tyblazitar

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Farewell, LiveJournal! It's been almost three years, and a lot has happened. I will still lurk my friends page, but this will be my last entry.

Inactive blog? Me? Why I never-

So, I've been constantly planning to blog about all the things I've been doing lately, but, well, there haven't been time in between them all. :D Suffice to say I've been spending lots of time with friends and having lots of fun, and also I've spent some time with the family. Today was my last day in Sandnes (and I had a great time with friends), and I and my father leave for Oslo tomorrow at 7 AM.

Now, I'm terrified about moving. Not only will I miss Ingvild, Rakel and Sophia tremendously, but there's also Jahn, KH, Kjell, Linda, the other Outland-people, all the random attendants at the gaming evenings, Hans, Ruben, the Forus-girls, the people at work, a couple of the people from school (both teachers and students), and I'll stop the list there before it grows out of proportions. When I finally manage to have a real network with lots of awesome people, I move away (to a new and also awesome network, yes, but still...).

Oh well, I'll get over it, I'll see them now and then anyway, and I'm sure my time in Oslo will be completely fantastic. I'm just unable to see anything other than what I'll miss. Sigh.

Also, like I mentioned earlier, I'll probably stop blogging here on LJ. I want a new blog for a variety of reasons, first and foremost because I feel like a new era of my life is beginning. I'm thinking tyblog.wordpress.com, and it'll probably be in Norwegian, seeing as my English-speaking audience isn't that huge, and I find it far easier to blog in my own language. Sorry Pikestaff! T_T I'll still follow my LJ friends and comment, though. :3

So, uh, bye for now!

Current Mood: anxious

I've been really busy lately, and hung out a lot with people. This Thursday, we decided to go to Sophia for gaming. Jahn also visited, and I got to try out SPANC (Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls), which was awesome, and also played some mahjong. After being kicked out, we (I, Jahn, Amund, Gunnar, Rakel and Ingvild) went to Ingvild's place to watch TV (Cops \o/) and talk. We left at about 2 AM, and had a really great day overall.

Friday was not that eventful. I had work, and afterward was invited to Gunnar for dinner and a movie. Forrest Gump is basically a loose adaption of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot", I discovered. Great movie.

Now, today (or technically yesterday and today) was seriously awesome. After work, I, Amund, Gunnar, Rakel, Ingvild and Åi took the ferry to Tau to meet Øystein. We grabbed a cab and went out to the middle of nowhere, a really pretty place with some benches and nature. There, we grilled hot dogs and listened a lot to 90's music (like Vengaboys, Aqua and Backstreet Boys). There was also drinking and cuddling and games ("I have never..."), as well as lots of awesome stuff. The ferry home again left at 2 AM, and I just got home at 3:30. This has been the most fun I've had in ages.

I am now seriously sad about moving away from these people (particularly Rakel, Ingvild, Sophia and Åi). Glad at least Amund and Gunnar are also moving. I'll probably go home for a lot of weekends to meet people. :3

Oh, by the way, I'll probably quit using this when I move. I feel like having a new start, and I'm thinking about starting a new WP-blog, this time in Norwegian. Maybe I'll even use it more often, too.

MENERGY
RAWBERRY
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Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Stroke 9 - Faux Gucci Girl

I managed to find my way from the apartment to the exam location.

Then, I managed to strike up a conversation with one of the other people there, who turned out to be some guy I've talked to on MSN before.

Finally, I got a 5 at the exam.


:D

Current Location: Sannergata 6c
Current Mood: relieved

I suddenly felt awesome.

I should try getting that feeling more.

Wohoo.

(Why, I have no idea. I've spent hours writing a failed analysis of Book of Revelations which I'll probably get a bad grade for. It might be related to the fact that I'm staying in Oslo from Saturday to Wednesday. Also, while still not seeing people a lot, I feel that there is more quality in the time I do spend with friends. Or something. Finally, I've actually talked some to a few people in my class. A couple of them aren't so bad.)

Current Music: Sound Horizon - Yield

Seems I need some kind of nickname on my "russ"-hat. If I can't come up with anything myself, some guy will make up something, and since noone here knows me, it'll probably be something stupid. I'm about as creative as... well, you get the point. So any tips for some sort of nickname? I'm not doing anything related to my nick, but something related to my name, and possibly my interests would do. Seems the others are mostly doing intern humor, or something that rhymes with their name.

I hate myself for needing to ask people about this. >_>

Current Mood: frustrated

So, my latest paycheck was extremely small, and I inquired my boss about the reason, fearing that my own spendings had gone far over my estimates. Fortunately, he revealed that the people in charge of payments were idiots, and had managed to pay me for about 30-40 hours too little. I exhaled relievingly upon the realization that I would manage to pay the rent for the apartment this month. However, this was still not over. Today, my boss had fully illuminated the case, and could share with me the knowledge of the shocking incompetence of the pay-people; they owed me for around 100 hours, to be paid within the weekend.

So yes, that must be the reason my finances weren't quite what I had expected they would be before Christmas. And now I won't have to sell lots of stuff to afford both the payments on the apartment and the Japan-trip.

:D

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: 369 - Kasumi

I had the weirdest dream tonight. I don't remember it all, but I do remember me and Janne getting pills from Ken Patrick, who for some reason had a great variety of drugs available. I chose a small pill that would make my night awesome, and would erase my memory before the next morning. It wasn't all that great, but at least the color green was switched for orange, which made me laugh a lot. My memory wasn't lost, but all in all it was a fun experience. Yes.

I haven't really been doing a lot of interesting things lately. Played some mahjong, won a lot, yay. Awesome weekend in Bekkefaret, lots of fun and no sleep. Lots of anime and online mahjong.

Oh, and a horrible school assignment. We were told to analyze whatever we wanted, and I chose Revelations. Bad idea. I'm more than a week overdue, and far from done. Sigh.

Current Mood: bored

Recently, I've finally gotten to watch a lot of anime. I'm also doing school work, writing for anime.no, keeping my room clean and getting enough sleep.

Great, right? Yeah, except that it's led to me never being on MSN or IRC (I haven't logged on at all since I moved, actually). I don't like spending time on my laptop, and don't have internet on my desktop yet, so that's just the way things turned out. And it's not too bad, actually. Not to say I don't miss talking to my friends, but when I had MSN and IRC open, I spent way too much time there, and I was never able to do anything else. It distracted me from school work, which is really important right now, it kept me up late, and it created an Xbox-hueg backlog of anime, further creating stress. My old room was a huge mess, and I need time to prevent that in my new room, as well as to fix up the last things needed to make a great room.

Of course, I won't completely cut myself off from chatting. I just need some time away, I guess, and when I return, I have to learn to restrict it. Social contact is good, of course, but I really need to concentrate on school and other things right now. Besides, I know that I'll have plenty of time to spend with the people I chat with the most this summer and the next year anyway.

Current Mood: blah

I moved today.

It was a lot of work, and there's still a lot of stuff at my mom's house. Also, this room is really messy and unorganized, so there'll still be a lot to do tomorrow. But at least I have my bed and my desk here, as well as my computers. I didn't get online with my desktop. I believe it has a wireless network card (do they even sell desktops without those anymore?), but I can't figure out how to get it to work. I've been using cable my entire life, it's almost sad changing.

The room is really nice. It's supposedly smaller than my last one, but it feels much bigger, even with all the mess. There's also more shelf-space, yay! The house itself is also great, and with only me and my dad, I doubt it'll feel small. It's almost a shame I'll only spend about three months here (OMG, only three months until June? :O).

Plan for tomorrow: move the rest of the stuff, alphabetize my anime and manga, get my movies into the shelf, get posters and lightsabers up on the wall, and explore the surroundings enough to find my way to the bus Monday morning. What a great way to spend the weekend. :/

Current Mood: cold

At school today, I had a small discussion with a couple of people from my class about the hot topic in Norway these days, whether or not Muslim policewomen should be allowed to wear their hijab at work. It was nice getting more perspective on the matter, but I still don't think there are any good arguments against it.

Then, at the boardgaming event, both Hans and Rakel showed up, yay! We played Munchkin, and I won, despite the countless warnings that "Patrick's gonna win, he always wins, don't help him!!!". Awesome. And then, when people sought revenge in Sitting Ducks Gallery, I won there too. :D Anyways, it was really nice seeing Rakel and Hans there, and it was the greatest gaming evening in a long time.

On our way home, I, Amund and Hans talked a lot about politics and stuff, and it was really interesting. I think it's a shame I never got to be better friends with Hans (and Jon and others) during junior high, because he's one of the people I feel I get to see way too rarely. I especially think it's interesting how I and Hans agree on much, and can have really deep and interesting conversations, considering our obvious differences in religious views, among other things.

When I got home, I also had a long and very interesting talk with my mom about stupid people and society and politics and various topics (among them the hijab-controversy), and I discovered (not that I suspected otherwise) that we're really alike, and agree on a whole lot of matters. Kind of funny, since most of the "stupid" people in the family are on her side, while my father's family is smarter and more reasonable (by "smart/stupid" I refer to the ability to think for oneself and see things from more than one angle, not pure intelligence, although they may often be related).

All in all, a great day. And I'm very much looking forward to the winter break next week, in which I will be joining my entire family for one last dinner (yeah, really biblical, I know XD) at Big Horn Steak House on Saturday, probably move sometime during the weekend, and hang out with Amund and Gunnar. Wonder if I'll be able to watch the hundreds of anime-episodes I have planned between all that and work. >__>

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Katy Perry - Hot n Cold

Mensa finally sent the results of the IQ test, and it turned out even better than expected: IQ of 135, among the 1% highest in the population. In other words, I'm officially a Mensa member as soon as I get around to mailing the application. \o/

I'm doing ok at school. I don't skip as much as I have done in periods, and I currently don't have anything I'm overdue with.

My dad moved out yesterday, and I'll probably move during the weekend. I still have a lot to pack. I'm curious about how different life will be in the new home.

I'm far, far behind on pretty much every anime I watch. I'll have to pull myself together, and probably drop some shows. It doesn't exactly help when I suddenly start thinking about Star Wars again, joining a new Norwegian SW-forum, and considering to watch Clone Wars. D:

I went on one of my biweekly-ish music download sprees recently, and the loot was good. Highlights:

Fallin', the new song from nobodyknows+ and some other guy. Calmer and more emotional than usual for nobodyknows+, and very nice. DJ Mitsu's voice doesn't quite fit in, but does it really ever? :p

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZUwpHfBe4

I saw Teriyaki Boyz had released something recently. Now, Teriyaki Boyz and me have a weird relationship. I loved Tokyo Drift, and decided to download some more when I first heard it, before I had much interest in Japanese music, but I really didn't like it. Then, when I started listening to more J-urban, I decided to give them another chance. After all, Teriyaki Boyz consists of Ilmari and RYO-Z, members from Rip Slyme, which I love, Verbal, the rapper from M-flo, and one of the three Japanese rappers who knows English, and WISE, awesome solo rapper, and one of the other English-speaking ones. But still, they didn't impress. I figured I had to give them a third chance, though, and so I downloaded "Itsumo It's More", and... I really liked it. When I downloaded their recent album, though, I was disappointed. For some reason, Teriyaki Boyz started cooperating with lots of American rappers, and I don't like the resulting music, much preferring the group alone. If they only had more songs with just them... :/

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0JHXIPtCus

The third positive surprise was singer Kylee, who recently released the single for Xam'd ending Vacancy, and a video for one of the other songs, which name escapes me at the moment. The songs were good, and the videos weren't bad either. What confused me was that she sings in flawless English, without a single word Japanese. She reminded me a lot of BECCA, and I wondered if she, too, was American. Wikipedia told me that my suspicions were correct, but the shock came when I saw her age: born in 1994, currently 14 years old. If must be quite the experience to release a popular single in a completely different country (her mother is Japanese, but I doubt Kylee talks much of the language) at such an early age. I look forward to more music from her, even though her lyrics are a bit... meh. :p

Link (to Vacancy, none of the others are on YouTube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVJahXP6c8

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Teriyaki Boyz - Itsumo It's More

I finished my Huxley project yesterday night (or this morning, whatever you call 5 a.m.), and while not being completely pleased by the way it turned out, I think it could have been a lot worse. I uploaded it, if anyone has any interest in it:

http://rapidshare.com/files/198575304/Aldous_Huxley.doc.html (only ten downloads, first come first served! :O)

Oh, and read Brave New World. It's awesome.

While on a family birthday today, Jon called me and told me Ruben would host another Star Wars-evening tonight, which I of course attended. We had fun with Star Wars, and decided to watch Jurassic Park after we're done.

Now, with the project done and not much work, I look forward to this week, and hope I'll get to catch up on some anime, among other things.

Current Mood: accomplished

Despite my efforts to save money, I bought three books at work today:

- Necronomicon - The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (Commemorative Edition)
- Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (huge illustrated edition)
- John Milton - Paradise Lost (complete and unabriged huge illustrated edition)

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They were really cheap, though, so it's no huge deal. And my bookshelf must have increased its awesomeness by over 9000. I really want to read these. :3

Now, I need to work on my Huxley project. I'll be done tomorrow, and then I'll finally be free! Free to... clean my room and stuff everything in boxes. -_-

Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Naifu - Take the Wave

Nothing big happened yesterday (except for the purchase of a hoodie from T-shirt Hell after their final mail. Bad Patrick. :<). Work was slow. When I got home, I got the sudden urge to cook myself some dinner, much to everyone's surprise. Then, I spent the rest of the night hanging out on teh intarweb and playing Castlevania.

When I got on the bus today, I remembered that my bus card had expired. As I did not have enough cash to renew it, I had to buy a ticket. This left me too poor to buy lunch at the school cantina, and I had to skip breakfast because I overslept. I'm hungry. >_>

I also forgot my Japanese books at home, so instead of using the two hours I had decided to use on Japanese, I'm playing mahjong and writing this. Yay. :|

My Huxley project really needs doing. If it isn't done by Monday, I won't get a grade in written English. :/

Current Mood: hungry

Overslept today, so no English class. When I turned up for Norwegian, we were sent home. Yay, no school. :D In the released time, I watched some Casshern Sins and Kemono no Souja Erin. Both very nice anime series. :3

Silent day at work today, which was nice. I talked about dogs with my co-worker, and then my favorite customer, hereforth referred to as "Mr. Awesome", appeared, and we talked for at least half an hour, spanning such subjects as evolutionary biology, his ideas about how the Atlantis myth really appeared (and how he would render the theory in a three-part Donald Duck story), and the Love Hina anime compared to the manga. This guy is an ex-professor of at least two subjects on the local university, but is currently considered disabled, and as such has a shitload of spare time, which he uses on his extremely many interests, such as comics, wooden ship models, jigsaw puzzles, history, biology etcetera etcetera. He's awesome, seriously.

Rakel also visited, which was very pleasant. Brightened up an already good day. :D

Currently, my mood is quite good. The night is young, maybe I'll watch some more anime or something. Anyways, yay for me updating LJ two days in a row. I like doing these little day-by-day updates. :3

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Kylee - Vacancy

Today started out really apathic. I sat in front of the computer, F5-ing forums and wasting time on /b/, until my parents called and told me to start on the dinner. So I did, but I didn't eat much. Afterwards, I decided to start packing all my stuff in time for moving out, which should take place sometime next week. Got done with most of my books, and a fair share of the comics.

During the packing, I had a few realizations, the first one being that I have a LOT of stuff. The second one? I can't bring myself to throw away or sell any of it. I may be able to fit it all into my new room, but I'm not sure it would be that easy when I move to Oslo. Besides, some extra money wouldn't hurt. I'm not selling any anime or manga, at any rate. Those are my treasured collections. I'm considering Star Wars-stuff, but I'm concerned I'll suddenly become the huge fan I used to be again, and regret it. Besides, with the one Norwegian Star Wars-forum gone, I'm not sure where I'd try to sell it. Other than that, some comics could probably go, like my six out-of-print Pondus books. Will see.

It got late, and me and Amund decided to go see Yes Man. It was a very pleasant movie, I must say it restored my faith in Jim Carrey. Great humor and a pretty good story, and that Allison character was really cute. :3 I bought too much candy, though. :< Me and Amund talked for a while afterwards, and all in all it was a nice evening.

Wow, it's suddenly really late. D: No time to decrease the huge pile of anime waiting to be seen. Oh well, I'll just push it to winter break. If I actually watch all the anime I've planned for winter break, I won't have time for much else. Oh well, it worked last year. Almost. :p

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie

Whoa, I haven't posted in forever. I'm really neglecting my LJ, for some reason. I always think I have to write about what's going on, but then I remember all the things I haven't written about, and feel that I have to write about everything, and it's just so overwhelming that I never start.

Right, so what's happened since last?

My parents announced that they're getting divorced. My father's moving out, and I'm moving with him in a week-ish or so. This is affecting me a lot less than it should.

I have become completely addicted to mahjong. The Japanese version of the real game, not the solitaire one. I bought a set, learned the rules, and started playing, both IRL and a flash-version online, and I love it. I even started watching mahjong anime more.

I'm trying to do more school work as well.

Current Music: Legendary Gambler Tetsuya ED

But first, a farewell to 2008, with memories (once again greatly helped by old entries)! Prepare for keywords, smilies and exclamation marks.

January: Happeh-time! Watched a lot of anime (Higurashi, Tokyo Marble Chocolate, Kaiji, Spice and Wolf... <3), visited SoulSeth, thought I was going to Japan (lolexams getting in the way).

February: New computer! <3 Bought lots of stuff on Outland. Not much online, watching lots of anime and hanging out with people IRL. Winter break, yay!

March: More of the same, but now with Japani drawing evening-thingie, which was very awesome. EASTER YAY! :D I had a blast in Elverum and Oslo, very social and nice. :3 Bleh, cabin.

April: Hans taught me Munchkin, and my obsession started. Had a lot of fun.

May: Free Comic Book Day! Outland. <3 Lots of confusion and meh-stuff. 17th.! Nice day, but far from perfect. Having much fun, chilling in the sun and in general trying to enjoy life.

June: Visited Oslo, and had a great time there. Birthday, yay! Good exam results, great weather, summer holiday, Now and Then, Here and There. Birthday party was awesome, and having Eirik over was nice. :3

July: Teh awesome. Thomas and Janne visited, which made an already good summer holiday even better. We had lots of fun. Then I went to the US and spent a shitload of money while eating good food and reading a lot.

August: Dunno? Gaming, school again, with better schedule, two good movies and one bad.

September: Bah, school and various stress. Don't really remember. Not very eventful.

October: Fall break was fun. And then, DESUCON! :D Awesome visiting Oslo again. Gattai.us!

November: Made new friends, visited Bergen and Oslo, rocked my military session. All in all a good month. :3

December: WORK. D: Rakel's birthday, yay! Christmas! <3 Awesome new years eve as well. :3


All in all, 2008 was a very good year, better than 2007. And 2009 looks like it will be even better, wohoo! My last new year resolutions failed, and I don't really see the point. I'll be living my life like I want, and right now that includes going to bed and sleeping of my headache before tomorrow and 8 hours of work.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Weird Al Yankovic - Christmas at Ground Zero

While some may consider it rude, I am kind of "meh" with my family now. Wish lists? What are those? Let's just buy generic crap for Patrick (everything he wants is probably too weird for us NORMAL PEOPLE to find anyway), and give his siblings what they want. :|

Oh well, at least the gifts from friends were very awesome, and that cheered me up quite a bit. ^^

From parents: sweater and boxer shorts
From brother: chocolate keyboard and candy
From sister: Pondus book 8 (yay, I was considering selling off the six I have :|)
From grandparents: money and socks
From grandparents: money, deodorant and chocolate
From uncle: Simpsons Fridge Guard (yeah, 'cause I'm such a huge Simpsons fan)
From uncle: deodorant and money
From uncle and aunt: gift card for Sandnes city
From great-grandmother: money

From Janne and Thomas: Kemeko DX Nendoroid figure, DMC - Satsugai album and Pocky! <3
From Gunnar: Star Munchkin, Mannen som elsket Yngve DVD and a pack of coloring pencils! <3
From Amund: Red Alert 3 and Rock Lee keychain figure! <3
From Rakel: "Make your own Commie!"-thingie, Lazy Town cookies, The Last Dinner mints and fortune cookie (containing the excellent advice of emulating the good points in my friends :3)! <3

2400 kroner all in all, so I guess I'll buy some of the things I didn't get. Oh, and I still have at least three gifts I haven't gotten yet. :3

Current Mood: calm