Human Centipede, anyone?

I haven't been getting enough sleep this week, for no real reason. In an ideal world, I would've already finished studying the vocab for my quiz tomorrow, and be getting ready for bed soon. For this blog's sake at least, it's a good thing I don't live there.

So. Story:
Earlier this week, I was hanging out with Will in the 図書館 and while reading magazines as a break in between studying kanji, I came across a rather intriguing movie-still in a Japanese magazine for the movie "The Human Centipede."

Intriguing, no?

I showed the photo to Will, and he told me he knew about it already "Oh that movie." I begged him to tell me the summary. *Spoilers (in case you had your little heart set on watching this, and don't want to ruin it for yourself)* The villain, a German Doctor, has a sinister plan that requires several human specimen. Luckily for the Doctor, he manages to kidnap a Japanese man, and two young American women just walk into his house from the woods after a car accident. He drugs them and when they wake up in a hospital-like room,  he reveals what his plan is. 

Zis is vat you vill become!

This monstrosity, a creature that shares the same digestion tract, is his life-long obsession. I don't really want to describe it anymore than that... He unfortunately succeeds in surgically combining the three people. The Japanese man is the first on line, and the other women following. The Doctor intends to keep it as a pet and train it. He places them in a plush room, and they writhe around the floor while the Japanese man makes Japanese-screams the whole time. Now that might not sound particularly humorous, but imagine it crawling on its arms on your new carpet. 

Don't make a mess in here, Human Centipede! It'll never come out!

If you're hoping for a happy ending, you should realize that never happens in horror movies. Everyone dies at the end of this movie; the lady on the end succumbs to blood poisoning because she had not been eating well since becoming the centipede (ack), the Japanese man feels so guilty that he kills himself, Doctor German gets caught in a cross-fire with two policemen and no one survives.

Oh, wait, someone does live: Girl-in-the-middle, which if you think about it, isn't that great. The movie ends with her in like an attic, but just stuck to dead people. What an instant classic! *tear*

For those interested here's the trailer!

Sorry for the HD. You probably didn't need to watch that in high def...
Also, maybe don't eat chocolate pudding while watching. I mean, you can't see anything. But still.

"How can you forget your backpack?? Its so BIG!"

Yep, I forgot my backpack today. Really. You might ask how old I am, to forget such an important thing. Here's how it happened:

I had my Spoken Japanese class at 11 am, and I had been up til really late studying for the vocab quiz for today. I got up quite early, around 8:30, and got a can of juice from the soda machine downstairs, since I was very thirsty. Went back to my room, and feel asleep unintentionally, I then woke up with a start at 10:25. It doesn't take longer than 8-10 minutes to bike to school, so I wasn't too worried about making it on time. What worried me was that I hadn't finished studying last night. So I got ready fairly quickly and checked the temperature to make sure I was dressed appropriately, grabbed my coat, and left. The unusually  unburdened feeling I had should have tipped me off, but the weather was too nice to get me down. I biked up the big hill, and waited at the stoplight for a bit before I crossed, and once across I realized I didn't have anything with me. I contemplated returning for it, but I didn't have a lot of extra time to go back and since I had only one class for the day, decided against it. I guess laziness won (I hate that hill).

Once I got to campus I asked my friend, "Hey Will, can I borrow a pencil? I forgot my backpack today!" cheerily (I rocked that quiz btw). After class I tried to hurry off as sneakily as possible before any of my friends saw me backpack-less and started asking questions. Tim caught me though. He was immediately suspicious of me and asked, "Why were you running so fast down those stairs?" 

"Uhm no reason!" I'm the worst liar I know, so I just caved and told him, "Hey, so I guess what I forgot this morning? Not my cellphone, not my wallet. My backpack." His expression was worth it, and so was Balint's when I told him. They both teased me on the walk to lunch, but Balint's was great, "Okay, this is Sherida in ten years," he wobbled forward in a hurried manner for 8-10 seconds, "Whoops, I forgot my car!" Hm, I doubt I'll have a license by then, so there!

Forgetting my backpack just reminds me of the dreams I'd have as a kid, where I'd go to school without shoes on. How terrifying. Now, it doesn't sound as frightening, but it really got to me then. I mean, going to school with NO SHOES on! In your bare feet. Ack.

At least this time though, I didn't oversleep and miss class. Like when I had my Spoken Japanese Final last semester and I woke up just as it was ending. Gosh. 

Welcome!

I know I'm starting this a little late; I'm already into my second semester here in Japan. So I figured it was about time I started a real, mature blog and whatnot.

I'm sitting in my dorm's lounge right now, supposed to be memorizing Japanese vocabulary words for a quiz tomorrow, but instead I asked my friend for help on my blog's name. I have to give him credit for coming up with the term "Procrasturbation" though. (Thanks Tim!) I did come up with the twist all by myself which, if I can say so myself, is perfect. My biggest vice. I don't know how I get to this point whenever a big test or quiz is coming up, but every time I find myself up until the wee hours of the night, procrasturbating away. I just can't help it! でも，単語はまだ勝ってない。
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On another note, I'm getting so used to Japan, and I don't want that to happen! Don't get me wrong, I enjoy everyday here. Maybe I should travel around more. Actually, the best time I had while in Japan was the 2 weeks I went traveling to Hokkaido and Tokyo...

Well, I look forward to sharing my funny, interesting stories with you all, and hope you enjoy!

Let the Procrasturbation Ensue!