Friday, March 31, 2006
Does anyone know the name of this font and where I might get it?
I know it comes as one of the default fonts with some Windows packages, but not in mine. And I need it.
And if no one's got a clue, does anyone know where to find any similar ones? Please?
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
I am 23½ today.
I've celebrated my half birthdays for four years now.
This year, I went for a walk and bought this special kiwi fruit & bana yoghurt.
Am I wild or what?
// edit: I forgot. I also watched the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1990 version of Othello, someone might count that as celebration. Whopping 205 minutes. Ian McKellen's Iago blows my mind. And Clive Swift is so very cool.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Äidin ja Kaijan romaani julkaistiin viime viikolla.
Olen lukenut nyt ehkä puolet, ja on se kyllä kovasti muuttunut siitä ensimmäisestä versiosta, jonka parisen vuotta sitten luin. Silloin jo esitin toiveen, että muutama adjektiivi, jotka keksin kuvaamaan itseäni lukiossa, sekä sitten Jaakon teoria äänestä, joka kuuluu sielun irrotessa ruumiista, poistettaisiin tekstistä, tai ainakin muutettaisiin kovasti. Vaan ei, siellä ovat. Ei siinä mitään, hassuttaa vaan.
Ja ilman tuota kirjaa en ehkä koskaan olisi enää muistanut niitä adjektiiveja. Äiti oli sattumalta löytänyt lapun, jolle ne olin kirjoittanut. Siinä luki
"Olen: ikiväsynyt,
satunnaisylienerginen,
suurinosa-aikaispessimisti."
Mutta niin, Jaakko. Meidän fantastiset hengentuotteemme ovat nyt osa julkaistua rikosromaania. Usko tai älä. Myös Samu on toiminut pienenä innoituksen lähteenä yhden hahmon nimelle. Ainakin näin olen aina olettanut.
Kirjasta tulee kuulemma juttu Hesarin kuukausiliitteeseenkin! Olen kohta ihan oikeasti sukua julkkikselle. Ei tarvitse enää brassailla huipulla Johnny Depp -linkilläni. Paitsi ehkä vähän, koska on se oikeasti ihan tosi huippu.
Sain kesätöitä Karkkilasta. Wuppiduu. Ei sillä, etten olisi töistä tyytyväinen. En vain haluaisi Karkkilaan kesäksi. Ehkäpä vielä joku muu tärppää. Sitä odotellessa..
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Holy major events, Batman!
Fact #1:
I bought a digital camera on Wednesday.
Fact #2:
I also got a new haircut on Wednesday. I am also loving it, which is way beyond weird.
Fact #3:
It is now about 95% certain that I'm going to be accepted to UWE as an exchange student.
With all these things happening, I don't really care that Wednesday evening was in my opinion pretty much a disaster. Or that Thursday was a rather odd experience.
Emmu was here until Thursday evening to this afternoon. We didn't really do anything apart from going to see the Bloodpit gig on Thursday and Memoirs of a Geisha last night. But it was fun. We just hung out and ate way too much chocolate pie.
The chocolate pie substituted for a birthday cake, and although it was really good, there was quite a lot of it. We ate it on Thursday. And twice on Friday. And again twice yesterday. Also Krista and Henna had two pieces each. I had some today after lunch. And lo and behold, still some three or four pieces remain. I'm reaching the point where I never want to see chocolate pie again.
Next spring I will be hanging out here. Teehee. :D
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
A few hours after I'd handed in my media culture research essay yesterday, I realised that I'd forgotten one book from my bibliography. I'm so annoyed!!! It's not the end of the world or anything, but it still bugs me big time. Grah.
Besides annoyed, I'm also a bit scared. My hairdresser's appointment is tomorrow. I have no idea how I'm going to look this time tomorrow. That's like o_O
I've had the same hair for a year now and though I vote for a change, I can't help feeling nervous. Phoo.
Also tomorrow: buying a camera! YESH! I already bought an mp3 player yesterday. I've been saving all my extra money (i.e. gift money & salaries and stuff) this spring and realised that I can now afford buying them both myself. Well, with a little help of dad's "spring money", as he calls it. But whatever. Woo!
Materialistic bliss.
I'm feeling a bit bad for spending all this money, though. A little voice inside my head is telling me to save it. At the same time I cannot think what I should save for. Except maybe for food in June. Arr.
But I do want the camera.
And I've got mum's moral permission to buy it even.
Blagh.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Besides being St. Patrick's day and Emmu's 24th birthday, yesterday was a Big Day - my blog's birthday that is. I've been blogging here for four years now. That's quite a long while to be blogging anywhere, really. But is it an achievement? I don't know. I ate cake, just in case.
I've been out partying on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. The result? I am a walking corpse with bags under my eyes the size of Arizona. It's been fun, but bloody exhausting. Yet another proof that I do need my beauty sleep. Also, my voice is now some three octaves lower than usual, thanks to all the red wine I drank last night - Lättis paid for everything, I was there just for food :p
I am seriosly considering hiring a male servant, though. A young Alfred or something. I tested the idea yesterday a little. So practical! Whenever my glass was empty, it was filled again without asking (mind you, I did have to ask the first few times before the service was working perfectly), and I received a rather good back massage - also without asking. Now, if only this would happen every day! I wonder if I could pay my servant's wages in noodles, because that's pretty much all I can afford in the long run.
Some photos from Thursday evening, the St. Patrick's Day party of Echo and Fides. I'm still waiting Jussi to give me his photos, he's probably got the best ones. And if not, at least he's got most photos, I'm sure :)
I'm thinking that for us to be in the same photo without at least one looking like a complete ass is not even possible.
Like there weren't enough of these already.
Natural smiles.
The bags under my eyes! Warning: it ain't pretty.
N.B. I am perfectly sober in this photo. Hooray..
But it's not like Jaakko's at his best in the photo either. (Which isn't a surprise, we're in Giggling Marlin after all.)
But the last photo is the final straw. I'm so going to stay in tonight. I'm not really in the mood for going out anyway, so it's not really a problem. Also, Ghost is on telly this evening :p
I realised something today:
I've saved me enough money to buy me a digital camera and an mp3 player! Not the best ones, I'm not that rich, but at least fairly decent ones, which is all I need anyway. Might be going shopping next week. Lala.. :D
Oo.
The song quiz thingie in my last post.
Everyone said they recognised Robbie. Which one? There were three Robbie songs there. Ah well. In case anyone wondering, the correct answers are:
1 - Robbie Williams: Old Before I Die
2 - Velvet Chain: Treason
3 - Limp Bizkit: Take A Look Around
4 - Dollshead: It's Over, It's Under
5 - The Rasmus: Someone Else
6 - Linkin Park: Pushing Me Away
7 - Placebo: Haemoglobin
8 - Robbie Williams: Karma Killer
9 - Prime Sth: Believe
10 - Robbie Williams: Millenium
Bonus - The Ark: It Takes A Fool to Remain Sane
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Today I 'ave been mostly feeling nostalgic.
I just found myself swooning over the past layouts of my little blog as well as lw.org. And what do you know, in between of all the heinous ones (Mark Wahlberg? What was I thinking?) there are some I still really, really like. Versions 2 (AJ), 8 (Shaggy and Scooby), 12 (Johnny), 13 (Colin) and 16 (Robbie) here, and 6 (Blooming Precaution, Orlando), 11 (Untitled, Hayden), 12 (Summer Dreaming, Robbie), 13 (Such a Riddle, Nick), 17 (So Classy, Johnny), 19 (I Remember When..., NKOTB) and 20 (It Works Mate!, Monty Python) at lw.org.
Of all the layouts, however, I think my favourite is #17 here, the one featuring Sulley. Possibly. Or then...
(For those who don't have a clue what I'm talking about: click the "gone" link on the left hand side and also go here.)
More nostalgia:
The past few days I've been thinking about lines from songs that made an impression of some kind on me when I was around 17-19. I used to stick little post-its around my room with these lines written on them, and also use many of them as e-mail signatures. I'm still trying to remember more, it's a blast. And also makes me think that my mind is, or at least was, quite troubled. Hmm.
Recognise all ten of these (well, ok, what I think is enough) and receive a wonderful, special prize! The challenge is also for all you little stalkers there (you and I both know who you are) :p And no cheating (i.e. Google).
1 - "I hope I live to see the day the Pope gets high."
2 - "Your cold and frozen mind, locked in the winter season, you only live your life one time, now you must find a reason."
3 - "Life is a lesson, you learn it when you're through."
4 - "It takes more than one taboo to build a perfect freak."
5 - "She drinks the blood of the dinosaurs to get her powers back, to make her boyfriend understand."
6 - "Even the people who never frown eventually break down."
7 - "As they dragged me to my feet I was filled with incoherence, theories of conspiracy, the whole world wants my disappereance."
8 - "I hope you choke on your bacardi and coke."
9 - "'Cause if you don't believe it will not come around, if you walk with your head down you won't be able to see the sun." (There was a happy one there!)
10 - "Get up and see the sarcasm in my eyes."
Bonus track: "Because ridicule is no shame."
(Alright. Numbers 7 and 11 are a bit of a cheat. I discovered them when I was 20. The songs are older than that, though.)
Monday, March 13, 2006
I sent the draft of my media culture research essay to my supervisor today. I have to hand the final one in Monday next week, and I'm a bit excited. It's mostly bad Finnish, but the content is already in order. At least I hope so. I hope he'll read it soon so I wouldn't have to worry about it too much.
Arh.
We received the first of those finished essays today (we'll get one a week) and it's pretty dreadful. The person has ignored all the tips (and requirements) concerning the layout of the paper. Also, it's three times as long as it should be. Well, yay. Only seeing that essay makes me extremely pissed off, let alone trying to read it. I think I'll read the most important parts and then say that I wasn't able to concentrate on it properly due to lack of time. Wouldn't be lying either - the person handed the essay in a week too late and now we have only three days to go through it.
I guess it's needless to say that the person, whose essay it is, is not one of my favourite people in the universe.
Still, I'll give it a shot. Even if it's a minor one.
Henna and me went to see Brokeback Mountain on Saturday (finally). I'm joining the parade of the people who loved it. I loved it! I adored the slow tempo, that's how people really live after all. Very good performances, too. I basically liked everyone, which is saying something, because I'm not the biggest fan of many of the cast members. Also, refreshing to see Jake Gyllenhaal doing a role that is not a fucked up teenager.
How does Heath Ledger manage to speak without the whole of his upper jaw moving? Just wondering.
I also loved the make-up (making the two main characters look older so realistically - and a big hurrah for Jack's 1970s trend mosutache!) and little details, like the electric knife and other wonderful technology. Everything was so carefully planned, absolutely beautiful. And while the idea of cowboy yuppies made me laugh, it slightly scared me too. Don't know why. But as Henna pointed out, when Jack goes to Mexico, the contrast is so in-your-face type that it's shocking, and also a bit disturbing.
Still, first and foremost, the film made me think. A lot. About so many different things. Obviously the gay issue was on top of the list. I know it's still a difficult and painful matter in some areas (and being a gay cowboy probably isn't any easier now than it was in the 60s), but at least we're making some progress and the world is, slowly but steadily, actually changing.
Ah well. Like I said, that was only one thing the film made think about. It was a peculiar kind of film, though. It made you sad and think the world unfair. And yet you left the theatre strangely happy and a bit hopeful (and very much baffled). Clever work of art, that one.
And then to something completely different.
I've been trying to leave a comment to Suvi's LJ for days now but it won't let me. And now my comments aren't really topical anymore and I can't be bothered to try again. And again. And again. Annoyance.
Friday, March 10, 2006
Feeling nasty and a bit sad, mostly because of a little misunderstanding that made me think. Just informing everyone. Ha.
Me and Henna are celebrating her finished proseminar paper and thus walkign to Prisma. Maybe that will cheer me up. It's an exciting life we lead.
// edit: So, me and Henna went also for Osama Bin Laden's birthday tea & cake. I need to stop going to Houkutus this often. Eating all those cakes and things will otherwise make me a) broke b) wonderfully obese.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
WTF? Tai ehkä sittenki niinku OMG.
Ostin juuri käsipainot.
5,90e.
Hm.
I love these mornings when I'm not in a rush, i.e. wake up early enough, get things done and still have some time just for myself. Just finished reading the fifth act of Othello and am now having my morning tea <3
Noora and Tomi's wedding came and went. It was the first proper wedding I've ever attended(!). So pretty. Going into detail would pretty much be useless, but to summarise, I had a good time and ate more than I probably should have. And Noora looked so beautiful I could hardly believe it, but that was to be expected.
My sleep schedule is a bit of a bummer nowadays, though. After 10pm I could hardly keep myself awake and was pretty much the party poop for the next four hours. Then I gave up and went to bed. I do love my sleep and I think it's good for me that I go to bed early nowadays, but not being able to stay up later than 10 or 11pm is a bit ridiculous, right? Right. I need to work on that.
I have a hairdresser's appointment in two weeks and am now obsessing about my hair? What to do? New cut - shaping the old cut? Fringe - no fringe? Aa! I curled my hair for the wedding and loved it but there's really no point in me getting a perm because my hair is in such a bad condition that it is just a matter of time when it will fall off completely. Bollocks.
This obsessing does go well together with one of my projects for 2006, though. Be more feminine. Hooray. I decided to start to work on the project last Friday when I found two pairs of gorgeous high heel shoes I really wanted. Not that it really matters, each pair cost me five euros :) Now I just need to learn how to walk with them. Put me on high heels and you have the comic relief for any occasion. It's rather weird, though, because I used high heels through seventh and eighth grades and saw no problem with it. Then I moved on to sneakers and that's where I still am. Very practical for everyday but not so much for special events. Hm.
The cinema lecture course starts today. Woo! That means no literary and cultural theory classes for me for the next few weeks. I could always keep up with the theories by reading the Barry book on my own time. Mwa-ha-ha.
On a side note, scary moustache seems to be in at the moment. Evidence 1, 2 and 3.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Know the feeling when you're not really hungover but still feeling like a flubberworm with a mild headache? That's me.
I seriously don't know if drinking wine (even if it's good) is worth this. I get nothing done, concentrating on anything is impossible. And of course I ought to be doing my media culture project like looney. How lovely.
I've still got three hours to get myself together before the effin' job interview. Why am I going in the first place??! I don't want the job. Unless, of course, for some strange and unknown reason it happens to pay very well, which I doubt.
Ooo. I got my proseminar draft back yesterday. I'm not worried about it at all anymore, I know it's a pass. I just need to polish the language and write the Finnish abstract. I'd written a bunch of questions and got most of them answered, too. Woo. Had fun when reading the comments, though.
Hanna asks: Is the content itself ok?
Jopi answers: Yes.
Hanna asks: Or have I completely misunderstood the whole theory?
Jopi answers: No.
He's a man of many words.
The Snow All Over Our Overalls thingie yesterday was a bit blah. Of course, I didn't want to go in the first place so it might've caused the blah factor. Our team won the music quiz, though, which was fairly cool. The wonderful victory was much thanks to us knowing all the lyrics from the embarrassing songs, like Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca. I also recognised Britney's Born to Make You Happy and New Kids on the Block's Step By Step (apparently I was the only one that recognised that - am I weird or are the others just uncivilized morons? I opt for the latter). And Jaakko recognised Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. The fact that Samu knew Black Sabbath didn't count much. Kari was still mortified because of the fact that he was in a team that knew all the wonderful pop tunes :) And what did we win? A Britney Spears DVD. Hurrah!
Apparently, (to use Rika's wonderful expression) everyone and their granny is reading this blog nowadays. I really don't understand it. Are people really interested in knowing that I want to have babies with Andy Serkis? Hum, hum. I'll never know.
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