I really, really don't know why people pay good money for illegal substances when you can easily get high and ruin your health on legal foodstuff.

*just spiked three oranges with cloves and is beginning to feel the effects of the 2-Methoxy-4-allylphenol, whee*

PS: Thank you for your card, tuxedo_elf! No, it wasn't late ( Read more... )

I can fold paper-cranes using only my left hand.

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The institute of Japanese studies has a new sign over the door. It says "Japanese studies" in German and Japanese. Surrounded by Hello Kitty! characters ( Read more... )

It's time for Things Lyra Learned Whilst Cramming For The Intermediate Exam again!

1. British Anthropologists have, by definition, ridiculous names. That doesn't mean I'm allowed to ridicule them.
(Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, I ask you. And please to remember that name correctly, brain. Not Edmund Pevensie, not Ewan McGregor, not even Evan Rosier ( Read more... )

1. Referring to the three Unifyers of Japan as "Nobby, Yoshi and Toki"* is NOT FUNNY.

2. Except it totally is.

3. Pretending that you have to do a presentation on the bakufu and preparing accordingly actually helps a lot in trying to remember all that shit. Yes, it took me 22 years to find that out. Sue me. Because I prepare for presentations ( Read more... )

I have noticed that the exam hysteria is setting in especially powerful this time. Right now I am tempted to do pointless demonstrations of total resignation, like burning Kanji cards, but that would be highly unproductive and utterly unreasonable (though probably satisfying ( Read more... )