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Friday, April 12, 2002, 05:21 a.m. o/~ She turns and says, "Are you all right?"I said, "I must be fine cuz my heart's still beating" o/~ I woke up this morning. Turned on my bedroom light. Which promptly blew, taking the fuse with it as well as my computer, alarm clock, and phone. I stared at my dark, silent room for a minute, and then padded over to the next room, where I knew the fusebox was. After propping open the door so I could get some light from the bathroom light (the lights in the second bedroom were gone too) I opened the fusebox and messed with the appropriate switch until power was restored. My bedroom light's gone, but hey, everything else still works. How fucking bizarre. I dunno what to say about yesterday except that life creeps along, as usual. Started the financial gears rolling for CO. I don't know if I can afford the first year, which is bugging me because, really, the opportunity to go to CO shouldn't be turned down. I took a look at their emeritus professor list and research list and was practically drooling. My parents were disturbed by me. ;;^^ The problem is that the first year at CO is an overwhelming $61,000. Plus living expenses, which bumps the tab up to at least $75,000. And let's not forget I'd need a car. So.......and financial aid might provide $50,000, but that means I have to come up with $20,000-30,000 on my own. Which means taking out several high-interest bank loans (I'm guessing about $5,000 a year in interest?). Which will basically smack me with at least....well, a SHITLOAD OF MONEY to repay, that just keeps getting bigger and bigger with time. If I could cover the entire tab with federal loans, that would be fucking wonderful, because the government picks up the interest, so my debt at least STAYS CONSTANT. But the gimmick with CO is that for out-of-state, the first year costs $61,000, and in that year you become a CO resident, so your tuition drops down to $16,000 or something for the following years. Which is all well and good, but the first year... I think my mom's going to take a second job. The fucking life of an immigrant family, huh? ;;^^ Sorry, I'm just belatedly bitter because I went to the local university because with discounts and scholarships and all it only cost me about $700 a semester to go ;;;^^ Yay for the U of I. So I'm actually faced for the first time with the possibility of being unable to go to the best school I can because of financial constraints. (If I go to WI instead, the federal loans should cover the tab completely.) Which is hardly a unique situation for anyone, so I'll stop my whining. Mreh. I'm going to drown my sorrows in Batsu for an hour and a half or so before work while my hair dries. And later on, if I remember, I'm going to try to talk about Bleach. Which IS a cool manga, and worthy of Kya's frothing about it. :D I just feel silly talking about it when tha masta is there to describe it. But let's see if I can use my powers for good instead of evil today. Now Playing: Persona II Tsumi Dorama CD - Open your heart ~up-rifting mix Thursday, April 11, 2002, 06:29 a.m. "Whoa! Manwhores!Just a quick blog before I go to work. Probably gonna blog there too. Y'all need to check out this site. Well, if your browser can handle Japanese, and if you want to see many cute Suou kyoudai pictures. Or of Jun as the Joker. Or a picture of Nyarlathotep covered in Xmas lights. This site is just one big merryland of wrong, and I'm quite pleased with it. Highlights:
Okay, you get the idea. The site's pretty entertaining, and the art's lovely when it's not downright weird. XD Man, I hope the artist doesn't mind me linking to their work...well, if they do, I'll take it down immediately, of course. ^^ Holy crap, time to get to work. I'll answer my emails at work, so if you're reading this and have emailed me - expect them to be answered. Or I suppose you can bitchslap me. The Benadryl worked. Yay. Now playing: Electronic - Twisted Tenderness ( DAMN YOU, JANAKI! ....got any more? XD I am such a wh0re for this kind of music.) Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 09:07 a.m. I have sunk to new lows, I think.My god. Last night I sl0red. It was a sl0ring I never thought I'd do. I was screaming that winamp was playing "Always." Juri asked what song that was. So, as a kind of torture, I sent it to her. Juri wanted more Erasure, because she was new to their evil falsetto ways. So I ended up sending her like five Erasure mp3s. ME. Sl0ring ERASURE. Oh, I feel so dirty. (No, don't comment on the fact that I had that many mp3s to give. I'm in denial here.) In other news, thanks to the kindness of strangers and old friends, looks like the Chicken of Doom site will be up again on genkiland...er, really soon. Tonight, maybe. But don't hold your breath. I'm doubly surprised: one, that people remember that site at all and would actually help me restore it, and two, that strangers read my blog. ^_~ Heck, I'm still surprised when people say they've been to my webpages; I have this odd concept that they exist in a void or something. :D I also woke up this morning with a massively swollen upper lip. It looks like a bee stung me. I have no idea why this happened, except that it just HAPPENS every once in a while. I swore massively, took an aspirin (my Dad's aspirin with codeine, with is an OTC drug in Denmark...it was the only actual ASPIRIN I had. Everything else was for fever and pain, not for swelling.)Either my lip's swelling will go down, or I'll be massively relaxed at work all day. Looks lik the latter... I also got into Colorado Medical Center whatever-it-is medical school. Ninth in the nation in primary care. (Five or six of the schools above it are in-state-only west-coast schools, so, really, CO is under, say, Harvard and maybe some other Boston med school for out-of-state students. O_O) AND. It has a 1337-ass immunology center. If you know anything about my academic interests (which is like knowing Dr. Jekyll, really, not the Mr. Hyde which usually blogs) then you'll know that I have a major woody for immunology. The guy who discovered and characterized the T-cell is a retired professor there. Heh heh...:D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But now I'm terribly confused as to whether I wanna go to Wisconsin or to Colorado. I mean. Immunology. *_* Mountains *_* But. If I go to Colorado, nobody's ever going to visit me. ;;^^ Since I'll be so far away from everyone. And that would make me sad. I think my academic needs are going to decide the matter for me in the end, but...oh, I don't know. I have about ten days to decide whether to accept or not. (Or hold an acceptance; I only hafta start weeding out my held acceptances in, like, May. Four acceptances. That's sw33t.) Most schools demand $100 as a holding fee, but nooo, these wankers demand $200. -_- Anyways, that's my exciting life nowadays. -_- Been sleeping at the oddest hours, and all my dreams this week have been...if not downright violent or unhappy, just...well, not happy and fluffy. Weird, perhaps. And I haven't had anything to do at work all week. But I have to pretend I'm doing something nonetheless, like reading training materials or grammar texts. I'm going to do something drastic if this continues. Now Playing: Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs (Severin, Severin...) Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 05:03 p.m. I suppose you think you're funny, Shannon. XDWell, that's because you are, I guess. My so-called victims should check out the Petshop of Sl0rers. I don't cause dangerous obsessions! The only things I sell are LOVE and DREAMS and PR0N. Addendum: for those who don't know what sl0ring is, it's a combination of slut + wh0re...basically, it's when you pimp your current obsessions on innocent bystanders, addicting them as well. I apparently have a rare and mysterious talent of sl0ring. If you hang around me for long, you end up reading/watching/playing exactly what I do. Now Playing: Peter Gabriel - Jacques the Monkey...errr, Shock the Monkey Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 04:55 p.m. Maybe I should go back to my shrink. Hm.I had the oddest brainfart today at work. I was proofreading a chapter on business appraisal and how to pick guideline companies when conducting an appraisal. So I got to the part about "Industry Analysis." And for some reason, my mind kept inserting the word "p0rn" in front of the word "industry."
Puu: It doesn't say "porn industry," goddammit. PuuBrain: Yes it does! Puu: Dude, I don't work for that kind of company. Unfortunately. Now Playing: Ween - Little Birdy Tuesday, April 9, 2002, 02:51 a.m. Damn this webpage shit.Now that genkiland's back up, I spent some quality time tonight trying to restore what I could of the genkiland pages. The upshot? The Aoshi, Bebop, Xelloss, and Shinesman pages are mostly up. Everything else is just...gone. The Chicken of Doom? Mostly gone. DigiCharat page? Gone. Goddamn webhosts that go down before you can save your stuff. I wish there was a way to ensure that if you've paid them faithfully for months and months that they can not just GO DOWN and take all your content with it. Or at least they have ot guarantee that your content gets transfered to your new host. Fucking hell. Oh well, I don't care about the FY page, but the digicharat page which I'd made right when the episodes were only available raw online...that would hae been nice to keep. and Krisit's Outlawstar page is down for the count. :/ Ah, to hell with it. The josei gamer will make a giant MegaTen page and the world will be good again. Now Playing: Rolling Stones - Heartbreaker Monday, April 8, 2002, 05:10 p.m. o/~ You're just jumping with your eyes closed from the fire into the oven... o/~I keep meaning to blog, but I'm such a lazy-ass person that I end up going days before I actually pull up a pitas window, and then I find that I have absolutely nothing to say. Oh well. If you want content, check out Ka or Kya or Krisit or any of my other friends. If you want fangirl wanking...well, I always knew I had SOME role to play in society. ;;^^ This morning I woke with a splitting headache that felt like someone had driven an icepick into my frontal lobe without my permission. I got ready for work, and then vainly hunted about for my aspirin, because I couldn't move my head without seeing white spots. And I couldn't find the damn things. So I went to my car, got in, sat there, got out, and ran upstairs to my apartment to search again. I finally found the damn bottle, inhaled two pills, and floored it to work. This is just a small incident that pretty much set the tone for my entire day. Thankfully the retard quotient was blessedly low at work, so my sanity was preserved. But I read about prepositions for four hours instead, so... Two of my high school friends are in town. They were my close friends back in HS. But it's five years later, and, really, we took completely different paths in college socially. We have different personalities, interests, types of friends, ideas of a good time...which makes me sadly reluctant to see them now that they're in town. It's not that I DISLIKE them, it's just that our lives last touched when we were different people, and all we have to talk about now is...high school. I'm a college graduate, and talking about high school gets old quickly, because I'm not the same angstball monkeyspank that I was when I was 16. Or so I like to think. ^.- I don't know what to do with these friends of mine now. I'll....stall, I think. Way to be decisive! I feel bloody lousy. Dammit. I've been feeling ill since last night. But I'm going out for a walk while the weather's still nice. I will...ramble more when I get back. Now Playing: Oingo Boingo - All The Pieces (ku ku ku. It's always fun getting new mp3s.) Saturday, April 6, 2002, 01:39 p.m. The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.I had a whole new blog entry to go with the new layout, too, and then IE crashed. Sasuga, ne.... Maa, ii wa. You get the idea. Worked some today. Still pretty incoherent. The josei gamer messed with Batsu last night. It's interesting the little things that have to be tweaked in translation to allow for cultural whatnot. For example, when Katsuya's superior officer is telling him to shut up and not comfort the person they're interrogating, in English he goes something like, "Sergeant Suou, that's enough, I don't need your commentary on the situation" and Katsuya shuts up. Of course, in Japan, all his superior has to say is "Suou," and Katsuya understands and shuts up. I guess maybe in the US he's supposed to get an explanation, and in JP he shouldn't need one. Or maybe I was reading too much into things at an ungodly hour. Yeah, that's it. All I can tell you about Gravitation, Kya-chan, is that it's definitely not set in the Kyoto area, because that's Quite A Distance according to the characters. So hell, it might be set in Tokyo or Osaka. I find it amusing that Shuuichi uses ore, because he's such an uke, as you said. But according to your survey everyone pretty much uses ore casually today, only switching to boku if they're in a situation that demands it. Kya, if you see Bakuretsu Hunters 13, can you grab it for me? 12 ends on something of a cliffhanger. Tired. Whatever. Preordering THIS so fast my credit card is burning. Now Playing: Aphex Twin - come on you slags Thursday, April 4, 2002, 09:45 a.m. *whipcrack*All right, y'all, I have some stuff I need to mail. So this is what I need from you guys:
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, right, Juri, you too, in case I can't make it to your berfday party this weekend. I slept five hours yesterday afternoon, so I ended up spending all night working on a new blog layout and reading Gravitation fics. X_x I actually found a few reasonably well-written ones. I'll give you the urls, Krisit. Basically, even the angsty fics have to make me giggle for me to like the fic, because the show is too hyper to be caught in an angst slump forever without making a FEW jokes. I even found an ichi-love fic, but fic-writers tend to make Ryuuichi even more childish than he already is, almost to the point of retardation or infancy. @_@ I found a couple of good Ryuuichi fics, though; in one of them he was saying something along the lines of, "People always thought that I was being silly to cover up some deep hidden trauma, and they kept trying to uncover it. They didn't seem to understand that I was just a happy person a lot of the time." That, to me, is accurate characterization of Ryuuichi, even though we ARE talking about a guy who talks to his stuffed rabbit. Well, it rings more true to me than the MPD-due-to-severe-childhood-abuse theory. >D Now Playing: Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat Boy Thursday, April 4, 2002, 12:13 a.m. Heh heh.The average number of hits that my blog gets weekly is 666. That takes talent. Now Playing: Tear Garden - Romulus and Venus Wednesday, April 3, 2002, 10:18 a.m. It's a bit late for a New Year's resolution, but...You know what? I have decided to give up sl0ring. I am not going to drag people kicking and screaming into whatever I'm interested in at the moment. I will leave them in peace, and confine myself to my interests without talking about them ad nauseum. >D And I welcome a smacking if I slip, all right? I thought about taking down anything on my blog that indicated what I liked, but I shuddered in horror at how boring it would look then. And you know, I actually got enough sleep last night. I think. At least 6 hours. Now Playing: ....stuff? ^^ Tuesday, April 2, 2002, 12:20 p.m. The world's out to get me again.Puu is having her lunch hour. She idly turns on the radio. Radio: o/~ We're flying high, we're watching the world pass us by...never want to come down, never want to put my feet back down on the ground~ o/~ Puu: AUUUUUGH!!!!! CONSPIRACY! CONSPIRACY!! number of #y people who are surprised by this story: 0 Now Playing: Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (natch.) Monday, April 1, 2002, 02:47 p.m. Dude! We got saabisu!I suppose now that I'm sort of recovered I should blog about my Japan trip. My sleeping schedule is still Special, but...it's good enough. I'm at work. And I think my sister's still pissed at me that I only spent a couple of hours a day with her over this weekend. But I came over for at least two hours every day! Ahhhh, I don't know. It's terribly easy to make me feel guilty. I saw her for about two hours yesterday, and then I said I was going home and didn't want to go see a movie. She sulked, saying that I was always going home. Which is true, but I just got back from a trip, and I was really tired and desperately in need of "alone time" to recharge my batteries. I'm one of those people who need a lot of time alone when they're feeling run-down. But I suppose I COULD have spent more time with her. Wait a second, I'm doing it again. I called her this morning from work to say goodbye, and she still sounded peevish. Whatever. WHAT. EVER. Back to happier things, like the trip. Err - I got into Kansai International Airport somewhat earlier than expected, and messed with the pay telephone to call Kya and let her know I was there. I only took a huge travel backpack and a carry-on gym bag, and both were pretty full. Kya-chan and Mii-chan showed up, and we somehow navigated the subway with my luggage and made it to our hotel. Once we'd kicked off our shoes for a while, we went out again, and I think we decided to try to find the Osaka Mandarake. We didn't find it, but we stopped and played that drumming game for a while. Man, that was fun; I wish I'd played it some more while I was there. Then we saw a UFO catcher machine, and we decided to play it for the heck of it. There were, like, Saiyuki plushies and Digi Charat teacups and all sorts of whatnot, including some Ayanami stuff. What's WITH the endurance of Ayanami Rei???? Why is there still new merchandise for her? Is she the perfect woman or something because she's so passive and quiet and doll=like? Lord only knows. Anyways, we musta pumped about 1000 yen into that machine, giggling furiously the entire time, before we managed to pull down the token for the Saiyuki thing. And, as Kya said , we decided to get the Gojyo, but the guy apparently was amused by the silly gaijin and gave us an extra plushie. So I have the saabisu Sanzou in my apartment, looking peevish with a halisen. Bonus. Score. Then we went back to the hotel and watched the Sammy Sosa story. Animated. Man, was that ever special. Special special special. Then I think we went out for mabo. Mabo is very good. Try it when you can. The next morning was the Osaka Comic City, so we got up early, and Kya lent me a bag. As I said earlier, bring your own bag to doujinshi events in Japan. You'll need them. I also spent an hour looking for my underwear in that teeny tiny hotel room. >D On the subway, we saw women with shipping boxes, wheeled trolleys, you name it. They come to buy mucho doujinshi. We arrived, bought a catalog (which serves as a sort of admission ticket or cover charge) and were herded with the rest of the people into an empty auditorium, where we'd wait until the doors officially opened. Kya was embarrassed that the guy herding us in tried to tell us to shut our catalogs in English. Errr...we sat around in the hall, paging through the catalogs. Kya was gonna hit the anime/manga hall, Mii-chan was gonna go for Harry Potter, and I was going to stalk the game hall, then the novel hall, and THEN the anime/manga hall. So we made our game plans in the catalog, circling the areas and DJ circles we planned to visit. Then we were let in, and I split off to hit the game doujinshi hall. The hall was a reasonably large size; I guess maybe a 80 - 100 circles were in there. I hit the MegaTen aisle and personally ensured that MegaTen doujinshika would eat that week. >D I know I'm a josei gamer. Shut up. >D Hettapies was there, as was the people who do that ridiculously cute Eikichi-uke stuff, Naphthalene. There were a lot of circles that I recognized. So I was like, "Ohh, I've been to this page! Must buy their doujinshi, their art usually looks good." One of the circles gave me marshmallows! Yay, sugar. I then ran over and grabbed a doujinshi or two from the pitifully few Boogiepop circles I saw in the catalog. I also bought one lonely KOF doujinshi. It had SD Iori on the cover. With a pitchfork. >D Then I went over to the hall where Kya was wandering, because we were gonna go hit Sannasubi-sensei's table together. I'd brought a reaaaally old Kenshin doujinshi of hers from America (it dates to, like, 1995, I think) and I was hoping that if she wasn't too busy, she'd sign it. You'd think that it'd be easy to spot a blonde head in a crowd in Japan, right? Wrong. Everyone and their dog has bleached their hair blonde or red or caramel-brown in Japan. So it was actually really hard to find her, but I spotted her shiny hairclip and fought my way over to her. She was looking at Naruto doujin. We walked by Sannasubi-sensei's table, didn't see her, and figured she was gone for coffee or something. So we went back and looked at Naruto stuff. Kya found her DJka penpal, Kazuha-san! So they talked for a while and I listened. It was pretty cute, from what I could pick up. And Kya was so hyped about it, too. :D So they talked for about five minutes, and then we went back to Sannasubi-sensei's table. This time she was there; Kya thought she recognized her from Winter Comiket. So we went up and asked her assistants if sensei was there, and she came up to the table to talk to us. Kya explained that we were from America and that we really liked her work. Sensei recognized Kya from Comiket, but I imagine she doesn't have too many tall blonde gaijin stalkers. That can speak Japanese, at any rate. Then she asked sensei if she wouldn't mind signing my doujinshi. And sensei said it wasn't a problem. *_* So I hunted in my overflowing bag (the next day I had what I termed "doujinshi arm" from carrying all those doujinshi) and pulled out the doujinshi. Sensei signed it and drew her chibi-Aoshi in it. *_* We wandered around in our respective sparklies, picking up this and that. I picked up a Saiyuki doujin or two, and a Trigun one. Kya bought a Lord of the Rings doujinshi XDDD Aragorn x Legolas. *SNERRRK* Joy, I *think* I got you a Saiyuki doujinshi from the circle you wanted. I hope. I went to the table indicated on their webpage. I'll send it to you soon. Anyways. We found Mii-chan and straggled back to our hotel. Maybe that was the night of the Sanzou saabisu; I don't remember clearly. Anyways, later that night, at around 1 am, Mii-chan wanted to sleep but Kya and I were wired, so we went out and spent about four hours just walking around Osaka. We went to an all-night beef bowl and talked, then wandered around, sat in a park for a while (discovering that swings for tiny Japanese children do not accomodate adult gaijin) and eventually made our way back to the hotel at around 5:30 am. The city was SO dead quiet at night. NO cars were on the roads. There were practically no people out. It was weird. In American cities, there's ALWAYS someone around, no matter what the hour is. I remember discussing the Bourgeois Princess Complex in great detail, though. We came back and grabbed about five hours of sleep. Mii-chan was surprised that we were able to function on "that litle sleep", but that's standard for me, at least. We went to...what was it, Mandarake Osaka? on Friday, and bought new doujinshi. My h0dom is mighty, I must say. Right, Kya, mii-chan? Then, er, we took the Kintetsu back to Nagoya, right? Two-hour train ride. I read one of my anthologies, and Kya played with her GBA while Mii-chan slept. Not bad, really. We transferred to the subway at Nagoya station, and rode it to Irinaka, where Kya lives. Her apartment is maybe half a mile or so from the station, a nice pleasant walk. There were blooming cherry trees everywhere, but the petals were white, as Kya said. There was some kind of shrine-thing that we passed, a boy's academy, and a church, IIRC. And The Hill, of course. ^_~ What IS on the other side of that wall, anyways, Kya? The one along the Hillside? Kya's neighbors had a fluffy white dog that yapped at us when we passed; I called it Koutenken, of course. Kya's apartment is a six-tatami apartment, about the size of a small hotel room. There was just room for a tiny kitchen in the entrance, a bath and shower to the side, and just enough floor space to lay down two futons. It was actually kind of nice, especially since we spent most mornings just lying around reading doujinshi or sleeping. There was no central heating; just a space heater that was turned on in the evening if it was cold and turned off when we slept. The water heater was only turned on when we started a shower, and turned off when the shower was over. Kya had her "Mini-darake" - her shelves of doujinshi - in a corner, and her walls are covered in Jump posters. h0. :D Saturday morning we discovered a problem. Banks wouldn't exchange money on weekends, and Kya was broke. I had about 3000 yen on me to last both of us the entire weekend. So what'd we do? We went to Mandarake, of course. Come on, man, we're fangirls. We're not practical. Nagoya Mandarake is near the TV tower in Sakae. We rode the subway there (there's a lot of line-switching involved in subway riding, it seems. Sakae was on the Sakura-dori line, wasn't it?) and went to a kaiten sushi place that Kya recommended. I am officially a h0 for kaiten sushi. :D~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 100Y a plate! You can fill yourself for the entire day on 500Y. Er, kaiten sushi is this thing where you sit at kind of a giant U-shaped table. The chefs are on the inside of the U, and there's a conveyor belt along the U. The chef makes the sushi and puts it on plates on the belt, and you just grab what you want as it comes by. Then they count up the plates and charge you at the end. Yum. Sushi and hot, hot tea. Each seat has a hot water dispenser and three or four bottles of powdered tea. And you just grab a cup and go for it. (Kya's probably amused at me telling all these retarded little details, but in six months, I'm sure I'll want to read this when I'm stuck in med school. >D ) Houji is a good type of tea, I must say. Maaaaaaaan, I really want tea and sushi now. T_T I'd trade you a Courier burger for kaiten sushi at Eikichi's dad's place in a heartbeat, Kya. The weather in Japan was really gorgeous, too. Incredibly windy sometimes (it takes a really strong wind to whip *my* ponytail around; I have a lot of very heavy hair) but around 60F in the daytime. So a shirt and light jacket was just enough to keep you warm, but it wasn't so hot that the jacket would be stifling. And all the sakura all over the place. Very very nice. I had fun with all the wandering about, Kya. So, Mandarake on Saturday. As I was on a tight budget, I only picked up five doujinshi. Three by Rinno-neechan, and a cute SD one about Nate and Alfred, and one other. Hee~~. <3 I love it. I was in the land where "being on a budget" meant that I could "only" pick up four or five doujinshi for under $12. I oughta have been able to pick up 6 or 7 DJ for that price, but Rinno-neesan's were "expensive" at 400Y apiece. Kya picked up one doujinshi. Then we made our way home, and spent an entire afternoon being traumatized by Rinno-neesan's doujinshi. I wub j00, Rinno-neesan! :DDD Mii-chan stopped by that night, and we said we'd come over tomorrow if she lent us train fare. We'd used the last of our money to buy ingredients for shabu-shabu, I think, which Kya cooked. Kya's a pretty good cook, people. Yes, Kuro-chan, it's oishii. So poor Mii-chan lent us 1000Y, so on Sunday all we did was go over to her place and watch the Ini-D third stage movie, which was, indeed, Takumi In Denial. >DDDDDDDD Monday morning we walked up to Nanzan to check on Kya-chan's inexplicably late scholarship check and to return some library books. Then we walked up to Yagoto to cash some money. Armed with money again, we hit the kaiten sushi place in Sakae again (what can I say...) and...oh, Mandarake, probably. No, that was the day Mii-chan joined us after lunch and we did the major shopping binge. One of them. We hit Mandarake, Gamers, all three Animates, Book-Off, and KAC books in one day. I could barely carry my shopping bags, and poor Kya had to help me. We stopped for curry afterwards, but I was still so sushi-powered that I only picked at my food. Shrimp curry. Reminds me of that Kani-palace we kept passing. With the giant animatronic crab over the door. That thing was ENORMOUS. Even the eyes on stalks moved. We also stopped by an arcade, got some photo-stickers of the three of us (Kya and I were wearing our Naruto headbands, I can't remember if Mii-chan was too; I was Iruka, Kya was Kakashi, and I think Mii-chan was Naruto.) and then we danced crazy on an old 5th Mix DDR machine that nobody was using. We also played some KOF 2001, and some random JP guy took over from me when I lost and kicked Kya's ass. That night, Mii-chan wanted to see what totally wasted people were like. So we walked the mile to the Family Mart to grab some Chu-Hi lemons and we picked up a pack of extra-light Mild Sevens from the vending machine. I can't remember where I'd heard about Mild Sevens before. Hm. There's a really nice road on the way to the Family Mart lined with sakura, I do remember that. So we came back, giggling ("Walk straight, Kya! You're sober!") and we proceeded to show Mii-chan exactly how retarded wasted people can be. For me, it took about three Chu-Hi before I was swaying in circles because it felt fun. Yes, FWIW, I was wearing pants for the occasion. >D Then we discovered that we were out of Chu-Hi, which was a source of much consternation. Then we decided to head back to the Family Mart for some more! Every great drunken adventure requires a Saiyuki of some sort. A Journey to the West. A Quest for the Holy Grail. In our case, it was the Quest for More Chu-Hi. So I somehow got my boots on again, and all three of us (two staggering, one watching bemusedly) headed down to the main road. Apparently at one point I tried to stop to tie my shoe by putting my foot on a low wall. I fell over instead onto the sidewalk and lay there "laughing maniacally," according to Mii-chan. I don't remember it myself, and neither does Kya, but my knee hurt like anything the next day, so I believe it. We left Mii-chan to catch a cab at the main road, and hand in hand, we staggered wildly the mile to the Family Mart (which I kept insisting on calling the "Circle K", for unknown reasons). We went in, and I *think* I acted reasonably sober when I was buying more Chu-Hi, but my perception was probably skewed. >D Then hand-in-hand (pausing occasionally to hug) we zig-zagged our way back to Kya's place. I kept complaining that I wanted to stop and pee, but Kya wouldn't let me. Then I said that because I was the guest, I got to go first when we got back to her place. This provoked an argument, I remember. Then I kept trying to pull down the giant LOTR movie poster because I could see a loose edge and I wanted it. Kya, again, wouldn't let me. Then *she* wanted to stop and pee, and this time I pulled HER along. The world is an entertaining place when you're utterly wasted, but man, you do some of the most idiotic things. I can't believe I walked two miles when I was that wasted, but I know that I did indeed do that. Of course, once the Saiyuki was over, I drank half a Chu-Hi and promptly fell asleep, fully clothed. Keitai mail from Mii-chan, Tuesday morning: How are Kakashi-sensei and Iruka-sensei this morning? Keitai mail from Kya-chan: Well, Kakashi can't find his pants, and Iruka is sore all over and can't remember why. All in all, a pretty normal morning. I think I was sore from falling over and unexpected DDR'ing :D My shuffle-step muscles hurt :D The keitai thing is pretty interesting. Everyone in Japan seems to have a cellphone. Everyone. From junior high students to old grannies and grandpas. Everyone. You see all ages on the subway, talking on their phones or emailing each other. You see people wandering around blindly, punching in emails. It makes the constant cellphone references in two of my latest pet series/games make a lot more sense. Heck, a LOT of things make more sense now that I've been to Japan. A note to all you cosplayers doing HS girls: you're still doing the socks wrong. Yes, it looks ugly, but they really are that baggy and scrunched down along their calves. Anyways, I spent most of that day picking up gifts for other people. We went DDR'ing again, I think; or I sat and Kya DDR'd. We found a used game store, where I saw the row of MegaTen games and utterly embarrassed myself by buying SIX of them. Yes, yes, josei gamer, that's me. Mii-chan wanted to try drinking that night but for some reason Kya and I are unable to get utterly smashed two nights in a row. Some innate self-preservation mechanism, I guess. We were just too tired and not up for drinking again (although I had escaped any hangover). It's just not *fun* getting drunk everyday. It's more fun every few months, IMHO. So Mii-chan came over and we just all hung out for a while, talking and looking through doujin. Wednesday we went one last round of the shops (the Kaiten Sushi place was closed. ;_; I wanted one more go at it!) and went all the way out...somewhere? the end of the subway line, I remember - and hit a CD shop. I STILL could not find the fscking Boogiepop soundtrack. Raaar. I musta checked half a dozen places. Got the Rez soundtrack instead. Rar. Almost dizzy with sleepiness. I hate jetlag. Will finish entry later. Shannon, I might be better to see later on this week, when I'm not falling asleep left and right, okay? Now Playing: Lain Cyberia OST - K.I.D.S. Wednesday, March 27, 2002, 04:44 p.m. *reading slowly* "Recommended for 'MegaTen SERIES fans' and 'josei gamers.' *pause* Oh god, I'm so embarrassed. *weeps*"Okay, while I have time, I'm gonna try to blog all the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, in no particular order. Damn, out of time again. Oh well. Going home tomorrow. Need to buy new suitcase, because I came with a full backpack and gym bag only. I was stupid and forgot to make allowances for the stuff I'd buy. Which isn't thaaaaaaaaat much. Really. Now playing: some kind of light net cafe jazz stuff. I bought my sister a t-shirt with engrish about prophylactics on it. I think she'll like them. Tuesday, March 26, 2002, 03:11 p.m. "Houshin Engi?""Soul Hunters." "Weiss Kreuz?" "Knight Hunters." " So....Hunter x Hunter?" *in unison* "Hunter Hunter Hunter Hunter." I'm visiting the land that caters to alllll my worst vices. Really. It's ridiculous. I need to buy a new suitcase. Well, that's really because the bags I brought were already mostly full (big backpack and carryon thing)...but still. Fucking ridiculous. >DDDDD Okay, really quick. (this keyboard is weird so I may misspell al lot; forgive me, i have a limited amount of time here.) Day one, met at airport by mii-chan and kya-chan. Ate ma-bo. YUM. yes. Day two: DOUJINSHI EVENT. ho ho ho. hooo ho ho ho ho ho ho. I met a LOT of the djka linked on that persona link page of ours. a lot. one even gave me amaimono after I bought their doujinshi. ho ho ho ho. After that, we came to Nagoya, and to make long stgories short, I went to KAC Books, Book-Off, Mandarake, all the Animate stores, and Gamers. That was just all yesterday, too. EVERY DAY IS SHOPPING DAY. Ridiculous. Ridiculous. I saw Sannasubi-sensei at the DJ event! She signed my old Battousai x Aoshi thing! *___________* I also picked up most of her new Kakashi x Iruka saga, Oh yeah, I:ve read most of Naruto by now. Um...bought some Azure stuff...yeah! When it comes to Persona doujinshi now...just call me the queen of the jellies. And I got a very special new oneesan, Rinno-oneesan. Her doujinshi are sooo lovely, and really, the most horribly fucked-up things I've EVER seen. Kya and I spent an entire afternoon reading the three of hers that I have, and they are really the most horrifying, traumatizing things ever. Ask me if you7re curious; they're not horrifying in the lolicon/shotakon/ Fujitaka x Sakura-chan way. No. These doujinshi are on a WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF FUBAR, but in the way that awes me, not squicks me. I love them. I'm keeping them foreeever and ever. They also taught me a useful new word: medamayaki. XDDDDDDDDD Hmmm. I don7t have much time left in the net cafe. See y'all on Friday. Um, I hope me babbling about going to Japan doesn't annoy those of you who haven't. :/ I don't mean to make this seem like boasting. Kya^chan and I got totally wasted last night and staggered about Nagoya after midnight on a drunken search for more Chu-hi. It was very very special. We also managed to go through a pack of Mild Sevens. This is why we shouldn't ever live together; we'd ENABLE each other. So mightily. Gotta run! Now playing - God only knows over the speakers. But I listened to "Open your heart^^up-rifting house mix" earlier today. RANDOM ENGRISH ON BACK OF SHIRT: the added stimulus of piercing the head. (that's all it said; Kya and I were in awe at the random filth.) |
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This layout is of one of those incredibly important yet mostly unexplained events in Boogiepop Phantom: the beam of light. (As far as I know, that is; I dunno if people dissolved into beams of light every other page in the novels. ;_;) As far as I can figure out (I've watched the show thrice and I'm STILL confused about things...) Echoes was at the center of the beam of light in Warawanai, and the Manticore, Saotome-kun, the Boogiepop, Echoes, and Nagi were all on the roof. Anyways, this layout was made under the influence of the Alien Sex Fiend cover of Pink Floyd's "Echoes." The main font is called "Prefix", and the image comes from my Ogata Kouji Boogiepop artbook. It's art from the "Boogiepop in the Mirror: Pandora" novel. In other words: "Look, Maw! No MegaTen art!" |  eminyu : jurinyu : leda : htk linkblog : ka-chan : mii-chan : krisit : dess : kya-chan : angie : deshi : rnm : chi : xiola : wufie : gregly : koukou : matt : becca : tay : tamanyu : steph0rZ : katie : megly : stephen : kai : rence : shannon : may : joy : kristina charmian : leareth : tin : technomancy : taylor : meimi : mara : ragabash : gen-chan : sakki : vituperation : frank : alexa : sabina : janaki : lalaland : myra : amei : diana : jae : sarah : ficbitches Nobutoshi Canna : Andy Lau : John Hargrave : Neil Gaiman : Katakura Kei (DJka) : Minekura Kazuya (mangaka)  [ peeji ][ archives ][ email ] cruel.com :: the onion :: seanbaby.com :: BC :: engrish.com :: satirewire [ < gamergirl blogs > ] |