122409 No Christmas cheer here.

Two things for you.

Earlier in the night, I dreamt I was watching some kind of movie with a bonus scene that was a nightmare of some kind. The nightmare was full of symbolism. For at least part of the time, it was Stein's nightmare and Medusa was possibly involved. (That doesn't fit my headcanon...) Symbolism like triangle=blade. It really scared me. The dates 12/4 and 12/5 were someone's birthday. My sister T was nearby.

Other dream: was at school. Panicking in the process of getting finals done. Also went to a Writers' Cafe thing of some kind. But that was brief, and afterward as I was walking home it was so warm that I decided to take a walk. So I go up to my dorm room to drop off my jacket and switch it for my sweatshirt (it was really warm) only to discover that part of my Aspects of the Japanese Language final had been missing, and to make it up I was supposed to write a bunch of kanji twelve times each. This infuriated me because suddenly I was already home. And by home I mean that when I went downstairs to rant about it to my parents, they were sitting on the couch in our New Jersey living room. But then I woke up out of stress, sorted dream from reality, and calmed down...

122009 ...crap, it's fading...

I don't remember my most recent dream. :/ I remembered it just fine a minute ago...
I do remember that earlier I dreamt I was hanging out with JN again. At one point she wanted to take a shower. And she said that the showers in Avalon had pig urine in them. (Yeah, I don't even know.)
Alsooo there was some MedusaxStein in one of 'em. I'm not surprised. Due to finding a stash of fanart for the two, my cute, fluffy MariexStein mood flew away (and now I'm thinking it's more platonic anyway, which seems very, very reasonable to me). But I was just sitting outside a house and I hear someone playing a vertical flute or a recorder or something (non-melodically). It was Medusa (just Medusa, incidentally, blond and legal), and it summoned a (clearly insane-mode) Stein inside. Two thoughts: one, that was a really stupid place for me to be, wasn't it? What was I doing there? And two: isn't it a little backwards for the snake to be acting like a snake-charmer...? (Don't get me wrong, I applaud my brain; it got the dynamic right, and there IS flute music in "Lady of Gorgon." That's just an amusing irony I noticed now.)
Umm what else. I dreamed about a Japanese class in the last week of the semester. It was rainy. I went to spend dining dollars in the Union and spotted some of my Act class tomodachi there. Um, Sanders-san, Vera-san, and Martell-san I believe. For some reason, when we left the Union (into the rain) we were alllll the way out past the Cathedral and had to get to class, so we ran. Well, I ran; they didn't. There was construction; I had to rush at some of the lights.

But there was something else, something I dreamt more recently, but I can't remember...

121309 Vague...

I wish I could remember more of this. It was about YGO. Seto, Isis, and both Yuugis were there--and there was desperation in someone. I don't remember who. But that someone was wielding a gun. Normal Yuugi objected to the violence involved. I wish I could remember what was going on; I feel like it could make a good fanfiction... Though considering what has passed for "fantastic writing" before in my dreams:
"Farewell
I'm leaving the highway
The soul minus x is greater than n - 1"
...maybe not then. xD

I have no idea what I'm talking about, so here's a picture of Yandere!IsisxSeto.

Sketch:Seto Ishizu by ~TSUTAYA07 on deviantART

I'd say that that was the inspiration, except that I feel like it was Seto with the gun...

121109 You lose some, YOU WIN SOME EPICALLY

A few snippets.
Showing J.N. Soul Eater. I was watching something that I thought was from an early episode except it showed Justin and Azusa (but not Marie, for some reason) and everyone was in cages but Stein wasn't. Probably a bad thing... I was whining about Blair to J.N. -kicks Blair in the face-

I think this is the correct place in the order for this? I dreamt I was packing to go home. My family was there already, even though I still had essays to write. My mother was talking with someone else about homosexuality; she said she didn't mind homosexuality as long as they worked towards being straight. And then she quoted a story in John that proved John had something against women. Unrelated... Though the former is quite possibly my mother's actual stance on the matter, which would be problematic.

Electrolux. (If I still dream about that place once it stops being relevant to my life, I am going to be so ticked.) I had to put two zip-ties together and screw something down. I was horrendous at it. I got so stressed about the supervisor standing over me that my brain went, "Wait. This is a dream. I don't have to put up with this," and woke up. Good call, brain, good call.

BUT my brain has redeemed itself. Because when I fell back asleep, I dreamt that I was watching some performances at my school somewhere. What were some of the scenes from? The King of Attolia. !!!1!!1!<3<3<3<3<3 They started with Relius's betrayal, around "Have him arrested. Now." They got Relius wrong though--he came in and lounged right next to the King and Queen, which would not be accurate even under the best of circumstances, which those are not. I bemoaned this to my friends, and they told me to hush (and stop rolling around on the floor in joy, Sakaki-and-Mayaa style). My brain gets half points on this part: it remembered that Relius always wears a velvet cape and put that in, but it was not "short" and I'm fairly certain it wasn't wine red.
Still. *rolls around on the floor in joy*
Afterward I went to the... head of whatever organization was putting on the plays, and told them I was so happy they'd done KoA. She said she'd noticed, and I said I wasn't much of an actor but if they were going to keep doing that then I'd sure as heck audition.

120809

Don't remember if these were connected, or the order.
Part of my dream was about some kind of weird DN/YGO hybrid. As in, like, Light was playing a children's card game YGO with Misa. Yep. And there was something about me getting a new volume (what) in which Mello and Near meet again.

Other dream was at "Electrolux." Except there was a supermarket connected. A supermarket that sold pot. Tried to sell some to me, and I refused. So they tried to sell me tobacco instead, and I refused that too. And lottery tickets, which I didn't refuse because by that point I was so confused...

120209 And again...

This time I dreamt I missed the Friday thing accidentally. Yep. Not stressed about that at ALL. (Seriously, there's nothing to be stressed about. You'll go there and even if you don't talk much you'll have good food, and while you're there you'll decide whether you're going to Writers' Cafe and that other thingamajig. That simple.)

Also I dreamt I was watching House on TV. Except House was immortal and threw himself out a window to prove it. By the time I got to the ground floor to check on him (yes, I... was I really watching TV...?), he had vanished, leaving the sheet he had wrapped himself in (presumably to spare himself from glass cuts, never mind the JUMPING OUT THE WINDOW thing) nicely folded. I'm realizing just now the comparison to Jesus'... too tired to think of a proper word for it right now, so "mummy clothes."

And now for something completely different...

I'm going to make this particular journal entry a place to list the songs I want to get with my next available J-iTunes card.

--Check again for the second Phantom OST.
--Haitoku no...... I'll get this eventually. G-something.
--Ich beten...
--By Tomoyuki Nagasawa (I think that's right):
----P.S.S.O.S. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORXnwpLc7Mk)
----RED (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDipYSMa9l4)
--Again, Paper Moon, and Bakusou Yume Uta... OH WAIT. *fumefumeraaaage*
--OH I should look for some of Kuwashima Houko's stuff~ *w* That'd be Medusa's seiyuu. Also, Kagura's. Yes, from Azu. This means I already have one of her stuff. I realized this on the bus. I think my crazed giggling might have slightly frightened the guy sitting next to me. (Their personalities are rather dissimilar.)
--Uragiri no Yuuyake, if it ever goes UP... The valle blanco mix, perhaps? :/
--Exit Trance: futuristic imagination, maybe.
--Higurashi no naku koro ni, maybe (NOT Exit Trance)
--Again, Japananime song. It's a decent one for once. ALTERNATELY the Exit Trance mix feat. Camry. Compare the day of.
--Holy crap, girl. Guns n Roses.
--ET Trust Me (?)

120109 Yoku oboetenai ga...

I dreamt that I'd gotten third place in the Fanfic contest. Lalala. And I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the deviantDollars I'd won. Yup.
I'd so like to win... OTL

113009 STRESS DREAMS

First I had a dream about fiction class: because I thought my plane was getting in earlier than it was, I didn't bring home the stories I have to critique for this class and as a result get to do that all this morning. In my dream I hand-wrote the critiques during class. This after having to walk down in the direction of KM-san's apartment and stopping in like a laundromat or something. Actually my brain tried several methods for working out this problem, including

Next, my brain decided to skip through the week and settle on Friday, on which I'm going to Bucca di Beppo's with the Asian Studies department. Because, you know, I'm part of that now, working with them and all. Sounds fun right? Except that I'll be there just... there. Will I have anything to contribute? I have a hard enough time contributing to mass conversations when I know everyone... But none of that was in my dream, because I didn't even manage to get there in my dream. I dreamt I took a shower and then headed straight to Writers' Cafe--hang on a dang second, we have to leave at 1 on Friday, WC is at 3--without brushing my hair or anything. JM (one of my bosses) was there and told me they hadn't left yet. I ran up to my dorm to grab my purse and pull a brush through my hair, but MB-san showed up so I didn't rush out again. When I did leave, it took an unreasonable amount of time to get to Posvar, and then I couldn't get to the seventh floor. (The fourth, brain, the fourth.) It was far more closed-in than Posvar is, and like some of the upper levels of the Cathedral (I think?) certain doors and staircases would only get you to certain areas of the floor. I asked for help from someone doing yoga on the sixth floor. I woke up before I could get to where I was going.

These next three weeks? Kinda gonna suck. *sigh*

112809 TAIMUZU SURII!!

(Stop that.)
I had three dreams last night.
First one I remember: Soul Eater-related. Stein was going really crazy. SHOKKINGU, RIGHT? Except that he was doing so to music. Yes. A musical episode. With the song that starts, "Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm just falling apart." Yeah... no comment there, except that it was somewhere in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, which I watched all the way through with RB and RG yesterday, which is how it came to exists in whatever type of memory my brain was trying to resolve. And as he was going crazy he was getting really self-destructive--like, electrocuting himself. Mugyuu. EDIT: dangit half of this paragraph ceased to exist. It previously contained the explanation that in my headcanon, which I don't yet deserve to have, Stein started experimenting on himself in a rather self-destructive manner after he got scared out of the habit of dissecting others; it also mentioned that I listened to "Victor" and "Psychedelic Souljam" in either this or the next dream. We now return you to your regularly scheduled dream diary.

Other dream: involved classes. This may have been the one in which I was listening to SE music. But I was doing... something on campus. When I returned to my room (Not actually my room; somehow a combination of my room from last year and Sanders-san's room), I realized that I had to hurry and get ready for Aspects of the Japanese Language, but for some reason I had to tidy up my room first. I had a stack of books which fell over towards CB. In the process, it became 2:30 and I realized I was going to be late no matter what, so I... finished tidying up and then took a nap. But when I woke up, I realized that I didn't want to miss Aspects (I wanted to miss J-lit!), so I rushed off to that, now about a half-hour late.

Third dream: weird cursed game about following orders. If you didn't manage to finish them all, you were cursed somehow. There was this odd game with long colored batons; it was called kelvasta. That's not a name. It may be taken from "Hevlaska," a character in D-Gray.Man. I also had to twirl my flute. Eventually, I completed all the tasks and I was not cursed, so I got to look at the task list. (Before, someone had just been ordering me around.)

111809: Aaaiiiiee.

Aaah, seriously unpleasant ending to this one.
But from the beginning of what I remember:
I was in my current dorm room. I don't remember the details of what was going on. At one point, I looked under my bed. It was illogically bright there and there were pins scattered on the floor (possibly my deck). But what I did was grab my DS and start playing something--one of the PW games, I think. The volume was too loud and I turned it all the way down.
I don't remember the transition here, but it was the same dream. I went grocery shopping with a few Act class tomodachi. For some reason, Mohler-san was really upset. I bought her some blueberry juice, which she was very excited about seeing, to cheer her up. When we left the grocery store area, we were on the second floor of Posvar and took the escalator down to the first. (That... would make it right about where Einstein's is.) On the way, we lost someone, and I theorized that it was because we'd run into my first-semester writing class teacher. (I ran into her yesterday, and I guess that was incorporated.)
But after that, someone and I were getting ready to go home for the summer (aaaand this makes as much connective sense as one of Excalibur's stories). There was someone to let us into our rooms one last time in order to check and make sure we hadn't forgotten any thing. So he takes me "to my room" which was the outside door to our NJ house but the inside was our current kitchen. Cody, our dog, was curled up where his kennel usually is, but his eyes went wide and crazy when he saw us and he scrambled to his feet, which was hard for him. Apparently he hadn't been taken care of in a while. There were like bits of dog food all over. We let him outside first thing, but Dad was there and said something insulting about him while we were outside. (Does not make sense.) I went outside to the front to see him, and he had changed into a different dog--color was totally different--and was covered in fleas. I tried to comfort him but he was shaking. I tried to force some logic into the situation, but realized I was awake.
Aaaaah. ;^; Codyyyyyy.

111109 Hey, it's Pocky Day!

In one dream, I woke up to find that one of my roommates, who is full of school spirit (and prejudice), had bought me a bunch of school spirit clothing and a large spirited pillow. The pillow was the kind of pillow that looks like a chair back and has arms. It was navy blue and had the school panther logo on it in gold thread. Some of the clothing was more creative though--there was a set of seven shirts, all layered together, that were rainbow. There was also a really cute tan-ish one that had a kind of Threadless feel about it.
In what may have been the same dream, I was worried about getting to class on time, probably because of my new job and what that entails for my time management. I lived in Forbes, but my dorm room was my current one. I wanted to go shopping when I had the time, and I got new purple headphones--headphones proper, not earphones.

In a separate dream, I was playing "We Didn't Playtest This At All" with my family. It was very muddled. Z won, I think. Somehow I wound up with like six cards. There was something called "Slapanese," which was some kind of Fangirl Japanese, involved.

111009 Dangit Dunning

Part of my dream was set in Hotel Dusk. I was trying to sneak around, which is all one ever does in that game. I had to avoid Dunning. He was being particularly persistent at this point. Like I would go somewhere and then have to hide behind something until he went away. (Not actually possible with the game mechanics.) Somehow I wound up hiding in a freezer. I was standing, but the freezer part was only the top part. Dunno how that worked. It was opened because I didn't want to be shut into a freezer (go figure). But Dunning was looking somewhere else. Someone else came in--might have been my sister T--and I motioned for her to distract him so I could get away. But she didn't get the message and just stayed there talking to him instead, so I stood there freezing. And then I realized I was going to be spotted, so I closed the freezer door. But eventually that became too much and I opened it again--only to be spotted by Dunning. When I woke up, I was cold. (And it was 4:29, so I went back to sleep.)

I also dreamed we were going somewhere in the van. I held hands with Joel Nygren. (RANDOM MUCH??) We were growing a plant and keeping it in the back of the car, and we had to keep watering it. There was really pretty graffiti.

110909

In my dream, there was something going on in the Cathedral's common room, but I didn't realize so I went in anyway. It was something sorority-related. Eventually, someone (possibly Director Vance from NCIS...) sat us all down to take attendance, but for some reason it was a complicated process and even when the sign-in sheet had gone around, there were people who hadn't signed in.

I also dreamt that I was watching something on television. It was our living room in California. No, it wasn't--the TV-watching part was not in a room I recognize. I don't remember what we were properly watching, but I remember there being a CG animation of someone in a sewer-y place, on the run. Then Dad made cheesy potatoes. The kitchen was our CA kitchen. Then it was the next day, and we were watching TV again. The same commercial played, and this time I watched more of it. It ended with someone dying a bloody death right by the main character of the commercial, who then threw up. Yeah, not a dang clue what that was advertising. Something about the MC--who may have been an anthropomorphic cat--being a writer? Happy dreams. Following that was an interview with the animator/director of the commercial, who apparently had a movie coming out. You'd think the commercial'd be for the movie then, right? Except the movie looked green and Ghibli Hills-ish. The grass was extremely detailed. With anthro cats, but I didn't like the way they were animated--their balance was off; their legs were leaning too far forward and looked too stiff. The person who was interviewing the animator asked if he'd ever had cheesy potatoes (which we were eating again that night). Then he asked if the animator had ever seen a certain blog that was related to his work. In my dream, I thought that that would be strange because for a moment I thought he was Japanese, but then I remembered he wasn't.

110709 Please stop that.

All I remember about last night's dream? That shadowobsession999 accidentally let slip in a comment that Medusa was still alive. I'd made some comment about how she was talking to an insect, I guess on the Artist's Comments for my Medusa picture (....riiiiiight), at least within my dream--and so999's comment was something like "Oh yeah I remember that part," so I had to tell her that that had been a guess (WHAT INSECT??), and while I was happy to have gotten it right, she'd just spoiled me.
EDIT 120809 though I could have said this earlier: THE SPIDER?!

Please note that this marks the SECOND TIME I have dreamed about a question I have about Soul Eater being resolved. BRAIN, KNOCK IT OFF. IT'S NOT IMPORTANT.
(The first time was before I started keeping note of my dreams here. It was right after the ball episode. I dreamt I gave into temptation and went to some (illegal) video streaming place to watch episodes until I could tell whether or not I should ship SteinxMedusa. At the time, I thought it would take like two episodes. It took about eight.)

110609 Erukaめ!

There was a frog. I was on the computer and realized there was a frog in my room. It was about 2/3 the size of my hand and it was just sitting on my bed. It had this black mass on its back that stuck out, and crossing black lines below that. It alarmed me. But I kept using my computer. Lai-san called and invited me over. There were the usual issues with my phone battery. I left my computer, but wanted to look up what kind of frog it was. My brother was there. (&Lai-san was inviting me over. My, this makes sense...) I had closed my computer, so I had to open it back up to look up what kind of frog it was, which I did by googling something about the black thing on its back. I never found out if it was poisonous. I thought it had arrived in my room via a box of bananas--oh, my mind was stretching. It couldn't even come up with something reasonable. (I was aware, even in my dream, that I'd done nothing recently that would result in the presence of a strange frog.) I tried to catch the frog, using some kind of cloth between the frog and my hand to protect myself. I caught it and it was squishy and slimy. All I remember.

Also. The sword, fireworks, and fudge store from on the way to Rochester was in my dream. There was a firework made to look like a guy with an afro and sunglasses. The afro was the firework part. They came to check my license even though I didn't want to go into the secret room, and I didn't have a MN license. I browsed, showed the register there was nothing in my hands, and then left.

110409

Don't remember much.
What I remember is walking with ライさん and マーテルさん and telling them my... theory... about my sexuality. M-san took it in stride, but AL-san (this is entirely the novel's fault, shut up) started asking me like how I knew and stuff.


But while I'm on that confusing subject,
Gosh DARN, RB. You know, I am trying to get over you. Don't send me a mug and tell me that there exists one other and that you own it and that we're going to drink coffee from them together over Thanksgiving break. *facepalm* This has happened before, multiple times. I'll think, "Well, maybe I'm not quite that into him" and then he'll do something that just makes me go asdfghjkl;'. *sigh*

102909 I think Ginny was involved again..

...maybe.
Earliest snippet: in a bookstore with friends (the St Cloud B&N, I think). I spotted The Amulet of Samarkand and recommended it to the girl I was with, but in my dream I called it The Mind of Bartimeus or something like that. (Considering that the main draw for me is his footnotes, this makes sense.) But we were apparently in a magical bookstore, and as non-magical people, we didn't belong there. So they chased us out. So we ran in a circle to avoid them, and on the way out, I bought The Mind of Bartimeus. This is kind of epic when you think about it.
Once back in the car, it turns out I was actually traveling with family. Well... family and some strange people, come to think of it. But Z. was definitely in the back seat with me. Dad handed out sandwiches and grapes from the back (fun fact: they were sandwiches made with the cheese and lunch meat I have now; also, I have grapes right now), though I worried my grapes would get warm before I had a chance to eat them. It was quite sunny and summery out. Turns out I had reason to worry (...not that it's really a significant worry...) because we got out of the car at one point and did something that I have forgotten. When we got back in, my grapes were warm and squished because we'd folded the back seats down. (Why? I'm sorry I haven't a clue.) There was a toll booth involved. I mean that we went through one. It's not related to the grapes or the seat as far as I remember. Also, my family had created a game of sorts involving leaning in clock directions (like towards six o'clock, etc.) when seeing certain things outside. We drove through a field and played it.
The last section of my dream is ironically the least clear. It was some kind of sci-fi dungeon crawl sort of game. Like to the extent that I actually tried thinking with portals at some point. I think. And we were trying to save a girl. Possibly Ginny. The details are hazy. In the last room, there was a floor like the ones in Brawl--I could go through it. There was even a decal of some sort on a section that made me go through it. When I thought I'd solved the puzzle in the room (involving arrows of some sort), the floor stopped being... transcendable? Not a word and not what I mean. :P Oh well. I couldn't go through it anymore, which means I was trapped in the room. The two long-sleeved shirts I had with me--one was my black and gray shirt that I got from TY, the other might've been my Totoro sweatshirt--disappeared, leaving me in the light purple tank top I wore to yoga last night. When the second one was taken, there was a noise below and when I looked I saw it being taken away. Then I went to this hole in the floor (not big enough to get through) which provided a view of a hallway. The maybe-Ginny that we were trying to save was walking with the Big Bad and plotting something, but I got her attention--reversing gravity in that hallway somehow in the process--but before I could see what she would do, I realized I was dreaming and waking up, so the dream stopped.

It's just occurred to me that I had another dream that I remember. I was at Electrolux. And waiting to get transferred to working at that library. LOLBRAIN. I asked someone around if library work payed any better (real life reaction: ha! ha! ha!), and he said no. I suppose my brain was trying to figure out why I would be transferring. Dear brain, 1) It's been like half a semester 2) Because Electrolux isn't in Pittsburgh and hey, doesn't provide work study either...


Finally, let us give thanks to the Lord for He is good. As tongue-in-cheek as that sounds, the sentiment is sincere but framed in a cliche. We were unable to have writing class yesterday because the professor gave a talk at a different campus and didn't make it back as quickly as he'd thought he would. So the classes are being moved back, and the stories, instead of being due next Wednesday, are due the following Monday. Praise be to God. (Again, really.)
(And while we're saying mildly blasphemous-sounding things, I saw Jesus described as a Deadpan Snarker on TV Tropes yesterday, and it was AWESOME.)

202709: Wow I'm stressed

aaaagh
Okay, dreams, or what I remember of them rather:
I was at my dorm and wanted to get somewhere. Buses were not convenient. Google told me to go alley-hopping, but obviously that didn't strike me as such a good idea. Then my sister (C) showed up and also wanted to go somewhere, to shop for a present for my other sister T and she'd brought the car so I wound up driving. C had brought money and a few small chocolates on a stiff white paper thing--she called them truffles, but they weren't. There was yellow candy coating on one. C wanted to buy a present for T, for their birthday (aren't you getting the months a bit confused?). So we drove off together--suddenly from my home driveway, by the way. T came as well.
We wound up driving to somewhere we shouldn't have driven, kind of an alley-slash-dead-end. I knocked over a cone in the process. Getting out of there was impossibly easy. We had to drive past a handful of scary-looking people on the way out. Somehow I left T behind in the process, and when she got back to us, the truffles and C's money were gone. But then we drove somewhere more likely. We peered at a sign down a staircase to see what stores the basement contained. Before we could find the right one, I woke up.


I know why it was C first...

102309

Much less distinct today. Something about traveling, me driving, and roleplaying involved. It was raining. My brother was in the front seat. We went to a restaurant to wait and Dad caught up. At some point, we needed a green mop-type thing from Dr. Jordan.

HP Fanfiction and China

Two dreams for you again this morn. First was something about a Ginny-centric fanfiction. Probably thanks to my read of http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=1026&chapno=1 , though this was far less canon. Faaaaar less. Ginny was late getting to Hogwarts and there was some money issue for some reason. On my first read-through and up to my first review, I didn't mind, but the second time I was realizing that Ginny had amounts of money she shouldn't, and I left a second review saying so.

The other dream took place on a cold, rainy day around here. I think I was walking with ベラさん, バーティクさん, and ハロルドさん. We wanted to get back to our dorms without getting cold and rainy--hmm, snowy, actually, come to think of it--so we went to cut through Posvar/DL, but apparently, some bigwigs from China were in town and somehow we angered them by being where we were (isn't it a little late for G-20 stress dreams?). So we had to take an elevator up to talk to this--he started as a guy, kinda young, who made us fill out this paperwork while rambling about how dangerous we could be. ベラさん's phone rang, and she answered it, and apparently that was going to get her in trouble later on because her phone pinged her home phone, making... something happen. On the paperwork, there was a lot about accusations of rape or something. HB-san was in the military in my dream and was carrying his ("his") gun with him--never mind that that's illegal on campus--which he had to show to the Chinese guy. I worried that would get us all in trouble, or at least him. At some point, the young Chinese guy changed into an old Chinese guy who went on this rant about how we were dangerous to China if we so much as thought Japan was nice, which was not ideal. XD On the back side of the paper, there were lots of questions about how we felt about Japanese and Korean pop culture. I lied on them because I didn't want to be called again because I wasn't a threat to China. Eventually the guy made a third transition, this time to a Chinese woman in a red shirt. She mentioned that she'd lost children to... whatever it was they were being all suspicious of, and I told her that was hard to beat (in terms of reasons to be suspicious). I tried to tell her I was sorry for her loss, but she'd turned away and wasn't listening. Finally someone else's phone rang, and they didn't answer it.

I think I'll make this a dream diary of sorts.

Last night I dreamt of changing schools somehow. I think at one point I was playing TWEWY and achieved something new (ha). And then at the new school, there was a cafeteria, and at one point everyone was doing flash-mob-y sort of things... Like everyone was interacting and not eating... making weird hand gestures. I think it started with me. But apparently we all then got dragged to the principal's office (is this elementary school or something??) for being disruptive. So we were all sitting outside the office until the principal spoke to the first person and realized that we hadn't done anything wrong. So we went back to the cafeteria...
Also, at one point I was singing a weird combination of 助けてえいりん and 私はめいりん. What the heck~ XD I never even intend to buy any Touhou games... I think others were singing along with me... possibly. That might have been part of the flash mob thing.
(I think I sang, "Eirin, Eirin, tasukete Eirin. Eirin, Eirin, Hong Meiling"... fail. xD Though I did actually notice in my dream that I'd switched up, which is impressive for it being a dream and all.)

I'm slightly alarmed.

So like... three nights out of five so far this week, I've been struck by a random bad mood. Feeling very isolated, almost like there's a thin shield between me and anyone else. Not that I make any attempt to break through that shield--for goodness' sake, stupid girl, you have a telephone and you know how to use it--but the problem becomes how to break through a shield that is always in place. I don't call people just to talk. I just don't. And I don't know how to--

Back
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(and you know this is going to be good)
I wrote
two
little
pieces of doggerel
(the typical, typical emo teen "poetry")
The first
is
still
doggerel, BUT
it is
still
how
I
feel:



I want you to look at me
But I don’t want you to see.

I want you to notice that something’s not right
But I don’t want you to know that something’s wrong.

I want you to leave me alone
But I don’t want you to avoid me.

Begging for attention
That I don’t want,
Cowering from the care
That I need,
And my mind asks—
“Just what’s wrong with you, anyway?”
--



It cannot
possibly
be a good thing
if I'm invoking eighth grade.


In any case that's why this is here, rather than on dA; because I know I am being whiny and passive-aggressive in my desperation for attention
because if I just make a journal entry that says "help" (and that is what my useless mind keeps saying) just the--attention and the worry and the having to keep dealing with comments when my mood has improved and

help


and
why don't you
stop whining
and
go to bed?

"Emptiness And..." lyrics...

...or some of them at least. I keep listening to it to try to get more and more of the lyrics. S'pose I'll update as I figure more out...
It's surprisingly emo. o___O


It's always kind of hopeless
The emptiness swallows me
You come in and bear me along
?
?
?

?
?
Check it and you know you can stop it
Maybe that means you have to do it

Emptiness, lights shoot out of nowhere
Emptiness don't mean any harm
This beat of fire
That's burning out of me
Emptiness takes you to that silence
Emptiness makes me wanna cry
Beat of darkness that's falling down my heart

(And I have NO clue what that chanting is.)

?
The emptiness inside of me
君は blow my mind*
?
?
'Cause I know what you'll find

(Something something something) I can change it
?
Check it in and you oughta stop it
Shout it out if I have to do it

Emptiness, lights shoot out of nowhere
Emptiness don't mean any harm
It's freedom, longing are
Fading out of me
Emptiness takes you to that silence
Emptiness makes me wanna cry
Beat of craziness
?

Emptiness, lights shoot out of nowhere
Emptiness don't mean any harm
This beat of fire
That's burning out of me
Emptiness takes you to that silence
Emptiness makes me wanna cry
Beat of darkness that's falling down my heart

(And I still don't know the chanting, no.)

*"kimi wa." Yes, I know I'm sticking Gratuitous Japanese in an otherwise English song, but that's what it sounds like to me.

EDIT 110909: changed "falling" in first and last chorus to "burning." Thanks to Nela for the catch!

Dear TWEWY fans,

let's be logical.
You improve Imagination by enjoying life.
You become an Angel by having fantastic Imagination.

Therefore, all Angels are lawful neutral jerks who are just waiting to viciously attack anyone who breaks the slightest rule without thought for their motives?
Well, DUH.

*facepalm*
This seems to be a basic assumption of all the interesting fanfiction I've read so far. (Interesting because I can't seem to stay on my own plane, despite... okay, well, no, I haven't actually tried....) It is starting to really frustrate me.

You people are really just being overprotective. Or overreacting, or something.
"It's because they're jerks~~~~!!! >A<;;;"
No. It's because he broke one of their rules. Knowingly. [[ThisIsSparta Take. A. Chill Pill.]]

(Who's overreacting? I don't see them writing random blogs about it...)

OKAY SRSBZNS SPOILERS THIS TIME

For reals. And some Wild Solitary Guessing. I'm not entirely sure where one would engage in Wild Mass Guessing for TWEWY, but then again I haven't looked yet.

Starting... now.
Okayso. Starting with the evidence like a proper Gyakutard, the fact that the Producer is the only Angel whose vibes the Composer can catch. Acting on the basic assumption that higher vibes = more powerful, that makes him... one wimpy Angel. (And you see why one of my life goals has become to never seriously anger an Angel. *whimper*) Either the Producer is the wimpiest Angel around (where "around" could be a very, very relative term; especially going by the particular WSG I'm about to introduce when I stop interrupting myself, there could very well be one Producer for each divided area of the UG), or his vibe is intentionally low due to his abnormal amount of involvement in the RG/UG. (Note of course that it's implied Hanekoma's interaction on the lower planes during TWEWY month is beyond normalcy, but then again Josh allegedly frequents WildKat... maybe.) (I'm getting to the theory, I swear.)
I tend to go with the theory that his vibe is just specialized. Until right about... now-ish.

Now I'm thinking that possibly a Producer is a deposed Composer.

Things this would explain:
-->The -masu form. If Josh kicked Hanekoma's butt at some point in the past, well, it would make sense that Josh > Hanekoma. (Whether he gained a power boost upon becoming an Angel is not even slightly addressed, though the Human-->Reaper +lifespan +power suggests that it's possible.) (Though I have not abandoned my "Josh's Composerness was Hanekoma's idea even before it was Josh's" theory. This just makes the theory... considerably odder. But I wouldn't put it past the Magnificent Bastard.) (...Crap, now I want to start working on that fic again.)
-->How Composer can be part of the evolution cycle. That a Composer does not die/is not erased when defeated appears to be... somewhat solidly confirmed, as it's included in the evolutionary cycle in SR7. In fact it's pretty logical: got a new Angel? He/she gets a low-class (again, assuming vibes = power) job in territory he/she is already intimately familiar with.
-->Familiar with... and affectionate towards. Could explain Hanekoma's loyalty to Shibuya over his loyalty to Josh...

Oddly enough, this theory... I entertained this theory for a minute a few days ago, acknowledged the possibility, but decided to discard it a few minutes later in preference of the "specialized vibes" theory. So why am I back to this theory?
Uh, because of Another Day.
I know what? It's so impossible to figure out anything above RG in Tin Pin Land. Well, obviously Pink is not a RG-er; considering his comfortability with the Room of Reckoning, it's possibly, probably, most likely safe to assume he's Composer there as well. The assumption that Hanekoma's Producer there would seem to follow naturally, especially considering that he, unlike everyone else in TPL, is basically the same person in TPL as he is in normal!Shibuya, and that CAT's role is unchanged. (I find it particularly revealing that TP!Neku is so much happier... pretty clearly a result of more frequent exposure to Hanekoma. Phew.) Also that he is not around so often.
But um... that Wizard figure. Called from this moment 245 because both his pin and his Gatito item are numbers 245, so I assume it refers to his name in some way. I do not honestly care what his name is because as we all know, TWEWY world was not created, it simply IS. :D Also I can't seem to force 245 into anything that actually resembles a name, So Yeah.

When I actually managed to properly run into 245, my basically non-existent appreciation for TPL fell even further because I went into a tizzy trying to figure out if he was the capital-P Producer or they were just saying that (a) to pick on poor stupid puny humans like me who are trying to figure out upper-plane stuff for TWO worlds and/or (b) because "producer" is 245's real-life role. But Pink does seem terribly familiar with him, and now I'm realizing that if he is capital-P Producer and if Producer = deposed Composer... well that makes some things work out quite nicely.
-->My theory that TPL is a Tin Pin Land because some former Composer was very, very obsessed with the hellspawn game. Well, if the creator of the game was previously Composer... yeah I think that counts.
-->I've been theorizing that TPL!Hanekoma is particularly busy recently because Pink just became Composer there and he, as Producer, was helping him get settled and spending more of his time in the UG than in the RG. Umm to back up that Pink just became Composer
----->The fact that he's still quite involved in RG matters, particularly Tin Pin Weekly or whatever.
------>Relatedly, the fact that he's the middle-school columnist implies that his...... hey wait, I was wondering if they were middle school or high school earlier. Guess there's an in-game answer to that, stupid AD. Anyway, it implies that his apparent age matches his real age.

Anyway... Due to the apparent identicalness of TP!Hanekoma to Randomlyattacking!Hanekoma, it's likely that his role is or was identical in both worlds. So, with this new theory, the reason he's been busier lately? He has just evolved further--with 245 as the new Producer, he's no longer needed in that job. Now his vibes are even more attuned to the Higher Plane rather than the UG/RG, he's got a job on the Higher Plane... he's moved on.

Speaking of moving on--this would explain why RA!Hanekoma worries that TP!Hanekoma would turn him in. TP!Hanekoma would be closer to the other Angels than to Shibuya, suggesting that perhaps that's where his loyalties lie.

So what'm I saying?
In both words, Hanekoma was once Composer. However, the split--or a split, rather, because the two worlds don't really seem very parallel at all--occurred with his successor: in the world of the main story arc, he was eventually defeated by Joshua, most likely within two years ago (if one assumes that the downturn Uzuki noticed during her two years as a Reaper is because of Josh's administration), whereas in TPL he was defeated by 245, who in turn was later, and I think pretty recently, defeated by Josh-aka-Pink.
That's basically it.

Why does this matter?
IT TOTALLY DOESN'T.
It so completely doesn't matter a smidge to the real world. I just think about these things when I should be doing homework.

EDIT: Waitasec. It's not only possible, it's likely. How else would his mural have gotten in the Trail of the... ...whichever. Bygone? I think that's Bygone. I mean he can't reveal that he's special to anyone but the Composer, so what would a human be doing past the Rubicon?
...Holy crap, I don't think I'm just guessing, I think I have genuinely figured something out.

NEW INFORMATION JOYRUSH! :D
omg I'm happy. -dances-

Mostly this is so Sakeko-chan can watch Yoshu being hyperactive.

Also I feel like writing but I don't know what to write and a certain FACT OF LIFE is keeping me from being happy and healthy-feeling though of course I am entirely healthy. Looking forward to riding a plane in THIS shape. Why don't I keep CAPITALIZING random WORDS in FRUSTRATION so that I SOUND like I'm on PMS too.
But anywayyyyyy
Japanese fanart/fancomics = discovering lots about speaking styles, woooooo. Yoshua (aka Joshua, aka sometimes I drop the "a" entirely and just call him Yoshu, as in the title) calls Kitaniji "Megumi-kun." Kun! -jaw hangs open- Weiiiiird.
And Hanekoma DOES say "ore" for "me" which means "ore no heddofoon" is as amazing in Japanese as well! asdfhgfdssdfgh srsly I like that.

....for ten points

This pin is part of the trade for both the WEWY Promo Coat and the "D+B" pin. Unbranded, it is the Ultimate drop of Reaper Beat and the Hard drop of both Draco Cantus and Panthera Cantus. One scan suggests that it, or something that shares its name, makes up 96% of the universe. For ten points, name this pin which can be traded for a Scarletite at Shibu-Q Heads and is inlaid with purple gemstones.
Answer: Dark Matter (No. 261)

For ten points each, given the color, name the character associated with that color in the "Another Day" bonus chapter.
[10] Pink
Answer: Joshua Kiryu (Yoshiya Kiryu)
[10] Yellow
Answer: Beat (Daisukenojo Bito)
[10] Pain
Answer: [spoiler goes here] (Grudgingly accept Pain is not a color and equivalents)

.......
I have this sudden urge to write an entire Quiz Bowl packet based on TWEWY.
This sudden urge originates 75% from the fact that I really do have to finish this essay, now, and 25% from the fact that at practice, a question mentioned a song called "Game Over," though I'm pretty sure the "Game Over" they were referring to does not mention 2ch.

In which I rant and overanalyze words

No real spoilers here... not really...
EDIT: okay fine there are spoilers because I decided to compare the two, Japanese and English. So there are spoilers at the bottom.



But seriously what is UP with that scene.
Watch it twice in one day 'cause you're collecting Draco Cantus's easy and normal drops (which are boring), and it still won't make sense.
Watch it in Japanese, several times, and it still won't make sense (though you'll learn that he speaks in -masu form whatwhatwhatiamconfused).
Tell yourself that this time, you are DEFINITELY GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS, and it STILL WON'T MAKE SENSE.

vvvvaaahh. D:
Isn't it basic human courtesy to provide context for what you're showing people. ISN'T IT?! That scene. Can be interpreted in so many ways and there is nothing to say which one should even be FAVORED.

In any case though, because I've just watched it in Japanese, I feel like I have received new information, so I'm happy right now and feeling very warm-hearted towards everyone, much like I did when I first saw the scene in English. It'll sink in eventually that I haven't actually learned anything cohesive.

Also Anguis is not a very good anguis. I checked. That tongue is definitely forked.

Anyway I have an essay to write today, which I really probably should do.


EDIT
ORRRRRR I COULD TYPE UP THE SCENE IN NIHONGO CAUSE THAT'S FUN
それにしても、今回の災厄[?]．．．、上でも[問題に?]なりますよ。
まっ、これでとりあえず元通りってことで。
ほら？なんだか寂しそうじゃないですか？
なんにしろ、彼らの世界をどうするか、彼らが決めてるんですがな。われわれはもう．．．
あー、やれやれ。素直じゃない方だ。

Notes: Overall it's not bad. Really nothing I'd say "No, they should have translated it as this instead" to. Some things I've noticed though...

• "Sore ni shite mo" = "Even so/nevertheless." Unlike "You know," "sore ni shite mo" gives a strong impression of continuing a conversation that was already going on.
• Saiyaku: What he says sounds like "saiya," which doesn't appear to be a word. "Saiyaku" means calamity or disaster, which is a bit... strong? Alternately just "sai" 際 means "circumstances" and the ya could be a weird, tacked-on... particle? Though the rest of his Japanese is fairly standard... (THEREFORE COMPREHENSIBLE WHOOOOO)
• Mondai: I'm not sure that's what he says, and the ni is only there because that would be how you connect mondai to narimasu. If it's not that, then it's a word I don't know.
• EDIT: Well, it's definitely not any word that translates directly to "repercussions" according to Jim Breen (ie the wwwjdic). Sounds more like "mondai" than any of the words there, but...
  
• Narimasu: WTFDMASUFORM. ...Seriously, that threw me for a huge loop. I've gotta look up how they talk to each other in like J-3 nstuff, because it would be incredibly odd for an adult to use -masu with a fifteen-year-old, especially considering Neku's comment that they "seem to go way back." To iu wake de, this would be a Composer-Producer thing, placing the two of them either at extremely distant with each other, or making the Composer the higher position. Something I've considered before, but... still odd. ...That aside, the punctuation here could just as well be a ~ as a period. He says it in a pretty sing-song voice.

• Toriaezu: "for now." OTL it'sgoingtohappenagain
• Motodoori: not "normal" but specifically "the way things were before." Well, I suppose in the end it's roughly the same, but... it feels different to me somehow. And I can't figure out if I feel that it's more positive, or less so.
• Tte koto de: vvmmm... I'm not sure if I've got this right, but this combined with toriaezu makes me feel like he's saying something like "Well we'll try this for now."

• Hora?: Doesn't seem like an ordinary hora. Might be a more masculine "ara"? XP Aiunno.
• Samishisou: asdfghjkl;' pretty much makes the entire Japanese version worth listening to for the fact that "samishii" is waaay more specific than "down." It means lonely. *o*
• Ja nai desu ka: ffffffff this sounds so much like something that would be in my textbook. Like the greatest eavesdropping assignment ever or something. Except then you'd get a question like, "g. What's going on in this exchange? How can you tell?" And I'd have to say I HAVE NO FREAKING CLUE, I GIVE UP. Also calling it an exchange would be a little... But yeah, this is where I caught on to the -masu form and did a double take.

• Nanni shiro: His attitude throughout this conversation is very very "whatever"-ish. Sore ni shite mo, Ma, Nanni shiro, and yareyare are all, like, go-with-the-flow sort of phrases...
• Kare-ra ga...: *tilts head* I call that a ga because a na would not make any sense there? It sounds like a na. I suppose it's just a very very nasal ga. Stupid nasal ga.
• Kimeteru: Are deciding, as a result of a change. A bit different from "get to decide."
• N desu ga na: (It's that) they are deciding what to do with it. (I'm speaking Jordenese. Someone shoot me.) Note that the n desu seems to apply to the entire sentence, and what's being explained by this comment is not in the conversation. Go figure. This goes back to that context issue. The "na" at the end knocks the tone down to slightly more casual and also implies that Josh should know this already, should already be in agreement.
  (I was kidding, Josh. Please put that down.)
• Wareware: A much more impersonal "we" than I was expecting. Nnn, what do I mean. I'd have to find out what word he uses for "me" (probably ore, I'd think), but I feel like that makes this much more distant. In English, I felt that he was saying "the two of us" whereas listening to the Japanese, it occurred to me for the first time that he could be talking about all higher beings.
• EDITTO: From TV Tropes, which knows everything: "我々 "We" or "us", used by both men and women to refer to a group. Generally used to refer to, say, one's people or one's company, rather than in a "me and my friends" sense." See, this is why I say learning by osmosis WORKS.

• Entire line: I like this. ._. It just seems... so... fond. I mean, the English similarly so. Kind of like a "Oh well, what can ya do?" sort of thing. I find it...... hard to reconcile.
• Sunao: Means either "obedient" or "honest." In this context, probably "obedient" (at least, the translator sure think so), but I like that it has both meanings.
• Sunao ja nai kata: Strange construction. It's not "not an obedient person," it's "a person who is not obedient." Like being disobedient is a defining characteristic or something. xD
• Kata: katawthkata. S-seriously. I need to go over the way I'm looking at things again. (Again for the hundredbillionthtime.)
  

And before you (inexistent reader) ask, yes, I did in fact do one of these for the English version, as well. Just on paper, and less analyzing-each-word, more trying to get a holistic idea of what they were talking about.
And failing.


Has this helped?
As I said, "samishisou" makes a huge difference. The theory that Joshua is "down" because he wants to join Neku-tachi is suddenly looking much clearer, almost to the point of confirmation. The fact that Neku does mentally invite him to join them... Even so I can't imagine how that would go over. ._.
What keeps it from being confirmed is my uncertainty under how that puts the entire conversation together. What is being explained that "they're deciding what to do with their own world"? Hm. The construction is a little weird because the "n desu" means it's an explanation--meaning new information; the "ga" implies that he's leaving something unsaid; the "na" asks for/assumes agreement. It's like he's saying, "The answer to your [unasked] question [or the reason you can't do what you want] is that they're deciding what to do with their own world, but you knew that already." bfffff I wish Yoshua hadn't flown off before he could finish his next sentence. I have no idea what he was supposed to be saying. None whatsoever.


So, still no holistic comprehension of what's going on. However some things have become clearer. So this was a triumph; I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

Well, perhaps not huge.
ABOUT THAT SHUKUDAI.

Yet another risuto.

Lego, this is only spoilerish if you don't want to know Gatito items (yummmmm) or certain high-ranking monsters' drops. Oh and there's a store you may not know you can access.










Of things that require Shadow or Dark Matter or Scarletite, in whatever order they occur to me. :D

GATITO ITEMS
>Pi-Face's Bandana: Six Shadow Matter (And some other crap I have lots of) (Annnnnd I've forgotten again where it's sold.)
>WEWY Promo Coat: Three Dark Matter (and some other crap)
>WEWY Promo Bag: Three Dark Matter (and some other crap)
Both of those are from SHADOW RAMEN. Makoto, I am not into you. In fact I think you're kind of an overcharging jerk.
There's gotta be one more somewhere else, because I'm at 15/19 currently. No idea where I'm gonna find this. (Unless... that... maid outfit... requires a King Arthur............ ...All sorts of do not want there.)
EDIT: as;dklfjas;dfiaj. It's number 245, definitely a Gatito (by virtue of being between Pendant and Phones), that I'm missing and it's not in any store. Or no I should check Molco again before I say that...

STICKERS
>Hollow Leg: Three Scarletite. (Three?!) (Top Shibu-Q Heads store.)
>Shiki ATK: One Scarletite (and other crap) (Molco's D+B)
>Shiki DEF: One Scarletite (and other crap) (Molco's D+B)
>Joshua ATK: One Scarletite (and other crap) (Shibukyu Main's Dragon Couture)

WHAT EVEN GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO ASK FOR THOSE
>D+B (pin): Three Shadow and a Dark Matter. (Molco's D+B)
>Ohabari (pin): A single Shadow Matter, and then three Murasame (I've only got two) (J of the M)
>Kaleidiscope: Three Shadow Matter (Lapin Angelique)

WHICH BRINGS US TO A GRAND TOTAL OF:
133 93 27 more Shadow Matter to hunt down.
I haaaaaaaaate hunting Taboo Noise. It wouldn't be so bad if they'd stop dropping Hard drops rather than Ultimate when I'm FIGHTING ON ULTIMATE. >:C
Oh but last night. I beat Kitaniji on hard to see what he dropped. And he dropped a Dark Matter. :D And I was like "Free Dark Matter wooooooo!"
Yes dear. Beating THE FINAL BOSS OF THE GAME counts as a "free" Dark Matter. :yuusaku:
On Ultimate and fighting with Shiki he drops a Black Uranus. I was happy, because Mr. H is asking for a Scarletite for it. I was like Mr. H be reasonable. Scarletite. Translates to a Dark Matter translates to ten Shadow Matter. WOI is not amused.
Supah-Kitaniji on Ultimate drops a Black Venus, too, so I'm just looking for the other four.
Babble babble babble.
My pins need to stop evolving when I'm trying to master them, especially when I've already mastered their evolution. -kicks Love Me Tether, in particular-

Probably Taboo Sho drops Shadow or Dark Matter on some difficulty, but uhhh... to find that out I'd have to face him. And last I faced him on Ultimate, he dropped a Normal drop. (Failish, but admittedly I'd never encountered Shiro before.)

TWEWY SPOILERS LIKE WHOA

SERIOUSLY, SHOO.

















AND HERE WE GO





UMWHAT. BEAT THE MAIN STORY OF ANOTHER DAY TODAY.
There's the Frilly Parasol. You know. Joshua +1 Fusion Star. And I joked, "Um is there something this game isn't telling me about Joshua's sexuality?"
And then I actually started playing through the Tin Pin!world (by the way. My brain EXPLODED when I read the whole "where Tin Pin Slammer reigns supreme" sentence. Not even kidding.). There was that sentence about if he sees a hole he plugs it, or whatever. My reaction to that was, quite logically, "Oh dear lord I spend too much time on the internet, I'm going to pretend I did NOT just have that thought."
YEAH BUT THAT WASN'T OVERINTEPRETATION.
And when wanted to be Pink. I stopped asking "Is there something this game isn't telling me about Josh's sexuality?" and started asking "Is there something this game IS telling me about Josh's sexuality?!" And then that whole thing by the Shibuya River?! (But lol@Eri!Shiki [I DO NOT ACCEPT YOUR EXPLANATION, IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE]'s "If anything happens, I want to watch--I mean, be there." Wow what?) "Do me this way"?!! RAINBOW?!!!
I-I-I-I am surprised. I don't know if it's Joshua as well or just Pink--certainly if it's both Pink is more OPEN about it and not only that but more than a little dirty-minded. I dunno their personalities seem wildly disparate. I wish I knew if he were Composer in that world or not. I can't tell because I am stupid. Weirdly enough it seems like he's actually fifteen in that world, judging by the fact that he writes a middle school column in Pinhead Weekly.... Very odd. Means the split happened at least Composer!Joshua'srealage years ago. And Konishi being a teacher wth (And Kitaniji mayor? Huh?)
Ahhhm yeah. Other than the fact that it's peaceful--and I would like to go rehear that conversation, possibly several times in a row--I don't get what's going on in that Shibuya. Pink's comfortability with the idea of parallel worlds suggests that he may be Composer of Tin Pin!Shibuya as well, but... And okay WHAT is going on with Hanekoma? Normal!Hanekoma is supposed to go fetch Joshua who apparently got himself stuck. That makes me smile. Except is that him in Pork City? Is... is there something more important than Joshua at the top of Pork City? Am I going to die the second I get to the top of that inordinately tall building?
AND THEN what the heck did that producer line MEAN?! !BJ was TP!Hanekoma yiss? So.... ...???? I need to play Another Day again. bleh all the Tin Pin. No but I did get better at Tin Pin. I don't mind it so much anymore. Still...

TO SAY NOTHING OF THE GAME ENDING ITSELF, WOW.
Never before have I felt so punched in the gut by the end of a game. Wow.

Anyway
I kinda got served today... By the Angel Feather. I...... I was of course quite eager to appraise it. I mean, Composer item. I naturally thought it would do something incredible.
And I mean I'd say it does.
...for him.
You self-centered little jerk. THIS IS WHY YOUR CITY IS FALLING APART.
I thiiiiiiiiiiiiiink.
That seems to be the implication anyway.
No but Iiiiiii should have seen that coooooomiiiiiiiing. -headwall- Of course he gives me an item whose ability is for HIM. Screw that. Shiki's closest anyway. (Or rather, least far away. Oy vey. 999? Seriously?)
aksldfjpasdf;askldf
I need to raise Neku's bravery and get more Gatitos anyway. Upping my attack is the last thing I can think of to do to take down that darn pig. I've actually killed it a few times, but with a fusion after the timer ran out. (Like, it hit zero while the fusion was going.) And it doesn't count. ARRRRRRRGH
Iwanttoknowwhatisattthetopnowplz

Another list & going to Michigan

That's right; I'll be spending the weekend in Michigan with Quiz Bowl. Fun fun. Leaving my laptop here, so I won't be online 'til Monday.

List of things I need to get done before leaving:
1. Fold laundry
2. Pack
3. Turn in rue21 app (goooo me!)
4. Turn in check-up quiz
5. Eat something
6. GET CASH


Things to pack
1. Two sets of clothing
2. Toiletries
3. Ibuprofen (arrrrrgh)
4. DS & charger
5. phone & charger
6. Chekhov book
7. SSC notebook
8. film notebook--START WRITING ESSAY

Things I should do today

Arranged first in the order they occur to me, then in order of importance.

Answer survey for Short stories in context
Look at questions for SSC
Look over next CC (...yeah, right...)
Decide what I want to write my film essay about, possibly make outline?
Beat up monsters on Ultimate until something, somewhere drops a friggin shadow matter or dark matter
Beat up whatever drops the shadow/dark matter ad ability-to-buy-scarletite
Make another attempt on the Hip Snake pig's life... (So yesterday I suddenly understood why it's called PORK CITY. You call this a utopia?! Suddenly I don't want to get bitten on the top floor....)
FIND A RIGHTY CAT
Draw a decent picture, plz
Read next linguistics chapter
Read the stuff for Japanese Tales of the Supernatural
Finish filling out rue21 app and turn it in

ORDER
1. Survey for SSC
2. Questions for SSC
2 1/2. (oops) rue21 app
3. Film essay
4. CC <---but this isn't going to happen
5. JToS
6. Linguistics
7. Decent picture, plz. (We could check if Vera loves me today... sigh.)
8. Shadow/Dark Matter hunt
9. And gathering
10. Hip Snake piggy
11. Righty Cat... Where on Earth am I gonna get one? What dropped the Brainy, anyway? It was a drop, wasn't it? Oh shoot. Wasn't it a piggy? And the Lefty was purchased. ...I need to make friends with the Pegaso-shop people... As my wallet gently weeps...



(No but I absolutely LOVE the woman, the shopkeeper for Bel Airplane I believe it is? "Are these children... customers?" "Where are their parents?" And you buy something and she's like, "What? How??")