Forget my room. I’m gonna go clean the kitchen and be a lazy bum. Hey Steph! Wanna have a party this afternoon? XD

I yearn for Kenshin fanfics dealing with this particular arc. The plot is really interesting. Of course, I love FFX’s religious mess, so it’s no surprise I like this arc, really. It’s not so much about the Christian persecution as about whether or not this dude actually has powers from God. And why. (Sheesh, he dresses like Seymour. Who thinks the Son of God dresses like a pansy?) But with Kenshin, one would expect the usual over-analysis of everything, ne? But it’s still such a mystery that when Kaoru thinks she knows what’s going on, she has no clue about the truth. And everyone else is in various other places. There was hardly any commentary on the big fight! And that was just between the two fighters, commenting on each other’s styles. I really love this arc. Now, if only I knew what it was called, I’d have more luck finding fanfics for it. *sigh* I might have to write a fic for it. I’m already working on a Harry Potter fic. Isn’t that enough?

Speaking of that fic, it went from a vignette about werekitty!Draco to something having to do with non-ghosts and the Astronomy Tower. Is it just me, or is that tower seriously overused as a plot device? It got used in that fic where Harry tried to suicide and Snape caught him. It gets used as a location for Harry and Draco to get roaring drunk. I read about James Potter tripping on one of the steps during hide-and-seek with the other pre-Harry boys. It got used as an improntu ballroom, for goodness’ sake. Very over-used. And I think I remember entirely too much about the fics I read to be able to pull a list like that out of nowhere. On the other hand, I’m desperate for proper location, but I don’t have any of the books to reference. If I could just get a decent map of Hogwarts in my head, I’d be fine…

Alright, enough babble from me. I’ll clean the kitchen and then see if Steph has made other plans. I did kinda tell her I’d be busy all weekend. ^^;; Silly me, I shoulda known better.

Now I get to clean my room AND the kitchen. Figures. I am so not going to get any sleep tonight… Blarg, I am dead.

Okay, I finally read 8-Bit Theatre. It was… so… BLACK MAGE KICKS ASS!! I want more. Must read more. Black Mage is cool. XD I wanna get T-shirts from there! And after I finish cleaning my room, I’ll go through my clothes and tell Dad I need some more, cuz I will need more. It’s the rule. Whenever I get around to cleaning my room, it’s time for new clothes. …Right. I am so not happy. I was expecting to get off the computer, have lunch, and then spend the rest of the day until midnight cleaning my room. But now I have to clean the kitchen, too? I’m sorry, but that is so not happening today. Tomorrow, yes. Tomorrow I shall not have a deadline on cleaning my room. But today? Nein. No way. Blarg, I am really dead.

Well. Now I desperately want to visit Steph, but I must clean my room. Do you know how awful it is to start cleaning and realize that you have nowhere to put anything? I want rubber gloves. I am so paranoid, I keep thinking that I’m touching spiders… But I’m not. Erk. Cleaning my room always brings on the worst panic attacks. I know, I know, if I only cleaned it more regularly…

So. Let’s talk about Kenshin. Neechan and I now have up to episode 70. 70 was a very cool episode. I expect 71 shall be even cooler, since the previews showed a blatant uke!Kenshin. I would babble my head off and shriek and such, but that would be really, really, really major spoilers. I so want to screech about it to someone, but Neechan seems to be quite peeved at my obsession with this particular part of Kenshin (I dunno why, since it could change the whole series, yanno), so I can’t really babble to her, and I don’t want to spoil it for Steph. Grrgh. Ah well, I can always squeal over the next volume when we get it. Someday. Eventually. AHHHHH!!! I WANNA TELL SOMEONE ABOUT KENSHIN!!

Well, not really, but I do not enjoy cleaning my room. And Grandma is being incredibly annoying, which isn’t helping, and where the heck is Dad? I’m supposed to be cleaning my room, not watching Grandma. Does he want it clean or not? Grrgh. Shut up, Grandma. Just shut up. (Note that I don’t actually say that to her. I’m really very nice. But that’s what I’m thinking.) So, let’s have a List! We love lists.

List of things I need to do:
1. Clean room.
2. Clean closet.
3. Clean bathroom.
4. Update webpage.
5. Write more fics.
6. Buy wrist brace.
7. Avert the Apocalypse, which shall occur when all these things have actually been done.

See? We love lists. ^.^ I can’t wait ’til Tuesday! I get to visit my shrink. I like visiting my shrink. She’s cool. But until then… Room cleaning. Bleh. Off I go, to the world of three-foot piles of junk and two-inch layers of dust… XD Okay, so I’m exaggerating slightly. (Slightly. Heh.)

“My, Lisette, you’re looking particularly rabid today.”

Sorry for going offline, folks. Apparently the domain name hadn’t latched onto the server, so things were confoozled.

Did you know that Malice Mizer made a movie? I just watched it. Raw. And somehow, I managed to understand… Nothing. Excape that Mana played Kozi’s love intrest being burned at the stake, a nun, a woman in white playing with a devil-girl, and Klaha was a vampire hunter trying to kill Yu~ki, and Kozi was a really neat looking vampire. Looked kinda like Michael Jackson, really. ^.^;; It was a very odd movie. I think I heard Anne Rice’s name mentioned. The movie itself was pathetic. Low budget. Bad special effects. Worse lighting. And only Malice Mizer was made up. Very amusing, really.

Well, grades are closing soon… Good thing I just had The Talk with Dad. Get it done with ahead of time and all that. It was a talk rather than a lecture, though, so I feel better rather than worse. If I had felt worse, then I wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight (I might not anyway, I feel kinda anxious as it is) and then I wouldn’t be able to come downstairs for comfort cuz I’d get another version of the lecture, which would make me feel worse. Or so my insecurity says, and I tend to believe it since it seems to be right about the government. But let’s not go there, since I just found out today that publically disliking the government is illegal. ^^;; Shucks.

I wanna go to Steph’s house again today. Really bad. But I feel bad about not starting on cleaning my room, despite having planned to do it this weekend, but I wanna get some fun time in before the coming week, which shall be busy busy busy… Blarg. I’ll see if all involved parties are amenable to the proposition. (ooh, big words!)

“Baka monkey! Ook ook!”

A grand total of seven barfings, for those who care. XD Neechan is catching up. I think she’s got six, or maybe she does have seven. At any rate, she’s still feeling icky, but I’m not! I feel so much better. I can drink Gatorade and munch on crackers. But I still have to stay home from school. I actually do want to go to school today, but I might still be contagious or still sick, so… Home it is. I think I’ll check how much money I have in my account and order some manga I’ve been coveting, and then maybe play some FFX… Today shall be tedious, I expect. I brought this on myself, you know. On Sunday I said that it was worse than a Monday. The Powers That Be just had to prove me wrong. *sigh* So while Sundays are bad, Mondays are worse. I wonder if that’s a law of nature…

So. It is morning. It is Tuesday. I am still sick, but getting better. The rest of the family is very sick. I love my immune system. ^.^ I always get things easier than anyone I know. Sometimes I get over it quicker, sometimes I don’t get the worst symptoms, whatever. I am happy. ^.^ Of course, re-watching Gravitation and understanding a little more of the crappy subtitling prolly helped there. Shuuichi is just so kawaii!

Yanno what I wanna do? I wanna talk to friends online. I need to socialize, darn it! If I can’t socialize in person, I must socialize online. Except that I’m afraid I’m not making much sense at this point. I keep jumping from topic to topic, don’t I? How annoying. I wish I’d stop doing that, but I’m not thinking coherently enough to fix it… So I’ll just shut up now. ^^;;

And I mean it. I’ve thrown up four times already, and I can’t keep down anything. Not even liquid. I am not a happy Lisette. The whole house is home sick, actually, so I’m not the only miserable one. I’m just the only sick person awake right now. -_-;; Figures. And playing FFX upsets the tummy for some reason, so I have nothing to do other than stare at the barf bowl. Well, now that I have the computer I can wander aimlessly around the Internet, but sitting here might become uncomfortable rather quickly, so I might get off after this entry.

Game blog: I beat Sin’s elbows and moved on to his barnacles, which beat my butt. Despite extensive levelling up. So now I’m training chocobos and catching monsters, which is mildly amusing. Oh! And I ran into a Tonberry. That made me happy. I had Bahamut attack him and he did this voodoo attack where he made a chibi-Bahamut and stabbed it. Bahamut went to 0 HP very quickly. ^.^ Tonberry is so kawaii!

Geo: I just might do that. But not today, to say the least. ^^;;

Shan-san: Alright, if you insist. ;_; But if you saved my life, I’d have to call you Shan-dono. Would -sensei be alright? Or -sempai? -Sempai seems kinda appropriate. As for being on stage, I’ve been doing it for years so I’m kinda used to it. Put me up alone, though, or with a small group, and I freeze up. ^^;; Going solo is not my thing. And I’ll get the scan to you sometime. Probably around the time I update my page. (Read: Never.)

Rusty: You are very strange. Very, very strange. And did I mention that you’re strange?

Me: There is no one to talk to online. This makes me sad. Perhaps in 45 minutes or so, Steph-san will be on. Until then, I must talk to myself. Right, self? Right. I love me. ^.^ And now for something completely different!

…I can’t think of anything. Drat it. I want new manga. *pout*

Thanks for the well-wishes, ya’ll! We did well on our performance, although I think maybe only us cellos were really good… But the sightreading section (which is when they plop a piece of music on front of you, give you 2 minutes to look it over, and say “Play!”) went extremely well. We read it cold as though it was our 18th time playing it. ^.^ We’re so cool. Although the 6/8 time was a bother… It was fast and rather difficult to catch the tempo. But it went well nevertheless. Oh, and they were supposed to enlarge the music for Jem, since he was recently blinded in a car accident and is still recovering, and they didn’t. Shame on them. So I think we got a slightly higher score by virtue of that fact.

I just got told that I must clean my room before April 1st. Damnit. Today’s the 23, ya? So if I get started now I might pass inspection…

Shan-sama: You are a god. I worship you. *bows down* See, I can’t do any serious image editing because it’ll cause a flare-up of my wrist (like that ever stopped me) and even making a simple new layout gets it aching, and my image editor royally sucks anyway… So I’ll see about scanning that pic and sending it to you, cuz I like leeching off other people. Oh, happy day! ^.^

So, while I should technically start cleaning my room, I think I’ll see if I can visit Steph for the day and figure out how to attack that mass of junk. I need a gameplan before I lay the smackdown on this beast. It’s like Sin, really: Big, ugly, related to me, and the simplest part can vanquish me. Now I know why I’m avoiding going after Sin again. It reminds me of my room. -_-;;

Yesterday there was no entry because it was too wonderful for words. XD Actually, I just never managed to get ahold of the computer. School was annoying, as usual, but my Geometry teacher pushed back the due date of our big project since we’ve all been working so hard in class. ^.^ I have, actually. I like tesselation. That afternoon, I bullied Mum into letting me go to Steph’s house, where I watched her play Fatal Frame for an hour. That game isn’t terrifying, exactly, but it does give one a good old-fashioned scare. I shriek when appropriate, although I do admit that some of them screams are involuntary. It’s much more scary at night when the neighbors start thumping something awful and Steph and I look at each other and take a deeeeeep breath and let it out slooooowly. That’s when it’s scary. Well, that and the unexplained blood in the fish tank that disappears…

Then, yesterday evening, we went out to dinner at the best Japanese restaurant around. I think it’s a half-hour drive, and it’s VERY expensive. Us three girls sat in a booth reminiscent of the Akabeko and giggled. We also ate, of course, but there was a lot of giggling. And our waitress was so nice! Wai! Wai! And then Neechan had an allergic reaction to the food. Her tongue is still swollen… But she seems happy that she got to eat there anyway, so yeah.

Now, today… I have a performance with my orchestra. I’ll be in various schools all day, since this competition is at another high school and I have to stay at mine until the bus takes us there, and the bus will drop us back off at my school at 7:30 tonight. Grargh. I am so not looking forward to school today, but the performance should be fun.

You know the phrase, “Save the best for last”? I did. Yesterday, just as Steph-san no Niichan to Steph-san dropped me off at home, I saw that I had finally, FINALLY gotten my Saiyuki doujinshi. Both of them. And, upon reading them, I discovered that the language is simple enough that I can understand almost everything being said. For pages at a time. I’m so happy… (And it has Sanzo dressed as Manx from Weiss. How much more can you want?) I need to get more from this circle. Seriously. Their page is listed in the backs of the books, so expect my links page to get updated rather quickly. ^.^ And, since it is doujinshi, it is traditional to scan it and use it for a blog layout. I may do such. I can’t find a picture I’d like to use, though, since the Sanzo In Drag pic is much too heavy for me to edit out. *pout* Maybe Hakkai. There’s a bunch of good pics of him. Or maybe the cover, since it’s blue and cheerful… *looks at all she’s just written about the doujinshi* Maa maa, obsessed just a little… Alright, off to school I go! I just hope I don’t fall asleep during class, and I’ll need energy for the performance… Wish me luck!

I am so sick of hearing the same thing every day when I come home from school. Could I please have just one day where she doesn’t grill me on my school and possible careers and what I’m going to do after college and whether or not I’m going to be a nurse? Just because she was a nurse doesn’t mean I have to be. I don’t want to be a nurse. I never thought of being a nurse. Yes, I’m going to college. I have so many years of high school left. No, I don’t know what I’m going to major in. No, I have no idea what career I want. See, Dad? This is why I stress about college and career choice and such.

Sorry about that. I just need to let steam off somewhere, and a blog (although public) is the easiest way to do so. Instead of monopolizing someone’s time and screeching, I sit here quietly watching over Grandma while telling the world that I am peeved. It feeds my ego, I guess. ^^;;

I hope to go to Steph’s house soon to get my pants scared off. ^.^;; Most people try to avoid fear, ya? I guess I get a rush off it or something. Parts of Silent Hill and Resident Evil terrified me. Bugs inspire absolute terror, to the point of tears. Heights have no fear, just vertigo. But this Fatal Frame… If it scares Steph, I must see it. Although that night with Silent Hill 2 kinda made me brave… See, Steph was playing it for me to watch (at three AM, mind you) when she decided that it was too scary to play any farther. I took the controller then and discovered that it wasn’t so scary. I even killed a bunch of them buggers with no problem.

Then the controller abruptly turned into a beating heart in my hands.

I’m sure I’ve told this story before, no? Well, I screamed like a little girl and was on the other side of the room huddling behind my pillow faster than I ever thought possible. Steph thought it was hilarious. -_-;; And so the saga of frightening Lisete began.

Next was the haunted house Steph, Jen, Neechan and I went to. I was fine for most of it, even stared down a psycho burly inmate… But there was a room with eyes painted on the walls. It was quiet in there. Peaceful. A respite from the spooks elsewhere. So we had fun, stumbling around with our 3-D glasses and laughing about how the walls looked so funny when 3-D… Then the wall under my hand wasn’t wall. Oh, how I screamed when that figure moved towards me, invisible except for the moving painted eyes. Oh, how we ran out of that room. ^^;; I love being scared…

I have a revamp planned for my webpage, but, knowing me, it’ll be a few months before I do anything about it. Maybe I’ll type the HTML into my Palm during study hall… (Bii-dah! I have one and you don’t, Chibi! Oh, sorry, I mean Non-Rikku and Hibiki Fan!)

I was unable to play FFX last night, seeing as I went to my little sister’s performance at the big theatre and then she and Neechan grabbed both Playstations, but I was happy watching Final Fantasies 8 and 4 at the same time. ^.^ Biiiiiig difference. One has graphics. The other has plot. See, Steph? I can appreciate the earlier ones.

Thanks for the encouragement, Rusty. Really. And he does look like a frog-whale, doesn’t he? But my Yuna doesn’t have Holy yet. ^.^;;

I’ve been playing with my new Palm an awful lot. Today was spent drawing and letting others draw. This one guy in my German class who I met at a con drew the most adorable Vash. And then he drew a Spike that didn’t look like Spike, other than the hair, but since the pointer is set a little off one can’t blame him… I drew a grasshopper. *nod* Really, that’s what it’s supposed to be…

(And yes, Dad, I did my work in class even though I was drawing. Really. You can ask my teacher. And he did his, so it’s not like I was stealing him away from the class. They were talking about the Autobahn, anyway. We weren’t interested in the fine line between imposed speed limits and self-discovered speed limits.)

Okay, so today was interesting. It should have been a snow day, just on principle, though. Since it snowed last night and all. Principle, I tell you.