Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Subject | "FUMOFFU!"

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FUMOFFU!

... Yes.

In any case, I've been watching some Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu (this is the second season of FMP!), and much to my amusement, Sousuke stole an amusement park mascot costume, installed computers and a gun system inside it, and runs around using it as a sort of disguise.

The only thing he can say is variations of "fumoffu" (think "Pikachu"). And it's SO CUTE.

Also been watching Matantei Loki Ragnarok, which is about a bunch of Norse gods :O fascinating stuff. I love Loki, even if the original Loki in the myths got impregnated by a stallion whereupon he gave birth (yes, he) to an eight legged horse. It's his own fault, he was trying to seduce the stallion (he, um, turned into a mare).

That's the myth, though, not the anime.

At any rate, I have way too much work these days. There are good spots (got an A on my last math quiz, got extra credit in Spanish..).. and then there are the ugly spots (we won't talk about those).

And then there are the history ID's that I should be doing.

Ew.

I just want sleep.

Not going to coronation. Winter Formal, people. Even Castaways food is better than none.

Yes, I am fully aware that this was a completely useless blog entry. So what? :P

Posted by Kylara @ 10:23 PM PST

Monday, October 6, 2003

Subject | "Life, and it sucks"

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Well, yes, it's me, the person who blogs bi-weekly now.

Just think of it this way: it's no more often than when we got our homework back from Beidelman.

*edit* I took this off of someone who commented on Christina's blog. I was very amused. (Not hard these days.)

Yep, that's me. What the heck is Ytterbium?

At any rate, after last week's horrors, this day was pretty good. I got a B on my essay for Thomson, got an A on my two quizzes for Spanish, got an A+ on my short answers for The Crucible (how nice, I get to jack up the curve), another A on the vocab quiz, and got a B+ on my multiple choice questions for our favorite Salem play as well. Oh, yeah, and I got a C+ on my Calculus quiz, and you have no idea how happy this makes me after the grade I got on last week's test.

Which is really pathetic, but I'm not dwelling on it.

On English, I find it amusing that half my class got number one on the sentence fill in wrong. Yes, it's a dubious honor to be called the king of tardies, and utopias are ephemeral. Justin tried to convince Mrs. Grogan that yes, utopias are doubtful (dubious), but since when has it been a fleeting honor to be king of tardies? Note that one of the reasons I'm arguing this is because I got the questions right.

At any rate, I'll spend some time studying away for history tonight - we have a midterm tomorrow, which I'm not really too worried about (the man lectures really well), but I'll study for a while anyway..

Well, in more interesting news (to me, anyway), the actress for Professor Trelawney has been cast. Actually, it's really one of the last people I ever would have thought for this part, but I think she'll do good ^^ I admire her as an actress (haven't seen much of her work though) and heard she did a brilliant job in Sense and Sensibility. It is, of course, Emma Thompson, as http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org announced earlier. I think this is cool ^^ I dislike Trelawney, but she's not really a dislikeable character, and heaven knows the Harry Potter movies could use better actors (I make it a black day when the casting director of movie one was hired). I wonder that they're casting her now, though, when Azkaban is coming out in early July.. oh, well ^^; I really am looking forward to Azkaban; I heard that Alfonso Cuaron is a very good director (though I haven't actually seen 'Y Tu Mama Tambien'), and whatever the case, he can't be worse than Christopher Colombus, whose movies are as stupid and deranged as his namesake ("YES, I REACHED INDIA").

School really, really sucks (aren't I articulate?), I've been feeling very stressed, and I've really been quite unpleasant to be around at the best of times. I try to be happy. I try to be cheerful. I try to be optimistic. But really, who gives a crap about any of those things when you get an F on a Calculus exam with a curve? I sure as hell don't.

Oh, yeah, we had a quiz in Spanish today where we were to conjugate twenty verbs in the preterite AND imperfect forms in five minutes (which is, pretty much, like conjugating forty verbs in three hundred seconds). I got a B+ on that, which isn't bad - at least I did all the problems. The guy whose test I corrected only finished about sixteen verb conjugations, two of which he got wrong anyhow. Don't you love life? And that was most of the class, anyhow.

She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named on my blog keeps coming back. She insisted to me that if she sat with my lunch group, she wouldn't be hanging out with me, really, she'd be hanging out with them. Her logic - or lack thereof - has long failed me. I told her that she really had to leave (I don't even bother asking with a "please" anymore, these days I just yell), and Nicole swore up and down she'd get a restraining order.

I talked with Ashley from my Biology class, actually, and it seems that her group of friends is one of the other groups that She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named pesters. It really is truly sad and pathetic; though Ashley says she's never done it (and I believe her), some of her friends actually beat up on She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named in order to make her go away. Damn, no wonder she tries to hang out with us. Unfortunately, our pity does not extend to her ruining our lunches for the rest of junior year, so out she goes.

I was talking with some friends about Winter Formal, and a say a big group of our friends all go :) I'm already going with my two S friends, but it'll be great if lots of us go. Besides, it's not coronation with the donning of crowns on two blonde teenagers. Plus, the tickets are really pretty cheap (like in the twenties). So I say we go, and I say we start all planning to go so that we can all take up a table at Castaways :) I have small ambitions.

Weird fact: the reason cyanide kills people is because it kills of the mitochondria in the cells so that they cannot produce ATP. ATP is energy, and without energy, the cells cannot function so they pretty much just go *PFFT* and die. I learned this in biology class. Actually, I've been researching ways to kill a person for a story I'm writing, and so I was really quite curious as to how this worked. Handy, huh? (Although I really need symptoms, not why it kills..)

Another weird fact: in my favorite series of trash books, the In Death series, Eve Dallas is a Lt. for the NYPSD - New York Police and Security Department. Yes, it's in the year 2059, but is there really an added "Security" in there?

Speaking of which, the next book in that series, Divided in Death, comes out in January... but someone already has an advanced copy and is selling it on Ebay, and it'll probably go for over sixty bucks, the butthead. I read a description on Nora Roberts' messageboard (I'm descending to new lows), and it mentions something about a "trusted employee" of Eve's husband's company, and it's a woman. I wonder if he's slept with her :P a lot of his former lovers pop up since he was such a playboy. It's always amusing, but it's a lot more amusing when it's one of her former lovers. (The last one of hers, he punched out.)

I told Andrew the train story and I don't think he liked it. XD

Anyway, I'll blog more sometime. For the record, I am milking my DSL connection, even if I can't access a lot of servers on mIRC yet because of my stupid router, but oh well. And a big thank you to Andrew for lending me Super Mario Sunshine, heh heh ^^ it was too easy to beat and far too short, but it was enjoyable. (But I wanna get all the shines first.) Plus, you have YOSHI IN THIS GAME! AHAHAHAHAHA!

.. Eh-hem. I want Pikmin II, but it doesn't come out until May. Anyone wanna recommend a game cube game? (And no, NOT Soul Caliber II, Earl.)

Posted by Kylara @ 05:26 PM PST

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Subject | "WHEEE"

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It's confirmed.

It's beautiful.

Oh, is it ever.

This week really sucked.

BUT I HAVE DSL NOW!! DSL! DSL!! DSL!! AHHHHH!!

I've gone up to over 200k/second.

Oh, it's a good, good day.

Even if I did do horrible in Calculus. Oh, well.

But hey, Andrew lent me Super Mario Sunshine, so I can run around like a maniac with a water gun.

Now, I have a HUGE test in English tomorrow so I must run. Bye! (will blog for awhile some other time)

Posted by Kylara @ 06:54 PM PST