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07/16/2003 Entry: "Book Report"

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Oh my god.

I have four hundred more pages of a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt to read.

;_;

I don't want to dooooo this!!!!! -_-;

I have to do four dialectical journal entries & a two page essay tomorrow on this book, hence why I'm reading this now. >.>;

It's good, but it's not .. that.. interesting..

...

::gazes up at ceiling:: Oh, a spider.

I have another driving lesson tomorrow.. I get to go on the freeway. Joy.

::kills spider::

Eew.

::tired::

I DON'T WANT TO READ THIS.

Maybe I'll just read a chapter here and there.

BLAH.

I hope Taleen and Tanya have fun on vacation. I forgot to call Taleen about the Key Club bulletin. Oops.

I read a new manga today that I haven't read before.. the title was in Japanese and I didn't understand all of it. It was called "Tsumi Ni Nureta Futari" (futari means of "two" people) and the description on the site was rather vague, so I decided to download it.

It started out fairly normally, if rather cliched. Girl goes on a trip to Italy that she SHOULD have gone on with her boyfriend, but the bastard dumped her, so she decided to go alone. She accidentally irritates a guy, he's attracted anyway, she's attracted, and he saves her from some street thieves.

They're standing arguing next to a fountain (you know the really large ones that you can sit around while the water sprays up in the middle), and I guess it's a combination of repayal and lust that drives them to, er, have sex in the fountain.

Well, it looked uncomfortable, but they seemed happy. Blah, blah, this is nothing unusual (actually this is pretty tame compared to some stuff that's been released these days >.>; hang around in #shoujomagic and #nekohana). She goes back to Japan, thinking she'll never see him again. Anyway, her mother tells her that her father, who she hasn't seen in years, has just died. Her mom shows her a picture of her and her younger sister, who she also hasn't seen in years and who lived with their father, is going to come live with them.

Blah. She goes to the funeral.. and who should she see but Mr. "Take-me-in-a-fountain" boy! He's shocked, she's shocked, and they stare at each other for a bit.

And here's the punchline: her mother comes and says, "Oh, good, you've met! He was so cute when he was a little boy that we dressed him as a girl. He's your younger brother!"

And they stare at each other.

And I stare at the screen.

The title means, as I found out later, "The two who are drenched in sin".

The scanlators added a little message at the end that says "Moral of the chapter: Don't do it with complete strangers!"

How.. thoughtful of them. Right, at least in Angel Sanctuary the incest played a genuine dramatic role; I'm not in the mood for incestual smut. Bleck.

On another note, I did download some decent manga today (Full Moon wo Sagashite & Ichigo no Houseki, which are done by mangaka I like - Tanemura Arina and Mizusawa Megumi respectively), so it's not a complete loss. I also downloaded Doll (ch. 2), which is by the artist of Mars [Soryo Fuyumi] along with Mars Gaiden (prequel to Mars), both of which were fine. Mars Gaiden was amusing ^^;

I desperately want a new chapter of: Kare First Love, anything Mizuto Aqua, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Basara, Ingénuo, Eden no Hana, DN Angel, Tokyo Crazy Paradise and a lot of other stuff.

Man, I spent ALL DAY in IRC getting manga.. so tired. I'm still in there, serving Hime-chan no Ribon to the poor people who actually are desperate enough to queue from me :P I've only successfully completed one file, oops. I feel like I don't deserve the +v status I get. *edit* Just read Full Moon chapter 11.. uh, Takuto-kun, doshita no?

[Anyway, rest of the entry is about Smash Bros - sorry you have to endure this, but I really like my video games ^^;]

I'm very proud of myself. I got all the secret characters in Smash Bros. (so I have everyone now, yay - even the incredibly odd Mr. Game & Watch) now - I got Mewtwo a few days ago and Mr. Game & Watch about fifteen minutes later. (I beat Mewtwo in 13.5 seconds :P Marth just went *whoosh whoosh* and Mewtwo went *whoosh whoosh*. Mewtwo threw off Mr. Gay & Watch in 17 ^^) I also now have all the secret worlds except the weird Pokemon one (um, I heard that you need 200 versus matches for this and I only have about 160), but what I am proudest of is that I beat EVERY SINGLE EVENT MATCH. ALL 51. ::bows::

Thank you very much. It took me three hours to finally beat Event Match 50 (I told Earl once when he mocked me [if he doesn't remember, he said I could never beat this] that I'm very patient with video games), and I finally did it with Pikachu! I usually use Marth these days for versus and stuff, but I didn't think he was very suitable for this (o.@ do you think counter would work on the master hand?), and while Mewtwo was handy enough, I couldn't do enough damage before getting smacked off (it was always the hand-smack and drill that did me in). :P Who did I beat it with? Pikachu! Down-B sometimes took off more than 30%, which was always very cool.

Event match 51 only took me fifteen minutes because Jigglypuff is really, really useful and Giga Bowser really, really easy to hit. ^_^ Down B! Power to the pokemon ^.~ Although I haven't quite figured out Mewtwo's down-b yet (uh, it never works).

Event matches I hated the most: KO only Sheiks, the two master hands, the Ness one versus Samus-Kirby-Fox-Falcon-Falco, Majora's Mask trophy, Young Link Versus Link, You Versus Insane Pichus and Pikachus from hell, Mr Game & Watch versus 1000xMr Game & Watch, and the one where Peach walks around stupidly with a heart above her head while Bowser tries to EAT HER because Mario sucks.

I wish I had had Marth for some of those earlier battles.

Fun event matches: kill the tiny kirbys (their screams are so funny :P), kill the Kirbys with warp stars, kill the Jigglypuff more than the ships can, and some others.

I beat Captain Falcon on the <7 seconds on in .67 seconds :P thank you Jigglypuff.

I still have to beat Adventure in under - what, 18, 20 minutes? - on Hard so I can get the Giga Bowser trophy.. I'll do that tomorrow. I already beat Classic in under 20 on Hard (Marth, my luv <3), but Adventure is harder (I get killed about halfway through). Pfft. And I need to get all the All-Star trophies (I HATE the Mr. Game & Watch stage) as I only have about eight trophies from there right now.

:> I wanna buy Pikmin. But I heard there's a sequel coming out? So I might just wait.

Blah. I've successfully distracted myself from that biography for a full hour and a half. :P I'm really pissed about doing this assignment because I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, but nothing much I can do about it unless Grogan changes the due date. -.-; At least I'm not like a certain Dork Armenian Guy in my acquaintence who is going to pretend he didn't know about it.

Anyway, I'm gonna crash soon. It's early yet, but Stacy woke me up at some ungodly hour this morning (something like 10:30) and I'm exhausted.. and I need to be alert tomorrow so that I can peacefully kill myself on the freeway. So bye now :P