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08 January 2011 @ 01:22 pm
This is a shiny new friends only post.  
friends only
(nearly)


Since I created this journal when I was thirteen, my old entries were really, really dumb. I left those public for the longest time, even after I began flocking, because I was (and still am) too lazy and stubborn to buy paid time for the mass edit function. So when I finally got around to finishing the job, I decided to make a new friends only post. This one.

I'm making a big effort to be less constipated about me+society, so I'm trying to make public posts occasionally or something.

Comments are screened because last time I thought about this post it sounded like a nice idea for some reason.
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Reka
29 June 2009 @ 08:04 pm
My classmate cannot understand how this guy could rape someone in a fit of rage and still be sane.  

I like Daiki's world so far. There are some things I like more than others, of course. The basis of the whole world is pretty silly, and I don't care for the civillians, but there are some details and things I love. Tsukasa goes off on his usual assholish speech, and Daiki just looks at him. And nobody smiles or laughs because this isn't funny. And for everything the civilians did to set the scene, I saw it best in the Riders, including Daiki and Junichi. Discussing among themselves about how Tsukasa reminded them of Junichi, the way Daiki reacted in general, and Junichi's "He's trying to destroy the world! :D," those were what did it for me. And whatever Daiki did to make everyone out for his blood, and how he became Diend, and all kinds of other things. I like thinking.

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Reka
22 June 2009 @ 01:27 pm
Copy-pasted from flocked post yesterday. Sorry for spam.  
We are looking for either two people to share our room or somebody to let us into their room for Otakon.

I'm reposting this publicly in the hope somebody will just happen to click on my journal and see it and say, "hey, I know a few non-axe murderers looking for somewhere to stay for Otakon!" Neither of us are axe murderers ourselves, so it just wouldn't be fair to anyone if some people were and some people weren't.

As a note, if you're interested but can't quite afford it, please let me know of your interest anyway.
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Reka
26 April 2009 @ 12:45 pm
RE: Swine flu  
Flist, don't worry.

According to the World Health Organization (here), swine flu:

• has a very low mortality rate
• cannot be spread by eating properly prepared pork
• dies at 160ºF


Not to say you shouldn't be taking this seriously, but I want to spread the good news that we aren't all doomed.
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Reka
16 April 2009 @ 05:33 pm
In which I attempt to talk about Decade 12 and end up mostly talking about Agito  
Try as I might, I cannot keep writing long enough to hit 500 words. Maybe in another life.


( Was that really supposed to be an apple? )
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Reka
14 April 2009 @ 04:58 pm
Writer's Block: Looking Back  

LiveJournal is turning 10 and we're feeling nostalgic. What was your first LJ post about?


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I don't know. The earliest post in my journal is from December 2002 and entitled "TESTTTT." It was what it sounds like it'd be. I don't think it was my first post, though. My journal was created in July 2001 and the recipient of my invite code (I joined just before LJ went invite-only for however long it did) joined in September 2001. Something does not match up here. I clearly remember posting on 9/11, and that wasn't the first time. I found my confirmation email and a lost password request from 2002, but otherwise I have no record of anything LJ from the beginning. I know it was all crap, but still! I thought I never deleted anything. Very distressing.
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Reka
10 April 2009 @ 05:15 pm
"How does he look? / Older and wiser and-- he's come out as a Jew!"  
It's my birthday, so my week of public is over. Thanks for playing.

I think I feel better now. I've decided that I'm going to try making non-personal entries public from now on. I know I don't make those entries right now, that I just ramble on about something in my life and stop once I'm tired or bored and never bother to separate the personal from anything, but I'd like to try. I'm not very good at it. I'm disorganized in many many ways. I'm going to try to really edit them or something, too. We'll see how long that lasts.

I was up horribly late last night, as it's a wonderful idea to start doing things at 2AM. I watched the first episode of the Guin Saga anime, which I rather enjoyed, being a fan of obnoxious heroic fantasy. I like things that break the mold too, but there's nothing more comfortable for me than orphaned royal twins dumped in a sinister demon-infested forest and their heroic adventure to find out things and reclaim their rightful places by killing some guy who fortunately happens to hold the key to everything else. I dunno, I've only read a really dull translation of the first book. I've been meaning to get a copy of the new translations, which I was assured are less dull at NYAF by the people at the publisher's booth. I'm sure they're seriously biased, but I'd like to try it, since Mercedes Lackey's Good-Hearted Poor Plucky Unloved Boys are starting to bother me a little. Not that I won't read Foundation later and enjoy it, but.
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Reka
09 April 2009 @ 06:45 pm
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1. If everyone could pick a couple of numbers from 1-250 and list them in order of preference for me, that'd be very helpful. I could use a random number generator, but that'd make me more likely to skip the screencaps I don't like. I have a folder of 250 caps hanging out on my computer, see. All but four of them will make lousy icons, but I really want to use them for something, and if I get numbers from people I might not be too lazy to try to fix them up a little or something.

2. On Monday, when it rained a lot, I broke the zipper on my raincoat. Pulled the entire moving part off in my frustration, actually, but I didn't pay attention at the time and fell off somewhere. I rather like my raincoat, but without a zipper, it's no good for anything but light rain. Hopefully I can figure out how to fix it. It's not expensive and the zipper is missing a tooth, but I like it and getting a new one requires going outside. Besides, fixing things gives me great pleasure. I have screwdrivers, a couple of pliers, steel wire, and duct tape. What else could I possibly need?

3. We're having our seder tonight. Mmmm.
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Reka
09 April 2009 @ 12:15 am
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It snowed for a little bit today. Less than an hour. I snapped a few pictures, but the snow was too fine to show up much. It's public week anyway and the pictures were taken out my window. It'd be pretty easy to find out exactly where I live from any of them.

Today wasn't very productive, which is just fine for a Wednesday when I don't have class the day after. I went out with [info]divinesaturn on her Wednesday routine and picked up both Terebi magazines for the month, among some other things. Most adult magazines bore me, see. Sometimes Terebi does too, but at least it's flashy and silly on purpose.

I should probably learn something about knitting. I'm usually in the knitting class on Tuesdays at the volunteer thing, but the teacher's been doing crotchet so far. I'm terrible at it, but I do know how to do it well enough to help first graders with chain stitch. I don't know how to knit at all, and that's what she's going to start after break.

My yolk stayed whole!
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Reka
07 April 2009 @ 10:37 pm
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1. This morning I got a text message from one of the site directors at the volunteer thing basically saying I'm helpful, which made me fairly happy.

2. I did all right on the hexadecimal quiz. It was really short and simple, but I'm proud, since I'm pretty awful at math generally. I often make really stupid errors because I don't have any real sense of what my result should be. My errors on this quiz were all simple math-- one subtraction, one addition. Seriously.

3. I kind of hate my paper. The more I focus on the language, the more I realize my thesis is completely obvious. Writing it becomes more boring and tiresome every day.

4. On my way home, I saw a girl wearing a sweatshirt from my high school on the subway platform. Then I noticed the man standing next to her was the photography teacher (I don't remember what else he does), who lives in my neighborhood and I definitely had once. We talked a bit. There's a girl who does the volunteer thing too sometimes (required semester of some kind of volunteer service-- I did mine in a school library) who happens to be in his class, and we happened to run into her on the subway ride home. It was all pretty ridiculous.

5. I broke both yolks in my breakfast this morning. It was more disappointing than something like that should ever be.
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Reka
06 April 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exhausted  

1. I overslept half an hour today and then the train was twenty minutes late, making me late for my test. It went pretty well, though. I'm at least confident I named all the pieces correctly.
2. Unfortunately, I failed to finish my paper. Again.
3. I hate falling behind on weekly stuff, but I generally dislike decoy marriage plots and I'm busy. I shouldn't be wasting time watching these things.
4. Of course, that didn't stop me from watching Decade or Rescue Fire. Oops.
5. Actually, I spent most of last night trying to figure out how to extract images from a .scr file. Why? I don't know. Look, it still has its original creation date! How awesome is tha--
... crap.
6. That is, unfortunately, exactly what happened.

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Reka
04 April 2009 @ 09:25 pm
Something about this post is not like the others.  
I'm starting this entry now so I don't forget why I decided to do this. For the week leading up to my birthday (I like to keep it not a big deal because it isn't, but it's a milestone or something), I'm going to be making some public posts. Because whenever I think about my major mental blocks, it all comes back to "too self-conscious, second-guesses self frequently" and really, nobody cares except me about my touchy fragility or whatever. So maybe a week of just tossing it out there will help me Grow as an Adult, which is capitalized because it's Important in that silly-sounding way, and I'm using my birthday as a benchmark. I've been feeling really tiny and young. Not that I'm particularly old or anything, but I don't want to feel this way when I'm supposed to be celebrating my adulthood.

Man, that sounded pathetic. It's the lead-up to break, and I'm busy panicking because I'm not done with this or that, haven't studied for this, don't know how my professor expects us to do math in hexadecimal, blah blah blah etc. My brother is home practicing with his quartet. I can't keep track of music at all. I spent yesterday after the afterschool classes talking with a kid about Pokémon. He didn't have a favorite, which made me a little sad because I wasn't sure what else to talk with him about, but we managed something and he gave me a sticker.

My room is cold and I'm pretty tired. Yes, I'm far too serious about this kind of thing.
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