Thursday, July 8, 2004
I hate it when you're in the middle of an entry and your computer crashes. Now I have to try and remember what it was I was typing. And I type in this blog to remember events and whatnot. SO HOW, AOL, CAN I REMEMBER THOSE GOLDEN MEMORIES IF YOU KEEP CRASHING INTERNET EXPLORER AND LOSING MY ENTRIES.
Anyway. Recap of the summer, thus far!
July 2-5 was Anime Expo. Our costumes rocked this year. We finally got posted online in costume, yay! It was my first time making armor, and I think it turned out well. Oh, who did we go as you ask? Ever see a little DVD titled The Animatrix? Recall that anime called Program? Oh, you have? Well we went as Cis, the Samurai chick. I had black armor and my sister had red armor. Here's the first online sighting of us on Friday:
Cis & Cis
Here's one our dad took:
At the end of the day, when our feets were killin'
We ran into Kent, like always. And then we lost Kent. Like always.
My sister and I went Friday and Saturday. Friday we almost passed outfrom heat exhaustion and had to stand in line for five hours to register. Cause I failed to pre-register us. Even though that line was only two and a half hours shorter. Oh well.
I came home with a new wallet, of teh tare panda variety, a Battle Royale "program survivor" t-shirt, and a sheet of Final Fantasy stickers. And the sheet is hilarious because they have like, 8 stickers of squall, many others from FFVII-X and then FEET stickers. I kid you not. YELLOW FEET. They didn't have much else to buy.
We saw so many non-anime costumes it was...crazy. Or some other adjective. We saw Padawan Anakin Skywalker, Shake, Frylock, Meatwad, the Mooninites, a female strider...Ohyes. It was the year of crossplay. A female strider, a man faye valentine (who got arrested for indecent exposure or something), and a man rinoa escorted by a female squall.
We got up the nerve to do the mini costume contest, but then my sister almost passed out.
I might be in a magazine and my sister and I were both asked to come run around in costume at some video game awards thing at the end of July.
Um....I...didn't...get any sleep for a whole week prior to expo.
I'm engrossed in Neverwinter Nights and .hack. Yea, I'm finally playing .hack. e.e;
I register in a couple days. Yay. School is ..all..complicated right now. Or rather the act of enrolling in school.
I feel like watching Labyrinth. Ever since I had that dream with Jareth in it last week. e.e MMMMMmmm. I forgot what happened. ....I want to say I like...made out with him and we like...made out like crazy! But I don't think that's what happened. I'll have to find my dream folder and read what I wrote about it.
Thursday, June 24, 2004
-adds an old history essay for bulk to see how an entry would look e.e-
Liberal Europe during the 1850s and 60s advocated laissez-faire and individualistic competition, parliamentary governments void of intervention, and the expansion of suffrage to property owning men, as liberalism’s suffrage rarely extended the invitation to universal manhood suffrage. During the mid nineteenth century, leading powers and parties in England, France, Russia, exhibited and promoted these liberal characteristics, but only when deemed necessary, usually to halt revolution and unrest. Stability was the objective. For example, England’s Queen Victoria “instinctively disapproved of factory reforms and increased opportunity of education for the lower classes” assuming it would ignite a desire among the lower classes for improving their station in English society. The Conservative Party’s leader Benjamin Disraeli, in an effort to oust liberals in the 1860s, embraced universal manhood suffrage in the conservative platform, manipulating the workers desires and hoped the increased voting population would join the conservative ranks. Even after the Reform Bill of 1867, which implemented household suffrage, liberals remained in power, but not for much longer.
Ethnocentric sentiments regarding superiority of one’s nation over another already existed in European countries, just within a different context. England’s celebration of progress, liberal economics, and individualism at the 1851 Great Exposition, prompted the comment, “the progress of the human race…we are carrying out the will of the great and blessed God.” Middle-class reformers emerged ad servers of God’s will, as their endeavors sought to instill morals to the lower classes, usually in the form of temperance movements as one-third of England’s arrests were for drunk and disorderly conduct. As moral reform by the middle classes gained in notoriety and necessity, more Victorian middle-class liberals embraced the need for government intervention, something previously abhorred and the individual was responsible for his own fate in society, or as William Gladstone, prominent Liberal Party leader, emphasized, individual charity instead of government interjection. Altruism was not the sole motivation for English reforms however: “The middle classes know that the safety of their lives and property depends upon their having round them a peaceful, happy, and moral population.” Thus, in England, the same mentality that later prompted imperialistic endeavors to civilize and Christianize colonial natives, had already existed at home in the attempts to Christianize and reform through Parliament the lower classes as part of God’s will. (And experiments with reform ended in an expanded government role,
Conservatives and liberals alike shared a fear of socialist, anarchist, and ____ uprisings, and thus with conservative tendencies already exhibited during Europe’s liberal era, conservatism was readily embraced. After the Chartist movement for universal manhood suffrage in 1840s England, liberals typically met other radicals with police force by sending thousands of troops into London and appointing 150,000 civilian “special constables” during the last unsuccessful attempts of Chartism.
Kiko's got some strange and ka-razy interests. Vampire movies, cosplay & costume design, femme fatales, '80's music [A-HA! 8D], drawing/painting, ah-knee-may/mahn-gah/american comics, Led Zeppelin & Elton John & Huey Lewis, all things Tolkien, guns and gun shows, the Final Fantasy series, Newsies, clothes, World War II. Just to name a few..u.u
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