np: Dynamic Dual Duklyon! - Duklyon Jin: I saw that. And I cried. T_T They're SO damn hard to find, too...if it were anything BUT that much I would have suggested we try to buy it together or something. ;-; (Annnnnd I still have NOT recovered from that horrible Takari doujin... T_T I might have dealt with it if they weren't, you know still (kind of >_>) wearing the cute pink and yellow shirts. o_O Although seriously, more than anything I'm still paranoid -someone- might have seen me looking at it at school...@__@;;;;;) Now, I haven't laughed so much in...in forever. XD; See, some of 'Kaasan's students convinced her to go to their play. They were putting on a production of "Narnia" (="The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"...). And I went, sure, because that's been one of my favorite books all my life. I've reread the thing so much since I was in first grade that I have it fairly memorized. o_O Oh my GOD. This was the WORST thing I've EVER seen. XD; We have all four of us in my family going, minus Aniki since he was working. And we're trying not to laugh through the whole thing, because there were like literally fifty or sisxty kiddies in it (oh hell, probably more @_@) and we knew the whole audience was their families. XP We were trying so hard not to laugh that the whole group of us was sobbing...and I kept muttering, "Poor C.S. Lewis is rolling in his grave," because it was THAT bad. XD; Now, it was bad enough that they switched around a bunch of things from the book and took out a ton of scenes, and it was bad that all four of the main kids sounded like they were on speed and we couldn't descipher a word they said for the first few scenes. Or that Lucy was the most annoying this I've ever heard. Or that the cast kept changing their minds on whether they were British or not. @_@ The fact that Aslan was a forty-year-old man or so, surrounded by all these kiddies in their cute little forest-creature outfits, was bad. But the MUSIC. We were DYING trying not to laugh. *rolls* There are like sixty+ people on stage, all chanting, "DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP~!! MAGIC~!! DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP~!! MAGIC~!! DEEP MAGIC FROM THE DAWN OF TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME~!!!!!!!!" with accompanying music and dance steps that vaguely reminded me of the Macarena. XD;;;;;; Bad scripting moment. ~_~ Jadis: *melodramatic gasp* But I thought I killed you! Using the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time! Aslan: *triumphantly, also melodramatic* Yes! But I used.........Deep Magic from BEFORE the Dawn of Time~!! Undeniably, it was the kind of thing you had to be there to see. Like the first scene, with the professor (who's magically turned into their uncle T_T), singing this number about windows and doors that just might open into new worlds~!! Foreshadowing much? XD; Aslan waited till the last battle to come back to life, Edmund was even more of a jerk in this play (and I doubt anyone thought that possible), Susan and Lucy were whiny brats till the -end- ("Oh, no, I must be going back because it's almost time for tea- wait? You said CAKE~?...well, maybe I'll just stay for some CAKE~~!!! XD"), and Peter, also till the final battle, proudly announced that he had NO idea what he was doing each time someone asked. XD; OOCness EVERYWHERE. It's not THAT hard of a play to script (and I've seen it in play form before, which was fabulous n.n;;)...and there were waaaay too many musical numbers. We could have done without the Deep Magic song or the long one about Turkish Delight. Anyway. It was amusing. XD Saturday, April 7, 2001 11:07 p.m. *giggles* The GALS! anime looks SO amusing. XD I never cared that much for the manga- it was always one of the last things I read in Ribon. Not something I hated, because undeniably it can be hilarious and the characters are REALLY cute at times...but the art kind of annoyed me (their hands, as stupid as it sounds n.n;;) and the fact that it's just gone on -way- too long. XD; (I wish Ran would dump Tatsukicchi and get together with Rei, and Aya with Yuuya for heaven's saaake... >_<;;; And Tatsukicchi together with Mami-rin would be AMUSING~!! XD) BUT~! I'll absolutely watch the anime- it's the kind of manga that was just kinda meant to be animated to reach its full potential. The bright colors~! XD The opening sequence was so CUTE...but Mami-rin has brown hair?! ;_; IYADA. I thought she was blonde...at any rate she's always been my favorite character in that series. It's just she doesn't show up enough. XD; Of the three main, I always liked Aya best. Now I pretty much like them all; I can relate with all three girls...I wish people wouldn't act like Aya is just some whiny idiot, though. For goodness sake, it's not -her- fault and Rei was a total jerk and led her on... ~_~;;; Though why anyone would want Rei when she could have Yuuya is beyond me. XD At any rate, the opening is so CUTE~! *_* Mami-rin and Ran trying to kill each other...pretty much every cast member is in there...even Tatsukicchi~! The beginning where Ran-tachi turn into the logo was cuuute~! XD Ending's nice, too...all the voices sound pretty much as I assumed, except I thought Aya would be cuter and Rei more...more "...". XD; And...when Ran makes her Inspiring Life-Changing Speech to Aya, the animation was really odd. The way they kept having her pose and changing the backgrounds, it looked all...sentai-ish. XD;;; Nya. Definitely worth watching though, as long as it moves a little bit more quickly. Saturday, April 7, 2001 05:13 p.m. *still hasn't recovered* Moving on. >_>;;; I'm *sparkling*. *_* The new Yamato single is OUT and the songs are PRETTY, from what I've heard so far. The new version of Tobira is awfully nice...the acoustic is like you can honestly see him playing it in your mind, but the new one sounds a lot smoother...I think I like the acoustic better overall, though. And the new song, "Hitoribocchi no Seesaw", is very slow and soft, nicely-sung. Definitely nice lyrics. Tobira's still my favorite so far, though...it sounds so cool on the karaoke version! *cackles* But...chances are this is probably the last Yamato CD, unless they decide to go farther with this and make a whole album out of it. I wouldn't mind. *_* I only have one CD-R left, and I'm planning on all-Yama...I think it -might- just all fit. Walk On the Edge, Negai Kanaeru Kagi, Ore-tachi no Melody, Tobira, Hitoribocchi no Seesaw- any karaoke versions of the above I find. And then nine tracks of drama. o.O The dramas are pretty short at times though...but that's pretty much all the Yamato. *__* Leslie heard him for the first time, recently- I convinced her to download the dramas. XD Me: ? So?! XD What'd you think~? Leslie: ... *_* He has a sexy voice. Me: *cackle* Friday, April 6, 2001 10:29 p.m. There's always something slightly...disconcerting about accidentally finding H pics on the school comps. >_<;; Me: XD ! DOUJIN~!! *clicks randomly*........... o___O;;;;;; *shudders*...Takari H doujinshi...somehow seems so WRONG...when they're in fifth graaaade~~~ *waaaiiiiiil* I usually think H doujin with the Digimon charas in fifth grade is wrong anyways, but it's just more so because Takari is such a CUTE and INNOCENT couple... Though when I get money, I'm going to start surfing the Japanese Yahoo! auctions because the Digimon doujinshi are so dirt-cheap and SO nice that I could probably afford the shipping if they'd send them. *_* Saw a PRETTY Kensuke one just before the ecchi Takari sent me fleeing....ugh.... @.@ I feel newly corrupted, somehow. (Takeruuu....Hikariiii...you know, I feel more O_O;;; about this than I ever did about...about GOMAMON x JYOU and that kind of frightens me... >_>;;; I guess I should just be thankful it wasn't 01....>_>;;;) *sniffle* Friday, April 6, 2001 09:58 a.m. np: True Romance - Earthian "Ali, I'm sorry I had H incestuous crossbreeding thoughts about the coffee mug and the teacup. XD" "*stares. just....stares*" "But at least luckily (for you) it wasn't YAOI incestuous crossbreeding thoughts about the coffee mug and teacup. DESHOU?" ".............*horrified* You're SICK." (Yes, I swear. We actually had this conversation. XD XD XD) Thursday, April 5, 2001 10:16 p.m. np: Yuuki wo Tsubasa ni Shite - Digimon *leers* OH. MY. *GOD*. XD XD XD If you thought the 01 Taito scene where they hold hands could not be even more BLATANTLY S-AI than it was in the dub, it *IS*. *sings* "Kimi to daaattaaaara, koeteyukeru saaa~~~~~" XD XD XD THAT. Is even BETTER. THAN SPARKLY ROMANTIC PIANO BGM. I'm going to be a scary fangirl now. *shrieks* IT *IS* ABOUT YAMATO IT *IS* ABOUT YAMATO IT IS IT IS IT IIIIS~!! XD OH MY GOOOD~!!! And the scene is SOOO CUUUTE~!! XD But WOW, are Hikari and Takeru's 01 voices ANNOYING as all HELL. O_O;;; I'll forgive them, though. XD Daaaatte. "Yuuki wo tsubasa ni shite~! Ima sugu tobidatou yo~! Donna toki daaaaaaaaaaaatteeeee~!! KIMI WO~!!! SHINJITERUUU~!!" XD XD XD XD XD XD JIIIIIIN~!! YOU MUST *DOWNLOAD* SO WE CAN *REJOICE*~!!!!! Thursday, April 5, 2001 06:03 p.m. *collapses* Thank GOD that's over. @_@;;; I think the fates must have really really liked me today, because I studied very little for my human anatomy test and I think I got a high B. Hell, I may have even scraped by with a low A. O_O;;; AGAIN. Shijiranai no, atashi~ I'll find out tomorroooow~~<3 Thea: Un un. I have an awful lot of friends who are older than I am. ^^; The majority, in fact...but I'm just not used to being treated like a child by them, and it really upsets me when they do. I don't think being friends with someone means that you have the right to act as though you're better, just because you're a few years older. But we got off to such a great start this year- I guess maybe she was just happy she found someone who had similar interests while she was getting used to her new surroundings? For the entire first semester, we were wonderful friends...but ever since it just kind of fell apart, and she started treating me as though I was either a complete idiot or just insane. The thing is that I have no idea what brought this on, although I have an inkling that she thinks in anime club she would be a better president than me, and that might have set it off...and I'm the convenient target since she can't get mad at Ali for it. Nooo idea if that's not it, though. *shrugs* I don't mind if we're too different or if she doesn't even like me; but not understanding why she acts the way she does is what upsets me... Demo neee, back to Fanime- it really was FUN meeting you too~ XD BTW, who won the karaoke contest? *_* I can't wait to try it next year if they do it again though; hopefully I'll have better luck. XD Thursday, April 5, 2001 10:08 a.m. Jin: You can find most of them at Splash's website here, and she put up some more at other places...but I find Fun Things like this through the forum. SEEEE why you should spend tiiiime there~?!! XD You can find the others through the Yamato forum if you check, I think. And check out the Ken forum. Since they realized the irony of the phrase "kaizer bun"... XD;;; They've been discussing which would taste better. XD; I have an anatomy test today. As a rule of tradition, I must flunk it because it's the first test of the quarter. ~_~;;; The fact that I fell asleep unable to recover completely from Fanime. No studying. XP I have so much to blog about to other people KEDO I'll do it after school. @.@;;;; Thursday, April 5, 2001 07:39 a.m. >_< It's early dismissal todaaay, so everyone is in the media centeeeer, and I got stuck with the crappy comp. XO It's running on 16 colors and some really odd and tiny res. *waiiiil* AIM mo inaaaaai~~~ XO *shiku*shiku* Very boring day. Just flunked another math test; I'm fairly sure. It doesn't faze me anymore; I flunked every-other test last semester and ended up getting a nice B because I did the homework. Nyanyaaaa. My English teacher was out again- she's usually out at least one day a week lately, and often more. I don't mind, since the free time is appreciated...but hers is my favorite class. ^^; At least she stopped sending in stupid essays for us to do. I never did them anyway, as I knew she wouldn't read them- I mean, seriously. XP Honors English II should not have to write a page on a precious memory while using eight examples of metaphors and similies. Not even on a day when she's sick and desperate for a topic to give us. o.O;; Wednesday, April 4, 2001 02:11 p.m. Sakki-san: I asked Ali, and she didn't make her collar out of leather. ^^; She used black elastic and a small buckle she found at the craft store; and she said it'd be really hard to make one out of leather...(But hers looked just like it anyway, so...) Nya. Nemui. I have an alegbra test today, which I didn't study for. *makes face* There's noooo way in hell that I can get an A for the semester, so I'm just going to do my absolute best to keep a nice, steady B so that I can safely flunk the final. XD; As usual. And I like Wednesdays because I have no anatomy, but I also have no art. Some weeks I'm happy about no art, some I'm not. I'm not. ;-; I reaallllly like the painting I'm doing right now; it's a group shot of Haruko, Shiro, and Kuro with wings. The wings really look bad but they wouldn't fit nicely on the canvas and I had to make them fit for the wanted look. XP It was turning out reaaalllly terribly, because my anime style is just a little difficult to achieve in acyrlics, even with a detail brush...but I cheated and went over Kuro with ink two days ago, and she ended up looking fabulously. XD (Daaaaatte, the eyes are impossible to do any other way. I should have used a larger canvas. ^^;;) Hopefully Haruko and Shiro-chan will end up cutely too, yeees~? *cackle* (Everyone but Kuro currently looks like crap though, especially in the hair department...and given the choice I would have wanted Shiro and Haruko to end up the nicest... XP) Wednesday, April 4, 2001 09:17 a.m. I wonder if there's supposed to be more of a link between the Utena TV and movie universes than is usually thought. I was singing "Toki ni Ai wa" this morning and it seems more to be about the END of the *TV* series than anything else. ("Donna toki mo, ano yakusoku, wasurenai de- yatto koko made kita yo!" to ka. "Futari no te wa, hanareteita," sore to "Futari wa ima, mou ichido deau," to ka neee.) Hn. I'm already thinking too hard about this...but...damn, now I am. XD; Wednesday, April 4, 2001 07:42 a.m. *watching Ken make Daisuke say, "'Tanomu'? Tanomimasu darouuuuuuuuuu~?"* And THIS was the first scene that really made me start to seriously adore Daisuke. XD Daaaatte, I know I hated him in the beginning, and I thought Jin was insane for liking him so...but that was before I found out what a piece of crap the dub could be, and how they'd done a lot of changes to his character. ><;; (I tried to watch the dub again yesterday...it wasn't so bad if I slapped 'mute' every time Ken spoke. But then Iori's dub voice started to irk me. XD;;; And I'm kind of overly fond of Daisuke's Japanese voice too- oh, the hell with it. XD;;;;) But watching this...I honestly can't see, as much as I adore him, 01 Taichi doing this. 01 Taichi would have most assuredly tried to throw Agumon at the Kaizer's head before he bowed down before him. XD; Dakara neee~!! I think Daisuke is a much, much better leader than Taichi ever was in 01. Even though Daisuke definitely has the advantage- he has a group of people who serve as role models and also tell him what's going on...(Don't get me wrong, I love Taichi dearly- he's my second-favorite 01 chara, but I didn't outright adore him until 02 when I saw how he'd developed. XD;) Tuesday, April 3, 2001 09:25 p.m. Yamato: *flips Taichi over and punches him* Taichi: *flips Yamato over and punches him* Yamato: *flips Taichi over and punches him* Taichi: *flips Yamato over and punches him* Me: H_H HOW COULD THEY CUT THIS *OUUUUT*~?!! THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER AND IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE~!!!! I'm waaay too happy right now. Seriously, the people who changed the BGM for the dub should be SHOT, because as Yamato sobs, "Takeru wa...!! Hitori de NANIMO DEKINAIN DA YO---!!" and Taichi dramatically gasps out, "Yamato.......omae......." there is the most WAFFY BGM piano piece playing. XD XD XD XD XD Tuesday, April 3, 2001 09:25 p.m. I really really can't stand stupid people. There's very few people at this school that I honestly dislike, so why does she have to sit by me? (Which goes back to my idiot of a health teacher again, and her stupid seating chart.) That girl drives me crazy; just because not only is she just annoying, she just. Constantly. Tries to cheat off of me. And she asked me to tell her the answers to some of the questions to this week-long assignment we had, and I told her she maybe ought to try thinking about them. And she treats me like I'm such a bitch for saying so, but I didn't really care. Then this other girl wants to copy the multiple choice from me, and while I would have said no anyway, the first girl turns around and sneers, "She'll never let you. She'll just tell you to think about it." (The concept. *rolls eyes*) I don't really care if you're stupid enough to ask to copy work, and I don't care if you think I'm the most evil person in the world when I say no- because if you're idiotic enough to ask, I don't -give- a damn what you think of me. ^^;; But at the same time, it irks me. XD; Now that my daily rant is finished~<3 Tin-chama, congratulations about being able to go to school in London~! And I hope it works out~ *^_^* It's occured to me that none of my friends have seen Mahoutsukaitai!...anyone know where I can get my hands on it; as it seems to be lost in the void between being picked-up and commercial release? O_<; Because we were listening to the below filk on Saturday and none of my friends knew who Aburatsubo was. That's...that's SINFUL, not to know who he is. XO He has his own CHURCH, for goodness sake... Tuesday, April 3, 2001 03:03 p.m. I know I'm going to start singing this somewhere where I oughtn't. XD *trills* "Some boys kiss, and some boys hug and, I think that's okaaaaay, but I think it's so much fun when they go all the wayayy~!" Jin: I can definitely understand how you feel...pretty much like was said. Just don't do something now that you'll regret later on, deshou? The only reason I put anything into my work at all (besides the guilt factor of school tuiton), is because I don't want to look back when college applications are coming back, and think, "Damn, I wish I'd done this or that." *^^* And if only there WAS a Van or seven pretty bishounen as an added college bonus. XO (Maybe the schools are using the wrong incentive. XD XD XD God knows I'd have a 4.0 every semester if, oh say, KEN taught a class someplace. XD XD XD XD XD XD) *trills* "Girls may write it, get excited, post fan fic with gleeeee~! All my boys in odd positions: Now it's 2x3~!!! Cuz we are living in a Yaoi World--and I am a Yaoi Girl~! (Fushiigi Yuugi) really is Yaoi World and I am a Yaoi Girl~!!" XD XD XD XD URESHII. Tuesday, April 3, 2001 07:31 a.m. I added more to the Ikuhara panel below. XD; For you, Jin. Erin-chan, I know how you feel. ~_~ I think that really, in the long run, not fun to be that person. When people at school treat me like that, I rarely feel proud of myself for being there for them...I feel used. Like I'm just the only convenient person who's not going to blow up in their faces about whining (no matter how much I want to)...not the person they trust with their problems or expect any kind of thrilling wise advice from. I'm just there. I remember last year, Ali called me, upset as hell because she got caught up in this web of seemingly white lies to an online friend. I had never approved of her lying in the first place, so I just stayed silent on the other line as she told me how he had found out. "What do you want me to say?" I asked her. It was a silent I-told-you-so, and we both knew it. But she said, "Because you were the only one who knew about it." I wasn't special. I just knew. I was just the only one who wasn't going to tell the world that she had lied to this person. I just let her talk, told her to email him and work it out, as there wasn't a thing that I could do about the whole situation and not a thing that could happen besides her getting more upset if she stayed off the net for the rest of her life; afraid of what he would say... And it's like it's not 'me' if I get upset about something. If I complain or get upset, it's out of character. I remember in middle school, I once said out loud, "Why don't we ever talk about my problems at all?" And Ali said back to me, as if it were a fact of life, "Because you never act like you have any." It's stayed with me, that statement. I'm allowed; no, expected, to be the one who's generally always there to listen. But I haven't anyone at school around who cares to listen...and I usually go home angry at -someone- more often that not...but I just don't like getting angry at people. I don't like getting into fights and don't like the entire situation. Rather than exploding in their faces, I basically tend to pour it out in blog later; or tell it to those outside school that actually listen. It's not really a bad system, as it makes me avoid most conflicts that way. But I think from time to time, it might do me some good to actually tell someone...just once...what I think of them. Because I never do. I wonder what it is that I respond to other friends' blogs starting out with the intention to cheer them up, and always end up having a similar rant of my own. ^_^; Gomen ne, Erin-chan...but I -mean- genki dashite. Monday, April 2, 2001 03:13 p.m. I really don't like it when I feel like this. *sigh* I'm not sure what her problem is. Maybe she just doesn't like us anymore. Maybe I'm too childish. Maybe I'm not...I don't know anymore. But it just really hurts, to be spending a really fun weekend with all the people I love the best...and having one person just literaly turn her back to all of us. Like I said before, like we were kids who didn't know any better. That's how I feel. I wish I could figure out what her problem IS, is all. I want to know if -I'm- doing something wrong. But I don't think I am. If I'm just not her kind of person, that's fine. I'm starting to wonder if she's...not my kind of person. But that isn't any reason to snap at me or make me feel like I'm two. That isn't any reason to hurt me, just because we don't understand each other completely. I hate being treated as a child by friends older than me. It really makes me mad; how people with only a difference of a few years will make it seem like that's everything. I like feeling as though I'm on equal footing with everyone; I don't like feeling that just because you're a year or two years older that it means you're so much better. But it's just not fair. I really try to be nice to her all the time; even putting a special effort into it because I don't like feeling like I'm not nice enough, not good enough, and like I'm hurting other people because I'm not. But it's still not enough, for her. Monday, April 2, 2001 10:02 a.m. Sakki-san: The Subaru collar seems to be really really easy to make. Ali made hers and it didn't look hard...if you want I can ask what she used to make it. *snrks* Silly me. I forgot to mention the best part of karaoke. These fangirls and a guy in a really good Dryden cosplay got up and did a filk. XD "Because I! Am a Yaoi Girl! And I live! In a Yaaaaoi Woooorld~~~!!!" We nearly DIED laughing- they were HILARIOUS. XD XD XD I left their website addy at home, though; but I asked and they said they'd post the lyrics for me. ("(Aburatsubo WISHEEES~!!!) And we live in a Yaoi World~!!!") They mentioned just about every really popular yaoi pairing/bish, and everytime they did the whole place erupted. XD; Um...1x2, I think 3x4, Aburatsubo, TouyaxYuki, Wufei, and a couple others. *snrk* Seriously the kind of song we'd go around singing at the mall, purely to scare people. XD Monday, April 2, 2001 07:35 a.m. @.@; I'm HOOOOOOOOOME~!!! ^_^ And now, for everyone's enjoyment, Meimi's Fanime Report~!! XD I didn't take notes as I went, so is off. Friday: Went to Ali's house after school and got into cosplay. Loaded up the car. Realized we didn't know how Leslie-tachi were getting home, so we turned around and loaded up and took the other, bigger car. ^^; We stopped at Applebee's on the way, which really sucked because we missed the guest reception. ;-; As in we got there RIGHT when they stopped selling tickets. (Me right before they shut the door in our faces: "XO I SAAAAAAAAAW HIIIIM~!!!! I SAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW HIIIIIIIIIIIM~!!!") We actually saw Thea the second we walked in, but we had to check in and she was going out to eat... We hadn't anything to do till the start of karaoke, which left us with a few hours to spare. We walked a few laps around the center, then settled down to catch the last five minutes of WK (which I either rolled my eyes at or laughed because of the sheer stupidity of it =_=;;), then watched...er, I think Vandread. The first two episodes. The girls were cute. But they were trying to be a straight-down-the-middle split between Nadesico and Evangelion. XP The 'hero' was an exactly equal mix of Shinji and Akito. Very odd. I didn't care for it, but it was better than nothing. *^^* Theeen we watched the AnC dub (nobody told us it was the DUB...) I was pretty much planning to walk out after I heard Aya's voice, but Rocchan -really- wanted to stay. Ali and Rocchan had a small arguement. (Rocchan being in a really nasty mood to everyone but Daisy continued for the entire damn weekend, but I'll get to that another time.) We stayed. The voices were okay, except for Aya's (O_<;;; maybe it'll get better, but I had NO sympathy for her whatsoever. And everytime someone in the show said, "NO, Aya! It is YOU that shall die!" the audience cheered. ~_~;;) and poor Q-chan, who had a guy doing her voice. O_O;;;; Other than that, and the fact that I'll never be able to look at that grandfather again without laughing my head off...("Oh, Grandpa! XD You NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY boy~!!") We met up with Daisy in the AnC showing, and then we went to karaoke, and Thea was there- she sang "Jitensha ni Notte", and I sang "Breeze" (which was awfuuul u.u;;). We also got up to sing a group song of "Zankoku na Tenshi no Thesis"- the whole place was cackling, "If you don't know the lyrics, you're not a TRUE FAN~!!".........only to go completely blank at the long version. XD; Of the 15+ people up there, maybe three knew the full. I was tossed the mike by the girl who was singing in the first place. *^^* Then Thea sang "Destiny" and we went up to bed. Saturday ...uh...damn, what did we do in the morning? o_O;;; Oh, RIGHT. We woke up, ate breakfast, and I tried to call Kix on her cell...but got the answering machine. I left a message and kept trying through the day. We hadn't anything to do otherwise, and since Daisy and Rocchan paired off the Mari Ijima stuff wasn't something we had to go to...so Ali and I wandered. We walked by a video room and heard, "HOOOOOOOOOEEEEE~!!!" and immediately ran back. XD They were showing the first CCS movie, and while I knew pretty much the whole thing and had a decent amount of the script memorized...we sat and watched. ^^ Then we walked out, I tried Kix's cell again, and we decided we'd go wait at the DDR room for our arranged meeting. They were kind of late, but suddenly this group walked by us...with a Nakuru, Eriol, Tomoyo, and Yukito that I glimpsed. ^^ I chased after them to reg, but they had other people to meet up with. We decided to meet up later at one, and Ali and I went off to the dealer's room. We ran into Thea on the way, so we went to stand in the (ridiculously large) line; talking about fics and fun things. XD Then we fiiiinally got into the dealer's room, and Ali and I went on a shopping spree. XP I bought that day: -Tsuzuki/Hisoka pin set (XD XD XD I'm worshipping Thea for showing meee~~!) -Three doujinshi: A CCS Nakayoshi parody, a KKJ, and~!! XD A KKJ DOUJINSHI BY AI MINASE~!!!! Ai Minase is, for those who don't know, one of Arina-sensei's assistants. ^_^ I'm gonna scan and translate that one; because that fact makes it practically canon. It was very short but very good; about Maron and Chiaki's wedding. *^^* -AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~!!! *_* The MAIN PURCHASE OF THE CON~!!! Ali and I are now the PROUD OWNERS OOOOOOOOOOF.... A SEI-CHAN CELLLLLLLLLLL~!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD XD XD We knew we'd never find another one, and I've never even SEEN a TB cel for $50. We split the cost and the cel gets to spend six months at a time with each girl (starting with her). It's from the Hokuto/Sei-chan scene in the first episode, and Sei-chan is setting down tea and Hokuto is sitting on the table behind him. ^^ Unfortunately we got kind of caught up in the doujin hype and missed our meeting time with Kix-tachi. ~_~;; However we met up in the lobby and spent some time cackling together. XD We took some Fun pictures. XD XD XD Then we had to run and eat, but we said we'd meet at the Ikuhara panel at five and decide what to do from then. We then went, ironically enough, to Mitsuwa to eat. XP While there, we ran screaming into Kino's (looking like freaks in our cosplay XD) hoping for X 16, but they didn't have it. ;-; However, as SOME PEOPLE will be happy to know, I bought the first two DNAngel tanks along with Newtype. So we went back, ate our bentou, and Leslie and Alyse showed up. Leslie's mom accompanied them, but I saw her for all of five minutes for the whole con. ^_^; We then ran down to the Ikuhara panel, where we got FRONT SEEEEATS~!!! Ali's camera really was crappy though; the shots made him seem, uh, four times farther AWAY than he was. For anyone there, I was the movie Juri in the front row who never got straight answers to her questions. XD (I wasn't expecting any.) The panel opened with him introducing himself as Kunihiko Ikuhara, director of Utena, and single. XD "I'm very glad to see so many cute girls in the audience. If this place fills up and cute girls come in, and there aren't seats for them- you guys'll have to leave." XD First question of the panel: "Will you be giving out your phone number after the panel?!! XD XD XD" Ikuhara: Of course. Any such similar requests? Fangirls: *SCREEEEEEEAAAAM* Some other memorable questions. Me: Why does Miki's stepmother look like Anshii? Ikuhara: I've been wondering that myself. Me: In the Miki and Juri scene in the movie, "Kozue" is written on the wall behind Miki. Then you see the duckie. Did Kozue die, or did she turn into a car, or something else? Ikuhara: I've been wondering that myself. Me: What is the significance of Shiori running after Juri? Ikuhara: ...what did you think it was? Me: Well...since Juri was set free from Shiori, maybe it was only then that they could really exist together? Ikuhara: That's what you think? Me: Yes. Ikuhara: If that's what you think is so, then it is so. Guy: How many more girls do you attract as the result of that blonde streak? Ikuhara: Lots. You should try it. ?: What's the regular work day for you? Ikuhara: I come into the office, stare out the window, and see how many girls I can watch going by. Then eventually, the sun will set and I'll go home. Girl: What is it like working with Koyasu Takehito? Ikuhara: He's my rival. Girl: Don't worry. You have MUCH nicer teeth. XD Guy: How come Juri gets all the girls? Ikuhara: Because I introduced them to her. Girl: Then how come Akio gets...gets EVERYONE?! XO Ikuhara: Because I told him how. XD Panel: ......*CACKLEEEE* Girl: Are you studying English now, and if so what do you think of it? Ikuhara: Yes, I'm studying it a little. Girl: Is your teacher a beautiful woman? Or is it a she? Ikuhara: Um...I think she's over fifty...but ther is one cute teacher there. Panel: *hushed silence* Ikuhara: But it's a guy. Panel: *CACKLE* Random person: YAAAAAAAOI~!! Ikuhara: ...*pauses*nods* Yaoi. Panel: O_O;;;;;; Ikuhara: *calmly, in English* I do not yaoi. Panel: ....XD;;; Then he had a quick autograph session for the first 20 people in line, and I was the last one~!! He signed the first page of my Utena movie manga! ^_^ After that, unfortunately we didn't see Kix-tachi there. (Were you there and we didn't see you somehow?!) We wandered off, and Ali and I went to watch some of the second Eva movie raw. Then we watched the first two episodes of Inuyasha, with DISGUSTINGLY low subs. >_<;;;; I had to hop up and down to read- but at the least NOW I know how the series STARTS. XD; I've never read the beginning of the manga soo~ Theeen we went back for karaoke. At this point Leslie was in her "cosplay", meaning she was Tree-chan and had two fake sakura branches sticking out of her back. She was popular. *^^* Ali was in Subaru cosplay but you reaaally couldn't tell who she was supposed to be exactly (not unless you got the joke in advance). ^_^; They were both being really sick as a result, and Ali kept trying to pet the branches. Then Leslie said nobody could pet her branches but her. Then we cackled. Then I got all sniffly and said I felt left out and thus I should have tried to cosplay Sei-chan so we could have had FUN (add in height discussion here XD;; I'm shortest of the group...but Ali is taller than Leslie-Tree, so... XP). Leslie: I'm sorry. Do you feel left out~? Me: *sniffle* Yeah. Leslie: *hugs me* XD Me:...*grabs at the sakura branches* Leslie: *JUMPS UP and runs as I cackle* They sang, "in mourning of Sei-chan", Catch You Catch Me. XD; I sang "Ai wa Honoo~weddingwars" from Wedding Peach (but I got cut off!! ><;;) first, and then I was the last to sing before the contest started. I sang "Toki ni Ai wa", which was fun. I decided to sign up for the contest for the hell of it- as you picked songs at random...guys singing "Catch You Catch Me", "Mokona Ondo de Pu Pu Pu no Pu", and "Egao ni Aitai"...was amusing. Unfortunately... Me: *draws slip*...the Excel Saga ending theme? O_O Girl: Have you heard it? Me: ....uh...no. Girl: XD XD XD For those who haven't...the song consists of what I'm guessing is a wolf, howling. ....that IS the song. O_O;;; The "translation" runs over the howls. So I was attempting to howl and say the diaologue at the same time. I was SO not happy. XD; (If I'd gotten...oh, Give A Reason or Egao ni Aitai or Let's Go Gekigangar 3 or Eyes On Me or... XP) Thea was GREAAAAT, though. *_* She sang the Tenchi theme, and it was impossible to believe she'd never heard it before. Sugokatta yooon~ As it was around two AM, and needless to say I didn't make it into the final round, we headed off to bed. SUNDAY: "We don't have to be at the Ikuhara signkai till ten. We have an hou..........CRAAAAAAAAAAAP~!!! DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIIIIIIIIME!!!!" My morning started with me getting up and ready frantically, driven by the power of pure fangirlism. XO After all, I was going to go get GOD'S autograph. XD Ali, as everyone should know, was not able to be quite so 'entergetic' in the morning. Breaking the buddy system rule, she sent me down alone. I accidentally went in the wrong direction...found it...found that it was rescheduled to ten-thirty~~!..to find that the line for the dealers room was REALLY short, so I RAN inside, bought a poster for him to sign, and ran out. Ali and Rocchan were there already, holding my place at the front of the second line. *^^* I sparkled. I sparkled MADLY. I gave him a fanart I'd been working on madly (and I!! couldn't!! scan~!! it was one of the ebst pics I've ever drawwwwn ;___;) of movie Utena. Ali dared me to put my address on it, so I comprimised by putting my email on there. A fangirl can always hope. *_* We got a LOAD of stuff signed...BTW, Jin, I have a new preseeeent for yoooou... XD Meimi, every five minutes for the rest of the day: "LOOK. XO *GOD* SIGNED MY POSTER~!!" "*niko* I knooow. We met GOD. XD XD XD" "*everyone else*........ ~_~;;;" We missed the CCS movie because of this, unfortunately. I was kinda depressed but choosing between HIM and the MOVIE....well, there was never a choice. XD; We then checked out and left to go to Denny's to eat. Came back. Went shopping again, but at this point I had ten dollars. ~_~;; I bought a flesh-tone marker (oh my GOD~!! XO I HAVE A *REAL* MARKER~!!! I *MUST* HAVE MORE~!!!), two sheets of screentone, and three Digimon cards. *_* One Taitoish one of 02 Taichi/Yamato smiling at each other, one of 01 Yama smiling with Gabumon behind him, and one!! of!! KEN~!! PRETTYNESSSSSSSSS~!!! Theeen we ran over to catch the second half of the yaoi panel, which was interesting...then debated over Otaku no Video or closing ceremonies, and picked closing ceremonies. Guy: We know for some of you, this is your first con. Admittedly, you may not get some of the injokes. Guy in the background: *holds up chair* Audience: XD CHAIR CHAIR CHAIR CHAIR CHAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIR~!!!!!!!!! And then we went home and slept. End. XD Sunday, April 1, 2001 08:08 p.m. Erin-chan, you'd almost think you'd PLANNED it to leave, RIGHT when I was yelling at you. XO Though I know you didn't. Nya. But damn it, holding Arcadia hostage from ME, who as of this moment has NO IN-PROGRESS FICS WHATSOEVER, is very cruel. I've been good. And there's no way that anyone who wants Turn could wail at Tin-chama any MORE than they already do. So your plan is really just not giving your love fic the RIGHTS it DESERVES. XO And I still have the greatest faith in Tin-chama's abilities too. Only because of what I wrote in the previous post about it. XD So actually, since everyone else is nagging about thooose, I think I'll just cackle at Tin-chama for a pretty Digimon fic. And I'd like to whine at Jin, but I won't because I know she's busy as all hell. *^^* (But NEEE, Jin, when you AREN'T any MORE will you finish that pretttty tanjoubi fiiic~?!! XD XD XD) But...no matter what happens here, IMO, nobody is writing anything till they get inspiration for it anyway. ^^; We can whine and nag and cackle and gnaw all we like (and DAMN, do we LIKE it XD) but it doesn't do anyyyy good if the person in question doesn't feeeel like writing it. (And with the way Erin-chan and Tin-chama are going- i.e. "no more Arcadia till you write Turn"/"no more Turn till you write Arcadia"... XD;) But honestly, I don't know how everyone here even writes with all the constant nagging. *shudder* It's honestly like a sin if you say to people 'but I didn't feel like writing it'. Not exactly with CCi-tachi, but everyone. It's really the reason I haven't bothered with ficcing lately- I know everyone who asks about progress means well, and I know they liked it...but there were times when I felt like screaming my head off, because 'no inspiration' wasn't a good enough reason for some people. >_> Writing really isn't my thing anyway; and I don't really look back fondly on many of my fics...but it really drove me mad feeling that I 'had' to write something. Not 'wanted' to write for me, but 'had' to write feeling like I was letting someone down if I didn't. Anyway. There's only<3 nine hours or so left in the countdown. *_* Oh, CRAP! I forgot my fricking CAMERA~!!! >_______<;;;; DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN *DAMN*!! Now I'll have to buy one of those DISGUSTINGLY expensive disposables from the giftshop (*scowls* it was $20 when I forgot last year, twenty freaking dollars for a cardboard camera), and it won't have ZOOM function or the pretty things my camera HAS~!! >__<;;; Damn. Friday, March 30, 2001 07:42 a.m. np: Itsudemo Aeru Kara - Digimon XD XD XD LESS THAN SIXTEEN HOURS AWAY FROM BLIIIISS~!!! I'm~ not~ packed yeeeet~~~!!! XD Though my costume is FINISHED~!! The cuffs are sewed on the wrong way but I don't caare~~! XD I need a new contact prescription. x_X The old ones are reaaally bad. I'll probably wear them for most of the con, though. I'll just take them out when we've got a lot of anime viewing planned. *_* Juri with glasses isn't as fun. ...maybe I should go PACK now. >_> Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:32 p.m. *reads Erin-chan's, Meg's and Tin-chama's blogs* XD I think I'll stay out of this one. It might get scary. (And as a loyal reader of all persons involved, I win no matter what. XD;) Though Tin-chama, your skill for avoiding the writing of Turn leaves me in awe. O.O It takes true skiiiill to hold off cackling ExT fangirls for...nearly a year, if you don't count the part 3 teaser. At least something like that. *beams* So, are you thinking of ficcing Digimon~?!! XD (Someone will doubtlessly hurt me now. *snrk*) I'd better get started on homework while I'm here. @.@ Tonight is the finishing touches on my costume. And packing. And things. And by the time I finish it all, I'm going to be SO wired and excited that you will NOT manage to shut me up tomorrow during classes. XD; TANOSHIMIIII~!! *sparkle*sparkle* Shocomi yomikiri are really cute. O.O "Hontou no Kimi wo Misete" from the 8 issue was precious. And Erika should be shot. No, wait, she's trying to do that to herself already, assumedly. >_> At least Imadoki's starting to pick up- thank GOD that Youji bit didn't go on and on. XP I've been screaming over Tanpopo's idiocy for too many issues now- though Saionji being, uh, "converted" to Tanpopo's way of thinking last month made it worth it....if only Aoi was in the story more often, though... ;_; He hasn't done anything truly cute since that scene in the restaraunt a couple issues ago when he talked to Kouki's parents. XD Oh well. Thursday, March 29, 2001 02:59 p.m. You know, I haven't updated my page in forever. I don't really want to say I've lost the will to trans, because that's not true. I still muchly enjoy it, but without the purchase of phonebooks to keep me going, and without any real participation on a few of my MLs in months... XP It's just kind of faded. Frankly, I'm glad. I might take it up again soon...but honestly translating was getting to be a horrible chore. When I start dreading emails titled about the site, because I know that they're going to be rude and demanding ones wanting more trans...that's time to take a break. ~_~;;; I haven't answered any of my mails in months about that site- not just the bad ones, but a lot of the nice ones just stayed in my inbox without replies. I just didn't want to deal with it. ^^;; *returns to finish hours later* It's not like I've totally stopped. XP I still translate; just mostly when it's for friends. There's still manga I plan on finishing sometime or another...the only ones I feel I have any real obligation to finish are Hoshii no wa Hitotsu Dake, Saint Tail, Dreamsaga, Cyber Idol Mink, and Weddingpeach. And I will. Someday. @.@;;; In the meantime, I'll get back to my pretty drama trans. XD; Thursday, March 29, 2001 07:34 a.m. Only about 33 hours away from pure bliiiiss~~~ XD I'm muchly exciiiited. And Kix and I are going to have FUN and CACKLE and STARE at Ikuhara-sama and SHOP and SING KARAOKE~!!! XD I burned my final choices for karaoke last night. I'm basically going to try to sing as many times as I can since I can NOT for the LIFE of me choose what songs to sing first. XP I like them all. My orthodontist put the chain band on my upper teeth yesterday and it hurts like hell. ;_; Moka, I kept forgetting to say so, but I love the new layout~! *^^* The previous Maron one wasn't visible on this comp for some reason, but this one is so I'm glad. The Ran picture's cute~ I feel evil somehow. *_* Oooohoohohohoho. Must go work on health homework, yeeees. Thursday, March 29, 2001 07:34 a.m. I'm packing for con. XD; I figured I'd pack tonight and finish costume tomorrow. *_*;; Bad plan. Probably. Yes. I'm way too excited about this. XD; I hope Alyse-chan gets better; it'd be too sad if she were left behind. (It would be even sadder if she got our whole group sick too, though. ^_^;) Prioooorities. Finish costume. Pack. Burn CD with karaoke possibilities. Finish homework. (Geh. ^^;;) Write myself a shopping list. *_*;;; Ne, I should really finish packing TONIGHT. I have a paper to write tomorrow night anyway. >.>;; Wednesday, March 28, 2001 09:03 p.m. np: Toki ni Ai wa - Shoujo Kakumei Utena movie *icily* I hate my health teacher. I do I do. She writes on my fricking report card that I don't pay attention in class and 'kaasan wanted to hear the story. And we ended up having a largesized arguement over it, where I was told I had a bad attitude. >_<; Maybe I do. But frankly she can complain to me when I don't get an A in the fricking class. *scowls* I honestly can NOT stand her, and I have every single FRICKING THING she lectures about IN! MY ANATOMY NOTEBOOK! ALREADY! Why the hell should I take notes TWICE? I've already had the material and been tested on it once this year; damned if I'm going to sit there and waste my time. I doubt 'Kaasan has the time to do such a thing, but she basically threatened to call up that stupid woman frequently. And if said stupid woman has caught me drawing, I get to be grounded. The hell? And of couuuuurse because of this crap, I got no comments on my report card. Which, besides the two obvious B's, was awfully pretty. But noooo, we had to argue over such a damn STUPID thing. >_<;;; The idiotic woman doesn't KNOW that I don't like her. *glowers* And if the state wasn't so damn stupid and made this class required, I wouldn't even have to BE there. I've had the material before. Of course, nobody cares. XP Nor does anyone care that I got very pretty grades (not as pretty as the last semester, but that's on account of a difficult math teacher~). I honestly don't have any teachers that I especially *like* except my English teacher...but my health teacher is just such an IDIOT that I refuse to deal with her. >_<;; (I only dislike my anatomy teacher because her perkiness over the "squishiness" of the eye dissection (and, well, everything else *_*;;)gets old, and frankly my math teacher scares the -hell- out of me and I don't like her, but I can understand why she snaps at everyone because our class is a bunch of morons. XP) But I just can not deal with teachers that waste my time. And, well, don't acknowledge openly that they're wasting it. XD; (My morality teacher is fully aware that her class is a waste of our time and probably hers. My morality teacher pretty much says so. XD;) But with teachers that honestly think I have nothing better to do with my time than color pictures meticulously and make 'healthy fun' recipies... x___X;;; While I'm busy drowning in the hell of human anatomy, which is by the waaaay completely unmodified from her college course...and struggling through algebra II with a teacher that I'm too afraid to ask any questions of... I'm getting very self-pitying. I don't mean to. I don't really feel sorry for myself, I'm just mad at that idiotic woman. XD; Wednesday, March 28, 2001 07:28 p.m. Tin-chama: The end of Digimon....Takeru and Hikari didn't end up together. ;_; Isn't it awful?! (*screams* THEY!! WERE!! THE ONLY!! *CANON*!! COUPLE~!!! Takeru's!! IMAGE SONG!! Which is pure MUSH~!! Is about!! HIKARI!! >__<;;;) In the end where they all grew up, Daisuke grew up to fulfill his life-long dream of running a ramen-ya and ends up running a worldwide chain. Unfortunately his cuteness was destroyed along the way, because out of all the adults he ended up the ugliest. >_<;;; And YES, Sora and Yamato. ~_~;;;; *niko* So yes, do fic. DO. XD But I still wholeheartedly reccomend the series; as long as you just...don't...watch the last episode. ^^;;; The bits of the second-to-last ep; though...were the best in alllll 102 episodes, IMO. XD XD XD Wednesday, March 28, 2001 02:51 p.m. *cackles* I love my Digimon mix CD. "Ashita wa Atashi no Kaze ga Fuku" is SO catchy. XD "Da ne! Kimochi ii kuuki wo~! Ima! suitakute~! Shou ga nai-shou ga nai! Ashita wa atashi no kaze ga fuku kara ne...sekaijuu no doa akete oite hoshii! Ashita wa atashi no kaze ga fuku kara ne!" XD XD XD To say nothing of "Tobira"; that song's just so preeeetty... *__* I need to study for my morality test. It's today first thing, and I haven't read the chapter exactly. ^^;;;; *niko* THREE MORE DAYS TILL FANIME~!! FOUR until I'm cackling and shopping with Kix~!!! XD XD XD I'd better finish my COSTUUUME~!! I basically decided the epaulettes don't have to be perfect. They just have to be there. XD; Will try to fix tonight. After the epaulettes it's pretty easy from then on, though. *^^* Can just hand-stitch it all, I think. About Fanime, though...damn, it'd be nice of them to actually put up a full schedule. XP Our plans are, of the moment: -Arrive Friday night probably around five (maybe earlier but I doubt XP). Check in, go to guest reception at six if we're on time/can get tickets. Watch anime, do karaoke, randomness. -Saturday: Go to the fanfiction panel if we wake up early enough and feel like going (it wasn't all that spectacular last time I showed up, IMO). Go to the Mari Ijima panel at ten if Rocchan wants to go. SHOP. Go to the Mari Ijima autograph panel at noon if Rocchan wants to go. If possible, make our first attempt to meet Kix-tachi at one. Go to the Ikuhara panel at five- ne,Kix, let's change our possible five meeting place to there. XD We both wanna go anyway deshou? Then go to Mari Ijima concert if Rocchan feels like it. Karaoke. Sunday: Ikuhara autograph session at ten. Doujinshi panel at eleven. And yaoi panel at two. ^_^ Shopping and taking advantage of all final sales in between. *cackle* Of course this is subject to change depending on what anime they show. I wanna see the Utena movie on the big screen again, see the AnC anime, and watch any KareKano that they have. XD; Nya. Wednesday, March 28, 2001 07:46 a.m. np: Focus - Digimon 02 *gleefully* Is this not the most DIGUSTINGLY *PINK* LAYOUT?!! XD And doesn't Ken make a PRECIOUS bride~?! XD The idea struck me in morality class; what a FUN layout to make. XD XD XD I'm reaaally tired and I'm going to bed in a sec. I wore my contacts in for the first time in over two years. Ugh. XP It was, as anyone who wears them could guess, a reasonable production getting them in, and a really huge production getting them OUT. I just can NOT take them out the way 'Kaasan does. *_*;; When I wore them before, I by some miracle was not grossed out by the idea of just picking them up off my eyes, but...ew. I tried it and was scared as hell (probably because my nails are so damn LONG now). So theeeen we tried to sue that little suction-thingie. I tried to use it but it didn't work because my eyes teared up, and then I got an eyelash stuck underneath the lens. I had a FIT (because I hadn't remembered how much that HURT; thus I thought I had stabbed my eye with the suctioncup thingie XD;;;)...and then 'Kaasan tried to use her trick. Herself. XP She managed to get the right lens out with no help from me (chotto kowakatta kedo *_*;;;) but just could NOT get the left. I struggled for another half-hour or so with it, before trying the suctioncup thing again. It worked. XD I liiiiiiike that thing. Anyway. XD; Tuesday, March 27, 2001 10:44 p.m. pitas.com: not as yummy as some bishounen, but hey! XD

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