Nyotaimori

i almost died a couple of times last night driving home from the inflatable supermodels show in fairfax at 1am way past my bedtime. i kept looking around going, gosh. why is it so dark? and then remembering that my eyes were dilated from an earlier trip to the eye doctor that self-same day. plus the roads were wet and i did a little fishy tail all over an on ramp between freeway junctions. but that was as nothing compared to the horror i felt 2 days prior upon learning that one of my good friends from college, miss lindsay “pizza rice” baynes was being activated from the reserves and deployed.

she left this message on my phone that was like, “deployed. this week. phone being turned off. call me back really soon.” all amongst scary little sob-catching noises. and i panicked! i called erica immediately and told jason and jenny by email the next day.

i tried to call her back at lunch–no go. i then called when i got home from work and managed to learn the semi-relieving news that she wasn’t leaving the country, yet, she was just being activated but kept at a base here in the US somewhere for now. she couldn’t say where though because apparently it’s classified till she gets there or something. wierd.

it’s nice to know that she’s not being sent to iraq or korea at the moment but there’s still that potential and that’s worrisome. i worry at it like a sore tooth. i think, ‘goddamm what if we really do go to war and the shit economy becomes even shittier and lindsay is in the huge-non-fun-playing-sandpit-not-of-our-youths wth guns and and bombs?’ and then i’m tempted to go to the march tomorrow but am still generally against marches and rain and also getting up early. because i don’t believe in anything enough or long enough to care enough to do anything about it.

i did however expend the energy to learn about military blogs. because that was stimulating. my favorite is this one by lieutenant smash but you can find more from this article on them at msnbc.

idiot’s guide to continuity on buffy the vampire slayer.

many funny lord of the rings dialogue jokes. many. as in, this is very long. but can there ever be too many funny parody lines of lotr? i think not.

i swear i’m writing a real post in my head right now and will get it down eventually and stop with this dumb links nonsense.

i bought my coachella ticket

I also bought tickets to this show on broadway for jason and i to go see when i’m over visiting in april. center of the front row, baby. i am going to be living it up in the apple which is more than a usual size.

Or Why Japanese is Better than English.

Kobo Daishi was this famous Japanese Buddhist priest. and we’re talking famous like….umm…elvis presley famous. he pretty much invented the japanese language. sort of. see what happened was they stole the chinese writing and then daishi (die-she) created “uniquely” japanese symbols for all the sounds. later on they said, “fuck you and everything you have done for us, china.” and invaded. but that’s a different story.

real-life re-enactment:

scene: buddhist priest wandering around dispensing wisdom and becoming enlightened while making up lots of little squiggly lines to stand in for sounds.

“Hmmm,” he says to himself or possibly his disiples, “i am so cool with my striaght lines, curved lines, and truncated lines. i can do anything! i bet i could write a poem using each one of these sound-symbols ONLY ONCE.”

end real-life re-enactment.

and then that crazy bastard did. and it’s famous. cause he’s famous. and they used to alphabatize everything in the order of this poem. so like we have a-b-c, they had i-ro-ha. now for some obscure reason they have a-i-u. which makes a lot more sense really.

the point is–could we make a poem using only each letter of our alphabet once? i think not.

english-8, japanese 1.

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kristen produced an astounding idea today.

t-shirts.

should we have them? what would our baseball name be? would we have a league? should we all be representatives from different baseball teams so we can compete against each other? or just have two teams in one league. should we be from sponsors? what do you think? come up with name ideas. i dare you. and then second project will be coming up with logos and designs.

if we do this now, we’ll have it all prepared in plenty of time for when we actually start playing in april or may.