Goodbye, beloved pizza.
02.09.15
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No music today, I'm busy ripping, and said ripper is not appreciative
when music is playing, it tends to do that "jitter" thing it does so
well. However, in terms of music I have been listening, right now my
musical choice seems to be songs that require a bit of effort to sing.
Unfortunately, most of them don't require effort on my vocal range,
which is sorely in need of some exercise (something to be said for
church, at least I enjoyed singing and got plenty of exercise), but it
is, in fact improving. Choices of the moment include Chihiro Onitsuka's
"Gekkou" and "infection", Gackt's "Sekirei ~seki-ray~", working on
"Wadatsumi no Ki", and I'm thinking about busting out the Ryuichi
Kawamura, because holy monkey does he go high occasionally. And all of
this is in a valiant effort to master "Wadatsumi no Ki". Oh certainly,
I can't sing in shimauta style a la Miss Hajime, but I WILL hit those
high notes. I've done it in the past, they shall resound in the shower
once more! Oh, plus I just like singing in general. And playing the
piano, though I am mildly awful at it. So that's what I've been doing,
I'm also working on expanding my karaoke repertoire, because I like
karaoke.
So anyway, in news not related to my howling, last evening at work in
put in my two weeks. It occurred for a variety of reasons: A) my hours
for this job are severely, painfully lacking. B) School's starting up,
I'll need study time and I have a job over there and the commute to
tend to C) my manager treats me like crap, but he treats everyone else
like crap too. I'm merely one of the younger and newer employees so I'm
more fun, one would surmise. I mean, the man gets annoyed at my SWEEPING
TECHNIQUE, for the love of cheese. D) I severely screw-up often with taking
orders out of area. We don't use a computer system, and my knowledge
of our area is sketchy at best. This in turn, is a major burden to the
drivers, if an out-of-area order is not caught before it is prepared.
The drivers told me it's okay if I ask them on every order if something
is out of the area of not, something which I've attempted to do but also
manages to simultaneously anger my manager. Hence, I can not win.
I spoke to my favourite manager last night before I declared such things
(who is incidentally leaving at the end of this week), and she agrees
with me, particularly that I'm not getting many hours and they seem
to be constantly shrinking. It makes me a little sad that I'm quitting,
the is the first job I've ever quit; all the others either ended due
to the seasonal nature of them, I was never hired and was used as free
labour, something I likely could've laid a lawsuit on them for if I was
more self-interested, and I remember how happy I was when I landed this
position, despite that the manager who hired me wanted to get in my
pants and has been described by all females as "icky". It made the
extreme annoyance of job-hunting seem like it amounted to something.
As for the job itself, for the most part, I like, other than it getting
frenetic at times and my dislike of answering the phone. So yes, I
was a bit sad last night, and I'm sure I will be when I leave, but I
think it's okay.
In other slightly less reportedly dramatic news, I have to report
something new that I find rather fabulous: Thai tea. I first
encountered it at the annual food festival of my city, when Miho bought
one, let me try it, and I summarily had to have one as well. Then,
last week, after going to the fair with Miho, Matt, Kenji, and some
other folks, we went and ate at a Vietnamese restaurant for dinner,
in which I drank another bottle of tea and took two home with me. I
am offically obsessed with this beverage, which is more than likely a
bad thing. So last night I went online to search for recipes, of which
the main unsubstitutable ingredient is...cha Thai! Thusly, tomorrow
I'm off to Ye Olde Asian Food Store (it's Korean-owned, but has stuff
from everywhere else as well) to procure Thai tea so that I may drink
the stuff day and night. That's probably not a good idea though, as it
is quite sweet due to evaporated milk...still, I heartily recommend
trying some if you've access to such, quite tasty. As for the Vietnamese
food, I was a fan of that as well, though I know better than to even
attempt a pronunciation of the food names, and the price was excellent.
I have every intention of visiting there again, though I'd like to try
Thai food once, I'm not so familiar with southeast Asian food as I'd like
to be.
In other news, in my magical Final Fantasy Tactics crusade, Rafa IS
beginning to not suck (as much), I have master Calculator-girl, and I
think my favourite of Ramza's outfits is the first, cadet-Ramza. It
amuses me how the game begins as a vaguely Marxist struggle and then
begins attacking the evils of a thinly-veiled Catholic Church. It was
rather odd this time, my politicization must be increasing as I was
getting into the whole class-struggle-social-justice thing relatively
hardcore. And speaking of games, whilst Matt and I were speaking on
the phone he, for some reason, has officially declared me a goth, which
sparked a discussion on stereotypical goth things and folks in video games.
I think Sephiroth ended up winning the goth award overall, given the
clothes, the creepy enigmatic stuff, all the blood and killing, the fact
that he's DEAD, the angel motif, the "Yay, look at me! I'm God!"-thing,
the Latin choir...of course, then there's Ultimecia, who lives in a
gothic fantasyland that I unashamedly dig mightily. And there's Vincent,
who's quite angsty, tortured, pretty, experimented upon and SLEEPS IN A COFFIN
IN THE BOTTOM OF A CREEPY MANSION...yeah, the list went on, and it was
rather interesting. ChronoTrigger got mention thanks to Magus's choice
of decor, which led us to debate the relative artistic merits of Nobuteru
Yuuki (who did the character designs for Vision of Escaflowne and Chrono Cross,
respectively) and Akira Toriyama (of Dragonball fame and ChronoTrigger designs).
Matt detests the work of Mr. Toriyama with an unbridled dark passion, and
was speaking of how he probably would've liked the designs better if Yuuki
did them, which I disagreed to. Though Toriyama's work is derivative
at best (go look at the designs for DBZ, ChronoTrigger, and Dragon Quest VII
and tell me what you think), I actually disliked pretty much all of the
designs for Chrono Cross and did enjoy some of those of Trigger. Yuuki's
frighten me a bit, many of the female characters are frightfully thin
(see Kid and Riddel for details), although I don't find his Escaflowne
designs unappealing. I wonder what the art of Chrono Break shall look like?
And speaking of game art, what's the detail with pencil art seemingly
becoming rare? I mean, I actively had to search to find the Final Fantasy X
pencil art (which I did, in way of my brother's FFX strategery guide and
a marvelous poster which runs for $6 of all the characters in said mode
at my local comic book shop, which is also where I get my Escaflowne),
I believe I've only seen one piece of pencil art for KOS-MOS of Xenosaga
which was that one grand picture of her in space with Shion, yeehaw, but...
yarg and what about Final Fantasy VIII pencil art? IX? I am aware of the
domestically released FFIX artbook, but still...YARG! Whither hast mine
most beloved of arts flown? Oh well, I suppose I could always listen
to "Gekka no Yasoukyoku" (the Malice Mizer one) to comfort myself, so
I think I will, the accordian version. Oh well, if anyone knows where
there is official line FULL-BODY art of Final Fantasies VIII and/or IX,
I'd be much obliged to view such. And speaking of art, wasn't there
a Xenogears art book other than Perfect Works? I believe it was called
something like "A Million Shards", and I had the ISBN number at one time
but have seemed to misplace it and the closest match I have now is the
XG memorial album which is called "A THOUSAND SHARDS or (PIECES)", if I'm
not mistaken...but that's not right, is it? Oy vey.
Ah well, not so much else I wish to speak of at the moment, so perhaps
something more consequential shall be written next time.
chronos
Ekairos
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