line

Friday, 13 January, 2006 at 7:14 pm

Hmm … I meant to type “lion” into a search but I actually type “line.” O.o It made me think of that “lion/line cut” joke.

But anyway. I make typos, switching letters around or even putting in letters that aren’t anywhere in the word (which I seem to be doing a lot of at the moment), or missing letters. But I never type in (correctly) a different word than I was thinking. Um. Maybe I did when someone was talking to me and I was typing. But other than that. I just thought it was weird.

(I also rather enjoyed The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which I saw on New Year’s day. :b)

2005 book list

Sunday, 8 January, 2006 at 12:48 am

Wheee, I remembered to update. :P Here’s a list of all the books I managed to read in 2005 (plus a few from 2004 >.>). (List started January 22, 2005.) I was trying to read 100 books in one year. I didn’t read that many, just half (including the few from 2004 ^^;). Another goal I’d like to accomplish in life is to read 100 books in one year! (Even though that would amount to reading one book every 3.65 days. …Unless I did it in a leap year, then it’d be 3.66 days…)

It’s kind of weird. I look over the list, and I think, Wow, I read that book then? It seems like so long ago… Like The Handmaid’s Tale or The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I want to reread Ender’s Shadow again. XD (Even though I already have about a half dozen books on my to-read list, not including class required reading. *ack*)

Also, wow, I’m gone for only one week and WordPress is updated. Hmmm, maybe I should leave other things alone and maybe they’ll get updated too… (Note to self, upgrade WordPress after backing up current state.)

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punk clothes

Saturday, 24 December, 2005 at 11:50 pm

I was reading Nana (volume 1) last night (or this morning, whatever) and when I got to Nana Oosaki’s story, with the image of her onstage in a punk outfit, I had this instant thought, ‘I love punk.’

Lately I’ve been not thinking of punk when I think of clothes to wear/buy (or even design). I guess I’ve been too influenced by all the snarky fashion commentary on tv, like on VH1 or the Style channel. It makes me think in a rather conservative, clean, picture-perfect mindset. But … I don’t need to dress that way yet. I’m still a student! I can express myself with punk-leaning outfits!

It’s not even the rebellion against “fashion” and high-priced brand names that get passed off as style that I like in punk. I just like how almost anything goes. It’s kind of like FRUiTS, but without the bright flashy 80s-style colors. :P

ecks Patriot Act

Friday, 16 December, 2005 at 11:08 am

The Senate on Friday refused to reauthorize major portions of the USA Patriot Act after critics complained they infringed too much on Americans’ privacy and liberty…

All right! XD

UK

Tuesday, 13 December, 2005 at 10:17 pm

Been updating my joined fanlistings page again.

Is the UK a country or not a country? I remember first reading on fanlistings, “UK is not a country.” Then … I don’t remember what I thought. Maybe at that time I was still confused about the whole England/UK/Great Britain/Britain thing. :x One time I decided to look up on the internet if the UK was a country or not, or if England was a country or not… Somehow I ended up at a U.S. government website about all the countries in the world (so obviously I got wrong information because the government always has some conspiracy or another going on /end sarcasm), and it listed the United Kingdom, but not England. So I thought that was solved.

But … but, I saw on a few fanlistings today saying the same old thing, that the UK isn’t a country. So I got confused again (because I’m just not sure about things like that; I just know that I like Neil Gaiman XP) and looked up on Yahoo “uk not a country” and I … didn’t really get an answer. I guess it depends on who you ask, ’cause some people in England/Scotland/whatever the third one is (Wales?) will say they don’t live in the UK country? (this is online … so there are bound to be the less intelligent?) I don’t know…

Then I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said the UK is a country, but it didn’t say England is a country … but I don’t one hundred percent trust Wikipedia, because heck my brother can change those entries (nothing against him though, just … general … >b feeling), although I guess any incorrect information would be corrected quickly (because people like showing that they’re smarter than other people). I dunno. Just confused. Maybe I listen to other people too much.

Noelle, you said the UK was a country, right? And you hang around the TFL boards. Have you ever read anything about people saying the UK isn’t a country?