¡Sarah!

This entry is sort of a continuation of my piratey entry from yesterday, but first I guess I should talk about other things so you guys don't think that PotC is the only thing I think about, even though it is. :D

So yesterday I had my first training shift at my new movie theatre job. It wasn't terribly exciting but I enjoyed it for what it was, and I'm actually really glad to begin with these two classroom training shifts. For the first while we read from the employee manuals (and made nametags and ate candy), and then we went on a tour which I thought was paced just right. :) Much better than my toy store tour, haha; that one consisted of quickly walking a loop through the store while the girl who was training me called out things like, "That's baby. That's girls'. That's outdoors." It was not detailed enough to be helpful. :/ (I feel bad writing things like this because the_wykydtron is continuing to work there ... but I think she's man enough to take it, right?) This tour was more detailed and more exciting! XD We went to the break room (where, wonder of wonders, the furniture is not falling apart!), the office, the ROOM OF CANDY haha awesome, the projection rooms (you climb up the stairs to one and then to get to the other you have to walk through this little level that's high above the lobby - I never even knew this existed but it was really cool!!) where I got to watch a bit of soundless Shrek the Third, and then for no apparent reason we went up onto the roof, hahaha. My brother and his girlfriend were very jealous when I told them this because in their years of working at the theatre, they've apparently never been on the roof. XD Pwned!!

The schedule is posted on a bulletin board in the break room; it's a bunch of standard pieces of paper tacked together in columns. In the quick glance I had at it, I could tell there were quite a lot of names, but you guys know I am not so good with the mathematics, so today I asked my brother how many people work at the theatre and he said from sixty to eighty. HOLY MAN!!! That's a lot of people! At my fast food job we usually had eight employees; at the toy store it's more than that but still less than sixty! I can't even believe this! haha. One day I shall have to count the number of people on the schedule, just to verify. Oh man, I hope this doesn't mean I'm constantly working with strangers. It probably won't, but still, my goodness. ^^;

And another thing about the training is that I'm pretty sure I was the oldest one there. :X Everyone else being trained seemed to be in high school, and there were two of them who gave off the impression that this was their first job. I'm sure they're both very nice people, but their lack of any sort of professionalism bothered me a lot more than I would have expected it to. One girl kept boasting about the number of employees she's already friends with (I think that's the only reason she wants this job), and then she answered her cell phone while the trainer was talking. !!! Another girl said absolutely nothing until the idea of free movies was brought up. Then she was burying the trainer in questions about how we can get free movies and how many we can get and when we can get them and how many friends we can bring and if this is all applicable to such-and-such a movie and OH MAN. At least pretend you're here for more than the free movies! Geeze! :P

In other news, my latest J-pop order came today, a very speedy delivery from Amazon.co.jp. :D Duo U&U, W's first album, was one of my purchases, and I felt kind of bad ordering it now that W is dead. ^^; But it was totally worth it. This album is a cover of older J-pop songs and it totally exceeded my expectations. :) I've only listened to it once so far, so the songs are all kind of blended together in my head, but still, I really liked them. XD I also got GAM's first album, Amai Yuuwaku, which I sort of skipped through. It seems rather better than Sexy 8 Beat, MoMusu's 2007 album, though. And yay for "LU LU LU." XD I also got a concert DVD, Hello! Pro Party Goto Maki Captain Kouen. I've read a bunch of forum posts saying that one should download this concert instead of buying it, but what I've watched of it so far looked pretty good to me. And this concert's performance of "Daite yo! Please Go On" is one of my favourite H!P performances ever, so even if the rest of it is terrible I still won't mind too much. ;)

The only non-H!P item in this order is one that everyone is going to make fun of me for. XD The Japanese DVD of the first PotC movie, woohoo!! XD I've only watched a wee little bit of the film in Japanese dub; I shall have to be patient and not watch any more until athena_crikey can watch it with me. I expect to understand an unusual amount simply because I have seen the movie in English way too many times. XD

And that's about all I wanted to say about that stuff, so now I guess we can move onto the goods ... XD

( SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS )

And I guess that's all for now, because I have to get up early tomorrow to work my last shift at the toy store. :) I just now changed the ticker on my LJ profile from a PotC3 countdown to a OotP countdown ... Makes me sad! :( I mean, I am looking forward to July's Harry Potter goodness, but not with half as much excitement as I was looking forward to PotC3. :/ Sigh.

This entry stolen from natz099, although I think she cheated less than I did. XD

"Are you a book lover? A video game fan? A TV freak? A movie aficionado? Put your mind to the test, and list some of your favorite fictional characters - one for each letter of the alphabet."

A - Atreyu (The Neverending Story)
B - Benes, Elaine (Seinfeld)
C - Colberto, Esteban (The Colbert Report) (with apologies to Stanzi, who would otherwise be my "C")
D - Davy Jones (either of Pirates of the Caribbean or of The Monkees - shut up, he's fictional if I say he is!!)
E - Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
F - Folken Fanel (Tenkuu no Escaflowne)
G - Granger, Hermione (Harry Potter)
H - Hector (The Iliad)
I - Icarus (Disney's Hercules)
J - Jesse Katsopolis (Full House) (sorry, Captain Sparrow, but it's no contest, really)
K - Kramer, Cosmo (Seinfeld)
L - Lucy Ricardo (I Love Lucy)
M - Mozenrath (Aladdin)
N - Norrington, James (Pirates of the Caribbean)
O - Oenone (haha, I dunno, what is she from? is she in Metamorphoses or am I misremembering?)
P - Puddy, David (Seinfeld)
Q - Queen, The Evil (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
R - Rick O'Connell (The Mummy)
S - Shiori (After Life)
T - Turner, Will (Pirates of the Caribbean)
U - Urchin (The Little Mermaid) (it's actually been yeeeeeeeeeeeeears since I saw an episode with him in it, but when I was little he was totally my Saturday morning hero, hahahaha)
V - Van Fanel (Tenkuu no Escaflowne)
W - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Amadeus)
X - Xerxes (Aladdin) (man I have no idea, "X" is hard)
Y - Yuuya Asou (GALS!) (haha, "Y" is hard)
Z - Zoolander, Derek (Zoolander) (haha I can't think of anyone else! XD; )

My brother took me to see Meet the Robinsons tonight and it was the best. :D I'll definitely write more about that tomorrow (last day of school~~!!), but you know I can barely survive if I don't write a post, haha, so here is a snippet of our conversation during the drive to the theatre. XD

Sarah: "Some guy I've only talked to once* added me on Facebook."
Brother: "Yeah, I hate that. Some people think Facebook is like Pokémon; you gotta catch 'em all."

And then later, as the previews were rolling (no PotC3 what the heck), he admitted to sometimes imagining how terribly awesome a live action Pokémon movie would be. XD XD XD XD Oh man, now they HAVE to make that!! I mean, they did live action Sailormoon, right? Pokémon is practically the next step!! XD XD Hahaha, sometimes I wonder what a live action Escaflowne would look like. Really I only even thought of the idea because of the trailer for X-Men 3, when that dude with the wings** came on and I was like "ZOMG IT'S VAN!!" and then was severely disappointed. But I don't even know. All this time and I still find it impossible to even imagine a live action Escaflowne. I have no idea where you would start ... (But if someone ever made it I would so totally watch it.)

( Disney Princess stuff XD; )

THIS ENTRY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SHORT ONE WHAT IS GOING ON XD

Oh, and new icons, yay! XD;

* I actually have no issue with this guy adding me, especially as I wrote on his wall and only hours later he wrote back, and his comment was longer than mine which never ever happens, you may have noticed. XD But I'm a little miffed that one of my elementary school classmates added me and has yet to reply to the message I sent him. I CAN TELL YOU'VE BEEN ONLINE, YOU PUNK, I CAN SEE YOUR UPDATES!!! :P

** I know his name but I like to say things like this just to bother people. :D Star Wars is easiest because people always talk about it. "What??" I ask, shocked. "Obi-Wan dies???" And then people get all angsty about it, oh gosh, it amuses me so. XD

Now for the pirate's lair! Oh joy unbounded! Oh sweet relief! Oh rapture unexampled! What I am trying to say is that they found my luggage! It should be in my grubby little hands by this time tomorrow! Such happiness can only be communicated through the stealing of Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics!

And tonight I am going to go to the clinic to get my ear fixed, because it popped or something during yesterday's second flight and now refuses to stop bothering me. ;_;

(I told my brother that during one showing of the Aladdin musical in Disney's California Adventure, Genie sang his own version of "My Humps." Said my brother, "I don't think that's what they should be teaching at Disneyland." Hahahahahaaaaaa, man, I know. XD There were also references to Gwen Stefani, Britney and sometimes K-Fed, the Pussycat Dolls, Austin Powers ... XD XD XD XD XD XD XD )

(I am seriously going to go into withdrawal from just that musical alone. XD;;;; )

Last night I watched both Toy Story movies, and in the second one, when Al is on the phone with the Japanese businessman, he finishes the call by saying, "Don't touch my moustache!"

I NEVER GOT THAT JOKE BEFORE. And I remember asking my mom why he said that and she didn't know either. But last night I watched that scene and I was like, oh man, I can't believe they put that in, how many people even get that joke I wonder ... XD XD XD XD XD;;;

( 'Toy Story' cont'd and also 'A Goofy Movie.' )

INSTRUCTIONS
01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You WILL update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I've done this before, but it was almost two years ago. I would link to the post they were in but they're kind of embarrassing and I even locked the post because of it. XD; Admittedly I prefer today's questions, which were asked by shadoweddestiny. :D

( Jafar, Jafar, un gran señor, pero si pierde, ¡mucho MEJOR! )

( I did warn you that I was going to be a complete Disney fangirl for the next month, right? )

This entry makes it seem like I really do not have a life but in fact I had quite a life today! Or more than I usually do on any given day, anyway. I went to my first baby shower and I spent a couple hours writing and I listened to music I had never heard before in a genre that I don't usually listen to. And I hung out with my brother and he was nice to me!!! And I even cleaned my room a wee little bit. It's just that then I started going through another one of my tapes and that became all I felt like writing about ... XD XD XD XD;;;;;

Hahahahaha, oh my goodness. If you haven't guessed it yet, I AM FIVE YEARS OLD. XD

And! If you have ever wished there was a likeness of you pirating it up in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, then this is the contest for you! (Actually, I think it would be just as awesome to win the pinball machine. My mom had a bizarre catalogue that had that in it for a mere $400! I tried to convince betaraider to buy me one but I don't think I was very successful.) I like how one thousand people will win fourth prize but only fifty people will win fifth prize. Doesn't that seem backwards ... ?

I feel like I have an obligation to update this thing. I think this is because I was going to write a very extensive birthday entry and then I didn't, but I'm still left feeling like "wasn't I supposed to write something ... ?" hahaha. But if I were to write an actual entry now, it would probably be all about how I have spent the past day sorting through my video tapes (and enjoying it immensely, as so far I have found these tapes to be filled with Full House, Aladdin, Hercules, and commercials for Microsoap, my favourite of the shows I'll probably never get a chance to watch again). (Actually, the tape I was watching this morning amused me immensely, because it's like a collection of the best, most hilarious Hercules episodes ... and then the most boring, average Aladdin episodes. All nicely alternating. Oh, I am exaggerating a bit, because I don't like "Hercules and the Jilt Trip" and "Power to the Parrot" is not all that bad and the only really hilarious part of "Hercules and the Aetolian Amphora" is the beginning where you see Meg but they leave you in ridiculous suspense for like ten minutes. But still. Amusing.) (Also, "As the Netherworld Turns" seemed to have pieces very purposefully cut out of it, and "Vocal Hero" starts in the middle. Ahahaha, middle school Sarah knew quite well how to use a VCR, too, so I'm not sure what happened there. XD; )

Ahaha, I didn't mean to write all that stuff in parentheses and now I can't use my beautiful segue. But I just wanted to mention that my toe is killing me. You don't want to hear the gory details, I'm sure, but I am currently enjoying pretending that my doctor is going to be all mad at her husband because he didn't lift the toenail before like he was supposed to ... ahahaha, gooooooood tiiiiiiiiimes. XD;;;;;;;;

(Tomorrow is Rika's birthday! Happy birthday, Rika! She's the only H!P member whose birthday I ever remember, because it's so close to mine. Reina's birthday is on Remembrance Day but I didn't know that until it was too late, hahahaha, oh well!!! XD;;; )

So during our night of Esca goodness, athena_crikey educated me about her favourite commercial, Sierra Mist's Holiday Hawk commercial. I had never thought to look for my favourite commercial on YouTube before, but lo! Discovery.com's HELLO METEOR!!!! This has seriously got to be my favourite commercial ever. Just the fact that it came out when I was in middle school and I still remembered it as well as I did proves something, I think! Half of the funny of this commercial is the delivery so I hope my bad summary doesn't ruin the amusement for anyone I summarized it for. XD There is also Hello Mosquito and Hello Mosquito Outtakes and if memory serves there was some other one that I don't remember what it was, but in my humble opinion, Hello Meteor pwns them all. XD

( Somehow this commercial discussion segues into ridiculous rambling about my novel, ahahaha. )

(I have a bizarre urge to go watch KoT right now. Because I was scrolling through my YouTube favourites list and saw there the "Stand" Aladdin video? That video does use some excellent KoT clips. Hmm ...)

Because my favourite way to procrastinate during this lull between school and essays/exams is to write novel-length LJ entries about my embarrassing obsessions, I was going to bless you all with another one today, but alas! the_wykydtron wrote me a reply in her journal and my response to that became my novel for today. I wrote five whole comments and I know you're all just dying to read them!! XD

I spent like my entire day watching videos on YouTube, whether or not you believe me. And I did some half-hearted cleaning of my room. I picked my Disneyland books off the floor and put them on the shelves and suddenly the room seemed so much nicer, hahaha, how dreadful.

Anyway, where I was going with the YouTube sentence was that in my travels across the site today, I came across an Aladdin video to Weird Al Yankovic's song "Your Horoscope for Today". I don't usually watch fan videos all that often or all that many times (except when I feel hardcore!!!); usually I'll watch a video once and say "Oh, that was nice" or "What on earth possessed you to make a Kingdom Hearts video to 'Hotel Lobby'? Do you know what that song is about?" (I am heartbroken that I am currently unable to locate this video :( ) and then I'll move on with my merry little life. But I just discovered this one today and already I have watched it six kabillion times!! Mostly I was glad to find it because, though I'm no expert, it seems to me that about 95% of Aladdin fanvids are centered around Al/Jas and based only on the first movie. Which gets boring nice and fast. So I was very glad to find this video, which includes clips from all three movies and a whole whack of series episodes, and focuses on the wackier side of things. And obviously I'm biased, but I think the resulting video is quite fantastic. XD It's so awesome how almost every lyric has a clip that matches it so well. I found a video to the same song that used clips from Naruto and Fullmetal Alchemist but didn't match as well. Isn't that hilarious? That video uses two series and still doesn't match as well as this one! Because like I told you, the Aladdin series is ridiculous enough to include all of this wacky stuff that's appropriate to the song. XD!!!

And perhaps now I should get off the computer ... ahahaha ... perhaps. :P