Table the Motion

[kaitou]

Yay! I have a table! My dad's been in and out of town a lot this week. He's got a job in Southern Indiana, and the drive all the way back up to Detroit is a killer, so he's been stopping by my place on his way back and forth. And, lucky for me, he's been trying out his new woodworking skills. I admit to being skeptical before. You can't blame me, I remember the playhouse he decided to build me when I was 7 and how well THAT went. But the table is nice. It butts up against my computer desk and finally gives me a place to do some crafts. I haven't had that since high school. It'll be nice to get back into some actual art again.

I haven't been online a lot lately, and it's all Luny's fault for sending me disks of the Gokusen dorama. OMG, such love! She already treated me to a marathon showing of the anime when I was in Boston for an interview, and I like the Dorama just as much. Yankumi is my hero. And...I'm not sure if this makes me ecchi or not, but boy the kid that plays Shin is hawt. Hot like suns are hot. It's almost a shame that the dorama doesn't have the same Yankumi/Shin vibe like the anime does.

Oh, and thinking of rough speaking chicks...
My boss:

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Yay! I have a table! My dad's been in and out of town a lot this week. He's got a job in Southern Indiana, and the drive all the way back up to Detroit is a killer, so he's been stopping by my place on his way back and forth. And, lucky for me, he's been trying out his new woodworking skills. I admit to being skeptical before. You can't blame me, I remember the playhouse he decided to build me when I was 7 and how well THAT went. But the table is nice. It butts up against my computer desk and finally gives me a place to do some crafts. I haven't had that since high school. It'll be nice to get back into some actual art again.

I haven't been online a lot lately, and it's all Luny's fault for sending me disks of the Gokusen dorama. OMG, such love! She already treated me to a marathon showing of the anime when I was in Boston for an interview, and I like the Dorama just as much. Yankumi is my hero. And...I'm not sure if this makes me ecchi or not, but boy the kid that plays Shin is hawt. Hot like suns are hot. It's almost a shame that the dorama doesn't have the same Yankumi/Shin vibe like the anime does.

Oh, and thinking of rough speaking chicks...
My boss: <Ann is a bad influence! She is teaching the plant bad Japanese.>
Me: <No no, it's all you. You say bad things, and then everyone asks me, 'What did he say?'>
My boss: <No! My Japanese is like totally polite.>
Me: <If it were polite you wouldn't say 'like totally' would you.>
Office Lady: <She's right. Ann wins.>
My boss: <My Japanese was just corrected by an American. T_T >

Comments

[spaceboss.livejournal.com]

My boss:

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<i>My boss: <My Japanese was just corrected by an American. T_T ></i>

ann totally wins.

[spaceboss.livejournal.com]

i don't know why that first string of nonsense is in my reply. @.@ it just popped up! weird!

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

it doesn't like the < >'s. It did the same to me in my post. Damn you Megatokyo for making < >'s the universal internet symbol for 'speaking japanese!'

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that I can just picture that snippet of office life in a 4-koma strip, and it's terribly cute.

Desks that give one space to do work are very cool.

Glad to hear you are doing stuff, and if I hadn't said it before, I should definitely do so now, but a lot of my friends here really enjoy your CSI: Middle-Earth icon. Much love.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I have to know: What did he say that was "like totally"?

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Boss: Ore no Nihongo wa meccha teinei da yo.
Me: Teinei dattara 'meccha' iwanai deshou?
OL: Ann-san no kachi!

The really sad thing is that I get the Japanese puns faster than the HR manager, Hanako half the time. But I can still barely frame a coherent sentence when I have to. *le sigh*

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

Meccha! Of course. That's totally "like totally."

But I can still barely frame a coherent sentence when I have to.
That's definitely the hard part. I wish I was less shy, so I would go meet people and talk to them and stuff. Oh well. ._.

[velithya]

Thank you for posting the Japanese :)

Also, go you.