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[ltgmars]

A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their journal and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.

B) Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.
NOT DOING IT. IDEC.

C) ANSWERS

01. Make a list of 5 things you can see without getting up:
a. empty coffee cup (it was French Vanilla Mocha from the world's best coffee vending machine mmmm so delicious)
b. phone (black Android Vortex from Verizon)
c. bigass book (The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945)
d. handmade pencil case from Sam
e. multicolored cat pen from Chele

02. What is your favorite holiday?
I feel like I can never decide on an answer for this. Independence Day is nice because I associate it with hanging out with my friends at Haverford during the summer, and that one time Cami was with me in South Bend and we were lame and indoors for the night by 6pm.

03. What song is in your head right now?
None! For once.

04. What's your DREAM occupation?
Cat.

05. What do you hear right now?
The quiet buzzing roar of my computer.

06. Who was the last person you hugged?
My friend Mari after we went out for lunch on Saturday.

07. What was/is for dinner? What is your ideal dinner?
Leftover curry (Aiba's kind, with the apples). Ideal dinner is so much raw fish, slathered all over my life.

08. What did you do today?
Went to bed hella late. Felt awful when I woke up. Didn't go to class. Didn't go to class. Finished a statement of purpose for a fellowship that I'm pretty guaranteed not to get (since it's meant for Ph.D. students), met with a professor to talk about it. Didn't go to class.

09. What was the last text message you received?
"OMG I JUST WOKE UP!!! Aslfkeowjcnfchvfdnjkcixwcbdgew!!!! Lololol" from my friend Lauren, sent at 3:14pm, one minute before our Japanese class ended. My response: "Haha amazing. I, too, missed all my classes today. We are so fabulous."

10. What websites do you always visit when you go online?
LJ, Hotmail, Gmail, Twitter, Tumblr.

11. What is your next big planned purchase?
What defines "big"? Is it, like, exorbitantly priced for what it is? Because that'd be the April issue of More, for which the shipping is 5x the cost of the actual magazine. In terms of actual price, my next big planned purchase is the ability to live in my current residence for the month of March, i.e., rent.

12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Japan.

13. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
In grad school, still. Such is the nature of grad school if you're going to be one of those pocket-protectin', elbow-patch-wearin' folk.

14. PIRATE OR NINJA?
Pinja. Lurkin' in the darrrrk. </waits to be defriended by everyone>

15. What are you doing this weekend?
Researching for/writing a paper. I might also consider pecking at the fic that I was supposed to write for jent_bigbang (that I still intend to finish!), but we'll see.

16. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
Piano. I took intro piano in college, so I guess I can technically "play" it. But I'd like to be proficient. It's such a useful skill!

17. Latest book you read?
For class, New Times in Modern Japan by Stefan Tanaka. For fun, I'm still working my way through Harrison's copy of Battle Royale. You'll get it back someday, I promise!

18. How much do you get paid?
$0.

19. Fave ice cream flavour?
Strawberry, with the real strawberry bits inside.

20. What's the last good movie you saw? What is your favorite snack food?
I really like Cheez-Its. They're so simple and delicious.

Comments

[maishoku.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Cheez-its looks yum. Do you guys have Cheez Curls over there? Man, Japan stuff and their overpriced prices plus the shipping... sigh :( Pinja! You're ahhsum!

PS. Heheh my icon 8)

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Cheez Curls are also delicious, but I spent my entire junior year of college eating nothing but Cheez Curls. Still delicious, but I could do without the post-Curls cheesy fingers.

Your icon is wonderful. :3

[miquilis.livejournal.com]

04. What's your DREAM occupation?
Cat.

Are you aspiring to be like that weird guy that got tones of plastic surgery and tattoos to look like a cat?

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Ew. Why would you ever say that? ;_;

[miquilis.livejournal.com]

Because I don't know how else a human can have the occupation of a cat! I'll support you in your cause.

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

I feel like my dream occupation has been sullied somehow.

[miquilis.livejournal.com]

Bunnies forever!

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

THANKS FOR YOUR KINDNESS BB

[greatfountain]

/judging you for pinja ngl

Pirates forever. >:D

...a cat? But wouldn't a rabbit be so much more fun?!

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Whatever, the pinja thing was excellent.

Cats are so bored and lazy. All they do is eat and sleep and poop and bat at shiny things. It is the dream life.

[greatfountain]

♥♥♥♥♥

I guess... but bunnies, Inez. ):

[rangerinblack.livejournal.com]

Cat, same here.

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just... I can't even explain how perfect a life that would be.

[clipsie.livejournal.com]

Pinja? (http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u184/warnyx/Art/pinja.jpg) (I don't even know where that came from, I read your entry, had a bath, and then drew that... I also don't know if it is obvious it is Pi and Jin, but whatever...)

Battle Royale is such a monster of a book I found. I was quite pleased when I finished it.

Also, you'd make a lovely cat m'dear.

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Hahaha sorry again for the Pin. :P

Battle Royale is a brick of a book, but it's actually a quick read! I wonder if it's because the language is so straight-forward. D: But yeah, I've been sitting on this thing for, like, a year. I need to read it and send it back to Harrison...

Thank you! I take that as a compliment. :3

[clipsie.livejournal.com]

Ah, I just like complaining about things not worth complaining about sometimes. >.>

This is very true. I mainly say monster because of the fact it kept giving me a hand cramp while I was reading it. XD

I'm glad you take it as a compliment. :)

[captain-snen.livejournal.com]

same for 4

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Nothing would be better.

[honeypuffed.livejournal.com]

A cat. ... I am all for this. Let me know if you ever make it.

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Definitely. I'll get your attention by pawing at your leg for food.

[wannatee-1984.livejournal.com]

VERMONT CURRY! I loved that stuff before I even knew who Aiba was! XP

man... shipping costs are a fucking bitch! ;~;

PINJA EH? BAD. ASS.

GETTING SMART AND BEING POOR. HARD LIFE YOU LEAD.

oh man I was wondering what happened to your entry.

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

NGL, I only bought it because it was Aiba's curry. But it's pretty tasty. :D

Shipping costs can suck it. =_= Except I need to pay them for my magazinesss.

I TRY. :Db

It's a hard life, okay. The only people who appreciate academics are academics. ;_;

[120795.livejournal.com]

CAT.
that is all :|

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Amirite, amirite?

[observerbias.livejournal.com]

I don't know how close you are to Little Tokyo, but maybe the Kinokuniya there carries More? Maybe that would help with the ridiculous shipping fees because seriously, buying anything from Japan gets expensive really quick once you add shipping fees D:

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I've been and they do carry it, but the thing about Kino is that it always seems to carry the last month's issue. I guess shipping is the price I pay for my impatience. :/

[rebecka-jo.livejournal.com]

i am dying at 'how much do you get paid?: 0$'

such is life as a grad student, indeed.

BTW i just heard back from UWashington and it was a super refusal long e-mail from the head of the history department, and he said he 'struggled to accept' the decision, but he finally did. he left his office number and offered for me to call him, because he knows it is 'disappointing' and if i have any 'relevant developments' they might 'reconsider'.

i'm just going to fax him a copy of my UCSD acceptance letter from the dean there.

fuck yo' MA programme! i just feel so . . . lucky right now, ha ha. i bet 200% the reason i got in to UCSD was because dr shah is bff with my recommenders, and he also probably begged (he doesn't actually have a PhD student studying under him, apparently), and promised my writing would improve. eh.

anyway, that was just lolzy and kind of relevant to this post. maybe.

also: um i tried to stalk you hard and find your department's homepage (. . .), but 'UCLA east asian studies department' did not return anything that looked like a normal department page to me. idk why i'm trying to find it, but i just - am curious, so damn curious. i'mma bookmark it. or something. so link me, please :D

p.s. i, too, skip class all the damn time. it feels good. in fact, i'm skipping class right now

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

GIRL DO YOU EVEN HAVE A FAX MACHINE

Ahaha, as we're an interdepartmental program, we don't really have a website. We have a profile-looking page (http://www.international.ucla.edu/idps/eastasia/masters.asp) with some off links, but that's pretty much it.

[rebecka-jo.livejournal.com]

of course i have a fax machine god this isn't 1950, inez. where have you been.

lol yeah that's the page i found. i guess, just like haverford doesn't really exist (i've seen your shoddy fake school ID, neither does the UCLA EAS department.



WHERE IS YOURS, HM? HM? HM? the UCSD hty dept. took down the current phd student profiles last week, and it now says 'under construction' SO it made me curious to see yours.

son - disappoint.