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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
11:17 pm	Moving on... Well, as I have also put on Facebook, I have begun blogging here: http://worldcafe2009.blogspot.com/ This doesn't mean I will be completely abandoning LJ however. I will still be coming back here to read how my friends here are doing and possibly even occasionally putting something here that is more personal and doesn't belong on a more public blog. All it means is that if you should be bored or curious and want to read about my more recent adventures, particularly with food, I will be updating the site at that link a lot more regularly with lots of delicious photos. That is all. -NLM- (Comment on this)
Monday, October 20th, 2008
8:31 am	First post in a long time Well, I know I don't write in here very much, and I don't particularly plan on keeping this up regularly any more really, but if only for my own sake to get it out of my system so I can stop laughing, I needed to post what I just witnessed in Japan on my train back here. Nicole and Rachel often discuss the weird people/weird things people do in Japan on the train, and while I had seen some strangely dressed people or people with really odd footwear, so far none of them were as amusing as the ones they have mentioned. Until today. I was sitting in a moderately full car on the Hibiya line subway, when a group of businessmen and businesswomen, most likely coworkers, got on. They had obviously been drinking, but they weren't even that loud at first, so I didn't really pay any attention to them. Then one man in their group off to one side slipped a bit as the train was moving, but instead of just trying to regain his balance or falling or something he starting twirling about his part of the train on the free train handles and dancing a bit. The members of his group were all like "what are you doing?? maybe you should sit down" but instead he did it again, this time while singing loudly. He also starting pretending he was a gymnast (with his feet on the ground though) on the handles and was rocking back and forth and doing squats. He then shushed the younger girls next to me who were laughing at him, waved at this older woman who was not in his group, and then yelled "shitsureishimasu" as he left the train. Best unexpected transit entertainment ever. And then, while not on the train, as I was texting Yusuke about this, a Japanese guy on a bike yelled "Good morning!" in English at me...oh Japan. What a crazy Monday evening. And that's all I had to say. -NLM- Current Mood: amused (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
12:01 pm	meetings Yay for insanely busy days that contain 3 meetings! They'd better have good food at this extra finance one I have to go to. -NLM- Current Mood: hungry (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
1:47 am	Spring Break plans! My friend Lauren from home should be coming to Chicago for part of her spring break! And since it basically overlaps NCC's, that pretty much confirms what I was already considering in that I will just be staying here over spring break. So hopefully for all those other people hanging around/at home, we can plan stuff eventually? I know it's far in advance, but this will be the first time I have stayed here over that time, so maybe there's unique spring stuff that I am missing. Haha, who knows, I should probably just be concentrating on getting through now instead of two months ahead, but whatever! I am already excited for next weekend which will be busy (Friday night - party, Saturday - sushi, Saturday night party, Sunday night, winter party) but should be amazingly fun! Now to survive my two tests on Monday...and the rest of the week! I will make it! -NLM- Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
6:10 pm	Better And not necessarily because of what I said could be a reason in the last entry, but things already are feeling better. I think I will try and keep up a better attitude. It really does seem to help. -NLM- Current Mood: relieved (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
10:13 pm	Music So, I love how I decided tonight that I wanted the Sweeney Todd track, found it in under 5 minutes, and it will have downloaded in about another 5. Gotta love the Internet for supporting my "I want it now" impulses. And yes, that's really all I've been doing since New Year's Eve. Downloading music and video and maxing out my bandwith. Haha, well, while it is true I have been doing that, I actually have been busy with other stuff and it just took me until tonight to feel like writing. Which is partially surprising, because I was really rather upset a good part of this weekend, but something good came out of it as well, and as any feeling is better than apathy sometime, maybe I will be able to start writing more again. Until later! -Nina- Current Mood: peaceful (Comment on this)
Monday, December 31st, 2007
9:28 pm	New Year's Eve Well, it's still New Year's Eve. I decided to restart my tradition of doing something interesting (that I may or may not write about) everyday, from here on (a day early for good luck). I was usually fairly successful with this goal anyway, but since I seem to be kinda numb too a lot of things these days, I am going to try and do more exciting things (while trying to remain fairly safe of course). Today's set me back $40 but I am quite happy with it, now I just have to keep from playing with it, especially in front of my family, since they sure don't need to know about it, hahahahaha, life is good. See you next year! -NLM- Current Mood: refreshed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
10:27 pm	End of the Year Well, maybe not my official end of the year post which will be saved for tomorrow, but here's the first line of the first entry's of every month (or at least those that I posted) for my journal in 2007 meme. Janurary (None) February (None) March: So yeah, I didn't bother with any online blogs for a while especially this one, but I'm bored and procrastinating again, so I decided to post an entry here April: Sorry...behind again. May: So last night was amazing, Japan Club's Children's Festival went really well and we had lots of fun. June: Anyway, the other day Zach noticed I hadn't updated in a while, and now I don't really feel like doing much productive, so I decided I shall write in here instead. July (None) August (None) September: Another school year at NCC. (I didn't even write this, this was courtesy of Zachary) October: So...I thought I was doing better after those last posts...and then I got sick. November: ..hm. December: So...I know I've really needed to update for a long time, but I just haven't felt like writing in quite some time either. What do these lines say about me? That I really don't blog much, that when I do write it likely isn't here, and that I tend to keep the most important things to me completely to myself and tend not to share it much with other people unless they specifically ask. I really don't leave as boring of a life as this imply, seriously, haha, yeah I'll just keep telling myself that... -NLM- Current Mood: apathetic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
1:06 am	Lalalalala I had another bad day, but the evening/early morning of the next day made it better. Warm food and crazy company work wonders. And I actually studied today too! Go me! -NLM- Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
4:35 pm	Mm I am back to myself now. It feels nice. The only thing I immediately have to fix now is my Japanese grade. It is really pretty bad. Part of it I think is a missing quiz that I just made up that wouldn't have been graded in time for midterms, and then all the homework that I'm behind on from last week when I was sick...and yeah. I tried to go talk to Matsubara today but she was busy with another student, so I'll try turning a bunch of homework in first, and then go talk to her again. I need to get more serious for that class though, all the others I'm still cruising through (even the 400 level Management class) so I'm kind of glad one is harder for me, even if it means I won't have a perfect grade in it. (It needs to at least be a B of some kind though) And I talked to my close friend Lauren yesterday who I hadn't talked to in 5 weeks...it had been way too long since we caught up with each other, so we talked for like 2 hours...oops...I went to bed pretty late because of that, but it was completely worth it. I miss being wilder and crazy with her because that is really how I am, or at least am happier being, despite that I'm usually more quieter and reserved here- it's just easier to be that way sometimes. Less things to explain. Well, and I was sick. But not anymore...:-) -NLM- Current Mood: chipper (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 12th, 2007
9:40 pm	Sick So...I thought I was doing better after those last posts...and then I got sick. Really sick for me, as I don't usually even get sick that often. Sick to the point where I couldn't get up to go to class. So mentally and physically I am actually worse than before, dammit. Hopefully hitting this utter low means I can only go up from here and things will get better soon. Maybe this retreat will help. I can only hope. And try and get some decent sleep. -NLM- Current Mood: sick (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
12:08 am	Long Day What a long first day of school. It felt like a week. My roommate agrees. And Zachary for that last entry is...yeah, I don't know what to call you right now, it's way too late and I'm exhausted from a busy day. I'll defenestrate you later. Good night all. -NLM- Current Mood: exhausted (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 10th, 2007
12:29 am	7th week... So I'm definitely starting to feel that it's nearing the end of the term class and other stuff wise...gr...don't think I'll be spending this weekend quite like the last, I have way too much stuff to do now. Work on this Spanish project, research for the Richter for Tunisia/Turkey, Friday is a Japanese test, the Int'l Club budget it due Friday, there's a Management test next week...yeah...definitely starting to go a little insane now. -_- And what I do when this happens? Procrastinate of course. Sunday night watched Triplets of Belleville. Monday...was Monday? Yeah, somehow I don't remember Monday except that there was a kanji quiz. Oh, and I went to Zach's room and watched Requiem for a Dream which I'd always wanted to see, and now I have :p. Tuesday I had to go the hospital again for more blood tests in the morning and I really didn't feel well after that for a lot of the rest of the day :-/ Had nihon kaiwa with Amanda and Zach, and I'm not sure what I did afterwards? I did get my third perfect score on my statistics test though. Today was normal boring Spanish class because my partner and I had already read our wonderful dialog where we discussed getting insurance for a horrible factory accident where everyone died, and then Management my teacher had to go in the middle of class because his father in law was in bad shape. So no Management on Friday and possibly Monday as well. I feel bad though, and he was also the business professor who was helping me with my Richter project...so I've lost one of my advisers on that which isn't cool. Japanese I found I hadn't botched the last kanji quiz as bad as I thought I did, and the one today went okay I though. Definitely not ready for the test on Friday though, I will be attempting to study more tomorrow. On the way to and from the LRC I took cheese and cookies from the library gallery event! And then I went to the bank with Zach. After was nihon kaiwa with Matsubara and we made board games! It was fun, everyone had great themes. Mine was some kind of pond with stepping stones, but it worked. Zach had neat shapes that he cut out and Amanda had Lucky Charms :p. Then I was late for meeting with Madhura for the budget...I felt bad, but we got it mostly done pretty quickly, still some things I'll have to work out with Kim at the officers meeting tomorrow. Then I wandered around, stopped by the Kenya concert for food, and ran into Amanda who was going to Evil and Rachel's room to watch Lost, so I went with her to see that, and just went back to my room afterwards where I'm starting to become burnt out from my busy day so I should probably go to sleep soon. G'nite! -NLM- Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
8:28 pm	First Crazy Weekend of May Wow...to think it's May already, and seventh week starts next week. In some ways I'm not ready for this school year to end, because I'll be missing so many people at home, and once I come back here in fall, I will still be missing some of them. So I hope I get to continue enjoying my time with them while it lasts this term. Friday was SaraJane's party for the girls studying Japanese at North Central and it was lots of fun. I got to hang out with SJ, Valeria, Amanda, Laura, Rachel, Evil, Pixie, Ashley, and Vicky for the night and early morning. We ate curry and pizza, played lots of games on the Wii (I loved that thing, I want one now...even if I can only play tennis and crash into the blinds on it I want it...), made bracelets, talked, and didn't sleep very much at all. So the next morning, Saturday, a lot of us from the party went to Six Flags on very little sleep... But that's ok, because Six Flags was amazing. :-) I love roller coasters anyway, so I remembered from last year how much I loved this amusement park. We spent a small fortune on food, more than the $15 we paid for tickets, but it was all worth it for the amazing time. We actually kept a pretty large group together for a lot of it, me, Amanda, Zach, Pixie, Rachel, Michiko, Sal, Evil, SJ, and only broke off briefly when there were rides people didn't want to go on, and at the very end. There were a couple rides I passed on, but I naturally went on all the roller coasters we decided to go - Superman, Raging Bull, Viper, and Batman. In order of my favorite it probably would go Batman, Superman, Raging Bull and Viper simply because I don't like wooden roller coasters as much and the rest were almost equally amazing. I recently discovered the first three were designed and built by the same company as my two favorite from Busch Gardens too! ^_^ I think I have a random new goal in riding on the rest by that company now. I basically passed out after getting home from Six Flags, stayed in bed until late, and then less than two hours later Amanda called asking if I wanted to go see Spiderman 3. I did of course, so I got to go see it with a group again, (lots of group activities this weekend!) Amanda, Matt, SJ, Leen, Erik, Chika, and Ayumi. I liked seeing with a group of friends so we could laugh at Spiderman's ridiculousness, as well it was pretty entertaining, as far as movies go, it was only ok. Lots of suspended disbelief, overdramatized stuff, and things that simply could have been left out...though I did like Tobey MacGuire's emoness part. He looks much better that way. :p So while I've only recently done my homework (it's mostly done now anyway) this was definitely one of my favorite NCC weekends and I hope they continue to be wonderfully crazy like this until school gets out as I want to enjoy the rest of this year as much as possible. :-) -NLM- Current Mood: enthralled (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
11:42 pm	:-) Dear College life, Please keep being wonderful and crazy without making me go completely insane. Thank you for letting me meet and hang out with such awesome people, and for those who I haven't been able to hang out with as much while they're busy or away, please bring them back to me again. Thank you, -NLM- (And I'm mostly registered for classes and living in Ward next year!) Current Mood: chipper (1 Comment |Comment on this)
10:14 am	Kodomo no Matsuri So last night was amazing, Japan Club's Children's Festival went really well and we had lots of fun. And somehow I wound up in a yukata...I was just supposed to be taking pictures for people who wanted to try them on, but I didn't have any idea how to put them on, so I called people over and they decided to put the yukata on me...and because it took so long for Chika (who eventually showed up and rescued us) to put it on I would have felt bad if I had just taken it off right away, so I kept in on for most of the festival. And then at the end a bunch of friends joined me in yukata-wearing so we got some crazy pictures from it...ah...good times. ^_^ I don't believe anything else significant happened yesterday because Kodomo Matsuri ruled all. On a side note though I don't understand how I go to bed feeling so wonderful and wake up feeling so horrible. There's nothing bad waiting for me today, my classes and life in general are going fine, the weather is nice, everything at home is all right, but yet I still seem to be having nightmares and waking up wanting to cry for some reason...I don't understand why at all. Right after waking up I just think everything around me is bad, if someone doesn't immediately talk to me on AIM I assume they're avoiding me, I think something horrible will happen today...but I know everything is completely unreasonable and the feeling goes away by the afternoon. Still makes for a not fun couple of hours though. Very annoying. -NLM- Current Mood: pensive (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
9:15 pm	Another Life Update So I'm definitely procrastinating from studying for Spanish right now...I have to take a make up test tomorrow morning at 9, and it's an important test over a lot of reading but it's just so ridiculously BORING. I hate my Spanish class this term so much, fortunately I don't think I'll have this teacher again. She was supposed to be easy too but she's just so stupid and not helpful at all. Anyway, so I guess my last update was last Tuesday? Geez...a lot has happened since then, not sure if I can even remember it all. Wednesday morning I went back to the Wellness Center and I no longer had a fever but they wanted me to go take blood tests to check for some things just in case. I couldn't that morning because I'd had something to drink besides water (Gatorade) so they told me to go the following morning and just rest for the remainder of the day. For the first time ever I missed two full college classes, I really dislike missing classes here and have been known to go to them even while sick even if it was a bad idea simply because I was at least there. But I really didn't feel up to taking a test in Spanish nor did I think missing Management would be horrible as I frequently fall asleep there anyway and I had done very well on the last test. I did go to Japanese however, I did not want to miss the beginning of keigo and this crazy new formal grammar. Went to work, the Japanese conversation table, and then to Zach's forum after which he did a really good job organizing and I thought was genuinely interesting. Plus he had brownies which I probably shouldn't have eaten but they were so good... Um. I don't remember what I did after this actually, probably went to bed fairly soon after? Missing gaps in memory are annoying, but I was sick. Thursday I got up to go call Campus Safety to go to Edwards around 9am, had lots of fun finding the lab, but I managed to get through pretty quickly and was back by 9:30...but not to stay. The lab frantically called me saying they were supposed to draw two samples and they'd only done one so I had to go back...-_- I hate getting blood drawn btw, and being in a strange hospital by myself in the morning was traumatizing enough, I didn't want to go back...and then they had trouble with the vein the second time and had to prod around with the needle...gahh...add to this that I hadn't been allowed to eat anything for quite some time, and Thursday morning was really not a good time for me. Luckily the day got better, went to class and work, had to go the Int'l programs office to plan stuff which was fine, and then made a surprise appearance at Blue House for something :p And then I probably went back to sleep early again. So much fuzziness. Friday I seem to remember as being okay but fairly typical except for the evening...which is probably one of those things that later in life I'll look back and laugh at, and it was still fun, but we came a little closer to dealing with the Naperville police for my second time than I'm comfortable with...and I don't feel like talking about the one time. It's embarrassing. :-/. Continued to hang out with the awesome Amanda and Zach for the rest of the night and we watched Now Then Here and There which I'd definitely like to see more of. I barely watch anime these days after all. Saturday was absolutely amazing. I had planned to go to downtown Chicago with Peggy once the weather was better on the weekend and I had a free day, so we went, and happened to meet Michiko A and Laura at the station so we traveled with them the entire time. Mostly we just went shopping on State and Michigan, but we also went to eat lunch at PF Changs :-) and to this area near Armitage that had small little gift and boutique stores, one of which I thought was pretty nice and might try and go back too. Obviously a little pricey though for being more artsy stuff. Overall I didn't even buy anything except transportation and lunch, so not an expensive trip, and I definitely want to go downtown again soon... After coming back I finally caught Jeff on AIM. I got out of him that he still likes me, he's just been really busy lately and doesn't want a relationship because of that because it wouldn't be fair to me...so, as I thought, he's a really nice guy and I was just paranoid. And all that works fine for me anyway, I don't want to rush into anything with the whole Yury bit and all (which is just weird again now, I doubt it'll go anywhere) and he said he'll visit again once he's done with school (before me) which is all I really ever wanted anyway. So I am happy and not stressing over that anymore. Talked to Ashley and Liz, friends from back home after that, then Zach called and asked if I wanted to play hearts with him, Amanda and Erik. We played in Townhomes basement...and I uh...won somehow? Both times? :P Hahahaha, it was great fun though, definitely want to play cards with everyone again. Then bedtime again, I had accomplished absolutely no homework that day but I restored my good mood, hung out with friends and I'm in love with college and life again which are all far more important to me. My grades are fine. And today I was a lazy bum and tired from my time of being sick, worried, and running around Chicago so I slept most of the day and I've really only studied for Spanish. I did finally get my MP3 player properly re-synced to the computer so people should give me music to put on it! With all of that, I'll try and update more and have another great week at North Central. ^_^ -NLM- Current Mood: calm (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
9:09 pm	No Idea of the Day Anymore I think I've hit a low point in my life. Hopefully it's short. Luckily I still am doing well in classes and I still have awesome friends. Basically though, for the last week and a half or so I have just been paranoid about everything, to the point where I starting becoming clingy and moody. I think I pushed away Jeff this way, because now he never really wants to talk or hang out with me, and when we do talk online it's not the same. I'm trying to be good and not be bothered by it or obsessive, it may just be that he really is busy as he keeps telling me, but either way I think I'd better just forget about it for a while, and consider myself completely single again. I miss him though, I'd started to like him a lot. But that's life, I'm sure I'll find some other better guy sometime, just not right now, don't need or want that anymore. Too much stress. Oh. And the stuff from California finally kicked in meaning I started thinking a lot about it. I talked to Yury again and I discovered my feelings about that aren't completely settled yet either. Oh life...and now I am sick with the flu. Go figure. -NLM- Current Mood: depressed (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
12:45 am	Days 16 & 17 - Drag Show Entry! Mm...today (Wed that is, I'm aware it's past midnight again) was such a good day. :-) But I'll begin with Tuesday since that did come first. Um...except that I don't remember all that much about Tuesday already -_-;. The weather was good so I went to the post office in the morning before class, went to class, went to work, hung out with Amanda after work until dinner and we went and visited Sal and Barnes and Noble! Unfortunately it had already become significantly cooler by that time already, so I believe I just stayed indoors and studied for the rest of the evening after dinnertime. So, onto Wednesday! First off Spanish was boring. But that's no surprise. Yet again we really didn't do anything. Management I had a test and I'd heard it would be really hard...but I thought it was disgustingly easy and generally just a really stupid test. It was long because of all the short answer, but it wasn't even interesting to write for. Anyway, hopefully my grade reflects how well I thought that went because it's worth a lot in that class. Walked down to the stadium after for our guinea pig AP Japanese test...it was insane. Kanji kanji kanji, oh word I know, wow, kanji, kanji and then kanji I do know with kanji I've never seen before in my life and so my knowledge of it is rendered useless. Just reminds me that I've a ways to go, but as long as I like learning it even if it's hard and I'm not scoring so well on everything anymore, I'm sure I'll be fine. Especially with Spanish the way it is right now...not a challenge at all...gr... After that Amanda followed me to work, where I did basically nothing, and then we went to Nihon Kaiwa where we played Shiritori! Which is always fun...but was extra crazy because of Zach's random mura mura suru which actually means something...hahahahaha. Something pretty crazy too for a randomly said phrase. Dinner was at the Cage with Amanda and Pixie, went back to the dorm for a little, then met back up with them to go see the Drag Show! It was amazing, Zach was great, Vasily was...Vasily, and everyone else was so good. And then Jeff randomly showed up which I was definitely NOT expecting as Wednesday night is usually his drunken karaoke night, where he was heading after but apparently friends had decided he was going to show up at the drag show as well. And I could make a bad pun about that but I'm not going to. :p So I was extra happy for the evening. Still am for that matter. Now to see soon if I can actually sleep...still having trouble with that even though I was good and consumed as little sugar as I possibly could and no caffeine whatsoever, so hopefully I'll get over this business of being ridiculously wired soon. I like sleep! -NLM- Current Mood: happy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2007
9:23 pm	Another Weekend and Day 15 Hm...I'm not really sure what to say about the weekend actually, it really wasn't that great compared to the week preceding it. Friday night after Denny's I had really bad dreams and so was kind of in a weird mood from that all day. Went grocery shopping for pancakes though which was fun, and managed to get some shopping in of my own! Then...I don't really remember what I did after that? Odd. Anyway, barely slept that night even though I went to bed earlier, and so was tired and didn't feel all that great for the pancake breakfast. I was still there to help out, and it was crazy and we had a great turnout, but I still didn't feel well and left with Jun before full clean up. Felt bad for doing that, but I was just exhausted and stressed out. I still couldn't sleep afterwards somehow, so I went to the LRC to study for a while. During this I gave in to not being being able to relax sufficiently by myself and texted Jeff to see if he could stop by later since I really wanted to see him, and he was for a little while, and this successfully calmed me down like I hoped that it would. :-) However, since I was still on very little good sleep, I basically just headed off to bed soon after he left and so missed Sunday night movie night. :-( Next week I will come! I believe Ed Wood was suggested at dinner tonight which I'd love to see, but I'm sure whatever is fine. Today was all right though. Spanish was boring, my group made me present my article today since none of them wanted to but at least this helped keep me awake, Management was pretty boring too, but we went over what will be on our test Wednesday and he let us out early, Japanese I realized I forgot workbook pages (gr...) and I suspect I made stupid mistakes on that test. Which was ok, but really not sure after last term...I was fine with most of this chapter's stuff (besides ba) but I should probably review older stuff as I keep forgetting even easy things. And now I'm sitting around being lazy debating doing my laundry or not...I probably should do that, and my statistics homework and studying for Management as well. Until some other time then! -NLM- Current Mood: rejuvenated (1 Comment |Comment on this)