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Sluggy and Whining A sluggite named Karen got a Kiki tatoo. That freaked me out. It's an inside joke that I'm sure about ONE person in the whole world would get . . . ^^;;;;; I want Chris Davies and John Biles to update, dammit! -_-;;;; Greywolf, and Angus MacSpoon, and David H. Oliver too! They're worse than me . . . And, trust me, it can take me pretty damn long to update. Just write something! Anything! So I know you're alive!! 'Tis a dying breed. I'd like Ninx-sama to write too. In more ways than one, but, I probably don't deserve it. :( Ne, I forgot that Hisakawa Aya (Hinoto) does Kero's voice. And Nataku's VA is Syaoran's?? O_o;;; NO. I am NOT thinking CCS/X crossover. I ALREADY have the alternate CCS/TB-semi-X crossover. GO AWAY STORY IDEA! I wanna know what the HELL Shuri is thinking in vol. 21-22 and what's with the sparkly gold elephants, I ask you? "John Galt has invented every conceivable plot device!"-my brother ^_^; Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Friday, July 20, 2001 02:28 a.m.
Clarifactions, Objectivism, and Lodoss, the ACCURSED DVD BTW, I saw a clip of "The Fountainhead" movie the other day and Gary Cooper is AWFUL as Roark! Did I mention that there's gonna be an "Atlas Shrugged" mini-series? BTW, I finally finished the book, but only by skipping half of Galt's speech 'cause I couldn't take it anymore! ^^;;;; And yes, it's the heart of the whole novel, blahdeblah, but I think it could've been shortened to five pages with a minimum of effort on Rand's part. But since it took her three years to write the blasted thing, I guess she wanted to keep it all . . . But, I swear, all of his listeners must've fallen asleep . . . I feel guilty, though, because as a writer, I like people to read everything I write and not skip parts they find boring. ^^;;;; So, I suppose one day I'll have to finish reading the speech from Hell. I *didn't* finish Holmes, but I just didn't feel motivated to read it . . . Maybe some other time? Eh, watched episodes #2-7 of Lodoss Wars on DVD last night with my brother because I badgered my dad into buying it for me at Christmas, I think it was, and we still hadn't watched more than the first episode. I've seen it before, on VHS, and the VHS version was better. First of all, the subtitles are INCREDIBLY lame-looking (why didn't they just use the original subtitles?!) and the sound sucks on the Japanese version, is better on the dub version, but the quality of the dub renders that unwatchable (Parn-"There's "saucery" at work!"), the picture quality looks like a third-gen tape, and at one point the new subtitles are shown OVER the old subtitles where the English dub was obviously subtitled because it was a song, oh, and the credits are the English ones and are HIDEOUS. I'd like a list of who was on the Japanese cast, too, if you don't mind! I'll admit, however, that it's a fairly old DVD and was made when they were first coming out . . . but I wish the quality was at least up to the VHS's quality. ^^;;;; Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:55 p.m.
Law and I had Words . . . And Law Won, Dammit! Last night (this morning) had a panic attack about my future major/career that carried over to today and led to an argument with my mudder dear. ^^;;;; We've decided that I'm not good at anything, can't be a psychiatrist 'cause I'd have to go to med school for that and couldn't possibly make it in, and psychology doesn't pay . . . so I'll have to major in legal studies with maybe a minor in psychology (if I'm good at it and it's allowed . . .), then go to law school and end up a patent or copyright or cyberlaw lawyer or something. Something that pays, anyway. -_-;;;;;; <----DOOOOMED. Did I mention that I've been fighting all my life against becoming a lawyer? Looks like I've lost again . . . What goods a lawyer who loses every argument? I can't help but feel that I've been drawn into a very sticky web that I can't extract myself from . . . I'm still hoping that somewhere I'll manage to write a best-selling novel or ten and earn enough money to retire from icky law and just write for a living. That's the plan, anyway. *SIGH* On a kookier note, I forgot to mention my dream the other night with the tapdancing (or maybe it was river-dancing) Kotori on a bus (I think Subaru and Kamui were also dancing on the bus), Clone #6, the Generals, and the Peanuts characters lost in a floating money-filled mist . . . Errrrr, right. ^^;;; I also forgot to mention that I got another blog. For fic-ranting purposes. Unfortunately, it is SOOOOOOO hideous at the moment that one glance would either turn you to stone or send you fleeing in unparalleled horror, so I won't be posting a link just yet. ^^;;;;;; Ah, yes, forgot to mention my dictionary findings: Avaunt-Archaic. A command to be gone. [Middle English, from Old French avant, "forward," "go away!"] Gens-1. in ancient Rome, a group of families descended from a common male ancestor and united by a common name and by certain religious, social, and political functions. 2. grou of individuals related through a common ancestor in the male line and sharing the same surname; tribe; clan. Numen- pl. numina 1. The presiding divinity or spirit (of a place). 2. The spirit believed by animists to inhabit certain natural objects. 3. Creative energy regarded as a genius or demon dwelling within one. Well, the first word is the name of my rather sub-par crossover fanfic, but I still like it for the idea's sake . . . and it went away after I wrote it down, so the title fits in more ways than one . . . The second word leads to certain startling roads of thought . . . Hmmmmmmmm. And the third, well, I guess I have a few numina living inside me. ^^;; Ah, and yes, Merr, you'll be getting it soon. ^_- Ooooh, and my favorite dinosaur is the Stegosaurus! "Do not underestimate the Stegosaurus's back."-Hayama Akito ^_^
All definitions are taken and altered slightly (i.e. not including Latin forms, etc.) from either The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language or Macmillian Dictionary for Students. Fuck it. Now that I'm an aspiring (read: reluctant-dragged-kicking-and-screaming) law student, I've got to cover my back. ^^;;;;; Waaaaaah! For the simple old days when I could quote the dictionary without citing my sources. ;_; Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:19 p.m.
Mind Slush Mmmmmm, cast list for the X TV series is now available. I dunno how I feel about having Suppi's seiyuu being Arashi's seiyuu. ^^;;; Anybody see anything, err, WRONG with this? Arashi: No! You should see ME when I eat sugar! Me: O_o;;;; Well, you know, Sorata's seiyuu played Maron Glace in Bakuretsu Hunters. Maybe you should try snacking on him? Arashi: ¬_¬ Sorata: *GRIN* *I'M* all for it! Oh, btw, I *dislike* an Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot threesome EXTREMELY much. Blech! And Eddie . . . Poor Eddie Willers! Nobody cares about Eddie as long as they've got Dagny and Galt. *Sniffle* Just because he's not as attractive as Dagny . . . If ONE more person writes a story about Sakura and "Li," I swear I'm gonna lose it. "Li" is NOT his fucking first name, people! "Sakura and Li-kun" fine. "Kinimoto-san and Li-kun" fine. "Sakura and Syaoran/Shaoran" fine. But for the love of CLAMP, stop letting CardCaptors pollute your mind!!! Oh, and I'm gonna lose it if I see one more "Li betrays Sakura and she doesn't know what to do" 'fic. That does DOUBLE for any "Li and Madison/Tomoyo" pairings. -_-;;;;;; Okay, so I have problems. Who doesn't? My brother astutely pointed out that the vast majority of my favorite anime characters have psychological problems. It's very true. But then, of course, as I pointed out to HIM the vast majority of anime characters have psychological problems. Period. Think about it. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 19, 2001 02:01 a.m.
How UGLY it is! Hotmail is UGLY now . . . I don't wanna use it. ^^;;;;; Why don't they have an option to revert it back to normal?! Yuck! Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 19, 2001 01:49 a.m.
To Not Regret I do that a lot . . . want there to be nothing to regret. So, I think I shall do what I should have done a long time ago . . . And write some people some letters. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Wednesday, July 18, 2001 03:27 a.m.
Of Queens, and Kings, and Many Things . . . ^_^ Saturday - returned Basara #1-14 in Cupertino and borrowed #15-27, went over to Dad's coworker's house at 4:00 for dinner (These people eat EARLY.), watched host run around like a headless chicken, watched Hey, Arnold! on TV and Iron Chef ('cause they have Food Network and we don't - and OMG, they DUBBED over the head guy's VOICE! O_o;;;;; NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!), listened to my brother laugh hysterically about one taster's mouth being a "Chen Kenichi world," went home, watched Kindaichi ^_^ (but there was a man in a bunny suit who used a switchblade - ala Sluggy Freelance's Bun-Bun), actually didn't figure out who the killer was, but DID figure out the swinging door part, and went to bed. Sunday - family went driving to Big Sur, saw nothing, stopped by kewl Gift Shop by random cafe, picked up gift for Merr, wanted to purchase two medium-sized stone lions (to put in front of the front door, natch), hit an oriental-style bell in the back of the store to make it ring, saw a couple miracles - facets hanging suspended in space with water flowing down to a pail or watering can, marveled at fog-covered mountains and otterless oceans, got stuck in traffic for several hours, ate dinner at Milpitas, and went to the bookstore that has MANGA and got kicked out after ten mins 'cause they were closing. >_< I came home just in time to watch the second showing of the first part of "Mists of Avalon" (based on the book that I haven't read, but certainly shelved enough times when I worked in the library). Ehhh, and then I got freaked out by weird relations in the mini-series . . . There was a time when I was rather into Arthurian Legend, but it went away rather quickly since I DESPISE Lancelot, don't like Guinevere all that much, and as for Mordred . . . ICK. That part in the mini-series was icky too! I just KNEW it was Arthur with Morgaine (Who the hell ELSE could it have been even if she DOES have a thing for Lancelot?!) and I kept going "ick! ick!" -_-;;;;; My favorite knight has always been and will always be Gawain. ^_^ But Lancelot killed him, the BASTARD! Oh, the music was nice, though, and I recognized that it was Loreena McKennit. *laugh* I wouldn't have before this year, but that's what college and Napster are for, ne? Ah! Onee-chan got a pitas! It's not fixed up yet, but I'm happy she got one! And . . . and . . . and Tin-sama *flying-tackle-glomped* me! O_o;;; And I *STILL* haven't written her! ^^;;;;;;;;;;; Ah, Tin-sama I read your new GW ficcy. I hope you fiiiiniiiiish! (The first GW 'fic of yours I ever read was "Heart's Silhouette." ^^;;;; You're not writing any more in that one?! *pouts* Gomen, gomen! I just have thing for DuoxHilde. And HeeroxSylvia, but let's not go there.) ^_^ I get a loverly Spanish feeling with this one . . . but your descriptive prose puts me to shame. Waaaaah!!! After reading "Turn" I wanted to go kill myself . . . (Wouldn't in actuality, but I was despairing over my lack of descriptive talent, etcetera et infinitum. After forcing my brother to read "The Passing of Silence" he immediately wanted to delete 50+ pages of his Pokemon/X fanfic - probably a good thing - and start over.) Hum de. ^^;; *coughs* Ihavenotadescriptiveboneinmybody *uncough* But then I decided that gifts are distributed to those to whom they should belong, and that hard work will have to make up the difference for those whom are lacking in them. So, I'm gonna work on it . . . and just read your 'fics to shame myself into working on it. *SIGH* (And for personal pleasure too. ^_^) Now, then, speaking of "working on it," yes, now that I have Basara #15 in my (temporary) possession, I will set my muselings to work upon that 'fic. Ugh, and good Pokemon fanfics are still in short supply, and I STILL feel obligated to write one, so "Drive" is gonna be hacked, slashed, remolded, and recast . . . The Takari's still in the works, and so's "IAL:GB," my two monsters, and, hell, everything else to boot! Oh, but I'm gonna start work on two new short ficcies. ^_^ *GRIN* All throughout the FF movie, I kept thinking, "All they really need is Subaru slapping some ofuda about," which mutated to, "I bet Tokyo's fine," which mutated to, "Let's write a 'fic!" It's gonna be SHORT 'n' sweet, baby. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within/Tokyo Babylon. *cackles* And if you think THAT's bad - Kindaichi/Tokyo Babylon, wherein Kindaichi meets DEAD PEOPLE. I'm gonna have FUUUUUUN! P.S. More Friday the 13th bad luck - family not getting the LA house I mentioned before. Roof isn't properly attached and house has termites. O_o;;;; I really hate LA. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Monday, July 16, 2001 02:58 a.m.
I wanna stab someone in the hand with a chopstick! The upstairs computer (which I'm writing on now and have been writing on since I came home) is acting up. Bad computer! Apparently, there's no space to save MS Word files on my harddrive (which has 421.4MB left . . . ^^;;;;). It also refuses to save anything, freezes, turns my file into a read-only file, pretends to save and doesn't, and numerous other VERY BAD THINGS. GRRRRRRRR! And *my* computer (Max) is still acting up from before and I can't send it in because if the service provider can't find anything wrong with the hardware they're gonna charge me. D'oh! I did NOT get a three year warranty just so I could call for technical help OVER THE PHONE!!! ^^;;;; My brother and I met up with members of his school anime club to watch "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." It was a decent movie, but like my brother said, the ending "wasn't psychologically satisfying." Heh, and I have my own personal theory of exactly what happened at the end, and I've convinced my brother too . . . *wicked laughter* Anywho, that went okay, but my mom was 45 minutes late picking us up because the car broke down half a mile away from the movie theatre. She had to flag some people down and call my dad to come rescue her. *Then* she came and got us and we had to go back for my dad, and then wait for the tow truck . . . and, bleh! This is why I don't go out on Friday the 13th. I just discovered that it's Syaoran-kun's birthday, too! Happy Birthday, CLAMP-made character! Ah, after the movies I was mistaken for a junior high student when my brother introduced me to one of his anime club's presidents. Yes, I WILL be going to CAL fairly soon, but the University, NOT the high school, you nitwit! For my second year. XD XD XD I had a good laugh, though, and he seemed berry embarrassed! *Heh* All 'cause I was wearing my clothes from fifth grade today, I guess. Oh, stuff was going DOWN at the movie theatre today, too. When my brother and I got there (half an hour early), a bunch of punks were running around outside. Then one of them shouted, "Oh, fuck, it's him! The guy in the red van, no, the red truck!" They all ran inside except for one guy who was walking ahead and apparently didn't hear him, so the ring leader ran after him and they broke into a run as the guy in the red truck followed them . . . I dunno what happened after that but some middle-aged dude, 30ish, marched in a little later dragging a teenage boy in with him. He had a bunch of the punk members hanging around him, but they later ditched him (I guess they got while the going was good). The guy demanded to see a manager and started gesticulating wildly. (Darn it all, I couldn't hear what he was saying!) So some of the concession stand people came over while the guy was still yelling and then the popcorn burned. ^^;;;; Then the ticket booth guys, who had stepped out to watch the goings-on managed to lock themselves out of their booth. XD XD XD The guy and the kid were there for a long time before he finally got to talk to a manager. After that, I guess they were waiting. Right before we went into the movie, a policeman walked in, shook hands with the middle-aged guy, and got a grip on the kid. Ooooh, getting arrested on Friday the 13th. ^^;;;;; I wanna know what those kids did! Hmmm, that about sums up my day. I'll try to think of something sparkley and intelligent to talk about tomorrow. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Saturday, July 14, 2001 02:58 a.m.
Another reason my subconscious is EVIL! And here I am. Did I mention that my subconscious is EVIL?! *Whines* I don't WANNA write an AshxMisty. Its name is "Drive." -_-;;;;; It's not going too well, either. At five in the morning, the idea seemed perfectly clear to me . . . At nine at night, the vision seemed fuzzier. Damn. Six pages, rather crappy . . . This could be difficult. And I've still got the Takari, "IAL:GB," "C&K," "ANFOS," "Nightlife," and the Basara 'fic upcoming . . . Not to mention half a dozen other things in the work, including two monsters . . . Wah! Veta: *SMIRK* ^^;;;;;; Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:59 p.m.
Marginal Marble Cake/I Get To Burning Today, I burned CDs! Yay! Gawd. Yes, all day. And only AFTER I finished burning off every blessed thing on my harddrive (using who-knows how many R discs and 2 RWs) did I realize that . . . Hmmmm, maybe I *can* make an audio cd with my mp3s without the updated software? But I don't know for sure and I don't want to waste a disc finding out . . . Especially after burning 40+ discs full of mp3s (Okay, so there were some vidfiles too.). Anyway, if I *can* make an audio CD, I'll wanna shoot myself . . . You get to burning . . . *Hums* Dude (Damn Californians! You have corrupted me with that word!!!), Merritt that OjaMajo Digimon 'pic is hilarious. Especially Dai and his hair and his expression! ROFLMAO! Miyako looked too cute, though. ^^;;; You managed to draw her cuter than the actual animators . . . Mmmm, did you ever get that e-mail I sent you a few days back? I'm wondering if you're sending a reply . . . ???? ^^;;; BTW, you'll be getting at least four discs, maybe five when I send your package out. And some other stuff too, of course. ^_- Read some AS today as CDs nuked (my burner makes a little timer noise when it's done and everybody keeps mistaking it for the microwave ^^;;;;). 'Bout a 100+ pages. I finally reached the John Galt speech chapter . . . Ehhhhhh. 56 pages of him talking await me tomorrow. -_-;;;;; Ah! Basara is ADDICTING. I'm bound and determined to write a 'fic set in the events of volume 15 (once I borrow volume 15, that is). *Hehe* It's the pivotal volume, after all, and it's already been translated . . . Lesson: When in Basara, if character has plunged from a great height into water or abyss to certain doom or attempted to off self in some manner, double-check to make certain of death. (Heck, just double check.) I don't believe somebody's dead until I see the body . . . or the grave. Whichever. ^^;;;;;; Read a couple of WhiteCat's 'fics just now. Didn't have time to read too many. Still excellent. ^_^ And good Pokemon 'fics abound . . . (Though I'm still not a Shishi or Gym-shipper. What the HELL is up with the couple terms for Pokemon. Gym-shipper? AAMRN? BAMRN? Ego-shipper? I just wanna know who came up with them . . . Shishi is a term I can understand, everything else - O_o;;;; I realized too, that while I think AshxMisty is a plausible couple, it's very rarely written plausibly . . . BrockxMisty is plausible too, and apparently written more plausibly, more often. But Shishi wins by default, because I find that lots of yaoi/shonen ai fangirls possess inordinate amounts of talent. ^^;;;; (Damn, if I could only succumb . . . But no, skill doesn't come that easily . . .) And yeah, I'm not skilled in many things. Especially NOT blog layouts. (I want it to be pretty but my photoshop is old and my skills *SEVERELY* lacking . . . ^^;;;;;) I like my piccie though. Decapitated head and all. It was a doodle . . . which looked like legs and a kimono, and the head was my brother's demented idea. (Too much CLAMP . . . O_o;;;;) Eh, speaking of CLAMP, I'm still worried over the fate of "X." I want Viz to GET IT BACK. Because at the rate things are going it's gonna go to MixxZine (I fear it. Look, they've got MKR, CCS, CLOVER (though that looked pretty good, I don't know, not having read it)) and there we have rotten translations, spelling errors, and if the font isn't atrocious . . . And Arimi = Yuu does NOT amuse me. *GROAN* And who's gonna release the OAV and TV series, I ask you? Oooooh, by the by, I discovered that Young Riders is back on TV ala Odyssey and have been watching it, wallowing in the nostalgia of my youth. And heck if the plot ain't contrived . . . But still . . . Kid and Lou actually got SCREEN TIME this episode! And it's a TWO-parter! And they're BROKEN UP?! (I remember this, but I don't . . .) Hmmm, now if only the New Zorro would come back . . . ^^;;;;; Didna realize that Tin-sama's "The Final Gathering" went through two stages. I assumed that the ff.net one was the same as the first one. I was wrong. Now the Eriol-focusing "Magic" makes a HELL of a lot more sense! ^^;;;; I can be so dense, sometimes . . . Ooookay, rambling varied post. Will try to be saner tomorrow. But since I can only get online LATE at night and that consists of me blogging at about 4:00 in the morning, I am not liable to be coherent . . . Oh. New house in LA has faulty roof. And the owners want US to pay $10,000 to fix it? I think not. Onee-chan, if you find time to read this, I'm thinking 'bout you! Hot chocolate? Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Thursday, July 12, 2001 03:47 a.m.
Tin-sama O_o;;;;; How? When? Why? Ooooooooh . . . ^^;;;; Ahhhhhhhhhhh . . . *bites nails* And I still hafta write her a lovely little worship e-mail. *blinks again* But what to say, what to say?????! Damn. Off and musing about possible things to say in aforesaid e-mail. I'm nervous. I was nervous writing Meg-san too, but that had to be done and I rallied my courage, but I'm NERVOUS, darnit all! Squeak. ^^;;;;; Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 01:30 a.m.
Smargleboc Do NOT. Repeat, DO NOT go looking for a *good* pokemon fanfic on FF.net. I have been looking and have YET to find one. God. Well, I've found one or two decent ones, but if you want a 'fic that's in character and readable, go elsewhere. -_-;;;; It's driving me mad. Question. If you know that you've written something excruciatingly bad, why bother posting it up with: "WARNING! REALY BAD! DN'T FLAME PULEASE!!!!" -_-;;;;;;;;; Run a spell-check, get some betas, go and FIX it fer crying out loud! I may post some things that I feel are really crappy compared to what I wanted to write or expected to write or felt I was capable of writing, but if I knew it wasn't fit for human consumption, I sure as hell wouldn't put it where other people could see it . . . Hell, at this rate I'm going to give my brother the go-ahead for his Pokemon/X crossover . . . And *that*, my friends, needs work, but not as much as most of the 'fics out there. You DON'T realize how sad that is . . . If ONLY the boy would learn the joys of grammar . . . ^^;;;;; *hangs head* I'd even welcome a ShigeruxSatoshi 'fic at this point in time and I'm not overly fond of that pairing . . . If I had Whitecat's URL I'd go read one for once. I'd read a BrockxMisty and if I had Circe's URL I'd go read one. Hmmm, comp ate 5 years worth of bookmarks the other day . . . Can you sense my bitterness? ^^;;;; I am bereft! I also like Jaelle and Orla's Pokemon 'fic . . . Um, rambling. Isn't it funny how hungry you get at 3:35 in the morning? I'm starving. Ick. Lack of sleep and crappy pokemon fanfics have rotted my brain. NOOOOOoooooo. I am raving. My brother mentioned that Pokemon is very anti-nuclear family. I find it to be very true. Name one family (other than James's and that doesn't count 'cause they're rich loonies) that has both parents (any parents?). Digimon, now, they have nuclear families, and broken families, and adopted families, all kinds of . . . Sleep. Need. Sleep. Good Night. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Tuesday, July 10, 2001 03:20 a.m.
Dream #1 So, Dream #1: The beginning’s rather blurry as are the exact sequence of events . . . The craggy top of a mountain. People milling about, taking pictures, wandering in and out through half crumbled stone ruins and the like. It’s obviously some type of tourist spot. There’s only one car in the area and it keeps driving around and around in circles around the area, leaving dust clouds behind as their tires move through the dirt. The car stops. There are some boys inside, (3?) and they seem nice and friendly. They ask if I want a lift. I either say okay and get in or politely decline. (I’m not sure which.) In any case, the radio/loudspeakers around the ruins suddenly blare to life and announce that they’ll be exploding a nuclear bomb. I whip out a heavy gray cloth from somewhere and drop to the ground, pulling it over me for protection. However, it’s not big enough to cover my entire body and my legs are sticking out. That’s the last thing I think of, then the bomb explodes in a brilliant flash of white light. Then there was some random nonsense with a bathroom in a supermarket aisle. O_o;;;;; That was weird. Then the dream gets back on track. I’m inside a big structure with lots of winding identical gray hallways. I’ve arrived at my room which I will be sharing with some man. There are two beds in the room with a circular lamp above each one. They’re round and wheel-shaped, with the spokes knocked out. They’re about half again as large as a dinner plate. The guy in the bed next to mine goes to sleep. You have to sleep by lying down on the bed and pulling down the light-circle thing down on your chest. It lowers on some kind of wire. I try to go to sleep, but I can’t. So I break the lamp off its wire and take it with me as I get up. I go out into the hallway dressed in my pajamas. The hallways are all deserted as I walk through, down hallway after hallway, level after level. I finally find an elevator and take it to the bottom level where I get out. There are more gray hallways but lots and lots of people. Some of them are dressed in futuristic Bajoran (DS9) or maybe Babylon5 (which I don’t watch but my brother did) garb and others are in their pajamas but they take no notice of me. I make my way through the crowd and find myself overlooking a large open space which is the real bottom level. It’s a huge supermarket. I go down (more stairs?) into the supermarket which is enormous. As I wander through the aisles I see, to my surprise, M___ and R___, two boys from high school standing down an aisle. I chase after them as they move away, going past several more aisles before I catch up to them. They ignore me until I say that I was at point zero of a nuclear bomb and then M___ seems interested. At least he says, "Oh yeah?" He looks the same as ever, long dyed black hair and all. R___, on the other hand, has cut his hair funky with weird 80’s style poofy bangs and has badly dyed his hair black. It just didn’t look realistic. Anyway, then the rest of their friends come out and I ask them all what they’re doing there, but they don’t tell me. I follow everyone as they start walking however. I then ask M___ if I had the right e-mail address and if he had gotten my e-mail. He replies that he did so I hit him on the shoulder and tell him to write back next time. He agrees and says he will. Then Merritt shows up and tells M___ that she’s almost finished with the picture he wanted. She apparently knows everyone there. I blink and say, "How do you know each other?" (Mind you, we might all have attended the same high school, but that doesn’t mean we were all in the same social circles.) to which Merritt replies, "Through a mutual friend named Aida." Then we all decide to head off and get out of the supermarket area. We go back to the gray hallways upstairs where R___ leads us into an apartment that belongs to some woman. She lets us in, tells us to be quiet, then apparently foes back to her bedroom to sleep. We open a door and go down the flight of stairs behind it to her basement level. There is a sofa and a loveseat there, both of which look exactly like my old brown sofa with a wicker-type frame and orange-brown cushions with leaf designs on them. So I comment as much, sitting down, light-circle in hand. (Yes, I’ve been carrying it all this time.) Everyone sits down and we talk for awhile before we decide to call it a night and leave. We get up and go upstairs where we leave the woman’s apartment. Since I’m the last out the door, I see her peeking around the corner of her wall to make sure we’re gone, what looks like fear in her eyes. We make our way back to our rooms, R___ leading the way. I get easily confused with all the twists and turns we take. When I finally get back to my room I realize that I don’t have the light-circle with me anymore which is VERY BAD. I AIM (e-mail?) Merritt about it since I must’ve left it in that woman’s apartment but I don’t remember how to get back there. Merritt tells me that someone will probably see me about it soon and we shouldn’t do this (hang out at that woman’s place) again. Then I go into an uneasy sleep. Li Syaoran (I don’t know how it jumped to this) is sitting at a long cafeteria-type table on the basketball court, propping his head up with his hands. A game of basketball is going on but when the ball is loose and comes towards the table he gets up from his chair. It rolls under the table and he tries to hit it but misses because his hand is too stiff. He chases it, someone from the other team chasing him, and Li-kun manages to dribble it up off the ground, but he still can’t hit it right because his hands are stiff from holding his head up for an extended period of time and he can’t move his fingers. The crowd is making lots of (negative) noise. He can’t keep hold of the ball and it bounces and rolls away. Miaka leans back in her lawn chair, surrounded by Suzaku Seishi. She’s wearing a weird hat which is the shape of a cookie-tin/really big fez? that goes all around her head (I think it’s green with some color of band around it) and all her hair is stuffed up the hat except for two locks in front of her ears. She says, looking up at the night sky where stars are twinkling, "I thought the stars were my friends." Seishi (echoing): "The stars are your friends." Miaka: "No." Scene switch to Soi, who says, cackling: "Little does Miaka know that I used Tokyo Tower (to disrupt the basketball game so everyone cheered the opposite team and booed their own was what I got from it ^^;;;;)." Miaka is riding in a haycart, at night, with various other people. She is looking at Na-chan (Meiko’s teacher/boyfriend ala Marmalade Boy) with Ryoko-sensei sitting on the side, looking at him too. He looks very frightened and is trembling. Miaka should be Miki, but isn’t. She’s also me, or rather, this part of the dream is from her P.O.V. "Where’s Meiko?" Namura-sensei asks, still shaking in fright, as Miaka/Miki/Me notice that she’s missing. Ryoko-sensei blathers on or says something in reassurance? (It gets kind of fuzzy here.) Then Wei, from Ayashi no Ceres, (except he doesn’t look thing like him, has green hair worn in two buns on his head, and is REALLY goofy) shows up. He swings onto the overhang part of the cart (I’m not sure where on the cart it is since it seems to have mutated into a gypsy cart in this point of the dream but Miaka, Namura, and Ryoko are still sitting in an open hay-filled cart), and effusively says hello to the driver who says hello back. They seem to know each other pretty well. He turns back to us (we’re scared at the moment because he’s apparently hijacking us) and proceeds to tell me: "I know where your light-circle is. Let’s make a deal." The cart rattles onward and in the dust of the road behind lie several dead bodies, including Ryoko-sensei’s (she apparently got killed along the way somewhere) and one with its arms stretched out along the ground and its eyes wide open and staring: Meiko’s. Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Monday, July 9, 2001 03:37 a.m.
The Weekend and such Worked on "IAL:GB" t'day. Reworked the Randspeak scene into proper English and actually hacked 'n' slashed and rewrote it into something less lame. ^_^ Thank god. Had a sudden burst of inspiration and worked on one of the Takaris. (The one that actually has a good chance of getting written.) Worked on it for hours . . . It was supposed to be short and angsty and just Hikari and Takeru. But dang it all if Takeru didn't have to go off and reminisce and Daisuke snuck his way in and they went off on a tangent for what, six pages out of eleven, so far? Dammit. I'll be lucky if it's only twenty pages long . . . -_-;;;;; My thumb hurts from non-stop typing and hitting the space bar waaaaaay too much. *glarfle* Worked a *lil'*, tiny, itsy-bitsy bit on "A Net Full of Stars." Fanfic now has two storylines and is really weird. But not as weird as "Nightlife" the CCS/TB crossover . . . ^^;;; OOOOOH! Went into Cupertino yesterday and borrowed volumes 1-14 of Basara. ^_^ Will borrow volumes 15-27 next week, then on to PSME! *HEHE* Also went to Vallco Mall. Hot DANG but I love that mall! If only for the one store: Legends of Sports and Fantasy. I swear, it must have almost every manga/comic released in the U.S. I picked up Harlem Beat #7 (very good, as usual, only one spelling mistake this time, I think), Miracle Girls #2 (*cough* spelling/name-changes-are-still-irritating *cough*), and Saint Tail #1 (coupla spelling mistakes, all together all right). OOOOH, and I finally got to see the first vol. of Clover! And. It. Has. Color. Insets. And. Looks. Good. O_o;;;; The apocalypse is coming. Didn't buy it, though. Am getting broke. Wanted to buy Magical Pokemon Journey Graphic Novel #1 ('cause I have #2), Pokemon Adventures #2 ('cause I have #1), Gundam Wing: Ground Zero ('cause I *must* get all Gundam Wing official manga . . . impossible to get all doujinshi @_@;;;;), and Clover (just 'cause), but being very broke (also having lent father $113.10 -_-;;;;;), and already spending a goodly amount on other manga . . . no dice, kimosabe. *Sigh* I am thinking that when I get to school I will be using ATM machine and credit card like mad . . . *Waaaaah!* I need to get a job to support my addiction! And it's an addiction I can't break . . . It's not life-threatening (unless I forgo buying groceries for manga *very tempted VERY tempted*), but it's certainly money-draining. A girl at Animage was talking about how she spent all her financial aid money and job money on manga/anime . . . (I think she was kidding about the financial aid bit) and now I find myself in the same boat. And you know what's funny? Am I spending my money on Inuyasha or OMG! or some such thing? No . . . I'm spending it on Pokemon manga and Mixxzine translated stuff. *Sigh* Mixxzine is getting better though, I must admit. At least, I certainly hope so. The damning thing about them is that their manga comes cheaper and they have such damn good taste. I *mean* it! Everything they get is pretty damn good. The only thing I don't like overly much is IceBlade, but then the main character looks rather like Jesse Blue and the artwork *is* pretty . . . (But I'm not spending my cash on it.) I'd probably buy Parasyte if I was richer. And I wanna buy Peach Girl, but I'm too poor. ^^;;;; Heh. Let's see how much money I'm spending on manga. Currently, the series I'm following are:
Animerica (Galaxy Express 999) Anyways, managed to get to Legends 5 min. before closing. ^_^;;;;; Good timing, ne? Oh, watched Gladiator on DVD with Dad and bro. The incestuous brother STILL creeps me out. Oooooh, watched "My Youth in Arcadia." Now am determined to figure out Harlock mythos more fully as things are slightly goofy in my mind now. The movie's plot was a bit convuluted and I still don't understand why the guy would scan their genes then let them go, but, ah well. I didn't expect so many character deaths, either. ^^;;; It was an all right movie, but it wasn't really as tightly plotted as I liked my movies . . . (But since it was made the year I was born, I gotta cut it some slack.) Harlock's eyes are just *FREAKY* in the beginning, though. Oh, mustn't forget! Came back and watched taped Kindaichi episode. 'Twas a two-parter and watched the conclusion yesterday. I'm really addicted to the series' music (the bgm - the end song's by Kinki Kids). The episode was good, despite the fact that I figured out the murderer AND the blackmailer's identities fairly quickly . . . Ooooh, Kindaichi's girlfriend's name is Nanase Miyuki. ^_^ And she gets easily jealous. (But hey, if the guy I liked was liked by a teenage idol, I probably would get jealous too . . .) Kindaichi's really immature (Hey, Baby! Wanna ride the ferris wheel with me?) and I don't find him good-looking at all (the one guy in Bokura no Yuki was pretty cute) but he's really cool when he says, "I will solve this case on my grandfather's name." and the camera goes all spinny. ^-^ The one annoying thing about the series is the fact that despite all the murders, no one gets hysterical or frightened . . . it's just business as usual. I know if I was trapped in a place with an unknown killer I'd be a *little* upset. ^^; Oh, and the crazy fan/med student scared me when he suddenly got professional instead of drooling, raving otaku-ish. It's one of those, WTF?! moments. Finished 'Tis finally. Working my way through Holmes and AS. I hafta get up early now, 'cause people are coming to see the house. Dammit. And I hafta make my bed. :( Oh, and I can't use the internet except late at night . . . WTF? It's like college . . . I need my ten hours! *Sniffle* Four just doesn't cut it at home . . . Maybe afternoon naps? But no, once Mom's back will have to go driving . . . *GROAN* Will console self with Basara tomorrow. I feel like translating stuff, but I only have a week and poor Chinese language skills and I can't find the good dictionary . . . *SIGH* Messy thoughts flew out of my head on Monday, July 9, 2001 02:46 a.m. |
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