[mood]: goodly
[music]: Hey, good idea... it's now Enrique Iglesias
[msn]: Stormy Pirate: Psh, bicycles.  My friends can cast fireball!

Calypso decided I was "stormy".  When I asked why, she said it was because she couldn't imagine me answering to "sunny".  Pirate is a given.  The quote is something I said at dinner.  My dad was pestering my brother: he's apparently always playing video games.  My dad said he saw a bunch of kids out riding bikes and thought, see, that's what Mason should be doing.  I replied with, "Psh, bicycles.  My friends can cast fireball!"  My dad was ill-impressed.  My brother, however, found it hilarious.

The Flaming Searat is what we named our ship in GURPS.  It started out as The Searat (as all my ships - fictional our real - do) and Alex added flaming because at that point, my character really sucked at casting Fire.  He's quite proficient at it now, however.

And... oh right.

I went for a walk with Juline last night and she reminded me of something that happened at the larp.  It was out-of-character, so had nothing to do with roleplay, but anyway... someone was talking, and then there was a long silence, and my brother said, "Gay baby born."  Yes, what the crap?  We asked.  He explained that whenever there's a long, uncomfortable pause, a gay baby is being born.  So that carried on for the rest of the night.  It's stupid, but it was funny - and will likely continue to be so for a while. -_-'

Anyway... I think... that's about all I've got for now... ...time to go do something random online before I have to go to work (yes I know I should be reading my English book, but shut up).

Have a lazy day.

/mads

[mood]: gurtly.
[music]: none.
[msn]: Jannin: Red Mage

My dreads are purple and blue.

Well, the ends of them anyway.  Photos soon-ish... ...I've said that a lot recently, I fear.

Recently I've been playing GURPS (Generic Universal Role-Play System).  It's very much like Dungeons & Dragons except you can pretty much apply it to anything.  Example given, I could have a "school" GURPS, where we play characters who are at school... and it would be boring as all hell, but I could do it.

Anyway, the game we're playing is Final Fantasy I.  Myles has adapted it to fit GURPS, which is pretty cool.  There have been some pretty hilarious moments so far, even though we've only played twice.  I'm Red Mage (I named myself Felix).  Otherwise it's Alex, Mason and Sean.  ...I'm also a were-rat, but I don't know it.  I woke up from my transformation, completely worn out, and the rest of my party told me I'd been going at it with a princess we'd just rescued.  ...jerks.  ...my rat side will definitely crush them.

I've done a couple of day trips so far this Spring Break... no hotels for me.  Mom and I went to Lethbridge (mostly a waste of time aside from some awesome Greek food).  The Jeep - Old Faithful (coughcough) had a problem with its alternater (yeah... I pretend to know what I'm talking about).  Either way, the battery wasn't charging.  On the way home it was dark, and we needed lights.  Problem: battery runs the lights.  So we had to pull over approximately every five minutes so I could get out of the car, tinker with this little black box until the loose wiring decided it liked me, then get back in again.  We would drive for another five, and again I'd get out.

At long last, approximately an hour and a half from home, it died completely.  We couldn't start it.  So we got to hitch-hike.  That was interesting.

Some people picked us up and drove us thirty minutes closer to home.  Then we called my dad.  He drove out, and we boosted the Jeep.  Actually we switched the batteries, but meh.  I drove my car home (frigging cold because there's no antifreeze and therefore no heat in it).  I kept myself awake by having a solo Great Big Sea concert... in which I sang.  ...To myself.  ...I need to get a tape deck or something.

So that was Lethbridge.

Next road trip: Banff with Kyla.  Kyla has a dependable vehicle, so that was a fun trip.  Mostly we went for the ride and not for the destination, but it was fun either way.  Kyla's pretty awesome.  Sadly the Blazer (her car... it's officially the Blazer) was broken into yesterday o.O  Some SOB stole her credit/debit card and driver's license (whatever!).  Broke her back window, apparently bled all over everything... dumbass.  So... grrr.

Interesting note: Banff is in Alberta, meaning I can buy liquor!!!!

I didn't, but hey, I had you going.  Kyla bought some booze, I got ID'd.  It was pretty awesome.  Apparently I was the first '88 she's seen this year.  Hurray for January birthday!

Lastly: Calgary with Justin.  It was awesometacular except for possibly the drive home.  We had dinner at the towery thing, which was pretty sweet.  I had duck and a really awesome Caesar salad.  Didn't really buy anything, as we didn't have a lot of time.  No more day trips to Calgary.  Overnight is a must.

So... now what?

I've programmed my kung-fu IDS site to calculate how many hours Sean and I have put in... Sean's got 59, and I've got 41.  ...not so hot.  Although technically if I make it to every class until July (which I won't, but I can put in extra practice) I'll make the cut.  We need 100 hours.

Here's some more random stuff:

Found an interesting dog online; the "Pharaoh Hound".  Not the most splendid creature ever, but it definitely has a cool name.

At kung-fu we were practicing "Iron Palm"; you pretty much whack things with the front and back of your hand.  Sean and I invented "Iron High-Five", in which you put the back of your hand against the back of your partner's hand, then draw back (of course, "using your hip and shoulder"), flip your hand over and do a high-five.  Takes a while to get the aim right, and only the kung-fuers really get it, but it's pretty awesome.  Alex is now in on it as well (he demanded to be part of it... oddball).

Oh right.  LARP.

There is a reason it didn't readily jump to my mind.  Mostly it's because I don't feel it went terribly well.  This is for a number of reasons, which I will now list:
1) Nothing might ever rival Larp05.
2) It was cold outside.  Not good for the spirits.
3) Something should have been in the middle of the room to break up conversations.  There was nothing there, so whenever someone began to speak, EVERYONE could hear them.  It probably shut up a lot of shy people.
4) Last minute changes to the plan: lost my lead antagonist the night before.
5) Should have had a break.  Last year everyone complained about the break, but we really need it.
6) More reasons I'm not going to depress myself with.

It was still good, just not as good.  But as stated in 1), I don't think a lot of things will rival Larp05.  Except maybe Myles's costume.

On another note, my parents did, of course, come home from Mexico.  That wasn't at all cool.  We got a stern talking-to because the house wasn't up to their standards... which is lame, because it was cleaner/as clean as it was when they left.  *grumble*

Anyway, time to depart.  Sleep calls.

I don't pick up the phone, of course, so it'll have to leave a message.

/mads

[mood]: shmeh.
[music]: none.
[msn]: Pirate

So... here we are on another Monday night.  Tomorrow morning I'll be up at the normal time, bopping around with Juline in my mad efforts to get things done for LARP, so for now, I give you a weak update.

We went to Festival in Kimberley.  It was awesome fun.  We got to see some really great plays, and perform ours for a pretty rocking audience.  Hamilton did a puppets workshop which was pretty hilarious.  The kids from other drama groups got supplies to make little puppets, which we helped them with.  Sadly Hamilton didn't buy any supplies for us, so Myles and I went nuts with the boxes the other supplies had come from... we built three puppets from leftover paperclip boxes, paperclips, felts and bits of material.  We made an "angry scottsman" puppet (aka Mr Hamilton) and performed a short play.  It was damn hilarious.  I'll post photos of the puppets soon-ish.

Aaaand... that's about it.  There's obviously more to say but I'm too tired/larp-pondering right now to write about it.

Sigh.

/mads

[mood]: gurt.
[music]: Great Big Sea
[msn]: Pirate

Today was fun.  Had a chem quiz, got 95%, at which I was fairly surprised.  Got a pretty good mark on my recent physics test as well, which is always nice.  That's turning out to be a pretty great class.  This evening I watched a video on the halocaust for English (they're watching it Friday but I won't be there) and went to the first night of drama fest.  It was pretty great.  Dana said, "What do you call a woman who works as hard as a man?   ...A lazy bitch."   I thought that was pretty awesome.  Then we watched three plays, "mingled" a little (which we should probably do more of) and came home... and now here I am.

Been drawing a little lately - mostly in English class.  We did a grammar worksheet today... I got one wrong... but out of 25 so really it wasn't so bad.  And I disagree with what he's saying anyway.  Grrr.  But I guess I'll go along.  Until I use it the wrong way and he doesn't correct me ;)  I'll catch him eventually.

Glenn got a new kung-fu outfit that's uber awesome.  It's black like ours, but instead of white buttons/wrists it has red.  It's fantastic.  Inspiring some art.

And that's it.  I trundle off to roleplay now...  Darc's trying to get me angry... "Apparently raising children does take the fight out of a man."

/mads

PS interesting quote from English:
"History will tear to tatters the verdict of this court."

Forget what it was talking about... but it's a cool quote nonetheless.

[mood]: good
[music]: Great Big Sea.
[msn]: Pirate: I wear armour to bed.

Joanna was apparently having a conversation with Erica about a band trip.  On this band trip, I had been in a room with Erica.  Joanna said she had trouble imagining me in pyjamas... she's an odd kid in that she mentions random crap like that.  She said "I always imagined she'd sleep in like, a suit of armour or something."  I thought that was cool.  Joanna's a funny kid.

Kyla is apparently going to visit my blog... Hi Kyla!

We decided in Chemistry today that she's a dragon... we were talking about a Ctrl-Alt-Delete comic where a D&D player rolls a 20 and automatically kills a dragon.  Kyla said, "That's exactly what I'd be like if I were a dragon.... I'm a fucking dragon."  So she became a dragon ("There are no problems you couldn't solve by just telling people who disagree with you that you're a dragon").  Then I drew a hooker on her papers saying, "Come here, tiger."  She insisted it had be "Come here, dragon", so it became tiger-dragon... ...we were bored, quite clearly.

Actually, lots of funny stuff has happened recently... most prominently our cast party at Boston Pizza.  Justin got to come, so that was cool, and it was beyond hilarity.  A small group of us (Juline, Kayla, Justin, Sidney, Dana and Joel) stayed until 11:oo.  It was awesome.

Interestingly enough, half of our puppet crew is sick due to close quarters with other sicklies backstage.  Thankfully I've had my illness for February (and hence the rest of the year) so I'm all good... so far.  Knock on wood and all.

Some highlights of the cast party: We gave Hamilton/Paron a card made of cardboard, duct tape, pencils and hot glue (Hamilton insisted that we wouldn't use pencils to hold the puppets together this year like we did for our last play... he doesn't know it but there are pencils in a good half of them ^_~) so we had to make his card that way.

My brother has apparently broken up with his girlfriend, so he was sort of bummed over the weekend.  I rented him a videogame, however, and that seemed to cheer him up sufficiently.

Our play's gone fairly well.  We have two more performances, one of which is an impromptu thing that I can't attend.  I would skip work for it, but quite seriously, I'm going to be POORPOORPOOR for the month of March.  I've got about three ten-hour weeks, and then one where I'm off for spring break.  ...I have no moneys.  It saddens me.

The LARP bios have officially been sent out... most people are getting pretty pumped, so that's great.  I have a lot of work to do, but I should be able to get some help.

Last night I stayed up until 3:30 writing a scholarship essay (which may or may not make it to Vancouver for tomorrow).  I then started the novel I was supposed to read for English... no idea how long I was reading for, but I finished it!

Recently I've been getting more and more inspiration... ...definitely going to have to draw something over spring break.  Or write some more... or something.  ...Or I could, of course, build some damn larp stuff.

Here is the essay I wrote (if you dig through the struggle-to-word-count, three-am rambling, it's not half bad).  The version that I printed and sent is slightly different, as I updated it in the "morning"... when I woke up:

In the present day and age, young workers have a lot of challenges to overcome and, quite recently, a new competitor has found its way into the ring. This new phenomenon has been coined ‘globalization’. It is the growth of industries and of the job market to a worldwide scale, and it is both the bane and blessing of the young worker - a double-edge blade. To the pessimist it constitutes a fierce battle against other workers who are seeking the same jobs; to the optimist, a dazzling new opportunity to explore work all over the world. There are also, of course, a lot of people who don’t think about globalization very much at all. As a future worker myself, I mostly agree with the optimists, and to the pessimists I throw a lifeline. Globalization, to future workers, means what they will make it out to mean.

When many young Canadians are questioned about globalization, the first thing that comes to mind is the competition it creates. The local job market has gone international. The jobs that were previously available to a select few are now available to many - and there are workers scattered all over the world who are eager to obtain them. We are able to witness a bottleneck effect as a vast amount of prospective workers claw at jobs that were, hitherto, hardly sought after. The letdown for North Americans, of course, is that foreign laborers are getting the jobs. The workers from developing countries often have a far better work ethic than most North Americans - in school and in their careers - and more importantly (as far as employers see it), many of them are willing to work for wages far lower than those expected by local laborers. The pessimist sees that globalization is taking work away from the workers of their respective nations, as their industries ship domestic jobs to developing countries, where labor is far less expensive - so where, exactly, is the good in that?

The good, of course, can be seen on the opposite side of the spectrum: the table turns both ways. Globalization opens a lot of doors to workers everywhere. It’s possible now for Canadian workers, who before were limited to locating work in their home country, to find potential job opportunities almost anywhere on the planet. This broadening of the job market can also be contributed to the movements of developing nations, as they struggle to ‘catch up’ to more industrialized countries such as Canada and the United States. The jobs produced due to these efforts are two-fold: these countries will require the same types of workers as their richer counterparts already contain, as well as extra workers to aid in the catch-up process (such as English teachers). All this generates a lot of opportunities for workers who don’t mind living abroad, and shows that despite the competition globalization brings home, every worker around the world is part of this contest. Our skills may not necessarily be required at home, but they will undoubtedly be required somewhere, and just as foreign laborers can compete to be a part of our workforce, so can we compete to be a part of theirs. Aside from both opinions stated above, however, there are, of course, a lot of young adults and future workers who don’t think much about globalization at all.

When asked what globalization means to them, most young adults don’t have very much to say, other than some of what’s already been mentioned. A fair number of them have nothing to say at all. Ironically, most of those who don’t think about globalization are those who should perhaps be investigating it more closely. Quite commonly, the jobs North Americans are losing are those that the majority of people can do: manual labor, mass production of merchandise and other jobs that can be performed by anyone, no matter what language they speak, what schooling they’ve had or what country they’re from. As stated above, globalization creates a lot of job opportunities, but they may only reveal themselves to those who will seize them, and most young adults in North America don’t expect to encounter many problems in their search for a job. These are the unlucky people who will find that they can’t at all compete with the low wages or strong wills of workers in developing nations. Fortunately for me, I’m of a completely different opinion than many of my peers.

I am a supporter of globalization. I believe that it will benefit the world as a whole by aiding developing nations to grow, and by increasing the world’s tolerance for others via the spread of information. In addition to this, I know that I need hardly fear competition. There will always be a demand for workers, and I’m not one to sit back and wait for employment to come find me. As a young worker and future career person, I feel that globalization doesn’t affect my chances for success much at all, other than to provide me with a multitude of new opportunities. Yes, it might mean I’ll have to try harder to get the job I want - but I’d try hard anyway. It might mean I’ll have to move to Greenland, or learn Cantonese - but I can do that. All this, of course, leads me into my final point.

For those who believe globalization is promoting the ‘thievery’ of domestic jobs by foreign workers, there are two options. The first is to adopt the typical foreign work ethic - in all aspects of our lives. Realistically, we are a rather lethargic nation in comparison to many others. We have laws and labor codes that prevent us from working too much, and our youths go to school for approximately seven hours each day. In comparison to many developing countries, we’ve got things very easy - and employers can see the difference in motivation. When they raise the bar to accommodate the work ethics of foreign employees, our own attitudes fall short.

"I don’t need to study to have the best mark in the school," a friend of mine recently confided in me, referring to our Math exam, "But I bet there are a load of kids in Vancouver who’ll beat me if I don’t." This is the approach we must maintain when considering future employment. We have to recognize the competition first, and only then can we begin to challenge it. We must adapt - a statement which has always been true - to compete against a larger number of workers. Without making a conscious effort to work harder, there is only one option left in combat against the ‘threat’ globalization brings about: we could compete with our rivals’ wages. This, however, is hardly an acceptable solution for most people.

As future workers, each one of us aims to be successful in our careers. To do so, we must maintain an outlook that will help us rather than hinder us. We can choose to criticize the worldwide spread of ideas, technology and, most importantly, jobs, or we can welcome the colorful plethora of opportunities this spread will bring to us. Globalization cannot concretely be defined as a good or bad thing for future workers in British Columbia. True, the next generation of young adults seeking jobs will be forced to work a little harder in order to compete with foreign laborers, but we will also be introduced to new ideas and chances to shine, should we be daring enough to seize them. The connotations of ‘globalization’ are what we make of them, and I plan on making a living.

Anyway, I'm off to update larp stuff.  Otherwise, here is an agenda for myself to remember things, and a random line of prose I came up with:

-Chem test Wednesday & Thursday
-Work Sunday
-Puppets Friday
-Update IDS site
-Update Larp site
-Study Chemistry

She was able to do with her eyes what most people did with their hands.

Aaaaand now I'm gone.  Turrahs.

/mads

[mood]: harpy.
[music]: the whirring of my laptop fan.
[msn]: Widget: The Destructinator

We opened our play today... it was pretty hilarious.  Our first two audiences (kids) weren't great... the night show was fantastic.  Great audience.  You know, the kind that laughs and claps.

Second show was the mishap show - as it usually is for us.  Cinderella lost a leg.  It was pretty fantastic... and we could barely keep from busting a gut backstage.

Our stepmother has added a new line in the play:
"Cinderella, instead of staying home and cleaning the floor tonight, I've been thinking...  Lucinda, get one of your old dresses for Cinderella...  I think it would be great if she washed it, and then cleaned the whole house!"
...maniacal laughter.

Our prince added a new line today as well.
"We should go around and see whose foot fits in the slipper... I mean, that's a good way of finding someone, right?"

It was random, but hilarious.  The audience agreed.

Anyway... enough about the show.

Joanna has this great African music, so I told her I was going to steal some from her.  Instead of my stealing it, she just burnt me a CD.  It's great.  I lurve it.

This morning I had an interesting experience... I single-handedly blocked the entire main street of Cranbrook.

I went to 7-11 to get a coffee... ...mmmm.... anyway.  There are two parking spaces facing the building, lying perpendicular to the strip.  A huge transport truck started out onto the strip, and I pulled into one of the parking spaces.  The guy in the truck started honking his horn.

What the crap?  My brother and I both looked at him.  He was blocking the entire strip.  The light turned green, and there were loads of cars trying to go by him, but they couldn't.  What the hell was he doing?

He kept honking his horn - then I realised: he wanted to back up into these parking spaces.

I crammed the car into reverse and moved.  It was pretty hilarious, if not a little retarded...

Aaaand the larp bios are finished.  Now I need to build two costumes, food, and a "set".... in... about 15 days.  ...excuse me while I go vomit.

/mads

[mood]: gurt
[music]: Safri Du (african - apparently - music from Joanna)
[msn]: Widget

Not much of an update coming up here, as I'm going to get some work done on the larp stuff, but otherwise... fun times are ahead.  Play was today... actually, here's some stuff I need to write about:

-cinderella legs
-I think it'd be great...
-this music is fantastic.
-larp.  mmm yes.  off to work on that now.

Much more in store, this evening!

/mads

[mood]: bueno
[music]: Mary Chapin Carpenter
[msn]: Pirate: Oyasumi nasai!

Parents are gone to Mexico :)

When I got home tonight my brother had left me this note on the table:
Valiant warrior:
I went to my maiden's tonight and then came home in a good mood (you could call it the blitzkrieg of excitement) <an allusion to "blitzkrieg of clean", which I made up after cleaning the house one night>.  I decided to manage the keep... when suddenly I was attacked by two sand-witches!  I destroyed them and then put their pieces together in a safe place - they have been banished to the ice plane of Frigoratour, where they now reside for eternity (or till tomorrow morning!)
I have barding lessons in the morning, <band> I shall call you before I leave!
Good tidings, warrior.
May my teachings serve you well and may your sword and armour carry you through many a battle.
Adieu.

It was awesome.  I have to hang out with him a bit this weekend... I miss hanging out with him.  I've been busy -_-

"The sun never sets on the British Empire."
Mr Whalen alluded to that quote the other day... lots of alluding going on in this entry.  There's another one from English class that's cool... but I forget what it is.  So far my classes this semester have been good.  I have a lab in Chemistry tomorrow... may or may not be good.  I'm not huge on Chemistry... and I feel unprepared thanks to Mr "Im-a-moron" Duscherer... but whatever.  I guess I'll deal.  Physics is really fun, and English is great.

Coolbaugh (English teacher) is awesome.  He's a Social Studies person as well as English, so he busts out lots of cool historical stories/interesting facts.  It's going to be great, as it's a double-inspiration for my story/ies.  I think I'll get him to read my rewritten version, in fact... as soon as I get it finished *cough*

My imagination has been going insane recently, which is kind of good but kind of bad.  I have lots of artsy energy flowing about, but nothing to cram it into... so... it's a little annoying.  At the same time, it makes life a lot more interesting.  For example, today at work I was thinking, wouldn't it be weird if animals acted like pokemon?  I mean, you'd have cows running around, but instead of saying "moo" they'd look at you and go, "cow!".  Dogs would bark "dog!" and cats would say "cat!" rather than "meow".  For some animals it would work... like chicken.  "Chickchickchick... chicKEN!"  But then others it wouldn't... I mean... Rhinoceros!  heh heh heh.  Anyway...

Sean bought some $0.79 bread today... it was stale and hence on sale (rhyme!) at Safeway... he and Matt had a bread war (it was hard enough that they could hit each other... ... it was stale French bread) and then I ate the bread.  ...don't give me that look.  Anyway.  It was funny.  I felt like some peasant from the middle ages... ...if only I'd had cheese.  Or water.  Either one would have completed the moment.  I shared my poor-person bread with a few other beggars in the hallway... It was pretty great.

Another imagination interestingness:
I was cleaning the oven at work again, and it's got this sprayer thing... and I feel like I'm a giant dentist when I use it, because it's just like the thing they use to spray water into your mouth... ...  *brow quirk*

And yet another:
Been having some cool dreams lately.  Very cool ones, in fact.  Last night, I was snowboarding without a board.  We (Myles, myself, and some other people who weren't prominent enough for me to remember) were on a street near my house that suddenly had a very intense slope, in my dream.  We managed to "board" down it without actually having a snowboard, because it was really icy... ...coolest feeling ever.

A week ago (ish) I had another one... I was some bodyguard guy, working with a princess person and her caravan.  Some other guy attacked the caravan and was trying to take a necklace (that I actually in real-life own) from the princess.  He tied me up, and was harassing the girl for the necklace, which she hid in her mouth.  He eventually figured out where she was hiding it, and so she threw it into the water (we were on a beach... with a dock).  The guy started looking for the necklace in the water, and I struggled with my ropes.  I knew I was a good swimmer and had a good chance of finding the thing, but I didn't want him to find it first.  FINALLY I got the ropes undone and dove underwater.  I found the necklace immediately.  Then I woke up.  It sounds horrendously boring, but it was fantastic.

Speaking of nothing at all related, I had a pretty cool customer in the store the other night.  I was slicing some sort of salami (how's that for alliteration?!) for him (I think) and he suddenly said, "Perfect, just the amount I wanted!  How did you know!"  ...the scale read something like "171 grams"... it was random, but really cool.  Later, he came back to the hotcase and asked for "the nicest bird".  I said, "I dunno, that's leaving me a lot of responsibility."  I then got his chicken for him, not expecting anything more, but he surprised me again: "And that's what I love about you, you're always up for the challenge!"  ...It was awesome.  All customers should be crazy/cool like that.

Aaaand... Saturday I went out with Justin... ...until about 4:30am.  It was pretty awesome.  But my brother took my alarm clock and didn't reset it for me, so I was late for work >:\  ...by an hour o.O

Ah well.  Not fired ^_^

Time to go.

/mads

[mood]: pretty great.
[music]: none.
[msn]: Pirate: Oyasumi gozaimasu!

"Good night!"

Today was pretty good... I was tired, but my classes are fun.  Probably it's due to the fact that we don't really have any tests yet... but shmeh.  Joanna has gotten into our Chemistry class now, and both her and Erica have managed to find their way into English.  Erica still hasn't gotten into Chem, but I'm sure she'll manage eventually.

Today I went to school... came home at lunch to call UBC... my parents wanted me to make sure they'd received my application, which they had.  I then drove my mom to work (dad had her Jeep) and then went back to school for some random Japanese study/helping people with Physics.

After school I went to help Hamilton for a while.  He told me the other day that I would have been stage manager had he not needed me to act.  I think both jobs are fun, so meh.  He said I'm "good at bossing people around"... not sure if that's good or bad.

We cut the feet off the puppets... the other actors don't know yet.  We decided to tie the puppet's legs to our feet... ...should be interesting.  Sort of annoying, after having built all the feet (grumble) but I think it'll be cool.

After that I met with Ayano at Max's place.  She's awesome.  We talked a bit about Japanese, but mostly about other stuff - for now I'm still way too far behind to have any sort of meaningful conversation.  She brought me some books and other things back from Japan ^_^

She told me she's afraid of/doesn't like frogs, because she stepped on one when she was little o_O  ...that was an interesting story.  I gave her a ride home, then my brother drove my mom and I down to Staples and Walmart, to buy binders and a new calculator (I need one that can store numbers for Chemistry).

I need to call the Staples paint crew tomorrow... make sure they can all make it on Saturday... mostly Marisa.  I really wish I had the power to cut her from the project.  Glarg.  She is not entertaining.

Calculator?  ...calculater?  ...damn.  Anyway...

Yes, my brother has his L.  Hee hee.

Anyway... Ayano was very fun.  I'm definitely going to try my hand at these books... though they're looking none to easy so far... and the sad thing is, she could probably read them when she was like 8... so... fleg.

But I shall try!

And now I go.

Oyasumi gozaimasu!

/mads

[mood]: sore but good.
[music]: Mary Chapin Carpenter
[msn]: Pirate: Yar, Happy Valentine's Day

Just had kung-fu... school was fun.  I'm really enjoying the classes that I have.  Of course, I have loads of homework... actually I should be doing that now... ah well.  Guess I'll get at that.  So much for an update.  Tomorrow I should be going out with Ayano.  That'll be fun.

Anyway I'm off.  Happy Valentine's Day everyone :)

/mads