January 2006 Archives

God, low standards. =___=;; Studied most of Saturday and all of Sunday for a 15 minute test in Neuroanatomy. :/ I hate that class so much. I think I hate most classes these days, cause all I want to do is just sit around in lab all day and do research, occasionally taking a break for something fun like Japanese or Sociology. That's the life man, that's the life.

Anyways, I think I may have barely scraped a B- on that test. The most frustration part of it is I could've gotten a lot better if I hadn't changed some of the answers later. I should always trust my first instincts. *bangs head against wall* I shouldn't really be bummed, but I guess I always am.

At least my Japanese interview test today went semi-well. I'm always saying things like "eeto..." in the middle of my sentences but I can't help it, I say them to stall time for my brain to process appropriate verb conjugations. =___= Otherwise jibberish would just tumble out. XD

Speaking of Japanese, what is up with Japanese writers and their suicide fad? O_o We're reading Akutagawa's "Kumo no Ito" short story, and he ends up happily overdosing on something to end his life. Then there's Mishima, who dramatically fails to start a rebellion and commits seppuku (too bad his lover was full of failing at chopping his head off, so somebody else had to do it instead), and then Kawabata follows in the grand tradition of tortured Japanese artists and sticks his head in an oven. What did he have to whine about? He got the Nobel Prize and beat out Mishima.

I'm beginning to think that maybe people would be less depressed if there was more DORIFTO!! in their lives. XD

Oh, and I may be finally meeting up with Phi this week. :D I've known her since freshman year of college when I was still in the X fandom, so maybe we can finally meet up and fangirl together this week! Kyaaaa ~<3

Nothing is better than scoring a "Dainty" green apple with the trump card, "Charging Rhinos." Other Apples to Apples trump cards I got happened to be "Japan" under "Cheesy" and "Food Poisoning" for "Terrific."

Nobody liked my "Challenger Explosion" under "Fun" and somehow "Marlon Brando" ended being less "Masculine" than "Viagra." WTF, guys. :(

Oh well, it was a good night last night. And now I really need to buckle down and study. And this screenshot of my desktop may mean that I am well and truly obsessed.

Shit dude, I wish I had t3h monies.

Had a totally awesome day today. I didn't fall asleep in 9am Neuroanatomy, my immunos came out with beautiful fluorescent colors, and I hung out with some very cool people at the arcade. :3 Still haven't beat Bunta, or even improved my Akina time, but I had some fun races against Tenny (woo! Irohazaka is seriously one of my favorite courses) and then he, Hijiri, George, and some other yaoi fangirl and I headed out to the Japanese area on Sawtelle and had ourselves an excellent dinner. :3 Una Don + big bowl of Udon for $11?! Hell yeah! :D It was good.

Afterwards, we battled some more at Initial D (it's so much fun, I'm so addicted to the awesome adrenaline rush I get XD) and then Tenny came home with me, and we watched some Fourth Stage before sitting in front of Soul Calibur III and getting our asses kicked by Andy. Damn, that boy is good. :3

All in all, it was a great night hanging out with the kids, so now that I've had my fill of fun I can buckle down tomorrow and study my ass off. :3

Went with my friend Annie to a Taiwanese potluck thing and then hit a bar afterwards. The bar was kind of unfun, because it's one of those bars where loud loud loud music plays, and you can't hear anybody talk unless you're shouting in their ear. Those places give me a headache, and they generally detract from my bar experience because I can't hear my friends, they can't hear me, and my throat starts to hurt. =___=;; Annie says all the bars around LA are kind of like that, which means that LA is even shittier than I imagined.

Somebody find me a good bar in LA please...with beer (imperial/chocolate/oatmeal stout--any stout but a Guinness) I can drink.

I think the highlight of the night was being the designated driver and getting to drive Annie's 91 Camry. XD *laff* It was freaky because her gas pedal was so dead that when I stepped on it, I couln't feel it at all. o____o I had to virtually floor the thing to make the car go. o_O

*sigh* Anyways, my friend Audrey has a party this weekend with many nerd games there like Apples to Apples (hopefully) and as usual Jay is packing the Cube. Test in Neuroanatomy on Monday. God help me. =____=

I woke up this morning, and pretty much ran to the bathroom in gastrointestinal distress. I hope this doesn't become a monthly sort of thing for my GI tract, cause after breakfast it hit me again, and then again on the bus to campus which meant that I had to fly through my immuno blocking before running off to the bathroom. >_< Ow ow ow ow ow ow.

I was sitting on the can wondering why my stomach was so upset, and then I remembered. I gotta lay off those Flaming Hot Cheetos, man. I had a whole bag full last night. They're really yummy, but they upset my digestive system so much. :/ I hate it when yummy food is bad for you. .___.

On the Initial D front (I have decreed that I must blog about Initial D every time I blog), I am not very happy because I'm still not beating Bunta. *bangs head against machine* Much of this is my fault for being retarded, for thinking that the shift points for my FD were 5400->5600->6100. I have no idea where I got those numbers from, I think they came out my ass entirely. GameFAQs tells me my shift points are 6000->6500->7250. Well, that explains why I'm so ridiculously slow off the line and my engine sounds weird. *smacks forehead*

Damn this lack of Y chromosome making me stupid with cars. ¬_¬ At least I make it up with being smart about everything else.

You know the world loves you when...

1. A Buri-chan is fine too.

2. moot
and

3. /tg is the new /d

But like the world, the good world giveth and the good world taketh away. Take a look at what the R35 Skyline may look like.

My eyes, they bleed. I must now go and bury them in /bridget to relieve the horrendous burning.

Oh and Scott...I don't know if you read my blog at all, but somebody may be talking about you.

Ganked this one from Hikari

She didn't seem to have any characters I really knew, so I feel bad for not doing her own meme. Oh well. :3

Leave a list of fictional characters in your journal that you would love to get a message from. It is your friend-list's mission, should they choose to accept it, to write you an in-character "letter" from a character on that list. Then they post their own list in their journal and the process continues!

[1] any Initial D character
[2] Darth Vader or Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
[3] Sol, Ky, or Bridget (Guilty Gear)
[4] any One Piece character
[5] Subaru or Seishirou (X)
[6] Jean-Luc Picard (ST:TNG)
[7] any ninja turtle (TMNT)
[8] Cao Cao or Liu Bei (Three Kingdoms)
[9] Ginji, Ban, Kazuki, or Juubei (Get Backers)
[10] Jecht, Auron, or Braska (FFX)
[11] any member of the Turks (FF7)
[12] any character from a 4chan meme
[13] Naruto or Shikamaru (Naruto)
[14] Severus Snape or Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)
[15] Batman or Spiderman

y'all better pick this up, so I can write crazy shit in your journal. XD

I can't believe I'm almost caught up on all the work I was behind on for my Neuroanatomy class. And gah, it's killing me. O___O;; Having to know all the veins, sinuses, and arteries in the brain?! WHY ME? ;____; *cry* Well, at least seeing them on a real human brain (for lab yesterday we got somebody named "Melissa." Had a whole huge chunk taken out of the anterior of her frontal lobe. Like somebody took a bite or something. Yeowch. Wonder how she died. ... ... is it weird that I'm referring to brains by their given names? XD) helps me remember.

Still not beating Bunta, very frustrating. XD I think if I run a perfect Akina and not understeer/suck, I can beat him. At least I'm keeping up, which is much better than the usual 400m gap I started out with. Battled a couple of people and beat them too, which made me feel good. Granted, they weren't very good period, but hey...it means I'm not on the bottom of the Initial D ladder, and so far that's fine with me. XD Lost at Happogahara and Irohazaka (somehow I think I've forgotten how to take those hairpins O___O), but won at Tsuchizaka, Akina, and Shomaru. :3 I'm especially proud of the Shomaru win, because that crack is HARD AS FUCK to pass on.

Hooray, I don't suck. XD Now to work some SC3 skillz.... ¬_¬

Had a fun time last night hanging out with Jay and his friends again. :D They're always so great. Didn't play much smashies, but I did watch a lot of movies. One of his friends even had the Initial D Live Action movie, which I got to watch this morning. I have to say, I found the movie kind of disappointing. Kyouichi wasn't Kyouichi at all (they took away his calm, his intelligence, and his calculation, and just made him a stupid punk), Seiji was...strange (he was smaller, and wore a bandanna too and had dreads), Bunta looked hella like Bunta but was an alcoholic and totally abusive (NOT BUNTA ;____;), Itsuki was a total spoiled brat, and most of the time Takumi looked more angsty than just plain spaced out. :/

WTF, yo. I think the only two people I didn't complain too much about were Ryousuke and Nakazato. Unfortunately Nakazato didn't have his anime personality at all, but he did get this cute little moustache and adorable smile. ~<3 I'm just wondering where Shingo is, and why Takeshi was hugging this fat guy when Takumi won the Ryousuke/Kyouichi/Takumi threesome race.

Also, they made the movie hella gay. There were at least two or three instances when the sexuality of certain characters (Ryousuke and Nakazato) mostly, came in to question. XD Dude! They gay-ified Initial D for me! They're not supposed to do that! Having the movie on auto-gay ain't fun at all! And what was up with the shitty rap music instead of the awesome eurobeat?!

GRRRR! GRRRRR, I say!

Anyways...mad amounts of homework. UGGGHHH

Hay guys, you remember those days when I used to be up way past my bedtime because RP was eating my little fangirl soul and I just couldn't stop?

...yup. They're back. :D

Shingo/Takeshi FOR THE WIN! (...and neuroanatomy at 9am in the morning for the lose...)

EDIT: Yup...it's 4am now...and I am still awake. Man, I am soooo going to regret this in the morning.

EDIT #2: 4:30am...crashing. But...hot daaaaaamn. HOT DAAAAAAAMN. o__O How am I still alive? I lost so much blood through nosebleeding it's CRAAAAAAZY. Man, I am so missing neuroanatomy tomorrow morning cause I won't be able to get up. Hell, I'll be lucky if I make it to lab at 10am tomorrow. Good thing some antibody incubating takes an hour at a time. I can put my head down on the bench and nap. XD

Hey Initial D, if I fail outta grad school, it's all your fault.

Dear Bunta-mobile,
Please get your big ass out of my face.

plzkthx,
~Skuld in the yellow FD

I just beat Takumi! :D :D :D :D :D :D

And Hijiri just kicked my ass on the Akina downhill in his Bunta mobile. ;____; *uuuu* Mada mada...need to get better. Need more training. Need to keep tossing quarters down the machine.

XD Beat Takahashi Keisuke. X3 Yusssss! Now just Takumi and Bunta left. WOOT.

Initial D training continues. :3

Stupid internets...stop being so shiny. XD Here I am in lab, incubating some spinal cord slices with antibodies, and I should be doing homework during the wait, but somehow the interweb keeps distracting me. The internets is shiny, what can I say. :/ CEASE THE SHININESS!

And...last night I was kind of annoyed at my roommates because there was a Biosciences Grad Student mixer somewhere on campus, and they didn't tell me about it. Or rather, the e-mail was sent out like...two weeks ago and I'd long forgotten it by the time last night rolled around, and I was home alone wondering where the fuck everybody was at 9pm.

I know they didn't leave me out of the gathering on purpose, but sometimes it's kind of annoying cause it's like yeah...I know I'm on the periphery of the Neuroscience group already. I'm probably only a step away from being an outcast (the only thing that keeps me in it still is that there's another girl who is just as big a gamer as I am [I find it funny she went to Caltech and a lot of our conversations are about our college experiences, which are hilariously similar]), but I'd like it if people at least kind of made an effort to keep me in the group? Thanks, guys. I worry about where my roommates are, but they never worry about where I am, and what I might be doing instead of hanging out with everybody else.

*shrugs* *sighs* Oh well, it all worked out in the end. I spent a good two hours talking with Jay (he's apparently going to do a DW5 Jiang Wei costume to complement my Xiahou Dun *grin*) and roleplaying, in addition to getting mucho amounts of homework and a bit of Initial D in, so it was a good night all in all anyway. :D I was productive and I managed to find time to unwind and relax too.

I have a feeling the whole lab/Initial D/homework/roleplay thing is going to be my routine for the next of term. Fwee? o_O

I probably shouldn't be saying "FUCK YAY" this early in the morning, but I was kind of too busy to last night.
Unlocked the three bosses last night in Initial D, which means I beat the LanEvo VI guy (piece of cake, heh), and am now working on beating Keisuke. Ugggghhhh. If I stop screwing up and going, "wait a minute...that's a hairpin...why did I not eraser like 3 seconds ago?!" I can beat him. :( And while I'm on that subject...am I the only one annoyed by the fact that "Kylie" calls "K.T." her boyfriend in the American version?

d00000d! >_____< KYOKO IS NOT KEISUKE'S GIRLFRIEND. She's not even a friend. :( What a ho. *bangs head against wall*

Anyways, I got a replacement copy of GT4 yesterday, and it works. Hurrah, it works. :D Which means the previous disc was just plain faulty. -____- Now all I need to do is get myself a GT4 wheel and I may be set for life. XD Any thoughts on which car to purchase first? >_> I'm looking at either a LanEvo or an FC. (This is the FUCK YAY part.)

And lastly, I think all of my time is currently being sucked away by:

1) being in lab all day (get ready to some immunos on spinal cord sections I cut. :3 Lots of fun.)
2) coloring in my neuroanatomy book (I don't think I've ever actually blogged about this, one of my textbooks for my neuroanatomy class is a coloring book. Too bad it's tedious and making me hate coloring.)
3) roleplaying Takeshi/Shingo with Riven. (You know, I've always wondered if RPing counted as cybering. ¬_¬ Maybe I don't want to know the answer.)

I have a feeling this term is going to breeze by again. .___.

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 Guilty Pleasures" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 Guilty Pleasures as well as state this rule. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

Tagged by Ari, so I guess so. :D

1) 4CHAN. 4chan itself is a guilty pleasure I take, as well as a massive time sink. I swear, every time I click on the little 4chan button I have as my bookmark, I can pretty much kiss at least an hour goodbye. Not only does it suck of massive amounts of time I could otherwise be reading or doing something productive with my life, 4chan does things like suck my brain into these black holes of /b-ness, and warps half my thoughts into the semblance of /b memes. DORIFTO!!!11 See, I can't even think of Initial D without thinking of /b first.

2) DOUJINSHI. I don't even want to think about how much money I've spent on doujinshi. Hundreds of dollars, for sure. There is this obvious dip in my bookshelf, and that's because of the weight of all that doujinshi resting on it. I don't even look at my doujinshi all that often, but it's just nice knowing its there when I feel like browsing, which is sadly less and less these days. :(

3) VIDEOGAMES. I'm not so sure this is so much a guilty pleasure as a way of life for me. Games keep me sane. Games are such an integral part of my jokes and the references I throw out, that I feel totally out of place in the presence of non-gamers. I tried dating a non anime/manga/gamer once, and it ended in such massive failure that I wish I could erase that period of time from my brain. Video games and anime-watching are my two top dating activities, if not my two only ones. Sad and pathetic, or hopelessly cool? Not sure yet. I'll get back to you in twenty years on that one.

4) YAOI and SLASH. There are so many slash fans in the world, and yet I marvel when people find out and give me weird looks. It's common knowledge that guys like watching lesbian porn, so why do they think it weird that girls like looking at gay porn? >___> Or in my case, reading porn about characters in established series having homosexual relationships. Maybe it's that extra part that makes things weird. Who knows? All I know is that my life isn't complete without some of the good old boy-on-boy action. :3 Nothing makes me happier than two boys in love fucking like bunnies. (Add good food and good music to that mix, and I swear I wouldn't need anything else.)

5) MOUNTAIN DEW. I know it's bad for me. I know that yellow 5 will probably cause me cancer and the sugar will make me fat. But I don't care because Mountain Dew is the Holy Piss Water that enables me to get through classes and stay up late into the night. :D

...and now I tag some people, cause I want to.

Rhole
Chiko
Mel
Destra
The Clone
and Jay

Weekend recap! It's currently Monday around noon (let's see when the LiveJournal feed picks this one up) and I have only done a little bit of my homework. >____> Oh well, gotta work on more.

Anyhoos, Friday started off great. I got up, went to class, came home, and immediately there were puzzles lying around for me to solve, so I sat around the whole entire day and helped solve puzzles with the Pturnips gang. Jay and I did really well, there were a lot of puzzles that we helped solve or at least worked on, and that made me really happy. Friday was basically full of huntage, sporadically interpersed with watching and playing Initial D, and me watching Battlestar Galactica.

Saturday went great as well, though it was a little short. Woke up late, showered, ate, and then dived into Mystery Hunt full on and solved and solved and solved until 10pm wherein we were informed (while working on a puzzle) that the Hunt was over because Dan Katz's (of Setec fame) had found the coin. Crikey. A Hunt going on for slightly less than 36 hours?! That's unheard of. o__O Totally, totally unheard of. If I recall correctly my first year we solved it in about 40-41 hours, and the two years after that were all 60+ hour gigs. Last year was something more along a normal almost 48-hours, if I recall correctly.

DAMN. 36 hours is fast. I was kind of sad, because I was expecting to work on Mystery Hunt until early Sunday morning, but alas, it was not to be. :( I lost all inspiration for the puzzle I was working on, and Jay and I finished off the night by finishing the first season of Initial D. (I've now got him hooked. :3 Rockin'!)

Sunday we woke up kind of late, watched a bit of football (the Steelers vs. the Colts) and then headed down to the arcade to get some Initial D on. Jay did amazingly well for his first try, which unfortunately fills me with shame. -____- He beat Impact Blue on the first try. *more shame* DAMN YOU BOYS AND YOUR Y CHROMOSOMES! *shake angry fist*

It took me a while to beat "Man in Evo V" on Tsuchizaka, mostly because I keep sucking at the downhill part after the tunnel (grrr...need to figure out the perfect place to brake) and don't quite shift fast enough off the hot start. "Man in Evo VI" is next, and then the three bosses. *fufufu*

Went home after the arcade and watched almost half of Initial D Second Stage with Jay, before finally heading over to his friend's place. Dude, Jay has cool friends. XD There was Magic going on on one of the tables, somebody watching retro cartoon openings in the Sean's room (can you believe there used to be a cartoon called Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos?" O_O, and mad amounts of Smash Bros. Melee going on. For the most part, I think I did a damn good job at surviving. Yay, not out first! XD *laughs* I had a great time there, and Jay's friends are cool. I ought to hang out with them more.

Oh, and I almost forgot. ;____; We were at the supermarket last night buying food for the gang, when into the parking lot pulls in this black LanEvo. (Not sure which one, I can't tell them apart.) I foam at the mouth, especially cause I've just watched Second Stage, and I'm like, "ZOOMJ, Kyouichi-mobile." The LanEvo parks, I'm shouting, "OMG, I LOVE YOUR CAR" after it, and this blonde bimbo talking on her cell phone gets out of it.

...
...

California, you ruin all my dreams.

That is all.

o__O

They solved the Mystery Hunt in less than 36 hours.

That's got to be record time. I've never seen a hunt go that fast. They're usually at least 40 hours, HOLY SHIT.

That's just...not fair dude. We were so close and in the running too. *sad*

I have helped solve so many more puzzles this year than last year. :3 And the great thing about being a remote hunter is...

I can wander off when I want to, sleep when I want, play video games and watch Initial D when I want to, without the obligation of having to solve so as not to be a waste of space. :3

Yaaay, working from home. XD

T-9 hours

By the time I get to class tomorrow, Mystery Hunt will have started. This means...

I will probably be unreachable online due to the fact that I will be attempting to devote my entire attention this weekend (when I'm not deciding that I ought to study/play Initial D/sleep) solving with the Pturnips. (That's a silent "p," by the way)

If you would like to urgently get in touch with me, I will be checking my e-mail regularly. Also feel free to call, though I may not be guaranteed to answer.

I am so pumped.

(also, I beat Ryousuke tonight. I really really really like Tsuchizaka as a course. It may be one of my favorites, along with Akagi and Akina. :3 Yaaay!)

If there's something strange
in the neighboorhood...

THAT WAS MY FD STREAKING PAST YOU, BITCH.

Beat Wataru (so much easier than the Cappucino in the rain) and Kyoko (Keisuke is not your boyfriend, yo ho. :( He's Takumi's.)...which means that I have conquered Shomaru, and am now working on the final stage, Tsuchizaka. Total games played tonight...7. Not bad for about two and a half total weeks of work (the two weeks I went back home for the holidays don't count).

Next, it's time to make Ryosuke my bitch. :3 So I can make him do my neuroanatomy and Japanese homework for me.

The amount of pumpage that I have right now for Mystery Hunt is ridiculous. :3 I'm with the Pturnips again this year (that's a silent "P") and I am very sad that I cannot be on site this year for the Hunt. .___. *sniff* Good thing is, this year there're more remote solvers than usual, which means that hopefully I won't be alone in my efforts (Jay is gonna hang out with me and help solve) in beating my head against puzzles. :3 If we get bored, we can always go and watch Initial D or something. *grins*

And speaking of Initial D...I was listening to Nakazato's theme (Back on the rocks, back on the rocks, baby!) today while walking to my flu shot appointment on campus and grinning like a maniac. X3 I just can't hide it when I'm happy. ^____^ ~<3

First real day of lab today in Dr. Leif Havton's lab. We're preserving some spinal cords and slicing them in the cryostat. Fun. ^_^ Yay, I'm excited to work in a lab again, it's been a while.

We're on a Japanese poetry unit in class right now, and I've realized I have no appreciation of Japanese poetry, especially not from the Heian era. It's all either love poetry (blech), poetry about nature, or shit getting on people's sleeves. What the fuck.

I DEMAND MORE EPIC WAR BALLADS.

I also am confused by how てふ is supposed to be said as ちょう. Well, that explains a lot of me looking at the poetry last night and being WTF IS THIS てふ　SHIT?! Japan is weird. :(

Beat Sakamoto and his shitty little Cappucino at Shomaru pass today. Took quite a while because I still suck at all the big corners. :( Probably because I'm a throttle whore and refuse to brake. (Why? Going faster is fun. Must maximize the derivative of my velocity.) Somehow my brain doesn't take into account the fact that banging off the walls will SLOW ME DOWN a lot. I keep trying to brake, but I'm always to late. I really gotta stop that if I want to get better. *bangs head against wall*

Anyways, here have a tanka:

Skuld still kind of sucks
at Initial D because she
doesn't like to brake
This will cause her immense pain
if she doesn't fix it soon

"What's a good rival for the FC?"

"DORIFTO!!!"

LOL 4chan

Felt like a camwhore, so I whored a bit. Mostly because I got new glasses today. :3 If there was something Initial D in my room besides my dildo in butts doujinshi, I'd take pictures with it, but alas...there is nothing Initial D in my room. Boo. That must be fixed sometime soon.

Anyhoos...

- Skuld in her old glasses, being silly

- Skuld in her new glasses, still being silly

- New glasses! Not too different from the old. They're just more square, that's about it.

- Skuld thinking that somebody is mighty fine.

Beat Nobuhiko on Shomaru today. Nothing of note. :( Must deal with the Cappucino next. Ugggh...I want to pick that car up and toss it over the edge.

I just beat Tachi on Happogahara.

I am not touching that stage with a ten-foot pole unless I have to. (To get my final racer stars. GRRRRRRR.) I still kind of fucked up the snake hairpins (though not as much as usual), and bumped into some walls, but I did beat him by a good 100m. Probably because my car felt pity for me. XD

I think I have yet to go to the arcade and not beat anybody. :3 Anyways, I named my pretty FD today. It seemed to be a girl FD, despite being a nice Keisuke sort of yellow. It's name is Miwa. I think we're starting to get along a little bit.

There are no stray atoms in the universe, only people who have angered Picard.

I'd just like to say this moment to thank Riven for sending me Nakazato's Vocal Battle song. I'd forgotten that was actually Takeshi's theme when watching Fourth Stage. I'm happy it made another debut in my FAVORITE SCENE EVER, which just goes to show that while Hoshino Kouzou may pwn Keisuke at turnarounds, Nakazato just plain rules. Shingo nods his head vigorously while sucking his cock.

I just spent the coolest day with my new boyfriend, Jay.

We:

- watched shitloads of Initial D
- cooked together
- watched the Patriots game
- played various fighting games, Dynasty Warriors 5, and Lords of Lunar (best game EVAR, by the way)
- nerded together

And I come home from his house and there's a spontaneous party going on in my apartment. WIN. Not only that, I beat Sakai at Happogahara in Initial D Arcade Stage.

School starts on Monday, Mystery Hunt this coming weekend.

Fwee!

Holy shit, Resurrection Ship. Battlestar Galactica sure started off with a bang. That was a very good, very impressive episode of awesomeness. I'm surprised that the abused!Six (her name's Gina, I think? Not sure how to spell that) is selfish enough to want to destroy the Resurrection Ship so she can die. I wonder if there's a larger plot behind this.

And whose gun is that pointed at Cain's head in the next episode preview? Looks like the wrist is scarred and the arm is dressed in something dark green...

*evil grin*

Starbuck has no balls. I never really liked her anyway. >:3

Took me forever to beat Daichi at Happogahara today. UGGGGHHHH. I haaaate Happogahara. It's all this swerving left and right that I absolutely despise, but I have three more stages of that to look forward to, so I better love it or else I'm screwed! *cry*

I miss Akagi and Akina already. ;____;

On that subject...I'm off to write a Nakazato/Shingo hurt/comfort fic. Cause you know...I don't think I've actually written one. *ponders*

New episode of Battlestar Galactica tonight. FINALLY. This is going to be fucking awesome.

Hung out all night last night with Jay, this real sweetie I'm dating that I met at UCLA's scifi/fantasy/gaming/nerd club. Got tooled in Smashies (I always get tooled in Smashies. XD) and sucked up Double Dash in the 150cc. Oh well, it was tremendous amounts of fun. :3 ~<3 I showed the him the first five episodes of Initial D, and he liked. :D Yaaay!

Before that, I basically got home to LA, unpacked, and then ran to the arcade. I'm glad to see that my Initial D skillz have not deteriorated over the course of the break. I beat Kyouichi, Kai (got him on the third try! :D Yay!), and Miki, which gives me two more racer stars and two areas I've conquered. HUZZAH. Now working on Happogahara and trying not to smash myself into the wall there. UGGGGHHHHHHH. I've realized that I hate them windy courses. Give me a good straightaway with hairpins at the end of it anyday. Therefore...love for Akagi, Akina, and Irohazaka. BLERGH.

Also, in interesting news I now rule at left turns. It's those right turn hairpins at Irohazaka that I'm not so good at. XD *laffo* Since when did I suddenly turn into Kyouichi? XD

The following three things are my favorite things to say to somebody:

1. YARRR! I'M A PIRATE
2. GO FUCK YOURSELF
3. EAT SHIT AND DIE

Well, I've almost got them all covered. XD

Now that I am back in LA and mostly unpacked, I go to play Initial D. A LOT. :3

XD Best college football quote ever. :D

"My two favorite teams are UCLA and whoever's playing USC."

Hooray for Team Not USC! The Texas Longhorns beat USC at the Rose Bowl today.

Normally I wouldn't be rooting for Texas, but in this case they are the lesser of the evils, and that was an amazing last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter.

Oh my god, I just made a post and didn't even talk about anything Initial D. Must remedy this!

INITIAL D IS AWESOME! LIKE USC LOSING!

There we go. :3

XD I had a dream last night that Battlestar Galactica was on (new episodes this Friday on SciFi!! w000000t! I've waited for far too long!) and I was doing something else at the time, and forgot. My friends didn't even bother telling me until I looked up at the clock and it was half past ten! And then I was watching and had no idea what was going on. :( *sniffles* Then my dream proceeded to convince me that I was a cylon, and I had to steal some anti-aging potion without anybody finding out. XD Go dreams!

Anyways, my friends aren't really bastards, they are actually quite awesome people and I am so sad that most of them all scattered around the globe and hanging out with them is so difficult.

By this time tomorrow, I will almost be in Los Angeles, and by evening I will be in the Westwood Arcade Initial D'ing my little soul out. Initial D'ing as hard as I can for as long as I can and filling my soul with so much not-quite-a-real-drift-ing love. XD I love how my roommate, Evan, calls my Initial D gaming habit "playing race car."

Going back to LA will be fun. I hear the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is playing (that, I want to see), and the weather's nice which is always a plus. I'm always cold here in Utah. *shivers*

It's random link time! CAUSE I SAID SO.

First off...OH NO! A random battle!

Next...see mack truck. See mack truck drift. See mack truck win.

Avatrix seems to have found me a good blonde joke.

Lastly...Some music to end your day.

All these links are worksafe. :3

EDIT: It has come to my attention that the Mack Truck drift link is broken. CURSES!

I totally love it when I scroll down my friends page in Livejournal, just kind of skimming, and then something will just catch my eye. Usually these are words like "gay," "cock," "yaoi," or "Initial D." Knowing my friends list, the former three pop up way more often than the last one.

But this morning I was lucky, and it was "Initial D."

Apparently the New York Times has a review of the Initial D Live Action movie,cause it's playing in Manhattan right now. (WHY?! Why not LA? ;___;)

Aaaah...good old selective hearing/reading. Man, I need more episodes, but I have to wait until February. *grumbles* What's going to hold my attention besides writing more yaoi? ;_____;

I've posted about three things in my writing journal in the past 13 hours. That's got to be some sort of a record for me, or something. XD *laughs*

Anyways, you Initial D yaoi fans (are there any of you guys left at all? O_O) may enjoy. XD A Takeshi/Shingo, a Keisuke/Takumi, and an angsty Kenta+Keisuke for you guys. :3

Went to the Century 16 theatre to go see Memoirs of a Geisha. It was all right. Meh, not all that great, though it was a very pretty piece of eyecandy. Go see it if you're bored, I guess. :3

Got some Initial D on while I was there, but was still unable to beat Kyouichi because of one braking mishap where he overtook me. *beats head against wall* I tried again after the movie, but people were there and I don't drive well with strangers staring at me. :( Screwed up the jumps and tried too early. *bangs head against wall* They invited me to drive (for real life) with them, because they seemed to think that Initial D skillz translated into real life skillz. Haha, I wish. If only. XD

Anyways, my mother has issues. I'm not sure what's wrong with her, but she's got some serious paranoia going on. She keeps thinking that what we say is against her, and so she treats anything Dad and I say about her doing something slightly wrong as some massive deal and makes enemies of us both. Not sure what to do about this situation, except give up and hide here in the computer room, listening to good music, read (and write) more yaoi, and rewatch old episodes of Initial D. *sighs*

Mom didn't used to be like this, I wonder what's made her so unhappy lately. Nowadays she's even more defensive and bossy than she's ever been. I'd suggest she go and see a shrink, but it's not like she's going to listen to me. *snort* Whatever dude, I don't care anymore.