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I'm your professor, Dr. Pedabomino. Repeat after me, this is an office building not a daycare. There is a test tomorrow. I hate that lady. Oh how I hate that lady.

It's been quite quiet on my journal lately, my apologies. I've been a lot more busy than usual, and haven't really felt like writing about much of anything. Things are going so well I don't have anything to kvetch about.

The thought never crossed my mind to not write about anything negative, and keep my pie-hole shut and talk about happy things. I use this as a point to vent, rant, and get things off my chest. It makes me feel better, and I save the money from going and seeing a therapist or getting a speeding ticket for cruising over 100mph down some random freeway. I was doing that this morning, and slowed down for the exit and this lady caught up to me (Her license plate was 'GRANDGG') and starting screaming at me. Before I could blow her a kiss she took off, unfortunately. I didn't realize that going fast in a straight line when there are 3 other cars on the road on the damned freeway was some capital sin that I should be chastized for. Not that I really care anyway, I got a good chuckle out of it.

CJG and myself are doing wonderful, I think this definitely qualifies as my first healthy mutually-respectable non-co-dependant relationship. I'm very pleased, but I have no idea what to do with it. I can't decide if it's my pride or stupidity that is getting in the way when she tries to buy me things. It just feels awkward. She wants to take me to Japan for a few weeks, and I'm not sure even if I can go with work and all or whether I want to (I really want to, but not sure if it's a great idea) so that's a point to ponder.

As for everything else, life is great. I got my windows tinted on my new car, and it looks great. I'll get some pictures up at some point. Also, for anyone who cares, I'm going to get the nerdfarm.org domain back up and running now that I have my server setup (Hallelujah!) and probably turn it into a blog with comments.

I'm out.
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  • She wants to take me to Japan for a few weeks, and I'm not sure even if I can go with work and all or whether I want to (I really want to, but not sure if it's a great idea) so that's a point to ponder.

    I remember once I was going out with a Filipino chick and the language thing really got on my nerves. She would be talking to her friends in her language and I could tell sometimes they were talking about me. Which wasn't so bad I guess. What was really annoying was being left out of all the conversations.

    Every once and a while she would translate something for me. Of course she'd do it in a nice little condescending tone. Needless to say that "relationship" didn't last.

    Good to see yours is going better than mine. :)
    • I can understand enough Japanese to get the general gist of what she is saying. That and she doesn't know exactly how much Japanese I know. She knows I can't read and write for shit, but I surprise her often times with answering or commenting on something that she said in Japanese.

      It's kind of fun to say something that she didn't think I knew, always keeping the edge on there is amusing. The other day, she asked if I wanted to go see some japanese show and I agreed. We ran into her friend who is also japanese and they started talking and I wasn't paying attention. I piped up, "You should invite her to go with us." and then started paying attention and realized she was already in the middle of inviting her.. Was kind of funny.
      • I can understand enough Japanese to get the general gist of what she is saying.

        How many languages do you know?
        English, Spanish, Japanese, Gaelic? You're Irish right. :)
        • English fluently, Spanish mostly fluently (I've forgotten a lot.. haven't spoken in years). I speak a little bit of German, Irish (Gaeilge, not much Gaelic (scottish form)), french, and japanese. I'm actively learning Japanese right now, and I always try to keep up on reading Irish to help with that.

          Languages are a whole lotta fun for me.
          • I want to learn french as it's the official second language of Canada. Though I should probably learn spanish as it's the unoffical primary language of California.
            • If you learn one, the other will come with ease. They really are easy languages to pick up.

              Roman languages are very easy, they follow pretty logical paths. Spanish is easy so long as you learn the subjunctive tenses so longer sentences make sense.
          • I'm actively learning Japanese right now, and I always try to keep up on reading Irish to help with that.


            Uh oh. I've got some bad news for you Xerithane. Reading Irish will not help you to learn Japanese. You should probably try to read some Japanese instead.

            Okay, I'm being a chucklehead. As a former Japanese exchange student (err, as a former American exchange student to Japan) I can really sympathize with not being able to read or write Japanese. You would think that a year in Japan would help with that. I guess it would if I had actively studied reading and writing while I was there. Hiragana and Katakana aren't too bad, but that darn Kanji will get you every time.

            MacArthur (sp?) had considered getting rid of Kanji during the occupation, but didn't end up following through. Sure, we would have been getting rid of an incredibly beautiful form of writing, but think of how much easier reading Japanese would be...

            By the way, what books are you using to study Japanese with? Or are you taking some classes?
            • MacArthur (sp?) had considered getting rid of Kanji during the occupation, but didn't end up following through. Sure, we would have been getting rid of an incredibly beautiful form of writing, but think of how much easier reading Japanese would be...
              My girlfriend has been helping me with Kanji, and after you learn about 200 or so patterns it really is easy! (or so she says.. *snicker*)


              By the way, what books are you using to study Japanese with? Or are you taking some classes?

              I have a few books, ranging from childrens books (Put your pride aside, these type of books help like you wouldn't believe) to high level grammer books. My girlfriend and her friends are helping me a bit, and being exposed to Japanese on a daily basis is really helpful. There is still a pretty big barrier between speaking and writing. As an excercise she'll say a word and I'll write it -- I figured it would be easy but it really is rather difficult with all the small tsu's, yu's and what not.
              • I took Japanese all through middle and high school, and you really will get a feel for how to write the words at some point. That and how to know which particles to use were things that we all struggled with until one day, we suddenly realized we got it. Those of us who had been in my class all the way through speculated at some point that we knew roughly 500 kanji, but we still couldn't read a newspaper. It just goes to show that Japanese really is a hard language on paper.
  • I didn't realize that going fast in a straight line when there are 3 other cars on the road on the damned freeway was some capital sin that I should be chastized for. Not that I really care anyway, I got a good chuckle out of it.


    Nice one! I'm from the UK and find that the police have quite a sensible attitude towards speeding - i.e. they turn a blind eye unless it's dangerous. I'm currently living in Norway where the speed limits are so ridiculously slow that it's impossible to pay attention if you actually obey them. Until now I haven;t seen a single traffic cop in Norway - but I've heard they're quite strict and the fines are steep. So far so good...
    • If I recall correctly they are proportionate to your income. And a hefty chunk of your income as well.

      America is one of the worst places to drive, the people here are generally stupid. They don't like speeding here because people do some of the stupidest things you can think of at any given time. Like change lanes right in front of you for no apparent reason when you are going twice their speed.
      • America is one of the worst places to drive, the people here are generally stupid. They don't like speeding here because people do some of the stupidest things you can think of at any given time. Like change lanes right in front of you for no apparent reason when you are going twice their speed.

        Especially in LA, sometimes when I'm bored in traffic I play count the moving violations.
        • Come visit Washington. Never have I seen such a plethora of stupid drivers than driving up there. So many places try to say, "We have the worst drivers." but I have to say Washington is the worst.

          I've seen some of the stupidest shit in the last year, knocking the previous top 10 stupid-as-brick moments completely off the charts. It's amazing, really. In the I'm-going-to-bludgeon-you-with-a-rock-for-that way.
          • Come visit Washington. Never have I seen such a plethora of stupid drivers than driving up there. So many places try to say, "We have the worst drivers." but I have to say Washington is the worst.

            I take it you've never driven through Glendale, CA.
            • No, I have. My funniest idiot-on-the-roads story arises from the LA area, but as far as shocking-stupidity goes every one of the top 10 moments except one belongs to a washington driver.

              The other belongs to an Oregon driver, who drove into a house. For no reason. He just didn't turn his car to follow the road, went straight, and hit a house. 50 feet away from the road. That takes a special brand of stupid.
              • Perhaps he had a stroke or a seizure?

                Something like this happened by my house.
                An SUV when over a 2ft wall and straight at the house. Would have parked in the poor sots living room if not for the big tree out front.

                I only saw the aftermath. The rumor is, it was a couple of kids on a joyride.
                • No, if he had a stroke or seizure it would have made sense. This was just someone who merely forgot to turn. No reasons, the guy was driving by himself.

                  Just wham, right into the side of a house.
              • I actually have a friend who was living in Oregon when he drove into a house. CAN'T be the same guy. Or maybe it must? How many people would do that?! He didn't actually FORGET to turn, he was just driving too fast and simultaneously feeling self-destructive, and so when the curve came on... he didn't take it, he just kept going.
                • Wow, that proves my theory that Oregon roads make people stupid. If this was in Southern Oregon and a white house I'd be exceptionally shocked. It wouldn't surprise me if there have been more than once occurance of such things.

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