ARCHIVE... MEIMI... Age: 15 Page: M-T Email: meimi@time-stranger.net AIM: KSaintTail Computer: A cute, slightly mischievious PC named Nokoru-kun. FANFICTION... PLAYLIST... FAVORITE... Anime: Digimon/02, Cowboy Bebop, CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan, Gravitation, Rayearth2 Manga: Tokyo Babylon, KKJ, 20 Mensou ni Onegai!, Clover, Evangelion Fun Girls: Kusakabe Maron, Asuka, Ohkawa Utako, Sumeragi Hokuto, Sakurazuka Setsuka Pretty Guys: Sei-chan, Imonoyama Nokoru, Eagle Vision, Seguchi Touma, Ran, Ishida Yamato, Ichijouji KEN. XD Songs: Miruku (Chara), Tsumetai Hana (the brilliant green), Kagayaki wo Atsumete~I Believe (Noda Junko) LINKS... allegretto applesauce basic black cat's delicacy cephiro, inc. chotto matte complete strangers convent girl december23 disintegration doushita no?! echoes from the void eyes unclouded innocent masquerade kaijuu ga iru kelemenopy kudaranai kyoko one dimensional pensieve pillow book random pie sadistic dreaming selective memory take off to the sky tegretol dreams that damn duck the bishounen diaries tokyo darling truth valhalla which way is up? winnow in thy abraxas

. Monday, August 27, 2001... np: Kopperia no Hitsuji - ALI Project I don't know; Noir just doesn't look cute-cute and that's always what I think of with ALI Project...but I like this song~! I love how all their songs really keep the same basic feel... X3 And 'Kaasan woke me up this morning, and it's so wonderfully early~!! I'm really difficult to actually wake *up* ("But I asked her, 'Are you awake?' and she said 'Yes'!! XO" "....*snort* You believed her?"), but I like being awake when it's early, and not having to rush. *ohohoho* And I have episodes on DirectConnect almost...finished...Wakaba's Black Rose Duel, Seta-kun's past...X3 And I just remembered I have to curl my hair for dress-up day today. Craaaaaap. O_O; *FLEES* .....Meimi whispered @ 06:57 a.m. Saturday, August 25, 2001... Ugh. I'm SO tired. T-T I'm so tired that I actually turned down an invitation to go see a York play with Ali and Leslie. (I've never DONE such a thing; turning down an opportunity to be with my friends like that. *slumps* Last year when we went to see the Christmas Carol there, I was SICK and coughed violently through the entire SHOW and I went >_>;;;) Inventory was long and boring but very easy to do. Ugh, I can't believe I didn't go with Ali and Leslie!! >___<;; (It was just as well since my family was as tired than I was if not more so, and I didn't want someone to have to drive me...but...I LIKE their plays... ;_;) *still annoyed with the day* And I'm going to bed. Again. Nap before, now SLEEP... .....Meimi whispered @ 10:02 p.m. Friday, August 24, 2001... *hasn't checked Digital Aniki in a long while* *looks ................*THUDS at the opening image* .....Meimi whispered @ 10:14 p.m. Friday, August 24, 2001... np: Ame no Far Away - Slayers Next A snippet from my email to Leslie last night, continuing my longing for Nokoru/Suoh Sparklies. I think I overdid it, but it was REALLY LATE. XD;;; That's my only excuse. Shiori, I think I have the blog layout picture done (suprise suprise; it's Chizumi and Aiko ^^;;) and I might ink it tonight and start on CGing it. I also got this really interesting idea concerning Chizumi and Aiko in history class today; catch me on AIM and I'll cackle to you about it if you're interested. ^_^* Does anyone besides me think that whenever there's a KaizerxDaisuke fic, it's pretty much ALWAYS the same fic? It goes something like this: Kaizer: Bad pet! Daisuke: Oh, Master, I have been BAD! XD Beat me! Beat me! Kaizer: I think I will. Wormmon, fetch me my WHIP~!!! XD Wormmon: Only if you kick me first. H_H Kaizer: Insolent slave! But I shall kick you. But I do it because I WANT to not because you TELL me to!!! XD Daisuke: *dramatically* Gasp! Thud! Not the whip! Kaizer: ....you don't want me to use the whip? ;_; Daisuke: XD XD XD No, no! Kick me and hurt me and make me bleed if it pleases you, master! *sparkle!sparkle!* Kaizer: Haha! I thought as much! And remember pet, I am SEME! XD You belong to ME! I am MASTER~!! Daisuke: *sparkle!sparkle!* And you're so pretty when you're abusing other lifeforms, too! Thank you, Kaizer-darling, for using me as your fun fun toy! XD Kaizer: *grandly* No need to thank me, pet. .....O_<;;;;; I dunno, I think Kaizer yaoi is fun enough but once you've read one you've seriously read them all. I'm much more of a waffy Daiken fangirl, I guess. n_n;; And I was this close to buying the newest RK DVD today. They're FINALLY at the point where our last Kenshin marathon left off (Leslie has the rest of the eps I think, but not subbed and I haven't seen them). I stood and petted Soujirou's image on the cover for ten minutes before convincing myself it wasn't worth it. Argh. .....Meimi whispered @ 08:19 p.m. Thursday, August 23, 2001... np: Deja Vu - Hayashibara Megumi *smacks Directconnect with a mallet* By the way, I had a dream with you in it last night, Meg. O_o; We were sparkling over the CLAMP shelf in a Kinokuniya-like place, and I think you had a mallet in the dream. o__O;;; Riiight. And after my first full week of school, I'm not getting Saturday to Play. I'm going with 'Kaasan to do inventory at her school for what sounds like the entire day- but she said she'd Pay Me and when she said she'd Pay Me it sounded like a HELL of a lot. And...we know what Meimi will do for manga and markers. XD;;; (She SWORE I'd get to go next weekend, like I'm going to give up the opportunity for more money... XD) *twirls* And I think both my tests today went extraordinarily well, but I missed a question on my math quiz since our calculators are basically mini-computers and are entirely too complicated (you can type on them, and some people managed to wire *games* into them and play Tetris during class- you get the idea); and I couldn't find the freaking square-root button. >_>;;; Not like I care that much, because it went a LOT better than I thought. *kirara* .....Meimi whispered @ 06:38 p.m. Thursday, August 23, 2001... np: Tenshi no Yubikiri - Karekano I haven't studied or done homework or even finished my paper due tomorrow (well, it just needs final edits, no big deal) but Karekano episode 10 was amusing. XD *fufufu* And Leslie said she'd copy me the first two tapes!! XD So! While I want Sparkly Shiny Shimmery DVD release, I'll settle for downloading the rest off DirectConnect (I predict it'll all be mine in two weeks if not sooner). The problem with that though, is that you can't just let friends borrow it. =_=; And I can't find my pretty shitajiki that say, "It's okay. Even in rain or wind storm, it's okay. From that day they became girlfriend and boyfriend." >_>; Where did it gooo~? *conducts a brief search and comes up with an ancient FY shitajiki*...... >_>;;; .....Meimi whispered @ 12:11 a.m. Wednesday, August 22, 2001... np: There Will Be Love There - the brilliant green I'm almost scared of the Sailormoon hype you two are caught up in. Right after Weddingpeach, too. XD Though I was overcome with the desire to watch this movie last weekend...Peruru-darliiiing...*sparkles* At least it's providing me with a nice nostalgia trip through my childhood...XD It's scary looking back and realizing how I lived and breathed that show for about...um...four years of my life. O_o;;; (The show was NOT worth four years of my life; even people who like Sailormoon ought to agree that much. >_>;;) Hrm...apparently I'm going away this weekend, but not to Mitsuwa on the way as previously discussed. But she promised next weekend for sure- and then I'll have even MORE money! *V sign* No lunch for three weeks! Yay me. The money I have can buy approximately ten or eleven tankoubon if I buy shounen (XO the evil overpricing of the shoujo section!!). All I want to buy is shounen. (I've basically given up on Gravi and am resigning to my fate. That, and I'm getting a tankoubon from Leslie this Christmas and thus I'm comforted somewhat. XD) But shounen is rather frightening for me, because before this summer I had exactly four shounen tankoubon on my shelves: all Kenshin. ^_^; (Meimi last trip: "*holding manga after wandering the Jump section- a thing never done before. I've only taken a step over there previously to get Kenshin manga.*........I feel as though...I've betrayed my true self. ;_;") *angsts with you* The doujiiiin that'll be SO CLOSE...you're right though, animeondvd.com is bad for the health. I've mostly been watching for a CLAMP School release, but now I'll know to start checking CLAMPnet instead. ^^; Sadly, I don't think I'll be around SF anytime soon, but if I ever end up being up there I'll definitely tell you; neee~! I'd love to rampage J-town with you! ^^ Oh oh, and I did the most amazingly FUN art project today; I'll scan it in this weekend since the inking job it'll require ought to be done by then. We're working with positive/negative space in art design (*sobs* the beginning projects in BOTH classes are endlessly dull...!!) and I ended up choosing Subaru and Sei-chan as my subject for the practice picture we had to do. I *really* like it, though Subaru and Sei-chan themselves are only in the small corners of it. *frolics* .....Meimi whispered @ 09:23 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, 2001... np: Mabataki - Chara More DVD evil..I've been really put out that CLAMP School wasn't put out on DVD yet by Bandai over here, but then I just read on animeonDVD.com that their only criteria for a DVD release here is the original Japanese DVD being out for over six months already. n_n ....Japan, hurry UUUUP...X, Angelic Layer, TB, Rayearth and Rayearth2, RG Veda, Miyuki-chan, a~~~nd Sakura are ALL out on DVD already. Why not CLAMP School?!! XO Not to mention there's supposedly rumors floating that the Clover animation clip will see its only release on the Wish collection...but I actually wonder if they'll just do a CLAMP in Wonderland DVD with miscellaneous videos on there. CLAMP in Wonderland, Wish, Tokyo Babylon, and Clover is plenty for a DVD release. Want. To. See. Clover. Clip. Does anyone even know what the SONG was? I heard it was ALI Project again (yay!) in which case I'm wondering if there was a release of at least that on one of their own albums... And I'm so tempted to break our DVD player so we can get a regionless, and I won't have to put up with this idiocy from the American companies. >_>;;;;; Not that I'm rich enough to buy Japanese DVDs much, but...but... .....Meimi whispered @ 07:49 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, 2001... The NEW Kenshin OVAs are picked up ALREADY?!! O_O AND the Bebop movie?!! What the *hellll*...well, it's not too bad for me, since Mitsuwa is awfully good with the releases at the video store, so anything super-exciting we should be able to copy from the rental place. But it doesn't solve the problem for the poor people away from Mitsuwa... n_n That's ridiculous. There's absolutely no excuse for the KareKano DVDs, since they keep setting a date then that can't mean it's wrapped up in negotiations or anything. >_>; I want sparkly, shiny DVDs with Arima-kun on them!! And I've been waiting for that Entirely Too Long, because I first saw 1/3 the series early 2000 or so... O_<; And ne, I feel so sorry for you; it must be infuriating to know you could go to Yaoicon, what with being so close...if I were eighteen, I'd gladly have driven up and given you a ride there, but... ^_^; No. I must angst here, from a mere two-hour drive and a not-quite two-year age distance...but I hope you find a way to go... .....Meimi whispered @ 06:15 p.m. Tuesday, August 21, 2001... np: Kagami no Doresu - Sakai Noriko Had this stuck in my head *all day long* today (after playing my catchy genki mix tape all morning in the car, too!). But I don't know all of the lyrics yet so I was trotting around school singing, "Tada sore dake ga, watashi no kagami no doresu...ashita no bun no omoi wa, kyou tsutaete shimaeba ii...naite, naite, zutto naite...anata ga tadoritsuku you ni..." all day, really only that part. ^^; I looove talking to Leslie. My phone bill this month is going to be especially horrendous. Seriously. I dread the approaching leacture from 'Kaasan that comes with the bill. ^^; Tonight was fun though- she went up to Mitsuwa and bought Copic since I involved her in my craze...but she didn't know how to use them exactly, so I tried to help her over the phone.. X3 It really made me happy that I helped; at the beginning of the conversation she was complaining about how she hated the blender since it bled, and at the end she was (not literally, sadly) singing the praises of the blender! XD Randomness: Nobody has ever said that I looked cute while sleeping before. I'm strangely amused by it, even though I don't know if it's true. *l* Talking with her just always puts me into such a happy happy mood. X3 I was feeling a little badly since I didn't do much today *shameless slacker* but after a nice long conversation with her I feel happy, and feel good about the day. n_n Though I figured I'd better get cracking on my summer reading book, as I had over 200 pages to go and a test day after tomorrow. I now have 150 more to go; yay me. I'm enjoying it well enough; it's by far the best summer reading book I've ever had in high school (but our school chooses books that could not be worse...>_>;;) but not enough in that "I must finish this today because I MUST know the ending NOW" sense. But everyone else in the class promised me that it gets VERY good at the end. Thank goodness; as we haven't read a single thing (short text story, printout, assigned or summer reading, or otherwise- EVER.. >_>;) that has a joyously happy ending. I just hope I finish it before the test. ^^; I've become a horrible, horrible slacker ever since sophmore year...I always get the work done, and I pretty much always get the A, too...but I don't think it's a good thing to start out the beginning of the year already slacking off... ^^;;;; I don't know. 'Kaasan always gets annoyed since I don't win awards or anything, and I could if I really wanted to. But really, I'd rather focus on having fun with my friends rather than killing myself to be the best in studies. I only had to suffer in math and science last year, and got a 3.71 GPA... T-T So it's not like it's all that bad; and I don't have any great desire to have a 4.0 at the moment. Of course I'm tempted to go into a long rant about my friends and the importance of studies among them, and where I rate in their lives. But it'd only be a variation of a depressing rant I've complained about a thousand times before. And I need to go to sleep now, so why get myself all worked up? Maybe I'll write it out later, if I feel like I have something to gain by typing it out for the thousandth time...rather, I'd just remain in the happiness of feeling as though I've had a lovely day. And randomly, I didn't forget how much fun KareKano was, but it's great to start watching it again after not seeing it for over a year and a half. Ufu. And I finally got to see the opening sequence...<3 I only saw it once since they cut it from almost all the episodes at the con showing; and of course I didn't remember it. I actually like the opening a lot more now that I've seen the sequence. And it's nice to be watching into the Black RoseArc of Utena, too...I'm glad. If only my connection weren't so super-SLOW... =_=; And for some reason DirectConnect ate the rest of my KareKano episode 21 download so I'm missing the last six minutes now. Oh welll... .....Meimi whispered @ 1:02 a.m. Monday, August 20, 2001... np: Leave Me Breathless - The Corrs I'm so fed up with the Karekano DVD release. I just looked at animeonDVD.com and saw it got pushed back. AGAIN. To SPRING 2002, no less. (Now, I could SWEAR it was *supposed* to be FALL 2000...and even that is ridiculous...) Wasn't it picked up like...November 1999?!! >__< Forget it; Meimi is just going to download the rest off DirectConnect if she can find it all. I'm working on eps 12 and 21 at the moment, along with episode 17 of Utena (another I'm sick of waiting for)... =_=;; The problem with the beginning of school is that all the tests and assignments always hit on the exact same day in all the classes. I have two essays due and four tests I should be studying for this week, and 200 pages of book to read before Wednesday...haha. I'm just getting back into the habit of five hours of sleep average. n_n I need time for naps badly, and actually almost took one, but then I went out to eat and had sugar and caffiene. Yay. I guess not eating lunch might be slowing me down a little bit, but mou, 'Kaasan basically STARTED the entire system with the intention of NOT having me eat. Now she nags me TO eat. After a year of the understanding that no lunch = manga, I'm not stopping NOW... I heard rumor that I might be going back to Mitsuwa this weekend; I hope so. I want a nice light gray Copic marker (all mine are nearly black; very bad for shading in white XP) or a light pink for Chizumi-chan's hair, and more manga. Nyoooo. I have like $40 so I can do at least a little damage. n_n Off to try to call Leslie now, I think. .....Meimi whispered @ 08:04 p.m. Sunday, August 19, 2001... np: Kagayaki wo Atsumete~I believe - Noda Junko Lalalala...these past two days were greaaaat. <3 I just have the most wonderful feeling of happiness- you know when you're super-super happy (not genki but *happy*) and you can sort of feel it physically inside you? Like your heart is turning rainbow-color, almost, and turning lighter. I felt like that on the way home tonight... Went to Ali's house and we listened to CDs and read her seiyuu booklet till Leslie came over. She came over, I glomped her and cackled and we exchanged presents/omiyage (I gave her a pastel drawing I'd done of Nokoru with wings, she gave me Tokyo Babylon 5 and a pretty cedar folding fan with a tassel)...cackled over my haircut, and found out that Leslie almost got her hair bleached in Japan, but came too late in the day for the place she went to; shame, it would have been so cute... But it was just Happy. We all brought old home movies of ourselves at three and four, etc; and watched those and screamed over how CUUUUTE "wickle Ali" was. XD We also watched this Saiyuki thing Leslie got, that was a presentation in Japan with the seiyuu. n_n I've not watched Saiyuki (Leslie said she doesn't think I'd like it, and I suspect she's completely right, though I like the music I downloaded from it) but all of us are terrible Ishida Akira fangirls, so of course we watched it. We'd been blinking at his pic in seiyuu directory earlier that night and commenting on how he's one of those seiyuu who looks JUST LIKE the characters he does (were his hair longer, I think he'd be identical to Xellos ^^;), so it was fun. And after that we just talked and talked and talked, and Ali fell asleep around five AM so then Leslie and I talked and talked and talked until...um, eight-thirty AM. ^^;; I wish I could remember some of the more we talked about (as usual, it was a cackling fangirlism blur), though among them (just so I remember) were my Pikachu pillow (participating in much Wrongness through the night XD), completely hooking Leslie on Chara music in one swift blow (one listen to Miruku and my writing out the translation for her, and she announced promptly that she wanted to go off and give Ran a giant hug XD and then she listened to mooore), a soundtrack for Subaru and Sei-chan and the songs we'd include on it, weird Japanese TV shows, Leslie's adventures in Japan and at Comiket, my adventures in Japan which were much less interesting, what our parents thought (or would think if they knew we watched it XD) of yaoi, the last Cowboy Bebop DVD, colleges we were all looking at and where we were planning on going...oh, and spectulating endings to Inuyasha since we were discussing that last time; and Leslie said she couldn't think of a *perfect* ending to it, and I thought while she was gone and made a suggestion. She liked it, anyway; if I feel like it one day I might try to fic it, but I very much doubt it. And the CLAMP School dramas are the cutest things I've EVER heard. I started falling asleep so I only listened mostly to the first half- CUUUUTE. But there should be more NOKORU. Utako/Akira mush is good but they have their own drama series, so why is it necessary that they take up half of the CLAMP School one? And there should have been the ONSEN part in the ANIME. Just for the sake of the beginning where Akira mistakes the monkeys for Suoh and Nokoru. And the fact that there would doubtlessly have been the boys in yukata. H_H (They're shown grown up, so it's okay!! Right...?! XD) Shannako, I was cackling to Leslie about how you found all that TB stuff for download. I'm pretty much 100% sure the new 02 movie isn't out at Mitsuwa yet (gya, they're not even close to being done with 02 TV yet, are they?! XP) but Leslie said she'll absolutely copy the movie for you if you're willing to trade for the TB. And we screamed about new Sei-chan we hadn't seen yet. This is exciting, because there isn't X OVA yet so up till now we thought that CLAMP in Wonderland would be the last anime Sei-chan we ever saw, but... ^^; Speaking of which, while I stayed around Ali's house all day (seems I've been spending more time at her house lately than my own during my free time ^^) we watched...um...the Sailormoon SuperS movie and the TB OVAs again, switching between dub and original. I so pity the people who get into the series after watching the dub. XD In the place of "Kake wo shimashou (etc, etc)", we have, "I'll make you a promise now, Subaru! XD As long as I'm alive, you shall feel no pain!" Add that to the bit where Sei-chan claims he puts corpses underneath the tree to please an emperor hundreds of years ago who disliked the coloring of the petals, and Hokuto cackling over "sex maniacs", as opposed to "cockroaches" in the original... XD Oh, and I got to read TB 1 (Ali's present) and 5 (mine) today. It isn't like there's much in the way of suprises for the story for me, but I really did almost cry reading the last couple pages of the fifth one. ;-; I guess since my goal of finishing the series before the end of summer didn't come true, I'll try for Christmas- but I don't think I'll make it. ^^;;; .....Meimi whispered @ 12:20 a.m. Friday, August 17, 2001... np: Hi no Ataru Basho - Houshin Engi Above quote from my English teacher. O_o The class went THUD. Adeline, thanks for the link to the Gravi selector!! X3 Happy~~~!! My results: # 1 Shuichi (...I was expecting Ryuuichi, but I'm not all that suprised... XP *thinks about it some*....I'm really not suprised. n_n;;;) # 2 Ryuichi (Yatta! XD) # 3 Kumagoro!! (I wanna take it again and see what it takes to get #1~~! XD) # 4 Hiro (Probably the best reasonable one to get in the cast all-around...) # 5 Tohma (...<3 All the rest after don't really matter anyhow.) # 6 Mika # 7 Suguru # 8 K # 9 Taki # 10 Tatsuha # 11 Yuki # 12 Sakano I just started taking random tests since I hadn't in a while, and got Koppii Rezo on the Slayers one...now that's...distrubing. X_x;; I was expecting Lina, but I got her #3. *temporary loss of sanity* That does it. I'm going to update MT, but not for the sake of adding new trans (which I have a bunch of >_>;) but for the sake of putting up a LARGE NOTICE that screams, DAMN IT QUIT BOTHERING ME YOU IDIOTS. Namely, Meimi does not appreciate it when (A.) you email her nagging for translations (these kinds of mails just annoy Meimi and make her want to quit translating all together), (B.) you AIM her asking many stupid questions, or (C.) when Meimi is considered the Manga Shopping Mall. I don't mind giving out ISBNs if people ask since I ought to have put those in the trans in the first place, and requests for where I bought the Weddingpeach manga don't bother or suprise me in the least since I used to be in the same boat (used book store in Japan, for any curious >_>) and I already know that Kinokuniya doesn't carry it and Sasuga Books won't special order it, but what the hell; no, I'm not going to go buy something FOR you at Kino's if I don't know you! >_>; (Especially when I JUST TOLD YOU WHERE TO BUY THE MANGA ONLINE.) *regains sanity somewhat* I think I shall go work on a disgustingly simple layout for that site, which hasn't been updated in over six months. For good reason. =_= .....Meimi whispered @ 03:24 p.m. Thursday, August 16, 2001... np: Hi no Ataru Basho - Houshin Engi *randomly* Markers are better than food. If I'd rather have markers next Mitsuwa trip than lunch any day of the week, isn't that just a case of me deciding on my priorities? XD Right. Sleep. n-n;; Oyasumiii; I wish I weren't so dead so I could organize something between Leslie-tachi this weekend. But I'm so sleepy... .....Meimi whispered @ 09:20 p.m. Thursday, August 16, 2001..."When you were gone? Um, sleepover, Mitsuwa, Pikachu tried to molest Ali again..." np: Hi no Ataru Basho - Houshin Engi Cackling fangirl sleepovers = the corruption of just about anything. I don't think /anyone/ will be able to look at Pikachu in quite the same way again. XD (Nyooo. Pikachu, Totoro, who knows what else we've damaged permanently during late-night conversations. n_n Gah, we're sick.) Anyway, all I need to do around Ali now is leer and threaten to bring Pikachu to school. Ufufufu. Anyway...I usually have insomnia but never too badly. Like it can take me about an hour to fall asleep or so ordinarily. I was so dead tired last night but I didn't fall asleep till *five AM*. @___@;;; (Granted, I did get up around three-thirty to work on a Winamp skin since I got sick of lying around doing nothing.) And so I went to school with like, two hours of sleep...not too unusual for school, but I'm not used to it yet. ;_; Ick. I'm usually perfectly normal with this amount of sleep, but I was in a somewhat whiny mood today. Meimi: *shriek* I!! DON'T!! WAAAANNAAAA GO TO CLASSSSS~~~!!! Ali: ............... =_= Meimi: *snaps back to genki persona*beam* And I'll have you know I could be SO genki right now if I felt like it. I could bounce up and down the halls despite getting two hours of sleep. But as it so happens....*shriek* I DON'T FEEL LIKE IIIIIIT!! I wanna go HOOOME~!! I wanna SLEEEEP~!! Ali: O_<;;;;;; Right. *rubs head* Anyway...I'm realllly off to take a nap now...and tomorrow I get out super-early since it's my free last; and I leave at 1:45 X3 Erin-chan, cute layout! I love that picture of Arima and Yukino~!! *_* I always thought "Mameshiba" was a Daisuke/Ken song (I'll write a waffy songfic someday when hell freezes over) but it's great for KareKano too~! ^^ And Tin-chama...*blinks at all the curiosity horror stories*...I'm really amazed that you survived all that. O_O Though it's sort of irritating for me, as I was an extremely boring child that never got into any kind of trouble or scrapes, etc. My sole disaster stories were when I skinned my knees (in that I mean they turned GREEN before bleeding >_>;) in first grade, and when I toppled down the bleachers in fourth grade and almost broke my nose. And the only stories people tell at family gatherings about me when I was little, are about how I used to read and memorize the road signs on trips purely out of boredom, and thus could direct all the grown-ups when they got lost on the road. And how I memorized the names of all two hundred something colors in the Crayola giant box and would smack anyone who dared to call something "green" when it was really "lillypad" or "malachite" or "grassblade", etc. The most overused word in my childhood was "cerulean", and we had to keep on buying those giant Crayola boxes since that crayon wore down in record speed. >_>;;; Adult: And what's your favorite color, hon? Chibi-Nina-chan: *beam* Purple! Adult: *beam* And yours, sweetie? Chibi-Meimi: *firmly* Cerulean. Adult: ........o_O; ....the fact that this rates as 'fascinating stories of Meimi's childhood' is somewhat unsettling. I guess having siblings makes for more interesting stories deshou; since my crayons were my main companions when I was younger. Though when I was much younger I did have imaginary friends. Danda and Fudda, apparently. My mother was convinced for a week or so that they really existed and she was somehow not noticing these children I played with day and night. Until I told her that Danda lived in the crack in the sidewalk, that is. And Fudda lived down the drain in the bathroom, I think. But I long for the fun stories my friends and relatives have. Like how they would get stuffed in a sleeping bag and dragged through the house and up and down stairs. (...Ali... ^^;;;) .....Meimi whispered @ 06:05 p.m. Wednesday, August 15, 2001... np: Hi no Ataru Basho - Houshin Engi For some reason during high school, I've gotten into the habit of not understanding the concept of 'school starts tomorrow'. As in I don't drag out the old binder or bag up till the day before. And I never bothered to shop for school supplies. o_O ("I think I'm missing someth- OH!! NOTEBOOKS~!! XD Mooom, can we go buy notebooks?") And forgot to bring my books/locker shelf/various magnetic locker junk to orientation (again this year =_=) as to avoid being in a rush and carrying a ton of junk in to set up ten minutes before classes. I have gotten older, but not much wiser. ^^;;; It's late, I should be in bed, and my bag and binder are not packed or organized yet. The only thing I've done tonight is skinning and burning a CD for Katie-chan. ....I'm such a slacker. But in a kind of endearing way, I hope. ^^ .....Meimi whispered @ 11:02 p.m. Wednesday, August 15, 2001... np: Will [accoustic version] - Houshin Engi *crashes* I'm SO dead tired. I don't see why; I got over six hours of sleep last night so shouldn't that be enough~~? >_<;; Must get back into the habit of having four hours of sleep, anyway. Had school orientation today. A bunch of girls did new things with their hair so there was much screeching. I cut in line to stand with Ali-tachi so we got lockers next to each other this year; yay. X3 My schedule is super super easy this year, and Ali and I have free together~!! It's: 1. Math Analysis (*shikuuu*) 2. Honors English III (yaaay~) 3. Choral A (nooo~) 4. The Bible (>_<; no Mr. Y till next semester!!) 5. Art Design A (must stick it out till B...) 6. Honors U.S. History (iiick~) 7. Free And the fall play this year is /all/ musical with no dialogue at all, and it's Biblical stories...?!! X_x;;; Not really my thing either way, but I'll try out for it. Spring is the Wind in the Willows; nyo. And we'll probably do something with friends this weekend, but I'm maaaybe going to Mitsuwa next weekend, bwahaha XD because that's John's conference!! *dances* And he has a meet up in Sacramento this weekend, and he said he might stop at Mitsuwa for me and buy me Copic!!! XD Am very happy. Just wish I was slightly richer; but being broke is worth it for Copic and manga. X3 Ugh...now I wanna go take a nap. ;_; .....Meimi whispered @ 05:17 p.m. Tuesday, August 14, 2001... np: Friends - Houshin Engi *blinks at the last few entries*...I'm not addicted to this song. Really. Anyway, I almost forgot. Leslie's in-flight movie BOTH ways was the newest Digimon02 movie (the 02 sequel to Bokura no War Game) and I MUST SEE THIS. From what she told me, I can completely forgive Toei for the CRAP that was the 02 ending. This movie, Leslie says, was one big shimmery Daiken trip...the whole movie, she said, was basically JUST Daisuke and Ken together. And she said there was this bit where Daisuke touched Ken's cheek (something to do with listening in on a phone conversation with Koushiro, I don't know) and said the ending credits had some still shots that were really cute. "You know the picture of Touya and Yukito on the park bench, with Touya asleep and leaning against Yukito?" "Yeah?" "Well, there was a picture JUST LIKE THAT for Daisuke and Ken." "*SCREEEECH*" I MUST HAVE THIS MOVIE. XD Anybody know if it's out on video yet?!! MUST CHECK MITSUWA!!! XD .....Meimi whispered @ 09:44 p.m. Tuesday, August 14, 2001...*OHOHOHOHO* np: Friends - Houshin Engi LESLIE CAME HOME~!!! XD But before that; an extremely IRRITATING PIECE OF NEWS. Meimi: Mom! Leslie's coming home today! 'Kaasan: Oh? Where was she? Meimi: Japan! She got to go on a tour and things...! 'Kaasan: Oh. I wish you'd mentioned it before ((NOTE: I DID. >_<;)), you could have gone along!! XD Meimi: .................... *VEIN POP* *fumes* Just the THOUGHT that I COULD HAVE GONE with Leslie and had the most SPARKLY THREE WEEKS OF MY LIFE over there....but it's too late now, and I'm hearing suggestions on ALL sides that the three of us (=me, Ali, Leslie) should go off on a tour together next summer. Well, Ali not on a tour; her parents want to send her there to work with family. n_n; That would be fabulous; I'm going to talk with 'Kaasan about it seriously sometime in the next few weeks. Because I just really, really want to go again this summer; but going with Leslie-tachi would be the best. (I wouldn't be allowed to go alone anyhow; I think.) *daydreams* Anyway, Leslie pretty much did everything she said she'd do. X3 ("Heey~! XD I got pictures of Japanese crossdressers~!" "YAY~!!") It turned out the Comiket was so HUGE that I don't even think she found the doujin. o_O; So I did not get sparkly doujinshi, but she bought a big set of Gravi manga in a used bookstore and she already has some of them, so she said she might just give me the ones she has doubles of as my omiyage. ^^ But amazingly, she bought pretty much every single drama album I've been planning to buy. O_O (The only thing she was missing was the elusive Duklyon one and the other 20Mensou.) I'm sooo stealing them from her to rip instead since my new manga obsessions and the Copic display at Mitsuwa, just do not allow me to buy them anytime soon. XD She got BOTH the CLAMP School ones (which was what I wanted the most), the third Gravi drama (the Shuuichi seme thing was just a FANTASY he had?!!!!! NOOO~!! ;___;), one of the 20 Mensou dramas (yaaay~!), the Tokyo Babylon drama (Sei-chan~! KOYASU. XD), the DNAngel dramas (I WANT. XD), and who knows what else she didn't even tell me about. By the way, Amichi, I asked tonight and apparently at Fanime this year I DID convince her to buy the Aoki/Karen Character File after all!! XD (How the hell did I pull that off?! I remember she didn't even WANT it; she wanted the Kakyou one! @_@;) I'll rip that next time she comes over, and will send it to you, okay?! (She NEVER OPENED IT. @__@;;;;) *prances around* Anyway, but most of all I'm happy she got home safe and happy. X3 Hopefully I'll see her this weekend~~~~~~~!! *jumps off to draw* .....Meimi whispered @ 08:16 p.m. Tuesday, August 14, 2001... np: Friends - Houshin Engi H_H *wanders around in a mist of fangirlish bliss* I always complain because my friends often have fun anime-style dreams, when I so rarely even remember mine. But. XD I had the most SPARKLY dream with Ikuhara-sama in it!!! XD Kyaaa~~~!! And I love it when I dream in Japanese. ^^ .....Meimi whispered @ 01:05 p.m. Tuesday, August 14, 2001... np: Friends - Houshin Engi Kiiix, otanjoubi omedetou~~~~~~!!! Lalala...I should go to sleep soon, but I'm so happy!! Because Leslie!! Is!! Coming!! Home!!!...*looks at clock*...TODAY!!! XD EXCITEEEEEEED~~~~~~!!!! I've missed her so much. *prances around in joy* The phone bill will be a zillion times worse this month because I expect I'll have her talking for hours about her trip and the adventures she had. X3 Happy happy~~! .....Meimi whispered @ 01:21 a.m. Sunday, August 12, 2001... np: Will - Houshin Engi Just came back from Ali's, we had such a fun fun weekend X3 She ended up picking me up at like, four-thirty...so I was right again of course... XD And we picked up Ali's grandmother and then went up to Mitsuwa...the whole time I was soo worried we'd stop to eat or something and not get there till after Kix left ;_; but we got there!!! And she was tiiired when we got there so we went off to shop. I got some manga and went up to the checkout but... Meimi: *_______* ...... *stops dead in her tracks in front of the COPIC DISPLAY* Ali: O____O OH MY *GOD*. Meimi: *in the voice of one who has found paradise* ....Ali...we're not getting manga anymore. Are we. Ali: No. *shoves me out of the way* MOVE. But I really did want manga even though I only had $20 ^^;;;; so I bought two manga and two markers...next time I want a marker case ;_; Nooo, was broooke... So then we finished and Ali's family said, "Oh, we have to go eat now," so I said, "Okay, let me just say bye to Kix..." but she was off counting money!! ;__; So we convinced her parents to wait like 15 minutes so she could take pictures XD and we did, and it was fun~~!! When you get it developed misete nee, Kix XD I asked 'Kaasan and she said we'd go up there LOTS MORE soon!!! XD Because Labor Day weekend is the last weekend of August, right?!! We're going up to SJ or SF or somewhere to see the Beauty and the Beast musical, and she said I could go again then!! XD And John has some sort of conference near there that he has to go to, and she said if I was willing to sit through the conference then she'd take me to Mitsuwa again then too!!!! XD Ohohohoho~~~!! So after we left Mitsuwa we went out to Chinese someplace near Japantown...why go to Chinese food in Japantown?!! x_X; But it was yummy, though I wasn't all that hungry; argggh, I'm sick of people accusing me of being anorexic >_<; I'm not, I've just adjusted really strangely after losing weight and I literally don't get hungry AT ALL anymore. ^^;; And they got all surpised at me and ended up putting all this food on my plate I really didn't want...erk...but it was good... And then we drove back down and Ali's dad let us keep the light on in the car the whole time to read manga!!! X3 We read what we'd just bought and swapped magazines and manga from previous trips... Meimi: *reading the second-to-last 20 Mensou chapter last week* Damn. Nagisa's still alive. On the way back: Meimi: *hands Ali the manga* Here you go. Ali: *shortly after*....damn. Nagisa's still alive. Meimi: ^^;; ......XD (It was funny but kind of scary we both said the same thing ^^;;; Only I think she /really/ means it o_O The Nagisa-bashing was getting out of hand; even I thought so and I don't even like her. O_<;;) Sooo I got to read all the manga I bought last week over again, and two issues of Animage (CUTE AL summer pictures!!! But the best one was of Inuyasha cast; Kagome and Sango were in cute yukata and everyone was eating popcicles and Miroku looked confused at what it was ^^) and the first two Houshin Engi manga; happyyy~~!! And we got home around eleven and we watched my six episodes of CLAMP School...Ali hadn't seen half of them before so it was nice. And then we started watching the last two tapes of Marmalade Boy.....the whole time we were giggling over it but I can't remember any of the things we said that were so funny ^^;;; because it was like 4 AM. Lots more cackles over Michael being a puppy. We spent all today talking about Michael-puppy too... ^^;;; Anyway, I fell asleep at around 5AM and didn't get to see the last three episodes; but I did get to see ALL of the major Miwa scenes in the end so I didn't care!!! XD And we woke up at 2 PM today ^^;;; and ate and then went shopping with her family. We went to the mall first; I haaaate that mall, it's dirty and crowded and I don't like it. But after that we went to Ross; and I don't like those kind of stores (everything is the damaged or ugly things other stores didn't want! XP) and they spent like...FOUR HOURS there!!!! O__O And it was SO CROWDED and everytime you tried to stand in a place someone shoved you out of their way!! Literally every five seconds!!! >_<;; I wasn't happy; they didn't have any cute things and Ali broke a picture frame because of being shoved...but we talked for those four hours about Michael-puppy and the poles on the shopping carts. ^^;;;;;;;;;; And then we went to eat dinner, and we went back to her house to watch the last five episodes of Digimon...it was fun and weirded her parents out XD I think they were really concerned their sixteen-year-old was watching a show with an evil clown that turned people into keychains. ^^;;; And then they dropped me at home...lalala...it was a good day. ^__^ Except I found out my evil uncle screamed at 'Kaasan...gah...I don't think she's ever speaking to him again. And she told my grandparents and now they're upset/mad at him too. ^^;; Kyaa...ooh, but my grandfather sent me Japanese snacks!!! XD Two tiny sample-like packs; I ate one already. And I read the Taito prequel to Rune Master, that was good! I was really hoping that a Taito prequel would be written up; it's nice when wishes like that come true!! XD Waaai...I think I'm going to go draw now and test out my new markers... X3 .....Meimi whispered @ 11:39 p.m. Saturday, August 11, 2001... np: Rainbow Gossip - Chara I made ramen, but didn't add enough water and it was so dry it wasn't picking up the flavoring...soo I dripped some water on it but...for some reason it tastes soapy. Ugh. >_>; Guess I'll eat at Mitsuwa then... XP Am still here, since Ali said we weren't leaving till 'a little later', and said she'd be here around one-thirty. But I know her well enough that it means she'll be here at two at the earliest and probably two-thirty. n_n Our sparkly marathon and shopping time is vanishing! CLAMP School and Marmalade Boy. X3 Fluff-and-idiocy marathon? I now have money. Kinokuniya will doubtlessly NOW *not* have Gravi manga. ^^; Tin-chama, Terada-sensei and YAMAZAKI?! O_O; .....all I can think of is poor Chiharu-chan... ^^; .....Meimi whispered @ 01:03 p.m. Friday, August 10, 2001..."Dakedo, ashita wa kitto ii koto aru to, shinjiteita hi no maybe tomorrow..." np: Maybe Tomorrow - REBECCA *kirakiras over the song* Shanakko, what idea...? ^^;;; I seem to have forgotten. Adeline, I want to GLOMP your layout. XD XD XD Kyaaa~~!! I love it I love it I love it~~~!!! XD *sparkles over Touma endlessly* Thank you for complimenting me on the CG... ^^ Tin-chama, the CCS fic was really amusing. XD And a new RK OVA~?! *_* Ooh. Pretty ad...wonder what the American OVA DVDs are doing in the ad, though?! O_o; Am looking forward to a genki trip to Mitsuwa tomorrow; broke though I am. Just WATCH, now that I have no money they WILL have Gravi manga >_<;;; I'm hoping 'Kaasan will give me like $10 for lunch and I can skip it and buy some more Inuyasha manga instead, since it's happily cheap. ^^; Ohohoho...Kix, see you tomorrow~~ XD .....Meimi whispered @ 04:25 p.m. Wednesday, August 8, 2001... np: 'Rashiku' Ikimasho - Sailormoon Comp has frozen up about four times as I've written this entry... O_<;;; Anyway. I'll be going up with Ali and possibly a few other friends (Alyse, Daisy =_=) to Mitsuwa again on Saturday or Sunday. Kix, if you're working we'll see you again then ne ^_^ But I'm broke ;_; I want to hurt my cousin very badly at the moment. I have no idea what was running through my mind when I handed her the second tape of CLAMP School. =_= Ordindarily, I watch those two episodes roughly once every two weeks or so if I'm not busy. But this is not the normal everyday level of fangirlishness. And I've been watching Pretty League once a DAY (if not more O_O) to make up for my withdrawal, because those episodes are several thousand miles away, and I really want to smack her for not sending them yet...if she's waiting to get the rest of Rayearth2 to copy for me, that's all well and good, but... ;_______; But I need a way to make Nokoru-voice quiet down somewhat. I just want Leslie back home to PLOT with... ;_; .....Meimi whispered @ 11:42 p.m. pitas.com: not as yummy as some bishounen, but hey! XD what is?