i guess now is probably a bad time to start my japanese homework that's due tomorrow. oh well, it should be easy. i'll study kanji tomorrow. give me an hour and i'll have them memorized, no problem. writing and all.

i forgot to mention sea monkeys!! although i'm not sure hammy wants to hear this. in my last bio lab we played with sea monkeys. :) which are actually Artemia salina ("brine shrimp" is a more accurate common name). i don't really like calling them sea monkeys, but i will for hammy. we tested what kind of conditions they like living in the best. long story short, we had to count the total number of sea monkeys at the end of each test. there was a problem though, and we had to ask whether or not to count the dead bodies. >_>;;; poor things. on the other hand, there were lots of unhatched eggs, and we got to see a few of them in the process of hatching. :D it's pretty cool under the microscope. poor little things are swimming like crazy, struggling to get out of that egg.

anyway, enough about that crap. have i ever mentioned the cursed pepsi machine outside of my work? ugh, i hate vending machines, let me tell you. this one pepsi machine has eaten at least $4 without vending anything. but i keep on trying to buy stuff from it because i prefer pepsi to coke. for a while, though, i was mad at the machine and i bought from the coke one next to it. well, today i bought a pepsi from it and, as if karma was working its magic, the machine spit out two bottles of pepsi. *_* i was like, "YES! FINALLY!" i should also mention it's very difficult to get two bottles out of those machines when the slot they come out of is really tiny. anyway, yeah. on my bus ride home i really struggled whether or not to share my free pop. :( i'm normally a really selfish person like that, and i'll probably need the caffeine in the morning, but i ended up giving the extra pop to my sister. aren't i nice? :( i swear, i'm converting to buddhism without even realizing it.

i hate this snow crap. it snowed here about a week ago and it hasn't melted. not very often does the first snowfall linger this long. well, from what i've noticed. maybe i'm still used to southern alberta where you'll have snow for two days, yellow grass for two days, snow for two days, yellow grass for two days. craziness going on down there. i have a feeling this snow we have now will be around till march, so i'm not counting on it melting. i've been wearing my lovely prison orange puffy coat, and i'm doing just fine. :D

STUPID SIMS. i got it to work, by the way. that's computers for you. i just can't load up certain families, for some reason. i'm hoping if i leave that alone long enough it'll fix itself too. >_> so, yeah, i've been playing that all night. after working like 10 hours at work. the time it takes to train new people cancels out any "progress" they make during their shift. i hope they get skilled, and fast, because i'm still dying here.

tomorrow my sister and i are going to west edmonton mall. :D haven't been in a while. i really need new work shoes for work (the pair i have now didn't even last a year! cheap! >:O), and maybe some new black pants for work. and other stuff i forget. i still want a wii. it's all i can think about now, actually. *eyes that california trip savings account* :(

okay, homework. for realz. i shall leave you with yet another amusing clip. :D same sort of thing… an english lesson for japanese people, but this one is, uh… graphic. well, the language at least. i'm still in shock that there are english lessons that teach this crap. don't teach japanese people these things! X_X but it's fun to laugh at. i love this chick's examples of when to use these sexual phrases. "come on, toshi! come on! come on! toshi! come on! come on, toshi!" and i nearly peed myself when she used examples of different subjects (i/you/we/she, etc.). i don't want to ruin it for you. >:D just watch it.

i bought the sims 2 pets today. i'm having technical difficulties. -_- i can load the game up, but when i try to load a family up, it stops half way through, the music goes into seizures, and it eventually closes (or crashes followed by a lovely error). i checked help pages and i updated the drivers that were supposedly problematic. yeah, didn't help. at least i got to make cute little pets, and it's so fun and cool. i can't play them though. -_-

i don't really have the energy to deal with this right now. i've been trying to fix this for the past few hours, and i'm sick of it.

today while i was buying the game (at eb games, i went to a different one that actually has decent service… the only one i'll ever shop at, to be honest) i think i was the only one that wasn't buying a copy of final fantasy xii… o_o i joked with the clerk about that. :D i don't really play final fantasy, so i didn't really know. the lineup was huge, so it didn't take me long to figure out what was going on.

while at eb games, i saw a video of the nintendo pee wii in action. i pretty much just heard of this motion-type controller, never really seeing how it worked. actually, i have seen people apparently using it, but that's about it. just the people. you couldn't see what they were playing and what their motions were doing on-screen. and, yeah, today i did. i want a wii. o_o i can't really afford it, and it's coming out in less than two weeks. :( i don't really have time to play it, so maybe that's a blessing in disguise. i think i might buy it for myself in december if i have the money. >_> i doubt anyone will buy it for me for christmas, but if i buy myself one, they can get me games. >:D that zelda game looks awesome. *_* and you can play gamecube games on the wii, so that's cool. two-for-one. i've only ever played gamecube a handful of times, to be honest. i've kind of shunned console gaming for the past few years. hmmm, i guess i should mention that i originally wanted a ps3. until i saw the price tag. wii is half the price and actually appears to be more innovative. and actually has a few games in its lineup that i want to play. so, yeah, i want one! :( i also want to go to california in the summer. >_<

halloween. i didn't do anything for it. :D not a single thing. i will, however, be buying cheap candy in the very near future. >_>

work. things are improving. we've got three trainees all of a sudden. @_@!!! how crazy is that!? so that makes five people we've trained in the past month? the first two left after a couple days. i hope at least a couple of our current ones stay. it's kind of interesting how all three of them are racially different. one's asian (chinese, i think?), one's black, and one's east indian. we're turning into the united nations in the bakery department. >D

i have a final on monday. o_o yes, already. it's my ecology lab final. the weeks following the final are our research proposal presentations, which is worth more than the final. as if mondays aren't bad enough for me, i've got class for several hours in a row, then a final in the evening. x_x

i have so much japanese homework all of a sudden. some due friday, some due next week. i think i'll just do it all at once. and then study for the kanji quiz on friday. x_x yeah, i'll do that tomorrow. i'm at the point now where i really hope i get an A in this class. i have one more midterm coming up (i hate classes that have two midterms) and if i get a good mark on that, i think i might have a chance. i've done some rough calculations of what kind of grades i'll need on the upcoming exams, and A+ is just out of reach for me. if i do well on the final, i'm just barely in the A range. which is good because at my school, an A is considered a 4.0 (is it like that everywhere?). A+ is kind of pointless, isn't it?

bleh… i should go to bed. work at 7:00 in the morning, once again. :( i'll leave you with a really funny video i found on youtube recently. really, it's hilarious. i can't stop laughing at it. the intro is boring, but just stick with it. the actual content is gold. it's an english lesson for japanese people of the highest quality possible.

judy, come on!