Stuffs ^^

Ok, to get these out of the way first:
Rachel. You are an amazing person. I've been seeing the rather...mean...things said to you on your formspring, but you answer them honestly without being mean back. I don't know if I could do that. I'd probably just ignore the question...And I am really praying for you and your family with what's going on in your life. If you need someone to talk to, I'm here (though I'm not sure I'm the best person to talk to...I'll either start crying because I cry if I feel any emotion at all or I will say something stupid and make things worse - what usually happens when I try to comfort my brother or sister... I'm not trying to get you not to come to me. I'm just warning you that I'm not responsible for what I may say or do in such a predicament. How about, I'll listen. I'm good at listening. And sometimes listening is all people need X3. Wow, I'm really going on, aren't I??)
Anyway...
Katherine (when you eventually read this when you get back from Europe - so jealous XP) I'm really sorry I didn't visit Princeton with you! I didn't get your message until Wednesday! I hardly ever have my cell phone/check voice mail! I'm sorry!!! DX

Now I'm done my messages to friends. Sooo, what have I been doing??
*Sigh* I'm STILL looking for jobs :( Thank you Rachel for the tip on Subway hiring, though! I haven't gotten a call, but my application is in.
On Tuesday, my little brother, sister, mother, and I went to the Franklin Institute to see the Cleopatra exhibit X3. It was actually really cool (I'm usually not at all interested in anything having to do with history). My favorite parts of the exhibit were the giant 10 foot statues that they found, the coins (they were amazingly preserved for being under the ocean for several thousand years 0.o), and the things that had hieroglyphics on them (hieroglyphics are very cool looking X3). Something...strange...I learned was that Cleopatra was married to her younger brother, then her even-younger brother, then her son whom she had with one of those brothers 0.o There's some SERIOUS incest going on there...

Moving on...other than that, I haven't been out of the house much, for anything other than some errands that I have to run now because I have my driver's license. X/

Something very random that always bugs me:
Where are you supposed to put punctuation when using an emoticon??
Before the emoticon? After? No punctuation at all?? They really need to create grammar rules for this kind of thing! Nothing looks right! Example ("end" being end of first sentence, "Beginning" being beginning of next sentence):

end. X3 Beginning  (looks like its part of the next sentence)
end X3. Beginning  (looks like its a mole or something and part of the face)
end X3 Beginning  (looks like a run-on sentence)

Its so confusing! Especially when using :) at the end of paranetheses:

end :))  ---(looks like two mouths)
end :) )   ---(looks weird. Maybe might work, but not really)
end (:)  ---(looks like the middle part of a snowman)
end (: )  ---(still kinda looks like a snowman, but probably conveys the message best out of all of these...)

I usually just avoid that altogether and use "X3)" It eliminates the double parentheses thing...
I'm really over-analyzing aren't I?
Oh well, I do it with most things-- why I want to become a scientist - so my over-thinking can be put to good use! XD

Otaku-related news:

1. Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden was FINALLY updated! Its been TWO YEARS!!! That's one long hiatus 0.o If you don't know the series...I'm not sure how to explain it. Its really quite interesting in my opinion, but there are some mature scenes. But its not like its mature purely as fanservice, as some mangas are, such as Samurai Deeper Kyo (I couldn't get through much of that one...) I think it kind of adds to the..."authenticity"? of it. Yeah, you probably don't need to see those things in such detail...but thinking realistically (yes, I'm telling you to think realistically about a manga) a guy that can change into a woman probably doesn't feel much need to cover up his top half. (That probably sounds much weirder than it is in the series...). I read it for the storyline, which is actually really good and I just look past the other parts. Here are some pictures of said he/she, whose name is Uruki/Rimudo (he goes by both. Rimudo is his given name and Uruki is his celestial name as one of the seven celestial warriors)

2. I'm working on this thing (because I'm bored). I'm making a bunch of pictures of chibi-versions of the Organization XIII members and I'm drawing them to look like a chain of people which will eventually be hanging on to the top corner of the wooden border around my closet. (My explanation isn't very good, but I will have a picture when I'm finished X3). The trouble in getting this finished is not the actual drawing of the pictures but the coloring. For some reason, I chose to color in colored pencil. The black organization coats are a PAIN to color in with colored pencils. I hate using black SOOO much! Why did I do this?! Oh well, I only have about 7 more to color (4 of them I still have to draw - Axel, Luxord, Vexen, and Xaldin - how have I not drawn Axel yet?!). *Sigh* It fills my time, at least...

3. I'm am STILL working on my Oblivion keyblade. It is actually almost done (and looks pretty awesome, if I may say so myself). I just have a very little more papier mache-ing to do, then I can paint it and it should be done! Squee!

The whole time I've been working on this, my parents have been calling me weird and nerdy (which is pretty much a compliment in my world. The weirder and nerdier I am, the closer I am to my goal of otakudom...X3) But they've still helped me, even though they don't understand my passion...and I thank them for that! (And they will actually see this thank you because apparently, they read my blog now. Its not like I put things on here that I don't want them to see...its just awkward...this is more for friends and peers and other people like me who may actually understand some of my nerd-talk T.T)

4. I'm not sure if this needs to go into otaku-stuff or not, but I'll put it here anyway. I've recently been naming my inanimate objects.

• Kingdom Keyblade--ALICE (was going to be Haku, but my brother said that was a stupid name T.T)
• Oblivion Keyblade--OLIVIA (I'm creative, I know.)
• My purple balloon from my 16th birthday party that is over a year old and still somehow has air in it--MARGARET (I'm not sure why. It just came to me...)
• Laptop--TITAN (I needed a masculine name so I don't seem sexist)

I have yet to name my car, though...I just can't think of a good name!

(Yes, that is me, with a kinda stupid face because my family was there and they made me get pictures in my new car right in front of my school in public with PEOPLE watching!! T.T)

Anyway, I need to name mah baby, but I can't think of a good name. Probably a girl name because it is definitely a chick car...Anyone have any ideas?

Squid!
~otaku-chan~

PS: I went out for ice-cream today with my little bro. I got this flavor called "white raspberry truffle." It was REALLY good! I'm going to have to get that flavor if we go back there again! Noms X3

PPS: I got a 5 on my AP Calc test!!! Yay! (Poor Courgi-chan is going to have to wait until she and Kat get back from Europe to see her score XP)

PPPS: I haven't started my summer homework yet...I'm such a horrible procrastinator. I have to wait until, at earliest, August to start worrying about that!! But for the AP Gov't homework, we have to do current events and I'm not sure what to do it on. I don't keep up with much current stuff. I could do it on the oil spill in the Gulf, but I have a feeling that pretty much everyone is going to be doing that. But I think it will actually be an interesting topic, rather than looking at more stuff relating to politicians and all that kind of thing. Hmmm...I should probably get started soon on that one at least...

Attack of the Sketches (Plus other random rants)

I decided to post some of my better drawings. That are actually in COLOR!!!!

This one I drew for chibi-chan. The result of some random conversations with her about the validity of a lawn flamingo as a weapon...which led to discussing it as an ice pick...which led to a picture in my mind of Zack making a giant Sephiroth ice sculpture, and a picture in her head of a chibi Cloud eating the ice sculpture 0.o
(Hence my calling her odd in the picture if you click and zoom in)
Oh, and the howling at the moon thing was a different conversation about which characters would howl at the moon with us. Zack most definitely would X3

The next 4 were parts of a Christmas gift for manga-dealer-chan. They are all Fai cosplaying as various other people (I actually had 2 more I think, but I forgot to scan them before I gave them to her X3. I think they were emo Fai and one other I don't remember...)
(Momiji from Fruits Basket)
(Train from Black Cat)

(Kurogane from...well Tsubasa-same as Fai)

(Honey from Ouran High School Host Club)

This next one was a birthday gift for chibi-chan. She likes kingdom hearts and is totally an Ed Elric fangirl, so I figured I'd mix the two! And this was the result!! (I actually brightened the colors in Photoshop, in case it looks a little brighter than other pictures)


This was for manga-dealer-chan's birthday. Going with the crossover theme, I crossed-over Vampire Knight and Ouran High School Host Club. And I actually tried to draw a background for this one...I'm not all that good at it...I need practice.

(I know the letter probably look totally screwed up. I had already drawn everything out and then, too late, realized that I was running out of room. And I couldn't erase because for some odd reason, I was coloring in the letters before I totally drew all of them out -- which is something I NEVER do!! For this exact reason...)

And I did make pictures for Rachel and Kat-chan, but I didn't scan them before I gave them away :(
So I cannot show you...They were, I believe:
For Kat-chan -- Kurama and demon-wolf Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho, with lyrics to..."Fight Inside" by Red...maybe...I think?
For Rachel -- Train Heartnet, of course! I think, if I'm remembering correctly, it was Train in his normal outfit and Train in his Chronos assassin's outfit (black coat with the high collar X3)

So...yeah. That's all so far. I just started drawing for people's birthdays like a year and a half ago, so there aren't many built up!

Anyway, totally on a different topic and in case you were wondering at all -- I'm still sick T__T
It sucks...I hate being sick. I was planning on working on my keyblade this weekend, but seeing as I can't stand up straight for more than about 20 minutes without practically fainting, that plan went down the toilet...
So -- kinda inspired by my video posts of Kingdom Hearts battles -- I felt like playing Kingdom Hearts today and I fought through the Ansem battle in the first game. It was interesting getting used to the controls because I haven't played for a while, but I was level 100, so it didn't really matter how bad I was sucking at fighting - it didn't cause all that much damage! Plus, I started it up and realized I had my favorite keyblade equipped - OBLIVION!! (The keyblade I wanted to work on). It made me so happy!!!
And a weird thing happened: There was this giant demon-like thing that you're normally supposed to fight during the final battle, but it didn't show up this time!! My brother and I were freaked out!! (It was probably something that's supposed to happen, but we just forgot about it since we haven't played for so long -- but I could have sworn there was a giant demon in a volcano that you had to fight at the End of the World before you could fight Ansem!!!)

Anyway, so after that, I wanted to play Kingdom Hearts II, but I couldn't find it!!! I freaked out, thinking maybe I lent it to someone and didn't remember, but then I found the case, but the disk wasn't in it!!! Its like an otaku's worst nightmare!!! Eventually, after about 20 minutes of freaking out, we found the disk hiding between two other cases in a drawer that my brother and I both checked 5 times already T_T

Crisis over: I started playing and decided to see how far my farthest one was. It was level 89, so not bad. But it bothers me that my KHI is at level 100 and my KHII is at level 89...So now I'm going to have to level it up...And I think that before I stopped playing that game for a while, I was working on leveling up my drive-forms, so I'll have to work on that, too. But once I get all that done, I will feel totally accomplished because I will be level 100, with max level drives, and the Ultima weapon (which is pretty awesome!! -- but which is one thing I don't have in KHI...)
But no!! Wait! I can't be accomplished in KH until I beat Sephiroth! Grrr...Sephy, why must you be so difficult!!! And why does your sword have to be so freaking long!!!
(And Rachel, you can't use this as an excuse for me not to lend you the PS2 so you can play the games! I can level up my game at any time and soon I'll be too occupied with Birth by Sleep to care much about the PlayStation! ;P -- I'm just kidding Rachel. If you end up not wanting to play the KH games, I'm not going to force you X3. Though, it seems like you really do want to play them ^__^)

Oh! And Rachel, I realized that I extremely over-estimated the hours for Kingdom Hearts in my comment on your blog. I said 200 I think. That's way over what I actually have. I think I'm at about 60 hours in both of my highest level save-files...And it definitely didn't take all that time to finish the game. That happened at about level 50, I think I remember, so probably somewhere around 20-40 hours...Its hard to tell because I fool around a lot and then I get up and leave the game paused for about 3 hours and come back and its still on and it counts those hours X3

Okay, strange and probably confusing stream-of-consciousness randomness is finished.

Squid!!

Ummm....Hello?

I doubt many people will be reading this except my friends (if even they read it).
I just wanted to make a blog because...Katherine and Rachel have blogs and this is something to do instead of homework ;3
Sooooo....I like using "..." apparently. I don't remember what they're called and I don't feel like looking it up. It's about 2a.m. right now, so I'm kinda tired. Don't ask me why I'm up at this time, I'm not sure.
Anyway:
My family birthday party is tomorrow. I think I'm looking forward to that!
Today, I woke up at 7:30, studied for about 1.5 hrs. then took a test for my online astronomy course. (Speaking of which, I just remembered that I was supposed to watch the sunset some day last week. Oops.) I guess I'll do it tomorrow, or today I guess because its technically Sunday right now...
I was actually staying up late to watch the English premiere of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood on Adult Swim, but I totally got distracted, so now its too late. Oh well. I have it recorded, so I didn't have to watch it tonight, but, being the nerd that I am, I wanted to watch it on the premiere night and savor that sacred memory...I get weird at this time of morning okay!
Just an FYI, to those reading my blog, if anyone: they will be more like me talking to myself/the wall/my dog/diary, so my thoughts won't seem to follow any specific path. Its just how my mind works, so deal with it. <-I sound irritable here, don't I? I'm actually in quite a good mood :)
So, actually still on the same topic as the above paragraph, the reasoning behind the url thing I picked ("catch my train of thought") was because of both a conversation I had with Katherine in 9th grade (English was awesome!) We pictured a train driving away and a little stick dude chasing after it and it said "lost my train of thought." It seemed appropriate for my very stream-of-consciousness style of writing and "lostmytrainofthought" was taken, so then I thought, "Well, the point of reading a blog is to learn more about the inner workings of someone else's mind, so why not have the reader "catch my train of thought." It makes sense in my head, okay?!
(sorry Rachel, I stole your line)
Well, I think that is all I have to say for now, I really should get to bed so I'm not homicidally grumpy tomorrow for my relatives...
Squid!
(don't ask. If you are my friend, you know what it means; if not, the story is not mine to explain X3)