Anecdotage? And then light contemplation.

So, I promised bastet88, who's made cameos in this journal before as roommate!Corey, that if she read my journal it wouldn't just all be about Japanese boybands. And it's not! Almost no Japanese boybands are mentioned in this entry. But I did have a lot of thoughts about something that's happened in the Japanese boyband fandom. So there's a whole section on fandom and fanficcy stuff, but it's behind a cut so it's like it's not even here!!

Real life. Uhm. Is tiring! I've got all my classes and work clumped together so I have afternoons off from 2:30, which is excellent, but my day is very rushed. And there's just no time to get homework done in the last minute before class. XD Which is dangerous. Also, I'm not in the swing of what I need to do in the weekends.

And then Monday and Tuesday evenings were spent SLAVING AWAY at the Sophian. (student newspaper, where I am now Assistant Layout Editor!) That comment was for roomate!Corey's benefit, as I am her newspaper underling. Actually, this week was lots of fun. Much riotous mirth, I got to add eyes to a drawing of an elephant with hilarious consequences! I've had a couple of good laughing moments lately. Last week I was thinking about how I tried to explain the word "CanAsian" (Canadian Asian. A word that I think is awesome that I made up as a gift for certain people but it doesn't seem to be catching on. ::deep sigh::) to Corey and her dad and some other people at Corey's birthday ice cream party, and I was just laughing to myself. But by the time I reached my house, I was just remembering laughing in general, and I couldn't remember what I was laughing about (it came to me later). So someone I walked past was like "You seem happy! What's so funny?" And I had to tell them that I had no idea and was apparently laughing at nothing.

Also, yesterday I was trying to explain Kick the Can TOKIO VS ONE HUNDRED COPS to shadowflute (that's right, it's Giving the LJ Names of Real Life Friends week here at Laura's journal!) and I was trying to tell her that I got ticked off at the cops for camping at the cans and guarding them really, really closely. But I had a total language failure and said that "The cops squat on the cans." DX She laughed at me for about 15 minutes. But, you know, I'm a gracious person. I was happy that I could have made her happy.

And today I was very prepared for, uh. One of my classes. But it's the one I had to be prepared for! And I spoke lots and probably came across as a suck-up, but I'm still overall pleased. I said some good things. It's a 2 and a half hour class (AUGH) and with forty-five minutes left, the professor said to me, "Laura, I want you to know that you're the only person in the class who hasn't yawned yet." Which was a minor miracle, cos I'm pretty sleep deprived (I started reading all the Finder I could find on the website last night, since mine are all at home. AUGH, want. And I couldn't stop. Rachel's totally a hottie, I realized now. DAMN.) but I was actually really engaged in the material. Which is the Mishna, the redacted Oral Torah of the Tannaitic period. So, yeah, major geekery, but it was interesting and we were learning a lot, which I like. ANYWAY. My point of all this was that yay for me not having yawned and her having noticed that, I guess, but shit! It's almost impossible not to yawn after someone says something like that to you, especially when you're tired! But then I didn't want her to see me yawn, cos I didn't want to break my streak, so I spent sort of too much of the last part of class trying not to yawn or trying to conceal my yawning.

Speaking of which, SO TIRED. But I have off tomorrow! Yaaaay! I just have to haul myself outside to get my mail at some point. And it's my fake birthday on Sunday! Yaaaay! And I'm hosting senior wine and cheese with Steph (aforementioned shadowflute, which will feature cupcakes! And me cleaning my room! And next weekend Katie is here I think and I can finally watch 5 ROUND II which of course doesn't feature Japanese boybands at all because I'm not mentioning them and also the kick the can thing had nothing to do with Japanese boybands. If you think about it, TOKIO's a manband! So it's cool.

Goal for this weekend is to revise my resume. Argh, it's just stressful. STRESSFUL. And I want to convert videos for uploading. And. . . I should do some job searching or whatever. Some proactive job searching. I had this whole little fantasy train of thought about doing what the dude said to force myself into DC Comics. I LOVE COMIC BOOKS but I don't think I'm that motivated to work at a comic book company, especially because I don't want to be a comic book creator. I gave up my dream of inking a while ago, it's not for me. I wonder what other types of jobs there are at a company like that, though. I bet I've got a good blend of comic book love and high level of competence. My dad knows Paul Levitz's cousin, I think. XD Actually, Paul's been promoted since I last looked him up. He used to be VP. What happened to Jennette Kahn? Ahh, she left in 2002! That's when everything got shitty!! Grrr. Actually, I guess if I want to go to Paul Levitz somehow and wheedle a job out of him, I shouldn't say that the company got shitty. I just don't like Infinite Crisis. But if I'd been around during Crisis on Infinite Earth, I would have been REALLY UNHAPPY while it was happening. But I totally love the results of it. And there needs to be a clean-up and re-vamping every 25 years or so. (I'm not just sucking up when I say that. He's not going to read my journal, that's really what I think.)

OK, that's gotten long enough and I could think of more things to say, but I'm just getting tired-er so they'll get more ridiculous, and you can't want to read them. XD The following was written before I wrote the rest of the entry, so I was fairly lucid.

( Fandom stuff behind cut, sorry Corey! Mostly about the Fanficcers Meme )

Now I'm off to read ames_909's translation of the first half of Okada's Oshaerism interview. (I had no idea where to insert that link. XD)

Oops, was that about Japanese boybands? >.>

While I'm at it. . . got some Shonentai downloads today. NO PARTICULAR REASON. NOT ATTEMPTING TO LAY GROUNDWORK FOR ANY PROJECTS THAT I MAY WANT TO UNDERTAKE.