FICTION OF THE NINJA KIND

Well, I'm watching the closing ceremony on mute which is probably the best way to watch it. I don't hear the drumming, but I also don't hear the commentary. I took an entire class on Nationalism in January. I was even in China, and I guess it really takes something like watching the Olympics to realize that what was true then is still true now. What really struck me through the coverage of the Olympics and in the hours since it's been over is how NOT about internationalism this event is. Harmony? Good will? BULL. I listened to NBC commentators pitch fits over gymnastics and blandly ignore other champions that weren't American. Now what they wouldn't say during the games about China they're more then happy to say now that the Olympics are over. So yeah, don't let anyone fool you, as inarticulate as everything I just typed was it is clear to me that the Olympics are an instance of creating national pride at the expense of others if possible. Which is not at all to say that I don't respect all the athletes that contributed. They did a great job, and at times were really fun to watch.

Which leads me to this election and how sick of Obama and McCain I am. I know who I'm voting for, and I don't expect to make a difference. Because I don't think you can get to the office of president and be unencumbered, but alliances and allegiances to companies and corporations. The more I learn about McCain the more ill he makes me. I'm sick of politics. However, I think the next few months will be interesting, especially after the conventions when Obama and Biden start campaigning together.

Work is going well. I finally started to get some feedback and it was really positive. So that's good I'm starting to feel a lot more secure. I still want more job security in the future though. Definitely don't recommend temping. Although now I have something in common with Donna.

Chris and I have spent the week re-watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles which he never watched before, but I'm enjoying the recap of. I look forward to that starting up again which is nice. I'm debating if I want to give Heroes another try. I still haven't seen season one and I don't know how season two ended. I wasn't absolutely thrilled with season two, but it was alright. Our other TV is off the air now. In Plain Sight ended in an episode that pretty much ruined the series for me so I don't even know if I want to pick that up again next summer. Burn Notice is still interesting which I'm enjoying. I think not as good as last season, but still consistent.

I miss Battlestar.

Well, I started work yesterday which was interesting. I was glad to hear that I got a job because for the entire weekend I wasn't really sure. I'd had been told I had one, but had no information about it. Monday afternoon I got the call saying I would start on Tuesday. I work with low income housing in the Fresno area. I don't have a lot of client contact, mostly I just process yearly update applications. So far it looks like it's going to be an okay job. I might maybe get to use Japanese in order to process some applications. I hope so because it would be good practice. I work five days a week one week and then four days a week the next week. However, I work more than eight hours a day so it works out to be a regular job.

Working is exhausting though. I am not at all used to getting up in the morning. So I'm going back to drinking coffee hardcore. I mean I just don't think I can make it through the day without coffee. So much for chai. I don't think it's going last through the work week. Must have coffee. And they don't have coffee and work, they have diesel fuel.

Our apartment is actually clean. Well, not right now, but I think we've actually unpacked which is really nice. We are slowly getting ready for the parents to come and visit next week. I am excited.

Title Red Sky At Night
Author hisui_ryoshi
Rating general hints of jack/ianto
Summary Horizons Sing Challenge Day One. Spoilers through S2 of TW and DW The Stolen Earth. Summer Afternoons before and after.

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This wouldn't happen. Really. I've never even heard Sweet Vanilla by Hyde. Although Vanilla by Gackt is an entirly different matter. I wish I could hit repeat on the live version of that few times....off topic. I don't even have a (real) boyfriend and I'm going to end up in a tea house with two really good looking jrock singers? When might this be, I need time to prepare. Or lock myself in my room until common sense takes over once more. Then again common sense isn't very fun. Am I scaring anyone yet?

Do you end up with Gackt or Hyde? ;;>> by hideto
LJ Username
Who?	Both Gackt AND Hyde!
Where?	In the back of a Kyoto teahouse.
When?	June 7, 2012
Why?	He couldn't resist your charming personality.
Your Song?	Hyde's Sweet Vanilla
And afterwards?	You live happily ever after. 3
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

Oh and for those of you who don't know Smarty Jones won the Kentucky Derby. Good for him, having read his backstory I like this horse. He almost took his own eye out in the starting gate. He's undefeated. First horse since Seattle Slew in 1977 to be undefeated and win the Kentucky Derby. 1977 is also the year Johnathan Rhys Myers was born, along with Orlando Bloom. To give you a visual on how long it's been. I am a crazed fangirl, and I admit that. Of course Tetsu was born in 69 (maybe) and he's just the cutest guy I've ever seen. All that energy and on platform shoes too!

Waaaaaaaaaaa! I'm crying here because I just found out Demon Diary is only seven chapters. Seven. And it's all been relased. Why? Plus no one I know happens to own any past the first two. Why?

On the upside I bought Hyde's Shallow Sleep today. It came in a little coffen case, and at first I thought it wouldn't play cause it's not CD sized it's smaller, but it's okay really it's just a small CD. I love Hyde, great voice great talent. Nice angel wings too.


Okay, from here on out my journal is friends only. It has been updated, if you can't see anything after this date comment, and I'll add you to my friends list so that you can read the rest. If I could post a picture I would.

Post a memory of me in the comments. It can be anything you want.
Then- post this to your journal and see what people remember of you


I got this from a different friend from the last time. I don't know where she got it.

As you can most likely see I have changed my livejournal design somewhat. I felt the need for a change. I am thinking about getting a paid account when I get home. Not that I'll have the money for it, but I will find it somehow. I want more icons. I'm thinking of getting rid of my WeiB icon, but I like it so much.

I got today off of school, which was nice. They had health checks and I don't have health checks so there was no reason for me to go to school. Which means I got to sleep in this morning. Oh sleep how I love the. Oh how I wish I could spell. I swear all week long my spelling has been off the wall crazy. So have I for that matter.

I came up with a sudden desire to write another pocky story (it's actually in progress) and a desire to write an AU Larku fanfic where they're assassins inspired by WeiB and a quote at the bottom of one of my favorite WeiB fansites. I don't know if that second story is ever going to happen or not. Certain fangirls might kill me. My friends for that matter might kill me. Oh and for those of you wondering what this new pocky story is about-I'm not telling. Only that I blame Megatokyo for putting the idea into my head. Kind of.

My subject lines all come from larku songs. I've gone crazy. I keep saying that. Oh, Wednesday I got to watch Yu-gi-oh. He. I'm very happy. I thought someone was dead/gone, but they're not. Points to anyone who can figure out who this character is. Everyone is in Egypt now. That's all I'm going to say. Except Kaiba, but I'm guessing he's coming to Egypt and they just didn't want to randomly stick him in the episode.

I will update again when I do something interesting. Although I don't know when that will be.

I just went back and read some of my old pre-Japan livejournal entries. Hard to believe how much has changed. I think parts of my old life used to be more interesting. I did stuff other then go to schoool. Not that I don't like school here, really.

That is however, what I did this week. I went to school. I got kicked out of the slow math class to the medium level math class. Who wants to take a harder math class raise your hand? yeah, me either. Shiori was in my old math class too. Also I'm taking French. How that happened, I'm still mystified. I fear it is going to have dangerous reprocusions. Mainly soon I'm not going to be able to speak any language much less Japanese.

I got to talk to my father and my sister today. Always fun. I miss them. College situation is looking better. I'm in two out of the three, the only one that hasn't said anything is the college I want to go to. I'm supposed to be sending them an e-mail, but I've forgotten how to plead with style so I'm waiting until tomorrow. Maybe something will come to me in the night.

Oh, and to celebrate the second aniversery of the pocky stories, I'm writing another one. Inspired by Melanie. And several other elements that I can't mention for fear of being hit with my own Fan Appreciation Bat(Megatokyo has this trademarked don't hurt me) when I disclose them to others. Plus a girl needs to deal with her creative impulses somehow. So, hopefully that will be finished by the time I get home. In time to show people who will hopfully like it enough not to kill me for writing it. So far it's only one page. I lack Amy sitting across from me in study hall to make me write. I do have pocky now though so there is hope.

It was dog day in Motomachi, so when I went to Tower Records there was a mob of dogs in the way. Fun. I got to see the Hara family and their dog Vivian as Hara-san works in Motomachi and was probably at least somewhat behind the dog day as he was wearing a 'staff' badge. I bought another L'Arc en Ciel CD. Their best of 1992 to 1998. They've been around forever. I now also own all nine versions of Ready Steady Go. Which I fully plan to inflict on someone when I return home. I like them though I'm just assuming that other people won't for reasons I don't understand.

Well, I feel like I've writen enough for this week. I'll update again next week. Of course.

Yeah so the first day of a new school year. Scary. Because there are a lot of long speeches and I have no idea what most of it was about. New teachers, okay, new principal, great. But I'm sure they had us standing in the gym for 45 minutes to say something other then that. At least I hope so.

School this year should be interesting. I'm not looking forward to having to get up again in the morning, but I will do it. Somehow. Coffee and pocky. Not going to help me with some of my other issues but definitly a good way to get up. I'm thinking I should tell people Alex visited over spring break. Isn't that sweet Rachel's boyfriend came to see her. It could work. Of course with my luck after going to the trouble to invent a boyfriend to deal with their questions, they are now going to stop asking them.

This is the problem with updating this everyday, I have nothing to write about. Except my growing obsession with certain Japanese musicans. Who is not Gackt, and shall remained unamed, because lets face it, I've already mentioned him.Actaully it's more of a them. Why can't they have more American fans? Rabid fans although scary translate lyrics.

I am having a wonderful time right now even though the last few days have probably been the most busy of my entire time in Japan. They have also been loads and loads of fun. I am truely blessed to have the current host family that I do, and that they are so kind.

On Thursday Momoko (my host sister) Arisa(Momoko's cousin from Hokkaido) and I went together to Tokyo Disney Sea. We were going to go to Disneyland, but it was already full by the time we got on the bus, so we had to settle for Disneysea, which was still really fun. Indianna Jones and the Temple of the Cyrstal Skull was open this time, we rode it a grand total of three times. It was a blast. And of course Journey to the Center of the Earth. Arisa and I liked Indi Jones best. It was loads of fun.

Arisa is super nice, and we have a lot in commen. She's a L'Arc en Ciel fan as well, so when I bought their new CD Smile we watched the DVD that came with it together. We both like HYDE. She also likes Glay. I found a Glay CD in Shibuya for five dollars, normally CD's are like 30. So I'm very happy. I love Smile it's a great CD. The topic for this post comes from that CD. L'Arc likes English, and their English has gotten a lot better over the years. A lot better.

Friday and Saturday I was in Kyoto. I got to ride the bullet train to get there. It was really fun. Only two hours to get to Kyoto. I didn't get to see Miyuki while I was there, but I got to do lots of other fun stuff. Saturday included a short trip to Nara about 45 minutes away from Kyoto to see Todaiji the largest wooden building in the world. Very cool, but I am not skinny enough to fit through the posts of the building. There were deer there, that you could feed. Arisa was agfraid of the deer, and I was afraid of the ducks. So we made a deal, I would protect her from the deer, she would protect me from the ducks. I got the better end of that deal by a long shot. Arisa is now saying I should fight the ducks in the olympics as a sport. What sport is that? I would lose.

Sunday I went with Arisa to see the Kashima Antlers play Nagoya (I don't know the name of their team), The Kashima Antlers are one of the most popular J-League (soccer) teams in Japan. They won 3-2. Sadly it was raining and thus freezing cold. It also took three and a half hours to get there each way. Yeah, I wish it hadn't taken that long, the bus ride was not fun. Nothing to do. I can't sleep on the bus like everyone else.

That is the short version of what I have been up to lately. All of this involved lots of walking and standing in line, so I'm exahusted, and the day after tomorrow I go back to school. Wah!

Kyoto is home to Gackt and I saw a t-shirt which I wish I had bought, because after that one stand I never saw anything related to Gackt again. It was a cheap t-shirt too! They had every other celiberty from Kyoto except Gackt, and some of them aren't even that famous. Why?

I got an ice cream cone from one of the places in Kyoto where a scene in Yami no Matusei took place. It was cool they had the pages from the manga up on display. I think I scared my Rotary president because I saw it and I squeeked. Quitely, but still, you could he didn't understand why I would be excited about Green tea. Which is also really good.

Also I need to learn German. So anyone with suggestions on how I can learn seven languages and not go crazy get back to me.

I am currently blessed with the nicest host family I have had so far. They let me check my e-mail once a week, and they are happy when I get mail from people instead of being all like 'you're in japan what are you doing getting letters from America?' Yeah, it's really nice. Plus going up the hill everyday is good for my thighs which are horrid. Reading that one's favorite singer is a guy and only has 6% body fat total is not good for one's self image. Actually, it makes you realize that the singer is crazy and that really if you ever do meet him you will punch him. Points to anyone who can guess who I'm talking about. Although if you know me at all, you'll have guessed by now I know.

School ended. It's sad, because too many people I know are leaving. Plus I have to switch homeroom teachers. I'm told my new homeroom teacher will also speak English, but really, no one knows who that is yet. Plus I get new classmates, except for Keito who everyone thought I should stay with. I'm glad she's really very nice, and helpful. It's not her fault I stopped understanding Biology at all, and started readidng instead.

Sunday, I had to get up at 4:30 in the morning. Way to early. One of my other host fathers Hara-san turns out to be a pro-racecar driver in his spare time. He drives a Porche for Falken. He was doing very well too, until he got a flat tire. The other car on the Falken team came in second overall.

May I just say that we should start focusing more on the horse racing industry of America. IT could be a huge moral booster for some people. The most famous race horse in Japan has never won a race, and he's run 106 times as of yesterday. This wonderful horse is named Haurara. Everyone here loves this horse, and they honestly hope that someday he'll win a race.