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So my today started very uneventfully, and then went off in an unexpected direction! ( Read more... )

Now for a spot of homeworking and then bed. :3

So my friend/co-worker K is going to Disneyland in June (leaving there on her birthday what the heck worst timing ever - I should tell her to grab a birthday button anyway xD ). Last month, she went on a roadtrip for which another of our co-workers made her a sort of scavenger hunt type of list of things to find and take pictures of. (One was "Take a picture with a hot guy" - they took a picture with a standee of the Maytag Man, hahahaha. xDD ) She seemed to really enjoy it, so I asked if she would like me to make her a similar list for Disneyland, and she said YES. :D But now I have to actually come up with stuff!! haha. This is roughly what I kinda have so far:

- Take a picture of a tourist with a cowboy hat. (Suggested by my mom haha. x) )
- Take a picture of the sails in New Orleans Square. (This one might be too hard, though? the_wykydtron and I only found them 'cause I knew roughly where they were.)
- Take a picture of the Evil Queen in her tower. (I think this one is easier but still maybe too hard.)
- Take a picture of a ride that's under construction. (Is Small World down yet? I should probably check.)
- Take a picture of a real live animal.

K's own suggestion was "Poke Dumbo," and then she mimed it and it was hilarious. xDDD

So after my break I go back to the office--

Sarah: "I'm gonna make K a scavenger hunt list for when she goes to Disneyland. What should I put on it?"
Manager: "... What do you think you should put on it?"
Sarah: "Well the only thing I've thought of so far is 'Take a picture with Jack Sparrow,' but she'll probably do that anyway."
Manager: "... I don't think they have a Jack Sparrow walking around Disneyland."
Sarah: "Yes they do! I met him!!"
Manager: "Yeah, well you're a liar."

hahahahaha awwwww xD;;;

Oh I should mention, another of my co-workers, also with the initial K, went to Disneyland last month, and this manager was teasing her, saying he was going to call Disneyland with a bomb threat so that they would have to shut down and she wouldn't be able to go. D: I asked him what he thought would happen if he really called Disneyland with a bomb threat and she said he would be arrested. Immediately. xD;;;;;

(Man I find it really bizarre how after I got interested in Disney parks, they started popping up all over the place and now all of a sudden everyone I know is planning a trip. o_O;;; You know how when you learn a new word you suddenly see it all the time? It's like that, but so weird.)

Okay this next conversation has nothing to do with the rest of this entry.

Brother: "So why do you wanna see Jumper?"
Sarah: "Because it has two Morning Musume songs in it! :D :D "
Brother: "... That's all?"
Sarah: "... Yeah! :D :D "
Brother: "You need to rethink your life."

hahahaha aw man, I was afraid of that. D:

Oh and maybe this is a totally stupid story but I am sharing it anyway!

Having escaped working on my group presentation until tomorrow, I was lingering around UVic after class trying to decide what I wanted to do next when lo! I hear the dulcet tones of my friend A talking on her cell phone! So I ran over to her and totally followed her around while she had a full conversation with her dad. xDDD But when she got off the phone, she offered me a ride home! Except it soon turned out that by "ride home" she meant "ride to the video store near your house," because really the only reason she offered was because she had some DVDs to return. FAIR ENOUGH. So she ditched me there and I took the longer(ish) way back to my neighbourhood and then I went to the playground and then I went to the cemetery and as I was exiting through the gates, finally intending to actually go home, my dad, on his way home from work, pulled up to the curb and picked me up.

DRIVING SARAH HOME IS A TAG TEAM EFFORT

Also, today in PACI we had a quiz where we had to make up our own question. Looks like I picked the wrong week to not do the readings. :// (The best part of this was that the prof had to run back to his office as per usual while we wrote the quiz, and on his way out he warned us not to cheat in his absence. As soon as he was gone, a classmate who had walked in late asked, "All right everyone, what's the answer?" Which was met with a reply of, "What's the question?" And then said late classmate looked down at his sheet, realized what was happening, and swore. Oh, the lolz~)

I want to write an entry but I'm also pretty sleepy. haha. ^^;

( stuffffffs )

Oh wait, I remembered one more thing to say. xD; Today this woman came to buy her sons tickets for AVP:R (rated 18A), only these kids were too young to go in by themselves, so she asked if they could see I Am Legend (rated 14A) by themselves, and I said if they're both fourteen or older, and she said "They'll be fourteen in March," and when I said that wasn't good enough she went all angst on me. Well, okay, admittedly she was very nice compared to other customers to whom I have the pleasure of explaining these rules, but you know what bugs me most of all?

THAT THESE PEOPLE DON'T JUST LIE.

Because if she had just told me that these kids were fourteen, then who am I to call her on it? It's not like I'm gonna ask for ID, what fourteen-year-old carries ID? I hate that I get complained at because people don't have the gall to lie. :P

hahaha just wait till I'm a parent. IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!!
(who am I kidding. my kid isn't gonna be allowed to see a 14A movie till he's twenty. xDDD )

Sarah: "Today I joined the Disney Movie Club! They sent me stickers!"
Brother: "Yeah, right. You made that club up yourself. Then you made those stickers. And died a little inside."

Aaaaahahaha, oh gosh, I really did die a little inside, I think. I felt very dirty filling out the form, because it was totally admitting that I buy enough Disney DVDs that, "obligation to buy" or not, this thing is easily going to save me money. :X Ah, I spend way too much money on DVDs, my mother tells me that's all I ever buy. xD But today I ordered three Disney sequels of varying quality all for just two dollars total, so who cares~~~~~~ XDDDDD

In completely other news, I went to the doctor today to get the wax washed out of my ears. ( cut for gross? )

What else ... I worked on my JaNo novel today and yesterday, which is really terrible of me because I should be working on the novel I want to have a first draft of by the end of the year. ^^; But I randomly started getting ideas for this one so whatever. This evening I went to betaraider's and saw 300 for the first time, but I think listening to six months of people praising it was bound to leave me disappointed. :p (Wow, it was only released in March?? I feel like it was released soooooooooo much longer ago!)

I feel like I am slacking re: studying but at the same time I feel like we're still so early in the school year and already I've done a lot. My classes so far are fine but I dunno, I sort of lost my drive in third year and I thought I might get it back but so far that's not the case. :( I mean, I like university, but I really don't care for all the work they shove into three months. And it makes me just want to not do any of it. Because I'm mature like that, haha. But whatever, so far so good, I have a Japanese literature class that is the MOST INTENSE CLASS I'VE EVER TAKEN. There's only five students and it's all Japanese all the time which means the other four get to listen to my aaaaaaaawful speaking. xDDD Why do I hate when people are all, "lol, this is my friend Sarah, lol, she's so totally fluent in Japanese"? BECAUSE I'M NOT. Feel free to ask any of these classmates if you don't believe me, hahaha, they're the ones who get to listen to me stumble through my answers to the hundreds of questions the prof asks every class. xD But I really like this prof, though! He is so friendly and happy and enthusiastic, and maybe it's horrible to say this but he kind of reminds me of Matthew from Matthew's Best Hit TV. Well, considering how awesome I think Matthew is, I guess that's not really a mean thing to say, and anyway this prof isn't quite as crazy as Matthew is ... yet. xDDD

AND BEFORE I FORGET! XD Here are two YouTube videos that are currently ruling my life:

After Today
A group of college kids got together and made a live action version of "After Today" from A Goofy Movie. WHICH IS AWESOME ENOUGH IN ITSELF, RIGHT??? xDDD But it is pretty amusing in other ways, too. XD XD And then I watched it so many times I had this song stuck in my head the entire next day. A little tiring! ^^;; I am actually really amused by all the love A Goofy Movie seems to get on YouTube, hahaha, because I remember when it was like the most neglected of Disney movies. xDDD There's a Hercules video done to "Stand Out" (omg I love that song) and there's even a PotC video done to "On the Open Road"!!! PRETTY AWESOME!!! XDDD

Why is the Rum Gone? Remix
I watched this expecting it to be like the I've Got a Jar of Dirt Remix, which I have never been able to listen to all the way through because it drives me insane. >_O;; So I am glad to report that this one is much more awesome and even my PotC-hating brother liked it so much that he spent the next day going around the house shouting, "That's not good enough!" xD (Hahaha, when we were watching it he was like, "It sounds like Will's getting angrier every time, but you know that's not true!" xD xD; ) So please watch it and love it and send me all the awesome (AWEsome?) PotC videos you find because I devour them like candy. :X

((Oh man that reminds me! My brother's (nick)name is Will and my favourite character in my favourite trilogy is named Will. Okay, whatever. But one of my brother's favourite movies is Requiem for a Dream and one of the main characters in that is named Sara!! Either we just have two way common names, or this is some bizarre sibling psychology at work. xDD ))

I watched Dead Man's Chest in Japanese dub for the second time today, and so perhaps it is fitting that I then came across a clip on YouTube that features the Pirates actors and creators attempting to speak Japanese at the Tokyo premiere of PotC3 (in the Budokan? oh man, that totally means that these guys are standing on the same stage that MoMusu has stood on xD ). Bill and Geoffrey read off a sheet, Johnny and Chow totally cop out, Jerry speaks from memory but isn't very interesting to watch, but oh man, Orlando and Gore totally had me falling out of my chair. XD XD XD GORE IS TOTALLY READING OFF HIS HAND AND HE STILL MANAGES TO SAY COMPLETE NONSENSE, oh man, these guys, I love them way too much. XD XD XD

In news that has nothing to do with fangirling, my brother graduated high school on Thursday. :) I was going to write a big entry about it but the desire to do so has since subsided. Blah blah blah, the_wykydtron and I watched the ceremony on a soundless TV in the lobby of the University Centre, and the picture was so zoomed out that we weren't even 100% sure that the person we thought was my brother was actually him. (Turned out that it was. :D ) Blah blah blah, it was raining really hard, we went for a quick walk during the valedictorian's speech and got soaked. Blah blah blah, my brother skipped the grad party in favour of playing DDR with his sister and his girlfriend. It was an awesome two hours. xD So I found it to be an enjoyable evening, hahaha, as if my opinion here really matters. ;D After the ceremony my brother let me hug him and I came very close to tearing up, I don't even know why. ^^; Anyway, I am bitter that my dad seems not to have kept the pictures of me and the_wykydtron ... I hate when my family members don't keep pictures for whatever reason. I seriously keep all my pictures, even ones I took just to start the roll of film. :P

Also, the preview of MoMusu's new single is out (ZOMG FINALLY), and though it's no "Kanashimi Twilight," I do quite like "Onna ni Sachi Are." :)

Edit: I FORGOT TO MENTION! XD 「あぁ、だめ！倒れる！」is an infinitely better line than, "Ah! The heat!" XD XD XD XD XD XD

1) RABBITS RABBITS!!!!

2) athena_crikey has posted FOUR TIMES since I last posted. I obviously need to step it up.

3) Morning Musume is killing me with its scandaliciousness. KILLING ME.

4) How are we supposed to wait two years for the opening of this Harry Potter theme park? They should've just built it in secret and then told us about it. I can't wait two whole years for the chance to say, "Well, it's good, but it's not as good as Disneyland!!" ... el oh el oh el.

5) My copy of the PotC3 soundtrack arrived today and I'm going to see it again this evening~~ :D (I can't believe it's only been a week since I saw it, it feels like so~~~ much longer~~~~.) And I am almost finished playing the tie-in video game, not because I have mad skillz but because it is crazy short!! My dad today was talking about how my PotC craziness and how it seems off to him that people who are making $8 an hour (=me) spend all their money on PotC goods that will make the people behind PotC even richer than they already are. Hahaha, and he doesn't even know about my all-PotC Amazon.ca order that should ship out today ... XD XD XD XD

6) I finally got around to getting myself a copy of The Little Mermaid on DVD and proceeded to go through a mini-obsession with it, which I totally was not expecting! I hadn't seen the movie in ten years, why would I care that much about it? But man! It's so interesting! And the documentary? And the ride? OH MAN THAT RIDE!! I have also decided that "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is one of my favourite animated Disney sequences. It's so good! And I never before really agreed with everyone who sung the praises of Howard Ashman, but listening to some of those songs again, wow. If you actually listen to the words that are in his lyrics, it is amazing that they can be sung and sound good. And I feel like I am getting really crotchety in my old age about song lyrics. I am actually ridiculously critical of the songs I hear on the radio. Which is why I never listen to the radio. XD

7) Sorry this entry is a JOKE. XD

To start, today I searched for Jack Benny clips on YouTube and to my surprise, the search was actually successful!! (I feel like a HUGE DORK whenever I mention my adoration for this guy. It makes me feel rather removed from my generation.) And to add to the surprise, one of the clips I found is of Mr. Benny and Walt Disney! I'm guessing this is from The Jack Benny Show - basically, Jack is way stingy and is trying to see if he can get himself and 110 friends of his into Disneyland for free. Not the most hilarious clip I've ever seen, but awesome just the same. XD

In actual news, today was pretty productive in comparison to the rest of my lazy week. XD ( Film class, dentist, work stuff, TV, bloody pirates!! )

Today is my last day of classes and even though I only woke up half an hour ago, so far it rocks! :D ( Hello! Project, job hunting, and old friends :) )

Anyway I better go and actually get ready for school, especially as I had a dream last night where I was hours late to my first class, which today is only going to be like five minutes long, so being hours late would be even more offensive than usual! XD;

RABBITS RABBITS!

Also, skookum.