It's 3 AM. Do You Know Where Your Pants Are?

SIX NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Ash
2. Ashley
3. Ash-loo
4. Spaz
5. Ash-les (yeah, idk either)
6. Thuy

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. Grey V-neck T-shirt
2. Xhilaration skinny jeans
3. Underwear

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
1. Money that I do not have to work for
2. A male harem
3. Motivation

THREE PEOPLE WHO WILL SEND THIS BACK TO YOU YOU HOPE WILL DO THE MEME
1. Eh
2. Yeah
3. Whatever

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
1. Accidentally pulled an all-nighter reading porn. It was really good porn.
2. Stared at the ceiling.
3. Did 100 push-ups because I was just that bored

TWO PEOPLE YOU LAST TALKED TO ON THE PHONE:
1. Boyfriend
2. Girlfriend(s)

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW:
1. Work for money
2. Watch violent martial arts movies
3. Terrorize small children Teach kids class at karate

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS:
1. Orange soda
2. Skim milk
3. Iced tea

THREE Things That Made YOU Smile Today:
1. Writing a story with my friend in Connecticut
2. The fact that someone, somewhere, is not as awesome as I am
3. Drawing a picture that did not look like a stick figure with balloons on its head and instead looked rather like a person. I am improving in mah drawing skills.

A while ago there was a meme that asked a person for five things they associated with me. nezumiko answered,

1. Prednisone (which tastes like ass)

2. Martial arts

3. New York City

4. Unbridled energy

5. and Katsuko.

I now bring you numbers 1-3.

Drumroll please.

Prednisone (which tastes like ass)

Ah, prednisone. Your bitter taste shall be the fuel for my nightmares for years to come. I'm on my university's crew (rowing) team, and we're out rowing on the Genesee River every day. Fall in Rochester is moist, windy, and cold. Last year around November, I start coughing in the boat. Nothing serious, at first. Nothing that would mess up my rhythm in the boat.

Then my chest starts hurting.

Okay, okay, well, I thought, I'll see the doctor this weekend. I just have to finish this one competition.

Then I barf up what feels like the entire lining of my lungs during a six-mile race in Ohio. Boy, was it fun in the bus coming back from that.

Walking pneumonia, the doctors say. They confine to bed and give this bottle of absolutely shitty tasting pills called prednisone. I took them for the first time and spent the next hour gagging. I wailed to Nezu online that they tasted like ass. I guess the comparison stuck. :P

Martial arts.

I love martial arts. Love it. I started taking Isshin-Ryu karate at a nonprofit dojo the summer I turned nine. I won't say I took to it immediately--quite the opposite, in fact. I hated the constant drill, the techniques I had to practice over and over to engrain into muscle-memory. The beginning of my "martial arts career" (hah) consisted of me trying to get out of karate class every day and failing.

Then I discovered sparring.

Oh noes, I thought, wimpy nine-year-old that I was, I'll get hurt. But then the light switched on.

Holy crap. I get to kick guys in the nuts really hard and I won't get in trouble for it.

Thus started my love of karate.

New York City

Rochester is about 7 hours away from the Big Apple, 3 hours if you go on plane. I go there with friends or family whenver I have an extended break. It's--

Gray concrete and flashing steel girders, the roar of traffic and the smoke of car exhaust. The chaos is muted in the morning, but barely just. Vendors line the streets, hotdogs and halal side-by-side with the peanut sellers.

In some places, the skyscrapers block out the sun.

The people are the most interesting, though. All different ethnicities, freaks and geeks and naked cowboys. (look it up on google. naked cowboy, nyc. you'll see.) I make new friends every time I go to the city, not to mention a few enemies.

It's not exactly beautiful, this smelly city, but it's pulsing with life.

A getting to know you sort of thing. comment pleas! :)


1. Can you cook?

2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What 's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

...Fade, I guess it's no use hiding it anymore. I'm madly in love with you.
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*looks again* oh damn, it's not the New Year yet. Never mind.