nether words II

There are a great many people on teh intarwebs at whom I would love to spout this little piece.

Speaking of Blue Cat-Love On The Titanic, we're going to see it tomorrow! Will it break my brain? Only time will tell!

In other news, it's after 2 and I have been playing videogames since 6. Hurrah for Christmas! Now to rest my eyes...

I just made vegan cookies.
I messed up a bit--put in 1/2c molasses instead of 1/3c, so they're sloppier than intended; didn't properly grease the first pan; made them too big.

( here they are! )

As you can see if you look closely, some of them got broken. Normally I wouldn't give a fuck, but these are supposedly to sell at intermission when the babes do a house concert up in Duncan this weekend. I picked out the least gimpy 2 dozen; hope that's enough. Sigh...

They're delicious, though. Molassesy candied-gingerful delicious. I will totally give them another try sometime when I feel like reading carefully.

ZOMG HOT.


In other news, yes, I like Lady GaGa a lot. Also, True Blood.

I'll be in my bunk.

It's driving me crazy that I can't remember the (probably slang) word for POOP in Japanese. My students were totally obsessed with it, drawing little soft-serve splops of dookie on anything they could get away with (the chalkboards at lunchtime, their desks, assignments they thought nobody would pay close attention to). Gareth is playing a videogame on our new X-Box (Blue Dragon) where not only are Poo Snakes one of the monsters, but random treasure drops show up as a little turd that looks exactly like what my students drew. And I can't remember the godsdamned word!

Halloween was awesome. I hung out with my sister & her friends, we went on the zombie walk. It was weird to be shambling along listening to the police call out on their megaphones "Zombies! Stay on the sidewalk!" and whoop the sirens whenever people got too slow.

My zombie costume was my only costume. I wanted to do something with slit-mouth or something, and then I saw this Fever Ray video:



ETA: whoops, that's not the real music video. That can be found here or it's around #8 on the scrolling options for further watching on that video (If I Had A Heart). But the still for the "video" I embedded is the image I was talking about anyway.

Fortunately, I had a pet artist on hand (my sister!) so the paint job turned out waaaaay better than I could have managed. I loved this look and I want to do it again, and again, and again. I also want my very own corset (this one's borrowed from Susan). I wish we had a few more atmospheric dusk-light-level shots, because it was very spooky in the right light. Just...not so much in the blazing sun!

( Anyway, pix! )

Sadly, I'm reaching the point where being unemployed is no longer fun, just a drag. I totally missed the boat this fall (applied for like 2 teaching positions and one tutoring gig) because of the wedding, so now I'm looking for retail work again. Dropped resumes off at the mall last week; no call backs yet. LAAAAAAAME. But I did start volunteering with the ICA, just so I don't feel like I'm totally wasting my time. I'm TA-ing with their seniors' English class once a week, and it's really cool. A totally different type of student than I'm used to dealing with, and a really interesting mix of nationalities, and of course it's cool to meet with people who are out of school, so to speak.

I need to quit playing Farmville and start obsessively reading LJ again, right? I'm sure it's better for me in some way.

I'm, like, totally married and stuff!

I don't have any pictures yet, sadly.

I know I haven't given LJ much love lately, but that's all going to change! Really! Everything changes after marriage, so why should the internets be any different?

Also, I was right: not many of my friends came out to the wedding. Some had good excuse (Nathan & Megan, I'm thinking of you!!!) but others...well, I wasn't just being emo. But those who did come totally made my night, especially my sister & her friend who kept up with me on the dance floor like nobody else could. ^_^

1. My cat came home after being out on his own for four long days. So happy!
2. I love pickles.
3. I forgot how wanky Architecture In Helsinki was. O.o

That's all for now.

It's my last day at Kasakake Minami Chugakkou. Several students brought me cards and a couple even left presents (Yuna made cake! With a soymilk byproduct called okara!) and it makes me feel really great and loved and like I made a difference in these kids' lives. Although it also makes me feel uncomfortable, because one of the cards is from a girl whose name I don't know, and that always makes me feel bad. But mostly good from all the love flying around!

I've been organising my desk and deleting my files and things, trying to leave a few items for the next ALT: my best activities, a bunch of links I found really useful, some of my flashcards and things. I decided to leave the felt pens I bought (this was a hard decision: I love a good set of felts!) but I am SO taking my amazing Halloween flashcards that never got used home with me!

I'm full of trepidation about the future. Will I get a teaching job? Will it be cool or sucky? Will I land a position with the ELC for Program 3, thereby ensuring that I only have to make it through 6 weeks on what little I have saved, or will I have to try and find something short term to bridge the gap between mid-April and late June in some other field? Will I finish the shawl I'm planning in time for the wedding we haven't actually set a date for yet? Will I do the wedding wrong??? Too many questions! I think it's time for lunch.

I'm trying to say "as though she were my daughter." Does this phrase make sense?
...comme ce qu'elle était ma fille...

I arrived home exactly long enough to boil a kettle before the postie stopped by to deliver the package containing Posy's cheapo purple eyes! I was thrilled! It turns out, they're a little bit too big...I will go down a size when (hopefully this summer) I get her some quality eyes for good. I really like the purple, though; they're very appropriate to her character.

Where the "ack" comes in, though, is that I was so thrilled looking at her little face with its eyes all THERE and stuff, and I thought "gee, I should try on her wig." The wig came with the face; it was direct from the company. It looks like the wigs for this size of doll that they have on their site. But it doesn't seem like it will fit properly at all! :S It's really hard to say for sure, as this kind of doll they don't sell whole heads separately, just "face plates," so it's possible that the back of her head will stick out far enough to make this wig stay on. But so far it seems...unlikely. So, back in the summer, I wasted some $20 on a wig that's not going to be wearable, and probably too small for any other doll. *facepalm* Well, how was I to know? It was made by the same company!

I hope I find out that I'm wrong, because the overall look of it is just too perfect for my wacky gothy skater fairy girl (it's huge and pink). But it will be a while--I don't expect her body to arrive here until mid-March, sigh. Why does it always take so long?

In non-doll news, the weather here is freaking me out. Seriously. The sun is summer-warm today. IN FEBRUARY. It's not totally warm overall because the wind is very strong, but...at the moment, my heater/air con unit is BLOWING COLD AIR because it thinks my room is ABOVE TWENTY DEGREES. HOLY POOP. I HAVE NO WORDS. Japan is really messing with my sense of time and the seasons, I tell you! Crazy!

edit: crazier and crazier...apparently my aircon was set to keep the temperature at TWENTY-TWO! I'm so full of WTF!