about me
name: n/aaliases: kit, kits, kit kat, the smart girl, foxay, an chin
age: 17
location: socal, usa
hobbies: anime, manga, reading, writing, doodling, video games, french horn
likes: all of the above, being lazy, mushrooms, cheese, animals, laughing loudly in public
dislikes: nuts, stinging/biting insects, religious fanatics, violence, olives
contact: coloredink@mailcity add .com
wishlist
playstation 2car
summer job
a good night's sleep
money
stress-free life
trigun dvd box set
realistic wishlist
dayworld by philip josé farmerkabuki by david mack
moxy fruvous live noise
hellsing dvd box set
long-term obsessions
anime/mangayaoi/shounenai
clamp
music
animals
life and living
video games
current obsession(s)
schoolcollege
currently reading
nothing newcurrently playing
ffxkingdom hearts
currently watching
hana yori dango (20)gravitation oav (1)
ayashi no ceres (11)
utena (23)
rayearth (8)
gto tv (19)
ccs tv (19?)
mirage of blaze (6)
star ocean ex (22)
.hack//sign (8)
witch hunter robin (12)
kogepan (10)
weiß kreuz gluhen (2)
naruto (9)
10:43 p.m.
listening to: big honkin' playlist
Unicorn Jelly is one of the best comic strips I've ever read. It's profound, emotional, complex, and. . . and. . . and. . . I've been reading the archives for an hour now.
Wednesday, December 18, 2002 [link]
02:21 p.m.
My hands smell like cheese. Or rather, they smell like soured milk, which is pretty much the same thing. ^^;; We made cheese in AP Bio today. It was fun, if disgusting at times. Jean, Rebecca, and I barely got our cheese done by the end of the period. Now each of us have a small ball of mozarella cheese.
Sometimes I like school.
This has been the longest week in the universe. It's probably because everyone's looking forward to Break, so naturally the week is taking its time to crawl by. Yesterday I kept thinking it was Wednesday. Today, for some reason, I think it's Friday. =_=
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 [link]
09:23 p.m.
listening to: "Haunted" - Poe
Just got back from a city council meeting. Well, not just. I had a bowl of soup after I got back.
The meeting was fairly short. It would have been shorter had it not been for the freaking baseball people. There were a bunch of people from the Pony League, which is a Little League that's somehow independent from the San Gabriel Little League. It vaguely reminded me of a man last year who went up before the Council to complain that the San Gabriel Little League was using city property to engage in discriminatory practices, aka his son did not get on the team he wanted. Argh.
So these people who founded the Pony League or whatever basically took up, like, twenty minutes or more (the entire meeting was one hour) just talking about their freaking league. The first guy went up and basically all he talked about was how there are always obstacles facing the Pony League. And I'm thinking, well, duh. Everyone faces obstacles. Your league will face obstacles. And the guy goes on about how they've never had anywhere to practice, how they only get one night a week and they've never complained because you take what you can get, and how the number of kids in the league just keeps growing and growing. And then he left. And we were like, "Ur? Well, what was the point of that?"
And then another guy comes up and at that point I was starting to zone out. He was talking about the San Gabriel Little League and he was implying how they seem to be "favored" or something, I guess, because they get to use the field more than the Pony League does and the SG Little League doesn't even use all their practice times. The mayor kindly suggested that as they are all adults, surely they can discuss it between the leagues and see if something can be worked out. Because, you see, the Council can't freaking do anything. They can't just say to Parks & Rec, let Pony League have the field. The Council can act only if a decision has already been reached between the leagues that can't be resolved. They'd been hearing a bunch of stuff from both sides anyway, and who can know who's right?
So the guy finally leaves, and then another person comes up--a woman, this time--and she pulls the sympathy card. The kids. We're doing this for the kids, she says. Adults mess everything up, she says. I sleep more soundly at night because I know I've been doing something for the kids. Good Lord, just shut up already! We know you're doing it for the kids! Surely you can't be doing it for the fame and prestige!
I'm sorry. I mean, I kind of know how they must feel, helping those kids and watching them develop skills and teamwork and all that good stuff. I don't want to say "it's just baseball," because someone else could easily say to me "it's just band" or "it's just animation." Because it's not just that. But quite honestly, that was a waste of the Council's time as well as mine.
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 [link]
06:32 p.m.
listening to: "Haunted" - Poe
It hailed today. It was. . . interesting. It hasn't hailed in years, I think. Or if it has, I wasn't outside while it was hailing like I was today. It was only for a few minutes; it stopped a minute before I got to class. But still, it was cool. There's something about hail that's inherently cool.
Two people got A's on the last Government test and I was one of them. Shock. And I didn't even really study. I read/summarized the chapter and that was it. I didn't even fill out the test packet. Maybe this means that once he stops giving us test packets, I'll continue to do well on my tests. I hope so, because I'm getting a C in the class right now and that's not good.
There's something in me right now that wants to write. Maybe it's the music. It inspires pictures in me, visions that I can never quite pin down in words. How does someone capture the feeling of standing in the rain with your face uplifted? How do you describe the un-fear of the water, the sensation of trying to become one with the elements? Is it possible to explain?
I was soaking wet while waiting for my ride yesterday, but I loved it. There was a boy perched on the ledge next to me, barely sheltered under the tiny overhang, while the other kids were hovering in the gateway, where there's something vaguely resembling a roof. "Are you afraid of the rain?" the boy called. "Don't fear it, man! Embrace it!"
Idiot, I had to think. You aren't embracing the rain. You're sitting underneath a roof with your Discman.
Monday, December 16, 2002 [link]
08:58 p.m.
listening to: "Down in the Park" - Foo Fighters
So, I was thinking today, and I realized that the way people use the Internet are very different. I mean, this is a duh kind of thing, but I was just comparing the way I use the Internet as opposed to my friends.
I use the Internet mostly for communication: chatting, blogging, and email. I rarely read fanfic nowadays, and I hardly ever surf. I prefer, instead, to use my time online to catch up on my friends' lives and let my friends know how I'm doing (and ramble meaninglessly). This is mostly because it's something that's quick and easy to do with the advent of the online journal or blog, whereas reading fanfic and surfing are a bit more time-consuming. I can multitask while I chat; I can't really multitask while reading fanfic. And really, I don't find fanfic that important when compared to talking to friends. ^^;;
Other people, however, do use the Internet primarily for entertainment: gaming, reading fanfic, surfing, looking at pictures, etc. It's not that I don't do this (witness all the online comics I read), but I do it in considerably smaller amounts. Except for downloading, but it's not like I sit there and watch it download. I download while I'm chatting. And blogging. And doing homework.
. . . yeah, that was a completely pointless entry. Actually, I was thinking about how much easier it is for Jasmine to keep up with my life than Rachel's because I blog more, and thus why she called me instead of Rachel. ^^;; Completely normal, when you think about it. Don't feel bad, Rachel! Just blog more, so Jasmine can keep up with your life.
Monday, December 16, 2002 [link]
05:38 p.m.
listening to: big honkin' playlist
My big honkin' playlist is still not very big, but it's bigger than it was before owing to the addition of some of the mp3s from my myplay locker. The rest were burned to CD. I'm very finicky about hard drive space for no reason I can really discern, seeing as how I've never once in my entire life run out of space. But, eh. Chalk it up to any number of irrational idiosyncrasies.
I'm considering using some of my saved-up money to purchase a new hard drive. Owing to my new habit of downloading anime and movies, I can sense that I'm going to run out of space very, uh, soon. I never thought that I'd be one to ponder getting a 100 GB hard drive (having that much space used to sound ludicrous to me), yet I am. -_- But. . . PS2. . . argh, decisions. . .
A w00t in Amber's direction. d00d, I haven't seen you in, like, forever. Glad to hear you're doing better.
It was raining earlier today. I waited in the rain for twenty minutes to be picked up from school and got soaked. It was great. Well, until I got home and realized how cold I was. Peeled off my clothes and jumped into bed; I didn't sleep well last night and really needed a nap to clear my head. Of course, my naps always last longer than I want them to. Rar.
This means, of course, that I should stop procrastinating and read the next Biology chapter. Fortunately, this one looks interesting. It's about behavior, something I'm actually interested in.
Sunday, December 15, 2002 [link]
09:32 p.m.
listening to: "The End of the Summer" - Dar Williams
This song is going to be me next summer. You just watch.
I have discovered the joy of kazaalite. Finally, I can find the music I want! Also, thanks to Whitney I have discovered DC++. At last! I can download the anime I want!
Today at rehearsal they made me play a cornet part in D. If I didn't suck I probably could have transposed it in my head, but I suck, so, uh, yeah. The trombone player next to me was made to play a bassoon part, which had notes he couldn't even reach. Poor guy.
Jasmine called me today! Happy happy. I miss Jasmine so much. She's staying until the twenty-eighth and my Winter Break starts on the twentieth, so that gives us like a whole week to hang over. So. Happy.
Saturday, December 14, 2002 [link]
06:34 p.m.
listening to: "Gypsy" - Suzanne Vega
Two wallpapers in one day! Will the insanity never end?!
Series: Original
Character(s): Zosimus Vly
Title/Song: "Gypsy" by Suzanne Vega
Blurb: The song call was made a while ago and I had a vague idea for a wallpaper that didn't really come to fruition until today. Zosimus is property of m'good friend Dagger, who also provided all of the images used in this wallpaper. ^^;; All I did was cobble them together and add text. One of the background images is a real painting, and not just me playing with filters! No rewards if you guess which one, though.
link: http://coloredink.shike.org/images/gypsy.jpg
Saturday, December 14, 2002 [link]
03:43 p.m.
listening to: "Nuits de Reve" - Moxy Fruvous
Moxy Fruvous singing in French is quite possibly one of the best things on Earth. Although for all I know, they're probably singing about goats or something.
And now, proof of what a gigantic dork I am!
Series: Kogepan
Characters: Cast
Song/Title: "Winter Wonderland" by whoever came up with it first
Blurb: I was eating my melon pan and I thought, "I should make a Kogepan wallpaper! I bet nobody else has." I'm sure someone has, but whatever. The wallpaper took me about fifteen minutes to make, anyway. Isn't it cute?
800x600: http://coloredink.shike.org/images/winterwonderland800600.jpg
1024x768: http://coloredink.shike.org/winterwonderland.jpg
. . . look, I don't give you grief about your dorkishness.
Saturday, December 14, 2002 [link]
03:00 p.m.
listening to: nothing
I found out that the writing workshop had been cancelled, thank goodness, before we actually left and drove all the way downtown. Although maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad thing, because then I could have convinced my father to buy Harry Potter in Japanese while we were there. ^_^;; I'm going to get it for Christmas! I think. And maybe volume two of Hellsing.
Dad says I should stop accumulating things, since I'm going to college.
Saturday, December 14, 2002 [link]
12:32 p.m.
listening to: nothing
Just got back from lunch and the bank with my father. Closed my account, then went to Carl's Jr. I tried their new chili burger; it was pretty good.
The entire way to lunch I was craving a melon pan, for some reason. But there aren't a lot of Japanese stores around here, so I was wondering what I was going to do until I remembered that there's a Mitsuwa on Las Tunas Dr. I kept bugging my dad and bugging my dad and it looked like I wasn't going to get my melon pan--and then it turned out that the Carl's Jr. is right next to Mitsuwa! Huzzah. So after telling dad what I wanted, I skipped next door and got my melon pan. Happy happy.
I'm going to a Writing Workshop at the Japanese American National Museum later. I hope it'll be useful; the little blurb I have here isn't very helpful. It looks like it might be something for inexperienced writers, which I'm not, really. At this point, what I really want (and need, I guess) is advanced writing tips.
Thursday, December 12, 2002 [link]
10:19 p.m.
listening to: "Fade to Black" - Metallica
I'm sorry. I promised I wouldn't succumb to the Test Disease, because I find it really irritating when people post a whole bunch of tests at once with gigantic images that take forever to load. But, uh, I couldn't resist posting them, and I cropped or shrunk some of the images to make them smaller.
Besides, they're hilarious. I haven't gotten results this hilarious in a while.
Who is your secret Hogwarts Lover?
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!!!~What Harry Potter Fan Fic Ship Are You?~!!!
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The Ultimate *Which Harry Potter Character are You?* Quiz
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These tests are all on crack, I tell you. Although the "secret lover" test consisted of wholly three questions, which doesn't nearly constitute a decent test. Keerist.
By the way, is that the guy they actually got to play Sirius, or one of the candidates?
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