September 12: As Per Usual
Hi everyone! I completely forgot to blog yesterday, as you may have noticed. I remembered at supper, but promptly forgot before I could do anything about it, and the next time I remembered was this morning. >_< Sorry about that! Anyways, you didn't miss much at all yesterday, as nothing terribly eventful happened as far as I can recall, except for RESTOCKING ON GRAPEFRUITS!!! How exciting! Oh yeah, that and I'm an idiot and ate a bunch of chocolate ice cream before bed (I had a maaad craving) and then couldn't sleep. >_<
Today was pretty uneventful. There was "bacon" (it tasted like ham, but looked like bacon O_O) and an egg, with a yellow mixture of vegetables and miso soup and rice. I think the yellow might have been from mustard, but to be honest it didn't really taste like anything at all.
At work I attempted to sort out my model and started writing my paper. My model is misbehaving somewhat, and it is proving very hard to discern how to solve the problem. Kabutoya-san doesn't seem to think that it's an issue, but I'm kind of hung up on it, so I will hammer away at it until I tire myself out, since I don't have anything else to do except write about it. My model currently puts pretty much everthing into just a few topics, which yields results like Hotel Rwanda and Mrs. Doubtfire being put together. O_O At least my model appears to be good at generating humour, if nothing else. It also treated me to the discovery of how badly people can label movies if they are free to do as they please. Examples range "Stephen Speilberg", to "director should have won a Grammy" (um, what?), to --and this is my favourite--"Woman carried to top of large building". It's supposed to be describing The Hunchback of Notre Dame. D:< How exactly do these people think they're helping an online movie recommender with tags like "Woman carried to top of large building"!? There are countless other examples of these fail-tags ("woman" for Entrapment and Femme Nikita, and "animalpig" for Babe), but I will never escape if I begin to list them all. Amazingly enough, some tags that I thought would surely be trash proved to be quite enlightening when I looked them up, such as "fails Bechdel test" hahah.
I ran about a million tests and fiddled with parameters all over the place, but nothing really seemed to work very well. >_< I hope I can get it to behave soon, as the clock is ticking. I left work at about 6:15, which was when I finished getting to a point where I could let a test run overnight. I walked home and ate dorm dinner of KATSU (oh my god!!!) and miso soup and rice and some kind of broccoli coleslaw-esque business that was rather odd. It wasn't nasty or anything, just a little... unplaceable. O_O Afterwards I ate a frozen grapefruit. Whee! I really hope I never get tired of frozen grapefruit, because it is extremely convenient having a dessert I can look forward to that is non-fattening and less than 80円 per serving. Yum. It has also helped me stop eating entire bags of senbei at 11:30pm, which is probably a good thing on all accounts. >_<
Anyways, I got caught up reading stuff on the Internet (again) and now it's late (I literally got sidetracked for 3 hours in the middle of writing this), so I'd best get what sleep I can now. D: I guess it's a good thing it's Tuesday tomorrow haha. Damn, where did the week go? D:
Night!
Hey RJ,
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to try the frozen grapefruit dessert. Haven't done that before. I'm sure there 's a complete howto somewhere in the archives here. I'll have to see if I can find it :D
Re: "fails Bechdel test" I've heard of that before. Apparently it applies to a bigger-than-you'd-expect number of movies. I don't totally know if it's meant to be a comment on how the whole movie industry is male-centred or what? But it certainly passes muster for an interesting/useful tag for a movie.