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October 8th, 2010
 | 08:58 am - Fuck Yeah
So last night I had this awesome dream that Miyavi came to Perth for some reason and I met him.
( OH WAIT NO that totally happenedCollapse )
Current Mood:  cheerful
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September 13th, 2010
 | 05:48 pm
HOLY SHIT MIYAVI IS PERFORMING IN PERTH IN THREE WEEKS
HOLY SHIT
ETA: I AM GOING TO SEE HIM TWICE TICKET GET
Current Music: MANIC LAUGHTER
Current Mood: HOLY FUCK WHAT
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July 21st, 2010
 | 11:18 pm - PSA
Ways of contacting me! Because depending on your usual default way of trying to contact people I might appear distant and hard to get ahold of or you might be wondering why I even feel this post might be helpful because I'm clearly around so much.
The best, easiest, usually fastest way to get ahold of me is email! My email address is the same as my LJ username at gmail. Commenting on my LJ or PMing me on twitter is the same as emailing me, I get notifications for both. I also get notifications for facebook but depending on my feelings on facebook and ability to remember my password I might not actually get around to replying even though I'll read it.
In terms of chat programs I'm almost always on gtalk although the status may be a lie. If you email me I can haul myself over to MSN but it's too clunky for me to like using all the time these days compared to gtalk.
I am better about my phone than I used to be! But I still might not look at it for a day or week on end so try email first. I also usually have my phone on silent so messaging me is probably a better bet than trying to actually call. I usually have my phone on me and charged and try to check it at least once or twice a day during term time, but during the holidays all bets are off. Seriously, email is probably better.
Home phone is... you'll probably have to leave a message and I don't check the messages so I'll only find out you left a message when my mother checks the messages. May or may not be more reliable than my mobile phone but on the other hand the response you get is probably going to be email/SMS anyway so you might as well use one of those methods.
One day I might update about Life Things but mostly I am kind of just using twitter for that.
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June 2nd, 2010
 | 01:37 pm
Haha I haven't posted in here since March! I am still very much alive, just mostly using twitter now I guess kind of? It's study break hence the procrastinating on actual studying by posting here, but also there's a meme going around which I think is kind of cool, so Name a fandom and I'll give you some unpopular opinions about it.
In other news, my cat is the most adorable cat.
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March 19th, 2010
 | 01:20 am - Five things meme!
If you ask I might give you five things I associate with you or I might not I make no promises.
( 2x5Collapse )
Current Mood:  tired
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February 26th, 2010
| 03:07 pm - PSA
Don't give me nice things, I'll just fucking lose them.
Current Mood:  sad
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January 16th, 2010
 | 08:59 pm - Manga recs anyone?
Okay so manga is cheap here and very, very good for my reading skills (I'm thinking in terms of increasing my reading speed moreso than increasing my vocab). But most of the manga I can think of I've either read in English already or don't really have much interest in. So rec me things! I have a wide range of tastes except maybe for sports manga and also really really long series because even though it's cheap I don't want to be carting home 50 volumes of something. Bonus points if it's not completely obscure so I can get it second hand. For reference, if I think of my favourite manga the titles that spring to mind are FMA, Genshiken, and Paradise Kiss.
Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Japanese MTV
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January 12th, 2010
| 01:50 pm - To the mooooon!
I'm leaving for Japan tonight! In case anyone didn't know. I'm there for six weeks, arriving home on the 24th of February.
Anyway, since last time I went I didn't use my travel LJ nearly as much as I should have, this time I've decided to try Twitter instead. I figure I have more chance of doing lots of little updates than enough big ones. Soo bear with me as I figure out how it all works, and you can follow me at Polysymphonic. And let me know if you're on it cause I guess I might as well follow all of you too :P
And while I'm posting, they're making an animated version of Storm and it looks like it's going to be brilliant.
Current Mood: cheerful
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December 14th, 2009
 | 09:30 pm - PSA!
If you're planning on watching season four of Dexter and you don't want to be spoiled, watch it now. That spoiler is the kind of spoiler that is going to be impossible to avoid for more than a few days unless you play internet hermit.
Hooooooooooly shit
Current Mood:  shocked
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November 27th, 2009
| 11:54 am
FUCK YEAH I AM AWESOME
I got my thesis marks back.
:D :D :D :D
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October 24th, 2009
| 11:24 am
This week's been an absolute rollercoaster for a few reasons but I got my dissertation handed in on Thursday, over 24 hours before it was due, so I feel pretty good about that. I think. I'm mostly glad it's done with. I've still got a lot to hand in next week so it's not over uni-wise for me yet, but I'll get there. Right now I'm watching a live broadcast of the visual kei festival that's on this weekend and life is pretty good.
My concert band is performing next Sunday (1 Nov) those of you in Perth should all come! It'll be really awesome music and it's our musical director's last performance with us before he leaves us and he's amazing. It's at 2pm at St Mark's Anglican Community Performing Arts School and you can buy tickets online here.
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October 19th, 2009
| 04:21 pm - あううううｇｈ
い ふぃにしぇｄ ｍｙ ぢっせｒたちおｎ もｓｔｌｙ ぶｔ のｗ い はヴぇ と ｗりて あ じゃぱねせ ｐれせんたちおｎ ふぉｒ うぇｄねｓだｙ あんｄ いｔ’ｓ れあｌｌｙ いっりたちおんｇ そ い’ｍ うぃにんｇ へれ ぶｔ ぃけ てぃせ しんせ い はヴぇ いｔ せｔ と ｔｙぺ いｎ ひらかな あｎｙわｙ あんｄ いｔ’ｓ ぽいんｔぇｓｓ うぃにんｇ そ いｔｓ おかｙ いｆ の おね かｎ べ ぼてぇれｄ と れあｄ いｔ。てぇ ねｘｔ とぉ うぇえｋｓ あれ のｔ ごいんｇ と べ ふｎ あｔ あｌｌ あんｄ えヴぇｎ あｆてｒ てゃｔ い ｓちｌｌ はヴぇ てぃんｇｓ づえ そ い あｍ きんだ ｓｔれっせｄ。 ぶｔ いｔ うぃｌｌ あｌｌ べおヴぇｒ そおｎ い ぐえｓｓ あんｄ うぃｔｈ てぇ あもうんｔ おｆ こっれｃちおんｓ ｍｙ すぺｒヴぃそｒ はｓ せんｔ め い しょうｌｄ あｔ ぇあｓｔ ど おかｙ おん てぇ ｔらんｓぁちおｎ せｃちおｎ おｆ ｍｙ てぇしｓ。
うぇｌｌ、 ばｃｋ と ｗりちんｇ ｍｙ ｐれせんたちおん。
Current Mood:  busy
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October 17th, 2009
| 04:28 pm - 5892/7000 words
Are you confused yet? :D
Current Mood: stressed
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September 30th, 2009
| 09:38 pm
If anyone on my flist wants something to point people to when those people say that Roman Polanski should be released (I'm going to give you all the benefit of the doubt that none of you believes that yourselves), go here. It has excerpts from the girl's testimony. It's graphic and it pulls no punches about what happened.
Maybe I'll update about my life one day! It's been going pretty good aside from the day of doom and thesis being due approaching faster than I'd like.
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August 23rd, 2009
| 08:53 pm
Wow, I think Rove just managed to hit racism, sexism and transphobia (genderqueerphobia?) all at the same time within 30 seconds of the show starting.
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July 10th, 2009
 | 04:32 pm
My grandmother bought some socks, but they were a little too small for her so she gave them to me.
I now have thigh-high black socks with white bat patterns down the sides.
My family is awesome.
( Also, Torchwood CoE day 4 spoilersCollapse )
Current Mood: amused
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July 8th, 2009
| 05:12 pm
First of all, my MSN hasn't been working half the time so I've been just using gchat and finished. So feel free to add me on gchat and talk to me there! My gmail address is my lj name at gmail dot com.
Also, anyone who watched Torchwood or has ever had any interest in watching Torchwood, this year's "season" is a five part story that airs every night for five days. It started a couple of days ago and it's fantastic. I've always thought that Torchwood was a great concept with great characters that just... didn't know what to do with itself properly. This is what Torchwood always should have been. The writing is slick, the plot is unpredictable, the characters are being used beautifully, it's just so much better than Torchwood has been up until now. It probably has to do with the fact that they don't have to write a whole season of DW AND a whole season of TW and they can really get stuck into a 5-episode plot instead of having to come up with 12 or so separate ones, but whatever the reason I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Anyway, since I know there's a couple of you who might be interested, does anyone want to marathon it with me in a couple of weeks' time? I know that's when semester starts but it's only five hours' worth of TV, it's not too hard to fit in I think.
Current Mood: cheerful
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June 24th, 2009
| 05:32 pm - Hahahahahahahahahah OH GOD
So. I'm doing Japanese Honours this year and half of my dissertation for that is a translation of a 10-page-or-so article. So at the start of this semester my supervisor and I decided on an article which was 11 pages and which I thought was relevant and interesting. I scanned the pages so I didn't have to have the book on me to translate stuff, and it wouldn't fall apart since it's quite old. And I've been translating it since then. I'm a bit (lol, a lot) behind on it (I was meant to have finished the draft by the end of semester) but I was going to catch up and finish it during the holidays! So I just sat down to work on it and finished the one sentence I had left on the page I was on. Went to open the scans of the next page only to discover there's a page missing. That's okay, maybe the scans are out of order. Nope. No, there's definitely no page 104/105. How many pages do I have scanned? Eleven. I gave the book back to my supervisor a few weeks ago so she just got an only slightly panicked email from me asking her to check to see if the pages were actually in the book and I'd just missed them when I was scanning. But I'm sure we counted eleven pages at the start of semester.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
ETA:
"Sarah-san,
...
Let's be calm for the time being, though. There is no reason why, if necessary, I could decide that it was okay for length reasons for you to omit those pages anyway (suitably pruning off extraneous bits fore and after)."
Well at least I'm pretty sure she means "couldn't" there. S-sob okay I can stop panicking now.
Current Mood:  AHHHHH
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June 21st, 2009
| 02:33 pm
Fascinating site about cat intelligence.
Cats form a mental map of their environment, but instead of mapping landmarks ("the church is 300 ft to the left of the shop, the shop is a mile north of the farm") a cat's mental map has the cat in the middle and everything else is relative to the cat's position.
Current Mood:  enthralled
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June 13th, 2009
| 12:57 pm
Fuck you too, Obama.
And while I'm in a ranting mood actually, fuck you general American public or perhaps perception of general American public too. So You Think You Can Dance started over here last night and a pair of guys auditioned doing- SHOCK HORROR- ballroom dancing. And the judges couldn't get over how oh god you're switching roles and I'm so confused and I can't tell what's meant to be going on and you just alienated all of our viewers!!! Come back for choreography so we can see you dance with a girl! You might find you even like it!
Come on, two guys nearly outright won Strictly Dancing here a few years ago. We'd better see some same-sex couples in our next season of SYTYCD. I don't care if they don't do that during the top 20 bit, but really, considering that the auditions aren't supposed to be any particular form of dance there is no reason why two guys or girls shouldn't be able to partner each other for it. Also for the record, one of the guys in both the pair on SYTYCD last night and Strictly Dancing was straight.
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