brain=ow; news links; meme
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morning_songs and throw_rocks!
Worked on a few layouts today. My brain is not really up to the task, so I apologize for taking so long. I'm getting them done to the best of my ability, though.
Posted the Get Recc'ed recs at Tomination finally. Voltaire and Velvet Chain. Go have a look at my poor music reviewing skills.
My brain is all blaahhhhh. It's a good thing R called and said I don't have to go in tomorrow morning. Still have that closing on-call shift though. But yeah, I can use the day to burn and watch all those shows collecting on Gobannon. Also have to put together packages to send to Eibhinn, Hathien, and Juliet. I've not forgotten! Just... slow.
For now, I'm gonna call it an early night. The computer is making my eyes burn. Shall probably go finish reading Seduced by Moonlight - have about 20 pages left. Dude, there was little to no smut! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
News Links for the Day
+ US President George W Bush has sparked a political row by making a joke about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
+ President Bush invoked the case of pregnant murder victim Laci Peterson on Thursday as he signed legislation expanding legal rights of the unborn.
+ Cheering Iraqis dragged the charred bodies of four American civilians through the streets of Fallujah Wednesday, hanging two from a bridge over the Euphrates River
Gee... what a happy news day. I'm not approving what the Iraqi's did, but I understand their hostility.
I snagged this Asian meme frommorning_songs:
1. Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm. I got her to stop, thanks gods.
2. Your dad is some sort of engineer. Uuhhmm.. *dies laughing*
3. Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
4. You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
5. You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.
6. You shop 99 ranch. ... I have no idea what that is. Is that like the Dollar store?
7. Everyone thinks you're "Chinese" no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from. I am, though...
8. You've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life. Shut up.
9. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids. All the damn bloody time!
10. You've had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
11. Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."
12. You drive mostly Japanese cars.
13. You've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
14. You've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.
15. At least once, you've started a joke with "Confucius says...."
16. You know what bok choy is.
17. You've gotten little red envelopes around February. Not anymore though. I'm told I'm gonna be cut off ;_;
18. Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back, and closet doors.
19. You hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls you.
20. You have no eyelashes.
21. Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc...
22. Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
23. The Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner.
24. Your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.
25. At least one of your family members wears back plastic/wire frame glasses.
26. Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or other native country), we studied even more."
27. Your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.
28. An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother?" Well then, "Is it your sister?"
29. Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.
30. Your parents say, "Calculus? I took Calculus in 8th grade!" "Without a calculator!"
31. Everyone thinks you're good at math.
32. Your parents' vocabulary is filled with "ai-yahs, and Wah's."
33. You like $1.75 movies.
34. You like $1.50 movies even more.
35. Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that make no sense, in great colours like yellow, pink, magenta, orange and the ever popular lime green. My aunt still tries to give me stuff people left at her dry cleaning place.
36. Your parents insist you marry within your race.
37. You never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation of oriental food.
38. You either really, really want to go to UCI or really, really want to stay away from it.
39. Your parents have never kissed you.
40. Your parents have never kissed each other.
41. You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
42. "You want a stereo?! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
43. People see a bunch of scribbles on a chopstick and ask you to translate. Along with every other scribble on everything else.
44. You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie" and "Uncle."
45. You have 12+ aunts and uncles.
46. At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert.
47. Your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "Eat anyway. It's still good."
48. The vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
49. You will most likely be taller than your parents.
50. Your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin, or both. Piano when I was younger.
51. You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't.
52. When going to other people's houses, you always have to bring a gift. Or food.
53. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
54. Your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs, or both.
55. Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV
56. The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations, or any of the rest of the furniture.
57. You have rocks, sticks, leaves, and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your pantry for use as medicine.
58. You own a rice cooker or two.
59. You buy soy sauce by the gallon.
60. Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.
61. Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going.
62. Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come. I was trained to do that.. I've finally stopped since I'm not going to grow any more.
morning_songs and throw_rocks!Worked on a few layouts today. My brain is not really up to the task, so I apologize for taking so long. I'm getting them done to the best of my ability, though.
Posted the Get Recc'ed recs at Tomination finally. Voltaire and Velvet Chain. Go have a look at my poor music reviewing skills.
My brain is all blaahhhhh. It's a good thing R called and said I don't have to go in tomorrow morning. Still have that closing on-call shift though. But yeah, I can use the day to burn and watch all those shows collecting on Gobannon. Also have to put together packages to send to Eibhinn, Hathien, and Juliet. I've not forgotten! Just... slow.
For now, I'm gonna call it an early night. The computer is making my eyes burn. Shall probably go finish reading Seduced by Moonlight - have about 20 pages left. Dude, there was little to no smut! I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
News Links for the Day
+ US President George W Bush has sparked a political row by making a joke about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
+ President Bush invoked the case of pregnant murder victim Laci Peterson on Thursday as he signed legislation expanding legal rights of the unborn.
+ Cheering Iraqis dragged the charred bodies of four American civilians through the streets of Fallujah Wednesday, hanging two from a bridge over the Euphrates River
Gee... what a happy news day. I'm not approving what the Iraqi's did, but I understand their hostility.
I snagged this Asian meme from
morning_songs: 1. Your mother has a short-haired, curly perm. I got her to stop, thanks gods.
2. Your dad is some sort of engineer. Uuhhmm.. *dies laughing*
3. Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
4. You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
5. You have a 40 lb. bag of rice in your pantry.
6. You shop 99 ranch. ... I have no idea what that is. Is that like the Dollar store?
7. Everyone thinks you're "Chinese" no matter what part of Asia your ancestors were from. I am, though...
8. You've had a bowl haircut at one point in your life. Shut up.
9. Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids. All the damn bloody time!
10. You've had to sit through karaoke videos with scantily clad, ugly Asian women attempting to dance and walk around a temple, forest, or library.
11. Your parents say, "Don't forget your heritage."
12. You drive mostly Japanese cars.
13. You've learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
14. You've had to eat parts of animals they don't even put in hot dogs.
15. At least once, you've started a joke with "Confucius says...."
16. You know what bok choy is.
17. You've gotten little red envelopes around February. Not anymore though. I'm told I'm gonna be cut off ;_;
18. Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back, and closet doors.
19. You hear (your name + eee (optional) + yah!) every time someone calls you.
20. You have no eyelashes.
21. Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation Asian languages, like the ever-so-popular: ching chong woo bok chi, etc...
22. Your parents say leaving rice in your bowl is a sin.
23. The Bio lectures on marine life (seaweed, sea cucumbers, octopii) was last night's dinner.
24. Your ancestors 1000 generations back invented the back scratcher.
25. At least one of your family members wears back plastic/wire frame glasses.
26. Your parents hover over your tired, caffeine-drugged body at 12 midnight to say, "In Korea (or other native country), we studied even more."
27. Your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian.
28. An Asian woman comes on campus and people ask: "Is that your mother?" Well then, "Is it your sister?"
29. Your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both.
30. Your parents say, "Calculus? I took Calculus in 8th grade!" "Without a calculator!"
31. Everyone thinks you're good at math.
32. Your parents' vocabulary is filled with "ai-yahs, and Wah's."
33. You like $1.75 movies.
34. You like $1.50 movies even more.
35. Your aunts and uncles bring you back adorable clothing from Asia with fuzzy bunnies, vinyl ducks and English words that make no sense, in great colours like yellow, pink, magenta, orange and the ever popular lime green. My aunt still tries to give me stuff people left at her dry cleaning place.
36. Your parents insist you marry within your race.
37. You never order chop suey, sweet and sour pork, or any other imitation of oriental food.
38. You either really, really want to go to UCI or really, really want to stay away from it.
39. Your parents have never kissed you.
40. Your parents have never kissed each other.
41. You learned about the birds and the bees from someone other than your parents.
42. "You want a stereo?! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
43. People see a bunch of scribbles on a chopstick and ask you to translate. Along with every other scribble on everything else.
44. You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie" and "Uncle."
45. You have 12+ aunts and uncles.
46. At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert.
47. Your parents simply cut the green/black part off the bread and say "Eat anyway. It's still good."
48. The vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
49. You will most likely be taller than your parents.
50. Your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin, or both. Piano when I was younger.
51. You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't.
52. When going to other people's houses, you always have to bring a gift. Or food.
53. Your dad still pulls his socks up to his knees, you know, the ones with the blue and pink stripes at the top.
54. Your family owns a tennis racquet, golf clubs, or both.
55. Your family always cheers for the Asian athlete on TV
56. The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations, or any of the rest of the furniture.
57. You have rocks, sticks, leaves, and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your pantry for use as medicine.
58. You own a rice cooker or two.
59. You buy soy sauce by the gallon.
60. Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head.
61. Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going.
62. Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come. I was trained to do that.. I've finally stopped since I'm not going to grow any more.
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Date: 2004-04-01 08:53 pm (UTC)And the number 3 point? About 3 years ago my dad told the ticket girl while I was looking at posters that I was "mentally challenged" so he could get the child price tickets. I overheard him and said NO I'M NOT but the poor girl was confused and gave us the cheap tickets anyways. :( I kri still to this day...
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Date: 2004-04-05 06:18 pm (UTC)D00d. That is so messed up! I feel your pain. My father would be mad he didn't think of it first >_
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Date: 2004-04-01 09:57 pm (UTC)