February 28, 2003

Dude, pigs have flown - I went to a hockey game at the Garden with Kelly. I spent the entire time asking stupid questions (What happened? That doesn't look like it's allowed. They actually pause for commercial breaks?) While she explained all sorts of rules to me. And as a random aside, live hockey is an awful lot like ballet.

I sleep now; talk tomorrow.

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February 25, 2003

Oh my! That really IS the gayest shirt ever. It's a swirling vortex of gay. It looks like a three year old scribbled on it with a pink photoshop airbrush. You can't even see the lines that outline his arms; it's like his hand is reaching out from a flowery purple portal. This has brightened my day considerably.

Behold a subtitle for a future layout: "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -- A. A. Milne.

Oh, I keep forgetting there's a freaky spider shadow near the end to the opening of Wolf's Rain and it makes me jump out of my skin every time... I would greatly appreciate if someone would notify me if they come across spiders anywhere in this series. In the interest of my health I'd rather not be surprised.

I rather like the Wolf's Rain opening, 'Stray'. I like 80s music, and I like what I've heard of Steve Conte from the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks ('No Reply' has become one of my favorite songs ever.) Big Sakamoto Maaya fan, too, so the end theme appeals to me.

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February 23, 2003

I just finished watching a Furuba marathon because I'd never watched the whole thing in order. (tsk tsk) Shigure is so creepy without his, well, creepy side.

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February 22, 2003

Furuba volume 11 is out... must... get!

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February 20, 2003

Culled from the Bookslut Blog, a highly humerous article that interviews the author of one of the worst books in existence. The novel is a fictional commentary about the pitfalls of Dubya's policies, so really it's no surprise. The book has to be pretty bad if the best you can say about it is that it's "printed on very white, shiny paper." *giggles*

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February 19, 2003

CLAMP's promo picture of XXXHOLIC is scaring me. ^^;;

Len-chan, I love Clover, too. I think it's absolutely beautiful and I wish CLAMP would finish it. ~sings /* umarekawaru no anata no tame ni */~ And I love Ran. You absolutely must read her Gingetsu x Ran fics because they are exquisite.

/* Umare kawaru no watashi no tame ni
Hitori demo sabishikunakatta no wa
Anata to irareru shiawase wo shiranakatta kara
Hitori de iru to konna ni tsurai no wa
Anata wo ushinau kowasa wo shitta kara

Dakara umarekawaru no anata no ude no naka de */ --- *Squee*

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February 18, 2003

Ooh! A lot of snow! There hasn't been this much snow since the blizzard of '96. Unfortunately I am too tired and crampy to enjoy it.

Yesterday I was supposed to go to my aunt's house on the upper west side because she needed me for something. I left the house at 10:45, and there was already quite a few inches of snow on the ground. It wasn't even that there was that much snow, but it was windy, so there were huge snow drifts. So I opened the door to a foot of snow, while the stoop had no snow at all in the center of it. I waited for almost two hours for the train to come (outside station) only for it to carry me just far enough to be deep into a neighborhood I'm unfamiliar with. After waiting for the next train for a good half hour, we were told that the train was no longer running at all. Have a nice day. Time to go back home then. People mock me for carrying truckloads of maps of the city in my bag and for carrying a compass, but darned if I knew where I was, or what direction to go because I couldn't even see the sun to see which way was south. Of course, I happened to have just leant the maps out to someone, because life loves irony. Above ground the cops told us that no trains were running, and that all the buses that were already out would be finishing their routes, but not coming out again. (Once I eventually got home I learned this was (mostly) a whole lot of nonsense. Thank you, people in charge >_<) I was unfamiliar with all the buses I saw pass - so that didn't really help; and it turns out that I don't know anybody who owns a car, besides my mom, whose car won't start up if the temperature is below 50 degrees. Stranded!

So I explored a little bit and found an avenue I could follow as I started my long trek back home from uncharted territories half-way across Brooklyn. A short while later, as I passed another train station, I was told by a local operator that the trains were running again. Lovely. So underground I asked the toll both guy to confirm if the train is running to Manhattan. He said yes. I asked if the train I will eventually have to transfer to is running uptown. He said yes, and told me which trains were not running.

>_< you see where this is going.

I got on the train and it was running - but only as far as where it dumped me off the first time. I was back where I started. This time the passengers were told to take the bus a long distance and transfer to the very train that the toll booth guy said wasn't running. At this point I called up my aunt and said there's no way I could get into Manhattan and again started home, trudging miles through knee-deep snow. It wasn't so bad, really, since I like snow and it was rather like a great hiking adventure; but it was a very long way, and I didn't have any gloves, so at the intersections where the snow was sometimes hip deep, it was difficult to climb over without using my hands.

I finally arrived home about 4 p.m.

I think I'm going to go to bed now because I am still very very tired.

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February 15, 2003

There are new additions of Love-a-lot Bear and Bedtime Bear to my family of stuffed aminals. They probably qualify as a colony now. There is no more room on the couch.

Ow, I just noticed that I have a large painful cut on the squishy part of my fingertip - you'd think I'd remember getting it, or feeling it, since I was just playing video games.

Some doofus on one of the mailing lists I'm on was complaining about how most fans scanslate unflipped artwork. Normally, I would consider that just a matter of preference. I don't care, but I've gotten used to reading it right to left and sometimes I forget that English comics don't go that way. It takes a while to get used to. But he rattled on and said that he sometimes takes the scanslations, runs them through a program that flips them, and then tries to decipher the flipped english letters. Apparently, having to look at sequential art from right to left is more distracting than trying to read english backwards. ?WENK OHW

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February 14, 2003

Happy Valentine's Day!

I am happy; so far today I have gotten Moosie chocolates and a fuzzy porcupine.

I also had a strange dream last night that I tried to e-mail all of you some valentine's cupcakes, but that my e-mail provider kept saying that it would not accept baked goods for transfer until July 9th, and only provided I could prove I was over 18. Strange.

Len-chan, Kazahaya as Pisces and Rikuou as Capricorn sounds good to me ^_^

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February 12, 2003

**Warning: painfully sugary gushings of a girl in love**

*hums happily* I'm off to go bake Valentine's goodies for Steve. Every year I bake him something. He likes to bite the noses of all my stuffed aminals, especially my many moosies, so I'm going to make cupcakes and draw moosie heads on them with frosting so he can bite their noses. I did this a couple of years ago and I know that was his favorite Valentine's treat. I think it's time to do it again. *checks ingredients* Hmm, got enough for 100 cupcakes or so in 8 different flavor combinations. *happy happy*

HUGS FOR EVERYBODY! *GLOMP*

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February 11, 2003

I was thinking along similar lines. Kazahaya seems very watery to me, though I can't decide on a sign. However, I think that Rikuou fits the air description better. What do you think of Kakei as a Gemini?

And great referrals by the way. Mine are never quite so much fun. (And what's wrong with Touya x Yukito? :-p Maybe I should resurrect my old TxY blog layout.)

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ARG! Blogger ate my last post! *kicks*

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February 9, 2003

XXXHOLIC? Way to be subtle, CLAMP, even if it is going to be unabashedly shounen and run in Young Magazine like Chobits. Why won't they do shoujo stuff with that kind of title? Thanks to Hinoko for the heads up.

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Was out with mom today, which, for better or worse, is always an experience. She was giving me instructions on how to handle the various life insurance policies should something happen to her. Morbid much? I mean, it really freaked me out. Now, grandma's always going on and on about how she's not going to make it to (insert date here) and mom occasionally goes off on how she's going to die if the city is attacked again, or, more basically, 'if I die tomorrow'; but today was different. Is this the kind of thing that you talk about on your way to a dance class? Who's got what in which accounts and making sure the affairs are put in order? I swear, if mom wasn't in her 40s and she didn't have a kid, I'd be really worried.

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February 6, 2003

*click* I am greatly delighted, greatly amused, and greatly amazed at the overwhelming response to this layout. *click* People find it addictive like a crack-laden magic 8 ball. *click* It's an interesting study in human behavior that no one, myself included, can resist the urge to click it 50 bazillion times to watch it change. *click*

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February 5, 2003

WinMX is not forthcoming. I'm craving oboe music, preferably of the baroque variety, but oboe is oboe and I won't be picky. I aspire to have a grand collection of oboe music just like I desire to have a recording of each of J.S. Bach's known works. I've loved the oboe ever since I was a child, though when I used to play I sounded like a duck and made the cat mad. I am totally inept at string instruments. The best I ever managed was Yankee Doodle when I watched my little cousin play it on her cello. I can't read music well or quickly enough to be any better than mediocre at the piano. I chose a lot of Bach inventions and preludes when I was learning because they avoided chords ^^;.

Maybe I should just break out the harmonica and lament the departure of music from my life; not that I was particularly good at it anyway.

I'm also in the market for Noir music, should I come across any. ::hint hint nudge nudge streamload username brainst0rm::

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I still haven't gotten my February Ribon though it should have come in two weeks ago. This is very unusual since Ribon often arrives early. This means that people are talking about the March Ribon which I have learned contains something that I really want to see: Tanemura Arina's work is decidedly het, (and I love it just the way it is,) so imagine my surprise when I saw this. O_o It doesn't make any sense character-wise or plot-wise, and I have no idea of the context in which it's presented; but it's cute in that they're both characters I like. ::remains boggled:: I must find out what's going on.

And speaking of kisses, Haru gets the honor of the first real Fruits Basket kiss in a recent issue (if you don't count the Yuki x Tooru peck on the forehead). But poor Haru - can we say angst?

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February 4, 2003

I am the tanka. The attention of others Is unnerving, and Since I try not to draw it, I'm left alone. Which is good.

What Poetry Form Are You?

Hehe. The haiku that wasn't.

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New layout! I was at the bookstore on Sunday and came home with all the volumes of Furuba that I was missing. Inspired, this was the result. I couldn't decide who should be on the layout, so I just decided to have them all. It's the result of one night's work of html and one night of tweaking, and it definitely shows. My past few layouts have been last minute things. It's a bit plain (the code stopped obeying me after a while) but I hope the rest of you think it's cute enough.

So, I'm curious - which juunishi appeared for you first?

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February 1, 2003

Last year Steve got a bootleg FotR DVD to tide us over until the big box set was released. For fun we turned on the English subtitles - and oh it was absolutely hysterical. Even now the phrase 'scarcely aware of the resistance of hoppits' causes chuckling. For anyone who's seen the bootleg HK anime DVDs, you know the kind of stuff that I'm talking about.

So Steve ran across this website which has the bootleg engrish subtitles for TTT. I advise that you stay seated and make sure you're not in a location that frowns upon mad laughter.

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Been kinda behind on e-mail and blog reading. Sleepy. I linked a bunch of people who I should have linked before but didn't because I'm a lazy bum. Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, so everyone be nice to the woodchucks. They're fuzzy. I like fuzzy things - except spiders. I very much do not like spiders. But other fuzzy things are cute; even things that aren't fuzzy but should be, like albatrosses, snakes, iguanas, and squid.

Perhaps this is a sign that I should get to bed. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzz.

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