16 Mar 02

Excuse me, sir. Are you looking for a Western European? If so, you're in luck. I just happen to BE a Western European! What kind, you ask? Why, all kinds! You name it, I'm it! Somewhere along the line! As it turns out... my mum has been doing all sorts of genealogy stuff, and... well... I really *am* part French. A very small part French. I hope it's Enjolras type French. Also, she found some Italians, and an alleged Scotsman. What this means is that in addition to the large chunks of Spain, Germany, and England I already had, I also have France, Italy, and (likely) Scotland. So you name a Western European country... and I'm part that. Well, not part country, but part descendant of person who lives in that country. Anyway, now that I'm part French, I can say bad stuff about the French without being racist. Well, I still will be racist against the French, but it's socially acceptable to be racist against yourself.

The reason my mum has been doing lots of genealogy lately is because.... Jinjo came and saw me! yaaaay! (Doesn't that statement make sense?) But seriously, it's because our parents were talking and noticed some vague correlations in names of ancestors, so mum did research to find out if we're related. And WE ARE!!! Jinjo is my tenth cousin once removed! How creepy is that! WA HA HA HA HA HA.

Anyway, it was a very fun visit, although she was a little disappointed in my real-life self vs. online self since I was rather sedate and far less talkative than she was expecting. Oh well. We still had a lot of fun and she likes me anyway even though I'm not hyperactive =D Let's see... first all our families went to eat at Alamo Cafe and we had adventures. She brought her precious little Vivi doll and a Monkees annual from the sixties (forgot which year o_o) with interviews and hilarious fake diary entries along with random articles and some bizarre Monkee comics. I dug it. After we were done eating, everyone came back to our house where we ate ice cream and watched Mewtwo Returns with popcorn while the adults... just talked or something I guess. Laa. The next day we didn't do anything. With each other, I mean, since we both of course had to have done SOMETHING during the course of 24 hours. The day after THAT, AnJa and I went over to the uber-fancy hotel resort thingum she and her family were staying at for free because of frequent flight and looked at the little black non-squirrels (they kind of look like squirrels, but they don't act like squirrels and we can't figure out what they are). On the way there, AnJa and I didn't actually get LOST because we didn't miss any turns or go the wrong way or anything at all-- we went straight there by the correct route-- it's just that for a good part of our travelling along the correct route, it was by luck since we didn't know where we were going. We bought jelly beans and then went to Sea World. I really love the Sea World, ciao, ciao! ... o_o Right then. It was me, AnJa, Jinjo, and Jinjo's mum, who ditched us when we got there XD() First we tried to go see the sea lion show, but it was full so we went to the penguin house which stank impressively as always but was still great because it's the PENGUIN HOUSE! After which we went to the dolphin show, which isn't so much a dolphin show anymore since it also has human acrobatic performances, but since it includes dolphins and occurs in the stadium where the New Friends and that other dolphin show also happened, it's still the dolphin show to me. Actually, maybe we did that first and then the penguin house? Ah, I can't remember... we did a lot of walking around trying to figure out where we were trying to go and stuff... tried to stand in line for the Steel Eel but went in the exit for people who've just come off it instead of the actual line entrance... anyway after those two things happened in whatever order, we went to the sea lion show. Back when Sea World opened, it was the Spooky Kooky Castle. After that, they changed to a pirate show, and now they've changed again to a home repair show called "Fools with Tools." It even has its own CATCHY THEME SONG! "We are the fools we are the fools we are the fools with tools! Clyde and Seamore are the fools with tools!" And that show was really cute and great because Sea World had *just* opened for the year and the animals were performing for an audience for one of the first times, so they kept missing their cues and getting confused and it was really, really cute o_o There was a little otter that got stage fright! AAAH, SO CUUUTE!! The guy who did the show was really good, though. He played it off and ad libbed and stuff. It was funny. Yay. Also, Seamore is better than Clyde. What's the difference, you say? Clyde is the slightly chubbier, much lazier sea lion. Seamore is the slimmer perfectionist type sea lion. *nod* Clyde and Seamore have always been the stars of the sea lion shows (although, I'm sure, the actors portraying Clyde and Seamore have been changing regularly [but Seamore's always been a little smaller than Clyde]) and Seamore's always been THE BEST!! GO SEAMORE. Clyde is great too, I just like Seamore better. By the way, I'm not retarded and can't spell Seymour, his name is just Seamore because he's a sea lion, or something o_o! Knowledge! Research! I'm SEAMORE the SEA LION! WA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Nevermind.

AND SO ANYWAY after the Fools with Tools show, we went to the shark house, which I LOVE SO INCREDIBLY MUCH. Sharks 0wnz0r me. There was this one shark that apparently hadn't been using its teeth enough because the back teeth kept coming in, making for a very odd looking shark with all its teeth sticking out of its mouth instead of tucked away inside where shark teeth belong. I don't just mean that you could see all the teeth, because you can usually see shark's teeth, I mean they were PROTRUDING out of the mouth. I thought it was funny, but a number of small children and talkative women found it vaguely frightening. After that we stood in line to see about getting our Fun Cards authorised or something, then decided to do it on the next visit instead and went back to the hotel. Then AnJa and I went home. Laaaaa!

ON THE DAY AFTER THAT, we all went to dinner again at this restaurant La Margarita. It wasn't that great and it was way expensive, but you know, you don't know until you try *shrug* For sodas, they sold "bottled soft drinks" so we were lik "whatever," figuring it would be a 20 oz. bottle or something and ordered that anyway. Turns out... they were 8 oz. bottles of soda. No refills, naturally. T_T Oh well. Then we went back to their other hotel... because they weren't staying at that other one anymore... and it was the same hotel where Soundsations did the Northeast gala a little while ago! And we got her CD collection and CD player and we all went out AGAIN to Kangaroo Court for cheesecake and happiness. Cirque du Soleil is my new favourite. o_o And OH MY GOODNESS this counter-tenor Erik Karol is sooooo amazing. (Counter tenor = a man who can sing really really high, like as high as a soprano) Waaaaao, Erik Karol =O~ Ah, I love to listen to beautiful singing |D~ Why is it so wonderful to hear a man sing really high, though? O_O It's usually unpleasant to hear a woman singing really high. The usual range of pleasant voice sounds is that which is comprised of high men's voices and low women's voices... but with a counter tenore, it's not like a high man's voice, it's like a high woman's voice high, only it's a man, and it sounds... magnificent. Ah, I can't explain it. ERIK KAROL 0WNZ0RZ j00.

I call everything "darling," "dear," or "babe." =O ("babe" in the 60's sense, not in the "wow, what a babe" sense) AnJa pointed it out, but it's really true. Like, when the protruding teeth shark would swim by I would say "Hello, darling!" and when my cat comes into the room I'm like "Hey, babe" and I was calling this precious rabbit at Petland yesterday "darling"... and I call my friends darling sometimes... everything's "darling" to me. Maybe that means something. Probably not, though. WA HA HA HA HA.

I played Rhapsody! I really liked it, meow. It was pretty short but all the characters are groovy, meow. Especially Etoile and Crowdia, meow. And Mr. Burg too, meow! The singing is not very great in either language, but the Amphibian Paradise and Mountain Men songs got stuck in my head anyway, meow. Actually, English Cornet has a pretty good voice... but nobody is really what I would consider professional singer caliber, which is kind of surprising since they are all technically professional singers since they sang in a game, meow. Still, I didn't think the singing was *bad*, it just didn't seem the way you would normally expect polished, performance type singing to be... however, that kind of added to the charm of it, meow. What I mean is that when somebody would start singing, they just sounded like a person singing, meow. That is, like if a real actual average person were singing a song, not an actual *singer*, meow. It was all very real, meow. I liked the game a lot, meow! Prince Ferdinand wears a skirt and boots with heels though, meow! I was also a little disturbed by the amount of breast movement on the part of Marjoly and a few other cases, but I got over it with the help of Miss Myao's kitties and their overt preciousness, meow!

Related wise, I think whenever the word "nyanko" occurs in Japanese, they should just translate it as "kitty." Sure, kitty doesn't mean "little meow," but they're both cutesy nicknames for "cat," so I think they should be done that way. I mean, kitty has the same sort of connotation that nyanko does, you know? Sailor Tin Kitty.... it works.

I went to see two movies this week: The Time Machine, and Ice Age. I liked both of them a lot. Jeremy Irons is really really cool, and even though I forget the name of the guy who starred in Time Machine, I thought he was cute =O I liked his hair. ^_^ Well, not at the beginning of the movie because it looked greasy or something, but later in the movie it looked really good. And Ice Age ROCKED! Diego is the coolest!

A variety of things I wished to talk about in a journal entry produced at this juncture existed.... however, I don't recall all of them now, so they don't appear herein. There's a 70% chance we'll survive anyway, though.

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