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1. Flogging Molly kicks all sorts of ass. I have enjoyed other bands, and I love other bands -- but there is something about Flogging Molly's music that makes me just downright happy and WIRES me like caffeine IV to the brain. They are incredibly fun to watch live, because they exaggerate and make fun of themselves and others and worship Guiness and it's just wonderfully energetic. Even though we had to leave early to catch the bus, they played most of my favorites, including (and this makes me squee the most) "Devil's Dance Floor," which was totally the first song of theirs I ever heard and I still love it to pieces. PIECES DO YOU HEAR ME.
Of all the bands whose CDs I keep saying "I'll buy someday when I have money," Flogging Molly is the only one whose CDs I buy immediately upon finding, monetary status bedamned. XD
But the place was one of the most grouchiest places I have ever been to in Seattle. o_o I got frisked (because you know, small Asian girl in a big coat = so threatening!), ordered to throw away my leftovers (which I'd understand more if they served food but dude, they're located right next to Pike's Place Market and don't serve food) sniped at when I said I wanted to buy a coke ("well, we have Pepsi products, is that good enough for you?") and bellowed at when I stood on the steps for maybe thirty seconds trying to see the way to the exit.
The show was definitely worth it! But if it's at the Showbox again ... ehh, maybe not. >_>
2. Tech support? Sucks ass. I do sympathize that it's a lousy job, and one of my good friends is working a tech support job (hi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadawyn!), but ... dude. When I am asking you this one question, please stop trying to explain all the steps to me. If I tell you "I know this much, is it that you do [A, B, C]?" please don't go on about steps "4, 5, 6."
Also, getting snide when I demonstrate that I am, in fact, a woman who KNOWS MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS THAN JUST POINTING AND CLICKING is not a way to win you points. Just because I am a girl who can use a computer does not mean I'm a threat to your masculinity. I promise.
3. My Biochemistry professor is EVIL. Both of them! However, based on some confusing wording about an e-mail he sent out about grades, I ... believe that the minimum I need is 66% of 85% of 400 total points to go on to the next class in the series. (I.e., the lowest percentage you need to get the "perfect" 4.0 is apparently about 85%. He says that you need about 2/3 of that to get the minimum grade needed to go on. I ... am above that by, like, 4%. GO FIGHT FANTASTIC! I need to keep this up. XO) I actually ended up skipping my quiz section today because ... well, we don't get that much done during those periods to begin with, though watch, TODAY will be the day he went over something that the prof won't during lecture. _o_ It happens. I'll harass classmate E for details tomorrow.
4. Holy lost in translation, Batman! I thought that 華 could be translated as "flower," but apparently I am WRONG WRONG WRONG. Would someone who knows better than me please to enlighten my foolish self?
5. ... mnahmnah.
EDIT 6. I still cannot listen to Hakkai's image song from the Saiyuuki movie without busting a rib laughing. It's a good thing no one else is in the office right now, because I swear, I am giggling like a fiend. XD PORN MUSIC AHOY, BAY-BEE.
Of all the bands whose CDs I keep saying "I'll buy someday when I have money," Flogging Molly is the only one whose CDs I buy immediately upon finding, monetary status bedamned. XD
But the place was one of the most grouchiest places I have ever been to in Seattle. o_o I got frisked (because you know, small Asian girl in a big coat = so threatening!), ordered to throw away my leftovers (which I'd understand more if they served food but dude, they're located right next to Pike's Place Market and don't serve food) sniped at when I said I wanted to buy a coke ("well, we have Pepsi products, is that good enough for you?") and bellowed at when I stood on the steps for maybe thirty seconds trying to see the way to the exit.
The show was definitely worth it! But if it's at the Showbox again ... ehh, maybe not. >_>
2. Tech support? Sucks ass. I do sympathize that it's a lousy job, and one of my good friends is working a tech support job (hi,
shadawyn!), but ... dude. When I am asking you this one question, please stop trying to explain all the steps to me. If I tell you "I know this much, is it that you do [A, B, C]?" please don't go on about steps "4, 5, 6."Also, getting snide when I demonstrate that I am, in fact, a woman who KNOWS MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS THAN JUST POINTING AND CLICKING is not a way to win you points. Just because I am a girl who can use a computer does not mean I'm a threat to your masculinity. I promise.
3. My Biochemistry professor is EVIL. Both of them! However, based on some confusing wording about an e-mail he sent out about grades, I ... believe that the minimum I need is 66% of 85% of 400 total points to go on to the next class in the series. (I.e., the lowest percentage you need to get the "perfect" 4.0 is apparently about 85%. He says that you need about 2/3 of that to get the minimum grade needed to go on. I ... am above that by, like, 4%. GO FIGHT FANTASTIC! I need to keep this up. XO) I actually ended up skipping my quiz section today because ... well, we don't get that much done during those periods to begin with, though watch, TODAY will be the day he went over something that the prof won't during lecture. _o_ It happens. I'll harass classmate E for details tomorrow.
4. Holy lost in translation, Batman! I thought that 華 could be translated as "flower," but apparently I am WRONG WRONG WRONG. Would someone who knows better than me please to enlighten my foolish self?
5. ... mnahmnah.
EDIT 6. I still cannot listen to Hakkai's image song from the Saiyuuki movie without busting a rib laughing. It's a good thing no one else is in the office right now, because I swear, I am giggling like a fiend. XD PORN MUSIC AHOY, BAY-BEE.
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Definitely filing away that information about the Showbox, as they sound like bastards. I've never been there before, and as much as I understand the frisking (baggy anything = frisking, in a place like that) and the fact that bouncers and guards tend generally to be "grr", but geeeeeeez.
And tech support. Yes. *Sighs*
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The weird thing about the frisking, though, is that ... well, okay, they frisked the lady before me, but not Kari. Nor anyone after her, from the looks of it. o_oa Really, it was the concession stand lady that surprised me, because she looked so offended when I walked up and was trying to find the prices for drinks. D:
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Also, 華? To te best of my knowledge, you were right. o.O; *checks dictionary*
...according to my dictionary, we're right. But it also means 'florid, showy, brilliant.' Also means slightly different things with different readings.
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See, that's the THING -- over on one of the wank/rant communities, someone declared very, very firmly that 華 does not mean flower, no matter how you swing it, which ... is, to my knowledge, patently untrue. The joke about Haruka's name in tactics is that it is one of the girliest spellings, to go with how unexpectedly cool he looked, dressed in modern clothes.
Plus, the whole "Haru no Hana" doujinshi series would be ... well, at least it's title would be rendered moot, since the djka herself translated it as "Vernal Flowers." |D
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*snickers* People who are going to make declarations like that really should learn to check a dictionary first.
Also - yay Flogging Molly! It's so cool that you got to see them live!
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But we're fandom, damnit, and practical should only apply as far as understanding just how exactly Shounen Hero B is telling you to eat shit and die. XD [/bias]
It's the second time I've gotten to see Flogging Molly live, and they make me so, so happy♥ Their studio-recorded stuff is great, too, but their live is just fun, so it makes me happy. XD
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Ummm... Who said that and on what authority, really? I mean, dude. Every source I can check says that it can mean flower. >___>;
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Well, this person said it on THEIR authority! When asked to, you know, help with the problems, this person basically breezed it off, as a sort of "eh, I don't have the time/patience for it." Now, I get that, but not even pointing out where mistakes are strongest is sort of ... cheap, I feel.
Who knows, man. Who knows. |D
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(Oh, btw, haven't gotten a chance to ask yet: did you try those recipies? =D)
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(No, I haven't! ... as I told you before. XD; Spring Break is coming up, though, so maybe then!)
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The kanji can also mean magnificent as in 華麗な- splendid, magnificent and 豪華な - gorgeous, splendid, pompous. In any case I always assumed it just meant flower as well because of the Vernal Flowers doujinshi series.
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I always associated it with the "flower" meaning because of Haruka's name, and then Karuma-doh reinforced that by having Kantarou use 華 every time he talked about flowers.
... I feel better about my comprehension skills, now. |D
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And that's not bad, because I like Ishida Akira's lower/serious voice better than his cutesy uke voice, but. It's too bad he no longer sings. XD
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heard somewhere that a fan wrote him and basically told him his singing sucked. ouch.
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Was this before he stopped singing? That's too bad, I thought his singing voice was cute. D:
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Wait, what? D: I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS. Why's it so funny?
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It's high-larious. XD
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花 is the actual traditional "flower" kanji, but isn't always used, whut. D:
It's all confusing liek whoa. |D
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Thank you for the input, though; that is good to hear. |D