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| Monday, June 8th, 2009 | | 8:46 pm |
Counting
I recently was mocked for puking and tried to defend myself with the minimal number of times I've actually thrown up from drinking. I was so into counting that I did just that. I can't help but feeling i'm forgetting about one incident though... 1) (20 years old) Eric's party (his birthday?) - Sophomore year of college; first time getting very drunk. Gin and tonic served by the evil bastard who I never knew and still don't know, but have his face in my mind. I still can't drink gin... 2) (22 years old) Japan - JET orientation. I didn't eat much of anything for two days as I was so excited to be back in Japan. I skipped the orientation meetings and went out to coffee with random people. After two days of coffee and a few pastries we went out drinking. I drank like a fiend, crashed a college nomikai (I was three months out, after all) and puked in a bush while walking back to the hotel in Shinjuku. 3) (25 years old) New York - I went out to a bar to get to know my new roommate, had two long island iced teas, kept on complaining that there was too much tequila, felt sick and puked when we got back to the apartment. I wasn't even drunk. Honestly, this one still annoys me... it totally screws up my low count. And it took tequila off my list of drinkables for a year (I still don't know if I can drink it straight). 4) (27 years old) Carleton Reunion. Oh god was I drunk... and the mixing of drinks vodka and B52s at the Cow, beer randomly, wine back on campus and finally Jaeger to top it off. The psychosis i experienced that night still scares me and is the reason i never do any hard drugs. Thinking you aren't you is scary. 5) (28 years old) Jessica's birthday - two smoothies for sustenance is not a good idea. Add in a bike ride and it gets slightly worse, but it's still okay. Add mass amounts of alcohol and you've got a recipe for disaster. At least the alcohol of choice that night was so mixed that no flavor/type was added to the ban list. So that's it. Five times. Of note is that while I got supremely drunk I never once puked when dancing. All instances can be attributed to three things: lack of (solid) food consumption, mixing dr..inks and American dorm parties. Current Mood: conflictedCurrent Music: Rainbows in the Dark-Tilly and the Wall-<3 ec* | | Saturday, March 7th, 2009 | | 9:25 pm |
I'm sick. This sucks. The term is coming to an end and I can't concentrate enough to write anything. This sucks. I only meet people who I shouldn't contemplate dating. This sucks. I'm nerding out with my new roommate discussing everything from Weber, critical geography and hypermediacy in 電車男 to professor gossip. This rocks. Current Mood: happyCurrent Music: Have A Cigar-Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here | | Saturday, February 14th, 2009 | | 4:47 am |
ignorance is bliss
I'm moving out. It's an interesting story, really. Allow me to elaborate. I was told last Friday that I could move without losing my month to month status and moving to a yearly lease. This was the first good news that I had had in a bit. It mean that I could leave this roommate situation. I then talked to JJ who had said earlier that she was looking for a roommate. We decided on that me moving in would work. I then told my roommate that I would be moving in as soon as I figured things out and that he needed to start looking for a new roommate. Hence the 9th was supposed to start my "30 days." I got a vacate premises form (30 day notice) and proceeded to sign it (on the 11th). I then got the roommate to sign it with the intent of me moving out on the 15th as that would then start the "official" 30 day period. However, when I went in to turn my form in the following day (the 12th) I was notified that we had gotten the dating system wrong. Were I to submit the signed form dated the 15th I would be released on the 15th and the roommate would need to pay from that date. After being told the way it worked I proceeded to attempt to inform my roommate. He insisted he was right. His belief for the duration was that he would need to then pay from a month after the date that I actually moved out regardless of the date. We agreed to go in on Friday (the 13th). This morning, or rather last morning, my roommate and I went in to the housing office in order to sort things out. The housing affiliate managed to convince my roommate that he was a) wrong b) that he needed to pay rend for 30 days from the point of me "moving out" which was the date decided on the form and not when I actually moved out if he wanted them to find him a roommate. Essentially, he needed to give them 30 days of notice for them to look for him or he needed to look himself. At this point he exploded with "why do I need to pay" and such. I then asked if it was possible for him to turn the form in at the same time as the other 30 day notice and thereby skip the extra 30 day period. After consulting the housing offer affirmed this was possible. My roommate was thereby saved from paying an extra month's worth of rent except for the small fact that I had told him approximately 4 days earlier and we had decided the night before that I would be allowed to move on the 9th of March (1 month after first tellig him). When he learned that he would have to pay for 5 days of double rent between the 9th and 14th of March he came to a dead halt. He refused. It should be pointed out that JJ would be paying for double rent from the 21st until I moved in on the 28th (7 days) and that I would be paying for the 1st to 9th (9 days). So, my roommate would be paying 5 days and had been saved from paying an additional massive amount of time due to my suggestion. And yet, he then suggested two other "possibilities." A) that I move out on the 13th instead of the 28th in which case neither he nor I would need to pay anything extra. When I then said, yes, but then JJ would be paying for an entire month of extra rend his response was roughly so what, I don't care, it isn't me. My mouth dropped. When he found out that I would not be doing that he then said, well, what if I put today as the 30 day notice start date, which is to say going back on the original 1 month agreement beginning at the end of the month. At this point I belief my statement was roughly "and now my respect for you has dropped to an even lower level." The housing affiliate's comment was simply, might I remind you that you are paying the least of all three people. The roommate then went on a tirade of how he wasn't the one moving out, so why should he have to pay for it. Now, as the entire last month has been spent talking to the housing people about roommate issues and troubles, and me moving out was a last means to solve these issues this was, of course, a rather loaded issue. The housing affiliate tried to indicate that yes, becuase my roommate was one of the individual parties living in the apartment he was part of the issue. At this point I gave up and was resigned to doing whatever. I said something along the lines of, may I remind you that you make 600 more than me on your monthly stipend (engineering vs social sciences...). He then tried to "compromise" by puting the 11th. Having given up I just said do whatever. In the end he put the 9th and walked out, angry at having to pay for 5 days of double rent (and this is, of course, assuming he does not find anybody in the next month). I thanked the housing affiliate and meant it. He had helped with getting my roommate to stop smoking inside the apartment and had informed me that hte option to move had become available. I have a feeling (from cc'd emails) that my case was one of the key cases in making said change. An hour later while walking to my class I got a call from the housing affiliate. He was calling to inform me that due to the particulars of the situation (eg: he was aghast at my roommate's incredibly self centered and abrasive behavior) he had talked to his supervisor and they would make it happen that I would be able to move on the 21st (the first day that JJ's rent would turn over) meaning neither she nor I would need to pay any double rent. He didn't mention my roommate. I asked, indicating that, despite happiness over being able to move at said point and not pay, I wasn't comfortable with forcing my roommate to then pay the entire period. He said they would discuss it and call me back. When I got out of class I had a message on my phone: I could move on the 21st. I would pay nothing extra. JJ would pay nothing extra. My roommate would pay nothing extra and the housing office would begin looking for a new roommate for him immediately. And here I'm back to the title of this entry: my roommate has no idea of all that happened in the background. He doesn't even recognize that his behavior was so obnoxious that it had caused a bureaucratic office to break the bureaucracy in order to help me and hinder him. All he knows is what he said to me this evening: I hear you're moving earlier. Ignorance is bliss and he seems to be quite happy. I just wonder how long that bubble will last. Current Mood: happy | | Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 | | 8:25 pm |
My roommate makes me so angry and frusterated that I shake when talking to him for any given length of time beyond "hello." This is very unhealthy. I'm finally able to get out of this situation, but the worst part is that he's going to milk my "30 days" as a means of forcing me to pay double rent. Current Mood: angryCurrent Music: The Great Escape-BT-Emotional Technology | | Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | | 10:47 pm |
updates
I haven't updated for a long time. Not because I'm lazy, but because I've been busy. Hellishly busy. Life has gotten very, very full and not with "life" per se, but with work. Education. Studies. And I can't complain about this as it's what I want(ed). So I won't. I'll simply say that some parts of my life are rather lacking and others are fruitful, full and happy. I will, however, point out the odd difference between life and mentality between MA and PhD and the incredible disconnect between the two. To unpack: I'm having a hard time relating to the friends I made in the fall who are gliding along their MAs while I'm now mired in reading, theory and distinct time chunks that can only really be used to study and socialize while studying and talking theory/practice, which they don't/won't/can't do (I'm not sure which it is). I'm not sure if that makes me elitist or simply (too) different. Regardless, it makes me a sad(er) panda. On other notes, my name now gets you to a different website with totally different ramblings. I was told I needed a blog that would represent me in the future. And a place where people could respond to my thoughts/ideas. I'm guessing it's moreso acquiecense to the brother. Regardless, it's there. So, not much to say otherwise. Working hard. Reading lots. Living a certain type of life. Biking (only) two days a week (but that's better than none). Hopefully I'll be updating somewhat more, but otherwise, I might be there and I might be elsewhere. Current Mood: not really sureCurrent Music: All That Makes Us Human Continues-BT-This Binary Universe | | Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | | 1:43 am |
movies
I haven't watched a netflix movie for two months. They've been sitting around as I've worked, attempted to socialize, and otherwise gone about my daily life living without movies or books or games. This weekend, I didn't go out; this weekend I read よつばと and watched one of the movies, Days of Being Wild. As the book I read a month ago claimed in one of its chapters analyzing Hong Kong and Globalization, it just wasn't that great. Today, I watched the other one, Moliere. I laughed, cried and was generally the happiest I've been for quite a long time. Yes, I'm a whore for movies and emotions. Yes, unlike the plan this afternoon, I'm not cancelling my Netflix. Current Mood: happy | | Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | | 9:16 pm |
Another year another number. Not much else that I can think to say in some ways. Life is like that. I read Discipline and Punish (again) and I get it more and more. I can read things and connect them. I can speak the language of academia better than ever. But at the same time I still fail at all the same old things. Not sure if it's an "oh well" or a "get on it" sort of situation. I can't get my roommate to stop smoking in the apartment and I'm not an asshole enough to call the housing people on him; I refuse to have a car, yet this city definitely doesn't like the lack of car; I fail at all things related to love et cetera; I spend too much money on coffee and don't get enough riding time in; my back is still dead and yet I've failed to get desk (still). Life as normal. Nothing to see here. Keep on moving. Current Mood: contentCurrent Music: 1234-Feist | | Monday, October 13th, 2008 | | 9:07 am |
bank
My account at WaMu was frozen (until verification) when I deposited my 1800 stipend check. After so long of nothing going in they simply don't believe it's real... so sad. Current Mood: content | | Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 | | 12:33 pm |
Life has been progressing, I'm exhausted and I finally can sleep in to 9 am regularly. Sadly, I still crash between 12 and 1 (minus the 5 am weekends...). I leave for Michigan tomorrow morning and have to now figure out how I'm going to get to the airport and from the Detroit airport to East Lansing (that's a shuttle, but I have to figure out how to reserve a spot). Honestly, not much else to say. My office on campus is now clean, but I still need a desk for my apartment; I've done the Torrey Pines ride a few times now, but I look forward to getting a multi-speed bike so as to ride with others and not to be reduced to 30 rpm. Can't think of anything else. Need to eat something. Needs needs needs. Current Mood: contentCurrent Music: Belfast (Original Version)-Orbital-Work 1989-2002 | | Friday, September 26th, 2008 | | 11:38 pm |
I rode to Torrey Pines Beach again today. It's a nice 45 minute ride with an 9 minute hellish climb. I'm sure it won't be as bad on a multi speed bike, but it's huge on the single speed. I think this might become a regular for a bit since it's possible, strenuous and short. My back is hurting a bit though, which sucks. Anyway, I need to buy whole wheat flour and coconut shavings to make banana bread. Current Mood: contentCurrent Music: Rez-Underworld-1992 - 2002 [Disc 1] | | Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | | 6:27 pm |
Department orientation happened. I'm tired. However, one good thing is that while the one professor left I found that another professor came. And this one is another writer of Global Hollywood 2. Yay, I get to take classes from one half of the editors/writers of Global Hollywood 2. Current Mood: pissedCurrent Music: 1.618-BT-This Binary Universe | | Friday, September 19th, 2008 | | 10:49 pm |
I just found out that one of the professors that I wanted to study with at UCSD left for UCSantaCruz. Fuck. Current Mood: pissed | | Sunday, September 14th, 2008 | | 4:53 pm |
| | Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | | 6:09 pm |
I went to Ikea today and got important stuff like a pot to cook noodles in and some hanging things for clothes. Minimal space so a dresser is out of the question. The other person in my apartment went crazy and bought a bookshelf, dresser, bed and desk from Ikea a few days ago. He's put 2 of them together and the way it looks now the four are going to completely fill the floor space of the room. I'd go absolutely nuts if I had to live in there. I'll go back and get a desk, two bar stools when I get through with the car. The DMV was closed today so I have to go back on Monday. Hopefully that will be fine. As for the rest, I'm basking in the 60 degree weather. Oh yes. Oh yes. Current Music: All That Makes Us Human Continues-BT-This Binary Universe | | Friday, September 12th, 2008 | | 10:22 pm |
Third day into San Diego. Went to the DMV and was turned back because I only had one form of ID... a driver's liscense. Then switched my WaMu bank account to... a WaMu bank account... Finally, I bought knives, dishtowels, soap and spunges. Then I came back and read the driver's handbook to figure out how to drive in California. Tomorrow I go to Ikea and Monday I go back to the DMV. In a bit I'm supposed to go out with my roommate for "drinks." Drinks starting at midnight... huh? Am I missing something? Granted this is Friday, but neither of us knows a thing about hte city and that seems to be pushing it (depending on the city). And tomorrow... I'm not really sure. I've some things that need to be done, but they're kind of being held up with the DMV -> ZipCar -> Car aspect unless I want to spend massive amounts of money to buy new (hence Ikea with a lack of idea what I will be buying). Current Music: All That Makes Us Human Continues-BT-This Binary Universe | | Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | | 5:46 pm |
This place is huge. Well, it just seems so expansive in a way that I haven't dealt with for a while. Definitely not in the past 3 years. About the best I can come up with would be Minnesota nothingness or Kuki rice fields, but neither of them have the same feeling with ditches instead of water, weird earth mounds with cars on top and the omnipresent reddish brownish color in the dirt and houses... and plastic chairs. I got my network information, account number, email address and id card. I then found out all the things I need to do regarding getting californian citizenship or whatever the term is. DMV, bank, ticket receipt, tax crap et cetera. A long list of 12 things that takes a year to do collect. Fun fun just to prove I'm a Californian... something that I'll be changing shortly afterward, I'm sure... So, the campus is big, and I miss my bike. I also miss both the pseudo bed and the real bed I slept in before. The floor isn't treating me too well. Same with the lack of desk. I'm very much missing happy desks. Ikea is on my mind and as I don't have a car or reasonable transportation I'm thinking a lot about buying stuff new. Otherwise I'll be looking into the Zip Car deal shortly, but I don't really want to wait on some things. Blah, I can't get the ZipCar until I've updated my license to being a Californian one, which is a task for tomorrow or the day after, but I wish it could wait until I got my bike. I want my bike! Current Mood: lost | | Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | | 4:49 pm |
One Miramar
I'm in the most deserted place I've ever seen. It's like a desert. It is a desert. My apartment doubles this nothingness as it's totally unfurnished (fridge doesn't count). My flatmate is somewhere supposedly coming here. His stuff isn't in the apartment yet though and he's from Greece, so I'm not sure if he's bringing anything. How's that for an interesting combination that results in a completely empty apartment and me being forced to lose at least some of my minimalism. I'm going to have to buy a desk (minimum), but likely a bed, table, chairs et cetera. Hell, even a lamp again since I haven't bothered with one for ages. The benefit is that there are so many people in a place that doesn't have provided net that I'm having an easy time leeching. Currently using "LinuxRocks" which popped up first out of about 25 different choices (guessing 3/4 are passwordprotected). And, there's a cafe right outside my door with people sitting outside on tables and I can see cords into the concrete. Such sounds very, very nice. So, that's the mini-update. Time to see what's what, go get some soap (yeah, I forgot to bring a few extra bars) and scour Craigslist for desks, chairs and tables... but no services. | | Saturday, September 6th, 2008 | | 3:55 pm |
Pre-moving Feelings of Loss and Lethargy
I'm feeling lost. It's raining and muggy out and I've nearly run out of things to read. I've run out of movies to watch on hand and nearly everything is in boxes. I need something, but I don't know what. I've even started looking at ramen places in San Diego on my brother's suggestion. In about 5 minutes I've found all that I can: Tajima http://www.tajimasandiego.com/noodle.htmlSantouka http://www.yelp.com/biz/santouka-ramen-san-diegoWhile it's nice to have found that, it's a bit discouraging that there are only 2 places that crop up. If none of them are actually good... well, let's say that will be a sad panda day. Somewhat like going to Portland and realizing the ramen there is shit (even if the sushi is decent). I also have to send my boxes (and my bike) to San Diego, but I don't trust the address I've been given. The (apt??) number next to the address is basically the same as the zip code. #929112 and 92092-9112. It makes me not want to ship stuff there until I actually get there and make sure it's right. Afterall, it's everything I own... which consists of one bike, two boxes of clothes et cetera, 4 boxes of books (probably about 10 more boxes of books at my parents house), and the 50lb bag that I'm allowed onto the plane. The clothes boxes are medium sized and the book ones are somewhat small (the book ones take up less actual space than the clothing boxes), but the different boxes all weigh about the same amount. Well, I think I'm going to go wander a bit more. Maybe figure out something to do... Current Mood: listless | | Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | | 9:05 pm |
Sun Fail
Yeah, I fail at the sun. I fail at mornings, too, but that's a different matter. Right now I'm talking about how badly I fail at the sun. Or more specifically, sunburns. My skin is currently reptilian from what I thought was a week of proper healing followed by a half an hour of biking. Now my shoulders look like they've got drops of sweat on them, except they're little bubbles of dead skin filled with sweat... or something like that. I'm not sure. But I can't believe I'm going to San Diego in under two weeks. Well, at least it'll be the end of summer so I won't have the entirety of it to fuck up in the sun. Current Music: air conditioner | | Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 | | 12:56 am |
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