Blonde, and then...

This is another one of those entries about the aftermath of something, "and then..." It's a total rip-off of all those lines in Japanese anime where they go (something really pivotal) "and then..." which, in Japanese, is (the something), soshite... It's really corny, but... eh. Never mind.

Okay, so I re-dyed my hair over spring break. I told people I was coming back blonde, and here I am. Only some people have this thing with insisting it's not blonde. To me, it looks strawberry blonde or honey blonde... but some people say it looks orange (NO!) or red (WHAT?). In fact, the one bitch (I swear, one of these days I will post my bitch list, names, dates and all to show people what I intend to do to these pathetic wretches that have made my life miserable) I hate the most in my classes (she's in my English AND History) says, "NO, it's red." I look at her as if she has bug-eyes and ignore her. It's not, I swear.

The first time around, when I let my friend dye it, she left half the solution in the bottle without even knowing it... and we waited an hour and a half for my hair to change, but it never did. Now, I left the stuff on for twice as long as I was supposed to.

It worked-- I guess. My roots, however, which I applied the solution to 90 minutes after I did the rest of my hair, are still brighter than the rest of my head-- hence the orange comments. The top of my head is bright blonde with a scant few brownish patches, and the rest of my hair is a dirty-honey blonde, almost a light rust color.

I was just hoping for a little change-- anything to stop being the girl that EVERYONE recognizes on the street. And today, I've gotten the attention I wanted... but some of it's not so good. Someone in my chem class muttered none-too-softly that I was trying to be Asian. *cough* Excuse me? No offense to any Asians out there, but I've never seen one single born-blonde Asian! Not even PART Asians have natural blonde (and I mean BLONDE, not dirty blonde, not brassy) hair. No. Just doesn't happen. Me, my family has blondes in it. I wanted the look, but I didn't want to dish out the salon price. I'm going as an assassin to a convention at the end of the month, and even if my hair isn't "blonde" it'll do. I'm sick of people judging me by my looks; just because I changed didn't mean I wanted people to treat me as less of a person... I did it because I wanted a CHANGE, and the best way to express change is physically, right? Besides, mental change is so much harder to undertake as a challenge and a task over a single spring break.

So, that's what I did. People have called me weird, stared, grinned, patted me on the head and on the back, and some have just stared silently, looking like my goldfish.

Oh well. Change is good. At least they aren't drooling now. ^.~

I guilt trip far too often...

My friends still in the "badlands" of ROTC went to their spring encampment in Camp Parks this spring break. It's in Dublin, CA, which is even more notorious for rain and fog than San Francisco. Makes you wonder what the military was thinking when they put a base there, ne?
Anyway, so I'm all miserable before hand, thinking... man, all my friends are going to be gone for four days... I'm all alone...

On Friday (the day that started Spring Break and the day after they left for Dublin) I was dying my hair the first time around, and I was phenomenally late to the anime Screening. But when I got there, it was pouring rain, so I walked out with the guys (including his truly, the baka I seem to still like on some proto-cellular level) and went to Mickey D's... even though I'd been there myself earlier, and lost my appetite somehow and didn't even finish one of my two burgers or my super-bland fries (what have they done to my McD's fries!?). So I got a ride home, and the sense of humor was hovering above PATHETIC, so... yeah. But at least aforementioned guy seemed to like my dye-job, which was in two cute pigtails, courtesy of my soph friend who did the job in the first place... even though my roots were lighter than the rest of my hair >_<

But the friend from another high school that had thus showed up (even when I was mad at him) to the screenings was at camp, and when he finally IMs me a week later, it turns out he stood IN THE RAIN for an hour and a half and he got me a gift... ;_; Now he's got the flu. What's more, I was regretting not going (can you hear it coming? Here it is...) BUT a goose flew into the power generator, turned into roast goose, and blew the power to the entire base, so everyone spent all night taking attendance, rather than partying for the brigade dance! (Insert Nelson (r) Simpson laugh) Hah-hah! I felt kinda bad for my friend who was quarantined through this, and I'm still tripping about this gift he was so careful not to break... Aaah, I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to Friday or what.

What's new and interesting to moi

Why would people care about what I like? I dunno, I just wanna see if anyone out there agrees (or disagrees) with me. So here goes...

FAVORITE...

1) website: Fanfiction.net
Recently, an email has been circulating that popular mangaka (artists of Japanese comics) are starting to crack down on fan work like doujinshi (fan comics) and fanfiction (fan... fiction) and prevent them from going public. It's all got to be a joke, I said, (since the note was circulated on April Fools Day) because mangaka would never say that fanfiction was a bad thing if it got people so interested in their work. But the U.S, Canada, England and Australia are different from Japan, where fan comics are sold for big profits... even the lewd, disgusting ones like the Sailormoon parody "Lunatic Party." I sincerely hope it's not true.

2) New Fox Show: The American Embassy
It's about a girl who was engaged and a guy cheated on her... so she gets away from the life in the U.S. and goes to work for the American Embassy in London, as the new vice consul. On the plane there, she meets a CIA spy who'll be working there, and ends up necking with him in the lavatory. ^//^ Her story, laid out something like Bridget Jones' Diary, with emails to her sister, Jules, back in the States, is splattered with humorous and entertaining characters (her neighbor is a cross-dressing band member named Gary) and realistic situations (someone bombs the embassy in the first episode). In the last one, there was this really great line, based off this phrase in London about the king dying, but always having someone to replace him... like the cycle of life and all that? Well, she was searching for REAL romance (her ex-fiancee came back-- married; her CIA date stood her up b/c he had to find the terrorists; the guy that invited her to a royal home turned out he was "busy" trying to marry a cynical woman who was rich... he needed to in order to keep the money and the home in the family; the embassy received letters to a Whitney Laine that no one ever opened-- and when she did, they were romantic. Sadly, the woman Elaine Whitney had died two years ago, and suggested to her lover, Garreth, to keep their love alive by still sending the letters. Garreth was pretty pissed that Emma (our heroine) had read the letters, and it seemed he'd given up all hope on finding true love after Elaine ever again too...) Anyway, it's a good show.

3) New ABC Show: ALIAS! It's a spy drama interspersed with romance, so it's perfect! If I go into details, it'll bore you, but it's just... great! It really is. Their last episode was a real kicker, too.

4) Fantasy/Romance: Charmed! Buffy's lost its appeal lately, and while it is my favorite UPN show (YES, even above Enterprise, my third favorite UPN) I seem to like Charm's entanglements into the hidden world of Wicca... even if it is a bit... Hollywood-ized.

5) WB Show: Hmm... Angel (kinda-sorta), Charmed (sorta, see above), or Felicity (eh.) I like them all, but Angel comes out on top because of it's new plot twists and enticing villains. Still, I disagree strongly on making Cordelia the new love interest of our vamp. No, no, they don't go! Hear me cheer-- BUFFY!

6) Author: Banana Yoshimoto, author of Lizard, Amrita, and my favorite, Asleep. Her stories are translated from the Japanese. I also like Kara Dalkey, Amy Tan, and a few others.

7) Recent Movie: The Rookie, but that's got to be one of the only I've seen. Ice Age was endearing and cute, but I want to see The Time Machine, Panic Room, Death to Smoochy, Clockstoppers, A Beautiful Mind, Showtime, and maybe We Were Soldiers.

8) Drink: Wild Cherry Anything, but especially the Dr. Brown Cherry Soda, Safeway's Black Cherry Soda, and Wild Cherry Pepsi.

That's all I can think of for now... people, try these things, they're good/cool!