11:58 a.m.---Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Ishiko: nice layout. Die, ne. Someone likes Die alot... heh. Ishiko has finally joined the ranks of "really liking a member of DeG" apparently. I remember her first impression of Dir en Grey had something to do with me showing her a picture of Toshiya in his "tube top", remarking that the band wore a surprisingly large number of "short shorts" and telling her that Die was a Nazi (he isn't, I know, I was just fooling around). She really couldn't understand what I was seeing in them (visually at least) and had to put up with me talking about how great they were for a long period of time. Then I pushed them upon Beth not that long ago. She caught on faster. Yay! Someone else that I could talk about stuff with! But anyway...No one needs an extensive history of how my friends got interested in Dir en Grey...
I am currently in the process of applying for colleges. The three that I have in mind right now are FIT (not too expensive, I really hope to go here), Moore (Philidelphia, not where I want to be), and Parsons (VERY expensive, but I also really want to go here). I decided not to go to Pratt (another expensive one), but I'm not sure why. I just haven't gotten the same feeling about that one. It's funny though. I'm trying to keep my major (fashion design) from dragging me to the far corners of the earth. If I even make it to college. Never know. I might not come back from Japan. Aw. Ishiko and I seem to be applying to all the same colleges almost...She's going to be stuck with me for the rest of her life it seems (and vice versa). But after nine years of being her friend, what's another 4? By now I am used to her being in a bad mood and she should be used to me constantly whining or babbling. Gah. I hate portfolios.
At least I really am getting something done though! I told my mom that I was skipping school today to do college stuff and so far I have kept to it! I'm so proud of myself....
Yuki
05:22 p.m.---Sunday, October 14, 2001
I was writing my history essay due Tuesday not long ago and suddenly I thought to myself "I have no desire to do this any longer." So I stopped. Even though I only have one more day to write it, I stopped. I don't know that this was a wise idea. But then again, my idea of sitting down and working on my essay included looking at Dir en Grey pictures (I'm not sure what DeG had to do with it) and overhearing Cowboy Bebop at the same time. I'm a wreck, ne.
Yesterday was Ishiko's birthday party, therefore I am exhausted. It was fun, though we did have the SAT in the morning. I think that I may have done worse this time than the first time. I'm not sure. After that we went and bought the eel, which Ishiko liked too (yay!) and Beth... first it took her 45 minutes to try it (we refused to let her leave the kitchen) and then when she did she wandered around trying not to vomit. It was really very funny! I did feel bad for her, but now she can say that she's tried eel and that's more than most people I know can say. But this is also the girl who never had shrimp until two weeks ago, so the only way she is ever going to try new things is if Ishiko and I force her to. We then played Family Feud online (why?) and a five hour game of Monopoly (another thing not to be questioned). I was out first, of course....
Ah! Vicious! I have to go watch Cowboy Bebop. Ballad of Fallen Angels is surely one of my favorite episodes and I haven't seen it in a while...
Yuki
04:40 p.m.---Friday, October 12, 2001
There is not enough time in the day...
My weekend is going to be so horribly busy. It gives one the feeling that it really is time to just lie down and die. No, this week hadn't really been so unbearable, but I do have a not-so-slight tendency to complain alot. It starts tonight with all my "Ishiko's Party" preps, which hopefully will not take long and leave me time to get to work on Edward's wings (i'm going to be off schedule if I don't get moving). Saturday begins with the SAT, take 2. I did well the first time around (1200), but somehow I was coerced to do it again. Oh, spite. So that begins my morning, then I have to drive a good 45 minutes for Ishiko's "birthday eel" (a la Kamijo's favorite food), then Ishiko's party. And, of course, my history teacher tossed ANOTHER essay on the Middle East my way... Enough of that.
Ishiko and I are putting a new start to this comic book business of ours. Epica (the first and longest) is taking a back seat to a new, nameless mess that I've based on Faust and Rumplestiltskin (sp?). Yes, both together. I only started working on it yesterday, so there is some way to go before it reaches any sort of perfection. The temptation to kill the whole cast is ever present (I like a high death count), but I'm fighting that. Fighting, fighting...
Yuki
04:06 p.m.---Thursday, October 11, 2001
I should really be doing my homework for Japanese class, since I do have to go to that in about an hour and a half...
My stuff got through customs today, so I'm hoping that it comes in Saturday, not Monday. I could always download the songs while I wait...but I won't. It's only a few days. I have to be patient. Oh, and I can only imagine hearing Beth now *in a whiny voice* "machi, send me my cd faster". Don't ask if you didn't understand THAT. I'm rather sick of hearing her whining voice in relation to things that I did/didn't/wouldn't say anyway (right, I know you're reading this). It's just getting so friggin' old! But anyway. That's Beth for ya.
Yuki
08:13 p.m.---Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Ishiko: I sorta thought that you were feeling this way. I don't think that I can really say why things are the way they are, but I have a few ideas of my own if you care to hear (read) them...I probably sound like I'm taking sides. I am. Your side, obviously.
You're not very enthusiastic about your art, or any art in general. It's not like you should be all "yay!" but the fact that you show so little interest makes it seem like you aren't really interested (like the colleges and stuff). She probably doesn't compliment you much because...well, it's pretty hard to compliment you. You usually just roll your eyes like "oh, yeah, right, that's not true" and that doesn't exactly bring a person back to toss another your way. I do it anyway, but that's me. As for doing the projects, I can only count two that you missed (the terrorist thing and the portrait of someone else) and she wasn't really fuming (remember this is all just my opinion, which counts for very little). The fact that you are always saying that you're art sucks and your reluctance to let her see it. If she can't see it she can't say anything about it. And she did say things about Klaha and she did say things about that Gackt-bird-Lat. American Civ. thing. And really, otherwise you haven't done much outside of the assignments (I know you're having a block) and she also can't say things to you or know that you're interested if you aren't doing anything (well, you're doing things, but not very fruitfully, once again, the block). I guess what I'm saying is that you need to try to be a little more active and positive. Sure, you're having a block, but you have to try to not let that get to you so much (like most things). Not to be mean, but lately it seems like it's not even the block, you just don't want to do anything (and I'm sure that Ms. Simons can tell too).
About that art contest thing last year. I don't remember, but did you do anything new for that? Probably... you did alot of stuff then. So maybe she did just screw you over then, but maybe the stuff that you did, while it was good wasn't new, or something. I dunno. I can't remember that far back. Maybe that was an enthusiasm thing too... i don't know. She did give you taht huge bulletin board thing last year though. Does that count for anything at all? Who else ever got an INDIVIDUAL display? I wish --I-- got one. I'm probably just making you madder. You're probably thinking, "oh there goes Yuki, criticizing me again. she never understands anything". I am trying to help. It's not easy.
Yuki
01:52 p.m.---Wednesday, October 10, 2001
*pout* 4-6 more days before my Third Stage order comes in. Will I be able to wait that long? Only time may tell... Yes, I am being overdramatic, but after all the heartache of having to order (ie the fact that I am now destitute) at least I know that it is on the way. Good. I shall be contented just with that knowledge then...*long pause* Okay, maybe not. I will probably be horribly impatient and drive everyone around me (including my parents and not discluding people that I don't even know) completely mad and perhaps I am a little over zealous about this all, but it's machi (whom i admire a great deal if anyone hadn't noticed). Enough said, ne.
....I have to go finish Edward's pants. I was just getting ready to put in the zipper and thinking to myself "This is a damn good pair of pants compared to the trouble that Beth and I had with her shorts" when the stupid plastic baby started up (tonight's the last night of that!). I just grimaced and did my "motherly" duty and by the time that was done I had to go to bed.
I wonder how many people read this... I know that I few of my friends do, but curiosity strikes me dead at wondering what other people would find interesting in it. I thought of putting in a counter, but I end up here so often myself that it wouldn't be very accurate.
Yuki
07:34 p.m.---Tuesday, October 9, 2001
Is it only Tuesday?
Well, adventures with the plastic Asian baby are going well, aside from the fact that I am exhausted and in my tired stupor misplaced the key that turns all the babies on (the teacher had to call me and ask me what happened to it...apparently she found it though, because she hasn't called me back). I'm anxious only to end the whole thing, which means one more night after tonight. I am optimistic about it all working out well though.
There is a girl who attends the nearby middle school who I often see twice a day and everyday she shouts at me "I like your boots!" Sometimes several times. Let's just call her the ILYB (I like your boots) girl. At first, this wasn't so bad aside from the fact that she chased me across the middle school playground shouting at the top of her lungs (and I didn't even hear her because Beth and I were having a heated discussion about Malice Mizer's Kozi). The second time, I simply said "thanks" since I heard her and figured that would be the end of it. Boy, was I wrong. To get to Ishiko's house from school and vice versa, the shortest way is to cross the middle school playground. Sometimes she is there in the morning. Sometimes she is there at lunch. One time I was walking by and she yelled it off the FIRE ESCAPE. ^_^ Infatuated? As nice as it is of the ILYB girl to like my boots, I'm getting a little annoyed with her. It's flattering that anyone admires my Harajuku-esque fashion sense, but I did hear and acknowledge her existance didn't I? Isn't it enough for a high school senior to bother with that much (hierarchy, hierarchy)? At least I am still safe to be Admired but Not Copied. I can't imagine having little seventh-grade-Yuki-look-alikes running around...actually that might be sort of fun... (here's a picture of the infamous boots) Today I really tested her though. I wore different boots. And still there was the wild cry of "I LIKE YOUR BOOTS!" (did I mention that she has an annoying accent? it's more like "ah lak yer bouts", but it's not Southern or anything.) And in addition to that, when Beth was crossing the playground alone today during lunch she got "I like your skirt!" followed by "She's friends with the girl with the boots." At least the ILYB girl (possibly a cult, i'm not sure how many there really are, but the yelling one is easily identified) isn't just bothering me...
Yuki
09:37 p.m.---Sunday, October 7, 2001
Okay, new layout is up. It reminded me why I don't do tables within tables ever! I did it ONCE before. I always forget most of the closing tags and that really makes a mess. But here it is. For the most part. Done. The artwork is the title page of the You Higuri artbook "Poison", which I highly recommend (and Higuri You's manga, of course, though I am slow to get any). I had to scan it myself, which meant putting my artbook to the test, a thing that I never do to any artbook let alone one so recently purchased (July). I liked the way that it was slightly transparnent though, just enough so to let the image under it show through a bit.
I've been at this for longer than it should have taken. Stupid tables. I need my sleep after all. The plastic Asian baby is coming home with me tomorrow...
Yuki
03:33 p.m.---Sunday, October 7, 2001
I feel guilty coming back here and not bringing the new layout with me...
The college application process begins... This is probably the thing that I need to think of most and the thing that I want to think of least. I'm going for FIT, fashion design major (along with the multitude of other places that I intend to apply, of course). All this stuff makes me queasy though, because it's the rest of my life and it's alot to think of. And I dislike writing essays. College essays, essays for English, history, anything. I don't like 'em.
I never realize quite how light-weight me car is until I'm driving down a highway and getting blown into another lane by a passing gust of wind. I was having a hard time keeping my car in place, out of the other lane or the breakdown lane.
The anime that I have most recently watched: Panda Go Panda. It's a Miyazaki classic, though it's very hard to see any appeal in it. I rented it for my sister's kids, who spent the weekend with us. I was supposed to get some kind of Tigger movie, but I decided that though I have a dissolving interest in anime, there's no hurt in spreading it to the younger generation. My neice loved it though. She watched it three times. I woke up this morning to that obnoxious theme song. The story itself is interesting... if not completely senseless (such as a grandmother leaving her granddaughter alone for an extended period of time, or a steam engine driving along under water).
Yuki
06:03 p.m.---Friday, October 5, 2001
New layout in the works. Overwhelming laziness being the only thing keeping it from getting done coupled with the fight between thinking of a whole new layout or just improving upon the current one.
I'm just sitting here right now, hoping that I get hired for a second job (in addition to the first one) and thinking primarily about when my order from Third Stage will be arriving in the mail (i think about this an unhealthy lot). There was no school today, which was wonderful. Not that I did anything, but it was.
This week Ishiko and I finally got around to getting our senior pics done for the yearbook. We started a roll of film with Beth on Tuesday and finished it off on Wednesday at a playground. Tuesday's pictures weren't good. Wednesday...better. We were doing some half-assed Dir en Grey cosplay that day (read Ishiko's October 2 entry if you really want to know why) and Beth and I decided that we couldn't have a decent Kyo and Tochi with our shocking lack of makeup (oh, and ishiko was shinya)... So we went to a playground, all black and scary and frightened a bunch of little kids. I'd put a picture here, but that would require me to scan something. My Toshiya outfit sort of fell down a hill (not really) so by the time we got to the playground all that was left proper was my hair. Otherwise I was a pair of platform boots, a mid-thigh black dress and black lace-trimmed stretchy shorts(I was more "Garden" period earlier in the day complete with that tutu thing). Beth was a really cute Kyo though! Even though her hair was all wrong for the outfit, it was really cute and her makeup was good too. For the most part she was just wearing her Michael costume (which can be viewed on our cosplay page). And Ishiko... I don't remember. Black. She borrowed this cool cardigan that I have with wine-black fur trim. But I got a picture or two. It's up in the air between me on a swing and me in a tire (which i had a hell of a time getting into). Choices, choices, choices....
Yuki
07:52 p.m.---Sunday, September 30, 2001
I might fix this stupid layout tonight unless my mom tells me to get off the computer. I was thinking of going completely new, but I don't think that I will. I'm rather fond of this aside from the problems it has (which you can't see if I've already fixed it...)
What a weekend. It began with me spending four hours Friday night finishing my Modern World History essay, which I hated. Saturday... I spent the morning making Emiru wrapping paper for Beth and the rest of the day at Ishiko's for Beth's party. Oh and I made ebichiri... sorta (will have to dicuss this further down). Beth was delighted to find a Dir en Grey CD (Macabre) in the loaf of bread that Ishiko got her for her birthday. Yes...in the bread. Ishiko and I spent Monday afternoon cutting a CD sized slot in a loaf of bread just for that reason... And she also got a can of Spam, a can of Manwich and a box of beef flavored Rice-a-roni. (Don't ask, just don't ask.) "Man Talk" ha ha ha ha ha ahaaaaa. Don't watch "Cutting Class". It is a BAD movie.
About the ebichiri: Well, Emiru likes it, so we had to make it for Beth's party (since Emiru is Beth's favorite ex-j-rocker). But we didn't know what it was,only that it had shrimp in it. And I got delegated to find out what it was at the last minute (give or take a few days). I managed to find a recipe, but it was in Japanese and... I really can't read well or at all. One web translator later I realized that ebichiri translates to "chile shrimp". Not too Japanese, ne. Not to mention that web translators don't work well. But I figured it out and using my cooking genius made the ebichiri and it was actually really good. Even with the ketchup in it (it just seemed odd to fry shrimp in ketchup).
Yuki
09:22 p.m.---Friday, September 28, 2001
Archived again.
Well, this week was more of the same. It rained again. I really wish that it wouldn't so much. It gets all grey and dreary (ah ha, Lillie Charlotte, somehow this song always makes me happy. I don't know why.) and then it's wet and cold. Being cold is one of my peeves and unfortunately winter is right around the corner...
Beth and I got everything organized for our Third Stage order, at long last. We had to drive 30 minutes to find a bank that we could get a money order at and it cost $25 and I am now in debt... but I really wanted machi's new single, so I don't mind. Sacrifices, sacrifices...
I'm supposed to be writing an essay for Modern World History on the Middle East, formation of the Muslim religion and it's misinterpretation by terrorists who claim to be doing stuff for Islam. Well, that's not exactly it, but it's close. It's due Monday, but I have to write it today because...if not now, then when? Tomorrow is Beth's birthday, big 17, so I won't have time tomorrow. Sunday is...lazy day? Yup. No time for homework when I could just lie around and do my laundry...
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