| Take the Pledge |
[05 May 2004|10:16pm] |
Take the Pledge! and put one of these in your LJ when you do.
|
|
| cute thingy from Kyle's LJ |
[03 May 2004|01:48am] |
|
1.Go into your LJ's archives.
2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
-----
Here's mine (from May 25, 2002):
I am so addicted!
to understand see the full post (Kat, that means you ^_~)
|
|
| Inspired by my Kitty |
[14 Dec 2003|03:53pm] |
Because Kat is doing her top 20 games of all time I can't help but lay down my top 10. Why not top 20 you ask? Honestly, I'm not even sure if I've played 20 video games... Here we go:
10) Mech Mercenary - This is a weird addition, but I think it still belongs here. I played this on my old computer and really enjoyed the concepts in it. This isn't one of those "I must avenge the death of..." or "I must honorably defend..." kind of games. You fight because you get paid just like everyone you work with. If you are late for your pickup because you're killing some bad guys to save someone, well that's too bad; there will be no rescue mission and they're not going to wait around to see if you show up... it's more money for them if they leave you behind. It was a difficult game to play and I never got very far, but you have to love a game that doesn't pull any punches.
9) Soul Calibur - Although I do really like Soul Calibur II, the first one holds a special place with me. Kat and I would have 30 or 40 matches at a time kicking the living piss out of one another. Many days I lost terribly, but on those days when I won (usually 19 to 18 or something similar) it was worth every minute.
8) Super Smash Brothers: Melee - Only a multiplayer game for me, but still reall really fun. I know that when we get a group together all I want to do is "play smashy". I don't know why, but it never gets old.
7) Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago - I never finished this game, much to my own irritation. This was the first computer game that I ever owned and I played it on my little Mac for YEARS trying to reach the status of Chief. I never made it there, but I still have the urge to go down, get my mac out of the basement, and hook it up so that I can finally finish the damn thing. That is the true power of a great game.
6) Chrono Trigger - Many of you may not know I played this because I did so during early high school on an SNES emulator. Honestly, I thought it was a computer game (since I knew nothing of videogames then). To this day, it is the only menu-based RPG I have ever been able to play.
5) The Sims - I got this game when it first came out as a lowly computer game and I have been hot for it ever since. Though my computer wasn't powerful enough to let me create people (meaning I was stuck with the default computer families) and it would periodically shut down from too much use, I loved it all the same. Just having the ability to turn off free will and watch them scream for the bathroom but only go if I let them (resulting in a very imbarassed Sim and a small puddle) satisfies nearly everything I want in a game. To the Sims, I am GOD! Nothin' sweeter.
4) Harvest Moon - I know, I've only had this game for, what, a week? Still one of the BEST GAMES EVER. I love my little farm and all of my Japanese animals, and the girls, and the mining, and fishing, and planting, and upgrading weapons... I mean, tools, and all of it. I hear that you can play this game forever... I plan to.
3) Myst: Exile - Although the 3rd in the series it was the first that I ever played all the way through. I bought it on a whim, remembering how much fun I had with Riven the 13 hours I played it (until it glitched and set me back 6 hours... then I stopped). I loved every minute of Exile, though it bothered me that I couldn't kill my character when I felt most frustrated with the game. I kept a little journal and wrote in it with my fountain pen to make it look like one of the game journals. I know I'm a geek, but it made my winter break one of the best ever.
2) Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Best game ever. I played it non-stop throughout the school year and every waking moment during the break until I had beaten all of the quests and everything. Just thinking about it gets my heart fluttering. I think I'd play it again from the beginning, and that is something I never thought I would say about anything.
1) Ico - A puzzle solver with real time action, weapon upgrade, and a "save the girl" story line may seem cookie cutter, but this game is far from it. The music, the scenery, the characters, the puzzles... everything was so beautiful that I almost forget that it was only a game. I played it in 2 sittings at James' house, I was mezmorized, I couldn't tear myself away. This was my first real gaming experience and it is the game that truly opened my eyes to a new world. Thank you, James.
Notable Exception:
Star Fleet Academy - Altough it seems that this should be up there, I found the game very hard to actually control outside of the story line. Having to control every pannel on the ship and being unable to give orders to people to do the difficult stuff for me was rather cumbersum. I never got all the way through the game because of this and it made me very sad to finally put it away.
|
|
| *grumblegrumble* paper *grumblegrumble* |
[14 Dec 2003|01:38pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 aggravated |
] |
I will do this paper! I will! I just have to DO IT! 20 pages will NOT wait until the night before! paperpaperpaperPAPER!
I swear, this semester will haunt me... forever. I will awaken in a cold sweat screaming "PAPER, NOOOOOOOOOOO!" for the rest of my life.
*sniffle* stupid semester and its ruining my gpa... so much for summa cum laude, eh? I'll be lucky if I even get into grad school at this rate, nevermind my beloved Wellington University.
I should at least get *something* done on this paper, ne? Maybe if I set a goal... 12 pages and I get to play Harvest Moon. That sounds like a good idea ^_^
Speaking of Harvest Moon, I'm into fall now (well, it just turned fall right before I saved). My 4th chicken was born right on time so I named her Aki (fall) and I got a cow a few days ago and called her Madara (spot). Oh! and the second round of my pinapples came in (500G a peice!) the last day of summer. I didn't think I'd get a second batch, what a lovely surprise. I've got 12,000+G right now and I'm just itching to spend it. I'm going to go out and get my seeds today and plant them, which I hadn't planned on doing since my water can is in the shop until tomorrow getting upgraded. Luckilly, it's raining! ^_^ Now I can plant my eggplants right on time. I have enough wood now to get an extension so I think I'm going to do that right away too. I need to start watching the shopping network on Saturdays to start getting the stuff I need. I have been wanting for a shelf. I really want to get another cow since Madara seems lonely all young and by herself in the big barn, but I don't want to spend all of my money right now, I could have a catastrophe and then where would I be? If I get a second cow I'm going to get her on a Thursday and call her Moku. I also want to get a sheep and name her Shiro (white) but I don't think I'm going to expand to sheep until the end of fall... though I might want to have a full grown one by winter so I can get wool. I'm not really sure how winter works, all I know is that you can't grow crops other than grass, and I don't think you can sell that, it's just for animal fodder so that you don't have to spend money on that. I guess I'm going to be spending a lot of time in the mine in the middle of the lake, since it will be frozen then. But that's a whole season away, and I need to get stuff now. From what I've seen of Kat's game, the eggplants bring in more money than you can handle, so I think I'm going to go spend mine on the things I'd like before winter starts: House exension, new cow (yes, I know you can breed them, but Madara is so lonely), a sheep, and shelves.
Now, if I could only get this excited about my paper...
|
|
| Must... Harvest... >_ |
[12 Dec 2003|08:46pm] |
Yeah, so Havest Moon (for the gameboy advanced)? yeah. I'm soooooooo addicted. In fact the reason I'm not playing it right now is because I'm supposed to be doing my paper and if I turn it back on Kat will kill me. Instead, I'm writing about it.
I've got three chickens, all named in Japanese: Ame (rain), ichi (one, since she was the first egg Ame had), and matsuri (festival, since she was born in Summer right before the chicken festival). I also have my puppy named Koi (a really awesome type of Japanese decorative fish, but also the root for sweetheart). My farm I named Neko (cat, after Kat), and my horse is Umakun (uma is horse and kun is the cute way of refering to something small and male, which would be my little colt). Ok... now that I've shown you how much of a Japanese geek I am...
But this game is soooooooo cool. I've upgraded all of my important tools, I've planted my crops (since it's summer, 4 onions and a pinapple), and my animals love me! I've been working so hard on my farm and such that I haven't had much time to woo the ladies... I probably need to start that. I actually thought I'd go after Karen for a while since she looked kinda like Kat with her pretty blond hair and everything, but she turned out to be a raging alcoholic. It should have tipped me off that she wasn't my type when she didn't like the chocolate I gave her, but I'm silly like that. Although I didn't want to go for the same girl Kat is, it's so hard to find most of these chicks and Kat seemed to have made the right choice in her game. Anne is the tomboy redhead who loves chocolate and is excellent at cooking and cleaning (cooking being one of Karen's... well... weak points might be being a bit nice...). She's also remarkably easy to find (always in the Inn) where Karen was no where to be found when I had a gift hoisted above my head running frantically in circles to no avail. The only flaw I can find is that she likes onsen-tamogo (spa-boiled eggs, as they are called in this game) and that is only a personal thing. (I had onsen-tamogo while I was in Japan... It was one of only two things I couldn't eat, the other being pickled baby octopus)
So yeah, right now I'm itching to get back to the farm so I can start harvesting one of my eggs every day to give to Anne in the mornings as an onsen-tamogo (since you have to give stuff to these girls every day for like a WHOLE SEASON for them to even consider you a friend!). I also have a new chick to feed (my cute little matsuri) and I need to buy some more seeds and chicken feed today before the festival so I can at least have a decent harvest this season. I'm going to save up for next season, though, since I really want to have a great fall before the off season. During Summer I'm only going to buy chicken feed, a basket so that fall won't kill me (with the harvesting one-by-one, and the bad), and maybe try to get some gold to upgrade my watering can to make next season that much better. I'm going to hold off on upgrading my house, however, until I've got everything for fall planted and happy and Anne hanging off my every word. Then I'll start purchasing the kitchen that I'm going to need to get Anne to marry me and start keeping my eye open for that double bed ^_~ hehehe...
OMG, I so want to play!!! Must do paper now... must not give in to temptation and fail classes... must write start 20 page paper...
|
|
| Greates links EVER!! |
[09 Nov 2003|01:33pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 amused |
] |
omg, this is sooooooooo funny! To attest to how great this is I actually had to go right to livejournal to post it (and for those of you who know me, this is an extremely rare occurance) I laughed myself sick! For those of you who know of weebl and bob, the UK created Flash internet cartoon, you may have seen this one. For those of you who have yet to be initiated into this pie filled archive of greatness then here is probably the weirdest way to start.
Go to http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/hentai.htm to see weebl and bob meets Japan. I swear it's the best thing I've ever seen! It even beats BadgerBadgerBadger, which is also great and can be found at http://www.fatboylan.co.uk/files/badger.swf
I love the Brits!!
|
|
| at least I'm not cut off... |
[10 Sep 2003|11:26pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 lonely |
] |
I got an email from Kat today! That's exciting, I didn't think she'd have computer access while she was there. It gives me something to look forward too. I actually sat down at my comp thinking "at least while I was in Japan she had emails to look forward to, I don't have anything" and then there it was and I was sooooooooooooooo happy!
I really don't think I could live without her now... and I really don't want to try it.
I should sleep now.
|
|
| the purpose of LJ |
[10 Sep 2003|03:05pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 blank |
] |
so I've figured out why I don't write in here much. It's because whatever I have to say I say to Kat and it's usually not worth repeating (or I'm too lazy).
I've been avoiding home lately... and eating. I finally forced myself downstairs to get a late lunch and realized why I didn't go there in the first place. During my long and lonely meal all I could think was "we have manderine oranges... Kat loves those" and "I can't wait until tomorrow when we... I get to paint the bridge..."
There's no real reason to do anything in the room either. I mean, the only reason I actually clean the damn thing is because Kat is usually mildly fed-up with stepping over, around, and through all my shit. I get so much cleaning and chores done on weekends now because of the satisfaction of having Kat come home from work and be like "wow, the place looks great!" I don't even clean for guests really anymore. I mean Kyle and Joseph were over and I made an effort but then I just gave up. I haven't even considered doing the dishes since everytime I look at them I get this horrible sinking feeling. "Why bother" seems to be my motto for life now and she hasn't even been gone a whole day!
I hope you're having fun, Kathryn... it's the only thought that makes me happy at the moment.
|
|
| *sniffle* |
[10 Sep 2003|09:21am] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
lonely |
] |
My Kitty's gone... she's in LA... I need my Kitty!!
*cries*
ps. Kat, if you found a comp in LA and are reading this I hope you're having a great time and the conference goes well, I just needed a moment. Don't worry about me, I'm fine.
|
|
| oops... |
[07 Sep 2003|11:47am] |
Well everyone, as you probably noticed, I lied. While I was in Japan it was nearly impossible to use a computer and when I did I sent uber letters to Kat so I hate to disappoint but I had my priorities.
Now I'm back and in school and busier than I've ever been. I'm not going to have time to update this cute little thing but I'll try to remember it exists; really, I will.
Now I have to get to my 200 pages of reading and try to not get distracted by the message board I have to build for UNSA, the Grants I need to write for UNSA, the office that I need to organize for UMAH, the flyers I need to make for QW, the email that I need to send out for SFD... actually I think I'll send that one out. There's always time to plug Howard Dean (running for President in 2004!). If you want to know more about Gov. Howard Dean you can send me a message or you can go to www.deanforamerica.com!
ok... sorry about that... I'm a Student Group addict. We'll see how much sleep plays into this semester...
|
|
| it's been awhile... |
[24 May 2003|12:05am] |
This is really short because I'm super tired but I just wanted to tell everyone who reads this that I'm off to Japan in a week and a half and I'll be writing in this more often then. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Don't call my cell phone after June because my parents will have it. I love you, James, and I love you so very dearly my darling Kathryn. I'll miss you so very much.
~Emily
|
|
| yay for me |
[21 Jan 2003|08:53am] |
You are Xianghua -
You're used to people telling you that you're cute because you simply are!
Your love for beauty and all things social makes you a positive force amongst any group of people.
Although you may seem delicate and fanciful on the outside, you're a lot stronger than people
think you are. Purity, inner strength, and a sense of aesthetics is what makes you Xianghua.
Which Soul Calibur character are you?
this quiz was made by david park
|
|
| Oxford, anyone? |
[07 Jan 2003|10:32pm] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
 bouncy |
] |
I mean not to brag, but I can hardly help myself. This is the best Semester of my life. After an arduous and life consuming struggle marred only occasionally by video/computer games I have finally reached the end and the payoff was well worth it. 2 As, an A- and a B+. My GPA is exactly 3.5 after only one semester. I was hoping to reach that number by graduation. Now my sights have started creeping a wee bit higher. My next goal? 3.8 and not a hundredth less. Hey, with that result only at the expense of my social life, which I never had in the first place, I can't help but dream. Why should I settle for University of Chicago or UC Berkley when I can practically read my acceptance letter from Oxford right now. ^_~ hehehe... Well, a girl's got to dream, right? I'm only kidding though, I'm saving Oxford for my PHD...
*wiggles her new haircut around with giddy mischief*
|
|
| in both hands... |
[29 Dec 2002|12:43am] |
| [ |
mood |
| |
lonely |
] |
the stars seem lost here
my two lights dot the suburbs
one south and one north
behold, my haiku. It's not much, but it is the extent of my creativity at 1am. I don't want to sleep. The dreams have me more tired than I would be just staying up. My bed no longer welcomes me, anyway. I miss my sweetie. Cute, blond, and smiling, she's always there warming my side until I shimmy in. Now I shiver as I split the sheets, no arms to pull me under. If I cannot see you soon, my love, I fear I shall never rest.
|
|
| my fate is sealed... |
[16 Dec 2002|06:21pm] |
I wish I could be like you... |
 |
You're a sidekick!
|
You're short. You've got mousy brown hair and glasses. Sometimes you get to be the comic relief or provide an infodump, but mostly your role is to be helpful and supportive to your tortured best friend. You're always going to come second in everything. Sure, this may seem like a bad deal, but at least you get to bask in your friend's reflected glory; and looking on the bright side, you're unlikely to be dead by the end of the series. Every hero needs a cheerleader for their final battle.
Which generic anime character are you?
|
|
|
| some days grape juice isn't strong enough... |
[27 Nov 2002|06:03pm] |
A brief note before I start into the explanation of my title. I hereby vow to do everything in my power to someday work for the United Nations. After these last few days I have realized that I love nothing more (at least in the career department) than the exhausting bureaucracy of seemingly pointless stall tactics. I itch to reach the point where I can awaken (that one's for you, James) at 6am to reach GA (General Assembly) on time to sit at my desk with two flags and a placard for the better part of the day and debate an issue until midnight when it is finally tabled without a vote, only to be brought back tomorrow with the same effect. I can't wait until "point of inquiry" prefaces every question out of my mouth. I am just giddy!
hmm... that cheered me up a good deal, I'm glad I started that. In explanation of my subject, I am no longer in the convention, but in my Vovo and Vuvu's house. To clarify, "Vovo" means Grandmother in Portuguese and "Vuvu" means Grandfather. In their house stress reaches a whole new level. There are no grey areas here. One minute we are watching a cute little discovery show about koalas at three in the afternoon and the next thing you know Vovo, third glass of wine half empty clutched in her spidery grasp, is shrieking about "the blacks" (pronounced with a watered down mississippi accent, elongating the "L" sound and then snapping off the "acks", spitting out the word in disgust). Then come the rants on welfare people, gangs, and murderers, all relating the the previous subject of color. Occasionally the gays and lesbians who apparently "turn [her] stomach" enter the conversation, as well as the drunks (with whom she doesn't relate, strangely enough), the southerners (another irony), and every other group of people outside of herself, my father, and me. It's only seven and I can't even bare to attempt to realize the length of time I must spend in this chamber of emotional torture.
Well, it's only two days, so don't worry too much. I'm off to subject myself to the horror that is my family. I miss you all more than you could ever know.
|
|
| navigation |
| [ |
viewing |
| |
most recent entries |
] |
| [ |
go |
| |
earlier |
] |
|
|
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dykedesuyo's journal
