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Version: 10.0
Featuring: Souma Kyou
From: Fruits Basket
By: Takaya Natsuki
Why: Give Kyou some love! Furuba pwns me.
Why: 'Disorderly Coconuts'
Misc: I've discovered the fun of embedding subliminal messages the text. Can you find them?

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About Me:

Alias: Usa-p
Age: 24
DOB: May 8
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Sign: Taurus; Monkey
Homepage: Viola Tricolor
Anime/Manga Collection: List
Scans: Suspicious Acorns
UM: Magically Delicious
Email: MacsBrains@aol.com
AIM: MacsBrains
Keirsey Personality: INFJ
Keirsey Temperment: Idealist
Portrait: Pic from Dec 2001
Partner: Pic from May 2002

Favorites

Books: The Last April Dancers; Harry Potter series; His Dark Materials series; Dune series; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Authors: Ursula K. LeGuin; Jean Thesman
Manga: Fruits Basket; Clover; Card Captor Sakura; Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne; Yami no Matsuei; Tokyo Babylon/X; Naruto
Anime: Fruits Basket; Princess Tutu; GetBackers; Trigun; Card Captor Sakura; Yami no Matsuei; Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou; Naruto
Mangaka: Tachibana Kaimu; CLAMP; Kouga Yun; Tanemura Arina; Yoshizumi Wataru
Mangazine: Ribon & occasionally Hana to Yume
Video Games: Lunar: SSS; FF IV + VI; Rhapsody; Zeldas
Board Games: Settlers of Catan
Fic Authors: See below

Favorite Fanfics:

Bluebird by Canis M.
Irresistible Poison by Rhysenn
DD/DS/DV series by Cassandra Claire
Shadows of the Moon by Leareth

Current Obsessions:

All things Furuba
All things Full Metal Alchemist
Harry Potter Slash
Shounen ai/Yaoi/BL
Ban x Ginji
Ribon Mangazine

Would Sell Soul For

A Gourry as Jellyfish plushie
Those Furuba figurines!
Any Furuba figurines!
Full Metal Alchemist figurines
An FMA National Alchemist pocket thing
Plushies of Tare!Ginji and Chibi!Ban-chan
Any clue as to what the Flip is going on in Full Moon
Tachibana Kaimu doujinshi
Toshimi Arina doujinshi
Artbooks, especially of the CLAMP persuasion
A pile

I Frequent:

Boondocks
Friendly Hostility
Moon Phase
KoDT Online

Big Attractions:

SHOUJOCON
Nimbus 2003
Random Fandom.org
Redbutterfly.net
CLAMPnet
Official Ribon Page
Bookslut

Blog Reading:

LJ Friends list
Castle in the Wind
Le Petit Livre Noir
Wingless Angels
Hinoko
Exaggeration
A Fine and Private Place
Killing Me Softly
Access Aelice
Passing Fancies
Open Up Your Mind
Furenchikisu
Star Scream
Gestalt
dust from a distant sun
Bookslut Blog
Ordinarily Whimsical
Antifreeze
Alchemy

Archives:

02/01 | 11/01
01/02 | 02/02 | 03/02 | 04/02
05/02 | 06/02 | 07/02 | 08/02
09/02 | 10/02 | 11/02 | 12/02
01/03 | 02/03 | 03/03 | 04/03
05/03 | 06/03 | 07/03 | 08/03
09/03 | 10/03 | 11/03 | 12/03
01/04 | 02/04 | 03/04 | 04/04
05/04 | 06/04 | 07/04 | 08/04
09/04 | 10/04 | 11/04 | 12/04
01/05 | 02/05 | 03/05 | 04/05

Links:

Doesn't Sei-chan look all evil and suave?
The original sadistic fondler of young bishounen uke boys. 
Fuuma has that title now Hehe... his trenchcoat is blowing...
Subaru-kun should be blowing other things... *cough* Stop waving that sword around, Kamui, 
or someone's going to lose an eye... This is a blob. 
He is googly, squishy, and cute.
He is also useless and green.
It's not easy being green.

Booger
Bay Ridge R line
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Spread the Love: SukiSho
The Menthol CondomClique! XDMenthol Condom Clique
< ? CLAMP Logs # >
If I were a video game character I would be Kong.
"Strong and passionate,
I tend to be misunderstood,
sometimes even feared.
I don't want to fight,
I don't want to cause trouble,
all I ask is a little love,
and a little peace.
If I don't get what I want,
I get angry,
and throw barrels
and flaming oil
at whatever's stopping me."
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August 29, 2003

The GetBackers anime is supposedly ending at episode 50. I've just finished watching episode 45. I am very unhappy. I am loving this series immensely. *is sad*

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 21:28 | link |
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It seems I suck at Puerto Rico. It's kinda like a mix of El Grande and Tikal. I suck at those too. I win, but god knows how because I don't know what I'm doing half the time, or I think I do only to find out that I don't. There's a lot of counting. Very frustrating. Since we could not play with Moosie (see previous post) we played with Scabbers as the third player. (I wanted to play with Bear Dressed As Moose, but Steve thought that he might qualify as a Moosie, even if he was only dressed like one.) I only beat Scabbers by a point.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 00:48 | link |
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August 28, 2003

Recent Referrals:
"black magic"+"sell soul" -- I am amused.
"i've got a lovely bunch of coconuts deedle dee dee dee there they are a-standing in a row" -- Haha I can't believe they wrote out the deedle dee dee's
"snickers in my knickers" -- uh, no.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 13:20 | link |
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Nothing like being jarred out of bed by an impatient FedEx man bearing surprise presents. A long time ago, after poking through reviews in Games Magazine Steve got his hands on Settlers of Catan (the most awesome board game ever), and El Grande, which were German Games of the Year in 1995 and 1996 respectively. After teaching his friends (and now mine), many a Friday or Saturday night has been spent with Catan trading goods into the wee hours of the morning. I'm not the biggest fan of El Grande, though, for the sole reason that my basic math skills are so absolutely horrendous that I have a hard time counting the caballeros are on the board and calculating how many more I need, or how many more they need, or how many more I need in a certain spot AAAHH... anyway. During the blackout we broke out Catan again and rekindled the fire. We also taught a newbie. This lead to two days in a row of playing in until 6 in the morning. During this time we told them how when we first got the game, we played with Moosie, since it's a 3+ player game. (If we recall, Moosie won.) Steve also wanted to get the game Puerto Rico, German Game of the Year last year, and he dwelled on this for a while.

So the FedEx man today came bearing the gift of Puerto Rico from one of his friends who wrote: "Don't let me find out that Moosie played this before me." Aww, it's like Christmas in August.

Gee, I wonder what we might be doing this weekend...

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 12:55 | link |
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August 27, 2003

Oh yes, and con report for Shoujocon coming soon. Let's just say that I thought they were kidding when I heard this hotel was also known as the M. C. Escher hotel. They weren't. Someone else likened it to the moving staircases of movie Hogwarts. That about sums it up.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 16:44 | link |
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I had to go to my opthamologist today. This is not a fun thing to do. (See a previous post.) Mom decided that this is one of those things that I should check in on because I've got some messy stuff going on with my eyes and I should probably take care to make sure that I don't go blind literally. I agree that she is right, but I am still a child when it comes to weighing my health versus staying away from scary doctors.

I summoned some courage and went feeling like a drenched cat the entire time. He was not quite as scary this time, whether it's because it's been 7 years since the last time I went, or the fact that my mom told the secretary I was petrified of him, I don't know. He wasn't gentle, but he didn't yell at me. An improvement, I must say.

As he examined me, he barked out descriptions to his secretary: "Granulation on the macula; pigment on the retina, unchanged; something-or-other cresents." He about lost me there. He continued, "Diagnoses: number 1 - macular drusen; number 2 - myopia; number 3 - etc."

Yay for not scaring your patient in an entirely new way.

Little of this stuff is new, actually, although he says that my condition has degenerated, not yet to the point of surgery, and berated me saying that I should be coming in every 6 months at least, not 7 years. I now have to go back in two weeks for a color test, a visual field test, and god knows how many more tests. I shouldn't have problems there because my color and low light vision are about the only things my eyes can do right, and my peripheral vision is good. Extremely blurry, but I can sense a bug out of the corner of my eye with astounding accuracy.

Steve seems to think that this should all worry me a lot more than it does. I guess it doesn't simply because this is the way my eyes have almost always been. I had perfect vision until about kindergarten and it's been downhill ever since.

I also nearly got hit by a car at least 3 times on the way home because my pupils were so dilated I couldn't see.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 16:19 | link |
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August 26, 2003

I. Am. Exhausted. I was supposed to be home Sunday night, but it turns out I'm home now, Monday night (or Tuesday morning, depending on how you want to look at it) instead. Prepare for lots of ranting and raving. Lots. Taniguchi Tomoko-sensei signed all my manga! <3. E-mail time. Then bed.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 00:53 | link |
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August 21, 2003

Off to Shoujocon. I won't be back until Sunday night. Q, I'll probably e-mail you immediately from my phone if I find GetBackers doujinshi. Then I will describe it in lurid detail and wiggle the carrot in front of your nose. ^_~

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 09:08 | link |
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This is so absolutely adorable. A twist on the regular Furuba plushies. *hearts*

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 00:17 | link |
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August 20, 2003

I was at my mother's house this evening when K called me up suffering from a severe earache and asking my counsel on making the pain stop. As luck would have it, she was nearby and I coaxed her to come over and I'd see what I could do. I decongested her and she was happy. The night ended with she and I playing Twister, of all things, and I lightly sprained my elbow in the process. Wouldn't you know it, but it just doesn't bend in the other direction no matter how much weight you put on it or how much you want it to reach the big red dot.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 23:26 | link |
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I ordered my train tickets to Shoujocon online last Tuesday or Wednesday, I forget which. They were supposed to show up at my house in three days, but then the blackout happened and I have no tickets still. We leave Thursday. I am not a happy camper. I contacted them to ask about the whereabouts of the tickets, but they just said if they don't arrive in time, to just buy more tickets and they'll refund the first ones when I send them back.

The whole reason I bought them online was because they were cheaper that way, plus now that means I'm going to have to round up the cash to pay for another set.

A few days ago I signed up for certain hours to work in the Shoujocon consuite specifically after looking at the newly updated convention schedule. There are only a few things that I want to be absolutely certain that I don't miss, those being the Ribon panel, the Furuba panel, the Taniguchi Tomoko panel and signing, and the cel painting workshop. The cel painting workshop is something of a Shoujocon tradition for me. One of two cel workshops already conflicts with the Ribon panel -- turns out today I learn that they moved the other one to conflict with my consuite hours and now I have to ask to have my time slot changed. Sigh. If it's not one thing... The pocky party already conflicts with the first two hours of the all-night shounen-ai love-in.

Those of you who are coming, be sure to stop by and wave.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 06:53 | link |
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August 16, 2003

I had no idea this existed: an Earthian doujinshi by CLAMP. I want this.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 20:34 | link |
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I'm back. ^_^

Chrissy and I had just gotten off the train from a trip to the city shopping for the Shoujocon pocky party, and we immediately sat down at the computer to e-mail our coordinator that we did so when the power cut. I know that sentence could have been written better, but it's hot and I hit my head on the corner of a car door and I think I dented my mental faculties.

At my grandmother's house, where I used to stay a lot as a kid, every so often we'd have black outs, fires, and other rather inconveniencing events, so she used to have a drawer full of flashlights which I would use in the darkness to play or read or otherwise keep myself entertained. My mom, in her paranoia, also has flashlights and other provisions lying around. Here at Steve's though... It didn't occur to us that maybe we needed a flashlight until it was almost dusk. We got one from the dollar store (the only store still open in this neighborhood) that lasted about as long as you'd expect. We used the pen light on my keychain for a while (which I have because there's never any light in the hallway anyway) them I noticed my light-up frisbee and used that instead. We made some macaroni slop under the red glow of the frisbee until we raided the apartment of the kid upstairs and confiscated his flashlight. Unfortunately he came home a few hours later and we had to give it back in exchange for a candle. Really it wasn't so bad, except for the food going bad in the fridge (we usually don't have any food, so it was particularly annoying that it happened to be the one time that we did) and that it was really hot. It was a nasty, sweaty, can't sleep kind of hot. And, being night owls, being wide awake in the darkness really didn't help things. We were the last to get the power back, but other parts of Brooklyn had it a few hours before we did, so some friends came to rescue us and bring us to food and AC.

Mom got stuck in the train station on Canal St. and she thought, 'not again.' Poor thing.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 03:22 | link |
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August 13, 2003

I've been busy lately. Mom took me to the bookstore a few days ago and got me books to keep me occupied. Mostly silly stuff: a history of natural history museums, a history of pi, MS Access SQL code, etc. I wanted more of Ursula K. LeGuin's stuff, but fat chance I'd convince my mom that a novel is something worth getting (as opposed to the kind of things on the rest of that list.) I've also been editing scanslations for Red Butterfly, but none of the ones I've done are up yet. If you're a fan of Furuba you should take a look. At the moment she has me editing the scans for Tsubasa wo Motsu mono, which was Takaya-sensei's work preceding Fruits Basket.

Photoshop calls, so I'm off to edit those scans. There's a particularly difficult panel that needs retouching.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 23:00 | link |
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August 10, 2003

In case you weren't already convinced that New Jersey is a hazardous cesspool of mutagenic proportions, behold the new creature to arise from the bog of eternal stench: the Blob from the NJ lagoon. It's the funniest thing I've seen on the 11 o'clock news all year.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 00:56 | link |
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August 9, 2003

Less than two weeks until Shoujocon. We're not prepared enough! Chrissy, we must plaaaa~n!

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 21:25 | link |
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August 4, 2003

SIMS still shiny new toy. I bought a lot with very uneven land and am attempting to dig an amphitheater in the backyard. Those of you who have played SIMS know that this is no small feat. Alas, it is rectangular, but it will make do. I have just finished digging as deep as I can go, I now have to start fashioning levels.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 03:09 | link |
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August 3, 2003

Chrissy came over yesterday and brought The SIMS. All of them. We only got to install four of them before that partition of my hard drive ran out of space (boo) but it's certainly plenty to keep me occupied. Flipping through the skins we saw an ancient warrior outfit which reminded me of Xena, so we made a Xena and a Hercules and went about building them a very weird castle. I am most proud of the hedge maze I made in the back of the house, but the sims refused to get lost in it >_<. We made one of the towers a torture chamber and put a dancing cage in there. It has the very amusing effect of making the sims look like they are going crazy and futilely trying to break out through the bars. Evil? Why of course. That's what sims are for. Chrissy seemed to think that putting a pair of christmas trees in front of the castle was a really silly thing to do, but yet she didn't object to putting a tv in the great hall or an expresso machine in the kitchen. The middle room on the second floor is the 'ugly tacky room' because it's supposed to be ugly and tacky.

Screenshots, because yay for new toys!

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 22:07 | link |
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I went with my dad to the American Museum of Natural History today. I've always loved that museum. My dad and I used to go often when I was little, but it's been a quite while since the last time we went (their newer exhibits have greatly disappointed me). Since that time they renovated the train station with colorful mosaics of lots of different animals and mural scenes, and replica fossils embedded in the walls. We were looking at them when my dad gestured to the corner near the ceiling and actually said these words to me: "Hey, Jess! Look at the spider!"

*FACEFAULT*

I caught myself after 3/4ths of a turn and started ranting like a lunatic why would I want to look at the spider!? Dad forgot, you see. This he will never live down.

To his credit, he's a good person to go to the museum with. He genuinely likes museums and takes his time in exhibits to read and examine. He's an artist, so he always talks about the art, whether it's the painting backdrop, form and function in a skeleton, or camoflauge. We also read the same science and archaeology magazines so there's a lot of, "did you read that article about the whatever?" or, "did you see that documentary where they talked about this?"
All in all it was a good trip.

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 21:43 | link |
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August 1, 2003

Because he insisted, this is a poll to help my pal Stevzar II name his shiny new guitar:

Usa-p internally wept for Kyou at 22:44 | link |
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