Goooood Monday morning (afternoon) to you all!
I'm almost glad to be back at work, it forces me to actually do stuff. Like answer emails. ^^;
I was searching around the internet, and stumbled across an Animorphs site. This site has Q+A with the authors of the series (apparently there were 2 of them, working under one penname. Huh.). A while ago I d/led the e-books to the series, maaaybe it's time to revisit them ^____^ It's been far too long, and it would be interesting what I got from the series now that I'm not in elementary school anymore. Who here read the series?
An interesting quote from the forum from the authors, on the subject of Animorphs possibly being too dark for its intended audience: "It's bizarre that a parent will blithely tell a four year old a story about children being abandoned in the woods by their parents, entrapped by a gingerbread house, threatened with cannibalism, and top it all off with the triumphant resolution where the children burn a witch alive . . . and be upset when a 12 year old reads ANIMORPHS."
And as a side note, I think I was influenced by Rachel more than I thought...
On a related note, I finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy yesterday. It was a pretty good ending, gives good closure. Too much closure I think though...time to re-watch the 3rd movie?
Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
plants, chrono trigger, kanji
Stopped at the store yesterday, bought a large window planter and some potting soil, then planted some coriander! The plan is to let it grow up big and strong so I can make Mexican salsa, yummmmmmm. I only planted half though, and left the other half for whatever. I don't really use that much spices with my food. The cashier recommended lemon balm, but as I told her, I wouldn't know what to do with it! I'm currently looking for a nice flower perhaps that will grow well out on my deck but not overtake the cilantro, and still looks pretty. Any suggestions?
The parsley and basil plants are poking through! I planted waaay too many of each of them because I wasn't sure they would grow, but now I have about a thousand of each. I'm so incredibly happy that it worked though. They started growing right after we stopped getting frost during the night, makes sense. I soaked half the basil seeds in warm water before planting, and half I didn't, as an experiment. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference as of yet, but they're still pretty puny.
Started up the Chrono Trigger game the other night. Surprisingly, when I turned it on, everything was in English! Since I bought this game at a secondhand store, there were also saved games in each of the save slots, all done to the end. Chrono Trigger is the type of game that you have to play about 8 times through to see all the different endings of the game. I'll prob. keep one or two of the save slots at the end just to mess around :P In the menu, there is an option to toggle between Japanese and English, so if I wanted, I could talk to a person in Japanese (in-game, of course), try and translate, and then switch to English to see how close I got. This is an added bonus! The only problem is the amount of kanji, I still can't read that very well....
Benn focusing of studying kanji for the moment. I'm getting tired of knowing what something means, but not being able to read it. Very frustrating.
Time to clean the school!
The parsley and basil plants are poking through! I planted waaay too many of each of them because I wasn't sure they would grow, but now I have about a thousand of each. I'm so incredibly happy that it worked though. They started growing right after we stopped getting frost during the night, makes sense. I soaked half the basil seeds in warm water before planting, and half I didn't, as an experiment. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference as of yet, but they're still pretty puny.
Started up the Chrono Trigger game the other night. Surprisingly, when I turned it on, everything was in English! Since I bought this game at a secondhand store, there were also saved games in each of the save slots, all done to the end. Chrono Trigger is the type of game that you have to play about 8 times through to see all the different endings of the game. I'll prob. keep one or two of the save slots at the end just to mess around :P In the menu, there is an option to toggle between Japanese and English, so if I wanted, I could talk to a person in Japanese (in-game, of course), try and translate, and then switch to English to see how close I got. This is an added bonus! The only problem is the amount of kanji, I still can't read that very well....
Benn focusing of studying kanji for the moment. I'm getting tired of knowing what something means, but not being able to read it. Very frustrating.
Time to clean the school!
Monday, March 1, 2010
Peanut Butter.
Okay, I said only yesterday that I would not listen to any vocaloid songs. I changed my mind 5 minutes ago. Apparently Jouji Nakata is doing the newest voice. He has possibly the most awesome Japanese voice I have ever heard, speaking wise. *heart* I'm actually looking forward to it!!
And as I just commented on Facebook (oh great and powerful Facebook), X Japan is now moving to California....as in relocating the whole band there. And they are playing a concert in Chicago. DAAAAARN YOOOOOOU fate!!!!
On another note, I'm at nichu today (the more lax school), so I spent maybe an hour looking up "rebus". They're word plays, like
stand
I
means "I understand."
After all that research, we decided that the ones I found were a bit difficult for the 1st graders, so we're going with some that I thought of. Glee.
Need to finish my curry tonight, maybe I'll buy some bread and call it a stew.
One class I actually have to show up for today, then a period of maybe studying, then playing with the chillins at basketball (I'll try not to run into people his time, honest!), then home a bit early! This school is too cool.
To end, peanut butter is wonderful.
And as I just commented on Facebook (oh great and powerful Facebook), X Japan is now moving to California....as in relocating the whole band there. And they are playing a concert in Chicago. DAAAAARN YOOOOOOU fate!!!!
On another note, I'm at nichu today (the more lax school), so I spent maybe an hour looking up "rebus". They're word plays, like
stand
I
means "I understand."
After all that research, we decided that the ones I found were a bit difficult for the 1st graders, so we're going with some that I thought of. Glee.
Need to finish my curry tonight, maybe I'll buy some bread and call it a stew.
One class I actually have to show up for today, then a period of maybe studying, then playing with the chillins at basketball (I'll try not to run into people his time, honest!), then home a bit early! This school is too cool.
To end, peanut butter is wonderful.
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