Sunday, January 23, 2005

Champloo Rampage
Hey all.

It's been a while, lol. I guess that means I'm becoming lazier. Or busier. Or both. AP work as the year trudges on certainly isn't helping matters, but that's to be expected. :p Sorry if these comments are.. um, a little dated. XD

Arc: I can never make myself study every day, lol. Sometimes it just feels so tedious.
Karmi: It's not really so much that I think I was immature however long ago, but I can't even remember how I acted, so I'm assuming that I was, if that makes sense.
Shin: Don't flatter yourself! Futurama was only there because I had a Hell of a time thinking of a somewhat decent 10th cartoon. >:| And why isn't Metroid Prime on your video game list?
Wondershot: Oh yeah, Lock Stock stomps all over Snatch, in my opinion. But aren't they the only two Guy Richie movies? And about beating Animal Crossing.. I was thinking about that, lol, and basically I mean just collect all the items for the museum and get most of the furniture.
Baron: Yeah, a year can do a lot, I imagine. Even a single incident can have varying degrees of impact. :o
Shin: Yes, yes I have. I think only five people regularly visit.

Annie: Haha, shameless indeed..
Shin: It was supposed to start right after the post. <.<
Baron: See above.
DDG: Aww, but the muffins are so tasty with my butter. ^.~

Sen: *steps away slowly*
Azure: Are you kidding? Senior year is one of the most stressful in high school!
Mimmi: Bah dum chi.
DDG: I never learn. :o
Sesshomarufan: My teachers pity me.
Mitch: I told you online before, but if anyone else is interested.. I'm on Heavy mode on DDR and can ace most 9 foot songs.
black orb: That's a shame.

Obviously the first thing you probably noticed when you came to my site was the new layout. I decided to change it up a bit since a) I've had that DDR one for a while now, and b) Samurai Champloo is so orgasmic that I needed to honor the series. Props to Alex for the coding needed to make the background stay put, and to.. my DVD for providing all of the pictures! :D I'd say that I'm fairly satisfied with the end result (otherwise I'd be working to fix it right now), so I hope you are too because it'll be here a while. What do you guys think?

I got Samurai Champloo last Monday when I got back from my skii trip, and so far I’ve probably run through the DVD at least five times. :O I ordered the box set so that I can collect the other DVDs as they’re released, which totals 7 in all, because Geneon doesn’t try to rape you of your time, money, and space. Geneon > ADV. The case that it came in was just so nice looking, too. It’s completely red and the pictures are really cool, and the quality is excellent all around; this will most definitely outlast the case that ADV provided for Evangelion. And on top of that, the set came with this bitchin’ bandana:

You wish you had one.

I had a lot of fun just wearing it randomly around the house for long periods of time. I would have worn it to school if they had let me.

..yes, I’m a major dork if you haven’t figured it out yet.

So yeah, if you were wondering where I was last weekend, I was skiing up in New York at this place called Greek Peek. I figure that I might as well mention the name, because someone in one of my classes had actually heard of it and I thought that that was kinda bizarre. My family went up there early on Friday, since we had a teacher workday and schools were closed, and we got back sometime on Monday. I think you guys might get a kick out of where we stayed:

Recognize the name?

The place that we stayed in was owned by some family friends that came up as well, but unfortunately the guy who is around my age and who I usually hang out with was off at college, and couldn’t make it. So when we were on the slopes, I skied with my little brother and his friend from the family we were staying with. Here’s a picture of his friend snowboarding:

He tries so hard. ^_~

Off the slopes, we played intense multiplayer games, watched Napoleon Dynamite, and I was able to get about 7% done in Metroid Prime 2 which, if you’ve played the game, is quite a lot, haha. It was really refreshing to get a chance to play video games, too, because lately I really haven’t had the time to for whatever reason.

Skiing itself was fun, but there has been unusual warmth this season and nearly half of the courses were closed off. They had the snow blowers going and everything, but it really wasn’t enough to prevent huge ice patches like this:

Face!

Plus, I still have to get rental skis despite skiing every year for the past 9 years or so. My parents were holding off on my brother and I getting our own skis because we really only go once a year, and we’ve been growing a lot. I don’t know about the former, but by now I really don’t see myself having any more large growth spurts. As a senior in high school.. do people generally grow any more on average?

While we were skiing, we’d sometimes go into this building to get food and take a break, and they had some great popcorn chicken. It was funny, though, because when you would get a drink, they had this sign up (note the previous picture):

Irony at its best.

Speaking of food, I ate a LOT over the weekend. We were going out to eat all over the place.. I’m surprised I didn’t gain like 10 pounds, haha. That’s metabolism for you, I guess, and.. predisposed genetics? I dunno.

For this past week, homework has been pretty nice. I’ve gotten right on it and had it done and out of the way, and there hasn’t been a lot; hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up assuming that my teachers continue not to give me much. :p

Wednesday.. they called for snow flurries in the middle of the day. Of course, at around that time, I was sitting in 5th period and the blinds were closed, but at the end of the period someone got up and opened them, and it was really coming down. Lol So that tormented us for the rest of the day, since they decided not to let us leave early, but some parents either came in to pick up their kids or called and gave them permission to leave early. My friend actually got to leave 6th period when his mom called and said he could drive home. In the last period of the day, 7th, I had art and nearly the entire class (read: 5 or 6 people) went outside to play and take pictures in the snow, while I stayed inside where it was nice and warm, lol.

When the bell rang to leave, I tried to get to my car as quickly as possible in an attempt to beat the busses, but I had to go to my locker, and those precious seconds caused my brother and I to barely miss getting out. Like the last time it snowed, I could tell that the car was starting to do something funky, so I pulled into a parking spot and turned off the car, waiting for everyone to leave before I attempted to go. Everything was going smoothly until I reached the lane where I had to make a u-turn to get to my neighborhood.

I think that I was going about 60 mph, and slowed down to maybe 45 once I got into the lane. I pressed the brake, but.. nothing happened. It was probably working, but the car wasn’t slowing down at all, and I had no choice but to go straight into the median strip. At this point, the car finally slowed down to 0, lol. My brother got out of the car and decided to run home and tell my mom what happened, while I stayed in the freezing cold wondering what the Hell I should do, when I looked over and saw a sign for Chuck’s Towing with a truck already coming out to help. The guy helped tow the car to my house and determined that the only thing wrong was that I had a couple of flat tires, and he replaced one of the tires. At this point, though, the car isn’t drivable for whatever reasons my dad found, and I have to drive the other car that we have, which I’ve named my pimp mobile. :p Ah well, better than taking the bus.

On Thursday we already had a 2 hour early dismissal because of the end of the marking period, and the school officials determined that the snow was enough to account for at least a two hour delay, so we got off entirely. I think I spent the day watching Bond movies and just relaxing.

To end our three day school week, I had an anime club party at my house on Friday, which turned out to be a whole lot of fun. Seven people showed up (mainly girls :p), and we watched anime and movies from 6 to 11, including Samurai Champloo and Colorful in terms of anime, and Shaun of the Dead as the movie. My friend also brought Paranoia Agent, but we didn’t have time to watch it, so maybe next week. All in all, it was a blast, I’d say. I had some crazy tickle fights with this one girl who basically cuddled up on my lap the whole time, haha. <.< ... >.>

And that about covers it, I think. Oh, and if you ever visit my deviantART site, I just added a bunch of new pictures, so be sure to check them out and comment. ^_^

Syk3-out
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