Happy birthday, Mom!
Apr. 5th, 2006 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuToday was definitely decent. Certainly an improvement over yesterday, even if today got off to a bad start.
Again, the sheets and heat pad and warm surroundings seemed like absolute luxury this morning, and I was quite reluctant to make leave of them. But, alas, the alarm went off, and my brain recognizes that alarm as the end-all of my existence in the world of sleep. So, I got up. I made my lunch as usual and gathered things for Anime Club, and got into the car earlier than usual because I was tired and sincerely didn't want to deal with anyone or anything at that particular moment.
Mom definitely started the day off badly by going on an Aries-warpath-rant. It started off as her saying I need to finish my Japanese course soon (despite the fact that I have until July and honestly have no reason to finish it promptly), which somehow then branched into everything that I'm apparently neglecting and all the aspects of my personality that she doesn't like. I reasonably explained about sixteen times that I wish she wouldn't yell at me in the morning, that I was half-asleep, that it would be nice if she could leave me to listen to my music so I could wake up in peace, and that it depressed me when she did that, but that caused her to become even more angry. So, she pretty much yelled at me the whole car ride. ._.; About nothing, to be completely honest, too. Ryan even started trying to calm her down and get her to stop criticizing me at such length (and started crying in the process), but she was still extremely angry. So...um...sensitive Pisces don't do well with these sorts of long-winded criticisms, especially when they were as pointless as these ones.
Not the best start to the day, but I determined I wouldn't let it get to me too much.
It was snowing from the time I was in the car to the end of second period, so that was really pretty and nice. ♥
There was no Chamber Choir today and I quickly discovered that neither Cody nor KK were at school (which caused my mind to automatically go into wild imagination mode. Luckily, I think my imaginings have now been confirmed as false...I think). Selah was crying with Nicole in the choir room for some unknown reason. I wanted to go comfort her about whatever she was upset about, but I felt that I might be imposing myself into a situation where I didn't belong, and also that I really needed to get to class right away. So, I hope she feels better. I hope nothing happened that was too upsetting. ;_;
I worked on my art project for all of first period (or at least the parts that I wasn't delivering stuff for Mr. Baxter) while listening to the Arjuna soundtrack. For the first bit of the period, I was dead-set on angsting excessively as long as possible, but I suppose a mixture of the Arjuna music, working on my project, and talking to Ben and Jessie dispelled that part of my mood for the most part. So, I ended up in not too bad of a mood after all.
During second period, we again watched more of the video on media bias in the Iraq war, I was again fascinated and uplifted by the sudden onset of intelligence in my classmates, and I was again nodding off during the video. It was really interesting--don't get me wrong, I was definitely interested--but I was also rather tired and couldn't help wanting to fall asleep in the middle of the class. That lasted all period.
I was still rather sluggish-feeling during PE, which was not good seeing as we ran ten laps. ._.; I spent most of the basketball game thinking about this one song I used to listen to all the time and relate to Pokémon, which made me really, really nostalgic (in a good way, though), so now I wish I had the CD with me. I'll have to burn it again once I borrow it from Dad... I think I'm the only one who makes these connections, but the song gives me downright shivers when I visualize this whole thing in my mind. If footage existed for the things I'm picturing, I'd totally make an AMV to it. Anyway, thinking about that made me remember a simpler, more magical time in my life that I don't think I revisit enough nowadays.
I now have a Totoro Catbus plushie I didn't even know I had hanging off my computer. It makes me happy. ♥ I just randomly found it in a box the other day and was like "WTF, where'd this come from?!" It's so cute. :D
During Lunch, Zoe put up the [brilliant as usual] Anime Club poster, and we discussed True Naruto Style and Snakes on a Plane and other crack with people. 'Twas beautiful, I must say. I can't believe there's going to be a True Naruto Style: The Movie! It's even supposed to possibly premier at Fanime! :DDD That's exciting. More crack-tastic-ness, man! ...I think I forgot to mention True Naruto Style: The Movie to Zoe, though, because I got too distracted by Snakes on a Plane. >.>
I worked for all of the period in fifth. Not too much to say about that. Makayla and I discussed cosplay, and...that's about it. Most of us were working today, really.
Sixth, we just discussed Great Expectations. Mrs. Mclean gave us a rather large chunk of an assignment tonight--more than fifty pages. :O Ack.
I panicked about the huge amount of reading (I somehow got it in my head that we might go to Roseville today, which we didn't) and decided not to go to Anatomy (seeing as my people weren't there and the class is generally too loud for me to get much reading done), so I went to the library and spent the whole period reading quite intently. I started seriously almost nodding off during it, but this is not to be blamed on the book, which is fascinating. I was just rather tired, I guess.
Anime Club went decently this week. We showed a clip from Otaku Unite! and then showed AMVs for the rest of the period (seeing as the club voted to do so). They all wanted to watch Lee vs. Gaara, but I didn't really want them to because I think it's much better in context and...y'know, when you have time to watch the whole fight. Which we didn't. I wish they'd actually request to watch something that's...not Naruto. I mean, I absolutely adore Naruto (anyone who knows me can personally attest to this), but--it's Anime Club, not "Naruto Club". It would be nice if they could broaden their horizons past the things that they show on Cartoon Network Adult Swim to begin with. >.>
I talked to Kirstin (and later David Bass and Rachel Ramey, who showed up in mid-conversation) about Kino's Journey and other anime for a little while, before Mom picked me up.
From there we went to my seamstress, who actually seems really excited about my costume. I hunted down a pattern for the body part of the costume, created original patterns for the paw-gloves and tail, and we started formulating ideas on the head and boots and such. It's all going quite well right now. :D I'm going to be so furry and have so much fun--I can't wait. ^_^ It's nice I found a Naruto character that's so rarely cosplayed, too. I won't be surprised if I'm the only Akamaru at Fanime and probably even Anime Expo.
I was all fired up about my costume, so I wanted to go to Cinderella's to see if I could find a mask to use as a base for the head, but Mom said it was probably closed and wanted to go straight home. So we did.
Ryan and I gave Mom her birthday presents, which she really liked, I discovered that there are a ton of anime I can watch On Demand for free, Ryan and I watched a really horrific true story about five people stranded on a raft surrounded by sharks for days (two of the people became so delusional they jumped into the ocean and were eaten by the sharks, one of the other ladies died slowly of an infection, and two survived), and...I took a shower, and here I am. Not a bad day. Not a great day, but not a bad day, either. ^^;
I was really, really close to starting a little one-shot SasuNaru 'fic, but I got a couple sentences into it and felt it wasn't quite flowing, so I decided to quit for the day. So I'll probably come back to it later...hopefully. It'll probably be just another angsty, no actual interaction between the two, only slightly shounen-ai affair, but that's sort of become my speciality, so I don't mind.
I also have a bit of a muse to write a Kouya/Yamato Loveless fanfic. Yes, you heard me right. I'm considering writing shoujo-ai. :P I just feel there isn't enough fanfiction about those two out there, I really like their characters and their relationship, and I think I could write them well. Now I just need to do some research on them (I only know them by their appearance in the anime, and I'm curious if there's more about them in the manga) and get...y'know, a plot and some ideas and such, and I'll be off!
Well, I suppose I should go clean the cat litter and read more Great Expectations. Good night!
Oh, we get DSL at Mom's on Friday! *Dances* That'll make my life *so* much easier...
Again, the sheets and heat pad and warm surroundings seemed like absolute luxury this morning, and I was quite reluctant to make leave of them. But, alas, the alarm went off, and my brain recognizes that alarm as the end-all of my existence in the world of sleep. So, I got up. I made my lunch as usual and gathered things for Anime Club, and got into the car earlier than usual because I was tired and sincerely didn't want to deal with anyone or anything at that particular moment.
Mom definitely started the day off badly by going on an Aries-warpath-rant. It started off as her saying I need to finish my Japanese course soon (despite the fact that I have until July and honestly have no reason to finish it promptly), which somehow then branched into everything that I'm apparently neglecting and all the aspects of my personality that she doesn't like. I reasonably explained about sixteen times that I wish she wouldn't yell at me in the morning, that I was half-asleep, that it would be nice if she could leave me to listen to my music so I could wake up in peace, and that it depressed me when she did that, but that caused her to become even more angry. So, she pretty much yelled at me the whole car ride. ._.; About nothing, to be completely honest, too. Ryan even started trying to calm her down and get her to stop criticizing me at such length (and started crying in the process), but she was still extremely angry. So...um...sensitive Pisces don't do well with these sorts of long-winded criticisms, especially when they were as pointless as these ones.
Not the best start to the day, but I determined I wouldn't let it get to me too much.
It was snowing from the time I was in the car to the end of second period, so that was really pretty and nice. ♥
There was no Chamber Choir today and I quickly discovered that neither Cody nor KK were at school (which caused my mind to automatically go into wild imagination mode. Luckily, I think my imaginings have now been confirmed as false...I think). Selah was crying with Nicole in the choir room for some unknown reason. I wanted to go comfort her about whatever she was upset about, but I felt that I might be imposing myself into a situation where I didn't belong, and also that I really needed to get to class right away. So, I hope she feels better. I hope nothing happened that was too upsetting. ;_;
I worked on my art project for all of first period (or at least the parts that I wasn't delivering stuff for Mr. Baxter) while listening to the Arjuna soundtrack. For the first bit of the period, I was dead-set on angsting excessively as long as possible, but I suppose a mixture of the Arjuna music, working on my project, and talking to Ben and Jessie dispelled that part of my mood for the most part. So, I ended up in not too bad of a mood after all.
During second period, we again watched more of the video on media bias in the Iraq war, I was again fascinated and uplifted by the sudden onset of intelligence in my classmates, and I was again nodding off during the video. It was really interesting--don't get me wrong, I was definitely interested--but I was also rather tired and couldn't help wanting to fall asleep in the middle of the class. That lasted all period.
I was still rather sluggish-feeling during PE, which was not good seeing as we ran ten laps. ._.; I spent most of the basketball game thinking about this one song I used to listen to all the time and relate to Pokémon, which made me really, really nostalgic (in a good way, though), so now I wish I had the CD with me. I'll have to burn it again once I borrow it from Dad... I think I'm the only one who makes these connections, but the song gives me downright shivers when I visualize this whole thing in my mind. If footage existed for the things I'm picturing, I'd totally make an AMV to it. Anyway, thinking about that made me remember a simpler, more magical time in my life that I don't think I revisit enough nowadays.
I now have a Totoro Catbus plushie I didn't even know I had hanging off my computer. It makes me happy. ♥ I just randomly found it in a box the other day and was like "WTF, where'd this come from?!" It's so cute. :D
During Lunch, Zoe put up the [brilliant as usual] Anime Club poster, and we discussed True Naruto Style and Snakes on a Plane and other crack with people. 'Twas beautiful, I must say. I can't believe there's going to be a True Naruto Style: The Movie! It's even supposed to possibly premier at Fanime! :DDD That's exciting. More crack-tastic-ness, man! ...I think I forgot to mention True Naruto Style: The Movie to Zoe, though, because I got too distracted by Snakes on a Plane. >.>
I worked for all of the period in fifth. Not too much to say about that. Makayla and I discussed cosplay, and...that's about it. Most of us were working today, really.
Sixth, we just discussed Great Expectations. Mrs. Mclean gave us a rather large chunk of an assignment tonight--more than fifty pages. :O Ack.
I panicked about the huge amount of reading (I somehow got it in my head that we might go to Roseville today, which we didn't) and decided not to go to Anatomy (seeing as my people weren't there and the class is generally too loud for me to get much reading done), so I went to the library and spent the whole period reading quite intently. I started seriously almost nodding off during it, but this is not to be blamed on the book, which is fascinating. I was just rather tired, I guess.
Anime Club went decently this week. We showed a clip from Otaku Unite! and then showed AMVs for the rest of the period (seeing as the club voted to do so). They all wanted to watch Lee vs. Gaara, but I didn't really want them to because I think it's much better in context and...y'know, when you have time to watch the whole fight. Which we didn't. I wish they'd actually request to watch something that's...not Naruto. I mean, I absolutely adore Naruto (anyone who knows me can personally attest to this), but--it's Anime Club, not "Naruto Club". It would be nice if they could broaden their horizons past the things that they show on Cartoon Network Adult Swim to begin with. >.>
I talked to Kirstin (and later David Bass and Rachel Ramey, who showed up in mid-conversation) about Kino's Journey and other anime for a little while, before Mom picked me up.
From there we went to my seamstress, who actually seems really excited about my costume. I hunted down a pattern for the body part of the costume, created original patterns for the paw-gloves and tail, and we started formulating ideas on the head and boots and such. It's all going quite well right now. :D I'm going to be so furry and have so much fun--I can't wait. ^_^ It's nice I found a Naruto character that's so rarely cosplayed, too. I won't be surprised if I'm the only Akamaru at Fanime and probably even Anime Expo.
I was all fired up about my costume, so I wanted to go to Cinderella's to see if I could find a mask to use as a base for the head, but Mom said it was probably closed and wanted to go straight home. So we did.
Ryan and I gave Mom her birthday presents, which she really liked, I discovered that there are a ton of anime I can watch On Demand for free, Ryan and I watched a really horrific true story about five people stranded on a raft surrounded by sharks for days (two of the people became so delusional they jumped into the ocean and were eaten by the sharks, one of the other ladies died slowly of an infection, and two survived), and...I took a shower, and here I am. Not a bad day. Not a great day, but not a bad day, either. ^^;
I was really, really close to starting a little one-shot SasuNaru 'fic, but I got a couple sentences into it and felt it wasn't quite flowing, so I decided to quit for the day. So I'll probably come back to it later...hopefully. It'll probably be just another angsty, no actual interaction between the two, only slightly shounen-ai affair, but that's sort of become my speciality, so I don't mind.
I also have a bit of a muse to write a Kouya/Yamato Loveless fanfic. Yes, you heard me right. I'm considering writing shoujo-ai. :P I just feel there isn't enough fanfiction about those two out there, I really like their characters and their relationship, and I think I could write them well. Now I just need to do some research on them (I only know them by their appearance in the anime, and I'm curious if there's more about them in the manga) and get...y'know, a plot and some ideas and such, and I'll be off!
Well, I suppose I should go clean the cat litter and read more Great Expectations. Good night!
Oh, we get DSL at Mom's on Friday! *Dances* That'll make my life *so* much easier...
