABES.
A LITTLE BIT OF SWEAT AIN'T NEVER KILLED NOBODY )

As far as I can remember them are the main things WAIT I bought frozen pizza a few days ago and the free gift was a silicon ice cube tray in the shape of little snowman. It's so cute and so ridiculous it breaks my heart. It really does. Also [livejournal.com profile] hakasha how good are you at maths I'm crap at it and this has reminded me to guilt you into studying too.

HOPE EVERYONE'S BEEN WELL. 

pengin My soul regret is not buying this pantsuit of penguins. And I wanted to post group pictures but then I was all PRIVACY ISSUES WHAT IF OTHERS HAVE THEM.

Happy End of Novembeeeer.
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Man, life just never fails to get weirder. There was less weird crap in the first fifteen years of my life than there've been in the past five. I remember when I was a kid, I thought that everyone was pretty much exactly the same in the head, it's just the bodies that were different. 

But man. People are damned crazy, self included.


I get so excited when I'm thinking up Subject Names. )


It's been getting real cold. My friend's mom makes amazing pumpkin-soup broth and noodles. I saw a pony yesterday. And I really should get around to making it official that I've moved 8D Because my student card still says I live in my old place. There are teachers I hope I can be FOREVER BEST BUDS WITH. Probably another update WITH PICTURES over the weekend. There's a big important exam on Saturday, so I've got the weekend off work c: Wanna log, babe, wanna log so hard all the way all the night through!

OH and and and I'm about halfway through my first legitimate book that's legitimately written wholly in Japanese. Yeah, it's short, but it's gonna be a hell of an accomplishment (when I get to it) so I'm cheering myself on. I hope everyone's doing okaaaaaaaay in these bleak bleak days! 
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Man, time sure passes by awfully quickly when you're in good weather and drowning in good food. Holiday's over and in fourteen hours or so I'll be on the place back to Japan, and, oddly enough, Real Life. Ramadan's ended, and Happy Party Times to everyone who celebrates Syawal. Didn't do much myself. Ate well, but because I went back to my hometown in Penang when my Japanese friend came to visit me (she did, and so did her parents, and they were marvelous and sweet and I'll talk about 'em more when I get back in my room) no one particularly felt like making the tediously long drive again just a few days after. Luckily I got to meet most of my relatives anyways, so I can't complain c: Everyone looked well, which is all you can ask for, you know?


I only ever gets bursts or energy when I need them least. )

It's late and I should be sleeping or packing but all I can do is sit here and think about all the food I want to eat, and how being literally warmed (or sunburnt, depending on your exposure to the sun) actually works to warm the heart. Stock of Love to Give has been replenished! 

And did I say I won Most Entertaining/Tried Hardest for the Japanese school's Speech contest? Little sister won Grand Prize. Talented bastard. 

At least, yeah. At least I'm entertaining. Though likely a lot less proficient at Japanese now than I was then. Heh.

And the guy who's the lead in the Bourne Legacy (p sure it's Legacy) is a sad-looking man, and it looks like all I need to support any body is for the person to be sad-looking. 

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I've been taking it easy the past few days, that is, doing homework but not the extra stuff that I usually keep up to diligently.

As a result (probably) my brain's stopped functioning and it feels like I can't handle human communication in general, and human communication in Japanese altogether. Things have gone complicated in my head, and I've been self-medicating.

With folk songs. Because god damn I love folk songs.

There was supposed to be a beautiful post and replies on Sunday, with amazing pictures, but I think I got distracted staring out a window and pondering the meaning of life.

X-ray to check for tuberculosis tomorrow, as well as a sprung-upon grammar test and a tea ceremony, if I remember right. Feeling all sorts of out of sorts, but also feel like I'm currently in an untouchable time-warp where the real world just lightly forgets me. 

I think I overpopulate the world, prob'ly along with six billion other people. Drunk Japanese kids (I call them kids, but they're my age, surely) are stumbling outside my window, screaming with laughter at one thirty in the morning. Want to shout back to say I understand what you're saying, you screamy idiots, but my mouth fails me (it has been for hours now).

More, soon. Hope everyone's okay, I'll get back to you soon, I swear >A<
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Alive! And relatively well (in that, golly, it could be quite a lot worse). Finally home-home after quite vigorous traveling!

Internet connection is a bit patchy, and I'll be bloody busy the next few weeks, but I still would've posted moar 'bout my travels, if only picture-uploading would've co-operated. Trying my best. though c:

To varying degrees, both [livejournal.com profile] uvrainbow and [livejournal.com profile] confidantes took excellent! Care of me! So thank you very much, mmhmm.

I will come bearing fic one day some time soon, but more than anything else;

HOW IS EVERYONE BABES!
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IN NO WAY IS THIS ARTWORK MINE. Found it on my hard drive, it's Katsura and Takasugi from Gintama. Only now you're supposed to pretend it's Kanda and Lavi from here, and pretend that the shite paintjob is a little convincing 8D Happy birthday, Kanda Yuu!


V 2.0. 'cos only smart people study for exams. )
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My spine is screaming, my shoulders are crying :c

I went out collecting for the Red Cross today, for Japan's Tsunami and Earthquake Relief fund. Was there from half two to six, and met really really really cool people in numbers small enough for me to enjoy myself and not! Get! Freaked out at. We were posted in pairs (never FOREVER ALONE) in the city center, holding out buckets up and asking for donations to be made :>
sapsapsapsap Japan, I love you )
Man, this was long. And it probably sounds ridiculous and too wimpy and I worry about your thoughts already, but these are my feelings on this terrible terrible disaster and the people who are fighting on.

Phew, all off my chest now u///u On High will be posted tomorrow, probably.

Honey, is good. Got a hospital appointment for tomorrow, must... wake up... in time :c

Why won't a dissertation write itself?!/!
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Man, it's been a turbulent week (year).

I didn't fail any units, though I got a bizarrely high mark on Evolution of Invertebrates and a bare pass on my Japanese language unit.If I don't make up for the bad marks in the summer exams, I don't get to go to Japan. Scary possible outcome is scary (yet possible). It does mean no retakes, though, so I'll count my blessings.

In the past ~10 days, I have nearly caused myself death several times, yeah?
Tai chi! Kungfu! Dance! Class whoohoo. )

Got to start archiving better. It's been a waaay freaky couple of weeks....
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Just now, while studying in the common room, my flatmate the astrophysicist in-training walked in to brew a mug of coffee.

Cheerful worried chit-chat was cheerful and worried (mofo exams start on Monday ahahaha) and I showed her the stuff I was working on.

Doing Japanese grammar at 1 ay emm, I'm so hardcore.

Anyways, while she was leaving, she said she's sure that learning Japanese is as hard as quantum mechanics. I don't think I've ever felt so validated as I did when she said that solemnly.

Because I really really wanted to do cosmology/astrophysics, but my results weren't good enough. And her studying that somehow ties in with me studying what I am studying. Because she thinks I'm smart doing what I do ;~; whereas my general approach is that I do the things I do because I'm not smart enough.

Questionable self-worth at almost 2 am, after several hours of solid studying, but I somehow feel genuinely re-heartened.

Rrrrr. Goodnight everyone <3
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Steamed sea bass oriental style, and fried it right up (right up).

One, it tasted good. 

Two, it's the first time I've cooked fish not battered.

Three, it's four in the morning. Everything's impressive and delicious at four in the morning.

Revising? Hahahaha. I know the word, but not the meaning.

But I don't feel even slightly repentant. Do better in the morning!

Argh.
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I've got two weeks left before I'm due to return to England and study study study. So far? I traveled over 400 miles yesterday, bought a new laptop for my sister today, and am following my brother to apply for a student's visa with tomorrow. All this and I've still not done any summer reading 8'D And am supposedly going off to get a diving license in about a week and a half's time. Ha. HAHAHA.

I'm arriving in England on Monday evening, well-equipped with sleeping bags and such. I shall be spending the night at the airport, and so hope to face terrible jet-lag with a huge smile on my face after getting jacked up on chocolate digestive biscuits whoooot.

I'm sleepy and am due to get up early on Monday, but I'm not going to sleep until I get some important crap done for school (like, y'know, small potatoes like GETTING MY ACCOMMODATION SORTED OUT and GETTING MY SCHEDULE hahaha). My eyes are so dry from wearing contact lenses too long, stick around and I shall quite cry tears of blood.

I think LJ informed me it's Hakasha's birthday today. Now, ha, dunno if you still remember that strange prompt conversation we had about things I should write. I think cats were involved. And robes. And enchantment.

So have at ye, this thing I wrote that'll hopefully eventually be continued:

Kanda and the Bean Stalk. )

I was told that my shoes looked like Ronald McDonald's today. Somehow that counted as a compliment.
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I'm so nocturnal it's stupid. I don't function without at least 8 hours of sleep, I have to get up early tomorrow to run some errands, and after that there's my part-time job, and all this on an empty belly, and because it'll be 2 AM soon, pretty minimal sleep.

I'm so stupid it's stupid sometimes.

Unfortunately I'm also very hyper right now, because three cups of tea and an hour of my-kind of dance music has me pretty roaring ready to go and do something gone one in the morning.

Sleep well, please.

Afterword:
If you wonder aloud, hey, maybe if you take a cold shower, it might calm you down, you strange fidgety madman.

The answer would be no. If it was a yes, I wouldn't be typing this~
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How can I expect to be a decent biologist if I dislike molecular biology as much as I do?

I can't, that's how.

So for the one month and a few days I have before I have to go back to Uni to study, I am reading the bloody textbook and convincing my self I bloody love it. Even if I'm reduced to drawing speech bubbles around key points and sketching Lavi at the side being an insufferable smart bastard.

And the joint-honours students are always the ones who don't get mailed certain very important information, and I want to ask my course mates about it but because I'm so bloody shy I can't make myself do it. Which leaves me in a horrible place.

I should do a count down for when I have to leave home, but I'd start snarling whenever I see it.

All this, and my family still stand by the belief that I am quite good at all school-related matters.

BLOOD HAS BEEN SPILLED FOR LESS AM I RIGHT?

Edit:
Okay by all definitions of the term I'm quite the coward but I also have no tolerance for bloody foolishness. So I manned up in these few minutes, sent a course mate a message asking him about the stuff that I'm worried about, and am now feeling pleased I took such a large mental step 8DDDD Also, Aerosmith's Pink made me start dancing like a madman while mouthing the words (Yeah pink, 's like red but not quuuuuuuuuite,) so while I'm still somewhat depressed, I'm also somewhat elated. I AM A COMPLICATED OYSTER.

Edit's Edit:
Blimey, I reckon it must be quite the absolute turn-off to listen to someone so mad in the head as me. He has replied, and all is well, and I'm not missing a bit of information that is all ways fundamental to my second year. I am very good at completely freaking myself out.
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See, I just  got back. Got caught in rain in Albi, got woken up on train by conductor, bag fell over a billion times, nearly was late for my flight, flight was delayed for a bit because the weather IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE was terrible, got lost like whoa in the airport when I reached here, then had to leave almost immediately for a friend's birthday meal.

Then I went to the last formal dinner the hall will hold for us, all dressed up in a dress and everything. A painfully stylish+gorgey friend was all your dress is so fine, your shoes are so fine, and I was obviously pleased like a crazy sod because I've been accused of things, but being stylish's not been one of them accusations.

Had three glasses of wine at the dinner. Just three.

Now my head's pounding and all I want to do is giggle. Honest. I'm kinda giggling as I type this.

I'm sleep-deprived 8D Please to be not taking advantage of me si?

/giggles unto forever
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A week to end all weeks.

And now. For something completely. Differential. )

Aaaaah, everybody, what a week, what a week. I want to go to sleep and wake up a year ago two years on. Or something. Aaaaaah.

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/is sick all over the place

MEDICAL SYSTEM, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

I am sick on a Saturday, but cannot go in to see a doctor because it's pre-booked appointments only today. Helpful receptionist woman; lolsry suffer with what shit you got till Tuesday earliest (biatch).

...

I'm thinking, yeah, that someone up there is badly, badly upset with something I've done.
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That ash cloud is fast becoming the very bane of my existence. It's outpacing homework, laundry, weird weather, and too much daytime not enough night,

Trying to get a flight is like playing some cosmic guessing game, where the thing you have to guess changes for the lulz.

Are we on, are we off?

Call the airport and find out, yes.

See, thing is, the operation hours? Appear to be WHENEVER I AM NOT CALLING THEM. Because. When you've made 5 phone calls at staggered times and still the office is closed?

Sniff a conspiracy babe, because I do.

You'd think. Someone would make up their minds and stick with it. Take charge, stand up and say nonono, that is most dangerous, yes, that blasted cloud, so no one shall fly until. Er. Monday? Yes. Monday.

Which then fails because I know that they're trying to get things up and running as soon as safely possible, and there're loads of unfortunate sods stuck in the airport for days and days and days wanting to be off already, whereas my sister and I are in relative comfort. This does not make me feel anymore kindly towards the delays and insanity, unfortunately. Plus, this is accumulating expenses faster than a very large, sticky ball rolling around on a pile of cash.

Other than that, though, I've had a pretty good time of it. So. Yeah.

My plans are being foiled by an active volcano. A worthy adversary, at least.
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The lab director last week said there would be skunks. She said. But when I read through the manual again, there's no mention of furry mammals! It's all amphibians this and reptiles that, and yeah, I'm studying animals, but I am shamelessly (shamelessly!) partial to the cute fuzzy half of it!

Not creepy-looking frogs looking at me creepily.

What's that around your neck, grandmama?  )
All my immediately-necessary work is done, and I'll be going out tonight to see a few friends I've not seen for a while now. I have bought bread and biscuits and butter, and am set to have a rollicking good weekend, even if nothing wilder than a trip to the park happens.

The only properly sad thing to've happened is the saddening discovery that the elastic in the cuffs of my sweaters have gone loose due to over-use D: Now when I push my sleeves up my arms they just slide back down. *mourns*

Here, have a picture from the dining hall. Floating lights are reflections of the ceiling lighting, never fear, this was no UFO sighting~
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F*** YEAH!

THE EXAMS THAT I SO TOTALLY SCREWED UP EARLY THIS YEAR? THOSE ONES? THE ONES THAT WOULD STOP ME FROM GOING TO JAPAN IF I DIDN'T DO WELL?

THOSE ONES?

The lowest I got was a 60%. I DON'T HAVE TO RETAKE ANYTHING.

*hip thrust of JOY*

*thrusts again*

I am unabashedly delighted. After a semester plagued by shit weather, terrible illness (of the ho-shit-coughing-up-blood variety), intense home-sickness and a complete disconnect from lectures, this is just about the best I could expect. Ah, no, this is most definitely better than I deserved <3

Second wind, dear ones, and I totally did just break into dance in my room when I read my results *scurries off to study*

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