Transcendence

Ouch...I'm not the only one doing the alternate house entry thing. 

Today's Daily D'oh:

I put salt in my coffee. In my defense, I was still half asleep, but I'm....still not quite sure how that happened. They're two totally different sized urns....

What about a comedy?

I went to Comiket and bought Ao no Exorcist, Black Cat, Code Geass, Divine Melody, Elfen Lied, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, High School of the Dead, InuYasha, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Love in the Mask and Maison Ikkoku.

I have! (Never make bets after large quantities of sake.)

Never have I ever been to the opera.

Unfortunately, you run into a gang of mountain bandits.

Superman destroyed his cabbages and Lia's wok and buried kryptonite underground for infinite reasons.

 

crazy

Some
girls
eat
everything!

Winner.

Chocolate by Nirgilis.

1129, listening to music, thinking about lunch.

Unfortunately, they want you to dress us for the Bearded Lady part.

Descried.

Do you have amnesia?

Me, either. I'm not a big gum person.

Never have I ever owned a lizard.

I went to Comiket and bought Ao no Exorcist, Black Cat, Code Geass, Divine Melody, Elfen Lied, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, High School of the Dead, InuYasha, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

I've been to the -continent- of Asia (India).

Never have I ever been on a cruise.

Fortunately, you don't get very much time, and once you get out, you land an awesome job.

Drinking coffee. -Thinking- about a donut.

I went to Comiket and bought Ao no Exorcist, Black Cat, Code Geass, Divine Melody, Elfen Lied, Fullmetal Alchemist (w00t!), and Ghost in the Shell.

Oh god yes the bishonen. My version of heaven.

I thought I got up early....

Especially when *SPOILER ALERT* Ed goes through the portal and sees Al's body, but can't take him back with him, but swears he'll be back, or when he's fighting Envy and hears Nina say Big Brother...beautiful panel there, you can see the naked pain on his face, major tear jerker. *END SPOILER ALERT* So yeah. I bow to Arakawa-san's emotional portrayal capabilities.

Like the Hulk. 

1600 Playing with the dogs and watching Samurai Champloo.

It sucks. If I get sick where I need antibiotics, they can only give me medicine to treat the symptoms, not cure the source, and just let my immune system fight it off.

It's not the sight of it. The blood doesn't bother me at all. It's the syringe. Blech. Also, any kind of parasite, including things like mosquitos, lice and fleas. Anything that lives by living off me, is no okay in my books. 

Oh yeah, definitely. There were a few scenes in FMA that did that to me. Arakawa-san is really good at drawing characters so that you can see their pain. It almost hurts to look at their eyes.

I really hope they do a third season. 

Yeah they are. Yummy! Men with swords and chicks with guns. Nomnomnom.

Yeah it is. Plus there's that whole concept of an idealized, romanticized world. *sighs longingly*

Well, what are you interested in?

LOL I'll have to get on that. Golden Retrievers are very good dogs for a first time owner, and awesome family dogs. They're great around kids, and very loyal. My mother used to breed Golden Retrievers, and I pretty much did all the training, so I can tell you that they're quite intelligent and easy to train, as well. I hope you get your puppy wish fulfilled, soon! :-)

Here's a good one. So I went out on my front porch for my morning cigarette, and somehow locked the front door behind me. So there I am, barefoot, in my yoga capris and tank top. Thank goodness, I leave my bedroom window open when I'm at home. So I went around the side of the house, and had to pull myself up and inside through there. Also thank goodness, this is on the side of the house, so I don't think anyone from the street could see, but I'm pretty sure I gave my neighbor a great view of my butt as I squirmed over the window pane.  I'm pretty sure I'm establishing a strong reputation of strange in the neighborhood...

They're both pound pooches (*wanna save them all*). Emma looks like she's half German Shepherd, half Golden Retriever, Elly looks like she's part Schnauzer, part...wombat? Muppet dog. LOL They're the best pets to have! If you ever decide to get one, though, do your research ahead of time on temperament and such. You should really pick a dog based on how much attention they require and how much energy they have, and how much attention you can give and the amount of energy you can handle.

Why do I have to pick the topic?

Aren't there more interesting topics?

No kidding, those things cost a bundle. Glad it was there!

Why not something unrelated to blobs?

We have a Daily D'awww, I though a Daily D'oh might be in order. I'll go first. Today's Daily D'oh! moment consisted of stumbling into the bathroom half asleep and squirting Bath and Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom Body Lotion on my toothbrush instead of toothpaste.  FYI, for those who were curious, does not taste as good as it smells. In my defense, when three-quarters asleep, the squeeze bottles look the same. Suffice it to say, I have moved the lotion to another location on the bathroom sink.

Strobed.

Coffee with cocoa (aren't I decadent?) and paki. Mmm...paki...

Fortunately, the anger management counselor you start seeing after this incident turns out to be your long lost childhood sweetheart.

Super dog lover. I've always had at least one. I have two right now. And I'm of the variety that I treat my dogs like kids, because they are! Furry kids with unconditional love.

*nodnod* I'm very literal, so you say write an essay, I write an essay. You want a short answer, then say that, instead. Something else that bugs me? Missing socks. I just did a load of laundry and I missing another one. I'm going to find those house imps and give them a piece of my mind.

*L* Let me know if it works. Then we can get together and plan a worldwide racket in Purchasing for Manga. Sweeet!

Oh. That is a true story. *nodnod*

1022. For once, NOT doing homework. Should be, but I refuse at the moment. I never thought I'd say this, but right now I am sick of 15th century European art. So I'm drooling over daisho, drinking coffee, and snacking on paki. Sweet!

I know! I wanted to say, "Excuse me, but you are obviously in need of a Purchasing Manager for your graphic novel selection. I would like to take this position. You can pay me in books." 

Definitely manga/anime. For starters, the men are...well...yummier. LOL Second, I could dress the way I want to (yay cosplay!) all the time without people looking at me crazy. Because *I* am the Samurai Princess!! Also, purple seems to be a much easier hair color to maintain in the anime/manga world. o_0

Anime inspires all types of emotions in me, though what those emotions are obviously vary according to what I'm watching. I just finished re-watching "Graveyard of the Fireflies."  What anime has made/makes you cry?

Syringes. Not needles...I love tattoos and piercings...but actual syringes. Even just getting my blood drawn I cry like a...well...bishojo.  Also, falling. Not heights, or even the part about hitting the ground, but the actual sensation of falling. *shudder* And, finally, broken bones. 

I have hay fever, and I'm allergic to pretty much every antibiotic known to man. Luckily I have a strong immune system! Also, I have a sensitivity to latex. Even tape and band-aids mess me up.

I believe this statement ^ is true in some cases, but not all. Myself, I absolutely hate it when people are racist. It make me almost physically ill. I don't like ignorance in general, but this especially sends me over the top. Really, I guess any judgment of a person based on a characteristic other than who they are as a person.

I loooooove people who are kind to animals, especially dogs. When I see someone giving a pooch some love, it makes me smile on the inside. Well, and on the outside, too.

When you bust your butt to write a complex, in-depth, A+ essay that ends up being 7 pages long, based on vague instructions, only to have your teacher go: "Oh, my, you didn't have to do all that. I just needed a short paragraph."  Also, people who say libary, without the second r. That makes my eye twitch.

I keep having dreams about tornadoes. I don't think it's because I'm living in Oklahoma right now, because this is a long-time recurring dream. A couple of dream dictionaries I've looked at say that dreaming about tornadoes means you're in a stressful situation where you don't have any control. Life? 

This is an awesome idea! Here's my areas of proficiency:

Humanities (especially Lit, History and Art)
Soft sciences (Anthropology and Sociology)
Hard sciences (Biology, Earth Science)
Comp Sci
Languages (Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, ASL, and moderate Japanese)
Maths (Algebra, Trig, Calculus)

And! I am the research queen, and a great proofreader, if I do say so myself. So please feel free to bounce ideas off of me. 

I'm eating a Kashi granola bar and drinking coffee. Mmm...coffee.

I went to the local bookstore for the first time yesterday, to buy my bi-weekly allowance of manga (I have to do this to myself, or I'd be forever broke), and I was a little confused by what I saw. Either Enid has some demographics that I was unaware of, or whoever is in charge of purchasing has a method I don't understand. First, they had NO Blue Exorcist (which was what I wanted), no D.Gray-Man (second choice), and no Cage of Eden (third choice). So automatically I was a little put out, but decided to make the best of it and look over what they did have. There was Death Note, and DBZ, and a couple of volumes of Rurouni Kenshin. Then there were some series I had never even heard of, a few that definitely looked like something I'll have to check out. And then, I had my WTF moment. Now mind you, they've put the manga in the young teen section, and I've already been scratching my head at the T+ and A ratings on some of the books on offer, when all of a sudden I realize - they have volumes of June on sale but no ONE PIECE?!?!?! That's one of the top three!! WTF?!?!?! Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against June, and god knows I love yaoi (which is what the particular volume of June I was looking at was), but my mind couldn't quite wrap around the whole situation. So I stood in the aisle of the Young Teen section with a volume of June yaoi in my hands, staring at the bookshelves for a good minute with this look on my face ->  :e0765523: Then I bought a volume of Bakuman. That is all.

So when me and my sisters were little, and went on long car trips (which happened a lot), we used to play this alphabet shopping game, where each person had to come up with an item that started with the descending letters of the alphabet, while listing the ones that came previously. Such as:

Player 1: I went to the store and bought apples.
Player 2: I went to the store and bought apples and bananas.
Player 3: I went to the store and bought apples, bananas, and cauliflower.
So on and so forth.

Now, I figured this would be rather easy to do on here because of the *ahem* copy-and-paste ability, so I thought I would give it a nice otaku twist to get your brain working and get some good manga/anime names out there. So: in descending alphabetical order, each person will name a manga or anime rather than a food item. I'll start:

I went to Comiket and bought Ao no Exorcist.

0841 - putting off starting homework while eating Kashi and considering a trip to the grocery store (no textbooks there).

Hey Jess! Good luck on getting it done by Sunday, I'm cheering for you! I have two correspondence classes I'm trying to wrap up by next month because my regular college is being weird about wanting the final transcripts before next semester. If I'd have known that, I would have enrolled earlier in these, or would have taken only one. So I kind of feel your pain. 

Fortunately, she learns all of your victims were actually horrible serial killers themselves, including the monster who killed her parents, so now she's starting to soften up.

0902. *nodnod* You guessed it: homework. My super sleuth powers tell me that there's a pattern beginning to emerge here... :e0765523:

2052 (That's 8:52 PM for all of you non-military time people). Did half my homework, rewarded myself by reading half of my new volume of Bakuman, and now I'm watching Looper while avoiding the second half of homework. LOL Ah well, I'll get it done tonight. 

11:23 AM. Doing homework and griping about it. Mostly because there's still too much blood in my caffeine system.  On that note, making more coffee.

Someone destroyed his cabbages and Lia's wok and buried spices underground for infinite reasons.

Ohhh...this is a hard one! The list changes every day, so here's today:

Colonel Roy Mustang (Fullmetal Alchemist) - That scene where he burns his own wound shut and shows up all bloody and roughed up, clothes torn, to lay the smack down on Lust? Instant nosebleed moment.

Solf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist) - sometimes crazy is just so sexy. Plus...he redeems himself. Mmm...bad guy turned good.

Lin Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist) - oddly enough, I like him better AFTER his transformation into Greed...

Byakuya Kuchiki (Bleach) - What can I say? Bishonen + sword + hint of smoldering passion under cool exterior = irresistible combination...

Yu Kanda (D.Gray-Man) - Same reason as above.

Sesshomaru (InuYasha) - Yeah, same reason as above.

Shuhei Hisagi (Bleach) - Kazeshini is probably one of my favorite Zanpakuto, and Shuhei is just bad-ass. Love the voice, too!

Rin Okumura (Ao no Exorcist) - He just tries so hard to do the best he can! He has pure passion.

Shimada Kambei and Okamoto Katsushiro (Samurai 7) - I like all the samurai, but these two are my favorites.

Shizuo Heiwajima (Durarara) - the bartender uniform looks fantastic on him...love a man in a well fitting suit? Anyway, he's got that tough but damaged thing that's either really attractive or really annoying. In this case? Definitely the former.

Sebastian Michaelis (Black Butler) - oh, he's just so BAD...

I could go on all day. Though, looking back I realize I didn't list any female characters. Hmmm...I'll have to think about that one. I do have to say that I really like the way that Misao Harada from Black Bird is drawn. She seems more genuine and unique than many female characters.

I just read the first volume of Cage of Eden last month, I really like the concept! The artwork is really nice, too. Right now I'm reading D.Gray-Man, and I love it's artwork too. It's almost like Takeshi Obata drawing The Nightmare Before Christmas. LOL Plus! Plus! There's a bishonen with a sword.  LOL

Actually, a yaoi anime called Junjou Romantica. I stumbled across it quite by accident. There's nothing about it that is especially awesome, but at the same time there's something about it that makes it kind of addicting. I blew through the first season in two days. It would have been shorter, but I had to sleep sometime. 

Misaki is suddenly having some unexpected and odd problems. What started as a need for some college entrance exam tutoring has somehow led him to being romanced by a suave older man who also happens to be his big brother's best friend. Confused by all of his brand new emotions, Misaki struggles to deal with his suddenly very odd life. And if that wasn't enough, his suitor, Usami, has plenty of issues of his own. A man-child who decorates his room in giant teddy bears and toys, Usami is a famous novelist who also writes steamy boys' love novels on the side. When Misaki cracks open one of these books and reads sentences like "Misaki licks every inch of Usami's hot body"...well, let's just say that all hell breaks loose.

Don't get me wrong, I love Naruto and One Piece, but there's just something about Bleach that makes it one of my favorites. It might have something to do with one of my personal mottos: Love a man with a sword. The only thing better than a man with a sword is a bishonen with a sword. The only thing better than a bishonen with a sword is a bishonen with two swords. *swoon*  Plus, some of the fight scenes are fracking awesome.

Fullmetal Alchemist. The original, not Brotherhood. And still one of my all time favorites.

Wired Life by Meisa Kuroki. Stumbled across it on the Blue Exorcist soundtrack. She rocks!

Otakus!
Take
major
pride!

Fortunately, you're good at what you do.

Speeches.

veranda.

Strokes.

  Listening to the Deadman Wonderland soundtrack!!

I have. I was a tomboy when I was a girl, one of those ones who always had to outdo the boys I hung out with, just to show I was tougher. Well I climbed the highest in this huge tree one day, only to have the next branch I was reaching for give way. I fell straight to the ground, knocked myself out cold, and sprained my neck so badly I had to wear a cuff brace for a month. The doctor said he had never seen a sprain that was so close to being a break. Lucky me. 

Never have I ever...gone on a blind date.

Someone squashed his heart and Lia's marriage and buried secrets underground for infinite reasons.

Right now I am reading:

Black Bird
Blue Exorcist (I stumbled across this one by pure accident, and I absolutely LOVE it!)
Durarara
One Piece
Black Butler
ZombiePowder
Bleach
Fullmetal Alchemist (again!)
Bloody Monday
Nabari no Ou
Bakuman
Death Note (again!)

And so and so forth. LOL I'm also looking for some recommendations for a great new series to start. Any Ideas?