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a haiku.

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:00 GMT

夏の川
ゆっくり流れ
静かな日

Summer's river flows unhurried -- a quiet day

apparently i got first place in some haiku contest.

random.

i didn't even remember writing this.

i think i just wrote it because i needed a summer haiku.

my spring one was...

タンポポは　　
ハゲになちゃった　　
かわいそう

The dandelion is a baldie -- poor thing

i liked that one the best, because of my use of ハゲ [ha•ge], the rude word for bald.

it's kinda hilarious, though....

there's a whole analysis with my poem that i guess the contest people wrote:

First impression: Lazy river.
Season: Summer.
Comments The poem describes a calm summer day --- Summer's river flows unhurried -- a quiet day The diction evokes images of a peaceful time by a small river. Unlike the rushing rivers of winter, a summer river is calm, flowing leisurely. All is still except for the babbling of the river as it streams around and over pebbles on the river bed. Indeed it is the picture of a quiet summer day, peaceful and simple.

isn't that what we have to do for timed writings in AP Lit?

XD;;;

sam's haiku was adorable!! their first impression was YOUNG LOVE. <333

anyway, here's a short update of what's been going on recently:

• i got into JMU (and GMU a while back...), but rejected by W&M and UVA, but i foresaw that so it's cool. i can always transfer later. :]

• spring trip is next week!

• 3rd quarter is ending friday! :O where did the time go!!? this is probably my best 3rd quarter ever....or maybe i'm actually failing all of my classes. who knows? :P

• colorguard is getting crazy, but maybe crazy is good, because i'm currently freaking out about JMU guard auditions at the end of june. golly. it's supposed to be intense. D:

• i hate timed writings.

• The Lonely Island and Sondre Lerche (and yeah Vampire Weekend, too) are awesome and my current loves.

• though things are pretty stressful this month, life is pretty good.

HEY GUYS! let's all pick on sasha because it is so easy to!

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:34:10 GMT

was going to be the topic of today's somewhat overdue entry....

but then i took a nap and didn't feel like writing about

• tokyo, and why it's so appealing to me
• why lately i've been feeling like a mean person
• why i'm do bent on looking different when i go to college
• how scarring the years between sixth grade through eighth grade were
• etc....

the nap made me feel grogy, but un-tired and un-depressed.

...i think Vampire Weekend helped too.

>___>;;;

my dad heard them on NPR and made me listen to them.

weird, huh?

same thing happened with Supergrass.

yeah.

go NPR!!

one day i'll write something about those topics aforementioned.

one day.

just not today.

actually, i kinda felt like using that as an angle for that self-portrait paper for english....

but it ended up not going in that direction, so no angle.

haha~

no, wait.

i want to say one quick thing:

i was bullied by almost everyone because it was easy to pick on me during the years between 6th and 8th grade....

and felt rejected by my peers even up until this year.

so if you find it strange that it's easy for me to cry...

or that it's strange that i want to move half-way around the world...

or that i want to get cosmetic surgery done on my face...

there's the introduction to my reasoning.

i want to be a "cool" person as an adult, okay?

subject change!

my uncle's dog is dying.

it makes me sad.

Geo and I are like the same age....except multiply my age times four.

but we came into this world at around the same time.

he's such a good dog.

why do pets have to die?

especially pets who are more like kids or best friends to their owners?

this has been happening a lot lately to people i know.

their best friends are being put to sleep because age has caught up with them.

these once happy and energetic dogs are now tired and lagging and struggling to get up and down the stairs.....

it's really depressing.

so then i should listen to
Vampire Weekend
or Remioromen
or All Japan Gotih (formerly known as SKAしっぺ. wow.)

i'm not much of a praying woman since praying never seems to work for me....

but i've found myself praying for Geo....strange, huh?

i'm going to michigan at the end of this week for a few days.

i'm finally going to get to see snow!

REAL snow!!

not snow-during-the-school-day-melt-at-night, two-hour-delay creating snow.

REAL snow.

actually, my mom was freaking out this weekend after seeing the news reports from ohio about the snowfall.

but looks like it's stopped.

she just doesn't want to drive on slick, snowy roads on the pennsylvania turnpike.

all cliffs and hilly and two lane roady....

'tis scary.

so is seeing the word "foil" on my Stranger assignment and thinking that mccabe wrote "fail"

haha~

end.

alrigh~ alrigh~ alrigh~

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:31:29 GMT

remioromen is distracting.
just as i'm trying to think, the very long intro ends and ryota starts singing "la la lai la la lai la la lai..."
interrupting my thoughts.
i'm not saying that "konayuki" [powder snow] isn't a good song....it's just distracting when i type.
but not when i draw or do homework?

lately it's been nothing but otsuka ai and remioromen on my iPod....
NEWS came out with a new single last week....
i have yet to download/order it yet....
orange range is releasing one this week and i don't even care that much.
what the fuck is going on?!

fuck, i've been saying that a lot lately.

my newest obsession as of late is The Lonely Island, if you haven't heard yet.

today was a craptastic japanese project presentation.
yesterday was a craptastic (but i guess fun at some points) day of working on the craptastic japanese project at sam's house.
but whatever.

half day tomorrow and field trip on thursday.

i kept having dreams about japan all weekend.
was it like this two years ago?
i'm relatively disappointed that i will not be going to okinawa this summer.
just thinking about it makes me long for the warm weather......
although today's weather is quite fabulous.
it's 70 degrees outside.
tomorrow it'll be 68 and raining.
and after that the temperature will drop for the rest of the week.

i wonder if there will be snow in michigan two weeks from now.
i want to see real snow, even though i don't like cold weather.
i think i'm entitled to some real snow before it becomes spring.
WHICH STARTS THIS MONTH!!
:D
:D
:D
:D
:D

ahh ah.
back to okinawa.
i must have a good imagination because my brain is quite good at creating images that i have never seen before.
images like of me going to japanese school.
must be the japanese movies.
xD;;;;

today, after getting sick of trying to draw to music in photoshop
(on the thirteenth i have to draw to music at the AP music theory recital. WTF!!?)
i did google searches on all of my favorite okinawan stores
(at least the ones i can remember the names of)
and have spent the last hour or so flipping through them......
OKINAWA-YA
T-SHIRT-YA
RAMAYANA
and
chikyuzakka
i think more than anything else, i miss the earthy/druggy/spacey/wild/imaginative style of okinawan fashion and shopping.
phloo.

strawberry double cheesecake
is what i'm going to bake for my film study group (minus peter.)
so really, just tam and matt.
xD;;;
i'm so nice.
but not really.

i don't know what to do with myself.
maybe today i'll do extra kanji homework for once....

obseeeeeeeeessed.

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:52:43 GMT

YEH YEAH!!

\(> w <)/

i've spent the last three....four....four and a half, plus two days before that.....

watching SNL Digital Shorts and all of The Lonely Island's videos.

yeah.

my brother asked me today during lunch "what happened to Shige?"

since everything out of my mouth has been "blahblahblah ANDY blahblah AKIVA blahblahblah JORMA blahblah"

you know, i was wondering the same thing.

at the same time i started wondering, the lj user who translates all of Shige's stuff so i can fangirl finally came back.

she fell off the face of the internet world....everyone thought she died.

>____>;;;

so here's my OMGSHIGE statement for the day:

OMGSHIGE is SOOOOOO deep. and SOOOOO thoughtful. and SOOOOO awake. and SOOOOO aware of his surroundings. and SOOOOOO freakishly smart.

:D

yeah.

i saw Little Miss Sunshine for the second time today.

wow.

what a movie.

love love love!!

my dad says that Dwayne reminded him of me....

except that Dwayne doesn't talk....

good kid.

yesterday's ice was a pleasant surprise.

another pleasant surprise:

GMU accepted me.

so that's one down, four to go.

i'll probably end up 1 and 4 by the end of this....

i don't particularly want to go to GMU, but if i have to, i guess i will.

can't have everything, right?

omg.

inappropriateness is pretty fucking awesome.

yo.

なんでやねん？？

what the hell??

i bet it's because i'm tired.

when i'm tired, i think everything is funny.

especially inappropriateness.

giggity giggity, giggity goo.

but you know what's not funny?

the stuff happening in Okinawa.

it's ridikulus.

i wrote something about this a few weeks back on facebook....

about the 14 year old girl, allegedly raped by a US marine....

anyway, since that incident, Okinawa has been in an uproar.

as of a few days ago, the US military has imposed a CURFEW for personnel and their families.

it's supposed to be a period of "reflection" for the foreigners....

apparently there have been more incidents since then...

rape of a fillipino woman in a hotel, drunk driving accidents, drunkenness and passing out in someone's house.

the last one is kinda funny....you're drunk and walk into the wrong house, pass out on the couch....

[in okinawa it's pretty common to not lock your house since it's supposed to be SAFE. how 'bout those drunks. xD]

so yeah.

anyway, let's end this on a light note.

SNL IS BAAAAAAAACK TONIGHT!!

yhey!! :D

hap-happy valentine's day~~

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:35:17 GMT

valentine'sがいいな〜チョコレートがたくさんもらうし、バラの花がたくさんあるし、皆はピンクや赤の服とかアクセとか着て、とても楽しい日だヨンネ〜
valentine's day is swell! you get lots of chocolate, there are roses everywhere, and everyone is wearing pink or red clothes and accessories, and it's just so fun!!

or maybe it isn't.

this year's was pretty standard/ordinary.

nothing interesting.

....EXCEPT THAT SUNNY WAVED TO ME.

**dies**

i thought i was done with "liking" him....

but yeah, the wave just killed me and ruined everything i've been working towards.

roffle copter.

さ〜

abrams先生 wants us to start using japanese more outside of the classroom.

including just thinking in japanese.

i was watching 「英語でしゃべらナイト」[eigo de shabera night] on NHK with my mom just now.

today was about going out to speak english.

there's a cafe in....ebisu (?) tokyo where you can only speak in english with the rest of the people there....

the foreigners working there keep the conversations going and i guess they kinda teach a little...

i think it's freakin' awesome.

there's my first アルバイトpart time job.

xD;;;

there's also this place called 「先生バンク」[sensei bank]

it's an online service where you can find a bunch of listed english tutors all across japan....

perty cool.

there's my second アルバイトpart time job.

hehe~

oh man.

i would LOVE, absolutely LOVE to be on 「英語でしゃべらナイト」[eigo de shabera night]

maybe one day i'll replace moe oshikiri as a commentator.

yeah, no.

never going to happen.

じゃ、これからも日本語のお勉強をがんばりまチュ〜
so, from here on out i will study japanese diligently~

man, i love translating japanese.

xD;;;

**is nerd**

EXCITED.

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:28:00 GMT

>:D

YECK HESS!! HECK YESS!!

[short-ish, really lame entry. it's been a couple weeks...]

A) OMGGOKUSEN3CASTLIST.

Takaki Yuya (17) of Hey!Say!JUMP
Miura Haruma (17)
Ishiguro Hideo (19)
Nakama Junta (20) of kansai johnny's jr group B.A.D.
Kiriyama Akito (18) also of kansai johnny's jr B.A.D.

funny how they're all approximately MY AGE.
no one is younger than me, yet. both of the 17 year olds are a few months older than me....
if somehow they make a fourth season, then yeah, i might start feeling like a pedo....
though whey the hell they would make a fourth season is beyond me....
i don't even know why there's a third season!!?

but i'm not complaining. i LOVE gokusen.

i just wish Inoo Kei was in the cast....

B) i went shopping for the first time in forever yesterday.
(i don't count target as actual shopping.)
sam, mish, melissa, and i went to tysons and i bought stuff.
really we were there for a certain someone's birthday shopping, but i ended up spending a little on myself as well....
i made less than $50 stretch pretty well. :D

chipotle makes my stomach hurt.

we sampled like every single perfume tester possible. xD;;;

i wish i had more me-money....
yeah, get a job, sasha.
not going to happen....
or rather, eventually will happen, but i don't actually feel like it.
>______>;;;;

C) school isn't as bad right now.....
though i haven't really been able to start slacking off yet....

i need to start writing here again. i feel so lazy when i don't....

aaurgh. JE, wth??

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:23:43 GMT

stop trying to seduce me with a shirtless inoo kei!!

Dx Dx Dx

not fair not fair not fair!! leave me aloooone.

this is ridiculous.

i'm ridiculous.

the whole damn company is ridiculous.

ahhh.

FRUSTRATION.

haha~

frustration caused by:

1. the fact that i have two tests tomorrow, and have to find time to make up a quiz i missed in physics.
2. the semester ending in three days.
3. paranoia that mccabe will never ever check the late work/absentee bin, thus never receiving my essay.
4. my dad who keeps nagging me about the SAT II coming up on saturday....huh. (wonder if it will count.)
5. the rejection of shige's character by aragaki yui's character in "papa to musume no nanokakan"

xD;;;;

i could probably get rid of those frustrations quite quickly....

yeeeah.

three days of school, then a four day weekend.

fuuuuun~~

i just have to focus for the next three days.

which means, no fangirling until thursday night.

eh.

really?

i managed through january 15....i can do it again, right?

it's like trying to get off of coffee.

heh.

which i need to start doing...........right.

JE makes me mad anyway, so another break might be good.

(JE is trying to use fanservice to convince me to like Hey! Say! JUMP/BEST....inoo kei shirtless is too tempting. Dx)

i think i'm going to go study some more for those tests i have to take tomorrow....

i need to force myself to focus.

私の未来のために〜〜 >:D

oh, another something: today on the news they were like "so how are your new year's resolutions going??"

mine is going pretty well, i think.

though i've been pretty stressed/frustrated lately, i've been happier than usual.

huh.

how 'bout that??

also, i've only cried ONCE.

and that was because i was tired and my grandpa called to tell me that my grandma was in the hospital.

you'd cry too.

:P

heh. i'm better now, aren't i?

:D

あらあら、shouldn't you be finishing your college apps?

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:52:03 GMT

yeah, uh huh.

but i'm almost done.

break time.

right.

i've been feeling terrible the last few days...

maybe i'm sleep deprived or something.

or maybe it's the weather.

meh.

but this cheered me up quite a bit!!

[or here if it's not there....]

that parrot is my bff. xD;;;;

he lives outside a store near the palette/ryubo buiding....

he speaks japanese. it's awesome.

and the treehouse is across the river from the apartment complex where we live in the summer....

it's covered in a bunch of white lights....at night it's so pretty!

i think i've been there like once....like when i was four or so??

yeeeah.

i want to go to tokashiki!

my parents are always like "lets go to tokashiki or kerama next time we go to okinawa!"

and we never do.

hell, i'd go by myself if i could!!

今年沖縄に行かなければならないさ〜

i must go to okinawa this year~

eh....i think that's the kettle screaming....time for tea.

[oh, how i hate leaving. too bad this was taken on a cloudy day....]

sigh.

あけましておめでとうござ

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:31:15 GMT

happy new year!!

.....a week late!!

:D

guess who feels GOOD??

it's actually quite hilarious.

i'm pretty swamped this week....but i feel good.

i've felt good for the last week or so.

almost like the dead weight of feeling depressed all last year has....

died.

roffle.

i'm a lot happier now than last month.

i can totally tell by going back and reading my month-old blog entries.

i actually found my yearbook from last year....skimmed through some of the little messages.

damn, was i a downer last year.

haha~~

hopefully i'm not that bad this year??

from here on out (or rather, a week ago on out) i'm going to try to do my best!!

がんばりまチュ〜

:D

a short summary of the week so far:

~submitted the W&M and UVA apps.....W&Mに入るするように。神様、お願いします!! i really really want to go to W&M....really really really want to go!! D:

~watched 紅白歌合戦 (kouhaku utagassen), though was kinda disappointed....it wasn't that great this year....not that lively....the 2005 & 2006 ones were much more interesting.

~spent new years eve at sam's house along with sara, mish and tam (and melissa was there, but i had just missed her as my parents wanted me to eat japanese new years food with them. tasty, but i was sad to be late!!) we missed the ball drop by like 2 seconds....way to turn off the TV, mr. gray. hahaha~~ the sparkling white grape drink was DERICIOUS. とてもDERICIOUS. <333 we set off fireworks outside. sara screamed a lot. :D

~school started too soon.....pleh. haha~~ but it's been alright....except for the massive amounts of work i have due this week. wth??

~progressive dinner was FUN. FUN. FUN. probably the best one. the salad house was the same one i went to last year. SCORE!! strawberry salad with poppy seed dressing!! :D

~i learned way too much about the personal lives of the sophomores that i had dinner with. sophomores are crazy. o____o;;;;

~i used every fiber of my being to avoid sunny. WEIRD. but he was like 3-5 feet away from me at all times during the dessert...used melissa as a distraction. ilu, melissha!! <333

~i still have 3 more apps to finish: GMU, JMU, and UGA. but i'm almost done anyway. :D

~booty shorts moved over next to me what? haha~~

ja.

サーしゃの願い事!!
[sasha's wishes!!]

今年は去年よりもっといい年になるように!!
[please let this year be better than last year!!]

W＆Mに入学をするように。
[i wish to be accepted by W&M]

たくさん面白い人と会うように。
[i wish to meet lots of interesting people]

日本に行くように！ (笑)
[i wish to go to japan! (lol)]

ずっと友達でいたい!! (笑!!)
[i wish to stay friends with mah peoples for as long as possible!! (roffle)]

病院に全然行かないように!
[i wish to not have to go to the hospital AT ALL this year!]

いいヤツと付き合うように…。

<3

whaaaaaaaaaaa...t!!?

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:52:56 GMT

december 14!!?

i haven't posted since december 14!!?

....that was the short story thing, right?

hmm....i had totally planned on writing more of that during the break...

which is almost over now.

only three days left?

i can't believe they won't even give us the 2nd off!!

アッカ〜

eh. oh well.

college apps have basically taken over my being....

i finished the william and mary one finally.....

now i'm trying to write the essays for UVA....

"What work of art, music, science, mathematics or literature has surprised, unsettled or challenged you, and in what way?"
and
"Discuss something you secretly like but pretend not to or vice versa."

.....j-pop?

gothloli??

johnny's entertainment and other various effeminate looking boys???

gyaru????

ahhh.....damn it.

both are only 250 words....i'll come up with something.

i mean, mccabe thought that my 1030 word college essay was good (and if mccabe says it's good, apparently it's awesome, so i hear.)

and i pulled most of that out of my butt.....kinda.

>____>;;;;

sunday was fun.

saw sweeney todd with mah peoples (minus mish! D: curse you apps!!)

was kinda.....too bloody.

had my eyes covered most of the time.

but afterwards we went to johnny rockets and world market and acted like good for nothing teenagers.....

hahaーーyess!!

the photos are on facebook.

xmas was pretty fun....

it was pretty small, considering the iMac.....

but i still got pretty great stuff!!

region free DVD player with swing girls, lovely complex, and check it out yo....
really cute perfume by clarins (i think)....
ribbon shaped ring with encrusted with crystals....
new hair curlers (YESS!!!)....
a couple new shirts....
oh and ADOBE FREAKIN' PHOTOSHOP!!

wOOOOOOOOt!!!

:D

lately, besides apps and photoshop, i've been messing with youtube a bit.

i watched all of koichiben/tofugu's videos.

good listening practice.

i've also watched all of LEV's videos on youtube as well.....

ahh, what a great waste of time.

jeremy started playing KH again....not KH2 but KH.....

.....it's so different.

i haven't touched KH in over a year and a half now....

basically since i finished it and started KH2....

i totally forgot that sora could swim and climb/stack stuff.

wow.

but i really prefer the reaction commands, so yay KH2.

i'm a nerd.

maybe i'll write about being a closet nerd for my 2nd essay.....

haha~~

maybe fangirling or makeup might be better.....

ahh, i'll think later.

random info: the THIRD season of gokusen will start airing in april.

THIRD!!

YESS!!

while i'm wallowing in another pit of despair/depression from being rejected by every single college i apply to (not really tho),

i can watch yankumi kick ass.

FAITO, OH!!