A sad day for anthropology.

A sad day indeed.  One of the anthropology greats, who textbooks still heavily discuss and hold as example, Claude Levi-Strauss has passed away.  Credited for establishing the structuralism methodology and his vast contributions to the field.  As with anything, his methods were criticized, but with all things any study is to get us to discuss and to spur other people on to pursue the subject.  The man has had an influence on anthropology that is still just as relevant as ever.  He shall be missed.

Almost broke.

So i’m almost tapped out from last months bills and the check i’m going to get next week will barely cover my half of the bills.  Part-time sucks.  I should probably find a second job or something.  My birthday is coming up.  Not much plans as far as that goes.  I’m not really sure what else to do.  My mom will probably take the kids out trick-r-treating, my sister will probably go to a friends house or be a bum and stay home.  So maybe I’ll hang out with my dad at home or something.  I don’t know.  I’m not really sure how the turn out for halloween is going to be with all these kids out sick.

Mainly I’ve been goofing around on the DS or facebook when not at work.

I started watching Gantz which is an interesting anime.  Its hard to get myself into a series thats still on going and already has 23 volumes with no end in sight.  So I’ve started with the anime, there’ll be two live action films coming out 2011.  Ninomiya Kazunari is going to be playing the main protagonist so it looks like it will be interesting.

I love this month, all the haunted history and ghost shows get aired as well as some decent horror flicks out there.  I enjoy it.

I believe I have thrown off the tiniest bit of weight loss that I’ve somehow managed to obtain.  Bye-bye 5 pounds.  Depressing much.  That somehow brings me to baking bread right now.  My hands smell like yeast and flour.

High notes coming up.  Lady Gaga performing at Scotiabank place come November 29, I’m totally going to see her so I need to somehow manage to save up $60 with crappy ass job.  As well as the Sens and Ave’s game in december.  So lots of money needs to be scrounged up between now and december.

Event filled month, I guess.

Partially event filled anyway, apparently my understanding of filled involves 2 events.  Our 6th anniversary is on Saturday and then my birthday is at the end of the month.  Totally going to get sushi on saturday, so looking forward to it.   We’re actually going to go there for dinner this time, which is a change of pace for us since we’re cheap and lunch prices are nice, hahaha.   Man, six years.  That just sounds nuts.  Its just hard to believe that we’ve been together for so long, it doesn’t even feel like its been that long.  I’m not sure if that’s good or bad.  Saturday will be nice.

Don’t have much plans for my birthday.  Probably just hang out with my family, maybe we’ll go out somewhere and do something, we’ll see.  There really isn’t a whole bunch to do in the area unless you plan on getting trashed and that’s not us.  Again, we’ll see if anything comes up.

I haven’t really being doing much lately besides going to work and agonizing over my Carleton University application, which surprisingly takes up more time than one would think.  We saw Zombieland which was freaking hilarious.  And watching various anime and/or tv shows via crunchyroll and other means.  Which brings me to my next rambling point.

Coffee Prince.  Its a Korean drama/comedy from 2007.  Short version:  lead is a female mistaken( yes that is a girl, front and centre)  as a boy and maintains boy identity to get decent paying work so she can help support her family and save money for her sister to go to college.  Male lead opens a coffee shop and lead female works there and he starts to become charmed by her, going into crazy turmoil about himself, since he only knows her as a man.  Hilarity and lots of drama ensue.

Its all subbed on crunchyroll, which is cool.  I was hooked after the first episode.  It really seamed to avoid the pitfalls of a lot of the “gender-bender” genre tends to quickly fall into.  For those unfamiliar, gender-bender refers to a genre with the main character being mistaken for the opposite gender, either on purpose or accident.

Its a really charming show.  To start off its funny, you can’t go wrong with a dose of good humor.  The initial episodes draw you into the characters and sets it up nicely that you want to see what happens to them and their growth and development goes along nicely.  And like most things in Korean cinema and television, the melodrama comes a’ flowin’.  I’m not going to lie, I teared up quite a few times.  I mean, I wasn’t just bawling like I was in Windstruck, but there were definite tears, I’m such a sap, lol.  So overall, great show.  It has its moments where it follows the typical drama lines, but it can be easily overlooked.  I think this was the first Korean show I’ve ever watched, though I’ve seen a ton of korean movies.

So if you want to laugh and cry a little, but eventually come out with a happy ending, then Coffee Prince is for you.

Not much going on.

Works doing okay.  Not looking forward to the upcoming holiday shopping.  I didn’t monumentally screw up on the register, so we’re good, haha.  Going for 5-9:15 tomorrow.  My check for next week should be pretty good.  As good as it gets for minimum wage and part time can get anyways.

Also might be buying some stuff on ebay.  I signed up for the ebay bucks thing, its hilarious, 10 cents here, 5 cents there.  Either way you gotta spend a lot of money to get anything useful.

Also I’m gonna start shopping through my priority rewards account now that I can access it.  I just need to remember to do it when I go to buy something online.  As well as hit up the antique shop at the mall for jars and stuff.  They have a really cool old gas mask, it was nice.

At least tomorrow i don’t have to set the alarm.  I do not like doing processing from 8-5pm, don’t mind the hours, just not pining tags on clothes and hanging them.  Would just much prefer something else.  I probably won’t get hours like this until black friday, late december, and possibly a huge shipment comes in.  So back to my 16 hours or less I guess.  Part time sucks, but its nice to at least have a job that doesn’t drive me nuts.

Slow day.

Slow day, just surfing youtube, checking out my schedule at work.  Working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.  About 17 hours total.  Better than being jobless.  Added some new links.  I can’t find the battery charger so my mouse is useless.  I have a feeling its sitting out right in front of me somewhere and I’m just not seeing it.  Which is something I do very often.

I know what I can do.  I can finally watch Ichi the Killer.  Put that off for like a month.

So I watch Bones.  I like the show.  I find it funny and more based in reality when it comes to actual forensic anthropology.  Did you know you do not capitalize the “a” in anthropology ever, unless its in the beginning of a sentence?  Random fact from my professionalism course.

But I also find it hard to watch because of the primary character herself.  Her entire lack of social skills and tact got old real fast.  I don’t know I just find the character annoying now.  She sort of comes off as one dimensional now with very little character growth and development, more or less fanatical in her devotion to the facts.  But whatevs, I’ll still watch the show because David Boreanaz is hilarous and I enjoy the Hodgens and Angela characters as well.

This Ichi guy has a serious Glasgow grin going on there.  It hurts just thinking about it.

Lady Gaga rocks.

Now a lot of people don’t like her, but I love her.  She’s out there and just does what she wants because she thinks its interesting.  I love her performances as she often leaves people thinking, WTF?  It also helps that she’s an awesome singer and musician.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/435679/paparazzi-live.jhtml#id=1620606

Her VMA performance.  It was awesome.

Yay for good restaurants!

We went to the opening day of J & T Japanese Thai restaurant in Cornwall today.  It was awesome.  The sushi was really good and the prices were nice as well.  It was about $2 less than I thought it was going to be.  If I didn’t get the Sapporo it would have been around$20.

A little logo shot.

Delights indeed,hahaha.

I want to go back and try some the ramen dishes and whatever else sounds good.

Next time, no Sapporo, just to cut back on the prices.

Dustin’s sushi order, he got 12 California rolls instead of 6 and 6 Alaskan rolls.  He was pleased.

Miso came with the meal.  It wasn’t too salty, which was nice.  The Gyoza was crispy and awesome.   The woman sitting behind was practically freaking out because she thought the gyoza they ordered was chicken and not vegetarian.  Overall she was very rude and difficult which is why we left a nice tip for their tip jar.

This was my awesome sushi meal.  The fish was so nice and fresh.  That plate cost $7.50.  And in my experience of sushi plates, its not too badly priced.

And our lovely server.  She was very nice, like all the people that worked there.  She didn’t mind stopping to take a picture when Dustin asked.  Great food, great service, its all you need.

So if you are in Cornwall, and your looking for some good food, head to J & T Japanese Thai Restaurant at 208 Montreal Rd, Cornwall On.  It’ll be worth the money.

I feel dumb, haha.

I had the worst ditz moment in forever.  I couldn’t log into my account because I had completely forgotten the password.  So I went to reset the password, but neither of my primary email accounts were working.  After having a memory-jog by the lovely tech support here, I realized it was my initial email account which I hardly ever use anymore since I created one with a more professional and easier to spell name.  So I feel foolish, haha.

Ugh

I have smoothied myself out.  I made some smoothie since I was hungry and I made too much.  It took me like an hour and a half to drink the damn thing, but it was good.

I was beyond pissed this morning.  I lost my game save for Etrian Odyssey.  Level 62 an god knows how many hours.  Its a sign to start getting my games the right way, lol.

Played a little bit of devil summoner 2 today.  Finally got out of that stupid dungeon, lol.

Overall a slow day, did the laungry so I feel accomplished.

Madness I say!

We have bought our hotel for Anime North 2010!!!  We’re staying at the Holiday Inn this time, whch is hell of a lot cheaper.  $199 CAN for the whole weekend.  Still have yet to be charged, but its done.  I liked how they said I’ll be charged sometime between now and when I arrive, so yeah, lol.

I am just so freaking bored right now.  Jobless and bored.  Jobless was my doing but the bored is totally not my fault.  Job hunt, slow, which is to be expected and not shocking or distressing.  I have my final pay check coming some time soon, had that phone call today.  I’m just pleased to no longer be working there.

Man breakfast sounds really good right now.  I wish there was a Denny’s near by.  I’m not sure I want to be driving all the way to Ottawa for Denny’s.  I would but I know Dustin would be totally against that when he gets home and I don’t feel like having that conversation.

I need something to do!!