Braindead braindumping and a meme
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ciaweth, piratelemur, ohsochewy, whatever. I don't usually do memes, but feel obligated since I commented on theirs.
Leave a comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8) In return, you must repost in your LJ. Okay, not really. I don't care if you do or don't.
Last night, after finally getting things to work!11!!!1!1! at work, I went to dinner at the downtown Todai withgenericman and Mike "from Duquesne" Piatek, who I hadn't seen since like, some DDR thing or another back in 2002 or 2003. He's all grown-up and grad-student-like now!
Todai changed their policy or maybe I just never knew about it since we always had a big enough group, but apparently you only get the free meal on your birthday if there are 3 or more people with you (otherwise you get a certificate to come back for a free meal another day, also accompanied by someone else). So Mike and I did not count as three people for Jason's birthday, alas, but I think we had fun, though Jason and I both talk way too much for me to really catch up significantly with what Mike's up to these days besides CS grad school at UW. Heck, I'm not sure I even found out if he still plays DDR.
I went to B&N after that and picked up the Hardball Times book as well as the Moe Berg story "The Catcher Was A Spy", and made Jason buy a copy of the Gehrig book I finished, "Luckiest Man".
At home I watched the first two episodes of Haken no Hinkaku (a TV show this season about the state of temp workers in offices in Japan). The show is pretty good on its own, but I'm also using it educationally as a refresher course on business Japanese, as well as picking up on dress codes. After that I wrote my book review of Luckiest Man, which was heartfelt and a little bit depressing, I'm sure.
ciaweth, piratelemur, ohsochewy, whatever. I don't usually do memes, but feel obligated since I commented on theirs.Leave a comment and I will:
1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Associate you with a character/pairing.
6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7) Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8) In return, you must repost in your LJ. Okay, not really. I don't care if you do or don't.
Last night, after finally getting things to work!11!!!1!1! at work, I went to dinner at the downtown Todai with
genericman and Mike "from Duquesne" Piatek, who I hadn't seen since like, some DDR thing or another back in 2002 or 2003. He's all grown-up and grad-student-like now! Todai changed their policy or maybe I just never knew about it since we always had a big enough group, but apparently you only get the free meal on your birthday if there are 3 or more people with you (otherwise you get a certificate to come back for a free meal another day, also accompanied by someone else). So Mike and I did not count as three people for Jason's birthday, alas, but I think we had fun, though Jason and I both talk way too much for me to really catch up significantly with what Mike's up to these days besides CS grad school at UW. Heck, I'm not sure I even found out if he still plays DDR.
I went to B&N after that and picked up the Hardball Times book as well as the Moe Berg story "The Catcher Was A Spy", and made Jason buy a copy of the Gehrig book I finished, "Luckiest Man".
At home I watched the first two episodes of Haken no Hinkaku (a TV show this season about the state of temp workers in offices in Japan). The show is pretty good on its own, but I'm also using it educationally as a refresher course on business Japanese, as well as picking up on dress codes. After that I wrote my book review of Luckiest Man, which was heartfelt and a little bit depressing, I'm sure.
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2. There's a whole bunch I could put here, since I used to come see movies with you a lot. "Hana and Alice", "Linda Linda Linda", "Howl's Moving Castle", etc. A song? This is going to sound funny, but the first one that popped into my head, no joke, was the "Talkin' Softball" song from the Simpsons. Weird Al's "Spiderman" also reminds me of you. I'm sure there are more if I thought about it, from all our roadtrips.
3. You have more roadtrip stamina than anyone else I know. I have no clue how you can drive for 20 hours straight. I can't even drive for 3.
4. Despite never meeting before, you came all the way up from Tacoma to my very last game party at the old house. Then you came and helped me out with the whole Jason situation a week or two later. But the best early memory I have of you is your birthday party in 2004, being totally drunk at the Strap and playing Elixir and calling you Jeffykins Docktart due to some card Wooko played on us. I have to admit I'm still sometimes tempted to call you that.
5. It's not a character, but I kind of associate you with Jamie Moyer, if that makes any sense at all. In terms of actual characters, I guess Skuld, but my first Skuld was my friend Bayani back east (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Chris, actually), so.
6. What do you *really* want to be doing in 5 years? Where do you want to be (in terms of place and in terms of school/job)?
7. Your default userpic is fine, since I know the story behind it and all.
Goddamnit Jeff. Hey, are you going to be up here for Mariners opening day?
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I thought there was a bit more than two weeks between the game party and Jay coming up. Two months?
And you have, since then, called me that, so you don't resist the temptation very well. ^_~
Hmm... five years. Y'know, as much as I like living down here, I'm pretty sure in five years I want to be living in Tacoma again. I'd like to be working in such a way that I have the ability to travel wherever should I be so inclined, while also be making enough to pay for said travel and still having a place to come to that's home.
Oh, and I want to be a published writer.
And, hrm... I do believe I -will- be up there for Opening Day. Actually, it's almost a certainty unless I die.