Nyah! I feel sick today, but I care not. I’ll get over it. …Yanno, that’s my attitude towards most sickness. If it doesn’t put me in bed or the hospital, it doesn’t matter. Well, it matters if it affects my voice.

I’ve been staying up late the past few nights. I’ll never recover in time for school… Grr. Well, at least tomorrow is the trip to the Japanese bookstore. It’s a long way off, so we get to drive to a train station, take the train to the city, and then take the subway around town. Whee! I get to be Shinji again! Except that I don’t have a - oh my. I just realized that Shinji always listens to tracks 25 and 26, yes? And those could correspond to the anime episodes Kaworu is in, OR to the CD tracks that have the Hallelujah Chorus and the Presto movement with Ode to Joy. Whoa. I get it now.

Ah, how I love my brain. It makes the most interesting connections out of the blue.

Um, what was I going to say? I can’t recall now. Ah well, new subject. I like cooking. I tried to find brown bean paste at the Asian market, but instead I found… Fish sauce. With whole fish in it. Ew, I say. Ew. But we also found those neat cookies with gooey sugar inside and pandas printed on the outside. Jep felt guilty whenever he ate one cuz they’re so cute, but I ate them with gusto. Gusto is a great word.

I like pandas. Do you like pandas? I think pandas are wonderful.

Moony, the dinner is at 7. We don’t have your number either, so I hope you read this. ^^;; You need to get your own ride cuz Neechan’s car is full, so I hope you go to the right place. *thinks of the time we went to see Star Wars* Umm… How to specify what place it is without making me paranoid… It’s the Chili’s by the mall. There we go.

Since I’m being forced to write two entries today, I might as well make it worthwhile. …Nevermind. Just know that my page will probably be updated soon, and soon after that revamped. It’s far too dark.

Maybe I should make it a FF7 chibi layout to go with the Initial D blog layout. Muah! Then Shan-san wouldn’t be able to look at any of my stuff! Eeeevil.

Fuuuuuull tummy. Mm. Meat good. Now I need a warm cozy spot to curl up and read X in… I’m such a catgirl. Nyu.

Neechan is off visiting relatives with Jep, and I must admit I’m rather glad. I used up all my socialness yesterday, so I’m simply not up to any kind of socialization today. I have a finite amount of socialization in me at any time. Now I want to retreat to my happy den of manga and avoid human contact for the day. I should be fine tomorrow, which works out well. Speaking of tomorrow…

Moony: I have no idea what time it will be. Neechan said it’ll be Sat night, and I assume this means around 6 or so. Remember the $20. (Thank goodness it isn’t tonight. I’d have to bail if it were.)

So I watched the director’s cut of Petshop of Horrors. I’m actually rather pleased with the voice acting, although the guy that did D needs to lose the accent. Timbre, good. Inflection, good. Delivery, excellent. Accent, bad.

…Now I want to be like Fuujin. D, GOOD. DVD, WANT.

So, Jepjep is here, safe and sound. He’s amusing, but he keeps freaking out whenever he looks at my pants. ^^;; Apparently they remind him of Valkyrie. (That’s your fault, Chibi-kun.) And he says I’m like a Furby. *pout* I’m not always that hyper! I was just excited!

The airport was as scary as I thought it was. I dislike airports. Durr.

Surprisingly enough, I’m quite unhappy that we have a few days of vacation. I want to be back at school so I can have hugs from my friends. Family hugs are nice, but friend hugs are fuzzier. Has to do with the coats we wear, methinks. Weasley is particularly huggable. Siri can hug Remy all she wants, cuz I have Ron. ^.^ Hugs are good. Dunno why I want so many, but I suspect it has to do with my inherent affectionate nature which I supressed for several years.

I want to live in an apartment. Dunno why I want that either, since I’m more that happy living right here, but I really do want to live in an apartment. Preferably with Neechan and Steph-san, because that would just rock. I also really want to know what I’m getting for Christmas and my birthday. I hope I’m getting that Sephiroth statue. Ooooh, Sephy…

Dinner was delightful, even though everyone was baffled as to why they didn’t die from my cooking. It even tasted good! I got to help stuff the turkey and everything. ^.^ Mash dem potatoes! Whoo-hah!

I’ve been reading Samurai Trooper fics despite not having seen the series, barely knowing what it’s about, and not WANTING to see the series. I like some of the fics for it, and that’s more than enough for me. Fics good. Braaains.

So today Jepjep is coming to visit. It hasn’t sunk in yet, really. Nor will it until he’s off the plane, I suspect. It’s just… odd. Not everyday that I go to the airport. Nyu. I’m not objecting, mind you, but it’s a weird feeling.

Neechan has gone insane. Totally insane. ^^;; She’s very stressed, methinks. I really can’t do anything about it, though, so I’m being my usual laid-back self. Which seems to be pissing her off more, but that isn’t my fault.

I think I’m nervous too. Yesterday I was much more snappish than usual and wanted many hugs. Luckily, my friends are used to my odd moods, and I got lots of hugs. ^.^ I like my friends.

I went to Steph-san’s house yesterday and we made Jim-nii play RE0. It was funny. Marilyn Manson amused me greatly. Frilly bathrobe! Wa ha! (Drat it, I forgot to return Jim-nii’s games.) We also played a little DW3 and freaked out the cat. Who didn’t claw me this time, to my great delight. It was a very enjoyable evening.

So, um, nyu. I really don’t have much to say today. I hope Neechan isn’t permanently mad at me for doing my laundry, but I didn’t have anything I could even pass off as clean. …Now I feel bad. Durr.

So, I’ve apparently been poked into blogging. *sigh* I know there’s a bunch of things I’m supposed to blog about, but I don’t remember them.

You know what? I want to write. Something really dark that involves lots of death and destruction. Maybe I’ll go play with that stupid boy character of mine who refuses to be named. Stupid boy… I took that seme test for him, and he came out 20%. I took it for D’Kreishan and K’Leven too. ‘Kresh = 80%, and ‘Lev = 50%.

I wish I had my computer. And my desk. That would make life so much easier.

I just thought I’d announce that LBSB likes me. When people say mean stuff to me in the car, or they tease me, he zaps them. ^_^

Oh, all of you who read this and go to the anime club, I REALLY need to know whether you’re coming to the dinner saturday night. So far only Lisette, Jep, Stephy-chan, Elise, me and one other member (she knows who she is but doesn’t read this) have said they’re going. If you want to go, I need to know by Friday morning, otherwise you can’t come. If you want to come, you’ll need twenty dollars. PLEASE tell me whether you’re coming or not.

Well, need to go finish cleaning.

I didn’t blog this morning? And here I was convinced I had. Great, I’m going senile again. Must be holiday stress, non?

I adore the Sephy chibi. It’s actually based on someone else’s fanart of Sephiroth, but as I have no idea who drew it I can’t credit him/her. Which makes me feel bad. I don’t want to plagarize… But isn’t Jenova cute? That was the whole point of the picture, to have him cuddling her head. If this particular drawing had failed, I would scrounged up that pic of Sei-chan kissing his Hahaue and turned it into Sephy and Jenova. …Creepy parallel.

So today I got a neat little booklet about class rings. Then I realized that I’m graduating next year.

Good god, I’m almost free.

*ahem* Anyway, the rings are quite expensive and I expect that the parental units will insist that I must pay for it with my own money. Which means I’ll either be borrowing about $100 ot I’ll have to wait until next year. I’ve already pretty much settled on what I want, seeing as they’re fully customizable. Yum, metal.

Steph-san: How about… Oh, what day of the week is it now? I’ve completely lost track of about two weeks somewhere. Someone told me the date and day of the week earlier today, but I forget… Senile. I must be senile. (Wait a minute. Jepjep? He isn’t Hidaka Ken! No Kenken! But Jepjep sounds so cute…) They’re gonna take away your bells, girl. I’m terribly paraoid about the guards at airports (I had a dream where one killed me) so getting large amounts of attention from them is BAD. ^^;;

Chibi-kun: I’m fairly sure it was Prime. They had the case and stuff, and they were reading the instruction book. Muah.

Mm, Sprite. Fizzy fuzzy goodness. Easy on the tummy, which is muchly important in the foods I choose to eat lately. I have a sneaking suspicion that my change in appetite is actually being dictated by my body’s needs, which means I have more problems than we thought. *thinks about her primary physician and wants to kill things* I hate that jerk. So much. Two years, he brushed aside any serious concerns we had. “Oh no, beards are normal in young girls.” Grrrrrr. Add that to an annoying brat I’ve known for several years obliquely threatening my cats and today has been labeled “homocidal”.

Hallo, Zack.

So anyway, I’m actually quite cheerful today. Dunno why, it’s how I usually am when my memory is having one of its bad periods. I think it has this whole weird “I can’t remember anything bad so it must be okay” mentality. …Dang it, I want to write more of one of my fics, but it’s at a standstill. Two characters have to be kidnapped, and kidnapping scenes are so… dramatized. I should take cues from that X fic I read, which pulled it off nicely. *gasp* Oh! That’s why they kidnapped Doc! I get it now…

Yes, that had been a complete mystery throughout the planning stages. Yes, I am pathetic. I’m going to go work on that story so that eventually I can update my page again. Wouldn’t that be nice? Seeing as I get about a half-dozen hits a day, I thought I’d make it worthwhile to visit.

*blink blink* Cub-san commented on my blog? Wai! I’m so happy! *worships Cub-san* I’m so glad you like the layout. I am not worthy…

I have this odd urge to start referring to people as -sama, seeing as all the Japanese sites I go to call the people who gift them with arts things like “Yuri-sama” or “Kimiko-sama”. For now I will stick with -san, though. Mostly because saying Padfoot-sama is really weird, and she’d give me something just so I’d have to call her that. ^^;;

So many people like the new layout. I am boggled. And some silly person commented on an old entry wanting to know what the song that never ends is and where they could find it, even though I only used it for a title because my entries have silly titles. ^^;; I sweatdrop.

Not much to talk about… If you can’t view the Japanese in the last entry, right click on the webpage and select “encoding”, then choose whatever Japanese encoding you have. If you have Netscape, get a browser that at least pretends to work. ^^;; Do I bother to pretend that I like Netscape? No.

Steph-san, I have Jim-nii’s games that my brother was borrowing. It has also been suggested to me that I spend more time at your house, which I think is a delightful idea. Might I visit sometime after school this week? I can bring back the games and make you or Jim-nii play RE0 so I can see more of Marilyn Manson. XD

I drool over the DW3 action figures. Want. Need. Now.

Everyone has the new Metroid, it seems. Some boys in Algebra had Prime out and were carefully hiding it from the teacher so it wouldn’t get taken away. We got into a too-brief discussion of how cool Samus is.

I am vaguely bored. I should clean my room, but I’d like to put that off until tomorrow afternoon. I need to get out of the house. I’ve been cooped up in here almost non-stop (other than school) for… I dunno how long. Seems like forever. Grandma’s really beginning to grate on my nerves (which have become similar to steel due to long exposure to annoyance) which is my only warning sign before I snap. I hate snapping. I never regret it afterwards, which worries me. But then, snapping is simply another word for lack of self-restraint, so I suppose it makes a vague amount of sense. Good thing I usually catch myself before I actually snap.

Um, yeah. Off-topic. I feel like analyzing an anime character. Not a real person, please, I have to do that on a fairly regular basis anyway. Anime character analysis = fanficcage. Good. Speaking of which, I yearn for FF8. Not unusal; whenever I see anything FF8 I start to long for pretty FMVs and fanfiction, and yesterday I was sorting my music vids, which contain a significant amount of FF8.

So! I made a drawing of chibi Sephiroth in German since we were going over stuff that I actually already know and I had finished the worksheet before the large portion of my class that is preppies. Voila! Les elephants!

Enough of my babble. I should sleep or something. (Haven’t been sleeping well lately. Stress? Illness? Hmm.)

I’m surprised no one has squealed over the divider picture. I giggle every time I see it, because this layout is actually supposed to be serious, and then there’s this cane. Hissing. Hee hee!

I have no idea why it’s showing up crooked, Shan-san. Everything should glue itself to the left side of the page, and it does so in IE for resolutions 600×800 and 1024×748 or whatever the 1024 res is. On the other hand, I also don’t know why it insists on adding that extra space around the tables, which is why the title image has black to the left and above it. I made sure the tables and CSS don’t let it do that, but it does it anyway. Le sigh. And you might not want to bookmark just yet, cuz there’ll be chibis late December. I know you’re chibi-phobic, so I’m warning you now. ^^;;

Dumbledore: Yes’m, the layout will stay a while. Until late December, hopefully, whereupon it’ll be chibi Christmas. If all goes as planned, which I certainly hope, then I’ll have Initial D chibis. Uwaa!

Moony: That was what I figured. I decided a long time ago that unless a person says so, they’re not romantically inclined towards anyone. Being asexual myself, this makes sense.

Chibi-kun: Ohhh, I get it. The gnomes. I thought you meant David the Gnome or something.

And because I am weird and suddenly not lazy (it must have been the pickle), here is a list of Japanese Yami no Matsuei fanart links:
Hard + Black
Ougenkan (direct link to gallery)
Pastel (direct to gallery, YnM is first colored box of links)
Pool Sied (their spelling, not mine)
Endorphin (direct to gallery of COSPLAY! WAI! WAI!)
Cursed MoonS (Actually in English, created by two Spanish girls)
Guiness Love
Colors of the Summer Sky (direct to gallery - rare Kotarou & Kojirou art)
Trouble Maker (gallery here; only go to the index if you can read katakana)

And now that I’ve tossed all that on you, some Japanese! (If I can make it display. Grr.)
闇の末裔 = Yami no Matsuei
都筑 = Tsuzuki Asato
密 = Hisoka
邑輝 = Muraki Kazutaka
巽 = Tatsumi
亘理 = Watari
織也 = Oriya
蒼龍 = Souryuu
騰蛇 = Touda
こたろう＆こじろう = Kotarou & Kojirou
寺杣始 = Terazuma
犬 = dog (useful for finding puppy-Tsuzuki pics)
So now you not only have a bunch of links, but you can (theoretically) find pictures of your favorite character! I tried to find the kanji for Saki’s name, but apparently people don’t like him… The picture of Souryuu is at Pool Sied. Go look. Souryuu is pretty. And at one of these sites, there’s some Squall art, if anyone cares about that. Nyu. ^.^

That should be enough of a babble for now. Funny how once I get the HP layout up, I go back to babbling about YnM.

And there we go! The idea of making the entry section white while leaving the rest black came upon my in a stroke of brilliance. See, the last layout was far too dark, so I wanted something a little lighter. But this picture insisted that it should have a black background, but then the dotted line appeared and I said, “Aha! I shall make the entry section white using the magic known as CSS!” and so the past while (What, you expect me to keep track of time?) I’ve been playing with the CSS and HTML so that it’ll look neat. The dotted line around the entry space actually snuck up on me when I didn’t make everything diplay quite how I imagined, and I like the effect. Most of the work on this layout took place behind the scenes, so there was very little tweaking that would have disrupted anyone trying to read the blog. The hardest part was making the links a color that would display well in the black AND white sections. But I like how it turned out.

This is still too dark a layout for midwinter, so expect a new one by Christmas. I seem to have SAD, so I try to cheer myself up in the winter whenever possible. If that means ya’ll have to deal with a chibi Christmas Initial D layout, then ya’ll have to deal with a chibi Christmas Initial D layout. Durr. Now I want it to be Christmas, and I want a tail.