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Favorite blogs: ( so far! )
eminyu :: jurinyu :: niisan
ka-chan :: krisit :: dess
kya-chan :: tin :: deshi
chi :: xiola :: oneesama
wufie :: gregly :: koukou
rei-chan :: matt :: dom
tamanyu :: steph

Personal stuff:
Name: Priya Monrad
Age: 19
Location: IL
Webpage: genkiland
email

Favorite anime series
Big O - Cowboy Bebop - Di Gi Charat - Trigun - Petshop of Horrors - Excel Saga - Gokudo-kun - lain

Favorite Links
cruel.com :: the onion
seanbaby.com :: BC
engrish.com :: PoE
THL :: anime links

Friday, January 19, 2001 :: 08:32 p.m.
o/~ You pour yourself over me...like the sun through the blinds... o/~

Tough; this is another selector blog entry. :P I took the Sailor Moon character selector. ;;^_^

What can I say? ;;^_^

And the Slayers test :

And the Mazoku Lord test:

Bah, that's enough. n_n All these Mazoku...

Now Playing: Darude - Sandstorm

Friday, January 19, 2001 :: 02:01 p.m.
Oh my god! That's SO WRONG!

Check this out. I took one look at it and burst out laughing. ( Uh, 18+ only, don't look at it at work, you know the drill. ;;^_^ )

Now Playing: Outkast - Sorry Miss Jackson ( I know, I know, but it got stuck in my head! )

Friday, January 19, 2001 :: 10:44 a.m.
Gosh, words fail me.

OK, did the scans I want; soon I'll go home and edit them.

How about this? Disturbing, or very disturbing?

I didn't know it was possible to cosplay Pikachu in a hentai manner. o.O

Wait a second...is that Goshuujin's page? o.O;;; Genri!! That's dirty! ^o^

Oneesama, I think you'll appreciate the title image on this page - poor Yue :D

Goddamn! How do people DO this?!

Or this?!

This was kinda fun to watch, in a seizure-inducing sort of way. n_n

Look at those creepy eyes. @_@

Pretty eyes.

More video game fanart.

OK, that's enough random fanart, huh?

Now Playing: Nothing. I'm going home.

Friday, January 19, 2001 :: 10:06 a.m.
Wow! You've just become a HERO!

Last night was a good night for DDR. Got a B on Luv to Me Another somehow, and the same on Paranoia 190. I even passed La Senorita Virtual...barely...o.O;; I also got an A on Dam Dariram Another. *_*

I heard the strangest thing on the radio the other night. 93X was advertising some kind of 'fight club' they'd be holding on some Tuesday night on the near future. You know, lotsa cheap beer, ass-kicking, loud music? My first thought when I heard the ad was, WTF? Then I thought, did they miss the point of the movie?

My parents made me come in to my lab today even though I have no classes. My retaliation for this was to go in at 8:30 am all right...but then I have spent all morning burning Argent Soma eps onto a CD, and then I'm leaving to do some scanning. ;;^_^

I'll see the IL-gumi tomorrow at JAC - do any of you want to go see Crouching Tiger tomorrow too?

The CTHD website's pretty cool. I took a look at it this morning.

I was also reading the cnn.com movie reviews, and pondering Brad Pitt. He seems to relish taking hella weird movie roles. ( Such as the unintelligible gypsy boxer in 'Snatch' now, that's what prompted the thought. ) He could have gone the light-weight vacant pretty-boy route in Hollywood, ( man, think about Keanu Reeves. The boy just can't act - ) but instead he actually seems to carefully pick his roles and is good at what he does. @_@ Hen dayo, ne?

Luckily, I don't have the Suga Bay Bee song in my head; I'm humming Dub-i-dub. ( And imagining the shuffles for Dub-i-dub another :D ) Which isn't really much better. @_@ I'm gonna make a new layout once I scan in the picture I want. juri - do you want the techno vocal remix of butterfly I d/led yesterday? Lemme know.

Goshdarnit, this CD burner is SLOW. I'm trying to kill the 35 minutes it requires to burn the Argent Soma eps onto the CD. Yay, just 2:30 left.

Now Playing: Apples in Stereo - Seems So ( Juri, you'd like this band, I think. )

Thursday, January 18, 2001 :: 02:27 p.m.
Wah! This sucks -_-

Well, let's see. Turns out I'm not going to Chicago this weekend after all, so I'll see the IL-gumi at JAC and stuff. This means I'll hafta wait another week to get that anime, though.

Also, I got another rejection letter. -_- That makes 4/10. -_- I hope at least one of the six I'm waiting on will give me good news...

Now Playing: Nothing. I'm pissed off, tired, and having god-awful cramps. -_-

Thursday, January 18, 2001 :: 11:40 a.m.
Something else.

Aren't these pretty tarot cards?

But what the fuck does this mean? Is this english at all?

Thursday, January 18, 2001 :: 10:34 a.m.
o/~ omoide mo, yume no naka o/~

Many good things today. First of all, i sat down and hammered away at the genkiland layout for February until it WORKED. First time I ever had to use frames, and you're right, Emi, once you stare at it long enough it's pretty simple. Yes, Katie, it's S-sama next month. If y'all are terribly interested, you can look at it here - although none of the site links will work because of the way I coded it. But you can get the idea. It works, and that makes me happy *_*

Waiwai, tomorrow I'll grab a lot of anime and burn it to CDs! I'm looking at Argent Soma, Inu-Yasha, Vandread, Yami no Matsuei, Honnou no Labyrinth ( whatever that is ) and Ayashi no Ceres 18-20. I'll be visiting my sister in Chicago all weekend, but the upside is that she has DSL and a CD burner. Makes it a worthwhile trip in my mind. XD

Y'know what I want to know? Why is it that guys can paint their nails so much better than I can? I mean, all the guys I know who can paint their nails do it so fucking perfectly, while I'm here slapping a thick coat of polish on, usually smudging it, and then washing my hands to get the polish off from around my nails. Why, god, why? Is it a consolation prize for being born male?

School so far seems like it'll be fun. My classes don't suck too much, and the workload's light. Last night I spent quality time reading Utena fanfic; Jaquemart in particular. It's quite a good fanfic, IMHO, and long, which I love. I love long good fanfics. ^_^ If you want more Utena-fic, try the Utena Fanfiction Repository. Of course, it's hard to make Utena much weirder than it was originally, but this fic manages to do so o.o

I still have a cough. My parents are taking me out to the Y for some Thai for lunch, and this afternoon someone's supposed to drop by and fix my DVD-ROM. Kickass. Then I can actually copy CD's for people :P

It's funny; at night, especially if I'm pretty tired, I just lie there in bed and listen to the radio. I still am having trouble sleeping, but it doesn't bother me so much anymore; either I plug in my Walkman and make like Shinji, or I turn off the Walkman and just think, because the radio gets in the way of my thoughts. I've always had an active imagination; if I weren't so shy about my writing I could churn out fanfics like there's no tomorrow. Hell, I have a original story I'm working on now that's over 400 pages, single-spaced, 10-point, and it's nowhere near done. Hell, if I had to think about it, it's only about a third of the way done. ;;^_^ The damn thing is like 2 MB, and I can't stick it on a floppy anymore. ;;^_^ Writing is very cathartic for me, but it's also very personal, so it's unlikely I'll ever show it to anyone.

Which makes it hella weird that I actually have to think hard about what to say in a blog. Hen. o.o

I really can't believe that Dubya is gonna wear cowboy boots to his Inauguration. I'm rather ashamed to be American sometimes. n_n

You know what I need now? A nap. I think I'm going to doze for a while. n_n

Now Playing: Luv to Me - beatmania version with the funky JP lyrics

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 :: 11:27 a.m.
You may not touch my monkey. [In German]. You may not touch my monkey!

So it's the second day of school now. My schedule's nice and light, and so far it seems that I only have one final, and that's on the Tuesday before ACen. :DDD If any of you ACen-type-people wanna come a few days early and hang out, since I'll hafta leave Saturday night/Sunday morning for my convocation, that'd be awesome. n_n

Krisit, niisan, about Spring Break: I'm free after 1 pm on Thursday, March 8th. You may abduct me at will after that. I need to find a cute design for my chibi-wings, though - suggestions are welcome!

I can't believe this is my last semester of college. What the fuck, I'm only 19! I barely feel like I've hit adolescence at all o.o I'm still kinda worried; I want to know where/if I've been accepted to med school at all.

This semester I'm taking Latin, Abnormal Psych, Issues in Health Care ( my 3-hour weekly seminar o.o but it seems like it'll be fun! One of my semester-long assignments is to listen to loveline and take notes. No, seriously. My mom was pissed; she thinks that show is a) on too late at night ( 12 - 2 am ) and b) is teaching me stuff I don't already know. ;;^^ I've been listening to it anyways for four years; it's something to giggle at when you're pulling all-nighters, which I do on a disturbingly regular basis. ) What was I talking about? Oh yeah, my classes. My last class is the Pharmacology of Drugs ( legal ones....I think ) which is almost a grad-level course in chemistry. I hate chemistry, and didn't want to take a chem course this semester, but this looked too interesting to pass up. I can find out how my Celexa works on my brain on a molecular level, or something!

I've perfected the art of sleeping sitting up. I did so today in my Abnormal Psych class. It's 10 am, I'd gotten 6 hours of sleep; it was a good nap. ^^ I don't know why I'm so tired; I think it's the air on campus. Or something. Actually, the air on campus sometimes smells of manure when the wind changes, considering the South Farms nearby. Yick.

I'm sleepy.

Hey, Emi, tell me, did you use a program for your current niko-niko.net layout? Or did you do all that by hand?

I have about 5 different page layout ideas bouncing around in my head, and about an equal number of sites I mean to work on. Let's see the pages...:

Maze Bakunetsu Jikuu manga
Hameln no Baiorin-hiki manga
Petshop of Horrors manga
Argent Soma ( first I need to see it, I know... )
Big-O anime and manga...
Boogiepop wa Warawanai

As I told oneesama last night, I don't have pages. The pages have me.

Now Playing: Kraftwerk

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 :: 01:43 p.m.
The fish of recognition, and why Legapuff doesn't sound as good as Jigglychu...

krisit visited yesterday, and we spent nine hours goofing off. T'was fun. n_n

Sunday was a Hindu religious holiday, so I helped my mother cook and clean. It's the equivalent of Thanksgiving - it's a festival for the sun god, who's responsible for making the crops grow and all that - so we cooked sweet pongal , which is a rice-and-lentil-and-molasses dessert, offered it to the sun god, and ate desserts all day. I like Hindu festivals, except the whole vegetarian bit. ( Look. They're practically every other day! No eggs, for god's sakes! ;;^^ That means I can't even make pancakes, for example, on holidays ;;^^)

Dammit, now that schools are starting up again, med schools are finally getting back to me on my apps. I applied to ten schools, and of the ten, I have done two interviews, and over the past three days, I got three rejections ( from three different schools. ) I go to the mail, and there's another thin little envelope. -_- Oh well, I want to hear from the other five schools, or the two I interviewed at. If I get rejected from one of the ones I interviewed at so far, I'll be really bummed. ;_;

Hm, I need to go pick up my mother. I'll blog more later. ^^ Check out my revamped bebop movie page and...uh...

TAMA-NYU! THIS SCAN IS FOR YOU!

Now Playing: Mugen no RYVIUS OP - dis

Friday, January 12, 2001 :: 11:37 p.m.
" Priya, you think all the Japanese transvestites are cute." - my dad

Well, I was reading manga, and giggled at something, saying it was 'cute.' My dad commented on that, and I was about to protest when I remembered I was reading the Petshop of Horrors manga which technically DOES involve a Japanese transvestite. Er, a Chinese one. Well, whatever. ;;^^

Today at work I read about the grammar of ancient Indo-European poetry and archery. Now I can tell you all about what kind of bow to get and arrows. @_@ Working at a library's pretty fun, as I've said a billion times before; you get to see all these cool books! But it's really hot and dry and dusty. Ack. Gives me a headache.

Wow, this homemade eggnog is really creamy. Note to self: next time, cut down on the whipped cream. -_- I don't really drink it, but my parents like it, so I made it. A dozen eggs, 2 cups of sugar, anda quart of whipped cream. Et voila.

I really like to cook. But I never have the free time to cook, or when I do, I'm always doing something else. Damn. Well, sometime if someone wants to make me their kept woman, I'll cook once in a while if you can pry me away from the computer! *nyari*

And now to work more on the Bebop movie page. I have this fun layout idea, but I need to scan in something and I can't do that until Tuesday.

Now Playing: Eurythmics - Beethoven ( I Love To Listen To ) - which had this great video, of Annie as a blonde housewife getting fed up and totally trashing her cookie-cutter suburban home and running off to become a trashy lounge singer.

Friday, January 12, 2001 :: 09:15 p.m.
Just because he has a library card doesn't make him Yoda!

From the Evangelion character selector:

This means I'm evil and easy, or so deshi tells me.

Bah, Stanford wrote me and said they weren't interested in me. Damn. No west-coast for Puu, looks like. However, this means I can drop my advanced physical chem class, since Stanford was the only place that wanted it XD Gomen, CA-gumi! I tried!

For the FY test, I think I got Chichiri, and then Suboshi. Something like that.

And now it's time to watch The Usual Suspects with my parents.

Now Playing: Moby - Natural Blues

Friday, January 12, 2001 :: 11:59 a.m.
If we're gonna off the dude, we need to get paid! It's the American way, man, it's not like we're Communists!

I'm dutifully working on my Bebop Movie page . I've been trying to force myself to work on my pages, but I feel so....sluggish. I'm so tired recently. Being sick and working most of the day will sap your energy, I guess, but still, this sucks.

Uh oh....I just took the Bebop character selector, and this is what I got.

My, my, my.

krisit - ack! bad car! ;_; Well, let's see. I can probably steal a car. In fact, dammit, I WILL steal the car for a while.

matt - I'm sorry to hear about all those funerals. ;_; But...Thursday nights I could DDR for free? O_O Dammit, I wish Spaceport hadn't closed down. We don't have any proper arcades in C-U that we could con into getting a DDR machine. Dammit, dammit, dammit.

All I can conclude is that TMR-sama DOESN'T love us, Juri. Let's stalk him when he comes to ACen! n_n

Just took the Utena character selector :

Oh dear, again. Well, I love Ruka, but dammit, why do I get all the freaky people up near the top? ^^

A lot of people have been discussing what blogs should be about. ( I'm behind the times, I know; I've been reading more than blogging. ) I realize that my blogs contain a lot of whining and bitching about personal stuff, which I assume is hella boring for others to read, but is simply indicative of whatever was on my mind at the time. It's flattering to know that other people actually read my blog once in a while, but I'll be damned if I'll be told what to blog about by any readers. I mean, if they email me and ask a question, I can reply in my blog, or discuss something someone emailed me about ( like when someone emailed me about DDR, I blogged about that later ) and I don't mind that, but blogs are meant for the writer, not for the entertainment of the masses. ;;^^ I hope my blogs aren't deadly boring to read, but if they are, just go to some of my links, which are MEANT to be funny.

Anyways, now that I've said that, time to blog about my dreams! ;;^^

I've had some hella weird dreams recently. First dream I remember is the one where the entire band dir en grey was in my house for some reason or another, out of makeup. I recognized them belatedly, and dashed into my house, hunted through my room to find a single of theirs ( I don't own one, BTW ) and dashed out again and asked them to sign it, which they did. But my fingers smeared the ink on some of the signatures...shoulda brought out a different pen ;_;

Then I dreamt that I was talking to some skinny blonde guy for a while, and we were getting along pretty well, and then I asked, " So, tell me, how DO you pronounce your name?" And the guy kind of gives me this LOOK, and says, 'DRAY-co.' I guess I was talking to a late-teenaged Draco Malfoy . How odd. Even odder is that it turns out that the way he pronounced his name in the dream is the way they say his name's pronounced on the scholastic site, which is NOT the way I had thought the name was pronounced. Subarashii desu wa ne?

Well, I hafta go work now. Damn. Anyways, I'll try to blog more later. ;;^^

Now Playing: Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps

Thursday, January 11, 2001 :: 04:54 p.m.
Got five minutes to kill, what the heck.

Today's fun fact from work: Lady Macbeth was named Gruoch.

Wasn't that interesting?