On a random note, they're making the Broken Miho picture into a poster. I WANT.

Jumping back a bit, on thursday night, my sound class was subjected to the first 10 or 15 minutes of the 1968 animated beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" @.@ I could not form a coherent thought or word for 10 minutes, it was THAT much like a drug trip. O.o I'm officially NEVER going to do drugs. who needs it when you've got Anime, and movies, and stuff like Cirque du Soliel?

Gotta go back to work though. ::sigh::

juri-chan's puppet talked at 05:30 p.m. --

Tuesday, March 25, 2003



I've reached a conclusion. Showers make me sleepy. I have no idea WHY, but whenever I get out of the shower, comb my hair, and put on ym pajama's I'm ready for bed. At this very moment, my damp hair is done in two braids, and I'm wearing a nice warm pair of cototn pajama's, and at a time when I would normally just be getting HOME on a tuesday night, I'm ready to crawl into bed.

As I said in a tiny blurb of a post, my precious arrived in the mail yesterday afternoon. I was very happy to find it is INDEED made of metal, of decent quality, and seems to be NO WHERE sporting a "tm" or "(C)" on the ring. *_* Makes it all the more authentic... except for the fact that that REAL ring doesn't show the writing all the time. But I don't care. That's what makes it cool. I found my left hand fiddling with it all day, while my right hand was busy pointing and clicking, and doing various computer related work. David jokingly reached hands out for me, and did his smeagol voice saying "I wants my PRECIOUS!" t'was quite funny. xD

I think I'm doing okay as far as school goes. I was thinking there was 4 weeks until the end of the semester, when really it's 4 weeks until FINALS week. ^_^ Quite exciting that was! I'd suddenly gained a week! ::sigh of releif::

Still, I have a lot to do. I made myself a nice checklist, with little boxes next to everyhting so I can put a little check whenever I finish something. a few of the things on the list are as good as done, but I need more details from my teachers of WHAT exactly they want in the papers and reports of which I've already done the research for.

On saturday, I came home half way through our guest speaker. all he was goign to be doing during the sceond half was walk around and look at peoples projects. Well, all of the files I had at school were out-dated, seeing as I've been doign msot of my work at home. SO! I said "forget it" and went home. Read a lot of "Lord of the Rings: Making the Movie Trilogy", and then decided it would be a good idea to sew the buttons onto my Utena jacket. Mom said she woudl do it for me. What started out as what should have been a 10-minute task turned into 2-hours, as mom insisted I break out the blue pleated skirt and blue blazer I had for my Nakuru costume, which I never TRULY finished and never got to wear to last years convention. Well, the skirt, although it was extremely short, and of course I still had the blazer, white dress shirt, and tie... So, I acquired a SECOND costume for the con, even though I STILL lacked the right socks, and the right-colored shoes.

Sunday passed very quickly, as I spent it watching movies. I watched "Jerry Maquire", "How to Make and American Quilt" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2." Jerry Maquire is frigging GOLD. I haven't seen that movie since my parents rented it for a part of mine when I was 11, and it was all the better now that I'm older. So friggin HILARIOUS. "How toMake an American Quilt" reminded me a LOT of "The Devine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood." Ya know, old ladies telling special stories of their lives. Still, quite sweet. Probably not a movie I would have seen on my own. And JP2 was...well...people getting chased by dinosaurs. There's not much more to say. Didn't like it much when it came out, and really, I still don't like it much.

Yesterday, I was supposed to have Cinematography, but I arirved at school to a flier on the door reading "Film 100 has been cancelled for today." Apparently our teacher had an emergency of somesort... no details though. So, I went home, and finished off my book...and then mom drug me down to Target, because she felt like gettign out of the house. SHE didn't get anything, but she bought me the knee-high baby-blues socks and brown loafers that I needed for my Nakuru costume. ^_____^ so that costume is complete. Also, got a big white shirt, and a pair of skin-tight white shorts to go underneith, for my Ping costume. Now, fi I can find the time this weekend to make Ping's ear-thingies, I will be SET for the con, which, I might add, is now about 8 days away. ::SQUEAL:: I jsut wish I'd had the time to make a music video to submit to the contest. Oh well. I can still do Karaoke, though Liz kicks my ass at singing. XD Still, I'm not too bad for no formal training. Can't decide if I should stick with "Kaze" from Digimon Tamers, or go with "It's My Life" from the first CCS movie.

I realy do hope the rumors are true, and Court will be at the con. I miss him very much, more so recently, and he's been on my mind. I haven't been able to call him, becaus eI don't have his new number. He hasn't called me since Christmas, and I wasn't in the best space at that time. I really wanna just run up behind him, and glomp him, and have him be like "what the hell?!" then turn around and see it's me. ^_^ Much fun will be had, either way.

I should go do a little bit more work before the day is completely over. I dont have class until 1:00 tomorrow, so I get to sleep in. YAY! Can't beleive it's wednesday again already. @.@

SOCIAL BLOGGAGE!

Eve-chama, deary, youd have so much less stress if you didn't procrastinate so much ^ ^; I used ot be pretty damn bad about procrastinating, but I've lately had to learn it will not WORK for me at my school. Also, when are you going to be mailing me those CD's? I've told Nate to be on the lookout...

Kim-chan, I know what you mean about layout bunnies. I have found myself dooling concepts for my Meiling layout, and also thumbnails for a Frodo layout. LOTR marathon or no, My next layout after Meiling is DEFINATELY Frodo. I have too perfect of a picture NOT to. Also, I've had these insane urges to call you "kiwi-chan" or "kimotou-chan" XD.

K-chan, Chica-bonita, you need to actually WRITE in your blog, silly, or what's the point of HAVING one?

Chunky-Monkey-chan! miss talking to you, hope school is going okay. I know that MY school is eating my SOUL...

Sakura-san, Arigatou Gozaimasu for the Kureno scans! I think I can use them...specifically that one of him and the girl...though I don't know. Is she a vital character that someone has claimed for their layout? I went to check Eve's list, but it's gone. Thank you again though, you're a sweetheart.

Ram-chan, I hope you get your computer fixed soon. I know from checking your DJ that you've been checking blogs whenever you get on so, if you chance on this before your computer gets fixed.. um... horrible RPG plotbunnies running in my head. Must babble!

Liz, California is gonna ROCK!

Nate, hope you and the boys are having a good time working on your new game, but don't get so distracted that you guys don't finish your work for the semester.

Hibari-chan, and eveyrone else in SMI, I'm sorry I've been so absent lately...but the school only owns my soul for another 5 weeks, and then it's all good. ^_^ ::hugs::

::falls over:: good lord, that a LOT of social bloggage...

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Monday, March 24, 2003



I have it! It's here! my precious! ::dancing around, wearing the ring on a chain around her neck:: even scarier, it happens to fit on my finger. O.o Creepy. but...PRECIOUS! ::Admires her ring::

juri-chan's puppet talked at 04:48 p.m. --

Sunday, March 23, 2003



I have a busy day ahead of me. a VERY busy day. But before I do, I heard this song on the radio, and I now want to make a music video to it using footage from "The Last Unicorn."

Mr Mister
"Kyrie"

The wind blows hard against this mountain side,
Across the sea into my soul
It reaches into where I cannot hide,
Setting my feet upon the road

My heart is old, it holds my memories,
My body burns a gemlike flame
Somewhere between the soul and soft machine,
Is where I find myself again

Chorus:
Kyrie eleison, down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison, through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow
Kyrie eleison, on a highway in the light

When I was young I thought of growing old,
Of what my life would mean to me
Would I have followed down my chosen road,
Or only wished what I could be

(chorus repeats out...)

Perfect, ne? ^_^ Off to work

juri-chan's puppet talked at 11:55 a.m. --

Saturday, March 22, 2003



Well, yesterday was... a mess. And disappointingly unproductive, though not to any fault of mine.

See, my art class was going to the Zoo for a field trip, and I'd planned to ride with Nate. Problem is, Nate went to start his acr and it..wouldn't start. Nothing. So, he found us a ride in the back fold-down seats of Sean's pickup (Note: NOT the sean I was dating back in october). So we rode sideways all the way, which made both of us mildly motion sick.

So we get to the Zoo, Happy Day, and start drawing. Nate and I went to this one monkey exhibit, where I SWEAR, this monkey poses. Well, I sat down right by the glass, and he was SO CLOSE...and then I dug in my bag to look for my cellphone to see what time it was, and the monkey swung foward onto the tiny cliff right in front of the window! So INCREDIBLY adorable, and when I pulled out my cell phone, he looked at it like it was the weirdest and collest thing he had ever seen ::laughs:: Such a COOL MONKEY. He stayed there until we left.

So then, we head back to take the quiz. I bombed. Es okay, since I knew I would bomb, and I can probably make up for it later. But then, Sean tells us he and Avery are meeting Jay, Ilya, Quinn and Nate # 2 at some quick burger place. So Nate and I were like "whatever" and went along. Well, SOME people didn't have cash so we had to go somewhere else. We ended up at this Greek place, and Nate and I split and order of calamari. By the time the food got there, it was 10 after 5. By the time I got back to school, it was around 6:00. by the time I had finished lookign through the damn movies at the video rental place looking for the 5 movies I needed for cinematography, it was 7:00. it was 7:15 by the time I got home, and 8:00 by the time I'd finished eating. ;_; So what did I do instead of work...?

I went upstairs, and popped in my rented copy of The Last Unicorn, and was filled with wonderful nostalgic fuzzies. ^_^ I never knew that Angela Lansbury and Christopher Lee did vocies in that movie. They're working on a Live Action version of the movie, with Angela Lansbury reprising the same role of Mommy Fortuna, and Christopher Lee reprising the role of King Haggard, as they both played in the animated version. I hope they extend the movie a bit from it's 93 minute animated version... a little more time to all the exquiset events of the story would really help to develop the characters a bit more. It was sort of amusing to watch the movie though, with my new-found animation knowledge. I had once read that most of the movie was shot on 2's (one picture for every 2 frames), while a few Key scenes were shot in 1's (one picture for each new frame). I could SEE where they switched to 1's, because the animation became so much more fluid and full. *_* and the story still captivates me, although the music has got to be the corniest stuff I've ever heard (and Mia Farrow really CAN'T sing.) ... This makes me want to go pick up a copy of the original novel (published in 1968 if I'm not mistaken). Yeah... maybe this summer. I've found both the animated movie (for $13.99) and the novel (for $9.85) on amazon.com, so maybe I'll order them together. I think my uncle has a program to burn video to DVD, so I may buy the movie, then ask for his aid in burning the movie to DVD to that watching over time won't wear it out.

Sadly, my precious still has not arrived. ;_; If it's not here by monday or tuesday, I'm gonna be PISSED. the website SAID 2-3 days ot ship it out, and it'd be shipped priority mail. It does NOT TAKE 4 days do deliver something from OHIO in Priority Mail.

Unwrapping character meshes to texture them in a TEDIOUS task indeed O.o insanity... so many tiny peices. ;_; Off to work.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 8:34 p.m. --

Thursday, March 20, 2003



I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!

I have been working my ass off for WEEKS now, and I jsut found out today that before I can even get my character RIGGED, I have to fix the neck, make the eys work in a way that doesn't COMPELTELY ruin my mesh, and this means I'm going to be down to about 2 1/2 weeks to animate. I have only barely started on my prelims for my art project, and if I dont' have 150 of them, I fail, hands down.

I want to just go HOME, go to sleep, and CRY. It's too much! I need a BREAK, but I don't have TIME for one. I just don't have the fucking TIME!

FUCK IT ALL. FUCK IT.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 03:51 p.m. --

Wednesday, March 19, 2003



excuse the morbid, angsty bitterness, and confusing (even to me) metaphors that follow.

Is it about Oil? Is it all propaganda? Is it really all about protecting our nation, or is it just Bush following in his father's idiotic footsteps? Bombs. Destruction. Saddam's a crazy fucker who deserves to die. They don't want to kill innocents, but "it's going to happen, as it does in any war". WAR, the acronym "we are right." As quoted by the strip "not sequiter" this morning. The T.V.'s blaring, the news repeating like a broken record... Thank god my parents flipped to something more intelligent for the moment. A Sit-Com. I promptly turn on my Bitch Music, specifically Alanis Morisette's "Jagged Little Pill" and drown out the world around me. Fuck the big world... let me live in my small world, my life, my little town, and if I die tomorrow, or any day after, may I die happy, and worry-free.

I don't want to think. Part of me wants to be an insanely bitter, uncaring bitch about the whole thing, as depicted above; but I lack the motivation. Part of me wants to advocate Bush, but quite frankly he's too much of a fucktard for me to support, and I insanely dislike the moron. Part of me wants to pick up a sign, and protest...but I don't care that much, and I havent' the time, and what good would it do anyway? the thousands of protestors around the world obviously haven't been enough. As far as I'm concerned, the american government can shove thier god bedamned Propaganda Fries and Propaganda toast up theirs asses, and "freedom" kiss my pastey white ass. I just want the world to leave me alone. Let them have their war... I want to hear nothing of it, lest you break my rose colored glasses... in which case, I would force you to buy me a new pair.

I just heard my parents singing a Parody of a song by The Monkey's which they made up on the spot... and I don't know whether to be amused, or disgusted.

Hey hey, we're America
and people say we monkey around
but we're too busy killing
to let anybody doooown..

I think I'll go with disgusted. Absolutely DISGUSTED. I can't believe they'd even JOKE about that. I'm really starting to see my parents in a new light recently. I still love them, but I'm just... taken aback by some things.

I have to finish my character tonight, and my anatomy vocabulary, at the very least. Jay is going to help me rig my character tomorrow, and I have an anatomy quiz on friday. -.-

And as if I weren't in a foul enough mood already, I jsut had to explain to my mom all the work I have to do. Of course, she automatically assumes I just haven't been working, and that's why I have so much to do. -.- Well, I jsut told her "Mom. It's a lot of work. There is NOTHING you can do, except let me do my work, an except that that requires staying up to late hours." Doubt she'll ever comprehend how much work I do. Ever.

::turns up her music on full blast, and goes back to work::

I feel drunk, but I'm sober,
I'm young and I'm underpaid,
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah.
I care but I'm restless,
I'm here but I'm really gone,
I'm wrong and I'm sorry, baby... And what it all comes down to,
is no ones really got it all figured out just yet..
Well I've got one hand in my pocket,
and the other one is givin' a peace sign.

- Alanis Morissette, Hand in my Pocket

juri-chan's puppet talked at 11:19 p.m. --

Tuesday, March 18, 2003



removed "there be elves" link, as it's updates do not suit my need of webcomicness to keep me interested, and the art and composiiton of the pages wasn't all that spectacular either. did, however, replace it with "Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki", which is the most twisted and hilarious "magical girl" story you will even see...since the magical girl is formerly a guy. Quite amusing, sporadically updated, but is updated atleast once a week, and with multiple pages. The art is, like all my favorite comics, somewhat anime derived, but it's so exagerated in...places (::snerk::) that it's funny. Oh, go see for yourself!

juri-chan's puppet talked at 11:59 p.m. --

Monday, March 17, 2003



See that baby right there? ::points at the picture to the right:: Isn't it pretty? I'm getting that. My preciousss... I ordered it last night, and I should have it in my posession by the end of the week at the latest. Shipping is only supposed to take 2 - 3 business days... but I always keep myself open for a longer hsipping time whenordering things off the internet. It's not the really expensive 14 karat gold ring they sell at LOTRshop.com, but it IS a gold-colored composite metal, it comes with a chain that is actually a CHAIN like the one in the movie, and was only, after shipping, just shy of 30 dollars. *____* And it comes with the pretty light up ring box too. It was a close race between buying this and buying Galadriel's ring, Nenya... and after polling my friends, they all thoguht the one ring was more fun. Besides... the rings only come in like, a size 7, which is far too large for my hand, so I'd never wear it.

I'm officially on a LOTR kick. I'm about to chapter 6 of "Lord of the Rings: Making the Movie Trilogy" which was my choice for the book report assignment in my cinematography class. The elaborate work that had to go into it is just unbeleivable. All the copies of indivudal props and sets that had to be replicated in exact detail in various scales. Absolutley amazing. We watched some of the special fetaures stuff from the DVD in my cinematography class too. I've watched almost all those appendices myself already... but damn. This is absolutley one of the most amazing projects ever executed in film history! And they use every trick in the book, and then some. Absolutely amazing...

I've decided that one way or another, after my Meiling layout, I'm doing a Frodo layout. I have a picture that is just SO INCREDIBLY layout-able. I've also been struggling to get a comments thingie working on ym blog, but alas, it jsut isn't working. ::fumes:: I can't figure it out, Kim can't figure it out, Eve can't figure it out...::sigh::

On a completely different note, I'm gonna hafta have my wisdom teeth taken out this summer. The last time I went itno the dentist, I had X-rays photos done that showed my wisdom teeth were angled ot come up udner my back molars. they hadn't really bothered me, except for this occasionally little twinge I got in the back of my mouth, in my jaw. But as of recently, cold liquids swishing over the very back of my mouth has had very annoying effects -.- So, best to just have 'em taken out. I can avoid liquids over the very back of my mouth, that's simple enough... I've never had a cavity in my life, and I neevr needed braces...if I elt these guys be, they'll likely mess up my back teeth. Not a good thing. Why spoil a perfect record?

My parents were supposed to leave for a 2-week tirp to Hawai'i on wednesday, but after Bush's national adress tonight, the fact that we're basically gonna launch a war on that day, has made both them and me nervous...so, thye're gonna post-pone the trip. That's okay with me, I'd rather have them here with me, but I am a bit disappointed that Nate won't be spending the week with me. I told him anytime he wanted ot get away from his room-mates to drop on by, and he's welcome whenever he likes. Mom wishes I had more of a social life anyway.

The anime convention is coming up, and I'm very excited. ^_^ I jsut need to add the finishing touches to my uten costume, buy a shirt for my ping costume, make Ping's ear-thingies, and I'm set. ^_^ I really hope Court DOES come to SakuraCon... it would be nice to see him again. I haven't seen or heard form him since December Liz SAID he asked for my number... but sitll he hasn't called. I tried calling his mom a number of times, to ask for his number, and to leave messages for her to have him call me... but nothing came of it. Liz and I mused of, once she gets her license, taking a Road Trip to go visit 'im.

Speaking of trips, I may have alreayd mentined Mom came up with the idea of us going to Disneyland after I get done with this semester, and taking Liz with us ^ ^ Her parents said it was a great idea! ^_________^ Yay! Hopefully, the plans go through... guess part of it will depend on what's going on with the wacko world by then.

I need to go finish up my character stuff. I'm gonna finish everything but the hands and hair tonight, and I'll ask Jay about making hands hair and eyelids tomorrow. Hopefully, I can get thattaken care of by thursday, so that Jay can help me rig the character, or atleast get me started on it, so I can finsh it up by the weekend's end, and get to animating by next week. That's the goal anyway. I plan on doing my Cinematography research assignment this weekend. Or a good chunk of it atleast. I'm going to rent the movies I need, sit down, watch them, and take notes. First, I need to take inventory of which of the movies I own, so I don't rent those too. I KNOW I have Minority Report...

All in all, not a bad day. Got about...well up to 60 of the 100 pages Ineed by thursday. I'll get 20 on Thursday morning, atleast, and I'll draw tomorrow too, and do some prelim stuff for my final project on wednesday. ^_^ Not too bad. I guess I got about 30 tonight.

I...really need to get some work done before I sleep.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 10:02 p.m. --

Friday, March 14, 2003



New Web-comic added to my links: Saturnalia has some very nice artwork, and a fun storyline to boot. ^_^ I haven't finished reading the archives yet, but I fully intend to.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 08:08 a.m. --

Thursday, March 13, 2003



GAH! Dream...Very very stressful and scary, not good for my heart. Dreamt it was the weekend of Sakuracon already. This wouldn't be so bad, except for the fact that my ping costume is not even STARTED, and that I still have to put the buttons and inverted triangles on my Utena Jacket. O.O Also, did not have a chance to pack anything for the weekend. I was so screwed over, and stressed, and also vry panicy, as I was suddenly lacking 20 days I thought I had left.

Stupid dreams, trying to get to me. Bagh.

Kelsey came over last night, to use Photoshop. She called earlier in the afternoon, asking if we had photoshop, so she could come and do an assignment for her photo class. I told her sure, fine, butI had work to do, and didn't have the time to help her. She said thatw as fine, came over, worked until around 11:30, and then just crashed here. I didn't go to bed until 2:00 AM. I told her she could set my alarm, and I would wake up and turn it ff, then wake her up. @.@ She set it herself, and TURNED UP THE VOLUME, so when the alarm went off at 6:00 AM, it woke up not only me, but my mom, whose bedroom is downstairs. -.- I went immediately back to sleep. I still hafta make the damn bed.

Bought the book I needed for cinematography yesterday. It's not all that thick, and it has a lot of photos. I bought "Making the Film Trilogy: The Lord of the Rings" for the book report I have to do. I counted it out, and if I read two chapters a day, which isn't very much at all, I'll have it finished in less than a week. On Monday hopeuflly we'll get more specs on what our teacher wants included in the book report, and I can write it next week, and be done with that. It'll be one less thing on my plate. Also, when I got sick of doing textures last night, I did some searching, and finally decided on a cinematographer for my reserach project. I will admit, I based my choices on the films they'd made, seeing as I hafta watch 5 of their films. I finally decided on Janusz Kaminski. Mostly because I'd be willing to watch atleast 5 of those films... and because one of my choices of films to watch in that is a 1993 disney movie "The Adventures of Huck Finn", which features a chibi Elijah Wood. ^^ And he's just so darn snuggable. So, over the course of the next month and a half, I'll be watching 5 of these 6 movies...

• Minority Report (2002)
• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Jerry Maquire (1996)
• How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
• The Adventure of Huck Finn (1993)

But, I need to go shower, and then do a bit of work before I head to school. Hafta go a bit early, so I can get gas in my car. Gas is a good thing. Also gotta work out my working load from now until sunday, seein as mom's dragging me shopping on saturday, and we're going out to dinner with my grandpa on sunday... ::sigh::

juri-chan's puppet talked at 10:09 a.m. --

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

"As my room mate would say 'the crack that this movie is on, is on crack'."

Or so says Nate about the movie we wtached in Animation class last night. We got to watch the original japanese verison of "Spirited Away" curtousy of some of our anime-savvy classmates. (visit their website bakaneko.com for anime drawing tutorials, and other fun stuff. ^_^)

Anyway, back to the original topic. So, we watched Spirited Away. That movie is possibly on more crack than My Neighbor Totoro. Although I hafta say that NOTHING beats the Neko Bus in the bizarre department, Yubaba came pretty close. O.o Overall though, it was a GOOD kinda of cracked out. I liked it. ^_^ Oh, and yes, I <3 Haku. *___* He was such a cutie.

Oh, and since Eve-chama was BEGGING for a Kureno for the Furuba marathon, I said what the hell, I'll use it as an excuse to make a layout for that darn fic blog I've been wanting to get working on. Problem is, I find out he's a...manga only character, and hard to find pictures of. Anyone who can point me in the direction of pictures of Kureno would be GREAT. Sankyuu. ^ ^ I'm thinking of going with a toned-down red-and-beige theme, and with rooster/feather accents, sicne from what little I've read, I gather he's connected to roosters in some way.

I'm officially never discussing anything political with my parents again. -.- I brought up how absolutely ridiculous this whole "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom Toast" thing is, and my dad went on one of his tangents about how it's to send a message to the french that we're disgusted with the way they're inhibiting us from going after Iraq. -.- I think this whole renaming of simple, pointless foods is ridiculous. It's harkening back to WWII. (Liberty Steak anyone?) So yeah, my parents seem so pro-war, it's practically sickening. ::sighs:: That could just be because I'm indifferent to the whole thing, and figure if we die, we die, it's none of MY nevermind what goes on in the rets of the world, I ain't no politician. God damnit, I AM a hobbit. Content to distance myself from the rest of the world's problems. So even says this test!

What Race Are You in Middle Earth?

Yup, yup yup... So, today, I was supposed to have art class, but my art teacher is out of town, so class was cancelled. excellent pportunity to work my ass off. See, tomorrow, I would normaly be going into the mornign art class to draw, but as Teacher is out of town, I will not be acheiving anything by going in early, SO, I can stay up late and work on my stuff. Althoguht spekaing of things I have to do today, that reminds me....

I hafta go over to my Nana's today, so I can try and my jacket, and see if the buttons are where they're supposed to go. ^___^ I'll take my wig, shoes and socks too, just for my own enjoyment.

For all intents and purposes, this is the picture I will be basing my Ping costume off of. Ribbons is easier to accomplish than her gear-scrunchies she has later. I DO intend to make the shirt a bit longer, so I can wear little shorts underneith. I don't have bangs, it's true, but I think once I do my hair in the braids, no one will care. and I have no idea what color Ping's hair is. Some poeple have depicted it as a light lavender... But to my knowledge, Fred has never done a colored picture of Ping, and he ... well, unless someoene has VERY Dark hair (Dom? Miho?), doesn't color in hair, so for all I know, Ping COULD be a brunette. I'll color the picture for my own reference later. Admitedly, the hardest part is going to be makign these ear-thingies:

Hmm.... perhaps while I'm out today, I should run by the book store and pick up the books I want for Cinematography. I can't decide if I should do my book report on "Making the Trilogy: The Lord of the Rings" or "The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring". I'm thinking the first one. Oh, yes, My cinematogrpahy teacher told us that, due the last day of class, we have to have done a book report, a research project on a cinematography that includes watching 5 of their films (thank god for imdb.com), and also a final project that includes...adapting something for screen... but he hasn't given us much info on that project. Oh, and somewhere in there, we'll also be assigned two separate storyboarding assignments. -.- Not to mention, I have to work my ass off on my personal project, and my final project for art [6 self portraits: 3 using line without tone, 3 using tone without line], the sound long sheet we'll eventually hafta do in sound class, the weekly anatomy vocabulary lists, oh, and that BULLSHIT computer hardware project that Melvin is making us do. -.-

I really should go and get dressed, brush my teeth, and actually get my day going. I have a lot to do... I think I've rammbled enough at you poor souls for the day.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 11:41 a.m. --

Tuesday, March 11, 2003



...the American government is officially run by a bunch of idiots.

Need I say more?

Also...

Which OS are You?

And it occurs to me that today is my blog's 1-year anniversary! YAY!

juri-chan's puppet talked at 09:09 p.m. --

Tuesday, March 11, 2003



Behold! Possibly the earliest-time-of-day post from Sumi, not counting those times when I was posting at 2:00 AM because I was still awake. Class is technically supposed to start soon, but it's only projects class which is just work time, so I'm not worried. That I couldn't USE the work time...but I really need to blog before my head explodes.

Am SO excited! Nate got me all of Cowboy Bebop, so once I manage to find some time to myself, I'll FINALLY get to see the damned series that I've heard so much about. Unfortunately, I al;ready know a major spoiler for the end. -.- Along with the CB disks, Nate also got me a copy of...get this... adobe premier version 6.5! O.O I wanted to GLOMP him when he gave it to me, but we're in the middle of school, and people at this school apparently gossip like old women, and I'm not about to give them something to talk about.

I sat down yesterday, to try to get some semblance of an idea of what I had left to do this semester, and how much time I have left to do it in. I have approximately 6 weeks, leaving week 7 for rendering and last-minute-scrambles. I think I got it all plotted out, and as each week comes around, I'll take what I had planend-but-didn't-get-accomplish, and adjust my workload for each day for that week. I think I'll be okay, as long as I work like a mad woman.

Oh great...I've left this to sit, and It's no longer as early as it was when I started. Poo. On the bright side, pretty much finished with modleing my character's head. ^_^ Veyr good, as am in danger of falling behind. O.O

...and Melvin's walking in. ::gag:: hate Melvin-Lecture. Ever so boring. and pointless waste of time as well.

Have 15 minutes before class starts, and need something in my stomach. Stupid School.

Mom wanted to know when the last day of school was. I think it's April 25th. So, Mom came up with the idea that we should go to Disneyland, and take Lizzie-chan with us! ^_^ Asked Lizzie last night, but she hasta wait until her parents are in a good mood to ask them. ^_____^ Could be much fun!

Speaking of Lizzie... she broke up with Joe yesterday. I say good for her, although I know she's not too happy about it, considering how much she loves 'im. Maybe he'll wise up... who knows.

Need food before Melvin-Lecture. @___@

... does anyone know where I can get a comments thing for my blog? Pitas si quite cooperative, but it does lack THAT...E-mail me or IM me (Salr Sun on AIM).

juri-chan's puppet talked at 9:58 a.m. --

Monday, March 10, 2003



Marathon Madness! WOO! Makes me feel like there's a real little community and circle of friends here. 'tis wonderful!

And just to add to the madness... anyone up for a Lord of the Rings Marathon sometime this winter? ^___^ Because Sumi does not understand "Moderation" and desperately wants to jump on the band wagon XD Talked to eve about it, and she has said she either wants Pippin, Aragorn, or The Ring XD And I'm bouncing between Eowyn, Frodo, Galadriel, and Sam.

C'mon, EVERYONE loves LOTR! How can we NOT add this to the maddening list of Marathons?

Okay, I Gotta run to class now. Um...legitimate blogging later!

Kim-chan Your layouts are so beautiful, it makes me sick. You need to teach me!

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Sunday, March 9, 2003



I keep thinking that today should be Monday, not Sunday. though Sunday is good. means I have the day to work my ass off on stuff I should have been working onover my entire break. But somewhere along the line, I became somewhat popular. atleast, popular enoguh that I was with different people almost every day of this past break. Shoooo...

Woke up to find Mom in a particularly sour mood this morning. I have no idea why... but my mom when she's not in a good mood is a very scary thing. I'm trying to think of what I could do while she's out for a walk that would make her happy. . . but I'm drawing a blank.

This break has gone buy insanely fast. Too fast for my tastes.

My weekend time spent with Liz was fun, as always. We talked about... things. About life. About boys. About Lord of the Rings, and fangirly goodness. I spent a majority of friday bouncing off the walls after learning that Fred and Sarah (A.K.A. Piro and Seraphim) of Megatokyo are going to be attending the con I'm going to! Liz is gonna try to put together a Miho costume. In addiiton to my Utena costume, I'm now working on throwing together a Ping costume. Will either consist of A big oversized "Clocked" shirt, or a PS2 shirt that says "We Ownz J00" on the back. XD the second option was Liz's idea.

On friday night, Lizzie and I were talking about various things, and we got on the subject of hair, eyes....ya know, typical physical features stuff. I Said "I'm as plain as they come. I have the typical brown hair, brown eyes... no outstanding features." Liz said she thought I was kind of exotic looking. Think she may be telling a big fib. Never thought of myself as "exotic" in the least.

So, saturday afternoon, I drove her to the bus station, so she could catch a bus home. I was singing along to my CD's the whole way, and at some point she said "You CAN sing, can't you?" . ::blushie:: I just like to think I can carry a tune. I think her voice is prettier than mine.

After I dropped Lizzie off at the bus station, I found myself left with the feeling of emptyness. I always feel like that when my friends leave. So, I turned my Carol King CD up on full volume, and sang at the top of my lungs all the way home. Took a different route home, just for variety.

Wasted the night away watching a movie with my parents, and then RPing and stuff. Probabaly not the best decision, but what's done is done. Now, I just need to focus on getting my head back in the game. whip out my trusty old planner-and-lists notebook, the mechanical pencils, sketchbook, and software.

...After I eat.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 01:40 p.m. --

Friday, March 7, 2003



Now is not the time to be blogging, as I need to be up with enough hours to clean my room before I got pick up Liz at 12:30. But there are things I feel like Babbling about, and since I drank a caffeinated drink in order to be awake enough to drive my friends home, I'm hoping this will help me sleep.

Driving down empty streets late at night can be very depressing. I jsut can't help but think that most people are tucked away in their beds, or sitting on their computers... some are sitting in bar's waiitng for 2:00 AM when they'll be kicked out.

My Utena costume is nearly complete. ^ ^ I got my wig jsut yesterday, and it is the PERFECT color. ^____^ Thank you, mom! My mom is goofy....she doesn't support my costume making and such, until she seems how commited I am...then she wants to help and play too. 'tis quite amusing. she bought my shoes and wig for me. *_*

Read, the lyrics with one Frodo Baggins in mind, and you'll not be able to deny how it fits to him. It's quite scary and amusing all at the same time, and it yet ANOTHER song to add to my list of Potential Music Videos.

Heard recently of a CCS blog marathon. ^_^ there's also gonna be a Furuba one, but I haven't seen any furuba, so I'm kinda screwed on that one, but I have FIRMLY latched my claws into Meiling for the CCS blog Marathon. I'm still waiitng to see all the cute layouts people have gotten for the Inuyasha blog marathon, as half of them are not yet up.

Picking Liz up from school tomorrow, then we're going out for lunch, then dropping by my Nana's to pick up my Utena jacket, so I can try it on, sew on the buttons, and all that Jazz. Also, so Liz can meet my Nana, and vice versa, because Nana meets ALL my friends. Then, it's a day, maybe two, of girl talk, pampering each other, and jsut relaxing and doing girl stuff. Girl stuff is nice, and I think she could use it. Also, a note of "Boyfriend Troubles" in the LJ is not a good sign. ::frowns::

M brain has finally melted to sleepy-like Mush. Oddly, I left my TV on all last night. Icky. -.-

Will write about this past week later...I've been too bsuy, and as I said before, now is not the time...

juri-chan's puppet talked at 01:14 a.m. --

Monday, March 3, 2003



Inchoerent rammblings ahead...

I've felt oddly nostalgic lately. I've been cleaning out my computer, deleting files I don't need anymore, and re-sorting things so I can locate them more easily.

In the process of sorting through my sound files, I couldn't rmemeber what half of them were.. so I started listenign to them all. Including my wide expanse of Midi's. I missed Midi's. I remember when Midi's were THE music you had on your computer. Amoung them, I stummbled on one for an old Spice Girls. ::sigh:: I remember those days. I should call Rebecca...

I'm also finding myself compelled with the urge to write. Write anything, really. But I just haven't had the time. It really kinda makes me feel sad.

Today, I wanted to just roll over and go back to bed, but mom insisted that I get up. Silly mom... no one I know is out of school like I am, wha'm I gonna do? Should have let me sleep.

I think I'm going through one of those phases again. I go through these times when I wish I could haveback some of the things I had when I was younger. Not that I have a bad life... but I look back on things and wish I stll had them. Like some of my old girlfriends... Like living in a neighborhood where your best friend lived one house over... I wish I still had Court, sometimes. and no, I'm not still clinging desperately to the idea that he'd someday be mine. I don't like him like that anymore. I simply miss the wonderful, supportive friendship I had with him. How protectve he was of me... it made me feel truly wanted, appreciated... In a strange sort of way.

I haven't heard from him since he called on Christmas, and I myself was not in the best of spirits then. I've tried calling his mom, to get his new phone number, bt I've never been able to touch base with her. Court called Liz the other day, and asked for my phone number though. Liz also told him that I had told her about something he'd said... I have a feeling he's not gonna be too happy with me if he DOES call me.

I miss having girl-friends. I find so few of them these days, and you can only talk about so much stuff with boys. That's where Court was different.

Yes, Perpetually smiling, happy Sumi, has a deep burried part of her that's melancholy, and longing for things she can't have back. For the most part, it stays burried...but every once and agai, it surfaces for a while. I wonder if maybe it's just an automatic reaction, to try and fit in with all the other contemplative people I'm around. You know, people who want something they jsut can't have, or people who are unable to break away from something that is making them unhappy. Sometimes I wonder if everything BUT my Happy Face that I have felt is a conscious decision. It seems like a lot of things I think at times, I think simply because I think I'm SUPPOSED to think that, or feel that, or whatever.

Or maybe I just need to vent. Maybe I dont' feel this way at all, and maybe I just need a change. I'm starting to realize jsut how much I have to accomplish through the next few weeks, and it's scaring me.

I don't really care anymore. About what the hell is going on in my head. I just don't care.

And I'll probably wake up all happy again tomorrow. Who knows.

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Monday, March 3, 2003



February is over, God invented Photoshop, Aragorn is Still Not King, and my back is killing me.

Okay, none of that made sense. Let's try again. February is over. Thank GOD! I'm also officially on spring break as of today.

God invented Photoshop. This is something that was inspired by my saying "I Love Photoshop because..." and I said soemting I can't remember right now, and Jay said "It's just wonderful for things like that. That's why god invented it." and I was like "GOD invented Photoshop?" t'was quite amusing.... but thus, God Invented Photoshop.

Aragorn is still not king...I went to see the Two Towers for a mere second time on friday. Took Nate with m, which made it more fun, as we could both stare at the movie and giggle about jokes that likely the other few peopel there (mostly people of an...older variety) wouldn't get. I wore my "Still the Prettiest" sweatshirt for good measure...and because Movie theaters don't seem to grasp the cocnept that it-is-not-summer, turn-off-the-fecking-air-conditioning!

My back is killing me because I have spent more time on my feet today than I likely have all together in the past week. X.x Went to the craft store with mom so she could buy silk flowers for a table arrangement...then we had to go grocery shopping. I elected to dress like a hippy today. Long, flowery skirt, brown peasant blouse, hair parted down the middle and falling wherever... I was only missing a headband and a flower painted on my cheek. bought some cookies from the little girl scouts outside of the grocery store. ^_^ So cute.

I'm realizing that my spring break is not going to be much of a break. It's already almost Monday, and I still hafta spend two days on my costume for the anime con (along the same lines, got my shoes today! ^ ^), and Friday and Saturday I'm spending with Liz... Eep. when'm I gonna get all this work done?! Also told Nate I would do something with him if I had the chance. will probably involve going out somewhere to draw.

Eh, perhaps I will work my ass off tomorrow. That could work rather nicely. Unless I go work on my costume, in which case I will work my ass off on wednesday! I think... Oh hell, I don't know anymore. I need to put another coat of the black pain on my shoes. -.-

Added Kim to my links. ^ ^ Have only been talking to her for a little while, but WUB Kim already. Such a sweety. ^_^ I'm tempted to call her Kimi-chan, or Kiwi-chan. XD And I have no idea why.

Talked to Liz last night. She was not happy, as Joe had said he wanted to do soemthing, and yet was not taking her calls. -.- Stupid boys. Told Lizzie than when she comes over, we'll do girl stuff. Go in the Sauna, do our nails, drink tea, make cookies... pamper each other. I honestly think she could use it. Hell, so could I. She apolgized for my "havign to put up with Drama Queen Lizzie" I told her That's what I'm here for, and I know she'd do the same for me.

I should probably sleep now... oh wow, it' technically monday morning. shit. Yeah, I need Sleep. Hello March! May you be better than February was!

Has anyone ever noticed how many moths are names? April, May, June, August.... All names.

Okay, I'm going now, really.

juri-chan's puppet talked at 12:04 a.m. --