np: the Olympics!! (go michelle kwan!!)

I didn't get "nerd." o_O

What is YOUR Highschool label?

np: Small of Two Pieces, English version. err...something like that... Everyone seems to translate it differently. But whatever. It's the prettypretty Xenogears ending theme.

Yay!! I'm soo~ooo proud of AKG!! Why? Because they got their site up! ^0^ Finally! Well, to an extent. :p I want art galleries! Lots of art galleries! And I want them soon!! (if anyone would like to help me poke them into submission, by all means, help me! the more the merrier. ^_~) And I even have the moral backing to allow myself to poke them, because I've been productive! ^0^ Okay, so I haven't been working on my site. Really. But I have been drawing! I've actually been doing studying on the Angelic Layer characters. ^_~ The funny thing is... I figured out how to draw Ringo correctly first. >_< Yeesh. So guess what? You all get a (REALLY pink) Ringo picture! Joy. Before you get to see the picture, though, I get to rant about how much CGing with a mouse sucks. ^_~

OKAY. So my graphics tablet has been on the fritz lately, right? It crashes half of my computers and acts retarded on the other half, so much so that I've practically given up on it. So what happens when I finish penning a very CG-able picture of Ringo? ....that's right! I CG'ed it with a mouse! >_< Patience...patience...GAH!!! NO patience!! GAARHHHH!!!!!! .....the sad thing is, it turned out better than most of the CG's I did with my tablet. >_< *sigh* Oh well. Here's the fruity pink pic itself:



I told you it was pink. :p

.....It's so scary. I actually have a pretty good idea what I'm going to write my Angelic Layer dj about. o_O Inspiration NEVER hits me like that! Guess that's why I'm being so militant about learning to draw all the AL people. ^^;; Heehee... What's the difference between copier paper and manga paper anyhow? Should I invest in some good manga paper...maybe some nibs and ink and stuff too? Screentone...I think I'll avoid for now. ^^;; Too much else on my plate. Have to pay for my Cancun trip, after all...

I'm tired. I think I'll take a nap. Make banner for Hidden Currents later. tataa~aa!! (must archive soon. page getting very long. maybe make new layout too... I have a feeling it's going to end up blue again. ^_~)

np: The Starry Sky <---am i obsessed or what? ^_~

Helloo~ooo!!! It's official. Angelic Layer has the best ending of any anime I've ever seen. ^0^ BEST best!! As in I was crying in happiness at the end of the last episode! In front of my SISTER! I don't cry often, and I certainly don't cry in front of people. So there! It could have been generic and corny, but it WASN'T! It soo~ooo wasn't! I didn't even crack any jokes about how the main character of an anime always wins miraculously, or even about Hatako's insistence on making "yakusoku"s every other episode. Practically. The show isn't one I wanted to make jokes about. Because it didn't feel like any other anime I've ever seen. (possibly because it's a female group [clamp!] tackling the shounen genre, and thus delivering a feminine take to the classic anime fighting show... but I digress!) I like Angelic Layer more than Card Captor Sakura. There, I said it. It paid much more attention to the feelings and thoughts and motivations of the non-major characters, and it made me soooo haaappyyyy!!!! ^0^ Everyone ends up happy!!! If it was another anime, Tamayo would've ended up alone, and Shuuko would've rejected poor Icchan or something, all to just make it all dramatic and "realistic" (soap opera-ish, dammit!) and it would've TOTALLY RUINED any enjoyment I could've derived from the show! Well, I'll say one thing: for a happy show, it felt VERY realistic. Not soap opera-ish; it had a lot more depth and real human emotion than a soap. Soaps are sensationalism; Angelic Layer made a quiet statement behind its entertaining front. (But it's as compulsory as soaps. If my parents would've let me, I would've finished watching the whole series in one night. :p Too bad... I love it soo~ooo much!! Good thing I bought the rest of the Angelic Layer manga for my sister on Friday, for her birthday. ^_^ Kunokuniya people are soo~ooo nice! The scary thing was that I actually understood what she was saying to me when she talked to me in Japanese. o.O I couldn't talk back of course, but the fact that I could understand her was rather...strange. Considering I've never taken a Japanese class, and people generally don't speak Japanese around me (besides the fangirlish "waii!!"'s and such). I guess I have subtitled anime to thank for that. O_o Oh well. I WANNA DRAW AN ANGELIC LAYER DOUJINSHII~III!!!! But I can't write stories worth CRAP. ;_; Will...draw...Angelic...Layer...DJ. Even...if...it's...the...last...thing...I...do. ....not really. But I reallyreally want to draw one. Time to start learning how to draw the characters!! ^0^

I went exercising this morning! So proud of myself. ^_~ Woke up early and everything! Only did 20 minutes on the stair stepper and 60 sit-ups, but I think that's pretty good considering I haven't exercised since sophomore year. ^_~ I feel semi-fit! If anyone else goes to YMCA and wants to join me in an exercise session, let me know. I find that you push yourself harder if you're with other people. ^^;; Like, if you say you're going to go 30 minutes, and you get tired, if you're by yourself you'll stop, but if you're with other people you'll keep on going. Just my observation. ^^;; But anyways! I need to be in shape by the time we go to Cancun! And even LA! And Florida too! Heck, I just needa be in shape in general by the time spring comes and I can't hide the fact that I don't have any muscles behind four layers of clothing anymore. :P Warm weather, here I come!!!

Now I needa figure out what I can do to work on my arm muscles. Guess I'll just need to start lifting weights... >_<

Oh, almost forgot! And because I love you all (and Angelic Layer) I've uploaded all the OP's and ED's. :P You probably have at least a few of them already... But oh well! I love them so much. *_* I'm not gonna bother ranting about how much I love them individually, because I'll just end up repeating myself. So you get the rantless version this time. :P

Be My Angel by Atsuko Enomoto, the OP
The Starry Sky by HAL, the 1st ED
Ame Agari by Moeko Matsuhita, the 2nd ED

Enjoy!!

Now, I have some poking to do. Philana? Kix? (bi~ig grin) Dearies? Have we been productive doing dj's and websites lately? ^_^ If not, I'd be happy to visit you to... "inspire" you. I do know where you both live after all. ^_^ And I don't mind poking people. Not at all. X3 *pokepoke* WORK!! X3X3 Heeheehee...

I want to work on Painter now. Maybe I'll do Angelic Layer fanart... WE NEED A CG CLUB MEETING!!

np: The Starry Sky by HAL (i think. meow i love this song!)

I got my new website to work!! ^0^ It's now at hidden-currents.com. It looks kinda crappy, I know. And there's lotsa 404 errors and stuff. But notice that they're CUSTOM 404 error pages! Harharhar. Me and my sister were bashing our heads against a brick wall all morning trying to make that work. >_< Damn Apache server.

Anyways, besides that, I've also become hooked on the Angelic Layer anime. Thanks to Phi, of course. I really don't know what I CAN say. I just like it very, very much. My sister too. And I'm starting to really like Misaki, even though I thought I wouldn't at first. She reminds me of me in so many ways it's not even funny...except that she can cook. I won't even bother telling you quite how much I suck at that. I'm sure you don't want to know about that. You do have to eat dinner tonight after all.

Anyways! To celebrate the webspace that my parents got me for my birthday, I'm sticking music up on my site. :p In no particular order, we have:

Sweet Samba by Kotani Kinya of Gravitation fame. I like this song. It's peppy like all of Kotani Kinya's songs. I don't think it was actually done for Gravitation, but it's Kotani Kinya, so it's cool and it goes up here. :p

Next: For Fruits Basket by Ritsuko Okazaki (i think). People probably have this one already, but it's pretty, it's stony, and I adore it. So it's here. It's my webspace and I can do what I want with it!

Moving on: June Mermaid from the Creid album, by Yasunori Mistuda. I worship this song, as well as most of the other songs on the Creid album. So there. More stoniness!! Yay!!!

Random: Shizuku, OP for GTO, artist unknown. To tell you the truth, I know next to nothing about GTO. But I like the opening song. So pooh. I feel like being random.

And of course: Butterfly by Wada Kouji from Digimon. ^_~ If you missed my rantings way back when about how much I adored Wada Kouji, you're very lucky. You're even luckier if you missed the Butterfly layout. ^_~

Ahh, this is fun! Just to warn you, don't try linking to these. No, seriously. I have taken a few precautions. JUST so you know. :p

Homework to do. Still, I feel so FREE!! ^0^ First weekend this year that I wasn't (a) sick with the flu or (b) a non-second-semester senior. X3 Happyhappyhappy....waAII!!! I have to go do biology homework now. Have fun everybody! Don't let the pink shoujo fuzzball critters get to you!!

np: For Fruits Basket (orchestrated) (prettypretty orchestrated Fruits Basket music!! ^0^)

After a week (well, except Wednesday) of being sick with the flu and staying home and sleeping 12-15 hours a day and basically subsisting on DayQuil (i wanna promote it to become one of the food groups... that and chicken noodle soup...) I finally went back to school today. And found I had a lot less work to make up then I thought I would! ^0^ I'm so glad I'm a second semester senior! The only thing that might have weighed down on me was my calculus homework, and thankfully, I kept up with that. So I'm happy. Still sick (I sound like a FROG!!) but happy.

Signed up for my domain today!! ^0^ I should be up and running with my website within the weekend. When it's up, it'll be at www.hidden-currents.com. Coolness. Not very skilled HTMLing, but the layout's blue, so I likes it.

And before I pass out from cold medicine overdose, I'm Cheer Bear! ^0^ .......what? So I watched the Care Bears when I was little. They're CUTE...

See what Care Bear you are.

np: Canta per me (noir is cool!)

I'm so haa~aaappy~!!!! I found out the rest of my grades today...and... I GOT AN A IN BIO AP!!! XDXD I was NOT expecting that at all!! I was so convinced I'd get a B in that class (so I get a B in Physics Honors instead. >_< damn centripetal motion...). I got an A in Calculus too! WITHOUT the extra credit added in! ^0^ Duuu~uuddee!! Coolness!! Chinese and economics are A's, Art almost certainly is as well, and what's the last class...? Oh, Lit AP! That's an A too!! ^0^ So the only B is Physics Honors, which is SOOO weird, because of Bio, Calc, and Lit, I had the highest grade going into the final for Physics. o.O hmm... Still! Cool! My GPA is still high overall anyways. ^_^ Not like it matters. I'm a SENIOR dude!! A second SEMESTER senior!! WOOHOOO!!

Tomorrow we go to Todai's!! Mucho fun! I'll have crepes for the first time! ^0^ Waaa~aaiii!! FOOD!! According to the Seven Deadly Sins test, the sin I have to watch out for is Gluttony. ^_^ Isn't that funny? Because I've been losing weight lately. >_< I always lose weight at random times for no reason at all. It's weird. I also took the Hogwarts House test. Finally. I got Gryffindor even when I went back and changed a few iffy answers. ^^;; I was so sure I'd get Ravenclaw, too... Ohwell. Whatever. Gryffindor's cool too! I'm also almost ready to put my new website online. w00t!! ^0^ It's easy to update, which I like much, and it's blue, which I also like much! Um, nothing else to rant about. Will do homework now.

Look! I'm Yuna!

You're Yuna. You're hardworking and honest, and also a little naive. You can easily be lied to, but in the end your friends will look out for you. Kind and loving you'd never hurt a fly. You'd be willing to do anything to help others, even if it means some personal sacrafices for you.

Which Final Fantasy X Character would YOU be? Take thetest.

np: Duvet (Boa is cool. So is Lain when the show's not being freakyweird.)

I was completely honest on the evil test and I still got the following result: >_<

"You are 8% evil."

"You are an Angel. You rarely sin which makes your life pretty boring i assume. However if there is a god he will likely reward you in the afterlife."

Except I don't believe in an afterlife, so I guess that just leaves me with a "pretty boring" life. ^^;; Yeesh, and I thought I was brutally honest about myself too...

Anyways! Thanks for the evil link, Phi! It was...interesting. o_O I guess that's just one more piece of evidence pointing toward the appropriateness of me playing a White Mage in the rpg...as if we needed any more. >_< And interesting dream on your part, too. ^^; I usually don't remember dreams, but the last one I remember having involved a rock with runes on it that I had to decipher, a river, and a steamboat. Err, I think it was a steamboat. Was Mickey Mouse in it? Gah, I have really random dreams. Cartoon characters show up, and I'm like, help me, Mickey Mouse! You're the only one who can help me save the world! ^^;;;; I think that dream was a combination of the influences of The Heart of Darkness, pearl milk tea, and Kingdom Hearts. ^^;; Maybe a little Indiana Jones too. Don't ask. ^^;;

Ooh, I finally watched Escaflowne! Well, a large portion of Escaflowne. ^^;; yes, it's taken me this long to watch it all. But Lisa luvs it. Notice that it has found a place on my favorite anime list on the ri..er, left. Yes. Left. Ahem. I love all the characters in the show to death (including all the female characters, for once ^^;;) and I wanna do fanart for it now. Fanart!!! I drew a Lulu over the four-day break. I also wrote almost all of the code for me new art site (though it looks kinda uninspired, imo). Just needa sign up for the domain name and the space, upload, and continue updating! ^^;; The third part's the hardest. And anyway, back to Escaflowne after a very random digression. Only seen up to 14 at this point, but I'll certainly see more of it. Soon. ^0^ And I also watched up to episode 7 of Noir. Meep. ^^;; That's the only show I've watched for a long time that's made me cry. Twice. And I can't even explain why...well, I can, but it's not really convincing when I try to explain it to myself... Oh whatever. Episodes 4 and 6 made me cry; the beach one and the stray cat one. Egad. >_< I usually don't cry. Moo. Must see more of it. Luckily I already downloaded the entire series...except, randomly, episode 14. ^^;; But that's coming along pretty nicely, too...

Mm, where am I? Can't remember at all. Oh well. Sorry I missed you the entire 4-day weekend, Kenji. ^^;; Oh well. We'll have to plan this stuff in Art instead. Heck, what else is art for? :P umm...think i'd better sleep now. I have to do something important tomorrow morning, and I better be rested up for it. For those of you who know what this means: I bought the stuffed penguin!! ^0^ For you-know-who. ^_~ Yes, I think I'm going through with it. We'll see, tho. ^^;; Umm...whatelse? Oh, Kenji! I am NOT getting kinky with older men! :P ....okay, maybe a LITTLE. But it least it's not YOUNGER men. ^_~ Ken from Digimon doesn't count. Really. .....okay, so maybe I DO have issues... At least I have a nice normal infatuation with Legolas! Right? Rii~iiight? ....actually, he's older than me too. A LOT older. ;_; You're right. I DO have issues...MAJOR issues....

Oh well. Whatever. I'm sleeping now. I'm tired. I need cold medicine.

np: My Oh My by Aqua! ^0^

I've just had the happiest two hours I remember having! ^0^

You wouldn't think it. It's a random thing to make a person happy. I had my interview for Duke University this morning at 9AM at Coffee Society, at it really gave me a boost. ^0^ It only lasted, like, forty minutes, (compared to 3-4 hours for the MIT one o_O) but it never felt like it dragged on, or that it rushed. And the interview person was so CUTE! Egad, at first I couldn't believe he was my interviewer. o_O He looked like a college student, at least (except that he's 30+, married, with a 14-month old ^^) but still, it was really cool being at a coffee shop with such a cute guy! Even if he is married! ^0^ No, I just did the interview thing, don't get any ideas. :p Still, if ALL the guys who go to Duke are that cute and that smart... Who CARES if it snows at Duke! I'm THERE!! ^0^ Anyways, he was soooo easy to talk to! He bought me a nice hot cup of Earl tea (good stuff!) and it just went on so easily from there. He seemed really impressed by Robotics and Spectrum, and my GPA and my SAT I & II scores (heck, I'm impressed by them somtimes o_O) and he was amused by my surprise birthday party yesterday (they tied balloons in my hair. AGAIN. >_< And it was interesting, cuz' I thought it was a surprise party for Christi, and Christi thought it was a surprise party for me. ^^;; and we walked to Saara's house to Amanda's house to pick oranges. ^^;;) andand at the end, he was like, you're a highly intelligent person, you seem like the type of person who is always laughing (he told me to never let the world make my cyncial, becuase it's better to be able to laugh at the world ^^ he can evaluate personalities really well...), and that I'd really fit into the atmosphere at Duke, smart and ambitious but friendly, and that Duke might help me become what I want to become, to get out of my shell and gain confidence and become "ultimate Lisa!" His words. ^_~ Like I said, he's a cool guy. He says that during the winter at Duke, everyone goes "traying"; grab a tray from the cafeteria, go to the sloping gardens, and sled down the snow at 100mph!! ^0^ I like Duke. Duke sounds uber-fun!! So, now I have a list of four schools out of the ten I applied to that I would go to if admitted (not in order yet ^^;;): Duke, Princeton, Stanford, and Rice. Because they sound friendly. ^0^ Harvard, black ties. :/ MIT, nerdsville, no choice but engineering. (not that I'm not a nerd, but I might not go into engineering after all...) Cornell... Okay, I guess. Too big, and it's in a small town. Yale...dunno. No real feeling there. Berkeley, UCLA... Nyah. They're UC's. They're big, and they're insane. o_O Nope, my Big Four are Duke, Princeton, Stanford, and Rice. ^_^ And I think I can get into at least one of them. So that makes it easier for me. ^0^ lalalaaaa... College! That guy was so freakin' cute. o.o No wonder he wanted to go into the entertainment industry for a while... He ended up as a Vice President at an internet company tho. ^_~

Anyway, after the cool confidence-boosting interview, (usually I'm not a person to enjoy interviews ^^;) I went to the library to return a book, and came back with seven books! Lotsa stuff to occupy myself with. ^_^ And I reallyreally love the atmosphere at Sunnyvale Library. So quiet, and spacious, and clean and open... Heehee, Lisa heaven! Library! And then I went to get pearl milk tea, and then I rented a bunch of books from the chinese manga place (i finally got the first book of Gravitation! ^0^ 1337!!) and then I came home, and I was all happy and glowy because I had the nicest two hours I had in a long time! ^0^ So now I have to go to a Robotics meeting. Later then! Happyhappy day! (and sorry I missed you last night, Kenji. ^^;; I actually did get online twice, but the first time Matt got on too and made me come to Robotics, and the second time you weren't online. ^^;; So AIM and I don't work very well together. Maybe we should just work the DnD campaign out via e-mail or something. ^^;; sorry again!) and I really gotta go. Later!

np: nothing

My head is cold. :(

Sorry I never ended up online, Kenji. ^^;; Well, I was online, actually, for about 10 seconds around 9PM or so... But that doesn't really count. Most of the rest of the time I was distracted by one of two things: writing HTML code for my website, or watching stuff I downloaded. ^^;; I have the code mostly written now (i learned how to use stylesheets today! and iframes! yahh...) and I watched Star Ocean EX 18, Shaman King 10, X 12 (tell me if you wannit, Phi!) and the first installment of the second Rurouni Kenshin OVA. ^^;; Time went by much faster than I expected... Before I knew it, it was 11PM. o_O Oh well. Sorry I wasn't able to help with the DnD campaign, Kenji. >_< I'll have to admit I wasn't in the right mindset to do anything this evening, though. Kinda depressed. Found out I got a B in Physics Honors. ;_; I was sooo clooooseee.... Damn. Oh well. Guess I did kinda slack a little senior year... Still! I thought I tried pretty hard...

But I did get an A in Literature AP. That was good. And an A in Chinese. Don't know about the other classes. Still depressed. I'm such a nerd, to get depressed over getting a B. Watching the Kenshin OVA didn't help (nooo...sadness...); and even Star Ocean and Shaman King fluffiness weren't able to get rid of it. :( Oh well.

But I am REALLY a second semester senior now!! .....small consolation.

I'm becoming uncharacteristically depressive. I better stop.

My muscles are sore from the kickboxing yesterday. :( (sheesh, there's hella frownies in this pita... Fluffy better take over...)

Yoooo~oooo, doodz!! We are not schizophrenic, really! Aa~nyways, today was the last day of finals and it was a cinch! Morning, first thing: woke up from a good night's sleep for the first time in AGES. Had a nicely paced 10-minute breakfast of milk tea and cereal, went to school, took my multiple choice final for Literature AP (I got a perfect score after the curve: 26/26 XD) and then found out my grade in the class: 91.0%! ^0^ And I got a 94% on my in-class essay from last Thursday, too! Not bad for an in-class. ^_~ Then in art, BS'ed the rest of my fairy picture thing, chatted with Kenji about DnD plans, gawked at Kix's loooong hair o_O and tried to find something to inspire Phi to draw. Didn't work. >_< Oh, and just for the record, these were the results that came from that DnD stats test thing I took for my character during art:

Str:5
Int:15
Wis:14
Dex:15
Con:9
Chr:15

And we already know my alignment, neutral good, which makes sense for a healer/white mage, I think. And I need a magic stat. I do play a mage. :/ Kenji, you need one too! And just randomly, do you think the stats the test came out with are a bit high? I've got the low strength and average constitution, but the rest of the stats are relatively high; not huuuge, but steadily pretty high. Oh well, guess they're a mage's stats... Oh, and a resounding conclusion that was drawn from taking this test! I am not attractive to those who are of the same gender as me. ^_~ Somehow, that doesn't really bother me...

Oh, and I wasn't really trying to debate with you or anything, Phi. ^^;; Sorry!! Just had to get it out. Actually, I think we all believe pretty much the same thing... Which is cool. I don't like debating, really. ^^;;

Anyways, after school, caught a ride to Chevy's with Sarah, except Sarah's car was overheating, and we didn't know it was just out of radiator fluid at the time. ^_~ Heck, we're a bunch of teenage girls, give us a break! Anyways, went and got Amanda's car instead, drove to Chevy's, had a big scary teenage girl gathering (what else would you think when you saw nine giggling teenage girls together? with car keys?). And I had a (virgin) strawberry daquiri (thanks to my friends, I now know what a virgin strawberry daquiri is, versus a......non-virgin strawberry daquiri? heck, I dunno, whatever...). And of course my friends, my WONDERFUL friends, told the FRIENDLY people at Chevy's it was my 18th birthday. :/ Well, it is...in a week. But anyways, they gave me a hat and sang to me in Spanish and gave me ice cream. I liked the ice cream. The rest of it was mortifying. Note to self: owe Amanda $1 for helping to cover me at Chevy's. 'Kay? Yeah.

Anyways, rest of the day is a blur, and my dear depressed alter-ego would love to rant to you about it again, but I won't let her. So I'm going to bed now! Tata!! (my alter-ego is one pathetic little apple, isn't she? all that whining over a B! Ha! .....though she has a point about the sore muscles from kickboxing...)