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In my Media and Consumer Society sociology class today I saw someone flaunt their socioeconomic status in, what I thought was, very poor taste. This is the same boy who brought in a magazine to show everyone a twenty thousand dollar watch and then talked about it as if it were nothing. "It's completely worth it because it's so timeless", were his words. Today he took it a few steps further.

The first time was when we were talking about designer bag knockoffs. We were discussing the sign value, ie whether or not your social status changes when people see you with a fake bag. This person got somewhat annoyed and went on a rant about how he and his friends make fun of these people: "if you can't afford it, don't buy a fake one," he said.

The second incident took place when he began defending designer outlets. He went on a five minute rant on how they are so much better than buying knockoffs. The professor tried to get him to stop talking and she actually had to raise her voice.

The this time he was talking about his uncle's house. His uncle had built a house. He just couldn't stop emphasizing how large the house was and how envious and ready the neighbors were to keep up with him.

I think this person should be flogged and all his designer clothes should be taken away. He's ugly anyway, the clothes don't do much for him.

1. Chocolate

2. Jameson

3. Self manipulation

4. the Brontë sisters

5. Chocolate

6. Final Fantasy VII

7. Starcraft

8. Square Enix

My voice is basically gone and I don't have high hopes for tomorrow. This sucks and blows. I wish I could call out.

Honey...Hani...Mitskuni...I need to post it here because no one sees it otherwise. Eyes and left arm are all screwed up.



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CS does have a bucket tool. This could have saved me so much grief.

What the hell, harvest moon? We were content with farming. Now you do this. Harvest moon with dungeons?

Also, I think I've had more meals of triscuits and peaches this summer than of actual food. Where the hell is all the food in my house, seriously?

Everyone go look at my ( PIXEL MAN ). I need pageviews. I'm too lazy to actually comment anyone.

These puppies are so fucking cute. My beauty looked like this when she was a baby. She used to fight with other dogs like that and she climbed over a little fence we built for her just like that puppy climbs over a cinder block.
Watch this. Now. You know you want to see cute puppies.

If you need me I will be on my couch eating toblerone and trying to figure out where the hell all the straight people went, because there sure as hell weren't any at Williams and I'm not seeing any here.

Also, I think I've done something stupid. Again.

I've compiled a list of things I want to buy when I have more money:

• a wacom tablet (the one I have now sucks) and possibly a scanner
  
• a new cover for my ipod
  
• new clothes
  
• a watch
  
• a copy of starcraft, to play with Alex if he still wants to
  
• [edit: a damned pocketbook/book bag]
  

The wacom tablet seems iffy, especially since I won't have much time to use it and I still have to buy books. It's also minimum $300 if I don't buy it off of ebay.

I've found a book that I can't seem to put down. Please don't laugh, it's Gregory Maguire's Wicked. It's actually really well written. It's also written on an adult level so I don't have to feel guilty reading it (unlike with some of those fantasy novels).

I had a slight panic attack at work today when some woman started talking about her eight-month-old baby. I realized that I work with a bunch of women who put clothes away for a living. For a moment I was afraid that this could be my future. Although I recognize that there's almost no chance of this happening based on my circumstances and choices it just made me feel sort of...trapped for a minute.

Aside from that, for some unknown reason I've been in a really good mood for the past couple of days. I actually found myself singing out loud to that stupid Sheryl Crow song (you know, that one about soaking up the sun) in the car on the way to work today. I hope this lasts because these moods have been pretty damned rare lately.

For the longest time my mother has been claiming that she hears voices in the basement. She would scream and freak out and run upstiars. We figured out recently that it was actually just AIM (Ichat) speaking. lol mom, lol.

I'm aware that the type of video game I like is very narrowly defined. I play them obsessively, religiously even. So, in an effort to branch out I've started playing Baten Kaitos . Yes, it's an rpg, a turn based rpg, but it sports neither the Final Fantasy nor the Square Enix label.

Overlooking the hideous voice acting, poorly defined characters with little motivation, party with almost no reason to stick together and the battle system that's not as innovative as everyone makes it sound, here's what really got me:

The plot for at least the first half of the game is one of those where you have to find five parts of something before the evil empire gets them and revives some ancient being that will, of course, destroy absolutely everything. On a quest to fine the fourth end magus (that's what the pieces are called), because we have somehow lost the first three although we've fought all of the bosses holding them, the party goes through a really difficult dungeon and defeats the boss that holds the fourth magus (surprise, surprise). Now, your party members are all in the room along with two npcs and a bad guy; the magus is sealed in a rock. One of your party members offers to unseal it using her arcane magic. Now, all of your other party members just sort of stand there a few feet away and watch as she does this. The bad guy is standing right next to the rock, just waiting to yoink the magus. Does your party do anything to prevent him from doing so, seeing the obvious problem here? No, they just stand there and watch like idiots. And of course he yoinks it as soon as it's unsealed and everyone's like damn, we couldn't have done anything to prevent that short of walking a few feet. To top it off this pink-haired underling of the bad guy subsequently walks right up to one of your female party members and is like: "I'm going to take this really important necklace, yoink!". Your party member is just like: "Hey!', not even a fight or a "You bitch!", nope.

Anyway, BAD PLOT! NO. NAUGHTY PLOT!

By the way the bad guy's name is Giacomo. If Sephiroth were to fight him he would kick Giacomo's tubby ass by ripping Jupiter a new one.

I'm in a contsant state of stress and anxiety. Yesterday, in an attempt to alleviate this state, I went into the basement and made these huge fashion drawings like I used to. It was sort of fun and helped a little. I need some sort of project or something to learn over the next ninety some odd days. I have some drawing and anatomy books if I can just get myself to sit down and concentrate. Maybe I'll head down to the book store later and find something to do. Alas, Final Fantasy VII is calling my name. Something so familiar would be comforting; it also wouldn't be very productive.

Ask the 8-ball this question: Will this answer be in the negative? The answer is wrong no matter what the response is.
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So I finally threw the towel in and decided to get nexon cash so I can set up a shop. Of course, Nexon has to be fucking difficult and only accept fucking paypal. Fucking paypal has to be down because it fucking sucks and I can't remember my fucking password. Fuck you paypal. Fuck you nexon. You would think that since I'm fucking giving these people fucking money they would at least make it fucking easy in me, but nooooo, it has to be fucking difficult. Stupid fucking maplestory.

At this point in the semester I'm just about ready to throw my grades in the toilet.

FLUUUUUUUUUSH

I feel like I drive people to insanity.

Anything I get, I probably deserve.

I feel as if I have been greatly wronged.

am seriously considering asking for an extension on my second paper, this is why:

Mon 6 pm - paper due (5-7 pgs)
Tues 6 pm thru very late - roomdraw
Thursday in class - midterm in compsci
Thursday in class - midterm in Economics
Friday 5 pm - paper due (9-12 pgs)

It's amazing how things that so anticipated when you were young can approach completely without notice now. Today is Easter Sunday, it's the first Easter I will experience after completely flouting the lenten rules set by the Catholic church. I'm not sure how I feel about this, especially since after telling my grandfather earlier today that I had eaten meat on Good Friday he gasped and there was dead silence on the phone for about five seconds before I told him I was kidding (JK lol, Jesus).

I'm sort of depressed that I won't be spending this holiday with all of my adorable cousins, most of which excitedly anticipate the holiday and still believe in the easter bunny. Granted, I'm sure not all of them have the experience of their great uncle telling them every year that he shoots both the easter bunny and Santa Claus. It's really fun to see the little guys the morning of a holiday come to you and happily and name everything they've acquired from either some unseen fat man or oversized rodent. I speculate that trust issues with their parents or something must develop from being deceived for years.

Anyway, my cousins are cute and I miss all of them so much. The food will be sorely missed as well, that makes 3 sad years in a row without pizza rustica. At least I have enough chocolate to give myself diabetes.

To close, I have a splitting headache right now. I'm going to get some homework done and go to bed, hopefully I won't sleep through brunch.