I just had the least restful 9 hours of sleep I have ever had. It was probably due to the fact that I didn't have a pillow or sheets, and I used my bathrobe as a blanket, and now my neck hurts and I have the sniffles and I probably caught a cold...but yay to moving out of the dorm finally? (I already shipped all my bedding. ^^; You don't even want to know how much I spent shipping all my stuff back to California... Oh fine. $200. Ground. Laugh if you will.) Anyways. Finally heading back home~~ Even if the dorm is pathetically dead and quiet right now because next to nobody's still here. >_> Oh well. And everyone? Make sure if you're at college right now, you start packing EARLY. Or else, get lots of people to come and help you pack. Because packing SUCKS. I am sooo sore right now, and packing was all I was doing the last two-three days, and I was doing it all on my own...dude, it was worse than finals. I'd rather do my finals again than have to go through all of that again. ^^; Well, that's just because I'm lazy...but still! I am SO sore right now. ;_; And I still have a little packing to do! *cries* Oh well. Breakfast first.

Stolen from Aya-onee:


13 1/13 inch, ebony and mercury. Interesting and
unusual are severe understatements for this
Gregorovitch wand. You've got your own style
and your own opinions, and you probably live in
your own world as well. Join us down here in
the real world sometimes, will you?

Which wand will yours be?
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XD Weird and proud of it!

My first final today was a snap (finished in less than an hour! and I was worried about this final too...) Now I only have my Chinese final left! After that, I'll blog! Promise! (haveta tell you all about the fireworks going off outside my dorm at 3AM...o_O And the car accident, and how I got away with never finishing Paradise Lost XD he said my term essay was really good!! so funny because I never did finish that book...) And yeah. And I need to finish my blog layout. (It's getting there! Really! It doesn't have Daisuke and Ken, unfortunately...but it will have cherry blossoms. Maybe. ^^;) Anyways. Chinese. Study.

You are Mythos (Mute). Selfless and Compassionate,
you give freely of yourself to save those who
are weaker. Now, if only you'd stop throwing
yourself out of windows in only your
sleepshirt.

Which Princess Tutu character are you? Version 1.0
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I even changed my answers around and I still got Mute. ^^; I wanted Fakiaa!! (The blurb for him was really appropriate. It made me laugh. XD) Oh well. Guess we didn't end up getting the same test results as we usually do, Imouto. =P

I have a lot to blog about later, but I'll save that until after my last two finals tomorrow... So! Later! (Wow, I'm impressed with the discipline I have over myself today. o_O)

I love Scrapped Princess. It's been so long since I've seen a fantasy show that I've liked...last one was Berserk, I think, and I saw that a good 2 or 3 years ago. Scrapped Princess isn't anywhere near the same as Berserk; Berserk is the epitome of gritty, quasi-realistic fantasy (I LOVE!!!) and Scrapped Princess has, while not the slapstick comedy of say, Slayers, a much lighter feel. The bright colors in the animation vs. the washed out tones in Berserk probably helped create this mood as well... But anyways, I'm a complete sucker for fantasy. (My bookshelf back at home? It takes up an entire wall of my room, and a full half of that is fantasy (some sci-fi) books. I think that's...300 or so books? Yeah, I'm a sci-fi/fantasy geek. I'm doubly a geek because I'm a computer junkie, and triply a geek because I'm an anime fangirl... ^_~ But I'm happy being a geek, so nyah. XD Anyways...sidetracked. ^^; So, in episode 3, we get Leo and Pacifica running around in a mascot suit pimping "Soupy-Pan", largely unsuccessfully; (XD I thought melon-pan as soon as I heard them). That served as the comedy of the episode (besides Leopold; Leopold's very existance is comedic. Poor boy. XD) Heehee, Zefiris said Shannon would make a good wife! XD I'm getting Touya vibes all over again...heehee, part time jobs!! Shannon is just so completely cool (marry me!! <3<3<3); now he's going off alone to fight Chris!! THAT is a fight I really, really want to see. *_* Raquel is a very nikoniko character. I love her, too. Actually, I love everybody. Now I'll just wait patiently for the main plot to show up (I'm guessing it has something to do with Zefiris and the dragon thing and probably Pacifica's twin brother...but it's just as likely they'll introduce new developments, as we're only three episodes in, and unless it's something like Berserk which gears up the main story arc from episode 2...they'll probably give us just enough to keep us interested long enough for the big plot developments to show up. Hm. Besides~~ Bones worked on this project! Bones Bones Bones!! I love just about anything they do! *_*)

I have a final in 4 hours, which I should study for. So I think I'd better... But first! Watched Gundam Seed 28 yesterday. And to summarize my reaction... 1) Kagari, you rock, 2) YES!! Kira grew a backbone and dumped Frey!! *_* 3) ...? Kira has a sibling? and they've met? and didn't know it? .........eh? future plot development?, 4) Asuran and Kira at the end of the episode....wahh. ;_;

Gundam Seed cosplay is a must. If Phi and Kix are doing Kira and Lux...I guess...I could do Kagari or Asuran? ....err...hmm. Or I could run around and oh and ah over you two all day! That would work too! XD

Right. Finals...

Episode 4 of DNAngel was sparkly. Episode 5 looks to be about the twins cooking. "Double Cooking" my ass. That is not sparkly. Why is the DNAngel anime so inconsistent? >_< I mean, in episode 4, not only do we get Krad, half nekkid Satoshi, and minimal exposure to Risa, we also get Dark and Daisuke chatting, very cutely I might add (so why did Dark leave a note for Daisuke in episode 2?), Satoshi and Daisuke being lublub, and plot development. *_* And in the next episode...cooking. >_< Blaaahhh.

And I love you too, Manda~! Except next time, tell me when you give my cell # to guys, so I won't be scared shitless if they call. =P

And going to Japanese class with you and you sounds fun!! Heehee, I can sit there and pretend to know what everyone's talking about! XD Because beyond fangirl Japanese, I know nothing. Except kanji. But I doubt that'll do me much good. =P Wheee!! I'm really looking forward to this...

Oh fuck. I just basically said I'd go with that boy to his senior prom. (how did he get my cell phone #? >_<) And if it was over e-mail, I would've been able to think it through and find some way to gently say 'even if I do go, it'll only be platonic' but since it was over the phone, and I HATE phones, I didn't have time to think about how to phrase my response so...ARGHHH!!! I have no fucking backbone. So NOW, I basically put the "just friends" conversation off until later, and I really should have had it now because it would be less painful for him, except I didn't get any openings and I couldn't bring myself to force it and arghh!!

Okay, calm down. Breathe in, breathe out. What's not stressful that I can talk about...? Ah! Dragon Drive!! Watched 33-36; dammit, Toki, you had me this close to liking you! You have the potential, dammit; you worked so well with Reiji, and you saved him too (automatic <3<3<3!!) all in the course of half an episode and I was soooo sure that you would finally turn up on Reiji's side just like all the other 'villains' in the show, but then you reverted back to psycopath. >_< Dammit! Well...I guess it's more realistic... Not all villains can be reformed, after all. But ARGHH!! Though he did genuinely seem to accept Reiji's friendship when he lost his sight, and even when he regained it he didn't restart his fight with Reiji... Maybe there's some hope for him. Two more episodes!!

Oh! Change of plans! When I'm going down to SoCal, I'll be arriving Friday morning instead, and will be leaving Monday night; I think Kenji was going to drop me off at UCI in the morning because he had finals to take care of... So the question is, do you and you have classes Friday? ...well, even if you do, I suppose I could just tag along. =P Or something. Eep, have to figure all this out...

Have you noticed that whenever I say I'm going to be blogging less, I inevitably blog more?

Eee!!! Prince of Tennis 71 is the best thing ever!!! Well, besides the chibi episode, and the kitty episode, and the episode with Momo stealing Kamio's bike and Shinji and Ryoma dueling over tape and Kaidou... XD Heehee, I love Shinji!! He's still completely spaced-out; he seriously lives on a completely different planet than the rest of us... "I still haven't gotten my hands on it." "Is it sold out?" "They're all reserved." "So why don't you reserve it?" ".............ah." XD He and Ryoma interacting is so funny in the midst of all the idiocy concerning the 'date' with Ann; both of them are completely unconcerned with anything but tennis, and it's just hilarious. Socially dysfunctional tennis geniuses unite!! XD Ryoma's the same adorably cocky little shota he always is; actually, let me add scheming. He is an adorable scheming cocky little bastard. XD *glomps him* I find that I really like Mizuki when he's not being a manipulative bastard; his purple shirts and wannabe-seme-ness kills me. And poor little Kaidoh; date with Inui, eh? XD I think Inui did it on purpose. I really do. I think he said whatever would get the most rise out of whoever he was talking to to ensure that they got there ASAP; or maybe who did it just to amuse himself. Actually, he was just doing it to amuse himself, because it's Inui and he's the other manipulative bastard that I love even when he's being manipulative. XD Oishi was being so adorably motherly, dane boy I still cannot put into words, Fuji was wonderful; even though in normal cases incest would squick me, Fuji suggesting the date to Yuuta made me giggle like crazy, just because it's Fuji, and...Fuji can do things that should frighten me but I still love him! (Yay, go and blow off Mizuki and act like you didn't know you were doing it! Poor Mizuki. XD) Oh, and how could I forget Momo and Kamio acting like utter idiots. But them temporarily getting along was great...until Ryoma showed his scheming bastard side. XD And Tezuka...good for you, ignoring that entire mess! Though that shirt...it's not as gay as Mizuki's shirt was...but lavendar is not your color. Really.

And I am in complete denial about the Hikaru no Go manga. It can't be over. Popular shounen manga are supposed to go on forever and ever and ever. Hikaru no Go is popular. It was supposed to go on forever and ever and ever. And if it was going to end like this, it should've just ended at the end of the Sai arc! That would've been a good place to end it. ;_; I am sad. I refuse to believe this happened. I can delude myself into believing it didn't happen. I'm good at that. ....wah.

Prince of Tennis, I trust, will go on forever and ever and ever. ;_;

XD PRINCESS TUTU COSPLAY!!! XDXDXD ...though that person is kinda...muscular...for a ballerina. o_O ...whatever!! I totally never thought I'd see anyone cosplay Princess Tutu. It has to take a lot of guts...

That is all. ^^;

Makubex is such a cutie. *_* SQUEE!!! I love Get Backers!!

YAY!! I'm so glad you enjoyed Princess Tutu (err, though I'm sorry about the err, interesting fever dreams ^^;) and I'm very happy to have been of service! ^0^ And the CD's got to you really FAST. o_O Kix, too. I seriously wasn't expecting them to get to you guys until the end of this week. ...oh well, I'm not complaining, and I don't see you guys complaining either! XD

AND!!! My parents agreed to let me go to SoCal the weekend of the 10th!! I'm going to fly down Thursday and get there in the evening, and go back around 1 or 2PM Sunday so I can make Mother's Day. Err, and Phi and Kix? Err, I don't think my parents want me to stay at Kenji's alone (nothing against you, Kenji!) so would it be all right if I stay at your dorm a couple of days? I can bring a pillow and a blanket or something; sleeping on the floor is fine with me. =P Anyways, there's still time to plan that out...WHEE!! That'll be so much FUN!! XD

My term paper is exactly four pages right now. It needs to be at least six, preferably ten. And I have absolutely nothing else to write about. @_@ Wahh. ....maybe I'll just stick a few block quotes in. XD But no, really...I am not going to sleep until I finish this #$@$ing paper!! >_< *is determined*

And yeah, it's finals week next week for me, so, um... If you don't hear much from me, that would be why. ^^; But after finals I plan to finally make my new blog layout (HOW long has it been? o_O) and draw and do other fun stuff like that, so yay! ...but I need to find a job when I get back home. ASAP. >_< Any suggestions?

Lalalalaaaa....Get Backers so cute. *_* Makubex needs lots of hugs, and I'd be so willing to give them to him!! *sparkles* I do so love angsty boy genius bad-guy-but-not-bad-guy characters... Though OMG, could Juubei and Kazuki get any more gay in that onsen episode? o_O I mean seriously gay. It was really sweet and romantic and everything, but dude, this is a shounen anime, and I think even fanboys will have to admit that these two are completely gone for each other. o_O They are also completely gay in the second ED. Heck, Ginji and Ban were pretty omoshiroi in the ED too. It's all so adorable and sweet and eeee!!!! and everything, but dude. This is a shounen anime. It should not be so blatantly gay. o_O And I'm repeating myself. I think that's enough.

(Oh, and thank you to everyone who was concerned about my biological anthropology exam!! Obviously, it didn't kill me, as I am alive. =P By my calculations, I have at least a B without a curve. So I think that puts me in excellent shape. =D So yay!! Staying up until 5:30AM studying did some good after all...

Somebody play a funeral dirge for me. I think I'm about to die. *marches off to biological anthropology exam resignedly* Yes, that bad. I was up until 5:30AM studying (actually studying; well, with a 'break' to write my precis for English) and half of the time I can barely remember the difference between an australopithecine and aegyptopithecus. Well, I think that, at least, might be my dyslexia kicking in, but still... All these #*$(ing scientific names...and then there's all the characterstic traits which all seem the same to me...and the cranial capacities...and the excavation sites...and the dates (darnit, I thought only history made you memorize dates! >_<)... Heehee. This exam is going to kill me. At least I have a fairly high grade in the class...and most of the rest of the class will do worse than me, statistically... So I guess I shouldn't worry. Still... *sniffles* I wanna go hooommmeee....

YES!!


You're Ken!

Which Digimon 02 character are you?
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I am highly pleased with this result. *sparkles*

Anyways~ Went to my first party here at Duke. Not a frat party, a selective house party, which is not all that much different...but the lack of frat boys was refreshing. XP Of course, the first thing that ended up happening was me drinking some punch (it looked like the safest thing they had, okay!?) and of course there was everclear in it. ^^; Apparently I have a decent alcohol tolerance, because I never got anything even remotely close to drunk the entire night. (The most that happened is that my cheeks were a little red around ten minutes and then it went away. =P) Though I would like to ask why people like beer? It tastes like shit. Seriously. >_< Oh, and I forgot! The theme of the party: colors! Wear red if you're single and looking, yellow if you're single and not looking, blue if you're taken, and green if you're taken and looking. (ooh!! scandalous!! And there were a bunch of people wearing green, too. o_O) I was the only girl wearing yellow at the entire party. o_O There were a number of guys wearing yellow...but I was the only yellow girl. XD This amuses me. There was a whole lot of people in red, naturally. As for the party itself...watched people play drinking games (XD I would so never stoop to that level, but watching them is highly amusing) and danced. I forgot how fun dancing can be if you're with friends! Duuudee, I need to find more people to drag with me next time! If it's fun with four, it'll be even more fun with more! XP (My roommate says I'm a good dancer, which I find doubtful, but I figure I'm good enough to not embarrass myself, which is more than good enough for me!)

And why is my life such a #*$&ing drama? >_< Okay, story: senior prom, went with a junior. Said junior still likes me, a lot apparently, ("head-over-heels", Manda describes it as) and wants me to go to his senior ball with him. (Incidentally, I never got his e-mail, Manda; I think it got deleted before I had a chance to see it...) Problem: he wants to be serious. I don't want to be serious. I don't really want to be in a relationship at all, at least not until med school, preferably beyond med school, unless the guy is very, very special. As in, I'd be willing to give up my chances at a solid career for him, which I could never see happening. (Other Ideal Lisa Guy qualities: taller than Lisa, good hair, thin and fit, sense of humor, intellectual equal, open-minded and preferably a little liberal (in a political sense), someone who could hang with my friends and fit in, and someone who would accept my strange cosplay habit. =P) Basically, I'm not interested in him. Unfortunately, I can't just make up an excuse not to go, it seems, or else he'll decide that there's still a 'chance for us'. Basically, if I make an excuse, ie I'm out of town in S.California (XP) then all I'll be accomplishing is leading him on, and that's not good. If he's crushed on me a year, I suspect he can do it longer. >_< However, as you all know, I'm horrible at being straightforward when it comes to hurting someone's feelings. I don't think I'd be able to tell him straight off that I don't like him as anything but a friend, especially if that came in conjunction with me not going to prom with him. Knowing him, he'd just not go to his own senior prom, and probably be depressed throughout the rest of his senior year, which sucks. >_< I can't stand being responsible for that. However, I don't really want to go to the prom with him either. I suppose I could go, but on the express condition that we're only going as friends; though I don't really know the people in his class, and it will be awkward to say the least. >_< Usually I only enjoy social events like that if it's with people I know really well, and I don't know any of his friends but the robotics people (being one myself) and I doubt most of them are the type to go to prom. So, basically, I'm screwed whatever I do. Yay. (He's screwed whatever I do, too, poor boy. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong girl to have a crush on. ^^; I can't even bring myself to feel flattered by the attention; it's definitely more distressing than anything else. Dammit, I don't want to have to deal with this... >_<)

....okay, let me try something less stressful. Anime! *_* Asagiri no Miko. I have two words for you: YAOI FANGIRLS!! At least two of the main characters are yaoi fangirls!! XDXDXD This is, like, a major plot point. Kinda. As in, they decide to become mikos so that they might better 'observe' the activity between the two males in the series. XD This made my day. Completely. Matantei Loki Ragnarok also made my...okay, I forget when I watched it. But I like it, especially the second episode. Thor is sooo adorable! And DUDE!! PAKU ROMI plays a character later! (Heimdall? Wait, in the myths, Heimdall is supposed to kill Loki at Ragnarok(?), but die of his wounds afterwards. ....and Loki is a yummy delicious god turned into an adorable little earthbound boy, and I'm betting Heimdall is the purple-haired boy in the ED. <3<3 I can smell the angst and the possibilities already...if they're following the myths. *_*) Hmm...anything else? Oh! Anime-empire released a shitload of Get Backers (17-25 o_O) and I want it. Now. But 18 isn't loading!! >_< What's this #$&*ing tracking error I'm getting!? Arghh!! I WANT 18!! I WANT KAZUKI FIGHT!!! >_< ...i am such a fangirl. Dude, I wonder if that guy would be scared off if he found out how totally crazy weird scary I actually am? Think it would work?

Sleepy sleepy time. I have a term paper to at least brainstorm tomorrow, Paradise Lost to finish, a precis to write, a biology group project to do, and my biological anthropology test to study for. I must get up early tomorrow and start working. >_< AND! Being female sucks. Ibuprofen is the only reason I'm not screaming and throwing things at walls and/or bitching, moaning, and groaning. =P Cramps suck. The end.

Oh, I forgot! *smacks head* You and you should be getting packages sometime next week. =3 I am the Tutu pimp!

...yeah. Oh, and Manda~! I responded to the comment below, too, but... If you need to call me, after 3PM tomorrow, my time, I should be free. If not, leave a message and I'll call you back. Because dude, now you have me curious!

And!! More Wankage! And boy am I wanked. o_O And squicked. And generally amused. ...I wonder if we'll get AID fairy tales, too? (Was flabbergasted to find out what the acronym stood for. o_O Though that wasn't the only thing I was flabbergasted by this time around. XD I am in awe of the brains that came up with all of this...)

I seem to be the resident handy-woman of my hall. I fix computers, glasses, and love lifes! (Despite having no love life, or desire for a love life, of my own. ^^;) Computers most often, love lifes least often. Personally, I prefer the computers. Much less sticky and emotional, and all I have to do to fix them is to unplug everything and reboot, eject the battery and reboot, or kick the external casing and reboot. In rare cases I actually have to reinstall the operating system or dig up drivers or codecs to get programs to work correctly, but this is still better than giving advice to a disraught hall mate. >_< Oh, have I also mentioned that I seem to be the rant ear? People have stuff to get off their backs, it's me they bring it to. ^^; The pitfall of being nice. And I guess I don't really mind at all, but...all I can really do is smile and nod, you know? (or frown and nod, depending) Ah well. Dorm life. I'm sure I'll look back on it in misplaced nostalgia 10 years down the line. >_>

Pop tart #1 -- 210
Milk chug #1 -- 130
Instant Pasta Alfredo -- 330
Coke #1 -- 140
Pretzels -- 110
Coke #2 -- 140
Instant Thai noodles -- 188
Milk chug #2 -- 130
Pop tart #2 -- 210
Peach Snapple Iced Tea -- 100
Instant chicken dumplings -- 160

That adds up to precisely 1848 calories consumed today, and 4 distinct 'meals'. (5 if you count the pretzels.)

...you know it's bad when you can count exactly how many calories you've had during the course of a day. Gotta love packaged food. ^^;

Bones! Did! Scrapped! Princess!! <3

Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop, Angelic Layer, Scrapped Princess... Bones, I love you. <3

OMG. I am sooo in love with Scrapped Princess now. Even more than before. *_* Leo is so cute and earnest (his entrance into the show is absolutely hilarious, again without being slapstick~), and he and Pacifica already make such an adorable couple despite my initial skepticism~~ Shannon is still being his cool cool self... And I can't even describe his expression when he beats up the bandits. It's not disgusted, it's not bored, it's not tired, it's not grumpy... It's Shannon!! My bishie of the season! Well, he's not really bishie, I guess...but he's cool and eeee and I love him, so yay! And his little 'talk' with Leo was great too; heehee, Shannon has a sister comples! Just like Touya~!! XD I'm getting so many Touya vibes from this guy... *glomps* And I'm happy because I heard it's going to be 24 episodes. It would've been sad if it was the increasingly common 13...

Err, anyways...I should really study for biological anthropology...

It never fails. I wear a halter top, I get whistled at. Why the halter top? It's not particularly revealing; it's not like I'm hanging out of it or anything. It actually covers up just about...everything...well, except the upper half of my back. But most of that is covered up by my hair anyway. So it mystifies me why males seem to have this programmed response to halter tops... >_< Guys in groups and construction workers seem especially prone to this. I suppose it's funny...guys are so predictable. =P

And I finally figured out what I'm doing my term paper on! Score! XD It's actually a fairly common topic for me...but I like it! I'm doing it on free will; I did a short paper on free will for my Cornell admissions essay too. (I got in.) I have this weird fascination with free will; no wonder I picked up on it as the only thing in Paradise Lost that interested me. (Well, that and Satan's portrayal. And Eve being so grossly subordinate pissed me off so much that I suppose you could call me being interested in it, but...anyways.) How I'm going to write about it for 6-10 pages eludes me, but I'm sure I'll figure out a way. =P Ooh, and the best thing! No final in English for me, because my grade is abnormally high. X3 (Despite the fact that I hate Milton.) And if I do well enough on the upcoming biological anthropology exam, no final exam for that, either. XD So that would leave me with my biology exam, my (non-cumulative =3) social psychology exam, and my chinese exam (which I have no doubt I will ace.) Finals week sounds rosier already... Dude, I can't believe the second half of next week is reading period already. >_<

Hmm, what else...? Oh, Meimi, I need your mailing address~! Kix, your package is ready; just need to stop at the post office! OOOH, Scrapped Princess 2 finished downloading!! *_* Noo, Lisaa...must...do...work.....

And you may all laugh at my rapidly deteriorating eating habits now, because for the past two days my lunch has consisted of a bag of Doritos and a coke. All those times I poked the rest of you because you weren't eating right...*sighs* Oh, but Kenji! Don't think this means you can slack off and only eat one meal a day, because I still eat 3 meals a day! ...only one of them consists of chips and caffeine. ^^;

listening to: Lose Yourself by Eminem

Aye aye, mon capitan! Chocolate, caffeine, and fangirling it is! XD And if you want Princess Tutu before college, I wouldn't mind sending you the first 13 eps... I mean, I already pimped it to my sister, and it would be fun sending the crack-headedness (it definitely is; though cute crack-headedness!) to more poor souls. XD And then I could just send it to Kix at the same time... Three CD's cost, like, nothing, and shipping 3 CD's is veddy cheap. It'll all pay itself back anyways by infecting more people with the crack-happy joy. XD ohohohoho!! ...anyways, the offers there if you want to take it up...

I went through all of today thinking it was Wednesday. I somehow managed to go to all my Tuesday classes, but I seriously and honestly thought it was Wednesday. o_O I must have been really out of it this morning... Oh, and about Operation Lobby~~! It's okay if you don't have time to do Hikaru, Phi, but we might as well make preparations anyways! We're going to two conventions, so maybe... Anyways, Kenji darling, I would love it if you would help us dig up kifus! Could you possibly help us find a fairly short (but good!) game? I'd love you forever!!

I think I might have dredged up a topic for my Paradise Lost term paper. (no, it's not about how much I hate it, though I would love to do that, believe me.) We'll see how that works out... Hopefully it will. >_< And OMG, I'm out of school in a little more than 2 weeks! o_O Go semester system! I guess?

listening to: Evolution by Ayumi Hamasaki



Tried out Open Canvas. OMG, that program kicks Photoshop's ass to hell and back. XD Painter's too, because Painter just takes up too much of my poor, decrepit CPU for its own good. >_< But anyways!! Randomly decided to download OC (mostly because Paradise Lost was looking rather unappetizing, shall we say), viewed one of the animation thingies (>_<) and was inspired to doodle. This resulted. This is, like, the only thing I've 'finished' since...since...that watercolor I did, of Takki months ago. It's decent enough, I guess... (Though I ask you to please ignore the half-assed background, the BSed body proportions, and the total lack of a consistent light source. =P) And~! OC is only $50!? o_O Paint Shop Pro is like, $100, and that's the cheapest graphics program up until now. And it has, like, zero tablet support last I checked. OC might be worth saving up money for. XD (best part is, I can actually listen to mp3's while I'm CGing and I don't have to worry about crashing my computer. wheeee!!! yes, my computer is old and rickety. I know.

And...I really should get back to PL. >_< *kicks PL* I. Hate. You!!! Maybe I'll read those articles for biology seminar instead...

Ooohhh... Scrapped Princess is good. Okay, so I'll admit I have a taste for fantasy/RPG sorts of stories... But I'm also not very tolerant of bad renditions. Scrapped Princess is not. I personally don't remember seeing this particular premise ever before, and in a genre as littered with cliches as fantasy, that's pretty amazing. Or if I have seen it and I just don't remember, it wasn't done nearly as well. Anyways. It's not slapstick, though it can be funny; it illicits honest laughter, not embarrassed laughter. And Shannon~!! I love Shannon! He's all grumpy like Touya Kinomoto or Fakia (which you all KNOW I find absolutely irresistable), but at the same time, he's not the stupid fighter stereotype; he's definitely the most responsible and levelheaded of the three main characters. o_O The other two are cute too. XD And they weren't laying the angst on too thick in Pacifica's case, which made it realistic but not debilitatingly depressing; they could've made this an angst-fest if they wanted. Raquel could stand for being a little less ditzy, but she's fully capable of taking care of herself, which is uber-cool! And Chris? Heehee, he's so cute and cool and he looks kinda like Waya! XD~~ And he has a battle-axe! Dude, if you can look cool with a battle-axe and you're not a dwarf, you have some pretty quality coolness genes. XD Soo...notice I have told you absolutely nothing in this review. It's supposed to make you want to go watch it yourself. So~~! Go watch! XD

So that puts Scrapped Princess on my watch list... I don't know about DNAngel anymore. We'll see with the next episode. ^^; Last Exile looks good too, what with the Napolean wannabe and everything. XD Teeheehee

Hunger strike for a second season of Furuba? I am SOOO in. *_* Oh, and about DNAngel? Yeah, the changes are starting to get to me. I was really sad when I found out that the cauldron thing wasn't just a bit thing in the first episode meant to be funny and to illustrate just how bonkers Daisuke's family was; darnit, this just sucks all the fun out of it! >_< It's just not funny at all anymore. Maybe if you never read the manga you'd be able to enjoy the show more...but darnit, they changed the whole atmosphere!! >_< I don't even know if you can really consider the DNAngel anime shoujo anymore... But! If you're wanting decent shoujo, I'd say Princess Tutu is a good start. XD (...okay, it only suits certain tastes. But it's definitely shoujo, and I say it's good. Watch it for the Utena vibes if nothing else. XD) Hmm...decent shoujo...Full Moon wo Sagashite? I've been meaning to watch more of it (I want to cosplay Merokoo~! XD) but I haven't had the time to sit down and watch a 52 episode series. O_O Too busy just keeping up on the shows that I'm already caught up on. >_< (Prince of Tennis 70 came out~! I guess I'll watch it tomorrow during lunch...)

Oh, and I forgot! I made fairy wings and an ivy crown with wisteria in it at the Mayfaire! The wings are all pretty and translucent and have sparklies on them. And I had wisteria on my head! And!! I made all of it! *_* The wings were surprisingly easy to make, actually... Coolcoolcool! I love crafts! And I have a bunch of pictures of me as a fairy now! XD Funny funny... I need to get those developed...

I hate Paradise Lost. Milton's a misogynistic prick. I now know what it feels like to have sympathy for the devil. And I can't figure out if he's trying for poetry or prose; it's too stilted for prose and I'm not getting any pretty poetry vibes off it at all. This just serves to piss me off.

I must have been masochistic to decide to take this course. Shakespeare was fun, Chaucer was interesting once I got used to reading ye Olde English... ^^; But Milton just pisses me off whenever I read anything he writes. I should have just taken a modern literature course, or something. >_< Blaahhhh...

And it really doesn't help that I'm PMSing. ...blaaaahhhhhhh...

They're having a Mayfaire on West Campus today! Heehee, I want to dance around a Maypole! XD (Yes, I do know what it traditionally represents, and I don't give a damn. It's fun and I get to hang out with people who have similar interests as me; which is a rarity at Duke, the white jock college. >_< Besides, after raining all week, it's finally sunny, and it would be such a shame to waste the sunny-ness...) Unfortunately, I have a lot of work to do, and an increasingly short amount of time to do it, sooo... Implement rewards system! Finishing my biology paper gets me 1 hour at the Mayfaire. (I've already finished half of it today! Motivation is wonderful...) Finishing a section of Paradise Lost also gets me an hour. Hopefully I'll get at least two hours there... So why is Lisa blogging when she should be finishing her paper and earning an hour at the Mayfaire? Your guess is as good as mine. I'm trying to explain it using all those social psychology concepts I've picked up lately, but I don't remember the exact terms and I'm way too lazy to actually look them up... Oh, blah. I'm a lazy butt. I guess that's explanation enough.

For Imouto: Morning Grace. Right click, save, and enjoy! <3 (And thank you for scanning the FFX-2 article for me!)

I'm Luva! Which Angelique Guardian are YOU?
Take the quiz at Angelique Corner.

Luva is sooo adorable. *_* But my favorite's still Seilan! They really need to have more Seilan stuff out there. They'd definitely make a lot of money off me if they did. ^^; Hey, he's artsy, sardonic and looks like Ken. He's perfect. If only I knew enough Japanese to play the Angelique RPG... *sighs*

Phiii!! I knew I heard Daisuke's voice before... Teehee, Japanese Sora! And I didn't know Riku's VA did Kiba, either. Of course, I've never really heard Japanese Riku... (that's a crime. a crime!) And! Good luck with beating Wayne-sempai in CLAMP costumes!! XD (which ones are you doing, anyway? Maybe there's ones I can match you with! All my costumes are pretty easy or mostly complete, not to mention I get out of school in, like, less than a month; I can take on one or two more...)

Yes, I know! I'm working on hidden-currents! Well...my blog layout, at least. It's getting there. Sorta.

My roommate's a darling and she let me use her computer to watch Get Backers! *_* It took me a while to find the right combination of codecs to get the thing to work (and it doesn't help that the order in which you install the codecs seems to matter >_<) but I finally did, and I was happy! *_* Ban with his hair down is sooo hot. Ginji is still adorable. All the female characters are cool, and considering this is a shounen series, this is quite an accomplishment. No useless whiny females here! XD I also found Shido x Madoka adorable. ^^; Kazuki is pretty pretty pretty. Akabane is equally scary. I like how what you think will be bit characters continue to be present throughout the series. And did I mention that I love Ban's hair?

And my hands smell like chicken. o_O

Well, I'm not much of a rebel, but everything else seems pretty accurate. Heehee, I love that picture... Shoooo pretty! Oh, right, I need to start drawing my char for Boukensha Bu. ^^; Char designs char designs! Oh, and my blog layout! Dammit! >_< Well, at least I have a pen sketch for it now...

Heehee, Imouto, yesyes I want the FFX-2 scans from SJ!! i hate you square for making me want to play this game. >_< How many new SJ issues have come while I've been gone? (And did you enjoy the Princess Tutu cd's? ^_~)

blog layout blog layout... And I had this sudden, random urge to get the Karekano manga. o_O Must be going through a shoujo stage...

Re: DNAngel 1. I like it, but after downloading three different versions (AJ, Anbu/aone, Ishin) of it...DUDE!! >_< The differences in translations for some of the scenes was not cool and very confusing. What was really the last thing that Dark said to Krad, my darling friends who know Japanese? Or at least the general gist? *puppy eyes* Otherwise...I did find the CG scenes somewhat badly integrated (if I can tell it's CG, then it's badly integrated =P), Daisuke's voice isn't quite how I imagined it (but he sounds suspiciously like Japanese Sora! XD), and the Europe thing is still weird. o_O However! I like that Risa isn't nearly as annoying as she was in the manga, I like the voices in general, I like the subtle changes to the storyline, and I LOVE the Krad and the Satoshi! *sparkles* Sooo....it's not as funny as the manga, and this episode went by REALLY fast, but I like. XD

I'm also watching Get Backers. ^^; I can't help it. Despite the cliche-ness, Ginji is adorable incarnate. They KILL me every time they go SD. XD Except...! My CPU isn't powerful enough to play the Ishin-Anime version, which is what I have. ^^; Dude, you'd think with my nerdiness I'd have a more powered-up computer, but my CPU speed isn't even 300mhz (though the video card does help a little). Not enough, apparently. Get Backers 7 stalls like MAD. (yesh, I have xvid. and my computer hiccups on larger divx files, too. >_<) I love you, Watari (my comp!) but you need a major, major upgrade...

And Wankage kills me. XD I want Ryoma to show up!! I want to see how they handle this proposed RyoAki relationship. ^0^ And~!! I keep on getting these hilarious visions of Kakyou with a gun. I laugh, I cry, I fall off my chair. (the wheels are bad for me) Heehee, and I want Shinji to show up!! Maybe he'll make a cameo...? (ohmigod, I was just about to type "Kamio"!! o_O) Lalalaaa, I love being a fangirl...

*hugs Meimi*

I am having a bitch of a time finding an mp3 of Hisoca's Make You Free. >_< Kazaa and Winmx are being very uncooperative, and I just can't seem to find it online ANYWHERE. And I really really like Hisoca's version. Grrr.

And while I'm bitching, pollen sucks. There is literally a layer of pollen on everything near the window of our dorm. It's gross. And it's making my eyes water and my sinuses clog up. This is not a cool thing to happen when I'm trying to read up on my bio lab.

And I've hit an unsurmountable wall named my new blog layout. I seem to be completely uninspired. This sucks.

...okay, that was a lot of pointless bitching. I'm sorry. I'll find something happy to blog about eventually. >_<

Just got an e-mail: congratulations, you've been accepted to the Cornell engineering school. XD A year late, no? Methinks they've got a glitch in their system...

My dorm almost burned down last night. Again. I'm not kidding. It was on fire. It still smells like smoke. And THIS time, it wasn't because some well-meaning but kitchen-illiterate male set a hot dog on fire. Apparently there was some sort of fire in the basement. And so at around 1AM, the fire alarm went off. Luckily I was awake, otherwise I never would have heard it, and my roommate was already asleep, so SHE definitely couldn't hear it. Some people didn't wake up until the firemen came into the dorm and told them to go stand outside. o_O Anyways, it was kinda surreal running down the hallway, because it was all dark with flashing lights and everything; at least I had the presence of mind to put on sneakers and a light jacket on before running outside. Because DUDE, we were out there, like, two hours before the firemen would let us back into our dorm. (We merited three fire trucks and a bunch of cop cars! Aren't we special?) Anyways, so that sucked. It was actually more annoying than anything else, mostly because the fire didn't really damage anything; if it had damaged something, I'm sure we would've found it really scary. As it is, the only sign that our dorm was on fire is that the entire first floor smells like a bonfire. It's just funny, because this is the SECOND time my dorm has caught on fire. We never get any false alarms like other dorms, because we're all good, sober, non-pothead children (though I'm sure some of you would like to contest the last one in my case); but somehow, we're still the only dorm that's caught on fire this year. Twice. And dammit, stupid rubberneckers coming over to gawk at all of us girls huddled on the lawn in our pajamas. Stop it! Go about your business! Nothing to see! And my hair's a mess! SHOO!

Dragon Drive 30 and 31: I still love Sumishiba! The show itself is kinda blah and cliche, but it has some really fun and loveable characters. (Taiyou! Reiji! Sumishiba!!) Shooo many cute guys! (Mahiru is really, really hot. o_O I don't know what it is about the dark skin, light hair combination, but it generally never fails to be sekushii.) The female characters could be better, but Yukino has spunk and does a lot with what she has, and Meguru is cute with Sumishiba!! So, okay, I can deal. None of them are anywhere near the Frey-bitch level. (I have a new standard! XD)

MELON-PAN.NET is up!! Woohoo!! Now work on Bokkebu, Kenji! If you need any help, just ask! (Also, when does school end for you? And when are you coming back up to N.Cal? I need to start planning my SoCal trip. If I can't find someone to drive down with me, I could always take a plane, I guess...)

Haha. Spent 10 minutes looking for my pill bottle and it was sitting less than half a foot from me on my desk. Dumdedum.

Dammit, Ken! Cooperate and be drawn! Daisuke isn't being so stubborn! (Of course, maybe it's just because I'm more picky about how I draw Ken...) Anyways, working on new layout. It was a tossup between reading Paradise Lost for english or working on my layout. Guess which one won. (Okay, Milton, you know, maybe you could try putting your little allusions in every line instead of just every other? You know I love looking up literary allusions. You putting even more into your work would make my life so much more fun! /sarcasm.) Anyways, if any of you ever wanted to get revenge on me for poking you senseless, now's your chance. Go ahead and poke me until I get my layout up. ^^; Meimi gets first dibs. =P

Oh! Watched Gundam Seed 25 today! HAHA, Frey-bitch! Jealous of Kagari, are we? XD *joins Phi in stomping on Frey-bitch* Seriously. Hmph. Though I'll admit to feeling a pang of sympathy for the Bitch what with both her mother and father being dead. That passed quickly though. She's still a psychotic bitch. Also, Maria and Muu La Fraga are really, really cute. XD Other stuff... Darnit, I was trying SO HARD not to get into Shaman King. All I need is ANOTHER shounen series to get obsessed with. I should've known I wouldn't have been able to escape. >_< Time to start downloading.

And no offense taken if you don't like Princess Tutu. It's definitely not a show for everyone. ^^; And there's a definite Utena influence, though they're very different shows. I actually didn't like Utena all that much *ducks*; it totally weirded me out (yes, it weirded me out and Princess Tutu didn't. We all have different tastes. =P) So really, you'll have to watch Utena to see if you like it. It definitely has its good points.

*goes back to drawing/cussing* Yes, the two are synonymous.

I feel like a murderer. We killed, like, 100 honeybees in biology lab today. In the name of science. To grind up their thoraxes so that we could extract their mitochondria. >_< We could hear the thoraxes crunching under the pestle. Dude, I don't even kill spiders. And I HATE spiders. I don't hate honeybees. And we were cutting off their abdomens with scissors. And then their heads. And they were TWITCHING. >_< Even when their heads were chopped off. It was horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE. Like some insect horror film. I feel like I'm one of those twisted little kids that pulls wings off butterflies. ;_; The scariest part was watching everyone in class do the whole defensive attribution bit--dehumanizing (debeeizing, fine) the victims, and laughing; rather hysterically, mind you. Well, at least I was being hysterical. This lab was traumatizing. Make it go away.

Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive. But DUDE. We did NOT need to kill 100 honeybees so I could see some stupid mitochondrial reaction! I get the point! Now no more dead bees in the name of science! >_<

But! In other happier news! Trigun! on! Cartoon! Network!! Vash, I looovee yooouuu!!!!

Now I have incentive to get my work done before midnight every night. =3

What in the world IS this? SNOW!? It was #&*$ing 80 degrees this entire week! And it's SNOWING? ....North Carolina, you suck. Good thing I only have to last through another month of this, and then back to California for me! Yay! ...still, grr.

I think I actually do have work that I need to be doing, but I'm ignoring it in favor of reading the short stories in the back of Swordspoint. Give me a break, it's been a really, really gross week. Though on Friday I did manage to watch HxH OVA2 3-4, Dragon Drive 29 (Sumishiba, I LOVE you!), and Gundam Seed 24. *_* I love Aslan/Asuran/whatever, too. Kagari is great as well, especially when compared with Frey-bitch. >_< (Isn't she!> ARGH! Hate her! In the meanwhile, you better have a good explanation for intending to slit your wrists and bleed all over your next art project. Unless you're speaking metaphorically and the metaphor is just too deep for me to comprehend. =P) Oh! And YOU! Bound! GORGEOUS!! *_* Let me say that I'm already in love with #3. And HOW in the WORLD can you do screentones like that? >_< So jealous. Dude! But yay, since you're busy working and being productive, I don't have to threaten to poke you anymore! XD (No, that would be reserved for myself. I really have to work on my new pitas layout. >_<)

Anyways, I really should get back to work. Oh, one last thing! Hope you're feeling better, Imouto! Err, both physically and mentally. ^^; I mean, I got sick when I went to Yosemite too (we seem to have the same weak immune systems) but I didn't have an unreasonable bitchy teacher around making my life hell. Or...yeah. Feel better? All right?! If you need something to cheer you up I can burn the rest of Princess Tutu for you and send it to you! =D Whaddya say?

Okay, for real this time. Lisa needs to work.

Ellen Kushner is a truly excellent writer. I just spent my entire evening reading and finishing her book Swordspoint, and I think I'm going to have to read it again, to catch all the things in it that I missed on the first readthrough. Not to imply that her prose is heavy or horribly intricate or anything--it's actually fairly sparse and leaves a lot up to the reader, which is fine with me. Took a little while to get used to, having just come from the ultra-heavy-prose style of Janny Wurts, but I like it. No, it's just that I feel like I missed parts of it, went over it too fast because the prose didn't delineate everything that was going on, and that feeling irks me, because it was so good and I don't want to miss anything. Also Alec and Richard were just such wonderful characters; I'm happy that there's a few short stories focused on them included in the back of my copy. I'll save those for tomorrow. Wow, what a wonderful evening; I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed having a chance to just read and not have to worry about anything else. I missed it a lot. In my life, I think the times when I'm at my happiest are when I'm immersed in reading something I want to read. I haven't been doing that enough in college, which is really, really sad. Because that's really one of the things about me that made me the person that I am.

So! With that in mind, I have a Janny Wurts book and a George R.R. Martin book waiting for me. And once I finish those, Lynn Flewellyn's new books should be out, and that should be lovely. And I guess if I finish all of those I can just reread Robin Hobb or Kate Elliot or something. I feel intelligent again! XD

And the week of hell is over. Huzzah.

OMG! Did CLAMP really kill off Icchan (and Kaede) in Chobits? >_< You know what, CLAMP? Screw you anyway. In my mind, all that exists is the Angelic Layer anime, because I loved that thing to death and I refuse to acknowledge whatever fucked up plot twist you decided to pull on us this time. I'm quite good at this self-delusion thing when it comes to CLAMP by now. Very sad.

And this week has been hell, and will continue to be hell until my last class Friday afternoon, after which I'll crawl into bed and sleep for 12 hours straight. And then I'll go to the hospital, and that'll be another three hours of phone hell. And then? ....maybe I'll go sleep in the Duke Gardens. (GORGEOUS!) Yup, sounds heavenly. Maybe I can manage to get my legs tanned in the process! (It's finally spring in North Carolina! Yay! And it's not humid yet! Double yay!) But yes, hell week. Two presentations and a paper still to go. Eep.

But! My roommate and I managed to get a room next year that's even bigger than the one we have this year! 228 square feet in Gothic Wonderland! Can we say 'wow'? There's only one closet in it (this year we had two walk-in closets XD) but we have sooo much floorspace, I'm sure it'll be fine. XD And!! We have four windows facing into the quad with the giant flowering dogwood tree!! And we're directly across from the clocktower! *_* oooo... AND!! We're NOT in the dorm with two frats in it! Peace! Quiet! Dogwood tree! Yayy!!!

And I finally got my keys back. Heehee, I um, left my keys back in California when spring break ended. Meaning, my room key, my bathroom key, and my mailbox key. So, um, my parents had to mail it to me. ^^; Meanwhile, I was stuck picking the bathroom lock every time I needed to go to the bathroom and synchronizing my schedule with my roommate's so I'd be able to get into the dorm. It was interesting. ^^;

And NO. Yuu Watase did NOT continue FY. NO. >_< You know I only saw FY halfway through before I became absolutely disgusted with it and spoiled myself silly? And now there's no way you could convince me to watch/read it again. Though I'm definitely ashamed to admit I WAS obsessed with that thing for quite a while, and I probably WILL pick up the Genbu story just to see what happens. Blah. Shoujo managaka are out for my soul. (And my dwindling bank account. Dammit, I need a job.)

Now, I need to research and figure out WTF I'm writing for my english paper. All I know is it'll have something to do with Hotspur and Prince Hal, because dammit, I like Hotspur. What do you think would happen if I tried to demonstrate slashiness (I'm sure I could construe it somehow; that's what yaoi fangirls do all the time, after all XD) between them? Do you think I could get my english teacher to have a heart attack? ...wait, no, he's a nice guy, even if he reminds me of a turtle. Can't do that to him. Still, it would make this a lot more interesting for me. >_< (Hey, it's got the rivalry! Guarded respect! Mortal enemies! Of course one kills the other at the end, but the victor gives an incredibly flattering speech about the loser!) ....you know, I'm obviously tired and bored. I need to get to work. And do my laundry. Shit, I only have one more day of underwear left. And two days of socks. >_< ARGHHH!!!!

The FFX-2 intro is....wow. Um. Crack-o-rama. The sad thing is, I really want to play the damn thing now. Because darnit, what if that really is Tidus, and they can really live happily ever after? And I want to see all the pretty scenery again! And dude, I've even been completely inured to the immodesty of the outfits to the point where I don't think they're (too) immodest anymore. ARGGH!! Stupid Square! (And ohmigod, there's a HOT SPRING SCENE? >_< Every time I think the game can't get more fanservicy, it does. And I STILL want to play the game! ARGHH!) Hmm. I think I can manage to get ahold of a PS2 for myself by next November when it comes out...

I actually got somewhere on my Yuffie costume today! Wonder of wonders! I might actually finish this thing NOT the day before a con! XD So, yes. Attached one of the belts to the front of the green top. With a needle and thread. Yes, it was painful (I pricked my finger at least four times). But! It's very solid. I'm proud of myself. *_* Soo...that means I'm about halfway done with the top. (still need to attach the other belt in front, and sew all of the back.) I have socks, I have all the belts (just need to paint them!), I have meshy stuff for the arm thingies and white cloth for the headband. What I DON'T have is shorts, boots, and orange gloves. I'm counting on the gloves and the boots to be the hardest parts. >_< Not looking forward to it.

But wheee!! I love cosplay! All you AKG people in Northern California right now better get lots of cosplay work! Or else I'll poke you! =P (Waah, I'm like the only person not there. Boo. ;_;) Oh, and good luck on finals, Kix! And hope things are going better for you, Phi! And congratulations, Meimi!! XD And Kenji? Sent you Bokkebu materials. Yay!

Ibuprofen, start working, dammit! (It's that time of month. #($*#@$@#>_< Poo.) And I need to study for my psychology test and work on my biology presentation. And smoke up a topic for my english essay. Triple poo.

Obviously, Operation Save-Lisa's-Brain-Cells isn't going too well.

I was just reading some of my old pitas entries (fairly recent ones; last semester or so) and I realized that I have become drastically stupider this semester. I do less interesting things, I blog less intelligently and am much less funny (I like to think I'm at least somewhat funny, okay?), and I CERTAINLY am not working as hard as I did last semester with all the engineering courses I was taking then. WTF happened to me!? After some brief introspection, I came to a simple conclusion: if you don't use it, you lose it. I have not been using my brain this semester, and accordingly, my brain cells have left for brighter climes. This is unacceptable. Operation Save-Lisa's-Brain-Cells has commenced.

PS: And Kix? I have banners here. Mmm. Recycled banners. =D

You know what? I just realized I have no idea what my English professor's name is. I've been listening to him drone for what, three months? And I don't know what his name is! This is very, very sad.

Yes I'm alive, yes I realize I haven't blogged in nearly a week, yes I'm back at school. Blah. At least it's warm. However, I'm busy cataloguing evidence of the transformation of Henry V in three Shakespeare plays (one of which I finished today, another of which I finished, and started, on the plane ride back here; I was SUPPOSED to have them done like, two weeks ago...) Anyways! I'm busy. Shouldn't be blogging in the first place. But realized that I didn't know my professor's name, and that this was sad. Should work now, blog more extensively later.

....should. Okay, brief catching-up then! You're welcome to everyone who enjoyed the Wolf's Rain single link! You're welcome Meimi, and actually, my domain did end up resolving (hidden-currents.org; please change your links, everyone! including me ^^;) sooo... Now I have no excuse to not get my new pitas layout done! And as the cherry blossoms ARE starting to bloom around campus, I think I have the needed inspiration. XD

Okay, Lisa, really should get back to the Shakespeare. Blah. Oh well. Blog more laters!

Eep! Haven't been blogging! Sorry, sorry! Mostly I've been sleeping, eating, avoiding homework, watching tv, and...yeah, but um, I still have interesting things to blog! Really!

Today was busy, though! Had to fast and get blood sampled; so I was hungry and had three vials of blood sucked out of me. Wonderful way to start the day. But! Went with Melissa and Sachiko and Neil to get cluck-cluck-dick and tapioca balls (chicken-on-a-stick and pearl milk tea if you aren't partial to phallic imagery or warped inside jokes). Also got dim sum (pork buns~~) and stopped at the chinese book store to pick up Hikago 19. Yay! (Trying to explain the appeal of a series based on a board game to Melissa, Sachiko, and Neil was fruitless, but very funny. XD) We also went shopping, went to Barnes and Noble, discussed nerd-dom (Melissa is in denial! The rest of us are quite comfortable with our status XD). Oh! And Kinokuniya! I randomly picked up issue 11 of Jump in which (checks) Kamio wins a match (hell yeah! Fudomine ROCKS!), Touya wins a match (duh!), Naruto gambles (keeheehee!), and someone in Shaman King that I vaguely remember as being associated with the X-Laws stands around in what looks like vinyl hotpants and a bra. (And this is a guy, people. Guy. G-U-Y. Oh well. At least Lyserg was there being pretty.) Ah, the wonders of being addicted to a magazine geared toward 10-year-old boys. I feel so mature. >_> Teehee, and Melissa's new house is really nice! Messy, but nice! And Sachiko's shoes WWAAAYYYYY too high. I feel like I giant, but I also feel like I'll sprain my ankle if I try to walk normally in them. Eep. Scary.

I'll try to stop by the open house sometime this week, Saara; my parents didn't know until now, and they were sad too. ;_;

Sorry you didn't get into Cal Arts, Phi. I'm glad you have so many people near you that you can talk with about it. I hope things will work out with the apartment in the end!

Pretty layout, Meimi! And I didn't say it before, but I'm happy you had your 'epiphany' (for lack of a better word) and I'm glad you had as powerful a high school experience as your involvement in the drama productions. And good luck with all the work ahead of you!

Kix? I know it's not the same as actually having the CD, but you can download the gravity single here; it's the last file on the page. =D Hold you out until you get the CD?

Been catching up on Gundam Seed. SPOILERS!! And ranting! Frey is a deranged psychotic (slutty!) bitch. And she was even a bitch before she turned deranged and psycho and slutty. She's a spoiled, narrow-minded, thoughtless brat. She dumped one guy to immediately go sleep with another. (Poor Sai! ;_;) She's made every other female in the series likeable in comparison. She is seriously the most evil, scary person in the entire series. >_< Make it stoooppp! It's as if they were trying to make the audience hate her! GARHH!! Kira, be smart and get with someone else. Anyone else. The blonde girl. Or the pink-haired one. Asran would be nice, too, but I'm talking realistically here. Anyone but Frey. Or else I'll start twitching. DAMN I hate her! I was even prepared to start liking her in episode 12 or so, but HA! Should've known better, Lisa, because it didn't take long for her to show her true, psychotic colors. Okay, I'm done. ^^; End rant/spoilers. Ooh, that feels better.

I need to read more Kouri and Karasu fics. Anything. Especially their original fics. (Read through all of Borderline today, and once again, I stand in awe of their characters, no-frills but still powerful prose, and addictive plotlines. GARH! Oh, and I'm pining for more Ties That Bind. It's pathetic. >_<) Hope they get their stories published; it'll be nice to have an actual book in my hands. Computer screens give me a headache. =P

Tired. Argh.

Grrr to my domain. That's all I have to say about that.

I am HOME! In sunny, happy, green, 70 degree California! *_* I don't ever want to go back to Durham. Unfortunately my parents paid a lot of money for me to take classes there, sooo...damn. I'll soak in the sun while I can. Sorry I missed you, Phi; I wanted to see you! But there just wasn't enough time, I guess. Oh well. May! I'll definitely plan to come see you guys in May! *_*

Been catching up on all the english Shounen Jump. The print quality's actually really, really nice. Compare it to the original, japanese Shounen Jump and it's like, no comparison. Thicker, white paper (NOT random pastel colors!), solid, clean black lines, nice thick glossy color pages... yupyupyup. And I actually enjoy all the titles. All it needs is Hikago and PoT and Hunter x Hunter and Black Cat and......wow, there really are a lot of Jump titles that I like, huh? Anyways, I enjoyed it. And I had forgotten how hot Trunks is. ^^; Call me superficial, because I am. But wow. The HAIR!

And the requisite list of things I have to accomplish during break:
1.) Bokkebu stuff for Kenji (yes, I am pondering it! I'm having creative issues, though. =P)
2.) Watch anime with Imouto!
3.) Cosplay stuff, esecially Yuffie
4.) Finish Kingdom Hearts!
5.) Finish FFX! (no, I haven't yet. Shut up. >_>)
6.) Read Henry IV Part I and II!
7.) Read Henry V! (No, I haven't been keeping up with my English readings! Why do you ask?)
8.) Go through all the material I slept through in bio lecture.
9.) Draw!!
10.) Go shopping!! (Time to hit the mall!)
11.) Drink a lot of pearl milk tea
12.) Eat a lot of Chinese food
13.) Read ahead for organic chem (because I'm a bored nerd)
14.) Chinese homework
15.) Work on getting domain back up, make new pitas layout

Holy #&*$, that's a lot! Wow...

And: watched some Kiddy Grade. So far, the only redeeming qualities for me are the pretty animation and the cuteness of Eclair. (Though the fanservice-ness of Eclair does much to detract from the cuteness.) You know you have no business watching a show when your only motivation for watching the next episode is to see if a cute bishie shows up. Soo...I'm guessing that's a no on Kiddy Grade. >_> (seriously, the most interesting, in-depth characters have been one-shots. You know there's a problem when the minor characters are more interesting than most of the major ones. And no, I'm not judging early; I've already seen a good 6 episodes. Well, not too early, anyway. Whatever. Better things to do with my time. (Like catch up on Naruto and Gundam Seed! Wheee!!!)

Ooh, there's donuts downstairs! Lisa wants! Who cares if I get fat! XD