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azuriteIn this great, wide world we live in, there are a lot of things to love, and a lot of things to hate. And in the U.S. of A, as far as I know, we have that wonderful little thing called the First Amendment and the right of Free Speech. Say what you want-- you can't get in trouble for your opinions!
It still doesn't change the fact that PEOPLE ARE STUPID. *sigh* This is a global epidemic. I wish I could just hypnotize people via computers into NOT doing stupid shit. I know people are allowed to like and hate what they want, but I've always found it extremely retarded to go out and make a HATE LISTING. To go and proclaim, "I HATE ANZU!" or "I HATE KURIBO!" What a waste of time.
You don't see me making an anti-yaoi or yaoi-hate listing, do you? No. I do have my opinions about it, and no, I don't like it all that much, but that's just me-- I keep my opinions to myself when they're not meant to be broadcasted. I like focusing my creative energies on the things I like instead. Why do people have to be so... close-minded? At least I'm tolerant of yaoi and such now-- if someone can plausibly pull it off in a fandom where it isn't canon, then YAY! Point me at it... Yeesh.
Anyway... yesterday I met Steph and Eva at the Asian Art Museum down by City Hall... there was a HUGE line coming out of the doors, since it was Target [Free] Tuesday, but it moved quite fast-- under five minutes, actually. We wandered into the museum (which I'd never been in, even way back when it'd been the Main Library, which moved next door). We found ourselves going through the normal exhibits, wondering where the heck the Geisha stuff was; we saw a few vases, some kimonos, some paintings, but nothing strictly screaming "geisha!!!!" just yet.
Upstairs, Tobey called us, and she was lost trying to find the museum-- from Civic Center. ;_; It's right around the friggin' corner! ;_; She managed to find the museum, but was so intimidated by the line that she decided to chill in the Main Library instead. -.-; Eva, Steph, and I continued to wander the museum until we came upon a HUUUUGE line near the gift shop-- this was for the Geisha exhibit. We expected to wait a long time (there were 'Approx. wait time' signs), but we went through the line in about 10-15 minutes. We also ran into this tourist from Brooklyn (she didn't have an accent at all; I never would have guessed) who asked us a few questions about San Francisco and the strange people here...
Like the guy with the sign about the 12 galaxies, the aliens, and how the president is evil? Something like that. He's been around since before Clinton; the president is always evil according to him. But he's such a popular sort of guy, seen all around San Francisco, that he's paid by businesses to tout advertisements, so he must make loads of money each month, even if he doesn't look it. And then there's the Mall-side NO SEX guy, the Jesus-Loves-You toters, and of course, Pier 39's BUSHMAN! Okay, he's more like Pier 45, but still. We have some seriously weird people here in SF.
I was trying to figure out the size of the bed of a pickup, to try and determine how many boxes I can squeeze in there... I seriously need help figuring out what to pack. Thus far:
* Two boxes of books (school related, research related, entertainment books I can't live without-- come on, my grandparents have two types of books: historical war, or romance)
* Cosmetics and junk-- caboodles and acrylic case. I'm going to limit myself to the number of nail polishes I bring...
* Bags - make up bags and backpacks are a must. I should bring my Smuggler just because it's easier to travel with (AX, Journalism retreats, maybe??? ^_^)
* School supplies - As little as I absolutely need, so I have the excuse to go back to school shopping with Baba!
* Clothes - I still have loads of laundry to do. I hate those cheap plastic scented bags.
* Manga - And anime. And my Playstation. And other obsession-related stuff.
* My lava lamps - And my knit blanket, my white throw, and my teddy bears. :)
* Probably more crap I'm forgetting...
Okay, back to the Geisha exhibit. Three rooms-- very interesting stuff. There wasn't any set order to see things in, so crowds were wandering around every which way, and it was very easy to lose people. Should have thought of that LITTLE detail beforehand...
Anyway, so there were loads of gorgeous prints and paintings in the first room. Turns out that way back when, courtesans (licensed prostitutes) were actually higher-up in the pleasure quarter hierarchy than the geisha. And the first geisha were men! The first mention of a female geisha was in 1750! As time went by, there was a role reversal of sorts, and before long, geisha outnumbered the courtesans, and geisha were considered the better of the two (as far as I could tell). You could tell the difference between the two because courtesans were required to tie their obi in front to signify their job, while Geisha tied theirs in the back.
Second room had a lot of ... er... what did the second room have? I can't remember. I might be getting my rooms mixed up. Anyway. Third room had lots of photographs, kimonos, and accessories-- hair clips and the like. One of the pins had a compass for the zodiac signs in it! :O
Okay, now here's where the fun starts. Mostly, it had been Eva and me looking at various exhibits; Steph wandered around and looked, while Eva and I read most of the signs. And then somehow over by the movie posters, I lost Eva. I rejoined Steph, and we checked out the rest of the exhibit; Steph waited outside because I'm slow like that. But we still couldn't find Eva. We both waited outside... still no Eva. The security guard was nice enough to let me back in to see if I could spot her, but we had no luck. So we started walking back outside-- we checked the start of the exhibit, but it was closing up. We headed to the security desk and talked to a woman who said she'd notify security, but since the museum was about to close, I guess they couldn't help.
Steph and I waited out in the lobby for about 15-20 minutes, but still no sign of her. Eventually, we got kicked out since the museum really WAS closing. We kept an eye on the doors, but still no Eva. We walked all the way around the museum, and pretty much gave up at that point. Eva was without a phone, since she'd misplaced her charger somewhere amongst all her stuff from UCLA. -.-; I kept coming up with these wild situations, like maybe she'd been kidnapped, or eaten by a geisha or something. Obviously, I'm kidding about the last one. But Steph and I both figured she wasn't the type to ditch us without trying to look, and we tried to, and there was nothing else we could do (that wouldn't get *us* arrested).
We went to Burger King, where Steph was kind enough to treat me to an apple pie and a small coke. Tobey swung on by from the Main Library, and after much food-gnoshing, we all went *back* to the Main Library (much to Tobey's chagrin, I'm sure, since she'd just spent 3 hours there). I started looking for stuff for "The Rose Chronicles," so I started researching the Wars of the Roses. And I found loads of cool stuff!
* The Wars of the Roses: Blood, Treachery, and Cold Steel (VHS) - Isn't that title just the coolest?!
* The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England From 1485-1649
* Wars of the Roses: A Concise History
* The Yorkist Age: Daily Life during the Wars of the Roses
* The Black Arrow (fiction)
* Lady Robyn (fiction)
Kysra will be proud of me-- I'm actually taking the initiative and doing some research of my own, so I don't need to have her explain everything to me! I watched the VHS last night over a bowl of ravioli... and though they condensed about 65 years of war, bloodshed, and treachery into 50 minutes and lots of dorky role playing and maps, it was still an informative source. I have to watch it again before the due-date on the 17th, and take some more notes. ^_^
While I was running all over the library (even to the children's section!), Steph and Tobey amused themselves by going into chat rooms on the computers. Gawd, people in chats are SO... *shudder* I don't even know what to tell you. People are scary. I'm just going to stick to AIM, thank you very much.
Post-library (which closed at 8pm), we walked to Walgreen's-- man, I have to score the new TIME and Newsweek magazines! I should subscribe to them in LA, if Baba and Grandpa don't already. We hung out at Jack in the Crack for a while... you know I don't eat that kind of food anymore. I did have some of Steph's fries while at BK, but only about... what, 4? Not many at all. ^_^ Some guy was harassing us about free shopping sprees at Rodeo Drive? Bloomingdales and Macy's? I was like, "Er, the Bloomingdales doesn't open until 2006..." and he's like "WOW, you must be an architect or something..." And I'm sure he was being sarcastic. I hate people like that-- it's like NAW, the signs over by the demolished Emporium are only THE SIZE OF YOUR FRIGGIN BODY! Gigantic letters:
Opening in Summer 2006!
Idiots.
After that, we split- I grabbed the 31 home, and Steph and Tobey took... whatever MUNI they took. I read my books on the way there, and... went home. Yep. Such was my day.
Today is Free Day at the zoo, and I still have to call CSUN and ask them "WTF" about these holds-- especially when it appears my aid is more than enough to cover them. I'm kind of paranoid here, I don't want to be disenrolled... I better get dressed and get ready to go though-- I have an hour to get there.
It still doesn't change the fact that PEOPLE ARE STUPID. *sigh* This is a global epidemic. I wish I could just hypnotize people via computers into NOT doing stupid shit. I know people are allowed to like and hate what they want, but I've always found it extremely retarded to go out and make a HATE LISTING. To go and proclaim, "I HATE ANZU!" or "I HATE KURIBO!" What a waste of time.
You don't see me making an anti-yaoi or yaoi-hate listing, do you? No. I do have my opinions about it, and no, I don't like it all that much, but that's just me-- I keep my opinions to myself when they're not meant to be broadcasted. I like focusing my creative energies on the things I like instead. Why do people have to be so... close-minded? At least I'm tolerant of yaoi and such now-- if someone can plausibly pull it off in a fandom where it isn't canon, then YAY! Point me at it... Yeesh.
Anyway... yesterday I met Steph and Eva at the Asian Art Museum down by City Hall... there was a HUGE line coming out of the doors, since it was Target [Free] Tuesday, but it moved quite fast-- under five minutes, actually. We wandered into the museum (which I'd never been in, even way back when it'd been the Main Library, which moved next door). We found ourselves going through the normal exhibits, wondering where the heck the Geisha stuff was; we saw a few vases, some kimonos, some paintings, but nothing strictly screaming "geisha!!!!" just yet.
Upstairs, Tobey called us, and she was lost trying to find the museum-- from Civic Center. ;_; It's right around the friggin' corner! ;_; She managed to find the museum, but was so intimidated by the line that she decided to chill in the Main Library instead. -.-; Eva, Steph, and I continued to wander the museum until we came upon a HUUUUGE line near the gift shop-- this was for the Geisha exhibit. We expected to wait a long time (there were 'Approx. wait time' signs), but we went through the line in about 10-15 minutes. We also ran into this tourist from Brooklyn (she didn't have an accent at all; I never would have guessed) who asked us a few questions about San Francisco and the strange people here...
Like the guy with the sign about the 12 galaxies, the aliens, and how the president is evil? Something like that. He's been around since before Clinton; the president is always evil according to him. But he's such a popular sort of guy, seen all around San Francisco, that he's paid by businesses to tout advertisements, so he must make loads of money each month, even if he doesn't look it. And then there's the Mall-side NO SEX guy, the Jesus-Loves-You toters, and of course, Pier 39's BUSHMAN! Okay, he's more like Pier 45, but still. We have some seriously weird people here in SF.
I was trying to figure out the size of the bed of a pickup, to try and determine how many boxes I can squeeze in there... I seriously need help figuring out what to pack. Thus far:
* Two boxes of books (school related, research related, entertainment books I can't live without-- come on, my grandparents have two types of books: historical war, or romance)
* Cosmetics and junk-- caboodles and acrylic case. I'm going to limit myself to the number of nail polishes I bring...
* Bags - make up bags and backpacks are a must. I should bring my Smuggler just because it's easier to travel with (AX, Journalism retreats, maybe??? ^_^)
* School supplies - As little as I absolutely need, so I have the excuse to go back to school shopping with Baba!
* Clothes - I still have loads of laundry to do. I hate those cheap plastic scented bags.
* Manga - And anime. And my Playstation. And other obsession-related stuff.
* My lava lamps - And my knit blanket, my white throw, and my teddy bears. :)
* Probably more crap I'm forgetting...
Okay, back to the Geisha exhibit. Three rooms-- very interesting stuff. There wasn't any set order to see things in, so crowds were wandering around every which way, and it was very easy to lose people. Should have thought of that LITTLE detail beforehand...
Anyway, so there were loads of gorgeous prints and paintings in the first room. Turns out that way back when, courtesans (licensed prostitutes) were actually higher-up in the pleasure quarter hierarchy than the geisha. And the first geisha were men! The first mention of a female geisha was in 1750! As time went by, there was a role reversal of sorts, and before long, geisha outnumbered the courtesans, and geisha were considered the better of the two (as far as I could tell). You could tell the difference between the two because courtesans were required to tie their obi in front to signify their job, while Geisha tied theirs in the back.
Second room had a lot of ... er... what did the second room have? I can't remember. I might be getting my rooms mixed up. Anyway. Third room had lots of photographs, kimonos, and accessories-- hair clips and the like. One of the pins had a compass for the zodiac signs in it! :O
Okay, now here's where the fun starts. Mostly, it had been Eva and me looking at various exhibits; Steph wandered around and looked, while Eva and I read most of the signs. And then somehow over by the movie posters, I lost Eva. I rejoined Steph, and we checked out the rest of the exhibit; Steph waited outside because I'm slow like that. But we still couldn't find Eva. We both waited outside... still no Eva. The security guard was nice enough to let me back in to see if I could spot her, but we had no luck. So we started walking back outside-- we checked the start of the exhibit, but it was closing up. We headed to the security desk and talked to a woman who said she'd notify security, but since the museum was about to close, I guess they couldn't help.
Steph and I waited out in the lobby for about 15-20 minutes, but still no sign of her. Eventually, we got kicked out since the museum really WAS closing. We kept an eye on the doors, but still no Eva. We walked all the way around the museum, and pretty much gave up at that point. Eva was without a phone, since she'd misplaced her charger somewhere amongst all her stuff from UCLA. -.-; I kept coming up with these wild situations, like maybe she'd been kidnapped, or eaten by a geisha or something. Obviously, I'm kidding about the last one. But Steph and I both figured she wasn't the type to ditch us without trying to look, and we tried to, and there was nothing else we could do (that wouldn't get *us* arrested).
We went to Burger King, where Steph was kind enough to treat me to an apple pie and a small coke. Tobey swung on by from the Main Library, and after much food-gnoshing, we all went *back* to the Main Library (much to Tobey's chagrin, I'm sure, since she'd just spent 3 hours there). I started looking for stuff for "The Rose Chronicles," so I started researching the Wars of the Roses. And I found loads of cool stuff!
* The Wars of the Roses: Blood, Treachery, and Cold Steel (VHS) - Isn't that title just the coolest?!
* The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England From 1485-1649
* Wars of the Roses: A Concise History
* The Yorkist Age: Daily Life during the Wars of the Roses
* The Black Arrow (fiction)
* Lady Robyn (fiction)
Kysra will be proud of me-- I'm actually taking the initiative and doing some research of my own, so I don't need to have her explain everything to me! I watched the VHS last night over a bowl of ravioli... and though they condensed about 65 years of war, bloodshed, and treachery into 50 minutes and lots of dorky role playing and maps, it was still an informative source. I have to watch it again before the due-date on the 17th, and take some more notes. ^_^
While I was running all over the library (even to the children's section!), Steph and Tobey amused themselves by going into chat rooms on the computers. Gawd, people in chats are SO... *shudder* I don't even know what to tell you. People are scary. I'm just going to stick to AIM, thank you very much.
Post-library (which closed at 8pm), we walked to Walgreen's-- man, I have to score the new TIME and Newsweek magazines! I should subscribe to them in LA, if Baba and Grandpa don't already. We hung out at Jack in the Crack for a while... you know I don't eat that kind of food anymore. I did have some of Steph's fries while at BK, but only about... what, 4? Not many at all. ^_^ Some guy was harassing us about free shopping sprees at Rodeo Drive? Bloomingdales and Macy's? I was like, "Er, the Bloomingdales doesn't open until 2006..." and he's like "WOW, you must be an architect or something..." And I'm sure he was being sarcastic. I hate people like that-- it's like NAW, the signs over by the demolished Emporium are only THE SIZE OF YOUR FRIGGIN BODY! Gigantic letters:
Opening in Summer 2006!
Idiots.
After that, we split- I grabbed the 31 home, and Steph and Tobey took... whatever MUNI they took. I read my books on the way there, and... went home. Yep. Such was my day.
Today is Free Day at the zoo, and I still have to call CSUN and ask them "WTF" about these holds-- especially when it appears my aid is more than enough to cover them. I'm kind of paranoid here, I don't want to be disenrolled... I better get dressed and get ready to go though-- I have an hour to get there.
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don't worry, i'm ok ^_^
Date: 2004-07-08 05:54 am (UTC)Re: don't worry, i'm ok ^_^
Date: 2004-07-08 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm so PROUD!!!! ^_____^
Date: 2004-07-09 08:37 pm (UTC)Just another suggestion ^_~