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[Dr. Kraus]

@choco: Yea, its forced one of the people off the DA for the time being and another has their account locked for the time being \-.-/

In other news:

I've decided to revoke my job application from the place I've applied for, I'm making the call tomorrow morning.
I came to this conclusion after these key facts:

1. I'm working on getting Microsoft Certified. (50% complete).
2. My dad gave me a job offer of $20/h and extremely flexible hours.
3. The amount of paperwork is 3 months worth and its been close to 4 months since I've started the application process.
4. The work is on an tray line, scooping slop on a tray for hours a day.
5. School is the most important thing at this point.

So yea, I'll have to pay them back for the Physical and shots that they have provided me with but that will be covered under my insurance with my mum's job.

My mum yelled at me when I told her about my decision but I just took it and didn't mind it, my dad gave me the thumbs up for it though.

The OHA approves of my decision:

[Chocofreak13]

@kraus: amen to that. why work in a job you're not gonna be happy in? what kind of quality of work will that bring? plus, working for family can be easier in alot of ways. for example, my mum has worked at my uncle's store for what is probably 10 years now. solid job, alright pay, and the only real problems she's had is that they don't give her more than 3 days a week and that some of her colleagues were jerks (not anymore).
if she has any complaints, she can just voice them to her sister. :3


so guys, i feel the need to tell you about something that happened today. it proves that wise men can be major fools.

my teacher descibed anime as a genre as "filled with mostly sex and violence" and that "almost all readers of manga are men. occasionally a woman will be among the group, but that's very, very rare."

he then went on to display some rather.......'interesting' (offensive more like) sculptures that i can only describe as "what someone who doesn't know shit about anime might think of when they hear the word 'anime'." (i'll be posting pictures in RPT goes wild.) me and my friends retorted his arguement hotly (my friend ayla introduced the statement that the large part of "sex and violence" anime came from the 90's, to which i added that if one looks at 80's anime and anime of the 00's and beyond, that there's not very much sex and violence at all.), and spent the rest of class (the better portion, actually) thinking of anime that doesn't fit that description. (hetalia? no. card captor sakura? nope. pokemon?  not really.)

after class, my friend reminded me of azumanga daioh and lucky star, which sure as hell don't fit that mold. so i told him to look up lucky star, as an example of the other end of the spectrum, since while anime CAN contain sex and violence, that's not ALL it is. ><;;

this gives me even more motivation to kick some ass on my paper. (the book i have is proving surprisingly useful; i made a good choice with this one.) on the upside, i aced my midterm in that class. :3 (it was kind of hard to fail, actually. :\)

[Bella]

@Kari: That entire situation sounds like it was full of more dumbfuckliness than a basket full of dumbfuck. Because:

1) It's a reflection of the irritating bias against manga and anime-style artwork within the art-school community. There are a lot of art schools that will turn down people with manga-based portfolios, EVEN if they are artistically-sound and the artist competent, and many schools that are tolerant of manga-style works aren't exactly kind to them.

2) Because calling anime a GENRE is pure idiocy. It would be like calling comics a genre, novels a genre, or live-action TV a genre. GENRE refers to a group of themes included in a work - mystery, action-adventure, romance, science fiction, etc - while anime is a type of production, in this case, ANIMATION. Really, that's all it is - cartoons that happens to be from Japan. I hate it when people treat it like this bizarre, alien thing that only weirdos enjoy.

3) Saying anime is filled with sex and violence is like saying movies are filled with sex and violence... or books are filled with sex and violence ... or music is filled with sex and violence... in other words, it's a gross over-simplification. Yeah, there ARE a lot of violent and/or sexual anime series and movies - they were around in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today and aren't going to go away - but the same goes for movies, TV shows, books, comics, theater productions, music, art, and any other forms of human creative expression there might be.

4) I don't think there are anime that do or don't fit "the mold", mainly because i don't believe there is a "mold". This goes back to what I said about anime being a production format, not a genre. Sure, there are anime that have become rather representative of the non-anime-viewing public's perceptions of anime - things like Bleach and Naruto - but I don't think those are any more or less representative of what anime is than Serial Experiments Lain, or Gundam, or Escaflowne, or Pokemon, or Azumanga Daioh is. It just happens that anime has less of a fandom in the US than live-action movies or TV shows, so not as many people are familiar with it, and thus more prone to stereotype ALL anime based on the few titles they have heard of or are familiar with.

5) Anime has a bigger male following? Oh, yeah. Just like music has a larger female following. And more men than women like movies. And girls really go for TV series! If everything I just said sounds like ridiculous assumptions I just pulled out of my butt, THAT'S BECAUSE THEY WERE.

[Pitkin]

Wow, something related to pop culture is "full of sex and violence"... never even crossed my mind. xP

It turned out to be a mistake to believe that leaving my oldest and favourite figurine at my parents would keep it safe compared to trying to ship it abroad. Obviously some genius had considered it to be just a perfect sturdy toy for one and three-year-old children, as now Fuu Hououji's glasses are nowhere to be found and her head is broken into three pieces. -.- It's amazing how it just had to be the most emotionally important of the figurines that was bludgeoned to death like that...

Mind you, I don't think it's the kids' fault for breaking it as obviously they don't know better, but instead the supposedly clever adults should've just maybe figured that a fragile-looking figurine isn't that much different from a crystal wine glass. The figurine was obviously GIVEN to the kids as it was placed somewhere no kid under 6 years of age could reach even with a stool.

Oh, the rage. :/

[Red-Machine]

Ugh, that sucks Pitkin.  You have my condolences on your loss.

[Nichi]

Sounds like the time my younger cousins came over to visit years ago. I had my room nice and organized for once, although still a bit messy...and they pretty much destroyed my room; my aunt's only care was to yell at me for yelling at her "perfect little angels" for knocking stuff over and otherwise trashing the place.

[Bella]

It turned out to be a mistake to believe that leaving my oldest and favourite figurine at my parents would keep it safe compared to trying to ship it abroad. Obviously some genius had considered it to be just a perfect sturdy toy for one and three-year-old children, as now Fuu Hououji's glasses are nowhere to be found and her head is broken into three pieces. -.- It's amazing how it just had to be the most emotionally important of the figurines that was bludgeoned to death like that...

Mind you, I don't think it's the kids' fault for breaking it as obviously they don't know better, but instead the supposedly clever adults should've just maybe figured that a fragile-looking figurine isn't that much different from a crystal wine glass. The figurine was obviously GIVEN to the kids as it was placed somewhere no kid under 6 years of age could reach even with a stool.

Oh, the rage. :/

Ugh, I can't even imagine how frustrating and upsetting that must be. I hope you've confronted your parents and told them how not-right it was for them to give something as important to you - and obviously fragile and NOT toy-like - to a young child ...  >: (

It reminds me a bit of the time my brother left some of his very expensive, high-end RC boats at our grandmother's house, and she ended up GIFTING them to our little dumb-ass of a cousin (seriously - by brother was very obsessivly careful with his toys as a kid, while this boy was prone to sticking live firecrackers in his and setting them alight just to see what would happen) who proceeded to destroy and/or lose all of them.  :/

[Pitkin]

Sorry to hear about your brother too, Bella. >< I have the feeling what happened to his boats was even worse though, if he ended up with them totally destroyed or lost. I'm still hoping that I could glue the figurine's head back together (without the glasses, though) and have it look quite okay. Oh, and in fact I haven't confronted my parents about the whole thing, as we've had our fair share of fierce arguments already during my stay here due to... slight political differences, and me bringing the figurine up will probably just spark another disagreement on the "immature liking of children's toys".

*sigh* All in all today, despite formally being the independence day of Finland, could've been a 12-hour-long infomercial on the topic of the benefits of not having children. Further reasons witheld from public forums. :/

[Nichi]

@Pit: I hope you get to go home soon, or the arguments die down. It's never good when you feel miserable during what's supposed to be a happy occasion

On a similar note, involving issues with parents, things have been pretty peaceful around home...but I feel that may only be because I haven't said anything about my travel plans in almost 2 weeks (Mom knows nothing of the new plans; set for sometime this summer, and involving my sister and her husband). I fear if I even mention of Kari in front of mom anytime soon, it could turn ugly >_<

On a more positive note, today was a pretty good day for me. No problems at work (A few close encounters with my boss, but he didn't even acknowledge my existence), the weather hasn't been too bad (I expected it to be worse), and one of the Christmas gifts I ordered has shipped out ^_^

[Chocofreak13]

today was up and down......and i'll leave it at that, since i'm too tired/lazy to remember. plus there's more pressing topics on the agenda right now.

@pitkin: i'd confront them if i were you.....or at least take the remainders of your stuff and bring it back with you. if you don't have the room with fedora, find a cheap storage unit? :\ or maybe a trustworthy, anime-loving friend in finland. :\
hopefully the glue will work....and maybe you can make a new set of the glasses out of wire or something. :\

my family knows that if they mess with my stuff, they mess with me (i think my dad knows, but doesn't care, but doesn't mess with it because he's afraid of me too). they know that if they do anything to my stuff (give it away, let strangers/small children touch it, toss it), i'm liable to snap.
that said, i'm always wary of strangers in my room, and sometimes even my friends. >>;

@anime: i consider anime a style of art, not just animation, not just a japanese thing. the japanese invented it, but just because a culture premiers something doesn't mean it's theirs forever. i'm willing to bet there are russian and brazillian rococo artists, and they've probably never even been to france or italy. :\

that said, my teacher was the one saying that the genre (the word here used loosely to refer to anime as a whole) was nothing but sex and violence.
also, when he said that, i think he was thinking of 90's anime, in which those themes are more prevalent than in past or future anime. :\

[stewartsage]

I got Pentium's Christmas present today!  Thanks for the Megaman X cartridge, though I have to wait until I get home to play it.

[Nichi]

@Stew: No problem ^_^

So, once I get my paycheck tomorrow, I'll get the last few Christmas-related things out of the way (Shipping Bella's gift, as well as buying gifts for my parents and sister), and then I'll be set

[Paul]

The new WLAN router is here :3 It's a Buffalo WZR-HP AG300H with a 680MHz CPU *.* And OpenWRT runs like a charm on it.... the new network name is Section9 btw

[Bella]

I got an awesome computer desk today ... it's glass and aluminum, just like the computer that's going to live on it.


Best thing is, it was a $180 desk that was on clearance for $65.

[Pitkin]

Finally home~  <3