Spring Break and Ramblings ...

I can't remember the last time I updated it feels like so long ago. Spring break just ended on Sunday and I'm feeling the pain of realizing I still have 6+ weeks of school left. Being on break made me realize that I actually do like having free time and doing nothing...

The first Sunday of break my mom dropped me off at Bradely Airport in Hartford and I flew to Cleveland and then to Florida where my grandma lives in the winter. She picked me up at the airport and drove an hour and a half to the old folks community place where she lives. I really like her neighborhood because it's pretty and full of old people and relaxing and has a pool.

I don't even remember what I did over break, that's how good it was. The days all blended together in a chunky blur of laziness. Things I do remember: emptying my pockets [bank account] of about $300, eating around 3 pints of ice-cream at an amazing Chinese buffet, eating my body weight in food, and shopping. I also went to the beach and got a full year's worth of good cancer-causing radiation, and my grandma took me to the movie "Alice in Wonderland."

The latter was pretty good. I definitely recommend going to see it. I heard some people say that it was too random and full of unexplained details but that doesn't really matter because it was exciting and interesting and fun :)

I flew back into Hartford two days ago on Sunday and caught the school shuttle back to Smith. I think I spent the rest of the day moping around my dorm room. This is dangerous because now that I'm back a lot of my drive to do well has disappeared. I also forgot a whole half semester of Japanese in the one week I was away from it. This is promising because I'm definitely going to slack off all summer and then go to Japan and understand nothing.

O, God. Also, this weekend I have my first outdoor track meet. It's going to be ridiculous, probably, and it's definitely going to be a total waste of time. Furthermore I have to miss the big n3rd convention here at school: ConBust. I didn't go last year but I heard it was full of LARPing and general freakishness. How/ Why do I have to miss out on this??? At least I wont miss meeting Tamora Pierce!! :O

Densha Otoko

I promised in my last update a rant about whiny men, and here it is, a complete(ly biased) review of DENSHA OTOKO （電車男）, also known as "Train Man."

Densha Otoko is a Japanese movie about an otaku, aka nerdy man, who falls in love with a woman. Throughout the movie we never learn these people's names, they're just referred to as "Train Man" and "Hermes." The two meet on a train (go figure) when he heroically (?) saves her from a harassing drunkard. The two fall in love at first sight. He loves her for her cute innocence and ability to ignore his bad looks and obvious weirdness. She loves him for ... his dedication to her that boarders on stalking (?)

Because Train Man is socially awkward, a nerd, and has no skill with women, he turns to the internet for help. Through a chat room, a bunch of other problem-ridden people feed him relationship advice. Some of these people include an emo kid who stays in his room all day petting his rabbit, three (awesome) freaks who wear fanny packs and hang out in a manga cafe, and a workaholic man, among others. From my point of view, these aren't the best people to be taking advice from, but somehow it works for him. Maybe it's because Hermes is kind of a weirdo herself.

[chotto spoiler] In the end, as you may have guessed, the guy gets the girl. It culminates in a "make out scene" where he lets loose his emotions in a sob-fest. This is where I totally broke down and wanted to kill the both of them. He is so lame and she is so weird and how does this relationship even work?

Here ends my review, which, is less of a review and more of a biased and horrible synopsis. Actually, I have to write an essay on this movie for class and this is what I'm doing instead to procrastinate :)

POKEMANZZZz

Its been a while. Tons of [crappy] things have happened since I last had the desire to update and my mood is foul (teehee). It's midterms week and everybody is stressed out and at each other's throats. I don't have any happy news to report. Herein includes a whole lot of rejection and frustration and crying men.

This weekend, or uhhh, Friday that is, marked the end of a too-long indoor track season. The other week, I went to Boston with three other girls from my team and ran the 1600 in a DMR (Distance Medley Relay) so that we could qualify for ECACs and hopefully break the school record. We did qualify (and were far from the school record lawlz) and so I got to run last Friday at ECACs which were hosted, conveniently, here at Smith. This was really nice and I was able to see a ton (aka three) friends from my high school team.

Saturday I left for Connecticut and stayed at my cousins' house. There was a death in the family and so services were held this weekend. I missed classes on Monday to attend the funeral and made it back to campus in time for practice.

The combination of family and school stresses has made me feel completely annoyed with everything. Being like this make me worried for next year when I have to deal with frustrations abroad...coincidentally making me more stressed out dahaha.

Furthermore, track sucks insanely. I don't want to go into too much detail but it's just one more thing that's adding to my list. This past weekend I told my mom I wanted to quit and she looked at me with an annoyed expression and said something like, "Why are you saying things like this?" But the truth is I was close to quitting senior year of high school and now that same this-is-not-very-fun feeling is back. Thank sweet Scorpius that break starts Saturday and I can leave to see grandmama in Florida on Sunday.

As for rejections. I've had soooo many this week (two). The short story: I'm not gonna make bank working reunion and I'm not going abroad this summer (expected). [Insert endless whining about crappy boring summer job].

God I have to make this blog more than a whiny snore-fest. Next update probably because this one just begged for a rant :P

IN OTHER NEWS: N3RD ALERT-- POKEMANZZ SEWL SILVER COMEZ OUT SUNDAY AND IM GOING TO BAI IT lawlzz 1