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husky51
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I don't know what is worse, FFF, having a relative pass slowly or LL t once. I lost a cherished Grandmother, Aunt and Uncle near Hope, BC in an accident. Broadsided by another vehicle. Their three kids, one of whom was driving, all survived. The other woman was driving too fast for the snowy conditions according to the police report. One of the lockers at work was badly dented when I was told about it... I have since lost my other aunt and my favorite cousin to illness. None of it was easy, FFF, but life happens and we all die sooner or later. My mother's death came as a surprise as well. The hardest part was delivering her eulegy... But for her, at least it was quick and she had been living her life as she wished and was still active.. She was relatively healthy for 78 and had driven into LAX airport to pick me up just a few days before. And believe me, LAX traffic is bad to the unfamiliar...
I wish for you and your aunt that her passing is as painless as possible.
Big Hugs, FFF.
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foreignfilmfreak
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Thanks, husky. My aunt has had a long and arduous journey with terminal cancer in more than one area of the body (brain tumours, unknown tumours in her lungs that were extremely rare). It's been several years she's been fighting. It's sad to see her go, but I don't want her to suffer anymore. I was very sad seeing her bedridden and unable to stay awake or focus. She was one of my closest family members.
Sad thing is her husband passed away on the 11th/12th of this month several years ago suddenly at work. I imagine that fact alone would make it harder for my cousins to accept. She's been remarried, and once when we were walking together she told me, "I've always wanted to live in this place, but your Uncle L and I never could. Now I'm here and I'm happy with someone and I feel like he's lead me to this place. I feel like he's watching over me."
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Roarkiller
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HL: 2nd shipping cost.refunded because 1st shipment haven't been sent. Good way to start the day 
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HL: I went to a Ghibli exhibit here in Seoul this evening. It was great 
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husky51
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Kazegami
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HL: Nice night last night; a joint event between the university's Japanese society and LGBT society. We were making origami cranes, aiming for 800 (not sure how many we got to, my friends and I did about 30 between us I think) for Transgender Remembrance Day. It was in a small, warm, artsy little café. All the cold drinks came in jam jars for some reason. :')
I feel like I do have some friends at university now. I've met a couple of fellow introverts, which is really nice... it's a new and very cool thing talking to people who properly, genuinely understand what it's like to have that nature. And besides them, all these people I can speak Japanese with and talk about anime and J-rock with and not get looked at funny! <3
I'm happy. My life is on the right track.
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husky51
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foreignfilmfreak
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Aww, that's great, Kaz. That sounds fun too.
HL: Lol I went to see my gender studies prof yesterday and we talked about Kpop, why in the heck my boyfriend would move to go to our school, what our class together next term would be like. About how smart one of my best friends is that she has for a student. She's really laid back and it's easy to just talk to her in a friendly matter. I like her.
She's excited for my paper because I chose a sort of different topic from others and she hasn't watched any Korean dramas, but her best friend is Korean and she watches lots of dramas and talks about them all the time. lol
We get to watch some anime and things in my gender studies course next semester.
Also, there was a big sale thing in my town last night so I bought myself a pair of floral tights. They're too adorable for me to open them.
LL: Wanting money to buy clothes online. Not that I don't have the money to buy a couple cheap items, but... geeeh.
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foreignfilmfreak
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Feel weird double posting.
HL: Bought some clothes online to see if they'll perk me up. A cardigan and a white shirt. They're part of a style called mori girl, which I've been leaning towards for awhile. So I'm excited for their arrival. Hopefully they get here before I head to New York.
LL: I think I'm dealing with burnout. I don't know if it's depression or burnout, although I'm going to go with burnout for now and see if there's any way to resolve it. I know things are off when I spend too much time listening to music and feeling unmotivated.
I'm usually someone with a lot of motivation and willpower, but keeping up with my daily life is a really arduous task for me in the past couple years. I just don't enjoy my major in school, and it's taken its toll on me. :/ I'm fortunately switching my minor to something more enjoyable. I didn't realize how tough an English major would be... I don't have perfect grammar, or write as concisely as professors want me to. I'm a creative writer and so writing like I'm writing for professional academia work drains me. lol I have some profs who offer options to students like me. But there's just not a lot of flexibility in the work I'm producing. I'm not able to take subjects I truly enjoy because my school is too small to offer different areas. Canadian literature is good since I can at least look into diaspora literature.
And in English, getting decent marks is pretty near impossible unless you're already great at writing for academia or have perfect grammar and write short sentences. Profs at least try to prepare us for the real world by saying that when we submit work for publication that it'll never be perfect. The downside though is that this way is great and helpful, but when you're a student and need the marks to get into grad school or anything, it's not totally feasible. I'd love to do grad studies in certain areas of literature, like Asian diaspora literature since that's a growing field that actually doesn't have a huge amount of research going into it (particularly Asian Canadian literature). But I don't have the marks to pursue these goals. Which is disheartening, but I guess it's not meant to be.
Aw well, at least I'm not failing. It'd just be nice to get above the Cs and have more Bs. But I guess I'll just have to dream of that for now.
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Roarkiller
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Back from two weeks of yearly army requirement. The jungle was as horrible as I remembered it to be. Fortunately, we spent half of the last day in an urban setting, slight reprieve.
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foreignfilmfreak
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HL: Spent the weekend with my boyfriend, a friend, and his professor as they gave a presentation at another university. Also got to meet the sociology professors at the other school.
Lol Being at the other university, besides it also being a rather small university just as mine is, it seems theirs gets more funding potentially. I was really surprised how nice the bathrooms were there and the chairs. My school needs a lot of renovations, but somehow we keep winning number one place (although we know that's pretty much bought with money because it's a total joke we won this year).
At the presentation we met another student from my boyfriend's home country. They shouted and kept hugging each other. XD She was so happy to find another person from there. Most Southeast Asian students go to the cities, not to our tiny campuses. The presentation was on being an international student in the small isolated schools.
Also nice to get to know professors. His prof was surprised to learn I was struggling in school when I told him. I've never had him before since I'm in a different degree field than he teaches. He asked me how come I'm doing poorly when I can think critically in a way other students seem to not. When I told him, he felt it could be the restrictiveness of my degree, or degrees in general that make it difficult and he didn't think that was a good reflection of me, or other students' like me. It was interesting to hear him say that.
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foreignfilmfreak
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LL: One of my best buddies in Japan had me fooled he was coming to NY this Christmas. But he lied. D':
Now he feels bad for being a jerk. lol So I'm sending him pictures of Reese candy and peanut butter to make him cry (kid loves peanut butter)
When I go to Japan, what sort of snack items should I bring? I already know anything peanut butter or maple flavoured. lol The exchange students really love maple cookies. Or really, what sort of things are best for small gifts?
Then again, he might be lying to surprise me since he was talking about coming before and was being super ambiguous. In which case, I'm going to make him guzzle maple syrup.
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LL: It's just not my week. Had a really important hospital appointment today, a pre-op thingmy, slept straight through my alarm. No way I could have made it; by the time I woke up the train I needed had gone an hour and a half ago... ugh. UGH. Called up the hospital to let them know and found that my surgery's been postponed anyway since the surgeon's ill. I don't know when it's been postponed until, I'll find that out in the letter I guess. Any delay is a serious pain though, the date I had was perfect since it let me recover over the Christmas break and hopefully I would have been fine to go back to university maybe a couple of weeks after term started. Now I'll have to miss... I don't know, a month or maybe even more of classes. *sighs* Soon as I find out the date I'll need to contact the university and see what they can do about helping me with this.
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