kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (wat...?)
2010-12-14 09:20 pm
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*strokes chin*

Snatched from [livejournal.com profile] golden_rod

Ask me about any one (or more I don't really care) of my roleplay characters (presently in a game or otherwise), and I will pick at least one of the following to tell you:

(a) three facts about them from my personal headcanon.
(b) a reason they're amazing.
(c) five things that I'd like to see happen to them.
(d) three people that I might ship that character with and why.

What do you mean I'm procrastinating on apps? I just enjoy doing these for fun...

My list:
Grimmjow [2]
Hinata [1]
Ichigo [1]
Itachi [2]
Kid [1]
Natsu [1]
OCs [2]
Yukino [1]
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Run joker; run! Makin' them bitches cry~)
2010-12-08 09:00 pm
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Songilicious

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) five songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

[livejournal.com profile] golden_rod gave me the letter 'C'. Conveniently, this has very few Japanese/Anime songs. Which actually makes my choices harder >_>

1. Chance by Uverworld [Also the Bleach 2nd Opening]
2. Christmas in the Silent Forest by Ilaria Graziano [Ghost in the Shell OST]
3. Church by T-Pain
4. Colors of the Heart by Uverworld [Blood + 4th Opening]
5. Cry Me A River by Justin Timberlake

I probably have more, but I only have half my library in iTunes because I got sick of listening to the rest of it. 8D;;
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Gimme gimme~!)
2010-10-06 09:02 pm
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kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (How did you know I ate a bag of sugar?!)
2010-09-20 05:43 pm
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Day || 15 + 16 + 17+ 18 + 19 + 20 + 21

Well, I'm finishing it up late, but hey. I figure if I finish in 60 days, that's golden!

NO CUT FOR YOU. *streeeetches out your f-lists*


DAY 15 - Post a cute Neko-girl



DAY 16 - Post a kigurumi cosplay of your favorite anime character

Okay, I don't have one. I had to look that shit up, too. Not often I have to do that. But yeah. I find that kind of creepy, really, kigurumi. And that's saying something.


DAY 17 - Favorite tsundere

Tsundere~ By default, I think I like these characters because they always do something hilarious when being a tsun, but then act all dere and make me... laugh even more really, if not gag. So, I'll go with the super bitch slapping palm-sized taiga!



And her is another not quite her picture here.

DAY 18 - Something moe

Uh.....



FATALITY.

DAY 19 - Mandatory swimsuit post



It even moves |D

Day 20 - Favorite shoujo anime



Kaichou wa Maid-sama! Because it reminds me of 80s shoujo that I grew up on. That, and for funny scenes like above. And the fact they SAY the sound effects. There is nothing more hilarious than Usui going 'Jiiiiiiiiiii' while staring at Misa for doing something ricockulous.

Day 21 - Best yandere character

Shizuru Fujino from Mai Hime. The best ones you don't see coming.



30 Days of Anime )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Default)
2010-09-10 06:53 pm
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Day || 12 + 13 + 14

Three days! Though I am way more behind that this >_>

DAY 12 - An ecchi picture from your favorite series

Not actually ecchi at all. I got tired of looking for one I liked. And I don't have any on hand... So this shows my irritation.


DAY 13 - Cosplay of your ‘waifu’ or ‘husbando’

I don't have one. B| But here. Look at the Chibi!Voltron and clap.


DAY 14 - Current (or most recent) anime wallpaper

I don't change my wallpapers that much. I was looking for the wallpaper I have now ont he internet so I didn't have to upload anything, but found this one instead. Isshin is bad ass. And now I have a new wallpaper 8D;;


30 Days of Anime )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Default)
2010-08-25 02:48 am
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Day || 09 + 10 + 11

I always seem to post this every 3 days instead of... you know, every day. That's just too bothersome. =o=

I am fail at posting every day. When I should be...

DAY 09 - Saddest anime scene

So, really, there were 4 contenders for this. Two of them just made me depressed >_> and I had to just sit back a while. Those two being the end of Chrono Crusade, and a scene mid-season of Scrapped Princess right before Pacifica reunites with her brother and sister. To avoid spoilers I won't explain unless someone wants me to, but it's one of the reasons I want to, and yet don't want to, watch Scrapped Princess again. The fact she keeps that bath token still made me tear up a little. T^T

Those two down, I have a tie for this because I am a pansy and BOTH of these scenes made me cry. In my college computer lab. Thank goodness no one was there Because I didn't have my computer then. SAD.



First picture, you all know what that is. I won't explain it. But you know, I was OKAY with it. I was shocked, but it was like, 'Oh... damn. I just... didn't expect that.' And then. THE FUNERAL. I was okay during that part... until Eliza started asking why they were burying daddy. TT^TT *flips a table* Next scene is from Peacemaker Kurogane. If you haven't seen it by now, I doubt you will. But it's the scene after Ayumu dies when Susumu realizes he's been the shittiest brother ever and breaks down on the roof, sobbing how he "Never even called her 'sister'" to Tetsu. Then they went to go beat some Choushu ass.

DAY 10 - Favorite slice of life anime

Ahhh, this was hard, because I had a resurging love for KareKano, but the anime left you hanging. So I have to go with ToraDora~



It starts off so nice and light, and then there's all this build up and a slap/punch/shinai fight between two main female characters that is awesome and not just put in there for cheap laughs or a hot cat fight. And you know, it is like... the embodiment of moe... but all the characters are a little twisted -not Higurashi twisted oh god- and more human and not just fetish fuel. If all moe was like this instead of K-ON, I could watch it.

DAY 11 - Favorite mecha series

There is no way in hell I would ever pick Evangelion. So maybe Geass? Jibun woooooo *shoots self* There is nothing except:



GUNDAM CAT. With his iPod and Gundam Head speakers. Mmmhmm.

Yes. The original Gundam, and all its incarnations [except that chibi gundam one, just, no] 0083 Stardust Memory, Wing, Seed, Fuck Detiny :[, 00, delicious fight scenes with sabers and beam rifles are go! Turn A, Victory, G GUNDAM with it's BURNING FINGER or was it shining? Doesn't matter. \o

30 Days of Anime )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Tea with a sociopath~♥)
2010-08-22 12:25 am
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Day || 05 + 06 + 07 + 08

I am fail at posting every day. When I should be...

DAY 05 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)

I dunno, from what I remember I think I'm most like Kyon, from Haruhi, since Daria isn't an anime >_> BUT who I would like to be like?



Olivia Armstrong. FUCK YEAH. I almost picked Balalaika, but then I would probably be in jail. B| And every woman of power needs an amazing pimp pose. \o

DAY 06 - Most annoying anime character



B| Have you heard her voice? Actually, don't look it up. It's horrible. That and in my most epic scene has her in it >_>

DAY 07 -Favorite anime couple

So, they act like this:

But we all know want them to be like this:

Come on. They. They're just. Yeah. |D~

DAY 08 - Most epic scene ever

I decided to not pick a sad one, since I get to pick that later, and instead picked one that showed my horrible, horrible sense of humor. 8D



Julietta is just... hilarious. And he has one of those whore voices like Junichi Suwabe and Koyasu Takehito. =3=

Sexual Harassment. Panda~

30 Days of Anime )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Doin' the humpty hump)
2010-08-18 02:23 am
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Day || 02 + 03 + 04

Fiinallly. A date for my interview/Career Day is set! Sep 8th! Now I can procrastinate for 3 weeks on catching up on studying. But really, I need to be looking for another job that's in town. Looking at apartments up there, 900 bucks is the cheapest in VA so far north, and... I'll have to go and see if it's as seedy as I think it might be XD;;

And for the day before yesterday; yesterday; AND today!

DAY 02 - Favorite anime you’ve watched so far



Hikaru no Go took up a large portion of my youth, I feel like... Not as much as SM or DBZ, but it just further cemented my fall into love shounen series. It was about a damn board game. That is so not exciting until you put it into manga/anime form. I still carry some of that series with me everywhere. Ogata is part of my SN, and that was a direct pull from my favorite adult character, Ogata. He's such a skeevy man... him and his fish tank...

DAY 03 - Your anime crush

I'm horrible at these questions. I always think really hard about them. I barely remember what I watched last week, much less years and years ago, so a character I looked at and went 'Hot Damn' about I may not remember 6 months from then. >_> BUT skipping the monologue:



Balalaika is one crazy bitch. But I can't think of any other female leads I wag my tail at. Even as a man she tops my list >_>;; Yoruichi was a dead heat, but I'm a sucker for a girl with a gun. .__. And bringing up Yoruichi leads to my male pick \o/ Urahara. Sans the hat. If I could think of a MANRY anime guy, ANIME and not manga, this wouldn't feel like I failed.

DAY 04 - Anime you’re ashamed you enjoyed


I actually had this picture printed out and put in a huge binder of pictures.
I think I still have it...........



Recently, there hasn't really been anything I'm ashamed to have watched. I left my shame behind long ago when I resigned myself to the stages of otakudom, though I've since crawled partially out of that hole due to just changing as I've grown. But before I stopped shoving my fangasming ways into the closet, watching Sailor Moon made me so ugh. I liked it. BUT SO GIRLY. AJDKLJALS


30 Days of Anime )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (How did you know I ate a bag of sugar?!)
2010-08-15 11:30 pm
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Fail!Life; Fail!Work, Meme~!

Eh. My shoulder has been hurting for weeks. My range of motion has been getting better, but goddamn is it shitty to have to lift 10lb pieces of ham when your dominant arm has a vendetta against you. I slept on it wrong one night and... man, who knows.

That place STILL hasn't gotten back to me about career day. I still have hopes for the job, but I really should have been 1. Studying more; 2. Applying for other jobs. If I could find something within 30 minutes of home [that hopefully isn't downtown, fuck do I hate paying 7 dollars a day for parking] I would take it. As long as it paid me as much or more than I make now. This job isn't bad, but management really pisses me off.

I've been re-reading KareKano. And since Kris was reading it too, it made it all the more enjoyable. I really, really love that series. I have to do a few tweaks on how I play Yukino, since it's been a shamefully long time since I re-read all of her canon from the start [and I've been playing her for 3 years, so looong]. She's gotten a bit off track, but now that I'm just... enjoying RPing in general, Yukino especially, it'll be easier to bring her around to the active, personable, manipulative, and thoughtful person she should be. I let her stagnate for way too long. She's so out of the know it's criminally OOC. She should know everyone important and excel in people relations and information gathering. She needs to be up there with Maes in how much she knows. Better late than never? Eheh? Let's hope my motivation lasts.

And now, because I obviously don't post enough *sarcasm*

DAY 01 - Very First Anime

Dragon Ball Z!


I chose this picture because I have a horrible sense of humor.

Come on, you knew it was coming. I almost said Thundercats, but that was American Made and produced, even if it was animated by a Japanese company. Or something. ANYWAY, Oh Toonami. I used to rush home to make sure that I got to watch it. I also watched Sailor Moon, but that wasn't until later as I had -still have- an amazing aversion to girly things. They totally offend my sensibilities.

30 Days of Anime )

Haha, Suge na~ This marks my 1001 post~ *random*
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Smack that ass~!)
2010-07-09 08:16 am
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kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Friendly giant mushroom~!)
2010-04-26 06:40 pm
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Haha I had to

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.

1. Dead people fight other dead people but almost never to the death. [livejournal.com profile] sannask Bleach
2. Extremely nasty villains are defeated, but the focus is on the main character's development from a lonely smartass badass with relationship issues to... a domineering badass with relationship issues, a harem and out-of-control socially unacceptable magical powers.
3. Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve. [livejournal.com profile] sannask Kare Kano
4. A short skirt-chasing man hangs out with his sexy love interest, a talking stoner pig, Jesus, Buddha, the Devil, God, and the latter two's respective groupies.
5. An entomologist, a former stripper, a gambling addict, and a group of nerds and geeks perform obscure activities in a lab to musical accompaniment. They Fight Crime. [livejournal.com profile] schwanzpron CSI
6. A group of FBI agents, including a socially awkward young genius with a schizophrenic mother, a really serious guy with family issues, and a former cop who likes to kick down doors, fly to different parts of the country in order to pretend that they are crazy people. [livejournal.com profile] nobody_famous Criminal Minds
7. Two thieves compete to steal cursed artwork. [livejournal.com profile] sanzo_holic Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
8. A bunch of nerds sit around in a room writing pornography and talking about formulaic harem anime. [livejournal.com profile] schwanzpron Genshinken
9. A brave but dim young man with a goofy haircut enters the high-stakes world of bread-making. [livejournal.com profile] sanzo_holic Yakitate! Japan
10. A bunch of Vikings duke it out in The Dung Ages. A princess with no boobs is involved. [livejournal.com profile] acdragonmaster Vinland Saga
11. Four crazy people lack a psychiatrist.
12. A retired Marine with a redhead fetish, a lecherous playboy, a malapropping Israeli assassin, a murder mystery writer / computer nerd and online gamer, an old British doctor and a Perky Goth with a caffeine habit work for the US Navy. They Fight Crime! [livejournal.com profile] sannask NCIS
13. Nice dead people try to scare living people from a house. Also, a decomposing pervert with an identity crisis falls madly in love with a teenage girl and tries to marry her. [livejournal.com profile] schwanzpron Beetlejuice
14. Two Brits are trapped in a town where puzzles are Serious Business. [livejournal.com profile] sanzo_holic Professor Layton games
15. Japanese doctor sacrifices his career to save the life of a young boy. Said boy decides to thank him. Painfully. [livejournal.com profile] sannask Monster
16. Humanity battles aliens with Transforming Mecha, The Power Of Love and/or The Power Of Rock and Lots and Lots of Missiles. [livejournal.com profile] myreasoninlife
17. Oddball daywalker accidentally falls in love with a human boy with really small eyes. She is very embarrassed. [livejournal.com profile] schwanzpron Karin/chibi Vampire
18. Unlucky Childhood Friend attempts to take revenge upon the man who dumped her by beating him at his own game...show business. [livejournal.com profile] schwanzpron Skip Beat
19. MIBs solve everyone's problems through spontaneous song and dance numbers. [livejournal.com profile] sanzo_holic
20. Boy becomes possessed, then plays a board game. [livejournal.com profile] sannask Hikaru no Go


Is it bad that I had to switch out several of mine because they hadn't been done. >_>?
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Sliiide to the left!)
2010-03-09 01:41 pm
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Not quite nationalism-?

Alright, a question for my f-list.

What makes you proud to be [insert nationality here]?

Whether it be American, Candian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, German, French, Singaporean, Japanese, Indian, English. What about your country makes you proud?
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (I do believe that ass has my name on it)
2010-02-25 07:56 pm
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I'm gonna tap that a-

Well hello, 3 posts in one day?

SPAMS SOME MORE.

Reply to this meme with "Put it in my embassy!", and I will give you five words that remind me of you; then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.

-words provided by copy pastas [livejournal.com profile] bogenvelia


→ Starfighter
→ Uniforms (military)
→ Anime
→ Braids
→ Food!

→ Starfighter - Starfighter is a comic that... I found somehow. I don't even know how or when I found it, but I liked the art, and it's BL, so I spread it around to people who I thought might like it. I have a few icons of it too *see icon* I wish it came out faster, buuuut *sits on hands*

→ Uniforms (military) - I do have this thing for uniforms. And suits. Come now, you know a man looks goddamn tasty in some type of official and high ranking suit/uniform. I shouldn't need to explain this. B|

→ Anime - I'm obsessed. This doesn't need explaining either... B| It all started many moons ago when Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z were on Toonami at 5pm. *wistful smile* I was more embarrassed watching SM than DBZ.

→ Braids - When I was going to get them, got them, was taking care of them, I talked about them a lot XD I kind of miss them, since I didn't have to really do anything with my hair for THREE MONTHS. My god that was the best 3 months of my life DX

→ Food! - It's delicious, and I don't eat nearly enough of it. And by nearly enough I mean the things I should that are still tasty.
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Friendly giant mushroom~!)
2010-02-17 02:16 am
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Five woooords you tell meeeee

I got my words from [livejournal.com profile] havocmangawip. Comment for woooords.

1. Reply to this meme and I will give you five words that remind me of you.
2. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.


1. Dragons - At first, it was because I was obsessive and like collecting and breeding them XD I even had sticky notes that showed who I bred and what they produced. I bred them every friday 8D Yeah, that's kinda creepy, but whatever. >_> Now I don't really follow what's going on at all anymore. I post them because Pan will beat me with her walker if I let the eggs that she even more obsessively collects XD She can't start her own because I have a bunch that she can't get anymore, and she's one of those must have 100% completion types XD Ahah.

Speaking of eggs: Adopt one today!Adopt one today!Adopt one today!

2. FMA - Pretty sure she picked this because the reason why we were friended was because I was reading her fanfic that focused on Havoc and Scheska, whose name I can no longer spell now that I've been out of the fandom for so long. >_> FMA wasn't my first anime by a long shot, and I actually didn't hear about it until loooong after it had ended in Japan. It's one of those shows that, as a total otaku who thought I had the pulse of anime under my thumb, I missed and STILL wonder how. Now I can see if things slip through, since I'm not watching and reading it all the damn time, but back then? How did I let a 51 episode anime that was SO EPIC slip my notice?

3. Cons (Your Otakon organization AMAZES me!) - Hur. If there's one thing I hate is when I'm on a trip and know I paid too much. Hell, even knowing I went to the store and got something and paid five dollars more than another place, if I haven't opened it yet, I WILL go back to that store, return it, and go buy it at the other place. I'm anal about money sometimes. Frankly, when it comes to planning trips where I have to pay for things like hotel, gas, food, ect, I don't trust anyone else but me to do it. I'm fair, make all the information fully available for how much everything is, and I don't add on extra padding. It is bare bones how much it is EXACTLY to get to that place and back. If you want something extra, go ahead, and if everyone else wants to do it, they can go for it, but I'm not going to be responsible for more money than I have to be. With hotel being more than a thousand bucks that I'm accountable for, I'm not looking for anyone else to give me more money. Other than that, cons are fun and I enjoy meeting up with people from across the country for that once a year get together. The actual events themselves aren't really the draw when I go to anime cons now. It's the people \o/

4. RP - I talk about and do it so much, most people on my f-list acquaint me with RP. If I talked about more RL stuff that actually mattered, RP might fall by the wayside, BUT as of right now, most of my f-list I've met through RP. Only the oooold folks know me from way back when I actually wrote fanfic. RP has gotten me a lot of friends, and I'd say it's lost me a few, too, but that's life. I enjoy it, but wish it hadn't killed most of my other creative urges XD;; I actually might be able to say the computer in general killed them... >_>

5. Avatar - When Avatar was still airing, I totally spazzed all over my LJ about it. I enjoyed it, and if I re-watched it, would enjoy it again. If there's one thing I lament about Avatar is that it didn't have the anime length seasons of 13, 26, 52. I think that show could have done a LOT more fleshing out with 6 more episodes to each season. The thing I both like and don't like about it is that there weren't many cliffhangers at the ends of episodes. That's something that has me flipping tables in anger all the time, but if it meant more time to flesh things out, I would have loved that series even more. I will say though, for a kids show, it was/IS pretty awesome. |D
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (hmmm...?)
2010-02-12 01:06 pm
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HMD You Say?

The How's My Driving? Meme


Lawl. How did I even get on page one? No one ever uses it anyway XD
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (...THIS... is how I roll)
2010-01-29 12:02 am

It's Quuuiiiiz time!

This one's from [livejournal.com profile] akuni.

Reply to this meme by saying "Nice nice very nice," and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you. If I don't know you well, I'll probably give you some odd wordage. I'm sure none of you are surprised by this.

She gave me: role playing; crack; Itachi; Grimmjow; LJ screen names

Role playing ○ Mmm, yes. RPing. It has [sadly] taken over a lot of my creative juices ever since I started doing it. I like RPing, and it's fun, and it helps me think quicker on my feet than I'm able to in normal conversation >_>; I also like trying to get into the minds of characters not my own. I started it as a way to do proper character studies, but now... it took a life of its own >_>

Crack ○ Fff. I can be pretty crackalicious, especially when I was writing fanfiction. I remember the random joint-fic Cheza and I were writing, or when MooChi-nee was still active on the interwebz and I would feed her the most random stuff that she's spin into some horrible story we would laugh at for ages. Like Urahara's preggo beams, and that bastards abortion beams. Good times. Good times |D

Itachi ○ He was the first muse that I actually apped into a game to play as. Probably a bad choice, because there were so many nuances with playing him that I didn't get until looong after I dropped SH. He's still one of my favorite characters in Naruto, but I can't pull him off in RP anymore. His muse is deader than dead. It just stopped being fun to play him, and the people I played him off of best are gone or I don't share a game with them anymore. I can still pull of his deadpan sense of humor, but I think that's more my own than his XD

Grimmjow ○ Of the Arrancar, hell, most of the characters in Bleach, he's my faaaavorite. I debate if his muse will ever truly die, even if I still play him as a petulant AU!teenager best. SH shaped the way I played him AU, and LSG -bless that game XD- helped me play canon. The Grimmjow/Orihime pairing is still one of my favorite pairs in fanfiction, and looking back on the series I never finished, I'm still quite proud of it. Horrendous spelling errors aside.

LJ Screen Names ○ I am horrible. HORRIBLE. At coming up with screen names. I think my wittiest were the first ones I came up with, and after that it totally went down hill. Sooo, I asked the resident writer and totally more creative and capable than me AKUNI to help. Often times, I'd poke her to help me with screen names for characters that I was about to RP. I feel like sns can tell you a lot about a character before you ever interact with them, and I really like trying to distill their personality or traits into one 15 letter name. I should have poked her for help with Blaine, because his screennames sucks. That's what I get for picking it out myself. :[ *needs a rename token*



Adopt one today!Adopt one today!Adopt one today!Adopt one today!Adopt one today!
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Gimme gimme~!)
2010-01-05 02:00 pm
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Boredome and sheep

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Take the quiz.
Post your results.

See kage's results. )
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (Go gently into that Maka Chop~)
2009-12-14 01:54 pm
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Oh the interesting things:

The rules are simple: go through the first entry of each month of this year and pick out the first sentence(s) from that. If not, then...do whatever else you can to make things interesting. Like choosing the last sentences. Or something. GO.


January: 8DDDDDDD So, I went to Andrew's house. *still at his house* And he made me find this: L and Raito's Night

February: Go to this link. http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2009/01/is-this-what-you-call-change.html Watch it. Laugh with me \o.

March: MOTHER FUCKING MADAGASCAR SNOW!!!

April: If I hadn't seen Princess Tutu already, this AMV would have made me want to see it: this

May: Alright. Got my hair done today. Braids. Started about... 9:30am? Finished around 7:30-8pm. And she said I had a SMALL head.

June: It annoys me when people say, "Man, CSI/NCIS/Ect/Ect is so unrealistic. I can't watch it."

July: Bleach this week. FINALLY. FINALLY

August: Isn't it bad when you have everything prepared for something and STILL haven't found the time to post it?

September: I. am fucking cold. No, it's not the chills, though I certainly want to blame it on that.

October: I get job e-mails from where I graduated for jobs that are searching for people. I see ones that say:

November: HAPPY 1/2 PRICED CANDY DAY

December: I finally watched Star Trek.
kageisuke: Mitani from Hikaru no Go (=_=)
2009-12-05 01:16 pm
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Overpaid: Mmmhmmm

I stole this from [livejournal.com profile] xiao_huli_chan:

Teachers are Overpaid.

I'm fed up with these teachers and their hefty salary demands!!

What we need here is a little initiative! If I had my way, I'd pay these bludgers myself and I'd pay them babysitting wages. That's right! Instead of us paying outrageous taxes, I'd give them $3 an hour out of my own pocket for each of my children. I'd only pay them for 5 hours each day too, none of these coffee breaks and preparation time, correcting papers and after hours meetings or sport!

That would be a straight $15 per day per child. Each parent should have to pay $15 per day to these teachers to babysit their child. Even if you have more than one child, that is still a lot cheaper than day-care. Now perhaps, these chalkies will realise what they are really worth on the open market.

Let's see now... How many children do they teach every day? Maybe an average of 25-30 in a class? Say 27. That's $15/ child x 27 children/ class = $405 a day. Hmmm that sounds high. Ah, but remember, they only have the children there for 200 days a year. I'm not going to pay them for all those vacations or training days!!! To hell with that. Okay, how about $405/day x 200 days/year = $81 000 per year...

Wait a minute! Something is not right!

Some of these teachers say "what about those of us who have 10 years experience and an Educator's Degree (4 years at least) and are actually trying to teach your children something worthwhile?" Well, maybe to be fair we could round off their minimum wage off to about $5 an hour. That's cheap enough for that lot. So $5/child x 27 children/class x 5 hours/day x 200 days/year = $135 000 per year...

What is going on here???

Well it is clear we are paying our teachers less than half what we pay our neighborhood teenagers for babysitting our children. I think we should keep quiet about this.