Time: 12:34 p.m.
What?: Kingdom Hearts OST - Spooks of Halloween Town
In the spirit of ignoring the downhill-ness of the mingy bits of my life at the moment, I'm going to write a REALLY BAD AND WRONG blog entry. And it shall come with a warning, a warning to
you. I can almost guarantee that your opinion of my taste in anime is going to sink even lower if you read on, I really really can. ^___^ Even I am ashamed of this, and I have no explanation for it...
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I LOVE BAKURETSU TENSHI SO MUCH IT'S JUST SO WRONG!
No, really, it's really
really wrong. It's *incredibly* stereotypical Gonzo fanservice crap. It has bums, boobs and mecha....but it has mecha piloted by zombies! AND JO!!! ^___________^ Oh Jo...Jo is going to become possibly my only female anime obssession except Integra. Yes, she does fall foul of fanservice *any* time she gets ready for a mission (STOP THE PANTY SHOTS! JO IS TOO GOOD FOR YOU PERVERTS!) and they are desparately trying to make something yuri out of her and Irvine-Kinneas-in-a-dress, but I'm afraid she's made an indelible mark of cool on my brain. ^____^ She's just so. brill. She's like what Alucard would be if he were a female mecha pilot with...no, wait, I don't want to carry on that thought, it's going to take all of us into bad and wrong swimsuit places. o_0
So yes, Bakuretsu Tenshi. So very wrong. And if it wasn't for Jo I wouldn't give it a second look. Except possibly the first scene, which is *incredibly* pretty for a mecha fight, and gratuitously cool. ^___^ OH! YES! I cannot leave this out. There is no way I could possibly review this show without mentioning it. There really really really isn't.
*ahem*
BEST OP EVER!! EVEN BETTER THAN "WIL' WIL' ROCK", LIZZU! YOU HAVE TO HERE IT AND EVERYBODY ELSE WILL BE LOOSEY TOO! WHATEVER THAT IS MEANT TO MEAN! ^_______^
And the shame will stop here, for now.
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, April 19, 2004
Time: 11:17 p.m.
What?: N.E.R.D. - Rock Star (Jason Nevins Remix)
I've been listening to this for a disgusting amount of the time I haven't had civilised company today. ^_________^ I'm sorry, it makes me happy in an angry rock dance rap SSX3 music sort of way. ^___^;;;; That and Queens of the Stone Age, who I have decided to like for the week. Not that I don't usually, it's just been a long time since I actually listened to anything by them. ^__^
Musical pooballs over with, what else? On the general stuff-ness front, I would say I'm feeling about 55% good at the moment. Things are slowly going in better directions, although progress is being somewhat hindered by thinking about finals. I really ought to tell my tutor about what has happened in the past few weeks soon. >_< It's not something I'm looking forward to doing though, to be honest. Never mind, take a deep breath and just tell him the truth, I suppose. >_<
Anyway, various happier things to think about than those. Lovely surprise yesterday to find that we had an
early arrival back into Oxford. ^____^ Especially when that arrival came with a copy of Black Books on dvd with my name on it. ^______^ And a lovely evening was spent with Liz and Jane enjoying said dvds, Starsky and Hutch, Raffles and The Professionals. *insert frightening aside about how much I now love Starsky and Hutch o_0*
Other than that, I had a great deal of fun dragging
Tashular around the Egyptian galleries of the Ashmolean yesterday morning. I think I may have been *incredibly* geeky and dull, but she was polite enough to say I wasn't. ^_^;; I can't help it, I'm and Egyptologist and I have a world-class Egyptology collection on my doorstep. I can't help but enthuse. ^______^
...and Tashular also gets a million gold stars for being wonderful and leaving one of the beautiful beaded bookmarks I was admiring in the Ashmolean shop in my pigeon hole. ^____^
I would attempt to say again how much I appreciate how lovely everyone is being to get me through this, but it really doesn't sound as sincere as I want it to when I write it. Suffice to say I might not be right at the moment, but I know I would be considerably less so if it weren't for the people who have been rearranging their lives for me. So thank you.
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, April 15, 2004
Time: 05:59 p.m.
What?: Vitriol, so much vitriol....
...and vitriol of epic proportions.
I cannot begin to express how much I HATE the idea of the Van Helsing film. >_< Mind you, it seems quite pointless to say this since I have been expressing said hatred for a good year or so now to most of the people who read this blog. Dracula is my favourite book in the world. Yes it's poorly written in places and Dracula himself is a bit of a disappointing knob, but I still love it. It has Dr Seward and Abraham van Helsing in....Abraham van Helsing WHO ISN'T AN ACTION HERO HUGH JACKMAN STOP IT STOP IT NOW!! >_<
...and essentially that sums up my problem with the film. It's like Dracula fanfic, only with complete lack of consideration for characterisation. >_< Leave my lovely little old man who reads books and would only fight things with a bottle of holy water alone. >_< Go and write a film about Quincy Morris if you have to write a film like this. >_<
Anyway, the reason I thought I would vent my spleen about this right now is because
this makes me shudder in horrible, horrible ways. It may be better when I find out who the animation was done by. It's probably too much to imagine that they didn't use and American animation company. -_-
Oh, and the main travesty comes out on May 7th, and all those who are planning to come and see it with me had better have the restraining ropes ready for when I try to claw the screen to pieces with my fingernails. o_0
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Time: 03:37 p.m.
What?: Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
I need something to throw the depressing entry from Sunday off the top of this page. It annoys me. >_< At the moment I'm feeling fairly....alright in the context of Katy alrightness. I have had lovely
precious company since my arrival back in Oxf a couple of days ago, which has done *huge* amounts to drag me out of my black hole last week (using Ico imagery is a bad and obssessive thing, Katy, bad gamer, bad...) So yes, at the moment I am just trying to take stock before the final assault on Trinity term (all puns intended :p).
In other news, I am growing a sunflower! ^___^ Sunflowers make me cheerful for manifold reasons and I decided I should get a little packet of seeds and grow one for myself. Which lead to much deliberation between Liz and myself as to what would be an appropriate name for it. I have two other houseplants. One is a spider plant, whose name is Darcia, because the aforementioned Wolf's Rain character does often look like the aforementioned plant. ^____^ The other is what I can only best describe as a blobby plant, which, when I got it, had yellow leaves at the top, and thus was called Ginji-kun. ^____^ The sunflower, upon a spark of inspiration, is called Kira ...because I grew him from a SEED. ^__________________________^ *hides from pelting of stones and sharp objects*
Horrible plant puns aside, what else? Oh yes, I claim minor musical victories! Listening to much random bumpf from my music collection last night with Liz and Tasha was much fun. We have the official Liz and Katy Finals 2004 anthem, and it's so brilliant it hurts, it hurts so much. And I almost pity my neighbour for the number of times he had to hear it last night. Almost. ^____^ (And if *you* have any objections to us thinking "Baby Got Back" is a brilliant motivational song, you are wrong. ^______^)
My other musical glee is possibly more tasteful than that ...Liz likes Mexican pop music! ^_____________^ Obviously this is something I osmosed from The Boyfriend, but it's actually rather chirpy and quite fun. We like Mana. Mana are good. ^____^ So what if no one in the English-speaking world will ever hear them except in the context of one Santana album? We like them! ^_____^
Oh, and I inflicted Lilo and Stitch on Tasha. *Now* she understands why I love Stitch. ^_____^
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Time: 09:43 p.m.
What?: ...
Happy Easter all. I would essay my agitation on the watering-down and secularization of Easter, but I didn't even make it to church today thanks to a horrible night and the effects thereof, so I don't feel in the position or mood to criticise. -_-
I hope everyone had a relaxing day.
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, April 11, 2004
Time: 10:57 p.m.
What?: It's something inappropriately perky from MMPPP...
...but I'm having to use a CD player so I can't be arsed to work out what it's called.
This is more a "I'm still here" blog than anything. I remember how I blog obssessively when I'm in Oxford and feel irritated at myself because I haven't recently. But then that's probably for the best right now, she said, stating the obvious. I've had an unpleasant couple of days, roughly speaking. It's difficult to explain really, because I rather have two different days in 24 hours, external me's day, and horrible messy internal me's day. -_- This is going to be one of those horrible concepts that doesn't quite come out right and is going to make me look like I'm whining. Hm. o_0
In general, external me hasn't fared badly. She has been playing Ico, which makes her exceptionally happy because it is the most beautiful and incredibly emotional game in the world, despite having a total of about three lines of dialogue in the whole game (the impact is something you can't understand until you've played it, just trust me ^__^). I remember why I liked this game infinitely better than Final Fantasy X when I got them both about two years ago. Even my parents have been transfixed by it, which is a novel thing, given the general slightly bemused opinion that usually greets my choice of videogames in this house.
So what else has external me been happy about? Umm...oh yes, one good thing about being home. I made a beautiful discovery on my trip into town. We now have a Game. Oh the bliss. An actual shop that sells videogames. And one that sells nice cheapass secondhand games. I don't do buying £40 games anymore, it's just too much. >_< But my shameful rummaging through the cast-offs of other gamers did me well this week, because I finally got a copy of SSX3. Which is lovely and means my addiction from Christmas has now gone transatlantic. I *love* SSX. It's garish, noisy and happy and the kind of thing I should be playing right now. Anyway.
But yeah, those things have been making one half of me happy. And it will probably make the rest of this appear like pointless whining. I don't quite know how to explain the idea that all the enjoyable things I talked about just now can happen and I can still be unhappy without sounding spoilt. It's a lot like, all these things happen and they're all well and good, but there's always an undercurrent of unpleasant things that, well, go on in my mind. (Hmm, now I really sound crazy...) I don't suppose I can make it clear what I mean about that, it's not really a logical thing, and it's irritatingly self-indulgent to keep talking about it. >_<
Things will work out at some point though.
Katy smoked a mascot on Friday, April 9, 2004
Time: 06:37 p.m.
What?: Mermaid Melody PPP - Legend of Mermaid (in my head... o_0)
Alright, time to blog lest people think I actually have gone mad(der) and run away.
There's not really a great deal of interesting things I can blog about at the moment. Last week was...tough, I think is the best word to describe it. However,
her and
her are commended to the highest degree for keeping me in one piece despite my own attempts to self-destruct. So the company and the support has been a most appreciated thing. I don't think I can say that enough times.
I'd like to be able to say things are better now, but to be truthful they're not. Perhaps it's a bit optimistic to think that this could be solved in a short space of time, but I'm just generally an impatient person, aren't I? But right now I'm having good days and bad days as opposed to just bad bad bad days, so that's encouraging. And I think today has been a good day by and large. A lot of this is just about having the confidence to make myself feel better, and I hope I'm getting some of that. I know I'm probably going to have days when I feel like I'm back at square one but that's just the nature of this thing.
Being home has taken a bit of getting used to (even though I'm only going to be here for ten days). Every time I come back home the situation has always changed. Members of the family have different routines, my sisters become obssessed with new things. It feels a bit difficult to keep track of people sometimes. Especially with my sisters. It's a rather bizarre thing to explain, but we used to have a lot in common - we used to like similar things on TV, similar music and things like that. I realised this has all changed a couple of days ago when we were sitting in the car and they were playing 20 Questions. I hadn't got a clue who anyone they were talking about was. o_0 But I suppose that's just the way things go. If they were playing 20 Questions the way we play it, the same thing would happen.
Other things, other things. *insert "I Love Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch" squee here* I know I'm going to and do appaul much of this blog's audience by having a new found obssession like this, but to be honest
she's right. o_0 It's revoltingly cute, the music is an acquired taste and Luchia needs a vocal chord transplant, but it's *really good*. And Gaito is cooooool. Little grey-haired evil bishounen who lives under the sea drinking red wine and wearing furry-collared jackets. I suspect this would be the only thing that could possibly make Jane bear a second of the show.
Oh yes, my "and finally" note. My mum bought me a magic wand today. With a sparkly bat on. ^_______________________^
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, April 5, 2004
Time: 11:51 p.m.
What?: ^__^
I know
you made this aaaages ago, but it's only now that I've seen the brilliance of MMPPP! :O
You are Hanon!
You're always right, and God help anyone who says
otherwise. You're mature, strong and
intelligent - but be careful, the world isn't
as straightforward as you think. You're always
ready to give advice, though you have trouble
sticking to it yourself. It seems that you're
the only one paying attention in this world,
and you've got to take control. Take it easy
for a while and things will sort themselves
out... and when they don't? Then you can start
yelling ^_^
Which Mermaid Melody (Pichi Pichi Pitch) Princess are you? brought to you by Quizilla
Yeah, *do* like Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, wanna make something of it? o_0
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Time: 03:40 p.m.
What?: This'll avoid me writing my essay...
[my name is]: Katy
[in the morning I am]: Tired o_0
[all I need is]: Apparently called Sertraline...
[love is]: In Texas
[I'm afraid of]: Too many things
[I dream about]: Phinn trying to break into a videogames shop o_0
-W H I C H . I S . B E T T E R-
[coke or pepsi]: Coke
[flowers or candy]: Flowers
[tall or short]: My height
-W I T H .T H E. O P P O S I T E. S E X- <<
[what do you notice first?]: Um, face? o_0
[dream boy/girlfriend]: Not to sound soppy but I have him already...
[do you believe in love at first sight?]: Sort of.
-W H O-
[makes you laugh the most?]: Daniel and the Ass no Ryu
[makes you smile]: The same as above, surely?
[gives you a funny feeling when you see them]: I don't think anything quite ranks with the "getting back to Texas after X months" feeling ^___^
[easiest to talk to]: Daniel and those who have proved themselves this term...
-D O. Y O U .E V E R-
[sit on the internet all day waiting for someone special to I.M. you?]: That's my life!
[wish you were a member of the opposite sex]: Nope.
-W H O .W A S .T H E .L A S T. P E R S O N-
[you talked to on the phone]: Ivan.
[hugged]: Tashular.
[you instant messaged]: Andrew, right now.
[you laughed with]: Tasha and Liz.
-D O .Y O U-
[color your hair]: Not any more.
[ever get off the damn computer]: Not if I can help it.
[habla espanol]: Si.
-D O .Y O U / / A R E .Y O U-
[smoke cigarettes]: No
[obsessive]: I feel the irony of this question...
[could you live without the computer?]: Yes, but it would be painful and expensive.
[how many peeps are on your buddylist?]: On MSN, about 40.
[what's your favorite food?]: Chicken tacos made by the boyfriend's mother.
[whats your favorite fruit?]: Apples.
[like watching sunrises or sunset]: Sunset.
[what hurts the most? physical pain or emotional pain?] : Emotional pain, with not further comment.
[trust others way too easily?]: No.
-N U M B E R-
[of times I have had my heart broken? ]: 0
[of hearts I have broken?] : 0
[of boys I have kissed?] : 1
[of girls I have kissed?] : 0
[of continents I have lived in?] : 2, if you count the amount of time I spend in Texas. ^_^
[of drugs taken illegally?] : 0
[of tight friends?] : I beg your pardon?
[of cd's that i own?] : About thirty?
[of scars on my body?] : At least two.
[of things in my past that i regret?] : Many.
LAST.RUN
I KNOW: How to read ancient Egyptian.
I HAVE: Obssessive compulsive disorder. >_<
I WISH: I didn't.
I HATE: The answer to the last two questions.
I MISS: Daniel.
I FEAR: Myself?
I HEAR: The fridge humming.
I SEARCH: Endlessly. o_0
I WONDER: About too many things.
I REGRET: Things often beyond my control.
I LOVE: Daniel.
I ACHE: Around the top of my neck.
I CARE: Occasionally.
I ALWAYS: Worry.
I AM NOT: Sephiroth.
I DANCE: Around my room.
I SING: The Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch song with "origami" in.
I CRY: When I laugh.
I DO NOT ALWAYS: Have control. >_<
I WRITE: Angry Sephiroth fanfic.
I WIN: Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
I LOSE: It all too frequently.
I CONFUSE: All and sundry.
I LISTEN: To One Winged Angel too much.
I CAN USUALLY BE FOUND: In my nest.
I AM HAPPY ABOUT: The people who care for me.
There, and all that remains to be said is MERMAID MELODY PICHI PICHI PITCH IS BRILL!!
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Time: 11:56 a.m.
What?: The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Right, well, that was something of a weekend. About two thirds of the people who read this blog know a fair bit about what happened already, and just for a change I feel like being honest about it. I'm attempting to do this in a non-whiney form though, so I hope it works, and I hope it also explains a few things to everyone who has been supportive regardless of how much I have or haven't told them.
I don't think this will actually come as much of a revelation to many people (although a I was told I do actually do an alright job of hiding it!) but I'm obssessive compulsive. If you want to know what that actually is, there's a good description
here. I think most people have an idea of what it actually is, in that they probably know about people who obssess over washing their hands all the time. Unfortunately that's a bit of a misconception that kind of makes it appear less of a problem than it really is. If it were just making sure your hands were clean, it'd be a fairly managable/useful disorder. ^_~ Without giving a fairly dull list of my own problems, it does tend to manifest itself in considerably more disturbing forms, like getting panicked for no reason and the "obtrusive thoughts" (which is a very difficult concept to explain if you don't have the condition >_<).
But anyway, that's what I have, and it's been getting progressively worse in the last month. The fact that I'd been on my own for the last week writing my dissertation was somewhat the straw that broke the camel's back, that and finding out that things at home are not as harmonious as I would like. And so by about Thursday night things had gotten a little too much for me to cope with on my own. Well, I say on my own, but that's not really true. Daniel is always the first port of call with worries like this, so it was more that I had realised it wasn't fair to just spill out all this on someone who isn't a doctor, despite the fact that he would (and does) do all he could to help me.
But yes, things had got to the point where I knew I wasn't going to be able to cope on my own, but what really was a problem still was the fact that I have an irrational fear of doctors. So the thought of dragging myself to the doctor and explaining to someone I'd never met about how I was going progressively more and more insane wasn't one that inspired me with confidence. So at this point I'll extend my eternal gratitude to
Tasha for being the voice of reason and taking me to a doctor. I know there's no way I would have gone on my own. I was sitting in the waiting room feeling incredibly sick and I think if Tasha hadn't been there I would have considered bolting. Which would have been a very very bad things, because the doctor was a lovely woman and she knew everything about obssessive compulsive disorder. It was just a huge relief to even talk to her about it.
So I've been prescribed some anti-depressant type things, which appear to be doing some good. It's quite a confusing sensation though. There are times when I know I would be panicking if it weren't for the effect of the pills and it does actually make me a bit nervous because of that, but I think it's something I'm going to have to get used to. It's a bit like going cold turkey from the OCD, I think. ^_^ See, when you have OCD, it does make you feel better when you do what it's telling you to do, even though that's an inherently damaging thing. So taking these pills is stopping me doing that (which is good) but at the moment I'm in the transition between the two and it's still feeling a little confused. :)
But back to less boring things. It was Saturday morning when Tasha came with me to the doctors, having spent Friday night here looking after me with Ivan. Saturday was just the most lovely day I've had in so long, it really was. And
everyone who was there deserves my thanks because whether you knew it or not you were making my life infinitely better by being there. And because I don't want to forget, thank you to
you for being so understanding about what happened with the weekend, I do feel bad about that, but thank you still.
So the collected masses sat and watched
your Black Books dvd (I'm going to credit as many people in this blog as I can, you are all wonderful ^__^). And now everyone knows the brilliance of Bernard. And Bernard's jam song. Black Books amuses me very much at the moment, because I'd only watched it after Ivan told me to a few weeks ago. So I was late for that boat, but never mind. ^_^
More watching of stuff and ordering of pizza, and it was all very very nice. And almost made me feel like a normal human being again, which, after this week is a welcome return. :) I'm just totally astounded by the friends I have, that you are willing to drop everything at a second's notice all because of my spazziness. I really can't say it in a way that sounds sufficiently sincere, but at the very least I hope people know that I'm incredibly grateful for how much kindness you all show me.
...no, don't worry, it's not going to turn in to a blubbing Oscar acceptance speech. ^_^;; If you read this far I'm most impressed. ^_^ I hope I don't sound self-pitying or whiney, because all I really want to do is explain what the fuss has been about and say thank you. You've all been amazing accepting that there was just something wrong with me without making me feel under pressure to explain, and I felt like I ought to fill in the gaps properly. So I hope that doesn't make me seem like I really am mad (I'm working on it, honest ^_~), and thanks to everyone for the help. :)
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, March 29, 2004
Time: 01:13 p.m.
What?: So, who wants some angry then?
...because I've got a fair bit of it to share at the moment.
The female neighbour was being noisy at about half three this morning. So, having had enough of it, I went to ask her to be quiet. Which I did, in as polite terms as I could, and to which she told me "Yeah, if you'd have shut up three hours ago when you were pissing me off."
Now, I will admit that there were people here last night. HOWEVER, the noise had stopped in here by eleven, which, if I do my maths, was not "three hours ago" but a fairly reasonable time to be socialising. NOT THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. And I did indeed apologise to her as soon as she'd said she had been disturbed, and told her what I'd said when I'd left a note under her door: if I am disturbing you, I would like you to tell me so I can do something about it. >_<
But no, apparently she thinks we should just "live with each other's noise". OH RIGHT, SO IN EXCHANGE FOR ONE EVENING OF SOCIALISING, THE FIRST EVENING IN OVER A WEEK WHEN I'VE HAD ANY OF MY FRIENDS IN THIS ROOM, I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOUR NOISE
EVERY SINGLE DAY, DO I? >_<
See, that and many things about her defence wound me up incredibly. For a start, I had never spoken to her in my life. Now I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't even think of swearing at someone I'd never met before. She just invalidated anything that she might have wanted to say by just being so incredibly rude. She's exactly the kind of person that makes me ignore everyone else who lives in this college, and it drives me mad to think that she's living next door with absolutely no intention of being considerate of her neighbours.
I am not going to miss this college at all.
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, March 25, 2004
Time: 04:03 p.m.
What?: *ahem*
It is with great pleasure and joy that I announce to the world that
THE DISSERTATION CAN KISS MY ASS - IT'S FINISHED!!!!!!!
*crawls under duvet to begin work on sleep deficit*
Katy smoked a mascot on Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Time: 11:41 p.m.
What?: just because...
...number six made me laugh.
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, March 21, 2004
Time: 05:27 p.m.
What?: hehehe ^_____^
This is what, if Daniel had his way, we would have as our first dog (who many of you know, will be called Taco ^___^). I'm not particularly fond of shelties myself, but I think they may have gone up a millionfold in my respect, just for the second line of that page's "overview":
They're affectionate with familiar, quiet children but may try to herd small children.
^______________________________________________________^
Katy smoked a mascot on Saturday, March 20, 2004
Time: 03:56 p.m.
What?: Noir - Salva Nos
(I appear to be rediscovering corners of my music collection at the moment...)
In principle the idea of Taking A Quick Nap sounds like a good one when you are stressed. And indeed, during said Quick Nap I was feeling very relaxed and considerably better than I have been all week. This was all to change, however, when I realised I'd been asleep for three hours. >_< I am almost tempted to give myself time off after my dissertation gets handed in, apart from the fact that if I do so I will panic, be guilty and fall into the usual guilt/stress sprial. BUT NEVER MIND!!!
Anyway, now the logical thing to do would be work. -_-
Katy smoked a mascot on Saturday, March 20, 2004
Time: 05:06 p.m.
What?: I promise this is going to be chirpier than earlier o_0
To coin a phrase, I'm going to freak right out. o_0
...but don't worry, because half of the aformentioned freaking out is good. I will start with the bad. I found out who may be marking my dissertation today. o_0 And he's scary. Really scary. o_0 Well, no, not actually *scary* because he is a very nice man. He just happens to be a really *really* respected and important Egyptolgist (Alright, so are my tutors...but I know them and they're somehow more like normal people to me). He's one of the people who run Egyptian dept at the BM. o_0 It's kind of the equivalent of having your seiyuu skills marked by Koyasu Takehito, if you'll excuse the bizarre comparison. o_0 So yes. Freaking, and indeed, out.
On the other side of things, said revelation was made during a meeting with my tutor, who was saying nice things about my dissertation. ^____^ I caved and had a "do you really think this is actually any good?? tell me please for the love of apples!!" spazz at him. In a polite sort of way, of course, but still fairly spazzy. And he said it's alright. So I am happy with that.
However, that isn't actually my happy news. I bumped into the graduate who teaches me in museum class and he gave me back my exam script. And apparently I was "nudging a first" in his words! ^_______________________________________^ Yes, I know it's not an actual first, but that officially constitutes the best mark I have ever been given for any of my work here, exam or otherwise. And I'm proud of that. o_0 Goodness knows I have spent enough time in museums this last year, so if there's one class I should be doing well in, it's museum class. I celebrated by buying myself a bottle of Ribena and a little book on Egyptian Faience and Glass. I know, it's sad on so many levels. But I still did well in my exam. ^__________^
Oh yes, I have now officially chosen one of my Motivational Songs for the finals period. And lo does it make me happy, which is a good thing. I think it's generally agreed to be the most frenetic thing in the world ever. And the intro makes me spazz with joy. ...and you can probably guess what it is now, I'd think. ^____^
Now I'm going to sort out the fruits of this afternoon's library labours and possibly play for a little bit.
Katy smoked a mascot on Friday, March 19, 2004
Time: 09:36 a.m.
What?: Bjork - Army of Me
(This is my song of this week. So. Very. Much. Angry and strange. Funny that I'd like music like that...)
The Neighbour is driving me spare. Every single morning this week I have been woken up by her music. I'm just running out of patience, energy and sanity over this. Now granted I have been running low on said elements of a healthy functioning human being, and it may well have been a long time since I resembled one of those, but she is trying my patience far too much. I have asked her to be quiet once and she ignored it. I do not wish to cause bad feeling between myself and people I don't know, but I have enough problems as it is without her losing me sleep on top of it.
I'm sorry that I do sound particularly whiney at the moment, but it's really not being a good week. Or month, or indeed year. I think most people who read this know what the reasons are for this, but other than that they're not particularly easy or desirable to explain. And this probably makes me sounds self-important, yeah, but I somehow feel that my dear spectrum of issues is making life a little harder than it ought. -_-
Anyway. -_- Museum class exam went well. I think. I correctly identified a Naqada II period bowl and a Third Intermediate Period ushabti. Which I was proud of. And apparently spotted something that all of last year's finalists didn't. Behold this small bronze model of a bovine creature - it isn't Hathor....it has a penis! That's an interesting thing to have to note in your exam script, I conclude that this must be a statue of the Apis Bull and not Hathor...because it's got...urm...bull bits... ^__^
Katy smoked a mascot on Friday, March 19, 2004
Time: 10:15 p.m.
What?: silence
I am having real Panic. Big piles of panic with cherries on top. Why? Because I can see the horrible inevitability of finals looming like a loomy thing.
Alright, that's the generic angst out the way. I am actually really beginning to fret about the prospect of finals. I had a look at the criteria for getting a 2:1 (I looong threw away the notion that I could get a first, if it ever did actually exist. It's not me being pessimisstic, it's just the truth,) and it's going to be very hard. I have to get more than 60 on at least two of my papers, with an average over 59. Now, I don't know if the museum class paper and my dissertation will count and this annoys me because they're my two strongest areas. I also can't get any marks below 40, which terrifies me for the prospect of Coptic Unseen. -_- I am praying fervently that I get some kind of Coptic miracle wherein I actually learn how to do the grammar and have some vocabulary. I should probably make a shrine to a few Coptic saints somewhere in the room...
Anyway, I angst. And panic. And avoid other human beings for days. >_< I actually dragged myself *outdoors* this afternoon to go to M&S because I actually desperately needed food that wasn't Heinz's tinned spaghetti or Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. I was having a very pleasant walk down the plesantly uncongested High Street until I hit Cornmarket and remembered why being a recluse is often the better option in Oxford. And lo did I scramble back to The Nest and generally be unproductive and play Gitaroo Man.
Having said that, the dissertation is very close to completion now. All I need to do is iron out a few creases and add the images, then I'm done. I haven't been able to do that today because I've been revising...
for my stupid mock exam tomorrow. Nooooo....I have nothing better to be doing the week before my dissertation has to be in! Go ahead, give me a mock!! >_< *work sigh* But at least it's a museum class exam, it could be worse. -_-
What else was I going to rant about? I came to a somewhat disturbing realisation that I identify very closely with an anime character today! Then I saw how infinitely geeky that was and was thus shamed. I can't help it if I find fiction that disturbingly parallels the state of my own mind... particularly when I am very *very* bored and lonely. o_0
...life would be better if I thought less. -_-
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Time: 01:44 p.m.
What?: AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
*runs screaming at dissertation with pointy stick*
I AM A VERY IRATE LITTLE GIRL AND YOU ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT FIFTY PERCENT OF IT!!!
*stamps on dictionaries and reference books until they disintegrate*
That's better, I can get back to my work now...
(Oh, and just to further my bad temper for the day
this. INTEGRA HELLSING WOULD NEVER SAY "AYE" >_< *beats head on desk*)
Katy smoked a mascot on Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Time: 07:23 a.m.
What?: >_<
I'm
really fed up with my neighbours now. >_< About half an hour ago, girl neighbour started playing loud music. So I thought I would knock on her door and politely ask her to turn it down. And I knocked two separate times. And she wouldn't answer. Which irritates me because this means that either she's in her room and she can't hear me knocking or she's not in the room and she's left her music on anyway. >_< I do not have a problem with other people being awake at seven o'clock in the morning, but I have problems with *me* being awake at seven o'clock in the morning when I didn't go to sleep until half past two. >_<
I have left a note under her door asking very politely that she BE QUIET. >_<
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, March 15, 2004
Time: 02:13 p.m.
What?: Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Sands' Theme
(Look! Something that isn't Pistolero! o_0!)
Yes, what, four days without blogging properly. That's almost a drought by my standards! ^__^ Anyway, this week has been a bit crap for is various reasons so I am going to gloss over it with a big gleeful gloss.
So starting with Thursday. Went to London, and finally proved to myself that I can actually navigate the capital on my own. Which makes me happy. Yes I can quite easily get myself to America and back, but London had until now filled me with fear. Horrible *there-are-too-many-people-here* fear. But now I can do it. And I am happy. Even if I didn't take the tube *anywhere*. The main purpose of the trip was to go to the British Museum to read papyri we may get set in our exams. Which would have been appreciated if it hadn't have been planned for the one week in which we are all the most stressed and most desirous to be in Oxford getting on with work and not taking out eight hours of the day to do things in other places. >_<
But anyway, I did do some productive things in London, which, oddly enough, I think everyone in the group knows about already. ^________^ *so* *much* *glee* Yes small things do make me happy. Small things like getting a copy of Once Upon a Time in Mexico. ^________^ It's set in Mexico! It has Johnny Depp in! It's cheesy *and* a complete triumph of style over substance! It makes me happy!! ^_________^ So, yes, Thursday evening was spent escaping the hordes of drunken idiots that were to rampage through college at the termly [scathing] "party" [/scathing] and taking up space in Lizzu's room. But we had chocolate, alcohol and Johnny Depp, so that has to count for something. Also Saiyuki and *such bad music*. ^______^
But Once Upon a Time in Mexico glee!! ^_____^ Ehhh, everyone's going to hate it when I make them watch it this afternoon, because that's just the way life is, but I don't mind...because I like it! >_<
Oh yes, and one thing I must say.
You had better take care of yourself in Japan and subsequent travels. I don't believe in not seeing people again, so I'll be back and I'll see you then. ^_~
Katy smoked a mascot on Saturday, March 13, 2004
Time: 08:47 a.m.
What?: ...
Why did I only get five hours sleep last night? Because I was doing my usual feeling stressed and un-sleeping about things.
Why did I then get up half an hour before my alarm went off? BECAUSE I NEED TO PLAY KINGDOM HEARTS! >_<
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Time: 12:25 a.m.
What?: Descendant of Shinobi - FFVII Piano Collection
(Horrible character, horrible theme, lovely piano version. o_0)
I should be writing my dissertation notes up, but I feel like a quick blog. ^__^ I ought to stop panicking about my dissertation, since I do vaguely have it under control. >_< Can't help but feel I should always be working when I'm in Oxford though, despite what it does to the general state of mental health. >_<
Anyway, Chez Alukatys has been a veritable hive of activity this evening, which was nice. The Oxford-resident scums all came over for CSI/general being here-ness. And copious amounts of Kingdom Hearts, which has been adopted into the collective like a beloved thing. ^______^ Consciously and
unconsciouly. Sephiroth is the man and we all know it. (...because mentally unstable genetic experiments are people too! ^______^)
Speaking of whom and which, I have taken it upon myself to beat Colisseum Seph. Because it has to be done. Yes the concept of beating up Sephiroth is not one that comes *particularly* naturally to me, but sometimes he just has to be put into line. ^_____^ Especially when he ko's me after a good ten minutes of fighting! The little showoff pooface! >_< *hurls string of childish insults at Sephiroth* At least I actually got some damage on him this time...
Going to bed now before I start dreaming that fight too...
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Time: 12:15 a.m.
What?: Final Fantasy X - Brass de Chocobo
(And that'll be about the third hour I've spent now listening to just chocobo music.)
Anyway, this weekend has been miserable for numerous reasons, so I'm going to pretend they never happened. Yaaay! Any Cat People in this ring of bloggingness might want to avert their eyes now, because I spent the evening watching Crufts. And that makes me happy. Or sad, depending on which way I'm presently looking at it.
There are few things in the world that make me happier than dogs. They are actually the spiffiest creatures in the whole universe and if we were all dogs we'd probably be a lot happier. o_0 The fact that I love them so very much actually makes me want to write my dissertation, which helps excessively.
Anyway, as I said, Crufts. I'm sad, I like watching it. This probably makes me an eccentric grandmother type, but I never had any credibility to start with, so what's the harm? :) Crufts does simultaneously make me a very happy and a very sad person, as I said. Very happy because I will sit staring at the television squeaking every time something that isn't a bichon frise or a poodle comes on, but very sad because I want a dog so much it's untrue. This is something I inherited from my dad, who has also always wanted a dog but hasn't had one because he thinks it would be unfair to leave it at home all day without anyone to look after it while people are at work. And he has a fair point, so we've never had a dog. But I desparately do want one. -_-
But anyway, moving on from the angst, I was pleased with the results at Crufts. I rather wanted the labrador to win, just because no one ever lets labradors win because they're too "normal". I admire people who take dogs like that into shows...you're in with a much better chance of winning if you show some horrible little toy dog, but they don't. (No, I don't like toy dogs, whatever gave you that idea?) Anyway, since I suspect no one else watched it (I also suspect no one else cares, but never mind...) the dog that won was a
whippet. And an utterly beautiful one at that.
Anyway, I will stop the odd fangirling and go and do something else, I suppose...
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, March 8, 2004
Time: 03:55 p.m.
What?: Lots and lots of Wind Waker music for some reason...
(It will always make me very happy that numerous people here who have never so much as seen Wind Waker, let alone played it, know and can impersonate the brilliance of spliiiiish/KABOOM!, the inclusion of which being the only thing that could possibly have made this soundtrack any better...)
Anyway, whilst I let the ideas I have been harvesting for my dissertation settle in my head, I shall blog. Because I invariably forget to blog about animesoc, which is frequently eventful and always fun. (I'm unusually verbose for me today, that's disturbing... o_0)
Edamame meal was quite on the brill side of things, thanks to good company and gleeful reception of the new presents I brought. Hurray for people humouring me! ^__________^ Sephsoc has other members! And they wear badges! And appeared to like them! *enormous amounts of glee* And of course, we now have a
slogan that I will one day plaster all over Oxford in the style of the intellectual chalk graffitist who occasionally attacks the town. Only in Japanese. And infinitely more important. Because Sephiroth *is* innocent. I'm telling you, victim of circumstance, victim of circumstance... o_0
Aaaaaaaanyway, yes, people wearing Sephy badges. And new people asking for Sephy badges! Happy Katy. Made even happier by very good meeting. Fairly good eps of just about everything tonight, although I still can't get over my "I hate Last Exile so very much now" problem. Yes I know everyone else likes it, but I just can't. It bores me to tears and I don't like any of the characters enough to care. Except the cowgoatsheep, to which I want a Tachikoma Special-type spinoff series devoted. Trigun was quite the spiffiness too, but only because the mental processes of *every single person* on the front row appear to have gone the very same way when faced with the town named "Jeneora". I hadn't even said anything! ^___________^
(One day I will dig up the link to the Mother-tacular website I found. I was impressed with the dedication of someone willing to make a site to a character so bizarre.)
Right, back to the work. And this time I'm actually going to type something rather than trawl endless
websites. That's quite an interesting one, actually. *embarrassed pause as people click on link*
...shut up. It is if you're me. :p
Katy smoked a mascot on Saturday, March 6, 2004
Time: 10:42 a.m.
What?: Wherein Katy gets annoyed about random things.
Just because, here's a couple of random link-rants!
This whilst *maybe* being with good intentions (or pr motives :p), strikes me as being a bit pointless. So you can't buy "supersize" fries? How is that going to stop someone going into McDonalds and just buying two cartons?? Shut down the ming factories! Shut them down!!
Please, world, stop licensing
videogames for horrible, horrible films. You are debasing not only the videogame industry, but the film industry as well. It's not big, it's not clever and for crying out loud whoever wrote that article there is not "lots of brutal hand to hand combat" in Soul Calibur because the whole point of the Soul Calibur franchise IS THAT THEY USE WEAPONS! It's not hand-to-hand when you're using an eight-foot naginata! >_<
Rant the Third. FFX-2 composers: what did you do to the chocobo theme?! Why must you hurt it so?! Chocobos are not "hip" or "trendy" they are spazzy little chicken-ostriches, and for this we love them! They do not need funky rap music-styled remixes of their theme, they need spazz! Spazz on the level of the FFVII chocobo themes! *Real* spazz! This is what happens when you take the reins away from Nobuo Uematsu, Squenix....
Alright, going to museum class now.
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, March 4, 2004
Time: 01:17 a.m.
What?: Kiss - Rock and Roll All Night
Time for a self-indulgent blog entry, everyone. That's right, this one is 100% pure crap to do with Sephiroth! /katy smiles maniacally, others sigh and nod.
This is the single most appalingly cute picture I have ever seen in my life. ^______^ I don't know whether I love it for being utterly adorable, or feel horrified at myself for liking a picture of Sephiroth that's *that* saccharine. I shamefully admit to emitting the highest-pitch fangirl squeak I've ever made when I saw it, though. o_0
I have no idea what the page is actually about....Babelfish seems to think it's some kind of cult of Sephiroth, but if we all spoke through Babelfish... ^___^ I do know that picture is revoltingly cute though.
This has some really nice fanart attached to it, but it's considerably more interesting because it's got all the dialogue involving Sephiroth in FFVII in both Japanese and English. ^____^ He's the one talking in orange/brown in case anyone does go and look at it. :p Needless to say, huge amount of spoilers, but hey, we've just about all played it now, anyway. ^__^
I should spend less time trawling through websites in languages I don't understand. o_0
Katy smoked a mascot on Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Time: 02:34 p.m.
What?: >_< (mild FMA 18-20 spoilers)
*beats Fullmetal Alchemist staff with sticks*
Give us more now!!! Now now now now now!!!!! >_<
I am enjoying the developments post ep. 18, but I shall leave comments as cryptic as that for the benefit of anyone who is catching up. The deeply sadistic part of me thought it would have been more amusing to conclude the series at the revelation in 18, just for the whole "d'oh!" factor. ^____^ Alright, no, I know that would be incredibly mean and I do love Ed and Al too much to have that happen, but there just aren't enough works of fiction that don't have happy endings. >_<
This is the hateful thing about actually following a series as it comes out for once, though. I don't usually do that, apart from Getbackers and Wolf's Rain last year, and FMA and Gungrave this year, so it's a decidedly frustrating thing to get used to.
In other news, Sainsbury's at one in the afternoon makes me more hateful than a very hateful thing. Especially when they don't even have the things you are looking for! >_<
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, March 1, 2004
Time: 08:42 p.m.
What?: The Single Best Fact Ever
...which has temporarily lifted my work-depression.
...there can be such a close empathy between man and dog that if a puppy is reared amongst a human family that smiles a lot the dog will actually mimic this expression of pleasure by a sideways grin of the lips and muscles around the mouth.
Smiley puppies!! ^_______________________________________^
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, February 29, 2004
Time: 01:59 p.m.
What?: Aerosmith - Love in an Elevator
Because I just suck, I propose a small questionnaire to help me suck a little less/reduce me to a weeping wreck when I realise I am truly screwed for my finals.
1. What's a reasonable amount of work (in hours) to do in one day?
2. What's a decent work:breaks ratio given that I am three months from starting my finals?
3. What passes as a decent night's sleep?
4. How much coffee can you get away with and still manage to sleep at night?
Go on, make me realise I'm a slacker...
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, February 29, 2004
Time: 10:39 p.m.
What?: Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
(...mmm cheesy)
Springing from unresolved
conversation and for the sheer randomness of it all, I went and looked up the hierarchy of angels. So consider this some lovely nutritious education for the day!
First Hierarchy (in order of proximity to God...)
Seraphim
Cherubim
Thrones
Second Hierarchy
Dominions/Dominations
Virtues
Powers
Third Hierarchy
Principalities
Archangels
Angels
(...yes Jane, this is the one we forgot. >_<)
It's disturbing how often I end up looking at
The Catholic Encyclopedia when I'm not even Catholic... ^___^
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, February 26, 2004
Time: 10:46 a.m.
What?: Update
Just because I know you were all riveted by my last entry, here's an update on it!
Classics geekery will get you everywhere. I feel faintly proud at myself for knowing exsanguinatus was passive (the internet and elementary Latin rule) but I didn't know how to make it work better. And the whole having blood thing is an odd issue anyway. ^__^ *But* you'll be pleased to know that we have consulted and come up with the definitive defintion (shut up! ^___^) for vampires.
Homo exsanguinator.
There. Now don't you feel happy knowing that?
...and Tallgeese is still a silly name. ^_____^
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, February 26, 2004
Time: 12:30 a.m.
What?: dah-dah dah-dah doodeedoodoodoo
Brain hum...
I'm not going to make any pretensions to coherency today, cause, uh, it's not happening. o_0 So instead you are welcome to various thoughts which have been churned out of my brain.
It's not infrequently that I get disturbed by the thoughts in my head, but I think today we reached a new level. Daydreaming when I should have been doing Hieratic it did occur to me "...if we're
homo sapiens, what's the proper name for
vampires?" *beats head on desk in shame* I am an Oxford student, I promise! >_< Line between fact and fiction blurring *all* too quickly at the moment...
...although in extention to that I decided it ought to be
homo exsanguinatus, and the world is just wrong if it isn't. ^___^
Far too many things have been distracting me from working today, chiefly because my new Hieratic script is impossibly hard. >_< And it's considerably more fun to try and remember the right names for
the Turks than slave over that. ('s Elena, Tseng, Rufus (who isn't actually a Turk...) Rude and Reno in that picture. Which I'm sure you all knew already but my brain is wearing in its old age. ^_~) Which leads me to my next thought! I hope the (surviving ^_^) Turks are in Advent Children! ^___^ I also wish to see chocobos and Cait Sith, but I suspect I have more chance of my first wish being granted than the latter two.
...and it really would be cheating if I didn't obssess over Sephiroth at some point today. Entirely unrepresentative of my thoughts if I didn't, and we couldn't have that, of course. Them things...them hollowed-out,
silver-plated armadillos (*old character art glee* ^__^) on Sephiroth's shoulders. Why? o_0 How can you swing a sword with them on the top of your arms? I mean, honestly! What does he do if he wants to reach something on a high shelf?! ^______^
And whilst we're on the subject, it's taken me a good five years to realise why they chose to use the word Sephiroth. o_0 That'll be the revelation coming *today* then. *beating my head on the desk may make my brain work faster*
...naming singular things after plurals still annoys me though. I shall call it Tallgeese Syndrome. o_0
Anyway! Oh yes, before I do eventually give up on the whole enterprise and go to bed. I am once again in awe of Bottle Fairy for the many beautious things it has taught me. Like how Japanese dice work. Don't count dots, count the number of syllables in this word! ^_______^
...and now I will stop. o_0
(Fun Fact(tm): I am presently listening to Ricky Martin *really loud* and feel no shame. Go on, have vicarious shame for me.)
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, February 26, 2004
Time: 11:28 a.m.
What?: Today is...
...one of those rare occasions when I feel enthusiastic about Coptic. We're doing the coolest text *ever* at the moment,
The Apocalypse of Zephaniah. Apocalypse texts are great. Simultaneously the coolest and most terrifying genre of any literature out there. If I had lots of spare time and a desire to be scholarly I would collect all the really random ones no one has ever heard of in languages no one has read for about a million years. ^____^
It's an odd thing to be gleeing about, I know, even if I am of religious inclination. ^____^
Katy smoked a mascot on Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Time: 10:58 p.m.
What?: Biseinen Smells
There are certain things which should be pondered for the good of humanity - Why are we here? How can we save the planet from the ravages of our past and present? What do biseinen smell like? I can answer neither of the first two (but I know a man who thinks he can the second...) so for the advancement of the species, I will answer the third.
(Abridged from a conversation with
Jane and with a nod to
the queen of scientific theories.)
So, what do biseinen (and some bishounen) smell of?
Tsuzuki Asato - (Katy) Something citrus. Oranges. (Jane)
Lemons.
Touga Kiryuu - Anything by Calvin Klein. A step up from Lynx, but only just.
Saionji Kyouichi - Faint aromas of the above and *failure*. ^____^
Beyond The Grave - Perhaps the only biseinen smell we can identify for sure, thanks to evidence provided in the author's Gungrave artbook..."cloaked in darkness and smelling of the grave". Nice. o_0
Vincent Valentine - Dust. The only logical explanation when you live in a cellar.
Dante - Upon observing the natural behaviour of the aforementioned, one logical conclusion can be drawn. As classy as a Devil May Cry script, evidently Lynx.
Alucard - In keeping with his general theme of uber-control, it is suspected that this subject has some kind of odor management system, allowing stealth smell-free modes. And a delightful aroma of roses otherwise.
Cloud Strife - Industrial strength hair gel and *fear*.
Sephiroth - Pantene Pro-V and Imperial Leather. Because. Just because.
I hope you all found this as life-enriching as we did.
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, February 23, 2004
Time: 11:39 p.m.
What?: Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Alright, alright, I'll do some bloggage that doesn't primarily involve me squeeing over Sephiroth.
This week has been chiefly a "panic about dissertation" week. Which hasn't been much fun, but has brought my word count over the 7000 mark, which is pleasing. Oddly enough, I'm still vaguely enthused about the subject, just having hideous doubts about my ability to do it justice. This is what you get for having a department that only ever gives you two grades...one of which comes right after you've finished. >_< Anyway *insert whine about academic crapness here*
Went to see School of Rock again, which was interesting given the complete change in audience. And makes me want to make my children listen to Liz-tacular rock music from age 0. ^_____^ The various times you knew it was only the adults in the cinema laughing amuse muchly.
Ummm, what else? Poo, said I wouldn't talk about Sephiroth in this entry, so I suppose I shalln't... Trying to convince The Boyfriend that he's a victim of circumstances and would have grown up a perfectly normal lovely little biseinen takes up a great deal of my mental capacity anyway. And I think all the rest of it has been taken up squeeing emphatically with Jenny... ^___________^
Anyway....
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, February 22, 2004
Time: 04:37 p.m.
What?: ^___________________^
*falls off chair in fit of spasmodic laughter*
Just go
here and leave your cursor over Juri's right elbow.
^_______________________________^
*giggles in embarrassing fangirlish manner* I can claim likewise for the statement you'll find on Juri's leg. ^_____________^
Katy smoked a mascot on Saturday, February 21, 2004
Time: 11:36 p.m.
What?: ^_________^
*makes wild spazzing motions and runs round room screaming*
NEW TRAILER - IN BIG-O-VISION!
...I'll go for a lie down then...
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, February 19, 2004
Time: 04:38 p.m.
What?: Buzzlip - Wild Rock
Heh, the percentage of things that are *really wrong* in this entry is unbelievable, trust me. ^____^
...what? It is. ^_____^ I have two things to mention and they're both very wrong.
First of all....Mosquiton 99 ep 3. ^_____________^ Heeeheeheehee! I cannot put into words how much I love Mosquiton, it just keeps getting better and better.*
(*Note to readers: the author's definition of "better and better" may not correspond to your own. Substitute "worse and worse".)
Mos-chan and annoying Inaho bint go to Egypt, where he wrestles a giant mummy sphinx with a *whip*! ^______^ (It's almost as much fun as when he boils the kettle on flamey-kid's head in ep 2 ^___^) My Egyptologist half would have wept bitterly at the complete wrongness of *everything* but we were too busy making big shiny eyes at Mosquiton. Officially the worst vampire in the world ever. ^______^ Although strangely enough, with the patience of a saint. If you were a vampire stuck in the middle of a desert with Inaho-chan's whining how long would you last before you just bit her? I mean really? o_0
I am vaguely peeved as ever that everyone thinks the pyramids are booby-trapped....yes it's a lovely plot device
but it's not true. o_0 One day I'm going to write the real history of Egypt and everyone will realise just how dull it actually is. *glomps lovely sense of mundane realism achieved by studying ad nauseam*
...but yes, Mos-chan. Squee. ^_____^
And your second promised piece of wrongity...I bought the *best* pair of gloves ever. o_0 Well, best until I can find a really good pair of white ones. They're black and they're leather. Sephy would be proud ^______^ One day I really have to stop basing clothes purchases on biseinen costume items....
Katy smoked a mascot on Thursday, February 19, 2004
Time: 04:21 p.m.
What?: Alright....
I could take it when the Evil Neighbour With Guitar played Radiohead all day every day on said stupid instrument, but now he's playing U2 songs, and I *like* U2. And I don't want to hear him horribly horribly hashing songs for which I have fondness. >_< I may start playing the real versions back to him at excessive volume until he gets the point. ^_______^
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Time: 11:15 p.m.
What?: One Winged Angel - FFVII Reunion
...because sometimes it's just all about the Sephiroth.
I could write a long and panicky blog today about exams because, following on from my last entry, I am now in offical Finalist Panic. I have decided to spurn my essay in favour of dissertation fever. I have until tenth week to get it done, and I could quite happily spend all that time doing it and still not be satisfied. But anyway, I said I'm *not* going to stress about work.
So, in the spirit of work-forgettingness, I present
Some Advent Children Crap. The amount of time I have spent scouring every page on there is probably neither healthy nor conducive to me passing my finals, but I'm counting it as break time. Exclusive of staring into space thinking about Advent Children time and staring at Sephiroth time. Really, I am *trying* to work...I did 700 more words of dissertation and finished another text! >_<
Hmm, I appear to be even more concerned about this than I thought. o_0 Never mind, eh? -_- Sephiroth, yes! Everyone go and look at those scans, they're interesting. I now hold hope that they're going to recreate the Aeris-Death scene (second only to the Nibelheim fire in my list of Things That are Really Brill in FFVII, and we already know they're doing that! ^________^) cause they appear to have pictures of Cloud dropping Aeris into the pool. Which I think was on the Jump Festival trailer...*checks*...yup, it was. Spiffy. Happily, Dengeki (third picture down on the left) appear to think the same as theory circles here do about the "unknown" figure, which also counts for much spiffiness.
I wish Squenix would get off their asses and release us another trailer! ^_____^ I need more pictures of Seph and I need them now...or eventually!
Alright, now I'm going to type Coptic/get some quality staring time in.
Katy smoked a mascot on Monday, February 16, 2004
Time: 02:24 p.m.
What?: Dark Messenger - Final Fantasy IX
Right, well, I think *that* was the kind of scare I've been needing to kick my arse into gear...looking at finals papers. o_0 I may not be seen for some time now.
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, February 15, 2004
Time: 01:14 a.m.
What?: Trail of Blood - Final Fantasy VII
Hmm, today is possibly not the best day to blog about. I can't say I've been in a good mood for most/any of it, but hey. I got my Yoshitaka Amano calendar in the post finally, so that's worth being happy about.
Other than that I've done very little. Didn't go to the Utenathon thanks to stupid amounts of work and general angst at things for reasons I don't entirely know. I've been feeling irate all day and it's not really one thing or another. Did inspire me to write a fairly angry little ficclet though, so I suppose that's something. Especially since I haven't done any writing for a very long time.
Oh yes, and I watched ep 2 of Mosquiton. Which was possibly the most gleeful moment of the day. Because at the beginning of the episode you get to see grumpy getting-ready-to-go-to-work Mos-chan. ^__________^ And next episode they're going to Egypt.
Katy smoked a mascot on Sunday, February 15, 2004
Time: 01:19 a.m.
What?: *cough*
On balance I don't think I should write a review of School of Rock. Because it's blatantly going to be either a)exceptionally embarrassing or b)a descent into the worst kind of "review" in the world wherein I ramble over amusing scenes.
Suffice to say I would probably lose whatever respect I may actually have had within my peer group if I admitted how much Jack Black makes me laugh. o_0
...wait, there's a reason why I shouldn't have to worry about that, isn't there? o_0
Katy smoked a mascot on Friday, February 13, 2004
Time: 05:34 p.m.
What?: Public Service Announcement
MY SPIFFTACULAR WALLSCROLL HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!
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COME SEE COME SEE COME SEE!!!
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Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Time: 12:04 a.m.
What?: But why's the rum gone?!
As part of my Reward Evening, on account of having been very productive today, I'm beginning to realise the benefits in taking time off once in a while, finally. o_0 No matter how much work I do, I always feel like I haven't done enough, which generally makes me not want to spend time relaxing. *Not* that I actually work very hard or very well, so I do fall into the worst of both worlds as regards time spent working and efficiency thereof. >_< But I get the feeling it's much better to work hard for a short period of time then relax rather than keep working inefficiently all day. >_<
And that's my work tip for the day. Everyone should take a night off to sit in their pyjamas and eat chocolate and watch Johnny Depp acting drunk in eyeliner. It's theraputic, even if you keep doing Late Egyptian translation whilst doing it (yes I know this invalidates my above paragraph...I never claimed logic or good advice-giving :P). Having a night to myself once in a while is lovely, even though I do generally like the company of others. Mainly because when I'm on my own I can squeak and do other otherwise uncharacteristically fangirly things people would laugh at me for doing if they did see me. ^_______^
Umm, what else. Oh yes! I have clean clothes!! ^__________^ My l33t only-needing-to-wash-clothes-once-every-month skillz rock. Which takes up most of a morning, but never mind since I may well not need to do it again before I go home. ^______^
Incidentally Ivan, what did your survey article thingy say about hideous over-use of mutant smilies? ^____________^
Katy smoked a mascot on Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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