e-mail: sunlit_atelier@yahoo.com
the basic stats:
name: lisa
nickname: karura from CLAMP's RG Veda(thus, pretty blue)
ethnicity: mutt. seriously. chinese, finnish, italian, german, french, and english. fun, huh? somebody told me i look irish. ^^;; (it was because of my pale complexion and dark hair-they said it was an irish complexion...) it's very interesting being mixed. somebody once thought my sister was hawaiian. another thought she was spanish. ^^;;
height: 5'8" (nothing to complain about, except that it's kinda hard to find a guy that's taller than me, especially at my school, which is composed of mostly asian people. ^^;; no offense to asian people. it's just that i inherited my scandinavian genes for height instead of my asian ones... and it's kinda weird to go out with a guy who's shorter than you, though i wouldn't mind if i liked the guy enough...)
weight: middle of the range for my height. i range between 120 and 130, depending on how much I've eaten in the last few days. not anorexic, not fat. healthy weight. good.
favorite subjects: art, literature, math, chemistry, physics
least favorite subjects: history, biology, foreign language
favorite food: teateateateatea (especially pearl milk tea...heehee...)
favorite things: my alpaca rug (it's so soft!!), all my art supplies, all my books, my laptop (when it's working), my computer art tablet (maybe that goes under art supplies), 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!!!), stubbed toes, paper cuts, and people who pick on my little sister. (lisa will go and smack them upside the head, yeeesss. lisa will recruit her very willing friends to help her beat up some little punks, yeeessss. lisa pissed? o~oh, yes. lisa pissed.)
extracurriculars: nerdy things like robotics team, mock trial, and the school's literary magazine, and all those nerdy little GPA-based-entry clubs that actually don't do anything, and of course, my favorite, cg (computer graphics) club. Nominally, I'm part of the school's anime club because I think I paid my dues, but I've only been to one meeting. I've seen all the anime shows I personally want to see, and I'd rather not watch shows I respect with a bunch of rude otaku guys (and girls ^^;;).
color: blue, obviously
music: anything by yoko kanno; savage garden; enya; light classical music; bryan adams; richard marx; maaya sakamoto
songs: platinum by maaya sakamoto; adesso o fortuna by uhhhh, dunno, but it's from record of lodoss war; deedlit's song from record of lodoss war; anything "druggie" sounding, as someone once dubbed the music i listen to. :)
favorite anime: berserk, ccs (card captor sakura), trigun
favorite manga: ccs, yami no matsuei, bakuretsu hunters, dnangel
favorite anime characters: judeau from berserk, karura from rg veda, touya, kero, and eriol from ccs, vash from trigun, seilan, luva, marcel, and lumiale from angelique (yum... but maybe these people should be over in video games...aw well. not like i ever played the video game...), marron from bakuretsu hunders, xelloss and sylphiel from slayers (interesting, no? maybe it's the purplish hair...), miki and mikage from utena, etoh and deedlit from lodoss, watari from yami no matsuei (heck, everyone from yami no matsuei), amiboshi, chichiri, and tatara from fushigi yuugi, and others I can't remember right now...
favorite book: ender's game by orson scott card
favorite authors: robin hobb, joan d vinge, orson scott card, tad williams, mercedes lackey, john steinbeck, charles dickens
favorite book characters: ender from ender's game; fitzChivalry, the fool, patience, and burrich from hobb's farseer trilogy; amber, wintrow, kennit, post-reyn malta, and paragon from hobb's liveship trilogy; cat from vinge's cat series; vanyel, stefan, elspeth, an'desha, and kerowyn from lackey's valdemar books; caleb, samuel, and lee from steinbeck's east of eden; sydney from dicken's tale of two cities
favorite video games: the zelda 64 games, both ocarina and majora's mask; the final fantasy series (the entire bunch)
favorite video game characters: squall, quistis, selphie, laguna, and zell from ff8; vivi, freya, steiner, and zidane from ff9; link, sheik, kafei, anju, and tinkle (^^;;) from the zelda 64 games
Eep. I have a headache...
I'm actually surprisingly calm right now, considering... In two weeks, I have my math and chinese final. In a week, I have my chemistry final. I also have a chinese dialogue and essay due. Next Tuesday, I have a thematic interpretation speech to give about how you can't dwell on past wrongs. On Saturday, I have the SAT 2's for math iic and chemistry. I'm not too worried about my math, but my chem score has been dropping steadily every time I take a practice test. o.O I also have to finish two art projects in the next two weeks: a scratchboard and an acrylic. I'm about 1/6 done with my scratchboard, and I haven't started on my acrylic. Yeah, I have a lot to do. But at least I'm calm, right?
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Ohmigodohmigodohmigodohmigodohmigod!!!!
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Wheee!! I'm finally on the second disk of FF8! :) I lu~uv Laguna. Have I said that before? I don't think I have. And I luv Squall and Zell, too. And Selphie's lotsa fun, and Quistis is just freakin' cool... *_* (sigh) I'm in love with pixels, people. Isn't that worrisome? Oh~h yes.
Oh! And I'm happy cuz' I took a practice math 2c and got an 800. :) Of course, I also took a practice sat 2 chemistry exam, and my score promptly dropped 30 points. :( Oh well. I've got a little less than a week to practice... At least I'm starting earlier this time. But then, I also have that thematic interpretation speech to do for literature... o.o Well, at least I have a topic now. And then there's the dialogue and the essay for Chinese... Okay, I guess I can work with those too. But then, finals are coming up... O.O
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Aww shit.
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Hmm. I don't have much to say right now... Except that I'm really petered out. You can't keep intense enthusiasm up for too long. I am just now realizing that senioritis doesn't work for me; it's supposed to be relief from stress, but leaving homework be and not paying attention in classes just makes me feel more stressed out, because I feel like I'm missing something. ^^;; So I guess I'm not cut out for the slacker life. I'll have to live with be a part-time slacker. Part-time slacker is good. Speaking of part-time, I need a summer job. I'm thinking Stacey's Bookstore because it's quiet and I get to be surrounded by books all day, but the economy's pretty tight right now and I don't have any other job experience... So will I get a job? Maybe, maybe not. But I need the spending money in any case. I am po~or. Must have job. Not like I'm doing anything else this summer. I'm skipping summer classes (^o^) so basically all I have to do is drop my sister off at swim lessons, hang out with my friends, draw, write, do summer studying for some of next years classes, and play video games. Ooohh, yes. Sounds very nice. Now if I had some money, it would be even nicer...
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Wahahaha!! The past few days have been so cool it's not even funny! :)
Okay. On Friday, I went to a post-AP test party with some friends, and we went to the beach and stuff. It was great, even if we did take two hours to get there because of rush hour. :( First time I drove during rush hour, too, and it was on very windy highway 17. I was going sooo slow, and not just because of rush hour traffic. I was hella scared of, like, crashing into a tree or something. o_O Or those crazy people in the left lane who were going, like, 70 mph in little dinky old cars that didn't look like they could handle a sharp turn without falling apart. O.O;; Actually, I was more afraid of them losing control and crashing into me, and that would have been bad because I had another person in my car, and if a cop had come upon us, even if the accident wasn't my fault I would've been in trouble for having another non-licensed person in my car since I've only had my license 4 months and this is California... (In California, it's illegal to drive people other than family members for six months after you get your license if you're under 18. I'm 17. I've got some time to go...) Anyway, it was cool. We buried one of the guys in sand and gave him breasts. o_O Actually, the others girls did. I collapsed in the sand laughing hysterically. But ANYWAYS... After that we went and slept over at my friends house. It was fun. I played Final Fantasy 9 until I went to bed. :3 Teeheehee! IlikeIlike. I played the mock-swordfight thing between Zidane and Blank for, like, half an hour until I got a 90% approval rating because I'm an obsessive perfectionist, even though I gave up once I got to 90 because my head started to hurt... We actually got to sleep at a fairly decent time... 1:30 AM or so. Not bad. I got up at about 9, so I got a good amount of sleep. Then we went to eat brunch, and then I went to the library booksale and bought 36 books for $25. :3 I controlled myself better than last time, though. Last time I got 56 books for $30+. I WUV the library booksale. :):) Dude, I'm such a nerd... Then I watched the second Card Captor Sakura movie, and I liked it. I'd never seen Eriol, Yue, or big Kero in action before. (waaaiiiii!! I want the second and third seasons in translated form, dammit! hurry up, pioneer!)
Oh, and then Sunday. :3:3 teehee. I got my SAT 2 scores back. :3:3 Via the automated telephone thingy. :3:3 It was very good. :3:3 I GOT AN 800 ON WRITING!! MY FIRST TRY!!! :3:3:3:3 And I got a 770 on my math 2c, but I'm going to take that again in June, along with the chemistry sat 2c. But anyway, getting the 800 means I don't have to study for three tests in June! Just 2: math and chemistry! :3 If I handle this right, I can be done with all my damn standardized testing by June! Unless my mom makes me take the SAT I again. :/ Uhhh. I no like the SAT I. It's hella annoying. But not as bad as AP tests. Come to think of it, anything will seem easy now that I've taken the AP tests... Ohwell. My parents are happy, and if my parents are happy so I am, and I'd be happy anyway because this is hella cool. :3 I can definitely get into any of the UC's now. YAY! One more thing I don't have to stress about! (And one more thing my mom can gloat about to her acquiantances. ^^;; hehehe.) Anyways... Now that I've made myself out to be a completely conceited little brat, I'll stop before I ruin my image any more...
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wheeeee!!! Everything happened today! ^_^ ^_^
Yes, I survived my chemistry test. And I think I did pretty decently on it, too. To reward myself, I went to get some pearl milk tea, and it tasted reallyreally good today! yumyumyumyum!! Then I went and rented a bunch of chinese comics from the local chinese comic place; funfun. And lo and behold, when I pull into my driveway, what do I see sticking out of my mail box? MY TAPES!! My fansubs came my fansubs came! The second Card Captor Sakura movie, 3 tapes of Houshin Engi, Fortune Quest, and the first tape of Yami no Matsuei. Subbed. *_* ooooooo... Need more? We got our Playstation 2!! And we have GAMES to play on it! Ohohohohohohoho... The best part is, I have, like, zero homework, so I can actually read my comics and watch my tapes and play my games. And I have time to draw again! Ohohohohoho!!
Yes, I'm deliriously happy. Could you tell?
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Heehee. I spazzed today. ^^;;; I spazzed really bad. I was seriously just walking from one side of the house to another, just walking, because I needed to run down some nervous energy and the only alternative was screaming or kicking something. So I walked, and my mom worried about me, and I finally just sat down and spazzed anyway. What did I spazz about? Silly things. My Chem AP exam, actually. I was going on about how I didn't remember how to do any of the problems and that I would completely bomb free response, and that I would get a 3 and then what would happen to me? My parents, being the levelheaded people that they are, talked me into calming down and having some milk and cookies. It's amazing what milk and cookies will do for the troubled soul... Man, I'm such a pathetic little nerd. Normal people spazz out about their boyfriend breaking up with them or crashing their parents' car. I spazz about not getting a high score on some glorified chemistry test. yeep. Such a nerd...
But at least by tomorrow at this time I'll be DONE with that stupid test, and we'll finally get to open the Playstation 2 and we'll get to start playing it, and I'll have a nice cup of pearl milk tea, and I can ignore my homework and not care, and I can pretend to feel sympathy for the people who still have AP tests coming... Yeah, pretend. I don't have the energy to feel any sympathy for anyone else. I have enough self-pity already. As mean and self-centered as that all sounds... ^^;; But seriously, I want it over!! I want to DRAW again! And I want to NOT have a standardized test staring at me over a test prep book! (which i don't start looking at until 5 days before the test at best o_<;;) Ahh... 24 hours from now...
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Taking a break from studying for chem ap. Man, it's really hard to study when your relatives are over. They talk. A lot. Really loudly. o_O About you, a lot of the time. And if they're Asian relatives, they talk a lot about your grades and college and stuff. Which would be okay except that I don't need to be reminded about college at this point. Not with all these tests hanging over me. argh! I hate being a junior!
Oh, random fun quote time! This one's from Anything Goes, the musical:
Moon: DO WE WANT WAR!?
Crowd: NO!
Moon: DO WE WANT PEACE!?
Crowd: NO!
Moon: (confused): Then what do we want?
Crowd: HURRAY!!
--Moon giving a sermon in Anything Goes
I laughed my head off when I heard that one. It's a fine example of group stupidity. :)
Okay, guess I'm done. Laters!
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lalala. I started a blog. Wow. It looks really tacky. I'm really uninspired right now. I think AP tests sucked all the life out of me...I can't draw and I can't write and I can't seem to get out of this chair. Too lazy. lalalaaaa... I should study for the Chem AP exam. But I don't wanna, so I won't. Man, I'm really out of it right now...
"Is stoned the right word?"-Me
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Yeah, I know. I'll go away and come back tomorrow because I'm not coherent right now I only intended to see if this blog thing would work when I started writing. So, yeah...
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