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Saturday, November 25, 2000
so i am trying to find out how to take a JR train from Sendai to Yamagata without having to backtrack southward on the shinkansen. arrrggg!!! i know you really care...
FUCK so i wake up this morning to discover that my cat spilled her nasty wet thanksgiving treat food all over my favorite sweater. it is in the wash now. i am hoping i can wear it to work... Friday, November 24, 2000
i guess so... anyway, today was supposed to be the biggest shopping day of the year. in all honesty, borders wasn't too crowded. but man do some people buy a lot. i rang up one woman who had something like 14 cd's! i guess it is easy to go crazy in a book/music store. lord knows i have done it. i just looooove books. and music. i looooove music also. but i am so picky with music that unless if one of my favorite artists releases something, i'm not going to buy it. but books are a whole different story. i loooove books. i love to collect books. i love to read travel books. i especially love reading travel books for countries that i will probably never visit. lonely planet is beyond the bomb. and travel narratives...uhhh huhhh... anyway, so borders is probably the perfect place for me to work. being around books, music, and cool people all day long is great... Thursday, November 23, 2000
so it is officially thanksgiving. i really hate this holiday. i mean really really really hate it. first of all, i think that we still treat the native americans like shit. we never really did make peace with them. secondly, since i am a strict vegetarian, i will not eat anything with one drop of dead animal. that means no stuffing. i am making my own 100% vegetarian stuffing, though. but i'll be eating my vegetarian stuffing and mac and cheese for thanksgiving dinner. finally, i think this holiday is lame. my mother and i will be joining the gordon family for a thanksgiving "dinner." (i say "dinner" because suzanne and i won't eat a damn thing) and i think back to last thanksgiving. i was in japan pissed off beyond belief at my mother for not calling me on thanksgiving. to "celebrate," i traveled to nagasaki. yeah, i really had much love for the united states while i was there. our second nuclear holocaust... and the year before that, i was in france visiting doug and mike. the three of us wandered around paris for hours looking for a place to eat dinner. i don't think we ever did eat that night. . . but it was fun! and the year before france, i was in florida with my mother and the gordons. we ate our "thanksgiving dinner" at some crappy (yet famous) restaurant in miami beach. i remember that i had a huge paper to write for sensei's damn literature course. but i managed to get a sunburn. but this year i am in chicago. i wish i were in japan (but am thanking god/goddess i am not in florida...). i just sent e-cards to all of my (american) friends who i won't see this thanksgiving. and i am getting anxious to try my veggie stuffing. and i am counting the hours until thanksgiving is over for this year... so yeah, ummm...happy thanksgiving... Wednesday, November 22, 2000
bush is going to appeal to the supreme court. question: he is a conservative. what ever happened to his stance on state rights? HA!
dick cheney is in the hospital. ok, so yeah, just in case you hadn't heard yet, cheney was hopitalized. Tuesday, November 21, 2000
not that i am ever having children, but today i got into an interesting disucssion. "what would you name your kids?" since i could never ever see myself having a boy (or any type of baby for that matter, but a boy is way out of the question), i only played around with girls' names. the answer: sierra mariko i love love love the name sierra. it is originally from ireland, meaning "dark." but i think that any woman named sierra would be a strong, independent, environmentally minded, feminist. and mariko is japanese. of course it is one of the most common japanese names, but there are about 4,000 different kanji "spellings" for it. besides, i have never met a mariko that i haven't liked. and i think the name is adorable. so yeah, sierra mariko. and since (if ever married, chances are...) my husband might very well be japanese, i have that little japanese twist... but again, this is all non-reality based. i never plan on getting married, and no matter what, i will never have children. never!
there have been goddamn birds squaking outside my window since 4am. maybe i should deploy frisco outside to kill them. just kidding, of course.... though it is quite tempting. Monday, November 20, 2000
hummm...the japanese parliament is going to vote on whether or not to remove prime minister yoshiro mori. i say get rid of him. his politics resemble the right wing nationalism of pre war and world war II japan. besides, something like 80% of the japanese public believes that he should be replaced. Sunday, November 19, 2000
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