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tabular_rasaXie is my incestual lesbian lover, apparently . . . sister AND spouse . . . and basically the people that go to Central are the men in the family . . . and Alice is my brother AND my dog . . .
You Belong in 1964 |
1964 If you scored... 1950 - 1959: You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in! 1960 - 1969: You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too. 1970 - 1979: Bold and brash, you take life by the horns. Whether you're partying or protesting, you give it your all! 1980 - 1989: Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day. 1990 - 1999: With you anything goes! You're grunge one day, ghetto fabulous the next. It's all good! |
Yeah . . . still the innocent part of the '60s, though . . . we're still afraid of Commies, but we're just starting to give peace a chance . . . their scale is a little off; the innocence lasted until about Kennedy's assassination, lol . . .
You Know You're From Indiana When... |
You drive for three hours and the scenery outside doesn't change. Yes There's three feet of snow on the ground and school is still in session. Yes You only go to the mall once a year 'cause it takes too long to get there. Yes, and I get lost getting there!!! While driving all you see is corn. Yes, on the way to the lake . . . People still have Christmas decorations up at Easter. *Checks outside* Yes . . . You start saying to yourself "More than corn in Indiana my butt." Yes Anyone with a cell phone looks out of place. Well, no . . . Walking through Wal-Mart with two carts full of kids is normal. Yes Wnyone with a tan is rich. Not really . . . The hip hang-out place is McDonald's. No . . . though perhaps for some . . . There really is more than corn in Indiana. There’s soybeans, too. Yes When you plan an orgy and a Euchre game breaks out. Yes, lol! Not that I've ever planned an orgy . . . but Euchre is EVERYWHERE!!! A restaurant has an invisible wall in the non-smoking section and you believe it works. Probably Speeding consists of 2 miles over the speed limit. For me, but I'm unnatural like that . . . You think you don't have to use a turn signal on your car because you don't use it on your tractor. LOL no You build your dream house on a cornfield, and you considered it posh. No You warsh your clothes and you think George Warshington was the first president. I don't but people I know do You're proud to be called a Hoosier, even if you don't know what one is. Do I LOOK proud? And apparently the story's about some dude who got his ear bitten off . . . at least in one source . . . You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute" I guess . . . though the whole "Versailles" thing is just stupid . . . Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second. No You can stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off, and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops all in the same day. No You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner". The latter only . . . lol . . . I didn't know the rest of the world said "katty-corner" . . . kitty-corner makes more sense You own a dirtbike or a ATV. No You live in a city ... and there's a cornfield in your backyard. No High school basketball game draws a bigger crowd on the weekend nights than movie theaters. It sure seems like it You can see at least 2 basketball hoops from your yard. Yeah You can name every one of Bob Knight's "exploits" over the last few years. No, but that's because I don't care You shop at Marsh. Never heard of it . . . thankfully? Damon Bailey was your childhood hero. Dunno who he is . . . thankfully? The biggest question of your youth was "IU or Purdue?" No, but, heck, it seems to be for half of Central . . . Indianapolis is the "big city". Yeah . . . sort of . . . "Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school. ESPECIALLY HERE . . . we used to purposely stall so we'd always catch that one train in elementary school . . . we were late practically every day . . . People at your high school chewed tobacco. Yes Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, and whether he is at home or on duty. Um, not quite . . . You actually know what the CART vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side. Um . . . no . . . To you, a raccoon is simply a "coon". Thankfully, no The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup. For that one kid in the school newspaper, lol . . . Someone you know is BIG John Mellencamp fan. Yes You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. No, but I know there is one To you, a tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickles.Yes, they serve it at school and it is mostly soy You call a green bell pepper a "mango". WTF? No Sometimes, you call the toilet the "commode" or the "stool". People I know call it the latter In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars. No . . . but I hear about people I know doing it . . . You know what FFA and 4H stand for. The latter . . . You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road. No . . . You go the county fair every night of it's week-long duration. Well, I do go every year . . . You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud. Yes; I just said it. However, I don't know what it is. Is it dirty? There's actually a college near you named "Ball State." Yes The last "g" is silent in any word ending in "ing." No, but I know people say it that way . . . You think the state Bird is Larry. Heck no You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Indiana. Well, obviously . . . |
You Know You're Japanese (OR REALLY OBSESSED AND BORN IN THE WRONG BODY) When.... |
You're obsessed with your hair, your car, and your clothesNo; see Drew Brotherson or something . . . You want to marry a Korean American or Chinese American woman (males); or you want to marry a white guy (females). Um, sure . . . or a later-generation Asian-American . . . just not a pure Japanese dude . . . like from Japan . . . I have a feeling that wouldn't work out too well . . . You know that Camp doesn't mean a cabin in the woods. Yes, unfortunately *kicks Roosevelt picture on the wall and mutters "asshole"* Your Issei grandparents had an arranged marriage. No, but my character Megumi's parents had one (and she's a Nisei, so they were Issei) One of your relatives was a "picture bride." No, but see Megumi . . . You have relatives who live in Hawaii.No, and neither do the characters in my story You belong to a Japanese credit union No. Could I join? That would be funny . . . Wherever you live now, you always come home to the Obon festival. No, but I was at Japanese camp for it one year? The bushes in your front yard are trimmed into balls. They were once nice boxes when Dad actually cared, lol . . . You have a kaki tree in the backyard. No, hut there is a gingko . . . You have at least one bag of sembei in the house at all times. No You have a Japanese doll in a glass case in your living room. I have a doll in my room . . . no glass case, though . . . You have a nekko cat in your house for good luck. YES!!! We actually DO!!! Megumi has one in front of her store, too ^_^ You have large Japanese platters in your china cabinet. No, but we have Japanese prints all over our dining room . . . it is very Oriental-themed . . . You have the family mon and Japanese needlepoint on the wall. We don't have a family mon . . . sad day . . . You own a multicolored lime green polyester patchwork quilt. Erm, no . . . Your grandma used to crochet all your blankets, potholders and dishtowels. No You check to see if you need to take off your shoes at your friends' houses. Yes, but that's because some people just like to be clean. If I don't ask I just sort of watch to see what they do . . . and my naturally inclination is to take them off. When you visit other Japanese, you give or receive a bag of fruits or vegetables. Mr. Nagano brings us food . . . usually raw fish, too . . . lol . . . but we ask him to do that . . . and he brings it here; we've never been to his house . . . When you visit other Japanese, you know that you should bring omiage. Yes ^_^ When you leave a Japanese person's house, you take leftover food home on a paper plate or a Styrofoam meat tray. I haven't been to any Japanese homes and gone directly home . . . it would have been awkward to like leave with breakfast from the Sakai's house for my long plane trip, lol . . . You keep a supply of rubber bands, twist ties, butter and tofu containers in the kitchen. Yes, actually . . . even the tofu . . . I make miso soup with it! You know that Pat Morita doesn't really speak like Mr. Miyagi. Um, yeah . . . You're mad because Kristi Yamaguchi should have gotten more commercial endorsements than Nancy Kerrigan. I didn't know it was so . . . eh *shrug* When your back is sore, you use Tiger Balm or that flexi-stick with the rubber ball on the end that goes, "katonk," "katonk." I've used Tiger Balm before . . . that stuff is crazy . . . After funerals, you go for Chinameshi. . . . no? After giving koden, you get stamps in the mail. No You fight fiercely for the check after dinner. No, but, then again, I rarely eat out so it's too early for me to have established a pattern ^_^ You've hidden money in the pocket of the person who paid for dinner. No You don't need to read the instructions on the proper use of hashi. Hell yes . . . I learned way back in the day . . . from a non-Japanese, my dad, lol . . . but so? You eat soba on New Year's Eve. I would if I wasn't usually eating fondue or raclette which is another one of our stolen traditions ^_^ You start off the new year with a bowl of ozoni for good luck and the mochi sticks to the roof of your mouth. I wish! I like mochi. Megumi eats it. Did you know that like 30 people die every year from eating ozouni in Japan? That's like a bunch of people dead every single year from a GOOD LUCK SOUP . . . You pack bento for road trips. I did once when bento were available. I made my dad a real bento once, too, complete with pickled-plum Japanese flag Your grandma made the best sushi in town. No . . . she doesn't make it . . . but I make sushi, and I think mine is good . . . You cut all your carrots and hot dogs at an angle. I don't cut them . . . but angles are indeed prettier . . . You know the virtues of SPAM. Can't say that I do . . . You know what it means to eat "footballs." Maybe You grew up eating ambrosia, wontons and finger Jell-O at family potlucks. No, because I wasn't obsessed until later . . . mm, I like wantons though . . . BUT WE DO ALWAYS HAVE JELLO AT CHRISTMAS!!! You always use Best Foods mayonnaise and like to mix it with shoyu to dip broccoli. Ick . . . that was one Japanese custom I did NOT understand . . . You use the "finger method" to measure the water for your rice cooker. My rice cooker hates me . . . so, no . . . You grew up on rice: bacon fried rice, chili rice, curry rice or red rice. No, but I like them . . . mmm, curry rice . . . *remember Jill* You like to eat rice with your spaghetti. Never tried that, but it sounds good. Carbo-licious! You can't start eating until you have a bowl of rice. At Mori no Ike and in Japan I must say I enjoyed that perpetual staple of rice . . . Along with salt and pepper, you have a shoyu dispenser at your table. When we eat Oriental food . . . You buy rice 25 pounds at a time and shoyu a gallon at a time. We buy semi-large amounts of rice, but not THAT much . . . it's like 5 pounds or something . . . and the soy sauce . . . we just get the little Kikkoman bottles Natto: you either love it or hate it. Hate it. *Shudder* As a kid, you used to eat Botan rice candy. Yes! I love that stuff! Though I didn't try it until I was about 11 or so . . . You have a pet named Chibi or Shiro. No omeone you know, owns an Akita or Shiba dog. Yes At school, you had those Hello Kitty pencil boxes and sweet smelling erasers. No, but I did like Hello Kitty as like a kindergartner . . . I still kind of do, lol, in a guilty sort of way . . . and those chintzy erasers, I used to collect them, like the kinds that are shaped like something and don't smell very well very long since they're quickly infused with pencil lead and shavings . . . Milk makes you queasy and alcohol turns your face red. No, I must say I like milk. Megumi doesn't. I don't know about the alcohol . . . Your dad owns a Member's Only jacket. I don't think so . . . Someone you know drives an Acura Integra, Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. Yes You used to own one of those miniature zori keychains Yes! I have one, somewhere! I also have sushi erasers! You have a kaeru frog or good luck charm hanging in your car. Yes!!! It's my good luck driving charm from Japan! Your parents compare you to their friends' kids. Yeah . . . they like to tell me I'm barely tolerable to my friends, too . . . Your dentist, doctor and optometrist is Japanese American. No, just Tory's oboe teacher. If I was really Japanese-American, I would so not be hatin' on the hakujin, either . . . show some love for us pathetic eggs, lol . . . Whenever you're with more than three people, it takes an hour to decide where to eat. If I ate out, it probably would, especially with Nichole and Kristina . . . omg we are the most indecisive people EVER . . . You've heard your name pronounced a half-dozen different ways. Yes! Ga . . . my last name's even worse than most Japanese names; if you're smart at all, most of those are pretty straightforward; people just give up because they're long . . . You know that E.O. 9066 isn't a zip code. Yes. I also know that it was passed 8 days short of 63 years ago . . . In the bathroom you have a crocheted toilet paper cover. No You know the California Hotel is not located in California. Yes No matter how bad your Japanese is, you still know the words shi-shi and oon-chi. Kind of . . . You have, at one time or another, helped fold 1,000 cranes for someone's wedding or anniversary. I have folded them for many purposes . . . mostly for Hiroshima, though they never made it . . . When you meet another JA, you can be sure you're either related to them or know someone who knows them. Um . . . I can be quite sure I'm NOT . . . You have one of those "always hot" rice cookers in your kitchen. No You were told to eat nori so your hair would be black. When I was in Japan. Though that was a weird thing to say to people like Anne, who's blond, lol . . . You say "itadakimasu" before you eat. When I eat Japanese food or am feeling Japanese . . . You know to stop yelling when you hear the word "yakamashii." Yes You compliment a person from Japan on how well they speak English, and they compliment you on how well you speak Japanese, and you both know you're kind of stretching things. Well, for the latter-- most Japanese people speak English very well compared to how I speak Japanese . . . You know you don't need a spoon for miso soup. DUH . . . ga, WHY do they give you those spoons, always? You lift the bowl, people! The ultimate Chinese dinner for you includes: seaweed soup, chicken chow mein, chashu, pakkai, shrimp with lobster sauce, almond duck, pea chow yuk and homyu.I don't know . . . You know that summer means it's time for somen and shaved ice with azuki beans. Mmm . . . I like azuki . . . Your dad's front lawn is his pride and joy - to the point of obsession. No. He makes Tory or me mow it . . . You're proud to be Japanese - and you pass these jokes on to all your Japanese friends! I'm proud to be Japanese on the INSIDE, the egg that I am . . . and I don't have any very close Japanese friends. Did anyone think that doing this was completely cultural disrespectfully? I could see how Polish or something I am, too, if you want, lol . . . Though, briefly glancing over the "Irish" version, which I actually kind of am, I think I fit more Japanese . . . |
You Have A Type A- Personality |
A- You are one of the most balanced people around Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you. When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love! You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds |
We downloaded AOL 9 . . . so now there's all this new crazy stuff, lol . . .
Today . . .
In Keyboarding I rushed through everything because she is going to grade on a retarded curve that is based on how much you finish. Some two assholes went way ahead, and so I had to catch up, else catch an F on the assignment . . . grr . . .
In Creative Writing we were allowed to talk again ^_^
Who was it you thought Andy was based off, Liz? There are a few people that remind me of him. Joey does on one level, a few others do on others-- though Joey is remarkably consistent, especially considering Andy was a fully-created consummate character before I really knew Joey, whereas with some people they might have actually influenced Andy, shaping him in their direction.
Though, actually, the best description of Andy is Alyssa's belief that Andy is actually my male side: What I would be if I had balls. Lol . . .
I lost the head-to-head I had with Brock. I honestly thought Book 6 came out in June. So now, not only did I lose to him, I have to wait an extra month.
Yet he could not stand to anything Harry Potter trivia-related that I could throw to him, I'll bet. Just let him try me.
On a sort of half-dare, I wrote down every single Harry Potter character I could think of off the top of my head, from memory. There were two pages, front and back, more than 100 of them-- JUST that I named off the top of my head. That was crazy. One thing, the amount of characters in those books; another, the extent to which I can remember them.
Liz wrote a poem about it, glorifying my obsession in mockery. Mom also called me pathetic tonight at dinner.
Honestly, is it really that bad to have an obsession?
In Government we looked up court cases. Fun.
Jessica, you still need to get me that editorial. I sent you my rant. Tell me what you think!
We played Econopoly in Economics, which, though seemingly redundant, was actually quite a lot of fun. We had to define an Economic term before making any transactions. Robert and I had to answer the most questions; it sucked . . . but we did very well. We had three of the railroads and one lucrative monopolies on the blues. Deepak and Lindsey were wiped out to EVERYTHING mortgaged with only $5 to spare, and if it hadn't been for Seth and Darren's supermonopoly in the corner with all the hotels-- and Robert and I unable to define "crowding out"-- which, I might add, I defined the way I did in the test, which I got RIGHT, lol-- we might have done well. However, we had to mortgage a lot just before the game was over to pay that $2,000 rent we owed Seth and Darren.
I slammed Seth's hand between our desks. It was purely on accident, but my mind was so numb that I didn't even realize I was doing it until I sat there for a few seconds and then looked down and realized what had happened. Even then I was rather slow to move it. I am so freaking unable to concentrate in that class.
The jazz octet could actually end up to be a lot of fun ^_^
Act II in musical rehearsal today. Brock was terribly sick. I kept making him go wash his hands before we could dance. Honestly, he was coughing into them all the time, and he had snot all over the place . . . it was nasty . . . I really didn't want to dance with him . . . but we had to practice . . .
We finally learned to polka. I'm better at it with Nichole than I am with Brock, lol . . .
I felt sort of sick at the end of musical rehearsal. If Brock gets me sick, I swear . . .
. . . though, actually, if I am sick, it is probably Tiffany, Tory, or Jessica to blame . . . all of whom were sick sometime this week but were probably capable of infecting me sometime when I saw them last weekend (or, in the case of Tory, every day . . . ).
Well, I have YHO tomorrow. It's not nearly so exciting when it's just normal music again and Tiffany isn't even going. Dr. Inglefield is going to be pissed at her. Yet he can't kick her out. I won't let him.
. . . not that he cares what I think, lol . . .
