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tammaiyaSo apparently I have an unfinished entry from when I finished Inception (some months ago now) comparing Eames/Arthur to Zoro/Sanji for the lulz. Huh.
Anyway, uh, moving on.
I've been meaning to update to say that I aten't dead, I've just been... well, originally I was too lazy to update. It was too much like work - I was in full on vegetation mode and even avoiding answering my emails, that is how lazy I am. *cough* So theoretically for the first month of this year I had loads of time, but I was dedicating that to watching as much TV and playing as many video games as I possibly could. Which is how I got through all of Chuck, all of Community, all of White Collar, most of Castle, all of Kimi ni Todoke to date, as well as starting Pretty Little Liars and Hawaii Five-0, not to mention ToS:Knights of Ratatosk... you get the picture. Actually I kind of got bored of it. Which is why it's a good thing I found a job. (That, and being broke really sucked.)
Which is the other reason my presence on the internet has been somewhat scarce: I started full-time work on 7 February as a graduate lawyer in a small firm. It's a job I lucked into via connections, but it's well-suited to me and I enjoy it. "Graduate lawyer" means I'm not actually a proper lawyer yet, I need to do some post-grad studies which I start as of next week, but I get to do a lot of the same stuff with supervision.
The upshot of this is that I work 8.30am to whenever I finish - which is occasionally five, once was four, is more often after 6 and sometimes closer to 8, but is usually 5.30. (Then there was that one time last week where clients took us out for dinner after work, so we worked until about 7.30 and I didn't get home until 11.30). Which I enjoy. But it does make me pretty tired. So most of the time I come home from work, I play Radiant Mythology 3 (which I unhacked my PSP for, but it was SO WORTH IT), watch tv, and go to sleep. Sometimes I read a little. Weekends are fairly similar, only with more sleep, more tv, more RM3, and social outings. Occasionally I translate or even write stuff.
No, really, I swear that is not a lie! um. not completely. I haven't actually forgotten about BBX you know, my car stereo guilt-trips me almost every time I drive to work. *shifty*
Me time aside... what's going on in Japan isn't news to anybody, and I don't want to talk about it too much because it's still pretty hard for me to do. Everybody I know in Japan is safe, at least for now - I emailed everyone I could and rang everyone I either didn't have a current address for or hadn't received a response from. I got in touch with two friends I thought I no longer had a means of contacting, which was the very small, personal bright side to an otherwise horrible situation.
Part of me kind of wishes I were in Japan, even though I know that's stupid and wouldn't help anything - I'd be worrying my family and friends and just adding pressure on Japan's strained rations of food and power. But that didn't stop me feeling a little helpless being all the way across the ocean.
Anyway, all the workers on the ground are saying that what they need more than anything is cash donations, so I'm intending to donate to the Australian Red Cross as soon as I figure out the amount and the logistics. I had to look up the Japanese Embassy website to figure out the best way to donate - the only links and things I've seen about donating have all been American. Either way, I hope that anyone who can donate does, and that the nuclear problem is stabilised soon, because the last thing Japan needs is anything else going wrong.
Anyway, uh, moving on.
I've been meaning to update to say that I aten't dead, I've just been... well, originally I was too lazy to update. It was too much like work - I was in full on vegetation mode and even avoiding answering my emails, that is how lazy I am. *cough* So theoretically for the first month of this year I had loads of time, but I was dedicating that to watching as much TV and playing as many video games as I possibly could. Which is how I got through all of Chuck, all of Community, all of White Collar, most of Castle, all of Kimi ni Todoke to date, as well as starting Pretty Little Liars and Hawaii Five-0, not to mention ToS:Knights of Ratatosk... you get the picture. Actually I kind of got bored of it. Which is why it's a good thing I found a job. (That, and being broke really sucked.)
Which is the other reason my presence on the internet has been somewhat scarce: I started full-time work on 7 February as a graduate lawyer in a small firm. It's a job I lucked into via connections, but it's well-suited to me and I enjoy it. "Graduate lawyer" means I'm not actually a proper lawyer yet, I need to do some post-grad studies which I start as of next week, but I get to do a lot of the same stuff with supervision.
The upshot of this is that I work 8.30am to whenever I finish - which is occasionally five, once was four, is more often after 6 and sometimes closer to 8, but is usually 5.30. (Then there was that one time last week where clients took us out for dinner after work, so we worked until about 7.30 and I didn't get home until 11.30). Which I enjoy. But it does make me pretty tired. So most of the time I come home from work, I play Radiant Mythology 3 (which I unhacked my PSP for, but it was SO WORTH IT), watch tv, and go to sleep. Sometimes I read a little. Weekends are fairly similar, only with more sleep, more tv, more RM3, and social outings. Occasionally I translate or even write stuff.
No, really, I swear that is not a lie! um. not completely. I haven't actually forgotten about BBX you know, my car stereo guilt-trips me almost every time I drive to work. *shifty*
Me time aside... what's going on in Japan isn't news to anybody, and I don't want to talk about it too much because it's still pretty hard for me to do. Everybody I know in Japan is safe, at least for now - I emailed everyone I could and rang everyone I either didn't have a current address for or hadn't received a response from. I got in touch with two friends I thought I no longer had a means of contacting, which was the very small, personal bright side to an otherwise horrible situation.
Part of me kind of wishes I were in Japan, even though I know that's stupid and wouldn't help anything - I'd be worrying my family and friends and just adding pressure on Japan's strained rations of food and power. But that didn't stop me feeling a little helpless being all the way across the ocean.
Anyway, all the workers on the ground are saying that what they need more than anything is cash donations, so I'm intending to donate to the Australian Red Cross as soon as I figure out the amount and the logistics. I had to look up the Japanese Embassy website to figure out the best way to donate - the only links and things I've seen about donating have all been American. Either way, I hope that anyone who can donate does, and that the nuclear problem is stabilised soon, because the last thing Japan needs is anything else going wrong.
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Date: 2011-03-20 11:23 pm (UTC)come to China in December!
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Date: 2011-03-21 03:13 am (UTC)And okay, okay, you can stop convincing, at this point I'm basically coming, I've already sat through several rounds of lecturing by my mother. XD
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:20 am (UTC)(Don't tell her about the toilets :P)
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:21 am (UTC)In fact, even I remember the toilets, and I was about 4 at the time....
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:39 am (UTC)(Tofu as a dessert, y/n?)
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Date: 2011-03-21 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 12:01 pm (UTC)I, uh, may have a number of Bryce/Chuck/Sarah WiPs lying around on my harddrive. Just possibly. *shifty*
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Date: 2011-03-21 12:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-21 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-29 03:12 am (UTC)Japan... I get misty thinking about it. I guess it's kinda like a second home. Those quakes aren't stopping either.
That part of the world has been unlucky lately: Australia, NZ, and Japan.
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Date: 2011-03-29 03:50 am (UTC)Yeah, I keep tearing up. Weirdly I'm missing living there more than ever, even though now would be a really terrible time to be there.
The Pacific is not a good place to be right now, no. D:
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Date: 2011-03-29 05:06 am (UTC)You gotta look her up or something. She knows me (I'm Mie Murazumi's assistant).
I think it is because we feel that if we're there, somehow we can make it better in a vague way? Or at least see that the people we care about are OK.
World's gone crazy.
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Date: 2011-04-12 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-15 05:44 pm (UTC)