September 28, 2003

I just got a referral for: Level C yaoi episode guide. I'm sorry, but if you need a guide to Level C... just... How about a link to the definition of 'PWP' instead?

And this, gakked from her, is quite possibly the freakiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. No, it is NOT cute.

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September 25, 2003

GetBackers 49 (end) - BanxGinjiBanxGinjiBanxGinjiBanxGinji!! Why are certain people (read: Q) not online when you want to squee at them? I need to squee! The final scene of any show should be a satisfying one, and the end of that credits sequence certainly delivered. Ban and Ginji are driving down the highway in the mighty Beetle, giving each other loving looks, before Ginji leans closer and Ban puts his arms around him - series ends.

This series needs more sl0ring! If you haven't seen it, and you like actiony shows that are fun and kinda campy, and above all, want to see what has to be one of the most, if not the most blatent show you will ever lay your slashy little eyes on, watch GetBackers. I will not rest until I have sl0red it to the world!

(Those who wish to share in unabashed fangirl squeeing know where to find me. Namely here, but besides that, I mean.)

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*dies* That is quite the layout. And what a title bar caption to go with it too.

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September 23, 2003

I think excessive posting keeps my mind off the pain.

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Coming in early 2004: Maria-sama ga Miteru. Anime version of a josei novel series about a bunch of schoolgirls at a Catholic boarding school. That means Yuri-goodness. Remember, girls, the Virgin Mary is watching. *snerk*

Also, apparently, Narutaru, an unsummarizable shounen series, has an anime version as well. I am the last to know these things.

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According to my recent referrals I am not the only one who wants a Soopy-kun plushie. These people have good taste. Another person was searching for "good coconuts & bad coconuts." Here's how you tell the difference: good coconuts are the ones that take the initiative and fall from their home in the trees to clock people walking below for your amusement. The best coconuts are the ones that are shaped just right to give you a good grip so you can pick them up again and bean someone in the head. Only the best coconuts will do for this blog.

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Normally I would squee when posting this, but I'm still in a horrible mood, as can be expected since it's only two hours since my last entry. Word on the net is that there will be a Japanese bilinugal edition of Fruits Basket. You know, like the Card Captor Sakura ones. First one coming out on Nov. 14. I recall flipping through the CCS bilinguals and thinking the translation was very nice, but I don't actually own any to be sure. CCS is easy enough to read on its own. The Tokyopop version of Furuba is due out sometime next year. Part of me wants to say the beginning of next year, but I'm not sure and I don't feel like looking it up.

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Blogger DARED

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I have had an awful, miserable, wretched day.

Ugh. I was already tired, since Sunday morning a car alarm kept going off over and over before 6 am - I never got conscious enough to realize what it was, but I was conscious enough to feel the overwhelming violent feelings towards those who disturbed my slumber, and I apparently vocalized this too, in my half asleep state. Last night I was even more tired. I'd also just gotten my period. I'd had worse than normal cramps for about a week beforehand with nothing to show for it, so I was half relieved to start getting it over with. But wouldn't it just be the case that I was out of painkillers of any kind, and no money to buy more with. Despite the pre-cramps being very painful, I decided that I could tough it out, because I like deceiving myself, I really do. So last night sometime between 4-5 am I wake up with severe pain. Lots of moaning, lots of crying, lots of curling up in a ball rocking and wailing like a wounded animal, lots of 'if I could only just pass out...' I managed to find a single dose travel pack of Motrin somewhere (I probably should have checked that expiration date...) and huddled in the corner until enough of the edge was off that I could get back to sleep. Then I overslept. The alarm was set properly, so I don't know what went wrong. Two hours after I was supposed to get up Steve says, "weren't you supposed to get up?" *RAGE* Let's not tell me two hours ago or anything.

So I'm late - and it's pouring - really, really pouring, but only when I'm outside, mind. I get soaked. I miss the train. The next train completely bypasses the stop. Get on the third train only for it to stop midway. Get on the fourth train -- if there was any doubt of my being late, well then... Miss the bus. Second bus bypasses the stop. I begin to see a pattern. Third bus ok. I am still soaked.

I tutor Calculus. New students. I'm nervous. I mess up totally. I feel stupid. And because I forgot, they run off before I remember they need to sign the papers that I have to submit to my department so the session can be properly documented and I can get paid. I weep inwardly. I am still soaked.

I drop my Hogwarts pocket watch and the second hand breaks off. I am still soaked.

I want to club everyone with a giant baseball bat - just take them out into the street and beat them. No, no one in particular, just them. *rage angst rage angst* and I have 2 cents in my checking account.

And while I'm no longer still soaked, the Motrin has long since worn off and now all that's left is the pain.

I don't think I'm going to dance tonight. I don't want to leave the house.

And Blogger, if you DARE eat this post I will beat you with a stick. Violently. That goes double to the annoying people outside making the loudest possible baby talk to their children.

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September 21, 2003

Steve watches a lot of sports, (or talks about them a lot, at the very least), so through osmosis I've amassed a strange conglomeration of sports related info in my brain. He and his friend are watching their football teams play each other right now, and the friend just said,

"Are the Tigers going to set the record?"
Me, from in front of the computer: "The one for the most losses?"
Then the friend considers me for a moment, "Very good. It's gotten smaller."
Me: "What has?"
Him: "That rock you live under."

:-p Very funny.

(J-Rod, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "What? Under a rock? You? Noooooo." :-p)

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Ravings:

Scrapped Princess 22 - Soopy-kun! I love that adorable dragon suit with its big yoshi-type nose, ("what is that, a hippo?"), and, of course, the one who wears it. More Soopy-kun in the preview for ep 23. If anyone can find me a really cute pic/screenshot of Soopy-kun for icon purposes I would be much obliged.

GetBackers 47 - Toshiki 'fell' for Kazuki's 'powerful flexibility' and wanted to 'stay under his command'... *snerk* I'll bet. Seme fight! God, I love GetBackers.

GetBackers 48 - Continuation of the Great Seme Fight. "Kazuki was always looking at only you." Jealous much, Toshiki? And how exactly is Akabane's coat able to miraculously mend itself after being violently ripped apart like that? Must have some of the Hulk's unstable molecules. Ban x Ginji <3

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September 20, 2003

My four Saturday dance classes have become three. Two of the classes are being combined. This turns out to be for the better because I still have something resembling control over my muscles after three hours. At four they just stop working altogether.

I got myself a livejournal. I don't expect to be posting in it soon, so I'm not going to link to it yet. The reason I didn't have an LJ to begin with was because free accounts have only limited control over what their layouts looks like and I enjoy making layouts for this blog even when I don't. The plusses to the LJ are, of course, the friends list, and the ability to not post anonymously anymore. I want to put it to use in some way, but I haven't decided on how yet.

I've been watching a couple of different titles lately:

-GetBackers, which is coming to a close, I hear, within a couple of episodes. I think I would be quite content to have that series run indefinitely because it is so much fun and plays up the subtext in a very fulfilling way.

-Scrapped Princess, another one approaching its conclusion, which is an interesting take on what would otherwise be a cliche plot of "girl is destined to destroy the world so they thought they killed her when she was a baby, but oops, they didn't, and no one specified how she was supposed to destroy this world, did they..." I like it.

-Saint Beast, which is just utterly cheesy. It has zero substance, and you just wonder if the people who made this were actually serious. It is filled with, literally, heavenly bishounen, and they have the most one-dimensional personalities imaginable, but they are pretty and they are ungodly slashy. Finger-licking slashy. It is strangely hypnotizing. I find myself wanting to gather a gaggle of fangirls to come mock it with me. I mock it, and it's horrifically silly, but I continue to watch it. It's like bad fanfic! I shouldn't even be admitting this!

Next on the list to watch is Juuni Kokki because there has been hype. All of the people bugging me to watch Naruto are going to be annoyed with me again. All I can say is after this one, I promise... er... really...

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September 19, 2003

*weep* The book shopping area at yahoo.co.jp changed it's entire format so it is no long wonderfully easy to search (without input capabilities) and, more importantly, no longer easy to browse. I am very unhappy.

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I just had a much needed nap. Ahh. 16 hours is a pretty long nap, but was making up for lost sleep.

I just got a hold of the His Dark Materials trilogy to see what all the fuss is about.

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September 16, 2003

¡Feliz cumpleaños, Len-chan! *heart* Es un día tarde. ¡Lo siento! ¡Escribiré la letra que le prometí! ¡Escribiré! ¿Puedo adoptar un condom del mentol ahora? ¿Puedo?

I asked about which chapter the condom was in because I thought maybe coloring the scene would be fun. Unfortunately I think my first 2 vols of Gouhou Drug are still packed in mom's basement. Grr.

And I just got a referral for: swollen lip anchovies. Are there really such things, I wonder? And more so, when have I ever mentioned anchovies on this blog?

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September 14, 2003

I learned that it takes about 5 dance classes to kill me at this point. I was doing fine on Saturday for the first two classes until I took that hour break... in that hour it seems that every one of my muscles tightened up into a little ball and has stayed that way since. Moving is not an option. This includes arms.

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September 13, 2003

Took my first acrobatics class last night -- I'm bendable, but not not THAT bendable it seems. I pulled a bunch of very interesting muscles (which steve would not massage, as usual: "that's what you get for taking dance classes.") But it was a lot of fun in it's own way. I like that it's hard.

I was playing with the CD ROM that came with Ribon 9. It is the cutest thing. It has a little stationery maker where you can put your favorite characters on colorful paper and matching envelopes. There are enough different designs and characters to provide a lot of variety. It also collects a lot of the flash games from the website, a scheduler, and silly little typing games. I haven't finished looking at it, but as far as furoku go, it's excellent.

I started reading Fun Fun Factory. Comments after I read the first volume. (I'm in the middle of chapter 2.) ::sings:: "piritto...paretto..."

I'm behind on social blogging (what else is new). I've also been sleeping at night and staying awake during the day (by necessity) so my whole sense of being is topsy-turvy.

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September 11, 2003

I love the little vignette at the end of Gouhou Drug vol 3. I find it especially funny because I am completely inept at housework myself, and just like Kazahaya, I am notorious for being unable to cook rice in particular. I am tempted to make a cracked-out scanslation of it, since it's only 4 pages, but I barely have time for anything lately. We'll see what happens this weekend.

And Melissa, it was great seeing you at dance on Tuesday! Who would have thought after all these years. ^_^

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September 10, 2003

In the past week I've pulled almost 3 all-nighters which were not even cases of me trying to set my sleep schedule right (well, the first one was). I tried to take a nap in the middle of a short break on monday lying in a warm sunny spot on the top of a very big hill (in local park). Oddly no one was around, so I went to the edge and was glad to be resting on the grass. Twenty minutes later a gaggle of young adults camped about 25 feet away from me and made a lot of noise. 25 feet! There was plenty of hill to not be near me. They all felt it necessary to listen to their voice mail on speakerphone, and demonstrate their repertoire of cell phone rings. Had there been any rocks I think I would have stoned them. Too tired to move, let alone get up, I imagined brutal and bloody deaths for them (with a lot of pummeling). So if you talk to me and I'm cranky, bite your head off, or otherwise get unnecessarily violent, this is why.

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September 6, 2003

Blogger wouldn't let me log in yesterday. Stupid blogger. *kicks*

Q talked me into trying Scrapped Princess and after downloading the first 5 episodes for whatever reason I rather like it. My Streamload Acct was supposed to rollover today so I could start my new month and download more, but it hasn't yet. *kicks Streamload too*

In the interim, after much procrastination I am starting work on chapter 2 of Tsubasa wo Motsu Mono for Red Butterfly. Screentone is annoying.

I signed up for 7 dance classes this year. 4 of which are on Saturday. I am experimenting to see how much it takes to kill me. Results will be displayed post mortem.

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September 3, 2003

See, I'm so behind that I didn't know that you commented on the latest Furuba chapters a week ago. *hangs head in shame* At least it's good to know that I'm not the only one who's excited. Tell me, what's your position on the *possible spoiler - hover to read* theory?

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I mentioned a little while ago that I'm one of the editors at Red Butterfly. The first part of chapter 1 of Tsubasa wo Motsu Mono by Takaya Natsuki (Furuba!) is up for download. I just finished the second half of the chapter and submitted it for proofing. It's what most of my computer time has gone to lately ^^; Sound effects are the work of the devil, as my friends will attest to since I've been bothering them:

Me: "What's the sound for closing a book?"
Steve: "A hardcover or a softcover?" ::closes some books:: "Hardcover's more like a 'thwap'; softcover's like a 'thwump'."

Me: "What's the sound of an image coming to mind?"
Pal: "... You need to take a break."

I'm very behind on the social blogging. I meant to respond to some things you and you wrote about a month ago. At this rate I don't think it's going to happen.

I was happy to talk to you again! I'm going to send you the letter I've partly written, or die trying! I will finish it! I just procrastinate like nobody's business.

Re: Fruits Basket chapters 78-80
Fruits Basket is getting good again. Not that it was ever not good, but there were a couple of student council chapters in there where I lost track (not having the manga in front of me) but now we're back to the curse and if it can be broken. Is anyone else caught up? Anyone looking for spoilers? *is itching like a madwoman* At the Furuba panel at Shoujocon Merrow and I seemed to be the only ones to be aware of the most recent events. (Spoiling them was fun!) Tooru is wonderful, Rin gets more background (80 is a Rin POV chapter), Shigure is Shigure, and Akito -- I mean, we already know he beats up little girls, (and probably kicks puppies too), but this was still rather unexpected O_o

Sigh, slightly less than a month until the next chapter too.

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Has it really been that many days since I last posted? Eek. Time warp.

I still haven't gotten around to talking about how Shoujocon went. I really have to get off my tush soon and write about it or it will never get done. Manning the consuite definitely was not easy and I think I must be a glutton for punishment to consider doing it again next year. I got blisters just from running around the hotel. (They'd have been worse if I didn't remember to bandage them early on.) I did it on very little sleep, but truth be told, I hadn't felt that alive, awake, and useful in a long time.

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