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summercomfort) wrote2006-04-21 02:49 am
summercomfort) wrote2006-04-21 02:49 am
Report!
Of sorts.
Yes, it's time for yet another entry of "what's Sushu been doing with her life" thingie.
Well, today, I made it to Japanese! Then I did my Japanese hw, and even went over it with Kawai-sensei, so yay! Then I went to the library and did readings and printings of various sorts. Then I went to a student loan meeting, then went home. I had been doing readings in preparation for a Martial Arts screening tonight, but then I remembered that Prof. Shaughnessy had mentioned a reception thingie at the Art Institute for this new bronze that they got (the Shi Wang Ding), so I emailed and called and eventually got a response around 3:30pm saying that if I get there at 5:45, I can get in.
So after chatting with Joanne a bit (we've been Gmail-Chatting a lot), and finishing one of the martial arts readings, I got to the 173 just in time, which got to the Art Institute just in time. The reception turned out to be a 2-hour talk, but it was some pretty interesting stuff. It's really cool cause Shaughnessy is apparently the go-to guy for inscriptions, so he's like "yeah, this vessel isn't published yet, but it's really cool so I'm gonna show you the inscription." And OMG it was an inscription not of the "yay thank you for honoring me with red kneepads, I shall now honor my ancestor". Instead it was a "there is a way of heaven, and heaven granted us morals" thing. It's so proto-Confucian I was in happy fangirl fits.
So, leaving the museum at 8pm, I made the uber-smart decision of riding the 6 back, so I got back to Hyde Park by 8:30. Yay! Plus I got to sit most of the way (usually doesn't happen if you're catching the 6 from the South Loop) so I finished my other Martial Arts reading. It's written by this film critic who was absolutely hilarious in that dry wit sort of way. Much <3.
Anyways, I stop by and do some shopping, including... Ferrero Rochers (cheap at der Walgreens!), and lots of groceries for the cooking, including... Cooking Wine! Oh my dear heart, it has returned to me. After I got home I made lots of yummy food for Joanne, whose second BA is due tomorrow. There was semi-successful zucchini pancake, onion and mushrooms, sweet tomato and scrambled eggs, and sweet-soysauce shrimp. All of the food got eaten, everything came out perfectly timed, and the food was pretty yummy, too. Yay for cooking food that I like to eat!
So by the time that's done, it was 11:30, and I was even a good girl and cleaned up most of my cooking mess. There was LJ-age, the posting of a comment on the Martial Arts discussion board, and many other things of exciting.
In contrast, yesterday involved me getting up at 8:30, and then falling back asleep again. Getting up at 1pm, and then falling back asleep again. Getting up at 4pm... and loitering about the intarnets until anime club, then having a lackluster anime club meeting, finally coming home to ramen.
And Tuesday was rather boring as well. In fact, I don't remember what I did after keeping Joanne company while she babysat and then having lunch. Oh wait, there was the lackluster dinner of Salmon-ness at Cat's, from 6pm to like, 11pm. Then I went home and did reading about Song Jiang.
Oh man! I have to talk about this. So 水浒 (Suikoden in Japanese) is like, about these bandits, right? And there's the full length 120 chapter version, but 金圣叹 edited a 70 chapter version that took away all the depressing bits where everyone dies stupidly, that became the new canon. So on Monday I found in the library a copy of 水浒 as commented on by 金圣叹. I must state that he is like, the Most Awesome Guy EvAR. His commentaries are absolutely hilarious, but also quite astute. For example, he hates 宋江, and equates him to a manipulative 伪君子, and so would spend most of those chapters saying stuff like "权术可爱" (Manipulative skills quite adorable). But he also loves 武松, who gets introduced into the story through the act of 宋江 running over him. So throughout the chapter where SongJiang kills YanPoxi and is forced to run, his running commentary was to the effect of "if it weren't for this, 武松 would never have appeared, so we must be thankful for these unfortunate events!") And in a prologue, he's like "鲁智深 is impeccably heroic, but he somehow seems lacking when compared to 武松. Perhaps this is because whereas 鲁智深 is top among men, 武松 is a god, and therefore are incomparably virile." He's just such a fanboy, it's silly! (And yes, I'm fangirling about a fanboy for a Chinese novel about bandits)
Monday night I also had dinner with C+J. I'm getting better about remembering this stuff b/c I recently got m'self the Google Calendar. Which I'm currently pimping because you can make calendars public to specific people, so that if you put up your calendar, I can stalk you and see when you're free for further stalkage. It's also got pretty colors.
Tomorrow will be crazy.
yeah, remember my meme entry that everyone got into a big debate about what it means to be spoiled? I divided the questions into different categories of what they consider "spoiled", and then proceeded to leave the thing in my LJ client. So here it is. Although it's not that interesting.
Technology
( ) high-speed internet access
( ) your own cell phone
( ) a photo printer
( ) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
( ) an iPod
Personal Comfort
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) your own phone line
( ) a television in your bedroom
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
( ) DVD player in bedroom
( ) a childfree bathroom
( ) your own in-house office
( ) a gym membership
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) your own pair of skis
Property
( ) a yard
( ) a hammock
( ) a working washer and dryer
( ) a working dishwasher
( ) an icemaker
( ) a walk-in closet or pantry
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
( ) a stocked bar
( ) a pool table
( ) two or more family cars
( ) large exercise equipment at home
( ) a game room
( ) a guest house
( ) a pool
( ) a tennis court
( ) a horse
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski [just one, mind you]
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
"Class"
--- Style ---
( ) wear perfume or cologne
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) expensive sunglasses
( ) expensive jewelry
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
( ) framed original art
( ) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
( ) attend private school
--- Access ---
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea [here I'm guessing "private beach"]
( ) wealthy family members
( ) dined with local political figures
( ) met a celebrity
--- Service ---
( ) a personal trainer
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
--- Wealth ---
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you (taxis)
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to
( ) private medical insurance
( ) have a job but don't need the money OR
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
Money
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
( ) good credit
( ) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards)
( ) a stock portfolio
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
( ) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans
Travel
( ) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) been on a cruise
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been to New York
( ) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast
( ) a passport
( ) traveled out of the country
( ) been to the Caribbean
( ) been to Hawaii
( ) been to Europe
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
WTF:
( ) a multi-speed bike
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
"Spoiled":
( ) an only child
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way
Yes, it's time for yet another entry of "what's Sushu been doing with her life" thingie.
Well, today, I made it to Japanese! Then I did my Japanese hw, and even went over it with Kawai-sensei, so yay! Then I went to the library and did readings and printings of various sorts. Then I went to a student loan meeting, then went home. I had been doing readings in preparation for a Martial Arts screening tonight, but then I remembered that Prof. Shaughnessy had mentioned a reception thingie at the Art Institute for this new bronze that they got (the Shi Wang Ding), so I emailed and called and eventually got a response around 3:30pm saying that if I get there at 5:45, I can get in.
So after chatting with Joanne a bit (we've been Gmail-Chatting a lot), and finishing one of the martial arts readings, I got to the 173 just in time, which got to the Art Institute just in time. The reception turned out to be a 2-hour talk, but it was some pretty interesting stuff. It's really cool cause Shaughnessy is apparently the go-to guy for inscriptions, so he's like "yeah, this vessel isn't published yet, but it's really cool so I'm gonna show you the inscription." And OMG it was an inscription not of the "yay thank you for honoring me with red kneepads, I shall now honor my ancestor". Instead it was a "there is a way of heaven, and heaven granted us morals" thing. It's so proto-Confucian I was in happy fangirl fits.
So, leaving the museum at 8pm, I made the uber-smart decision of riding the 6 back, so I got back to Hyde Park by 8:30. Yay! Plus I got to sit most of the way (usually doesn't happen if you're catching the 6 from the South Loop) so I finished my other Martial Arts reading. It's written by this film critic who was absolutely hilarious in that dry wit sort of way. Much <3.
Anyways, I stop by and do some shopping, including... Ferrero Rochers (cheap at der Walgreens!), and lots of groceries for the cooking, including... Cooking Wine! Oh my dear heart, it has returned to me. After I got home I made lots of yummy food for Joanne, whose second BA is due tomorrow. There was semi-successful zucchini pancake, onion and mushrooms, sweet tomato and scrambled eggs, and sweet-soysauce shrimp. All of the food got eaten, everything came out perfectly timed, and the food was pretty yummy, too. Yay for cooking food that I like to eat!
So by the time that's done, it was 11:30, and I was even a good girl and cleaned up most of my cooking mess. There was LJ-age, the posting of a comment on the Martial Arts discussion board, and many other things of exciting.
In contrast, yesterday involved me getting up at 8:30, and then falling back asleep again. Getting up at 1pm, and then falling back asleep again. Getting up at 4pm... and loitering about the intarnets until anime club, then having a lackluster anime club meeting, finally coming home to ramen.
And Tuesday was rather boring as well. In fact, I don't remember what I did after keeping Joanne company while she babysat and then having lunch. Oh wait, there was the lackluster dinner of Salmon-ness at Cat's, from 6pm to like, 11pm. Then I went home and did reading about Song Jiang.
Oh man! I have to talk about this. So 水浒 (Suikoden in Japanese) is like, about these bandits, right? And there's the full length 120 chapter version, but 金圣叹 edited a 70 chapter version that took away all the depressing bits where everyone dies stupidly, that became the new canon. So on Monday I found in the library a copy of 水浒 as commented on by 金圣叹. I must state that he is like, the Most Awesome Guy EvAR. His commentaries are absolutely hilarious, but also quite astute. For example, he hates 宋江, and equates him to a manipulative 伪君子, and so would spend most of those chapters saying stuff like "权术可爱" (Manipulative skills quite adorable). But he also loves 武松, who gets introduced into the story through the act of 宋江 running over him. So throughout the chapter where SongJiang kills YanPoxi and is forced to run, his running commentary was to the effect of "if it weren't for this, 武松 would never have appeared, so we must be thankful for these unfortunate events!") And in a prologue, he's like "鲁智深 is impeccably heroic, but he somehow seems lacking when compared to 武松. Perhaps this is because whereas 鲁智深 is top among men, 武松 is a god, and therefore are incomparably virile." He's just such a fanboy, it's silly! (And yes, I'm fangirling about a fanboy for a Chinese novel about bandits)
Monday night I also had dinner with C+J. I'm getting better about remembering this stuff b/c I recently got m'self the Google Calendar. Which I'm currently pimping because you can make calendars public to specific people, so that if you put up your calendar, I can stalk you and see when you're free for further stalkage. It's also got pretty colors.
Tomorrow will be crazy.
yeah, remember my meme entry that everyone got into a big debate about what it means to be spoiled? I divided the questions into different categories of what they consider "spoiled", and then proceeded to leave the thing in my LJ client. So here it is. Although it's not that interesting.
Technology
( ) high-speed internet access
( ) your own cell phone
( ) a photo printer
( ) TiVo or a generic digital video recorder
( ) an iPod
Personal Comfort
( ) more than 20 pairs of shoes
( ) a queen-size bed or larger
( ) Egyptian cotton sheets or towels
( ) your own phone line
( ) a television in your bedroom
( ) a surround sound system in bedroom
( ) DVD player in bedroom
( ) a childfree bathroom
( ) your own in-house office
( ) a gym membership
( ) your own set of golf clubs
( ) your own pair of skis
Property
( ) a yard
( ) a hammock
( ) a working washer and dryer
( ) a working dishwasher
( ) an icemaker
( ) a walk-in closet or pantry
( ) at least a hundred DVDs
( ) a stocked bar
( ) a pool table
( ) two or more family cars
( ) large exercise equipment at home
( ) a game room
( ) a guest house
( ) a pool
( ) a tennis court
( ) a horse
( ) a boat
( ) a jet ski [just one, mind you]
( ) a beach house or a vacation house/cabin
"Class"
--- Style ---
( ) wear perfume or cologne
( ) regularly get your hair styled or nails done in a salon
( ) expensive sunglasses
( ) expensive jewelry
( ) a designer bag that required being on a waiting list to get
( ) at least ten things from a designer store
( ) framed original art
( ) take riding or swimming lessons as a child
( ) attend private school
--- Access ---
( ) do your regular grocery shopping at high-end or specialty stores
( ) local access to a lake, large pond, or the sea [here I'm guessing "private beach"]
( ) wealthy family members
( ) dined with local political figures
( ) met a celebrity
--- Service ---
( ) a personal trainer
( ) pay someone else to clean your house, do dishes, or launder your clothes (not counting dry-cleaning)
( ) pay someone else to cook your meals
( ) go to another country for your honeymoon
( ) hire a professional photographer for your wedding or party
--- Wealth ---
( ) shop for non-needed items for yourself (like clothes, jewelry, electronics) at least once a week
( ) regularly pay someone else to drive you (taxis)
( ) moved more than three times because you wanted to
( ) private medical insurance
( ) have a job but don't need the money OR
( ) stay at home with little financial sacrifice
( ) married/partnered to a wealthy person
( ) eaten at the space needle in Seattle
Money
( ) pay someone else to watch your children or walk your dogs
( ) at least $100 cash in your possession right now
( ) good credit
( ) more than two credit cards bearing your name (not counting gas cards or debit cards)
( ) a stock portfolio
( ) a trust fund (either for you or created by you)
( ) a college degree, and no outstanding student loans
Travel
( ) enough camping gear for a weekend trip in an isolated area
( ) go on weekend mini-vacations
( ) been on a cruise
( ) been to the Mall of America
( ) been to New York
( ) been on the Statue of Liberty in New York
( ) been to both the Atlantic coast and the Pacific coast
( ) a passport
( ) traveled out of the country
( ) been to the Caribbean
( ) been to Hawaii
( ) been to Europe
( ) been on the Eiffel tower in Paris
WTF:
( ) a multi-speed bike
( ) send dinners back with every flaw
( ) a neighborhood committee membership
"Spoiled":
( ) an only child
( ) have a Sweet 16 birthday party thrown for you
( ) expect a gift after you fight with your partner
( ) baffled/surprised when you don't get your way
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李逵 also gets huge points for when he tries to bring his mom to the clan and keeps telling her how she's gonna live the good life and then she gets eaten by tigers and he goes and fucks their shit up and oh god it's been a long time.
And then there was the comic version by whatshisname, that Taiwanese guy who draws comics of every Chinese classic book and then some.
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