white_dahlias

Rejected Haiku from my ideas for Japanese Lit.

Rejected because they are not legit enough.

But first, you probably all got this one already:

Colored leaves falling
A zombie eating your brain
Your aim was not good.

Unfortunately, that's the only one with zombies:

The dead of the night
a dog's bark breaks the silence
but nobody hears.

The wind in the trees
Blowing colored leaves westward.
Winter approaches.

not really legit, but I thought it was kind of adorable:

If the rain pours down
and the sky darkens to gray
I will still be here.

I had more, but they suck. and I don't really want to share a few of them until I turn it in. I dunno, I'm paranoid. Hopefully I can figure it out by the time it is due (=.

On a completely unrelated note, I am in music nerd mode right now. (=

What is your lucky number?


What is your favorite number?


Now multiply those numbers together (or if the multiplied number is over 50, add them) and write that many facts about yourself:

...I don't have favorite numbers. I'm just going to make it 50 and go for the whole thing.
Here goes nothing:

( Click Me! )

Also, this song is awesome! (albeit a tad bit cheesy).

...and it's been a year...

maybe that's why I'm in such a funk.

This is me skipping Japanese Lit after nearly having a panic attack this morning.

No, I don't really want to talk about it.

...in other news, I've been feeling kind of sick for the last few days. I blame stress and not the awesome chicken we made for dinner on Saturday.

...and I bombed a test yesterday. Because it's a linguistics class and the teacher expects us to do long division by hand which was a skill I never really picked up. No, I'm not kidding, I suck at division. Like, really badly.

so yeah, this week has been complete and utter fail so far. I don't normally emo in my journal like this so you know it is bad.

I so need Thanksgiving break...

Oh, the 90's, how I miss you )=.
Old School Nickelodeon FTW!
The song is good, too.

Also, I'm skipping Art, Yay! =D

My shoulders, they hurt )=

scoliosis + heavy art supply case = Not Fun! )=

My layout seems to have died a horrible death... maybe I'll fix it later.

Genji, why are you such a manwhore? DX That part of my midterm essay is almost too long. I could write seven pages just with that essay. meh, 1 down 2 to go x_X

And yes, I actually read the book, not just the sparknotes. I AM A GOOD STUDENT! DX

also, how is "working" a mood?

white_dahlias's Halloween party:

bye_bi_cycle dressed as Elizabeth Regina on steroids and roller skates.
ilfiren dressed as a new superhero: White Z.
junichi_hayashi dressed as Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
laronmi dressed as Jennifer Love Hewitt riding a cow.
linkhs dressed as a elephant.
mizunosakura dressed as a third baseman for the Devil Rays.
mondaymorning5 didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
painblossom dressed as your brother.
supersaiyasonic dressed as a character from a Silent Hill game.
white_dahlias dressed as the Vestigial Power Ranger.
zuphlas dressed as the main character of "The Shawshank Redemption", though it looked more like a catcher for the Devil Rays.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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I made a hat. It is a bit too big for me )=.

I need to find a plate or something to block it with, mine are a bit too big, I don't want to stretch it a lot.

I also learned how to sew on a button. Yay me!

I'm posting from Monday's computer. She's going clubbing. I'm not. dX.

I really wish I could be in Japanese 3. )=

I am extremely sad that I am not.

I still need to make the other one.

My hands are TINY. I had to alter the pattern a bit to make them fit... and to fix some of the common imperfections of the gloves themselves (using the bind-off they suggest makes them start to curl at the end, and doing the thumb the way they tell you apparently puts a hole in it somewhere.) ...and the thumb is still a tiny bit too big, but whatever, it still looks ok (=

I like it, the color is much prettier than in my crappy phone picture. it's much brighter and more blue. and it's so soft (12% cashmere, 55% merino wool, 33% microfibre) pretty expensive, but so worth it (=

I am not a hand model, you can see by the silly gestures that I am just a dork dX

I made this:

I miss my wisdom teeth )=

I saw HP6. It was... decent I guess. They spent too much time making it all "I love this person blah blah blah" and "doom doom doomy doom doom" and not so much on important plot elements... like who the title's namesake was \=. Also, the best characters were barely in it.

Then again, I never had very high hopes for the movie, so I guess it doesn't matter.

on another (adorable) note. They're making a movie based on Where the Wild Things Are. I loved that book when I was little. =D

also, lots of kids movies, another crappy "end of the world disaster movie" from the people who brought you The Day After Tomorrow, and a Tim Burton movie not starring Johnny Depp (dun dun dun...)

I think pain makes me hyper-critical of Hollywood's ability to make something entertaining.

Reply to this meme by yelling "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.

Japanese: ...is the bane of my existence! Why am I majoring in it again? I think it is because I enjoy torturing myself.

Tea House: ...is much more fun than partying. I know that makes me totally lame. >>". Also, Kevin and I pwn at Scrabble!

DDR: ...is something that before last year nobody could ever convince me to do in public... and now I'm...decent at it. I miss it now. It's not as fun to play at home and my dog always wants to play too, which messes everything up. >>"

Lothrop: ...is the best dorm ever, but I wish I didn't have to live there for another year, especially not alone )=

Phipps: ...was the beginning of one of the best days ever with the best person ever. <3

Happy Birthday to meeeeee~

I'm hyper. And I have a new iPod. =D Which can hold 120GB! of music.
I am a happy gumball =D

This is part 2 of the entry from yesterday. Part one was a mini-rant, this is not.

I found recipes for Japanese food. I had to make them for a presentation my group did before we left for Japan. I have 3, All of which are credited to Setsuko Yoshizuka. If anyone tries them, tell me how they turn out.

( Hiyashi Chuka - Japanese Cold Noodle )

( Kushidango - Sweet Dumplings )

( Sweet Pumpkin )

If I can find any other cool stuff, I'll put them here.

First thing: Firefox has been having issues for a long while now, so I am trying out Google Chrome. I kind of like it so far.

Second: I was cleaning my room today because my mom was getting annoyed with my "spring cleaning" attitude downstairs... So I was going through a whole bunch of papers in my desk drawer. Among all my old physics notes and People to People handouts, I found 2 interesting things. I want to post them here. I'll put one in this post and one in the next as they are not really related at all.

So, the first thing I found is a bit of research I had done for a speech in 12th grade English class. I was supposed to argue against music censorship. While looking for quotes and things to help prove my point (I remember finding one from Frank Zappa, but I couldn't find it, it was a neat quote, though.) I came across a list of songs that the big radio stations had blacklisted after 9/11. The list seemed horrifically stupid to me then, and it still does. Some of the songs, I can kind of understand... but others. It's just ridiculous that they would be banned.

( I present to you, the list of songs )

Some of these, I just don't understand...

Censorship bothers me. They let Britney Spears run around singing "F-U-C-K Me!" (That's what she's saying, in case anyone didn't catch her attempt to be "clever" in her new song) where anyone can hear, and yet they didn't want to play any song that had the word "airplane" in it, regardless of how harmless it was.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/world.php

I got 159/195 without cheating.
Spelling is hard.

I bought a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I saw it in Borders and the title made me laugh. Zombies make everything better.
My life is boring XD.