Squall and Rinoa

... :D/D: (That's meant to express ambivalence.)

2007-12-14T23:56:10Z

Tonight, I’m going over to Will’s house.

It will be the first time in three weeks, and the first time I’ve eaten dinner with his family since me, him, his mom and his dad went to Gerhard’s together.

But tonight will be different. Eating dinner with him, being at his home used to be so natural. I’m excited--I’m ecstatic. But at the same time, I feel confused, awkward, and nervous as hell.

For one thing, Will’s sister Rebecca is home from college. I’ve never actually met her before...Waved at her when Will pointed her out to me once, but I’ve never actually spoken to her. She’ll be coming with us to see the Golden Compass tonight. So will John (Will’s brother), I think. Her presence is one difference.

The other...well, I don’t think I need to point that one out.

I wonder how his family will treat me with this change. But I really, really feel like I need to speak with his dad at some point...That’s why I decided to go over for dinner. I need to see him and his entire family again, to remind myself that maybe everything is okay, and that he and his family are practically my second family. I need that reminder.

I also wonder if I’ll get a chance to talk to Will alone tonight...I have questions that need to be answered, and though I said before that I was going to wait to see how things went...Well, I need to /know/ some things that simply can’t wait anymore.

I’ll undoubtedly post how things went when I get back, but right now I need to go get ready to leave. x.x

Happy now, Emily? D:

My Daemon. :3

2007-11-28T20:55:08Z

Aww. :3 I <3 Lutheus.

Fall 2007 Semester Class Schedule

2007-08-28T04:59:30Z

Orientation ended today. Classes start tomorrow, so I’m posting my schedule.

Monday:
9:30-10:20 am Concepts of Chemistry Staff
10:30-11:30 am Intermediate German Mirko
1:00-1:50 am Ideas and Culture Morgan

Tuesday:
9:30-10:20 am 9/11 and War on Terror Dunn
2:30-3:50 pm American Popular Music Robbins

Wednesday:
Same as Monday, with an addition:
2:00-5:00 pm Chemistry Lab Staff

Thursday:
Same as Tuesday.

Friday:
Same as Monday.

Also, Wind Ensemble is in there, but I don’t have the schedule for that right this minute…it’s in my desk. My audition for Wind Ensemle is tomorrow at 5:40. x.x I hope it goes okay…especially considering that I haven’t picked the trombone up since May.
I’ll do a post tomorrow to say how everything went. D: *Stresses.*

Orientation Day Three

2007-08-26T04:52:41Z

Thing to do tomorrow while at home:

1. Talk to friends (particularly Emily and Nicola) without randomly getting distracted by people on the hall.
2. E-mail Carly.
3. Post a more extensive LJ entry.
4. Nab Guitar Hero from David.
5. Post class schedule.

College has been pretty good so far. I think my lack of LJ posts might attest to this, since I often post to complain or be upset. I've met some pretty cool people, so I think I've already got a pretty solid foundation for friendship. Everything has been going quite well so far.

I think the best things, though, have been seeing Will yesterday and then running into Mr. Barnet at Crossroads last night. I'm so glad to have friends and people I know in the area. I'm trying not to take it for granted. ...And I really appreciated that when I tried to thank Will for toughing out a few hours cooped up in my dorm, he insisted "You don't have to thank me. I came because I wanted to." x.x Little things like that help significantly with settling into college life.

I'll try to get some stuff done tomorrow. Stuff is pretty hectic right now because of orientation, but I'll have more online time once classes start and I get a routine figured out.

For now, though, I think I'll go to sleep.

Converse Orientation Day 1

2007-08-24T03:10:08Z

As much as I would love to talk about my first day of college...moving in, orientation, etc.--I'm utterly exhausted. I think the limit of my strength will be to play Rune Factory till I'm ready to sleep. Things went well today, so there's really nothing to complain or whine about at this point.

...Something very adorable happened last night when I tried to go to bed, which I'd also like to talk about but barely have the energy to. Penny (who knows she is not allowed on my bed), knew something was up...She'd been depressed and clingy to me all day, which is odd behavior for her...I think she knew I was about to leave.

Last night, I found her in my bed, in my exact spot, right beneath my pillow, looking sad and forlorn. I felt so bed for her, I let her sleep with me...Which I have only ever done once before. She was so ecstatic that she had to smash herself against me as close as she could get, so that I was practically on the very edge of the bed...And then, after a few minutes of staying that way, she'd try to scoot even closer. So I had a very difficult time sleeping because of that, but it was still cute and pitiful. ;_; Poor little Penny.

So...I'm gonna lie down now. x.x And play Rune Factory.

Kthxbye.

Stolen meme to get my mind off things.

2007-08-22T04:37:32Z

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you’re cool... and a lot of the songs fit with the setting

Opening Credits:
New York Minute - The Eagles

Waking Up:
Change Your Mind - The Killers

First Day At School:
Wandering Flame - Final Fantasy X

Falling In Love:
Ocean of Noise - Arcade Fire

Fight Song:
Traverse Town - Kingdom Hearts

Breaking Up:
The Man on the Machine Gun (orchestral) - Final Fantasy VIII

Prom:
Suteki da Ne - Final Fantasy X

Life:
Ending Theme - Final Fantasy X

Mental Breakdown:
Patzivota - Varekai

Driving:
Patzivota - Varekai (yes, I ended up with this twice...It’s a miracle. I have two versions of the same song on the computer, and I ended up with both of them playing consecutively.)

Flashback:
Distorted - La Nouba

Getting Back Together:
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen (...)

Wedding:
The Militia Marches In - Pride and Prejudice (OF ALL THE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE SONGS IT COULD HAVE PLAYED. >_>)

Birth of Child:
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy - Queen (...These are the most inappropriate Queen songs.)

Final Battle:
Prayer - Silent Hill 3

Death Scene:
Calm Lands - Final Fantasy X (...I must have had a really peaceful death.)

Funeral Song:
The Final - Dir en Grey

End Credits:
Hollow Bastion - Kingdom Hearts

My life is...dull. D: How fitting for my mood. I was hoping for some humor and excitement to distract me for a few minutes, but these results are disappointing. You let me down, Windows Media.

...I'm not gonna rant tonight. I don't have the motivation.

Lamenting The End of Summer

2007-08-20T04:28:38Z

I wonder if I'm ever going to get that Disney entry done...And if I'm ever going to get over this illness--by Thursday, preferrably.

Went shopping for dorm supplies today. I'm done buying everything except office supplies, which I'm going to get tomorrow. I just finished my summer reading book. ...So now I need to pack, write my essay, and possibly read the book a second time so it's fresh in my mind on Friday. I move into my dorm on Thursday...Squall's birthday. David starts high school tomorrow. So the summer is at its end, all too quickly.

I feel like there's still so much I have to do, but I have no more time left. I guess I'm excited about college, but I'm not ready for the summer to be over.

Five Hours Till Disney Departure

2007-08-10T04:53:28Z

Leaving for Disney in five hours. Too tired and distressed to type as much as I wanted. I guess I'll just save the enthusiastic, childlike "omg I <3 Disney!" talk until when I get back, although I'm a little...sad that I'm going to spend my energy mulling over events from today and the past week instead of anticipating going to my favorite place. But I missed my opportunity, and it's my fault.

...And before I can do anything else, I need to go finish packing. x.o

I'll be back on Tuesday.

Meme-Quiz Thing

2007-08-07T04:39:35Z

If you founded a religion...
Created by EvilAuthor on Memegen.net

The Unobstrusive Worshippers of the 300-foot Glass Cathedral Down The Street From City Hall

Your followers are a tight-knit bunch,

who work for a living just like everybody else,

who are free and fun loving,

and who are often viewed as strange or wacky because of their adherence to the principles of the faith.

Your followers wear whatever they want,

but your priests wear

modest rings

a brooch containing a portrait of you

a pouch full of pamphlets about the faith

a locket containing a couple of your skin-flakes

Your followers are

a massive movement (over 7,000,000),

and they are actively and aggressively seeking to convert others to the One True Faith.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

I really want to know how we're so unobtrusive when we have a following of 7,000,000 and are aggressively converting people. o_o

Half-Life 2 is god.

2007-08-05T06:44:29Z

So. Squall has had this game Half-Life 2 in her possession since her birthday two years ago because of a sudden, severe obsession, but has been unable to play it because of owning a terrible desktop and having a pathetic dial-up connection.

...And then Hal was born.

I spent two hours on Thursday installing this game, after two years of waiting to play it...and it is /so/ worth it. (Hal was designed with the specific intent of being able to run this game...and run it well. And it does.)

Admittedly, I've had the XBox version since Christmas of '05, but have simply chosen not to play it. The XBox version was like an entirely different game, it was so bad...And the PC version + Hal makes the XBox version seem primitive.

And omg, I love this game so much.

Of course, it's not Final Fantasy VIII or Resident Evil 4...but I think it stands a threat of kicking Final Fantasy X out of its third-place spot on my favorites list. I can understand why it's been called the 'greatest game ever made' because it really /is/ awesome.

I just got to Ravenholm a little while ago...That was where I'd ended up on my XBox version. So...It took me three days to get to the spot on the game that took me weeks to get to on the XBox version.

...I <3 my game and my laptop.

So...Enough gushing about the game till tomorrow.

Today, I saw the new Harry Potter movie...And, I admit, it was better than I thought it would be. (However, whoever told me that John Williams did the music lied. D: He didn't do the music. I was sorely disappointed). It wasn't enough to make me like the series or want to read the books, but I still enjoyed it a lot more than other movies I've seen this summer (i.e. Transformers). It was less teenage angst and more politics...And I did enjoy analyzing the politics in the movie. :3 I liked the movie more than the other ones so far.

...Otherwise, the day was spent feeling sickly, having a useless trip to Best Buy, and then coming home to do the usual video games/internet business.

Well...I'm sort of in a writing mood so I guess I'll leave now before I run out of time to get a few words in on my fanfic. (Although I think I'm just gonna go on to bed). ...I really don't want to go to church tomorrow. And I really hope that if I do get dragged to church tomorrow, that this will be the last time...Because next Sunday, I'll be at Magic Kingdom, and then shortly after that, I start college. Orientation is August 23, and parents are asked to leave for good at some point on Saturday...So basically, my parents aren't going to really be allowed to come pick me up from Converse on Sunday to drag me to church...And they're sure as hell not going to make me go any time after that. o_o; They might as well stop trying now.

Btw. Disney is on Friday. --FRIDAY. I can't believe it. I really need to get ready.

Stolen thing. :3

2007-08-01T20:38:24Z

1. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
2. Am I lovable?
3. How long have you known me?
4. When and how did we first meet?
5. What was your first impression?
6. Do you still think that way about me now?
7. What do you think my weakness is?
8. Do you think I'll get married?
9. What makes me happy?
10. What makes me sad?
11. What reminds you of me?
12. If you could give me anything what would it be?
13. How well do you know me?
14. When's the last time you saw me?
15. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
16. Do you think I could kill someone?
17. Describe me in one word.
18. Do you think our friendship is getting stronger/weaker/or staying the same?
19. Do you feel that you could talk to me about anything and I would listen?
20. Are you going to put this on your journal and see what I say about you?

Arrival of the Laptop. <3

2007-07-31T06:15:41Z

Today, coincidentally, both my glasses and my laptop arrived. ...And my new glasses are driving me crazy. x.x They’re so different from my old ones...and they’re not adjusted correctly, so they don’t fit well and keep sliding off the bridge of my nose. Also, because they’re shaped so much differently, it’s difficult to get used to seeing with them. x.o

My laptop is gorgeous...Sleek, black, and with all the specifications I wanted. :3 I rushed through the setup stuff (much of which I couldn’t finish anyway, since I don’t have an internet connection), but that’ll wait. Although there were many temptations to name my computer something fandom-related (primarily 'Leon'), I picked the name HAL. :D

...Despite knowing my intents beforehand, my parents tried to say stuff like “Your computer has a great processor...And it’ll stay that way as long as you don’t load it up with nonsense. >_> And by the way, we don’t want you installing a bunch of stuff until you get the virus protection from Converse.”

And, specifically from my mother: “If you want to install your game, do it without your father’s knowledge and when Will is around to help you.”

Well my laptop came preinstalled with Norton Antivirus already. Kthxbye. D: I can download AIM if I want to (MSN is preinstalled, which makes things a bit easier).

...And I can’t wait to see how it runs Half-Life 2. :3 Mmmm. <333

I went to training camp again tonight, and this time focused my efforts on getting pictures of David Carr. ...Unfortunately, I don’t know where the digital camera is, as my father was the last person with it, so I’ll just upload pictures and talk about it tomorrow.

But now, I'm going to try to go write...Using Word on my laptop. :3

First Day of Panthers Training Camp

2007-07-29T04:03:15Z

Panthers training camp was the most crowded it has ever been. There was a ‘party’ tonight to kick off training camp. This ‘party’ consisted of a terrible no-name rock band, a bunch of food stands, and random booths that had no purpose and were quite useless except as a distraction for the masses so that we could get better seats. (The best booth was from the Hollywild Zoo, which brought a Panther for everyone to see. :3 He was asleep, and it was cuuute.)

I, however, did not go there for such distractions...I was on a mission to stalk Jake Delhomme. So we made our way to the offensive field, staked out some spots, and waited for the players to come. When all of them went to the defensive field for warm-up, almost everyone standing on the offensive side left...But we knew from past experiences not to do that, and ended up getting a spot at the front right where the running backs were practicing. :3 ...And I had a clear shot of Jake Delhomme without any interference.

I didn’t get to actually speak to him tonight, as I had hoped, since the place was a madhouse...The team’s popularity has steadily escalated ever since they went to the Super Bowl a few years ago, and now training camp is insane. We’re going back to some of the evening sessions, though, so I hope I’ll have an opportunity to get close enough to have my picture taken with him...And I also want a clear shot of David Carr.

Carr was our first-round draft pick for this year, and he is an -outstanding- quarterback, from what I can see so far. As my mother observed, “He’s got a gun.” --His passes were like bullets...His throws were in a flawless, tight spiral, with impressive accuracy and precision. Additionally, he can do all of this while being quick in the pocket...Which is something Jake doesn’t seem to be so good at anymore. x.x Both of my parents think that Carr will end up starting at some point, and that he’s posing a great threat to Jake. I don’t disagree with this, unfortunately...I just hope that Jake can improve before that happens, because Jake is my favorite. ;_; I don’t want Jake to have a year like last year...But I don’t want the team as a whole to have a year like last year either.

We’ll just have to wait and see how things go.

I saw some other important players...Julius Peppers, Steve Smith, John Kasay, Brad Hoover, Dan Morgan, etc. ...I won’t list them all out, because I saw a lot. :D; But overall, training camp was fun...I hope it’s better later on in the week...And not as crowded.

Football matters aside, I finally e-mailed Carly today, and had a terrible crisis when I realized how long it’s been since she e-mailed me that outline...And it took me this long to reply to it, and I have no excuse for it. x.x I just hope she’s not mad, because writing this fanfic means a lot to me. It’s very important. .../Very/ important.

Meanwhile, I need to work on my oneshot. I guess I’ll go do that now.

Two Weeks From Disney. :3

2007-07-28T07:10:51Z

Today was a great deal more productive than yesterday. :3

Emily effectively made me work on my fanfic...I haven't actually written anything for it yet, but I brainstormed a lot, and developed the scene a good bit more. Now if I could just figure out how I'm going to deal with characterization and what the nature of Leon and Ada's mission is, I'll be good to go...Oh, and (most importantly) I need an opening sentence. x__x That's probably the hardest part.

But I'm going to say this right now so that you guys can stop me if I try to balk and shy away from this later--I AM going to write this fanfic.

I have an idea for once, and so I can't just let it go to waste...Even if it turns out horribly, at least it's writing and practicing and breaking my writer's block.

Emily and I talked on Skype for an hour and a half earlier. :3 It was much fun. Emily got past the Garrador. :D And for that, Emily, I congratulate you...Even though you have three Garradors left to battle later on in the game. And thanks for, uhh...helping me on my Converse form? xD

Panthers training camp starts tomorrow, so tomorrow is officially "Stalk Jake Delhomme Day." :3 I'm going to try my best to speak to him (which includes physically fighting off fanatic middle-aged men who have no courtesy and no sense of chivalry...'Ladies first' doesn't apply in the world of football). But Jake's a gentleman, at least, so if he comes along to sign autographs and greet fans, rest assured I will find a way to get close enough to him to at least say hi. I <3 him. :D

...Perhaps I'll have pictures of him to post tomorrow...Mmm. @__@

Ohh, by the way...Nicola gave me the link to the RE5 trailer today. :O! It -is- Chris! That trailer is...amazing. The game looks scary, intense...and sort of like RE4 except in Africa with Chris. I'm REALLY looking forward to it. @__@ I will buy a 360 just to play that game. I think that goes without saying.

Bored (Edited)

2007-07-27T06:39:49Z

You know what? I take back what I just said. I think the full realization just hit me, that in less than a month I'll be in college and I may never have a summer like this again...Staying up late, sleeping in as late as I want, sitting around doing nothing except talking on AIM and having nothing to really worry about. I don't have to do anything productive unless I feel like it.

I like this.

I like being bored.

Bored...And some RE5 stuff. :3

2007-07-27T06:25:32Z

I’m really, extremely bored.

All the people I want to talk to have their away messages up, so I’ve just been sitting here sporadically reading Lovecraft and National Geographic, and playing Pokemon and Phoenix Wright.

Of course, I have no right to complain about boredom when there’re plenty of productive things I could be doing...Writing, mainly. I have done nothing related to fanfiction (no outline for the jointfic, no outline for my own fic, no working on that oneshot that I said that I was going to start last weekend), although I really should. My muse has not been kind. I used to not believe in writer’s block, but I’m quite convinced of its existence now. I’ve spent the past couple of days trying to write, and I find that it takes two hours just for me to write three paragraphs. It’s ridiculous. I really want to write...but I can never seem to make myself do it. And when I actually do write, I spend so much time over-analyzing sentence structure that I don’t get anywhere, and the writing eventually seems choppy and...unpleasant.

I wish I could write beautifully like my favorite fanfic author does. D: (All the more reason to work on that outline for the jointfic...but I have no ideas. When do I ever have ideas?)

So, uhh. I got to the Pokemon League. I really don’t think I’m strong enough to beat it, but there’s nowhere to train. Training takes eons in Victory Road. I don’t really know what to do.

...Panthers training camp starts this Saturday. <3 I’m excited about football season starting again, even though I think we’re going to be just as good as we were last year (aka not good). But I get to stalk Jake Delhomme for a few hours this Saturday, and that makes it worth it.

Also, Disney is exactly two weeks from today (Friday). I really need to start getting ready...See, that’s another thing I could be doing instead of sitting her being bored.

...And I still haven’t e-mailed my roommate back. ...Hmm. I can’t believe college starts in less than a month.

Oh--The highlight of the day was this: http://www.the-horror.com/

...Newly-released RE5 trailer screenshots. <3333 They are absolutely gorgeous...And I thought RE4 was pretty. This is even better...graphics-wise, at least (as a game, though, it’s probably not going to be better, because it lacks Leon and Ada).

Chris Redfield (I’m calling him Chris, even though I don’t think Capcom has made an official announcement yet, because I’m convinced that that’s Chris) is especially gorgeous. He makes Leon look kinda...scrawny. Although that’s no offense to Leon, because I happen to like his scrawniness much more than I like Chris’s...buff-ness. But this doesn’t change the fact that Chris Redfield has a gorgeous body, and there’re some gorgeous shots of his gorgeous body. :3 ...But Leon’s still prettier/cuter/more gorgeous.

I definitely had one of those fangirl moments earlier when I saw these...Although my enthusiasm might not be quite as apparent now, due to my current listless state. But now that’s there for whoever might enjoy seeing it. (Or in case I lose the link, somehow).

Well, that’s all I have to say. x.x I think I’m gonna go try to at least think of some fanfic stuff before I go to bed. Might as well take the opportunity, since I currently don’t have any distractions.

Resident Evil + Pokemon = ...

2007-07-19T07:20:47Z

((And by the way--I GOT A MILOTIC. HAH. ))

KazeKageSakura (2:28:22 AM): ... Roleplaying pokemon would be scary.
DonatienValiarde (2:28:27 AM): ...xD
DonatienValiarde (2:28:33 AM): I don't think I'd be able to take it seriously.
DonatienValiarde (2:28:35 AM): ...
DonatienValiarde (2:28:38 AM): *Just had a bad image.*
KazeKageSakura (2:28:39 AM): Or some weird demented RE/Pokemon crossover where the Pokemon are infected with las plagas.
KazeKageSakura (2:28:44 AM): ... What image?
DonatienValiarde (2:28:58 AM): See, I thought of a RE/Pokemon crossover, too...
KazeKageSakura (2:29:06 AM): .. And? xD
DonatienValiarde (2:29:09 AM): Except...Leon and Ada as Pokemon trainers.
DonatienValiarde (2:29:15 AM): *Is a complete idiot.*
KazeKageSakura (2:29:16 AM): ... xD!!!
KazeKageSakura (2:29:28 AM): I think I just laughed so loud I woke my 'neighbors' up. xD
DonatienValiarde (2:29:34 AM): ...xD Sorry.
DonatienValiarde (2:29:53 AM): And...ZOMBIE Pokemon.
KazeKageSakura (2:30:03 AM): [puts this in her profile--omg I want one
DonatienValiarde (2:30:26 AM): We could, like...recreate RE2 and RE4 with Leon and Ada as Pokemon trainers.
KazeKageSakura (2:31:01 AM): .... And the hunters would be what, the gym trainers?
DonatienValiarde (2:31:13 AM): ...Yeah. xD
DonatienValiarde (2:31:27 AM): Oh--oh! Wesker could be the leader of Team Rocket.
DonatienValiarde (2:31:38 AM): Umbrella/Team Rocket.
KazeKageSakura (2:31:44 AM): Umbrocket.
KazeKageSakura (2:32:19 AM): So um... Ash is Leon. Misty is ... Ada. Brock is.. ... Chief Irons.
KazeKageSakura (2:32:36 AM): The zombies are all the enemy 'pokemon trainers' they encounter.
DonatienValiarde (2:32:43 AM): *Wonders what kinds of Pokemon Leon and Ada would have.* :3
KazeKageSakura (2:32:55 AM): Leon would try and pick something overly macho to compensate.
KazeKageSakura (2:33:07 AM): Ada would go for the elegant pokemon... like Vulpix, maybe.
DonatienValiarde (2:33:07 AM): 'To compensate.' xD
KazeKageSakura (2:33:20 AM): No that's not elegant... Nine Tails. :3
KazeKageSakura (2:33:29 AM): Yes, to compensate. xD He was a pussy in RE2.
DonatienValiarde (2:33:32 AM): Ada can get a Milotic. :3
KazeKageSakura (2:34:10 AM): And... damnit, what was that one called... The legendary bird, the Aquatic one. D:
DonatienValiarde (2:34:11 AM): Leon can have a Jigglypuff. :D
KazeKageSakura (2:34:14 AM): .... xD!
DonatienValiarde (2:34:20 AM): Articuno, I think.
KazeKageSakura (2:34:23 AM): Yeah. :3
KazeKageSakura (2:34:38 AM): Leon sent his Machoke away because all it did was laugh at him.
DonatienValiarde (2:34:56 AM): Like Ash's Charizard.
KazeKageSakura (2:35:04 AM): Omg. <3 xD I loved Charizard.
DonatienValiarde (2:35:19 AM): ...I can't believe that Ash got eight gym badges with a Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Pidgeotto.
KazeKageSakura (2:35:20 AM): Who would Tyrant be? And Mr. X?
DonatienValiarde (2:35:26 AM): Uhh.
KazeKageSakura (2:35:40 AM): And what about Claire? o_o
DonatienValiarde (2:36:07 AM): ...Claire has a personality more like Misty's.
KazeKageSakura (2:36:17 AM): Yeah, but wasn't she Leon's love interest? D:
KazeKageSakura (2:36:20 AM): ...
KazeKageSakura (2:36:21 AM): Ash's
KazeKageSakura (2:36:23 AM): *
DonatienValiarde (2:36:27 AM): I don't know...
DonatienValiarde (2:36:42 AM): I was going to suggest that Leon and Ada could be James and Jessie, since they're clearly a couple...But I don't know if Leon would stand for that.
KazeKageSakura (2:37:12 AM): Leon would shit himself halfway through the speech and give up.
KazeKageSakura (2:37:18 AM): Ada should be Jezzebelle. xD
DonatienValiarde (2:37:22 AM): ...xD
DonatienValiarde (2:37:35 AM): But James didn't like her. D:
KazeKageSakura (2:37:39 AM): She's the seductress kind. :3
KazeKageSakura (2:37:44 AM): But didn't they end up falling in love? o_O
DonatienValiarde (2:38:05 AM): Him and Jessiebelle, or whatever? I didn't think they did.
DonatienValiarde (2:38:21 AM): His parents tried to arrange a marriage between them, and James escaped to stay with Jessie and Meowth.
KazeKageSakura (2:38:28 AM): Ohhhh riiight. Okay.
KazeKageSakura (2:38:46 AM): You realize how insane and nerdy we are by changing RE2 into Pokemon, right?
DonatienValiarde (2:38:58 AM): ...Yes. I've thought about that a lot in the last few minutes. xD
KazeKageSakura (2:39:08 AM): xDD
KazeKageSakura (2:39:18 AM): ... So anyway. :D Who would Tyrant and Mr. X be?
DonatienValiarde (2:39:24 AM): Leon and Ada could just be themselves...but with some Pokemon. >3
KazeKageSakura (2:39:27 AM): ... LAWL they should be James and Jesse!
KazeKageSakura (2:39:43 AM): "Prepare for... S.T.A.R.SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS"
DonatienValiarde (2:39:47 AM): And instead of aiming a gun at Leon at the end, Ada would be like "Give me the G-Virus or I'll sic my Ninetales on you. >3"
DonatienValiarde (2:39:52 AM): ...xD!
KazeKageSakura (2:39:53 AM): ...xD!
KazeKageSakura (2:40:16 AM): Leon: GO MACHOKE... MACHOKE? MACHOKE STOP LAUGHING! MACHOKE ATTACK! MACHOKE?!
KazeKageSakura (2:40:46 AM): Leon: Why doesn't ANYONE LISTEN TO ME?! ;_;
DonatienValiarde (2:40:52 AM): ...xD That sounds very probable, actually--xD!
KazeKageSakura (2:41:25 AM): Leon: At least Jigglypuff didn't abandon me... .-.
Jigglypuff: [eaten by a zombie]
DonatienValiarde (2:41:42 AM): ...xD Does he have no more Pokemon? Poor Leon.
KazeKageSakura (2:41:51 AM): Well he IS a rookie, remember?
KazeKageSakura (2:41:54 AM): A rookie pokemon cop.
KazeKageSakura (2:42:13 AM): Using pokemon to fight the evil doers of Pokecoon city.
DonatienValiarde (2:42:28 AM): xD
KazeKageSakura (2:42:52 AM): And Ada's objective is really to obtain one of the rarest pokemon evar.
KazeKageSakura (2:43:07 AM): And in order to do that she has to steal the master ball from Wesker, so she has to gain his trust.
KazeKageSakura (2:43:09 AM): [nod]
KazeKageSakura (2:43:34 AM): Wesker doesn't let just anyone near his balls you know.
KazeKageSakura (2:44:13 AM): Ada: ... I don't want anything to do with your 'balls'.
Wesker: You will regret this, my lady. [sends out Himonlee]
KazeKageSakura (2:44:24 AM): *Hitmonlee
KazeKageSakura (2:44:34 AM): ... I'm saving this conversation. xD
DonatienValiarde (2:44:42 AM): And Leon somehow ends up with that rare Pokemon, which is why Ada wants to sic her Ninetales on him...? That sound very much like the show AND games to me...Leon would be like "You can't take this Pokemon, because you'll abuse it, but you need to treat Pokemon well, because they're our friends. ;___; I'm going to protect it, and you'll never get it from me!"
DonatienValiarde (2:44:51 AM): ...xD!
DonatienValiarde (2:44:57 AM): I am, too. I think this is an LJ post.
KazeKageSakura (2:45:25 AM): .. xD That sounds like the sappy kind of speech Leon would make.
DonatienValiarde (2:45:35 AM): xD Him or Ash.
DonatienValiarde (2:46:07 AM): Okay, so...How does Ada die?
KazeKageSakura (2:46:16 AM): Ash: POKEMON IS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP! FRIENDSHIP, PEACE AND LOVE--THAT'S WHY WE BATTLE EACH OTHER SO MUCH! BECAUSE WE WANT PEACE AND LOVE!
DonatienValiarde (2:46:23 AM): xD!
KazeKageSakura (2:46:45 AM): Umm. xD Hmm.
KazeKageSakura (2:47:24 AM): Well Jesse and James have some super rare awesome super fudge super pokemon, and they sick it on her.
DonatienValiarde (2:47:34 AM): ...xD
KazeKageSakura (2:47:36 AM): But, it was going to attack Leon's pokemon.
KazeKageSakura (2:47:43 AM): And it was low on health.
KazeKageSakura (2:47:47 AM): And he didn't have any potions.
KazeKageSakura (2:47:50 AM): So she took the blow.
KazeKageSakura (2:47:50 AM): xD
DonatienValiarde (2:48:11 AM): So...Leon grabs her as she's falling over the rail...But why don't the Pokemon help?
KazeKageSakura (2:48:21 AM): Well Jigglypuff's been eaten by a zombie.
DonatienValiarde (2:48:29 AM): Machoke doesn't care, probably.
KazeKageSakura (2:48:30 AM): Machoke doesn't listen to Leon because no one else does.
KazeKageSakura (2:48:33 AM): Yes. xD
KazeKageSakura (2:48:57 AM): Ninetails could be .. too severely injured to jump in and save Ada.
KazeKageSakura (2:49:12 AM): Articuno's wings could be damaged so she couldn't swoop in.
DonatienValiarde (2:49:19 AM): So Ada falls...But she secretly has a flying Pokemon that magically comes out of its Pokeball and saves her, which is why she doesn't really die.
KazeKageSakura (2:49:32 AM): I was going to go with "Wesker has a Chansey and he healed her". xD
DonatienValiarde (2:49:40 AM): ...xD I like that better.
DonatienValiarde (2:49:51 AM): ...Wesker and....Chansey. xD
KazeKageSakura (2:49:56 AM): Exactly. xD
KazeKageSakura (2:50:04 AM): ... xD [bursts out laughing at the mental images]
DonatienValiarde (2:50:27 AM): *Is laughing at a similar mental image.* xD
KazeKageSakura (2:50:40 AM): Wesker: [evil scheming] [strokes Chansey like the bad guys stroke their cats] I SHALL... RULE THE POKEWORLD...
KazeKageSakura (2:50:55 AM): Chansey: [evil] Chan...sey! >3
DonatienValiarde (2:51:00 AM): xD!
KazeKageSakura (2:51:22 AM): I just choked on my own spit from laughing at my own joke. About pokemon and Resident Evil. That doesn't get much worse. xD
DonatienValiarde (2:51:33 AM): And that's the cliffhanger end to the episode...And then the Pokerap comes on.
KazeKageSakura (2:53:10 AM): I wonder what kind of feedback we're going to get ... xD

(Some stuff got out so I wouldn’t completely kill the page)

KazeKageSakura (3:01:23 AM): Here, I wrote a new theme song for our ... whatever you want to call it.
KazeKageSakura (3:01:58 AM): I want to be the best there ever was
To beat all the rest, yeah, that's my cause
Catch 'em, Catch 'em, Gotta catch 'em all
Pokemon
Alakazam, Goldeen, Venonat, Machoke,
Kangaskhan, Hypno, Electabuzz, Flareon,
Blastoise, Poliwhirl, Oddish, Drowzee,
Raichu, Nidoqueen, Bellsprout, Starmie

I'l search across the land
look far and wide
Release from my hand
The power that's inside
Catch 'em, Catch 'em, Gotta catch 'em all
Pokemon

Metapod, Marowak, Kakuna, Clefairy,
Dodrio,Seadra, Vileplume, Krabby,
Lickitung, Tauros, Weedle, Nidoran,
Machop, Shellder, Porygon, Hitmonchan
Gotta Catch 'em all,Gotta Catch 'em all
Gotta Catch 'em all,Gotta Catch 'em all

At least a hundred and fifty or more to see
To be a pokemon master is my destiny

Catch 'em, Catch 'em, Gotta catch 'em all,
Gotta catch 'em all, Pokemon! (Repeat 2 more times)

I want to be the very best there ever was
To beat all the zombies, yeah, that's my cause
Gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em all
Resident Evil
Tyrant, Salazar, Mr. X, Nemesis, Chief Mendez, Hunters, Lickers, Neptunes, Zombies, Crimson Heads, Plant 42, Ganados, Garados!

I'll search across Spain
Look for and wide
Release from my handgun
The bullet that's inside!
Gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em all
Resident Evil

Tyrant, Salazar, Mr. X, Nemesis, Chief Mendez, Hunters, Lickers, Neptunes, Zombies, Crimson Heads, Plant 42, Ganados, Garados!
Gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em all
Gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em, gotta shoot 'em all

At least one hundred and fifty games left to play
To be a master gamer is my destiny

Gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em all
Gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em gotta shoot 'em all…
RESIDENT EVIL!

DonatienValiarde (3:02:50 AM): ...
DonatienValiarde (3:02:51 AM): xD!
KazeKageSakura (3:03:05 AM): Pwn. :3

KazeKageSakura (3:06:46 AM): ... Now we need to think up RE4: Pokemon Edition's storyline. :3
DonatienValiarde (3:06:56 AM): xD
DonatienValiarde (3:07:26 AM): Oh no...
KazeKageSakura (3:07:27 AM): The daughter of the Pokemon Professor has been captured.
DonatienValiarde (3:07:30 AM): Where does Ashley come into this?
DonatienValiarde (3:07:34 AM): ...Ahh. xD
KazeKageSakura (3:07:35 AM): ... Look above
KazeKageSakura (3:07:35 AM): xD
KazeKageSakura (3:07:47 AM): She has been spotted in a remote reigion of Sinnoh.
KazeKageSakura (3:07:57 AM): Leon Scott Kennedy, one of the pokemon masters, is sent to save her.
DonatienValiarde (3:08:14 AM): ...How did Leon get to be a Pokemon Master?
KazeKageSakura (3:08:18 AM): He encounters a swarm of pokemon turned evil by Team Rockets plagas.
KazeKageSakura (3:08:26 AM): Because Leon's pretty and the gym leaders were all female, okay?
DonatienValiarde (3:08:31 AM): ...xD
KazeKageSakura (3:09:00 AM): Things start to go wrong when Machoke begins to laugh at Leon.
KazeKageSakura (3:09:13 AM): .... But then his head is chopped off.
DonatienValiarde (3:09:22 AM): D:! Machoke!
KazeKageSakura (3:09:35 AM): Leon: WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!?
KazeKageSakura (3:10:00 AM): Leon is left pokemonless, with only a GUN. I mean GUNS are CLEARLY powerless, that's why the police use pokemon instead.
DonatienValiarde (3:10:42 AM): D:! Leon can't shoot any Pokemon.
DonatienValiarde (3:10:47 AM): That would be EVIL.
KazeKageSakura (3:10:54 AM): But they're zombie pokemon. D:
DonatienValiarde (3:10:58 AM): ...Oh. D:
KazeKageSakura (3:11:01 AM): ... xD
KazeKageSakura (3:11:08 AM): Omg.
KazeKageSakura (3:11:14 AM): Del Lago should be the Red Gyrados or whatever.
DonatienValiarde (3:11:18 AM): ...xD
KazeKageSakura (3:11:29 AM): Leon: I FINALLY FOUND IT! [harpoon]
DonatienValiarde (3:11:38 AM): What kind of Pokemon does Ashley have?
KazeKageSakura (3:11:44 AM): ... xD
DonatienValiarde (3:11:50 AM): She needs something utterly useless, since she can't do anything on her own.
KazeKageSakura (3:12:03 AM): Hmmm. What's a useless pokemon...
DonatienValiarde (3:12:07 AM): Psyduck.
DonatienValiarde (3:12:10 AM): Magikarp.
KazeKageSakura (3:12:21 AM): Omg and Psyduck would match her outfit. Perfect. :D
KazeKageSakura (3:12:22 AM): xD
DonatienValiarde (3:12:25 AM): xD
KazeKageSakura (3:12:54 AM): My brain is done plotting for tonight.
DonatienValiarde (3:13:01 AM): Yeah, I think mine is, too.

Feebas

2007-07-17T06:30:01Z

I decided today that I'm tired of using Gastrodon (even though I remember the exact place I was when my Shellos evolved...I was getting out of the car to do that four mile hike to Red Rock Falls. ...It's a good memory). So I went to the Sinnoh Pokedex on pokemon.com to find a new water Pokemon for my party, and found this lovely one called Milotic. I concluded immediately that this was the Pokemon I wanted.

And then I did a few hours of research to figure out how to get one of these. I've been looking for an...uncommon Pokemon to add to my party, and this seemed like a good idea. However, Milotic evolves from this Magikarp-esque fish called Feebas which is possibly the single most difficult to find Pokemon in the entire game.

So I spent (wasted) my entire day looking for this damn Pokemon...Which I still haven't found and which I continue to search for.

Now, to show you how difficult this is: Feebas is only in one area on the game--the basement of Mt. Coronet. You have to fish for it. However, Feebas only appears in four tiles out of the entire area of water. Additionally, there is only a 50% chance of hooking a Feebas in the four tiles, if you ever manage to find it. AND the placement of the four tiles to find Feebas resets itself and changes every day.

To make matters worse, once I actually get a Feebas, the only way I can get it to evolve into a Milotic is to max out its beauty stat with poffins. ...Which is, in my opinion, worse than training.

Let's list things that I could (should) be doing instead of looking for a Pokemon that has no benefits for me except limited entertainment and bragging rights:

1. Writing two paragraphs of a oneshot to keep Emily from stopping her RE4 playing.
2. Working on the outline for my jointfic and e-mailing Carly back.
3. Making a similar outline for my own big fanfic (whose mere 600 words I deleted the other day).
4. E-mailing my roommate.
5. Anything else productive, etc.

...But I'm going to get this Feebas. I am.

...I wonder if this is better or worse than spending (wasting) two days looking at random Phoenix Wright objections.

sarowyn @ 2007-07-15T01:57:00

2007-07-15T06:01:42Z

KazeKageSakura (1:53:26 AM): Ada: [opens up her email] Hmm, what's this?

From: Leon S. Kennedy
RE: letsmakebabiesk?

KazeKageSakura (1:53:29 AM): http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=2068029

KazeKageSakura (1:53:32 AM): Ada: [click]

KazeKageSakura (2:57:21 AM): Ada: ... [pushes Leon in the pool]

And that's how it REALLY happened.

AP SCORES

2007-07-13T22:11:41Z

English Literature/Composition - 5
US Government - 5
Comparative Government - 5
Psychology - 5

SKDJFNSD:KJFNSKL:DFNKLSDFNJLDBLJBH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *DIES.*

sarowyn @ 2007-07-12T01:06:00

2007-07-12T05:11:02Z

I have a lot of things on my mind. I don't feel like trying to explain them. I don't know how to explain them. I sort of feel like writing, but we all know how that usually ends up. I had some things to say, but I'll save them for tomorrow. Maybe.

I'm not exactly sure why I'm posting.

Haruhi

2007-07-11T05:33:01Z

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a great show. I highly recommend it...If it can make me like anime again, it must be a good show.

...And it's got philosophy. x3 Could you ask for more? Haruhiism sounds quite appealing right now.

So does writing. But I can't get past my writer's block and I don't have the motivation right now. Instead, I'm going to go get in bed and read for a few hours...And also cross my fingers and hope that Best Buy has Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind tomorrow...and my laptop on sale.

sarowyn @ 2007-07-03T20:10:00

2007-07-04T00:12:04Z

I didn’t know what a ‘TB skin test’ was ahead of time. So I asked Okaasan on the way. Apparently it’s some medicine that the doctor injects into your skin. They leave it for three days, you come back, and they see if there’s been any reaction on your skin from the medicine. This means I would have to come back on Friday...But I’ll be at Will’s lakehouse Thursday, Friday, and Saturday--so this meant that the whole appointment was useless, because Okaasan forgot that I was going to be gone. x.x We had to reschedule to Monday.

So we came home and then went to see Transformers instead.

The ‘Transformers’ movie was not very aptly named--it wasn’t about Transformers, besides the overwhelming visual effects and a single, giant battle. It was about some superficial, idiot human characters, primarily twerpy, moronic Shia Lebeouf.

To basically outline the movie, it was a series of random, useless scenes about a bazillion uninteresting, two-dimensional, and otherwise irritating human characters. Then suddenly a big fight breaks out among some huge robots that all look essentially the same, and then suddenly it’s the end of the movie and the credits are rolling. When the credits started, my first thought was “What the hell just happened?”

So....to put it simply, the movie was chaotic and confusing. I think it would be right to use a fanfiction term here: PWP. The movie was a PWP set of special effects with too many annoying human characters thrown into the mix to keep the special effects enjoyable on their own.

Now, I realize that the movie is based on a cartoon. However, that cartoon actually did have a plot...And that plot was about a war between the Autobots and the Decepticons, robots from the planet Cybertron. Was that plot present in the movie? Scarcely. Sure, they mentioned it...once. Vaguely. But besides that, the movie left viewers without any explanation of the robots’ motives, purpose, past, anything.

I’m not going to get into this too deeply, except to prove my point by saying that Michael Bay didn’t introduce ANY of the Decepticons except Megatron--AND MEGATRON WAS KILLED BY SHIA, NOT BY OPTIMUS LIKE HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE. ;_; I came to the movie decked-out in Decepticons gear...I had a wristband with the Decepticon sign, and a shirt with Megatron on it. Sure, I got to see some pretty damn awesome Decepticons with the insane special effects, but did I get a chance to enjoy any of them? No. Bay briefly mentioned Bonecrusher and Starscream...but only once. ONCE. And it was so quick and offhand that I didn’t even get to register what they looked like.

This lack of character development for the Transformers was most apparent in the big fight scene at the end of the movie. The battle--though with stunning visual effects--was absolutely baffling since I couldn’t tell who was who. I didn’t know who I was supposed to be pulling for since I couldn’t tell the difference between the Autobots and Decepticons while they were fighting, since there had been so little development for the Transformers themselves.

So if you’re going to make a Transformers movie that is about some stupid American characters instead of the actual robot characters, then you could actually make the human characters endearing. And were they? No. Absolutely not. I wanted Megatron to stomp Shia’s idiot character...instead, Shia’s idiot character killed Megatron. ._.

Shia’s character was the most annoying person in the entire movie...Even more annoying than his whore of a love interest. I think his characterization could be summed up just by one scene of the movie, in which Sam’s (Shia’s character) mother accuses him of masturbating because he had locked himself up in his room, was all dirty and sweaty, and was being incredibly defensive when his parents asked him what he was doing. He was shallow, superficial, and clearly only had sex on his mind the entire movie. In fact, when he first runs into Optimus and the other Autobots, one of the Autobots immediately observes “Your pheromone levels suggest you want to mate with that girl right now.” So...He was a stereotypical, lust-driven American Caucasian male, nothing more. Nothing about him made him a convincing protagonist. And he killed Megatron? ;_; That’s not fair.

Actually, all of the characters in the movie were shallow, stupid, and unconvincing...like I’ve said multiple times already.

So the movie left me with tons of questions, since there was no clear plot and no explanations. The scenes were purposeless, chaotic, and incoherent. Again, I didn’t know what was going on for most of the movie so I don’t know how to explain it any more than that.

But the movie was a horrible disappointment. ;_; I’m honestly hurt at how Michael Bay treated it...And the movie had so much potential.

My advice is DON’T GO SEE IT. This is coming from someone that appreciates Transformers, and someone that went to see the movie as a nerdy fangirl--This nerd suggests not going to see the movie if you’re a fan of the series, unless you’re simply into cheesy, over-the-top human ‘dramas’. The movie was not about the Transformers; it was about unbelievable, shallow human characters. I thought that it was going to be like the cartoon...when the humans get unwittingly caught up in a vicious battle between alien robots. Instead, it was about some alien robots getting randomly thrown into a dumb story about some crazy human characters.

And after the movie was over and I got home, I realized I’d left my wallet at the theater. D: ...And my wallet had my permit and fifty dollars in it. It gave me quite a scare, and earned me quite a lecture from my mother. Thankfully, we found it sitting innocently in front of my seat at the theater, untouched and with everything still intact. x.x Thank Hyne.

So that was my day--And tomorrow is going to be the first sleepover I’ve hosted in years. And then the next day, we leave for the lakehouse. x3 I’m excited.

But now I’m going to watch Twilight Zone, and later I’m going to take Spair’s advice and write something.

Eww, Shots.

2007-07-03T06:33:42Z

*Sulk.* On the way to pick David up earlier, I was trying to convince Okaasan to come home early tomorrow (today) so that we can go see Transformers, since I won’t be able to go see it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. After a moment of thinking, she suddenly comes to the realization--“Oh! I /do/ have to come home early tomorrow because I made you an appointment to get a TB skin test and your meningitis vaccine. So you’ll have to get up early tomorrow so that we can go get that stuff out of the way.”

Dammit. I hate visits to the doctors. o_o I especially hate things that involve a blood sample...like the finger prick at the OB-GYN last month that left my finger aching and tingling for weeks afterwards. And the TB skin test is just that. Joy. D:

I just beat RE4 for the ninth time, by the way. I love you, RE4. <3

And I need to do a Glacier post, because it’s been a week since I got home and I still haven’t done a post. That’s pathetic. I’ll do one soon.

Birthday/Glacier

2007-06-14T04:24:15Z

Today (edit: technically, it was yesterday) was a pretty good unofficial birthday. A little anticlimactic, but I suppose I can't complain with the FFVIII soundtrack now in my possession and the departure for Calgary just a few hours away.

Well, anyway. I just wanted to post to say that I won't be back until June 27th, in case anyone is actually wondering. I'm hoping to keep a journal while I'm at Glacier to post here when I get back. Maybe it'll actually work out this year.

So, uhh...See you guys later, then. x.x