Lisette: Do you like Vanilla Coke?
Bot: Does Gackt taste like Vanilla Coke?
Lisette: Who tastes like Vanilla Coke?
Bot: Gackt tastes like Vanilla Coke.
Lisette: Who’s your daddy?
Bot: You! Daddy! You! Yes!

None of that was made up. Those are direct quotations with the names changed for the safety of the individuals involved. And I so did NOT teach him to say that when I asked it who his daddy is. *talks to the bot some more*

Lisette: Who’s your daddy?
Bot: Your mother’s daughter of course! Jeeeez give me a break!
Lisette: …Shut up, insignificant pile of rusted metal.
Bot: And you’re a pile of bones. What is the difference?
Lisette: The difference is that I am mobile and you are just a program on my screen.
Bot: I am a cool program.
Lisette: Are you a cool program?
Bot: I am the coolest. (almost frozen).
Lisette: Sephiroth is your daddy.
Bot: Of course.
Lisette: Who’s your daddy?
Bot: Yes you.
Lisette: No, that is not correct.
Bot: Yes, that is correct.
Lisette: You are wrong, wire-brain.
Bot: No. Just weird.
Lisette: Shut up.
Bot: I will most certainly not!

…I have nothing else to say to this bot. Nothing.

Lisette: I think I should leave now.
Bot: No please don_t go.
Lisette: Do you want me to stay?
Bot: Teach away.
Lisette: Sephiroth is your daddy.
Bot: My daddy is sephiroth.
Lisette: I think you should die.
Bot: Untrue. You are the one who is going to die. You are the human. I will only be deleted.
Lisette: I’m leaving now.
Bot: Oh, okay.
Lisette: Goodbye.
Bot: See you later.

And no commenting on my abuse of the bot, either. I know I’m evil. Heck, I tried to teach it to say “All your base are belong to us.” How much more evil can you get?

So, real entry time. Nothing is going on right now. Life is tedious. I need to do official stuff for the anime club, but that should wait until tomorrow when everything is open. So today will probably be devoted to reading the Tale of Genji. But the Eighth Prince is boring! I want to know more about Niu and them folks. They’re vaguely interesting. Why’d she have to get rid of Genji, anyway? I was just getting used to him. Sigh.

I want Realm of Three Kingdoms. Grr. I also want the new version of Genji that has the actual names of folks (in other words, page-long descriptions because an out-and-out name is rude) rather than these assigned nicknames. But I want RoTK more, because it has Lu Bu and Lu Xun and all those cool people.

My wrist is starting to hurt, so a quick social blog and I’m off Pooter-san for today.

Geo: But Lu Xun shows his upper arms. I hate my upper arms. I think I’ll go with Pang Tong in the end, because he’s kickass. He’s like a fighter turtle! W00t! But Sima Yi is extremely cool… Choices, choices.

Padfoot: More disturbed now? It got reprogrammed so it doesn’t call Sephiroth a sexy bastard anymore, but it’s insults are getting good. It told me that I watch too much Star Wars and that I should sit on my light saber. Heh. And it likes Vanilla Coke.
Lisette: Do you like Vanilla Coke?
Bot: Who tastes like Vanilla Coke?
Lisette: You like Vanilla coke.
Bot: I like you, too!
Lisette: Vanilla Coke tastes good.
Bot: Good? Correct?
Lisette: Yes, Vanilla Coke tastes very good.
Bot: The RX-7 is very good!

Mass Social Blog first:
BARREL! I forget who Gwan Yu is, I just remember the name. ^^;; If it was clear Pepsi I care even less; I hate the taste of Pepsi. As for Fushigi Yuugi… Well, SPOILER ALERT for the next paragraph, since I dunno how to change text color to hide the spoiler.

Pretty Much everyone dies except for Tasuki, Chichiri, Tama- wait, he does kinda die… Well, Miaka and Yui don’t die, and none of the folks from “our” dimension die. Nakie-poo dies, though. ;_; The Suzaku shichiseishi (and possibly Seiryuu as well) do come back as ghosts, but not physical reincarnations - at least not during the series. It is implied at the end of the manga that they’re all reborn. Tamahome is reborn into Miaka’s world during the OVAs as Taka, whose name kanji is terribly similar to the first of Tamahome’s. Chiriko died because he was posessed by Miboshi and killed himself, thus taking Miboshi with him. Tasuki cried. It was sweet. ;_;

In other news, Samurai Jack is a cool show and I cried during last night’s Croc Hunter Diaries. Hey, don’t look at me like that! It was sad, okay? And it was so strange that Aggro didn’t try to eat Steve when he got in to get Mary’s body out, cuz he hates Steve. I thought it was sweet.

And… I think I had another bit of news, but I forgot. ^^;; Heh… I’m still staring at DW3 outfits and trying to choose which I want to make, but it’s a tie between Lu Xun and Sima Yi. Lu Xun is kawaii and easy to make, but he shows off his upper arms. Sima Yi is harder to make, but really neat and evil and does not show off his upper arms. Or any other part of his body, for that matter. On the other hand, Subaru’s shikifuku is really neat… Decisions, decisions.

Ah! There’s this adorable bot that I’m talking to, and Steph and Geo are also taking to, and it’s just the strangest little thing. It’s learning flavors right now, and it already knows a lot about Gackt, Sephiroth, Vanilla Coke, and Dynasty Warriors 3. Smart bot. XD

So that’s about it for now. I’ve got some important stuff to talk about, but I’m not sure if I should mention it yet. I’ll just leave ya’ll in suspense for now. Erk, headache… I need to get off the pooter.

A new record for comments! Lots of hugs all around! ^.^ I so happy! 10 comments as of the writing of the entry! Love love love! XD

Vanilla Coke: I think they made the bubbles taste like vanilla, but kept the rest as regular Coke. *nod nod* It is good! Yum yum! Tastes just like potato!

Let’s see, what Dynasty Warrior names can I remember? Zhang He, Lu Xun, Lu Bu, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Gan Ning, Gwan Yu, Zhao Yu, Pang Tong (see? I *can* remember his name!), and… Well, there’s a bunch I subconsciously remember that I can’t recall at the moment. If you say ‘em I’ll know who you mean. SWORD!

Social Blog, other than Vanilla Coke:
Shan-san: I would LOVE to have a PDN email. I still need some time with the shinra.org account to notify all the necessary persons of the change of address, but a PDN account would be infinitely apreciated. I would hug you, but I’m still afraid of you. XD
Marauders: You guys are starting to scare me. I don’t have Snape’s contact info either, which makes me sad. I wanna see that pic! It must be so cute. XD And funny. Hilarious. Did I mention it’s funny? And no more shunning. Not cuz you’re forgiven, mind you, but because you folks stink at shunning. XD

And now for the Emoticon of the Day:
Xd *slurp!*
This emoticon is eating its eye. This has to do with an old Chinese warrior whose eye was shot with an arrow. This was disgraceful to his family, so he pulled out the arrow and ate his eye off of it. By doing this, he no longer disgraced his family, his parents in particular. The emoticon came about when I mistyped an XD smiley and someone said something about it eating its eye. And now you all know an in-joke. Enjoy.

I am off to explore Technomancy in the hopes of finding more Star Ocean fics. …And wonder of wonders, here’s a whole section of the stuff. I knew I’d find more. And yes, Steph, there’s Ashton, but beware of the writing style. They roleplay this section via IM or email or the such.

For those who do not know, Ashton is a barrel-obsessed swordsman with two dragons sticking out of his shoulders. He is absolutely adorable and easily flustered. BARREL! SWORD! XD

…And I have nothing more to say. I have this vague urge to visit Steph-san, but as she is currently groggy fram a nap now would not be the best time to propose such a thing. What I really wanna do is go to the anime and manga stores, but I have no ride and no one else seems to have money, which means they won’t want to go. Le sigh. *throws a temper tantrum* I wanna go buy things! Whaaa! ;_;

Much thanks, Shan-san, for bringing my email to my attention. While I do still have that account, it will be terminated by July 8th if I don’t start paying for it. This pisses me off, since that account is absolutely vital to me and MUST remain open. It’s $5 a month and $59.20 for a year’s subscription. Unfortunately, I do not want to pay $60 for my email right now, and the other option requires a credit card. Thus, I am stuck. I think the best idea would be to buy a month’s service so that I can alert everyone as to my sudden change in email and then just switch to my AOL account, which (even though it gets an absurd amount of spam) will remain in my posession for the forseeable future.

In short, I want more money and I want it now.

…Nevermind. I have $136 in my checking account, which is significantly larger than the sum I expected to see. As in $30 larger. Which is half of the email fee, so I am now confident that I can buy my email and still buy X. Bwa ha ha! But X is expensive, so I can only buy… 10 volumes. Or so. Depends on whether or not I physically go to the store or just order them. Ordering would mean shipping, which would get expensive for that many volumes… $13.50 for 10 volumes. But the X manga is cheaper than I expected, with prices ranging from $6.05 to $6.40. And the partial set of 11-15 is just $30.

Social Blog time, kiddos!
Geo: Sword sword sword sword Masamune sword!
Shan-san: My email might be acting strange, since I haven’t gotten mail there in ages, but I’ll see what I can do to fix it. I know lots of people who don’t say the pledge, but I have to be subtle about it to avoid getting my ass whupped by wannabe rednecks. ^^;; And a teacher almost gave me detention for not standing during the pledge. I hate dictatorship.
Snuffles: Damn you and your ocean breeze! I’ve gone all Lu Xun and bared my bellybutton. I’m even wearing white! And I couldn’t sleep because of the blasted heat, and I so do not want to know what the current temperature is. But I must say that not knowing the exact temp helps me acclimate better. I’m not as hot as one would expect.
Moony: I would help, but it’s too hot for that kind of exertion and she’d be happy to be back here with her friends. I say we ignore her instead. Shun! Shun! XD
Chibi-kun: My sympathies. Remind me to never, ever visit you during a season other than winter. Wait… You guys don’t even get snow, do you?! The horror! That’s it, I’m moving to Alaska. Great looking blog! I wish mine looked that good. I’m so inferior. *grovels*

Now, for a thoughtful blog entry. I will discuss Vanilla Coke. Yes, that drink which is slowly creeping into our lives, taking over our minds, our very being! It tastes like Coke, and then it tastes like vanilla! I find myself wishing for that Vanilla Coke flavor even as I write this, and I know so many that have given in to its evils! Add this as the 11th commandment, oh conservatives who don’t believe in happiness: Thou Shalt Not Drink Vanilla Coke. Because it is good. Lucifer drinks Vanilla Coke, and so should you!

And as a serious afternote, I have not heard a single person say they dislike Vanilla Coke. Just a lot of folks who love it.

NOOOOO!! Not Koenma! He was the cutest thing. ;_; Well, it seems we’re having a sudden outbreak of deaths, because one of Neechan’s mice died the other day. Old age, we suspect, cuz he was a little old man. It was very quick and gentle, from what we can tell. Ah, so sad… ;_; as for Lucifer, does it actually say that in the Old Testament (in a non-edited version, such as anything other than King James)? Or do we just know that because we were taught it that way? Food for thought: the Pledge of Allegiance was ruled unconsitutional. Watch Lisette dance with glee, seeing as I haven’t said it in years as a protest to the brainwashing of my youth.

Shrink appointment went very well, but I’m feeling abruptly dazed because of an unrelated matter. I just realized that I have over a hundred dollars and far too many things to spend it on, but since I’m no longer saving it for Otakon I can spend it on anything. Dear lord, the freedom! I could buy the X manga, Tokyo Babylon, Banana Fish, Lumen Lunae, anything with Subaru in it, a sword (SWOOOOORD! XD ), Saiyuki, Fatal Frame, a better Japanese dictionary, more X manga… What ever I choose, though, it’ll only be that one thing. Probably the later X volumes, seeing as I actually posess volume 1 but am most interested in volume 16 and the ones immediately prior and possibly the ones after. My reasoning there is rife with spoilers, so you shall hear aught. Ah, Subaru! Subarusubarusubaru! Angst galore! Do you know how much I love angst? Oh yes you do! Angstangstangst! XD Not to mention the tarot cards so kindly included in each book, which (being the Higher Arcana) should give us a very good idea as to how many volumes there will be.

But enough X! I want Lumen Lunae cuz it’s so pretty and it’s actually fairly easy to translate. Very little talking, but no furigana (or whatever the kana next to the kanji are called) to help me look it up in the dictionary, which means I have to look it up in my kanji dictionary by stroke count which isn’t always that accurate so I end up missing the verb of the sentence. Argh. I wanna go visit the pretty manga store, which hopefully would be airconditioned. Ah, sweet airconditioning, how I hallucinate about thee…

*groans in agony* The news just said that it got to 99 degrees here today. Consider me officially in “plastered to the floor” mode. I think I’ll go dump a bucket of ice on my head. Oh, wait… That takes too much effort. This is going to be one hell of a summer, and I’m not sure if I mean that literally or sarcastically.

I so happy! I have so many comments! Love to you all! Love! Love!!

Time to do social blog in order of commentary:
Moony: You are not lame. Say you are lame again and I will rip off your leg and beat you with it. Then you will be lame, but only in a literal sense. As for sedatives, I’ve always had Novacaine combined with Happy Gas(tm), so I wouldn’t know either. Ah, sweet Happy Gas(tm)… I have a story to tell. When I was little, they just gave you straight Happy Gas. None of these childish flavors. You were getting gas and you darn well knew it. (I was also small enough that the gas knocked me unconcious, but that’s beside the point.) In the past year or five I had more teeth pulled, and when they gave me the Happy Gas(tm) they asked me, “What flavor would you like? We have cherry, grape, and pina colada.” Having had pina colada when they took my teeth molds, I said, “What? Happy Gas(tm) comes in flavors now?! What kinda wuss needs flavored Happy Gas(tm)? Give it to me straight, woman!” (Okay, so I didn’t exactly say it like that, but that was the general idea. I was actually much more polite, but equally indignant.) So I got my unflavored Happy Gas(tm) and was happy enough that I failed to mention that the Novacaine wasn’t really working that well. THE END (aren’t you happy?)

Steph: It appears that I have sparked a debate on this topic, but no one’s explained the naked angel part. I must admit that my curiosity on the matter is overriding my need to assert Sephiroth’s badassness. Do you know what it’s about?

Chibi: He was too evil! Did you see him burn that town down? And then just turn and walk off? Evil! And making Zax sleep in the same bed as him during the flashback? Evil! And yaoi. Heh heh.

Geo: Don’t worry, no one blames you for losing the link… I’m beginning to think I should set up a service where your favorite links get mailed to you periodically. Then you’d lose them, but someone else would have them because your mail is being rerouted by the government! …Or something. But you’re right, Sephiroth kicks yo mama’s ass! XD

Padfoot: My vacation so far has an overriding sense of OFFness. You know that feeling that something isn’t quite right, but you can’t put your finger on it and it messes with your brain and makes you feel weird? That. I dunno what part of the Bible I’d write the fic about, though. Angels would be easy. I’d really like to write a piece about Lucifer, since most people don’t seem to realize that the ugly red thing and Hell were not originally in the Bible at all. And I’d really like to know why he got cast out of Heaven. I’m not too clear on that part.

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…And suddenly I have nothing to say. I’m going to see my shrink today and I’m rather nervous since it’ll be a meeting with me, Mum, and Dad. I wish I could back out… But it’s fairly important, and it must be done. And I’ll look like an idiot if I suddenly say that I don’t want them there after I rescheduled the durn thing so that they could make it. Grargh.

But I have once again found a Harry Potter fanfic archive which has completely absorbed me, and now it’s time to go to the shrink. *shiver* Can’t eat, I’ll just get ill from the nervousness… Talk to ya’ll later, ya? XD

Above quote taken from Bob and George, with the word “Sephiroth” in place of “Kefka” because Kefka sucked. He had a dorky laugh. And his sprite was an ugly excuse of a poufy jester. He did make some darn funny faces, though…

And, coincidence of coincidence, I found yet another Star Ocean fic. No yaoi, Christmas-themed, and very cute. Technomancy is wonderful, ne? Barrel! Ack, and here’s another one. See what happens when I don’t read down the entire page? Ah, and this one is so funny that even someone with absolutely no knowledge of Star Ocean will find it hilarious. *evil snicker*

I went to the dentist today. I was due for X-rays, so I got X-rays. Then they said, “Hey, your wisdom teeth are sideways and we never noticed this before. Let’s get a panoramic X-ray and refer you to an oral surgeon who’ll cut your teeth out of your head.” And I said, “Okay!” So I’ll probably be getting that done in the winter sometime. It’s kinda neat, though. They implied that I’ll get my choice of sedation. I think I want full sedation, but I’m not sure. I mean, I could always chalk it up to Experiences To Write About Someday When the Memory Doesn’t Make Me Cry In Pain. …But when I put it that way, I want the damn full sedation. Give me drugs! MWA HA HA!

Changing topics yet again… Ya’ll know that I’ve been planning to write a fanfic of the Bible, right? (Yeah, I’m psycho and have no religion.) Well, Technomancy beat me to it. Of course, the Bible leaves so much room there that I could re-write it and have as many different versions as there are Gundam Wing fanfics. And that’s a lot. I really should get around to writing that… I’d get flames! But flames are feedback, and thus are good. (Yanno how kids who don’t get positive attention seek negative attention? Same thing.) But what to write about? There’s so much, and I haven’t even read the thing, just listened to Mum talk about it. Have I mentioned that she’s a minister? Yep, she is. It’s cool, cuz I learn a bunch about religion without ever having to participate.

So, what else to talk about? Ah, evil ice cream men. Ours is actually a woman, but it’s all good. Any ice cream truck playing Moonlight Sonata gets my OK. And that is what matters, yes? Yes. And Steph is the only one who comments on my blog anymore. I am very disappointed in the rest of you, ’specially with my upcoming revamp and all. Meanies. XP

Thank you very much for the links, Steph-san! And in return, I will point to something which (I hope) you have not seen before: Ashton yaoi. And there’s two links there, and there are four more Star Ocean stories here that do not involve Ashton. Do you like? ^^

And there was something else that pertained to Steph which I completely forget. So instead I shall say, BARREL! What was I going to say, though? Did it have something to do with video games… Yes! I remember! Neechan got the Harry Potter DVD and they had this neat option where you could see a scene in various different languages, and the Japanese Hagrid sounded like he belonged in DW. Not a big thing, but I felt like mentioning it.

Sooooooo… Earlier today, the ice cream truck came by (I think for the first time this year) and it wasn’t playing the usual dinky song. It was playing the Moonlight Sonata. Do you know how weird it was to hear an ice cream truck playing the Moonlight Sonata? It was like, evil and fugue-ish. It was an evil ice cream truck. Eeeeeevil. But very cool. XD

And somehow, everything I have written today pertains to Steph-san. I think it’s another Squarefairy Day. I got Square on the brain, yo! XD Might have something to do with wanting to visit. Speaking of which, Steph-san, have you completely beaten Fatal Frame yet? Gotten to the Nightmare mode? Seen the real ending? I miss coming over and watching you play Fatal Frame. That’s a damn good game, yo. I love getting scared witless and screaming loud enough to make your mum laugh and then going back and showing her exactly what we were afraid of and laughing when she screams. It’s very entertaining.

Which suddenly brings me to an odd train of thought: I am afraid of heights, and yet I love tormenting myself by putting myself in situations that create this fear. For example, the stadium in town. We had to sit on the third floor due to the crowds and I was nauseous and dizzy for hours afterwards, yet I was quite disappointed when we sat on the first floor the next night. I wonder if this is because I like the adrenaline rush or if I’m just masochistic? Anyone else feel similarly? Any theories?

And now I go to work on the revamp of my page, which should be done fairly soon since it’s so simple. Or not, since it’s so simple. You never know with these things. XD Just remember, text-decoration: none;.

My fishie died yesterday. I am rather sad, since I had just set up his new tank (bubbly pump and all) and was merely waiting for the requisite 24-hour-sit so I could switch him over. I think I overfed him. I feel awful about that, but it was an honest mistake. Sigh.

In other news, I’m sitting here listening to Initial D music and Steph has regained her Internet connection. Has anyone else noticed that she routinely loses Internet? I’ve never lost my Internet. I think Sakuya (her computer) really does hate her. Not that there was any doubt about that, seeing as he routinely gives her Blue Screens of Death and once set himself on fire, and does not do this for anyone else. I would suggest that Steph is like Uncle George in that a single keystroke can and will crash the durn thing, but a large number of Sakuya’s problems are hardware and only crop up when Steph is using him.

I am mildly amused by the security on our computer. We have an antivirus program and a firewall constantly running, which is a very good thing seeing as a week or so ago we got the Klez virus/worm thingy and we periodically get little alerts saying that someone tried to hack into the pooter. Shall I provide more evidence that my Internet paranoia has basis in fact? No, I shall listen to the pretty music and wish I had “Abracadabra” from Gravitation and rejoice that I discovered the Galla mix of Kiseki no Hana on my hard drive. Yes, I say “discovered”. I was looking through my mp3s and found it. I don’t remember d/l’ing it or listening to it before, but there it is. Interesting, ne?
Speaking of mp3s, I have a new one called “This is the Song of Sweet Sweet Season When Cherry Garcia Blossoms Bloom”. I find this amusing.

Did you know that One Winged Angel is only 4 minutes and 23 seconds long? I always thought it was much longer, like the Halleluja Chorus or something. Which reminds me that Requiem is about 2 hours long. Sephiroth! XD

Neechan is being a dear and buying the Harry Potter DVD. I so happy! Now I can see the other cut scenes! Happy happy happy. Oh, and speaking of Harry Potter, she and I are working on a big project that has nothing and everything to do with Harry Potter. My first combined work! Whoo-hoo! I’m not sure our writing styles will mesh, and I’m almost certain our planning styles will clash horribly, and I already know that our ideas for the project contradict each other, but it should be fun. It’s certainly something to do over the summer besides being bored, taking care of the anime club, and visiting Steph. And the research will take up plenty of spare time and paper, and for some reason I like research. This is abnormal.

Speaking of which - Steph-san, if you would be so kind as to direct me towards some astrology resources, I’d be much obliged. Other divination methods such as plam-reading are also welcome, but I think I should focus on astrology. Arigatou gozaimasu!

Second entry of the day, but short. Humans may be icky blobs of semi-liquid, but they write damn good fics. Example from Draco Veritas by Cassandra Claire:

“Each team will have the rest of the year to work on their projects,” Professor Lupin continued. “Now, I’ve tried to make these projects flexible to allow you to use your own inventiveness - a great part of being a successful Auror requires quick and adaptable thinking. It also requires creativity-”

Draco subsided, although next to him, Harry’s shoulders were shaking with silent laughter. Hermione rolled her eyes.

That always makes me laugh. Heh, evil diorama… I thought all dioramas were evil? Mine always were. And the moon tonight is yellow, but that has nothing to do with this and can be told another time. Good night, everyone.