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Version 5: XD You KNOW I had to make a Fruits Basket layout, after the 1337ness that was AKG's Masq skit. And of course I HAD to make a Flowery Gigolo Trio layout, because I was Ayame. Duh. :P I even have pictures that I've culled from around the internet! :D (sorry if you're the one who took it...)
The sign says it all
Not exactly a Gigolo Trio picture, but blah
My hair is a mess. I am not pleased.
Kakkoi Kev...! er, Hatori~!
This is definitely an...interesting picture. It was taken very, very late at night. Hopefully that should explain it.
Yay, Furuba group pic!
Nothing to do with Furuba cosplay. But I found this hilarious, because the random girl in the foreground holding the moogle is me. Off to the right, you can see Phi and Kenji being accosted while in FFX gear.
Furuba on stage~! w/trophy~!!!
Um...yeah. That's me.
The sign again! <3 And my arm. ^^;
Back of Ke..er, Hatori. XD
Yuki and Ayame coexist peacefully. Egad. Oh, and Hatori's there too.
Another late night photo with the Gigolo Trio.

Must I reiterate that I was wearing a pillowcase for my Ayame costume? X3 I still find that incredibly amusing...anyways, I'm working on a REAL white undercoat(?) for my Ayame costume now. Go me.

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loves: cosplay, white mocha espresso, milk tea, songbirds, drawing, friends, family, home, quiet, stuffed animals and assorted other cute things.

also loves: Kingdom Hearts, Hikaru no Go, Fruits Basket, Dragon Drive, Prince of Tennis (Kikumaru~uu!!), FFX, Robin Hobb

hates: computer viruses and the people who write them. you bastards. as well as crowded areas (ie buses), computer programming, multi-variable calculus, people who smoke with me within breathing distance, people who blame others for their own deficiencies, and people who mess with my little sister.

currently watching: Hikago, Dragon Drive, Prince of Tennis, Spiral, Naruto

karura's current mood is: The current mood of Lisa at www.imood.com

e-mail: sunlit_atelierREMOVETHECAPS@yahoo.com

old entries: archives

karura's website: hidden currents

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friends' blogs

Heidi: my paradox
Janice: 615 feet high
Kenji: eien no yume
Kevin: ...?
Kix: kaijuu ga iru
Meimi: sasayaku
Michelle: aotenjou
Mirae: kiraku na akuma
Pekkle: too much information
Phi: Ø gravity
Sachiko: one more dream
Tomoyo-'mouto: monorail of thought

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interesting people whose blogs I read, only they don't know I read them or who I am. I suppose I should e-mail them...

suzelog
icha icha paradise
temorary mitten
vital access
from the mind's eye
confusion

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links to websites!

Ryuuzaki~i!!: Dragon Blossoms
Hikago scanslations: Toriyama's World
AKG!!: AKG Studios
Jump blog: Weekly Jump Forum
Prince of Tennis scanslations: Manga City
CLAMP fanfiction forum (aka Evil Incarnate!): CLAMPesque
The Mighty Evil Ones (but I love them anyway): Kouri and Karasu's Fanfiction

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Mu5ic Files:

I'll be the One (Hikago OP2 by HAL, full version)
Sincerely ~Ever Dream~ (Hikago ED3 by Dream) (the CORRECT one :P)
Serenade (Fruits Basket song by Ritsuko Okazaki)
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the "basic" stats:

name: lisa

aka: karura, lithele, lis(pronounced "lease", because some friends of mine are just too lazy to say the last syllable of my name ^_~), ayame, moron.

age: 18

keirsey personality type: INFJ: Counselor

ethnicity: mutt. seriously. the polite way to say it is "mixed." ^_^

height: 5'8"

weight: a little below middle of the range for my height

want list: a PS2 of my own, an Intuos 2, a sewing machine, a chance to finish both FFX and Kingdom Hearts, better CGing skills, sleep

"hanyaan" list (in no particular order):
1. ken from digimon 02 *_*
2. akira from hikaru no go (i admit his resemblance to ken may have something to do with my obsession.)
3. oujiro!! ^0^ from the angelic layer anime
4. eiji kikumaru from prince of tennis! (u~uber cuteness!)
5. watari from yami no matsuei (cosplay!!)
6. reiji from dragon drive <3 (squee!! same japanese va as ken from digimon!! <3)

favorite subjects: art, english, chemistry, physics (though I suck at it, to tell you the truth)

least favorite subjects: history, calculus once it gets to multivariable, foreign language

favorite food: tea (esp. pearl milk tea!), cinnamon buns, ice cream, and candied yams, white mocha espresso, steamed milk, clam chowder (nummy...)

favorite things: my alpaca rug, my art supplies, my bookshelf and everything on it, my keychain (sai and hikaru!) and my teddy bear

pet peeves: multi-part questions (you know, you start a question and discover it has a part a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i, and j? ARRRGHHHHH!!!), people who eat and sleep unhealthily, and people who pick on my little sister.

color: blue (no kidding. every pita layout but the butterfly one has been blue. and how long did the butterfly layout last? ....okay, so i redid that one because people complained that it blinded them. besides the point...)

music: In general, I like either really slow, stoney music, like classical or new age, or really, really fast dance/techno music. I also don't usually listen to mainstream english music. Either the lyrics bug me or the music itself bugs me. So I settle for pretty foreign music and instrumentals and the few english songs that I find and like. :)

current songs: I'll be the One (HAL, Hikago op2), True (dunno artist, but Dragon Drive op), One Love (HAL), The Starry Sky (HAL; hmmm, theme?), Hikari (Hikaru Utada, Kingdom Hearts theme), White Destiny (Yoko Ishida, Pretear op), Vector (Maaya Sakamoto), Let me be with you (Round Table(?), Chobits op ^^;;), Suteki da ne (Rikki, FFX theme), For Fruits Basket (Ritsuko Okazaki, Furuba op), Serenade (Ritsuko Okazaki, also in Furuba), and of course Traveling (Hikaru Utada, AKG AX theme XD)

current favorite anime: hikaru no go, fruits basket, prince of tennis, dragon drive

older favorite anime: angelic layer, gravitation, digimon 02, berserk, card captor sakura, trigun

favorite manga: yami no matsuei, hunter x hunter, hikaru no go, fruits basket

favorite manga artist: takeshi(ken?) obata. He ownz me. X3 CLAMP is cool when they're not torturing me. ;_;

favorite book: ender's game by orson scott card

favorite authors: robin hobb, kate elliot, lynn flewelling, david feintuch, joan d vinge, orson scott card, tad williams, mercedes lackey, john steinbeck

favorite video game: FFX

test results (because...i can. and it's amusing. ^_~ I'll add the rest later...)

Battle Cry: Mew?
Flavor: Vanilla
Fruits Basket: Honda Tohru
Yami no Matsuei: Tsuzuki Asato
space provided by pitas (yummy :p)


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"Final Fantasy VII. You have too many chocobos, but this just adds to your charm. You contain the option of sending your hero on a date with a Mr. T clone. ^___________^"

......XD But you realize, I haven't actually played ff7 yet. o_O Yet another reason for me to get a PS2. As if I had any time anyway. >_> Need to play KH (something tells me I won't have any good chances to play it until Christmas break >_<), need to play FFX (I could enter the final battle now, I suppose, but dammit, I don't even have ultima yet! And I haven't even touched the Omega dungeons...) And who knows how long it'll take me to get through just those two? ....oh, and I got my Watari wig!! :D It looks so like Watari, it's not even funny. All I need is an orange ribbon for 'my' hair, a lab coat, and 003 and I'm Watari. That was a quick costume. Wow. I'm sure Yuffie will make up for it. :P How the heck am I going to find those blasted belts? And what about the fishnet arm things? Or the shoes? My ingenuity will certainly be tested here.

Oh! And I'm happy you are over that person. About time, I'd say! :D And I hope everyone has fun playing KH and eating over at Kenji's!! Because there doesn't seem to be any way I'll end up playing it. >_< Too much studying to do. Grr. I wanna go hooommmee!! Hey, where is everyone going to be for Christmas break? From around December 15 to January 8th? Because I want to make sure to visit everyone, and if people might be staying down in SoCal, I want to make sure to visit you peoples, too...well, I want to plan to, anyway. Yeah. There's vomit in the trash can down the hall. >_< That was random. Okay. Later people!

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Saturday, October 19, 2002, 02:27 a.m.



Oh, shit. I just slept through all of my first class of the day. o_O And the beginning of my second class; enough of it so that there's no point in going to it. >_< #*$& #$*@! *#$@!*$(#(*$(#*!$ okay. Yeah. Well, it wasn't like there was going to be anything irreplacable in those lectures. Engineering --> begin chapter 10, math --> I already read through what he's going to lecture, and it's not like I'm going to listen to a word he says the entire lecture anyway. Still, what bothers me is that I didn't mean to sleep in. Well, for one, I set my alarm clock to wake me up at 6PM. >_> hate that. And I also am still suffering from jetlag; I was half asleep through most of my chem lecture yesterday, too. >_< And so I guess it's not really surprising I slept in...but still! What if there had been a test today? GARH! Okay, I'll have to be more careful next time. This is my warning. Maybe I need to get another alarm clock.

Oh, and I figured out a fairly flexible schedule for my remaining years at college that involves my getting a bio major, a chem minor, an english minor, and if they let you have more than three major or minors, an art minor, too (well, one class off from an art minor, but blah). This would also involve me taking all the required classes for premed, as well as a few classes that are suggested for premed. AND it takes care of all the stupid graduation requirements. >_> Why do they make it so complicated? I got such a headache figuring that out! Oh, and it also involves me taking 5 classes (overload, here) every semester. ^^;; However, most of the time, that fifth class is an art class, so...ha. ^_~ Oh, and I planned it so I probably shouldn't have any more than 2 lab courses a semester! So yay!! :D And...yeah. That was the only thing I did last night. It was bugging me. ^^;; And now, I need to study. It's the only way I'll feel better after missing my classes today. >_<

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Friday, October 18, 2002, 11:10 a.m.



indigeesttioonn.... ;_; Stupid jetlag. And I can't find my stamps, so I can't mail my letter to Amanda. >_< ARGH!! And *hugs* Sachiko. Try not to think about him too much. Though his latest entry worries me, too. But think about who this is. He's tried stuff before, right? So just forget about him, forget about concrete, and think about how much fun it will be once you get your driver's license! :D .....okay, I'm not someone who should be telling you it's fun to drive. Cuz' I hate driving. But I'm sure you'll love it! Really!!

Tums, Tums, I need Tums... And stamps. Dammit, I know I had stamps, so where did they go? Garh! Oh, and I sewed half of the collar on Ayame's white coat thing last night! :D Looks...decent, actually. But once I fimish the collar I have to tackle the zipper. >_< Aah, the wonders of not knowing what the hell I'm doing... I think I'll work on my Yuffie top after I get the zipper and collar done... Eee, sewing is so meditative! XD ....don't mind me. I think ironing is meditative too. And oops, my dark clothes are done! Time to go pick up my laundry! .....somebody shoot me.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Thursday, October 17, 2002, 02:28 p.m.



*glomp* Mirae~e!! Thank you~!! Except I wish I had time to do something with you and everyone else who's still around town before I had to go back to stupid college. >_< What's the deal with that? Only three days off? GRR!! Oh well. *glomps again* I want to go hooommmmeeee!!! I miss everyone! And the sunny weather, too! And, and, everything!

And *glomps* Meimi for good measure. Actually, a hug might be better. Yes, a hug. You sound like you need it, and I don't have anything helpful to say. So I hope things get better soon.

Oh, and on KH! Teehee, you know the paopu fruit thing, Kenji? People picked up on that right away, and it looks like RikuSora is HUGE. o_O Well, fangirls are an opportunistic breed...

Oh, and the final tally! What I accomplished on my 3-day trip home:

1.) math homework
2.) found two shirts for my roommate
3.) found 4 shirts and one pair of jeans for myself at Forever 21
4.) PEARL MILK TEA!! not exactly an accomplishment, but see if I care
5.) wrote letter to Amanda, which I have not mailed yet
6.) played 12 hours of Kingdom Hearts! Just got past scene where Riku and Sora meet again in Traverse Town. Eeep!! Oh, and Squall? You are such a dork! XD
7.) dad helped me figure out how to hook up the tv that's at my dorm to headphones, because it's old and decrepit and doesn't have a headphone plug. Grrr.
8.) ate dim sum, my mom's cooking, and various other good chinese food!
9.) bought cute asian stationary. and stickers.
10.) bought Hikaru no Go 18 (XD) and the first volume of Hanakimi. Impulse buy. :P And the art is pretty.
11.) hauled all my Yami no Matusei volumes back with me to college!! :D So now, I have 37 volumes of manga with me! And none of them are CLAMP!! XD They soo do not own my soul. Really.
12.) oh, and watched episode 1 of Spiral! It seems interesting. So that, and Naruto, and Dragon Drive, and Hikago, and Prince of Tennis, will be the series I'll follow, I think. And if I find more HxH, I'll watch that too. It's hard to find older subbed shows. It sucks. >_<

And my quilt is so warm. *_* Whee!! It's starting to get cold here. It's gross. I want California again!

And I've realized that I've been sounding horribly unintelligent the past few weeks, in terms of blogging. >_< Must...say...something...intelligent!! .....damn. I think college killed my brain cells. Or hogs all the available ones. Blah. So anyways, resolution: must say something of importance and/or deep thought next blog!

......erm. Yeah. Whatever.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 07:20 p.m.



XD I'm HOOOMMEEE!!!

okay. out of my system. But suffice to say, I am and always will be a Californian. Which means I have to get into a California university for grad school/med school. Which means...study! Hard! Hell, if I don't study, I'll just end up hogging the dorm's PS2 anyway, and I doubt all the guys will appreciate that. ^^;; I'm the only girl who uses it to play games. The rest use it to play DVD's. It's funny. The guys keep on giving me these disbelieving looks. Obviously they've never seen a semi-serious girl gamer before. In any case, sharing a PS2 sucks, and I'm going to put my all into raising enough money to buy a PS2 for myself. Or I'll ask for one for Christmas. Something like that. But anyways...

XD I can't believe all you guys stayed up until 4AM playing Kingdom Hearts! XD It's not as bad as that time me, Jen, her brother, and my sister stayed up until 6AM playing FFX, and then woke up to play it again another 6 hours... (I only got three hours of sleep. I was...kinda giddy. It was an interesting experience.) But it's close. Very close. And ohmigod, I soo agree on the Gummi ship thing. >_< Luckily, I hear from my dad (who is like miles ahead of any of us) that eventually you get some sort of warp ability so you don't have to go through that anymore. I want it now. >_< And as for Deep Jungle...heehee. I just got there today. ^^;; Well...you know that whole shared PS2 thing? How I'm sharing it with around 80 other people...? Umm...up until I came home, I'd only gotten around 3 to 4 hours into the game. And that was me running around Destiny Island or Traverse Town practicing and leveling up. ^^;; Or shooting furniture down in Merlin's house. Soo...basically, that means I got through all of Wonderland and the Coliseum today (you don't want to know how many tries it took me to kill Cerberus; I got sooo sick of that cut scene). And yeah. Just started Deep Jungle. And my sister and my dad were laughing at me because I can't jump. >_< But I'm getting better. Dammit, I'll show you all!! Though magic in combat has become reflex, which is good. (so is fire.) Items take a bit of work. And I love just bashing things. Such catharsis. Something that's missing from normal RPG's. *_* Though watching my dad fight the Yuffie and Leon team in the Pegasus cup was...eep. Umm, I think I'll go level up now. No, actually, Donald darling, you need to level up. And dammit, stop dying on me! And you're a magician, what am I doing with more MP than you? (okay, so I chose mystic, but still...) Goofy and Donald are just so hilarious! Having them as party members and watching them run around with me doing random characteristic things (like Donald jumping up and down on Aerith's bed o_O) beats party members following you around in a straight line (if at all) any day! And I love real time battles so much! Even if at first the Heartless just popped up everywhere and frustrated me to death. >_< And the camera really does suck. As much as everyone says it does. (and I still don't have the knack of controlling it, so I usually just end up locking onto something and clobbering blindly until the camera adjusts itself. Stupid thing.) But...enough of that. There's more important things to talk about. Likee....

KH cosplay!! XD Wai, Kix is maybe doing KH Selphie? Jump rope!! And cuteness! I always thought you'd make an adorable Selphie. Oh, and I found cloth for making Yuffie's top! At $1 a yard! And I needed less than a yard of it! *_* Okay, so it's a little darker than I wanted it. And it's not pleather like I wanted it to be. S'okay. It's got a nice texture, and it's comfy. And if I find something better, I won't feel bad about not using it, because I spent so little on it. :) So KH cosplay and Yami cosplay!! Yay! And Phi got a Hikaru haircut? As in a Hikaru no Go Hikaru haircut? ....whee!! Lisa wants to see~!! No, really, I really want to see. o_o Maybe I'll really actually get my hair cut, too. I haven't really cut my hair since 7th grade...trims, no cuts. Hmm... Oh, and Lisa is going to get long black hair extensions for Sai, so it looks cooler and more Sai-like. So Hikago cosplay, too!! I have become so cosplay-obsessed in such a short time. It's scary. o_O I even bought a tomato pincushion today. (mostly because I didn't want to lose my needles anymore, but also because it was adorable.) I've become disgustingly domestic. This is weird. I even keep my dorm room relatively clean. And how the hell did I get off on this tangent? I blame the fact that according to my laptop, it's 2:43AM in North Carolina. Which means, I should shower and go to bed now, because my parents are telling me to. Wow, that's weird. Having my parents tell me to do things again, I mean. Okay, I'm getting that look. Sorry, I'll finish up tomorrow. ^^;; Parents. Weirdness.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Monday, October 14, 2002, 02:03 a.m.



I got my wwiiigggg!!! *_* And for less than I would have been willing to pay, too! And that makes me happy. Remember, Kix, Ms. Kampf in econ class, and her thing about...uh...whatchacallit...consumer surplus, right...and how it's like the extra 'happy' units that come in proportion with the money that you didn't spend? That's what I'm feeling right now. *_* It's such a perfect Watari wig, too... Seriously, the color is perfect. Sort of brown-blonde, and wavy and layered and kinda messy. And it's a designer wig, too, so it won't be as thin and tangly as the Ayame wig was. And for less than $40! XD Yay! Go Yami no Matsuei cosplay!

....something tells me that Watari is going to be my 'comfy' costume...

oh! And speaking of Yami cosplay...Lisa finally realized; is Phi using blonde wig (XD) for Hisoka? Because on Lisa's latter reflection, she realized, ohmigosh! Hisoka is blond! O_O (Apparently the whole "but it's summer!" thing hasn't gone away yet. Heat, apparently, turns my brain to mush. Or at least that's the theory I'm sticking with.) Wait...it was a wig, right? (Lisa is slow. Don't mind her.) And I'm sooo glad you're feeling better. That was...worrying...o_O Happy that you're better! Though...can't help it with the Momosu site. It's just so funny! XD (prepares to die)

Yay, Kix is working on AKG cosplay site! XD Which means...I better work on my website, too. Doh. >_< Err, I can scan at home! Yeah!

The laryngitis threat and the techie threat is still on, Meimi. Though I'll extend it to various other annoying people on the cast. Yups. What play are you doing, anyway? I've heard so much about it, but...not. I probably don't know it, but I might have... Maybe. And *pokepoke* Bound! (bad timing, as usual, I'm sure.)

You're welcome, Michelle! Glad you're not dreaming that dream anymore! Though waking up and having no recollection of what you did the night before is almost as bad. o_O Eeh. And eeep! at your accidental close encounter with the law. You have such an exciting life. Though exciting isn't really a good thing. >_< (and inidentally, the whole Eve and original sin thing? one of the things that bugs me most about Christianity. I could probably be a pretty decent Christian if it weren't for a number of things I just have issues with. ^^;; I mean, I agree with a lot of what Christianity teaches. I just don't think I have it in me to be Christian. Soo...yeah. I'm done.)

Eep! Now Mirae's having dreams, too! >_< And it was scary, too! Argh!! Stop having scary weird dreams, people! Have happy dreams! With fuzzy kittens and teddy bears and sunny days and daisies and ohmigosh i'm going to make myself throw up. And I'm happy your parents weren't all that upset about the ticket! :D My parents would have a good Talk with me if I got a ticket. I think. I wouldn't be looking forward to it at all. Hope things continue to go semi-well?

I want to see you soo badly. And Melissa, and maybe the Insignificant ones, and Elaine, too! Argh!! HOME!! >_< That goes for you, too, Imouto! See you soon! :D

And...sleep. Home home home!! Back to California and sun and lots of bird singing and authentic Chinese food/pearl milk tea!! <3 Deprived child, I am...

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Friday, October 11, 2002, 09:18 p.m.



Nee nee, Phi! I don't suppose your ebay id is something like philc3? Because because I just found this wig on ebay, and I was like, ohmigosh, perfect Watari! SOO getting it! And then I looked at the previous bids, and I was like, hmm, philc. Sounds familiar....hmmm....... Err, so yeah. It dawned on me that you might have seen it and thought WATARI! too, and just in case that was the case, I wanted to make sure, cuz' I didn't want to manage to get in a bidding war with you without knowing. ^^;; teehee. I'm seriously willing to pay up to around what I paid for the Ayame wig (around 35-40 or so); and this wig looks a lot more comfy and well-made than the Ayame wig. (teehee, designer wig...) So yeah. Unless bidding goes crazy between now and when the auction closes, I am so getting that wig. Yay!! XD And now that that's done... so much social blogging to do!! WAH!! >_< Have to write paper! By tomorrow! And...I am sooo not inspired! Grr. At least I have around 1900 words now. Almost there. But it's sooo incomplete the way it is! >_< Errgh. I'll social blog anyway. Don't want to write yucky paper. XD

Phi!! ;_; Are you feeling better? Eating well? Did you go to class today? No more bleeding? ....i hope? Wah, poor Phi! What the hell could have caused that? ....whatever it is, I hope it goes away and stays away. And I didn't recognize you in the Mini Moni outfit pic at the Momosu site at ALL!! o_O Did double take; was like, 'blonde girl in Momosu outf...wait a minute. PHI? Phi is not blonde. That does not look like a wig. That hair does not look bleached. That is not Phi.' And then I looked closer, and was like, okay, so maybe she's Phi. But...wow. Phi looks good as a blonde. o_O I only hope I'll look half so good as a blonde... (watari XD must get that wig...)

anyways! Imouto, I've been doing lotsa concept drawings of Hikari, for some reason. Weirdness. But she's looking more and more badass as time goes on. XD I'll show them to you when I come home~!! HOME~!!! <3<3 Love home. Okay, done. And about the people who are bothering you at school? Do you have school on Monday? Because I'm home on Monday, you know. And I wouldn't mind bashing some junior high heads in. XD Ohh, Sachiko! Wanna come join me bash some evil brat heads in? :D We can make it part of the pearl milk tea trip! Fun fun! Maybe Melissa would want to come too? Ooh, if Mark and Neil are free, do you think I could get them to come along too? We can make it a big party! :D See, little sister dear! We college students will take care of those stupidheads! Ha! (i am so mature. really. but i don't care!! stupidhead junior high school kids. i'll show them. yups. no messing with my little sister!) And we can play Kingdom Hearts when I get home, andand do LH stuff, and yeah, so be happy!

And so many people I know have been having random/weird/scary dreams lately. o_O Kenji's (Lisa off cosplaying! XD), and Michelle's ultra scary death dream o_O you're not having that anymore, are you? Sachiko's wedding dream... and of course Imouto's series of detailed, interesting, but scary dreams...eep! >_< I don't have dreams at all. What do you people do that I don't? Though...I don't if I'd want some of those dreams. I'd be so freaked out. o_o Meep.

And got very cute postcard from my right butt cheek. XD If you don't understand, then you don't want to know. Suffice to say I love my right butt cheek very much. *_* I'm writing you a letter on the (6 hour!) plane ride home this weekend, 'kay? (not like she reads this anyway. heehee.)

Must write paper. Must write paper. Dammit! I'm not done yet! >_< I'm sorry! Must stop now! Will finish up tomorrow. Later peoples! Have GOOD dreams, please! And no bleeding! Any of you! Bleeding is bad!

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 07:20 p.m.



Uploading fixed!! *_* Finally!

SOO. We have:
a screenshot of Yuffie (the arm things look the same color as Rikku's shirt. I didn't notice that before. o_O
Char design again
And...videos!! :D Kenji, all of these have Squa...er, Leon in them too, so...you might be interested in downloading them too. ^_~
Yuffie and Leon talk...basically
Leon is so how I imagined him. XD There's pretty good shots of Yuffie from various angles, too.
Aeris!! And people. I still maintain that Mandy Moore can act. And that she makes a perfect Aeris. And she's talking to Donald Duck! And Goofy!! XD And it doesn't seem completely ludicrous! XD Oh yeah, and a little more Yuffie referencing.

So I think I know enough about Yuffie's clothing to start planning her cosplay now. Yay! And speaking of cosplay, I finished part of my redo of Ayame over the weekend! :D Okay, only a few seams. It's handsewn. And seriously, I've never done this before, so I really have no clue what I'm doing. But it looks surprisingly good. o_O I've seen so many costumes being made already by people with much more experience than me that I have a good idea how to go about it. :P Though I need pins. And a pin cushion. And I really need to stop losing my needles. It's soo going to catch up to me someday. >_< (And I also fixed my jeans! You know, the ones that were eaten through by acid? ....that sucked. Yeah.)

So! Anyways! Hope all of you had a happy happy fun time at Ani-Magic!! (Morning Musume, right? I think? wait, is it for this con or another one?) And Kenji? If you like platformers, I think you'll be impressed. My daddy is Mr. Platform, like, all he plays is platform games, racing games, and fighting games (my daddy is such a guy XD) and the worst he could say about it was that the camera got annoying. And that there was a certain element of button-mashing to it, but not really, because if you button mashed too much it was not strategically sound because of recovery time and stuff. And then he said it was a good game. And I think he dropped Jak and Daxter in order to play it. And he was really into Jak and Daxter. Soo...I guess it depends on what type of game you like? It's really more a platform/fighting game than an RPG. Except for the magic and the leveling up. And Zelda had magic. And the leveling up is pretty subtle. Sooo...I babble. Hope you enjoy it! :D I really need to find more time to play it. I've had it a week and I'm STILL less than three hours in. >_< (And you make me interested in watching Angel, except it's in its fourth season and I have seen all of two episodes of the preceding seasons. Combined. And I have no time anyway.) Oh! And Imouto? What DID those questions I answered at the beginning mean anyway? o_O

OMG, Michelle! If some gorgeous blond man ran 1/4 of a mile chasing after me to exchage phone numbers, I would sooo not be as composed as you are. o_O And the whole Prince Yuki fanclub thing? Blah. You need a Hana and a Uo to...wait a minute. You are Uo. Kick their asses, dude!! XD And the dream? Wow. You will tell us if you keep on having it, right? Because...wow.

And happy that Mirae and Heidi got to hang out! Sometimes I wonder how everyone that has been seperated from everyone else are doing. I mean, Kenji and Michelle and Phi and Kix and Kevin are pretty close together, Melissa and Sachiko too, but Mirae is in Cupertino by herself except if she has a chance to get together with Pekkle (poor Pekkle, a year younger than the rest of us ;_; hope you end up close to everyone else when you get to college!), and then Sarah and Amanda are off in weird cities by themselves, and Christi's down in SD and Saara's in SB and Parinda's at Pomona (at least other drama people are there...though that might be considered a bad thing...), and Elaine is at Berkeley and I haven't heard anything from or about her since the end of senior year...wah. ;_; I'm going to write letters on the plane ride home, to everyone I have the address for and everyone I don't, too. (I'm sure I can find out what they are.) Physical letters make you feel happy. :D So, um, if I bug you for your address...I'm not being weird, really! It's for a good cause! But I still need pretty stationary. Grr. Well, anyway, I'll get started on that...oh! And Sachiko? Want to go for pearl milk tea this Saturday, Sunday, or Monday? :D (and grr to your silly dad. jerk. maybe next time you can have Melissa drive you?) Ooh, and I still need to call back Sarah! And I never e-mailed Amanda back! ;_; I'm a terrible friend. I don't keep in touch at all! Must remedy.

Dude, this is long. And it's about time for me to go to dinner... okay, finishing up: bombed math test today, but as everyone else bombed it as well, and considering the gigantic curve on the last test this guy gave...well, I still feel crappy about it, but oh well. We'll see. (And this dude is evil. EVIL!! Not only does he not teach, not speak intelligibly or write legibly, wear the same shirt practically every day (okay, so that one is more funny than anything else, but I had to mention it)...he writes EVIL tests! And he lies! Last time, we all said the test was too long, and he said he'd make this one shorter. And GUESS WHAT HE DID?? He ADDED a problem! ADDED!! So you got to problem 4 and were like, wow, I finished it, I'm done! And you turn the page and WHAM! >_< ARHGasedr.fa. Yeah. At least there aren't any more tests this week. Yay. Time to go eat now.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Monday, October 7, 2002, 05:05 p.m.



CRAP! AX put up Masq reg less than a week ago? And they already have 22 people on their waiting list!? o_<;; <--starts twitching violently. What do I doo!? ...wait! Kix and Phi at Animagic, will see Wayne and co there! They'll figure out something!! ...WAHH!!! >_<

Added: Wait, new thought. Do I just register for us now? It wouldn't hurt anything, would it? Unless...someone already signed up? In which case...I could just ask them to remove the duplicate, right...? and at least we'd be higher up on the waiting list than we might be... (Has convinced self. Runs off to register.) I don't like this initiative thing. If I'm screwing up, I'm sorry. ;_;

Added again: I feel like I just screwed something up, but I did it. Err, we can always change things like contact info and stuff anyway. And...yeah. Hopefully this'll put us higher on the wait list. And stuff. >_< (goes to eat brunch now)

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Saturday, October 5, 2002, 11:35 a.m.



Oh, yes. And Phi? I'm SOO sorry. ;_; That is so beyond funny. It's so funny it makes me want to cry. >_<

And apparently wishing for the girl to fall into a ditch and/or pissing off the techies didn't work, Meimi, so I'll move on to Plan B..er, C. Laryngitis. A nice, serious case. With complications. (Either that or point me at her food so I can cough into it; I'm sure I have a few germs left to spare.)

And... I'm one third done with my engineering program! Woohoo! XD And it's not due until next Friday! Doublewoohoo!! ....but I have a math test Monday, and I am not ready. -woohoo. That still leaves me with one woohoo, so yay! :D

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Thursday, October 3, 2002, 11:54 p.m.



Uploading capabilities are shot. >_< I suspect it's because all the freshmen using file transfer programs are sucking up all the upload bandwidth without realizing it. Grrr. (should be more generous, because I'm a freshman myself, huh?) So all I managed to get posted were 1 and a half Yuffie reference pictures. :( We have the character design here, and half of a screenshot here. (don't ask why it's only half a screenshot. Really.) Thigh high white socks! See!? XD Any advice, Phi? I'm thinking I'll start gathering materials when I go visit home (in only a little more than a week!! XD Oh, so Sachiko? If you and Melissa want to do anything, I'll be back at home from October 12-October 14. :D Maybe we can go for lunch one day or something. Or...PEARL MILK TEA!! XD (I miss it so much, I think I'll get one every day I'm back home...or maybe two. Yes, that sounds good. Two milk teas a day. XD I am suuch a deprived child. Anyways. Want to see home and everybody again!! (And good luck on the permit test, Sachiko!! I can't believe your dad is letting you. o_O Dude. And hope you get better!! Sick is bad. I should know. I was sick, until I got better, because I had Nyquil. But the Nyquil made me brain fuzzy. Yup. Just thinking about Nyquil makesh my bwain fuzshy... (And I'm PMSing too. >_< Grrr.)

Meimi: am wishing that said girl will convenietly fall down a ditch and never be heard from again. But will settle for stage techies developing a dislike for her. You don't want the techies pissed at you. XD Hope things go the way you want them to!

And I hope you two have fun at Animagic! :D If you see Kingdom Hearts cosplayers, take pictures for me, pleeassee?? (insert puppy-dog eyes here) Err, for that matter, if you see Hikago or Furuba or Yami cosplay, take pictures too? Pretty please?

And now, Kingdom Hearts babble:

*******(KH babble space)

Ahh, the glow of accomplishment! I can now beat Wakka, Selphie, and Tidus consistently, and come out of it with virtually no damage on my own part. Yay! Riku is still kicking my ass, but at least I'm giving him more of a run for his money...and I'm starting to remember to dodge his crazy kick-up attack, which is almost always what kills me. >_< Oh, and that three-on-one thing with Wakka, Selphie, and Tidus? >_> Umm...I do a lot of running. And, um, I'm really starting to dislike that blitzball. How can I pick off Wakka's teammates if he keeps on smacking me upside the head every time I stop to fight them? >_< This will require some more thought, I see. But at least they're not killing me right away, like they did before! :D And I'm happy to see that all these fights aren't just to assuage my shattered vanity; I actually get EXP from them! Wow! :D <---gained a level. is happy.

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Homework, homework, homework. Damn. At least I'm not sick anymore.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Thursday, October 3, 2002, 02:35 p.m.



Imouto~!! My answers to the questions were as follows:

*******(<---from now on, anything I babble about KH will be within these in case you want to avoid possible spoilers. Or if you just don't want to read about it...:P)

I chose the staff and discarded the shield; so you came close, Imouto. :P Very close, actually. I was having a hard time with choosing which to discard, but I finally decided that I wanted to have attack power in case magic was ineffectual. Sooo yeah. Don't know if I'll regret that or not...anyway. (funny how you and Dad chose oppositely. XD Just what I would've expected, though. From both of you. And Dad's playing!? XD Yay!! He'll probably finish the game long before either of us. :/ Oh well. Is he enjoying it?)

As for the other questions:
Tidus': (a) getting old
Selphie's: (b) friendship
Wakka's: (b) to broaden my horizons
And my final "fortune" was the following, basicly: "Your journey begins at midday. Keep a steady pace and you'll be fine(?)" Something like that. Anyway. So...what the heck does that mean? o_O

And I finally beat Wakka. Because I realized that I wasn't using the z-targeting to fight him. XD I beat Selphie and Tidus easily after that, first try. Riku, however, is majorly kicking my ass. What's the count now? 0-15, advantage Riku? >_< I came close a few times, but I keep on accidentally jumping off the platform and losing by default. So, technically, RIKU isn't kicking my ass...all the time. He's only kicking my ass three fourths of the time. >_< Gah. Must beat! GRR!! So yeah, about an hour and forty minutes into the game now, and very pleased with it. WANT. MORE.

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And my website still won't let me upload stuff. This greatly displeases me.

And I'm getting Ideas for LH, too, Imouto. XD I'll write them up sometime. We're going to have to get that blog for it.

And...stuff. Yeah. Sleep. Social blog tomorrow.

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 11:29 p.m.



And acid ate holes in my jeans.

I am, unfortunately, not joking.

And what's so funny about Phi's new art class? It can't be 'funnier' than art class senior year, can it? o_O (And website still being bitchy. >_< And wanna go to Joann's!!)

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 09:17 p.m.



Scary stalker guy showed up at my room again last night. At like, 11PM. Luckily my roommate was asleep so I had an excuse not to talk to him. I also ran into him on the way to chem lab today. I was willing him not to talk to me, and was very busily talking to someone else I knew so he would get the message, but he came up and started talking to me anyway. >_< And since he knows where I live, and always seems to show up wherever I am, I don't know how to get rid of him. Waahh, Sachiko, I need a hug. ;_; No like scary stalker guy who manages to appear in my life at LEAST once a day. I don't even remember what his name is! >_< Argh!

And I'm sick. And drugged on cold medicine, so if I seem to be out of it, I am. Whee, I had Nyquil Sunday night and I was dazed all of Monday morning! It was funny. But I also got Kingdom Hearts AND my memory card on Monday! <3<3 Somehow they managed to get to me at the same time! Strangeness! (but good!) Of course, the world wasn't done with me yet, so due to numerous circumstances, including the house meeting, bible study meeting, chemistry study meeting, AND guys watching football at 12:45AM in the commons room where the PS2 is, I was unable to play Kingdom Hearts on Monday. ;_; I was sad. But I played it today! For an hour! Happy! :D My thumb hurt afterwards. Yes, I am pathetic; my thumb hurt after gaming only an hour. I'm working on it! And I still haven't beat Wakka, dammit! >_< It seems like no matter how much I dodge around then smack him around, he STILL manages to hit me, like, 4 or 5 times and I'm GONE. Grr. I'm blaming this on my tired thumb.

Sorry about all that, Imouto. :( Sounds gross. But at least you got to play Kingdom Hearts! :D Happyhappyhappy! It really made the fact that I was sick and busy with work the last two days okay, cuz I had Kingdom Hearts to look forward to! (Despite the fact that I can't beat Wakka, I think I'm actually starting to get used to this whole real-time battling thing. I've avoided it until now because I suck at it. But it's actually been pretty okay so far. Though I've noticed that I get into this weird tunnel-vision mode when I'm in big battles. o_O I just start reacting. Bad. I really have to try hard to get ahold of myself in order to actually plan my attacks. >_< Oh well. I like the z-targeting thing. :D Well, it's not z-targeting, because this is a ps2 controller and ps2 controllers don't HAVE z buttons, but I'll always remember it that way. And with a fairy. Named Navi. Who needed to die sometimes. Err, I'm rambling. And Imouto! Kenji wanted me to ask you if you know someone named Karlene Richardson? Because she's Kenji's cousin. :) As for LH songs... I like what you already have, but if you want to look for more alternate theme songs and you have time, go for it!

Waah, my domain is not being pleasant about me uploading files right now, Phi! *sniffsniff* As soon as it lets me, I'll upload Yuffie referencey stuff. :D Yay for FF/KH cosplay!! And boo for Lisa having to work on tummy muscles, because KH Yuffie's outift bares much midriff. >_< Situps. Blah.

And I dreamed about being at home last night, and I was sleeping at my bed at home, and when I woke up, I reached for my alarm clock on the side of the bed where it usually is at home, but it isn't here, because here is my dorm. ;_; At least I'm visiting home in, like, less than two weeks now! :D

*pokes website* Work!

-karura expounded on the sanctity of "a man's romance" on Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 07:08 p.m.