mei_yanohi

WELCOME
Welcome to my journal, and thanks for coming. This journal is not friends-only; I lock and filter only occasional entries. The content I post about varies between my personal life (school, work, friends, more school), memes, music, civil rights issues, and intense geekery that remains under a geek-only filter because I am full of nerd shame. If I already have you friended and you would like to be added to my geek filter, just comment here. Warning: you may already be on the filter. If you see posts about animu and shit, I have you added. Check here to browse my lists of series I'm familiar with and/or currently reading.

ABOUT MEI
If you check out my meme tag, you can find out some stuff about me, but I'll lay out some basics for you here as well. I'm a 24 year old gal from southern Ohio, USA who is a secular humanist Jewish lesbian feminist. I have a fiery passion for music (listening and performing), stories (reading/watching and writing), and art (enjoying and creating). My tits are huge and my hair is long. My favorite foods are matzot balls and latkes. I speak a good amount of Spanish and a passable amount of Japanese. I'm really good at sleeping a lot, getting distracted, and being judgmental. I've gotten more laid-back in recent years but I can still crank my bitch dial up to 10.5 if it's necessary. I'm sort of lewd and I cuss a lot. I'm secretly quite paranoid. I love making people laugh.

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You know, all I want to do is watch Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Is that so much to ask, internet? Is it? You used to be so giving, internet. You used to be full of properly-named files and torrents that didn’t have secret passwords on them. Why are you so full of traps now, internet? I just want to watch this f#$%ing movie.



If someone knows of a legit DL or streaming link for this film or knows someone else who might, please let me know. I never buy movies or TV shows if I haven’t seen them first, and TTSS got a pretty limited release in the US. Thanks in advance.

Dear anyone who's listening,

Remind me never to say anything political on the internet as I will inevitably make an ass out of myself. Especially on Tumblr.

Depressingly yours,
Laura

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA

Okay, so I thought I was done with social media for the night, but I lied. It's (finally) time for a Livejournal update. I've gotten SO horrible with this thing lately. I'm on this site literally all the time, I keep up with my friendlist, I read all kinds of Sherlock fanfiction, etc etc. I just never post myself. Go figure. I've gotten so lazy what with beautiful Twitter. (And I hear several of you thinking "That's what I hate about Twitter!" Yeah yeah...)

Honestly it's a combination of having so much to say and so little at the same time that keeps me from posting here. I have TONS of stuff I could write about various media I'm currently consuming (which you can always keep track of at listography, Last.fm, GoodReads, MyAnimeList, and RateYourMusic), but it's always in and out of my mind so fast lately that every time I get the urge to write an entry, by the time I get around to it I don't even feel like it anymore.

I've been struggling with mental health issues (and, tangentially, physical health issues) lately. The urge to write about my mental health struggles comes and goes just as quickly. My Dreamwidth account, which I got primarily for the purpose of writing about that subject, has remained basically untouched, which is a shame because I really should write about it more.

I've started working for my mom's pet photography company, Dogpatch Pix. She's extremely talented and I'm very pleased to be doing design, branding, and marketing work for her (as well as generally being a Girl Friday). I'm only paid in room and board, but I feel a lot better about that than I did about basically hanging around the house and mooching like I was before. It also gives me something to do aside from navel-gazing and feeling like a failure. I'm still doing freelance work, which is where I get what little money I have, but I'm so bad at making my own work schedule that I don't tend to advertise myself much in that arena.

This is just a little update to let everyone know I'm alive and well, and to thank you for keeping me on your f-lists. I love you all and I still read all your entries. I know I reaffirm this in basically every entry I make nowadays, but I feel it's important for you to know I'm not just a dead journal, or like I don't care about your posts anymore. A lot of you have been there for me for years, through some very hard times, and I would never forget you.

Much love.

First of all: I know horrific, terrible, terrifying things have happened in Norway, I know that. And I don't want to get into anything about what kind of tragedy is greater and whether people should be more affected by one tragedy as opposed to another.



That much said, Amy Winehouse's death has caught me off-guard... I always felt sympathy for her, I always wanted her to get better; she seemed like a fun-loving and caring person whose friends and family truly adored her, and she said she never wanted to be a celebrity, just a musician. Those who say her death is not a tragedy because of her addictions a) do not know the true nature of addiction and the mental disorders that surround it, and b) must have trouble seeing her as a human being due to her celebrity.

Beyond all that, though, her music was of a quality most artists can only dream of achieving—it was something transcendent, eternal, forever beautiful, weaving the stories of everyone's tragedies and passions using a voice so effortlessly powerful and expressive it seemed to come to Amy as easily as breathing. It's music that will never become old. So many people say that nothing of quality is made in the music industry today, but she was proof that this was a baseless complaint. I can only hope that Amy and her music will be treated as well by future generations as we now treat the rest of the 27 Club.

When I told my dad the news, after expressing his regret, he said that perhaps, "a nanosecond away, in a parallel universe, Amy is still singing away..."

Rest in peace, Amy. I don't claim to know what happens after death, but if you're still out there, I hope that wherever you are, you've found comfort and happiness at last. Thank you for the precious gifts you gave us.

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“Lady Gaga, Vanessa Carlton, Kylie Minogue, and a brief mention of VERBAL. I would have talked more but I got cut off the first time. Damn that five-minute limit.” Transcribed by: mei_yanohi

EDIT: I arrived in Cleveland at about 7:30 last night and have had a wonderful time with yeah_itsme and her boyfriend Skot so far! Tonight we're going to a neighborhood cookout and then to watch fireworks in a park nearby. Hopefully I'll get to see exchangediary while I'm up here as well! Tomorrow, perhaps...?

I had a horrible, god-awful interview today with Screenworks, Inc in Dayton. Definitely my worst interview to date (most of my interviews go quite well even when I don't get the job). I cried in front of the owner, it was so bad. So embarrassing. I was entirely down in the dumps, and then the following things happened:

1. I called my mom and she told me how much she and my grandma loved me and that she wanted to drive up to Dayton and punch the guy who interviewed me in the face.

2. I got a huge bacon cheeseburger at McDonald's.

3. All my dogs climbed all over me when I got home and I snuggled with my little baby Garrison. And finally...

4. I called the number in an email another interested party had sent me and got another interview at a different company for tomorrow at 10 AM. WHAT.

Seriously. My spirits are so lifted by this second interview. Just goes to show... never give up hope. (Tho this job isn't really in the industry I've been pursuing buuuuuut it might be time to just try and make some money now... kinda sucks but oh well)

Sorry I haven't been posting over here lately, but hilariously enough I check my f-list constantly. I'm an ultra-active lurker, so don't de-friend me, f-list! I still love you! And I have a perm account so I'm pretty much here forever.

I post on Twitter more often than I do anywhere else, so if you haven't added me there yet, do it.

PS The first ep of Doctor Who BLEW MY MIND OH MY GODDDDD. I need the next one NOWWWWWWW.
PPS Yeah I'm still obsessed with Sherlock. And I'm still a giant Gaga fan even when she's being nuts (Judas is so much better than BTW amirite MUSIC VIDEO NEXT WEEK WOOOOO)
PPPS There's a mouse living in the corner of my room. GROSS.

Please GO HERE and donate to this project if you can! It's a great project for girls in Guatemala, and if it doesn't raise $1000 more dollars in 4 days it won't receive any backing at all. unopened alerted me to this cause and asked me to post it here, and we'd both love it if you'd help these girls out!

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( some spoilery chatter on what will come of tonight's episode )

PS: For those who don't know, I'm in Pittsburgh right now (and have been for a few weeks now), and on Sunday I'll be in Chicago with unopened and last_radio! I'll be back home in Ohio on the 26th, where I can continue to pursue gainful employment. Adventures...