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Reámonn Mícheál Francis Xavier Strack
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[Sep. 2nd, 2005|03:23 pm] |
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sitting next to me is a girl who lights up previously un-lively evenings. |
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| its the final countdown |
[Jul. 26th, 2005|02:09 pm] |
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so I have one week left in Tokyo.
I have decided to update this journal with what I've decided to spend my last week in Tokyo doing.
Lets begin, shall we?
Yesterday I worked all day, then went home, went to (my last?) casting, may have gotten it. At the casting everyone and their grandmother was there so I saw all of them. We all said we'd like to BBQ, but unfortunately, due to some fucking typhoon these plans were put on hold. I spoke with Cullen concerning this on my way home Said goodbye to Tak and Roy (dont know if I'll see them again for some time), then came home. Talked to Wes and found out he's moving to Miami later this year, which is fucking ace. At home I ate dinner, talked to my parents, and then left the house. I said to myself, "Ray, we're gonna be home by 3 tonight" (yeah right). Anyway, go to mcdonalds I wanted free fries, then to sports cafe with Cullen and Jason, met Stefan & Matteo, had a few beers, played a few rounds, then we tried to figure out what to do. We agreed to go to propaganda to see hiroo and get some beers, but took a 'short' detour on the way to go to lex. Oh, and on the way we see John Carlo and Ewa (read: Eva) and they inform us that due to Real Madrids being in Tokyo, Feria is going to be open tonight. We scoff at him and assure ourselves we will not be out long enough to make a trip to feria worth it.Anyway, we get to lex and its packed. Apparently half of Real Madrid has decided to waste their time dealing with shitty drinks and jailbait models, not to mention hordes of Japanese fans who have waaaay too much time on their hands. Anyway, DJ is there, he apparently met Simona and Ana. Ashleigh & Christina (at least I think thats her name) ask me to stay and go on to Feria. I agree to the former. 'No Feria', I tell them. So, eager readers, I'm sure you can see where this evening is headed. THATS RIGHT! Complete and utter drunkenness of immense proportions. Hoorah for me. Cullen and Jason leave to go meet Hrio, but I tell them Propaganda is too expensive for my tastes. I prefer my drinks FREE. Moving on, I proceed to sit and homour Ana whilst chatting (read: downing jack & coke) with DJ and occasionally Ashleigh & Christina. The latter two start chatting it up with some of the football players and ended up going back to their hotel. When they mentioned this I gave them both looks, as they're young & naive and far too hot to not at least give an effort for. They assured me they were not going to sacrifice morals for famous people. I may have made a slightly innappropriate joke concerning this: I do not exactly know, though. Anyway, I think they left. Cullen and Jason came back. I continue to drink. Its now four-ish and I'm VERY drunk. So durnk, in fact, that I'm making very loud, rude jokes concerning people and proceed to yell at a filipina bitch that decided to tell me off after originally telling her friend off for spilling my drink. I seem to remember telling her, very distintinctly, to fuck off, or something along such lines. Anyway, moving along. I continue to drink; continue to get absoutely shmammered, as cullen put it. Finally lex closes, and after much deliberation decide (wisely) AGAINST going to the after party. I go home, try and talk to cass online, fail, and call her, marvelously drunk at 545am. sleep at 6. up at 815. work at eight thirty. thats where I find myself now. At work. Anyway, it turns out Ashleigh called me a bunch of times right around 6 but I had just fallen asleep. I havent called back. I wonder how everything went.
FOR ME TO POOP ON. |
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| well, I'm at work. |
[Jul. 11th, 2005|11:11 am] |
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and yesterday morning, as I was sitting in first kitchen with ana and neema and jr, I came to a realization: I'm leaving Tokyo in 20 some odd days. I have 20 days at lex, only 6 (at least at feria). Cullen is leaving, as is Adam soon. People will be here and I wont, its kinda sad. I'm totally not able to cope with this right now. I'm pumped as all holy hell to get back and go see oldboy with caedmon and all that, but at the same time its really hitting me that this is truly the tail end of my time in tokyo, and its quite sad. |
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| I'm sick and at work. |
[Jun. 27th, 2005|09:44 am] |
who the fuck gets a cold in the middle of summer?
I shouldve stayted home today, and taken it easy asll this weekend, when I felt in coming on. Instead I partied way too much and now I'm paying the price. fuck. |
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| ok, I think this deserves an entry. |
[Apr. 6th, 2005|08:56 am] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | hungover | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Waking Ashland | ] | Last Night after Saya left, I was walking toward the train station when I met this guy with the same shirt as me. A Shins shirt, as fate would have it, so it actually meant something more than we had shopped at the same shop. Anyway, this mate, whose name utterly escapes me on account of a masssive massive hangover, asked if I'd like to go karaoke with him & his mates. Turns out, all these people are just from the same Hostel, they dont know each other either. So we go to this random Karaoke and they're trying to fiugre out the drink plans, but nthen I step in and ask if any of them speak Japanese. They dont, and I become the champion of the night by simply asking the guy if they've got an all-you-can-drink plan. Anyway, he doesnt, and we leave. I take them to my favorite Karaoke bar, which I had just left with Saya, with whom I'd gone one-on-one karaoke just a bit earlier (mind you, there wasnt that much singing in our karaoke. Anyway so we go, the 18 of us and jesus, by the end of it I'm fucking wasted. I mean, blindly drunk. Cannot talk. Cannot walk (straight). Its fucking ridiculous. I had stole a bottle of cheap champagne for Niks', but I ended up drinking it then and there, in Karaoke, the entirety of it, and I was fucking bombed, cause Saya & I had drank earlier, a fair bit in karaoke. Anyway so we go all through this, and fuck if this girl asks to come back to mine (picture to be posted later). Shes pretty hot, so I oblige, but on the way back I realize: THIS GIRL HAS ASKED TO COME BACK TO MINE FOR SEX AND NAUGHT ELSE. Haha, so, of course, I'm a total dick to her on the walk. I mean, I dont know what I said, but I remember the tone: assholeish. Anyway, we get back and I show her into the guest room and then my mom gets up. I dont know whats with my mom lately, but jesus H christ shes on about something. meh. anyway, back on track, I handle mom (who knew I was fucking out of it but thought it was a bit funny) then go into my room, ostensibly to wait and then go back into the girls room. NO. I pass out, on my bed, top layer, no covers, in my fucking clothes. Ladies and Gents, I fucking rock. I was literally TOO DRUNK TO FUCK. That and I have a girlfreind. Either way, I'm still a legend.
god my head hurts. |
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| the sky turns gray, where I end and you begin; |
[Mar. 1st, 2005|07:49 pm] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | aggravated | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Radiohead - A Punch up at a Wedding (Myxamotosis) | ] | so, this was the "carpe diem" weekend, according to Ed.
friday was good. I drank too much but it was wirth it. saturday was hell getting up, stepping over ed, then speech. ugh.
saturday afternoon I was too hungover to eat even samrat. oc at brookes. hangin' at misias & then adams. sister-finding-mission.
sunday was lazy as fuck. coffee with lisa, and mcdonalds. movie (25th hour, damn good).
then relax. relax. relax.
and then, it was fucking MONDAY again. ugh.
Lewis Black stand up is fucking brilliant. The Killers soon, with Meghan.
MEGHAN is coming. itll be good.
you know, when I started to write this I thought I'd have more energy to write, but, uh, fuck it. |
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[Feb. 7th, 2005|12:42 pm] |
hello.
So, an entry seems in order. I've been busy, doing this and that but nothing all that grand. Saw The Shins, that rocked hardcore. Soon The Killers. My new laptop is on its way, so thats something too look forward too. Megan is coming soon. (I just wrote you an email about the money, btw.) Else, all is quiet.
OC has been really good lately. Seth & Summer need to get back together in the worst way.
I want to see "The Life Aquatic" which has now downloaded but it seems I've never got the time to sit and watch it.
Lewis Black standup is like god smiling on us.
Jeff Buckley is fucking amazing, all around.
okay, I'm out. |
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| ok so its kinda set |
[Jan. 18th, 2005|12:52 pm] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Death Cab | ] | Caedmon comes for Spring Break. Ashley for Graduation and grad celebrations.
I leave the fifteenth.
In the company of Ed, Matteo, Neek, Niklas.
Prague. Berlin. Amsterdam. Paris. Barcelona.
Then to London with Ed. Dublin with Family.
Oh my.
yeah. |
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| "heaven aint close in a place like this" |
[Jan. 11th, 2005|12:13 pm] |
Ok so, I ahvent updates (except for the fact that I'm Catch-22)in a long while. I'm currently sitting in school feeling kinda bored, so I might as well update now.
Winter break was good. Obviously, it had high and low points, but, on the whole, it was quite good. Nothing bad happened, just as nothing spectaclarly good happened, and so, I guess, I've broken evev, as it were. I was first in Guam, where Nik and I desperately tried to find things to do but to little avail. Guam was kind of a sobering place, being that it was nothing like I thought it'd be, and nothing like Japan. It kinda irks me that Florida (albeit Gainsville and a college town) might be like that.
Anyway
I got back to Japan on december 23rd, in the night. christmas eve day and christmas I was with family. christmas days eve (?) I went out with some freinds, that was decent. After that, everythign gets a bit hazy int erms of days. I lost track of days, they kind of blend into one an other (often because they did, not to mention I was going to sleep every day late and waking up mid-day).
so the rest of the vacation was a mix of karaoke, beer, clubs, beer, segafredo, beer, samrat, beer etc etc.
did I mention beer?
else, things are good coming back to school is a bitch, but things might get better soon: tonight we're having a family meeting on guests and dates and holidays and shit.
alright I'm out.
bye. |
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| I rock. I roll. |
[Dec. 18th, 2004|11:56 am] |
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You're Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you an ardent pacifist, though you present your message with tongue sewn into cheek. You could coin a phrase that replaces the word "paradox" for millions of people.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.
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| oh man oh man |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|08:58 pm] |
I'm so admitted to UF.
Welcome to the Uiversity of Florida Class of 2009!
Fuck yeah! |
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| I so went to China. |
[Nov. 30th, 2004|09:08 pm] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | well. | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Death Cab for Cutie - Title & Registration | ] |
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| will someone please call a surgeon? |
[Oct. 10th, 2004|11:42 pm] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | Tired | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Postal Service - Nothing Better | ] | holy shit;
its been a long weekend.
I mean, it is a long weekend, in the classic sense of the word, since we have monday off, but its also been a long weekend. Friday evening I went right home and studied SATs till I went to sleep. Woke up, met Niklas, went to school, had to wait for the train at Mitaka for like, 20 minutes, that sucked. Nonetheless, made it to school early and started. As for the actual tests, it went well, quite well. I was very very very happy with how it went, I think I did pretty good on it. That said, I'm still taking it again in November, I mean, it cant hurt.
and then: we leave school, have a few stouges, adam and I get back to roppongi. walk home and chill a bit, then go to shibuya. Segafredo for a bit, then all-you-can-eat Samrat style. after samrat yet more segafredo, then we decided it'd be a good time to go to Havana Cafe in Roppongi.
Now bear in mind that the discussion of this whole time has been the face of an impending typhoon. Typhoon number 22 (台風二十二) was the first strong typhoon to hit Tokyo directly in 20-some odd years. and it was fun. It was relatively weak compared to hurricanes in florida, but intense nonetheless.
So we get to roppongi, and walk upstairs from the subway and soon as we hit the surface me neek and mickey in unison gasp, "holy shit!"; it was POURING. I mean, wow. Not the kind of weather you want to be stuck in, much less stuck between a train station and a bar in. So we decide to make a run for it. BAD IDEA. we got fucking soaked to the Nth degree, and when we got to Havana (we were the only patrons given the weather) we had to hang up our outer shirts and jackets and socks, etc. So we sit in Havana till about seven. just before seven someone looks outside and goes "shit, that bloke hasnt got an umbrella!"; heres the thing though, he didnt need one. After all that rain and wind, it died. It was gone. Roppongi got packed and life went on.
So now we can walk around. We go to Hub, I get two Vodka-Redbulls (damn these are good), and a pint of guinness. After that we went on over to Karaoke for singing and lots and lots o' beer. Gas, more beer, meet some girls from ISSH (One dutch one aussie). Go to watch england Wales. England 2 Wales nil, oh well. Ed and I finish, walk around, grab mcdonalds, then realize everyone else has gone except for people we ont want to chill with, so we just go home. Neek had already been there, since he wasnt feeling 100% earlier. We watched Jon Stewart (England........Poland?) then slept. Slept, used here, is a relative term. To say we all-but passed out due to a lack of sleep and a large intake of alcohol would be more correct.
At 4am the cell phone alarms went off and we got up. Ed was absolutely beyond dead, so we didnt even bother really trying to get him up. Neek and I left my house to walk to Paddy Foley to watch Ireland France game, that was good fun. It was a tight match, and ended up at nil nil. Finished our beers, then walked home, Finally went to sleep at 730 about.
HOWEVER: the story does not end there.
We wake up around 1230 or so. Shuffle around for a bit, go and walk my dog. Come back, make two boxes of Macaroni and Cheese, and sit and eat and watch Mystic River. Then we shuffle around a bit more, clean up, take showers, and go and walk the dog again. Then wecome back, and Neek goes home, Ed goes to Shibuya and I stay home. Then I did my homework for a few hours, Niklas called me about 730, so I went to meet them at Sheesha. Did that for a bit, then we stood around for a good 45minutes trying to decide what to do. We ended up going to a park after buying drinks. Sat in the park a bit, got tipsy, then when everyone else went to go back to roppongi, I just walked home. I was dead tired. Then my parents got home, I helped them unload groceries, and went to sleep. That brings me to about now.
I just realized how long this entry is. Ok then, goodbye. |
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| well would you look at that |
[Oct. 8th, 2004|08:38 pm] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Postal Service :: Nothing Better | ] | sat is tommorow morning. Tommorow night is party time, typhoon or not. |
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| One week left > |
[Oct. 2nd, 2004|08:44 pm] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | Anxious | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Elliot Smith - Say Yes | ] | Okay, so, this is the last week weekend of the self-imposed not going out regiment.
THANK GOD!!
This weekend, Shelbourne FC lost to Lille SC in uefa cup match. This is a bad turn of events. 4-2 Aggregate Score, so a two nil victory for Lille. On a brighter note, my Shelbourne Kit is in the post from Ireland. This makes me pretty happy. In other football news Ireland plays France this coming weekend, and, since its airing the night after SATs, I'm going to watch it. We may actually win, and this in an of itself would make my year. I mean, after the pounding we got in Rugby from the French we deserve to get them back.
Last night I got a new cell phone. Its quite nice, with a one-megapixel camera and a bunch of cool shit my old phone wished it could do. Last night was also the bbq on the compound, which was interesting. People who'd I'd never have expected in a billion years to show up did, and it was okay, but I went home afterward, as opposed to my parents, whom, after their dinner, promptly went out partying till the wee hours of the morning; my mom slept literally the entire day (till about 430 this afternoon), nursing a hangover.
Ok, so, I'm going to now post a picture of me and my new hair cut. And here it is:
Alright. Mariko says she looks bad in this photo, I dont think so though. So, thats the disclaimer. Mariko thinks she looks bad, I dont. Alright, thats over with.
ummmmmmm
next weekend will be very, very good. especially the saturday night after SATs. Oh my.
adios. |
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| yeah so |
[Sep. 13th, 2004|08:51 am] |
I fucking hate little piece of shit year nines that think they can get away with shit. On my bus today, some asshole kid was messing with this other (slighty dorkish) kid, about the fact he's got really thick glasses. The kid finally has had enough, tells him to shut up, pushes the back of his chair, the other kid stands up and stands hitting the kid, breaks his glassed & gives him a black eye. It is now my personal mission to FUCK THIS KIDS YEAR UP AS MUCH AS I CAN. Starting with getting him thrown off the bus, indefinately. Second, if we ever see his ass out in roppongi, we're gonna mess wiht him, baly. What a fucking prick man.
In other news:
My hair is now cut, quite short (relatively speaking)
Bah, homework is shitty. |
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| this is so messed up........... |
[Sep. 7th, 2004|09:15 am] |
| [ | f e e l i n g i t y e t? |
| | indifferent | ] |
| [ | s t e r e o :: |
| | Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria | ] | upon arrival the guests had all stared; dripping wet and clearly depressed he'd headed straight for the stairs.
^ Brand New is so fucking good it hurts ^
OK SO
Debate has started. I have to start my homework nearly as soon as I get home if I even wanna think about sleep before 12. In addition, no more leisurely chain smoking in segafredo, which may actually be a good thing. Instea its hurried and simply a way to get my daily nicotine. Bah. On a good note, the debate resolution has to do with the UN, pretty fucking cool, relatively speaking.
I have 100+ pages of reading for Japan Seminar, fuck that shit.
Econ is waaaay more interesting than I was anticipating. My first quiz was 19/20.
Japanese is good, the class is actually enjoyable and a bit beyon basic levels now. Kanji is fucking easy once you can figure out what you want to say. 'weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee' to that.
Ingebritson makes Sophocles come alive. Ok just kidding, but hes a fucking genius.
I am terrible at ceramics.
etc etc etc.
Things are good. College shit though, dont know how in gods name thats fitting in. Oh well.
At least I have power. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! |
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| wow. |
[Sep. 2nd, 2004|11:09 am] |
I daydreamed (then dreamt suring my bus-nap) all about Florida today. Ash, Caedmon, Kristen, Mike, Reedy-roo, Blake, everyone was there. Man, I never though I'd say that.
Damn I wanna go back. arg. |
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| dood. |
[Sep. 2nd, 2004|09:54 am] |
School is at once both great and terrible. Its enjoyable, being with my freinds, around people, and some classes are quite enjoyable. That said, the whole idea of "school" getting up, going, having to deal with inane nuances of school life, these simply suck. Honestly. I mean, theres no other way to describe the whole situation, Bah.
Also: the data CDs ash gave me are fucking great. Bran New, The Matches, Postal Service, Armor for Sleep, etc. Alll great. I've been listening to my iPod so much more nowadays. I'm meant to go tommorow afternoon to Ginza with Matteo for the computer stuff, and then maybe get some nice choclate.
Saturday is Ginos thing, which, although it may be brilliant, I have my own reservations about, but we'll see how that night unfolds.
Among all of this is the overhanging dread of University and the application process thereof. I got an email from the Amissions lady at New College, who seemed to really like me, and said that if I apply early (by sept 10, an get in, which she seems to already wanna do, they'll, get this: remimberse me to travel back for open house and to sit in on classes. I mean, wtf?! That' be pretty fucking awesome. (Side note, CAEDMON, you'd be picking me up and I'd be in lauderdale at least oa day. Jesus, how frickin' sweet would that be?
Alright, I'm outta here. |
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