19 Aug 01

....Hallo, children of the universe! I've had some kind of journal-writer's block the past couple of weeks. I haven't even blogged at all, and that only takes like two seconds. O_o() If you're wondering about the private entry, continue to do so. I'm not making it public XD It was an account of my torrid sex life. ... no, not really. =Þ

Taco Cabana is giving away $1 million. I personally feel that my family deserves to win that money, seeing as we spend more time at Taco Cabana than the manager does, in general. We ate at Taco Cabana today. It was delicious, but we didn't win $1 million. Mleh. *listens to "Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven"*

I got a postcard from Veneliza yesterday. She signed it Jean Veneljean XD!!! I'm so behind o_O() I need to send her package, but it just seems like such a lot to do since I'm not just writing something and sending it, I'm writing something and making a package with a letter, a photo album, and also hounding my friends for money so I can *also* send Oracle of Seasons. I'm a bum *weep weep*

... plus I have a small aversion to mailing anything at the moment since my letter to Brad Swaile was returned to sender T_T He doesn't work at Tarlington Talent anymore. I dug up an address for Ocean Group and am gonna send it there... but I haven't yet. Because I'm a bum about sending things.

So like, I guess about a week ago, I had a dream that I was Harry MacDougall (Henry McDoogal?) O_o()() I was trying to break into the Outlaw Star, but then I had some kind of emotional breakdown and started begging them to build a little capsule thing for me on the outside of it (I was calling it a 'cell'). So they did, and I was hanging inside of it, and was locked in or something, and Melfina was trying to seduce me x_x You know that thing they do where they're kind of like... inside the machine floating around and stuff? She wanted me to go inside the machine, but I didn't want to, and it was creepy. Then I went out drinking with Gene. (I didn't make any of that up, I actually dreamt all of it.)

Rico lent me CDs with all the episodes of Sabre Marionette J! ....BUT IN JAPANESE!!! X|!!! This is the first time I've ever complained about watching an anime subtitled instead of dubbed =Þ It's still really awesome, even without Brad Swaile. My favourite characters are Lime, Otaru, Hanagata, and BAIKOU!! n.n (Baikou's seiyuu is Orikasa Ai! *^_^*) Also, I've been watching the Utena TV series. That show is crazy-messed up, but I really dig it. It's kind of funny how every single character on it has very severe psychological problems. (Saiounji: "Shinobu.... ai.") After just watching the movie which has about thirteen seconds total of comedy, I wasn't expecting the show to be so hilarious, but it really is! XD But Anthy didn't seem so simple-minded in the movie .-. She looks a lot prettier in the movie, but I don't notice much of a quality difference in the other characters-- of course a lot of them look very different in the movie, but I don't think anyone looks significantly better or worse except for Anthy.

My nails are painted a very nice colour of pale green called "Honeydew". I bought the polish in San Marcos when me, AnJa and mum met Chrissy there. To go there, I had to miss a day of Soundsations rehearsal (sob! sob!). ...however, that also was kind of bad, because there hasn't even been one day since the 1st of August that *every* member of Soundsations has been there at rehearsal. Our choreographer herself just got back last week O_o() She'd been doing some kind of mission type thing in Costa Rica all summer. But it'll be okay. We've finished *learning* everything, and we still have over a week to get it all together. I get to stand in the front for God Bless the USA XD

So anyway. Nick is this guy who was in the choir last year but he graduated. And I thought he was really cute. Although he was gimpy and short XP But anyway, he came to the school for his voice lesson while Soundsations were there, and okay-- he always had kinda longish hair, right? But it looked really good. (Keith also had long hair for a while too but he looked like a woman, luckily he cut it) Only apparently he hasn't got any haircuts since school got out, and now it doesn't look good anymore XP Quite honestly, I have no idea why I'm talking about some guy that none of you know and how his hair doesn't look as good now as it did before. O_O Anyway, he played Motel the Tailor in Fiddler on the Roof. *blink*

I was just gonna say who my favourite characters in Utena are, but then I realised my favourite characters are Utena, Juri, Miki, Touga, Saiounji, and Wakaba. Which are.... all the main characters, except for Anthy. Whatever.

I can't understand why Harry MacDougall is one of the least popular characters on Outlaw Star when he's SOO pretty! Melfina fans hate him because he hit her once. Gene fans hate him because he tried to kill Gene. But he was such a sweetie there towards the end even though I still have no idea why he likes that funny-looking twerp Melfine XP And his voice was really good too. Yes, I admit that Harry MacDougal is an emotionally unstable sociopath, but he's a dratted pretty one, and it's nothing some good counselling wouldn't fix. When I saw the second-to-last episode and both Harry and Ron died, I was all shocked and heartbroken and everything and then I kind of wanted everyone to die the way a lot of times they do at the end of anime XP Sorta like in Sailor Moon ;o Then today I watched the last episode (I'd taped it) and I was all happy because actually... it seems no-one at all died O_o() Except that Hazanko guy but he needed to die for killing the prettiest character on the whole show. Even though he kind of didn't. Whatever. Oh yeah!! And notice WHERE the Outlaw Star crashes into his face and kills him? LEFT EYE, thank you! And what's the left eye? It's the place Harry broke his face plate!!! And also, how about Gene getting into the Leyline at all? Harry again!! That's why Harry is the MOST IMPORTANT and PRETTIEST and BEST character on the show!!! (...too many exclamation points) My happiest moment during the last episode was when Ron was in the Shangri-La and Harry talked to him from the monitor thingie and they talked about how they'd return someday and stuff and it started playing the MacDougall theme music and they leave. I had this big smile and I was like "*tears of joy* They're alive!!!" ... By the way, Ron MacDougall is cool too, he's just not pretty like Harry, so Harry's a lot better.

Mr. T is helluva tough!

I finally beat FFVIII today ^___^ I looooved the ending *_* Actually, I mostly loved the whole game. LAGUNA! *^_______^* Now it's time to start on FFIX. But you know, I really can't understand why so many people don't like FFVIII compared to the other Final Fantasy games. Maybe it's because it's in too modern of a setting for people to think of it as a fairy tale. But that's their problem. =Þ

I finished reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It was summer reading assignment. I didn't dislike it, actually. *shrug* Doesn't mean I wanna read it again or anything, and there is rather a large gap between "don't dislike" and "like". But it didn't make me go into a murderous rage. *shrug* I was also supposed to do some other project thing, but I didn't o_O()() Well, it didn't really have any guidelines-- normally they would say something like "bring a photo album" or "write a poem" or something, but it just was like "stop at a small-town cafe! Sit by a creek! Press wildflowers! The possiblities are endless!" So I don't know if it'll really matter that I don't have any hard material to present. All the same, I bought one of those disposable cameras for the project, but I didn't take any pictures yet ;o Maybe I'll be busy tomorrow doing that. Aughhh, school starts on Tuesday. It makes me cry. I don't want to go back to school. At least it's gonna be a pretty easy year academically...

I guess that's all I've got to say. I'll try to start writing entries more frequently ^_^

OOHH!! One more thing! I finished a picture after working very, very, very hard on it for a very, very, very long time. It's Libelle from Directions of Destiny and her pet lamb Flannel sleeping as the morning sun shines in through her bedroom window. ^_^ I actually redrew the entire thing on the computer before colouring it x_x() Please tell me what you think!

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