something that will go down as one of the greatest crack ideas in history:

elfiepike: there clearly needs to be an aiba-is-the-transformed-pet story.
cimness: klajöslkddd
elfiepike: like, he was jun's cat!
elfiepike: and one day!
cimness: BUT HE CAN'T HAVE A  TAIL AND MILDLY EROTIC EARS, OKAY.
elfiepike: ahahahahahahahah! no, he's just like -
elfiepike: "i thought that jun looked like he was having fun as a person! i wanted to try it! i wanted to try it very hard!"
cimness: arashi could still exist! he could call everyone! it's an emergency!
elfiepike: it would have been the four-person arashi!
cimness: and sho would be like, "it's a mostly-naked hot guy emergency?" and "jun, i never knew you to go for the dumb and pretty type..."
cimness: ohno and aiba could get in a staring contest and nino could be like "i don't see what the problem is."

saker o ting

• still no sign of couch! "i guess they'll call me," says wax. isn't your phone off eight hours a day? "i guess they'll have to call back."


• ideas clamouring to be stories - up to four. this makes me anxious, because once i get fixated on a story, i - feel anxious about it until it's finished, unless i manage to successfully stop caring in the interim (this did eventually happen with several half-baked tezuryo ideas, at least). 


• mental note: don't eat ripe bananas for breakfast. (it was a moment of weakness. we were out of milk.)


• my new sociology professor has a christopher lee voice which he uses only about 70% of the time and amusingly seems to keep slipping into against his will. then he'll be like, "oops, this isn't my day for world domination!"*, clear his throat, and raise the pitch an octave.


• i don't think i am really suited for the social sciences given my natural-sciences-elitist attitude, no doubt passed on at a tender age from my geologist dad. "i always thought sociology was interesting in that making it all up kinda way," he told me when he found out my major. when the new professor explained yesterday that it is not possible to limit the methodology of sociology to the empirical methods of the natural sciences i barely restrained a scoff. empirical methods aren't inherently better, is apparently the all-embracing Sociology Party Line. i have not yet convinced myself of that. of course there are no wrong methods, only wrong conclusions, but when it all comes down to limiting your conclusions, what use is a method which requires the limitation of valid conclusion to "a lot of people use cell phones, and the author of this paper is an asshat" or "incarceration practices were gender-biased, or else the wording of diagnoses was, and the author of this paper is a big fan of foucault"?

*not really

why cim loves the internets, part #1,600,041- #1,600,042 (well, more like why i love google)

1. "transform the following sentences from active to passive voice": trying to remember if i should make the participle agree in gender with the subject, i googled "activo pasivo" and came up with this hit about gay sex: on the page of results it says, "sexual roles: are you [that is, y'all] active, passive, or versatile? the subject of being active or passive in a homosexual relationship isn't something that [...]. one associates being active with the masculine role and being passive with the feminine role."



2. wax wondered if i could hum the 1812 overture from memory and i couldn't so i googled it and immediately found a page with about five free versions for download.