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So over August La Poste lost 3 of my packages.
I have learned not to ship anything from August 1 - mid September.

But even THAT is not quite as bad as the terror that follows.

A pacakge came for me while I was away on vacation.
My kitty sitter had an email authorizing him to pick up stuff for me and a scan of my visa.
Apparently that's not enough.
Apparently you need to provide them with a letter hand written in your own blood with promise of the soul of your next born child.
I would have asked him to forge something, but they agreed to hold the package a few extra days so I could pick it up myself instead when I got back.

Only they sent it back anyway.

According to the woman, "She had wanted to help me so she said she would hold it for me to pick up, but there were other people working at the Post Office and they didn't know about it so they sent it back."
I told her not to promise to do things she can't do because it messes up other people's lives.
So she interrupted me an yelled at me. Because that's what they do at the PO.

Anyway, the package never made it back to the sender.
The PO messed up a second time.
Instead of sending it back to the sender, they actually just sent it back to me again.

So after a week I got my package....


The sender had sent me the wrong stuff.

The End.
 

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I went to see Allison and other friends at the Met and it was really pretty on the roof. At first they said it was maximum capacity, but we got in. On our way we walked through the Greek sculptures area and I liked seeing them. I still can't believe those things are here with us these days.

I met some of Allison's friends and they're really sweet Asian girls. Jin from Shanghai was there too and I hadn't seen her in forever. They said they're so proud of me for going to law school, but then they started asking me how it was and all that. I said things like, "Oh it's fine, yeah..." The questions they asked bummed me out because I'm not happy or proud or excited to talk about it. I noticed that I was getting more quiet and less bubbly. I wish they wouldn't ask me how it is.

Then Allison and I walked ahead of them down the hall and she asked, "Are you seeing anyone?" I said no, and she said, "So you haven't seen anyone since... that guy?" "That guy" ::meev:: I again said no and she said I need to meet people and I said I certainly have been meeting many people at parties and events and social things and at law school. Her questioning brought me more sadness though and once I start thinking about those things it further bums me out. I feel very deeply and differently about all of that and it hasn't gone away, for some reason.

We finally got to the roof and took a billion pictures. It was cute when we figured out to hold a flashlight for more light so our pictures wouldn't come out so dark. Brilliant! I want to go back there again. The music was nice too and there was grass and some glass fixtures. It's bigger than I thought.

Allison said we should get dinner, but then I was beginning to feel guilty because I needed to do my homework. At the same time though I liked being with them, but at the same time their questions were bumming me out since they came at intervals. They ask me how I'm liking it and those types of questions. I'm also a terrible liar about these things so I can't act very enthused.

We walked through that Greek area again and Allison asked me why I was not a happy Adela and she noticed I was quieter. We linked arms and I said, "I'm just not where I want to be in my life right now." She thinks one of my big problems is that I'm not relating to my peers and I know. She told me about her sister who is also feeling out of place somewhere else. We talked about the clubs I'm joining and how we need to find things to make me happy.

We went on our way to the subway and I was beginning to have mixed feelings about going. I was feeling as though I needed to study and on top of that I didn't want to talk about my life, which is amazing coming from me. I was getting sadder as we walked since I found myself thinking about a lot of things again. We made it to the subway and I said I'm just going to go home. Jin asked if I was okay and I said I'm fine, that I just need to finish my homework. Allison and I hugged and we all said goodbye to each other and I walked away.

While walking I was feeling a bit sad and lonely and I walked to the McDonald's I saw. I called Corinne because I needed something to raise my spirits.

I told her about the conversation with Allison and the law school questions and how much they bummed me out. I said I miss Dan very much as a person, and she said, "Aw, Adela." I said it's quite lonely to not be able to talk to many people. Then every one of the girls I know, even Evil Zoe, has a long-term boyfriend and they talk about it so normally while I can't say a word. It's lonely not having anyone to talk about my day with in that way or to visit me or do anything they talk about. I said I wished I could even have an unreciprocated crush at this point just to feel, "HE'S SO SEXY!" For some reason I haven't been able to do that (it seems somewhat shallow now, haha) and no one has inspired me to be that way either. I don't understand that very much. I said though I can't do much about it anyway, so moving on. She said there haven't been any milestones in my life either to distract me from that. Then I said I missed all of my Shanghai people because they're such wonderful friends. I said, "I love you guys," and she thought that was so sweet. I said it's true and that they're always there for me when I need them, and I think that's hard to find. I know I shouldn't expect to make best friends right off the bat, but I didn't think I'd want to not socialize with many of my classmates. I said I kind of feel the same way I did in my last year of high school. Next year is a long time to feel better and I don't want it to take that long. I said I spend mostly every day alone with lunches from Caroline occasionally and even though I'm motivating myself to study hard for the grades and for myself it's still a little sad for me. I'm happier on my own than being with people I feel strange with, and I felt better when I stopped going to bar nights.

I said I disliked it when people ask about law school or love because I can't really say many positive things. I wish people would stop asking because I don't feel very proud right now. I don't think I'd be as bummed if people wouldn't ask about it often, or talk about these things, but I can't blame them. I didn't even change my education on my Facebook profile. It also all reminds me of my LSAT score which was also disappointing for me, even though Corinne said it was really good. I still remember seeing it last Fall and how disappointed and saddened I was, after all that studying. It's funny how I was really happy about law school in April and then Columbia came along for months and Squire said that's partly why I'm feeling this way, because I was so close. I hate it, but it's true, haha. There are just a load of things on my mind. I'm not sure why those questions triggered all of this since I've been feeling fine these past few days. I feel as though I don't even feel that down by myself. She said that once people bring up these subjects my mindset gets stuck and it's hard to get out of that.

I said Joshua from Shanghai (Sahel's one true love, haha) and a friend from my LSAT class were both at NYU Law and I can't even imagine how that would be. I'm sure Ting Ting and Hannah will both end up there or Columbia or wherever. I said I missed the park and just the area in general.

I told her about Squire and how much better I felt when talking to him. I just thought I had to talk to him and so I went. She said she's always been impressed by the way I have real relationships with my professors and I said thank you. She said it's impressive how I can just talk to them, haha, and she thinks it says something about me. I really did enjoy the conversation though because there was something about it that made me feel genuinely good and like I was "home" again. He also gave me a lot of useful information and was helpful overall. I don't know, I just felt so much better. His economics class about pharmaceutical companies was the one time I felt very alive at school.

Corinne was also glad I joined the Domestic Violence Action Center and that at least I'll be among like-minded people. Yeah, I'm happy about that! That's my thing. I like my classes and professors overall too, but I don't love any of them. I think my favorite class is Property. I guess it's just the environment and many of the people I've been meeting and my own things. Maybe it's just the whole "life changes" thing and I'm simply missing NYU. I don't know. Things just haven't gone as planned, I guess, with all the surprises, strangeness, and curve balls. But I'm going to keep studying and try my best and just be myself.

I felt much better after talking to Corinne and she said she's going to Japan next week to visit a friend and we can hang out after. She's very excited and also happy since she's still getting paid on her vacation. Aw! I told her thanks so much for being there for me during this time and she said it's no problem and she hopes things turn around for me. Praying for a miracle ::meev::

Instead of doing work I watched TV with my mom and it was fun. We saw several episodes of "Naked and Afraid," which has a man and a woman surviving naked in the savannas of Botswana and places like that. Last night I saw a night marathon of Cosmos and it was so nice, aw! I love that show to death. I also liked the parts where they talked about female scientists and I never would have known about any of those women had it not been for the show.

Something sexist related just happened at NYU and my friend wrote to the higher authorities about it (like the man who interviewed me about my Shanghai story) and alerted the feminist group I was a part of. He also said they were three white male students:
I'm writing to report an incident of what I view as a hostile environment towards female students in University Hall, which I encountered in the men's restroom of that dorm's common area. Three students, which I did not confront, were having a discussion about an incident at work (workplace not identified) wherein police arrived because a "white chick" made an allegation of rape after being "touched" in the elevator (their terms). They then proceeded to ask each other questions including:

"Was she hot?" -- multiple times
"Would you have touched her?"
and worst of all -- "Was she worth going to jail over?"
-- all to laughter.

As I write this at 9:15 PM, Friday September 19, I am honestly in shock that I heard this conversation at all from my supposed peers. This incident happened less than half an hour ago. And I am seriously concerned about the implications that this has, not only for the safety of women on our campus, but a future NYU that endorses and tolerates questions such as "was she worth going to jail over" -- which these students apparently found some praise and humor in.

University Hall is also a FYRE dorm, and another question is even more immediately concerning as to whether these students are first-year residents, or residential staff referring to events on campus -- staff supposedly responsible for the safety of hundreds of female students just entering college.

This sort of behavior, totally beneath the conduct expected of an NYU student (and of common decency), demands a response. I hope it will be commensurate to the seriousness of the situation. As a Senior about to graduate, this is not the future I expected for my school. I will remember what I heard, and what I heard was vile.
For some reason I just got excited about that XD You don't hear about this stuff happening often at NYU so this is pretty new to me.

Oh and Lucy made the HuffingtonPost! Of course there's a grammar error in the first sentence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/1 ... 31296.html
 

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i'm listening to dix infernal and tears are literally streaming down my face. this is too emotional... too... i don't know.. i feel like my life is a failure.. like i should have died long ago to save someone else's life but i was the one to survive... ::k::
 

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I would die for a cat.

Yesterday I went to meet a friend at Opera.
This Asian tourist was filming the street, but when I walked by he kept turning his camera so it followed me ::shifty::
He was probably about my age but that's still wicked creepy.

Just cause it's a public place doesn't mean people there are on display.
 

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OMG the Broadway Flea Market is here to raise money for AIDS and my mom came home with the autograph from Genie from Aladdin and the actual invitations to the ball they used in Cinderella! I HAVE THE INVITATIONS. I'm going to go in a few hours to see for myself! They also have auctions, haha.

Speaking about Disney, I lost my internet last night for some reason and so instead of working more on my short memo I looked through old documents and I was loving my old sexist comics. Then I found pictures I saved from the Iheartdisneyquotes page, which is no longer existing, which is a shame. Anyway, they're Disney quotes on their own and they seem much more intense and serious that way. I found the Lilo and Stitch ones to be really... I don't know XD The Finding Nemo one gets me emotional XD

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The Finding Nemo scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTb8MVevWbE

Dory: No. No, you can't... Stop! Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave... if you leave... I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two... forty-two... I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I... and I'm home. Please... I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget.
Marlin: I'm sorry, Dory. But I... do.

MAN. There's my contribution for today ::meev::
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
voixdinferno wrote:
Lately I only listen music from Spotify premium, 2 years ago I bought the last physical CD.
I always buy the CD when I want music, except if there's just one track off a CD that I want and the rest are terrible. For anything serious, I'd rather own it permanently instead of renting.
I get the songs I want on iTunes if I can, but American CDs are pretty cheap so if I want the whole album sometimes I'll buy the disc.
Japanese CD prices are insane though. Actually all their disc-related media costs a fortune.
Good for the producers though I guess? If I could sell my CDs for 30-40 bucks a pop you bet I would.

It does seem weird though that Japan is so famous for their cutting-edge cellphone technology, but in other areas they're still clinging to physical media like that.
 

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Cerceaux wrote:
Japanese CD prices are insane though. Actually all their disc-related media costs a fortune.
I think it's because they still have CD rental places. Everyone who buys the CD has to pay the way for a dozen freeloaders who rent the disc and rip it ::meev:: Last time I was in Japan I inadvertently wandered into a CD rental place, but I realized my mistake before I brought something up to the counter and attempted to buy it XD

Did Illuxcon on Saturday and there was a fair amount of interesting stuff there once you sift through all the dragons, Gandalf, fairies, etc. Unfortunately most of it was too rich for my blood, because a large proportion of the merch was original oil paintings $2000 and up. Boris Vallejo was there and you could get an autographed poster, but somehow I figured that a naked barbarian woman with a broadsword wouldn't go with my tasteful decor ::meev:: I guess if you have a "man cave" you put up stuff like that? XD

Didn't end up getting anything in the end except an autographed copy of this for Matilda:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1566568641
I always thought it was a cool story, the castle beneath the castle and all that. ::batsu::

Yesterday: went to some lame BBQ fest ::foot:: Most of the BBQers were just local businesses who scraped together someone who can be trusted around meat and fire XD The phone company, the Knights of Columbus, Geico, etc ::meev:: There was a classic car show too, but most of that stuff means nothing to me. I did laugh at the 1920s Ford that was retrofitted with a CD player though.
 

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I see nothing about your blobby nutty bear cookies.
 

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Oh, right ::meev::
I tried to make these:
http://www.boredpanda.com/cute-hugging- ... tamagosan/
But I didn't have a cookie cutter with long enough arms, so I ended up having the bears just cradle the almonds under one arm like footballs. Also some of them had cookie leprosy ::meev:: Not that it mattered because they ended up tasting like dust anyway. This must be one of those weird Japanese taste things. I wanted to give them as a present but they failed on every conceivable level XD
 

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Yeah but can we really trust the taste of a guy who doesn't like vegetables or alcohol? ;)


My dad is dressing up as Kenshin for Halloween this year...with an umbrella instead of a sword.
Which I guess is a good idea considering he lives in Michigan.
No point in giving the police force another chance to abuse its power.

My 60 year old dad has started cosplaying anime characters.
I dunno how to feel about this lol
 

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Dude no. This is my dad. He's weird but he's not a sukebe oyaji.

Besides, something tells me it was my mom2's influence.
She's adorable and it stops there - she's totally not moe.
 

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faith wrote:
She's adorable and it stops there - she's totally not moe.
I bet she's also normal size and totally not full of taro XD

Ka was beta testing my game last night and he said "I would have known you wrote this dialogue even if you didn't tell me" ::meev:: Apparently I have a certain way of talking XD
 

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Aww, the Woolf Plaque Supporters in England got my letter (written on scroll paper) and my check!!! ::kisaki::

Dear Adela,

Thank you so very much for your very kind and generous donation and for your simply beautiful accompanying letter.

It is quite the most moving letter of the many we have received - so well expressed and I'm not ashamed to say, reduced me to tears! Everything you say in your letter is just what we felt when we first began exploring the feasibility of erecting a plaque. After eighteen months of dealing with po-faced local authority government officers, grumpy railway managers, dilatory town councillors and reluctant sponsors, our enthusiasm has been flagging and we had begun to lose sight of what inspired us at the outset. So you can imagine how thrilled we were to receive your letter, like a shot of adrenalin, and how very welcome it is - an exhilarating reminder of why we are doing it - so thank you so much.

We loved your idea of the 29 dollars for 29 years - it outstrips a previous favourite from the Director of the Frome Heritage Museum, a luggage label inscribed Woolf Plaque "Ticket" towards your destination. Rather witty we thought.

We will send you pics of the opening, but we thought you might like to see the attached photos of St Mary Magdelene church, Great Elm, and the Rectory next door where Leonard Woolf was staying when he took off to propose and the two great elms which were in the garden of Monk's House, Rodmell, which Virginia called "Leonard" and "Virginia" under which their ashes were buried, if they are not already familiar to you.

Very kind regards and thank you again
Joyce Muirhead
Woolf Plaque Supporters
Awwwww ;_________; I guess I was just nerdy in the letter and I didn't expect it to be so moving! Too bad I didn't take a picture of it, but I mainly wrote about LW and VW and how there was always love throughout all the ups and downs, how well they worked together, how I read LW's biography and found it moving, how utterly romantic and unique I thought the plaque idea was, and how inspiring those two are, things like that, in better words, haha.

I am familiar with those elm trees and I had never seen the old picture she sent of them. I can't believe VW actually nicknamed the two trees "Leonard and Virginia." Seriously!

A few days ago I found some fresh onions and green peppers in the fridge so I decided one of these days I'd cook again. I still have to buy the meat, but I just cut up my onions!
EDIT: Okay, done!


Caroline said she got a study room so I went to join her last night. She just joined the Uncontested Divorce Project and told me what it was like so far. She already has her first client and she has to help fill out divorce papers and interview her. She said the divorces are faster to get because one doesn't have to put a reason, but she learned that often women want to have the reason as they were being abused. But if they put that then there has to be a whole proceeding proving whether or not it happened and it takes longer and more money.

I said while putting no reason for divorce helps in the short term, it gets the woman out of the situation much faster, it doesn't help in the long run because the reasons aren't getting recognized and aren't made public. While it's saving women it's not entirely getting to the root of the problem. Well, I guess we haven't found a long-term best effort to combat domestic violence as a whole yet.

We're also both going to this place called "The Attic" because the Student Bar Association after-party after class will be there on Thursday night. I looked at the reviews, which were mainly 2 out of 5 stars, and it said the workers were racist and you could never enter wearing flats. However, it's on a rooftop so I'd like to see the view. I said we must go to the after-party and she said she'll come with me. I hope there's dancing and good music!

I said the next night I have a birthday party at a club and she asked about it. I also said that was such a good night, and I said, "But that was a different time." I surprisingly had a great time with Dan, and then a good night of dancing with my friends. I remember thinking, "Wow, I had such a good night!" She said at some point that it must have been hard to go down after being so happy in China and I know. It's not as though everything went my way and little things didn't bother me, but I was extremely happy all the same and it was perfect. Similarly earlier this year, for some reason even though I was rejected for things, worried about the future, had a death in the family, there was still a night where I felt as though I were the luckiest girl in the world and that was the general feeling of happiness I had.

I also applied and was accepted for the Women in International Law Mentoring Program and was paired up with a woman from the UN. I just want to learn more about these things.
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
Omg, those are adorable.
I can never get cookie-cutter cookies to come out all nice and neat like that though, they always get all flat around and blobby at the edges. I don't know how you get the edges to stay all neat and square like that.
Anyway my favorite cookies to make are the boxed cake mix ones because they're idiot-proof and everyone seems to think they taste really good.
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
I bet she's also normal size and totally not full of taro XD

What does this even mean? :lol:
 

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Cerceaux wrote:
I can never get cookie-cutter cookies to come out all nice and neat like that though, they always get all flat around and blobby at the edges.
Really? I didn't have any trouble with that... just everything else ::meev::
But yeah, if anyone knows any good cookies to make, besides chocolate chip, I'm all ears.

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What does this even mean? :lol:
It means your dad has successfully avoided the pitfalls of a Horastyle marriage XD
 

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faith wrote:
Dude no. This is my dad. He's weird but he's not a sukebe oyaji.
He's not weird, he's 60 that's all! Time is running out and he wants to have as much fun as he can. Nothing to worry about.
 

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MissUMana wrote:
faith wrote:
Dude no. This is my dad. He's weird but he's not a sukebe oyaji.
He's not weird, he's 60 that's all! Time is running out and he wants to have as much fun as he can. Nothing to worry about.

Haha yes, you're right. And I should be used to him embarassing me by now lol

@Hanachan - so now Satoko is a taro melonpan because Hora listens to xenophobic songs?
 
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