urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma pluggg pluggg 2008-07-27T04:03:34Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:180012 2008-07-27T04:03:34Z 2008-07-27T04:03:34Z dancing monkeys run and fly while shredding babies and then they move to boulder and live in a tree while throwing their discs at passerbys urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:179824 2008-05-02T03:16:34Z 2008-05-02T03:16:34Z kickin' ass and taking names on Mario Kart Wii urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:179576 2008-04-13T19:52:45Z 2008-04-13T19:52:45Z Getting married<br /><br />Got into graduate school at Boulder urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:179254 2007-07-25T20:25:17Z 2007-07-25T20:25:17Z there are pants waiting for me at both nordstroms and saks. tomorrow i venture into the city complex of denver to pick up a pair of theory pants and perhaps buy some beautiful shoes from hugo boss. in the mean time, i am eating bowls of oatmeal and all things pulverized as my wisdom teeth have up and left me.<br /><br />next month, i may go out to new york to visit lily. then we will get married. and move to san francisco. i don't actually want to move, but i'm in a relationship now and have no choice. i will fund all of her purchases including her love and penchant for buying expensive things. especially sunglasses. and new shoes. and dresses by marc jacobs. because i love her oh so much. yes i do.<br /><br />i have been having a very pleasant summer with michael and lindsay and am sad to see them both leave me at the end of the summer. clearly, they do not love me as much as i love them. boo. and to think i shared many questionable moments dancing to gay club music with michael only to have him abandon me for the orient. and lindsay is going to funcie. but really, what fun is there without me? clearly, none.<br /><br />yesterday there was a man standing outside whole foods talking on his cellphone. as a fire truck roared by, he plugged his ear with his finger and yelled into his phone, "bananas? lettuce?"<br /><br /><br /><br />(this entry was written by lily, as you could have already guessed. ethan doesn't like to use apostrophes.) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:179053 2006-12-25T20:19:03Z 2006-12-25T20:19:03Z Was our second christmas together, Lily left today to go back home. Quite sad =/. Quite quite quite sad. That is all this thing is good for, writing about sadness. Boo. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:178896 2006-09-17T16:16:24Z 2006-09-17T16:16:24Z got a dock speaker set for my ipod. Its lovely. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:178433 2006-08-27T18:10:27Z 2006-08-27T18:10:27Z School starts tomorrow. I am taking Ochem, Cell bio, Advanced readings in japanese, History of the Greeks, and then a chem lab and a bio lab. I dunno if it will be a good semester or not, but I am trying to get as close to straight A's as I can. Also gonna start my new workout plan version 1.0 tomorrow, and see how it works. Mike wants to start up racket ball again too, and yesterday we got me my first discs and went out and played disc golf for a couple hours in the rain. was fun. Today Lily moves into her dorm and I wish her a safe trip and a smooth move in, and I hope she has fun! I miss you =X urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:178329 2006-08-16T23:45:10Z 2006-08-16T23:45:10Z well I am moved in at colorado. Have a cell phone, but I might be changing it so I wont be giving out my number just yet. Got my kitty. Have no furniture. Miss Lily... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:177983 2006-08-12T17:05:44Z 2006-08-12T17:05:44Z made it to wyoming urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:177816 2006-08-09T00:41:14Z 2006-08-09T00:41:14Z I am back in the states, and the first thing i saw out of customs was a bunch of fat people going "ooo wendys" and then getting burgers. I dont know how I feel about being back. I havent really slept in 3 days, but i dont want to sleep. but atleast I am safe and sound. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:177620 2006-08-06T23:34:31Z 2006-08-06T23:34:31Z saddest day ever. Good bye Lily.. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:177370 2006-08-04T03:34:12Z 2006-08-04T03:34:12Z Japan is over soon. Today I called the luggage delivery service, they are picking up my bags the day after tomorrow, and then two days after that I am gone. Getting in last minute Japan time with Lily, went to the ocean yesterday, going to Tskiji tomorrow. So little time left =C. Will be in Minnesota to begin my tenure back in the states, and then move on to wyoming and finish with a long stopover in Colorado. Waaa I can't believe its over. Will anyone back in the states even care that I am back? I dunno, ive been gone so long who is Ethan?! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:176984 2006-04-22T14:47:45Z 2006-04-22T14:47:45Z Took Oren out to an izakaya in harajuku for his big 21, got him a bit tipsy, no american binge drinking since he has a handball competition tomorrow, but either way, Happy 21 man. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:176797 2006-04-21T14:29:37Z 2006-04-21T14:29:37Z Ugh lost my phone urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:176548 2006-04-07T08:04:49Z 2006-04-07T08:04:49Z Today I woke up at 7:30 to go help the kyudo team out for the last day of freshman week. For the first 2 hours some of us hung around the dojo and just practiced, so show the visiting freshmen what normal activity in the dojo is like. And around 1 we switched up, and the people down in the dojo went up to campus to wander around and hand out flyers, trying to recruit people. For this event it was deemed OK for me to borrow a set of hakama and dress up as a full member of the team, it was fun, and I got a few strange looks heh. Mostly I managed to hand out flyers to gaijin, me being one and all, but I did snag a few japanese people as well. But hunting down ichinensei in that mess of people was a tough job. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:176367 2006-04-05T10:50:36Z 2006-04-05T10:50:36Z Allo, one month later, still alive. School is soon, registered for fall of next year before I have for spring of this. Weird how that works. Making dinner right now, well i peeled a carrot and washed rice....but thats something I guess. These next 3 days are the freshman week at campus, so it is packed there, and with the rain today it was a regular zoo. back into working out with pete. hmmm.....dancing monkeys flying so well and stuff. i dont know what to write and thats why i never update. Bye urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:175970 2006-03-06T03:43:30Z 2006-03-06T03:52:49Z Thought I would do a photo update, sorta kinda.. Its a nice day out, warm, sunny, and our 6 month anniversery... Time goes by so quick... We are going to Osaka tomorrow for 3 days via Shinkansen, and then Oren will be out here a couple days after we get back, and then Devin, and then classes...shall be a rapid decline of our slothness.<br><br> In kyudo news, team practices have started again (Devin you are gonna be missing about a month of practice), and I will be asking someone to take me to get my arrows soon after I get back from Osaka, and I am also gonna try to move up to a stronger bow (mine is so weak I have trouble actually making it to the targets, and have to tilt back a little, which makes it hard to aim, so yea...hopefully I can have better accuracy IF I can pull a stronger bow.<br><br> <a name="cutid1"></a><div class="ljcut" text="Pictures"> <a name="cutid2"></a><div class="ljcut" text="Pictures">Pictures</div> <br /><br /><br />Here are some pictures taken around the Apartment today:<br /><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/pluggg/viewfromapt.jpg"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/pluggg/viewfromapt.jpg" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />That is the orchard you can see from out balcony, it should be pretty in the spring when it blossoms<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/pluggg/lilysshirt.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />The pink thing is one of Lily's shirts we lost a long time ago during a wind storm....It has not moved since.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/pluggg/TokyoAptLily.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />And there is Lily, looking out across the city, wondering, "How in a city this big did I wind up dating such a loser...*SIGH*"<br /></div> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:175551 2006-03-05T01:32:03Z 2006-03-05T01:32:03Z Hmm Howl's Moving Castle the movie, and Howl's Moving Castle the original book.....two totally different stories. After seeing the movie I felt like it ended pretty lame, but the rest seemed all right, so I got the original book to see how the author ended it, and so after reading just the end I realized not only is it different, but I did not recognize most of the people IN the ending, so I read the entire book. And wow was it different. Character's genders, ages, sizes, country of origin, demonic metomorphosis....all wrong in the movie. And there wasn't even a war going on! bah....other things too but they are spoilers, so I wont post them, but still! Come on, a LITTLE sticking to the original story would have been nice...and made for a better movie. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:175125 2006-03-04T12:12:25Z 2006-03-04T12:12:25Z While looking around Kinokunia in Shinjuku with Lily, i searched for ways to improve my japanese, i came across bilingual manga. its translated into english, but still has the original japanese too. fun times! so I got volumes 1 of GTO and CCS hurray. Also got the first 25 volumes of doraemon in japanese for 560 yen urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:175070 2006-03-02T01:25:56Z 2006-03-02T01:25:56Z Me (After sadly turning off techno dance party music): Why don't you like techno dance party?<br />Lily: Cause it makes me want to shoot people in the face and eat their eyeballs<br /><br />*sigh* Nobody loves my music urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:174768 2006-02-27T11:59:48Z 2006-03-01T05:47:15Z * 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour<br /> * 2 tablespoon sugar<br /> * 2 teaspoon baking powder<br /> * 1 tea vegetable oil<br /> * 1/2 teaspoon salt<br /> * 2 cups soymilk<br /> * 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon <br /><br />Mix dry ingredients in a fairly large bowl, then make a well in the middle and pour in the soymilk. Fold the ingredients together until everything is moistened by the soymilk. Then fold in the oil. Lightly oil a pan and, using a spoon drop batter into the pan. Cook for about 2 minutes on each side. Enjoy with warm maple syrup. <br /><br />We made pancakes for dinner tonight. And the recipe was a little gross at first cause we forgot to mix the dry ingredients together first. They had these pockets of salt and flour randomly dispersed through the pancake. Not the tastiest thing in the world. But then we made a second batch and shaped them smaller than before. We also made one that looked like a demented Mickey with down syndrome that had a run in with a machine gun...the buisness end).<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/pluggg/DSCN1087.jpg" /><br /><br />(and before you ask we dont know what that black thing is either, it wasnt there when we ate them) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:174534 2006-02-27T02:59:02Z 2006-02-27T02:59:02Z Yay Lily and I are going to Osaka for 3 days and 2 nights at the begining of March, right before Oren comes out to stay with us..yay and fun and things! I wanna see the castle at the hotel we booked is right next to it =) I don't know if Lily wants to see it, but being that close she can't deny me mwahahahahahaha! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:174206 2006-02-25T10:41:42Z 2006-02-25T10:41:42Z Well third day in a row I went to kyudo was I guess a success...but left me feeling quite dead on my feet. Had a 4 hour team practice today, during which they decided it would be fun to include me in their little mini tournament and have me shoot....yes the first time I shoot a real arrow from the dojo was infront of like 15 people all shouting at me. I didnt hit the target once of course...but I did hit the roof above the targets =P And several arrows, about half or so actually hit the embankment that the targets are in! So atleast I am making it there now. Wanna get someone to take me to buy my own arrows soon so I don't have to keep mooching off of other people. Also I would like to get my own glove, but thats 150 dollars or so...but it would be nice not to use one that feels like wearing a slightly loose fitting rock.<br /><br />And Devin, Furuta-san asked about you. I said you were in the US until next month around the end. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:173989 2006-02-24T12:46:02Z 2006-02-24T12:46:02Z Today went well. Worked with a guy who I've not worked with before and he helped with some issues I hadn't been called on before, like the angle of my rear arm and how far my front hand rotates when i start the draw. At the end of the session he also commented that soon I will be able to shoot on the actual range, not just on target dummies out front.<br /><br />Tomorrow is a team practice again. 10 AM....I don't want to get up that early *cry* But I will...because I must become able to shoot and get cool uniform! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:blackarma:173791 2006-02-23T08:29:26Z 2006-02-23T08:29:26Z i shot an arrow i shot an arrow!....twice! And both times hit the target! I am so proud. Going back tomorrow for more renshuu!