Bunday
I was at corporeal's housewarming party yesterday. We took what feels like a billion Cheki pictures, and fun times was had :D I snatched myself a picture of Linus, the cuddliest dog in the world, omg.
This is one of the things that makes me love instant photography so much. There is only one copy. Capture a moment, and it's yours. There is also no such thing as a bad Cheki picture. They are all little pieces of art.
Today I'm lazying about. I didn't even wake up until 4pm, I don't know 8D; Guess I needed sleep.
late_checkout, celeritas_3e8, and alchemi have given me questions to answer. I'm going to split this up to make it less tedious.
1. Your proudest accomplishment
- I've never been goal oriented. I've always been a bit of a dreamer, and I've never given much thought to the things I do. I do them because I enjoy doing them, not because I'm hoping they'll get me somewhere. Does that make sense?
I think my proudest accomplishment was being amongst the top 20 students in my Japanese class, and making it through a semester in Japan. It was one of those things that just felt completely unreal.. up until I found myself at Narita airport, where the excitement just took over. I wish I'd been able to be more social, to explore more, and take advantage of every opportunity presented to me. But the fact is that living on my own, and making it in a completely different country was more than enough for me to deal with at the time. I didn't feel it then, but it was obvious when I got back home. I'd learnt a lot during those 6 months, and it's an experience I still draw from.
2. Your favorite memory
- Since I've already babbled about Japan, I'll go with something else here. One of my favourite memories from growing up was playing with my grandfather. I had a great relationship with him, and I still miss him deeply. He died in 1997.
He used to watch track and field events on TV, and my grandparents' apartment has a layout that makes it possible to run in a complete circle form the living room, through the outer hallway and kitchen, and back into the living room again. My favourite event to watch with him was the hurdles. He'd sit in his chair, put his cane up and rest it against the bucket they kept firewood in, and I'd run through the entire apartment, jumping over it. My grandmother found it extremely tiresome to watch me run around like that - I think that made the whole thing even more fun for my grandfather and I.
3. The best thing about your country
- Our democracy.
4. Your thoughts on animals
- I like animals, but I'm not really a pet person. I get slightly nervous around them. Especially around larger animals. I've had three pets, a hamster, a budgie, and a rabbit (a Holland Lop). I love rabbits. I also took riding lessons when I was younger. I was really into horses.
5. Your favorite smell
- Freshly baked buns.
6. Your worst job
- I have a very short list of jobs I've had. I've only had two jobs I consider to be real jobs. My absolute worst job experience was working at a soap shop for Christmas (they were looking for people to help out during the rush of Christmas shopping). I only worked there a couple of weeks, was not given a proper contract (even when I kept enquiring about it), I got bullied, and I had to keep calling my manager to get my fucking paycheck once the ordeal was over. It was not a good first impression of what it's like out there in "the real world".
7. The most outrageous thing you've ever done
- I don't know, the only thing that comes to mind is the time I went to summer school in Brighton (England) back in 2003. I'm not quite sure what happened during those three weeks, but something clicked, and I was able to open up and just be myself. I adopted a completely different style - at the end of my stay, I was walking around in tutu-skirts and mismatching over the knee socks. It was quite a change. One of my favourite memories from that trip was participating in all the competitions they arranged at the evening club/disco. One of them was a crossdressing competition. I don't think I'd ever do something like that now, at least not in that kind of setting. Maybe at the theatre with my theatre buddies, but not... at some disco with a bunch of people I don't know. I ended up in second or third place. Once I made it into the top five (or something), I had to give a speech to win the audience over. I remember not knowing what to say at all, so once up on stage I started rambling, and randomly blurted out a bunch of Oscar Wilde quotes. The guy who arranged the contest just stared at me and went "wow". He later came up to me and told me he wished I'd won. It was a great experience, but extremely out of character for me. I wish I could get to be that girl more often, because she knew how to have fun.
This is one of the things that makes me love instant photography so much. There is only one copy. Capture a moment, and it's yours. There is also no such thing as a bad Cheki picture. They are all little pieces of art.
Today I'm lazying about. I didn't even wake up until 4pm, I don't know 8D; Guess I needed sleep.
late_checkout, celeritas_3e8, and alchemi have given me questions to answer. I'm going to split this up to make it less tedious.
1. Your proudest accomplishment
- I've never been goal oriented. I've always been a bit of a dreamer, and I've never given much thought to the things I do. I do them because I enjoy doing them, not because I'm hoping they'll get me somewhere. Does that make sense?
I think my proudest accomplishment was being amongst the top 20 students in my Japanese class, and making it through a semester in Japan. It was one of those things that just felt completely unreal.. up until I found myself at Narita airport, where the excitement just took over. I wish I'd been able to be more social, to explore more, and take advantage of every opportunity presented to me. But the fact is that living on my own, and making it in a completely different country was more than enough for me to deal with at the time. I didn't feel it then, but it was obvious when I got back home. I'd learnt a lot during those 6 months, and it's an experience I still draw from.
2. Your favorite memory
- Since I've already babbled about Japan, I'll go with something else here. One of my favourite memories from growing up was playing with my grandfather. I had a great relationship with him, and I still miss him deeply. He died in 1997.
He used to watch track and field events on TV, and my grandparents' apartment has a layout that makes it possible to run in a complete circle form the living room, through the outer hallway and kitchen, and back into the living room again. My favourite event to watch with him was the hurdles. He'd sit in his chair, put his cane up and rest it against the bucket they kept firewood in, and I'd run through the entire apartment, jumping over it. My grandmother found it extremely tiresome to watch me run around like that - I think that made the whole thing even more fun for my grandfather and I.
3. The best thing about your country
- Our democracy.
4. Your thoughts on animals
- I like animals, but I'm not really a pet person. I get slightly nervous around them. Especially around larger animals. I've had three pets, a hamster, a budgie, and a rabbit (a Holland Lop). I love rabbits. I also took riding lessons when I was younger. I was really into horses.
5. Your favorite smell
- Freshly baked buns.
6. Your worst job
- I have a very short list of jobs I've had. I've only had two jobs I consider to be real jobs. My absolute worst job experience was working at a soap shop for Christmas (they were looking for people to help out during the rush of Christmas shopping). I only worked there a couple of weeks, was not given a proper contract (even when I kept enquiring about it), I got bullied, and I had to keep calling my manager to get my fucking paycheck once the ordeal was over. It was not a good first impression of what it's like out there in "the real world".
7. The most outrageous thing you've ever done
- I don't know, the only thing that comes to mind is the time I went to summer school in Brighton (England) back in 2003. I'm not quite sure what happened during those three weeks, but something clicked, and I was able to open up and just be myself. I adopted a completely different style - at the end of my stay, I was walking around in tutu-skirts and mismatching over the knee socks. It was quite a change. One of my favourite memories from that trip was participating in all the competitions they arranged at the evening club/disco. One of them was a crossdressing competition. I don't think I'd ever do something like that now, at least not in that kind of setting. Maybe at the theatre with my theatre buddies, but not... at some disco with a bunch of people I don't know. I ended up in second or third place. Once I made it into the top five (or something), I had to give a speech to win the audience over. I remember not knowing what to say at all, so once up on stage I started rambling, and randomly blurted out a bunch of Oscar Wilde quotes. The guy who arranged the contest just stared at me and went "wow". He later came up to me and told me he wished I'd won. It was a great experience, but extremely out of character for me. I wish I could get to be that girl more often, because she knew how to have fun.