Well, as some of you may be aware, summer is the season wherein I get all mopey because I'm no longer happily busy with college and then PMS happens and I remember that I am going to be single more-or-less for the majority of my life. It's odd, because my favorite complex fantasy of an ideal life doesn't involve a significant other... at all... possibly because this will give me plenty of opportunity to mope about it. Hey, a gal's got to have a hobby. Also "doesn't" isn't on firefox's spellcheck. Neither is firefox, isn't, or spellcheck.
So I was happy that sakuraberries found this. ^^

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Right, quick overview of my weekend because either you know what happened or you don't really care.
Went to visit my grandparents and their little dog Rocky. Rocky is just a year old, and he's adorable, but a little much for my grandmother to handle sometimes, so Mom drives up now and again and tries to tire him out. So I played with Rocky and we watched Hairspray. Grandmom was greatly amused to see John Travolta and Christopher Walken tango. I'd forgotten how good that movie makes me feel.

Then back home for July 4th with the Nuances. Set off some incredibly dangerous fireworks that we got for about $3 apiece. Being 18, man, let me tell you. We almost set fire to the maple in my backyard. Pretty wonderful. Also Kazie brought one of the Naruto games with Hanabi in it. Man, there is something deeply sick about having a seven-year-old girl trying to hold her own against a bunch of teenaged ninjas. Naruto, played by Kazie, beat the ever-loving shit out of this little girl (played by me), and it was amusing as only child abuse can be.

But the real reason I'm writing is that I had a beautiful dream while at my grandmom's.
I dreamed that for some unfathomable reason, Neil Gaiman decided that I was All Right, and invited me over to stay at his house for a week or something. So, he was in his study writing, and I decided to help out and do some filing (as you do), and I noticed that I had three library books sitting there that I should return. One was Neverwhere, which I hid extremely quickly because it seemed a bit of a faux pas to be reading it at Neil Gaiman's place, y'know. The other two were Terry Prachett books, which I didn't hide fast enough, because Neil asked about them, and I explained that I read through an author's stuff and then move on to the next (I also admitted that he was the one I was working on at the moment, and hoped very feverently that he didn't make the connection to Good Omens). Anyway, he called up Terry Prachett and handed the phone to me. I, of course, was as embarrassed and thrilled as all hell about this.
So, I told Terry that I had a friend (Beth) who would kill me out of jealousy when she found out about this. Couldn't hear a damn thing he said, as it was an overseas call on a land-line, but I was too embarrassed to care. We had a brief conversation about Monstrous Regiment (he said it was his most boring book. I disagreed. Respectfully.) and then I handed the phone back to Neil, and then Rocky came in and I played with him while the authors talked.

Anyway, I woke up extremely disappointed, because now I couldn't tell Beth how awesome I got to be... because it was just a dream and that's not impressive at all.

For those keeping track, Friday was Neji's birthday, so I wrote him a filthy smut fic.
Saturday was Baki's birthday, so, as is traditional on Baki's birthday, I set off fireworks in my backyard, ate Chinese food, played Hanabi on a video game, and had an intense game of Uno with my friends.

As a completely unrelated sidenote that has nothing to do with the above post, I finished American Gods today. (Nothing at all to do with above post. Nothing.)

I showed my parents the Twilight Rifftrax. My mom thinks it's a cute romance and my dad thinks that Bella's integration into Forks High was very insightful and realistic. Neither of them will say it's a bad movie. I've turned my parents into Twiligh fans. FML.

Public service announcement: There are some serious side effects to watching Twilight  three times in a row, Rifftrax or no. I've become seriously attatched to the side Cullens and almost considered reading the books in the hopes that I could find out more about them. This passed... kinda. I no longer want to read the books, but I still really like Side!Cullens. It was for the best that we had to return it. Hopefully after a few weeks I'll be able to watch it again... certainly by September.
</last mention of vampires for a very long time while I kick this addiction>

Friday is a very special day! Can you guess what it is? I've got a quick fanfic in the works for it! (And I have the day off work, too!)

I'm also going to my Grandma's tomorrow and hanging out with the Toasts for the 4th. Lots of fun.

So, Meme from kazie_komikcat.
( Things you're dying to know about me... )

Right, so let's do the update in order:

( Vamps, Exercise, and a Party )

Exciting weekend, though.

So, I'm downloading the Twilight Rifftrax. It looks HILARIOUS. They talk about tenticle hentai in the preview clip (NOT EVEN JOKING!). Dad and I are going to watch it.  I expect that Dad will not like it, and when I go to agree, he will tell me that he can't tell why I didn't like it, because the Twilight Movie looked to him like everything about that fantasy/sci-fi tripe that I like. Then he'll ask me what the hell my problem is when I get angry at him.

(I know I sound pessimistic and whiny, but he did this very thing about 4 hours ago when I told him that I want to buy the Harry Potter RiffTrax because the Harry Potter movies are horrific. I am very sick of my father telling me that my interests are invalid unless he shares them and/or tells me what they should be. But I am comforted, because he had to go into a video rental store on his own and check out Twilight, a stain which will never be erased from his video rental card memory.)

Speaking of vampire romances, Mom and I finished True Blood. Is something wrong with me? Why do I seem to be the only person on earth who's turned on by equal partnerships? Can't we both wear pants?  Or skirts? I really like skirts.
But I'll do a seperate post to explain why vampires besides the clitter kind tend towards the made-of-fail once they get involved with lonely and abrasive human women.

I've been trying to find a list of the songs in Princess Tutu. I found one that looks fairly comprehensive, but I'm not sure if that's true... or even if it IS a list of songs, since it's entirely in Japanese except for the German bits. (The WIkipedia article on Princess Tutu is severely lacking. I call on someone with some knowledge of ballet to correct this immediately!)

In any case, my quest lead me to watching Fantasia clips on YouTube, and now I really want to see Fantasia again. (I'd forgotten the part where all the dinosaurs die.) Also, I have the sheet music for Blue Danube on the piano. I've been wanting something to learn to play really well before my fingers rust from spending all my time online and I forget whatever it is that I've learned, so that's a fun project for me.

So, that's what's shaking on my end. Music that inspires ducks to turn into prima donnas and new-age MST.

Well, I'm two decades old today. ^^ That's fun.

Spent all week baking for Epic Teaparty.

See, I figure that 20 means that I'm an adult, and I get to decide what that means.

So, Epic Teaparty, I spent all week baking, and then Mom and Dad helped me move our table out into the backyard, and the Nuances and I dressed up pretty and had tea.
Actually, that's a lie. Emmy and I dressed up pretty, Merrill dressed like a rave!stripper with EPIC red furry leg warmers, Taffy dressed up for a nice Women's Society Tea with LSD and Brad wore a tie and a t-shirt.

Anyway, because I spent so much time on it, here's the menu:
Blackberry turnovers (or "Fruity Hotpockets" as Brad put it)
Almond cake with chocolate frosting (Actually, the frosting was just sour cream and chocolate chips... It didn't taste like it at all.)
Chocolate ravioli (which we all agreed was "interesting" but nothing to rave about.)
Cucumber sandwiches (of course)
Bruschetta (which was delicious!)
Tea. (Yeah)

And it was good. First time I've had a birthday party in my backyard since I was a little girl.

Emmy got me a harlequin romance called "A Night with the Rebel Billionaire." It's fantastic. It contains the most painful-sounding consensual, non-kinky sex scene I have had the honor to read.
Taffy got me volume 33 of Naruto. I now have vol. 3, 4, 5, and 33. (Nothing particularly happens in vol. 33... she just got an extra copy by accident and decided to unload it on me.) Also a borders gift certificate, which is nice. ^^

We hung out at my place, then Merrill got hot in her stripper outfit, so we went back to her place to change and play with her puppy... and then back to my place for bad pr0nz, and then the House of Wines for dinner (Taffy got some lasagna which turned out to be a problem later on down the road), and then to Wal*Mart for hangin' around.

Found some bird earrings! It's so hard to find bird-themed stuff. It's all butterflies and stuff. XP Nobody loves my muffins. Also, there was a DeathNote T-shirt for sale there, and that scared me because... well... I DON'T WANNA BE MAINSTREAM!
I realize that with all the geeks from the 80s and 90s, the ones who know the 'tubes, growing up, that nerdy is going to become the norm, but I'm just not ready for that day. (Well, maybe a little...) I 've just gotten so used to being a subculture.

So, today was my birthday and father's day... so naturally nothing of great interest happened. Made a pear chiffon pie for him. Almost screwed that up royal, which put me in a bad mood, but I was tired and burnt out, and having to wake up on my birthday to go to Dad's church (which wasn't so bad, really) did nothing to help my mood.

But Dad and I went on a bike ride and that was good... and then I went to mom's and slept, and that was also good.
...and Mom made me a chocolate cake with chocolate filling and chocolate buttercream... Yeah. That was good.

In non-birthday news, I'm feeling a little out-of-place now that Cloud does things. Cloud used to be Hyuugaphile-exclusive territory (which was mildly ironic), and now Cloud is something that everybody knows about. Tsk.

So, um... Yeah. I'm 20 now... and I have a nice fetish for bad pr0nz, and one day I'm going to wake up and be completely average.

For Beth and Yiwan, a conversation snippet:

Me: I need to show you pictures of my Hizashi cosplay. I looked creepily like him. It was amazing.
kazie_komikcat: So you really did deserve that Neji stamp on narutomirror ?
Me: That stamp was for making a hot porno with Neji.
Kazie: ... Oh.
*awkward pause*
Kazie: So, like I asked, you really did deserve that Neji stamp?

Eventually I'll get pics of that cosplay, too.

Wow, I'm sorry, guys. I've been hyper-angry for like  four days or something (thus the last post). I dunno what's wrong with me. I've been getting all worked up over stupid things, like Sakura-bashing and the ongoing slander of Hinata's shining personality by her fangirls (Sorry, Kazie, I know I've been taking it all out on you).

Anyway, my mom finished her exams today, so we watched two episodes of Princess Tutu and I'm better now. (Princess Tutu is about the best thing on earth.)

Today I walked down to the library to return Neverwhere (Oh my god! Neverwhere is AMAZING!!! I read it in less than a week!), and then I went looking for some Diana Wynne Jones (as you do)... and the library apparently closes early on Fridays, so they announced that they would be closing in three minutes, so I thought I would just grab a book and check it out real quick and figure out what I was reading later...
And this librarian comes by, looks at me, and says (and I quote) "They're turning off the computers in three minutes. You don't have time to check that out."
She more-or-less told me to put the book down NOW and get out. Which I understand... I mean, who wants to stay overtime on Friday? but still, it was almost comically pathetic, that I got snapped at to stop reading by a librarian. It wasn't a big deal at all, but mom and I got a kick out of it. Especially since I could easily have checked that book out in less than three minutes.

Katie: When you're a librarian, just say "The library is closing soon." or "You may not have time to check that out." Not "We're closing. Get out." ...but I don't think I need to tell you that. ^^

By the way, friends at school: I miss all of you guys so much!!!! It's contributing to my weirdly-angry mood.

Right, so my mom got True Blood out on Netflix and we watched it today.

If Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Vampire Knight got together and had a wild, drunken orgy on the set of Interview with a Vampire, the photos that showed up on Facebook the next day would be True Blood.

I didn't say I didn't like it, note. We're ordering the next disc. It was definitely interesting and well done, and that's something coming from someone who is so completely jaded by the Vampire Romance genre in general. (Unless it's MalXPolly, of course!)

I do gotta say, though, I'm surprised Stephanie Meyer didn't sue their ass for the Lead-Character-Can-Read-Everyone's-Thoughts-Except-For-The-Romance-Interest (which is what qualifies them to be the romance interest in the first place). I mean, yeah, the girl has the ability so she's sort-of on level ground with the Vampire Guy, and it's better developed than Mr Cullen's magic powers, but that's still a little closer to plagarism than I'm comfortable with. I'd've sued their ass.

Also, just as a little side rant, I thought I'd say something positive about Twilight. I've never read Twilight. I have no intention to ever read Twilight. But I watched the movie and I've had the plot told to me.

So I'm gonna say this:
I think the sparkling vampires is a really original, clever, and interesting idea. It's totally new, it makes sense enough, and it proves that a little thought and creativity went into the whole thing.

Also, I feel like the violent anti-Twilight sentiment is a little overdone. Seriously, guys? We're fuckin' fandom, we spend our time arguing whether Vash or Naruto would be seme if they hooked up. Who are we to judge?
It's a romance. It's not exceptionally well written or anything, but it's romantic. It's a teen vampire romance, what do you really want from it? People don't read it for the plot or the magnificent characters. They read it 'cause they want a nice escapist fantasy about a girl not very different from them who just happens to have the coolest selection of weird boyfriends ever. Get over it.

(I'm talking, of course, about the first book. The last three are creepy and disgusting and it disturbs me greatly that a whole group of preteen girls really think that love means jumping off cliffs and having babies eaten out of your uterus. But other than that, whatever.)

Right, so that's Kallie's view on Vampire Romance. (my little brother just said "Vampire Bromance" and I think that sounds like the coolest thing ever. I'd read that.)

So, weekend:
My dad got me a bike! It's a real nice one... bit of a fixer-uper, though (it didn't come with brake cables, for example, so we had to put them on ourselves).

Also went to see Up withkazie_komikcat  Saturday. It was really sweet. I cried practically the entire movie. I'm such a sap.

excessivekallie is just a little bit closer to epic levels, as I updated my profile to include some choice review quotes of mine. I then went on an icon-search, which proved mostly unsuccessful and left me thinking of ways to incorporate Arrested Development quotes onto Hyuuga icons.

I have a request for my flist... at least, for some of my flist (I assume that you'll know who you are when you read the request.);
I'm a little stuck on a story involving Naruto, Neji, and a bonsai. Could you guys rec me some good sex?
kthnx

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My mom is watching Princess Tutu with me. (She likes it. She says it's what every girl taking ballet thinks being a ballerina should be.) I have good news for Bella members: It's not just us! Mom was making comments about Fakir and Mytho's overtly-BDSM relationship by the end of the first episode! (I think it was the lack of pants that tipped her off.)

(PS: I've become the person going "No, no, Fakir's cool! He's cool, man!" to the person going "OH GOD! ABUSE!" ... a role-reversal which I expect happens to anybody who has Tutu shown to them, and then shows it to someone else... and let's face it, that's about the only way that Tutu gets around. Princess Tutu is the perfect name for that anime, because it turns it into this bizarre underground thing where you have to be initiated because you would never be caught watching it on your own.)

Well, back to work at my dad's office. ("We employ family values here. Almost as often as we employ family members.") It's going pretty well. They took over another office's cases over the last year, so they're completely swamped. They've got the talking-on-the-phones-and-having-people-skills parts covered, though, so as far as I can tell they've hired me to do filing. I love filing. And they need someone to do it. They're way behind.

For the curious and concerned, here are my hours (for now, anyway);

Mon: 10-4
Tues: 3-7
Wed: 3-7
Thurs: 12-5
Fri: 10-4
(cue stalker)

My little brother has his license. I do not. (Is the fail child). He's been driving me to work. It's a little effeminating, to be honest. Anyway, we talked about porn in the car. He's watched 2 Girls 1 Cup. I was so proud. He's an okay kid, really.

I know I promised picspam. It's just a pain to get stuff off my camera. Later.

Well, I'm in a Mircotel in NY with my dad. I'll be home sometime late-ish tomorrow. (Toastlings?)

Full-length Anime Boston update later. It was WONDERFUL! Pictures forthcoming. Also AMV links, hopefully.

The Hyuuga cosplay went off without a hitch... except for the hitch that nobody actually recognized us, but this was fully expected. We had a mini-photoshoot of us when we got back last night, and Beth, Yiwan, Hannah, Melissa, and Chelsea humored me, and it was the best present of my life. There will be picspam.

He's a Nobel prize-winning umbrella-wielding matador living undercover at Ringling Bros. Circus. She's a time-travelling nymphomaniac schoolgirl with a knack for trouble. They fight crime!

He's a fast talking dishevelled hairdresser on a mission from God. She's a blind gold-digging pearl diver operating on the wrong side of the law. They fight crime!

He's a lonely gay vagrant with a secret. She's a plucky antique-collecting single mother with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!

She's a sarcastic internet pirate with a taste for trolling. She's an awkward fanfic-writer overcome by an obsession with the Hyuugas. They fight crime! They're not very good at it!

www.theyfightcrime.org

The first one's my favorite. I'd read that.

Also, Soul Eater is kinda amazing and everyone should read it. (Although I should warn you ahead of time that it's not really "only 61 chapters", because all of the chapters are a soul-sucking 40 pages long.)

 I listened to "A Needle Through A Bug" about three times in a row and now I ship Graverobber/Shilo so hard that I went to ff.net and looked for fic. I didn't find any, and I'm very upset about this.

Exams update: I was up all night finishing my creative writing portfolio, so I was completely burnt out today. I should take my chem exam tomorrow. I haven't studied. That will be an adventure, I'm sure.

Anime Boston update: Went to the fabric store with imasupermuteant and studyingstones2 , and we bought the fabric for hippygeek 's robe, which is highly important to me. I also found and bought some silky white fabric... there's a fancy dress ball at AB, and I decided to throw together a nice kimono for it (despite how weird kimonos look on me)... I'm going as a ghost. ^^

Also tried on the the complete Hizashi cosplay for the first time today, and it looks surprisingly well planned. It looks like a cosplay, which is pretty fabulous, considering that it's just Neji's dad in his PJs.

Oh, and on Saturday bookwyrmy and I want to do Maka and Death the Kidd. VERY EXCITED FOR THAT, as well. Things are coming up roses.

Oh, except for the Chem test that I'm not studying for.

I got my letter from the college yesterday; they're going to fund me to go to Australia! (happy face)

We're 98% sure how I'm getting to Anime Boston and who's going to feed me in the meantime.

I have a baked potato.

I should be revising my creative writing portfolio, which is difficult because I have no desire to look at any of the pieces I wrote ever again. This is made more worrisome by the haunting notion that he's grading this based on the effort we put into revising. (Not really fair: I can't help it that everything I write is completely perfect the first time.)

I bought a RiffTrax short yesterday: Drugs are like that. It's about two intensely-stupid amnesiac children playing with legos and comparing drug use to harmless things, like babies.

I own the Repo! soundtrack now. I listen to it when I'm taking out the trash. I like to burst into the kitchenette and pretend that instead of taking out trash, I'm actually disemboweling Buckland residents who didn't pay GeneCo and think that their used Kleenex are recycleable. Oh, and that the stairwell is an appropriate place to leave half-eaten bananas.

It is a little awkward when I burst into the room, arms waving passionately to express the great emotional turmoil that Nathan and I are feeling, and notice suddenly that there's a girl in there microwaving her EZ-Mac and that she's staring at me, clearly very concerned at my behavior. (This is a true story.)

OK! So my life is dull and uninteresting! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!

Well, happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone!

Except not really, because it's cold and wet and depressing up here, and I'm full of cramps and therefore am feeling less than optimal.

Good news;
-Alisa and I have a GREAT room next year. It's in S. Rocky, and it's got a really nice window and more space than we really honestly need. I'm a little apprehensive to be back in the Rockies, to be honest. I feel like without the old crowd there, it won't be the same. And it's mostly singles, too. But I do miss seeing John at dinner every day, and it will be nice to be in a dorm that's ON the green, as compared to Buckland, which is a long, cold, wet, time-consuming walk there.

-Classes end on Wednesday, and then there can be epic reading day shenangians.

-There were white violets outside Rocky on my way home. I picked one. It's odd, I've never seen one before.

-Updated Mrs Sakura on Sunday night. So far no crazy reviews worth sharing, sadly. I wish that fic was over.

-Kazie, is it my turn to work on Epic?

So:

http://www.rifftrax.com/

Nuances: We need to buy some of these for the summer. I'm especially interested in Twilight and Harry Potter, as well as the shorts about veneral disease.

Last day of Vampire today.
I'm going to miss Newf and Tonie so much. I just love them way too much.