w00t! Megatokyo Manga!~

Well, I managed to squeal my mom out of $10 for my photos that I brought to Walgreen's yesterday-- only they weren't done. >_< I hate it when I have money and I can't spend it... it burns a hole in my pocket. Well, so I figured I'd drop by the brand spankin' new Cards and Comics Central. I was happily indulging in the manga form of Megatokyo (WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~ I love it I love it someone buy it for me pleeeeeeeaaase!) that's just been published. Plus, there's a loverly edition of Kare Kano (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou - His and Her Circumstances) out by Tokyopop... I haven't looked at it yet, but the artwork is incredible, and that's usually enough to draw me in-- especially to a story I already know and love.

Blech, turns out CCC has weekly tournaments for only $6 (do people win something? I forgot to ask) ... I'm afraid to enter the sanctioned ones, since my deck is so old in contrast with all the boosters coming out lately, and I want to get that Joey tin. =D Er, I'm referring to Yu-Gi-Oh, btw. ^_^ I used to be a decent duelist, but after Joe stopped playing/training with me at my house/FX, I kinda lost my touch. -.-; I refuse to play with the obsessed, rule-breaking freshies in the cafeteria nearly every lunch period.

Anyway, so in the midst of Megatokyo-ness, guess who taps me on the head? Grace! YAY! I hadn't seen her in hella long, didn't know (if she had one) her AIM SN, and after the entire Amber/Will thing, I was kinda wondering what she was up to. She'd stopped appearing at Bemani Nights since the party (last time I checked) on the 2nd, so this was very cool. She wasn't working, but we did stay in the store till around 5:30 just talking about random stuff. The store has these cute-ass little bears that look like SD-legos and come in all these styles. She dishes out aorund $4 for one called 'Animal' that looked like every furry-feathered-patterned creature on this planet. @_@ It has interchangable parts, too, and moves and poses funny. =D I want the 'Cute' one (I think it's from the 4 collection) but that's kinda hard to get... >_< I was getting pretty hungry, cravin' a bagel (for some odd reason, while Grace and I were outside...) so we went to the House of Bagels. We went back to the store and talked more-- near 6:30 I read Megatokyo again, but I never did get around to Kare Kano or any of the translated PGs. I'm still infuriated about "missing" my PG14. >_< I talked to Marcella, Amber, and Katia-- I didn't lend it to any of them. GAUGH!

We finally left around... hmm... maybe 7:30? She was only going to walk me to Park Presidio, but we ended up talking bunches on the way to my house, so I just said she could come over for a drink or something-- and Grace seemed quite pleased with this arrangement-- she was in a juicy mood I guess. ^_^ Quite a "happy panda," as she put it. I'll be front: we were talking about how we both felt about the whole Will/Amber situation. In some instances we were polar opposites on what we thought about the whole thing, or particular people and their "habits." But on some we agreed completely, and it was nice to feel like I wasn't being alienated, nor I was I doing any alienating. I hope Grace considers me a friend, because even if she never goes to Bemani Nights again, I still think she's pretty damn cool. =D

We played DDR on the PSX for a while-- she kept doing SSR and one-upping me, until her streak ended and I (on Basic) started getting As while she got Es. -.-; Oh well, her songs were much harder than mine anyway.=P We unlocked three songs, though, so I'm happy-- "Brilliant 2 U" "Think ya Better D" and "Cutie Chaser." I'd never played the latter two before, so it was cool hearing a new song. =D Grace arranged to get her stuff back from Will tomorrow -she wasn't looking forward to it, and kept saying she was afraid she'd get really mad ("come with knives") or "die," both of which scared me. >_> I hope she'll be okay. Eh, I'm sure she will-- Grace is a big girl and can take care of herself. It's sad that her "relationship" with Akito/Jonathan is falling apart, because it half-sounds like she doesn't want it to-- but it seems to be a mutual thing, if not reluctant. Sad, how relationships end like that. I just hope Will and Grace aren't both "rebounding" -- that always has poor results.

Today at school was pretty easy/fun... thankfully Leanne hasn't shown her horrendous face in Choir for a while now, yay us. There's more music now, and some of it's annoying (Kalinka's in RUSSIAN! Amber, HELP ME!) Thankfully there was a presentation in Economics today from a girl from Heald College-- she was very lively, so it was fun. Made me think about a lot of what people are saying-- true, these statistics are only AVERAGES, and that means some people make more or less than the given range... but did you know people with a silly 2 year (or even 18 month business) AA degree earn over $10,000 more than people with just a high school diploma? With JUST a high school diploma, you might be lucky if you can make $21,000. That's poverty level, by the way. Now with a BA or a MA, you can make five or six-digit figures! That sounds pretty damn good to me! I might reconsider aplying to college this fall semester-- if Mom gets her damn taxes done. Or maybe I'm wong, and she does need last year's...? /.\ Then all this will be time wasted! AUGH!

3rd period was a guilt trip as usual, since I didn't do the homework (I did it in class) and didn't have the POW to turn in. Jonathan explained this POW a bit more, but it still doesn't make a lot of sense to me in terms of formulas. Damnit, I just hope I can find something online. >_> 4th period I couldn't use the computer because Corinna needed it for research, and I was shuffling between LJ and articles. Lunchtime rolled around, and being broke, I whipped out the remainders of my PBJ that I'd been snacking on. People drifted in and out of the room while I scanned images from all these photos I had lying around.

Buncha weird ones, too... I have them uploaded over at Snapshot but the image gallery making thing I had installed with Fireworks is being a biznatch. I hope I don't need to reinstall anything or get codecs. =P They rarely seem to work with me. I hated having to type the captions for the pictures twice, and even though all the thumbnails are ready made, I can't make 59 separate pages with the full-sized images on them, and still do that linky-thing where they go 'First | Previous | Next | Last.' Blech, takes too long. Might as well just link to the image itself, yeah. But then... ALT tags... gah, it'll all take forever! Stupid Fireworks!

My throat's been feeling better today too, but I still cough some, and it's kinda hard to swallow-- I guess I have it easy in contrast to poor Amber, I hope she's feeling well enough to go to RTA tomorrow. I wonder who went today... if anyone was there and wondered (or even noticed) that I was not present, it's because I went yesterday, blew what cash I had and shouldn't have spent, nearly did the same thing today with my photos (which I won't even be able to pick up till Saturday, since they supposedly won't be ready till after 5PM tomorrow ANYWAY, which is after I plan to leave for RTA) and there was no one -and no EX there. I know EX is there now... I've known since this afternoon, but it's nothing new to me. But *glompage* to Jeremy for going out and making those uber-cool flashy badges that let us cut in line if we wanna. 6_6 Of course, there's going to have to be rules about us "cutters" using the EX machine in some sort of order... don't want to break the thing on the first day, now do we?

I still haven't done my POW 9 or filled out the entire In-N-Out application. I still have to burn Will's CDs too. I guess I can stay up till 1am. We have hot chocolate for tomorrow morning, and if worse comes to worse, I suppose I can just wake up early to eat... or be late... again. >_< Damn, and I still need a readmit too. I hate procrastinating. Someone help me get back on schedule!!! *_* Damn, I'm tired though.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai~!

I totally forgot that today a bunch of Japanese students were visiting the high school. I've been seeing them since just after 2nd period, when there was an assembly (I wish I coulda gone!) to introduce them. Apparently they did a little song and everything! They're so cuuuuuute! ^.^ I mean, they might be high schoolers (if so, they must be first or second year-- they look pretty young) and it'd be weird for anyone to be approached by someone as weird as me and have them go "ooooh, you're so cuuuute!" especially in your native language, when the person (i.e. me) doesn't look like a native of your country.

Ehehe... it's mostly girls, and their Japanese is, obviously, flawless. They sound like girls from right out of anime-- bubbly and excited... I would be too, if I were visiting a school on another continent! But I'm sure they're less than impressed with the cleanliness and near-lawlessness at my school-- never having been to Japan, I base what I say off what my Japanese teacher of last year told me, and what I've researched on the 'Net. Their schools are much cleaner, their teachers much stricter, the rules numbering more, and the time actually spent in the school much greater. They're still wearing their uniforms-- the girls are wearing blue two-piecers, like Miaka and Yui from Fushigi Yuugi. They have ties/bows and everything! There's only a few boys-- out of the 40 visiting students, I believe only 4 are boys! ^^; Their uniforms are pretty standard too, with black button-up jackets and pressed pants. @__@ I wish I had the guts to say hello to them or something, but they have their own Japanese-ish speaking tour guides from the Japanese classes... *sniff* I wish I were in Japanese this year, too... I couldn't even work up the nerve to say "Sumimasen" when I bumped into them on my way to the cafeteria... ;_; Oh well, at least one of them heard me saying "Wa~i" and "Sugo~i" to all the schoolgirls I saw. I smiled hugely at one too, and she just looked really astonished. ^^;;

Mm, yeah, that's it. I better work on some of these articles... or at least, those corrections to some essays for 5th. >_< Damnit, I got As, what do I correct!?