Right, Jac!
Remember that sushi place that you recommended me ages ago? I forgot to update you on what happened, and it makes a pretty funny story.
It was Mom’s birthday, and I called up the restaurant to reserve a table for four. We had originally planned to go to Hyatt’s Mezzanine (because there’s where we always go for special occassions) but we were booked at 8pm, and it was too late. So we wandered over to the sushi place.
Then OMG.
I hadn’t realized the restaurant was tiny. It was just a bunch of chairs seated in front of the chef. We were hoping for the Sushi Tei kind of table where we could sit facing each other while eating. So we were surprised. I think if we came for lunch and it was only the two of us it’ll be okay, and we can still converse with the chef, but we were a group of four. So Dad and I hung behind the restaurant like suspicious loiterers discussing if we should still go in there or not while Mom and Sis were in the bathroom.
(Also, from what I gathered from the menu, it’s predominantly sushi/sashimi. I don’t think there’s a lot of other varieties on the menu besides the sushi buffet, because the chef makes the food on demand.)
So we walked to the Hyatt, and lo! We actually can walk in without a reservation! Dad threw up a fuss about how we could come in at 7 but told they were fully booked until 8.
Then, in the middle of our dinner, the sushi restaurant called. We forgot to cancel our reservation.
The end.
Nffffgh *headdesk*
Full days on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays I won’t even have time for lunch, so I gotta buy some breakfast food. Today wasn’t so bad. My intro to film professor has a mouth like a machine gun. He talked so fast all I was thinking was ‘oh god, shut up’ while he was lecturing. Others wasn’t too bad. My level 5 course has a pretty decent professor, so I’m glad at least I’ll get good enough help on the most (technically) difficult course I’m taking this quarter.
Remind me to keep my mouth shut during class in the future. All I’m doing is perpetrating my ignorance, and letting loose an accent which everyone will automatically think ‘OMG foreigner!’
Someone laughed at my surname in class today. I suppose that’s the first sign of more wank to come.
I’m not… greatly affected by it, but I am quite aware of the slang implications that come with my surname in America. Whenever the teachers call attendance, I just get a heightened sense of awareness that everyone in the class automatically thinks ‘whoever that is, she’s just unlucky’. I think I’ve become so aware that I’ve started getting a little sensitive when it comes to my surname.
I’ve already rationally computed it in my head not to feel affected by this, and there’s no way in hell I’m going to feel ashamed of it. It is a social and cultural thing, and it is ridiculous to let my identity be shot to pieces just because my surname resembles sexual slang only in America (at least to the best of my knowledge). Thousands of other people also share my surname and are residing comfortably, heck, there’s one guy upstairs whose initials are exactly the same as mine!
I suppose it takes time to get used to it, but in the meantime, I am not bubbly.
First day of school + VotL
I slept during Psychology lecture today. Kinda indicative of how the rest of my quarter’s going to go, ain’it? But hey, most of it wasn’t my fault.
Most of math flew over my head, and I was forced to buy a $100 graphing calculator because of the stupid requirements for the syllabus. I swear school is just another economically driven system designed to suck the crap out of your bank account. I managed to tear by the first exercise without much assistance… so I hope that’s going to continue.
Also, if any of you have any inclination towards Final Fantasy VII at all, OCRemix just released Voices of the Lifestream. It’s a remix of nearly all the songs in the FFVII album. It’s a brilliant listen. Black Wing Metamophosis (Remix of One-Winged Angel) wasn’t my cup of tea, but it definitely grew on me, and it’s one of my favorites in the album (’The Crossroads’ and ‘Deliverance of the Heart’ are absolutely wonderful as well.) And if you’re not interested, just download it for the song titles. They’re so beautifully named. ^^
Conversation.
Julia: What subjects are you taking?
Me: Uhh… Three psych courses, English film studies - or something like that - and math.
Julia: Math?
Me: Yeah.
Julia: You’re screwed.
Me: Oh SHUT UP.
Julia: ^__^
Monehhhh
I just spent $450 on textbooks. There goes my money to get a new pair of long pants (I have three, and two are jeans, and I am so not ready for winter).
Then someone comes knocking at my door and before you know it, I’m up for a two year subscription to Reader’s Digest. $66.50! 
TIME magazine, I definitely would’ve, even Vanity Fair (Annie Leibovitz FTW) but not Reader’s Digest!
Immense sadface. D:
More nonsense from Pirates of the Caribbean
Among the other more major plotholes that I’ve griped with, this one is minor, but aggravating all the same:
Why is Sao Feng’s charts, made of bamboo, making a grinding stony sound when moved? It’s not a freaking Egyptian tomb, people!
