So, I got bored and drew the Naruto RPG characters... and here they are, under the cut for your convenience.

( They're just wips... )

Leaving for Grandma's house and cousins, will be back eventually... possibly w/ an update about my actual Christmas.

Finished my Invertebrates final... It was not pretty. But it's over.

I have to say, realizing that you have a huge paper still due for the class that you just finished bombing a final in is the real-life equivalent of those video games where you barely defeat the final boss on your 92,870,982 try and then he rises up out of the remains of his tower in his final form and you've used up all your fairies and Princess Zelda is still not feeling like doing shit for you and your hand is starting to cramp because those damn N64 controllers were designed by Satan.

And yes, I still remember the frustrated screams of my cousins and brother back in the '90's when this happened to them after hours and hours of working to defeat Ganon the first time 'round. This pain is the same.

But I'm not worrying about that right now. I'm studying for genetics, which I have a much better handle on. Taking that tomorrow, then I have about two days to write this paper and pack up.

Well, in theory that's what I'm doing. Actually, I've had this very deep internal need for semi-angsty Parent!Fic (preferably with Hyuugas), so I'm trying to satisfy my need with the limited supply available.

I was going to buy some paraphenalia from the Bella Library for an X-mas present for a friend who may  or may not follow my LJ. If any of you at MHC know what happened to this item, please let me know?

I have spent the last 3 days attempting to study for this $&(*)@# inverts test, and I still have not made any progress.

I've given up on making flashcards, settling instead for making a list of all the groups we need to know and trying to memorize bits about all of them.

Going through my notes is like those old word problems they gave us in the first grade and we were supposed to underline the extra information. But instead of:
"Paul has three apples. Polly has four apples. Polly is wearing green socks. How many more apples does Polly have than Paul?"
I have things like,
"brain forms around proboscis. Some secondarily combine mouth + proboscis opening. Bdellonemerta clings to clam gills and eats food. 1800's, proboscis = notochord?". And SOME of the animals I have passing notes on will be included, and others will not.

Also our windows are so bad that I literally cannot sit at my desk because it is too cold to type over there. I've spent the entire day in bed w/ a heatpad. My feet are still cold.

And to the smartass who gave a big lecture after the last class about how "This is a 300-level and it's not supposed to be easy, and this is the same amount of work as any other 300-level," FUCK YOU AND YOUR NEED TO BE SUPERIOR. FUCK YOU WITH A HOLOTHURIAN. THIS WOULD BE A 300 LEVEL EVEN IF IT MADE SENSE.

I am not in a good mood.

I forgot to tell you all that Vespers: Boston was pretty cool. Spent most of it with Jen, since we're the only people in our circle of friends in Bell choir and nothing else.
The church we were at was absolutely beautiful! I wish I could have looked at it in more detail, but we spent most of our time confined in the balcony. Also, it was easily the best performance of our song that the bells have done all year. ^_^

We also hung around Boston... Kazie and I want to get an apartment there when I graduate and she switches schools, and it just sounds better and better all the time. Jac is considering moving out there... I offered to let her room with us... 'cause that won't be awkward for either her OR Kazie OR me if the two of them don't get along. Anyway, that's a long way off.

Finals are not actually eating me alive, but I'm also failing pretty spectacularly at this Invertebrate paper I'm supposed to be researching.

I'm starting to get upset about being gone all of Spring semester. Because a large chunk of my friends are graduating and when I think about saying goodbye to them for the last time I get all wibbly-eyed. On the downside, I'm all wibbly-eyed. On the upside, I'm pretty sure that I can force myself to burst into tears at a moment's notice any time I want a hug. I wonder if Stan would cut the paper down to 5 pages...

Apparently Jen has never seen me cry before... which is odd because I cry at the drop of a hat... I seriously had to refrain multiple times from weeping during The Hogfather. Which is about Death dressing up as Santa Claus. My point is it's very easy to make me cry. If you're a fictional character. Who is not dying. I don't cry for dead characters.

Well, I spent this weekend screwing myself over re: finals wishing I wasn't going to be across the world and away from MoHome next semester saying goodbye to my RP characters of the semester. I've become excessively fond of all of them, although I won't mind saying goodbye to Igor and Yuna, since I got some closure on them.

Hiz- er.. "Bruce" the XXXX Igor: after he and his fellows saved the libraries of the world, they were stranded on a desert island. And turned into cats. So he's a patchwork cat on a desert island. Screwy is also a small, bad-tempered cat. End Igor's story (although not the legacy of his lisp, which I still do from time to time).

Shota Warui: got kidnapped and thereby went from being the group's Fail!Naruto to the group's Sasuke. I'm having the most trouble letting him go, possibly because I'm going to be the plot of next semester and it's frustrating knowing I'll have to watch it from afar. (Not that Shota could exactly do anything anyway. He's been kidnaped.) I actually calculated when I would have to be online to skype in. 8:00 Sunday mornings. NOT gonna happen. T_T

Yuna: Managed to insult over half the court to their faces. It was a beautiful burn. She's now off to lay low until the fiasco's over... more-or-less indefinitely. End Yuna's story.

So there. End my semester of playing as many hours of game as I was taking credits of class. Never again.

*wibble*

(PS: Happy that the Sad!Neji mood icon has finally found a home in an entry appropriate to my mood.)

It's SNOWING SNOWING SNOWING!! And two of my classes are cancelled... although, sadly, not two in a row, so I just have awkward spaces of time to kill between my classes that were not.
( So I decided to update you. )

Well, good Thanksgiving, as always (Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, in case you didn't know. It's all about eating food. That's all. Just food and feeding people.)

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.

Last entry I forgot to mention the school-wide Thanksgiving Dinner.
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.

My, I haven't been keeping up with my LJ, now, have I?

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.

Based on Dan Green vs The Spiderwick Chronicles
Spread the meme!

This is the plan for next weekend, which is going to be EPIC.

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.

A found meme by raiding favorites on DA... eventually lead me to a stranger's blog... her answers were full of nerd-rage (I should have known something was wrong with her when she listed her favorite pairing as "ShikaTem" and her least favorite clan as "Hyuuga"), so I stopped reading, but I did intend to do the meme... until I filled it out and realized just how many of my answers were ridiculoulsy Hyuuga-centric and you already KNOW that part of my life.

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!

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
>Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
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.

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
>Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

"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? )

...which is good because I'm not really sure what other occasion it applies to.

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

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 one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

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. )

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

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! )

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

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. )

Thought I'd do this meme fromkazie_komikcat , because sometimes I have things I can share, too.

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

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. )

Well, my parents were up this weekend... they just left about an hour ago.

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.