She likes to weed, but not when her hands get dirty

Gwah. Couldn't go online last night because Mom was expecting a call... then by the time she got off, I was too tired and too sore (more later) to bother. So, here I am. :)

I went to SFSU to drop off my papers again, and I hung out with the people tabling at the Anime FX table again. Not surprisingly, Jimmy was less than enthused to see me. He keeps referring to me as a 'high school kid' even though I went to college before HE did. Age doesn't matter. :P Whatever, if he ever had any nice bones in his body, they're contaminated with some poisonous mallow now. *sigh*

On the bright side, I had a lot of fun talking to Adrianna and Aileen. Adrianna is a fashion merchandising major, which you don't see a whole lot of, especially outside of the private academies like Academy of Art and AI. And I would know, I went to the former school! Most people were into design rather than Merchandising... and the cool thing is, Adrianna's double-majoring with Business, because she wants to open up a fashion company that caters to otaku! How cool this that? I definitely want to help out with that, if I could. Aileen brought some delicious blueberry loaf, too. And I think she brought some Dad's Root Beer, but that was gone before you could say 'A-ni-me.'

Anyway, so the meeting is tonight starting at 6pm in the Student Union/Jack Adams Hall. So I'm going to head out early so I can ... dur, get there early. =P Mom didn't leave me any cash for McDonald's, but I have been having it a lot lately. I should probably just eat before I leave and maybe bring some snack food? Too bad there's only two muffins left, and the green one is for mom! ^_^ Hehe.

Oh yeah... so after the tabling was all over and people left, we all went our separate ways... Joe came back from the class and we went to the library so he could study. Obviously not a good idea, since he seemed to be awfully distracted or bored. Then again, studying finance can do that to you! Haha... I hope I never have to take classes like that, I'd fall asleep in a minute!

( yeah, well, this is, you know, awkward. )

*yawn* Why am I eating breakfast later and later in the day?

Okay, so I left SFSU after turning my papers in and leaving the library... took the M to Van Ness and the 47 to meet mom at the Van Ness 1000 to see Freaky Friday. I'd already called from the SFSU stop to the theater, securing two tickets-- all nice and easy like. The movie was actually really great, even brought a tear to my eye... I guess it's just one of those flicks that really screams to all single parents and their daughters. Well, most, anyway. I love the music in the movie, and really want to get the soundtrack. Mom and I had fun.

Oh, but I forgot about pre-movie! Mom originally wanted to go to CPK, which I should have agreed with, even if it was farther away! But I didn't want to, wearing the psycho shoes Baba got me for the wedding. They felt nice enough when I wore them at Robinson's May (and Mom insists that Robinson's May does NOT equal Nordstrom's) but after a while, UBERCHAFFING! ;_; Muchos owies. And a nice blister on my left foot. Anyway, so we went to Mel's instead, and there was ONE (count 'em, ONE) waitress serving the whole restaurant. There wasn't a LOT of people, but the squalling family sitting behind us ordered a lot... and it took 30 minutes before we even saw our food. Worse, it SUCKED. Mom and I made up our minds by 5:05 to leave and just pay for the drinks-- and that happened to be right when (okay, 10 minutes before) the waitress brought our food. And by sucked, I mean... well, Mom's "honey mustard burger" didn't taste like that at all. And my "fried chicken" was more like... "burnt roasted," it was that crispy. And the meat tasted seriously strange. I don't know, maybe I'm not used to dark meat chicken...? Is that even possible?

So we just gave the haggard waitress a $2 "tip" (for nothing) and left. We did get snacks (an Icee and a pack of "Raisinettes") from the concession stand (AUGH! TRAINING!!!) before we saw the movie, though. Took the 38 (very crowded) home after the movie, and walked from Geary and Park Presidio. Suffice it to say, by the time I got home, my feet hurt so much, the idea of a foot massage was REALLY appealing. The water was a bit hot at first, but soon my feet were all warm and numb. Eventually the water cooled down (since I didn't put the heat-maintainer on) and I emptied the thing out.

Most of last night, I was just "weeding" through all the Non-Working files of the computer-- you know, the ones that got affected by the evil KLEZ virus all that time ago? Too bad no one invented a de-Klezer, something that FIXED Klez files. I really would have liked that... and still would, as a matter of fact, since I still have so many "corrupted" files. *sigh* I started making lists of what I lost-- most of it, amazingly, is stuff I have hard copies of elsewhere, so it's okay. The rest I can either remember and recreate, can't remember and don't care about, or just need a bit of a memory jog.

Still working on that now, between checking my email and this.

I had a bad dream last night, one that woke me up at 4:40 last night. This is the second time I've woken up during the 4 o'clock hour this week-- the first time was because of knee pains, so I just popped some Ibuprofen and went back to sleep, feeling better in the morning. But dreams always make me uneasy. I never seem to have NORMAL dreams. Stupid fantasies and nightmares are the only two varieties that ever seem to make it into my head. And last night's nightmare was NOT FUN. I don't know why, it was one of those weird ones where you feel very sad and alone inside, but you're not showing it (I guess that's my style, eh?) ... Anyway, I got the impression that something had happened to my dad, and all my relatives from his side of the family were saying how sorry they were... I pretty much pledged to myself then and there to call him today. And I did, left him a message. I hope all is well and he's having fun teaching at AHS. And I hope he calls me back tonight, even if it's during AFX, just to allay any fears. ^^;;

Guh... Yeah, better get back to my email.

Inspiration, writing, and things that will get me in trouble

Saturday - Hair appointment with Lida at 1:15; cover my roots, lighten my hair a shade, maybe get a trim? $100! ;_;
Sunday - ??
Monday - ??
Tuesday - Renew books at library (am I forgetting something else?)
Wednesday - Training at work from 7-10:30
Thursday - ??
Friday - Anime FX again? Or maybe RTA?
Saturday - Wedding!
Sunday - Brunch!

Crap, I still need to make Brooke that scrapbook! I can't spend any of the $60 Baba gave me for my hair, especially not with the pricetag OVER that amount! Yeeeesh... Mom was telling me that it costs so much money to pay for everything (roof over my head and such) but honestly, why is all this a problem NOW? My Dad's actaully paying her every month, and she still has her paycheck... she can't even take me shopping for clothes? I hope she can give me the extra $40 I need to get my hair done, because it's a wedding, and I refuse to look bad! ^^;; Maybe I should start selling stuff again, a'la OTC. The Fundraiser a'la Mer.

Ah, got inspired last night (don't ask me how, I don't know myself) to write a post-stars fic, somewhat like my Stars fic, "Sleepover." If I said too much, not only would I give away the juiciness of it, but I'd be asking for a noose around my neck. But it's so good, it's BAD, and SO BAD, I can't post it on SMRFF. ^^;; I'm breaking my own rules! ^^; Bad Mer! But I love the idea way too much to let it go. Maybe I'm getting into my fic rut again after all!

Also today... cleaned up the school supply box, and got rid of a crapload of old, crappy binders, dividers, and useless scrap paper (which we have enough of to reconstruct a life-size version of the Eiffel Tower, I'm sure). Hehe, moved the trunk into my room, since it serves no purpose underneath the computer table aside from gathering dust, hiding stuff, and acting as an odd footrest. Moved two more bags of Giveaway stuff out of my room, and I suppose if my left side stops aching, I'll work on my room a little bit today. Have to drop Mom's dry-cleaning off before I head to SFSU. ...I hope Lonnie's there tonight. Call me a sap, I miss him. And after getting the job and everything, I don't know, stuff seems CLEARER than it was before. I want to be enthusiastic and organized about stuff.

OHH! I totally neglected to mention! Alright, if you read the original Freaky Friday, I'm sure you know that it's been done to death, but they pulled it off WELL this time around. I mean, really well. In this version, the "switch" was realized when there was an earthquake. Only Mom and Kid felt it though-- maybe it had something to do with just them getting switched, or maybe it was because they were the only two together, and in such close proximity to one another. When they switched back at the end of the movie, everyone felt the quake. Now, here's the weird part-- there was an earthquake DURING the movie. I swear to god. We're on the fourth floor, and the WHOLE auditorium shakes. There weren't that many people in the small theater with us, but MAN, that was freaky! Some of us thought it was part of the movie! Very strange indeed.

Ah, the good old Usenet...

Ah, see, cleaning up my comp has some plus sides to it! I've been typing out various lists of non-working files. The majority of them are ones I have backups of, thankfully. I still haven't looked into a Klez-reversal device, but might as well not get my hopes up; I doubt there's any such thing. In any case, I'm pretty good at remembering old fics and titles and the like... and I've had a LOT of disorganized crap on here, since lord knows when. I mean yeesh, old DDR lyrics? ^^;

Also, in going through my old image folders, I've rediscovered the wonderful world of the Usenet. I used to get a crapload of images from them, and now I'm doing it again! This time I'll be burning an endless amount of CDs though, once I get decent sized collections of images, so this time they won't get corrupted! I suppose I ought to do something like that for my Photoshop originals too, so they don't get ripped off... not to mention fanfiction, ideas, websites, and, oh yeah... music! AMVs! Er, and... and... anime episodes? KISS DOLLS! Yeah, KISS DOLLS!

So I'm browsing through the Usenet, and there's all this delicious information! Like, for example, you know how lately a lot of Japanese publishers that are rereleasing their manga. I don't know particularly about Ranma 1/2, which is the one with the freaky inverted covers (color-wise), but according to Naoko's site, she's rereleasing Sailormoon with all new artwork and storylining, touching up the originals... and Tokyopop wants to forget their Mixxzine days and rerelease it too! The first two volumes are being released later this month, and then one volume a month every month after that, up until Volume 12 (6 volumes from the end), to presumably coincide with the live action Sailormoon series going on in Japan right now! Ubercool! I can't wait to get my hands on some of these... I wonder if this was the same thing Yuu Watase did with FY? Because the artwork on those bigger, more-expensive volumes didn't look the same... >_> Hm. Also, the "name" of Sailormoon in Japan is apparently "Pretty Guardian Sailormoon," rather than "Pretty Soldier Sailormoon." o_O

Gah, I knew I should have copied this CD I borrowed from Aileen earlier! Mom just came home, and she immediately bitches to me about a small pile of dishes! GAUGH! CD, copy already! Yeesh, I'm already dusting all the rooms, fixing the couch up... shiza, I even COOKED for them without them asking me to last weekend, and I barely got any thanks! And I did all those dishes THAT night, too! And I've been good about doing them lately, but I'm BUSY ENOUGH AS IT IS TODAY dealing with this dumb computer, going OUT OF MY WAY to take her dry-cleaning, and NOW THIS!?!?!? GAUGH! She can deal with the dishes herself, especially if she's going to bring her dumb boyfriend here AGAIN for dinner! HMPH!

*sigh* Okay, never mind. You know what, I need cash for dinner and maybe games, so I'll do them. And maybe I'll be late tonight. I just better not miss the new Full Metal Panic season.

Fumoffu! Fumoffu!!

OMG! I cannot wait until I go on the Blissful Ignorance boards. I don't care WHAT Onii-chan says about the new Full Metal Panic season being (too?) shoujo romance-y, it's WONDERFUL! I love it! First episode is so ridiculously cute, and Sagara... *sigh* I just hope Kurz and Melissa make an appearance (especially if that damned evil Teresa Teseleossa is too... or whatever her name is!) as well. I don't know what "Fumoffu" in the title means, though...

Anyway, looks like Jimmy really is the librarian. In order to be on the "official" club roster, you have to go to SFSU, but he doesn't seem to care about it that much. Meh, as long as he doesn't dictatorize the library, I'm fine. He's discussed plenty of incentives to return stuff on time and rewound, that much is for sure! Cok-and-blokbustering!

The Jack Adams hall is nice and huge... great sound, seating, and lighting. Not many people I knew there though... and even though I called at nicely-spaced intervals a mere three times this whole past week, Lonnie wasn't there. He usually calls me back within a few days... I hope he's okay and everything. But I won't be a pest anymore, I'll wait for him to call me. For all I know he's busy playing Ragnarok or he lost his phone or... I dunno. Maybe he's absorbed in homework. *sigh*

Joe brought me some more stripped mysteries and romance novels! I can't keep them all, and some of them sound downright dumb, so I guess I simply have to recycle them, since it's illegal to sell them at all. But hopefully all this organizing, a new dose of anime (the next FX meeting is the 22nd, 6-945, Jack Adams Hall in the student union!) and reading will get me back into the writing "rut." Not to mention the new drabble challenge Ai issued. ^_^

Gina was at the FX meeting, and all this talking about Ragnarok really makes me want to play. To be honest, I really don't want to be home tonight... even though I'm somewhat tired. If I have a job (which is pretty much on a seasonal schedule) I have money to play... maybe not as obsessively as SOME PEOPLE I know, but I'd just like to get started. I'm not doing much else online, you know? And there's enough hangouts. Why not...? =P No one ever said I had to fit some sort of gamer-stereotype to be into those kind of things. I thought it was cute enough when I saw it at Jeremy (Skeletor Jeremy)'s house.

What else? Lupin was pretty long tonight, so I went to McDonald's with Claudine, PsyJoe, uhm, this new girl... >_> what was her name... yeah. We ate there, but I forgot to get Richie his McChicken...! AUGH! Sorry, man! ;_; Mero-mero-mistake! We talked about a bunch of stuff, ranging from the atrocities of various restaurants to the cool "haunting" Claudine and her friends experienced at the Red Victorian Hotel (I believe that's the name of it) in the Haight. I also messed around with various drawings that I found while sorting through the old school supplies box-- color-in pages of tarot cards that Michelle must have started. Pretty weird artwork, and the male on the Lovers card... well, he looks somewhat GREEN in the face. ^^;;

Gina was telling me about all the differences between Korean Ragnarok (KRO) and Japanese Ragnarok (JRO) and of course, the one so popular at cybercafes here in the city, English Ragnarok (IRO). Hehe, the Japanese Ragnarok doesn't have the terrible messes of marketplaces that the IRO game has (what an eyesore!) and whatever gender you are in real life is the one you HAVE to play (you enter your social security, apprarently) for the KRO game! Hehe. I'm looking at the official site now, and it looks interesting... still, not that related to the manga, it seems. Games are hard to do, manga and game-wise, I think-- massively multiplayer onlines, rather. But the name Midgard... where have I heard that before? It sounds like something Final Fantasy. Or was that Midgar? @_o One letter off, same difference! :P

*yawn* I'm pretty tired, actually. I suppose after looking up some more stuff on Ragnarok I'll go to sleep. Mom'll talk to me in the morning about the cost of the hair appointment tomorrow... 1:15 to 1:30 is when I should show up. But there's supposed to be a great new episode of Yu-Gi-Oh (ugh, I seriously wish all the guys at AFX would keep their negative opinions to themselves. You don't hear me bashing the stupidity of MAGIC, do you?!) tomorrow at 10am.

AAAAAND, back to AFX... besides Fumoffu, the one episode we didn't entirely finish of Rumic Theater was great. The same kind of feeling you get with Ranma-- comedy, romance, drama... I don't know, that realistic niceness. Ranma had it in a lesser scale, of course. Anyway, the artwork was suprisingly better than Rumiko Takahashi's other earlier series, like Urusei Yatsura (maybe not Mermaid Scar, that was pretty good) but I really liked it... the penguin was SOOOO cute! *hugs Pitt-kun* SOOOO CUTE! o_O Some other series they were showing weren't much to my taste, but I suppose once we start having a real room (not to say the JAH is BAD... I really like it there! It's just too bad we can't use it for long) we can show a longer program, with greater variety. Too bad we can't watch more Shaman King or Samurai Deeper Kyo, just because they got licensed. It's going to take forever for the american dubbers to come out with the DVDs, and I need my Benitora fix! *whine* Maybe I could borrow the CDs from Onii-chan... ^_^

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