( This is rather long and rambly but it is not yet noon and today has been so eventful and telling of what kind of person I am that I actually am updating my LJ; I pretty much NEVER do that so maybe please read it? <3 Comment? *attention whores* )

There's this reaaaally cute Japanese like... j-punk goth dressing girl in my Edo Culture class, and we've been getting friendly talking about Otome games.  I was hoping maaaaybe she might be one of those bisexual or gay yaoi fangirls.  Waaaugh I saw her computer's desktop today; there was a photo of a guy.  I asked her about it and... as I guessed ( Read more... )

Well, I'm coming back to the Bay Area this evening.  Wedding was, but augh spending so much time with so many people I don't really like.  Weddings.  At least I can get out of the state before anyone finds the bodies got through the week without killing any one.  My favorite thing about New Orleans is, no surprise, the jazz clubs.  God, ( Read more... )

Well I'm better than yesterday by some degree.  More irritable and less depressed.  My mother needs to stop mentioning things I'm having problems with to other people.  Especially my sister.  She's so damn judgmental ( Read more... )

I think it's just a bit of a muscle pull, I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow about some very minor chest pains I've been having for about a week now.  Even so, I'm incredibly anxious about the whole thing ( Read more... )

Dear youknowwhoyouare ( Read more... )

On a less directly depressing note, I find it amusing that nearly all cultures of the world and in history, many entirely on their own, found some way of producing alcohol.  Vodka from potatoes, rum as a part of sugar production, whiskey from rye, sake from rice, wine from grapes, beer from barley ( Read more... )

San Francisco Chronicle front page today?

City College of San Francisco cancels summer classes due to budget cuts.

Sad.

To get on a bit of a soapbox, budget cuts are at least partially because people who lose homes don't pay property taxes and a general lack of employment.

We're in a depression. Has anyone remembered how we got out? Public work ( Read more... )

You know, studying history, I have to wonder what it is psychologically that allowed so many people in history to, upon 'discovering' another country met life there that was quite clearly humans, even if they had different features, languages, ways of life and skin colors, and so easily dehumanize them ( Read more... )

Oh my god, you guys, my Advanced Japanese teacher's power point presentation for the class orientation had an motivational poster of Courage Wolf in it.