November 27, 2002

Watching Kodomo no Omocha episode 39. This show has reached entirely new levels of crack.
That is all.

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Got my December Ribon and Asuka today. It's fun being a month behind.

For the Gouhou Drug fans:

Kazahaya and Rikuou didn't even get to speak to each other in this chapter. There was no cackling Saiga or Kakei with his innuendo either. It continues from last month with K & R in whatever all-boys school they were at last time. If the dialog says what I *think* it says, then it's rather amusing. It seems people saw K & R in the tree and now Kazahaya's new (suspicious) friend kept making comments about whether he was dating Rikuou. But since I read it on the train and haven't looked up any of the words I don't know, I may be completely wrong. Don't take my word for it. I don't know what I'm talking about.

Color chapter picture. Oh my, one wonders how Kazahaya got that cut up and wet.

Poor Kazahaya.

He's very cutely confuzzled.

Kazahaya gone kitty postal.

Mmm hmm. You know you can't keep your mind off Rikuou, Kazahaya. You know it, and we know it.

For the Rikuou lovers.

Now, for the Full Moon wo Sagashite fans who stop by occasionally:

Color chapter picture of Mitsuki

Living!Takuto & Chibi!Mitsuki

The three shinigami: Takuto, Meroko, and Izumi.

Scans can now be found at Suspicious Acorns.

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November 25, 2002

People REALLY need to learn some manners >_<

A few minutes ago, while downloading a bunch of stuff on WinMX, someone messaged me asking to start their transfer. They could have at least asked nicely. You know, by at least saying please. I usually don't pay attention to such requests, because everyone does them. Why should I let you jump ahead of 45 people just because you asked? Now, I do make exceptions: people downloading small mp3 files, people who have asked because they only have a short bit of the file remaining, or I may start the download of someone because I am downloading from them. But because I choose to, not because they request it. Anyway, I have many uploads and downloads going, so I ignore the request. It was only coincidence that I happened to be at the computer when the message came through in the first place. I usually leave it on while I sleep. A few minutes later, the same person messages me again and says that they will stop my transfer if I don't start them.

Ahem... EXCUSE ME?

What a stupid threat, and what a jerk! People completely don't understand the concept of peer sharing programs. I waited in queue just like everyone else. I share, you share. It's a small price to pay for the privilege of accessing free anime.

Grrr. I'm just so MAD. I hate people. I really hate people. I want to grow up and live in a house full of cats and not let people on my property. Everytime someone talks me out of it, I remember the hard way why I wanted that to begin with.

I don't care about the download, just the... audacity of people to go around demanding things. I really wish I had the personality where I could respond back to that person and yell at them.

People who are mean or jerky to me need to die. Really.

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J got me a game box for Christmas complete with a black glass chess board with shiny heavy chess pieces, glass checkers/backgammon pieces, and assorted other goodies. The only thing missing was mah jong (but Steve has a set - if only we knew two more people who knew how to play). He proceeded to trounce me royally in the christening chess game. He says he's rusty, and that I'm not as bad as I think I am, but really, I had no chance.

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November 23, 2002

I'll be getting my December Asuka sometime this week, so expect Gouhou Drug scans.
Yeah, we know that's the real reason any of you are here. You all like the pretty boys.
Who am I to deprive you? ^_~

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November 21, 2002

Blogger has been eating my posts. I suppose they must taste good, since they're not very nutritious.

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November 19, 2002

Today I drew a comic page starring Demon Egg of DOOM! Then I colored it and showed it to everyone who would look. Never a good sign.
Page 1 - Page 2

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November 17, 2002

I stepped on a four-sider and punctured the arch of my foot.
Steve was unsympathetic.
It was HIS pointy four-sided die.
Hmpf.

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November 16, 2002

Saw Harry Potter Movie last night!

Happy girl I am.

Short minorly spoilered comments, but then, shame on you for going to a book-based movie not reading the book first.

Good Points:

--Choppy, but doesn't drag.
--Draco's eyebrows of DOOM! (Or, as Steve said, the Double People's Eyebrow)
--Be still my heart, Lockhart is hysterical
--So is Snape
--Dobby wasn't nearly as annoying as everyone was making him out to be
--Ron. Oh Ron oh Ron oh Ron, everytime you fall to number 2 on my favorites list, you jump yourself back to number 1. Kid's great, and my, has his voice changed.
--I could easily close my eyes for the slugs (which I've been told are disgusting. They certainly sounded disgusting) and for the spiders (which I've been told were cool, and that because of it I missed many of Ron's cool facial expressions)
--There were quite a few lines that could be taken (and were taken) the exact wrong way. For instance, Oliver Wood's 'it's longer and harder' line.
--People are right. Parseltongue makes my insides melt.
--I didn't know whether to be delighted or disgusted with Draco's newfound kleptomania. Kid's just got charisma. I think I've been delighted.
--Harry's final sword blow through the roof of the monster's mouth - beautiful.
--The adults exuded mass amounts of charisma with their over-dramatics. Lucius and his snake stick.
--Overall, just tons of fun. Lots of humor, which got left out of the first one.
--I mentioned it was funny, right?

Not So Good Points:

--If you haven't read the books, the plot is so... I don't know if it would have made sense more than "There is a chamber of secrets. It's bad and someone opened it. It's not Draco or Hagrid. Ok, time to go do some rescuing."
--Ginny gets about 2 lines, the major of which, while it's supposed to be all stuttery and scared and etc, is, well, not.
--Hermione stole a bunch of Ron's lines, leaving Ron to make squeaky noises. Cute squeaky noises, but give him his lines back.
--Harry, stop looking at Hermione that way.
--Moaning Myrtle looked right, but was annoying in a completely different way than she comes off in the books. Her voice is irritating.
--The last fight was... errr didn't even give Harry a chance to be afraid to look the thing in the eye before Fawkes showed up. Not to mention Riddle's cheesy cheesy response to that - funny in a way it was not meant to be.
--Harry needs to work on dying. Dying, you see, not being constipated.

General Notes:
--It didn't stick to the book as closely as the first one did, which seems to have worked out for the better. The story played out a bit odd, but it was so much fun.


I sat behind her group at the theater, but didn't say hi because I so crossed the fangirl line I couldn't bear to admit it.

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November 13, 2002

Stevzar II: 1
Nazi Popcorn Machine: 0

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That layout is divine. Graphs are my friends. I think I'd currently situate myself slightly past π/2

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Did you know that today was Smelly-People-Take-The-Bus Day? I found out the hard way. Three buses on three different routes at three different times of the day each had a horrifically stinky person on it. Not just 'hmm something smells kinda funky', but full-blown 'ouch, I think my olfactory receptor cells just died'. Homeless people on the train are common enough; if you're in an affected car, you can switch. But on buses? I didn't see any of the stinky people (was crowded), but they were all bad enough to cause a mass exodus to the back of the bus with a symphony of creaks as the windows were slid open.

Yes, I had a wonderful day, and you?

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November 12, 2002

Kodomo no Omocha is absolutely great. I've been continuing to watch in about 10-episode increments, and it's doing peversely wonderful things to my delicate smush of gray matter. Hayama-chichi tickles my funny bone, and I want to take Hayama-kun home with me.

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November 11, 2002

Have tickets to Harry Potter movie at the 23rd street Chelsea theater at 10:30 because that's where a number of squeeing fans will be gathering. I'm going with pal Chrissy, who has recently been completely converted to the realm of HP fanfic. I hestitated to pick that time/place because I think I am crossing one of those very very fine fangirl lines. That line that has 'slightly wonky fan' on one side and 'scarily wonky fan' on the other. This prospect frightens me greatly. Steve suggested that I go, and assured me that I am not crossing this line, but I am not so sure about that. There are fangirls, and then there are fangirls. The former, fun; the latter, annoying and scary. It must simply be a case of temporary insanity.

My RL fandom-release has been lacking, so if I'm going to let it out, may as well do it there.

Chrissy and I also joined the staff for Shoujocon because it is cute and wonderful and oodles of squishy fun and you should go! Hmm... that last bit wasn't very subtle, was it? We will probably be manning the consuite, so come, and when you do, stop by the consuite. I will undoubtably be the one munching constantly on strawberry pocky. And hot chocolate... mmmm hot chocolate.

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November 10, 2002

Comments like this don't have the same effect when it's a week after I was meaning to rant about it. It's really irritating that most of the city has begun to put up their christmas holiday decorations before Halloween was even over. Some stores still have their bats and skeletons in the window, while the ones next to them have their tree ornaments. For Flip's sake, people, it's not even Thanksgiving yet. The holiday lights over the city streets are already strung up, but they haven't lit them yet. Every year it gets earlier and earlier. They used to at least wait for Thanksgiving, or for it to actually get cold outside. It's not that I don't like the decorations; this city is so beautiful in the winter, it's just that it's way too soon and it feels unnatural.

Maybe nature will be nice and make it snow this year. I don't care when, I just want a good snow. A real snow; a hit-people-with-snowballs-snow; a roll and frolick and play and jump and etc snow. I *heart* snow! I want to go sledding. I want to build a snow fortress. I want to go ice-skating with Kelly and not have to wear a tank top because it's so hot that the ice is melting (like last year). I love snow! Shoveling snow? Bring it on! Flinging snow is fun.

Yeah, I know. I sound like I'm 5. I never lost my impulses to play. I like it that way.

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November 9, 2002

My old Dungeons and Dragons group has, well, regrouped. By adapting a race from a third-party book, I now have a character who's family was cursed to be insubstantial. Not incorporeal or ethereal, just insubstantial. I suspect it will be quite interesting to play a sorcerer who has to concentrate in order to physically interact with the world, especially considering he's too weak to pick anything up (8 strength; effectively a 2 w/ non-magic stuff). Ex-DM showed up wearing a bandana that said, "Watashi wa ECCHI" in Japanese on it with 'ecchi' in very very very big characters (says they were out of 'hentai'). It was amusing. He should have also worn his devil horns. His shirt had an anime girl on it in a compromising position that said 'bondage fairies'. He's the group lecher, but the coolest, most harmless one you could have.

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November 6, 2002

If it's not one thing, it's another.

Jell-o is an abomination of nature.

Ketchup is a fascinating substance. Watch it flow sometime. Not that I have...

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November 4, 2002

In Search of a Place to Live
- a poem by me.

Alas! my bug infested windowless cubbyhole is nearing the end of it's life!
How... nice.
The house is being sold,
at least, that's what I've been told.
Alas!
Jobless is my current state.
But what of food upon my plate?
To move back in with mom I fear
because hey, who are we kidding, that's crazy,
even if I'd get the basement.

The end.

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November 3, 2002

Selected scans of Gouhou Drug from the November Asuka. Enjoy. Kazahaya and glasses-clad Rikuou spent almost the entire time up in a tree with their noses a mere breath away. CLAMP intends to make us suffer.

In snazzy uniforms looking entirely molestable.

What a way to open up a chapter ::fans self::

Two-page Spread Color Splash page for the chapter - *mrowr* [part1] [part2]

Oh sure, Kakei's real innocent, all right - with those devil wings popping out of his back. I want to see fanart where he's got one of those broken lop-sided haloes.

Saiga cackles much in this chapter (as usual) but this is a big cackle.

This is exactly what it looks like.

Kazahaya's best kitty impression yet.

Pretty color ad from the beginning of the magazine.

The scans aren't as nice as I'd like because this isn't my scanner, and I don't have access here to even a semi-decent image editor. I might rescan when I go home.

Edited 03/18/03 - Scans can now be found at my gallery Suspicious Acorns.

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November 2, 2002

I finally got ahold of my November issue of Asuka. Late much?

I was in need of a transfusion after reading Gouhou Drug. Evil CLAMP!

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November 1, 2002

This is HYSTERICAL.

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Today I helped hand out candy to the youngins at my mother's house. I wore my Star Trek Next Gen generic lieutenant science officer's uniform, as I usually do. It's just the shirt part, so I wear it with black pants. Is nice, I really like it.

Conversation with mom went like this:
"Wow! Where'd you get that costume?!"
"Mom... you mean you haven't noticed that I've worn this every Halloween for the past 10 years?"
"No.."

So it's not just my dad who's unfathomably unobservant.

Speaking of dad, he irritated me before I left this morning, so I ended up leaving my keys in my room. So I got locked out. Later I managed to accidentally lock mom's car keys in the car while the car was still running. (I will take this opportunity to say that I hate automatic door locks. I just can't get used to them. I'm glad the car still has the old-fashioned rolling windows instead of power windows. The only times I ever need to open or close the windows are always when the car is off and the driver has gone AWOL.) But all is well thanks to spares, even when you have to dismantle outside window frames and crawl around the boiler to get them.

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My boyfriend thrives on telling people when they're being stupid. I imagine it's like an itch. ^_^

He got into a debate about religion on the Dungeons and Dragons mailing list that he's on. (Yeah, one of those arguments. I usually just run away in the interest of my sanity. Trying to argue religion only makes me lose brain cells.) At one point during this discussion someone said something bright along the lines of, "I never met an athiest who believed there was no god." (See, just by typing that my brain cells are dying.) Steve, being himself, ripped him to shreds, and ended one of his posts with this classic line:

"The only one who 'makes it so' is Captain Picard."

*snuggles her Steve*

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