Slogan stolen from Threadless, because I am going to highlight some of my favorite designs from the website:

Almost makes me want to become an illustrator. Almost.

I've been working too much; making lots of money, but losing my sanity. I don't think I've physically felt sunlight in four days. I've also picked up drinking tea; why didn't I start earlier? Now I see why people start the morning off with a delicious warm beverage. I also read somewhere that a cup of green tea a day may help with weight loss. We'll see about that. Although I'm sure the whole eating-a-burrito-a-day thing might cancel that out...

What am I craving the most? How to get more Asian culture into my life. Can anyone help me with this? I am making traditional Chinese food, eating Asian snacks, watching a ridiculous amount of Asian films, listening to Japanese pop... what next? Maybe dressing cute-fobby. No, I want to speak Chinese with other people. There is a middle-aged lady in my Arts of China class who is Chinese, but when I start a conversation with her in Mandarin, she replies in English! This confuses me, and then I don't know which language to use with her and ultimately end up speaking English. I'm so frustrated with this; I want to brush up on my Chinese, she probably wants to practice English. There have been signs about Chinese tutors popping up around the art building, I just might give it a try. I just hope it's not some American person who has been taking a lot of Chinese courses. I want a real live Asian.

I need inspiration. I want to go scuba diving.

Listening: The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free
Playing: Okami (PS2)
Watching: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

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See, I had to add that dash between "cute" and "video game" so you would know I wasn't talking about cute players of video games, but rather players of cute video games. Heh heh. Anyway, I would like to announce the grand opening of my new website solely dedicated to my love of video games, Kawaii Gamer!

For those not Japanese or anime inclined, Kawaii means "cute" in Japanese. There is no dash there though, so it could be taken as "a gamer of cuteness", or "cute gamer", as in I am a cute gamer, ha ha! Okay, I will stop. Anyway, this is just a fun project on the side of this personal website, Joanna Banana. I'd like to contribute to the awareness of female video gamers, even if I am sort of boxing myself in with cute video games. But then again, I don't know many girl gamers who actually enjoy playing Halo or Silent Hill. I'm just sayin'. They're ugly games.

That's it for now!

Listening: Mouse on Mars - Iaora Tahiti
Playing: Cooking Mama (DS)
Watching: Anna and the King (Jodie Foster is a man!)

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It really is! Proof: my futile attempts to dye my hair the perfect shade of red since eighth grade. I've long since given up (my hair is finally completely natural!)... now I just settle for red nailpolish :)

Bono's just released a new product line called (Product) Red where the proceeds go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. These are some hot items, folks.

American Express Red card
Gap Product Red clothing
Giorgio Armani accessories (watch, sunglasses, pants, shoes)
Converse make-your-own-design shoes
Motorola Slvr and Razr
Red iPod nano

No one's asking me to advertise these, but I really need to start contributing my time and money to the greater good of the world rather than just video games. Plus with these products, you can be selfishly giving because you get a brand spankin' new HOT toy while you help others. That red RAZR is especially tempting... I love my current brick of a phone but I just might have to splurge. Btw, when you go to the Motorola website, click on "Experience the Red Phones," click on either phone, and listen to the awesome bow-chicka-bow babymakin' music (which sounds strangely similar to World 4 in Super Monkey Ball 2. But then again, I associate all babymakin' music with that world =B). I've left the website playing for about an hour now, heh.

Along the lines of charity and volunteering, I'm going to try to join Habitat for Humanity at Kent. Not only will I get to give people shelter, I hopefully will have the opportunity to travel around the world and take photos! And I'm still looking to donate a whole paycheck (preferrably a larger one than some of my measly, I've-been-out-of-town-rather-than-working paychecks) to Child's Play Charity that the guys at Penny-Arcade organized. I'm waiting until the holiday season though, when they hold their big drive. Sigh, I am still waiting for the days when I make obscene amounts of money and then give it all away.

Enjoy the crisp fall weather guys! This might be the most nostalgic season of the year for me, and you know I loves me some nostalgia.

Listening: Motorola (Product) Red music STILL! ^_^
Playing: Okami (PS2)
Watching: South Park

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Two weeks, three DJs. How much better can this get? First ?uestlove in Cleveland, then Paul Oakenfold in Kent (who woulda thunkit), and then DJ Shadow tonight in Cleveland again. I think it's rubbing off on me; I might dust off the ole turntable this weekend and find some vinyl to spin. Oooor I can not do anything about it like I always do (or not do) every time I find some new interesting hobby. :twiddles thumbs:

I have a huge hankering to play poker. ...hankering. I used to play in an online college poker tournament every Sunday (and then normal poker every... well, sometimes 3 times a day? Hooboy...), but the program isn't compatible for Mac. So in conclusion, I love my MacBook Pro, but geeeez there are so many applications that I can't use anymore! Soulseek, poker, frickin' video game emulators but I think I've found one that works now, I can't do ANYTHING but design design design! I downloaded a widget the other day that gives me a health/physical activity tip every day; that's about as fun as this laptop gets. Even the solitaire game looked more boring than usual. Welp, whatever. I still love my MacBook.

So really, this is kind of a half-assed update; I just got back from Cleveland an hour ago, and I need to pack for my trip to Louisville this weekend. Ben's sister is getting married and even though I don't think I am significant enough to introduce to the extended family yet, I will attend any occasion where I have an excuse to dress up :) I'll probably post again sometime this weekend, but until then, I am going to bed. Wheew.

Listening: DJ Shadow - The Outsider
Playing: Okami (PS2)
Watching: Suicide Club

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If I had the power, I would make everyone (everyone!) over the age of 18 retake a grammar and spelling class that would teach the difference between 'you're' and 'your', 'their' and 'there', the to-two-toos, oh man I could go on. You don't know immature and uneducated someone sounds when they say something like, "Your a great person!" (Okay I really couldn't come up with a snazzy sentence.) I've discovered that no, the average college student does NOT know the difference between these words, nor do they know how to spell words in general. And ending sentences in a preposition? Tsk tsk. "Where you at?" Die Boost Mobile.

I would also obliterate the phrase, "What's up?" Because, frankly, I don't know what's up. Everyday I walk into Chipotle, and it's "What's up, Joanna?" or "Hey Joanna, what's up?" How am I supposed to answer this dumb question? "The ceiling, harharhar!" For goodness sakes, I just walked into work, WORK is what is up. I can answer, "How are you?" From now on, I will not respond to a "What's up?" I will just stare blankly until they rephrase the question into something more specific that I can understand.

These are just a few of the things I would implement if I became Queen of all Cosmos. Be prepared.

(Btw, new header up! It's a picture of some sushi I made this weekend when I went to visit Amy in Columbus. California rolls and New York rolls, yuuuum. I'll be making pleeeenty more this weekend ^_^)

Listening: Utada Hikaru - Singles Collection Vol. 1
Playing: Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (DS)
Watching: The Joy Luck Club

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