dragon_tearz

I have a new computer! Hurray! Hurray! However, Vista is... is... Vista is making me want to get a Mac, and that's about as bad as it gets.

HOWEVER. ALL THIS IS OVERSHADOWED BY THE FACT THAT I GOT A 5 ON MY BIO AP!!!!! *runs around screaming in joy like a lunatic*

Because trf_chan  would like to see one and it's here for anyone else who might be interested in the final run of Inuyahsa.

So a friend of mine and I were planning to do a comic together to submit to Del Rey where I write it and she draws it. And as you guys all know, I'm a huge anime fan, so when we were discussing about a cross dressing character in the comic, our art teacher goes up to us and says, "Oh, Anju? I thought he was a girl!"

I said no, he wasn't, and she said, "Oh, I guess it's just one of those strange anime people things, right? So is he an Anime Hero or something?"

...WTF.

My friend and I looked at each other, and I told her that no, Anju wasn't a hero. So then she asks me if he was "an Anime Villain", which I also said no to, before she left.

Um. First of all, just because I like anime doesn't mean all my stories are "anime" because I am not a fucking company who can afford to churn out episodes. I am a teenage girl who likes to write stories and is doing a comic out of one of my stories. And the world isn't divided into "heroes" and "villains", thank you very bleeding much. Anju is a character foil for the protagonist that I have worked on over a year and a half for his character and would appreciate it when people who know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what I write reduce him to stereotypes. Anime Hero. WHAT THE HELL.

*growls*

Happy birthday thisistony!

One of my friends decided to leave us for god knows why (well he told us, but I would like to believe that is not the real reason as... I'm speechless), got into an argument with us as we tried to convince him that running away from home is not a good idea, basically blocked us, and told us that he never wanted to see us again.

He's going to be with his girlfriend that just awoke from a coma who had amnesia, but now remembers everything, ditching his current girlfriend, and. Just. WHAT.

I... I have no idea what I'm suppose to do.

We're dissecting fetal pigs for bio right now and even though I did that already during summer school, I still can't get over the smell of it all. I'm not someone who's afraid of blood and gore (seriously, I'm a girl. I really can't afford to be scared of blood when my monthly thing comes around), but I'm extremely sensitive to smell and I think I nearly threw up a few times.

I was in a group with two boys and there were only two set of gloves, so by the rule of the universe, I obviously did not get the gloves and I was the one who had to dissect and unravel the intestines while they just stood there and wrote stuff down. One of the guys actually took the intestines, wrapped it up in a ball, and stuffed it in the pig's mouth. I would've totally facepalmed if it weren't for the fact that I had ooze and bodily fluids and tissue and god knows what else on my hand and fingers at the moment.

My Lit teacher let me use her hand sanitizer, but instead of covering the stench, my hands still smell like rotting meat, except now with that sickly sweet artificial strawberry scent all over it. I think I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

Tell me I'm not the only one who still follows the FMA manga. Please. Newest chapter out and I desperately want to fangirl with someone. Greed! Ling! It also doesn't help that I was a total sucker for Greed and the Devil's Nest and this chapter just made me fall in love with them all over again. I need discussions! D:

I've just finished Claymore (manga, oh good lords the manga, not the anime), and it is freaking fabulous. I can totally understand why my friends called it a slaughterhouse, though I think Monster's still pretty much the big one in that department. Has anyone else read Angel Densetsu? It's by the same mangaka as Claymore and it's also a fantasic series (though it's all humor instead of a more gritty all female version of D. Gray-Man), but nobody seems to have heard about it, aside from my friend who was the one who recommended it to me.

Anyone got any good manga rec's for me? (Preferably not ones already licensed by Tokyo Pop as it's difficult to find their lesser known stuff on the internet now after the purge, and I still want to finish up my Tokyo Babylon collection before buying anymore manga from them) I'm pretty much into everything, though not so much shoujo (blood and guts over romance and flowers any day, thanks).

I'm also working my way through One Piece (about 1/5th done), though I feel a bit sad, as after that, there'll be no more long, epic shounen series to read while I'm suppose to be studying for tests. xD

Random biology fact of the day: a female human is only fertile for about 12 hours a month.

There's a Heart and Stroke Foundation thingy that I'm applying for that is killing me as the amount of stuff it requires is insane. TWO ESSAYS. HANDWRITTEN. ON BLANK, NON-LINED PAPER. Good and holy world, I ask you, WHY? I don't even know if I'll get in seeing as my math mark's been fluctuating like a company's stock market and my bio mark is pretty much borderline as well.

Also, anyone on my flist that is taking/has taken/knows someone who is taking or has taken the Biology AP exam? I have mine on May 12 and the only thing I've heard about it so far is "HA HA THAT THING WAS BRUTAL. HAVE FUN DYING, CHUMP." Which isn't... exactly the most uplifting thing.

Dorky English geek wise, we're reading "The Rape of the Lock" right now for Lit, and it's probably the most amusing thing I've read in a long, long time. EPIC CARD GAMES. IMMORTALIZING A LOCK OF HAIR. DYING BECAUSE OF A FROWN. If you haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, I highly, highly recommend it.

Anywho, off to watch the first episode of xxxHOLiC Kei instead of doing my physic's lab! Yay!

IT IS IT IS IT REALLY REALLY IS. THE ONLY HP PAIRING THAT I ACTUALLY SUPPORT WITH ALL MY HEART AND IT IS.

...Aaand that's probably the only good thing happening right now. School is being unkind to me and I got a job thing at Science World which means I have to wake up at obscenely early hours during the weekends and, like everyone else on my flist, I'm sick too.

I went to get my criminal record done for Science World today and I got cuts on my cheek due to leaves blown at me. The wind was that strong. Some days, I really wish Canada would have its stereotypical weather and stop hurting me with leaves damn it.

Today was brutal. Not only was my entire schedule out of whack, my mom insisted that I had to change my math block just because of the teacher which counselors are obviously not allowed to do, so I had to make up some fancy smancy lie to get what I want. Ugh. *hates lying*

Anyways, here's my schedule for the year!

Day one:

Block A: Textiles Studies 11 (Yes, I like to... sew. Most people give me the strangest looks when I tell them I'm actually taking this course because I want to.)
Block B: Physics honors 11
Block C: Biology 12 AP (My teacher isn't that spectacular, but seeing as I've already learned the bio 12 component in summer school, it shouldn't be that bad... right?)
Block D: English Lit 12 (WE GET BEOWULF AND PARADISE LOST AND SHAKESPEARE AND. AND. *explodes with joy*)

Day two:

Block E: History 12 (Got the best social's teacher which makes me happy. History 12 teaches the same stuff that we learned last year - which is covering history from the 1919s to about present day - except it's from the world's perspective instead of just Canada's. Love Canada, don't get me wrong, but all said... we really didn't do much beyond a few major battles and peacekeeping.)
Block F: Math 12
Block G: Mandarin 11
Block H: Ceramics and Sculpturing 11 (Truth to be told, I'm only taking this course because there's not other art courses in that block. Nothing wrong with clay, I just prefer a pencil and a piece of paper to that.)

ARGH, first few days back and we're already getting tones of homework. And I'm getting about three textbooks on average for each of my academic courses which means my back will be suffering immensly this year. DDDD: (Does anyone have the red Campbell textbook for bio? THAT THING IS THE SPAWN OF SATAN. SATAN AND SOCKS.) I'm not complaining much about my other homework, it's just that why is my math teacher giving us Logarithm homework on the first day? My brain is not capable of higher thinking right now, damn it!

(I am... a bit of a history and biology nerd. Be prepared for random history or biology facts throughout my posts in the future. Like, did you know a person's muscles contract during orgasm because that forces the sperm up further so it has a higher likelihood to reach the egg? 8D)

Just went down to my school tonight to check to see if my homeroom's been posted. I have Mr. Danahi for homeroom which is on one hand, great because he's an awesome teacher, and on the other hand, quite awful due to the fact that I signed up for Physics honors and to the best of my knowledge, he doesn't teach that. *worries*

Oh, here's your birthday present, satinesatire  ! Sorry if it's not too good, I didn't want to take until Christmas finishing it up. XD;;

( Your present! )

I'm trying to learn how to do icons right now, and I think I've mastered the basics, but textures are really confusing the hell out of me. Sometimes I can use them and they work beautifully, other times, they hate me and refuse to co-operate. Anyone willing to give pointers?

Also, in a vain attempt to hang on to what little summer vacation time I have left, is there any books that people are willing to recommend me? I'm mostly a-hunting for anything on angels (not the 'guardian angel' stuff, but more of the 'Lucifer and the Fall' stuff), but it's quite hard to find any good books or comics on them. The only ones I've found so far are the Sandman comics, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Paradise Lost, Angel Sanctuary, and a few books by Christopher Moore. If anyone knows any good books at all, that'll be really appreciated! =D

EDIT: I don't know how many people on my flist reads Detective Conan, but this (http://www.avionicknight.com/V60-Reader/File620/A7.html I don't know why, but creating a link to it doesn't seem to be working right now) page from the newest chapter amused the hell out of me. The first gay couple in over six hundred chapters. xDDD

Right, so I'm not... dead or anything. And I feel absolutely awful for not keeping up with everyone's journals.

I mean, I'm sure I could ramble on for a long time about my life and what happened and blah, blah, blah, but no one really cares about that, so uh, basically, I'm not dead.

And I'll try my best to not... you know, mysteriously vanish for another year or anything like that. =D;;

...What should you do if your pronunciation is really, really bad?

I don't mean, just, you know, a few slips here and there, but really atrocious? See, I have no big problem with grammar, spelling mistakes are easily fixed with that lovely thing called a spell check, and I love my reading to death.

But I cannot pronounce words for the life of me.

I've always had problems pronouncing things ever since I first came to Canada. Obviously, I sucked in English when I first arrived, but that's no big iffy right now. I have a pretty good vocabulary from reading and memorizing the dictionary when I was little, my spelling has greatly improved from practice, as well as my writing skills are a heck lot better than before, once again, due to hours of practice.

But I can't practice pronunciation.

I mean, I would, if I knew what words I was pronouncing wrong, but I don't unless someone tells me or pronounces it the proper way in conversation. For instance, I didn't know I was pronouncing the word "geology" wrong until two years ago. I've always pronounced it "GEE-O logee" until my friend oh-so-nicely told me to stop pronouncing it like that or else she'd throttle me.

It gets me really angry because people keep on making fun of me for it. I mean, if it was something like math, or writing, I could just practice to improve it, but I can't seem to improve this. It drives me crazy. It just gets under my skin because people have always made fun of my English ever since I first came to Canada, and I've improved a lot since I was little and I'm really proud of my English as of now as well as my English mark, but people keep on making fun of my pronunciation.

I mean, my friends do it, one of my friend's family does it, and I'm just sick of it!

And today, my friend kindly told me that she didn't see how I deserved to be in English honors because I pronounced the word "miscellaneous" wrong. Excuse me miss perfect. I'm sorry my linguistic skills aren't up to scratch. Would you like me to drop out of school for you? </bitterness>

Majority of the TV I watch only use pretty simple language (such as the words I use to type my blog) and I don't pronounce those wrong, and hardly anyone uses the sometimes weird words I use in normal conversation. Also, I mess up really bad when I'm learning new words by reading. Like for example, the word "overture". That's not going to pop up in any conversations around me, I can tell you that much. I've got a vague idea how to pronounce it, but I'm pretty it's wrong. XD;;

So. *sighs* Any suggestions on how to improve?

Winnie got me Gravitation volume 6 and Petshop of Horrors volume 5! Yay! (Of course I had to pay for it, but who cares! Manga!)

I read PSoH number 5's cat story and I just keep on thinking of how nicely PSoH puts a new spin on bestiality. But... the story cute, right? That's what matters, right? Right? *denialdenial*

Someone really needs to write a PSoH and xxxHOLiC crossover. Really need to. (I would write one myself, and I've got an evil plot bunny hoppin' in there, drumming it's non-extensional paws up against the base of my skull, begging me to write the darn thing. But I won't. Because I am strong. So HAH! Actually, I'm just scared of mangling the poor thing.)

I haven't updated for so long that I nearly forgot about the Day of Silence about a month ago. Stupid homophobes. Someone actually wrote 'White Power!' on one of the signs for the Day of Silence. Jackass.

(For those who don't know, the Day of Silence is when people protest discrimination through silence)

WTF did whites have to do with protesting homophobia? Or is homosexuality only a thing other races can get now?

Kid: Mommy, mommy, the Chinese kid touched me!
Mommy: *gasp!* Those evil, dumpling eating, chopstick wielding, gays! My poor baby!
Kid: Mommy, he scared me... *whimpers*
Mommy: Don't worry, we've manage through this somehow... We've got the power of skin colour on our side! We shall triumph! ...But let's take a bath to wash those gay germs off of you just in case, okay?
Kid: Yes mommy!

Or something like that.

I'm not really making much process on my stories (yeah, this is where I ramble on useless stuff and you can zone out now. Unless you already zoned out, which in that case, I totally don't blame you.), but dear lord I'm trying. Or, at the very least, putting music on in the background and scribbling. Scribbling counts, right?

Loads of stuff has happened, but to make a long story short, this is my mom's verdict:

Get a higher mark or I'll be sent to private school.

...On a happier note (this doesn't sound forced at all, ooooh, no.), I got new glasses! Horray! They're kind of copper-ish in colour and they're pretty...

I have Paku Romi's (voice actor of Ed from FMA and Temari from Naruto) newest music video playing on repeat for some reason. It's a good song.

It's really weird, we bought a bunch of packaged jello. That's right, little packages of sliced up jello. Mango jello. It's rather freaky, even if they do taste good.

I've recently become enamored with Saiyuki. Normally, I'm a prick about stuff based off of legends, but for Saiyuki, all I can go is "wait a moment, that's not ri - Hakkai cool. Hakkai pretty. Hakkai makes everything joyful again." So, er... yeah. Fangirl much? =D;;

EDIT: ( Cut for spoilers of the newest chapter of Tsubasa )

And Valentine's day is oooooooover.

Not that I have anything against it, really, but it's just so... cheerful and happy happy radiating? When I don't see the point? And pink-a-fying? I think it's the pink.

I had the science fair yesterday so I didn't really even notice that it was Valentine's day until Greg walked up to me at math and went "Happy Valentine's day, Ming!" and I was all "...Valentine's day? It's Valentine's day? Seriously?"

...Yes, it was sad. Shush.

Pascal is next week, hurrah, hurrah. I caught the flu going around and am still sniffling. I had a fever over the weekend, so I e-mailed my science teacher about what to do for the science project and she told me in the nicest way possible to suck it up and do the damn thing.

I swear, there is no way you can make preserving beans sound cool.

We watched the South Park movie in art today. I love my art teacher. South Park was weird. There was a thing about mothers against Canada. And there was singing. I distinctly remember the singing for some reason.

We're finishing "Animal Farm" and starting on "Romeo and Juliet" for English. Curse you class, "Julius Caesar" is so much better than "Romeo and Juliet"! </whine>

We're learning about Canada history and French and English stuff for Socials. I should not have this much fun with the term "The Little Englanders".

Yep, snapped out of that angsty phase a few weeks ago (thank you all for that ego stroking! *ego purrs with delight*), and am back to my bouncy self! 'Course, it helps that I've finished my Socials' essay, but... XD

Err, this isn't really a meme or anything, but I thought it would be amusing, so below are two of my randomly weird encounters that prove that Life's sense of humor is screwed, and if you could reply with an incident in your life or two on strange things that have happened to you, that'll be cool.

( You know you're obsessed with TB and X when... )

( Valentine's Day for me was never the same again... )

So anybody else feel like sharing strange stories?

EDIT: Got this from tanuki_dono, it's a colour test!

( Colour test for those remotely interested! )

I mean, I know I have no reason to complain because everyone on LJ is older than me, thus being in a higher grade with more homework and such, but...

Wait, why am I going on LJ when I could be doing my homework? *stares at the Socials' essay she has to write as well as the Science experiment* Because my homework's boring, that's why.

And I know I'm going to sound real stupid for saying this, but my social life is practically shot by next year. And them in grade eleven, my social life is buried. In grade twelve, we're makin' a grave. I know I sound really pathetic and the like, but I'm taking five grade eleven courses next year, two university courses in grade eleven, and three or four university courses in grade twelve. You can understand why I feel like screaming in frustration, right? (well if you don't, humor me. Please.) Then all my teachers keep on telling me that it doesn't matter how many AP courses you take because universities only look at your average, not your APs and it makes me feel like a dork for taking them, but there's just this tiny ray of hope in me that clings on to the fact that maybe, just maybe, universities take a look at them. I know universities and colleges in USA do, and it pisses me off because we don't here, and my mom wants me to go to a university or college in the states, but I would like to remain in my country, kthxbi. Nothing against America or anything, but it's easier to keep track of your friends if they're in the same country as you.

Of course, my math mark just isn't going up no matter what I do, and it's just so sad because math is the only thing that I'm good at. It's also kind of pathetic if your PE mark is higher than your math mark when you are known for being good at math and you're a girl.

To take my mind off all that fun and innovating topics, I have decided to practice on Oekaki boards. Drawing Jakotsu with a mouse is hard. If you are a wiz at Oekaki boards, then...

It's a sad and dreary day when the highlight of your day is that you were allowed to run inside for PE.

(Don't worry, I'll bounce back to my normal annoying state with drabbles soon! =D)

School's going to be starting soon, and the weather seems to be mocking me.

I wrote a good few drabbles these days because every time I plop myself down to work on my future bestselling novel *coughcough*, my mind wanders and the next thing I know, I'm doodling a Bankotsu with cat ears. Rawr.

And so I present to you, some of the lesser pathetic drabbles!

Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nothing really, maybe slight spoilers.
Summery: Gaara sleeps for the first time. Slight, slight, maybe if you squint at it hard enough, NaruGaa.
( Nightmare )

Fandom: Inuyasha
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nothing.
Summery: Mukotsu chooses his face paint.
( Red )

Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for the Kakashi Gaiden and the Haku arc.
Summery: Kakashi's personality is in pieces. (Takes place during the Haku arc)
( Pieces )

Fandom: Trinity Blood
Rating: G
Warnings: Spoilers. But if you know the bible, you can probably guess them anyways.
Summery: It's Abel's first birthday.
( Birthday )


Happy almost-here-but-not-really New Year! =D