Current literature: Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayer
Website: the mad aristocrat
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Hangs around:
Bounce magazine, !SuperCat Online, Sekai Seifuku, Passion Fruit, Crimson Tears, The Japanese Flannel, Bleeding Hearts, windward, Sequential Tart, HTH,
Diagon Alley, Shiroi Heya
Posted elsewhere:
Fanfiction.net, Photo.net
Follows:
Katie, Leah, Michael, Melanie, Diana, Haru, N, Andre, Jamie, Cat, Lex, Covielle, Twig, Bridget, Lisa, Sabina, Homasse, Sarah, Violaine
Drools over:
Isamu Noguchi, Chanel, Gackt Camui, Sony Japan, Style.com, Heath Ledger, Aiwa, European Furniture Importers, anything covered in toile, matcha, fried okra, Hemmings Photography, yakisoba
Comics:
Jinks, ADVENTURERS!, Nine Stitches, megatokyo, Bite Me!, Boy Meets Boy, Sinfest, Spades
Reads:
Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, X, WISH, ElfQuest, Transformers, Ah! My Goddess!, You're Under Arrest!, Bakuretsu Hunter, Rurouni Kenshin, Slayers, Weiss: An Assassin and White Shaman, Gravitation, Gouhou Drug
Watches:
West Wing, As Time Goes By, Slayers, Rurouni Kenshin, Cardcaptor Sakura, Inu Yasha, Cowboy Bebop, any Gackt or Glay videos I can get my hands on, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ed, Edd, & Eddie, Just Shoot Me!, Samurai Jack
Listens to:
Dreams Come True, Ryuichi Kawamura, Hikaru Utada, Natalie Imbruglia, Gackt, Sarah Brightman, GLAY, Enya, The Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Buffett, Travis, Judy and Mary, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Hyde, Chihiro Onitsuka, Garbage, John Mellencamp, REM, Melissa Etheridge, K.D. Lang, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Sophie B. Hawkins
Spends paychecks at:
EXPRESS, YesAsia, J. Crew, L.L. Bean, Target, Amazon.com
Archives:
10/3/02-11/1/02(Halloween Elise)
7/31/02-10/3/02(Natalie)
6/12/02-7/27/02(Debauchery)
5/3/02-6/12/02(Fun with mochi)
3/24/02-4/28/02(X pretentiousness)
1/10/02-2/27/02(Home again)
12/1/01-1/3/02(Nara III)
10/9/01-11/27/01(Nara II)
9/3/01-9/29/01(Nara I)
current music: Ayumi Hamasaki, 'end roll [neuro-matic remix]'
I'm going to take a leaf from Cat's book now, because this little gem deserves to be passed around:
Ties of Loyalty by The Unseen Watcher
"Did you really sneak into their camp like a ninja and scare the spit out of them with that lame 'Leave now, before it's too late' line?"
Kenshin flushed, ducking his head in embarrassment. He sputtered something like it seeming like a good idea at the time.
By now, Hiko's shoulders were quivering. He clutched his sides in a futile effort to keep them from shaking with his laughter. Finally giving it up as a futile effort, he doubled over, laughing helplessly. Collapsing onto his back, his feet narrowly missing the fire, he managed between guffaws to sputter out to his flabbergasted student. "Why didn't you just dress up in a hooded robe, clank around a ringed staff, and say 'I AM TSI TSENG, THE END IS HERE!'?"
Absolutely classic Hiko, this was. In my opinion, fics that focus on action and strategy, and good old-fashioned canon characterization as background rather than plot device, are far too rare. I enjoyed the hell out of this one, not least because of the epilogue.
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current music: Move, 'destiny'
I did it. I finally did it! (Got to do it, that is... I had to wait for my acceptance letter and attendant crap.) I now have a ticket from Charlotte to Gatwick, leaving January 7th. Thank GOD. I was starting to get edgy, going through STA's page and eliminating one departure city after the other because no fares were available. I swear, I'm getting really good at this psychotic last-minute travel thing. Now I just have to find a hotel for two nights....
We're getting ready to go out and see Nemesis, after dinner-- my parents totally forgot it comes out today! Surprise, surprise. It's so rainy and dismal outside, I'm glad I had something to look forward to all day. Yuck.
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current music: Azumi Uehara, 'Better Days'
Bridget, sweetie, you most certainly may have Invoke... as soon as I get home and get it from my brother, that is. ^_~ He's been gloating over the fact that he has it and I don't for weeks, and I only got to listen to it when he put it on our computer at home. YesAsia has the single, though, and I was sorely tempted to get it because it's a maxi with like six other separate songs on it. *Drools* I can't help it, I still love Takanori Nishikawa... he makes me giggle.
Melanie is here and she's making a scarf... I really want to learn how to knit so I can make some of my own! (In Slytherin colors, that is...hehee.) But I've got to do laundry, and I have to fill out papers for MMU and write Christmas cards... in Japanese... *spins*
So much to do before Monday!
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The Treasure Planet soundtrack has been in my stereo and in my Walkman for the last three days, nonstop. I kid you not. This movie OWNS my imagination.
...Actually, Silver owns my imagination. 'S a good thing I don't have ready access to a copy of the book right now, or I'd be blowing all my study time in devouring it. Disney's doing this film a disservice, guys-- you really ought to give it a chance, because it's not at all what the previews show (not after the first five minutes, anyway). Titan AE, it is NOT. If nothing else, it made me fairly salivate over the prospect of getting my own stylus and doing things like THAT with a paint program.
I'd tell you all to go download stuff from the website, but aside from the staggering amount of movie footage available as behind-the-scenes clips, there's not much to see. The wallpapers are apparently locked away only to be released if you go buy merchandise and enter the correct codes... Disney, you SUCK. Go advertise your movie better. And give me the rest of those gorgeous wallpapers!
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current music: Gackt, '12gatsu no Love Song' (English version)
...And as I'm sure you can guess from that, I'm alternately wincing and giggling like mad. Blessedly, I stumbled across a transcription of the lyrics before I took the mp3 from Gerald's page, so I didn't spend the entire song in complete befuddlement at any rate. It is... interesting. I must say, of course, that I have a particular weakness for the original version, and I'm a complete sucker for Gackt's voice anyway. Something in me can't dislike this song, no matter how much I want to cringe at some of the phrasing. I can't even not-like his R&B-wannabe vocal stylings-- his voice is too delicious. He just needs someone to coach his pronunciation.... ^_^;
While I'm at it, though... it's not quite been a year since the original single came out. Over a week shy, in fact. A new non-album single is long overdue, at this point... Nothing in September, nothing since MOON came out. I wonder if it's the movie in the way, or something else?
Melanie and I walked under the ice-laden trees down to Tate Street earlier, to meet friends for dinner. The air is so damp and frigid, our breath hung in giant unmoving clouds long after we passed. Ice here is not usual, I'd forgotten-- university closed today, and power out all over the place because the city's so ill-equipped to deal with the situation. Not like Asheville's so much better at it, but we're at least used to seeing every single twig and protruding object encased in thick ice, with nothing on the ground. Happens a couple of times each winter, more or less. People here were just floored by the effect it had on the trees, and the trees were floored too, not having this kind of stress visited on them regularly. I'm rather grateful that the ice each year at home keeps the trees pruned, so to speak, of weaker branches and unbalanced growth. It ought to melt tomorrow, but things are going to look droopy for a very long time, I'm sure.
In the meantime, it's like living in a forest made of glass. And the stars are out.
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IT'S SNOWING!
...Appropriately enough, my MD player chose to pull Judy & Mary's 'The New-Fallen Snow' about five minutes after I walked out of Graham. Now it really feels like Christmas is coming! I'm going back outside to be covered in snowflakes now.
...AND my professor not only gave me a thumbs-up on my research paper, he gave it back to me to revise for an even better grade. I could just hug him.
AND... SNOW! ^_^
addendum: The only thing that could possibly make this day even better, ladies and gentlemen-- an ALTC update! Two delicious chapters (woefully Nagi- and Omi-free, for the most part, but still...!) as usual crammed with an amazing amount of development. :D Oh, the happiness.
This would be where I sneak a guilty look at all the snippets in my notebook I have yet to work into anything longer... and I have NO excuse for not finishing chapter two of AF, because I know exactly where it's going and what needs to happen. Can you believe it? I finally KNOW how the story goes. Up to a point, anyway... eheh. But it's all there, and it's more fun than ever now that I have a single, clear path to follow, and room to mess around along the way. It's even helping with the single, solitary original story still simmering on the backburner-- the focus is sharper; I have a better idea of what I do and don't want out of it. (I DO intend to keep the naming scheme, and the tangy Yokohama-in-winter flavor. I DON'T intend to allow anything resembling sappiness or direct statements... it shall be my training ground for learning how to write in a way that is NOT the way I speak.)
Now it's almost time for The West Wing... and I get to go out in the snow again!
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current music: Coyote Ugly soundtrack, 'Right Kind Of Wrong'
...And because this song is just so incredibly /perfect/, I have a lovely Tokyo Babylon desktop to go with it... and for some reason I want onigiri so badly I /tasted/ it a moment ago. Gods, how I want an onigiri. If only you could send one of those, Diana! If there's an oriental grocery in Manchester that sells conbini food, I'll-- well, I'll just explode with happiness. Chinese nikuman would be an acceptable alternative. XD~
I mean, this song is really, REALLY perfect. *gleeful laughter* 'You walk in and my strength walks out the door/ Say my name and I can't fight it anymore/ Oh I know, I should go/ But I need your touch just too damn much/ Loving you isn't really something I should do...'
Hoo boy.
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current music: Glay, 'We All Feel His Strength Of Tender'
I know, I know, stop bloody /laughing/ for a moment and admit that you understand what the title of that song means. If you speak native English, I know you can figure it out. ^_~ For what it's worth, the first time I heard the music my face split into the biggest smile of my life and I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the track. It's just that happy. Gospel singer included.
I'm getting ready to head to the studio, but I've been getting my J-rock news fix first... Cat, you are a goddess, both for your writing and the lovely little tidbits you drop for the rest of us hopeless fans. I can't believe I've gone and finally done it... I'm hooked on a Chinese artist. I never really saw it coming-- never been interested, mostly because I can't sing along to Chinese, much less ever hope to understand or pronounce it! And yet. Violane tipped me off first to Nicholas Tse's single 'Viva', which I actually kept because it's so damn catchy and fun. Then Cat goes and provides us with Nicholas's cover of 'Oasis', that singularly entrancing Gackt single that makes me want to turn up the volume and belt along with the stereo when I'm really pissed off.
...But my heavens, this boy can SING. I mean, his voice is gorgeous. Not just in Chinese, either-- you know how some Japanese artists, well, you love their voices but you can tell that if they tried to sing in English it would just be laughable (and not because of their accent)? Well, not Nicholas Tse. He sounds like bells, like something glowing. Wow. I'm putting this on my disk and taking it to the lab with me.
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current music: T.M. Revolution, 'Invoke'
I've been busy catching up on sleep and friend-time this week. :) Steph and Drew and I went with our mothers to see CoS again... and this time we felt all two hours and forty minutes of it! My legs were twitching horribly by the last half hour. I don't think I'll sit through that again until I have the option of pausing it. Still, oh so lovely. Wednesday was for errands... mall, photos and reprints (although why my 5x7 orders came back as 5x6, I have no idea, GRAR) and an eye exam, whee! Yeah, guess what?! Next week, I shall have GLASSES!
*laughs* Yup, astigmatism. And now everyone who's known me for years is sputtering and going, "Whaaaaaat?!!" Hey, if it makes the fine print and the road signs legible from a normal distance again, I'm a happy camper. And the frames do look hella cool, if I do say so myself... although my pupils were hella dilated when I picked them out. Eep.
Thanksgiving was fun-- hordes of family, oceans of food, and cozy living room to relax in. It's still taking some getting used to, being lumped with the 'kids' at my aunt's house; at my grandmother's it was everyone at the big table, and if we had to eat in the kitchen it was just me and Drew and Natalie, who's five years older than me, so she was always the cool one. I've gotten used to people starting to lump me in with the adults, so when it goes the other way it's kinda weird. Okay, irritating. But hey, it was Thanksgiving. And I guess to my relatives I'll always be the little kid... eh.
Sometimes I wonder if I actually DID bring a boy home with me, would people look at me differently? Being single by default... sometimes I think it leads people to forget I really am a young woman.
I had to work on Friday, and it was great to see everything decorated for the holidays! Now it feels like Christmas is coming-- I never start anticipating it until Thanksgiving, it's like some kind of switch in my brain. Now I'm in holiday mode. I was expecting to feel more energized about actually being at work, though, and when it felt like I'd been there for weeks after just a couple of hours, I realized it's REALLY time for me to move on. One more summer, one more holiday season, and then if I'm really, really fortunate I'll be through.... *crosses fingers* Still. There are so many worse places I could be working, especially now. And Rene and I went out to lunch together, and Fish and I went to see 8 Crazy Nights, which was RANDOM and WEIRD and REALLY REALLY FUNNY. Even though I'm surprised I laughed at some of it, I did enjoy the hell out of that movie. The Hannukah Song was a scream-- the whole audience stayed put for that at the end. Hee.
Today was Lazy Day... THANK GOD. I got to loaf around and read and nibble Chex mix and leftovers and watch TV... and see Jamie and then see Treasure Planet. My imagination is still slavering over that one... such pretty glitter and lovely little touches everywhere, and oh, the music. YUM. The characters were pretty cool, too-- really nicely done. And hey, I'm a huge sucker for anything that romanticizes flying, and there's a couple of sequences in there that made my stomach flip. Instant happiness, that was. And Silver has always been one of my absolute favorite characters from any story, hands down. I have a gigantic soft spot for him (as big a sap as I am now, I was far worse when I was ten!) I have a feeling this will fuel many movies in my brain for a good while.
Excellent.
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current music: Willa Ford, 'I Wanna Be Bad'
Behold: Stick Rezo! ...There are no words. ^_^ (Stick) Rezo rocks my little world.
It's taken me a whole year (minus two weeks) and a new OS, but I HAVE IT, I FINALLY HAVE IT! XD Have what? Why, Jinnai and the Bugrom LIVE from DokiDoki Productions, of course. If you have a PC or QT6 and a fast connection, and you want to laugh really hard at something that makes NO SENSE, then you've gotta download this video. It makes me want to see El Hazard, if only to enjoy more of Jinnai's gleefully evil facial expressions.
I turned in my research paper this morning. Over ten pages, and the footnotes were a BITCH. I had fun with the topic... now I just hope the paper doesn't make Crowther really disappointed, because I KNOW it's not as good as he's thinking it'll be. Not even close.
But it's done. :) Happy ED, now I have to finish my independent study crap. Shweee.
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current music: Shakira, 'Whenever, Wherever'
Japan Times editorial: Picking on Tiger
Michael and I went to NYP for dinner and then to see The Emperor's Club. It was such fun! I hate that we hardly ever see each other; I am always in a better mood when we get to hang out. The movie was superb-- I only saw one preview earlier this week, and basically decided to see the movie on a whim. I had a flash of anxiety just as the opening credits started, afraid that I would be horribly disappointed by a fumbling script, pat storyline or lackluster performances (the preview was /not/ very descriptive). Luckily, the worries were needless, but it was a ways into the story before I was more certain that the plot would not fall short. Kevin Kline was absolutely marvelous, and although part of the ending was disheartening (and very telling) in a way, there were plenty of warm fuzzies from the right quarters as well. It could have been another Dead Poet's Society (only without the dead hottie, as Michael so astutely pointed out), but avoided that particular redux completely, much to my relief. It also managed to avoid the pat, rather sappy 'wild-child reforms into passionate prodigy' formula... but if I say more I'll spoil it. I'd rather you all go watch it for yourselves; it's a shame I haven't run across more publicity for this movie. It was well worth five dollars and two hours of our time.
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current music: Pink, 'Pill' (very, very loud)
...I am not having a good day.
My stomach has been at odds with the rest of me all week, for some reason; I've been doing my best to eat modest meals of the not-greasy not-meaty kind and it's having no effect. Feeling that icky on the inside makes it very hard to feel attractive on the outside, and it's getting to me. Lots of little things have also conspired to put me in a generally evil mood as of an hour ago.
I have two hundred dollars left on my meal balance, and two weeks on campus left to use it. Suffice to say, I need to feed other people in order to do this. Now why, I ask, will NO ONE LET ME BUY THEM DINNER? Is there something wrong with me? Is it something about the way I offer? This has never happened before, and I'm starting to take it personally, as in /be offended/. I'm not doing it because I feel sorry for my friends or because I want them to owe me anything-- I just effing need to get rid of this declining balance. I swear, if one more person refuses and then turns right around and accepts cash from someone next to me... *sputters* What the HELL is the difference, people?!
The I-office also (surprise, surprise) managed to completely leave me out of the mass-mailing they did to inform study-abroad students of their photography contest. As a result, I knew nothing of the whole thing until Monday, when I saw all these photographs on easels in the Atrium, up for prizes and everything. Not only THAT... but mine would've had a damn good chance of winning (I'm not being arrogant, I'm being truthful here). When I ask them why I didn't get the email, do they even /apologize/ to me? Nope, of course not! Just 'oh, gee, that's odd'. *gnashes teeth* Typical, that. I can't be surprised... but I'm still mad as hell about it.
Last, but not least... I just want same kind of confirmation that my company is /appreciated/, not merely tolerated. I'm getting sick of being taken for granted or ignored altogether... so much for being sorry about missing the last semester the rest of my class will spend at UNCG. Good riddance. Screw you all; I am SO out of here.
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current music: The Meters, 'Handclapping Song' (I have Jamie to thank for this CD-- she remembers things about me that I've forgotten!)
I'm in a good, but very snarky, mood. You have been warned.
The things one finds on a study break... good lord. Sawasdee Gackt is back up and running, and chock full of current news (though I prefer to get mine from Shiroi Heya; it's more in-depth and less, ah, biased). After filtering through these oh-so-fascinating tidbits, I found my way to the TV section of the site, where I encountered my hilarity for the day. Turns out Gackt appeared on NHK back in August in a one-shot drama called 'Hero's Hero'. To paraphrase the webmaster, it's about a young teenage girl who encounters Gackt as a strange 462-year-old (*CACKLE*) librarian in a library, who then takes her on a journey through three different books about three different 'heroes' (Masamune Date, Napoleon, and Albert Einstein). But wait... the end BGM was 'doomsday', and contained PV clips from Oasis, Vanilla, and Sekirei. I'm not sure whether the drama actually inspired young people as it was intended to do, but it sure looked like a clever marketing ploy. I am both disturbed and terribly amused. (And WOW was that particular blond hairstyle a bad idea.)
Back to the books with me!
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current music: Kotani Kinya, 'Spicy Marmalade'
Today the sky was so incredibly blue and cloudless, I walked to and from classes craning my neck up just to look at it as much as possible. I even walked through the squishy muddy park to get a good look at the trees in the sun, so I don't feel too guilty about napping away the remaining daylight in the afternoon. I was so tired in polysci, I couldn't even hold my head up for the whole class... it was pretty pathetic, considering I'd just had an espresso. My grade in that class is just going to be awful, I'm sure of it, but I love it anyway. Our professor is such a scream-- he's totally deadpan, except for the occasional smirk, but he manages to make some hilarious comments on just about every lecture. Communist China, however, seems to present him with the most fodder for upbeat sarcasm. I mean, I don't think our class has laughed all semester as much as we did last Friday. (Today we were brain-dead, so I'm not sure whether he was being terribly amusing or not.) As with so many other things, though, I love learning about the material-- I just don't want to do a lot of active WORK on the subject. Talking and thinking and reading is all I'm good for, most of the time. I am such a dabbler. ^_^; Never thought I'd be one for international politics, but I really do enjoy the class, even more than I did the International Systems course I took last.
My brain is geared up for independent study work right now, which means drawing rather than writing-- so I'm going to go do that, instead of spewing more drivel into the text box here. *crosses fingers* Here's hoping everything will be squared away by this Friday! I need a NIGHT OUT, badly.
But hey, weekends at home are even better.
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I'm home for the weekend! ^_^ I came home yesterday to surprise Mom on her birthday (and to see The Chamber of Secrets, of course). They were out to dinner when I got in, which was what I'd hoped, so I got to spend almost two hours doing what I love more than anything else: Curling up in a big soft chair with my puppy and a great book, with wonderful restful music (FOTR soundtrack and various Enya CDs) in the stereo and a big plate of munchies next to me. Heaven.
We cleaned house today! I know that doesn't sound like fun... but I've been dying to see the bookshelves in the den look a bit less like a war zone. We have so many books, they were stacked willy-nilly on top of each other, in front of each other, and were starting to encroach upon the surrounding surfaces. They'd already made it to the table by the couch. Now that whole wall looks more like a real library, and less like a dumping ground. I managed to pull some treasures from the spill, too; things Mom and Dad have already finished that I'd like to get to soon. I think I'll take Shogun with me to Manchester... that will cut down on the amount of reading material I'll need to bring along, for sure. I wonder if I'll even get through the whole thing before I come home again!
We have a whole shelf (probably more, even) of Arthurian novels. Another shelf or three full of historical fiction. Most of this, I haven't read yet. *sweats* I really need to start setting aside two hours a day for this... it would probably be good for me. ^^;
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was fantastic! LONG, oh my god, and it makes me think that after this the movies are going to require intermissions, but for most of the movie I didn't feel the time passing. I was too busy enjoying Ron and Snape. And Lucius Malfoy, surprisingly enough. He got more screen time than I'd expected for some reason... but he was such fun to watch. Eeeeeevil. (And because I know what's coming... yes, Steph, Tom was *insert superlative of choice here*.) *grins* Marvelous!
That's all for the comments, because I have to go make coleslaw now. *is drawn towards the kitchen by the amazing aroma of dinner*
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current music: Chess, 'Anthem'
...If you have a fast internet connection and Flash on your computer (and a spare half hour or so), FOLLOW THAT LINK. To borrow Lex's phrasing, go sob incoherently over how good their stuff is. *grins crazily* We spent almost half of design class today surfing that page, among others. The backgrounds alone made me want to gnash my teeth and weep with envy. Oh, for that much time on my hands.
It's been a pretty good week, since Tuesday-- the project was well-received. What made me laugh was that everyone liked the choice of soundtrack for the 10-second clip, and wanted to know what it was... I used the opening/ending riffs of 'Butterfly', the Japanese Digimon opening song. *snickers* I cracked up when I was listening to it, and realized that it was perfect for my purposes... of course, the fact that I've had it burned onto a CD for three years now leaves me no room to poke fun...! The second movie ended up with a clip from ONE LOVE, of course-- seems like Glay just works really well for multimedia stuff. It's interesting, I think, that J-rock tends to lend itself to this kind of thing more than American pop music. The songs tend to stand better on their own, without vocals, as a rule. I mean, how many of you would care to listen to karaoke versions of most of your favorites from the radio? But I regularly listen to off-vocal versions of Gackt, Glay, Ryuichi Kawamura (especially Ryuichi-- such pretty acoustic guitar!) and a lot of other random artists. I'm still trying to work out some concrete reasoning as to why this might be.
LESS THAN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS BEFORE TCS! Snape, shweeee! Oh, the happiness. And Treasure Planet (cheesy it might look, but it also looks GORGEOUS so I'm going to see it, no matter what) and Two Towers and Nemesis... and I have yet to see Spirited Away at the Grande here. I'm going to explode with movie-goodness before this month is over!
I've had 'Tell Me On A Sunday' running through my head today. I really, really love that song... I want an excuse to use it for something, I just need to think of one. And before I forget, some of you might want to check out the website now... I uploaded soooo much random crap yesterday, thanks to Orion's endless patience and assistance. It looks like ass, but at least stuff's there (and at least it's not just a directory listing)! Mel, I forgot to show you the 'random photos' section; those are all from Peabody Park the day we took blue sky pictures and feet pictures, remember? They came out so well I decided to share.
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current music: GLAY, 'Kimi ga mitsumeta umi' (courtesy of my BRAIN, because I had to listen to the song for an hour straight while I edited the hell out of it for my Flash project, and now it won't go away....)
Oh, lordy. I just spent ten hours straight in the McIver lab, crouched in front of a G4 and a Wacom pad. I HURT. I am doing laundry, and going to bed.
Research paper, here I come! (Tomorrow, that is.)
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ED looked up to the sky at 02:42 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 07:18 p.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 11:39 p.m.
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ED looked up to the sky at 03:35 p.m.
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*snrks* Oh, the parody videos that could be done with this one...!
ED looked up to the sky at 03:26 a.m.
I really liked this editorial-- found myself agreeing with pretty much everything it said, so I won't bother with repeating any of it. Just go read for yourself.
ED looked up to the sky at 11:14 p.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 01:26 p.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 12:25 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 10:06 p.m.
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What's your inner fangirl? Take the test!
*cackles* Well, gee, what a surprise. The way that quiz was written, I think most of us would get this result... but the questions were a hoot. Courtesy of Leareth's blog, which I hopped to mainly in order to ogle the decadent Seishirou-and-Subaru goodness. I really, really wish I had time to spend days in front of my computer, nothing but my scanner, some notebooks and Photoshop to occupy my time... oh, the inappropriate fun I could have.... Have had, in fact, if I remember some of the half-finished stuff I found lurking in my web folder the other day. Creepy, that. As it is, quick and dirty scanning and uploading is all I will be able to do tomorrow, and that's all for school-related purposes. Yawn.
I'll say the interesting things tomorrow. Oh, hell... later today.
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current music: Gackt, '君のためにできること' (single version)
I KNOW I should be in bed. I should be a lot of other things, too... but I have been terribly remiss in not recommending far sooner that you all go read Leah's webpage/journal ASAP. I bow, once again, to her eloquence and thoughtfulness.
And since one always leads to the other, here's bordering on small, Katie's journal. *waves* I understand your situation, oh how I understand! ...Which would lead one to wonder, what the hell am I doing still typing? Nothing. Bed for ED now. G'night.
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current music: Rurouni Kenshin Genius Collection, 'Kono sekai no katasumi de' (at least I think that's the title... don't have the liner notes here to romanize....)
Diana, sweetie, your blog crashed my browser. *finds this hilarious, somehow* I think you need to relegate some of those fun little 'accessories' of yours to pop-up windows again. I'm more interested in what you have to say than what's dancing at the bottom of the page, anyway. ^_^;
I think tomorrow I'll buckle down and get most of the Flash project done... have an appointment with a customer too, and a financial aid meeting in the afternoon. Today I'm gonna read for my paper, and Saturday and Sunday hopefully I'll be able to write it all out. Flash will get finished on Monday.
Here goes everything.
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current music: Sophie B. Hawkins, 'Timbre'
::takes a break from reading up on the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century::
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current music: Chihiro Onitsuka, 'Infection'
Things ED should NOT be reading right now.... (In addtion to the JET and AEON homepages, which I don't have links handy for at the moment.)
I don' t need this, I don't need this, I don't need this. It's like a damned train wreck, I just can't stop. I have a year to wait before I can do anything about it anyway, and I've already had my little self-indulgent sanity-saver of a return trip. So. Begs the question, WHY can't I stop reading all these pages?! The worst part of all is that I can't even pick whether I want to live in a little mountain town and teach in a school, or live in the city and teach at an office, or WHAT, and I thought I was so damn sure... (but then, I was always sure I'd staple my fingers to the wall before I'd teach ANYthing, period). That's it, I'm getting down to the wire here anyway. It's time for operation overdrive: buckle down and pass exams, get through Manchester and make some kind of decent portfolio for myself, experience something that's NOT Japan, GRADUATE, and then I can say hell with it and apply to programs till I can't write anymore.
I have to do this. One more year. I have to do this. First things first.
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ARGH. Okay, I couldn't stand it anymore, Elise just had to go. Originally I had asked for permission to use a screencap from Cool Like Plastic, which is a really nice fan site, especially if you're looking for screen captures. I haven't gotten a response yet (but I'm being really impatient, can you tell?), so I started looking for another page. Found a page with similar screencaps... but it was absolute kryptonite for IE. I've just reopened my browser six times, and that's enough for me. So!
(And honestly... I wouldn't have asked permission if the webmistress hadn't specified such. Unless it's a digital or other kind of personal creation, there's no real reason, although I do give credit when possible for my sources. It's polite. I ask, if that's what the person wishes, to avoid net unpleasantness. That's all. But then, this is a rant that could go on for pages-- never get an artist started on property rights!)
...I suppose I oughta put up a translation of those lyrics for you guys. Later. ^_^; Now I'm slumping back to my books.
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Pres de la Gare
LOOK! *hops up and down excitedly* そのレストランで、私たちが食べました！ Pardon the craptacular nihongo, had to say something... but that's the little French restaurant that Sanae, Aki and I had lunch at a year ago this weekend. I can't believe I actually found it! I opened this article and for a second the photograph made me think I was looking at the same restaurant (but in fact it's a much more upscale place). Then I just had to search the web until I came across the real thing. Whoooo!
Freaky, this is! I even just read Diana's blog, and wow, are you busy! You went to Rumours, AHAHAHAAA! And you met Hiro... because I'm thinking you met the same Hiro I met, did he tell you he's been to Australia? Is he kinda on the short side, very very cute and sweet? XD And partying, even! Wow, I'm so glad you're having a blast. Now we just have to sucker more girls into coming next year, you know. We really, really do. And I can't seem to find any new photos of yours online, I checked and nothing different is up! What gives? ^_~
I want to talk to Mel right now, but she's at home for the weekend so I'm thinking a trip to the rec center is in order. I need to clear my head so I can get back to my classwork.
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ED looked up to the sky at 05:50 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 02:43 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 03:54 p.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 11:56 p.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 10:51 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 01:44 a.m.
ED looked up to the sky at 08:25 p.m.