I bought a new camera!
It's a Canon EOS Kiss F.
Anyway, I don't have that lens, because it's hella expensive. I bought the 50mm f/1.8 which was only like $90. That in addition to the kit lens.
It came this morning, and I had just enough time to charge the battery before I had to leave for a murder mystery party. Didn't have much of a chance to read the manual, so a lot of the pics i took early in the afternoon are shite because i didn'tknow what I was doing D:
These still aren't so good, but they're not baaaaaaaad. I'll go practice more tomorrow.
I dunno what to go take pics of, but I had better, now that I've dropped money on this!
EDIT (I forgot to append the bonus video -_-)
HEre is Ayu's new video. It is good.
So, today marked the release of the new Ayumi Hamasaki double A-side single Rule/Sparkle. Rule, of course, is the theme for Dragonball Evolution. Sparkle is just the song for a honda commercial or something.
The single also came with remixes of her last double A-side single, GREEN/Days. This remix, in particular, is pretty rofltastic, but kind of grows on ya. Give it a listen.
PS: Fuck Vox, AGAIN, for fucking fuckfuckfucking the cover art etc. IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO PROPERLY READ THE METADATA AND COVER ART, DESPITE MY SETTING IT UP USING THE PROGRAM YOU FUCKS HAVE RECOMMENDED, THEN DON'T FUCKING OFFER TO DO IT, ASSHOLES.
After work, we had a drinking party, so I went in to work again after coming home to wait for people to be ready to leave. I was surprised to find, on my desk, a flyer advertising a "Canadian Food Tasting and Info Session", taking place my school on Thursday. I'm not sure who's in charge of this, but I think it may be the 2nd grade social studies teacher, as he'd borrowed my big japanese-language fact-book of Canada.
Now, this factbook has lots of stuff about history and geography and economy and stuff like that, but not culture so much, and nothing at all about food. As such, you'd think they'd come speak to the resident Canadian (yours truly) to fill in that information.
They didn't. This was the first I'd heard of it.
With trepidation, I looked at their list of foods.
1. Tomato, Bean and Bacon Soup.
Now, though I've not had this, and I wouldn't necessarily call it CANADIAN, it's not unlike soups I have had back home, and so I will give it a pass.
2. Salmon steak covered in shredded cheese and grilled.
WHAT. WHY WOULD YOU RUIN A GOOD SALMON STEAK BY PUTTING SHITTY QUALITY PRE-SHREDDED CHEESE ON IT AND BROILING It??? THIS IS APALLING.
3. As a beverage, maple syrup.
I hope I don't have to explain what's wrong here.
What the HELL. Why would YOU DO THIS TO ME.
The proper answer for this menu should have been:
-Cheddar Cheese Soup (they get a soup, they get their cheese, and as we know, Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup is as Canadian as Ketchup chips)
-salmon with a maple syrup glaze
but nope! They've fucked it!
YOU HAVE EATEN MY FUCKING POST BECAUSE OF YOUR FUCKING BULLSHIT FUCKING FUCKFUCKFUCK "OH, NO, YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY DELETE THAT MEDIA THAT YOU HAVE PLACED IN YOUR POST, AND BY THE WAY, DON'T CLICK THE MEDIA IN THE EDITOR, BECAUSE WE'LL LOAD A NEW PAGE IN THE EDIT FRAME/IFRAME/PIECE OF SHIT FRAME, AND YOU'LL LOSE YOUR POST LAWL" BULLSHIT FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME.
I AM FINISHED WITH YOU.
AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT DAY.
OK FUCKFACE WEIRD OLD GUY WHO HAS ONLY STARTED COMING IN THIS MONTH AND WHOSE FUNCTION IS UNDEFINED:
YOU NEED TO FUCK OFF AND STOP.
You come in, and you commandeer a school laptop, inconveniencing other people who need to use it to input their marks, or show powerpoint shit in class, etc., and then you sit across from me just, apparently, surfing the internet and updating your blog (which you insist on showing me several times a week). You're worse than I am, as far as sitting on my ass at work using the internet.
BUT THAT IS NOT ALL
Then, you insist on talking to yourself, loudly, and making all manner of fucking mouth-noises behind your facemask. STOP IT.
Fuck off with your tea in your thermos; the way your thermos pours makes the most REVOLTING POURING NOISE EVER.
Additionally,
if you're going to drink tea (1) DO NOT SLURP THAT LOUDLY. Slurping is
fine, I guess, since it's the done thing here, but this is FUCKING OVER
THE TOP. I SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HEAR YOU SLURPING WHEN I AM AT THE FAR
END OF THE FUCKING ROOM, but I can, so imagine how badly I want to
throttle you when I'm sitting at my own desk.
Additionally, when you're drinking tea, if you're going to finish your cup of tea off very quickly DO NOT SIT THE CUP DOWN. The clunk of you sitting your cup down ever 2 seconds IS INFURIATING.
Furthermore, YOUR TEA IS NOT SO DELICIOUS, NOR ARE YOU SO PARCHED THAT YOU MUST SIGH LOUDLY AFTER EVER SIP.
The whole
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every two seconds all fucking day IS UNNECESSARY.
Like this video.
I have gotten SOME THINGS this week.
Yesterday, the new 井上ジョー single 幻 came, so that was cool too. Then today, my annual Red Nose Day package from dj_damien came, so that was cool too.
Also got a new (to me) chair after the hydraulics on the old one crapped out, so I was always sitting at floor level. They'd been going for several months, but this week they stepped up their failing and failed catastrophically today. This new chair would be fine if it was just an inch or two higher, I think. Oh well.
I HAD THE MOST RIDICULOUS DREAM LAST NIGHT
I had fallen asleep on the couch watching Takeshi's Castle, and dreamt while on the couch.
and in my dream, I was in university again
I had just moved into the dorms
and it was like, the room and floor I lived in in my final year
only now it had been transferred to the basement
and there were basement things (like exposed celing wires etc., dodgy bare light bulbs, ducting)
and the floor was wet. there was an i nch of water in some places
so that was weird
then i was at some sort of welcoming bbq or dinner or something
and none of the chairs were of a proper height? so I was in a very low chair that i'd have to roll out of and stand up to get out of
but I could skitter around the floor in the chair
so i'd just do that when I wanted to move
so I'm sitting there drinking a beer, and this group of jocks and fratboys walk by, and I glare at them because I do that automatically, and they give me that condescending look that they do
but one turns around just after they've passed, with a friendly expression, and says 'hi'
i say hi, and then he catches up with the group again
i skitter over to a table, and the RA or something is sitting down bowls full of nanaimo bars and rocky road bars
"What was that guy's name?" she asked.
"I dunno." I replied"Hmm, lots of questions to be answered, aren't there?" she said as she walked away.
then i woke up.
On Valentine's Day, I went out in the afternoon, did some shopping, dried my laundry, and was home by 6pm, and didn't go out again until this afternoon around 5pm. There, hanging on my doorknob, was a Hello Kitty gift bag with nicely wrapped expensive chocolates in it. Of course, there was no card or any indication of who it came from! Confusing!
PS: Other random memories that come to me include installing Final Fantasy 8 PC, and faffing about in photoshop and dreamweaver when making my first blog back in 98 or 99. What the deuce?
