Prayer Request

A family at my church is having a tough time. The father has struggled with cancer in his throat over the past years. Today, my dad went to see him and his breathing tube is down to 3mm. I don't know much about that kind of thing, but that seems very small and that's all they could do because of all the tumors. He's gone through surgeries in the past, but doesn't want to have another one. I don't think he's going to make it much longer.
That family is one of the most faithful families I have ever met. They have worked in the children's ministry, small groups, and prayer teams for years. Their youngest son was in my youth group and graduated high school last year. They continued praying and being optimistic throughout the whole ordeal. I am certain that even if he leaves this world soon, he'll be going to a better place.
Please, just pray for him (or if you don't believe in that kind of thing, just take the time to think, 'Oh, I hope the best for him and his family.') There are so many people already supporting this family, but I don't think a couple more people could hurt ;)

I don't wanna do my homework...DX

As the title says, I really don't feel like doing my homework right now. I have to write the outline for my big research paper by tomorrow! DX
Thankfully, my teacher wrote out already the general outline. All I really need to do is fill in my information. The trouble is, I have to read all my sources in order to get the information...and that's the part that I'm not looking forward to :(
I don't even think its worth it to try on this project. My English teacher is a grammar Nazi! No matter how good the writing is, she takes off points everywhere if there is the tiniest grammar mistake! I got a freaking 74 on a benchmark because I spelled things wrong or it didn't look like I had a space between my words (I have sloppy handwriting, so that is very hard for me...all my lines look like big, long words). The benchmark was on fiction! Not grammar!! Gaaaahhhh!!!
So with the research paper, even if it is very well written (which it probably wouldn't be anyway because I am really bad at formal writing), I would still fail the project because I have crappy grammar...grrrr...
Plus, I actually tried when I wrote my thesis, and then she thought I was plagiarizing...what?
So, I'm going to under-achieve on this project and hope that I don't fail ;)

I feel so lonely that no one is posting anything recently!! (Just like Katherine's title for her last post X3) I want to be distracted from my homework, but I have nothing else to be distracted by!!!

Oh! Random, but my english teacher that I was just talking about is obsessed with whales. And we're reading Moby Dick right now, so she is quite possibly the happiest person in the world X3
Her room is decorated with whales everywhere. She's got a "small" (in her words, but the thing is like 5 ft long) harpoon in a glass case in the room. She ordered a piece of whale...what's that stuff called that the whales have instead of teeth?...Braile? No. Brille, I think. Maybe. I don't feel like looking it up...So she ordered a piece of that stuff and its about 4 feet long and she passed it around class and it feels like waxy wood with hairs on one edge of it. It was pretty cool :)

I fell asleep in Calculus today. I mean, even more asleep than normal for that class. I love math, and its not like my teacher is boring, but its second period and that's when I'm at my sleepiest. It can be funny sometimes when I'm sleeping in class because I'm actually still kind of half awake, and trying to listen to my teacher and take notes. My notes end up as scribbles and I will completely mishear my teacher or misread what's on the board and think that she's saying something totally different from what she's actually saying. Like one time, in Anatomy this time, I was falling asleep and we were talking about the muscles. At one point, I thought I saw my water bottle falling dramatically and in slow motion off of my desk and I reflexively reached out to catch it, but it turns out I didn't even have a water bottle out on my desk and I flinched and maybe scared the people next to me X3. Later, it looked like my teacher suddenly became the host of jeopardy and the board was like the game board and it was really creepy...
I really need to sleep at home, not at school X/

Soooooo....anyway....yeah....nothing much else to say...
But I don't want to do my homework yet, so....
Oh! I know, I'll check if FMA:Brotherhood anime was updated yet! They're already at the fight with Pride and they're only on episode 48, I think!! I really like this series. It is one of very few animes that actually follows along with the manga instead of trying to change an already awesome storyline (like Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles anime. That was horrible once they started branching off to random filler storylines. Except the chibi episode was awesome X3
Gao!!! Garururururu!!)
TTFN
~otaku
PS: Snowball to the rescue! Grow mushroom grow! He's not Hamlet either!!
hehe XD

Pretty Pictures X3

This weekend, I was very bored. So I went on youtube and realized that I really needed to change my icon because it was starting to bore me. Since I had time, I figured I would do the thing that other people do with their icons and put my name into my icon somehow. So then I just cropped a bunch of images I had from wallpapers and such into squares and put VS42 on them (my username for youtube, deviantart, and most other things is vampiresquid42). So I just thought I would share the pretty icons with Fai, Kingdom Hearts, ZACK!!!, Vincent, ZACK AGAIN!!!, Sephiroth, Cloud X3, Aerith, Sebastian, and Noctis.
This should be my last post of tonight. I have to go to bed XP
~otaku
PS: Rachel, I stole your idea for colorful writing on my blog. Except I made my posts purple!!! Yay!!

Wow...

I just had the dumbest moment of my life...
I was walking down the stairs and suddenly, everything went dark and I panicked for a moment. My thought process went like this:
'Dark! Why?!...Oh...'
I realized that I was in the process of blinking...
Wow...
Epic fail.
I thought that kind of thing didn't actually happen to sane, sober people...(or at least the sober part)...
*sigh of exasperation with myself*
~otaku

Stupid America!!

I just watched this weeks results episode for American Idol. Gaaaaahhhhh!!!!! America is so stupid!!!! They voted off Lilly Scott (who has been my favorite since the beginning) and Alex Lambert (who is simply amazing.) I was so angry and sad to see them go, I think they had some of the best talent in all of the American Idol Seasons I have watched (Crystal Bowersox is in that group, too. Thankfully, she made it through). When Alex was voted off, it was like the entire room was in shock. It was silent when they came back from the commercial break and you could tell Alex and the whole group around him had been crying. I cried, too...
Then, Lilly being voted off right after that just made me angry. What the heck is wrong with people!! They kept Tim Urban (who I really don't like. His voice just isn't good and he's only lasted this long because of his looks) and they kept Paige (who has just been boring to me). Gaaahhhh!!
I normally don't get into this kind of thing, but this season, there are some people I really like, two of which have just been voted off and now I'm angry and contemplating not watching anymore (Crystal Bowersox is the only one that may make me keep watching the show).
Sigh.
That is all I had to vent about.
XP
~otaku
PS: I just found out we're having pizza for dinner. Woot! And when I heard, I made a very strange face and lifted my hands in the air. It was really odd...X3

Fangirl List

I'm making my list official with proof that I have claimed all these characters. Because I realize that you guys sent me your lists, but I don't have mine in writing anywhere with at least one witness, so...Here it is:

• Axel (pyromaniac X3)
  
• Riku (my emo)
  
• Zack Fair (my very-large puppy from FFVII:CC)
  
• Cloud Strife (You fail if you don't know. I talk about him enough to at least know what he's from)
• Fai D. Flourite (his awesomeness is self explanatory X3)
  
• Sephiroth (MOST. EPIC. VILLAIN. EVER.)
  
• Nero (FFVII:DoC)
• Noctis (FFXIII: Versus)
• Reno (FFVII)
  
• Sebastian Michaelis (love him, but he's too epic for me to claim on my own, so I can share)
• Zero Kiryuu (VK)
• Marluxia (Marly!! Awesome scythe, fun to make fun of, and its hard to have flower powers and still act more manly than much of the rest of the organization...)
• Gil (Pandora Hearts. The older Gil is so awesome/cute/hot all in one!! XD)
• Gauche Suede (Letter Bee)
• Balthier (FFXII)
• Hotaru (SDK)
• Mikage (07 Ghost)
• Hatsuharu (FB)
• Ayumu Narumi (Spiral)
• Subaru & Kamui (CLAMP)
• Senri (+Anima)

Note: These are not totally in order, but slightly. (My biggest are at the top and slightly lower at the bottom)
So, that's all I can think of right now. I may make a Fangirl list cont. at some point if and when I remember more (there are so many mangas and animes I read I can't keep track XP)
~otaku
PS: Katherine, random question. How do you put a youtube video on your post??

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! (I'm not sure why, either...I had too much sugar...)

So, went to see Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton. AWESOME!!!!
I'm not going to share that much about it, because Katherine already summed it up very nicely and she and Rachel are my only followers at the moment, so I don't really need to repeat. Except for:
"SNOWBALL, to the rescue!!"
Yeah...
Anyway, not much happened today otherwise. One scary thing: it was senior skip day, so none of the annoying seniors were in my study hall today (I'm not saying all seniors are annoying, just some particular ones in my study hall). So with them gone, it was dead silent. It scared me...
So then, I had a meeting with my counselor and mother to figure out my school schedule for next year. I am going to really try to get into the biotech program (which Katherine is in this year and seems really fun). However, my science teacher--whom I gave the recommendation form to so he would fill it out--procrastinates more than I do...which is sad. He said yesterday that he would give it to me today, then I asked him about it today and he said, "Oh, I left it up in my room [we were in the computer lab]. Can I get that to you Monday?"
"Well...its due Monday, so...I guess?"
I'm not very good at standing up to teachers.
Mr. S (what I shall call my chem teacher) apparently loves me though, because when I was absent Monday and Tuesday, he sent me an email saying that I'm one of the best students he's ever had and everything and he attached the benchmark test to the email so I could take it at home. This was not an open-note test. Wow.
I mean, I think Mr. S is a really good person...but he's not the greatest teacher. We don't get anything done!! Which is infuriating because I'm not learning stuff I need to know to go into a career involving chemistry. Plus, I'm the one that actually pays attention on the occasion that he does teach, so I'm teaching half my class how to do the stuff he taught us how to do because I'm one of the few people who actually pay attention!!! Okay, maybe not half the class. I can't talk to that many people. But I'll teach one person and they'll go back to their group and teach them and then another person will ask them how to do it, and so on.
Gaaaahhhhh!!
Funny story: I explained to my mom that "Gaaaaaahhhhhh!!" is my angry noise. I even told her how to spell it. G-a-a-a-a-a-h-h-h-h-h and then lots of exclamation points and sometimes a 1 at the end because I let go of the shift button before the 1...Yes, I went into that much detail...
Another funny story: The car ride home from the movie was quite interesting. It was me, my mom, chibi-chan, and manga-dealer. So, chibi-chan gets a call. It was--hmm...what shall I call him...Fanboy!...Rachel and Katherine may know who I'm talking about. His name starts with a B...I think that works so you know who I'm talking about, but its not specific enough for anything other than that, so anyway, back to story--Fanboy called. The car was silent. We were all just listening to their conversation, but we could only hear what chibi-chan is saying.
Something about him looking like an emo Kyouya in his ID picture on her phone.
Then something that she needed mind bleach for involving Kyouya and Tamaki and some catastrophic accident...I dunno...
Then, she explained she was in the car with her manga-dealer and the otaku who like Kingdom Hearts (at that, he apparently squealed, hence the nickname "fanboy").
Then she put him on speaker phone...now that was interesting. He told a story involving yaoi. My mom heard him say it and our reaction to it.
"What's yaoi??"
"You don't want to know."
*odd look* "Okay??"
Meanwhile, chibi-chan and manga-dealer are cracking up in the back seat and fanboy says, "I'm still on speaker, aren't I."
"Yes. You are."
"Oh."
.
.
.
"Oh."
It was so funny!!!
Later, when I got home. I dunno how I got on this topic with my parents, but somehow Vic Mignogna came up.
Oh, I remember.
By the way, Katherine. My mom talked to your mom about having you go on a college visit with us. I'm very sorry if this causes you any kind of problem.
That little tidbit was relevant, believe it or not. My mom was saying that I could feel free to invite all my friends to come with us, too. As long as we don't show up all dressed as Yu-Gi-Oh characters (okay, I'm surprised she even knew what Yu-Gi-Oh was, me and my brothers never watched it or played it or anything when we were younger).
But anyway, being hyper and all, I acted all indignant.
"Yu-Gi-Oh. Really? I mean, there's the Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon kinda nerds, and then there's the other group of nerds. I'm in the other group. Please don't even lump me together with those ones."
"Well, okay. Sorry, I only know those ones."
My dad: *sarcastically* "Yeah, its a whole social status thing. Weirdos of her level can't even mix with those other weirdos. I mean, the keyblade makers fight with the Yu-Gi-Oh nerds who fight with the Pokemon nerds. Didn't you know this?"
In reality, I find nothing wrong with Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon. Then, from there, I don't remember how Vic Mignogna came up. I had to explain to them how he's this huge celebrity in the otaku world (the English-speaking one, at least). He does everyone: Fai, Tamaki, Edward Elric, etc.
My dad doesn't understand my nerdiness, so he constantly makes fun of me for it, so now he makes fun of Vic Mignogna's name and calls him Vic Mimomomomomom....for however long he feels like going...its quite annoying. He makes fun of everything I like. I told him.
"There's a whole secret world of otakus that you don't even know about..."
I thought I said it pretty ominously...he just kept making fun of me :(
He's mean...
I think that is all I will put on this post...So...
Bye!
~otaku

Bleh.

I stayed home from school today. I was still sick. My muscles feel like jelly (making it quite hard to type...)
So today, I slept until 12:30. Then I watched Sesame Street and other weird kids shows with my brother, who was also home sick. That is all I did, all day...T.T
Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow and be able to come back to school.
X/