Okay... I am incredibly confused. On my phone, Twitter shows there was a status update that reads "実際に知らないフォロワーの方々は、ブロックします～～ごめん！！" (which is in Japanese, and I guess says something like "We really don't know (about) the followers blocking~~ Sorry!!" I think). It is written by nobody. It was not @replied to me and doesn't relate to anything I've said... ever anyway. I cannot favorite it. And it does not show up on the main Twitter page. I checked the pages of people I know speak Japanese... they have not posted it.

My best guess right now is I have some sort of bizarre, Japanese Twitter ghost.

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Because I'm kind of a huge dork, I already bought a Motorola Cliq even though they came out, oh... yesterday. Seriously, though, I've wanted an Android phone since the G1, I just wasn't terribly impressed with the G1's design (literally, with my tiny hands, the chin pretty much made that keyboard unusable for me), and I dislike not having a physical keyboard. I've been pretty much eagerly anticipating this phone since back in the early months of the year that T-Mobile was going to have several new Android phones out by the end of the year, one of which was rumored to have a physical keyboard.

I'm not really very good at reviews, but I figured... why not. May add images later, but for now it'll only be text. For the record, I'm upgrading from a Blackberry Curve 8220.

( Moving on... to me rambling, mostly. )

After I've used it for a while I'll try to post something more structured, less rambly?

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Apparently free accounts on DW now get 15 icons (to match LJ's plus account offering, I assume). I... didn't really notice until I saw someone else point it out. Assuming that change will be noted in next week's dw_news post or something? (It's live now, I checked with a free account I have, but doesn't seem to be announced yet.) But I thought some of you might like to know.

I've been stripping the colors from my layout to leave a barebones one for easier color styling/tweaking some of the bugs. Think it's getting there. I made the entry-font a little larger for readability, fixed the month view. It's taking me ages to do anything because between work and class and trying to have a life of some sort, I seem to have no time.

Anyway, I'll probably post again to dreamscapes later, but no harm posting here too: Anyone see anything weird with the layout? Besides the fact that it's in default browser colors, of course. There was a funny bug 900degrees pointed out that I can't seem to duplicate or fix-- does this show up for anyone else? (Okay, obviously it's not going to on a layout without colors, so try here instead.)

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Oh my goodness, I want to steampunk my tablet. Unfortunately I'm not really any good at 3D projects like that. Also I'm not even sure my hands could handle small detail work that involves having any sort of grip strength. Lose all around.

In other news, I watched SGU's pilot. I'm not very impressed so far, but I also remember not being terribly impressed with Battlestar when I first watched the miniseries, and they're kind of aiming for a similar kind of show, so I'll at least try to stick through the first season and see how it goes. But thus far, the only character that I'm really intrigued by is Rush, who seems to be the Baltar of the show, so I don't even really like him that much. Dunno, the show reminds me of Battlestar and Lost put together or something, and really doesn't at all feel like a Stargate series, so I'm sort of ... unsure how I feel about it. Mostly I just geeked out to see Jack, Daniel, and Sam in it at all.

This icon makes me laugh because his name is spelled wrong.

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My lunch today is cup noodles. Mainly because we have a bunch, and I'd already brought a few in to work as my backup lunch in case I was too lazy/late/forgot to bring a lunch. I noticed it says "please handle with care, especially when serving children," which leads me to my genius idea of the day. Because who really serves cup noodles?

Clearly there should be a place that does serve cup noodles and all other manner of super-processed instant food. Drawing on Jim Gaffigan's skit, they could also serve Hot Pockets (cooked in a dirty microwave, served lava hot or cold in the center). And I dunno, Hostess cakes and Bagel Bites or something. Nicely laid out, of course, with garnish on the plates and your choice of carton juice in a fancy glass.

As an aside, I've had a flashback to middle school every time I've eaten one of these cup noodles. Also the downside of my new schedule is that I start thinking Tuesday is Thursday and thus Wednesday should be Friday, but it is oh so very not, unfortunately. At least it's real Thursday today, but I thought it was Friday all of yesterday and will apparently continue to do so all of today.

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Tuesday night, ryujinamida made us dinner on our stove, but while he was doing so, the stove had a miniature explosion. He managed to finish out cooking the dinner, for the most part, but apparently the stove had just had it-- it's now completely dead. So somehow we've managed to go through two stoves at this place so far. The first one was actually broken when fraddit moved in, and never managed to reach genuine cooking temperatures, so we got the new (used) one that did. Very glad I don't own this place or anything so the landlord gets to throw money at it instead.

At least we still have microwaves and toasters. Yes plural. We have two microwaves and one toaster and one toaster oven.

Did I mention my encounter with the doorjamb? I don't think I did, so I will. Not that it's really very eventful, exactly. I managed, somehow, to hook my kneecap on the doorjamb and tried to yank it off about a month ago. Hurt like hell and the knee swelled up and ached and wasn't very happy with me for a few days. The funny part of the story is that it still doesn't seem to be healed fully, and yesterday I woke up and it was aching again... as later that day a storm rolled in. I think I may have managed to give myself a stormteller knee. To go with my pressure headaches. Or maybe it's just temporary and it'll go away?

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Short version is: It's a decent movie and I enjoyed the visuals; the book was better.

( Slightly longer version, with some minor spoilers. )

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Mostly work has been boring and life has been uneventful in some respects, but I've been sort of busy randomly registering for classes and prepping for them. And working on some other offline projects and trying to catch up on sleep I suppose. So I still don't really have anything interesting to say. Just that I'm still alive, somewhat. Also have an icon meme from paintedkirin:

( I'm pretty sure I did this before, actually. )

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So I finally bought myself a bento box. I've been meaning to get one for ages, but had a hard time figuring out what size to get and where to get it from, etc. And with me, I kind of tend to look for a while then give up and wait until the next round to figure out more details until at some point, I actually make it to the genuine purchase.

It was actually kind of a challenge finding one small enough, of all things. I kept searching for 400ml sizes, but nothing really came up, and most of the two-tier bento were over 500ml. Apparently even the Japanese like bigger meals than I tend to.

Anyway, I'm kind of excited to find the Just Bento blog, because it has list ideas of what to put in your bento and how long it takes to prepare and has a planner, which is exciting. Which I actually found while looking for a recipe for onigiri because apparently I am dying to have one right now. Though in the process of looking, I found their link to a karaage chicken recipe that I will have to try because now I am also craving that. (Dear American grocery stores: Where is my kurokke and karaage chicken?)

If I really get into this, maybe I'll post pictures of how it turns out or something if people are interested.

I have had a half-completed review of HP6 sitting in my draft here for two weeks. I'm not sure I will post it, mostly because I am a bum, but to sum up: my view of the movie wasn't favorable. I was really disappointed by it, actually.

There's sort of a lot that's been going on lately, but nothing I feel like sharing right now. Maybe later?

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We're currently sitting in the San Diego airport, waiting to board our flight back home to Denver after a very long Comic Con weekend. It was good! But long. I have really got to actually write up some things. I have a half-finished "thoughts on HP6" entry and should probably type up some things on Comic Con, but I don't really know what to write on the latter. Here's the highlights that I can remember:

• Steampunk costumes I saw around were awesome.


• Met Bear McCreary and had him sign the Season 4 soundtrack for Battlestar that I got because they were selling it early at Comic Con


• Burn Notice panel was awesome. Bruce Campbell was hilarious.


• Chuck and Big Bang Theory panels were also awesome. Chuck's panel made me much less nervous about the upcoming next season.


• Saw the trailer for Boondock Saints II and it is amazing.


• During the Boondock Saints panel, they hinted they'd be at a particular bar (Tilted Kilt, which was interesting), so we went there for dinner and Devin did, in fact, get Young Indiana Jones signed by Sean Patrick Flanery, which was also kind of entertaining as hell


• Purchased the BSG propaganda posters finally... was almost convinced to get the whole set of dogtags, but realized I had nothing to do with them, so... managed to avoid that


• Did get All Star Batman & Robin signed by Protoclown, who wrote "This book sucks!" and I don't disagree at all... I think their booth thought we were a little odd for wanting him to sign that.


• Mouse Guard! I got the second book (Devin has the first) and a little limited-edition sketchbook print book, and got him to sign Winter and got a little mouse-doodle in it too.


• Rufftoon was selling sets of Avatar pins (pictures later) and her Water Tribe fan-comic about Zhao that I purchased... she wasn't exactly selling them, as all her notes said-- it was a derivative work so all the money went to charity, and you could even get a free set of books if you just went to donate blood... but I don't really donate blood so I donated money for a copy.

I think the rest of the stuff that happened is more fraddit's to tell, about meeting some other people and signatures and whatnot. I'm strangely avoidant of talking to anyone. Meeting Bear McCreary was kind of a hilariously awkward thing, because I kind of forgot to think about what to ask before I got up there and so I just kind of... set my CD down and then introduced myself belatedly. I have a picture though? I also can't believe he composed for Eureka, too, and I didn't know.

Otherwise, it's been sticky, but mild weather, the streets here are awful, the trolley system kind of confuses me, and we found an amazing frozen yoghurt place called Fuji Yoghurt that sadly doesn't exist in Denver. I may write up something less boring later, but this is all you get for now.

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In true Murphy style, I came in at seven today (and the rest of the CS crew came in at four-thirty) to find that unlike the thousands of people promised to be taxing our resources today, it's been kind of a slow day. I suspect it's because we were completely prepared for the onslaught. So we're all working a twelve-hour shift today for... not much. At least there's overtime, right? And free crepes and pizza.

Bosslady still wants us in early tomorrow, but told me I could kinda be less on-the-dot-at-seven, so I may go in at eight. Or seven-thirty, at least. For those who still don't know me very well: I am not a morning person. At all. Getting up "early" for me is waking up at seven, which I never really do. This waking up at five in the morning business is something I'd rather avoid.

You should also look at damned_colonial's college of DW devs, because it's intriguingly female (and also I'm in it-- top row, second from the right staring unnervingly at the camera with a silly face and showing off a wonderful view of the cavernous depths of my green shirt).

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Public Enemies was... a bit disappointing. We saw it on Saturday as part of fraddit's birthday event, but though the period parts of the movie were pretty awesome (clothes, speech, cars, etc.) the style of the movie made it kind of like a documentary without the voiceover, which is pretty pointless. There wasn't really enough character development to care a lot about the characters. So I spent a lot of the time being slightly bored and mind-wandering to different topics, like how interestingly poofy/spikey they made Johnny Depp's hair and how cars back then went slow enough you could stand on the sides of them even when they were in a car chase and how John "Red" Hamilton/Jason Clarke reminded me of Ianto Jones/Gareth David-Lloyd, in a strange way.

I have not seen Harry Potter yet and won't until the weekend at least, which is a first since they started coming out that I haven't seen it on opening day. Really I'm not all that disappointed. Despite appearances, I've never actually been an HP fan. I tended to go to the midnight showings with people because I enjoyed the people I was going with (and well, I do like midnight showings when they're not on a Tuesday night and I have work the next day).

Instead I'm kind of having a continuation of the worst work week ever, which will stretch into next week, butting right up against Comic Con. Which had better be worth it, because I will probably be seriously cranky by then. As if I'm not already, right?

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Because my immune system is apparently like paper, I'm sick again. Not nearly as bad as last time, so hopefully it'll go away soon.

My time over the weekend, while my roommate was away, I mostly spent cleaning house and playing Guild Wars again, of all things. I find it hilarious that (on accident) of course I picked one of the hardest classes (Mesmer) as my beginner's class and of course I paired it with one of the most useless secondary classes for that primary (Ranger).

Picked up my violin from the parent's house on Saturday, and tried some simple exercises last night. Task and a half to figure if I even tuned it correctly (I'm still not sure... usually I tuned it with the piano, not just the tuning fork and resonance) and I know I'm playing awfully, but... it's fun. Still my favorite instrument. Maybe because it has kind of a "no pain, no gain" system. You know you're doing something because your fingertips are numb and your arm aches and it doesn't sound good if you don't know what you're doing and that's somehow awesome to me.

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I'm having a horrible time this week with being distracted at work constantly. It's a slow week, which is part of it. Though there's things looming I wish I could get done now rather than having to wait on them to pile all at once. Ahwell. That I really don't have any personal control over.

In anycase, with some prompting from seven (not that I needed much), I've gone and created a general discussion/fanworks community for anything military science fiction: starfighters. I know there's already spaceopera, but I feel like the focus is subtly different enough it's not really an overlap. So anyway, if you like military science fiction, please join and post?

Actually I've been debating whether or not Star Trek and/or Star Wars qualifies. Trek isn't the sort of gritty military feeling the other series/novels I've watched/read tend to give, but technically it's a space fleet with ranks and wars and battles and whatnot, so it is, right? Star Wars just doesn't seem to get listed in lists I've come across, for the most part, and I'm not sure why. I think I'd put it there. It's about a war in space, anyway. Any thoughts from the droll/flist?

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Seems like everything today has just been... slightly off. In that way where I'm sort of cheerful and don't apparently care that much.

I really did mean to go to my work's happy hour thing, but I managed to get so spectacularly lost that by the time I got there and found a place to park, there was ten minutes before it was over. So I said screw it and came home instead.

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Bold each show that you've seen three or more episodes of. Italicize any show that you're sure you've seen every episode of.

Took the first one from boywonder, second one is floating around on my LJ flist.

I've watched a sad amount of crappy CW/WB teen drama shows, I realize. A lot of those that are bolded I watched for a season or more at least.

( The List. )

( Which fantasy writer am I? )

Hm. Been meaning to look at Moorcock. And while I understand why they said I'm like China Mieville, I am sort of annoyed by the idea. I hated Perdido Street Station. But I do like Ursula K. LeGuin (what I've read anyway) so we'll see about Moorcock.

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fraddit and I spend nearly the entire day typing the Gundam Wing cast into Enneagram and MBTI types and finding photographs of people to cast them as if they were real people. In fact, since we couldn't find a suitable young, half-Japanese male, we spent even longer on Morph Thing creating one to our liking.

In the course of this, we came to realize Trowa is an INTP, and this is probably why I love him like a loving thing that loves things.

Less nerdily, Up is amazing. (Wait, is that less nerdy? I'm not sure.) It made me cry at least three times, because oh my lord, it's so adorable. The Princess and the Frog ad almost got me, too, though. That kind of looks amazing. I am so excited for a 2D Disney film again.

Also, everyone is jealous of the subtly Star Trek necklace I now own. And by everyone I mean I would be jealous if I didn't own it already.

I make so little sense sometimes, that I even surprise myself.

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I went to the doctor on Sunday about my cough, because two to three weeks of a sore throat was beginning to worry me and based on my conversation with the doctor, came away with "You have asthma." (Compounded with allergies and the remnants of a cold.)

See now, I've suspected, literally, since I was around age eight or so and knew what asthma was that I had it, but kind of kept getting told I was exaggerating or whatnot. But what I'd kind of forgotten was I'd tried, once, when I was older to ask about it. Must have been fifteen or sixteen by then, but the doctor told me "You just haven't acclimated to the high altitude, that's why you get short of breath."

I mean, yes, I am not a Colorado native. I was born in Massachusetts. But I moved here when I was two-and-a-half years old. It rang as a little suspiciously like being brushed off to me, so I asked about that, but was told some people just never get used to it. Maybe that's true? I don't know. It still sounds a little fishy, like there's probably some common factor in these people who "just never get used to it" that no one's bothered to figure out, given the average person should acclimate in a relatively short amount of time.

But this seems to happen frequently when I ask about health issues I may or may not have, where I get kind of dismissed as worrying too much about it. And then much much later it turns out I wasn't just being paranoid. I'm not really a hypochondriac, I swear. I tend to wait forever before even mentioning I think I have a problem (especially given I'm often shot down about it), and so it's really kind of awesome to get some of these things I've suspected literally forever (15 years or more!) confirmed.

I'm still getting over the cough, so I haven't gotten a chance to try it, but I also got an inhaler that I can use before I try to exercise that might genuinely let me exercise without keeling over dead from lack of oxygen. Ridiculously excited for the last remnants of the cold to go away so I can test this.

paintedkirin posted an entry on Gaius Baltar and being an Ennegram 5(w4), which I may do a similar thing on, to go with the very rambly INTP/5 brief combination overview I already wrote, but that'll come later.

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In case you've ever wondered, I've answered the question of: Can kimchee go bad? Yes. It can.

Unfortunately I forgot that Monday was a holiday, and I took my trash out to the driveway before realizing it's not going to get picked up until tomorrow.

The past couple weeks, I've been alternating my iPod with the radio in the car on the way to work and the unnerving thing is every time I have the radio on, if I flip to 105.1, every time the song Mama Told Me Not To Come has started playing not long after or was playing when I turned to it. I like this song, but it's kind of ridiculous. Why every time?

( In rewatching Gundam Wing in Japanese, I realize a couple things: )

I don't understand why I have this love of space military.

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I'm still not really better, but I'm coughing little enough that I finally managed to straighten up the kitchen a bit more and take the rest of the things I gathered last weekend (the 9th) out of my car. Hopefully I can get rid of this cough faster than another month, because I'd really not like to have had a cough for two months, please. Pretty sure it was the flu, which means I probably got it from fraddit, but she actually came down with it after me because my immune system is like wet paper and hers is not.

fraddit and I are slowly watching through a number of things, but Star Trek: TOS has been added to the list that we're currently sort of alternating with Batman and whatever TV normally throws at us. I have long said I'm a Star Trek: TNG fangirl, and that I didn't like TOS much (I'd only seen a few episodes when I was younger), and was kind of baffled that Netflix thought I'd actually really like TOS. (Alright, well. "Really like" for me. It suggested I'd give it 3.5 stars.) Turns out I really do like TOS, not just because I am illogically in love with the movie which in some ways makes me afraid if I actually sat down and watched Enterprise from the beginning I'd like it too out of some odd sort of Trekkie gene I have that requires me to like everything Trek-related.

( Slight Star Trek movie spoilers/off-topic ramble about the movie. )

Somehow I've gotten myself in that place where I have acres of things to do and seemingly no time to do it. Really, really need to finish up my Network+ course and take the exam. Urgh.

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