Kagrra no Su's last card game keeeeeled me. They are such lovely lovely dorks. I love it when Shin stops being shy and gets really into the game. XD And thank you Nao, for all of that gratuitous touchingtacklingfootsieplaying. :D This week has been grand for PSC: Miyavi on Sunday, watching the extra DVD from Alice Nine's Hello, Dear Numbers on an actual TV screen (I'd seen it before, but not in awhile, and damn, everyone is so pretty), general SCREW flailing, and now this. ♥

= Basically done with school now! Got a B- on my last test, but eh... as long as I pass (which I will). I overheard a girl telling someone she felt like she deserved to celebrate her semester since she thought that she "did good" this time, and didn't drop any of her classes! Any of her... two classes. Yeaaah. >.>

= Went to the dentist yesterday and ended up with a referral to a facial pain clinic thing in SF. The nightguard he gave me for a trial run had actually made my jaw lock up more (i.e. every night, and even for a few nights after I stopped using it). Sigh.

= Signed up for my third behind-the-wheel test, a day before the transfer info day at SJSU and two days before my permit expires again.

= Sold one of my books back today for $58. Maybe I'll splurge after all. Stupid Queen of Pirates disrupting my nice little indies J-rock buying plan.

= Brain feels like this: @_@

= Going to get a Venus flytrap today. I want to get two so I can have one in my room. It shall be named Ryo-chan~ with the tilde. And hopefully I will not kill it.

= That Day In the Life meme looks interesting, but I think I will wait until... well, I guess I could start it tomorrow, but Friday seems like an odd day to start on. Maybe Saturday? I feel memeish and jumpy, though that's possibly because I got two hours of sleep and drank coffee (decaf, but still).

= How shall I cut my hair? Not too short, but I want to do something new(ish).

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.

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☆

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.

ARGH. I woke up exactly an hour late today (8am), and if I leave the house after 8:04, unless I run to the train station (which I physically... can't, without losing consciousness at some point), I will be late for my 9:30 class. And I have had a test. At least the teacher drops our two lowest scores, and her tests aren't very hard - and though I'd still would've preferred to drop two tests that I actually took, I'm glad she does that. In any other class, this probably would've meant a dramatic drop in my grade. >.>

I had a very chaotic dream in which my family was throwing a homecoming party for my brother, so I was running around making sandwiches and ice cream cones (er... filling ice cream cones?) in this underground lair and then running them back up to our house. And for some reason, my room had a door to the outside, so everyone kept coming in through my bedroom instead of the front door - a bunch of relatives, and some high school friends, and then this random huge gaggle of people who were hailed as "some of those Arashi guys," but did not actually resemble JE!Arashi at all. In the underground lair next to mine, there were two young scientists who'd separated out all of the components of a person on an almost-molecular level (or else they had everything in highly-magnified little glass bubbles - but this was a dream, it doesn't need to make sense) and were very excited about this. The components of people were multi-colored little structures of varying, generally-round shapes made of tiny dots. ...like the diagrams of molecules/compounds in textbooks, basically.

So I had a busy dream, and I didn't even hear my alarm go off, and woke up and was instantly stressed again. X_x

Well. I will chill out here for a bit, and then go and work on some tutoring stuff, I guess. There's no point in angsting about that test anymore. But I should figure out if my alarm is actually going off.

Everyone should go check out Pesoguin. It's where the penguin from a few entries ago came from; Ryou sent Kai another little penguin, so I decided to see if there were more. And zomg, there are. If you hover or click on any of the ones bobbing around at the top, they do things. :DDD

l33t_dreams made me an awesome, Takeru-ish pillow - meaning it's pink and leopard-print. And AWESOME. It's also been helping me sneak at night, so yay! I use pillows to prop myself up in bed when I am on late at night when I'm not supposed to be. According to my mom, my laptop should stay on my desk. It should not actually ever be on my lap. BUT AWESOME PILLOW.

And Kame is going to be on Aiba's aminal show again, because 1 Pound Gospel was filming nearby(?). There's a little preview clip around of him with an adorable baby otter:



...realistically, this is right before the otter bites him. XD No, no, I don't think that happens. If you ever want to hear me verbally flail, aminals are the way to go. Just FYI. XD

Time has come to decide where I'm going in the fall. ( Compare and contrast! )

Oh! We start tutoring next week - Tuesday for me. It's kind of nice to know that other people in the class seem just as nervous about this as I do. XD I have two female students, both ESL. One speaks Spanish, and the other Mongolian (and I cannot pronounce her first name at all >.>). I was kind of hoping for a language with a structure I know better, since I think that'd help me identify the sources for some writing issues that seem to come up, but it should be fine. I think my biggest worry right now is where exactly the first-day paperwork we have to fill out is in the tutoring room. XD

Other classes are going well. Music theory is turning out to be my most UGH NO class, not because I'm not interested in it, but because the teacher is not very good at teaching. I'm three points away from an A in Geography, absorb information in Art History like a good little sponge, think that ECE is a bit boring/common-sense but sort of interesting I guess, and pretty much love the Tutor Training class. It's really refreshing to have a class in college where everyone gets to know each other. Plus, I have my lunch buddy friend from Tokyo to talk Japanese/Chinese with. XD Even though it gets confusing.

Note to self: Remember that there is a usually a point in dramas that you are interested in where they start getting into what will be the Bigger Plot, and that it seems to occur around episode 4 or 5 and that you should not watch those on school nights because then you will want to know what happens and end up staying up too late. Also, four hours of sleep does not count as Alright, Enough just because it's only an hour away from five which is only an hour away from six which is A Really Good Amount of Sleep (but not really). -.-

Today, my hot chocolate with whipped cream not only had whipped cream but chocolate sauce and green sprinkles on it. :D

...clearly, I've been saving up a lot of babbling.

+ LiZ!Kai posts some cute pics. XD This one was sent to him by Ryou, I think.

+ On March 03, I will have had my LJ for five years, and in five entries (after this one), I'll reach 1,000 posts.

+ I think I landed on my finger funny last night in aikido; it's kind of swollen now.

+ I got 2.5 hours of sleep last night, the least amount of sleep in awhile. It's weird how lack of sleep somehow makes textures and patterns stand out a lot more, even while my brain feels kind of like mush.

+ It seems it was supposed to start raining again this week. I forgot. I looked outside, saw brightness behind the clouds (big looming clouds), went outside, decided it wasn't that cold, and so am now cold. As it is raining.

+ I don't remember last night's dream at all. I remember the night before's just enough to know that it wasn't horribly violent or otherwise traumatizing. I'm not sure if it got better that night because I was awake enough to meditate properly before falling asleep, or because I'd cried a fair amount that night. I used to cry myself to sleep a lot when I was younger.

+ There is a mourning dove in a surprisingly sturdy-looking nest outside. Mourning doves are notorious for building ridiculous nests that don't look like they should work at all, either because they're flimsy or on an unsteady surface.

+ Am back in my first RP fight after a good break. It's fun. I've got bonesetter and cattales (aka purplepink!Ueda who is half-cousins with GLAY's Takuro - PBs are fun - and FLH's Aaron), if any of you non-RP peeps are curious enough to click. Mm, violence.

+ I will go get lunch now, I think.

= GIP! Last night, I remarked upon Taku's pants at the Jack in the Box live, and dammitliv said, "Taku is awesome pants :D" and I decided it should be iconed. >.> He really is awesome pants, though.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Forgive my crappy touchpad writing, and my inability to spell Cantonese words. XD The mouse's name is Mousedude, and he's one half of the crime-fighting rodent duo named Hamsterman and Mousedude. He was created and drawn by one of my best friends/the co-author (I was Hamsterman), and scanned and traced and gifted with props by me, so don't steal it. Or him.

And as tagged by sugarless_666:

( The Seven Things Meme )

Also, if anyone is interested in Chinese Astrology and what it says about you (whether you believe in it, or are just curious), I'm going to throw out my annual-ish offer to work out peoples' profiles/fortunes-for-the-year. If you're interested, comment with:

Date of birth: MM/DD/YY
Time of birth: (rounded to the nearest half hour is fine; don't forget AM or PM!)
E-mail address:

And if you'd like to hear about your possible compatibility with another sign, also include their birthdate.

Comments are screened; those without horoscopal stuff in them will be unscreened. Remember to take these with a grain of salt; there are so many readings that by the end, you might have been told you're suited for a job in the arts, as a lawyer, a potter, a CEO, a restaurant host, a horse trainer, and everything in between. :P

First:

我贏!

XDDDDD

More to follow on that! Eventually. But it has to do with this new default icon. And a semi-new void where I actually understand bits of things without English subtitles (though Mandarin ones help!), and where last night's Word-That-Jumped-Out-At-Me was "bīng qí lín" ('ice cream') of all things. And how I think that we should all communicate via emoticon (I was going to attempt to write that bit in Chinese, but my grammar is so rusty, you're spared - for now). I wish I was better at outward squeeing. I squee a lot internally... >.>

Also, revenge for being pulled into that void known as Jpop. >.> Though I guess I'm not complaining too much.

And, just 'cause:

Look! I made a band!

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

You then take the pic and add your band name and the album title to it, then post your pic.

( ...very Windham Hill, methinks )

I'm seriously pondering a username change, and I am pretty sure of what I would change my username to which is a lot further along than I was when I mentioned this before. But do I want to pay LJ more than I already do, though? Do I want to continue having a username that is ultimately meaningless..?

I really need to get my sleeping patterns back on track. I was going to continue my attempt to do so tonight, but instead I decided that 4:30am was a brilliant time to start watching Kakure Karakuri, aka that drama special with glowery!Shige and IncrediblySpazzy!Yuuta and notevil!Chiaki Kuriyama and randomscrubby!Sugizo.

coiled_iris has pretty much covered all of the Shige flailing and I am trying to get to sleep before my mom gets up, so I will skip that. Mostly. Except to say that wow, despite thinking of his character as "Shige" the whole time, he was not Shige. Er, not the Shige I associate with Shige. Forcefed-takoyaki-in-the-morning!Shige. Yeah, not him.

I don't think I can ever take Yuuta seriously after this. Unless I watch Tatta Hitotsu no Koi again, but there's a chance I'll just see him and think FLAILFLAILFLAIL.

Sugizo so random. Nice attempt at facial hair, Sugizo.

I had a dork moment when Shige was all, "Look, it's Antares." and there was the bright red star in the 'scope. Scorpion! thought I, I wonder if it MEANS something. But it didn't. Antares is, by the way, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpio. I learned this through research for an X-men RPG. Yes indeed.

And my other dork moment/moment of hilarity was at the second of the Great Reveal At The End Of All Things. Because the music that they use is totally from Troy. It really, really is. At first I thought it was just the same/very similar chords, but no, it's from Troy. So I watched that whole scene while thinking of bronze armor and sand and Greek ships.

Yeaaaah. I've also bounced through some of the lives Iris sent, since I've seen them in pieces up on YouTube so I can skip around without being confused. And I watched Dream Boys, Yuukan Club, roughly half (though I'm skipping around a lot in this too) of the Tegomass (okay, not really) drama Gachibaka* because of the Tegomass, the first episode of Sapuri and the first half of the first episode of 1 Litre of Tears. Because I get curious about different things.

( Thoughts thus far, if anyone cares. Possible spoilers for D.Boys and Y.Club? )

* - It's basically Gokusen - or Gokusen 2, at least, which I'm assuming is a lot like the first one on a basic level - but with a co-ed class that is less anti-society and more utterly clueless/lazy, a more bumbly, male teacher, and with more variety in the types of trouble the students get into. And less beating up of the main cast of students. Its focus is more on the teacher as he helps different students each episode, so I've been skimming through some of that. But it has sullen, pouty, pseudo-badass Tego, and grumpy, happy-when-fed Massu (some things never change) thoughout, in varying doses. :P