Version 3's layout features Sohma Akito from the wonderful anime/manga Fruits Basket. I've only seen the 11 episodes that were digisubbed before Funimation bought the liscence, and thus don't actually know much about Akito aside from the fact that he's the head of the Sohma Family, and he seems to be rather insane. Still, there's a kind of sad aura about him, and he can often be seen with small birds, hence the title. This was the first really complicated layout I ever made, and it still has a strange small space in it and I don't understand why, but just the fact that the parts are all in their places is enough for me at the moment!
Name: Christy DeShong
Birthdate: 8-2-82
Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI
Interests: Anime, writing, reading, yaoi, DDR
Fav. Anime: Cowboy Bebop
Anime Character: Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun)
DDR Songs: Afronova, Oh Nick Please Not So Quick, Gentle Stress
King of Fighters Character: Benimaru Nikaido
Movie: The Princess Bride
Current Desktop:
Sarah
Aaron
Katherine, who I don't actually know but who writes interesting blogs
My Fanfiction
My Doujinshi Scans
Pitas.com
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I'm sort of glad I worked up the energy to go to my Shakespeare class today, yet at the same time oddly disappointed. It was the most useless class ever. We didn't even have a quiz over the reading; we just discussed how to write critical essays and then watched a video of Laurence Olivier's Henry V. I was shocked to discover that much of my class did very poorly on the papers; a lot of people were really upset about it, because they felt they had done an okay job and yet ended up with Ds. And yet I, slacker that I am, wrote three pages of BS and ended up with an A-. It makes me feel a little guilty and a little proud at the same time... I mean, geez, I must be a very talented BS-er. Or just lucky. ^_^*
In other news, today a very weird thing happened. I hadn't eaten all day. I was not planning to eat until 8:00, when I have dinner with some friends scheduled at Applebee's. So I decided to fix myself a yummy turkey and broccoli Hot Pocket. I stuck the thing in the microwave, and it looked all good, and cheese was dribbling out and everything. So I take a bite... and it's oddly gritty. Upon closer inspection, I discover that there is dirt inside my Hot Pocket. It went down the garbage disposal, but now I'm afraid I am permanently traumatized and will never be able to eat one again. I was always fond of Hot Pockets, too. >.< Hm.
Thursday, March 14, 2002
04:55 p.m.
I don't think you're ugly or idiotic, Sarah, but I'm not sure about the "lethargic and unmotivated" bit. No worse than me, anyway ^_~ I think Katherine's latest entry makes a good point... we're just a big group of unfocused lethargy, and I think that's why we hang out together, lol.
Sunday, March 10, 2002
10:15 a.m.
You're Shirou Kamui!
Congratulations-- the Power of God is in your hands. Well, maybe not, but you do occasionally feel as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and sometimes you just want to run away to escape it all. You mean well, but you are sometimes short-tempered and don’t necessarily think things through before you do them. Friendship is very important to you, as is loyalty. You have a lot of growing to do, but deep down you really are a good person.
Which Dragon of Heaven are you?
Quiz by Kerianne
When I first saw that I was Kamui, I thought it was weird, but the description actually kind of fits me. ^_^*
Geez, I should go get started on that Japanese assignment I've had all week to do. Heh heh.
The end of an era o.O
I did watch some good stuff, though; more Fruits Basket, which is just a wonderful series, and Hikaru no Go, which is cute as all heck. I'm quickly becoming obsessed with it. Also watched the first episode of Scryed, which was interesting enough that I'd like to see more. The impression episode 1 gave me was Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, only the Stands are robot things called "Alters". Pretty weird. I already want yaoi between Kazuma and the guy who showed up to fight him at the end of the episode. ^_^* I'm so pathetic.
Speaking of which, I've been in the mood to write lemons lately (i.e., horny) but I can't think of any decent plots... It's slightly frustrating. Reporting late...
Well, in case any avid blog readers are wondering about how my trip to Chicago went, it was pretty good. We hit a very little patch of snow, but the freeway was completely clear the whole way. Then we got to Mitsuwa, where I proceeded to spend every last bit of my money despite the fact that they didn't seem to have Volume 1 of ANYTHING. So I ended up with 3, 4, and 5 of Houshin Engi, 2 and 3 of Hikaru no Go, and 10 (eep!) of Naruto. ^_^* I wonder what Katherine would think if she knew I was buying manga solely because I've been reading about it on her blog? Well, except for Houshin Engi; I got into the anime a while ago. Everyone looks so much more adorable in the manga! Even Bunchuu, which threw me ^_^* I want a Tenka of my own. I bet you anything he dies, though, just because of my Favorite Character Curse.
I actually almost ended up with no Hikaru no Go, because I could not find it anywhere in the Jump Comics section. I thought it was a little weird, but then Sarah ended up discovering it... in a completely different section, with all the books about Go strategy. ^_^* We both thought that was a tad weird, but I got some anyway. Haven't looked at it too closely yet, but I like the art, especially the covers. Pretty! I also have been downloading digisubs of the anime; I've heard the subs aren't entirely accurate, but I only know a little Japanese. I mean, it's better than watching it and only being able to pick out people's names and occassional nouns, right?
I also picked up the Cowboy Bebop movie OST. God, it's great! I listened to it almost three times through on the way home. ^_^* Too bad they didn't have the mini-album with Ask DNA and Cosmic Dare on it. No, scratch that... if they'd had that I wouldn't have been able to afford dinner at the Ghetto Chinese Diner later on, which has this absolutely wonderful crab rangoon. It's ORGASMIC rangoon. Seriously.
Also while at Mitsuwa, I bought a can of the infamous Pocari Sweat. It's pretty good; it tastes a little like lemony Gatorade. I can see myself getting it again, mostly for the novelty. More weird quizzes
This is fine and good, but second place was
What's with that? ^_^* I'm not surprised I got the manly Mana, though. Er... relatively speaking.
I'm all excited about the trip to Chicago tomorrow. I hope I don't spend too much money, but I really want to come home with a pile of manga and possibly a CD. ^_^* Doushite??
God, I'm bitter. ^_^* I actually think it's partly Spike's fault. That idiot. ^_^* Aaron again
In other news, I'm starting to feel a lot of sympathy for Sarah, but I'm not sure she would want my sympathy. ^_^* Anyway, I don't know how to do anything to help, although I sort of feel like I should, since she's my friend, and one of my closest friends at that, oddly enough. I don't know if she even realizes that, but she's one of the only people I'm always very honest with... even though I know that bugs her sometimes too ^_^* But Sarah is a person who isn't afraid of sharing her opinions, and I really respect that. And Sarah - I know you read this, and I'm not just saying that to boost your ego or suck up or anything. If I didn't like you, you'd probably know about it. ^_^*
And in more other news, I think Crysta is a lot more fun to hang around when she's ripping on Joe. That probably isn't very nice, but that guy gets so obnoxious, and it's so relieving to know that she isn't stupid enough to think he isn't. It's annoying, though, because it isn't like he's a bad guy. (Have I said this before? Possibly.) Anyway, Joe is not a bad guy, so I feel like I don't really have much right being mean to him, but he can be so obnoxious sometimes that it's hard to ignore.
Ah... life. People. Relationships. It's all so weirdly complicated. It's really fascinating to sit somewhere crowded and watch people walk by, people you will probably forget all about three seconds later (unless they're really hot or something), and realize that they too have mountains of worries and their own set of relationships they're trying to cope with also. How odd.
And in closing: I drew my robo dog in art class today. I felt like that was a worthwhile two hours, even if I didn't quite finish his legs and didn't get a chance to draw the space background in. (Uchuu no Inu! I have to look up that kanji.) Oh no!
Anyway, I'm sitting here at 20 to eleven, and I'm REALLY TIRED, but I feel like I shouldn't go to bed yet because I never go to bed before midnight. I realize that this is stupid - I should just sleep, if I'm tired - and yet I'm doing it anyway. What is wrong with me? ^_^* Sigh, I am just a weirdo. But I feel so GOOD after dropping CS. Sigh. I think I'll take the free time the lack of CS gives me tomorrow to work on the anime club library thingy some more. I'll just stick it on a disk and take it to the lab in the Bernhard Center, which I really like for some reason. It's just a comfortable place to be, I suppose. Hm... I really do want to go to Chicago during Spring Break, but I am growing afraid for my car. Maybe I could borrow the van or the Malibu. I wouldn't mind driving to Mitsuwa, but I'm not sure about actually driving around the city itself. Who else would do it though? Matt's car would probably not be suitable, and frankly driving with TJ scares me. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten into an accident yet.
My love of anime has just reached the "I want to own all I can!" stage. It's kind of weird. Every time I buy a new DVD I feel all warm and fuzzy. Too bad they're so damn expensive... but I got another $5 Suncoast certificate. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, you will be mine! I need to get myself a good Japanese dictionary so I can work on reading manga. I tried translating the second volume of Saiyuki last summer, and I actually got at least the idea of what everyone was saying, but only if the dictionary was by my side helping. I hate manga with no furigana! T-T Furigana is the only thing that keeps me going sometimes. Sigh.
P.S. Afuro ga ichiban! Breaking Point RAGE
As it is, I really want to work on my writing, and I haven't been doing that often either. It's a shame, because I have two wonderful author role models now - Shigure from Fruits Basket and Jiyu's father Sai from Jubei-chan. Nothing like weirdo author guys to make you want to write novels and be able to sit around the house doing virtually nothing but eating toast (in Sai's case) and tormenting your publishers (Shigure). Sai might torment his publishers also, but I've only seen four episodes so I couldn't say. Sai looks like more of a pimp than Shigure, probably because Sai wears a pink suit wheras the one time Shigure wore a suit it was black. He actually looked respectable. Anyway, I am totally babbling at the moment. One thing I must wonder... do people actually read my blog, aside from Aaron and Sarah? Oh, I believe Kathleen does. Wha, whatever. I love Katherine's blog so much, and I don't even know her ^_^* I would like to email her sometime but I don't know what to say, and she generally doesn't have a ton of Internet time anyway from the looks of things. I could always rant about how much I loved her King of Fighters fic on ff.net - it was a threesome between Kyo, Benimaru, and Shingo, and it was not only a total PWP, but a really GOOD PWP. Sigh. Quite in-character also, at least in my opinion. Fighting game characters don't exactly have the most complicated personalities, at least not in the games themselves.
Well, I guess this is long enough... I want to go check my referral link thingies. Those are always interesting; I feel a little bad for people who find my blog while looking for things like Invader Zim fanfiction. I mean, I don't have any. I probably never will. The fact that Zim/Dib yaoi exists scares me a little, even though some secret part of me always wondered about it when I watched the show. ^_^*
Good lord, I have to pee, but I don't want to give up my computer o.O This could get interesting. Well, I once held it through all of "Jurassic Park", which is 205 minutes, PLUS previews, PLUS tons of traffic getting out of the movie theater; I think I'll live. Ahh, it's so cute! Wow. Hooray. Someone shoot me now. That feels better. Ugh. Yay, another archive.
Sunday, March 10, 2002
12:19 a.m.
Oh my god, spring break is already over! And I barely did anything! Well, Chicago was fun and all, but besides that all I really did was download digisubs and then watch them. It's rather sad. I wanted to go play DDR tonight but then this freak weird snowstorm came up and completely iced over the roads, and I recently found out that the back tire of my car occasionally locks up. (So THAT'S why I slide so easily. Yeesh.)
Thursday, March 7, 2002
11:47 a.m.
I actually wrote this yesterday, but Pitas decided to crap out on me right as I was trying to update, so I just stuck it in a .txt file and put it up today. Yay.
Monday, March 4, 2002
12:41 p.m.
Sunday, March 3, 2002
01:08 a.m.
Why, Aaron? Why do you feel this big rush to marry someone you've met face to face only a handful of times? Don't you realize that if you just date and don't worry about marriage you can always get engaged later anyway? She's not going anywhere, and if she is- well, better to have her go somewhere now than when you buy her a stupidly expensive rock, huh?
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
10:28 a.m.
Despite the fact that this layout took forever and has really not been up long, I really want to make a new one of Tenka from Houshin Engi. ^_^* Maybe I'll start working on it, but leave Akito up for a while anyway. I don't have too much time, though, since I have to watch a lot of anime and play more Grandia II. (My life is so stressful right now, can ya tell? Hee.)
Monday, February 25, 2002
10:19 p.m.
Well, last night I think I bugged Aaron. Maybe not; he's pretty good at, well, NEVER getting angry. Or at least never showing it. But he told me he was planning on getting engaged to that Molly girl, and I told him my honest opinion on the matter, namely that he was being stupid. There's a part of me that feels like I had no right to say the things I said, because he was obviously feeling very excited and happy about it all, but then there was another (stronger) part that is still very satisfied with it, because I sat there and told him my honest feelings, and now he knows exactly what I think. It's an odd thing, but not hiding my opinion makes me feel really free. I suppose that makes sense, but does that mean that everyone should always be completely open with each other? Would that really be a good idea? I don't know... but I do know that at least that was something I had a very solid opinion on. Sometimes I don't say anything about certain situations just because I don't understand my own feelings, but that was not one of those instances.
Sunday, February 24, 2002
10:40 p.m.
I'm really sorry to hear about your windows, Aaron. o.O That's got to suck. My car has issues of its own, but at least it's still in one piece (so far).
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
03:15 p.m.
Okay, I have had it. I went to my CS lecture at three because I heard there was going to be some kind of test. I have no idea what this test was going to be on. When I got there people were still there from the 2:00 lecture taking the test. They were not done at 3:00, when my class was supposed to start. I can't do the homework right, do really crappy on the quizzes, and refuse to do the "assessment journal", because it's a load of crap. Therefor I intend to drop my CS class. The only problem with this is that I really don't know how to drop it! I looked around on WMU's web site, and that didn't help at all. If Sarah were online she'd be able to help - she's dropped class before - but she isn't, so I'm just left to flounder. Oh well. The knowledge that I won't have to go to another CS class more than makes up for it. Even the worry over what my parents will think when they find out doesn't come close to the stress the class itself was putting me through. Am I a wimp? Maybe, but you know what? I don't even care anymore. Maybe I can test out of the class next time.
Monday, February 18, 2002
02:21 p.m.
I came into the Bernhard Center computer lab to do my CS 105 homework, since Sarah and Crysta both have class right now; I plan on skipping CS today, but still, I figured I'd get it done. I was wrong, since apparently the disk I copied the files I need for the homework onto is in my bag, which I accidentally left in my mom's car last night. Things are just not going well when it comes to CS, which is a shame, since my other three classes aren't too bad. Shakespeare and Art have their downs, but generally I kind of like them. Art has gotten a lot better since I've stopped taking my teacher seriously. ^_^* I know that sounds mean, but I use the class more or less just for practice, and I really think it does me good. If I were more serious about improving my ability I'd be practicing a lot more...
Thursday, February 14, 2002
12:21 a.m.
Proof that Momiji from Fruits Basket is just about the cutest anime character ever:
Eee!
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
09:38 p.m.
That button looks HIDEOUS with my layout. ^_^* Oh well! Akito will just have to suffer. Ha.
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
09:36 p.m.
Although I have no idea how accurate this is, since I picked the answers quite randomly, I've always liked Jane so I won't complain.
Monday, February 11, 2002
04:37 p.m.
Oh my GOD, this CS class makes me want to DIE. Apparently the assignments in my book aren't the same as the ones in the MS Office 2000 book because I only got about 50% on my last assignment. He took ten points off on the resume section because it was "too short". What the hell is with that? The assignment didn't say anything about length requirements. And it says that it's "just the template". Was I not supposed to use the premade template? The assignment TOLD ME TO.
I'm afraid I'm going to fail this class, which sucks, because then I'd have to take it again and want to shoot myself some more. I know I'm not buying that damn self assessment journal thing. That's just a load of crap. GAH. I really don't want to go to Art just because I'm so pissed, but I shouldn't skip again because I REALLY don't want to fail that also. ^_^* Gah. Why am I even going to school? >.< I think it's mainly because I'm not ready for a job yet. Whatever.
Sunday, February 10, 2002
03:07 p.m.
Well, there's a tiny brown line through the top pic, and the info on the left isn't in -1 font for some reason, but still, this is not bad at all compared to how things looked before. ^_^*
Sunday, February 10, 2002
02:36 p.m.
Oh my god, I just cannot get the layout right. I have NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING. It sucks. The more I try working on it, the screwier it gets. So, for now, until I stop feeling so horribly useless, I just went back to an ugly premade Pitas template. Hooray.
Thursday, January 31, 2002
09:24 p.m.
Woot, woot. Archived again. I'm going to change the layout once I get motivated and find a pic that inspires me. I added a tracking thingy, which should be interesting. ^_^
