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Name: Emurii
Birthday: 2/15/1989
Gender: Female
Interests: afi, anime, the beatles, bondage, cats, the cure, clamp, clogs, clothes making, the dead kennedys, dir en grey, the dresden dolls, egl, emo, franz ferdinand, hunter-nin-sensei, j-rock, japan, japanese, malice mizer, manga, my chemical romance, Orwell, pillow craft, phantom of the opera, punk, the sex pistols, sid vicious, the sisters of mercy, thursday, taking back sunday, yazawa ai
Expertise: Buying birthday presents.
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  kir3i na kanjou
Member Since:
5/5/2004
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| So, The Meanest Of Times really is an excellent album. $12 very well spent. (And hey, the free pint glass, not a bad addition.) I am literally updating just to say, "yes, it is an excellent album." So, give it a listen. I'm pretty happy with it.
As far as my life goes ... since I never update Xanga ... well, I've been in school for a while now. It's going pretty well, I guess. I like my classes, I have good teachers, and I'm starting to make more friends. I've managed to have a good time, college-style, for both of the last two weekends, and I'm not planning any differently this weekend (although I'll be in Newton for Friday night and Saturday during the day, which kind of sucks).
Unsurprisingly, what I'm most excited about is two weeks from now (well, two weeks, one day, and half an hour) is getting on that plane to Ohio to see my dude for a while.
But yeah. Living in Boston is pretty sweet. I can just get on the train and go to Newbury Street, etc, and make the whole trip in 20 minutes if I want. It's a wicked expensive place to live, though, and I think that, even though I won't get one, I ought to have a job. (I'm going to get one this summer, though, so that'll be good.)
I think that's about it. I've procrastinated enough! Homework time.
<3,
Emurii
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| So I've moved in
I'm really liking it - and our 3-person-suite actually had a dropout, so we now have basically a huuuuge double and we both get our own rooms <3.
My roommate Sara - who's wicked nice - is giving me half the closet space, which makes me pretty happy. (Although I don't really need it.)
There's a bunch of stuff I still need, but I'll be getting it tomorrow ... went to H&M today with Sara and her friend and bought cute underwear. I also opened a bank account and renewed my email account. So all in all, fairly productive day.
I'm having a decent time, though - I really want classes to start and to meet new people ... or Kim to call me ;; - but yeah. I'm pretty stoked.
I miss Aaron like crazy, but it's comforting to know that he's always on the other end of the telephone.<3 And really, the days are just going to go by like crazy... so it's not that long before I'll be able to be with him again.
<3,
Emurii
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|  | Currently Watching
Stardust
By Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer
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Robert De Niro is the man.
Go see Stardust, his role is ridiculously awesome. Also because Neil Gaiman is also the man. (Quite a few people are the man -- collectively, the men.) (I don't mean The Man, like, Damn the Man!, I mean, they're pretty awesome. They're the man.) (Just wanted to clear that up.)
<3,
Emurii
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| I have a SINGLE
in a SUITE
Do you know what that means?
That means I get my own room, and instead of sharing my bathroom with 50+ people, I'm sharing it with 2.
Since we're a suite capacity of only 3 (most in Myles Standish are 4 - two singles and a double), maybe we even have a living room ... ... ... I am so excited. And I live in freaking Kenmore Square, right under the giant Citgo sign.
And, thanks to internal room selection, if I want to keep my room next year, I can. (I mean, hopefully I'll manage to get myself pulled into a brownstone or other apartment-style residence, but I theoretically could keep my room for all four years if I wanted and NEVER LIVE WITH ANYONE. ...I mean, obviously that won't happen, but I could do that if I wanted to.)
This financial shit is annoying, but having a single, omg, my life is straight-up fantastic. (It makes me actually excited for school.) It really *was* worth it to use my "most important aspect" of my housing survey on having a single.
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| This book is good, but it's flipping weird. I mean, I'm enjoying it a lot. It's very well-written. I, of course, am particularly smitten because I can look into the translation technique, and in all honesty translating novels is something I would particularly love to do professionally -- you get all the fun of wordplay and coming up with beautiful ways to phrase things without having to be creative or needing to have any substance that comes from you yourself -- but I always feel like maybe I wouldn't be able to do that. (I feel like it wouldn't pay enough ... I had a big long angst fest about my student loans today, and I'm thinking I might want to actually go into a job that pays highly instead of medium... I'd always assumed I would just go for something that I was happy with that paid medium, because I can't think of anything I would be _happy_ doing that pays highly. But maybe there's something out there. I don't know. Someday, though, I think I'd like to translate a book anyway, even if it's not my profession.)
But anyways, it feels a LOT like a short story and not much like a book. There's very little plot or progression in the standard sense, which I guess is partly because English stories are kind of different from Japanese ones sometimes, but I feel like mostly, it's just a 185-page-long short story.
The back doesn't do it justice at all, as per usual with books. It pretty much leads you to think something totally different about the story.
Anyways.
I'm getting pretty annoyed with not having my residence yet. Before, about 75% of the school had theirs, but that still left 1 in 4 people without news to commiserate with. But now, I'd venture to guess that between 85 and 95% of people have their rooms -- including not only all of the waitlist kids I know, but all of the kids I know, period. (Hooray for Facebook -- there is at least 1 other person out there.)
My life is pretty decent lately, but I'm either physically exhausted or jumpy and emotional almost all of the time, and I'm sick to death of it. I don't understand what the problem is. And as much as I don't want the summer to end - for obvious reasons - I really wish I had a job or that school would start without all the bad parts (people leaving, etc), because I need work and something to focus on. I can't just keep devouring a book every few days. I mean, I guess I could, but that's not really something that's helpful.
I guess I shouldn't complain until I've finished studying for Japanese. I've done a little bit of it, but not much. I really have to do that, though. (although to be perfectly honest, it would be a lot easier for me to "learn the hard way" by getting things wrong here and there - I wouldn't need to be told twice, you know?)
Bleh.
<3,
Emurii
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