. 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 Fruits Basket, Houshin Engi, Gravitation Has been watching Fruits Basket, Pretear, CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan Has been listening to Chara, Sakamoto Maaya, L'arc~en~ciel Wishes she could stalk Imonoyama Nokoru, Seguchi Touma, Hayate, Souma Yuki, Souma Akito, Sei-chan, Youzen, Ran, Arima Souichirou, Tsuchiya Ruka, Nishikiori Issei, Ishida Yamato, Ichijouji Ken Wishes she could also stalk (albeit with less enthusiasm) Sumeragi Hokuto, Ohkawa Utako, Awayuki Himeno, Sohryu Asuka Langley, Katsuragi Misato, Kusakabe Maron, Arisugawa Juri, Faye Vaentine, Kannuki Wakaba Wants to dress up Sohma Momiji, Tsuwabuki Mitsuru, Shibahime Tsubasa Can be found by email at meimi@time-stranger net or AIM at KSaintTail Current layout: Starring Fujiwara Rekka, the main character from Bound, my joint manga with Shiori. Bound has a very 'wintery' feel to it as a whole, so I couldn't resist the snowy layout with Rekka. Was inked with Copic multiliner, Copic markers, and CG touchup. ^^ maybetomorrow - archive - playlist - fanfiction - pitas allegretto applesauce aqua stranger basic black cat's delicacy cephiro, inc. complete strangers daysleeper december23 disintegration doushita no?! dreams of sakura echoes from the void eyes unclouded freetalk fuuma's shoes green tea ice cream headphones save lives kaijuu ga iru kelemenopy kudaranai kyoko lady commander lime rain one dimensional pensieve random pie sadistic dreaming selective memory somedays good somedays bad tegretol dreams that damn duck the bishounen diaries the letters from no one truth tsubasa uncommon valhalla which way is up? winnow in thy abraxas

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Sunday, December 30, 2001... Aniki? If you feel like insulting me, either restrain yourself and shut your mouth like I do, or SCREAM IT IN MY FACE AND GET IT OUT, FUCK YOU. Quit this mumbling-under-your-breath shit- never loud enough for me to hear, but always loud enough for me to know you're mumbling insults. "What did you just say?" "...nothing." LIKE HELL. Don't deny it if you're going to go to the trouble of saying it. Don't play this cowardly little game of getting the last word in your mind as you mutter to yourself about what a selfish bitch I am. ...in the cold winter air//09:20 p.m. Sunday, December 30, 2001... Bell, if my choking dialup can find and finish the episode, I'll definitely send it to you~! So far its really not much different from the manga save Kyou's scariness and Yuki's appearance...but Akito is Lurking so I figure he'll make an appearance. *fufufu* Though they seemed to twist the theme at the last second....from the idea of just Tooru healing everyone, to the idea that nobody can heal at all unless they don't run away from what they've been through, and accept it...? Which makes me really hyped to see Akito show up. XD (I mean, a little more than usual.) ...in the cold winter air//01:13 p.m. Saturday, December 29, 2001... You know, it's wonderful to have such great friends that know me so well, and think the same way as I do. Meimi: We MUST go to the movies together! Les: Sure...now what do you want to see though? LotR, or HP? Meimi: *snort* LotR. Les: Oh, good. Meimi: I mean, I just want to see HP again for Snape's gayness. But he's only in the movie about five minutes! So why should I sit through that movie for the sake of FIVE MINUTES of gayness, when... Les: ...you could go see LotR and have LOTS of gayness? Meimi: Yes. It's all about the gayness factor. I love my friends. ...in the cold winter air//10:41 p.m. Saturday, December 29, 2001... np: I'm Your Friend - Gundam Wing ........... ................ ................... O_O I know I said that Hobbit smut would be bad, but even the average Hobbit smut couldn't be worse than...than THAT. I feel like laughing hysterically, but purely because my brain is totally broken. I ALREADY braved the SHIGURExKYOU! Must I go through the only thing worse than...than Shigure daydreaming of molesting Kyou while babbling over how Kyou likes to have his belly rubbed?!! *whimpers* Oh, just the memory of it all... I'm going to go cry now. ...in the cold winter air//02:00 p.m. Saturday, December 29, 2001... Re: the first half of Furuba 26...I only managed to snag half of it. Not like the whole thing isn't more than a smidgen different from the manga... Damn. Kyou is scary as all HELL in the anime. In the manga I just felt..."aww...poor Kyou. He turns into some slimy...thing" but in the anime...eek. It's like he stepped out of Jurassic Park. He has glowing eyes and sharp teeth and he goes grrrrr. Very scary. I haven't watched ep 25 yet, but from my understanding of what happened in it...I don't blame Tooru for running for her life. I think it ended up fitting together a lot better, for her to run away and then have her talk to Kyou about how scared she is of him. Everything was really the same as the manga, except that they changed it so Yuki was there. I liked it when he jumped on Kyou and yelled at him- it struck me as the first time in the whole series that Yuki was really talking to Kyou, person to person. It worked out really well that way; if those two reach no further resolution then it's still perfect..("So...just running away? ...both of us are...SO WE'RE JUST RUNNING AWAY?! HONDA-SAN!! Tell us what you're thinking...TELL US THE TRUTH!!")..the only thing that didn't really work for me was Yuki being there during the part where Kyou changes back and hugs Tooru- the part before was just a step, but those two seem to be very firm in never showing the other how they really feel? but Kyou really needed a hug anyway. ^^; But above all, the highlight of the episode as the voice acting. I was really shocked- I've never heard such good work from Seki. While Kyou talks in this episode, he uses a very weak, tired voice that speaks in a half-whisper, always sounding near-tears. It was really, really good. Also Hisakawa outdid herself too, though she didn't say much- what she said, she yelled. She generally voices the quiet ones, so it was really suprising to hear her screaming her head off. But yeah. Seki's voice in that episode. Wow. ...in the cold winter air//12:13 p.m. Wednesday, December 26, 2001... Ehe. I stayed up all night last night- I planned to go to sleep, but got my schedule messed and so I wasn't sleepy. Around 3 AM I decided to just stay up and go to the airport with 'Kaasan and John...came back home and rewatched old Slayers Next videos till around 7:30 AM when I finally fell asleep. Also went to the mall today...my family went to the movies but I didn't feel like going (we just saw LotR last week and I'm going to go see it again with Ali and Les probably next week, so I wasn't in the mood for another three-hour movie ^^;), so I shopped alone for three and a half hours. I hit Suncoast and drooled over DVDs, determined to buy something since I had a gift certificate, and was torn between any Eva one, the first Mahou Tsukai Tai! TV one, the Bebop ones I'm missing, and various Kenshin Kyoto arc DVDs. ^^; I ended up deciding on Kenshin since those have five eps to a DVD now...but was torn between the one with Saitou and Aoshi fights, or the Seta one. I haven't seen much of Kyoto arc (I've seen basically up to Soujirou's first little fight with Kenshin) though I had seen the episode with Soujirou's past and his last fight with Kenshin...so I tried to talk myself into the first one. >.>; But in the end, I was unable to say no to Soujirou's face on the box cover- I love him too much. I was tempted to buy them both, but after wandering around a bit I decided against it, and spent that $30 on the LotR soundtrack, a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring (I don't know if I could have read that book without seeing the movie first and knowing that yes, it eventually does get good. I tried to read The Hobbit so many times, but kept getting bored in spots), and hot chocolate at Starbuck's where I sat reading for an hour. Very, very fun day. X3 Going to go play the soundtrack and read now. ...in the cold winter air//08:03 p.m. Tuesday, December 25, 2001... Merry Christmaas. The required list of presents: -13 new Copic markers -Copic airbrush set -Copic white -Copic manga/drawing high quality paper -jade pendant with silver kanji on it (forget what kanji) -calendar of Japanese print pictures -matching scented candle and perfume -$30 gift certificate to Suncoast -Blues Brothers DVD (...aniki...oi..) -$100 in all for money -two sets of pajamas -duckie plushie slippers (!) -new bedside table and new bookshelf (needed stuff) -red shirt from Express (yay!) And probably other stuff I've forgotten...the markers especially made me happy since I can really use them. Love to everyone. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Love to Shi-chan for your thoughtfulness and sweetness, Jin for your fangirlish evilness that can always make me laugh (hisashiburi jan~ love the layout, by the way), Kix-chan for your genkiness and always being so nice when we visit (Les said try for Mitsuwa trip before school starts! let's eat lunch together again, ne!), Erin-chan for always being so sweet to me, Tin-chama for always being so sparkly and amazing, Meg for always asking asking how I feel at the times I think nobody cares, and Amichi for listening when I'm upset and cackling with me later. To Adeline for being so darling and being all fangirlish over Touma too (you're making a shrine?! *_* show me when it's done, right? so I can worship him even more than I already do?), Mika for making me smile and listening to me when I'm having bad days, Bell for being so wonderfully fangirlishly sparkly to me, Shiori for being such an understanding friend and manga partner, Kikyo-chan for being so funny and being friends again after all this time, My-chan for being so great and easy to talk to, and Shannako for being such an amazing person and always going out of your way to cheer me up whenever I'm feeling down. To my family, who is of course stuck with me and deals quite well with my everyday selfishness and bad moods. To Ali, for dealing with me for these past four years and not killing me or smacking me silly, even though I deserve it most days. And most of all to Les, because she's seen me at my best and at my worst, and still listens to me, talks to me, laughs with me, and understands me more than anyone else I know. Love to you all and everyone else- and I miss all that I haven't talked to in a while. Merry Christmas. ...in the cold winter air//09:26 p.m. Tuesday, December 25, 2001... I just finished wrapping presents, only the rest of the household either hid or used all the tape. So I hunted around the tree, looking for gifts to me, and stole pieces of the tape off them to reuse on my own gifts. Gah. That's so pathetic. I popped in the Utena movie DVD (I borrowed it from AJ) to watch Ikuhara's commentary script. *_* Firstly, I worship that man. Secondly. Everyone should totally watch that movie without dialogue. (But /not/ mute. The music's too important.) If you'd asked me before tonight I would have told you I knew that movie like the back of my hand from visual perspectives (though I think you learn something new every time you watch it, and goodness knows I've watched it enough times). Once in a Bebop interview Hayashibara was talking about how she didn't think the seiyuu in Bebop were so important as in other series, because the way the anime was put together 'the characters don't even need the voices to be understood'. GAH. That's exactly what that movie is like; though it's somewhat freaky to realize that the music was more important than the voices. Seriously, that Ikuhara commentary script was wonderful to watch; I noticed a lot of things visually that I'd never even noticed before, because the dialogue kept me focused on the characters. For example, till tonight I never noticed that in the first scene with Utena and Touga, at a point the camera strays away from them ever so slightly, and you can see the corner of a painting on the wall nearby- and of course the painting is that one of the boat and (I think?) Dios standing in the doorway that they use later in the film. It's things like that...that amuse me so. So I meant to pop in the commentary version just to play in the background, but got so absorbed (into both Ikuhara worship and the visual effects) that I watched it the whole way through. (Then I messed with more DVD features- disgustingly, I got all the trivia right even when I skipped the review clips, except for the one where you count the students (I would have gotten it right but I forgot Utena and Wakaba ^^;) and the one about Saionji's shirt.) Then I turned on the subtitled version (their translations could be better) and wrapped presents, but what with hunting for tape it was a rather long process, and I watched the movie again up to the carwash point. Was considering buying the DVD, but decided against it- the DVD only has one real fault. You can't take OFF the dratted SUBTITLES. That movie is a visual masterpiece; no way am I paying $30 to have (badly-translated!) subs hanging in front of the prettiness. Eeee. I'll stay happy with my raw copy- if there were more Ikuhara in the features, I would have bought it, but...oh well. I'm considering just not going to sleep, because if I go to sleep now I'll never be up at the proper crack of dawn Aniki demands for this morning. ^^; Maa ne. ...in the cold winter air//03:33 a.m. Monday, December 24, 2001... *sparkles insanely* AKITO~~~~!!! ...in the cold winter air//04:42 p.m. Monday, December 24, 2001... And when I got home today, there was your package in the mailbox! *sparkle* I watched it all earlier this afternoon! *_* THANK YOUU!! The endless sparklies!! I cried during the Momiji episode...the Hiro episode was amusing- I love how bratty he is! It was more amusing to see animated somehow...and the monkey...person...(what was their name?)...being just like the onsen-lady was too funny. In a scary kind of way. I had been looking forward to episode 24, but it seemed like the timing for the seiyuu was off by a second or so, and people kept talking at the wrong times. I liked the end of it though- the way everything hit at once and Kyou's eyes changed shape and he screamed. *_* Looking forward to the last two episodes...! And merry Christmas to everyone! X3 ...in the cold winter air//04:42 p.m. Monday, December 24, 2001... Bad things happen when I quit reading Nakayoshi. (It's not that I don't want to, but at last check the only series running now that I'm wild about are B-Wanted and Mink...) CYBER IDOL MINK WILL BE ANIMATED SPRING 2002!!! My joy is unspeakable. Animated MOTOHARU. H_H Seiyuu! Music! Cute idol costumes! I can't wait- hopefully they'll handle it well- but if it gets good animation and good music, I can't imagine it could be bad...the idea of pretty CG henshin scenes and all... *bliss* Got home this morning from a sleepover at Ali's house...but Les couldn't stay, so sleeping over wasn't that much fun (Ali falls asleep right away). However the rest of the night was great fun- we had a huge group photo, and while taking it, Ali accused Les of groping her. She wasn't, but was of course somewhat encouraged to do so afterwards, and it ended with Ali getting chocolate sauce on her nose. Ali got annoyed by this and said that Leslie was 'shunned'. Ali: I shun you. >_<; Leslie: *sniffle* Really..? You don't love me anymore? Ali: NO. Leslie: *sniffle* Meimi: *jumps up* But it's okay, Les! I'll love you enough for her share too! Leslie: *glomps onto me* Of course!! If Ali doesn't love me anymore, then the two of us can elope! XD Meimi: XD Yay! Leslie: And build our fangirl colony! XD Meimi: Let's go, right away! *glomp* Ali: ....... (If you picture the tree of us as Aaya, Shigure, and Hatori- except I'm not sure if it's Les or me being Aaya, but either way Ali has no control over either one of us- you get an idea of what things are like when the three of us are together.) So Les and I were cackling over our plans to elope for the rest of the night, and then my Pikachu pillow wanted to elope with Ali but she got upset. And traumatized. And so the pillow just tried to molest her as he usually does. Right. It was great fun, anyway- Les brought the Furuba tape she'd rented at Mitsuwa and we watched...um...the Kisa ep, the one where Tooru got sick, and the one with Aa-ya's shop. The fangirl screams. I LOVE AYAME. We also exchanged gifts...I gave Les Chobits 1 and my sculpture of Setsuka, and gave Ali the Fuuma X Strength single (to match the Kamui one ^^). Ali gave Les a Japanese lantern with a kanji character on it, but it was really messily-written and so we couldn't figure out what kanji it was (with Ali's dictionary or from Ali's grandmother) so we dubbed it "the bishounen slave mistress lantern" or something similar. Leslie gave Ali Gravitation 9, a book explaining Japanese idioms, and a Japanese book on curses and slang ("May you hit your head on a corner of tofu and die!" "WHAT?" "It's a REAL Japanese curse~! *_*" ... "HEY!! Now when we go to Japan, we can use FOUR DIFFERENT WORDS to ask where the gay district is!!"). And I got cookies, Nervous Venus 2, Houshin Engi 17, and an Evangelion postcard book (it has a picture of naked Kaworu holding a smaller Shinji *_*;) from Ali, and the basketball D.N.Angel shitajiki and "Alice 19th" (the new Watase Yuu manga) from Leslie. (And I suppose my first marriage proposal from her too? XD) All in all, it was a lovely night...after Leslie left we watched the Bebop movie and then went to sleep. ^^ I woke up this morning and started reading my new manga...I didn't care for Houshin 17 as much as I did other volumes, but how can I complain when it had Youzen wearing those pajamas? Nervous Venus 2, I already had a good idea of what had happened, but of course descirptions aren't enough for Seki stabbing himself in the ear with a protractor. (That was even worse than Hitomi clawing his arm into a bloody mess...) Sort of a shame though that now I have all four tankoubon and who knows how many more months it'll be till tankoubon five? (If it's in Fuyuyasumi this year though, I think that's enough for five...?) And Alice 19th...was okay. As far as Watase goes, I think Imadoki! was her best work since anything remotely serious always ends with my favorite character dying. This is pretty much in the same vein as her earlier works- love triangles and a magic bunny, along with a total Kouki ripoff male lead (why hasn't she managed to make any of her guys look different nowadays?! Kouki looked like a mix of Tooya and Yuuhi, as it was- but the guy at the end of Alice looks different, yay). I liked it the first time I read it, but on the second read it kind of bored me. But because it's Watase, I'm sure I'll end up buying the next tankoubon, because that's the way the world works. Blah. Now that I think of it, I don't even have any Imadoki! tankoubon even though I think that's her best work- I just leeched off Daisy's Shokomi. ^^; ...in the cold winter air//04:42 p.m. Sunday, December 23, 2001... Seisouhen is on some seriously weird crack. The file is about 250 megs, so my poor dialup has been working on finishing it all night. I'm about halfway through now though...hrrm...the subtitling job is the worst thing ever; I don't think they've gotten a single line in the OVA right yet except for Kenshin's thrilling speech in the opening scene ("Karada ga..omoi.... Iya...kore de...yatto..." or whatever)... So, (spoilers, etc) my basic reaction was, "Hey! I don't spend all this time downloading these things just so you can kill Kenshin in the opening scene!!" I shrieked over the unfairness of it all till it got to PrettyYahiko at which point I calmed down. Tsubame is quite cute, too...and Kenji...hah. He's...he's so PRETTY!!! It's like a younger Kenshin without the girly voice!! The Revised Scenes are sort of weirding me out though...I mean, what's the point? "Well, they're dead now, but to make up for killing them off here's some cutesy footage of stuff that never happened"? And he kisses her...?! I get the idea this is just supposed to please the fangirls but all I can keep thinking is, "But that didn't happen like that!" through the whole thing. Maa. And the least they could have done was give younger Yahiko decent clothes- they're even worse than the TV series ones. Ergh. (Why can't he wear, I don't know, blue and white?) So, yeah. My-chan, making your CDs right now so I'll get them out to you as soon as possible. ^^; Sorry it's taken so long. ...in the cold winter air//12:16 p.m. Wednesday, December 19, 2001... I'm sleepy and sick of studying. I'm almost halfway through review for my history exam- she just recycles the old multiple choice from tests, and right now I've gotten 108 out of 130 questions right with no reviewing beforehand. Yay. What the HELL is wrong with my computer, by the way? It's fine when I type in programs or email or something, but if I'm typing something in the web (like pitas or login passwords) it chokes on about every other word and leaves out letters at complete random. *twitch* Kikyo-chan- deshou? I think I could translate three times faster if I just had the use of both hands...it's easier if you translate from phonebooks though because then you can weight down the pages and type with both hands. ^^; ...in the cold winter air//04:32 p.m. Wednesday, December 19, 2001... np: Kagami no Doresu - Sakai Noriko Um. Yeah. I do have exams tomorrow. ...and I am sick. So I shold be asleep. ...but isn't the layout nice? ...in the cold winter air//02:50 a.m. Wednesday, December 19, 2001... Just in case someone out there is wondering what to get me for Christmas... My Copic blender. Just. Ran. Out. It was BRAND NEW, and while the first one I had (regular Copic) before went over a month before dying, apparently the Copic Sketch tip couldn't handle what I put it through for a WEEK (it was the last one in the store so I suspect it might have been overused before its purchase). ...in the cold winter air//02:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 18, 2001... np: 3 Primary Colors - Digimon Tamers Shannako: Got it. I'm kind of COMPLETELY BROKE right now though, so it might have to wait till slightly after Christmas, 'cause yours has to actually go in a package because of the videotape. I kind of haven't bought presents for anybody in my family yet. ('Kaasan bought 'Neesan's present for me today though; rakki. Three more to go.) Stayed home today. Probably could have gone to school, but I opted to rest today rather than get sicker for exams...just as well; since of my three classes today, two of the teachers were gone. So I stayed home, studied a tiny bit, and drew some. Then went on a search for Pretear CG sites and didn't find anything good (though one really adorable Himeno/Hayate Japanese fanfic), and idn't find much better for Furuba. Sigh. ...in the cold winter air//12:51 p.m. Monday, December 17, 2001... np: Get Over - dream *yawns* I caught a cold- a small one, but still! Last year I got sick for winter exams, too...I don't want to make it an annual thing. I'm almost 100% sure that this cold is due to sleep deprivation though- I've been sleeping less and less lately. I've always been something of an insomniac, so while 'real' bedtime might be 10:30 on school nights, I rarely go to be before one AM, just because that way I'm so exhausted that I have to fall asleep. In recent weeks, I've pulled at least one day when I went 38 hours with no sleep, lots of nights with two hours of sleep, and my average is probably four hours. Eek. So it's no wonder I'm gettng sick...it should be all right for exams; I still feel alert. Even so, today I really cheered up. It was just an easy day- I started out feeling really depressed, as has been the norm for me nowadays, but we had liturgy today at school and that generally always cheers me up. If I weren't sick, I'd be bouncing around- I'm all genki again, I think. Many thanks to Janaki-san for the hug, Meg for the Sparkly Christmas Gift (how did you know exacly what I wanted?! XD), and Bell-san for the sparkly genki-dashite messages. I started downloading Hikaru no Go- I've heard nothing but good things about it from all my friends who have similar tastes, so I figured I'd give it a try. I sneaked a peek at the beginning of episode one, though- my, the plot starts fast. No setup at all, they just throw you right in...I'm insanely fond of the opening, though- I really like Dream's music... ...in the cold winter air//11:10 p.m.