Is it me? For a moment...

NEWS FLASH

2009-08-31T04:38:57Z

Thanks to a call from my new landlady (whom I'm quickly starting to adore) Emily and I can move in tomorrow instead of Tuesday! This is good because I can spend all day moving crap after History instead of having to break to go to my evening class.

Getting the bed up three flights of stairs... well, we'll see. We got it into the van I have faith we can get it inside the apartment.

This also means my internet usage will be a little screwy until we get it all set up for ourselves. Oh well. I'm just excited to get moved in sooner.

The world is a scary place to live in...

2009-08-24T03:11:08Z

So, I was randomly reading AOL news stuff when I cam across something that disturbed me greatly.

Tossing Out Old Pillows "In five years, 10 percent of the weight of the pillow is dust mite and dust mite debris," says Dr. Tierno. To fight the mites, he recommends a protective cover for your pillow in addition to using a pillowcase. The National Library of Medicine recommends purchasing allergen-impermeable pillow covers, or replacing your old pillows with synthetic, washable pillows and wash them in hot water weekly. So let's hope the 15 percent of survey respondents who said they never throw away their pillows are making every effort to keep the mites away.

DUST MITE AND DUST MITE DEBRIS, WTF?! (o_O)

There's also this:

Washing Your Sheets Sixty percent of you aren't changing them weekly, which is how often Dr. Tierno recommends -- and that's as long as you have a protective cover to guard against dust mites and debris that build up in your mattress. "You could do it more, but that can be excessive and a waste of water," he says. To the 16 percent who wash their sheets monthly and 10 percent even less than once a month -- you might want to consider changing your bedding more frequently.

Now, I fail in the sheet area, always have, but after this I'm gonna try to do it at least once a month now. As for the pillows... that freaked me out even more because isn't everyone's favorite pillow the one they've had forever?

Needless to say I just changed my sheets and hurled them and my pillows into the laundry area. I'm MacGyver-ing my own stuffing for clean pillow cases. Yes, I know I'm being paranoid. I am also buying new pillows to bring to my apartment this week.

SOURCE

1 out of 2 ain't bad.

2009-08-21T23:40:46Z

Well, the good news is my history book came. The bad news is my math book problem is still a problem. The bookstore people actually told me it was better to show up without a book rather than show up with a never-taken-out-of-plastic book that ends up being the wrong one. It feels wrong to me, but since I can't figure out how to contact the teacher ~~(s/he's not on the math faculty, and the only two searches of their name reveals no info on one and an email list and 'tutor' for the other.)~~

So I guess I'll just show up without one and ask the guy~~/gal~~ when they show up.

On an unrelated note, Emily and I made Pineapple Upside-Down Cake and did shopping for the apartment. Much was accomplished.

EDIT: It's a guy, according to the class description I looked up. But there is no info on him at all. He's a ghost, apparently.

FUCKING YES

2009-08-15T18:19:51Z

WE GOT THE PLACE. I HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

More than the air I breathe...

2009-08-14T22:05:02Z

PICTURE OF YOU MV

I forgot how much I loved that song. Also, I cried a little because of the OT5. I'm not ashamed.

Update

2009-08-07T19:38:11Z

All right, first things first. Old news to some but Trip out East is canceled because even I am sick now. *shakes fist* At least it's just a cold and not the Death Plague everyone else has.

I applied and got accepted to the community college I wanted. I just need to get those darn transcripts over.

I took the placement test this morning and passed into respectable levels of reading, writing, math. So I can't register for classes until tomorrow, but after I do I have 24 hours to pay tuition. (As TODAY, THE 7TH is the actual date tuition is due, this is not actually a bad thing.)

I will be going as a part-time since Korean at the U is 5 credits, and if I took 11 credits at the college (the max for PT) I'd have 16 credits on my plate. Which is a full-time load. My dad finds this reasonable.

Now I just need to find a place to live. Stupid apartments.

:D :D :D

2009-05-30T17:03:29Z

Grades are finally up. And I got...

An A!

Somehow the 'term gpa' was 4.0. Which I can't wrap my head around but hey, I'll take it. I guess I didn't totally bomb the oral stuff after all. ^_^

Ps. Yus, the layout has changed. I think it's quite pretty. Props to tinseltown16

Fandom meets School, whut?

2009-01-19T20:12:12Z

So. Last semester we had to get a lame work-in-progress textbook for beginning Korean. We had to do the same for seconds semester, obviously since I'm sure it's going to be one huge book.

Every so often there's a Culture page, and I stared a bit at one of them while I was flipping through. Lo, did my eyes behold a strange sight. Big Bang. A blurb on music, the second half on Kpop, and Big Bang in a photo. Now, they didn't label the picture saying it was Big Bang but I know what I saw. I took pictures as proof.

My camera is kind of lame, but I dare you, tell me that I'm wrong.

Progress report.

2009-01-15T06:59:03Z

Bento-ing was a good idea. Two hours later have made a bento and taken pics/made random video accidentally on purpose. Will post sometime tomorrow, am tired now and need to sleep.

Night all.

My brain...it hurts.

2009-01-08T01:00:37Z

So. Am thinking of going back to college. For realz, yo.

There's a lot of stuff to think about. I desperately need to talk to someone about how I go about doing this because I really don't know how. I was a student at UE and then that didn't work so I went home. And then last fall I become a non-degree seeking student at the UofM.

Anyway, I was thinking with the credits I have and the breadth at which I passed them, I should try out Comparative Lit. Major on the 'Cultural Studies' track. With a possible minor in Korean, because that's only four semesters of Korean and two Asian Language and Literature courses 'in one Asian literature/culture related to the student's area of concentration' Which looks like "Topics in Korean Literature" and "Topics in Korean Culture" So...yeah.

The suck part will be all the Gen ed stuff I didn't do like.. science. And probably math since I don't think I got a high enough grade in the one for it to transfer, but we'll see. I did however get an A in Intro to Psych and a B in Intro to Philosophy, so theoretically they should be fine. But like I said I won't really know anything until I talk to people at the U. Aish.

It should be noted that this whole 'becoming a student by Fall' correlates to the strong ~~fleeting hope~~ desire to go Study Abroad in South Korea in Spring Semester 2010 with my friend. Double aish.

Success!

2008-12-23T03:39:37Z

Five credit class, KOR 1011 (Beg. Korean): A-

If you're really curious: GPA: 3.667 Yeah, I'm just clutching that A by the coattails.

:D :D :D :D :D

I totally thought I was getting B. Because that's how all my tests averaged. It might not be a high high A, but it's an A!

춥지요? 네, 추위요.

2008-12-17T18:51:52Z

So. I got at up 6, in order to leave at 6:50, because I thought my final was at 8am. Turns out it was at 8:30, and I could have slept an extra hour.

I had coffee for the first time in five days (boycotted with the sickness) so I had a bit of a shakiness after the final. Granted, I was still sick, which sucked especially since I ran low on Kleenexes during the test. But I needed the coffee.

On the plus side, did not go into work. Emily and I went to Kim's Market. I got frozen mandu (만두), plum(자두) and melon(메론) candy, chopsticks for the girls and some instant jajangmyeon (자장면). The 자장면 was amazingly good. Will have to get more some time.

Oh, and my toes nearly froze off when i waited fifteen minutes for the stupid bus to come. But other than that, I'm doing okay even though it feels weird to be home during the day when it's a weekday.

9 days until my final.

2008-12-08T23:54:01Z

Aish.

I take my Oral Exam tomorrow instead of Wed because my boss needs me to basically hold down the fort Wed&Thurs while she attends a funeral out of town. I say 'basically' because General Manager is going to be there, but he doesn't really no anything about runnign the place so he'll most likely be in back doing stupid carap. But still, it's the General Manager and it might have been nice to have an extra day to pump myself up.

So I really should brush up on Chapter 7 Conversation 2 and 8 C1.

I have yet to figure out if I bombed the second quiz but I'm gonna guesstimate later knowing what I know I got wrong and using the old quiz as a guide for scoring. Just for my piece of mind, because I made a stupid mistake in spelling the word 'day' which is in every sing day of the week, of course.

Have felt sick to my stomach since I got to work today and a while during work I felt like I was wearing a corset. Boss thinks it's stress manifesting itself in an uncool way. But i bought some ice cream so hopefully it'll come in handy while I'm studying.

윤선생님, 사랑합니다!

2008-12-02T23:54:01Z

I love Korean professor, Yoon sungsaengnim. I want to see pictures of him as a high-schooler. I want to see video of him as a high-schooler, because he must have been the biggest dork on the face of the earth. With like big TOP-like glasses and pens in his pockets and perfectly straightened tie and stuff. *dies*

Anyway. A month or so ago he made us sing the 곰 세 말이 (Three Bears Song). Now, we have to sing 3 Christmas carols:

징글벨 (Jingle Bells)
울면 안돼 (Santa Claus is Coming to Town [lit. You Shouldn't Cry!])
루돌프 사슴 코 (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [Lit. Rudolph Shiny Nose])

He played this crazy version of the songs like the intro music killed me dead. And then tried to get us to sight-sing. And I died a little along with everyone else who didn't know the carols because it was all "hoshit figure out this Hangul and try and sing it right now crap it's really fast". Didn't work so well. But on my own and figuring out where to slur things together it's not so strange.

And Emily directed me to what I think was a 1999 SM TOWN version of Jingle Bells. And I died more because it was so old school what with H.O.T and S.E.S.

Thanksgiving/Black Friday

2008-11-28T23:18:35Z

In bullet-point because I'm bored.

1pm--Ate Thansgiving Lunch. Gorged muchly.
2pm--Five-Player Monopoly. Came in 3rd; trampled by brother.
4pmish--Season 2 House/Pie
7pm--Dad's. Started watching Blu-Ray!Casino Royale (had not seen it)
8pm--Broke for dinner; chicken tika masala.
10pm--Finished Casino Royale. Spent two hours trying to sleep.
12amish--Finally fell asleep
2am--Woke up to make coffee
2:40am--Had my dad drop me at the Mall (dad's nocturnal)
3:15am--Clocked in with my boss. Started baking/setting up
3:50am--First sale of the day, coffee.
4:55am--First ice cream sale of the day, cake-ice cream with oreos, whip cream and sprinkles on top.
5:30am--Ate breakfast. Had only downed coffee before.
6:00am--Coworker came in.
9am--Saw two coworkers (who are sisters) come in to shop before their shifts.
10am--Second coworker came in. (niether of the sisters)
11am--Three coworkers come in. I LEFT.
12pm--Fell asleep.
4pm--Woke up and had some stuffing.
5pm--Started typing this out.

Also we had started to watch 'A Moment to Remember' in Koran class on Wed so I will have to finish that. And I could say more about my uncle making me uncomfortable...but I won't right now. Just stare at the last 20-odd hours.

luvmeanddespair @ 2008-11-18T19:00:00

2008-11-19T01:08:11Z

A week ago my mom bought a cat. I was wary about it because I was worried about how my lame cat would react. My worries have proven to be right on. Pearl, who is under a year old and has all of her claws can easily win territory fights.

Which would be fine if she wasn't shredding my cat and trying to take over my room--which was my cat's sanctuary during and after the 'dog attempt'. I've been woken up twice in the morning to yowling, hissing and growling under my bed--since my room has no door.

Meanwhile my stepdad is blaming my cat for 'starting' fights (and throws things at her). Which I think is stupid. Esther might be bigger, but she's a lot older and fat and only has her back claws--she's always getting her tail kicked by Pearl. Her face is going to get all torn up.

I'm really upset about this. Esther might be annoying sometimes but she's still my cat and I don't like to see her in pain. I'm really starting to hate my mom's cat too.

:D

2008-09-26T02:27:37Z

Well, talked to Emily. And have *gasp* made plans to hang out with her and some of her friends, by going to dinner in like.. 2 weeks at a Korean place. I am proud of myself.

We talked on Y!M, I linked her to DBSKer and the epic Stephen Colbert/Rain rivalry. She linked me to random YouTube vids. Like Tokyo Dance Trooper , Two Beers & a Mustache and Wonderguys Haru Haru parody. And the beginning of Happy Together that I just need to finish watching.

Yeah, I kinda overlooked that one when it came out.

And yes, I did do my homework, thank you very much. Now to enjoy my YouTube.

luvmeanddespair @ 2008-09-24T20:50:00

2008-09-25T02:26:48Z

I'm tired and still sick. And I think that whoever 'likes' being sick and is happy about 'being sick'--you are not sick enough. Just...no, go away. Ergo this post will be full of crack.

I got locked out of the house because I forgot my key, so I did most of my Korean homework with the exception of the audio since that was something he only emailed us today. It's not due until Friday so I'm thinking I'll just let it pass. Was going to try doing the voice-post oral homework also due Friday tonight but...am tired and am not sure if I can infuse enough happy-focus to make it sound decent right now.

A guy form the Apple store we see a lot knew some Korean, recognized what I said when I told him goodbye and said it 'was cool' that I was taking it, with the 'cool' bit being in Korean. And no, he's not Asian so..yeah. Unfortunately he was with other Apple-store friends today so I couldn't talk to him about it and get the low-down on how he knows Korean.

Emily-ssi form my class has initiated the exchange of emails, thus upping herself from School-Acquaintance to School-Friend. Possibility of being in the uncharted Normal-Friend undetermined.

For explanation of the following -Friend terms, I will use the beloved math IFF. (if and only if)

School-Friend: Someone I see and hang out with IFF at School or doing School-related things. (Classes, group-work, choir concerts)
Work-Friend: Someone I see and hang out with IFF at Work or doing Work-related things. (Shifts, bi-yearly party, customer service)
Internet-Friend: Someone I 'see' and 'hang out' with IFF technology is available. (ie, email, IM, TXTing.)

It should be noted that while I have known both Pa-Eng and Maila (coworkers) for 2 years, I feel closer to Sarah-yah, whom I have known for about 15 months via AIM, etc. ~~(I only know this because our first thread was the beginning of June '07~~) And really, only that long? It feels so much longer...

Anyway. I explain this because I haven't really had any 'normal' friends since elementary school. I was getting close to a person UE but that was long ago and I pretty much gave up on the idea after I left.

Uuuughhh.

2008-09-22T22:16:46Z

If possible, I would like to track down whoever has cast their disease upon me and beat them into a pulp. I cannot be sick this week. I work too much to be sick.

Also. I am going to attempt to speak in Korean pretty much whenever possible. And write it. No, I didn't utterly fail my quiz but I got an 89% which is probably one point shy of the 90% that would give me and A. One point I could have gotten had I double-checked something on the written part.

There were a few audio errors as well. I double-guessed myself on a 사다 and chose 싸다 instead. And then basically putting down the wrong O. Which is annoying.

Anyway. I'ma going to go out to eat with my dad and be back by the Heroes premier. I was very ticked at them for what happened in the 2nd Season, but they deserve a chance to redeem themselves.

죽을래

2008-09-19T22:55:33Z

So I had my first test in Korean class. I am fairly confident that I passed the audio/written stuff. Yay~ The oral exam was...okay. I messed up one a few things which ticked me off.

And I know exactly why I messed up. I wasn't taking the time to read it over in my head and/or just glancing at the ending.
IE:

안녕하세요 = annyǒnghaseyo (hello!)
안녕히 가세요 = annyǒnghi kaseyo(goodbye [to one leaving])

In the above I screwed up the most basic Korean phrase I already knew because I didn't look at the end. I saw 안녕 and ㅎ, and didn't bother reading the rest. It's no good memorizing them when you don't read the whole thing.

In the case of completely screwing up 식당 Well, I really don't know. That one ticked me off bad because when we had a practice session, it was one I screwed up on before. It wasn't like my pronunciation was bad it was that I said something completely different. For some reason I couldn't read it as "식" I was reading "삭" or possibly "산" and it just went down from there. Now, I understand it's easy to reverse nieun (ㄴ) and kiok (ㄱ), but...I don't know where the hell ㅏ came from. Maybe I saw it at the second half when glancing and carried it back over. I just know it annoyed me.

식당 = Shik-Dang (Restaurant)

Other than that and leaving one of the 'not-mine' travel-mugs behind, the day went well.
Oh, and I went and preordered Mirotic last night. :D

Hmmm.

2008-09-15T22:16:35Z

So I tried to do the colorgenics thing everyone's been doing but...I think I'm doing it wrong because I've tried it twice and it's saying I'm having issues that...I'm not having. Kinda making me all o.O about it. Must be because I was choosing grey first... Or maybe I'm too tired to think properly.

Anyway. I'm tired from class and work, trying to avoid drinking caffeine because if I do I'll stay up way late and be more tired tomorrow. Which would be bad. We...don't have any homework, though I can go over all of the letter-names if I want to for practice. We're going to have a test on the Hangul Friday and...I don't feel nervous about, so I figure that's a good thing.

Went shopping on Saturday and forgot to deposit my check, but I'll do that next Saturday.

Hello, my name is Izzi, and I'm a Coffee Mug-aholic

2008-09-13T18:45:29Z

So. I bought this clear-drawer storage thing, with three drawers. Filled the bottom with my collection of coffee mugs as per my mother's request (and really, for the good of the house).

As of right now I have 14 mugs to my knowledge. Two of them are at my dad's though. Maybe I should start naming them after Super Junior and stuff, lol. I'll list them and where I got them, just for fun.

Large Mugs (16-20oz+):
--Museum Of Natural History and Science (NYC)
--I ♥ [Hershey Kiss] (Goodwill)
--University of Evansville, Purple&White Marblely color (UE Bookstore)
--University of Evansville, Tall&White (UE Bookstore; at Dad's).
--Statue of Liberty Mug with Poem (NYC, at Dad's)

Normal-size Mugs (8-12oz):
--University of Evansville, Purple&Clear Plastic. (UE Bookstore. And yeah, I loved that school. Should get some U of M ones.)
--Original Megatokyo Magic C0ff33 +1, Black (MegaGear Online Store)
--Hiro Emoticon face + time-travel quote by Angelus Silesius, black&white (Online)
--United Nations/Nation Unies, Blue w/ White writing and UN Symbol(NYC)
--Birthday 'Cup-Cake', Black&White w/ my name (Mom, thanks Mom)
--Pride-ish Mug, White with Rainbow going around & a Rainbow Sun (Mom, thanks Mom)
--IKEA-Mug, Blue one with Tiny Handle (IKEA)
--Urn-shaped Idigo with Green Inside (...Goodwill, I think)

Travel Mugs:
--[Insert my store's Name HERE] Grey Travel Mug

Now, I've been borrowing some other travel mugs to use, (Purple go-go-go [we have like 2/3 of them] and some Bank ones), but I don't think they've been decreed as Mine. Not yet, anyway, I kind of like the go-go-go one.

And yes, I do know I have problem. I just really like mugs.

luvmeanddespair @ 2008-09-10T17:08:00

2008-09-10T22:32:14Z

Was going to just bitch in this entry for a long time about this horrible customer, but then I finally calmed down. So props to my playlist of Dangerous Mind, Don't Don, Triangle and Free Your Mind.

So I'll just be calm about in explaining the situation.

There's this obese, whitish pocky-faced middle-aged woman who everyone in the store wants to refuse to serve. Because she's a complete bitch. She gets a pint of our chocolate gelato--which she consumes immediately and it's just ridiculous. She has this attitude that she thinks she's a goddess and we're lesser mortals, there only to serve her and that she can belittle us and harass us however she wishes. She makes a big deal about how much the thing should weigh--when we can only fit so much in, and she will tell you to weigh it in front of her (we have a scale, and do use it on a regular basis for quality control) and then she complains about having to sign for a pint, but every one has to sign for whatever they get with a card in the store--it's just the way it goes. And makes this huge fuss about having to shift all the crap she's carrying to pay us--like it's our fault she's carrying on that crap and... she's just a bitch. If its' such a goddamn issue for her to get the freaking ice cream just go to Cub or Byerly's or Lunds and pick up one of our gelato pints there--it'll probably be cheaper.

My manager wanted to crawl over the counter and sock her one when she snapped at poor little Tess. Have I mentioned I love my manager? So yeah, Julie is pissed as hell about her and wants to call the General Manger to ask if we can refuse to serve her, because she doesn't like having to be there and watch as the bitch snaps at everyone.

And okay, so I'm still ticked about it but it's no longer a consuming rage that makes me want to throw stuff. I kind of really wish that we had Yoon sǒngsaengnim everyday, because he's funny and awesome. Kim sǒngsaengnim is...kind of annoying. And here i was wanting a woman teacher. Technically we still get him like 3/5 days but.. I like him better. XD

Though the 'Let's Speak Korean!' ten-minute things he plays from Arirang before class are kind of cracky and I kind of really want to smack 'Lisa' because of her voice and stuff. But OMG, I just found one on YouTube that mentions Super Junior. If we make it that far (sǒngsaengnim says he has like 104 epis LMAO) it will be all worth it getting to class half an hour early.

luvmeanddespair @ 2008-08-22T23:54:00

2008-08-23T04:54:03Z

View Poll: Regarding PB & J

Oh the drama

2008-08-11T23:13:50Z

So I watched the USA Women's Gymnastics qualifications last night (somehow missing the floor exercise stuff.) And the two uneven bars falls hurt me deep in my soul. Just aish guys. I also have a crush on Shawn Johnson now because she's cute like a chipmunk and so solid, you know? God, I'd love to see her as brunette. /pervy unni.

ANYWAY. After all this I was dancing around to music on my iPod like a dork, and as far as I can figure did some kind of skip-leap-type thing and landed the wrong way on my right foot. My arch was killing me this morning and I spent work half-limping and walking on my heel or the left side of my foot. I don't know...

During all this pain today, my boss Julie gets a call. Someone thought they left their credit card there on Saturday. Guess who supposedly rang that purchase up? Yeah, me, near the end of my shift. Um, yeah, I don't steal. What made it worse is that Julie's boss (read: the clean-freak General Manager) came in to set up the new email like, right after the call and so I was all "...oh, snap."

In the trying to figure out WTF happened, it came into light how many employee discounts (read: 50% off) had been given to non-employees by a certain coworker. Who was promptly called in and fired by General Manager. As for the card thing, there's speculation one of said former-coworker's friends who had been hanging around might have taken it, or it wasn't lost here at all. All I know is that I sure as hell didn't take it and I didn't see anyone else take it.

So yeah, lots of drama. Kind of sucks, because, she wasn't that bad. And I was trying to convert her to Kpop. Anyway, when I got home I spent a good half-hour soaking both feet in some hot soapy water in the hopes that it will feel better for tomorrow. And I will avoid any weird movements tonight as best I can.

On one last random note, I am made of lame and am obsessed with some sappy songs: 我抱著我 (In my Arms) by SuJu-M, Thanks To and Stay With Me Tonight by DBSK.