Went to see the SF Symphony tonight for a Brahms showcase. I'm discovering that I'd much rather play a two-and-a-half hour concert than sit through one, especially since Michael Tilson Thomas is not as energetic/dynamic conductor as some others (like my old youth orchestra conductor). The music was, of course, great, though, but I'd still rather listen to it one movement at a time. Brahms wrote some nice viola lines.

I wore a halter top and a long skirt today, which got me a lot of compliments at school, and "You should cover up. You're showing too much skin," and "People were TALKING about your skirt, you know" from my mom (by talking, she means that someone mentioned sequins after I walked by, and my skirt has rows of sequins on it). Because I totally wanted to wear a sweatshirt and pants in 100+ degree weather, mom.

Even though it's cooled down outside, it's still 85 degrees in the house. I just want to go to sleep, but I have a Geography test tomorrow, and I should actually go to Music Theory with some more of my song to show. >.>

And this post almost made it without having something fangirly in it, but then I was blog-hopping, and discovered that Aki is being a social butterfly again.

On the 12th, he went out with Kenzo, which is prolly not really that unusual. On the 13th, he went out for drinks with Kazuki and Yuuto from SCREW. Yuuto is the fuzzy one; Aki's got his arm linked with Kazuki's (I think). Also on the 13th, he hung out with Chiyu from Sug... but took an unexciting picture.

He also had a moment with some celery, but that's a whole 'nother story.

Aki, the PSC hogroupie.

I AM LIVING AT I-HOUSE NEXT SEMESTER!!!

This is so much more exciting than just getting into schools. Getting into colleges the second time around is sort of anticlimactic. But I really wanted to live at I-House, and now I will be!

Tomorrow will be my last session with my second (or first, depending on how you look at it) tutee. She's such a strong, wonderful person, and she's far more optimistic than I would be if I'd lived her life. There may be more to follow on that, there may not. I sort of wanted to make a post that wasn't f-locked, though. *weird like that*

I completely forget my other yaaay note for the day. Oh, this wasn't it but it is also yay: I've discovered that Claritin works on my allergies. Yay!

Did not sleep last night, and clearly am out of practice (fortunately) with pulling all-nighters, since I kept falling asleep during the day.

But there's something cool about coming home and flipping through the entertainment section of the paper and seeing:

Just Announced
Miyavi. May 19. Slim's. (On Sale Sunday.) (415) 255-0333. www.slims-sf.com.

It sounds silly, but it's kind of like, "YAY mainstream newspaper," even though it's just a standard sort of blurb. Also, ooh, another SF date! Not that I can go, since that's finals week, but hey.

...And of course, I really want to nap and my birds are being boisterous and fighting. -.-

Note to self: Practica Musica.

Hee, Akishoupon having dinner~ Kay, sleeping now.

My morning started with my mom telling me that I think too much about myself because when I drive, I touch my face after I Do Manuevers. Nevermind that maybe my face itches, or maybe I don't actually really consciously decide, "Oh, I have just turned the corner - better touch my face."

-.-

And she just made me drink gelatin. Blech. She says it's plain and doesn't taste like anything (but also that it is "slimy" - v. appetizing, and unfortunately, kinda true), which was mostly true except for the unpredictable bursts of EW WEIRD flavor.

Tomorrow is Thursday. My tutee cancelled today. I am sort of relieved just because she's the one I don't have a plan for (>.>) but at the same time, we only meet once a week, so that was half of my pay for the week gone almost a quarter of our remaining sessions.

I have a feeling Jin had a hand in naming the new KAT-TUN album. XD But it's kinda a cool name. Pirates rock.

I would like to do one of those fic-related memes that are floating around, but that would be stupid of me, since we all know how well the alphabet meme worked out. >.> To be fair, I've started like, three of them. They're just never going to be finished not done.

...I feel like I should use my tags more often/liberally/randomly, but that's probably just the influence of the zany people on my flist. :P

And I am still failing at commenting on things. Whups.

Suddenly I am full of stabbing pains. In my head. In my heart (okay, heart area). In my stomach. Mostly in my head. Like being stabbed, but by a very long, thin needle. I think it's connected to the TMJ because my jaw hurts too now, on that side. Make it stop. D:

...Cirque and Criss Angel have a collaboration thingie happening at the Luxor in Vegas. Cirque will take over that town one day.

dammitliv's post reminded me that it is Earth Day. Or will be in about seven minutes.

Yeah. Earth Day. I'll just say that I think it's funny how my Origami Page-A-Day calendar promotes origami as a hobby that is based on the principles of Earth Day, "the time for each of us to conserve energy, recycle more, and stop depleting our world of natural resources." It goes on to say that one sheet of paper can offer hours of enjoyment... can be recycled endlessly, causes no environmental damage or pollution, and requires no fossil fuels.

And I think, BUT THIS WAS A TREE. Unless it's 100% recycled paper, which maybe it is. And even then, I don't know anyone who unfolds their origami and refolds it into different things for hours of enjoyment... unless this is meant to be non-consecutive hours.

I'm overthinking this now, so I'll stop because I feel my headache coming back.

SAVE TEH PANDAS.

Things that made me happy over the weekend (and we'll ignore the things that didn't because I'm trying to end on a good note, here):

1) Mao's hamsters sleeping in a pile. Mao's hamsters in general. I miss fluffy pets that don't beep and hiss at one another early in the morning.

2) D's new PV. Enigma mentioned the Gacktness, but it does have srs Gackt vibes. It's like Mizerable + Redemption with different colors and a slightly different setting, which is not BAD, since that means violins and feathers and wings. ♥

3) Sleeping in.

4) Kanjani8 in general. >.>

5) Epik High's new album. Which I haven't listened to yet. But there's pretty much no way they can go wrong right now. :D

6) Chocolate-covered gummies.

7) New Photoshop brushes.

8) LiZ!Kai getting better after a five day 100-102F fever + infection! Somewhat better. Not!hospital better.

9) WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH NEW PROFILE IMAGES FOR LIZ FINALLY. *__* Rei and Kai haven't really changed and yet. And yet. Everything is so much more vibrant now. ...Yuu, your hair/forehead/head looks weird now too. Smile more and then I can maybe overlook that. Vict is officially really really pretty. His makeup reminds me of Cirque. Ryou... for some reason looks out of place with the rest of the set. Not because of him, exactly, but the shadows and lighting and whatnot of his picture.

...anyways, we can definitely tell which of these things I experienced in the past and which I discovered while writing this post. >.>

In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

~ Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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Yes. (￣－￣)b

Either my allergies have gotten a lot worse because of the wind, or I am sick. Blaaah. Or it's possibly a combination of the two, plus the sleep I lost last night.

Noriko expressed Iris-like surprise at me not having watched the latest Janiben (yet?). XD I suppose I should try and keep up if we're going to try and make conversation out of it. Of course, she actually understands what they're saying, and I'm mostly just sitting there going, "Hahaha...?"

Needtoneedtoneedto finish my I-house application THIS WEEK. Or better yet, last week. -.-

Squee first? Hello, Aki (oh, and hi thar, Yuuya). *_* I'm not sure what I think of his hair Imightlikeit, but his EYES. Pretty.

Not-so-squee second:

Jake died on Monday. For those who haven't heard me ramble about Jake, he was my neighbor's dog. He was a border collie/Bernese mountain dog mix, with the Bernese's colors and temperament, and the border collie's body (with a slightly deeper chest), and so calm and mostly well-behaved. His best friend was a calico cat named Annie. I loved seeing the two of them together because their colors are so similar. Every night, when Jake was lying down for the night, she'd go over and lick his head. XD

My neighbor found a tumor in his leg early this year, and decided to just make sure the rest of his time was as happy and comfortable as possible, rather than spending a ton of money on chemo, which would've just prolonged his life a few months. She turned down a part-time job (she's already retired, though) to stay with him, and invented projects for her yard so that he could spend more time outside. Last month she said that he probably just had a month left, so it wasn't surprising to hear he'd passed away. But well, I guess I feel like I sort of grew up with him. When I was younger, I'd go over to her house just to take him for walks, and once or twice I took care of him when my neighbor was on vacation.

Ah, well. I think she definitely did all she could to make sure he enjoyed his last months as much as he could, and there's a great deal of comfort in that.

What is up with the 80 degree weather in APRIL, NorCal? Blegh. More than that, what's up with the 20 degree drop for tomorrow?

Also, I've been horrible at commenting on people's posts, but I will try to... maybe actually do that now. XD

WTF. I need to stop posting when I'm really tired, even if I'm thinking, "YES, I'm done! I will post today and be productive and THEN go to bed!" I always wake up the next morning feeling like I was drunk - you know where you can't quite remember what you did, but you know you did something, but it seems like it could've been a dream?

And then I went to make sure I hadn't completely messed up my HTML or something, and my end note for this fic ('cause that's usually what I stay up late posting) reads:

[So tired. Will read for big holes and things tomorrow, but if you spot any now, let me know. I'm the Wookie.]

...I have no idea why I'm the Wookie. -.-

In an annoying trend of continuing to slam my formerly-splinted finger into drawers and doors, I caught it in the door to the garage yesterday, and now there is a blood blister. Sigh. So clumsy.

bye-bye☆

Sorry Yasu, but the happy!bee is just not quite fitting my current mood. >.> Therefore, I have a new, not seasonally-themed default icon. 'Cause Kai is a little* fox. <3

Tomorrow is orientation day at SJSU, which means I get to wake up at 6:00am on a Saturday to catch a train to arrive at school by 9am. x_x Originally, the parents were going with me, but Mom decided that I need to practice taking the train by myself, which I am being absurdly anxious about. Well, buying/getting the ticket. Stupid nerves.

* - Kai finally admitted his height: 164cm. XD He's taller than Vict and Rei (who is a Short Blond Vocalist at 159-160cm), and maybe a few centimeters shorter than Yuu, while Ryou LOOMS at 175/175cm. XD

For some reason, Kai recently posted in their OHP's blog a clarification that he likes women more than men. XD Which Yuu followed with a post clarifying that he and Kai aren't In A Relationship and that he likes women too. It came after something Yuu said during an MC for a recent show ("Kai wa ore no dakara," the meaning of which is unclear to me, since I am not used to sentences ending with 'dakara' >.>). Rei added that they're both "explaining things in the diary - suspicious! Fufufu." *paraphrases/uses Google Translator*

Hungry. Tired. Cried three times today for no apparent reason. (-_-);

BUT I DID IT ANYWAY. ZOMG LIZ. Er, not me-Liz, band-LiZ. *______*



VICT IS BLOND. And... not quite pretty, since it's Vict, who used to be all dark and glowery and now is BLOND and shiny and has beautiful wingy eye makeup. But he's something. He-llo. *_*

Kai's hair is brighter! Which I already knew. >.> But I like it! Rei's silver has been gone for awhile, so the blond isn't surprising, but he looks older now, I think. Yuu's chin is still really weird. >.> And Ryou is like Gaze!Kai... he doesn't change. :P I wish he would at least stop crimping his hair, though, but I think it was worse before.

I also like their new name/logo design. Very swirly.

...now, if only they would change their individual profile pics too, then I could get more decent icons out of this. *still doesn't have a Kai icon* *wants a Vict one too now*

In other news, I am crying at EVERYTHING today. I will blame this on hormones and being Yasu - I tease because I love, rly a girl. Also, I've discovered I can fit under my desk very nicely. >.>

New default icon for Spring! You can smack me for the bee pun if you want, but it could've BEEn worse.

Like that. That was worse, and not even very punny.

*runs*

Bees sort of remind me more of Summer than Spring, but Yasu the bee made me laugh and go WTF at teh same time the cherry blossom trees are flowering, which means that I have to make sure I don't walk into bees on the way home. So, bees work.

Fluff for the day: LiZ feels the love ♥

I had to watch my video-taped tutoring session today. (/_\) It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be (my tutee and I were color-coordinated XD), and after the first ten minutes or so, I stopped thinking about it as being me.

This paper, however, I would rather skip. Blaaah. ...who can tell that I'm procrastinating?

Note to self: jthreesome? Yesno? So far, I'm having a hard time thinking of threesomes I would request. Thanks to psc_domination, I am not so worried about the writing of them. :D?

I has a splint now. It's on the middle finger of my right hand, and I am right-handed, so taking notes this week will be interesting. Typing is already interesting and I will likely make more typos than usual this week. So far, they still bother me enough that I want to fix them, but maybe I'll give up on that in a few days. The doctor thought it might've been a fracture, but it only really hurts when there's pressure on it, so she thinks it's probably just a bad bruise (or two) that I didn't notice getting, and that resting it will be good. It has been a few weeks since it started hurting, which is a long time for a little bruise to heal, so yeah.

Oh. I forgot that over spring break, I also failed my driving test again. >.> Backed up onto the curb. I KNEW I was doing it too, but I thought I had to try and fix it without pulling forward again, and I am terrible with figuring out directions going backwards. I just hope I didn't knock over a trashcan. I'm kind of glad that I'm at least failing for big reasons, and not a ton of little ones.

Foomp. Let's see if I can finish any fic. I jinxed myself when I told velvetgunfire that I would prolly have the X-men/Jrock/Pop crossover done "soon." x_x And I still have an unfinished commentfic for the JE rarepair anonymeme. *ignores paper due tomorrow*

After more fretting/fuming this morning, I texted karinberry even though she is in Vegas, and asked if she could get a ticket for me. She said that she was having a friend get hers for her and after I asked if her friend could get a ticket for a random stranger(!), there was a Very Long Pause. In which we left the house and I crossed my fingers and hoped that my brother's Blackberry's internet would run the ticket ordering page (it didn't - but it did get the website). Then Karen said that swtjemz would try and get a ticket for me, too. \O/

The first news back was that they were sold out, and Jemz wasn't even able to get one ticket. Which was fifteen minutes after they went on sale. I was in the middle of an angsty SEE THIS IS WHY I DON'T GET EXCITED ABOUT CONCERTS EARLY x___x post when Karen called (and my phone was on silent, so I really just happened to glance at my phone at the right time) and we said, "Hello? Hello?!" about six times before she said that WE HAD TICKETS. YAY TICKETS. YAY MYV. YAY KAREN (AND JEMZ by extension? XD).

Grandma tried to give me a frozen McDonald's fish fillet thing. She asked me if I wanted a fish hamburger, and took it out of the freezer and I don't know how I kept from laughing, since it was still in the cardboard box and everything. I'd been expecting something she'd smuggled out of a buffet place.

Spring Break is over.

This week, I did many things. Next week, there will be many things as well.

( Highlights? )

Am also finally reasonably confident in my ability to tell Kanjani8 apart, at least in non-chibi pics, and so have been on a K8 kick for the last half of the week. Of course, this means rewatching everything I'd seen them in before with my newfound knowledge of OH HEY THAT'S WHO THAT IS.

In keeping with my trend of liking the short and/or seemingly-innocent ones (according to Iris), I have glommed onto Yasu. One day I should make a list and find the average height of my band favorites. Though some of them are relative: Arron is 177cm/almost5'10" and the shortest in FLH by 3cm, but significantly taller than most of the others who would be on this list.

Miyavi tickets go on sale today at 10am. At 10am, I will be at a dim sum restaurant with my family picking up $68 of food to take to Sacrmento for lunch and cemetary-visiting with the evil grandma. If evil grandma (because yes, this is totally her doing >.>) keeps me from getting a ticket, I will be Very Very Sad.

Of course, that weekend for me goes Geography Final (Fri), Writing Skills Test (Sat), hopefully Myv (hopefully Sunday), Art History Final (Mon).

Eee.

In other news, I submitted my intent to enroll with San Jose State.

I am watching Yamapi do magic tricks with Monsieur Pierre on Utaban, and they are totally using a Cirque du Soleil song as Dramatic Mysterious Background Music. (perhaps from "O", I think?) I am so easily amused. They repeated the first five seconds about eight times, and sort of cut and spliced a bit, but it is definitely Cirque. XD

Tonight, we went to Chefs Without Borders' Anti Human-Trafficking Gala, also presented by the Asian Chefs Association. It was MCed by a couple of local newscasters, and Martin Yan (of Yan Can Cook fame) was the auctioneer. XD He kept berating everyone for not bidding, and there was a bit of a Rush Hour moment when he exclaimed, "Do you understand English?" and then translated the current bid amount to Cantonese just in case. :P

My brother fanboyed Roy Yamaguchi (who looked both younger and shorter than I thought he'd be). He asked for a picture with him, and then told him he loved his restaurants. Hee~

And of course, the food was fantastic. Not a lot, since it was just little samples from a lot of different restaurants, but enough. Along with the food, there was a fashion show highlighting the cultures Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, three countries where human trafficking is especially severe. What was cool about that (for me) was that all of the models were Southeast Asian as well. The producer and Vietnamese star of Holly also presented a trailer for the movie, and the girl was so shy that she could barely speak. There was a live auction and a raffle, which were sort of boring aside for Martin Yan's aggressive auctioneering. XD

Plus, I like dressing up. Except that I hadn't worn heels in probably a year, so walking from the parking garage to the hotel where the event was held was a bit teetering.

I did not expect to get so many questions for the Character List Meme (*eyes Iris*) so quickly, so I will start answering now. For those who would like to leave more questions, go ahead (but do it before you read the rest of this post, or else you will be cheating XD Unless you want to cheat...). :D

And because Iris wants to guess who is who, please highlight the following chunk to see who the people are, if you'd rather know. After Iris is done guessing, I'll probably edit my answers so that names are involved so then you don't have to keep refering to the list.

( The People and the Questions - and the Answers )

Myv in San Francisco!!! OH, HELLZ YEAH. Seeing karinberry (and other strange LJ denizens? XD) will be awesome too.

I'd just been wondering when my one concert of the year (one non-classical concert, that is) would pop up. ♥

Saw Lust, Caution last weekish. Tony is so badass. And Leehom reminded me of Wu Zun a lot, the whole time. >.> Apparently, Wei Tang (in her film debut) has been banned from Chinese media as part of their crackdown on pornographic images or whatever, because of this movie. It does have pretty graphic sex scenes, but it's definitely not porn. And it's one of those movies that has one of those ending that you will either love or hate, depending on your tastes. >.>

Also speaking of movies, the ones people didn't get from the movie meme post were:
03. Supercop (A: It's the first I came across this situation. If I were you, could you recite everything in one go? I'm Chan Ka Kui, born July 4th, 1958. I joined the Royal HK Police in 1981. 19 - ...
B: 1984, promoted to trainee inspector. Height: 5'10", weight: 73 kilos, blood type: AB. I'm nothing special. I've memorized your background.)
07. Brokeback Mountain (A: If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.
B: For how long?
A: For as long as we can ride it. There ain't no reins on this one.)

Aaaaand a new meme, snagged from minisinoo:

For the Character List Meme:
1) Make a list of 15 characters and assign each character a number.
2) Without telling anyone who's on the list or the character's assigned number, get questions from your flist about what they'd like to know about them, i.e. "If 3 and 4 were trapped in a cave together with only a blanket and a toothpick, what would they do?"
3) Post list and answers.

I'm going to do it the way she did it, and just collect questions for a few days and then put up the answers in a new post, so I don't start revealing who is what number by answering questions directly in the comments. Just to let you know now (so I don't surprise anyone with a fandom XD), I'm going to be using Jrock/pop, as usual, for this. I always get good crack bunnies out of number memes...

So ask away!

Grargh, I am supposed to be in SF now, jobhunting. Do not want. Rather, I do want a job. I do not particularly want a job in a big retail store.

I'd forgotten that the full DVD/performance/whatever for Danger Crue's Jack in the Box live was going to be around now-ish, and Liv just linked me to the hyde x GLAY (x Aki, really... Satochi and Nii were there too, but in terms of using x... def. x Aki XD) performance, and it is so cute and pretty and full of glompage and love.

Aki loves on Hyde and Teru and Taku. And there is cute Hyde+Teru, and Hyde majorly glomping Aki in a buttsecksing sort of way, and Aki patting Taku on the head. And AKI'S SMILE OF GLEE through the whole thing. And Hyde does his little wiggle dances. And is all smiley with Teru.

And Nii just stands there. Poor Nii gets no camera love. Satochi doesn't get much camera love either, but he didn't even have the ability to run around and glomp people.

Sigh.

My night just got a lot better. :DDD ♥

Spring Break is next week! Unfortunately I have to spend it going out and "selling myself" as my mom put it. To find a job though, not as one. :P

...maybe I'll just start posting in the mornings.

1) What do dreams with a lot of deep (and yet pretty clear) water and oversized sealife (killer whales, belugas, various fish) mean? I had another one last night. The orcas were very destructive and there was also a dead-and-yet-not roasted-and-yet-not pig, and weird plants possibly influenced by the porn Iris was talking about last night. Disturbing.

2) Jason Mraz is releasing "I'm Yours" as a single! I love this song. It's a little bit different than the version(s) I've heard before, but nothing drastic changed. Have some schmoopy (old version) cuteness:



3) *zooms*