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tired... yawn...
2005-06-28 00:30:49
It is now 12:30 or so. I've spent the last hour and a half planning out more of my fanfic. It's FullMetal Alchemist crossed with Ah My Goddess. I love working on this story. It'll be funny, but I hope it adds to the storyline. Give me your opinions if they aren't too harsh. The idea by itself should be interesting.
I don't want to give anything away about my fic, but did the above make any sense? I'm too tired to figure that out.
I've only got a few days until I'm off to Europe. I'm nervous. It'll be amazing, ... but I still don't feel like I belong on a trip that's theoretically political. My friends tell me I'll be fine, but I still have a nagging doubt.
I think I'll spend some of tomorrow brushing up on current events. Wish me luck.
Goodnight everybody. Sweet AMV dreams.
Speaking of which, I should work on Little Sister too.
Night -
*deleted at the end*
2005-06-24 16:19:42
Good news all around!
1. Last day of school!
2.Got an A on my english final, surprisingly.
3. And on my Geometry final
4. My Dad found this article on Free-Software video editors, and I'm probably gonna be immersing myself in that soon.
5. The magazine Anime Insider has changed from bi-monthly to monthly, and it tells me that...
6. The Full Moon wo Sagashite manga is coming to the US
7. The next volume of the Oh My Goddess manga is coming soon
8. There's a movie coming for Tsubasa as well as for XXXHolic
9. Eventually, FMA *will* continue on Adult Swim, and I will eventually be able to download it.
10. There's this very tempting contest going: describe in one hundred words or less why you enjoy FullMetal Alchemist. Prizes include a trip to Japan, a L'Arc~en~Ciel concert, and a behind the scenes tour of FMA. I should take a crack at it, me thinks.
11. Naruto is coming to America (of course, we all know this already).
12. Noir is being rereleased, so I can pick in up in an easier-to-handle box.
13. FMA still ROCKS and is setting records on Adult Swim (not a surprise, but it's still cool to know)!
14. Daichi Akitaro is still working on wonderful things. I must check out Kodocha now.
15. Steamboy is coming out. Yay.
16. More new anime than I have any hope of seeing any time soon are coming to the US, including: Genshiken, Heisei Tanuki Pon Poko and other Ghibli loves, a Hellsing OVA sequel, and another beauty by the creator of Voices of a Distant Star.
So many series... so little time...
Looking back on this list, it's a little random. HAH.
My life as an otaku is pretty good right now. My social life...
I guess I've always thought of myself as unattractive, so I don't really try to be friendly. It wouldn't be a problem, except for the little part of me that wished that that certain someone would... I dunno, look at me. But I shove people away, I guess. Nik was nice, but a little... strange is the nicest word I can think of. I didn't like him, but he might have liked me. He deserved a better goodbye than the one I gave him. And this other guy, who I haven't seen in a couple years. We used to hang out at the same center, or club, and I just stopped going, and never thought I'd see him again. Now I have, and haven't had the guts to talk to him. I feel like I did him an injustice by just disappearing like that. But I don't know what to say.
I guess you could say that I wrapped myself in the identity as... I dunno. (I may have said "The loner" a few years ago, but that sounds too cool and presumptuous now.) The unattractive friend. I give advice, I'm 'mature,' I'm smart, but I suck with people. Probably because I gave up trying years ago. So I act like a bitch. What's the point in befriending those guys? In general I'm only friendly to my teachers.
My 'maturity,' keeps me on a different level than most of my classmates (who are all assholes, as far as I'm concerned), but I know I'm not an adult. So when I start an aquaintance or relationship that matters, I don't know how to handle it.
I'm grateful that there are some people around that I have made friends with. Not surprisingly, most of the friends I've made in high school were either already anime fans, or easy converts. Or those nice people who just kinda latch on to you. Then there're old, unshakable friends. I'm glad for them all.
I know I really should get rid of the "unapproachable" mind-set. But maybe it's been in place for too long. I don't know.
I'm a lot like Mom, actually. We don't care about appearances with makeup or anything. But I don't have her self-confidence.
The journal title says WOOT right now. Somehow, I don't think it's appropriate anymore. And I was genuinely happy a while ago. Sigh. And I'll be happy again in half an hour. My anime hobby is like a drug - a superficial happy. I know, I know, blasphemous. Maybe I'm just a shallow, selfish person. I wonder what those few people see ----(contradiction, here)
Sometimes I act like God, and other times I just hate myself. What kind of confidence should I have?
I'm surprised I could write so much today. This is the first emo writing in a while, especially strange on the last day of school.
See, my mood's already lightening again. It's shallow. -
YAY
2005-06-22 14:06:27
I GOT AN A ON MY HISTORY FINAL!! I GOT AN A ON MY HISTORY FINAL!! I GOT AN A ON MY HISTORY FINAL!!
Phew... *collapses after jumping around the room*. I'm one of three people to earn such a grade so far... I'm happy.
On Friday I should definately find out about my other grades, and in the meantime I must study for French. Bowling was fun, and I ended up chatting with a girl whom I knew from English, but didn't realize she was an anime fan. Regrets regrets. And I gave her links to many different and wonderful sites. I hope she likes them.
Geometry... my only problem was that bloody proof. Other than that, i think I'm squared away.
I'm hungry.
Sigh. I worry about my nerdiness. I've been spending the last few hours in the fullmetal-alcehmist.com gallery. When someone asked about the symbol on Ed's jacket, Al's shoulder, Izumi's collar, and Dante's wall, I left a whole dissertation on the caduceus, complete with a bibliography. I scare myself.
Favorite quote from FMA manga scanlation: "EAT GODHAMMER!"
We love Ed. Goodbye. -
I'm tired, and a little hungry.
2005-06-21 15:46:34
Three finals down, three to go. Nice. English, I don't really wanna think about, but I'm much more confident about Chem and History (more so on Chem '_';). I just found this fantastic site absoluteastronomy.com, which has references to all sorts of subjects, including Japanese culture and otaku-dom. I spent a half-hour checking out Shihan, Sensei, Baka, Otaku, Bish(ie), etc etc. I loved it!
Then I decided to work a little on this OMG fanfic I have, and found a *decent* reference site to the manga, OVA, and movie. Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in a year or two, which is kinda sad. But then I'm wondering about those spoilers they found (when do Rind and Hild show up?)
Theoretically, I should be studying for French... sigh.
Later. -
home from a wine dinner ^_^
2005-06-18 23:15:53
And yes, I think I'm sober. It was really fun, out at Pearmund Winery, about a half hour away from home. And I drove my parents both ways. The dessert wine was GOOD (I'll just say again, I'm sober) and now I'm tired.
Another thing I should mention is that the winery is also technically a farm, with chickens, a peacock and peahen, and sheep. At about 9:45, my dad came with me out to the henhouse to check out all the different, insanely colored eggs (light brown, giant, blue) and on the way we hear this sinister "MEAAHH!" I jump and we both turn toward the source of the noise.
Dad: "Do they keep sheep over there?"
Me: "That was a sheep?"
My typings do not do this sound justice. It, as Dad said, fell into the spectrum of sounds you'd identify as "sheep," but it was incredibly... creepy, as "baa" sounds went. If this was a sheep, it sounded in serious need of an exorcism.
Me: "Are you sure it's not a human, pretending to be a sheep?"
After looking at the eggs and getting used to the darkness, we go over to check out this "demon sheep". Yeah, it seemed like a normal sheep. And it was a bugger to get a decent picture of it. Cute little sheep, excepted when it baah'ed. Wonder if its nickname was "Damien".
And so concludes my entry on the Demon Sheep.
And I should really have been studying for finals today. ... Goodnight everybody.
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