I'm actually writing this time!!

Today was pretty awesome!
First, in English class, we had a test and it was just very easy matching. Then, because its before a break (Oh, by the way, Spring Break has no officially started. However, its not much of a break. We get Thursday, Friday, and Monday off! That's only 5 days including the weekend! Rip-off!!) Anyway, we got extra credit stuff to do in English, which is awesome because I need all the extra credit I can get -- The rough draft of our research paper is due on Tuesday after break :(. And my teacher is a grammar Nazi, so it really doesn't matter how well your paper is written, its a point or 2 off for every single grammar mistake! There is potentially a lot of bad grammar in a 10 page paper!! (And, as you can probably tell by my blog posts, I don't have very good grammar X3).
So next, I had Calc. That was okay. I was falling asleep, as usual. Its not like I hate the subject (Math is actually one of my favorite subjects). But it just happens to fall during 2nd period when I'm my most tired and my teacher talks very quietly and its a little warm and comfortable in there and I just fall asleep. Luckily, my teacher has never said anything to me about it, because even when I'm falling asleep, I still half-pay attention and if she calls on me, I have the right answer and I usually get A's on my tests. So I guess she doesn't really care if I fall asleep in class as long as I'm still learning stuff X3.
Anyway, back to my original point, today she handed out this huge packet with about 20-30 pages in it double-sided and told us it was our assignment for the weekend. Obviously, I was really dreading that, so I decided to start it in Study Hall and my period in the Library. I got almost all of the problems done in that 1hr 30minutes. It was all basic stuff, and that made me really happy!!

Now, the more interesting stuff than just my school day. I visited Kat in the Biotechnology lab today!! It was VERY cool! I'm (hopefully) going to be in the program next year, so it was really cool to see some of the stuff that goes on in the lab. There was all kinds of sciencey-gadgets--most of which I had no idea what they were. However, Katherine did a very good job of explaining everything! X3
As Katherine may or may not say in a post, today, the director of the school came to the lab and had the students show him how to do stuff and use the things in the lab (I know, very specific, right?) Katherine did a great job teaching him how to pour plates (put media stuff into petri dishes) and he asked probably-annoying questions like "Why do you do this?" and "What's the point/What are these used for?" Overall, he seemed nice, but the questions even annoyed me a little and I was just observing...
Katherine, I know you were nervous, but you were the best one there at explaining the things (That's how it seemed to me at least)!! ;)
What I learned:
1. Contamination (or rather prevention of) seems to be everything in the Biotech lab.
2. Tech school people are...different...I wouldn't say weird or scary. They seemed pretty nice. They were just louder and slightly more open about certain things than I originally expected (no offense meant to anyone I'm speaking of).
3. There was going to be another one, but I can't think of it right now. But my OCD likes odd numbers, so I'm still going to leave the #3 here.

In other news, the Japanese exchange students went home today :(
It made me sad...They were pretty awesome when they were here! I wanted to give them a goodbye gift, but everything seemed to be working against me. I was sick this morning and almost didn't go to school, but I did go and felt totally fine at school. I dunno what was wrong. I couldn't make the goodbye gift last night because I was already up until 12am working on Astronomy homework :( :( :(

About the formatting of my blog. I really like the way it is, but there's one thing that really bothers me and makes me feel like the blog is unfinished: The text in the "About Me" section has to be the same color as the text in the posts. I really want purple text in my posts, but you can't (or at least I can't) read the text in the "About Me" section because it almost blends into the background!! DX

In otaku related news...hmmm...not much. During the day off tomorrow, I think my brother and I are going to experiment with hair gel to see if we can get his hair to look like Demyx/Sora/Roxas -- any of those really. Whatever we can get his hair to do. We can't do much with my hair. I have Yuna (FFX) hair. That is the best way I can describe my hairstyle.
Just as kind of a tangent to that conversation, before I die or become too old to do this, I would like to cosplay with my brother (for anyone who for whatever reason does not know what cosplaying is, it is when people dress as characters generally originating from manga/anime/video games, though I've seen some Harry Potter). My little bro is practically my best friend and the one most like me in otaku-related tastes, so that kind of thing would be so fun. The potential problem, my parents have absolutely no interest in that kind of thing, and until he's 16-17yrs. old (he's 11 now), they would probably have to go with him to a convention and they would be totally bored and they would probably let us know it. But, for that reason (and some others), I want to go to a college close-ish to home, so it wouldn't be incredibly difficult to do that kind of thing...It something I have to think about...

Oh, some more quotes from my brother and me:

*I for some reason rubber band a warm ice-pack to my wrist and think it looks like some sort of arm-guard people may wear with armor*
Me: *said in attempted deep-sounding voice* "I am Gorgovon!!!"
(I have absolutely no idea where that name came from, I knew I heard something similar before, but couldn't think of it, so just spouted out a name that seemed appropriate for what I was trying to convey...)

I'm not going to include the whole conversation, but Jacob was playing Dissidia and he went into the library thing and started playing the different voices and phrases of Kefka (the creepy clown villain from FFVI). So, he started playing random sayings ("I'm going to destroy everything" "Ah, the smell of inexperience") and I was replying to what Kefka was saying and then Kefka would reply and some things were quite funny, but I can't remember what they were...X/
Going along with that, Jacob was playing Dissidia again and he was fighting as Sephiroth against Squall. At points in the battle, it sounds like Sephiroth is saying dramatically, "I'm a Mercedes DEALER!!" and then Squall replies, "Your mom!!" (I'm quite sure this is not actually what they're saying).
Even further along with that, some mental images:
1. Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness (different from Cloud Strife) are on a date. Exdeath has suit on, on top of his armor and Cloud of Darkness is wearing an overly revealing red dress and they're just kind of sitting there in the middle of a normal fancy restaurant.
2. Exdeath in his native habitat. (Image fueled by me making a strange noise. Then my brother saying something about Exdeath, then me imagining Exdeath making said noise, then Exdeath on a documentary about him in his native habitat--which for some reason is him in a forest, staring at a tree and making the strange noise, trying to communicate with the tree...There were a lot of mental jumps involved in this one).
3. Kefka on American Idol. Kefka randomly eating Ryan Seacrest. The audience just staring in awkward silence. (I think I may have nightmares about this image...)

I think that is all for this post...

PS: Pablo is being annoying!! He keeps trying to sit on my laptop!!
PPS: Pablo is my ninja cat (who's secret identity is Cosmo, my normal cat, but shhhh!! Don't tell anyone!)
PPPS: I know I'm weird...
PPPPS: The pictures in order are Kefka, Cloud of Darkness (with way too little clothes on, but relatively normal for video games in general), Exdeath.

Kingdom Hearts the Musical!!!

More videos!! I guess I'm just not in a writing mood right now...
So these are videos made by testifpwsamecanbe on youtube.
(If you are interested, the one who plays Riku is NanjoKoji on deviantart. I don't know what the other peoples' dA's are...)
They are a german cosplay group and this is a musical of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Its really awesome (I think)!!! Unfortunately, it is all in German, and I don't think the subtitles work when I embed the video...The dances are still awesome, though, even when you can't understand what they're saying!















PS: I'm sorry for posting so many videos. You really don't have to watch them all, right when I post them. But if you are bored sometime, you will probably find plenty of things to waste time on here!!

PPS: The music in the last video is muted because of stupid copyright things. The song that should be playing is "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)" by Josh Groban. So, just imagine the song playing while they're dancing or maybe I'll put the song in my playlist and you can just hit play when the song gets muted so at least there's something playing there (or if your doing that, you could put another song on and see if it fits...) I mean, you can do whatever. I just thought I'd let you know why it suddenly gets quiet in the last part.

*Under Construction*

Now I just pictured a bunch of mini virtual dump trucks and cranes coming in and blocking everything off with Caution tape...X3
Yeah, I just wanted to say that I'm reformatting my blog right now, so if it doesn't look great or is hard to read in some places, that's why. I'm writing this as a post because I don't know when I'm going to have time to finish (because this could take hours for me to decide things, as Kat and Rachel probably already know...)
TTFN!

I lost the game!!!

Hehehe, I'm watching Advent Children Complete right now, so if my post doesn't make sense in some parts, you know why X3
So, yesterday, I went on a college visit to Franklin & Marshall with Katherine. It was AMAZING. That is my top choice school right now and its going to be hard to beat. The only problem would be the cost...X/
The teachers/faculty were very cool and funny. And it was strange how many Harry Potter references there were!! There were 4 houses, someone talked about a sorting hat (which they don't actually have T.T), someone wrote an essay about Severus Snape, etc. It was awesome!! X3
Then, on the way home, we were sitting in traffic so we blared "My Sitar" into the peaceful Lancaster afternoon...XD. My mom said the song was weird, but still agreed to open the windows, turn up the music, and repeat the song after it finished!
I'm sure Katherine will have some to say about the trip at some point. I'm too brain dead to try to remember more about yesterday right now...

So today was another interesting day! I went to church like normal. Then, after church I had a lunch at Applebee's with my youth group. That was...odd. It was really fun as it usually is with my youth group, but I was sitting between my brother and my dad, both of whom like to bully me...of course, I fight back. My brother teases me, I punch him! X3
So that was fun, and I actually talked! I usually talk a little...SEPHIROTH!!! (Sorry, Kadaj just turned into Sephiroth in Advent children XD)...anyway, I usually talk a little, but this time I talked a lot and it was pretty fun!
And this guy from the table next to ours came over randomly and showed us a trick with a tightly wound straw wrapper. You put a few drops of soda on the table and put the wound up straw wrapper on top of the small puddle. Then it absorbs the soda and starts to wiggle like a worm!!! It was so cool!!!
After the lunch, my Mom-mom picked up me, my brother, and my sister and brought us to see my school's musical, "Beauty and the Beast." Chibi-chan was in it (she was the milk-maid, a knife, and an angry villager). I thought the knife fit her personality and when I saw her in the mob, I thought, 'Chibi with a rake: run for it!!' Apparently, she saw me in the audience at one point and I distracted her and she forgot what she was supposed to be doing! DX I felt bad when she told me that...but then she hugged me and wouldn't let me leave after the show...I didn't feel bad after that. I was worrying more about the loss of circulation in my arm...X3
Then, I went shopping for jeans. Kinda boring. But I thought to include that anyway.
AWWW....Cloud looks like a kitty when he smiles!! (I'm not sure why, but that's the impression I get. And Advent Children is now over. It was good.)
Anyway, on the way home from shopping, my dad stopped to get gas. He made me get out to learn how to pump the gas. So he's telling me how to do it and tells me to squeeze the gas pump thing to start it going. Then, he WALKS AWAY!!! I yell, "Where are you going?!"
"I'm going inside to get a drink."
"What?! You can't go inside and leave me here. I don't know how to stop it!!!" He just went into the store. So I'm freaking out because I wasn't completely listening to when he was telling me how to do it, so I'm just watching the numbers wondering how many gallons the car takes. I remember he said something about it popping at some point, but I don't remember what he said to do when it popped! So when it popped, I was freaking out even more. Meanwhile, my dad is inside buying a soda and he overhears the workers saying that someone is trying to get help by calling the desk but they can't understand what the person is saying. My dad is then thinking, 'Oh, no. She did not call the desk and start freaking out at them in a decibel that only dogs can hear.' So he turns around and at that point, I had seen him go up to the counter and I was waiting for him to turn around or come out. He turns around and sees me gesturing at him, but he can't hear what I'm saying. So he seriously thinks that its me freaking out to the people at the gas station and then gesturing at them like an idiot. (I was not actually the one that called in, but it scared my dad X3). He comes out and I'm really angry and crying and everything. Yeah, I was really mad at him for leaving me out there like that. Oh well, no the gas station has some interesting security tapes...T.T
Then in the car again, he asked me, "What were you freaking out about? Its just gas!"
"I don't know, I could have exploded the whole gas station or something with FRICTION!!!" (I meant static, but said friction for some reason. I was thinking of a Mythbusters episode that tested the gas station explosions because of static myth but I couldn't remember if it was confirmed or not).
To that statement, he laughed at me and asked, "What, were you standing there rubbing your feet on the ground or something?!"
Then he continued to laugh at me and I continued to say stuff in an attempt to defend myself, but could find nothing to say that helped my case at all...
My mom cracked up hysterically imagining me gesturing at the people in the gas station and calling the desk and freaking out at them. She was laughing for about 10 minutes. I think her homework was stressing her out a little much.

The End

~otaku

PS: Sorry for saying "so" so many times and for the abrupt ending. I still have homework to do :(
And sorry for my title X3

X3

I put music on my blog!! (I copied LeahPeah, sorry X3)
I guess I just thought I'd inform you, in case you didn't notice the hyper song in the background...yeah T.T
I'm tired. I need to go to bed. I will post about my exciting day I had today tomorrow...

Fangirl Moment X3

So, I've been really obsessing over FFVII: Advent Children lately, so I figured I'd put up a few videos that show just how awesome it is (mostly for Rachel and Katherine, who probably haven't watched the movie). Reno is hilarious. He is my favorite Turk. If he is not on the fangirl list I posted, I am now officially adding him. And Kadaj as well. He may be insane, but he's hot in his insanity X3

(Oh, and I did not make any of these videos, just so you know. I don't take credit, I just want to share them).
Warning: The last 3 videos have flashy effects.





























What you learn from these videos:
Nightwish is AWESOME!! (Thank Katherine for that X3)
Reno is Spider Man/Ninja.
Don't make Yazoo laugh!! If he's laughing, you may be dead soon...o.0
~otaku
PS: One scene is actually from Crisis Core, not Advent Children. It was an epic scene, so I decided to throw it in.
The last three are AMAZING videos by ThreadstoTwelve on YouTube. They are mostly Sephiroth tributes, plus a Vincent tribute - the last video I have on here.

Translate please!

Rachel! You take Spanish, can you translate this?? (I think its spanish. It looks like it at least) It was a comment on my FMA video and I want to reply, but I don't know whether its good or bad and online translators just make it weird...

"si queres ser parte de mi grupo lockerz lo unico que tenes que hacer entrar unirte y ahi te dice de que se trata de ganar premios gratis yo ya me gane una psp y una wii"

(something about lockers and dice and PSP an Wii...That's all I got out of that, and its probably nothing to do with any of those things.)

And another one on the same video. Possibly also spanish, but I'm not sure:

"me encanta te quedo genial"

(absolutely no idea what this one means...)

If they're something weird or mean or inappropriate, tell me that they are, but I don't really care to know exactly what they say in those cases X/

~otaku

Reminder & Other Stuff

KATHERINE!!!
Are you coming to the college visit with me? (Because I just realized today that it was this Saturday, as in 3 days from today...)

Favorite Square-Enix Characters (because my brother just randomly asked me who my favorite SE characters are, so I wrote them down on here and now I'm leaving them because I don't feel like getting rid of them X3):
Zack
Cloud
Riku
Axel
Sephiroth
Vincent
Angeal
Nero
Reno
Genesis
Yazoo
Aerith
Tifa
Yuffie
Balthier
Weiss
Lulu
Kadaj

And because I'm thinking about it, I thought I'd share some of my brother and my jokes (that may not make sense, but they're funny out of context as well):

"No those are not the Death Star and its babies!!" (screamed while my dad was on the phone with someone X3)

"The magazine went to the doctor!!!" (...a joke that my brother tried to say, but forgot midway through what the joke was, so just stopped there and left me confused...)

"My destiny is to become--A SPOONMAKER!!" (another random quote said by my brother, this time while I was playing Final Fantasy XII)

"Me: Cursed MOO!!
Jacob: Do your homework!
Me: Stop! ...Hammer Time!
Both: Dodododo-dodo-dodo Can't touch this! etc."
(This one needs explanation. Xemnas sounds like he's saying "cursed Moo" in the final battle and later it sounds like he's saying "do your homework" and he's wearing a very disco-like outfit and for some reason it made us both think of MC Hammer...)

"A group of four heroic dinosaurs do battle with a trio of highly intelligent evil dromeosaurids that have plans for world domination." (an actual description for a show on discovery channel)

"42!!" (self-explanatory)

(Just now while writing this post) "Me: Why are you smelling your own socks!! That's weird!
Jacob: I was hitting my head with it!!"

"Joshua killed Zack!!" (what I thought my brother said at one point. Then we both pictured after Zack's death scene, it zooms in on one of the soldiers that killed him and he takes off his helmet and its Joshua--from The World Ends With You!!!)

"I have my own system for how many exclamation points I use, okay?!?! Its very complicated and I'm not going to explain it right now..." (also just said as writing this post)

"Me: You're dumb!
Jacob: Your face is dumb!
Me: Your mom's face is dumb!
Jacob: *dramatic gasp* I'm telling mom!!!"

"Me: *randomly starts singing Savior by Rising Against* If this ain't love then how do we get out?
Jacob: How do you do that?
Me: *still singing the song* I don't know..."
(yet another thing that happened just now and I felt like typing down)

Okay, done with the quotes...Chibi-chan had another weird dream involving me. So, I was apparently on a date with 3 people from Kingdom Hearts (I don't know what kind of person she thinks I am. Another dream had me marrying 6 different people). So there was Axel, Cloud, and another person she didn't see his face but he had big hair and cat eyes (maybe Train from Black Cat? But then Rachel would be mad!!) Axel for some reason thought that Cloud was Roxas in disguise and kept trying to get him to admit it, so he got Cloud ice-cream to coax the truth out of him. Then Xion showed up, stole the ice-cream from Axel, gave it to me, and scolded Axel to stop ignoring the person he came there with! (As she was telling this, I patted imaginary Xion on the head and said "good Xion!" like she was a dog or something. it was strange. apparently I think Xion is short because I patted the air lower than chibi-chan even...) Anyway. Then, we apparently went on those boat things in the "tunnel of love," except instead of the normal music playing, Riot by Three Days Grace was playing...(in response to this, I said, "awesome!!" I love that song!!) So that was the end of the dream...very weird.
I think chibi-chan is stealing my weird dreams. I haven't been dreaming at all recently! Of course, I also haven't been sleeping much...but I still think she's stealing my dreams! X3

Okay, ranting about randomness is now over. Katherine, please comment and say whether you are coming or not! Or just tell me at school. But I probably wont remember to ask you at school, so that is why I'm putting it on here.
Bye-bye!!
~otaku