9 Apr 02

Argh argh. I want to sing It's Gonna Rain! karaoke sometime so I thought about buying the CD that has all the Kenshin ED and OP tracks, because I remembered a review I read about it at this site said most of the songs worked perfectly with the off-vocal function of karaoke machines. And, naturally, It's Gonna Rain! is the ONLY OP/ED song that doesn't work T_T In any case, I want to sing karaoke at ACen but I'm trying to pick a song... and the ones I REALLY REALLY wanna do I can't find any karaoke for (because they're stuff like "Raining" (Cocco) and "I'm Your Friend" [from Gundam W which only made karaoke for the OP/ED stuff]). I have got karaoke for Sobakasu (Freckles) and a bunch of Eva stuff and things, but you know *squirm* You know! And all the really groovy songs have freaking long instrumental breaks which makes them entirely unsuitable for my purposes unless I talk to the audience or do a little dance or something and that makes me angry!

Argh argh. I'm talking to that one guy who always makes me do the inane "Oh?" and "Ah?" and he also makes me irritable because he randomly implies that I'm stupid. Like, he goes through this straightforward explanation of something and then he goes "Oh, I just confused the crap out of you." And I'm like WHAT?! But I just said "why would that confuse me?" and he goes like, "Well, it makes sense to me, but it might not to you" and I'm like T_T He's kind of over-trusting too... I mean, not GULLIBLE really, but people sort of lie to him about stuff a lot, it seems. Like I think I mentioned it in another journal entry, but he wanted a picture drawn of a character in one of his stories, so he paid this girl $5 to draw a picture. Later she e-mailed him an artbook picture of Asuka from Evangelion and told him she had done it and he believed her and then he showed it to me and I was like "Um, that's from Eva" and he was like "=O Really?" and then just yesterday his friend told him Square had orchestrated the entire FF7 soundtrack for the remake before scrapping the project and gave him some tracks from the "new soundtrack." Only he just gave him tracks that had *already* been orchestrated for the FF7 Reunion soundtrack (Aeris theme, Overworld theme). And he was like "cool!" And he told me and I was like "GROOVY" (but I was also very distressed that the project wasn't gonna happen since FF7 remake is 1/3 of why I want a PS2) so he gave me those and I was like "o_o" because I knew Overworld and Aeris had already been orchestrated but I didn't have Overworld and I thought maybe it was a different Aeris if it was from a different soundtrack but NOPE, NOT. So I told him and he was like "=O Really?" But really, he's a great guy, has good ideas and stuff, it's just that he kind of pushes my buttons (in the bad, but not dirty, way). And I hope he doesn't read this because he's going to my site these days. I'll ask him if he reads the journal but I gotta ask him in such a way that doesn't make him say "Oh, I'll go do that". let me think. *think* I asked him "You pretty much only go to Chloroplasma on my site, right?" He said "Pretty much." I said "Okay. Just curious." I'll wait and see what he says. He doesn't say anything for a while. I'm gonna post this then O_O()()() Hopefully if he DOES come here someday, he'll start with the first entry and be so daunted by the large number of long entries that he won't read up this far. AH! He just asked "why? Is there something you don't want me to see somewhere else?" AH! I didn't think he was so perceptive! So I said "O_o() No..." because there isn't yet =D And also if he said he was going to go to other parts of the site I would delete this section of the journal anyway XD() Then he said "Oh. Just curious. ;)" Ha ha O_O() I'm gonna leave this anyway. Hey dude (I won't mention your name for your protection XD): if you read this, don't be offended, like I said, you're a great guy and you ARE smart and have groovy ideas, it's just that you occasionally rub me the wrong way, which you already knew from my response to the thing about me being confused ^^()()

Anyway, the Monday like two weeks ago when Greg-tachi came, there's something that happened before that which was a great unhappiness to me I forgot to write about. I LOST $5!!! How much does that suck?! I had lent Jamie about that amount for some reason and she paid me back and I didn't have my billfold with me so I put it in my jacket pocket. The next day it was still there along with some change I also put in my pocket, so I had change and a $5 bill in my pocket. Pocket is a funny word. Hee. Anyway. We went to Austin that day and the change was bothering me, so I put it on the floor of the car (where it remained) but I left the $5 in my pocket. Pocket. Hee. And I would randomly put my hand in my pocket throughout the day just to make sure it was still there and it always was. Only when I got home and felt in my pocket, IT WASN'T. And we checked the car everywhere and my backpack everywhere and everything everywhere and it went away and it makes me very NOT PLEASED. We had gone for cousin Mike's berfday and after eating at Conan's Pizza we went to see Ice Age (it was my second time). And I remember it being in my pocket definitely still after Conan's Pizza... but I can't remember after the movie, so maybe it fell out at the cinema and THAT MAKES ME SAD BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO LOSE $5. I know in the long run my life isn't gonna change because I'm $5 poorer. But it's so annoying and I feel all irresponsible and stuff.

JOHN LEGUIZAMO IS SEXY. O_O()()() He played Luigi in the Super Mario Brothers movie XD() He also played Sid in Ice Age XD() Sid wasn't sexy though. Diego was! HA HA HA. I'm only joking. Not about Luigi being sexy, though. Well, only in the movie. The thought of Luigi being sexy in any other setting really disturbs me. =O()

The same weekend as Mike's birthday (only I just now couldn't remember if it had been the weekend after or before that and I asked Dad and he didn't know but he said he thought it was before but I wasn't sure so I went and asked mum and she said it was the same weekend and now that I think about it, yeah, it was, but it's retarded that I couldn't remember since it was only like two weeks ago), we went to see AnJa's show choir groupie thing, Longhorn Singers. They're like Soundsations!, only college students, and there are a lot more of them. The theme of their show was food, so they sang Eat It by Weird Al XD Only the first group messed up and sang the chorus twice so AnJa's group had to sing the same lyrics again which was a drag. Bwaaa. Anyway... maybe it's because they're such a large group and the choreography can't get so complicated that it can't be taught to everyone in a couple of sessions... or because they don't have it for an hour and a half every other day, but only on weekends... or because they don't have a psychotic choir director pushing them extremely hard to be better... but I didn't think they were really better than Soundsations. I mean, they were GOOD, and they weren't WORSE than Soundsations, but I don't think they were better. *shrug* Anyway, there was this chick in it that dad said looked exactly like both Krystal (my frined) and Rae (AnJa's frined) and really, I tried to see it, but she honestly didn't look the SLIGHTEST bit like either one of them to me o_o Dad's a strange old bird anyway.

Like much of the other stuff I've written about in this journal entry, what I'm about to reveal to the public ALSO happened before I wrote the last journal entry. These are all, as you see, stuff I meant to talk about in that journal entry, only forgot. I do that a lot. Because I'm old. Huh-huh-huh. Anyway so like I go into my room to go to bed and it's late and stuff and mum and dad are asleep and have been in bed for like a while because it's 12.30 or something and on my bedskirt is this HUGE SCARY GIANT MOSQUITO THING with only five legs. And I'm like O_O!!!!! So I thought to repeat the performance where I put scary bugs in my lunchbox and then put the scary bug outside in the morning, wash my lunchbox, and take my lunch to school in something different only when I nudged the scary thing with a piece of paper (I thought it might already be dead because it hadn't moved at all in a really long time) it didn't go into the lunchbox BUT INSTEAD STARTED FLYING AROUND and first it flew at my face so I did the logical thing in the situation. That is, I shrieked and fled. =D I'm SUCH a girl when it comes to this kind of thing ^_^() After that I never could find it even though I eventually got up the nerve to go back into my room and look... I did find its sixth leg on my bed, though =P So I used a piece of paper to push it onto the floor but it landed on my comforter so I didn't use that one for a long time (I can use it again now because mum got the comforters cleaned a couple of days ago). And I also slept with the sheet over my head just in case =O() Mum says things that look like giant scary mosquitoes are actually bugs that are our friends and they kill mosquitoes, but I don't care if it's going to bite me or not, I don't want big scary bugs near me. O_O() I mean, think cockroaches. They don't sting or bite or do anything obviously harmful to me, but I still really, really, really hate and fear them. Ho ho ho.

Now we jump back in time again but only eight days. To last Monday. =D Mum went up to Austin to see about AnJa's car and do stuff, and also to get her new better apartments (they had already chosen some apartments in a pretty good area, but when we went to see them, Dad wasn't entirely thrilled because even though others would be more expensive, he thought she would be safer in them, so she gets to live in a really really nice place now, yay). So Dad was gonna pick me up from school. Mum told me to wait in front of the school, and also that Dad had a meeting at 4.00, so I shouldn't expect him for a while and I was like "okah" so after school I went and waited out front and just hung out and read for about a half hour. Then Rico, Greg, and Stanton came from musical rehearsal and hung out with me and we were like "yay". Then time wore on and still no Dad and I got worried and I had the ghetto cell phone with me, so I called his office just to see and he wasn't there, so I figured he must be on his way here and waited more. Then I paged him, but I guess since he's not on call he didn't have it on. Then we just waited for a long long time. And we walked over to the choir room entrance to see if he was waiting there for some reason, but he wasn't. Then we walked further out to see if he was there and he wasn't. Then I finally called home and... he was there o_o() And I was like "Dad...? Where are you?" and he was like "Where are YOU?" and I was like "I'm at school..." and he was like "I waited for a half hour and you never came out!" and I was like "O_O I've been here the whole time..." so he came after that and got me and Greg and them waited with me the whole time, 'twas very nice of them and I said thank you many times ^_^ Rico would have had to stay anyway because he had a voice lesson at 6 and Stanton was getting a ride home with Greg and they both said they didn't have anything to do. But it was still nice of them. As it turns out... mum had told both Dad and me that the other would be "at the front." He interpreted that as the front of the entrance to CAMPUS... and I as the front of the entrance to the school itself. So he was waiting a long way away from where I was, and since I wasn't expected him until 4.30 (turns out his meeting had gotten out really early and he was already there at about 4.00), I didn't go around looking there. So I didn't get home until about 5.30. Later, actually, because we went to eat supper at McDonald's after that. ^_^ He still feels really bad about it, even though I told him not to. We just had a miscommunication *shrug* And I had my friends with me, so I wasn't bored and sad.

Despite the fact that the rather complete description of him in the book suggests entirely otherwise, I am unable to stop picturing Darkwind in Winds of Fate as Prince Marth. For some reason when I was reading the very first chapter with him in it, I got the idea that he could look like Prince Marth, and I never got the image out of my head. But why would I want to? Marth is 53xX0rzy. =D

Bookwise: I finished Winds of Fate and got: a combo book of the Time Machine and the Invisible Man (H.G. Wells), The White Plague (Frank Herbert), Children of Dune (Frank Herbert), and Timeline (Michael Crichton). Of course, I wanted to get the next book in Mage Winds (that would be Winds of Change), but the library didn't have it. *shrug* Having finished the Time Machine, the movie really has almost nothing at all to do with the book except a few very *very* skeletal details. Even so, I still think the movie was good; I mean, they found a way to put JEREMY IRONS into it! How can it NOT be awesome?! Plus, the protagonist had nice hair =D~~ And in the H.G. Wells book, he wasn't a semi-good-looking with good hair person, he was like middle aged or something, and how is that fun? Also, the movie made it interesting in that he had this specific reason he was driven to create the Time Machine, you know, emotional conflict and angst and all that good stuff. But in the book, it's just like, "Yeah, well, I figured time travel was possible so I decided to build a Time Machine in my spare time. For giggles." But it's still a really cool book that I like a lot, and contrary to popular opinion, I STILL THINK IT WAS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE TOO.

This last weekend, I went to Latin State contest north of Austin so I wouldn't have to do a project =D I competed in Sight Recitation... I got 2nd. At State, I know, that's like really good and stuff, but I kept being like "T_T It sucks, I wanted 1st". I didn't win 1st in Pentathlon (a test everyone takes that kind of covers all the basics), but I don't know what place I did get (because for Pentath, they announce only the first place of each level). I did get Summa Cum Laude, which is the highest category you can get, so, yay. And I have my way to Nationals paid since I got 2nd in my main event (you have to get 1-3 place to get a free ride and 1-5 to qualify at all)... but I'm not gonna go and everyone knows it XD()() Latin is annoying because there's no first-person reflexive pronoun. Thus, you can't say "I can't stop myself" or something; you have to say "I can't stop me." Which doesn't interfere with the meaning of the sentence or anything, but it's annoying. Our certamen upper team won 1st and the captain, Ben, who goes to my school and is Kim's boyfriend and was in my creative writing class last year and is cool, won the $1000 Latin Student of the Year scholarship or whatever it is. He got 1st place in Decathlon (it's like Pentathlon but with more categories and really hard) and Grammar. Cooper, I think, got 1st in Grammar... (Cooper, Kim, and I are in level 3, Ben is level 4) Kim got 5th in Reading Comprehension (she was really unhappy because going to nationals is expensive if you have to pay it yourself and she's won 1st in previous years, but since she's an alternate for the upper certamen team, she gets half a free ride). This dude Justin got 3rd in. Something. Whatever his event was. I can't believe I forgot it. O_O()()() He doesn't go to our school, but he's cool. He's on the upper certamen team, too, and good friends with Kim and Ben. Kefrin my dear along with this girl Erin that I used to go to school with got 3rd in vocal performance, and Kef also placed in two athletic events (softball and discus throw). I think she got 3rd in one and 2nd in the other, but I can't remember... so that's how the places went. As for the rest of the weekend, since it was in Austin, I skipped like the entire second day other than my event and the mandatory assemblies and went places with my family XD() AS FOR my event... it was supposed to start at 8.30am on Saturday, but they had trouble with organisation and stuff, and it was cold, and they wouldn't even let us in the *building*, and we didn't get started until like 9. And even then they didn't have the passages ready, so we didn't get started for real until like 9.20 O_O() I had to go first too. Oh well. And when I was writing my convention ID number in, the proctor (proctrix?) lady was staring disapprovingly at my handwriting and going "You know, it's really important that we be able to read the number" when first of all it's NOT since the judge doesn't even look at that sheet and the results are based on the sheet HE fills out which has a separate space for HIM to fill out my ID... and second, okay, I wasn't writing beautifully, but it was COMPLETELY legible. The sort of thing where the numbers might not be PERFECTLY formed, but they are formed in such a way that each of them really can be only one number, so there's no ambiguity involved. Bah annoying.

My already mostly-broken chair just broke for real so I switched it for another chair. I need a real computer chair.

As for Friday night of the convention, they had a dance because that's what they do. Latin students might not seem like the type who would get their freak on, but in reality they're the most likely language group of high school who will enjoy doing so, at least from what I've seen. The dance was a disappointment, though... it was nonstop booty music, which can be sorta fun for maybe ONE song but just gets old after that. They played only one rock song (Smells Like Teen Spirit), a couple of slow dances, and Beat It. Beat It was fun because there was this one guy who obviously practised dancing like Michael Jackson and he was really good. Then he and these other two guys started doing a striptease O_O (just taking off outer shirts, belts and stuff, their lower half of clothing remained firmly intact). It was funny. XD() Kim and Ben of course danced together. Cooper and his girlfriend Christine-- whom I know from 9th grade certamen, and who's on the upper team that won with Justin and Ben-- danced together. For one of the slow dances, I danced with Justin because we both didn't have anyone else to dance with *shrug* It was a little awkward, because I was trying to make sure I didn't act too cold or too forward since I'm not interested in him that way which I'm sure he knew and wasn't interested in me either except that when slowdancing you have to be careful to make sure you don't do anything that makes it seem you are more interested than the other previously thought. And anyway while I was dancing I kept on involuntarily imagining he was Brad Swaile and now I want to slow dance with Brad Swaile .-. But apparently, I exude some sort of aura of antisexuality (or at least asexuality)... Kim was walking along with some friend of hers that lives in Austin and Ben said somthing to the effect of "When are you going to introduce us so I can hit on her properly?" or basically; just a joke you know he and Kim have a very good relationship ;o but she was bothering him about it and he was like "Well, I can't hit on you since you're already my girlfriend... and I *could* hit on Rachel, but she would remove various parts of my anatomy if I did." So I was like =D() I really didn't think I came off as THAT... well, you know. =\ Before that, when we were leaving the dance, there was some girl from another school walking with her friend and going like "So many guys were flirting with me! It was cool!" and I was bitter because no guys flirted with me T_T It's not that I want to have a relationship... I just want some sort of affirmation that someone would want me to be in a relationship with them... =\ BWAH.

We got home from the Latin trip Sunday night at 9.45 or so and I and my parents had yet another picking-up debacle. This one was worse because it was cold and raining and dark. =| They had thought I would call them when I was ready to come back, but I thought they would go to the school and wait since they knew about what time we were going to be back. After we got there, I waited for a long time and got tree stuff in my hair before finally calling and finding out they were at home waiting for me to call. But lah. Nothing bad happened again.

Oh, back to the dance thing. Ben wore this red satin shirt and leather pants but the fly broke so he was using this tacky necktie as a belt to keep them closed XD and then Justin was like "...do you have dandruff?" and Ben was like "I don't know, am I snowing?" and Justin was like "Yeah, like Frosty the friggin' snowman" and then Kim brushed it off. But I just thought it was funny. Frosty the friggin' snowman. Ha ha. I'm easily amused.

I also read The Cat Who Came for Christmas (Amory) and The Singer (Miller) in the interim between getting new books at the library last night.

Yet again I remember more about the Latin trip. The president of the Junior Classical League or whatever is really not a public speaker. We started keeping a tally about halfway through his think of talking to everyone, and he said "uh" 54 times. XD() The title quote, by the way, is from the JCL Treasurer, in reference to the fact that the current low balance would change.

Today in choir Jamie asked if I'd lost weight =D And I was happy because I HAVE been trying to you know. But I remembered that she reads this journal, so maybe she said that because she wants to make me feel better. *shifty eyes* Anyway it was still nice. Also, in reference to my get-healthy plan or whatever, I DID try cutting down on Dr Pepper for a while... but... when I don't have Dr Pepper, I'm unhappy o_o So I decided I'll keep up my other get-healthy things, but not cut down on Dr Pepper, because that makes me sad.

Once again the journal entry is so very long and I end it. ...AH! scribble.nu is down right now, so I'll post this tomorrow. Actually, scribble.nu is no longer down and I am speaking to you FROM THE PAST-- HWOOOOOO~~~

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