Sunday, October 30, 2005
Jotenkin jumitin Reetan kanssa meseen, vaikka ruotsin sanoja piti lukea (huolimatta siitä, että oltiin molemmat "poissa"). Kuinka kummassa näin kävikään..
Reeta sanoo:
No katellaan...kyllä me Se Oikea sulle bongataan
Hanna sanoo:
Joensuusta. Voin oikein kuvitella! (Tuo oli sarkastinen ääneni.)
Reeta sanoo:
Noh..äläs nyt...Joensuuhan on täynnä...hmm...varteenotettavia vaihotehtoja...Joo ei..
Hanna sanoo:
Siinä mielessä tämä on ihan hyvä paikka, että tykkään pitkätukkaisista miehistä ja vaikka se trendi onkin muualla Suomessa jo ollutta ja mennyttä, Joensuun yliopiston humanistisesta tiedekunnasta ne ei ihan hevillä lopu.
Reeta sanoo:
Aivan...sittehän oot ihan oikeessa paikassa ite oon kyllä vähän lyhyemmän stailin kannalla..
Hanna sanoo:
Mulle käy kaikki pituudet kunhan ne on oikeessa päässä.
Reeta sanoo:
Well said!
Hanna sanoo:
Joskus olen viisas..
Ah, näitä sunnuntai-illan väläyksiä! Voin kohta kerätä vaikka kokonaisen aforismikirjan!
ps. Tulimme myös tulokseen, että humpan pitkätukat on jo nähty, joten niistä ei ole ihan hirveästi hyötyä projektia ajatellen. Eikä taitaisi olla muutenkaan. Projekti kun oli mennä äkkiä rikkaisiin naimisiin ja olla edustusrouva / ikuinen opiskelija ja syödä pelkkää fondueta. Ei, ei me olla turhautuneita rahattomuuteen..
I think I'm getting the flu again. NOO! I simply have no time to be sick now. No time. I need myself 100% now, there's no way I can spend a few days lying in bed. No, no, no.
Things aren't looking too bad right now stres-wise, though. I've now got some six pages of my proseminar research survey ready, which only means four more to go. Or actually, the term "ready" is a bit questionable. It's only a draft, but at least it's written text in the right format. In other words, even if for some reason I won't have time to polish the language, I will have something to hand in on the 17th. So go me.
My aim is that by Thursday, I'd have all the ten pages written. Then I could print it out and spend some quality time with it next weekend on the train. When I'm not reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, that is.
What I haven't done this weekend is revise Swedish vocabulary. Bollocks. But it's only 6.30pm now, I still have loads of time to do it today.. :|
My life is a bore. I just sit at home and whine about my school stress. I've known that for a while now, but when I spoke with dad on the phone just now, it made me feel extra-extra bad. He deserves to hear some good news, not just the eternal whining. Ah. Maybe some day.
Henna and Riku popped over yesterday afternoon, which was really nice for three reasons. 1) It was a break from the effin' research survey. 2) I feel like I've hardly seen Henna whole term, which is really depressing. 3) I got to meet Riku properly. We've seen each other before, but we've never really spoken to each other or anything.
I don't think I'm getting all my vitamins again. Yesterday I looked myself in the mirror properly without my make-up on, which is something I haven't done in a good long while, and I seriously wonder how I am still alive. I look terrible. I have no idea what to do.. Should I just go and buy all the multi-vitamin and F++ tablets again or what? I've tried to take care of proper nutrition, but apparently I haven't succeeded too well. Rah. So depressing. Or then it's just the flu, not sure. All I know is that I look like a fed-up zombie.
Feeling pretty.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Today I have been mostly annoyed by:
- people who drown in their "academic" vocabulary, ie. use English-based word when a Finnish equvalent exists and would, in fact, be more accurate
- people who are so deep in their own things they forget about the others
- people who pour their stress over everyone else forgetting that others might be stressed out as well (talking and sharing is fine if the person doesn't think he or she is the only one with stress and problems)
- elderly people who think they can jump the queue just because they're older
- people who have been way too lazy when it comes to trying to understand a literary theory pointed out to them and are therefore stuck with their proseminar research survey, ie. me
So a big "grrrr" to all those mentioned.
It's getting a bit boring to be so stressed out all the time that all you can really do is cry. Hm.
Bought a dress for the Halloween party today. It's size 38! The last time I've been able to fit in anything size 38 must have been some 10 years back. Sure, the dress is way too tight and makes a) sitting b) breathing a tad bit difficult. But I think I'll be able to work on it and fix it a little. I only bought it for this one occasion, and it cost me mere three euros, so I guess it's alright. Of course, me being the boob monster I am, I can't fit my bosom in the dress properly and it makes me all funny-shaped. I think I'll be able to fix that too, but I'm not sure.
Still, size 38 does give a cause for celebration.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Referring to my Saturday post (especially you and you): no, I can't share. Nor would I want to even if I could. It's personal stuff, but not mine. But everything seems to be alright now, for my part at least, mainly due to honesty and real conversation. Never, ever underestimate those two things. Thanks thanks to them, hell broke loose only temporarily. Hurrah.
Blagh.
But I will try not to talk about "real" things when drunk from now on. I know I won't be able to pull it off, but whatever. At least I'm trying and that should be good enough.
I know I've been kind of down lately, but now I'm just stressed out. Way too stressed out, in fact. Raah. I finished one essay last night and ought to be starting another as we speak. Only four more two go. Wheee.. Time left: a month. I'm pretty certain this'll kill me. Eep.
But when I forget my stress for a nano second or so, I'm pretty much going tra-la-la. Which is a nice change since I think I've done enough moping already for the school year.
Other nice news: I think Noora and me are on our way to becoming real friends-friends. Before she's been the one with who it's cool to hang out with, but now I'm starting to feel like I can really talk to her about real things. Of course it also helps that we seem to share a life so she's pretty much bound to get me :) But still. It's not like I have JNS full of trusted friends yet, only a few.
My official version of BSB's Never Gone arrived yesterday and I'm loving it. I don't know where the hell the songs on the pirated version came from, but I totally undersand why they're not on the actual album. Of the fourteen songs on the album, eight are not included in the pirated version. And they're good! I love Siberia.
But I do have to say that I prefer the pirated version of Climbing the Walls! More acoustic background, it fits the feeling of the song. The other version is also pretty, but the acoustic version it ain't.
More CD news: Annika gave me Mokoma's Kurimus yesterday. I really mean gave. I wanted to pay for it but she wouldn't have it since it's a promotional copy and she never paid for it herself. Strange girl. But we agreed that I owe her one now, which definitely is fair enough.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
I didn't mean to make it spin again,
I didn't mean to mess up all over again.
Sometimes I wish I lived like you,
but to me it's still too plain.
For my sake I wish I lived like you,
but I wouldn't be the same.
Sometimes my foot likes to live in my mouth.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Jebus!
It's Roo!
o_O
And she's has disabled anonymous LJ commenting and I can't leave her a comment!
So, as the only medium to reach her that I can think of is this here..
Hello. I am doing fine. If you don't count the stress. The same as ever.
Also, after all the anaesthetic the dentist used, there's no way he could've hurt me really :)
But how are you? Where have you been?!
How long has it been?
Ages in the internet time anyway.
And at least two years in the regular time.
Wow.
And she has lostsailors in her LJ friends.
It's a small internet.
This feels even more weird than when Ellen left me a comment. Or when I rediscovered Nellie.
My old online people still seem to exist.
Wow.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
The happiest morning ever: my dentist appointment is today! Hurrah..
But I have to say that I was being only partly sarcastic there. Although I'm going to see the dentist who always works about 40 minutes on one tooth and then charges double, I'm kind of looking forward to this. I'm hoping it'll be the end of the splitting headaches caused by the effin' tooth.
It is also Mikko's birthday today. Better send him a message or something even though he forgot to send me one (dur). What's he now? Twenty-seven? Time really does fly.
Started really, really working on the mediaculture essay last night and realised that I can't do it on the topic I'd chosen. Bollocks. I wanted to do it on surveys and interviews since they're related and I need them both in my own research. But it turns out I can only choose one, it was emphasised. So I guess I'm now writing the essay on survey alone. Harumph. I'm dissappointed. It would've been interesting to do a sort of compare and contrast between the two. Also, it would've been easier to write full ten pages that way :)
Maybe I could sneak in some comments on interviews.. "And in such cases, interviews prove to be more beneficial." Err.
More school stuff: I did the most amazing thing last Sunday. I read 165 pages of Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and thus managed to read it in time for Monday's lecture. The most amazing thing isn't that I was able to do it when going through one 12-page chapter usually takes me about half an hour, but the fact that I wasn't all bored all the time. Having said that, though, I might as well add that I never want to see the book again. Even if my uncle thinks it's brilliant.
Roy: Has anyone managed to read it through?
*About three hands rise*
Roy: Now, why is that?
Class: It's so boring..
Roy: Cooper? Boring? Really? *insert mocking laughter here* You don't read it because it's interesting, nobody reads Cooper for that, but because it does have its place in the early American literature.
Class: Well, great.
I'm still wondering what was the utmost reason for me going to Karkkila last weekend. Maybe it was the Bloodpit gig (which I did enjoy, by the way), maybe the SBP party, I don't know. But I could've skipped it just as well. Ah well. It's done now, can't change it. But now that I'm here in JNS and I'm pretty certain I will not be going anywhere for the net few weeks if I can help it. I can sit here and spend quality time with my a) mediaculture essay b) virtual therapist (=Suvi) on messenger. Har.
Mum gave me the hugest pupmkin slice to take with me. I've never been a fan of pumpkin (thanks to the pickled pumpkin they stuffed us with in high school) and have no idea what to do with it. I guess I need to find a good recipe for a pie or something. Matti suggested a pumpkin party but I don't think it's such a good idea considering what happened when I last cooked for someone else, ie. the hardest pizza dough in the world history. But if the pie, or whatever, turns out alright, I might reconsider it. If I ever find time to actually find the recipe and bake that is. I deeply dislike being too busy to do anything fun. Makes me go grrr.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Blargh. I dislike my life. And me. And my lack of motivation. And pretty much everything related to anything.
The only things that seem to happen are school related (last weekend doesn't count, it was an oddity that will never happen again) and I just couldn't care less. I have way too many things to do and absolutely no interest to do anything about them. Arrrr.
But I've decided to stop moping about the Boy. It's a slow progress but whatever. I can then move on to moping about other things - that makes more sense anyway.
I've asked some five or six people to come over tomorrow evening so we can fight the time of the year together. Or kaamos to be exact, I have no idea how you could say it in English. The point is, I don't think I'm much of a fighter right now. I'll let the others do the fighting and will give my full attention to my wine. Whee.
I've promised them there'll be something small to eat there, but have absolutely no idea what it might be. I will not buy crisps. Full stop.
Arse, arse.
And then to something completely different:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Err. As Tim Burton, Roald Dahl and Johnny Depp are in my opinion probably the three best things ever to have existed on this planet, I had rather high expectations. Needless to say I was disappointed. But as you always are when you expect something to be absolutely prefect, I kind of guessed it in advance and don't really find it a problem.
Minus:
- The songs. I liked the fact they were featured but not the way how.
- Christopher Lee is always cool but the family history part was a bit odd. I know you should never compare the book and the film but I can't help it.
- I found the ending extremely American. Then again, it is supposedly a children's movie.
- The clothing of the Oompa-Loompas o_O
Plus:
+ The presence of Roald Dahl. You could sense him all the way through the film.
+ Johnny Depp.
+ I thought it was cool that the chocolate factory (especially during the opening credits) reminded me so much of Edward Scissorhands. If the Inventor had had a chocolate factory, it would've been just like Wonka's.
+ Grandpa Joe! All in all, the casting was fine.
The interpretation of Willy Wonka's character differed quite a lot of my own. Can't really complain about it, but some parts didn't really make sense to me. Of course, I'm now pretty much married to the book (effin' proseminar) so my eye is a tad bit more critical than other people's.
But it's weird how master Depp once again managed to look different from every other role he's done so far (and definitely from himself). There was a scary amount of Michael Jackson in Willy Wonka, but not too much thankfully.
I am not sure if this really is meant for kids. I think children will miss most of the hidden jokes and stuff, and enjoy the film nonetheless. But I really wouldn't recommend it for the 7-year-olds (which is the age limit over here, actually). And Willy Wonka alone is somewhat scary, with those teeth and all.
Extra credit for casting Missi Pyle, Noah Taylor and Adam Godley as Mrs Beauregarde, Mr Bucket and Mr Teavee, respectively. They were quite perfect.
I do have to say I have some issues with the guy responsible for the Finnish subtitles. Good lord! But better to have the terrible subtitles than to see the dubbed version. I don't even want to know who was the brainiac who thought it was necessary.
ps. My Bloodpit shirt arrived today, hooray!
Monday, October 03, 2005
New (probably a temporary) layout. Because..
...Ok. Woah.
The BSB concert was last night and I'm still all hyperactive about it. It was the best ever, doesn't matter what kind of scale you use. That's basically it. It was. Beyond description.
I didn't fully realise where I was until the BSB gig actually started. And it was fun to notice how I went through all these stages when understanding my surroundings.
Stage 1: Backstreet Boys concert. Cool.
Stage 2: I wish they'd start already, my feet hurt.
Stage 3: Nice that we're this close to the stage and everything.
Stage 4: My God, I really am at a BSB concert!
Stage 5: They look good.
Stage 6: Hold on, that person really is Kevin / AJ / Nick / Brian / Howie.
Stage 7: Utter shock.
Stage 8: Boogie like looney.
Stage 9: Excessive happiness.
It was all over too soon. Then again, they played for two hours, which (to be fair) is sufficient. And they stopped early enough so that I didn't have to panic about catching my bus.
I really don't have anything to complain about. Except maybe about Technicolor being the supporting act. It worked surpsingly well but I'm starting to have serious issues with Jimi Pääkallo. Grief.. the guy's a moron! Or if he's not, he surely hides his true nature well. But I will not go into detail. I will, however, add that I've always thought Teach Me Love is one of the most useless songs in the history of music and of course it's the one that's been stuck in my head ever since the concert ended. Rah!
But to happier things. Like BSB's set list, for example. It made me realise that I really do want to buy the official Never Gone album. My wonderful pirated copy is missing all the good songs! No wonder I thought the album was utter crap. The set list itself was very well chosen, though. And because I like to analyse things (but only briefly)..
1. The Call
-- Possibly the best opening song they could've picked - it was absolutely perfect. Almost phoned Emmu so that she could've heard it.
2. My Beautiful Woman
-- This song attracts me strangely. Worked well after The Call.
3. More Than That
-- Pretty, pretty though it's never been one of the favourites.
4. Climbing the Walls
-- Nick playing guitar on this seemed a bit corny to me, but I'm in love with the song, it sends shivers down my spine.
5. Shape of My Heart
-- Boring ballad no more! This one rocked! Loved this version. More this, please!
6. Video: Millenium (song: Don't Want You Back)
-- Possibly my all time favourite BSB track. I wish I could've heard it live, but the fact that it was featured made me happy as well.
7. The One
-- I've never really liked The One, but that didn't matter. The show made up for it very nicely. Some good old dance moves featured there.
8. I Still
-- One of the songs not on my album, damn it. Sounded very pretty.
9. I Want It That Way
-- Kevin's first solo in the concert and everyone was screaming. Brought back loads of memories this one. Still loving it.
10. Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
-- Always touching, isn't it? Again lots of screams for Kevin, which I found weird. Ah well.
11. Larger Than Life
-- Robot moves! Oo-er. But it still works.
12. Siberia
-- Another song that's mysteriously missing from my album. Feathers came down from the ceiling. They were pretty. So was the song.
13. Video: Backstreet Boys / Backstreet's Back (song: We've Got it Goin On)
-- Once they were young.
14. All I Have to Give
-- I've never cared for AIHTG, which is pretty much crap in my opinion. The hat routine was there again, that's the (corny) highlight. I still enjoyed it, though.
15. As Long As You Love Me
-- I missed the chair routine, but I guess you have to draw the line somewhere :) It's a surprisingly good song, actually. Whee.
16. I'll Never Break Your Heart
-- This one made Suvi go "squeeeee!" and me "nooooo!". And still I sang along like there's no tomorrow. Oh dear. It's better live, really.
17. Just Want you To Know
-- Nick on guitar again. No wigs! Such a disappointment. Luckily they showed the video on background so the mullets were still present.
18. Crawling Back To You
-- Yet another one I don't have. Very nice by what I could make of it.
19. Drowning
-- One of those that send shivers down my spine. Were I the one to faint or cry hysterically during touching songs, this would've been it.
20. Quit Playing Games
-- I've never figured this one out. When listening to the CDs, I always skip it but have always loved the live version. And I love singing the chorus. The "quit playing games with my heart before you tear us apart quit playing games with my heart.." part, that is.
21. Video: Never Gone (song: Never Gone - ha..)
-- Never realised I knew the lyrics to this one. Not the best of the ballads, but the video was lovely.
22. Weird World
-- The inevitable "Kevin on piano" number. And yet another one I don't have on my CD. But I have to say it was lovely.
23. Incomplete
-- Kevin still on piano. There are no words to describe how I feel about this song. In a positive way. WAH!
24. Encore: Backstreet's Back
Well, you can't stop being all hyperactive about this, really. A good encore. Also, I think that it was fair they only played one song as an encore. I think they had some three or four in the Millenium tour. That was pushing it a little. All in all, good choice for the last song. Happy and energetic mood guaranteed. :)
I think I'm so taken with the whole thing because I'm not the hysterical fan I once was anymore (and there were quite a few of those there, believe you me). It was good the last time around (six years ago, help!) but this was way, way better.
Sigh. I so hope this wasn't the last time I see them live. They're so effin' good. Even if AJ's the only on who's voice I really, really like (same goes for Kevin but his expression isn't always all that great) and Nick can't dance to save his life. And I still occassionally do think Howie's a troll. :)
And because I am me..
Kevin looked so good! Gone is the terrible moptop that never suited him. AJ was looking good as well, but you can see he's been going through a bit tougher times. And Brian's finally started to look like a man, which suits him. Nick and Howie looked like Nick and Howie. Except that Howie looked less like a troll than he did earlier when he had short hair (I really preferred it long). But Kevin. Sweet cheese.
Hanna: Drool.
BSB: Now let us introduce our musicians..
Hanna: Drool!
I don't know where the hell they find those musicians anyway. I don't think I've ever seen an unpretty member in the Backstreet band. Hmm..
But I guess that the conclusion that can be drawn from all this is that although the return trip to JNS in a nightbus wasn't all that pleasant, fun was had and that I loved every second of it. Even the Jimi Pääkallo moments as they pretty much made me laugh.
Went to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today, but because I think it deserves more attention than I'm able to give to it right now, I will make another post about it later :)
Saturday, October 01, 2005
There was an advert for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in today's Helsingin Sanomat. Additional text:
"Now also available as a book!"
I am appalled.
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