Thursday, October 22, 2009

Ve~!
Sorry for not posting in so long. School gets in the way, you know?

…. And recently, so has Poke’mon.

No, I didn’t get Platinum or anything crazy like that, I’ve just been replaying Pearl in my spare time. What little spare time I have. D: I’m sorry for neglecting you guys as a result (but then to some of you my undeclared hiatus may have actually been a relief. ^^; )

In news on my life, I finally finished the rough draft for my latest English paper (and the one I turned in last week got an A). The thing is though I have a bad feeling already that the rough draft for this one is crap. D:

Ed: you’ve been using the “D:” emote a lot…

CCR: I know. I just don’t know why that is exactly.

Oh, and Dad’s home, though he’s leaving early next week (Tuesday night) because he’s working overtime. … the only problem with this is that I fear I may no longer have a little brother by the end of the week and he knows about Andrew keeping his girlfriend’s cat here for the month.

And said cat REALLY needs to get fixed… >.O I have a feeling I might not get much sleep tonight. Wait… crap, that reminds me! I gotta find the boots that I’m probably gonna use for my Liet cosplay at Saboten! (And possibly for a really quickly put together Hungary for an Institute dance tomorrow night – costumes are allowed, but no cross dressing, hence why I’m attempting Hungary) *rummages around closet for shoes*

Ren: can’t she focus on that later?

Ed: apparently not.

Ren: it was a rhetorical question, Fullmetal. You didn’t need to answer it.

CCR: *emerges from the closet with one boot* well, I found one. *goes back to closet-diving* and I heard that Ren.

Ren: of course you heard it, you TYPED it!

CCR: no need to get technical. Now where did that other boot go – oh hey, I found part of my favorite blue sweats! ^^ I wonder if the top even fits me anymore though… I only get to wear these things in the winter after all. *continues closet-diving, finding all sorts of things from old magazine issues to clothes she hasn’t worn in ages* and the other part of my sweats! :D *…. * Other boot found! Mission Accomplished! And I found my Witch-Duckie! *squeezes a small rubber ducky wearing a witch’s hat and cloak*

Ren: … *facepalm*

CCR: *squeaky squeaky*

Ren: you know your dad won’t tolerate that thing being squawked in his presence right?

CCR: I know, but he’s not here right at the moment is he?

Ren: does that even matter?

CCR: in the case of my dad, yes, yes it does.

Oh, and why am I posting in the afternoon instead of at night as I usually do? Because if I say I’m gonna post tonight I know I won’t do it. …. Wait a sec. Ren.

Ren: what?

CCR: you remember what’s coming up, don’t you… on Saturday actually, if I recall.

Ren: O__O FOR THE LOVE OF – DON’T MENTION THAT HERE! WHAT IF SHANA READS IT?!

CCR: true. *squeaky squeaky*

Goku (from Saiyuki, for my newer readers) : say, that reminds me, whatever happened to that rubber ducky doorbell Fai installed?

CCR: it’s still there, just everyone assumes the doorbell is still broken and doesn’t push it. … at least I THINK it’s still there. *tests it* o.o; no, I guess not… must’ve taken it with him when he left to go world-travelling with Syaoran again.

… Witch-Duckie! ^^

Ren: oh brother.
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Long Time no Post...
Note to self: do not start downloading a scanlated doujin at 12:30 at night, especially when you know it’s gonna be a long one and it’s a school night.

Oh well, if nothing else it’s gotten me working on a post again while that doujin’s loading… though this is making me wonder now if I can find translations to the two doujins that I have here (the RoyAi one from Saboten last year, and a Butsu Zone one I bought at ComiCon simply because I thought I’d never find something like it again – both to some extent were bought to give me a reason to use and therefore not forget the kana that I’ve learned and what little kanji I have actually mastered, but in the Butsu Zone one even the hiragana’s hard to read, and hiragana’s my strongest area! TAT ah well, I think the dialogue’s hand-written anyway in that one. Both doujins are clean (as in nothing explicit) btw - I don’t read the 18+ ones)

So, sorry I haven’t posted since last Tuesday. When other things weren’t in the way, I just was too tired, lazy, or in the case from Thursday evening to sometime Saturday night of this past weekend, I was too sick to do much of anything much less post. As for stuff that happened… where to start…

Well, my brother’s turning into a thief; that much I’ve established. I won’t go into specifics, I already got it off my chest back on Monday when it happened. But on the good end of things, I got a 94 on my math midterm! ^^ My sociology midterm I got all the multiple-choice answers correct. The two essay questions… I don’t know, she hasn’t graded them yet. But then she hasn’t graded my stuff for CPD either – and that class has been over for weeks! I also turned in my Causal Analysis paper for English Monday night, and so far have yet to receive a grade for it. I’ll probably get it back with feedback and a grade tomorrow night though. Let’s hope it’s a good one, shall we? And then for my next paper… or rather, my next set of three papers (they all are of rather short page requirement though, so no biggie), I don’t know if I’ll be able to write on the topic I want to write on.

Ren: next time then don’t let Hetalia influence what you write about for school.

CCR: it’s a historical event I’m writing the report on unless I can’t find more than what few sources I’ve been able to find through the school’s approved databases… Only problem though is that it’s so far back in history (like late-middle-ages) that I can’t find too terribly much on it. I found more on the Teutonic Knights in general than the battle that according to what little research I have been able to do was the beginning of their decline (said battle is the subject for my paper). But my alternative topic will be an easy one to write about too – I just gotta try to keep it brief. I think I’m only allowed two to maybe two-and-a-half pages for the academic version of the report (the first paper for this project)… and for the alternate-audience version as well. The analysis, if I recall, is also supposed to be rather brief.

Maybe then the research I have for Tannenberg won’t be too little after all. She did say our minimum for source material this time was only two sources. And I do have two sources (though one only briefly mentions Tannenberg and summarizes the history of the Teutonics). Gilbo’s just lucky no one remembers Feliks and Toris kicking his butt, I guess. XD; (speaking in Hetalia terms, I mean – from my research thus far and comments on the LJ scanlations of the Tannenberg strips the only common link is that the Knights lost. Just how they lost is debatable. I don’t recall what my research said about it)

Huzzah, that doujin’s almost done loading aru~!

Ren: -_-; please don’t do that, it’s degrading.

CCR: do what?

Ren: “aru.” It’s a stereotype. A stupid one.

CCR: I know it is, but… meh, never mind. (Yes, if you didn’t guess the doujin scanlations I’m waiting on are Yao-centric aru)

Ren: stop that!

CCR: okay, okay. Until next time, ja ne~! … aru.

Ren: seriously, stop.

CCR: you haven’t had a problem with it before.

Ren: that doesn't justify it!
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

A Day of Study and Play
And I’m one volume closer to being up-to-date on FMA, having read volume 15 tonight… CAN I KILL FUHRER BRADLEY/WRATH/PRIDEIFYOUVEONLYSEENTHEFIRSTANIMESERIES PLEASE?! Or at least fanart-kill him like how I drew Gluttony eating Marco(as in the X-LAWS Second-in-command, NOT Tim Marcoh) a while back?! Pretty please with Amestris’s best desserts on top?!

But other than that, a lot of what I did today was do math homework, go back to our old high school with Kya (she had a question for a teacher), and hanging out at her place eating Chinese food and watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Polar Express… and later the Jeff Dunham Christmas special! XD Today was very random despite that…

Oh, and Rae, Kana… I kinda-sorta envy you guys. You don’t have school next week. I do because college is ebil like that. Gr.
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English Papers and Math Work and Sociology Midterms, Oh My!
That’s pretty much what’s on my plate this week – aside from making apple strudel on Friday, anyway. And it looks like I’ve got A LOT of math on my plate… just great.

But at least it’s getting cooler outside! ^^ I know some might view that with dread, but when you live where I live and do not like the triple-digit summer heat, the time when it finally starts to cool down just feels absolutely wonderful! And on top of that, it means winter’s coming soon… and with winter comes Christmas! =D They don’t call it The Most Wonderful Time of the Year for nothing, after all~!

I still wish we had some snow for once though… some lucky people in Oregon already have some I hear. –.- whereas, just like every year before, we’ll be lucky to even get so much as slush.

Ren: good. Snow’s kind of overrated anyway.

CCR: true, one who’s dealt with snow on a near yearly basis would probably think so. But it isn’t to me~! Seriously, just one winter where the ground’s covered in snow like in those super-old pictures in the Temple visitors center would be nice.

Ren: you’re transferring to BYU in a couple of years, aren’t you? Provo has plenty of snow, wait until then.

CCR: meh, I guess you’re right…

And I think I need to start getting to bed earlier on school nights. I was about to doze off in my math class again… not good. What’s worse is I took a bit of a cat-nap in the student lounge again today like I did last… Wednesday was it? Problem with it this time though was that someone took the comfortable couch, so I had to try and sleep on the other one. X.O yeah. Not fun.

But then I probably should be trying to get a bigger dent placed in my math homework (since I’ve already finished my final draft for my paper – I think. I need a second pair of eyes to look over it and see if it’s clear or not). Until next time, ja ne~!
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Monday, September 28, 2009

All I Ever Wanted...?
Subject line/title based on the title of a song from The Prince of Egypt (it’s kind of a short-ish one and not as well-known as When You Believe or anything like that)

No joke, I kept getting that song stuck in my head all day today – particularly, for one reason or other, while the sacrament was being passed today in church (oh, and for clarification to folks who don’t already know (should’ve done this in my other posts), I’m LDS, also commonly known as “Mormon.”). It was… odd. Yet also oddly fitting for the choice that faces me as of today.

So I tried the singles/young adult branch today. It was interesting, to say the least. Far smaller ward than my “home ward” (hence probably why it so far has only “branch” status), but other than the branch presidency… it’s practically entirely run by people my age. For once I wasn’t feeling quite so much like I didn’t belong in Relief Society, as I had back at my homeward many a time because all the Relief Society members back there are either old ladies, my friend’s mothers, or used to be my Young Women leaders. Not so in this case – they were all within my same age range, the subject matter was more relatable, even though it would’ve been the same exact lesson topic that would’ve doubtlessly been discussed in the homeward meeting. Now as for Sunday school… they’re a week behind us, apparently, if not farther. XD; so I have heard the story of the crickets and the miraculous flock of seagulls twice this month. … and my art fairies are taking the idea of me drawing Utah-chan (my Hetalia state-OC) with a flock of seagulls or something and running with it. So I may attempt that someday, when my skills are epic enough to be able to draw that to a satisfactory level. Sacrament meeting… well, I’m not sure what to say about that. It was a fast/testimony meeting, so I think at least a third of the branch members or less came up and bore their testimonies. And in that meeting I sat next to someone who I haven’t even seen in a super-long time except in passing. – mainly ‘cause after junior high she went to a different high school and our stake got all mixed up and we were put in different wards from that point forward. XD;

Oh, and Rae! You won’t believe this, but there’s a guy there who I think may even be taller than you! And from the sound of it he’s a law student! XD sorry, just had to throw that out there. Oh, and tell Shana that I’m sorry for “leaving” or “abandoning” you guys – no hard feelings, right? … Right? I’ll see what I can do with my homework to try and see you guys next week before the weekend (since, you know, with Conference and all the weekend will be kind of impossible until maybe Saturday evening…).

My overall decision so far… I guess I’ll have to take some time over the week and in between homework and Conference sessions to try and figure out if I should contact the bishop from my homeward and ask his permission to make an official switch. I think I might have to, though – Kana’s sister is threatening to give my name and address to the people in the branch whose calling apparently is to come and bug people like me who only come to the branch meetings once until I decide to switch for good. And I wouldn’t put it past her to go through with that threat – not in the least. She also mentioned while dropping someone else from the branch off at her house that the singles/young adult branch is “where I belong.” But is it…?

Yet at the same time, I’m sure I’ll miss the environment that comes with the structure of a family ward if I do switch. But surely I’ll get married someday and return to that sort of environment – just, then I’ll have a husband and eventually a few kids of my own. Maybe I’m struggling to make this choice though because all my life since Mom returned to the Church I’ve been in moderately sized wards, and the branch… well, I won’t lie, it’s small.

But I have to “grow up,” I suppose (dang I hate that phrase – if there IS a Neverland, can someone tell me where it is so I can just go there and stay, plzkthx?). Meet some people my age, actually start, you know, “dating” – or at least show interest in dating. I mean I’m in no rush to get married – plan on getting AT LEAST my Bachelor’s degree before that happens, so likely I’ll meet my future husband up in Provo if I do successfully transfer to BYU. But the adage says, “You marry who you date.” Who’s to say I’ll ever marry if I’m not at least looking? It’s not like I’ll be as lucky as the princesses in the fairy tales, whose true loves seem to just waltz in with them barely having to do anything (well, except in Enchanted, which challenges the whole “a true love’s kiss and happily ever after, that’s all there is to it” archetype in the first place).

… what the heck, why am I even THINKING about this stuff, much less blogging about it?! And I gotta go to bed soon anyway (maybe lack of sleep is contributing to my math struggles, too… hmm…). Those who read through that rant receive a virtual cookie. Until next time, ja ne!
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Long Day is Long...
Especially when you have a rebellious younger brother and your dad who feels the need to yell at said rebellious brother dropping f-bombs left and right as he does so just happens to be home.

But at least I got my homework done today (since I was unable to yesterday due to circumstances and cleaning the house in preparation for Dad’s arrival)… except for the rough draft of my English paper. But I still need to find one more source, the nature of which I’m not sure where to look for it (I know that probably did not make sense), and then I have a bit more time to work on that before the working draft is due than I do my math work… egads, the math work.

Though I do have a new strategy regarding that: for my midterm, I’m gonna go in on a morning when I don’t have school (probably Friday since those are the days Mom seems to have off nowadays), and take it then. Because if you figure that my mind would be more refreshed in the morning and I would be able to think more clearly/be less likely to make fatal errors. ^^

Ren: why don’t you try actually checking your answers before turning it in?

CCR: I probably will do that too – and I did do that on the most recent test I took (the one I bombed) – at least on the ones I felt I needed to. I still bombed it. But also bear in mind by then it was the afternoon, and I was under some degree of stress to get it done in time because I got there an hour before the Testing Center closed up for the day. Therefore, time and emotional state had something to do with it. I MIGHT’ve been a teeny bit hungry too for all I know. And tired. Tired-ness does not help – so I must be well-rested and well-fed on the morning I take my midterm.

Ren: speaking of being well-rested, you need to get to bed soon, especially if your mother says she’s going to wake you all up before she goes to work.

CCR: I know, I know… heck, technically in the Word version of this post I probably should have it dated as being the 26th, but since I started it on the 25th (though in the last ten minutes thereof) I dated it as such. But then all I’m really gonna do tomorrow according to Dad probably is make breakfast and lunch for the boys while they clean up the front yard/go to the rental house and tear out carpet so we can actually get some new carpet installed and RENT OUT THE STINKIN’ PLACE AGAIN!!! And then I gotta go to the General Relief Society Meeting at the Stake Center at five. In other words it’s gonna be a housewife-training day/preparation for General Conference coming up this next weekend (why I happen to have midterms on the same week, I don’t know – maybe it’s one of those little roadblocks/temptations to try and take me away from watching Conference. After all, Sophomore and Junior year of high school the Homecoming dance was over Conference weekend, and then Senior year I missed Conference to spend the weekend with my grandparents finding a dress for said dance.

But then I’ve heard stories of a lot of inconveniences coming up when people try to specifically schedule a day to go to the Temple too, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the adversary at work.

Oh, speaking of church and stuff, since I KNOW Rae and Shana will read this… I think I’m gonna try the Singles/Young Adult branch session this week (if nothing else I’ll probably need it for the sake of my sleep quota after tomorrow). If I like it, then… well… yeah… I might start going to those sessions more often instead of the family ward sessions. But then chances of me sticking to the Singles branch (I know, it’s supposed to be called Young Adult now, but I’ve practically grown up calling it the Singles ward/branch – heck, there’s even a MOVIE about the program called The Singles Ward!). It’s kinda like… eh, for the AZ folks reading this it’s kind of like how a lot of people still call Chase Field by its former name, Bank One Ball Park or “Bob”. Anyway, now that I’m back on topic, the chances of me sticking to the Singles branch are rare unless my college workload or my sleeping habits get to the point where I just can’t do the 8 am thing anymore (the family ward we’re in the boundaries of meets at that time, whereas the singles ward meets at 11 am).

My only worry though is some of the things I’ve heard from my classmates and even my instructor at Institute about the Singles/Young Adult branches/wards… and how our former bishop in the family ward advised me to stay in the family ward until about a year after I’ve graduated. Well, I’ll be 18 ½ next Sunday, so I don’t know… maybe it is time I make the switch.

Ah, sorry I bored you guys with all of my church-related venting. And I seriously really should head to bed now before I get in trouble. Until next time, ja ne!

RANDOM EDIT: oh, and apparently my old school lost the Homecoming game tonight. Bah.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Pulled in All Directions
Posted on what feels like Tuesday, but is around midnight on Wednesday morning.

Though sadly I can only say I finished re-working all of the problems on those math review worksheets. The rest of the time I attempted to conduct some research for my paper… spent too much time reading part of an insanely long article that I doubt I’ll even use unless it REALLY comes down to it, leaving me with little patience for the other shorter, more relevant and more likely to be used articles I had bookmarked last night.

Ren: that’s your own fault.

CCR: not entirely; I thought through the database that I found the super-long article I might be able to find a web page reference for my paper, since one of my references needs to be a website – not an online manifestation of a printed article, but an actual true-blue web page. Wikipedia’s automatically out of the question, and all of the potential sources I have bookmarked right now are all articles – and Academic OneFile apparently doesn’t store web-based data rather than journal articles, magazine/newspaper articles, and multimedia such as videos and audio. Greaaaat. Ah well, I’ll bring up that question in class next week, considering we are after all doing a “website evaluation activity” then.

I can, however, say that so far plans to carry out my Sociology project (violating a personal or social norm) are looking to be seaming together rather nicely – I just have to be attentive to people’s reactions to what I do for this project so I can incorporate that as directed into my paper that I have to do regarding the results of this project. But it’s a simple, narrative 2-3 page paper – unlike my English paper which calls for 3 to 5 pages if I recall and requires some degree of research.

… research that a certain database is not being very nice about letting me conduct right now *glares in Academic OneFile’s general direction*. Believe me, it has been useful, but even after I log in to Blackboard it won’t let me access it off-campus. So I’ll have to read over my possible sources at lunch tomorrow if I’m not busy making corrections to those stupid math worksheets that our prof is making us go all the way to the tutoring office to have it looked over and keep re-working every problem we get wrong until we have achieved 100 Percent… I know she’s doing this to ensure a good grade on our end, and I know from both experience and Kya’s pre-warnings that this prof tends to really expect a lot of work out of her students, but still… *sigh* maybe I was right last night, I do kinda feel better letting this all out. Until next time, ja ne~!

Oh, and I also found out I suck at Brawl and I need a super-easy song to be any good at the vocals for Guitar Hero: World Tour.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

o.o Ten Days...
Gwah! ‘tis been TOO LONG! At least for me anyway… I know, I know “you have an excuse; you’re up to your neck in math homework and English papers.” Still, it’s just… gwah. Maybe if I posted here to vent more often than I wouldn’t be as stressed (I did post last week, just on my LiveJournal and I didn’t feel the need to transfer that post over here or type the same rant over again). I would transfer a meme that I did over there to here, but it’s a bit image-heavy…

Wow, now that I think of it this is ironic. I’m doing my next English paper on blogging, and here I am participating in the very trend I am analyzing… but then it’s a “trend” I’ve been in for years on end (no seriously, I missed my otakuversary so I didn’t announce it here, but it’s been over six years now that I’ve been part of theOtaku). Should I even be writing a paper on that then?

Ren: this is English you’re writing this for, not Sociology.

CCR: I know, I know – just trying to apply some of what I’ve learned, you know. “One is blinded by the culture one is a part of, so that one cannot truly known one’s own culture;” or more simply put, you have to study something from the outside looking in. To use an example from our textbook, to learn about Western culture you need to go to a place like Japan –

Ren: they get it. Enough of your babbling.

CCR: so I can’t –

Ren: you didn’t come to post about your schoolwork.

CCR: meh, I guess you’re right.

So what has been going on with me for the past week and a half/near two weeks? Well, I aced my first English paper (not sure if I have already said that or not), my dogs will not shut up (and on that note we now have one fewer than before), Institute social activities are kinda boring when you don’t know anyone and the vast majority of what few people show up are playing volleyball (let’s just say hypothetically that in this situation you’re an introvert like me and hate to play volleyball). And… I think I’m sometimes quicker to trust people than I should be. I just…

Gah, and now I’m feeling guilty again. Not for stuff I’ve done recently, but for some stuff in the past, and… just… I don’t know. Let’s drop that subject for now.

I need to start writing more mini-fics again; maybe on the weekends, who knows? And I’m also two weeks behind on Randomosity. Possibly soon to be three weeks if I don’t get a comic done this week – and I have some stuff to scan/submit, and I’m kinda worried about my grade in my art appreciation class – oh, speaking of which!

I switched majors today – now I’m working towards an Associate of Arts degree… which in ways is shaping up to look a lot like the General Studies degree I had made up my mind on before. I didn’t even have to make a declaration. Wow. Though I’ll probably have to when I go sign up for my spring classes. *yawn*

Guess that’s my queue to go to bed so I can get up with Mom tomorrow and work out (I seriously need to make more of an effort to lose weight again – like I did back in late ‘07/early ’08… still can’t believe I lost ten pounds over the Thanksgiving/Christmas season alone – that’s supposedly the hardest time to diet, isn’t it?)

Ren: you’re getting off topic.

CCR: am I? *reads over* … yeah, I am. But anyway, until next time, ja ne~!
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Moment of Silence
… Even though, call me a horrible person if you will, but I almost forgot what today was until I saw the flag out in our front yard (the boy scouts in our ward go around and put up flags for national holidays and memorial-type days). I asked my mom if they had left it up since Labor Day, but then she reminded me. Gah, I’m so forgetful.

So, since Tuesday, I have successfully nearly blown up with the stress at my Sociology project (that thank goodness I got through without going crazy), rewritten my paper for English for that final draft and turned it in, and finished my math homework. Just another week in college.

Today I woke up, colored the drawing I did on Wednesday and finished up the lineart for last night after Institute, and – oh, did I mention I’m almost scared regarding the security of my scholarship now? There might be a formatting error with my essay that I turned in for CPD, which a class that if I want to keep my scholarship I am REQUIRED to pass – and I only have one or two weeks left in that class anyway. Then I took a nap, and afterward Mom and I went out and ran some errands, ate dinner at Panda Express and visited a good friend of mine.

… I no longer know what to say. And I’m getting super-paranoid about that one CPD assignment all of a sudden, so I’m gonna e-mail it to my teacher just in case. … On second thought maybe not. I need to make up my mind. XD

But yeah… for some reason I’m in a very random mood and have little else to say, so here be a preview of a fic I’ve started a little while ago (but obviously won’t upload the whole thing until Christmastime due to the fic’s setting). And it’s a Hetalia fic, using both country and human names – just a warning for those who aren’t fans of the series.

I don’t own APH, yadda yadda… and I’m sorry if I’m wrong about the Cinco de Mayo thing; I was just told that by my choir director last year (Rae might’ve been there when he said that, I don’t remember if he mentioned it in a Dolce rehearsal or a Belle rehearsal)

“It’s the most, wonderful time~ of the year~!” America sang happily as he practically skipped through the shopping mall where he was now. And he had reason to – it was, after all, Christmas time: doubtless his favorite time of the year. Only his birthday came even close in comparison to generating the excitement and mirth displayed by both the nation and his people. Even the mall was decorated - tinsel along the guard rails on the second floor looking down on the first, ornaments hanging on fishing wire from the high ceiling, and of course, as in every American shopping mall, a large evergreen tree just as heavily decorated as the rest of the building towered, in this one example, at the center of the first floor. Sitting in front of the tree in a grandiose chair, surrounded by “elves” and a seemingly endless line of children filtering from the toy store on the right, was the local Santa Claus impersonator, his white beard and red suit, with a toddler on his knee.

England groaned as he trudged behind the American.

“What’s the matter Artie?” America questioned for a moment, stopping when he noticed the Englishman getting too far behind. “You’re supposed to be happy – it’s Christmas!”

“No it’s not, you git!” England retorted. “It’s not even the end of November yet! And how many bloody times do I have to tell you, don’t call me Artie!” the American’s playful smile was replaced now with a look of confused curiosity. He tilted his head before finally answering his elder brother’s seemingly off-beat reasoning.

“… So?”

“’So?!’ SO?! IT’S TOO BLOODY EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS!”

“Too early?” America asked, his eyebrows knit together from the further elevated confusion. “We always start getting ready for Christmas soon after Thanksgiving. Don’t you guys?”

“Thanksgiving is an American holiday.”

“Nuh-uh. Other countries celebrate it!”

“Name five.”

“Uh…” America had to admit: he was stumped. Who else DID celebrate the only other holiday during which he felt the need to gorge on roasted turkey and cranberry sauce…? There was one – he knew that for sure. But that country celebrated it in October. What was his name again? He knew he was just north of him… but the name. Come on, he thought, give me the NAME! Can… tuna? No, that’s not a nation. Cantina? No, wrong again. Can… “I’ve got it!” He finally declared. “Matthew celebrates it! He celebrates it in October, but he DOES celebrate Thanksgiving!”

“Is that all?”

“So far… I think…. Maybe Mexico celebrates it too.”

“Mexico doesn’t even celebrate Cinco de Mayo!”

“He doesn’t?!” Now America was really confused – no, make that flabbergasted.

“You, Alfred,” England declared, “Are a bona fide idiot. And you still have yet to answer my question.”

“Question?” America asked. “What question?”

“Why did you -”

Aaaand that’s where I cut it short for now. :P I probably ought to be heading for bed anyway. Until next time, ja ne~!

Ren: why do you still say “ja ne” when a more correct phrase would be “mata ne?”

CCR: because for the last six or so years I’ve been on this site, that’s what I’ve used for my ending – and that brings up another thing, I forgot my otakuversary this year too…

Ren: and that is of little concern to your original readers. Just add the post.

CCR: fine…
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Waiting~
Well this is… odd. Apparently I’m here in my CPD class and I don’t even know if the teacher is going to show up this week – she was summoned to jury duty and said she “should” be out in time for class, but you never know. And then at the same time she’s typically at least two to six minutes late, and it’s 6:02. All of us are waiting until – O.O okay, looks like we’ve got a sub. Wonder if I can still work on this post during class…

Ren: you KNOW you shouldn’t.

CCR: yeah, but still… I’ve multi-tasked all through high school and gotten super-good grades.

Ren: this is college, though.

CCR: I know… eh, I’ll probably just – oh, it’s just a presentation! ^0^ and then after that we can go home~

So to detail the last day of my Labor Day vacation (since I don’t have any classes on Tuesday except for this one, and it’s in the evening.)… Well, I finished much of Rae’s cosplay, and Kyarri kidnapped me for the day, so we also washed her car. We watched a couple of movies and then had dinner at my place before I had to head to class. O.o wow, apparently the school has a number to text a librarian on-staff. Talk about quick help. Any-who, back to paying attention to this presentation.

….

Oh, Rae, next time I see you I need you to try on the costume thus far… again. This time though it has the sleeves on. XD just to see if I cut the front right… as it is I think I messed up on the side that’s showing the most, considering I cut it out from the wrong side. And to see how much I have to hem – I think it turned out long even for you.

-After class-

But yeah, class is over now, but still… gah, I am SO tired. Probably shouldn’t have gotten up as early as I did. And I have to make even MORE changes to my paper because the instructor says I need just a teeny bit more detail. She did say it was good though… just that she thinks one of my criteria may actually be an aspect of a larger criterion mentioned in my paper. Gwah, this seems like HECK to edit. I’m sure it won’t be that way tomorrow when I actually am somewhat more well-rested, but still…

Geh. So tired. But other than the school drama I think today was a good day.

Now as for yesterday… yesterday I just started working on Rae’s costume, got her started on the Hetalia meme from dA, and talked with Yuna for a bit. Another long day, which reaped the consequences of me staying up until 11:30 pm.

*yawn* … yeah, I think that’s it.Until next time, ja ne!

EDIT: oh, and just so you know, don’t follow my example. Only reason I typed part of this post in a class is because I had a bit of time.
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