Aramina

So, funny fact - I am a huge reality TV fan. Spring means American Idol, all times of year are good for Dancing with the Stars, Project Runway is gorgeous and sometimes terrifying, Top Chef has yummy food, and The Amazing Race is my dirty secret show I don't usually admit to.

So last spring, I fell in love with some of the top American Idol finalists. Because really, any other season and I forget about these people after the show ends. It's like, "you were good, but not that good." But when it comes to my favorites from this past season, I've been going crazy and listening to peoples debut singles and planning on buying albums. (Okay, I'll admit I'm still pissed off that I can't buy Allison's debut single anywhere, because I want to pay for that.)

So, something like 3-4 weeks ago, Adam Lambert's first single was released. I was distinctly unimpressed, and as a result my mom accused me of not being a real Adam Lambert fan. Dude, it's a Disaster Movie Power Ballad(tm) off the 2012 soundtrack, that's not all that special or awesome. But Friday the titular single for his upcoming album came out, and wow. This was the single I was expecting last month. So yeah, I'm planning on buying his album now. (The power ballad had changed my mind about buying it.)


Anyways, Anime watched recently:
Yesterday: s-CRY-ed episode 4 - In which we learn that the people in HOLY are just as bad as everyone else.
Today: s-CRY-ed episode 5 - In which there is far too much yelling about a guy's balls.

Feeling better today, currently planning on spending a large chunk of tomorrow working on school work. Still really wanna see Where the Wild Things Are, but don't think it'll happen this weekend lol.

Anime watched today: s-CRY-ed episode 3 - In which we learn why Ryuho is an ass and Kazuma breaks out dramatically.

Dude, watching those jewelry shopping channels is kinda addictive. It just kinda sucks you in, and before you know it, you've watched like 3 hours worth.

Anime watched today: s-CRY-ed episode 2 - In which we meet characters whose names aren't Kazuma.

So, I got sick again, which is obviously a sign that I'm gonna fail all my classes at this rate. As a result of being sick, and having much nausea, didn't manage to go to school at all this week. Because nothing screams don't go to school like not being able to move 5 feet without wanting to puke.

Anyways, in happier news, I realised that I have tons of anime DVDs sitting around that either I bought or were given to me as presents that I've never gotten around to watching. So, my goal is at least 1 anime episode per day, which I will possibly fail utterly but who knows.

So! Anime watched today: s-CRY-ed - Episode 1: In which there are explosions and lots of rainbow effects but not much else. On a side note, I've owned the s-CRY-ed DVDs for a good two years now and never really touched them for one important reason. s-CRY-ed broke my heart when it first started airing on Cartoon Network way back when, and I never finished watching it on TV because of it, and it's also meant that I've never gotten up the nerve to watch the DVDs. For those of you who are curious, all I have to say is sepia tone.

True Fact: I possibly have too many video games.

No wait, it's not that I have too many, but that they are too unorganized.

As evidenced by the fact that when I went searching for my copy of Okami, I ended up digging up 10 other games or so.

I just filed my "request to graduate" form. On the deadline, but hey, I had the flu, you forget these things. It's just suddenly hitting me that, god, I'm graduating in the spring. I mean, yeah, I still have to pass all my classes, but dude, this time next year I'll have a BA in Japanese. And that's kind of awesome.

I've still got a few loose ends to tie up. (Dude, LBCC! What's with this whole pretending you'll let me order you to send transcripts online, but not actually letting me?) And I'm really annoyed with this whole concept of "filing a form to graduate" because really, if I've hit all the requirements, can't you just send me a diploma in the mail and be done with it? But dude.... I'm nearly done!

And yeah, in some ways this is only just the beginning, because I'd like to get a MA in Japanese, and maybe study Korean or Chinese or Food Science, but it still feels all momentous.

So, status report! I caught the flu two weeks ago, which meant I spent like 10 days sleeping. (It was baaaaaaaaaaad) No clue if it was cow-flu or swine-flu or duck-flu, but really it doesn't matter all that much, I was sick, now am not.....ish. I am trapped in the hell that is full time college with 3 upper-level really tough Japanese classes. I'm currently hoping to just pass this semester. You know, in the beginning I was all "A's or nothing" but now, I just want to get through it all.

So, that's what's up with me, how's everyone else doing?

so tired..... but I still have the rest of the emmys to watch, and around ~1000字　to write before my class tomorrow, so this could be interesting :P

So, this week has been a very odd week for me. I had both monday and tuesday off, because of major budget cuts at my college. As a result, it's baffling to me that I don't have school tomorrow. What do you mean, my school week is almost over?!? I mean I still have work on Friday and probably Sunday, and god knows there's a huge backlog of that to deal with, but I don't really have to worry much about school after 5 pm today until monday morning. It's just crazy.

In other news, it's my birthday on tuesday. I don't have anything big planned, probably just something small with my family the weekend after. I certainly can't really do anything the day of, being as I have a couple classes I really can't miss and it's one of my more hellish school days. Honestly, I'm just kind of blah about the whole birthday thing. Wow, I'm a year older, it doesn't really mean all that much. Although, it does serve as a helpful reminder to think of what to get other people for their birthday, and christmas while I'm at it.

Dear Square-Enix,

I'm really glad you guys got to have a super-cool party just to announce a release date of Final Fantasy XIII. I really wish I could have gone, because according to what Kotaku.com said about it, it seemed like fun. And I'm liking the fact that you've plastered said release date all over all your japanese web pages.

But would it really have killed you to have said something about the PS3 bundle?!? The only mention it gets is in your official press release, (which was slightly hard to find, as I usually only go to your corporate site on accident) and all that said was that it would be a PS3 slim bundle, which everyone with brains knew it would be, and that you'd announce it later. When is later? Do I have to wait 3 more weeks for the Tokyo Game Show to find out what my PS3 will be looking like?

Waiting breathlessly,
me

In other news, anyone who is planning to import this beauty from Japan? Check out play-asia.com I've never had any issues with them, and their price on FFXIII is really really good, it's pretty much exactly what the Japanese gamers are going to pay.

Ok, so I have a class at 9:30 this morning. So I'm gonna take a bus, and everything will be fine. Except that everytime I've checked the trip-planner program the bus's website has, it's given me completely different times to leave. It's done this for a week now. Add into that that the bus I was planning on taking, ~a half hour early, but would get me there in plenty of time, does not exist according to the live bus tracking, and I'm slightly peeved with the public transportation system right now.

This is slightly bizarre, I've never had this kind of freedom to use a computer at school. And yeah, the battery life isn't great, but it's not really that much added weight to my bag which is a lovely lovely thing.

In other news, religious studies textbooks are now officially the bane of my existence. They weigh like nearly half my body weight, cost 2/3 of what I spent on textbooks, and we probably wont even use them that much. Ah well, if they're interesting, I can keep them, if not, I sell them to someone else.

Just got back from going to see Ponyo, which is the latest Miyazaki movie. Very cute and sweet, will definitely want to pick up the DVD. I will admit, there was one moment where I wanted to ask Miyazaki about the whole "humans are destroying the world" bit, but well, that's been a theme of his for a decade now, I'm getting used to it. Was definitely worth the time, money, and chance to get out of the heat though :P

So I am posting this from my brand spanking new laptop that I got for school. For those of you who are interested, it's a P-series Sony Vaio, which makes it more than a laptop, it's a fashion statement

Because really, what else am I gonna do with extra financial aid money? Anyways, it's cute, it's tiny (literally, one of the smallest laptops you can buy), and it's green, what else could a girl want?

Only played like a half hour of TWEWY yesterday, and then I've been playing a bit of the new beta game on Omgpop.com, but I really haven't been gaming much these past 2 days... Oh! I played a couple more levels of FFCC:MLaaDL, but that was only like 15 minutes max... See, now I feel like I'm slacking :P

Didn't really play all that much today, about 2 hours of P4 - working on the replay (sacred mantra of people doing Persona replays - "Do I have my menu back yet? No seriously, I want my menu back!") Also played about 20 minutes of Hatsune Miku Project Diva, but that's a music-rhythm game, I could play it in my sleep :D

Too lazy to separate it out like yesterday, but played about 1 hour of TWEWY, and like 3 hours of P4, have beaten P4, but only with the normal ending, so I have to replay to get the True ending. Also, accidentally screwed myself out of like 7 in-game days by rushing to beat the final boss, oops :D (may still play more P4 tonight, depends on how late I want to stay up, because save points are few and far in between at the start with all the cutscenes)

so I'm bored, and it amuses me to keep track of what games I play every day and what I do in them :P

DS: The World Ends With You - played for a whopping 10-15 minutes this morning - working on filling out my pin and noise catalogs. played for another 20 minutes later in the day.

PS2 (US): Persona 4 - fished, maxed out the Sun Social Link, attempted to go further in the current dungeon, died messily. About 20-25 minutes of playing all told.

PS2 (JP): Final Fantasy X International - Finally beat that stupid Luca Goers match and won the Cup for the Aurochs. Got Auron back in my party. Watched Seymour summon pretty pretty Anima. Finally made it out of Luca. 57 minutes

PC: Omgpop.com - played some hoverkart. about 20-30 minutes

PC: Burger Shop 2 - yahoo game demo, played 13 minutes and got aggravated with it, obv. a sign I won't be buying it

dude, looking at it, I actually play quite a bit over the course of a day

1. Learn to let people fall. It only hurts others in the long run if you keep 'saving' them every time they run into trouble.

2. Stop trying to act tough, or invincible. You don't have to prove anything to anyone but yourself.

3. Never give up on your dreams, no matter how much of a long shot they seem.

4. It's okay to cry.

So I'm heading off to Comic-Con tomorrow later today, and I wanted to let anyone who might be interested know that if any of you guys wanna meet up and hang out it's cool, but I'm working all of preview night, and mornings until 2:30 pm every day at the T-shirt booth I work at. Add into that the fact that there are some panels I'm thinking of going to and it makes it unlikely I'm gonna have a huge amount of time. Because somewhere in there, I also have to do those burdensome things like eat and sleep. I'm also staying with friends of family who live about a half hour away from the convention center so I have to think about travel times.

So uhh, long story short, if you wanna hang out, call me? or respond here with a possible time and place so we can figure something out, cause I'll have access to a laptop with internet access so I'll check back :P