hopefully I can get this done before class
From derivatizing: Elks, Pocky, Pomona College, Mia, Lemonade
o1. Elks
There's not much to say. The brief story can be found in my profile, but basically it's all Kat Lin's fault. I am an elk. Whoooo~
o2. Pocky
IS DELICIOUS. omnomnom. One of my favorite snacks. Once I start eating Pocky, I find it very hard to stop. I think the strawberry ones are my favorite :3 My SN popped up during NaNoWriMo 2006... It involved me eating sticks or something and so I made a new SN about sticks. Of Pocky. Because Pocky looks like sticks.
On that note, if anyone wants to send me Pocky, that'd be awesome. I have to drive like half an hour to get to Pocky :/
o3. Pomona College
My not so beloved alma mater. Amusingly enough, I wasn't even going to apply to Pomona when I was applying to colleges. I did it for my daddy :3 And then ended up going there -_- I actually like the school a lot, and think that it's a great place and that I got a great education there (I was a tour guide from the moment I could be one, I'm quite fond of the school). I just think that it's really different from a state school, like UCLA, or a larger private university, like Stanford or Dartmouth, and comes with its own pros and cons. I had a lot of good experiences - I wouldn't be where I am today without Professor Miyake, Sefa, Darren, Carolyn, Eric, Maiko, Yumi, and a lot of other mentors - and a number of bad ones. The point of a school like Pomona is to make you feel different, and I didn't always want to be different, if that makes sense. Sometimes I just wanted to hang out with other people who had similar experiences and background to me... not because we talked about it or anything, but just because I didn't feel so on edge around James or Charlotte or Sarah. Like I didn't have to defend myself - my activism, my race or ethnicity, my gender politics. And of course I had the usual slew of bad friends and shitty fights. A place like Pomona really skews the way you look at the world and yourself in it; the small version is that as a student there I felt forced and driven to work myself so hard I broke. Everyone is an overachiever - that's the only way you get someplace like Pomona - but then the culture of the school just enhances that mindset. As the years went on, I felt more and more like I was struggling to hold myself - my identity, my personal life, my friends, my academics, my work - together without any help, and that I was losing horribly. It's not just the whole, "For the first time, half of you will be in the bottom half of the class." I really needed people like Sefa and Mr. Fox to remind me that, contrary to the culture of elite private colleges, you don't need to be everything and everyone. Mr. Fox regularly reminds me that in the grand scheme of things, I've already accomplished a lot more than most people will or want to. But it still distresses me that I don't feel like that all the time.
tl;dr it is what it is. Also our mascot was a sagehen. And I keep seeing the number 47 everywhere.
o4. Mia
Mia is my favorite ever. She's so pretty and so smart and *o* I could tl;dr about her for awhile, so I won't. It's a little annoying sometimes that she's got so small a role (relatively) that it's hard to play her in certain situations because... well, she doesn't really get mad, she doesn't panic, she doesn't cry, she doesn't go on crazed killing sprees... I mean, to a certain extent, the woman is perfect and it's hard to do that sometimes. Especially since I'm not as smart as she is *dies* I love the third Ace Attorney game so hard it hurts.
I started playing her because of kiyuu. She actually wanted a Phoenix, but I didn't think I could play Phoenix (I can't, I'm almost positive) so instead she got dead older sister. Figures. Now she has a Diego and I love it so much I can't stand it. And Canada. It still amuses me that for a long time after Canada was accepted and placed in Mia's house the family name was still "Fey." Also that originally Mia was going to be married to bebopsamurai's Prince Charming from Fables. Then dividend and verily_ergo caught me during the discedo 4th wall event and now. Yeah.
o5. Lemonade
idek. I like lemonade, but I like lemonade with sugar? And... uh... Poland can come over for lemonade at Mia's anytime he wants? ♥
And now I have a kanji quiz.
o1. Elks
There's not much to say. The brief story can be found in my profile, but basically it's all Kat Lin's fault. I am an elk. Whoooo~
o2. Pocky
IS DELICIOUS. omnomnom. One of my favorite snacks. Once I start eating Pocky, I find it very hard to stop. I think the strawberry ones are my favorite :3 My SN popped up during NaNoWriMo 2006... It involved me eating sticks or something and so I made a new SN about sticks. Of Pocky. Because Pocky looks like sticks.
On that note, if anyone wants to send me Pocky, that'd be awesome. I have to drive like half an hour to get to Pocky :/
o3. Pomona College
My not so beloved alma mater. Amusingly enough, I wasn't even going to apply to Pomona when I was applying to colleges. I did it for my daddy :3 And then ended up going there -_- I actually like the school a lot, and think that it's a great place and that I got a great education there (I was a tour guide from the moment I could be one, I'm quite fond of the school). I just think that it's really different from a state school, like UCLA, or a larger private university, like Stanford or Dartmouth, and comes with its own pros and cons. I had a lot of good experiences - I wouldn't be where I am today without Professor Miyake, Sefa, Darren, Carolyn, Eric, Maiko, Yumi, and a lot of other mentors - and a number of bad ones. The point of a school like Pomona is to make you feel different, and I didn't always want to be different, if that makes sense. Sometimes I just wanted to hang out with other people who had similar experiences and background to me... not because we talked about it or anything, but just because I didn't feel so on edge around James or Charlotte or Sarah. Like I didn't have to defend myself - my activism, my race or ethnicity, my gender politics. And of course I had the usual slew of bad friends and shitty fights. A place like Pomona really skews the way you look at the world and yourself in it; the small version is that as a student there I felt forced and driven to work myself so hard I broke. Everyone is an overachiever - that's the only way you get someplace like Pomona - but then the culture of the school just enhances that mindset. As the years went on, I felt more and more like I was struggling to hold myself - my identity, my personal life, my friends, my academics, my work - together without any help, and that I was losing horribly. It's not just the whole, "For the first time, half of you will be in the bottom half of the class." I really needed people like Sefa and Mr. Fox to remind me that, contrary to the culture of elite private colleges, you don't need to be everything and everyone. Mr. Fox regularly reminds me that in the grand scheme of things, I've already accomplished a lot more than most people will or want to. But it still distresses me that I don't feel like that all the time.
tl;dr it is what it is. Also our mascot was a sagehen. And I keep seeing the number 47 everywhere.
o4. Mia
Mia is my favorite ever. She's so pretty and so smart and *o* I could tl;dr about her for awhile, so I won't. It's a little annoying sometimes that she's got so small a role (relatively) that it's hard to play her in certain situations because... well, she doesn't really get mad, she doesn't panic, she doesn't cry, she doesn't go on crazed killing sprees... I mean, to a certain extent, the woman is perfect and it's hard to do that sometimes. Especially since I'm not as smart as she is *dies* I love the third Ace Attorney game so hard it hurts.
I started playing her because of kiyuu. She actually wanted a Phoenix, but I didn't think I could play Phoenix (I can't, I'm almost positive) so instead she got dead older sister. Figures. Now she has a Diego and I love it so much I can't stand it. And Canada. It still amuses me that for a long time after Canada was accepted and placed in Mia's house the family name was still "Fey." Also that originally Mia was going to be married to bebopsamurai's Prince Charming from Fables. Then dividend and verily_ergo caught me during the discedo 4th wall event and now. Yeah.
o5. Lemonade
idek. I like lemonade, but I like lemonade with sugar? And... uh... Poland can come over for lemonade at Mia's anytime he wants? ♥
And now I have a kanji quiz.