Workin' on it
Dec. 3rd, 2006 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteAh, the luxuriousness of the relaxed weekend is almost over! ;_; Whine. And I won't even have much of a winter break, because I've got all of 2 weeks to travel around before heading BACK to school (and therefore finals), and then back to the States, and then starting school one week after that (and work one week after THAT). I look forward to the weekends SO much here in Japan. And it's funny, because that would imply that I'm really busy, but it doesn't FEEL like it. Maybe I am really busy, but things I'm doing have become so routine or mundane that I can't recall them when someone asks "So what are you up to?" or something like that.
Anyway, today I actually decided to get out of the dorms-- yesterday I felt pretty ill, and I slept most of the day, hardly ate, and kept waking up in the middle of the night. Today didn't start much better, as I woke up first with a horrible stomachache, and then a rotten headache. I slept until after 12pm, and when I finally got up, I took some Ibuprofen for my headache, had some pancakes, and decided to go to Daiso to get some CDs, DVDs, and other random necessities. My HD has been filling up pretty fast here-- mostly with pictures and music-- so I've been burning all the NANA anime and Death Note onto DVDs, along with any other movies or things I happen to score. But I need to clear out more space, as I only have a little over 2 GB free now... and this is on an 80 GB capacity drive. WTF?
I also headed to the Mito Eki area, and decided to go to Marui to see if Todd's recommendation about the menswear (as presents) was any good. They did have some cool stuff, but nothing really screamed "Scott would love this!" to me. I did swing into the Virgin Megastore (yes, I was surprised, too) and saw Mika Nakashima (aka NANA from the live-action movie)'s new single for "Hitoiro," but I didn't buy it. Her new album is coming out on the 12th, too (that would be "The End"), and it's really expensive! CDs here are such a rip-off, unless you get old, used ones from Hard Off or something... Still, I do like all the NANA music (live action and anime), so maybe I'll hunt it down eventually... it might be cheaper on cdjapan.co.jp!
Well so anyway, what kind of presents do you get for the man in your life? (Dad, brother, boyfriend, whoever) I've gone through countless gift guides, said no to all the usuals at the Gift Stations (ties, cufflinks, pens, etc), and am STUMPED for ideas. I just think I'm an idiot when it comes to men. (Male friends on my FL, please, feel free to disagree with me. It'll make me feel better. Of course if you don't, it won't make me feel WORSE, but obviously I would appreciate your input A LOT.)
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smrffers, Kris and Fin. I don't really think we've decided on specific whens or wheres just yet, though. I do know that I'd like to go to the Ueno Royal Museum for the Dali exhibit, and probably "somewhere cool" for New Year's. Alas, all the clubs having New Year's countdowns are SO EXPENSIVE! And there are some pretty big names coming to Japan, soon (or are already here), like Muse, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, etc. ;_; I wish I could afford to go!
I'm thinking next weekend I have to go to Kairakuen for sure (1) just to see it, and (2) because I need to visit a local Mito temple with a "Japanese friend" and report on it for my religious studies class quiz. The following weekend, there will be not one, but TWO antique fairs in Tokyo, so I thought I might go to those, to check out and see if I could find some cool presents for my Dad and Scott. I also have a lot of space in the boxes to fill up for Joyce and for Baba and Grandpa... gah, shopping is hard!
Tomorrow after class, I can't just sleep in, either-- I have to repeat the whole post office --> bank thing, by going to the post office to make a withdrawal, and then going to the Tokyo-Mitsubishi bank to pay the balance on my IACE trip. YAY for that being almost taken care of! Then all I'll have to do is save up for the Tokyo hostel, shopping, food, and transportation in Hong Kong (I bought the JR Seishun 18 Kippu today, so travel in Tokyo is taken care of). I do have to go to Kasumi tomorrow to buy some groceries, and the other night, we went to Coco's for a vaguely expensive (but totally filling) dinner for Holly and Sokei's birthdays... so it's back to yen-pinching, if I want to have a good time. I'm dead-set on having a good time, so it's all about save save save! I would go to Kasumi tonight when I know things will be on sale, but my head is back to pounding and pounding...
Okay, so I'm angsting over what's going to happen next in NANA, and the whole latest premise thing is that Girl A has slept with Guy A and Guy B recently. When she finds out she's pregnant, she assumes it's (the father, that is) Guy A, but why? Just because she slept with him first, or had sex with him ONE more time than she did with Guy B? How exactly does that logic flow, anyway? I'm aware that a girl can have sex and that the happy little sperm can swim around in her for up to seven days (or something like that), and if she's ovulating, there's a chance that one of them will get through the egg and impregnate her.
Have I got the length of time wrong? Have I got the idea that the little brainless sperm have a rather LOW chance at actually breaking through (rather than just bumping heads with one another or swimming around in circles) to the egg to fertilize it wrong, too? What about the idea that even if an egg is fertilized, it doesn't always implant? I seem to remember these things from health ed class, but I could be 100% delusional.
I'm a Girl A x Guy B 'shipper, and it probably wouldn't take a whole lot of logic to figure out who's who in this situation. But I don't want to go around spouting scientific non-facts to support a pairing. Like I said in a previous post, I don't know Ai Yazawa as a manga-ka that well, anyway, so even if "truth and logic" prevail (my way), that doesn't mean the series will end the way I hope. Actually, I rather like the manga that surprise me with that "third possibility" that I didn't even consider. I like fanfics that do that too, but there seems to be very little in the way of NANA fanfic at all.
...Okay, now how many of you did I scare into thinking it was about a real-life situation? Hahaha.
Anyway, today I actually decided to get out of the dorms-- yesterday I felt pretty ill, and I slept most of the day, hardly ate, and kept waking up in the middle of the night. Today didn't start much better, as I woke up first with a horrible stomachache, and then a rotten headache. I slept until after 12pm, and when I finally got up, I took some Ibuprofen for my headache, had some pancakes, and decided to go to Daiso to get some CDs, DVDs, and other random necessities. My HD has been filling up pretty fast here-- mostly with pictures and music-- so I've been burning all the NANA anime and Death Note onto DVDs, along with any other movies or things I happen to score. But I need to clear out more space, as I only have a little over 2 GB free now... and this is on an 80 GB capacity drive. WTF?
I also headed to the Mito Eki area, and decided to go to Marui to see if Todd's recommendation about the menswear (as presents) was any good. They did have some cool stuff, but nothing really screamed "Scott would love this!" to me. I did swing into the Virgin Megastore (yes, I was surprised, too) and saw Mika Nakashima (aka NANA from the live-action movie)'s new single for "Hitoiro," but I didn't buy it. Her new album is coming out on the 12th, too (that would be "The End"), and it's really expensive! CDs here are such a rip-off, unless you get old, used ones from Hard Off or something... Still, I do like all the NANA music (live action and anime), so maybe I'll hunt it down eventually... it might be cheaper on cdjapan.co.jp!
Well so anyway, what kind of presents do you get for the man in your life? (Dad, brother, boyfriend, whoever) I've gone through countless gift guides, said no to all the usuals at the Gift Stations (ties, cufflinks, pens, etc), and am STUMPED for ideas. I just think I'm an idiot when it comes to men. (Male friends on my FL, please, feel free to disagree with me. It'll make me feel better. Of course if you don't, it won't make me feel WORSE, but obviously I would appreciate your input A LOT.)
In Virgin, I found a cool magazine oriented toward gaijin folk like myself living in Japan, and it turned out to have some pretty helpful listings of things to do and places to go. For the few days
baine and I will be in Tokyo, I know we want to spend 2 days checking out both Disney resorts, and at least some portion of a day hanging out with two other smrffers, Kris and Fin. I don't really think we've decided on specific whens or wheres just yet, though. I do know that I'd like to go to the Ueno Royal Museum for the Dali exhibit, and probably "somewhere cool" for New Year's. Alas, all the clubs having New Year's countdowns are SO EXPENSIVE! And there are some pretty big names coming to Japan, soon (or are already here), like Muse, Eric Clapton, Foo Fighters, etc. ;_; I wish I could afford to go!I'm thinking next weekend I have to go to Kairakuen for sure (1) just to see it, and (2) because I need to visit a local Mito temple with a "Japanese friend" and report on it for my religious studies class quiz. The following weekend, there will be not one, but TWO antique fairs in Tokyo, so I thought I might go to those, to check out and see if I could find some cool presents for my Dad and Scott. I also have a lot of space in the boxes to fill up for Joyce and for Baba and Grandpa... gah, shopping is hard!
Tomorrow after class, I can't just sleep in, either-- I have to repeat the whole post office --> bank thing, by going to the post office to make a withdrawal, and then going to the Tokyo-Mitsubishi bank to pay the balance on my IACE trip. YAY for that being almost taken care of! Then all I'll have to do is save up for the Tokyo hostel, shopping, food, and transportation in Hong Kong (I bought the JR Seishun 18 Kippu today, so travel in Tokyo is taken care of). I do have to go to Kasumi tomorrow to buy some groceries, and the other night, we went to Coco's for a vaguely expensive (but totally filling) dinner for Holly and Sokei's birthdays... so it's back to yen-pinching, if I want to have a good time. I'm dead-set on having a good time, so it's all about save save save! I would go to Kasumi tonight when I know things will be on sale, but my head is back to pounding and pounding...
Okay, so I'm angsting over what's going to happen next in NANA, and the whole latest premise thing is that Girl A has slept with Guy A and Guy B recently. When she finds out she's pregnant, she assumes it's (the father, that is) Guy A, but why? Just because she slept with him first, or had sex with him ONE more time than she did with Guy B? How exactly does that logic flow, anyway? I'm aware that a girl can have sex and that the happy little sperm can swim around in her for up to seven days (or something like that), and if she's ovulating, there's a chance that one of them will get through the egg and impregnate her.
Have I got the length of time wrong? Have I got the idea that the little brainless sperm have a rather LOW chance at actually breaking through (rather than just bumping heads with one another or swimming around in circles) to the egg to fertilize it wrong, too? What about the idea that even if an egg is fertilized, it doesn't always implant? I seem to remember these things from health ed class, but I could be 100% delusional.
I'm a Girl A x Guy B 'shipper, and it probably wouldn't take a whole lot of logic to figure out who's who in this situation. But I don't want to go around spouting scientific non-facts to support a pairing. Like I said in a previous post, I don't know Ai Yazawa as a manga-ka that well, anyway, so even if "truth and logic" prevail (my way), that doesn't mean the series will end the way I hope. Actually, I rather like the manga that surprise me with that "third possibility" that I didn't even consider. I like fanfics that do that too, but there seems to be very little in the way of NANA fanfic at all.
...Okay, now how many of you did I scare into thinking it was about a real-life situation? Hahaha.
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Date: 2006-12-03 05:31 pm (UTC)It's amazing any of us ever got born ^_~
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Date: 2006-12-04 05:09 am (UTC)She slept with Guy A after a big live/party. She slept with him again over a week later, and then again, over a week later (maybe even two weeks). After that, maybe two weeks went by and she "broke up" with him (they never really had a relationship to begin with, but you get the idea), and then shortly thereafter, she slept with Guy B (who was actually in love with her). I'm thinking a good month after she slept with Guy B (plus or minus, and she's probably slept with him multiple times AFTER that), she finds out she's pregnant. I can't be the only one who thinks it's Guy B's child, and not Guy A's...
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Date: 2006-12-06 08:23 pm (UTC)"what kind of presents do you get for the man in your life?"
Well, me and my brother got our dad a portable DVD player and a lot of electronics are goin on sale now. Another present I think would be great for a guy (or anyone, come to think of it) is one of those hand-crank emergency flashlights. Useful and practical, esp with all the bad weather out there this time of year.
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Date: 2007-10-18 10:26 am (UTC)Er... yeah. Sorry to comment on such an old post. **slinks away**
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Date: 2007-10-18 06:05 pm (UTC)Now, thing with Guy B and the user of protection-- NOTHING is 100% but abstinence. That's why I think that, all of the other stuff aside, it's not as if Guy B stands NO chance of being the father.