Ha! Take that Janet!!!
Oct. 24th, 2007 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkI feel so vindicated!
Last night, as I was watching Robin Hood, Janet came over to gawk and to make fun of it (well, make disparaging comments, but that to me might as well be making fun), we started talking about the Magna Carta, King Richard and Prince John. She was thoroughly convinced that the Prince John that was the brother of Richard the Lionheart was not the same John that signed the Magna Carta and was rather vehement about it too. And since I was convinced otherwise, I argued so. But she just dismissed again and again and just generally made me feel like an idiot for even thinking so. And so I was pissed off. Really so. For one thing, it's not exactly fun having someone come up when you're watching a show and make comments about it, forcing you to pay attention to them rather than the show that I was actually in the midst of watching. Nor is it all that great for them to make fun of the show you're really quite enjoying. And she does this CONSTANTLY. It's like she's unable to purely enjoy a show. Either that, or she's determined to make me hate everything I watch.
And it makes no sense to me because she actually likes some of the same shows I do. I realize she watches them for different reasons than I do but I can't imagine having so many things against a show to actually enjoy it. To make fun of the plot, the acting, the actors themselves personally (which really have no bearing on their acting), the whole premise, even the music sometimes, really, wouldn't you get to a point where you just can't watch the show anymore.
Anyway, I digress. So, I meant to look the whole thing up and see for myself because after it all, I couldn't believe that I got everything so mixed up in my mind. I loved the story of Robin Hood, read countless versions of it and about that time period, not to mention of Richard the Lionheart and the evil Prince John. And then the Magna Carta, something I distinctly remember studying about in my Medievel elective back in middle school. It's been a while but my memory isn't that shoddy.
So yeah, a quick look on Wikipedia confirmed that yes, Prince John, brother to King Richard the Lionheart, became King after his Brother's death and was the same man who signed the Magna Carta. It's a sigh of relief to know I'm right. And it feels a bit better after how crappy Janet made me feel... For the most part, living with her is a relief but she seems a bit more involved than a lot of my other roommates. Most of my other roommates leave me almost completely alone. Janet does too, a bit, but not completely. If I were left to my own devices about 95% of the time by my past roommates, I'm only left along about 92% of my time by Janet. And those three percent are huge!
Okay, I've got to stop procrastinating. I have to do this damn photoshop picture already to finish my website project and then Japanese sakubun. I'm hoping that because I kinda sorta know what I want to talk about in English, I can write in Japanese just as easily. The hardest part isn't the Japanese but rather what to say. Looking up words, putting them into a sentence with correct grammar structure isn't so bad but if you don't knwo what to write, it's hard to start writing when you have nothing to write about... Ugh, photoshopped image... I have no idea what to do at all... :( I have to put me somewhere (there's two layers) and add two more elements into the image as well... Gah, not fun, not fun at all... :(
edit x1: Janet ate my last chicken thigh. God, I wish she would stop doing that to me! The last one! Seriously?! It's the last and still unfrozen for a reason -- ie. I was planning on eating it. I take one day off from eating oyakodon (and I really didn't want to because I really love oyakodon) and my last chicken thigh, destined for yummy oyakodon-ness is eaten. And I was saving the largest one for last too... Next time I've got to realize, if I save the last largest piece, it'll get sniped by Janet. :\
Not only that, I cut myself deboning that thigh. And it was a very deep cut at that, one that wouldn't stop freaking bleeding for almost 15 minutes too. A cut that I kept on reopening every single day up until today, and only because I was pissed off about what was turning out to be a daily ritual of profuse bleeding.
God, now I have to buy more thighs. I've got to get ones that are deboned for once...
Damn, it's already 10:30... I want to get most of my essay done tonight... Hopefully. :\ I finally got that stupid computer project done... I don't even know if I'll get full credit too. *makes a face* Japanese, it's going slowly too but I'm just starting it. Introductions are hard to write anyway... 8 AM class tomorrow, gonna die without sleep and no nap time tomorrow either... *sniffs* At least once the essay is over, I won't have to worry about any pressing deadlines. And no work Friday means sleep! ^^
Last night, as I was watching Robin Hood, Janet came over to gawk and to make fun of it (well, make disparaging comments, but that to me might as well be making fun), we started talking about the Magna Carta, King Richard and Prince John. She was thoroughly convinced that the Prince John that was the brother of Richard the Lionheart was not the same John that signed the Magna Carta and was rather vehement about it too. And since I was convinced otherwise, I argued so. But she just dismissed again and again and just generally made me feel like an idiot for even thinking so. And so I was pissed off. Really so. For one thing, it's not exactly fun having someone come up when you're watching a show and make comments about it, forcing you to pay attention to them rather than the show that I was actually in the midst of watching. Nor is it all that great for them to make fun of the show you're really quite enjoying. And she does this CONSTANTLY. It's like she's unable to purely enjoy a show. Either that, or she's determined to make me hate everything I watch.
And it makes no sense to me because she actually likes some of the same shows I do. I realize she watches them for different reasons than I do but I can't imagine having so many things against a show to actually enjoy it. To make fun of the plot, the acting, the actors themselves personally (which really have no bearing on their acting), the whole premise, even the music sometimes, really, wouldn't you get to a point where you just can't watch the show anymore.
Anyway, I digress. So, I meant to look the whole thing up and see for myself because after it all, I couldn't believe that I got everything so mixed up in my mind. I loved the story of Robin Hood, read countless versions of it and about that time period, not to mention of Richard the Lionheart and the evil Prince John. And then the Magna Carta, something I distinctly remember studying about in my Medievel elective back in middle school. It's been a while but my memory isn't that shoddy.
So yeah, a quick look on Wikipedia confirmed that yes, Prince John, brother to King Richard the Lionheart, became King after his Brother's death and was the same man who signed the Magna Carta. It's a sigh of relief to know I'm right. And it feels a bit better after how crappy Janet made me feel... For the most part, living with her is a relief but she seems a bit more involved than a lot of my other roommates. Most of my other roommates leave me almost completely alone. Janet does too, a bit, but not completely. If I were left to my own devices about 95% of the time by my past roommates, I'm only left along about 92% of my time by Janet. And those three percent are huge!
Okay, I've got to stop procrastinating. I have to do this damn photoshop picture already to finish my website project and then Japanese sakubun. I'm hoping that because I kinda sorta know what I want to talk about in English, I can write in Japanese just as easily. The hardest part isn't the Japanese but rather what to say. Looking up words, putting them into a sentence with correct grammar structure isn't so bad but if you don't knwo what to write, it's hard to start writing when you have nothing to write about... Ugh, photoshopped image... I have no idea what to do at all... :( I have to put me somewhere (there's two layers) and add two more elements into the image as well... Gah, not fun, not fun at all... :(
edit x1: Janet ate my last chicken thigh. God, I wish she would stop doing that to me! The last one! Seriously?! It's the last and still unfrozen for a reason -- ie. I was planning on eating it. I take one day off from eating oyakodon (and I really didn't want to because I really love oyakodon) and my last chicken thigh, destined for yummy oyakodon-ness is eaten. And I was saving the largest one for last too... Next time I've got to realize, if I save the last largest piece, it'll get sniped by Janet. :\
Not only that, I cut myself deboning that thigh. And it was a very deep cut at that, one that wouldn't stop freaking bleeding for almost 15 minutes too. A cut that I kept on reopening every single day up until today, and only because I was pissed off about what was turning out to be a daily ritual of profuse bleeding.
God, now I have to buy more thighs. I've got to get ones that are deboned for once...
Damn, it's already 10:30... I want to get most of my essay done tonight... Hopefully. :\ I finally got that stupid computer project done... I don't even know if I'll get full credit too. *makes a face* Japanese, it's going slowly too but I'm just starting it. Introductions are hard to write anyway... 8 AM class tomorrow, gonna die without sleep and no nap time tomorrow either... *sniffs* At least once the essay is over, I won't have to worry about any pressing deadlines. And no work Friday means sleep! ^^
