Hey all -- sorry I haven't been posting many personal entries lately. Things kinda suck and not in an interesting way -- it's just more of the same general shit and I'm getting pretty tired of it. Work at the bookstore is grating on my soul, and what's more apparently the store's budget was cut and now they can only schedule me to work two days out of the week. So while I'll have more time off now to clear my head and hopefully seek out other work, and since I didn't make too much to begin with it won't be all that big a deal financially speaking, it still comes as something of a blow. It's a little insulting, actually. Since I've started working at the bookstore, no less than two associates have been promoted to assistant manager in less than a month from the day they started working there, whereas I've been there since June and haven't even gotten my three month evaluation with its accompanying raise. There's other stuff that bothers me but I won't go into it. Suffice it to say that I feel like I'm being shat on bigtime and I'm just sick of it all and tired of this life. (more...)

I was just eating some cheesy fries when I noticed a strand of cheese hovering conspicuously in the air... and then it detached itself from the fries and flew top-speed towards my monitor! The static electricity pulled the cheese right off of the fries!

The degauss button has since been pressed.

Things were a little scary there for a while, but I think I'm okay now. Apparently I didn't mention that I was having trouble breathing in the last post, but that was also one of my many unpleasant symptoms... several folks have suggested maybe that it was a food allergy, and admittedly the thought crossed my mind (it did feel a little reminiscent of the time I got food poisoning, though with more swelling and breathing problems and less vomiting), but I hadn't eaten anything, so I ruled that out. Not like it would've mattered once I was on my deathbead! So after lying down, switching to frantic mouth-breathing when my nostrils became unable to take in much of anything, and apparently drifting in and out of consciousness, I found myself able to breathe again. (more...)

Okay, I just started feeling really awful... I think something bad's about to happen. My neck is swelling, my eyes are really red, I'm starting to feel faint and flushed and kinda numb... not good. I'm going to lie down now, but in the event that I don't get up and you don't hear from me again, it's been fun. Sorta. Okay, not really. Sometimes, I guess. But take care of yourselves, minna-san. <3

It's happened again. Every now and then I swing by eBay to check and see if something obscure and/or from Japan that I want is available. Usually it's not, and most of the time when it is it's too expensive for me to even consider purchasing unless I really really desire it (oh, how I lusted after that Turtle Saint action figure -- don't laugh; that thing is beautiful), but occasionally I find the object of my affections for sale and at a price I can afford. But that's never the only thing I find, because then I decide to check for something else that has eluded me in the past. (more...)