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[Saturday, May 10, 2003]
Itaaa~~ my feet hurt so badly. *cries* I barely sat down once all day - I was standing to cook in the kitchen doing volunteer work. That was actually kind of fun, much better than I thought it would be. Then had to go to fashion show, which was 300x more classy than I'd guessed. Our act went fine, except some jerk from the boy's school down the road came up to us, and went, "I did that scene for myyy drama class and I memorized it," and we just stared at him. Me: "That's fascinating. How wonderful for you." Alicia: "I feel judged." (It was four pages of confusion, which we recieved only on Monday. Like we were going to memorize it. What a snob.)

I'm so tired. Wah. I'm also almost done with a new layout, which is shamelessly Buffy/Spike. Don't I have a blog for that kind of thing? (Oooh, maybe I'll make my other blog Wes/Lilah, so I can have my favorite twisted couplings from each show...)
sparkling spring @ 10:20 p.m.

[Thursday, May 8, 2003]
Waaaaaaah. I'm never gonna finish my paaaapeeer...I haven't even started the paper portion of the project (which is okay as I'm totally making it up), it's going to take five pages alone to do the outline section. Ugh.

But in other news, I sneaked up behind Alicia today and didn't interrupt her in the conversation she was having. After a few minutes she finally turned around to look at me, and then...we just grinned at each other like twin Cheshire cats. For a really long time. Until finally she said, "Did you watch it? You watched them BOTH, huh?" *laugh*

Overall I'm gonna be up till all hours doing this paper though...and I have an English essay (HATE The Metamorphosis HATE) and an econ test tomorrow... T__T Also have to practice for the fashion show in drama... I think agreeing to do the fashion show was one of the poorest choices I've made this year, and that's saying something. I can't wait for Sunday - I'm sleeping in till noon. Or two, even. I fell asleep on my econ notes today too.

Meimi: *demonstrates how to fall asleep in chem without being noticed by teacher* And that's how. Except I don't fall asleep that much anymore.
Alicia: *seriously* But when she does, it's very cute. Especially when she drools on her notes.
Meimi: SHUT UP!

Don't wanna do my paaapeeer...my only consolation is that a week from now, pretty much all intense troubles will be over, as far as academics go.
sparkling spring @ 06:20 p.m.

[Thursday, May 8, 2003]
FUUUUUUCK.

I'm so stupid.

Friday
psych project
Saturday
volunteer work (9:55)
fashion show practice (2:00)
fashion show (6:00)
Sunday
probably should be set aside for much sleep and sobbing
Monday
ditto
Tuesday
English term paper
fine arts night (ohdearGodI'mgonnaDIE)
must tape biography
Wednesday
prayer semester project
Thursday
Disneyland
Friday
Disneyland
Monday
chem test

Let's see if I can pound away at the computer and turn up about ten pages of term paper in less than twenty-four hours. I'm completely aware the psych thing is my own fault, but I thought English term paper was due the week AFTER next, not next week FUCK...
sparkling spring @ 08:53 a.m.

[Thursday, May 8, 2003]
*staggers in* American Idol was as it should be. Angel melted my brain in the best way possible, and between Buffy/Angel viewage that made me SO HAPPY, I'm absolutely positively WIDE AWAKE right now and I'm thinking of just doing my psych paper now so I can go home tomorrow and just crash...but then driving tomorrow might be a bad idea...but I so can't sleep after so much good storytelling. I'm giddy. No other word. Giddy.
sparkling spring @ 01:11 a.m.

[Wednesday, May 7, 2003]
That show should not be so wonderful as to put a grin on my face for hours and make me squeal like a ten-year-old girl. It also should not have the power to completely traumatize me for life - I think I could have lived a happy life without the knowledge that Kennedy has a tongue ring...some part of my brain shut off at that moment, and it's still twitching and spasming somewhere. The rest of my brain is pink sparkly goo, though. In a happy way. A happy way not helping my psych paper get started (due Friday!), but a good way nonetheless.

Trotting off to feed my American Idol obsession and then...sit around and cackle at the TV again. Man, if Lilah molests Wesley on Angel tonight, I think this could actually be a perfect day as far as my favorite dysfunctional Buffyverse relationships go!

Really, I actually don't have a life besides Buffyverse smut. Yet, feeling strangely at peace with the fact.
sparkling spring @ 08:26 p.m.

[Monday, May 5, 2003]
Still cheating on the previous quiz like crazy, was too amused by this one too:

Which Spuffy Romp Are You?
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I'd like to take this chance to note that despite all appearances, I really do have a life besides Buffyverse smut. Sometimes. Not this week, though. But after this week's promo, and my Lilah/Wes obsession starting up again worse than it was before, and being too amused by this quiz...um.
sparkling spring @ 08:43 p.m.

[Monday, May 5, 2003]
np: For Fruits Basket - Horie Yui

"Tutored" Alicia during lunch (my brain was after-AP-mush and I kept wailing about how burned-out I was, after approximately 30 seconds, conversation turned to discussion of X2). Went to work. Went to mall and found the cutest ice cream place, which was so adorable that it shouldn't belong in a mall. It should be up on a hill that's out of the way and secret, because it was so cute and old-fashioned. The girl at the counter was equally cute and adorable, and because of her attitude I was coerced into buying a $6 sundae with every chocolate thing under the sun, that I ate about five bites of.

I know that sounds entirely pathetic, but they made most everything right in front of you! A decent amount of the price was just worth the show. X3 There's no ice cream there that's ready-made with chips or chunks inside it - they mix everything in, right in front of you!! I was completely fascinated - she was practically kneading it in like bread, and I didn't think you could do that with ice cream.

I sound really stupid. But everything about the place was so charming~

I have two tests tomorrow and I really just wanna collapse into bed. This isn't good at all. Can it be Sunday soon?

(I almost-kinda-sorta cheated to get this, but the entire concept of the quiz is too amusing not to keep reloading the result possibilities. Among the result choices are the "robotic romp" from Intervention, "public humiliation" from Dead Things ("you are depressing, icky, and oddly alluring" *snerk*), "back alley" from Doublemeat Palace...)

Which Spuffy Romp Are You?
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sparkling spring @ 06:06 p.m.

[Monday, May 5, 2003]
Waaaaaaaaah-THUNK.

In other words, AP English exams is over and we'll just pray I managed a 3. I'm not even sure if my college counts AP exams though so I'm not that worried (as was obviously displayed by spending last night up late fussing over the obviously VERY IMPORTANT task of resetting my desktop settings to make them Wes/Lilah e-very-thing).

Also I realized that I had skipped (like every other meeting) last week's AP meeting. I really wanted proper Starbucks chocolatey breakfast, but I realized I'd better get to school to make sure the exam was in the same place most APs are held. When I got to school, the usual room was locked...so I ran all around school trying to find it, and I couldn't, and I was going crazy - and it turned out that the counselor was roughly three steps behind me, coming to unlock the door where I thought it should be in the first place, when I disappeared down the stairs.

sparkling spring @ 12:07 p.m.

[Sunday, May 4, 2003]
This should probably go on the Buffyblog since it makes little to no sense otherwise, but.

This week I was tutoring Alicia for our upcoming chem test, except we're easily distracted and she was scribbling "breakup sex" over everything in sight - she completely victimized my notebook margins and dayplanner by the end of the session. I suggested that we meet up again on Monday to study again, and told her to write it on her hand before she forgot. Then I didn't see her again until chem class...

Alicia: *waves her hand in my face* I wrote it down!
Me: *squints at Alicia's hand: it plainly reads that she needs to meet me on Monday, chem tutoring in the media center, and then "BREAKUP SEX" is written underneath. The last is vigorously underlined.* ....... *facepalms*
Alicia: ?
Me: Please tell me you haven't been waving your hand in everyone's face - read that AGAIN, please, and look at what you WROTE.
Alicia: *looks* Ohhhhhh. ....fufu. *she starts rubbing the last off her hand*
Me: Wait...*shikushiku* you're breaking up with me?
Alicia: Of course not! And if I ever did, it wouldn't be by having breakup sex in the MEDIA CENTER during CHEM TUTORING...what do you think this IS, a Harry Potter slashfic?
Me: *THUDS*

Needless to say, a fair amount of the chem review was lost on us as we laughed silently in the back of the classroom.
sparkling spring @ 07:55 p.m.

[Sunday, May 4, 2003]
np: Glacial Love - Siam Shade

A-HA! No wonder Princess Tutu was giving me Pretear flashbacks in atmosphere - Satou Junichi directed X3 I feel SO smart now. HAH.
sparkling spring @ 05:09 p.m.

[Saturday, May 3, 2003]
np: Let Me Be With You - Chobits

Zzz...

Monday
-~~English AP (8:00)~~
-~~tutor Alicia for chem~~
-~~study for chem myself~~
Tuesday -chem test
-psych makeup test
-prayer journal
-prayer meditation
Friday
-psych paper due
Saturday
-volunteer work (9:55)
-fashion show (practice during week)

Also have to ask Alicia if I could possibly beg to go over to her house for at least the series finale of Buffy - I'll be really upset if she gets to see it days before me and spoils it. Have I mentioned recently how I detest our local cable provider?

With all these projects and papers I should be working on insanely, I of course spent my day playing FFVIII - at the end of disc two, clocking in at under nineteen hours. I will finish before school is up, I will...

Oh, and nobody told me that Tokyopop got Tokyo Mew-Mew. I looked through just the first chapter...which was bad. I've been so pleased with their Parakiss job (Arashi's hideous English accent aside), I forgot how bad they are usually. The fonts, the fonts...and a complete disregard for the fairly easily-translatable attack names, etcetera. ("Sutoroberu beru" was left as is - when the character's name is "Ichigo", should that be so hard to figure out? The "chimera" bit was left out too but for some reason a lot of people don't catch that...) And the fact that no attempt is made to preserve speech styles saddens me, when the five girls are so unique. Sigh.
sparkling spring @ 09:56 p.m.

[Saturday, May 3, 2003]
np: Kagayaki wo Atsumete~I believe - Noda Junko

Gaah. This is one of those "what was I thinking layouts" where I realize maybe 100% blinding pink is not such a good idea at about the exact moment that it's too late to change it. But, I like the picture for the most part so it'll probably stick around a bit, depending on how blinded I feel in the long-term run...I wanted to CG the picture, but seeing as how I wanted it to look like a CGed version of the above and I don't have a tablet, I think I gave up after a few minutes and grabbed my markers ^^;; But GAH so BRIGHT...ah well. Maybe after next week's Buffy, I'll make a layout devoted to apocalypse sex. *ufu* (Or mourning the end of Buffy. Or even another Satdai one. Anything is possible.)
sparkling spring @ 08:32 p.m.