Craving Oreos... or Hydrox

For some reason I started craving Oreos (or Hydrox, they're not so super-chocolatey) in the middle of 4th period. Lots of running around-- trying to find Ms. Taylor to talk to her about the possibility of journalism having a booth and doing pizza (from Village Pizza! FREE TO US!) for Mayfest. @_o Between Anime Club and Journalism, I wonder if I'll have any time for myself? I'm a dork, I kinda wanna go in those bungee-gym things. Meh, I just want to have fun. Maybe I should go to a playground this weekend. *giggles*

1st period I was busy drawing up plans for the "Limelight" toothpaste commerical I was supposed to do-- I only got 2/3 of the way done (storyboard and summary) before I had to head to 2nd. Gilmore seems to like me more- she actually smiled at me! YAY! There was one last presentation today-- that of Coca Kiwi, an extension product of Coca-Cola. ^^;; It seemed hastily thrown together and not very well thought out. Not to mention a lot of people wouldn't drink it since fruit and cola (in rare exceptions) don't mix. Cherries, yeah, but that's about it.

Had to do recruiting for choir again-- this time I did most of the talking. Laura, once again, did next to zilch, she kept saying "Umm... yeah" and sounding really tired. -.- And I don't think she was in choir this morning, unless she was outside or something. @_o But hey, in the second reg we visited, we got *4* girls interested in choir (I'm quite the salesgirl!), which made up for the other homeroom not having any response whatsoever. Yesterday's homerooms weren't all that enthusiastic, but maybe they'll have a change of heart when they sign up for their classes next year or something. Even if I'm leaving, I don't want choir to get cut! ;_;

3rd period, thankfully Mrs. K didn't ask about yesterday... but J.Pa wasn't there! So I was busy making up work from yesterday and reading the damned unit problem and all its constraints that I'd done last year! Damn it, I wish I was more organized so I could just find all my work from last year!

4th period some Academy (I forgot which Academy... not Business and Computers??) students were in here making PEACE and = FUTURE banners with the paint I left here... it was pretty busy, even though Eva, Doug, and Aaaron were being lazy lay-abouts and not doing their articles. GRAWR. I was busy researching the resources for my journaling article, and I should try and get in contact with some advertisers-- we still need several hundred dollars to get the paper out. Need to talk to Prom Stores and the like... Stonestown Galleria storeowners. Anyone that works and possibly reads this, maybe ask your employer if they'd be interested in helping a school newspaper that has gotten acclaim from The Chronicle and is distributed city-wide? ^^

The lunch bell just rang... thankfully I got my lunch early and got my two bagels (one was cinnamon raisin again! yummers!) -- I feel like such a pig. I can't wait to get home and shower and go to RTA. I don't care much for the protestors clogging up the city and not HELPING ANYONE... but that rant is for 6th period... hopefully I won't be doing anything for Koski again.

Time to go! -.-; I didn't go a bunch of stuff for English again. Thompson sucks though, I might be able to BS my way through class.

I AM STEAMED! PISSED! ANGERED! VIOLENT!!!!

Breathe, breathe, breathe... Okay, I hate it when people judge me based off of one event or incident that I have the justification to be angry about. I don't usually rail on something unless I'm particularly passionate about it for one reason or another, or because it's a subject near and dear to my heart. My feelings really, truly, and honestly are hurt when Colleen calls me a "mini-dictator," especially since everyone is going around bad-mouthing Saddam Hussein the dictator. Loevly parallel we have there, don't we?

Anyway, none of that is what is pissing me off. I think I have finally figured out just what -or maybe I should say who?- pisses me off the most. I mean, gets me so riled I might just start foaming at the mouth and eating teddy bears. STUPID PEOPLE. Not just stupid people who don't KNOW any better, but stupid people who CAN, SHOULD, and PROBABLY DO know better, but simply don't! Ignorant, rude, selfish, idiots! *sigh*

Around three or so years ago, I had the monumental idea to try and start a scanlation project. Back then, it was one of the first of its time-- there's so many of them now. Back then, the idea was incredible-- and it was for Naoko Takeuchi's prequel to the hit Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon series, Code Name: Sailor V. To my knowledge, the only "translation" that existed on the 'Net was Alex Glover's text-only translation, which was very good, but lacked pictures. I wanted to scan in each page of the manga, edit out ALL of the Japanese, and truly SCANLATE the manga. However, I lacked a scanner and an appropriate editing tool, so the project sadly died. Recently, the BRAT (she infuriates me) at SignOfSenshi.com decided to scanlate the manga-- and take ALL the credit for the idea! It's not so much that her STEALING the PSV idea pisses me off-- Mikazuki was right when she said that neither of us have copyrights over the series, and, artistic license or not, she's not plagiarizing. But the thing that pisses me off is that this girl rants and rails about NOT stealing *her* stuff! She says she spent "alot of time and money and effort" on the translating-- when 1) her translations aren't even good; 2) she has poor quality scanning/posting efforts; 3) her webpage design skills are highly lacking; and 4) she completely ripped off the Manga Reader idea I had for easy viewing of the translated page. The only thing that could piss me off more is if she suddenly decided to flip the pages the Japanese way, use a better, comic-style font, and translate the liner notes, all of which are elements of PSV (Project: Sailor V, my scanlation project). My goal remains the same-- to scan and translate all 3 volumes (complete) and do it well. There's not as many members as originally, but I think I can handle the bulk of the photoshopping and online posting. The catch is, I'm taking the images (the scanned ones) from this girl, even though I have the manga myself (and for the record, the manga costs only $6-- hardly a lot of money, especially since there's only 3 volumes total). I do it because I don't have a scanner, and, while I'm not using her translations at all, I am using the base images, which she doesn't own a single line of.

Cassie thinks I should bitch this girl out, I just want to go home and shower. Or something. I keep thinking today's Thursday, and I feel weird just going home. But I suppose the sooner I go home, the sooner I can shower and head to RTA. Will owes me $15, so I'll be able to game some tonight... and it won't rain, so I might actually be able to DDR some!

*sigh* I'm somewhat calmer now. Excitement should only be related to next week's party, Saturday's performance of Sung's play "Ten Thousand Dollars" (a benefit for his theater, since he's getting sued for attempting to run "The Last 5 years" without the consent of the company that owns the screenplay), WAFF/TAFF day, Anaheim, Spring Break, Movie Monday... yeah. Much happier things ahead. =D