Archive for ranting
March 10, 2009 at 6:33 pm
· Filed under Serious Business, ranting
In my spare time, I like to read drama happening on the internet. The drama I stumbled across related to whether people like Katy Perry. According to some, if you are so much as neutral towards Katy Perry, you don’t care about the civil rights of not-straight people.
Because, you know, having dubious taste in something means you support everything that other people can extract from said something. I’d probably like Twilight too, in the same “this is so ridiculous, I can’t help myself” way. It doesn’t mean I think that the best relationship ever would be a codependent, passive-aggressive mess.
…then the same people who stick their nose up at Katy Perry pass around a spoof video… that’s the same thing. Only it’s a guy kissing guys to get the attention of girls, so it’s obviously much superior to “I kissed a girl,” because it’s ok when guys do that sort of thing, but not girls?
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March 4, 2009 at 6:44 pm
· Filed under eww feelings, life, ranting, tkd
So much for going to Nationals. Or, you know, graduating.
Can you do anything right? Why must you screw up my life in addition to your own?
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December 31, 2008 at 9:07 pm
· Filed under class, life, ranting
Getting a B+ sucks. Getting more than one – depressing. Especially when I needed to bring up my GPA this past semester. Self, way to almost succeed.
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December 26, 2008 at 6:24 pm
· Filed under eww feelings, life, ranting
Advantages:
- guilt-free bumming around
- ability to catch up on all the TV that I didn’t have the time to watch during the semester
- free food
- seeing people I only see once a year
Disadvantages:
- no cookie time
- getting out of shape
- listening to idiots (including, but not limited to, those related to me) lament the fact that only stupid people have tried to assassinate Obama thus far
I mean, really. It’s not like Obama has, you know, taken office or anything. The only offensive thing he’s done – that I can tell – is be an intelligent black man. Perhaps it’s a combination of the fact that he’s an “elitist” – you know, one of those fools who dare make something of their lives – and the fact that he’s black – it must be insulting that a person who you look down upon because they look differently than you can accomplish more than you could have ever dreamed of doing.
I wonder if this means that they look down on me and talk badly about me when I’m not around. Things like “oh, well, you know, she goes to one of them liberal colleges up in the northeast” or “you know, i don’t understand why she hangs out with them black people when she’s home” or “i bet she thinks she’s too good for us normal people” as if being normal white trash who only associates with other normal white trash is something to aspire to become.
This is why I hate going home.
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July 10, 2008 at 11:24 am
· Filed under japan, life, ranting
You know the guy who’s never able to get a chick because he’s the guy all the girls are too comfortable around to develop a crush on? I feel like I’m the girl equivalent.
Not that I’m trying to pick up guys or anything. (not really, anyway) But if I were, I’m sure I would become frustrated very quickly. Not that it’s not cool that I can hang out with guys or anything; most of the time, I prefer being the girl that guys are cool hanging out with. In fact, with some exceptions, I’m probably more comfortable hanging out with guys than girls. On the other hand, it’s getting to the point where I’m not considered a girl at all (to the point where such comments have been made to my face).
I mean, whatever. So I’m not cute and flirty and my interests include beating people up and making sketchy comments. But really. I’m a girl too. Sometimes. Really.
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May 18, 2008 at 4:35 pm
· Filed under class, ranting
I wish I knew what classes the freshmen in my suite were taking. Judging from the volume of their room, they must either not have any finals at all, or their finals must be so trivial so as to not be worth studying at all.
…when I was a freshman, I had 4 finals, and they were all in freshmen classes. Freshmen these days…
(at least in < 6 days, they’ll be gone forever~~~)
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April 2, 2008 at 3:28 pm
· Filed under food, life, ranting, running, tkd
Things that make me happy right now:
- Jordan’s tablet. It might just be the novelty of it all, but the tablet is a lot of fun. It’s about half the size of my real laptop, half the weight, and a lot of fun. 
I want a tablet of my own… or maybe just a new laptop altogether.
- Running, surprisingly enough. It’s not something that’s making me unhappy, at least, which is still surprising. Even getting up before 8 am every day.
Things that make me unhappy right now:
- Cutting. I’ve gained 2 pounds since I started cutting this week. Running and everything. My goal right now is ~1200 cal/day. Yes, this is not healthy. I know. But then I can stuff my face this weekend before UPenn, so it’ll be ok.
- Class. Nothing more needs to be said here.
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March 14, 2008 at 4:12 pm
· Filed under life, ranting
It’s 5 pm, guys. I just finished my pset over your loud drunkenness, thanks. And, really, to yank on the bathroom door while I’m inside, and to demand who I am when I leave when *you* are the one visiting people in *my* suite, well… then you just become annoying. Seriously, who is already drunk before 5 pm, Friday or no? It’s not even dark yet, and that’s an accomplishment, in Boston. Good job, guys.
And I was already in a bad mood, too. At least I’m leaving soon…
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March 11, 2008 at 4:01 pm
· Filed under japanese, ranting
Occasionally, I decide that I want to translate some Jpop song. About halfway through, I usually end up getting frustrated and stopping for an extended period of time.
Why? Japanese is a perfectly logical language. Every part of speech is (usually) marked by its own particle, so it can’t be that hard to translate, right?
Arrrrrgh.
First of all, no spaces between words. Though, thanks to the fact that there’s a million ways to write words, it’s usually not that hard to tell where one word ends and the next begins. Unless, of course, you have a bunch of random kanji sitting next to each other or something.
Then there’s the fact that the Japanese like to use sentences as adjectives. Not such a bad idea; we do it in English too. Unfortunately, the sentence modifiers look like sentences in their own right, and since in song lyrics there’s nothing to tell one complete sentence from the next, and the grammar is not ideal to begin with, one ends up completely unable to tell how different phrases fit together. Unless you’re Japanese, I suppose.
I suppose that wasn’t actually much of a rant. Oh well; too lazy to continue further.
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