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Went to see Paranormal Activity with Tezuka and Jirou yesterday. I was slightly disappointed. It wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be...and the beginning was pretty slow. But it was still a pretty decent movie.

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INTERNET CUT-OFF DATE: November 13

ESTIMATED TIME TO REINSTALLATION: End of November/Beginning of December

Dad wants us to move in this weekend. Our internet/cable will be cut off this Friday. We won't have our own internet/cable installed until the end of the month or the beginning of next. (Which is going to SUCK, but eh? What can you do? x.x)

I'll see if I can get some kind of wireless signal out there, but if I can't, then...oh well! If I *can* get a wireless signal, my parents will be using my laptop too to pay bills and what not.

I still have to see if I can get a cell signal out there. Oh well, I'll find out on Friday/Saturday. xD

If I can't get a wireless signal out there, then my main internet source will be...the UH wireless network.

Still got lots to pack, but today is a holiday so I can spend all day doing that!

Oh joy~

This morning, I was helping Jirou-chan with replying to an e-mail from a patron. I looked up an item that a patron claimed was an article through our full-text databases. The title was "Developmental Psychopathology."

I skimmed over the titles, reading some outloud.

Me: Personality Symptoms and Self-Esteem, Childhood Depression, Asperger's...
Jirou-chan: What did you say?!
Me: Asperger's.
Jirou-chan: O_O ASSBURGERS?!
Me: (While LOLing) NO! ASPERGER'S.

Yeah. I need to like...speak up and enunciate the P.

Or something.

Zomg!

Where are my icons?

Oh!

There they are!

Texts From Last Night -- This site appeals to my nosy side. xD

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(+44): You dont remember anything at all? So you dont remember the shop down my road with the 'TO LET' sign over it? You were adamant that the 'I' had fallen off and that it used to say TOILET...so you took a shit right there in the doorway.

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(919): anyone who says 'i love you' and then followed by 'im going to call the cops if you touch me' doesnt really mean the first part fyi

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(301): We're so high we're finding things in the room to build a submarine with. So far we have two cardboard boxes, a piece of wood, puffy paint, and an empty bottle to use as a periscope.

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(843): Hm. I declare blue a flavor.

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(201): i have to start hiding my credit card when i drink i woke up this morning with 4 emails from Farmville telling me i spent over $800 on coins last night

From Dark Roasted Blend: Weird Stuff McDonald's Sells Around the World:

Riceburgers [Singapore]: Basically they replaced the bun with ricecakes. ... I'd try it!

Seaweed Shaker Fries [Japan]: This...sounds interesting. I guess to some people it's strange because it's seaweed. But here in Hawaii, we have seaweed on popcorn with arare... I wonder how it tastes? xD I guess I could do a homemade version. =o

Green Tea and Red Bean Sundae [Hong Kong]: Green tea sundae sounds interesting...but I don't really like adzuki beans...

Rice, Eggs & Spam; Spam, Egg & Cheese McGriddles [Hawaii]: My first thought was, "WTF!!! HOW COME THEY (Honolulu) GET A SPAM, EGG AND CHEESE MCGRIDDLE?!?!" I have never seen that here on this island. Or maybe I'm just not looking closely enough at the menu.

Further down they bring up other foreign fast foods...like those crazy Japanese Pizza Hut pizzas. I've seen a picture of them IRL and not dolled up for publicity shots... Not very appetizing.

Ahaha...yeah. It's like 3:38 a.m. and I haven't slept yet.

I should go take a two hour nap. xD

Erza got stuck in the fence today.

( It sounds funny, but at the time it wasn't. )

Venture Bros.: "Handsome Ransom"

xDDD Loved this episode!

So, I just found out about this CD. And from the description that was given of it, it seems that it's an entire music album that has a story to it. Each song is part of the story.

My brain can't help but think of it as an opera.

So, because I want practice, I'm going to try and translate!

( Track List )

I've been looking at my classes and tuition costs for next semester. I just need two more upper-division classes and then one final writing intensive. Although I failed to check if my remaining upper-division classes needed to be from my major or what. I shall check that when I get off work.

I can take a writing intensive next semester, "Language in Culture and Society" with Reichl. I kind of wanted to brush up on my Japanese, but I don't want to actually TAKE a class...since I've passed 101-302. But my kanji is terrible. I can read most kanji, though definitely not enough to be able to make it through a newspaper article. I can read most blogs...until they start going into detail.

So I just want a kind of refresher...I don't know if the professors would let me sit in on classes or what. Honda-sensei and Okuyama-sensei are both teaching 102 classes, and Honda-sensei took over Rogers-sensei's 302 class... I don't know if they'd be willing to let me sit in on some of their classes. I vaguely remember someone doing that my 101 or 102 year, but I think she was only there long enough to take a pass/no-pass test, or something. (They've done away with that test, since if you passed the test you wouldn't even have to take the class.)

If it's not possible, oh well... I was gonna get this game anyway... xD

I'm looking into applying for another job, but I want to e-mail a couple supervisors and ask them if I can use them as references. I can still afford to go to school and stuff next semester...but it'll still be pretty tight...

Although a second job may wear me out...and if it's gonna do that, it might as well be a full-time one with benefits, right? XD

Mom has asked our current landlady if we can move out by the end of November. Which means...CLEANING!!! One last Thanksgiving here, and then we move. If I stay calm, and not think TOO hard about it...it won't seem so impossible. Some of my things are still unpacked (like a bunch of English manga), so I still have some boxes. It's just a matter of cleaning thoroughly.

So I shall be putting on a face mask. Because I don't want to sneeze for the entire duration of cleaning.

We still have to figure out what will happen to Erza though...

And randomly: Java Monster Chai Hai is YUMMEH. Tastes like Egg Nog! XD

Food Fest (which is I think the official name they gave to it) is happening right now. Jirou-chan and I went to grab some food.

There was a big circle of tables in the middle. They were giving away cookies, tiny muffins, salads, poke, hot dogs (then later tuna sandwiches when the hot dogs ran out), samples of drinks, 11 oz water bottles, sweet potato fries, chips with dip, cookies... And there was one booth giving out samples of Monster engergy drinks, as well as allowing people to take full-size cans of energy drinks. I got the Russian and Chai Hai Java Monsters. Jirou-chan got a "Lo-Ball" one and the Russian. xDDDDD

I wanna keep the cans. =o So interesting!

I wanted to get some of the poke, so we got into the line (we'd tried previously, but gotten distracted by something else) and went around. I grabbed a thing of salad, and Jirou-chan grabbed the poke. Which...is weird because normally, Jirou-chan doesn't eat poke.

She tried a bite, and her face was too funny. xD She was like, "Here." and handed me the bowl. I handed the salad to her, and finished off the poke. We got around to a table that had tiny breaded shrimp in barbecue sauce, and Jirou combined that with the salad.

I tried some chips (I don't know what kind...but I think there was sea salt on them?) with this dip that looked like some kind of chowder...it was WARM too, which made it even more yummeh. :3

But yes. I skipped class today. I missed most of it because of the free food, so I figured I might as well not go. We're finishing up, "Eat Drink Man Woman" and starting "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring"...which I've already seen. The first movie I can always borrow from the library, so eh!

=o Speaking of which, back to work for me!

I'm sitting on a faulty chair. No matter what height you set it to, as soon as you sit on it, it begins sinking. Not slowly and at a steady pace, but inch by inch. I gave up and set it to the lowest height possible. xD

I'm supposed to do a presentation for my Asian Film class. I'm thinking of comparing the Samurai 7 anime series to the Seven Samurai movie by Akira Kurosawa. I'm not sure if it'd be okay since one is a *series* and not a movie...

Still...I watched all of the Seven Samurai once. It was a LOOOOONNNNG movie, but it was a movie where I needed to know what happened at the end. xD

I went to see the new house yesterday. It was pretty nice. The living room is huge...probably about the same size as our current living room. There's a ceiling fan, so any hot air in the house can be circulated.

The yard...isn't much. It's the smallest yard so far, not counting the time we lived in an apartment and didn't have one.

There's three bedrooms, and my parents room will have their own bathroom. The kitchen is TINY. The kitchen in the apartment was bigger, I think. The house we're in now has the BIGGEST. KITCHEN. EVAR. That we've had, anyway.

We're going to be living up past Kaumana Drive...pretty much on Saddle Road. This morning mom said that she's going to tell our current landlady that we'll move out by the end of November...so OMG cleaning and packing to do. x.x;; Again.

So yeah! When Atobe-buchou comes, we'll be living somewhere new! And colder. o.o I mean, cooler.

We'll have to give up Erza though, because the landlord doesn't want pets. .__. Tezuka-buchou is going to see if she can take her, but if she can't mom will have to ask her co-worker (who gave us Erza) if she can take her back.

Anyway, today is a "Free Sample" day for Sodexho. There'll be some booths or whatever, set up with samples of food to try. I'm going to be late for class for this. xD Mostly because if I went after 12:15, all the good stuff would be gone. D< Also, it'd be lunch time. AND we're a college campus...you know how poor and starving college students are!

I just have to wait a half hour for Jirou to get off work. xD

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I hate it when I'm going to switch tabs, and I accidentally click on something in my bookmarks toolbar. I really should move that.

Anyway, I'm still thinking about what movie I need to do for my film analysis. I. am. HORRIBLE. At critiquing films and whatnot. We watched "In The Mood For Love" and the professor talked about the director's "landmark" film-making style...or was it his "distinctive" film-making style? I forget. All that I remember, is that he intentionally made scenes dark and out-of-focus.

I get the not showing the faces of certain people thing...kinda.

But really...it was way too slow-paced and they always. ALWAYS. Played the same freaking song do a slow-motion scene. It felt like the movie dragged on forever.

Yeah it won all these prestigious awards and whatnot, but it was a huge pain in the ass to watch. xD

The movies since then have been better...but still. I know nothing of observing a film's style. I can only see the blatantly obvious when it comes to movies.

Whatever. x.x;;

I was thinking of going with Casshern/Goemon. Or maybe both and focusing on how the two movies were similar in style. The director of both movies was apparently married to Utada Hikaru for 5 years, and directed some of her music videos.

...and of the ones that I've watched, they're really weird music videos... But they definitely have that Casshern/Goemon look to them.

(And also, Casshern kind of made me tweak because I kept hearing familiar music playing throughout the movie. It took me a while to recognize the music, but whatever was used in the movie was also used in BLEACH.)

So I could do those movies...but then I also was thinking of doing "The Promise"...but my copy of that movie got a little dirty... I don't understand how either. I opened the case, and it looked fine. When I took the disc out, there was like, DIRT underneath it. Maybe termite droppings? I don't know. Whatever it was, I cleaned it up. I wiped the disc, but it got a little scratched so...I have to try and see if it'll still play. But the question is do I want to take a chance and try to insert it into my laptop?

Not really. xD

So I'll use Jirou's PS2. ;o

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It was a nice day (still is, in fact), so I decided to take Erza out for a walk. We walked up the road past our house, and near the top of the road is a house where a tiny hairy Chihuahua dog named "Mocha" lives. I was wondering if we'd be able to get past his house, since Erza (despite being several times his size) is sort of afraid of Mocha.

We didn't even reach Mocha's house. The empty field across of his house was no longer empty. Until now, it was just a bunch of grass and plants. But the owner of that lot put a brown and white cow in the field.

Erza saw it before I did. She started barking and growling at it, fur standing on edge and everything. The cow wasn't intimidated, and kept slowly lumbering towards us.

Even though there was a fence separating the cow from us, Erza kept barking and growling and backing away from it.

So I led her away from there and we went home. xD

This was the first time she'd seen a cow up close and personal. On one of our other walks, we'd managed to pass Mocha's house and walk by a giant yard where a cow and sheep were kept. Erza didn't pay any attention to them...though she was probably distracted by the three black dogs on the other side of the street.

At least this time the thing she's afraid of is bigger than her.

I worked for 4 hours today. I switched some hours with a co-worker, so I ended up working on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. instead of 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

It was a little weird. Usually I'm scheduled to be on desk for the entire time I'm there. But today I had to do things like newspapers, get the bookbin, sort/shelve, etc. Stuff I haven't done since...earlier in the summer. xD But it's not like they're HARD things. It's just that it feels strange to do them now after not doing them for so long.

While I was walking out to get the bookbin near the dorms, I took a shortcut through a grassy area. I passed between two signs...and saw a white blur in front of my eyes. Like, RIGHT in front of my eyes.

Then I felt something on my face.

I reached up and pulled off a spider web from my face.

I hadn't broken it. It was a web belonging to a Crab Spider (or at least, what we in Hawaii call a Crab Spider). They're webs are pretty strong. The spiderweb was still in tact though.

But yeah. It was a huge "WHOA wtf!" I didn't even SEE the web...because I wasn't looking up. xD

Oh well. I've learned my lesson! D:

The computer Jirou-chan uses at work is infected with a trojan/pr0n-virus.

She's not the only one that uses it, though! So yeah.

She came up to me at the circ desk this morning, and said that when she turned on the computer, a message popped up saying that a trojan had been found and deleted. I told her that she should call Systems and have them look at the comp. While she was back there, and I was asking her more questions about it over the phone, another message popped up about a virus. So I called Systems for her, and they came down to run a scan on the computer.

As the scan was running, a window popped up. Jirou said it was an ad for Viagra. Then another ad window popped up which said, "CLICK HERE FOR HOT PUSSY!" She told her supervisor about it, who looked at the window and laughed. As they were talking about it, a librarian came in and saw the window too. She also laughed. So they turned off the computer monitor. XD

I just talked to Jirou-chan, and she said that there were a total of three Trojans found so far on that computer.

So...the supervisors are probably going to put out some kind of warning. "Please do not view any unnecessary websites." So no more Facebook, etc. during downtime on work machines.

One of the supervisors asked me about ways that trojans/viruses get on computers. She asked if it was from viewing "certain sites." I told her that there were other ways of getting viruses/trojans, and you didn't get them JUST from looking at bad sites.

You can get them from viewing ads that contain malicious coding. There was a post online that I read about Google/Yahoo! ads allowing trojans to be installed on users computers (of course, they had to actually *click* on the ads). A .pdf would be opened on the user's computer and the trojan would be set free...if I could find the rest of the article, I'd post it. XD But I guess I'll have to keep looking later.

So...who knows. But the supervisors will probably blame it on us doing things we shouldn't be doing, etc. So they'll come down even harder on us.

I wonder if they'll pull us into a meeting and surround us like last time?

Come to think of it...the last time that happened, who was running the desk? O.o I can't remember...though I think we may have been closed to everyone else at that time...

Oh well. I'll talk to that supervisor again later and see what she says.

Usually on Mondays, I get to sleep in because I don't work. But today I had to wake up early because I had to play chauffeur.

Today was a day for the HGEA (Hawaii Government Employees Association, I think?) to vote on whether or not they were going to take the furloughs/layoffs that the governor had offered, or if they wanted something better.

Or at least, that's my understanding of it! I'm not really involved, since I'm not a full-time, contracted state worker. The state pays me, but I'm a student and don't belong to any unions and whatnot.

One of my supervisors at work (Jirou-chan's former supervisor) started telling me about the layoffs that were going to happen. We already had one person laid off, and she was fairly new. She'd only been working for about 6 months before she had to be fired because of budget cuts. She was a former student assistant/supervisor like myself, who had graduated then got a job as the Stacks Supervisor.

Anyway, Jirou's former supervisor started telling me that there was "bumping" going on. (I think that's the term she used.) She said that people within the library system were slated for being laid off, but because some of them had so much seniority, they were able to direct the layoff at another worker in the same system with less seniority.

She didn't get to finish telling me everything though, because a patron showed up. So I'm not sure if she was going to tell me that someone else was going to disappear from our library or what.

If so, that's going to suck! We're already pretty short-handed in circulation...and so far we're the only department in the library to have lost someone.

I was helping a patron once, and while talking to her I mentioned some changes that had happened because of the budget cuts, and she said, "What? Gee, what am I paying tuition for?" I don't even know how much of the tuition goes to us (since I never asked, really). But I do know that there are fees and stuff that we pay... Usually for services I don't even use. =x

Let's see...there's...

• Student Gov't Fee: $9.00
• Campus Center Fee: $3.50
• Health Center Fee: $7.00
• Publication Fee: $9.50
• Recreation Fee: $2.50
• Activity Fee: $9.00
• Life Center Fee: $78.00

I don't even know what the "Recreation Fee" is for... I guess it's for the games and stuff in the Lava Landing? And the Activity fee is for ... events hosted on-campus? Whatever. I should actually go to the Student Life Center and use the facilities there, but...yeah... For some reason I think I'd feel more comfortable working out some place other than on-campus.

Oh well~

Me:  "Hi!  Can I help you?"
Patron:  "Hi!  I need this book a textbook for class.  The title is Monkey Freebird Jones, and it's written by Oscar Grouch."
Me:  "Do you know the call number?"
Patron:  "No, but it's for Professor Fluffinstuff's class."
Me:  "Okay.  Do you know how to look up call numbers?"
Patron:  "No.  Can't you just get it for me?  It's back there.  *points to bookshelf*  I can see it."
Me:  "Yes, that's where all the other books are too."

( It's RIGHT THERE! )

Once, I was at the Circulation desk with a male co-worker.  A girl comes up to the desk, and apparently she knows my co-worker.  She wants a DVD that has gone missing.  Just a side note:  When a DVD goes missing, the odds are that it is never coming back until they can purchase new DVDs.  They're only allowed to buy new DVDs once a year, and they have already done so for 2009.

But anyway, co-worker tells her that it's missing, it's not back yet, no one knows when it'll be back.

So she looks at him, turns her head to the side and flutters her eyelashes.

"Well, when it comes back, can you hold it for me?  I really wanna see it.  Please?"

He seemed to fall for it, but still had enough wits about him to tell her, "Sorry, I can't."  Though he probably said that because I was right there.  xD  (Me = Bitchy!  XD  And Student Supervisor.)  But he has no problems telling people to illegally download movies when the DVD they want is checked out.  =.=;;  If he does it again, I'm gonna have to tell him he can't do that.  If it was friend-to-friend, I'd be like, "Eh, whatever."  But he's telling random patrons, "Just go online and download it."

Yes.  Because we want to promote movie pirating.

That's all we need is some patron trying to justify his/her movie downloading by telling someone, "The University library told me to do it!"  x.x;;  Then we'd get into trouble with all kinds of people because of one dumbass.