Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Vicky's LiveJournal:

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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
10:39 pm	Gaming post ( Gaming rant ) /End gaming rant. So how is life with all of you? Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
3:29 pm	FYI- Don't print your pictures at Wal-Mart. They will treat you like an internet criminal and refuse to give you your pictures if they "look professional." You'll need a signature from your photographer, even if that photographer was your friend in college who enjoyed taking pictures for fun and was in no way a professional. I don't bitch to customer service people often, but I am furious that I was refused a copy of an uncopyrighted image that I had the rights to print and was taken many years ago. Sad because I actually shopped at Wal-Mart. Won't be going there again anytime soon. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
7:07 pm	Obligatory 6 month post Heh. I never update here. Sorry. So, after a 3 year run in Milwaukee, I am moving! And not a moment too soon. My neighbor (whom I have dubbed guitar heron) is an obnoxious teenager who doesn't understand that you can't have band practice at 3 am on a Thursday morning. "What? You can hear through the walls? What? My guitar wakes you up and you don't like it?" No. I don't like it. Nor do I like your teenage ass coming home at 4 am drunk as hell and louder than a train. So Saturday, I'm done! Out of here! I'll be staying with the Stephs for a week to finish out the school year, and then I'm moving on. So...what that means is I have no idea how long I'll have internet and how long it will take me to get internet service in my new place. Not that it really matters to my LJ friends since I never update...but yea! My apartment is a flood of boxes, and I pretty much have no food. I've also thrown away about half a ton of garbage. But I'm excited to get out of here. Yay! (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
9:38 pm	Wow! I haven't posted in a long time. Things are still chaotic in my world. They will be for a while, I think. Ugh. Job update: I'm now back to being a K5 aide- the job I was supposed to have at the beginning of the year. I'm happy, but I still feel like the life is being sucked out of me. I'm exhausted, and I need a break. Grad school is somewhat winding down. I applied for my teaching license and am now waiting to hear back from DPI. I'm working on the master's part, but I basically just have my thesis left. I took on two nightmares of costumes this year and I feel like I'm not getting a thing done on either of them. It's very frustrating. I work for a minimum of 2 hours a night, but I'm progressing at the rate of a turtle. I am so nervous about things being perfect, not getting done, etc. Valkyrie Profile costumes are so intricate and complicated!! Blah! Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
9:48 pm	Upheaval Well... it seems as if the light at the end of the tunnel is not ready to appear just yet. Why is it that every 3 or 4 years, I go through a crisis of what I want to do with my life? Sigh. It would just be nice to not have my life in a seemingly constant state of upheaval. But I guess it is time to just resign myself to that fact. Bleh. In other news, I'm totally looking forward to ACEN and have been on a costume kick lately. Yay! Current Mood: resigned (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
10:33 pm	Cold At about 3:15 today, the president of my school called off classes for the next two days. It is just that cold. Good excuse to spend a day working on my costumes! Mwahahahahaha! P.S.: I hate fabric dye. Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
6:10 pm	Seriously. God is up there laughing so freaking hard, and I don't find it funny at all. I'm tired of being unhappy. Current Mood: sad (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
5:17 pm	Great... So I finally made it to the doctor for my coughing/sinus crap. Turns out I have a sinus infection with a bronchial spasm. Since I've had bronchitis twice previously, I now have to be concerned about asthma. Great, I needed yet another health problem to watch out for. Can I get a break please? Current Mood: moody (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
4:29 pm	I never really post.... I guess it's cuz not much is changing, and the things that are changing lately are just things to complain about... and I don't really feel like complaining here. What's new and positive? Well, I am getting some friends for my diamond doves and starting to work on getting my parrotlet. Um, I'm working on setting up my own webpage which will be mostly cosplay related. The fall semester of grad school has started and I'll be a licensed teacher in January. I'm assisting in first grade this year, too. Um, yea that's about it! Current Mood: accomplished (Comment on this)
Monday, August 11th, 2008
7:57 pm	So tired... I haven't posted in too long, sorry. I got back from Otakon last night. The weekend was freakin awesome. I met so many cool people, got an autograph from one of my favorite voice actors, cosplayed, bought fun stuff, and geeked it up. Oh man am I an ubergeek, but it was so fun! My flight almost got cancelled last night though, because flights to the north were getting cancelled and delayed, which in turn caused mine to delay. When the aircraft finally arrived, the gate clerk was like, "okay guys we need to get on really fast because if the plane is not airborne by 7:08, it will be cancelled." Oh snap. But things ended up going off without a hitch. The one complaint I have is about people. This poor gate attendant was doing the job of like 4 different people because they were short staffed. A flight to Boston got cancelled and people were pissed. Yes, it's frustrating when your flight gets cancelled. But I don't understand why people get so angry at the airline. They cancelled the flight because of weather! Do you really want to get on a plane and crash because you have to fly through a thunderstorm? Airlines don't find it fun to cancel flights, but they have to put passenger safety as the number one priority. The guy was super nice about everything and he did his best, but people were still all angry and upset with him. Instead of giving yourself a stress headache over things that can't be controlled, be thankful that you'll live to see that later flight you have to take. Your work can live without you for a day. Another couple got mad at the guy because their flight had been delayed and they decided to saunter around the airport...for hours. Dude, seriously, common sense. If your flight is delayed, never go far for long! Sometimes planes are able to get out sooner than they expect. I'm not saying sit around for hours, but don't go dawdling around the airport for hours at a time without checking back every 15-20 minutes. Blah. So anyway, I had also been feeling kind of bad about my birds lately. I have a lot of them, but they are small and I'm able to take care of them all. People kind of made me feel like I have too many. But I have supportive people who love me who encourage my hobbies, no matter how many live animals I have nor how much I sew. ...or how nerdy I get. <3 Current Mood: lazy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
10:52 pm	Amagad! I just booked my flight and preregistered... I'm going to Otakon! Now comes the freakout about costumes & being on an airplane! GAH! Current Mood: accomplished (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
5:07 pm	Argh! I am so tired of being broke! I should be making a hell of a lot more money than I am. I should be able to afford to Otakon with no problem. I should be able to go to the NYBS! GRRR!!! /endminirant Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
3:46 pm	Nostaliga... Perhaps it is the exhaustion from the lack of sleep due to a domestic disturbance outside my apartment last night... or perhaps it is the onset of returning depression (in summer of all times... odd...), but I am experiencing a very odd phenomenon. I am "homesick" for my life in Japan. Yes, nearly 3 years after my return, I'm experiencing true longing and not just culture shock. I miss the traveling I got to do. I miss the money I was making there. I miss not having a car yet being able to get around easily. I miss the kids, my coworkers, my friends....and damn do I miss the food. Let's face it, Japanese food in America sucks unless you are willing to pay a small fortune for an authentic restaurant. Even the "Japanese food" that they do have over here is so limited. You're basically talking sushi or "hibachi" - which by the way, is not Japanese. What about Japanese-style crepes? What about that rice/egg dish that I had at the Kyoto ryokan? I miss lying on a futon, crazy and energetic television, being able to communicate in a language other than English, and general cultural things. I have lost so much of what little language skills I acquired over there, and I have no time to take a class over here. And sadly, there is really little hope of me ever returning for a significant amount of time. *sigh* How the hell do I get over this one? Current Mood: homesick (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
12:38 pm	*Facepalm* Can someone please tell me when exactly it became a crime for teachers to have personal lives and hobbies outside of educational matters? There is a huge debate on one of the sites I frequent about how you shouldn't do so much cosplay when you are a teacher and you definitely shouldn't ever let students or parents know that you make costumes. Oh and on Halloween make sure you only wear store-bought costumes, not ones you might have made yourself no matter how "mainstream" that costume might be. OH THE HORROR! I CAN SEW! Good Lord. Is it really so hard for people to understand that one can balance a personal and professional life? I don't sit there and go "amagad kids last weekend I went to an anime convention and it was so fun and I cosplayed lol!!!!!!1111one" It's not like it comes up in lunchtime discussions with other teachers. The teachers who do know about my geekdom are fine with it. Hell, my friends as me to hem pants for them because they know I can sew. I'm not going around advertising it, but I'm not hiding anything either. I'm not ashamed of the fact that I am a nerd. What are these people doing to do when their former students or even parents of students see them at a bar one day? Are they going to leave because they are a teacher and "shouldn't be there"? Or are they going to learn that being a teacher during the day doesn't define who they are after work is over? I'm all for being professional. But there is a time and a place for it and a time and a place for having fun. /end rant Current Mood: annoyed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 19th, 2008
7:47 pm	Cosplay So apparently I am getting my interest in sewing and costuming back. I might start commissioning for friends. Woot woot, ACEN-inspired-rejuvenation. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
8:27 pm	₪ Tell you why I friended you. ₪ Associate you with something - fandom, song, color, photo, word etc. ₪ Tell you something I like about you. ₪ Tell you a memory I have of you. ₪ Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. ₪ Tell you my favorite user pic of yours. ₪ In return you must post this in your journal. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
6:48 pm	More Geek crap So I think I have decided to forgo No Brand Con in lieu of one of the conventions in Minneapolis. Greyhound wants upwards of $80 to go from Milwaukee to Eau Claire whereas on MegaBus it is $8 one way to Minneapolis. Yea, a huge difference and much more realistic for me to afford. In other news, I am sick of everything, ready to quit my teaching license program, and just in a generally pissy mood. I guess I am finally tired of feeling like a failure. Why the hell am I a teacher when I could have been a meteorologist or an astronomer.. or something else that makes more money. Mom always wanted me to be a linguist... maybe I should have listened to her. /end pityparty Current Mood: rushed (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
4:33 pm	Geekdom Okay, I'm cutting for those of you who are not geeks like me. :) ( Conventions ) Current Mood: geeky (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 17th, 2008
9:16 pm	So I was sitting in my shower thinking the other night... shutup... my year is seriously booked already. ( Blah ) Okay so now that I wrote it down, it doesn't look like that much. This is the bare bones, however. Lord knows how much I'll be doing in terms of class, preparing for Karen's wedding, and possibly having my own classroom. Plus, if I start this aviary thing this year, that will take up a huge amount of my time. Okay /end whining. And as always, one of my goals is to get to more conventions, so if anyone wants to be my convention buddy, holler. Current Mood: drained (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
9:35 pm	Exhausted Oh wow. I am always so tired. I feel like all I ever do is homework. I am not sleeping well and I'm getting sick again. I'm worried that I may not have it in me to finish my licensure program. Ugh. Stupid winter blues. Current Mood: blah (3 Comments |Comment on this)