. Thursday, April 25, 2002... np: Toki ni Ai wa - Utena Heehee. My skirt is 100% FINISHED. HELL. YES. Sure I still have a TON of work left (the sleeves will be killer - if they look bad, the whole costume will look bad =_=) but I promised myself I'll go to bed by 11 no matter how much isn't done. Before I go to bed, I want to finish the sleeves...all the rest can be done at school tomorrow, or even on the car ride up. And LES IS DRIVING UP WITH US!!! XD But I'm still rejoicing. I mean, the skirt is DONE. Finished. I stitched every piece of it by hand, ALL BY MYSELF, with NO HELP. Not only does it not look *terrible* (while not perfect ^^;), but! it! FITS!!!! Because that's just something that would happen, you know...not fitting at the end. Bell, Friends was new this week though it wasn't fabulous. I'm in a rush now so I'll send you the summary when I get back home from con. :D I think next week is season finale? So. I'm off to pack and keep finishing off my cosplay. Naturally if any of you going see me flitting around in my movie Shiori costume, by all means say hi. :D Kix-chan, I'm not exactly sure what your cosplay's going to look like, so hopefully we'll just run into each other at karaoke or something. I won't be back till Sunday night...and you two have fun at your con, ne. XD Here's to hoping a fun weekend for all~!! she cackled @ 09:57 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2002... ....skirt...trim...taking MUCH, MUCH longer than I thought, and compensating for the skirt shape with straight ribbon is hard. It looks kind of bad at the moment since the pleats are getting weird on me, but I just want to finish it and tomorrow I can make adjustments if need be. To-do? Sleeves, collar and tie ribbon trim, sleeve and stocking ruffles, velcro the skirt and blouse and sew them shut. Methinks...I'll be finishing some of this at school tomorrow. The skirt I'll finish tonight to be ready to wear...the blouse will at least need to have sleeves and sleeve ruffles done. I can do the stockings and ribbon trim tomorrow, though I'm not really happy...but I also need to pack tonight, *and* get to bed REALLY early since we're going to be at karaoke till tiny hours of the morning tomorrow night. :D she cackled @ 07:47 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2002... Of course we all notice especially good directing in a show, but... I don't think genuinely BAD (and I do mean BAD) directing has ever stood out to me till today. Tokyo Mew-Mew is one of the *WORST* shows I've ever seen. I mean it's CRAP. I have my unhealthy addiction for the manga, okay, but the anime (episode 3) was the most awful viewing experience I've had in a bit. The animation continuously stays on repeat shots (as in it stays for maybe 30 seconds on the same frame sequence of Ichigo freaking out). Just showing the way everything should be in a scene is poorly done. I thought now that the world had computer animation, there wouldn't be much in the way of badly animated shows, but it's not great quality. EXCEPT, of course, for the henshin/attack sequences. I have my own bone to pick with *those*, because while they're lovely they also are seriously lengthy. Each henshin seems to go on maybe 40 seconds (which is bad thinking of when they get all five girls together). Attack sequences run about 30 seconds. In a 22 minute shows, that's a serious amount of time, and while I...guess the sequences are nice quality, they're also ridiculous. I almost died laughing watching Mint's henshin...sure, girls are known to twirl and flip through their henshin, but it's like she's doing an ENTIRE BALLET PRODUCTION with pirouettes and leaps and twirls. THEN, to make matters worse, if a girl uses an attack more than once, we're not given a shortened sequence. No. We have to watch that 30 second sequence all. over. AGAIN. For the second time in 3 minutes. I will add that Aoyama was NOT in this episode. Feh. I don't have any ish with the seiyuu though, rather they're the best part of the show. Midorikawa as Keiichirou is absolutely fabulous, and Kakazu Yumi's performance is really perfect. And my costume is not done, which is BAD, and I'm going to be spending all night finishing that hell up. Ergh. I also really did flunk my math test (43% ^^; that might very well be the worst grade I've ever gotten in my life) but really don't care. I DO care about how my history teacher (who I hate with a passion) gave me a fucking C+ on my TEN PAGE TERM PAPER, but since I doubt it'll effect my ability to get an A, I'm not that mad. Just...miffed. =_= I worked really, really hard on it and none of my content was wrong. She gave me a C+ for "grammatical errors" (she IMAGINES them...I had my mother (who was a teacher with a stickler for grammar) proofread it, it was FINE...you don't give a fucking ***C+*** for NOT LIKING MY CHOICE OF WORDS). Okay, so maybe I am a little mad, but...I'm not going to get worked up about it. It's so typical of her. she cackled @ 05:01 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2002... Erggggghh. The back of the blouse is done (messy and uneven, but done) and the collar ruffles are halfway-done. I cut material for the other side of collar ruffles and the tie. The tie portion is partially sewn together, but the ruffles need to go on before I attach that. Sleeves: not even cut. Shit. So to-do: ribbon trim on skirt, collar, tie...cut and sew on sleeves (stuff them maybe?)...zippers for everything and then to sew them shut...add ruffles to other collar side, sleeves, and stockings, then sew on tie. Wah! Only about 36 hours left and I still have all that to do~!!! ;__; But I'll get home WAY early tomorrow (around 5ish) so it should be totally fine. I hope. I'd better sleep now since I have a paper to finish in the morning. she cackled @ 01:51 a.m. Wednesday, April 24, 2002... np: Dame! - Rurouni Kenshin TO DO LIST DAMNIT for cosplay... -SHOPPING tomorrow. white stockings, two white zippers, one black zipper, 2 yards of wide white ribbon, 1 1/2 yard of thin white ribbon, about a foot of thin yellow ribbon. -TONIGHT. The sleeves, the tie, the back of the blouse. THIS MUST BE DONE, bare minimum, ruffles if I have time but probably won't. -TOMORROW. Ribbon trim on skirt, collar, tie. Sew the zippers into the blouse and skirt, and sew both shut. Lace frills on sleeves, collar, and stockings. -FRIDAY. Ask to borrow bright nail polish from Ali, paint nails early in the morning. Any last-minute adjustments can be done first block and during lunch period. Set off. We had planning session today, but I left the list with Ali. ^^; I think...um, Friday will be guest meeting then karaoke contest...Saturday will be Kanon 1-2, Ikuhara panel, Noir 1-2, CG workshop, lots of shopping, cosplay panels, karaoke open-mike, and Ali wants to go see the first few episodes at the midnight marathon of Scryed. Sunday is Ikuhara autograph, more cosplay stuffs, various GAINAX anime showings, lots of time for shopping, closing ceremonies... Must flee. I'm absolutely exhausted - I stayed up late till 2 finishing my math homework last night, and absolutely flunked the test. I don't even think I filled in half the test...but seriously? I don't care. I don't even have a shred of guilt over that one, which is awfully refreshing. ARGHHHH COSPLAAAAAAY...I don't have the energy to stay up late finishing all this... she cackled @ 09:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2002... np: Ore-tachi no Melody - Digimon02 It's really saddening that I could have tried for an A in math analysis, but gave up all hope of it for cosplay. (I do have to finish an absolute ton of homework problems for credit though, so I'll be up late tonight...) But at this point I only care about passing, though if I get lucky tomorrow I could maybe keep a B grade. ^^; I just need to get a 50% at least...can we sense how much I don't care? *laugh* Jin, sorry I disappeared...my insomniac ways caught up with me as usual, so I went to collapse on my floor for a nap. But I'm glad we got to talk some ne. Hai hai. You have fun at your con ne? :D When I get pictures, I'll definitely put them up. That's providing I finish this costume, mind you, but I'm so far into it now that I refuse to let it go unfinished. I will continue to shriek over how it's GOOD for someone who's never sewed before and had NO HELP. I'm proud of this costume. My mother (last Saturday: "But dear, you can't sew...") wants me to make clothes for her, she claims. O_o Of course the deciding factor will be the sailor collar, since that's what shows the most. *crosses fingers* I'm off to do homework and cut material for that - I'm bringing the whole costume to school tomorrow to work on during my free period...and then planning session at Ali's house...then going to work on it at mom's meeting I have to go to. I'm cutting it typically close, since I have to buy all my trimming on *Thursday* night. O_O That means the white trim on the skirt (I'm this close to using cloth, but it really wouldn't look as nice), the white ribbon for the sailor collar stripe, the ribbon on the school tie...and if I'm going movie, the ruffles. Iyaaan. Plus have to find time to buy white stockings (which also will need ruffle trim ;_;) - mom isn't going to be pleased, methinks. Better flee so I have less to do tomorrow. My math test is first thing in the morning, so...yeah, I really don't care. ^^;;; Con-hype does that to a fangirl. she cackled @ 09:57 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2002... np: Can't Fight the Moonlight - LeeAnn Rimes "Underneath the starlight (starlight!) / there's a magical feeling so bright / it'll steal your heart tonight / You can try to resist / try to hide from my kiss / but you know but you know that you / can't fight the moonlight! Deep in the dark you'll surrender your heart / but you know but you know that you / can't fight the moonlight / noooo you can't fight it it's gonna GET TO YOUR HEART~~~" Really, Les would be dead if she wasn't Les. I've had this song stuck in my head for like three days straight, with Yue-vision. she cackled @ 07:30 a.m. Monday, April 22, 2002... np: Can't Fight the Moonlight - Leann Rimes Okay, if I didn't love Les so much, I'd be smacking her next time I saw her for this. She gave me this song and told me it was "Yue's song", and then when I wailed over ModernClothes!Yue grooving to this song in a music video (dancing in an abandoned alley with the moon shining bright overhead, no less) she had to add to the image of a Yue music video to this song. Specifically the image of Yue and Touya cruising down the highway with Yue driving a snazzy car, while Yue sings the chorus and whips his head around to face Touya to sing, "Can't fight the MOONLIGHT yeah!" My-chan, I symapthize. I decided that schoolwork this week was officially a lost cause. ^^; I'm going to flunk my math analysis test this week on account of not caring enough to study. Erk. My costume is turning out splendidly, kind of. Considering that I'm technically not working with a pattern. Wheee. We'll see if the shirt fits in a bit - I only have enough material to mess up one side. But I think it's going well... she cackled @ 10:22 p.m. Monday, April 22, 2002... np: Panikku! - Kodocha Back from the retreat, which was splendid. It was...basically...intro. Icebreaker game. Eat. Intense retreat activities. Free time. Eat. Free time. Intense retreat stuff. Group class discussion. Eat. Free time. Sleep. Get up. Eat. Intense retreat stuff. Personal reflection time. Eat. Free time. Eat. Group reflection. Leave. Was really great in every way - I didn't feel like my time was being wasted, really. While we didn't do a lot, what we did was really meaningful and lovely, and I would go again. Awful, dirty housing and all. That being said, the big countdown to Fanime has begun. :D Kix-chan, you're coming back soon ne~? Since I want to compare scheduleness so I can see you for a bit. Ali and I are planning a scheduling session after school on Wed where we're going to go through the website schedules and know EXACTLY what to do before we get there. Or not. It's also an excuse to trail after her mom (who can sew) and beg for help on Ohtori puffed sleeves. But the pre-con hype is just so early this year. ^^; I have to do something. I'm hoping to (almost) finish the main shirt portion of my Ohtori blouse, and after that I can do the collar. X3 The skirt is almost done; I just need to buy ribbon to trim the bottom and sew it shut, then add the zipper. *ufufu* So, off to seeew~!!!!! she cackled @ 04:03 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 2002... np: Skirt - Chara As it turned out, the cheerleaders made me quite happy. I want you all to envision those tough football players at the all-boy school down the street. Now imagine them in off-the-shoulder tops and purple miniskirts. Add wigs every color of the rainbow and elaborate makeup. Now have them imitating the general sluttiness of the girl cheerleaders, while dancing to (what else?) "I'm Too Sexy". Our classes' team was awful (bah! they just wore our uniform skirts and didn't have the routine memorized) while...uh, considering the amount of practice time allowed, the senior boy cheerleaders were better than the varsity girl squad. I ended up leaving before halftime at the game though, since my allergies were bothering me...and Les discouraged me from my dressup idea at Fanime, so... In a really typical decision... CAN MEIMI MAKE COSPLAY IN LESS THAN A WEEK THAT DOESN'T SUCK? But seriously, considering that my only experience with sewing is last year's Juri costume, which was bad and Mom ended up taking over, at the moment it's turning out rather fabulously. I've never been able to pull off a nice cosplay since, um, I tend to start making it each year when most people are putting on finishing touches...I'm making Ohtori uniform Shiori this time though, which is significantly easier than most other costumes (since there doesn't need to be much shopping around besides material). But the skirt is almost done! I'm just stitching the waistband around it now, and then I just need to add a little bit more to some pleats and stitch it shut. After that just the trim. *ufu* Um, and since I'm afraid of sewing machines and 'Kaasan's not around, I sewed everything so far by hand. That should count for something, yes? *niko* The only thing I'm worried about really are the sleeves- I have no clue how to make those... Anyway! I'll be off to my class retreat around noon, so shall be gone till Monday. *grimance* I'm not really looking forward to it- last year's was a disaster. Or not exactly. I guess I could say a lot of seriously, seriously awful stuff happened, but I came out of it with something priceless for myself. Just for myself though, not for the other people involved, which saddens me...oh, I hate thinking about this. Hopefully this year will go better - but I'm not that wild about retreats anyhow. Maybe this year will be a little different since I know more people on the retreat team. *fleeees to pack and finish skirt* she cackled @ 10:14 a.m. Friday, April 19, 2002... I feel miserable, somehow. I know it's the lack of sleep; I haven't had any proper sleep in days. I'm typically a person who can go on smiling and bright with about three hours or so, but since naps aside, I've been getting two hours of sleep these past three days...I'm feeling sulky and cranky. Suuuuuuuuuulk. 'Kaasan is no longer picking me up early; I now wish she WERE so that I COULD miss powderpuff, since I am feeling extremely unspirited. Maybe the boy cheerleaders will cheer me up? (And I'm hungry, but we all saw that coming, but I actually had breakfast today so I have no excuse.) I'm just...sulking over stupid things. Not even stupid things; they aren't even really reasons to sulk at all. I'm so stupid. But today I started to understand what Les meant when she said you can cut class and still look studious and smart. Go me. she cackled @ 12:45 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2002... Nrgh. Of course didn't do papers last night, but out of a desperate longing to not be left out of cosplay this year (with one week to go XP) I stayed up to small hours again cutting a pattern for a skirt. Twice, actually, but since it's the leftover material from last year, the skirt didn't fit. Oh well. I still need to make that skirt though; it could be reused again and again in different costumes :D I just need to analyize the Utena movie now, so that's going to be the rest of my morning. Not the paper itself, but trying to compress the paper into two pages. Iyaaaan. Started watching Chobits episode 3 last night, but the beginning is somewhat uneventful besides the fact that Chii began to do copycat talking. I want a toy Sumomo, though! But seriously, isn't anyone aware that "pasukon" = "personal computer" in Japanese? It just seems irritating to see all these alternate confused spellings of it when it's actually a word. Still working on Full Moon episode one. I don't think I'm ever going to get Tokyo Mew-Mew. ;_; Which, tell truth, I kind of want to see more than Full Moon. It's a seiyuu factor thing. Sleepy. Off to write paper, which is only giving me more cause to sparkle in anticipation. Everyone who's off to ACen, have fun ne~~~!!! she cackled @ 08:20 a.m. Thursday, April 18, 2002... np: Ashita wa Motto - Digimon Adventure And our Powderpuff uniforms are ugly as hell, by the way. The picture on them won because the girl who drew it was popular, setting aside that she has NO artistic skills WHATSOEVER. The class council managed to sweet-talk the entire class into not voting for any of about six sketches by the girl who's been taking art lessons from the professional painters since she was eight. Ugly. So stupid. They aren't cute like the other classes' have been in the past, and we spent three months arguing over this idiocy. And I have two papers to be writing, since I fell asleep the moment I got home (Friends was rerun so I didn't miss! yay!) but I really just want to fall back to sleep. she cackled @ 09:59 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2002... np Ashita wa Motto - Digimon Adventure I can sense when I'm being punished, you know. 'Kaasan's picking me up from school early tomorrow. Normally I would be ecstatic, but damnit, it's Powderpuff tomorrow. I sadly don't care much about watching the game, but I'm going to even miss the rally with the boys cheerleading in their cute skirts and all. ;_; Yeah, I would miss one of those moments that justify going to school at ALL. Yay, glad you're happy with it. As far as Utena goes...no, they were not dazzled by the ending, they just didn't get it. I fiddled with visuals and lists on the board trying to remind them who everyone WAS so they could understand the ending wasn't miserable. They didn't believe me. Because, after all, an ending without shimmers and rose petals for poor angsty Touga is no ending at all. *snort* It just saddens me that while I have such love for the series, nobody cared at the end. The last episode has me in tears, every time. When Utena nails her fist into the ground and stands up, I just can't help crying. It makes me wish that I could be a little like that. she cackled @ 09:59 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2002... I'm so hungry I want to cry, my money is in the clutches of the Powderpuff uniform bill-collectors, and all I have is 55 cents that I thought would get me SOMETHING from the vending machine. Yeah, this WOULD be the week they upped all the prices. *cries* I'm so hungryyyyy.... she cackled @ 12:36 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2002... Didn't really sleep last night. And I thought I was getting back on track, too. Erggghh, stupid two hours of sleep nights. Here's to hoping I can ganbatte and stay awake for Friends!!! ;_; I think next week is season finale? Iyan...at least the reruns nowadays are really cute. Les was on last night, so I got to talk to her before she left on her way again. I'll see her next weekend when she comes home...I explained my evil Fanime outfit idea, and she told me she thought the idea of cosplay was to go as something I WASN'T (i.e. insane fangirl). I challenged her to come up with an idea along the same lines that we hadn't exhausted in some way or another. Les: Well, maybe if we just stumble around mistaking everything in sight for bishounen and glomping it...like vases or something. Meimi: Oh, yes. Like we've never done ANYTHING like that before. Les: Hey! When was the last time you mistook Kamui for... *pause as she recalls all the household appliance incidents, the turkey incident, and so on* Nevermind, I see your point. Sleepy... she cackled @ 09:29 a.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2002... np: You Were Meant For Me - Jewel Subaru skin for this. Eeeeeeeeeek. she cackled @ 09:07 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2002... np: Chi Kou Go Itsu - Houshin Engi Argh. Contemplating Fanime dealer's room thoughts. Of course it's the sort of thing you can't figure out till you get there, but I'm SO BROKE the pure idea of this year makes me want to sob. THE DOUJINSHI. The doujin tables make a killing. I can't believe they sell for $15 each, it's ROBBERY. But am I going to leave without being robbed this year? Doubtful. Thus!!! doujin priorities are NokoruxSuoh (#2 on the list of things I'd sell my soul for, but doubt I'll find it anyhow...let's face it, doujin tables are little more than GW fangirl fodder =_= even the CLAMP selection isn't good), Fruits Basket is fair game for anything, last year the doujin table workers (the doujin table workers, now come ON, people) looked at me like I was from Mars when I asked about Digimon doujin with that awful "oh you shota fangirl FREAK" stare (and I want teenage TaichixYama doujin! that's not shota~!! though I'm guilty to DaisukexKen longings too) so this year probably won't be too different, and Gravi if it's Touma. No CDs unless I find something really cheap or a rare drama album. Screentone and art supplies are big priority. Cels aren't really my thing, but I'm looking for CCD stuff as always; if there's a pretty Nokoru cel it'll be mine. No manga this year unless we go to Mitsu for lunch. Random merchandise: it's all about Furuba this year and nothing much else. ...the pre-con hype is hitting a little early this year, somehow. Nine more days to go- but two of them will be spent on retreat, making them officially the two longest days of junior year. ;_; Hopefully this year I'll end up in the same cabin with friends. I'm soooo happy about this. she cackled @ 08:36 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 2002... No. My school has snagged all my money for Powderpuff fees they rained down upon our class this week. I'm down to one meal a day (the one at home) due to being purely broke. I'm so dead. Fanime in roughly a week and I'm broke. If anyone wants to stalk me at con, my plan (though I haven't done negotiations yet with my various partners in crime) is as follows at the moment (but the video schedule isn't out yet of course, which could change things around plenty ^^) Friday 7:00-8:00 Meet the Guests, provided we can get there early and snag tickets (we missed last year, but Ali says we're leaving DIRECTLY after school without stopping for dinner ^^ maybe not necessary, we only missed by a split second last year and I think was at 6:00 or 6:30 then). If we manage to get there, I think it's pretty obvious whose table I'LL be sparkling at. :D 7:00 Open mike karaoke 9:00 Maybe karaoke contest- it's a PROPER contest this year so I'm hyped, but we're not staying in the con hotel so as it might go late...might have to skip out since Ali's mom probably doesn't want to drive us around at tiny hours of the morning. At any rate, we'll be lurking around karaoke a lot- we spent most of our time there last year, and I personally found it more fun than most of the con. Sat 11:00 Ikuhara panel (this is the single thing that is not negotiable. :D WE WILL BE THERE, trying to snag front-row seats for the second year round!) 12:00 webcomics panel, maybe...but I'm not too insistent. Sun 10:00 Ikuhara autograph session (*maybe*, I don't really want have anything to get autographed since I went last year and got my movie poster and manga signed~) 1:00 Director panel (yay!!) And then closing ceremonies. :D It's just my very favorite people going with us this year, so I think everything will go smoothly. Anyone going should be on the lookout for Ali in her TB-mode Subaru cosplay, because I swear to you, she LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIM. Les and I will be the fangirls chasing her and attempting to molest her. :D This is gonna be so much fun- there will be much Ali-torture this year if she wears it with BOTH me and Les around. I'm so serious- in that outfit she looks like SUCH AN UKE it's not even funny. she cackled @ 05:22 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2002... Oh, and for the final showing of Utena, four people showed up today, and only two were able to stay to the end. You can't say I didn't give it my best shot. Meimi: *drawing diagrams on the board* *writes: Touga---Power, Saionji---Friendship, Juri---Miracles, Miki---Shining Thing. Club: Just let us watch? Meimi: I'll let you watch if you can remember the connections between the people and the words. Club: ... Meimi: Oh, hell, I'll let you watch if you can tell me who these people ARE. Club: ................. Meimi: I thought so. >_<;;;; (We've been watching all YEAR.) It was like pulling teeth, I swear. Such morons, even my friends. If they can't remember the MAIN CHARACTERS, it's impossible for them to remember lesser, yet still cruicial characters (Shiori, Kozue, etc). And in short it's pretty impossible to arrive at any conclusion about the ending, and I had to stand at the front and try to explain WHY it WAS a happy ending, while I had girls bitching about how cute Touga was at the end and the best ending would have been him and Utena looooooooooooooove. I personally enjoyed this year of Utena, because it beats Marmalade Boy easily, but still with that kind of reaction at the end, it saddens me. I asked if anyone wanted the tapes so they could watch it again, but everyone said they didn't want to see it again. "Too depressing." .......I hate it when people refuse to think. she cackled @ 10:39 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2002... np: Midori no Hane - Sakamoto Maaya "I hate it, but it's so damn true. I AM a monster.......a very PRETTY monster." And really- what else needs to be said about Ken, anyway? she cackled @ 05:12 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2002... np: Mameshiba - Sakamoto Maaya It's the small victories at early hours of the morning that matter. *at 7 AM this morning in the comp lab at school* Meimi: *FFnet search*....click. click. click.* *and thirty minutes later or so* Meimi: *click...click....REFLECTIONS.* Score. I knew if I searched random DaisukexKen favorites lists long enough, I'd find it. *ufu* It's here, more for my own future reference than anyone else's, but. And I am off to reread the whole epic fic AGAIN just so I remember it all. I think this is my third reread. *cackles* she cackled @ 05:12 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2002... np: For Fruits Basket - Fruits Basket Suprised that so many people seem to like the negi ramen layout. Thanks a lot~ Ingrid, you've summed up Chobits already. It's fanservice and computers. Its pull comes from excessively cute character designs, good animation, and the typical CLAMP series seiyuu cast. Good luck tomorrow ne. *hugs* Vinita, they so copied the ramen sequence from the Rocket Dan motto. If anyone didn't think it a blatant ripoff, they were insane. They even did the whole, "Then we'll do THAT!" "That?" "Yes, THAT!" "Then we'll do THAT! *cue motto*" Or something, it was just like Rocket Dan anyhow. ^^; And Takuto's seiyuu IS the Diet Coke of Seki...Mitsuki's voice still bugs me slightly- her voice when she sings is so pretty. I wish she could sound like that all the time. But yeah, I agree with you on the whole Arina h0 thing, even though I'm, uh, more of a Honda Chieko fangirl in this case for the show (*must...restrain self...from Kyoko rant...*). Am I the only one sincerely dreading however many more episodes more of Mitsuki's...if we must call that dancing? ...wiggling in the opening? As for Shiina Ayumi series, I really wouldn't know. Baby Love sounds (to me) like basically the same idea as Good Morning Call, only more shoujo cliches and less quirky charm. I never got into the whole Penguin Brothers thing, either. ^^; But ah! I REALLY want to buy Good Morning Call tankoubon now- it always seemed a series that would go on literally forever, but now that it's ended I feel safe trying to buy it, knowing what I'm getting into. ^^ she cackled @ 08:51 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2002... Sometimes, I just think that FFnet will literally be the death of me. YOU DO NOT WRITE NOKORU PREGNANT, OKAY, YOU JUST DON'T. Current life goal at this particular moment: writing a CCD fic about Nokoru and Suoh without using the phrase "golden-haired angel". I'm imagining a CCD yaoi fic drinking game, and if you took one sip for every time that phrase was used, you'd be smashed after three fics. Other additions to this CCD yaoi fic drinking game: -Akira demonstrates his cluelessness. (You all know how it goes. :D) -Nagisa somehow grows a spine and personality, becoming Bitchqueen!Nagisa (I hate her, but then I hate her having more spine than Utako). -Nokoru Crossdressing. (Two sips if a miniskirt or dancing is involved. Chug if the one(s) crossdressing is NOT Nokoru.) -Nokoru and Subaru make out. Enough said. -Two sips if strawberry glace is mentioned. -Chug if you ever have to think, "Akira...Akira. NOOOO!!! AKIRAAAA!!! Resist the lure of the dessert toppings! THINK OF UTAKO-SAN!! THINK OF INUKO-SAN! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!" Because you'll probably want to be drunk by that point anyway. -Nokoru effectively "distracts" Suoh from the point of the paperwork chases. Although it has occured to me that I've never actually seen a yaoi Idomu/Nokoru, although there's a lot of awfully good shounen-ai (or otherwise) fanfics for those two. she cackled @ 06:58 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2002... A cookie to anyone who can help me find "Reflections". You all know the Digimon fic I'm talking about if you're Ken/Daisuke fangirls; it's insanely popular and the big epic and all that. Unfortunately since FFnet switched favorites to different pages, I haven't been able to find it as I can't remember the author's name (and asking FFnet for one certain fic titled "Reflections" is like asking for the moon). *_* And I really, really want to read it again. she cackled @ 06:58 p.m. Monday, April 15, 2002... Meg, don't worry about Takuto's voice. It's not Seki, but it's kind of the Seki Feel. Like they wanted Seki but settled for the cheaper, easier to come by, Diet Coke Of Seki. XD And I love Honda Chieko. HAAAAAAAAAAH. she cackled @ 07:51 a.m. Monday, April 15, 2002... Cards up at FFnet; I've been fussing with it for a few weeks. It's Utena, Kozue POV, the usual twistedness that should be expected considering...yeah. Um. Wow. o_o Thanks so much- I didn't expect such a huge response... ^^; I recognize a fair amount of those fanfics and names from my childhood Sailormoon years, but after a while I'm pretty hyped to read some of those again. Thank you! she cackled @ 12:47 a.m. Sunday, April 14, 2002... np: For Real - Gensou Maden Saiyuki Hee. From rampaging Touma to the onion ramen shinigami team. (I still want to layout that Shuuichi "ore wa HOMO DAAA~!!" though. Just not today.) I'm actually half-pleased with the CG job, though Meroko turned out a lot nicer than Takuto. And today I was thinking to myself, "I really better get the rest of the Tanemura tankoubon, because my obsessive-complusive side is nagging about how I only need to buy two more tankoubon and I'll have them all." But see, I actually need four more, because while I was thinking that all day, the rest of Kyoko slipped my mind. And I guess that's all that needs to be said about Kyoko. (I don't hate it, I'm just stiiiill really bitter.) Vinita, I'm glad you liked Gin'yuu Meika. I'm really fond of it too- it's rather rare I find a yomikiri that I adore. Most shoujo yomikiri read pretty much the same...actually, while I really only translate yomikiri I especially enjoy (otherwise they're things I got many requests for and they were easy as hell), even so...both Gin'yuu Meika and Uta-hime no Tame ni are piano stories, both Gin'yuu Meika and Short Sunzen play off the idea of a "genius student" keeping up fronts and going off to scream as stress-relief (and their "quiet" and "angry" personas switch between glasses ^^)...really, of all the yomikiri I've read, I think the most "original" are Kimi to Deatte Kara (which made my entire tankoubon buying of Hoshiinowa seem less pointless) and Kiseki no Haru (which is just a beautifully poetic story). *ufu* Um. I think off to bed. ^^ she cackled @ 10:57 p.m. Sunday, April 14, 2002... I had a dream last night and I think I was Sora, and I had this really serious crush on Yama but I knew that he was meant to be with Taichi, so it was going to be unrequited love forever. But then his band had a concert and he was throwing Digimon plushies into the audience, and he looked right at me and threw me the Tsunomon plushie, and I was all dokidoki and didn't know what to think. ....hee. It's rare I have dreams like that, but when I do it makes me think that sleep is really not such a waste of time. she cackled @ 12:13 p.m. Saturday, April 13, 2002... np: Route Venus - Sailormoon Just watched the second ep of Chobits. AUUUUUUUUGH. MINORUUUUUUUU~~!!! Come to me for a hug! I will hug you forever and ever until you at last feel looooved~!!!! I was slightly doubtful about Kuwashima Houko (has she ever done a boy voice?) but she is perfect. This episode was basically the exact same as the manga though, although I think Minoru actually gave more valid info on the Chobits series than in the manga, where I think he just foreshadowed a lot? Maybe, I only read the manga once. ^^; The next episode should be a little different though, since we're meeting Yumi-chan and sensei for the first time. ^^ I'm really liking this anime; I grant you that the basic concept is overdone but it keeps me watching somehow. Seiyuu factor, maybe. I'm...hungry. *flee* she cackled @ 01:23 p.m. Friday, April 12, 2002... np: Senshi no Omoi - Sailormoon To make the story short, I couldn't get a sellers permit so no art table so I had to email the Fanime people and pray I'll get my full refund back. It's not that big a deal- I'm a little sad, but at the moment I'm just looking at it as potentially my last con with ALL my friends there, so I feel as though the table isn't that big a loss since it's more time to spend with my friends. I AM sad a little since it's something I wanted to do, but...ah, is okay. More time for Ikuhara stalking deshou. Mmm...I have a lot of stuff I want to do this weekend. But tomorrow- I'm absolutely exhausted, hopefully after tomorrow my sleep schedule will get back to normal. ergh. she cackled @ 10:29 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2002... np: Kaze ga Fuku Hi - Sakamoto Maaya I retract my statement about having NO stress, it's just I have refused to deal with anything lately. I haven't done math homework all week even though I was absent before break, and think I might just resign myself to flunking the quiz this week. I decided to take the U.S. History AP exam this year, but am not in an AP class so will be giving up two lunches a week in review sessions (this reduces me to two lunches a week, you see, if I don't have other meetings). *dies* I haven't done the packet we were asked to do by tomorrow. Oh yeah, and for Fanime haven't gotten my SELLING PERMIT YET, which is bad. But none of this is really, really bad stuff...just being so miserable is really what's set me off. And for no good reason, too- really, this week, only wonderful things have been happening. I'm glad you sympathize. I guess it's not as bad for me since I'm a junior and am simply dreading senior year's approach...but good luck with your situation, though? Erin-chan, I have the last three episodes of S (125-127), and then have for Stars: 167-170, 175-186. *sparkles* Thank you. The idea of watching all that pure sugary goodness is too wonderful for my brain to absorb at the moment. On that subject...does anyone have any good Sailormoon fanfic recs? I've been looking through sites for ones I remember were good after all these years, but don't have the energy to go crazy searching for the new. I'm looking for Haruka/Michiru things especially. Meg, I adored the furoku. Seriously, I looked forward to picking up that package all day, and it was my day highlight. I just felt loved opening it up and sparkling at everything you sent. :3 And my stomachache is over with (I've had this mad craving for vanilla Jello pudding but we ran out of milk till today, and I made a batch but nobody in my family wanted it...so I ate it all, I think was a bad idea but at least it was the fat-free kind :D), so I'd REALLY better get to sleep. Damnit, I was about to catch up with sleep tonight, too...but oh well. Is okay. And let's pray the Sailormoon Thing calms down a bit before con because at this rate I would spend all my money on Sailormoon stuff. o_o I have literally NO money though, so I am going to ganbatte with my art table after all so I can buy doujin. Argh! PERMIT! *thud* Will finish this stuff tomorrow. she cackled @ 02:08 a.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2002... Haaaa. In the media center again being antisocial, two days in a row. Can no longer blame it all on the weather, since it's pretty out today. However, school is stupid and won't let me sit where I want to, and I don't feel like sitting out in the blaring noise of my class quad. So. I don't know what's wrong with me. Maybe it's the fact that EVERY FUCKING TIME I TURN MY HEAD someone is demanding to know WHAT THE HELL I'M DOING FOR COLLEGE. I think that has something to do with it. I can't stand it- yes, I'm sure if I just shove the entire idea under the rug, it won't get any better, but I just can't handle it right now...and EVERYONE is asking. I hate it. Tomorrow, Les is going to be flying around the States for most of the month, so no more talking to her for now...sad. I don't know. I'm not really under much stress for school right now (hora ne, I have five classes today, and I'll have watched movies in three of them, plus art XP all work was in math), but...I'm just in one of those moods. I want to be left alone, somehow. Tonikaku, don't ask me about college this week, if you do I swear I'll jump down your throat and come up with your spleen. With parents, family, teachers, and friends, it's been nothing else. So please don't make me cry. *shiku* I'm just feeling really lonely somehow nowadays, and all anyone ever wants to talk about is college and my future... Nrgh...I think I'm going to go work on my Ikuhara paper. And then maybe draw some... she cackled @ 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, 2002... Erin-chan... O.O ....... *__* KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN~!! *tackle* ARE YOU SERIOUS~~~?!!! *_* she cackled @ 08:28 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, 2002... It was pretty weather all last week, but all this week it's been chilly and cloudy. I hate it- my moods really connect with the weather, and cold greyness just turns me sour. My nasty moods usually get me in trouble, so I decided to be antisocial (which also can get me in trouble) for lunch and come play here. Grey days like this give me a sense of foreboding. Like I've done something stupid, or am about to do something stupid, and there's nothing I can do about it. I think I'm just going to translate something to clear my mind of everything- Nervous Venus 3 and 4 is all I had in my bag, so whee, will work on that. Pity I'm not carrying anything I should be working on actually. ^^; Meg, package came yesterday and am going to pick it up today hopefully, sankyu~ Of course now that I'm thinking it, my sour, grey mood probably is linked to the fact I haven't gotten decent sleep in three nights- I collapsed on my bed last night and napped for five hours (after three hours of sleep the night before) but promptly could not fall back to sleep after 'Kaasan woke me- causing me to get another three hours of sleep. I feel awful...I actually should be using this time to work on Bound (page 11 inking will be done to edit tonight, whee) but worked on it all day during class so. Off to translate. she cackled @ 12:22 p.m. Monday, April 8, 2002... Nyoron...could NOT sleep last night. I think the sugar of CLAMP Campus literally put me on a sugar high...I know I'm silly, but that is one of my absolutely favorite series. Nagisa still makes me literally clench my teeth and squirm and want to throw large heavy objects at the television. I asked Les to make me a tape with all the Duklyon appearances (except the one in the Idomu arc) so I was watching it last night. I watched both episodes of "Oshare Dorobou", then "That's Entertainment", then "Once Upon a Time in China". It was midnight when I had worked up to "Pretty Woman"...so I went to bed and I'll watch it tonight when I get home, and then "Pretty League". *ufu* The show is undeniably just fluffy, but...Nokoru is my favorite character ever, and the show is just fun. And it has Nokoru crossdressing goodness. Mm. My other favorite character is Utako, and the two 20 Mensou episodes just send me into shrieks over the cuteness...I wasn't a big Akira fan till I watched them (don't EVER marathon about half the series in one sitting, it will only make you realize how Akira only has about four or five lines in the series and he's the first one you want to kill once the cute overload hits..."Kaichou!" "Takamura-senpai!" "Utako-san!" "Taihen desu!" "Ocha mottekimasu ne!"...and that's about it). But those episodes are precious and adorable, and I really, really like Akira and Utako. I love the 20 Mensou manga, and seeing the flashback scene just sent me into squealing happiness...the drama doesn't cut it. Minami Omi and Miyamura Yuko are just too much Akira and Utako for me. :D Kappei is not Akira (what was it with him years ago? you realize he played most early CLAMP main characters? Kenpi, Akira, Subaru), and the girl who played Utako annoyed me because she sounded like a kindergartener (when Miyamura Yuko sounds just...so...XD). Well. Anyway. Nokoru is huggable and angsty and precious and wonderful and I love him more than anything. And there should be more CLAMP School decent fanwork out there. Hopefully this year at Fanime doujin tables I will find something?! *uru* Didn't find a thing last year... she cackled @ 07:39 a.m. Sunday, April 7, 2002... np: my sweet heart - Tokyo Mew-Mew The verdicts on Mew-Mew and Full Moon openings: uh, they both suck in terms of sequence. Shiori, you're right, Mitsuki's dancing...is...there are no words to describe how awful it is. o_o The Tokyo Mew-Mew opening is rather boring, either too slow or too fast as not to see things properly (AOYAMA, people! AOYAMA! it's all about Ogata here!)...Kisshu's design looks really cute, though, and the picture of Shirogane and Keiichirou leaning against their snazzy sportscar watching the sunset was... *_* ...well, the PRETTINESS. But the songs for both were good. Mew-Mew gets extra points for not drilling into my brain like the Licca-chan song. And...I just...can't believe I want to watch that show; I think Chobits is going to be the only vaguely intelligent show I'll be watching for a while. =_= she cackled @ 05:08 p.m. Sunday, April 7, 2002... np: Todokanu Omoi~my friend's love - Sailormoon Rejoice! I have moved on to other Sailormoon songs, and what's more- I no longer have the attack-screaming cuteness of "Tsuki ni Kawatte Oshioki yo!" stuck in my head. But I also want to spend all my money on the Sailormoon S DVDs. That is bad. But I didn't know they had so many episodes on a DVD each; it's actually a fabulous deal. Yup, the Chobits cast includes Seki, Inoue Kikuko, Kumai Motoko, Yuzuki Ryoka, and Kuwashima Houko. But really, I think Chobits is different from the other CLAMP evil- it may have fanservice fanservice fanservice, but all the same it also has an intelligent point to make. I'm hyped to see next week's episode already, as I'm dying to see Minoru animated. *_* Auuugh. One thnig though...why is "pasukon" translated as "persocon" by so many people? o_o Has CLAMP put that romaji on merch or something, and it's supposed to be a pun that way? It seems weird to me otherwise. ^^; And I've glimpsed Full Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew anime on WinMX, but with sickeningly long queues, so here's so hoping I can get those somewhere in the next few days. *ufu* Because... OGATA MEGUMI!! I'm not sure about Full Moon though, as I really only have a vague idea what it's about and don't know if I'll like it. What really annoys me nowadays is that manga don't become popular on their own merit, people just seem to automatically like one series after another if it's by the same person. I guess this makes sense, since stories usually aren't of hugely varying quality...but it seems to me that Tanemura's been planning this with an anime release, and I suspect she chopped the Kyoko manga short as a result- Kyoko was a manga with countless more stories to tell, and I honestly didn't like it anymore after I finished reading it. My overall reaction was, "What? That was it?" Even when I was reading the manga halfway through, I was disgusted with the sickening predictability of the plot. I remember protesting to Erin-chan with KKJ's clever plot twists in mind, "But Hizuki CAN'T be 'evil', Tanemura's been hinting that from day one, why would she do something so stupidly predictable?" I really wonder why- I might have been suprised that everything was Hizuki's fault if she hadn't been shoving images at us since the beginning of tank one screaming, "LOOK!!! HIZUKI IS *UP TO SOMETHING* GOSH WHATEVER COULD IT BE?!!" Kyoko had its moments, sure, but overall it just seems as though it rose to popularity on the Jeanne manga's status. Blah. In the end, the story was rushed, unsuprising, and there was a cast of characters whose personalities were never explained because there wasn't any reason for them to be around, other than standing on a number on a clock. Which is a really stupid reason to have...what, five or six characters around, who we never know anything about besides their names? I'm bitter. But only because I wanted all her stories to be as good as KKJ. she cackled @ 05:08 p.m. Saturday, April 6, 2002... np: Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi - Sailormoon Yup, still. Bellll, thank you for telling me about Nervous Venus... *___* KYAAAAN!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE'S NEW CHAPTER!!! The pattern of the tankoubon so far seem to go (mostly) present, past, present, past...so any new chapters should go back to present? *screeeeech* Last cliffhanger was cruel, cruel, cruel!! It really is the best manga ever, though. And last night I managed to download the first half of episode 195 of Sailorstars, so I'm pretty pleased since it gave me more Seiya dosage. Hee. Ugh, I can't believe I have to go back to school on Monday. But...seven more weeks of school? That's doable, I'll survive. And Fanime is in three weeks! Art table and Ikuhara-stalking shall ensue. XD she cackled @ 09:39 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2002... np: Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi - Sailormoon Nokoru is has now made the Niiyama Shiho Connection and has been commenting loudly all day long on an adaptation of a Starlight getup for Suoh. My head hurts. I had about twelve Sailormoon songs on Winamp yesterday morning, now I have sixty. I get that in the music box, they were grouping lots of BGM together and slapping one name on the group, but why did they have to put various intrumental versions of Otome no Policy together with the Sailorpluto theme so they were ALL the Sailorpluto theme? Otome no Policy...doesn't match with Sailorpluto theme. she cackled @ 09:46 p.m. Friday, April 5, 2002... np: Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi - Sailormoon I am sorry I went "...." at certain people going through a Sailormoon phase some time ago. My life has come full circle, and now I am miserable because I never went to the trouble of getting more raw tapes. I've watched all the Stars I have in the house, except the first eight episodes (because eps 5-8 got ruined in a Root Beer Incident, and no point in 1-4 if Neherenia arc can't be finished with 5-6) and the Taiki episodes because I hate him. *cries* My life revolved around this show for YEARS, and I bet even with dub episodes I've only barely seen over 100 episodes! So basically, I'm back to that point I was at several years ago- willing to sell at least a portion of my soul for S and Stars raw tapes because while it's nearly impossible for me to believe, ENCODED EPISODES PRACTICALLY DON'T EXIST on filesharing programs. >_<; I wonder if Les would rent and copy some for me...but somehow I doubt she loves me enough for Sailormoon... And now that I've watched Stars understanding the dialogue for the first time ever, I'm in love with Seiya. I think I've listened to this song twenty times or so. Usagi was a moron for sticking with Mamoru; even though Seiya is technically a girl, I think Mamoru was ten times more of a girl than Seiya was. ;_; I'm toying with the idea of a CLAMP School mini-marathon, or rewatching...ah, I don't remember the episode title, "Futarikkiri no Yoru! Usagi no Pinch!" or whatever. Nokoru: You don't want to watch me and Suoh and get evil ideas? Meimi: C'mere. Listen to the pretty voice on Winamp. Nokoru: .... *KIRAKIRAKIRA* Yeesh, with singing talent like this, why couldn't CLAMP School have had an actual image collection where the characters sang?! she cackled @ 10:16 a.m.

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. Meimi? is sixteen (tanjoubi 11/18), is generally a genki person, but her cheerful and innocent appearance masks an evil fangirl mind. XD Sparkles at friends, drawing, shopping at Mitsuwa, manga, shounen ai and yaoi, fangirlism as a way of life Has been reading Houshin Engi, Nervous Venus, Fruits Basket Has been watching Utena, CLAMP School, Chobits Has been listening to Chara, Sailormoon Wishes she could stalk Imonoyama Nokoru, Seguchi Touma, Hayate, Sasame, Souma Yuki, Souma Ayame, Souma Akito, Sei-chan, Youzen, Ran, Ishida Yamato, Ichijouji Ken Wishes she could also stalk (albeit with less enthusiasm) Kusakabe Maron, Sumeragi Hokuto, Ohkawa Utako, Awayuki Himeno, Awayuki Mawata, Haruhara Haruko, Souryu Asuka Langley, Katsuragi Misato, Sakurazuka Setsuka Can be found by email at meimi@strawberrymoon.net or AIM at KSaintTail Current layout: CG of Meroko and Takuto from the new Tanemura Arina manga, "Full Moon wo Sagashite". I still haven't read it, but am determined to watch the anime because of my Honda Chieko fangirlism. Meroko's design is the cutest thing ever, and combine that with Honda Chieko's voice and I'll be stuck watching whether I like it or not. maybetomorrow - archive - playlist fanfiction - pitas allegretto applesauce atashi.blog aqua stranger basic black cat's delicacy chicken scratch complete strangers december23 den of otakudom disintegration dreams of sakura echoes from the void eyes unclouded faded memories freetalk fuuma's shoes green tea ice cream headphones save lives illegible scribbles kaijuu ga iru kudaranai kyoko legal alien lime rain one dimensional pensieve selective memory somedays good somedays bad technomancy that damn duck the bishounen diaries the letters from no one tsubasa uncommon valhalla which way is up? winnow in thy abraxas jin sarah shi-chan shiori .

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