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How's life?
Life is good. Thanks. I just finished my anthropology exam and got permission from two professors to head out early for spring break so that I can attend a freaking sweet symposium on environmentalism in Asia taking place in Kentucky University. Tatematsu Wahei, the author the book I wrote my final report on in Japanese last semester is speaking thursday night on current environmental issues in Japan and how they are reflected in fiction and the media. I'm am sooo exciting about attending! However, I don't really want to go alone so if anyone is free Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21 and are interested in the Environment, you should definitely come with me and attend this thing. It will be sweet, because Tatematsu Wahei is a really good author, and an environmental activist (plus for a middle aged guy, he's pretty darn attractive if the pictures are anything to go by). Simran, you should come with me!!!!! Please! (but you don't have to. I'm thinking of asking my dad if he wouldn't mind taking that friday off work to come with me if no one else is interested. Im wimpy enough to be scared of going alone. Matt, you should tell Mr. Hochstrasser about it. You are taking Environmental Studies right now, right? Hmmm, I don't remember.

[link]

This is the website for the symposium. It's going to be educational, that's probably one of the reason's my professor's don't mind giving me permission to skip off for Spring Break early. That and I asked really early and I am a freaking sweet student that emits an aura or trustworthyness.

I finished my first full game on PSP, Legend of Heroes II, and have started Final Fantasy II. It's alot of fun, and it's quite nice to hear all this music I know that was reused in later final fantasy games in this early game. That and it seems like some new movies have been added in, i.e, a very good graphic intro movie that I hope there will be more of.

Anyway, you should all tell me how you are doing. Hows life? How's school? fighting off the depression easily enough?

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/16612326/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/16612326/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:33:40 PST Chicago to Cincinnati. Throughout all that time I never slept until that final flight to Cincinnati. I got home around 3:00 in the morning and could only sleep until 10:30 when I had to get up for a doctor's appointment. For once my doctor agreed that I was really messed up and not just complaining about a cold he couldn't help me with like the majority of the patients that come in. I even had an ear infection. I hadn't known about that. I thought my ears just hurt because I was flying for a prolonged period of time while seriously congested.

One of the single most painful moments in my life occurred during that trip home. My ears hadn't popped since landing in Chicago, so I was congested and nearly deaf wandering about the airport. Ordering my dinner at McDonalds was far more difficult that it should have been thanks to that. After eating with a small indian child staring at me for the whole meal I was blowing my nose. Without warning my ear finally popped. My head spun and I seriously thought I would either pass our or collapse from the pain.

Never mind the three hour delay in my flight.

But I Loved Japan and I really enjoyed the trip. I actually had a dream last night that I was still in Japan and traveling. Let's just say I was really confused upon waking.

Things are really busy in my house right now, so no company allowed. It's a freaking mess. Earlier this year there was a crack in the foundation of our house, so now whenever it rains, water leaks into our basement. We haven't been able to fix it yet, so our basement is a perpetual mes with all the stuff moved away from the wall iwth the leak and the carpet ripped out. Saturday my uncle arrived from Puerto Rico. He's going to be living with us until he gets a job and can get on his feet in Ohio. Once he's on his own, he's buying a house and his kids ( my cousins ) are moving up from Puerto Rico to live with him until they set up on their own. Even their youngest, Diana will be coming and going to college in the US instead of Puerto Rico. Natasha, my cousin who is a year younger than me and married desperately wants to leave Puerto Rico and is just waiting for her dad to get set up here so she and her husband can stay with him and get set up. Christian, a year younger than my brother will come up once he graduates college. None of them have told their mom about this (their divorced) and she doesn't even know that my uncle is in Ohio with us, just that he is now somewhere in the states. The family drama here runs DEEP.

So yeah, my uncle is living with us. I hadn't seen him since I was 11. It's weird. And now a bunch of realtives are moving up here? I've never had realtives all living within reach, I don't know how to handle it.

Also in the house right now are my brother and his girlfriend. So my house in packed and a mess. My uncle's boxes are all over the place. And to top it all off, the drying machine broke this weekend. My mom was going to have a panic attack. I spent Sunday morning at the laundromat with her. Clothes there for six people, with two weeks worth of clothing there from me and my trip in Japan, there was alot of clothing that needed washing.

At least now the dryer has been fixed. My mom and I took the pets to the vet for their yearly chekcup this morning. This will blow your minds, but Snow the adorable dog was viscious. Pokey the demon cat didn't even try to bite and was handled without protest. that right there is a mind boggler.

Jeez, I rarely write this much, and there is no news in here about my time in Japan! I guess I'll do that update later. Stay tuned!

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/16293043/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/16293043/ Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:29:20 PST I'm sure everyone goes back to school before I get back. Enjoy spring semester. Have fun!

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But he is a beautiful fish. I nearly left him to get a crowntail instead, but I decided that the crowntail betas are scary looking, even if they are more vibrant than the regular betas. They scare me too much. My mom was pushing me to get the really bright turquoise fish, but once again I went for a darker fish. He's a nice sapphire blue, some variations in the shade on his body and fins. His lower fins fade into a nice vibrant red. His fins fan out nicely. Now I'm just waiting to see how strong he is in the long run to name him. But I'm open to suggestions now!

I went to the Ren Fest on Saturday. Met Jen there, and Isaw Kathryn! I was not expecting that! But I spent most of the day with my mom. This was her first Ren Fest. She liked it, and I thought she might pass out laughing watching the shows. However, neither of us bought a lot. I got a stone wolf pendant. My mom got one of a white cat. I also bought a chain mail choker that stretches!!! It is sooooo cooooooooll!!!

My mom and I did more shopping yesterday. I tried on like all of the jeans they carry at Kohl's, but still couldn't find any that fit comfortably. I was tired of trying things on and was just going to go to petsmart to check out the beta, then go home. My mom has us stop at Old Navy, and I ended up finding alot of good sales. We splurged in the clearance rack. Got a bag full of $2 and $4 merchanise! And I got some very comfortable jeans for $20. All good for a day's shopping!.

Oh, and I don't think I've told any of you this yet either. My mom's van sucked, we had to repair it monthly, with the repairs being in the upper hundreds and thousands each month. They finally got sick of it, got rid of the van at a loss, having to pay the place to take the van ( we hadn't even finished paying for it yet!!!). My parents did some car searching and ultimately bought a Toyota Prius! It is so cooool! I drove it to the Ren Fest and out shopping yesterday. It's so cool. And the gas mileage is amazing. I'm so happy! Its spacious inside and it has a moniter that tells you how much battery you have and where the power your using is coming from (using gas, using battery, charging battery). I love this car! Sad thing is now my geo is parked outside. Before the van didn't really fit in the garage, so my geo got the spot. Now the prius goes there. I don't mind, I just hope the geo survives the winter outdoors. It turns 12 this year!

And final news! Pokey turned 12 on October 1. My cat is a senior citizen ( that can still kill people). but she is getting sweeter with old age... to our family.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14999412/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14999412/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:03:42 PDT



JAPAN!!!!!
YAY! I just got the news by email on Monday. (If you'd read my japanese blog, you would know already cause I got really excited and went to write about it right away...in Japanese....)

anyway, i should be getting more information soon. I know I'll be spending 2 and 1/2 weeks in Tokyo and Kyoto conducting research of my choice, my choice being Japan and Environmental issues. Still waiting for more info, like travel dates, total cost (somewhere between $750 an $1000) and all that junk. Oh man, I'm so happy!

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Anyway, so I started one in English in the same site. I got a pretty background, and pretty pictures of my pets posted to make it happy. Now when bored I go and ramble happily on until i get bored. I'm thinking of actually writing some of my dreams on there since mine basically pass for stories, and using it as a place to right rough versions of portions of my stories. ( i don't like putting unfinished work on deviant art, and since all of my long fiction is unfinished, none of it is on here....)

Enough of that, if any of you are interested its [link]

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14563081/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14563081/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:51:00 PDT
anyway, I like all of my classes so far. Japanese 401 seems like its going to be alot of work that I'm not really looking forward to, but there are new people in the class that just came back from Japan, or transfered from another school that might make things more fun.

I have a goal to do most of my readings this year ( last year i kinda just looked at the covers of the books and put them back down). So far its shaping up to be alot of work, but that's okay, I'll get over it.

My room mate put pictures of out room up on facebook and tagged me on one of the pictures, so if you're interested in checking it out ( which you should because my room is freaking awesome, just go to my photos and look for one tagged to me from the album "Our Room", that should cover everything. or not, I don't know, I'm not facebook savvy.

i'm going to go do something that required less brain power than writing, cause my head hurts. bye.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14216911/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/14216911/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:08:53 PDT
Also I finished Harry Potter 7, i don't think i have ever cried so much over a book, it was soooooo good!

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for starters, Renji is healthy and doing great. for a fish Renji's got a alot of personality and he makes me happy. its cute when I am sitting at my desk and i look up at the tank in time to see him flare at me. he spends alot of time flaring at random things, I think he thinks he cool or something.

I've been workin at the theatre. Eliot, sim and i are sticking it out. i kinda enjoy working there. i actually like alot of my co workers, which is amazing. and the pay is good. despite decreased hours, i still work forty plus hours every two weeks, earning me around three hundred every paycheck which is pretty darn sweet.

in August I am going to new york with my parents to visit my brother at a music camp in Chatauqua new York. He's playing in a recital, i have no doubt he'll be one of the best there, if not the best, because he's always doing that and making other people feel like crappy musicians. (like me!)

I'm really excited to be going back to school. I have the same room mate, we have a room on the third floor of the all girl's cottage on campus ( the only unisex building on campus). the building, Baldwin Cottage, is freakin beautiful. there are little living rooms with full bookshelves and plush chairs and couches on every floor, and a piano/ practice room on the first floor. I can't wait! maybe I'll just keep my cello in my room this year and not get a locker for it. Baldwin in right across the street from the conservatory, so it shouldn't be hard to get my cello to practices! (except for the three flights of narrow stairs...then there's that...)

I'm even looking forward to starting my classes this year! Im taking Japanese 401, and a on pre-Meiji Japanese history, philosophy, economics, and Marine Geology. Im really looking forward to Marine geology. i took two geology courses this past semester, one on glaciology and climate change, and another on the evolution of life on earth, and i liked both professors, and both professors are teaching the Marine Geology course!

I'm also looking forward to september 13th, when the Final Fantasy VII Crisis core for PSP comes out in Japan. I'm ordering the limited edition Crisis core pack from japan with the game and a new silver slim psp with FFVII and an image of Cloud, Sephiroth and Zack o nthe back of it. I can't wait. I eagerly await the beginning of preorders!

i still hven't finished reading Harry Potter 6, let alone began HP 7, but i will before this summer ends.

that just about sums everything up. how's life been with all of you? I know most of Tee's summer ,and i know Matt's life sucks right, and i know how life is with Jen, but what about the rest of you? what's up?

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My room mate leaves tomorrow. She came back last week, her grandpa died a few days ago. She's finishing up the year, then she'll go home for the funeral. She said it wasn't so bad because she knew his death was coming, and she got to see him one more time. That made me happy.

Who knows what I'll do with myself on friday. I'll probably try to finish up on packing so I can experiment in living in an empty room, that would be nice. Or not. Most of my posters are already off the walls and in storage for next year.

I'm actually pretty anxious for next year. i get to live in Baldwin which is this absolutely beautiful older cottage. I'm on the third floor, which kinda sucks, and Heather and I kinda got stuck with the smallest room in the whole building, but I'm still excited to live there. We'll have a HUGE closet! almost as big as out room. Today I just bought a nightstand from a graduating senior, its really pretty, it's going to be Renji's place.

anyway, I can't wait to go home, only five more days! I come home on Sunday! I'm almost there!!!

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/12867638/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/12867638/ Sun, 06 May 2007 18:55:18 PDT
Im filling out applications to work. I'm hoping for Borders, Bath and Body Works or even TJ Maxx. I'm also applying to Barnes and Nobles and New York and Company. I really hope to get a job this time!!

I need to work on japanese now. We have a project due friday and I need to have my script kinda done by tomorrow. I'll fill out one more application and get to work. (not like filing out applications isn't work enough...)

Ill be seeing you all soon! Good luck on exams.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/12065184/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/12065184/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:29:56 PST
Names!
Renji
Kenpachi- Pachi for short
Sen
Rui
Aki
Haru
Puu

My roommate really likes Sen.... I'm leaning towards Renji. I like the 'i' on the end. renji, like Benji! plus, he reminds me of the character.

And ohmigosh, this fish eats alot! The directions on the food say I should feed him four pellets twice a day, but he'll happily eat twice that amount, so eight pellets twice a day. After he eats his four he looks at me, waiting for more! He's going to get fat, can bettas get fat?

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So today when I went out of town for breakfast with my bro and roommate, we stopped by petsmart and got a new fish. But not a goldfish.

According to the fish guy at Petsmart, goldfish are actually more high maintenance than betta which are used to small dirtier conditions, rather than goldfish who produce more filth than they can survive in.

If you havet guessed yet, I bought a betta fish! He's all red with a little silver tip to strip of his lower fins. He's very lively and cute! And unlike Dante, this one actually eats his food! I have high hopes for him. what should I name him? Presently, Im thinking very unoriginal with 'Aka' or red in Japanese. My room mate doesnt like Kai, it reminds her of a dumb kid from her politics class. What do you think?

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/11686098/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/11686098/ Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:27:06 PST
NO, I HAVE NOT BEEN ON VACATION ALL MONTH, ITS CALLED WINTER TERM, I'VE BEEN WORKING!

I am in the midst of unpacking an wondering when i will be able to buy my bio text book since the book store closed at five and if my geology books will arrive before my first readings are due.

i kinda accidentally on purpose forgot my plant at home. i was planning on leaving it, but i never made the decision...i kinda forgot to bring it. oh well. now i have a fish.

not a beta, but a cute little gold fish, who is not gold. He's actually calico, a calico fantail to be exact. What should i name him? I like Pan...maybe cause i just saw Pan's Labrynth, which was freaking awesome! or maybe Saka, that's cute. (short for sakana!) or maybe i should just call it Koi.

I like that...Koi. what do you think?

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anyways, I couldn't sleep last night, i kept jolting awake for absolutely no reason. I actually woke up at three and was wide awake, unable to sleep until five. FIVE! i think I might go pass out now, because that is just the right thing to do. See ya all later.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10703009/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10703009/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:00:00 PST
Message over, good bye!

No, but, sigh. It went better than last time. I came in very last place....again. then again, given that I am the least experienced fencer attending, it makes sense. But losing still sucks.

the way the tournament works:
all the fencers of a certain weapon are sorted into seeds (groups of five or so).
Everyone within a seed fights every one else from their seed in three minute bouts to five points.
After that is done, the total points you earned are all added together. You are then ranked in comparison to all other participants of that weapon from all seeds. (I had 2! Please note that that is why i came in last.)

they use this ranking to decide who goes up against who in the direct elimination portion of the tournament. the winner of the direct elimination wins the tournament an earns a rating. (I am unrated....) The direct elimination bouts are fifteen minutes long, or the first to 15 points. this is divided into three segments with a minute break inbetween for a breather. this is very challenging.

things is, in deciding who goes against who, they use the ratings. (As i said.) so i turns out being 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, 3 vs 14, 4 vs 13, 5 vs. 12, 6 vs 11 and so on. This is all fine and dandy for the later bouts that are of pretty equal rating. But for the first one, 1 vs. 16, they pit the worst (me!!) against the best in the tournament so far ( she had a freaking rating, she'd won fucking national competitions before!!!!) this is not very fair.

So our match was over in five minutes. I got stabbed very hard in the thigh after one of my many ineffectual parries, ( at least this one prevented her from getting the point) all in all I got three points in my final match. last tournament I got all of 1.

I guess it went pretty well. Never mind the fact that losing sucks. I hadnt eaten an actual meal all day becasue i felt sick and then not eating made me feel even more sick. I had a really beautiful sunday!

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10694416/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10694416/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:53:17 PST
Yeah, so my second college fencing tournament ever is taking place tomorrow. Last time I basically had my ass handed to me by everyone there but some woman named Michelle (just like me!) It's going to be the same way again. Then again, in comparison to everyone else there I am the least experienced fencer, so it shouldn't bother me, except losing always sucks even if you know that winning is impossible for you.

This time around there are going to be enough fencers there that i could get a rating. I'm going to get a very low rating...

But i will do my best! Since the last tournament I have been practicing (never mind that I missed over a week of practice recently because i got sick and had feminine problems consequetively.) I'll so my best none the less! Wish me luck. I'll post another journal with the outcome.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10371314/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10371314/ Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:20:31 PDT _<
Ah, the prelude to the cold winter to come. ^_^'

Thankfully my mom brought me my blue jacket when she and my dad came to see my brother's concert. She also brought more food than I could ever hope to eat: candy corn and oreos, butter and milk and bread and enough ramen to survive for about two weeks.

God I love my mom.

Now while I have my gloves, I left all my hats and scarves at home...all two of them. so right now I'm working on a new scarf out of the freaking humongous roll of yarn i got for three dollars on clearance at Jo-ann's fabrics. I love sales.^__^ The yarn changes from orange to brown to red and back to orange again, but its a very gradual change, its about two feet long now and only orange and brown. But I'm making progress, with the car rides as knitting time, I should finish the scarf in time for my return to Oberlin from fall break.

Oh yeah, you may not know it, but I have Fall Break! One week off from school. I'm going home to work and attend REN FEST! and I get to see my kitty meow meow and my feral gerbil and my happy doggy!(fat dog....-__-')

All that stands in the way of my vacation is one more Chemistry class and my Japanese 301 Midterm. Who thinks I'll pass? I don't I dont! ......JK!

Yeah, but funny thing, I'm here like "I have no midterms, yay!". Then i realize "Wow, I sure haven't had alot of Japanese hw this week, let's check the syllabus." So I go to the syllabus and realize there really is no hw, until I see friday and these four kanji the teacher asked me to read in class and i didn't know becasue they were't in the book. I know them now! Under friday the syllabus it said chuukanshiken....MIDTERM EXAM! dun dun dun! eheheh, funny story. then I didn't realize until class on wednesday the fact that i had a test that day in Japanese too. Ah, i can't beleive I'm passing that class. it's all kanji's fault. me no like Kanji! Yeah...I'm passing, no worries....


I'm done.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10156020/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/10156020/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:18:05 PDT Why must people hang out there? why?

i don't understand!

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9865938/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9865938/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:39:09 PDT ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9865930/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9865930/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:38:08 PDT ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9752362/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9752362/ Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:14:29 PDT
Seth is a really sweet black gerbil. She's not very social but she's good company. I want her to go to someone mature, not some kid that won't take care of her. I don't pick her up alot, no one else has to. she doesn't even like handling. Please help me. ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9682656/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9682656/ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:32:40 PDT
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. If I do this, you must post this in your journal ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9570172/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9570172/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:10:57 PDT
So my summer's been goo.d My brother is back from camp so you can all predict my patience is running really low with him. But he did push me to start working out. And I got a job for the rest of the summer. So things are good. i haven't been writing much, but i've been practicing cello. I'm coming along. My teacher keeps giving me some really hard stuff to practice, but I'm pulling through. (Just remember, in terms of etudes, Popper is the devil)

I'm working on the second mvt of the Haydn Cello Concerto. It is so beautiful. I love it. However the cadenza written in by the editor leaves much to be desired. My teacher asks me, "Do you like that cadenza?"

I answer, "I like the cadenza from the first mvt much better. This one's just..."

"That's what I thought. I don't like this cadenza. It doesn't sound anything like the rst of the peice. It doesn't fit. Who wrote htat?"

" It was Milos Sadlo-Mstislav Rostropovich..............I can't believe I could actually read that."

"Well he sucks. You should write your own cadenza." My teacher concluded. "That will be your summer assignment. continue working on the second movt. and write your cadenza."

And so....I am scared shitless of writing my own cadenza. Hopefully I can manage. ciao. ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9171782/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9171782/ Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:33:15 PDT
Anyway, we drove ten hours today and i drove half of that. I drove through out of Florida, all the way through Georgia and into South Carolina before we traded drivers. there was a break in there and my dad drove the first part in Florida. In the end we each drove about five hours today. I am sooooooooo tired. ugh

So some of the last news about Florida. I never did have any luck with gambling. But i wasn't dumb enough to lose all my money there. For the three of you whose birthdays are involved in the July birthday trifecta(or however you spell that) I bought all of you matching presents in the Hard Rock Hotel shopping center. Hopefully you like it. I need only know one thing. Who gets what? Basically I need to know who wants the hot pink, who wants the neon green and who wants the sapphire blue. My idea is for the asian sensation to get the blue, the alphabet to get the neon green and the other crazy one to get the pink. Any objection and you should tell me.

yeah, so I'm on my way home. I'll be taking a shower now cause I'm tired and ready for bed. I'll be home Monday. I'm open to commication then.

Bye Bye! ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9140167/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9140167/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:46:11 PDT
After that we went to a little zoo they have on site here and saw lots of alligators and crocodiles, some moutain lions, a baby racoon who was sooooo cute, and a gray fox. All adorable. While looking at the mountain lions, one of the keepers saw us and since we were basically the only ones there, he came to talk to us and tell us about the animals. This guy had so many stories. He told us all about the personalities of the animals there. It turns out that my cat is almost exactly like the mountain lions there. the biggest plus is he came out with there baby bobcat and showed him to us up close as he bottle fed him. You don't kow cute until you see a baby bobcat. his name is phoenix. Adorable!!!!

Anyway, I'm off to go gamble my money away at the slot machines with my mom. If i get lucky, i might win. See ya later! ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9099888/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9099888/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:49:34 PDT
Anyway, my dad has his laptop with him. That way I can actually keep my buds posted on my Florida journey. Yay!

One more bit of news. My brother is not on this trip with us because he is at a music camp in North Carolina, called Brevard. So my brother accidently forgot his credit card. He borrowed my dad's and gave both his and my dad's back. Problem. So we had to detour off of our route to Florida to hit North Carolina and give him his money source. To think that that very morning before he left ahead of us for Brevard we thought we wouldn't see him for several weeks. Good news is he had left over chinese food from a really nice restaurant there that he gave me. it was really good.

I'll keep you posted on the Florida experience. See ya fools! ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9086962/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9086962/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:22:00 PDT ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9052061/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/9052061/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:08:29 PDT Say hi jen.

Jen: DOGGIE PADDLE!

Dude, we went swimming.

Jen: THE WATER'S RACING UP TO MY FACE.

Dude, yeah, that was the story of the night. The water rose up to meet us as we swam around. alot of doggie paddling. Some sinking. Jen somehow managed to bruise herself. In the water. Talent

Jen: the water bruised me. the bruise is getting worse! it's spreading~!!! argh. Now I can't wear a skirt.

Yeah, anyways, I recommend you go to the library and check out the anime Mythical Detectice Loki Ragnarok. It's a good story. and the main character is cute. and when he grows up he's really hot. dude.

We are now going to see what else we can do to entertain ourselves now that we've run out of anime. Meanwhile jen is harassing my mousepad. Poor thing. doesn't deserve the torture.

Jen: But it's squishy! I'll buy my own and cut it open.

Note the problem. Good night fools. Dude.

]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/8685749/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/8685749/ Fri, 05 May 2006 20:38:26 PDT
I should name them. They're going to be in my yard for a long time. and I'm pretty sure they'll grow healthy, I asked my fortune ball. It said, "like totally." I was thinking one should be sam. Sam is a good name for a tree. Short and strong. what you think? ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/8403283/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/8403283/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:10:57 PDT

I'm in ALASKA!! I'm visiting Alaska Pacific University, a tiny but really nice university in Anchorage, Alaska. The people here don't even know it's here as i discovered in
Anchorage after I missed the bus back to campus.

One common misconception about Alaska is that it's really cold. Actually, yeah it's cold, but not that cold, it's nice out here right now. Just the right climate for me in the thirties and forties. And despite the long dark winter, right now the days are confusingly long, lasting from 7 AM until 9PM, and they only get longer from here.

Tomorrow I go skiiing for the first time ever. Should my friends see me return to school on Monday severely injured, they'll now know why. i'm accident prone before you put me doing anything physical, imagine what happens when I'm on skis.

I've been sitting in on classes, listening to information meetings and blah blah blah. the classes are tiny, they average like thirteen people a class. the entire enrollment here is like 600. Everybody knows you and everybody is nice. quite a change from where i live. it's nice.

I lost so much sleep on my first day here, and i'm still behind on sleep so that I am SOOOOO FREAKING TIRED! but i don't go to bed...no, that would be smart. I'm not smart. I just look it.

I'll see you all on Monday or tuesday, depending if i feel like going to school when I arrive in Cincinnati at 9 AM monday. It's so not worth it.

me ]]> ~KuraiMachete http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/7706273/ http://KuraiMachete.deviantart.com/journal/7706273/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:42:16 PST
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