Went to Grandmom's and made stuffing, green beans, and Aunt Barbara's Sweet Potatos, which you make by mashing some canned yams with a cup of brown sugar and a pound of butter. Best. Dish. Ever. (We also had bran rolls, turkey, and cranberry sauce, but I wasn't involved in the production of those.)
So we ate too much and then mom, Jake, and I took my grandparents' excitable little dog Rocky for a run to try and tire him out, which is impossible.
Yesterday I hung out with the Nuances. We went down to Borders, which, for the first time since records begin, HAD Monstrous Regiment. It also had the 1st volume of SoulEater, so there was Inner Conflict and Tough Decisions, but Monstrous Regiment won. So now I have TWO copies of Monstrous Regiment in my possession and my Borders gift certificate carries just a little less weight.
You're all going to read Monstrous Regiment. You may not like it, but you WILL do it.
Speaking of gender politics, there's one little section in our Borders devoted to "Gender Studies". The bottom three shelves of this section have books like "The Dominant Female" and things that sound fairly topical, and the top shelves were full of Penthouse "Erotic" novels. I was pissed. BORDERS FAIL.
GEESE IN FLIGHT!! GEESE IN FUCKING FLIGHT!!
(I felt nice and subversive buying a pro-feminist book from them. Perhaps this explains why it was so fuckin' hard to find?)
Anyway, good times with the Toast on Black Friday. Opened a bank account with Chase with Dad today, so I'm that much closer to being set to go to Australia. (PS: Discworld people; the guy setting up my account had been to Australia and told me to be careful about drinking XXXX brand beer. I lol'ed internally.)
Go back to MHC w/ Mom tomorrow. We're gonna read Monstrous Regiment. I'm no great shake with voices, but I can do Wazzer pretty well, and that's a start.
- Feelin':
disappointed
This was Thursday, ie after I had been up all night and was not thinking clearly. I met up with a bunch of friends and we had dinner. Jen (a sophomore that BethWanIa is trying to incorporate as our Neji as we need one quite desperately and she looks a lot like Beth), wanted me to check out a webcomic, so she borrowed a pen from Yiwan and wrote it on my arm.
- Feelin':
amused
So, here's the interesting-ish shit I've done since Seth Rogan and Nick Nolte.
TOMORROW (SATURDAY) IS THE HYUUGA RANT! SKINNER 216! 4:30! A THING OF BEAUTY!
Well, technically it starts at 4, but I want some people who are going to be at hanbells to be able to make it, so I'll be doing some delaying techniques. ^^
And with any luck I will be picked up for Thanksgiving on Tuesday and be home by Wednesday. We'll see. My parents don't like communicating.
- Feelin':
exhausted
Friday:
2:00 to 4:00 -ish: Pending me actually procurring a kitchen, the Discworld game and others will be making sea-cucumber shaped brownies. They will be frosted and have sprinkles. Because I want sprinkles. More info on this to follow.
4:00 to 8:00: Discworld, where Bruce the Igor will be recovering from having all the knowledge in the universe pumped into his brain at once.
9:30 -2:00: We Love the 90's party.
Saturday:
4-ish to 6-ish: THE 3rd semi-annual HYUUGA RANT. SKINNER. 216 or other unoccupied room. TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
7-10-? : Jeff's game, which is always epic.
Sunday:
4-6: The long-overdue anniversary of Yiwan's and my Exalted characters. ;-P
This weekend, however, will just be me and the members of Stan's Evil Invertebrates class researching leeches. And not a whole lot else.
- Feelin':
ecstatic
I know that I need to do some serious work over the weekend if I want to survive the next two weeks, but instead I spent the day on CollegeHumor watching trailers for Sims horror movies.
...So, anyone read Naruto 470? I got real excited because for a second there I thought Kisame told K.B. that he has pretty eyes (false alarm). I've been waiting for some canon on ItaKisa ever since Itachi's mysterious "lover" made the papers two years ago. Looking for ItaKisa is nice because there's no longer any sense in looking for NaruSasu canon. Seriously, they'll be announcing their engagement any chapter now. I can't ship NaruSasu anymore, because that's not shipping. That's standing on the dock.
Okay, I admit, I don't have anything to say. I'm just bored.
I'm thinking of making a list of my favorite romantic lines. Just 'cause. I'm real bored.
Uh, I found a very good internship that I'm going to try to get into in Columbus over the summer. That should be fun. And I can chill with Robert and the bros!
- Feelin':
blah
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
Well, I think that I've been very good about keeping fandom out of this meme, so I'm going to indulge myself with this:
A Comic starring muffins.
No pairings, just <3.
So, interesting stuff since my last post...
I noticed yesterday that I have 2 quizzes and four papers, all of which require research and all of which are large parts of my grade, due within a one-week span. So that's fun.
Also Beth and I coined the term "Cluffin," which was supposed to be a clove-flavored muffin but instead sounds really dirty.
I'm still on a Hyuuga kick... stronger than usual, that is. I'm trying to convince Beth and Yiwan to have a cupcake-baking party in costume so we can try to get pictures where I'm not smiling insanely.
Aaaaand the power went out this morning. Turns out my mircowave beeps after power outages until you re-set its clock. Most annoying thing ever.
- Feelin': blah
Day six: a quote
"I hate it when I can't gird my loins with funny animals" ~ Calvin & Hobbes
Well, today was pretty... normal. I stopped by the apartment and finally liberated my Hyuuga cosplay pictures from Chelsea... a surprisingly large amount of them involve me in great physical pain and Beth looking either very amused or slightly paranoid. I also have some pics from GYGO of my Maka costume, which is nice... Although, I really need to learn to take pictures before the dance when my hair is behaving itself.
Not much else happened aside from that.
( So... uh... wanna see my cosplays? )
- Feelin':
accomplished
Day one: a song
Day five: a youtube clip
This is long, but cool. Courtesy of my awesome little brother.
And I have no clue how to embed this thing, so you have to follow the link. Things, but very slowly.
( Halloween, in retrospect. )
Day four: a site
I'm sure most of you have seen this... but... I love it anyway. Emailsfromcrazypeople. Don't read the comments, though, because they're YouTube level of stupidity, for the most part.
...So, anyone at Bella last night is aware of my deep-seated contempt for Tsubaki (Soul Eater)'s backstory. I'm aware that the Hyuuga Angsty Backstory is not exactly original, but MY MUFFINS are in it, and Tsubaki and her brother are so sappy.
( My clan... let me tell you about it. )
- Feelin':
contemplative
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
My favorite fanfic on the entire internet, one that you must read. You just must.
Hey Ocarina! The Cheesy Zelda Musical
by Galaxy Girl.
It was originally a fanfic.net classic, but it was deleted for script format, a great injustice of the universe. It may very damn well be longer than any of the fics that you guys have rec'ed me that I've refused to read based on length. It is worth the time I have invested in it. It is a Thing of Ultimate Beauty and a must-read for anyone who played Ocarina of Time in place of having a childhood.
( This is madness! No, this is Halloween! )
- Feelin': cheerful
Day two: a picture
I went through deep thought and my DA favorites trying to decide what to share with you for this one. An under-appreciated Weiss Kreuz gem? Something procured from the internet-award-winning HizashiClub? A group portrait of my favorite people?
( Instead, a romantic picture of something I love very much. )
- Feelin':
artistic
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kazie_komikcat , because sometimes I have things I can share, too.Day one: a song
So many choices, even from a musically-stunted individual like myself! There's my newfound obsession, Suzanne Vega, and then there are all those Bob Dylan songs that aren't "Like a Rolling Stone," and then of course there's Flight of the Conchords, and MGMT...
But I've got to go with the one that I've been listening to at least once a day for the past two weeks and at least once a week since I found it over the summer:
Comfort Eagle by Cake (a band that lives up to its namesake by being delicious.)
We are building a religion
A limited edition
We are now accepting callers
for these pendant key chains
To resist it is useless
It is useless to resist it
His cigarette is burning
But he never seems to ash
He is grooming his poodle
He is living comfort eagle
You can meet at his location
But you better come with cash
Here's a Cowboy Bebop AMV for it that was decent... but the song's the point, right?
( And an update. )
- Feelin':
frustrated - Jivin' to::The Panda Song
They showed up Friday after I failed epically at keeping the Discworld game PG-13 as per Emma's request, but the request was because we thought her parents would be there, but they weren't, so my inappropriate jokes about my sea cucumber were fine.
(Igor, in case you're curious, has discovered that he's infected by Narration molecules and therefore is about as locked into his destiny as humanly possible. Jenna's vampire has more-or-less unofficially hired him on.)
(I've just realized that I have created a Hyuuga/Young Frankenstein crossover. MLIA.)
ANYWAY, parents up, not so stressful, really, although Dad did contrive to complain about the hotel room and location at every turn. We went to the Teapot, which was good because I've been craving me some sushi lately, and then we hung around the room and tried to find something on TV. Slept in until 12:30 as a unit on Saturday, so we woke up and went to Rao's. I had a cupcake and hot chocolate while wearing my half-assed L costume (because the L costume is actually just a normal outfit), and I amused myself by pretending that someone else would notice and write on their twitter, "Watching a girl dressed like L eat a large cupcake in character. MLIA."
It rained all day, so we stopped back at my room and watched The Worlds Drunkest Man Buys Beer, a 30 Rock, and an Office episode, because my mom and I are nerds that way, and then we walked around campus a little... nothing too exciting. We stopped at a bookstore in Amherst and I gravitated towards the cookbooks as per usual. Eventually we decided to get real food, so we went to Pasta E Basta, where I got a delicious calzone with just a tad too much ricotta (I have some dairy issues), but the important part is that I got a big slice of tiramisu afterwards. Tiramisu is my favorite, favorite, favorite dessert ever. I love it like Hyuugas.
Then we went to Paranormal Activity, which is REALLY well done! It's not terrifying, but it's plenty suspenseful and scary enough to give you a good adreneline rush. We all enjoyed it. We screamed at the end, but I scream for no reason, so it's not quite as impressive as Brad screaming.
And then today we got breakfast, walked around North Hampton, and then they dropped me off and left. And now I have a ton of homework. Ah well.
- Feelin':
giddy
Vegas Night was great fun. I won 500 tokens on Wheel of Fortune, drank some sodas with salty-sugary stuff around the rims, spoke briefly to a guy with an Australian accent, and snagged an entire pocketful of mini-Toblerone bars.
Get Your Geek On was also a success, and not even harmed by the fact that I had been up until 4:00 the night before. I was Maka... I've got to get some pictures of that cosplay. Good times. I borrowed Emma's scythe from her death costume, so I got to slowdance with that.
Alisa, Emma, Jen, Beth, and Betsy were Nac Mac Feegles from Discworld, which was pretty awesome. Actually, there were a lot of really good costumes this year, and only non-sketchy guys. It was pretty cool. And the turn out was much bigger than expected, so that's good, too!
Although, since there were no sketchy guys, I didn't get hit on. This may sound like good news, but being a turn-on for sketchy nerds is my one sexual thrill that doesn't involve animated ninja, so it's kind of a mixed bag.
I DID rock out to "I believe in a thing called love", which was fun.
(There's a video; if you notice Awkwardly-Dancing Maka, that's me. I'm also the last picture at the end. I like that I always have red eye. There's also some wonderful footage of the costume contest. A Dr. Who in my Invertebrate class won. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBoPHwTdo
GYGO was proceeded by a poorly-attended Harry Potter 2 Riff Track. The second movie riff is much better than the first, IMO. But also the second book and movie both have special places in my heart. (I <3 Tom Riddle and his ridiculous middle name and how he just tells Harry, "Yeah, I'm really fucked up, but therapy is expensive and killing people is cheap and fun.")
Monday Alisa had two prospies who were supposed to shadow her, but all her classes were cancelled, so I took them to my classes instead. They were pretty cool.
Also: Alisa is to Harry Potter what I am to Naruto. We spent Mon. evening quizzing her on random HP trivia and she knows what his father's wand is made of off the top of her head. I can't beat that shit.
The rest of the week was spent convincing myself not to freak the fuck out over my Invertebrate test, despite the other students having heart attacks around me. Fortunately, I'm lazy and smug, so this wasn't too difficult, although I didn't get much sleep the night before due to nerves. But I think I did okay... Allow me to qualify (Beth will probably not to speak to me if I'm too smug and/or beat her grade); I think I didn't do worse than anyone else in the class. If he curves it, I should be fine. If not, at least Beth will continue to be my friend.
My parents and my little brother are coming up for the weekend!!! They should be here tomorrow, although no one's told me anything, so I'm not sure when. I should write my paper on fruit flies before that, but instead I'm at SciFi night watching Empire Strikes Back. I took a nap earlier. It was great.
I'm not exactly sure why I'm excited; it's bound to be stressful as hell, but whatever I love my family anyway.
- Feelin':
nerdy
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In other news, HORRIBLE day.
I mean, I knew that I wouldn't get much sleep and that my essay would be horrible. I was not counting on Stan wanting us to read them aloud. Fortunately, an austute senior threatened to cry-for real- if he insisted, so I didn't have to.
Invertebrate Zoology is the worst course I have ever taken in my life. There's no structure to it, I don't understand what's going on half the time, everyone in the class is smarter than me, I never know the answers to any of the questions he asks in class, and I can't draw. So spending all of Thursday in this class with under 5 hours of sleep in my system, was not good... especially when we got to lab and I couldn't find a single organism on any of the pondwater slides I made. I feel bad, 'cause Stan's a very nice guy and he's expecting people who are really interested and self-motivated to take the class... ie not me.
So after a hellish day, I went down the apartment to see if anyone was interesting in flyering for GYGO (WHICH IS THIS SATURDAY, 10-2, BLANCHARD, BE THERE!!!), because all of our flyers got taken down for no particular reason and we're already fucked since we're competeing with Vegas Night (the biggest party of the year) on Friday.
Anyway, everyone was busy and I was tired and cranky, so I went home... but not before my friends who are going to Vegas Night told me that they bought tickets for the alcohol-free event, which was cheaper. I had already bought the more expensive alcoholic ticket for myself. FML.
Also, the students selling tickets refused to exchange my ticket, even though they're trying to encourage people to go to the non-alcoholic event, so there's $30 bucks down the drain just to go to a fuckin' party the same weekend as another party. I'm going to try and scalp my other ticket, but still. F.M.L.
We still have to flyer tonight, even though its cold and dark and I'm tired and no one wants to do it with me.
Anyway, I got a nap in, which was nice, and then mom called and I complained to her. She sent me a package! I still have to go pick it up, but it was nice to get some good news. Today has been a fucking nightmare.
In other news, at 2:30 in the afternoon, James Cook University in Australia accepted me into their study abroad program. And, even though it was 2:300 in the morning here, I still got the email the minute they sent it. I'm excited.
- Feelin':
bitchy - Jivin' to::Me, Myself and I ~Vitamin C
-"I look just like Princess Zelda. How is it even possible that I'm single?"
-"If you were to write a play based on Neji's backstory, the character of Neji would be entirely optional."
- "I've officially lowered my standards from 'makes some scientific sense' to 'makes some gramatical sense'."
-"I've unofficially lowered my standards from 'makes some gramatical sense' to 'is almost the required length when put on 2.2 spacing.'"
See what the world is missing out on?
- Feelin':
stressed
Afterwards Beth asked me why I hadn't brought tissues and told me not to come to Discworld. I don't think she believes that this is the healthiest I've felt all week.
Last night I was telling my roomie about the bizarre relationship I had with the boy who was eventually 4th in our class, and how my dad thinks he's a snob but his parents were always trying to get us to hook up. We realized, pretty much simultaneously halfway through this story, that my friendship with Dylan was the plot of a Draco/Hermione fanfic. I'mma write it.
( Cut for my Naruto fantasy life. )
Also:
Alisa: Oh my god. I'm twenty years old.
Me: You know, Sponge Bob has been on for ten years. That's half of our life.
Alisa: AH! Why don't they cancel it?!
Me: Naruto's been around that long, too.
Alisa: Yeah, but that makes sense. Naruto has a plot.
...
Like I said, Alisa doesn't follow Naruto.
Also this:
Bella girls
Make ends meet.
They're very good
At squishing seats.
Burma Shave
- Feelin':
sick
PS: I spent my weekend playing three distinctly different, but very social, characters, each with different mannerisms, thought processes, backgrounds, and goals. I'm developing multipersonality disorder and my voice is going. Also I'm not as socially-competent as any of them (with the possible exception of Igor), and it's putting a strain on my antisocial personality.
You Are 5: The Investigator |
 You're independent - and a logical analytical thinker. You love learning and ideas... and know things no one else does. Bored by small talk, you refuse to participate in boring conversations. You are open minded. A visionary. You understand the world and may change it. At Your Best: You are sharp, inventive, and creative. You have the skills to lead the world. At Your Worst: You are reclusive, weird, and a bit paranoid. Your Fixation: Greed Your Primary Fear: Being useless or incompetent Your Primary Desire: Being competent and needed Other Number 5's: Bill Gates, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Bjork, and Stephen Hawking. |
Also, flyering for GYGO was crazy fun. Yiwan, Hannah, Chelsea and I were supposed to cover both UMass and Amherst College in the rain. We walked around Amherst and that was fine, and then we decided just to drive throuhg UMass (since it's fuckin' huge) and just put flyers up at the bus stations. But I was wearing my rainjacket (which is the type of thing you wear to flash someone, and Hannah was wearing Chelsea's hoodie that zips all the way to the top of your head, so Hannah would zip up the hoodie, jump out of the car (which was black with tinted windows), look left, look right, then motion me out. I would whirl out, coat flapping everywhere, run into the bus station, slap the poster on (Yiwan having previously taped it), and then jump back in the car and we would drive off. We were quite the spectacle. Also I was sopping wet by the end of the drive because I was moving too fast to look for puddles. We're so excited for next flyering time.
- Feelin':
sore
...
So, right, about Maine!
( Tsop Gnol is long. )
PS: if you just type in "9 theme" on Project Playlist, a bunch of Naruto stuff comes up. Oh, 9-tails. I choose you. Except I don't. I just want to listen to music that reminds me of little sack dolls saving the world. Why won't you let me have this?!
- Feelin':
Real Obnoxious - Jivin' to::Welcome Home Instrumental ~Coheen and Cambria
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Kalliope Starmist: Never Convicted
This is Kallie in Kallie!Vision:
This is Kallie in Real!Vision.
Any questions?
KalliopeStarmist:
- Supports the Hyuugas
- Bellatrix Librarian
- is can be flewent in lolcat
- Voted Vetinari/Ironfoundersson'08
- Writes questionable fanfiction
- May need you to play twing-twang.
MUFFIN LEVELS:
0) The Double-Chocolate Muffin (N/A)
1) The Chocolate Chip Muffin (Neji)
2) Lemon Poppyseed Muffins (i.e. Kamina, V)
3) Corn Muffins (i.e. Sanzo, Kankuro)
Delicious with:
a) Jam (slash)
b) Butter (het)
4) Granola Muffins (i.e. other Hyuugas)
This is Kallie in Real!Vision.
Any questions?
KalliopeStarmist:
- Supports the Hyuugas
- Bellatrix Librarian
- is can be flewent in lolcat
- Voted Vetinari/Ironfoundersson'08
- Writes questionable fanfiction
- May need you to play twing-twang.
MUFFIN LEVELS:
0) The Double-Chocolate Muffin (N/A)
1) The Chocolate Chip Muffin (Neji)
2) Lemon Poppyseed Muffins (i.e. Kamina, V)
3) Corn Muffins (i.e. Sanzo, Kankuro)
Delicious with:
a) Jam (slash)
b) Butter (het)
4) Granola Muffins (i.e. other Hyuugas)