the air stirs
Apr. 16th, 2017 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaSome holidays barely anything happens. Some holidays I'm so overwhelmed that I'm sure I'm forgetting to bring up something. I know I am because Emily was talking about a change in something and I brought up the ugliness of self-published book covers in particular but now that I think about it, the ebook versions of professionally published books have ugly cover art as well, it's just ugly in a boring minimalistic way rather than ugly in an inept "a team of snow monkeys and kindergartners could do something better" way.
Speaking of art, Photoshop is apparently subscription based now so you pay to use it monthly instead of all at once because progress I guess.
It's too late to ninja edit but I told Emily and Rachel and Lauren about how I liked the design on someone's shirt: a sun in the arms of a waxing crescent moon circumscribed by flowers and sphenograms and three stars.
Snowy is the grumpy cat, Muffin is the shy but friendly tortoiseshell. I'm not sure I've met Muffin before.
My aunt once blamed Santa for eating Lauren's leftover Chinese food in high summer and once blamed the dog for farting when she wasn't there.
Sam says that people don't take her seriously because she looks like classy Lady Gaga, not meat dress Lady Gaga.
To Emily, Moana has the slight edge over Mulan because it lacks a romance subplot.
Japanese people love our music and in return she loves japanese rock but can't get into j-pop. Rachel's impression of j-pop singing and dancing was great.
Japanese people don't really believe in protesting and rioting which is why they didn't end up like Romania or Bulgaria. After the election, they thought it was a joke and then she was trying to explain that she doesn't hate America, she thinks Trump is bad for America.
In Japan, there's a week of holidays where traveling is even more expensive and if you haven't prepared, you're screwed.
Contrast with the local supermarket where people are still trying to get ham for Easter. She said this in the afternoon. It's whatever time it is now and this statement might still be true.
In Japan, there are no squirrels. Rachel is weirded out by this and I'm not quite amazed by our lack of monkeys, as it actually makes when you think about it. The Americas were only connected for 3 million years or so and a cold climate-adapted monkey wouldn't happen in that time. Yes, I know there are opossums but they're barely cold-climate adapted. Plus I think the raccoon already occupies the niche of "intelligent arboreal mammal." Japan does have raccoons and they have raccoon dogs which Rachel thought were mythical.
Rachel said that Japanese names are typically gendered but Yuki is genderless and her go-to example was Sam, while I thought of Ashley.
It's hard to get root beer in other countries.
Someone got their tires slashed in a Friendly's parking lot, which wasn't very friendly of them.
burning question: If Torgersen and Correia have been disappeared, how come everyone can still see them?
Speaking of art, Photoshop is apparently subscription based now so you pay to use it monthly instead of all at once because progress I guess.
It's too late to ninja edit but I told Emily and Rachel and Lauren about how I liked the design on someone's shirt: a sun in the arms of a waxing crescent moon circumscribed by flowers and sphenograms and three stars.
Snowy is the grumpy cat, Muffin is the shy but friendly tortoiseshell. I'm not sure I've met Muffin before.
My aunt once blamed Santa for eating Lauren's leftover Chinese food in high summer and once blamed the dog for farting when she wasn't there.
Sam says that people don't take her seriously because she looks like classy Lady Gaga, not meat dress Lady Gaga.
To Emily, Moana has the slight edge over Mulan because it lacks a romance subplot.
Japanese people love our music and in return she loves japanese rock but can't get into j-pop. Rachel's impression of j-pop singing and dancing was great.
Japanese people don't really believe in protesting and rioting which is why they didn't end up like Romania or Bulgaria. After the election, they thought it was a joke and then she was trying to explain that she doesn't hate America, she thinks Trump is bad for America.
In Japan, there's a week of holidays where traveling is even more expensive and if you haven't prepared, you're screwed.
Contrast with the local supermarket where people are still trying to get ham for Easter. She said this in the afternoon. It's whatever time it is now and this statement might still be true.
In Japan, there are no squirrels. Rachel is weirded out by this and I'm not quite amazed by our lack of monkeys, as it actually makes when you think about it. The Americas were only connected for 3 million years or so and a cold climate-adapted monkey wouldn't happen in that time. Yes, I know there are opossums but they're barely cold-climate adapted. Plus I think the raccoon already occupies the niche of "intelligent arboreal mammal." Japan does have raccoons and they have raccoon dogs which Rachel thought were mythical.
Rachel said that Japanese names are typically gendered but Yuki is genderless and her go-to example was Sam, while I thought of Ashley.
It's hard to get root beer in other countries.
Someone got their tires slashed in a Friendly's parking lot, which wasn't very friendly of them.
burning question: If Torgersen and Correia have been disappeared, how come everyone can still see them?
