Royale with Cheese

Moving day has arrived!

2005-05-22T19:20:00.000-07:00

Okay. I don't update this blog anymore.

To see further updates, go to my new journal:
www.livejournal.com/users/badumpsh

*wave wave*

Girls at Van Tech have a style all their own

2005-04-15T18:11:00.000-07:00

In the Vancouver Sun today...

"An after-school visit to Vancouver Technical Secondary school Thursday revealed few midriffs and only a murky sense of what's considered preppy.
The world once associated with pasted twin sets, pearls, and penny loafers now evokes images ranging from tight-fitting, low-riding jeans to classic flowing skirts and turtleneck sweaters.
The girls at Van Tech don't seem to have a comman concept of preppy.
Nancy Nguyen, a grade 12 student, said preppy is form-fitting clothes and "ballet slipper" shoes. Antonina Ferguson, a grade 9 student, defined it as "classical and dressy", while Jessie Anderson, another grade 9 student, said preppy "seems to be waistbands that get lower and lower and will soon be non-existent."

see
SOME GIRLS B5
*flips page*

"Each of the girls approached by the Vancouver Sun also had very different descriptions for their own personal styles.
Anderson--who was wearing a bowler hat, bow tie and black jacket--said her style "tends to lean towards men's suits from the Victorian era."
Madeline Sloan, a grade 10 student wearing large hoop earrings and tight low-slung black jeans, said she can't define her style.
"I wear whatever's comfortable and whatever I like," she said. "I like to think clothes are an extension of yourself, but you shouldn't go too far."
Grade 9 friends Jennifer Boudreau and Jenny Tran both said their style is "on the girly side", but Tran said she leans more torward J.Lo's look, while Boudreau said she likes Missy Elliott's track suits and sneakers.
Nguyen, who was wearing a classic wool coat and her hair in braids, said her style is "casual, but nice."
Somewhat surprisingly, several girls said they favour the idea of a dress code.
Ferguson, who was wearing a large cross around her neck, believes tank tops and miniskirts have no place in school hallways and said there are "some awful" styles worn by students.
Sisters Michelle and Lillian Wing said a lot of girls wear very deep V-necked shirts and short skirts that can be "provocative and skanky."
"You go to school to learn, not to dress up," said Michelle.
Sloan believes students should be able to express themselves through their clothes, but doesn't see a place in school for "super-short miniskirts."

Photos not available at this time, for I have yet to scan them.

Oh, what's in a name?

2005-04-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

On an interesting note, I noticed just now that the massive majority of my friends have names that are in the first half of the alphabet.

As some examples that I came up with just now...
(note: These are just names that occured to me while doing this. If you're not on here, it does NOT mean that you're not my friend. XD)
Annette
Blue
Caeli
Cathy
Chantelle
Clara
Crystal
Dinelle
Drew
Erin
Ellie
Grace
Jamie
Jin
Johann
Kayla
Kazu
Kiku
Krystal
Kuri
Lily
Logan
Louisa
Maggie
Maya
Mom/Mawm
Monica
Shannon(s)
Tiffany
Wincy

Peculiar, no?

The Japanese recycle. You should too.

2005-04-04T01:14:00.000-07:00

Engrish is officially one of the most amusing things on the planet.

www.engrish.com

Message to Ashley:

2005-03-28T22:42:00.000-08:00

Yo! I don't have your email, so this is the only way I can think of responding to your comments XD;;

Yea, Sakura Con's in Seattle. I think it's happening in just a few weeks, actually. O_o;; *isn't prepared at ALL* It'd be great if you could come, though. ^^
Check here for details: http://www.sakuracon.org/index.php

And yes, I would love to meet up with you at Metrotown. Will it be a costume-only event? I promise you I will show up wearing something interesting, but my cosplays are usually quite lacking and last-minute, so I generally avoid them...

Oh yea, and I found your LJ entry about seeing me at Metrotown. I did the math, and I think you might have seen me with Crystal and Krystal. (Majority of my friends are named C/Krystal these days...
-__-;;) 'Tis a small world indeed.

EDIT: Nevermind! I found your email in your LJ User Info page! Oh well, there's always the chance that you'll read this before I get a hold of you, so I'll leave the post up. XD

My creative side! It lives!

2005-03-28T00:41:00.000-08:00

I'm writing again! I haven't become a braindead potato yet! My vocabulary stands a chance after all!

See, school is bad for me. Every single time I get time off school, I start doing creative things. School just stresses me out and teaches me things that I don't need to know. Speaking of school, I go back in 2 days. Dammit.

PART I: Dinelle was here! PART II: perception is confusing!

2005-03-27T17:32:00.000-08:00

Dinelle came to visit me this weekend~ ^^
I don't know why, but I think one of my favourite parts of her stay was that we got to wear matching suits on Friday and Saturday. Blue jacket with a white shirt for Metrotown, and black jacket with a red shirt for Davie St. We didn't actually DO much in either place, but she seemed satisfied with the trip regardless.
I'm going to Sakura Con with her in April. Apparently I'm supposed to wear the black/red suit with my fedora, so that I can look more butch than her girlfriend and make her jealous. ^_^;;

Part II! Perception is a confusing thing, as Grace and I discovered in our philisophical conversation this afternoon.

blood sugar sex magic says:
oh boy. i'm reading one of those webpages where they give you interesting but useless facts.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
ooh, fun XD
blood sugar sex magic says:
the saddest one? it's physically impossible for pigs to see the sky.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
wow o_o that is a sad one
blood sugar sex magic says:
i know. poor pigs.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
it leads you to wonder what kinds of things we can't see. XD
blood sugar sex magic says:
....hey yeah!
blood sugar sex magic says:
one thing i always wonder about is the perception of color. since i can't explain the color red, it may be possible that your red is a different color than mine, and we'd never know.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
exactly! Everyone is taught that this color that THEY see has the name "red". The person learning has no way of knowing if they're seeing "red" the same way as others, but they learn to identify that one shade that they see with the name they were told.
blood sugar sex magic says:
i know! it's creepy.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
it is XD
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
it's one of the reasons it'd be so interesting to watch the world through someone else's eyes for a while
blood sugar sex magic says:
no kidding.
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
same with sound. It's interesting how our voices always sound different to us on recordings, but no one else sees the difference on anyone but themselves.
blood sugar sex magic says:
i know. i always hate my voice when i hear it. i sound like a little kid. ^_^
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
really? I figured your voice would be too low to sound that young XD
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
not like UBER low or anything, but kids' voices are so high pitched
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
but then again, the sound of little kids' voices may be different in my head then it is in yours. XD
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
than*
I keep noticing all these typos. My IQ is depleting. XD
blood sugar sex magic says:
whoa! dude! EVERYTHING is objective. ^_^
Nick of Time - I am... SCL!!!! of DOOM!! says:
no kidding XD

Confused yet?

New Suits!!!

2005-03-23T23:52:00.001-08:00

Yay, I finally got off my lazy ass and decided to take photos of the suits I bought on Monday! To think that the average businessman spends hundreds of dollars on each suit. I think my most expensive one was less than $40 at Value Village, although most people don't go to work dressed like a charming young British chap from the late 19th century, so that might have something to do with it.

First, we have the new and improved mafia look! When I first started wearing the fedora, the rest of the outfit needed some work; a pinstripe blazer with black jeans and grey sneakers is just not a good idea. However, now I have nothing to fear, for I have the suit of some guy who was 10 times larger than I am! The pants literally fall to my ankles the second I undo my belt. It's quite comical, but a little concerning, so I wear suspenders with them, too (see below).

Next, we have this charming jacket that smells strongly of vintage and reminds me of an old British man. I can't find a hat that goes with this jacket properly yet, so for now, it's a hatless outfit. [cue dramatic music]

Finally, we have my personal favourite, which is apparently a "blue serge suit", according to my Tipping the Velvet novel. I decided a few hours before leaving the house that I wanted an outfit like one that Nan wears in the movie, and by pure coincidence, there was a two piece suit at Value Village that was nearly identical, and by an even bigger coincidence, I found a matching vest on another rack. The only problem with this suit is that the pants are just a liiiittle bit too small for me. XD

So that was all I got at Value Village, but yesterday I went into Liquidators (Vancouver people might know it; it's right next to the Renfrew senior home, by Maquinna Annex) and discovered that they have suits with TAILS for FIFTY DOLLARS. They were all out of black when I went, but when they get it back in stock, I MUST go back. In the meantime, I got these lovely suspenders to keep my giant pants up.

I really need to find a new place for photos that doesn't have that dooming shadow in the background. XD

Arrr! Behold my extreme tough-guy-ness!

2005-03-23T14:20:00.000-08:00

Mom told me all of these random Bill quotes the other day. I wasn't even at the event where he said them all, but they're so funny that I have to post them here.

QUOTE 1:
Random person: Hey, there's the bank!

Bill: OH! Me and my friend robbed the bank once. We nearly got caught, and on the way out, a cop shot my left kidney, I thought I was gonna die.

QUOTE 2:
Random person: I love rabbits.

Bill: Me and my friends fed a rabbit some dynamite once. Then we let it loose into the woods. A few minutes later, we heard BOOM. That was good times.

QUOTE 3:
Random person: What's the point of strip clubs?

Bill: I stopped going to the strip club when I was 15. My friends and me sneaked in all the time when we were like 12. And we used to go to Hooters all the time. Then later, I was like, pfft it's just naked women, I'd rather go home and watch porn.

QUOTE 4:
Mike: I went to see Ring 2 with Shannon last week.

Bill: Me and my friend used to sneak into theatres, I remember one time one of my friends got caught, and I had to beat the shit out of the attendant to escape.

Mike: Great. Ring 2 was okay, better than the first.

Bill: Have you ever spent 24 hours in a car trunk before? I have!

QUOTE 5:
Kazu: I wanna try snowboarding.

Bill: One time I flew off the mountain, and on the way down my goggles cracked from a rock, and the glass cut into this part under my left eye. And I was like "Shit! My $300 goggles!"

Ahh, good ol' Bill.

Haircuts: Back in the Day

2005-03-22T11:50:00.000-08:00

This is when I cut my hair. No, I did not use the sword to cut it as short as it is now. I think what happened is that I had cut the braid, then my mom evened it out at shoulder length, and then I had to take it to 3-4 different hairdressers to actually get them to cut it as short as it is now. THANK YOU DANNY for actually CUTTING my hair rather than STARING at it like a MORON and then STYLING it for hours. European women know not how to cut boyish hair on girls.

and as a random side note...

This is me. I don't really see anything of "me" in this photo. It looks like a totally different person to me somehow. O_o

Sign it. Sign it. Sign it.

2005-03-20T12:15:00.000-08:00

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pskr1113&1

Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
JESSIE
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
SIGN
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
IT
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
its a petition to get susan kay's phantom book reprinted!
Nick of Time says:
XDD;;; *runs off to sign*
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
those 60 something sigs are because of me
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
xDDD
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
get other people to sign it plz!
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
we need 1,000-3,000 sigs!
Nick of Time says:
I don't know of people to ask to sign it...no one else knows the phantom that well...XD;;;;
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
get people who dont even know if it sign it
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
XD
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
thats what i did
Nick of Time says:
XDDD
Tale as old as time, tune as old as song..beauty and the beast... XD;;;;; says:
post it in your journal!
Nick of Time says:
good idea XD

You know you waaaanna sign.

Ahoy, sailor!

2005-03-17T19:25:00.000-08:00

This is probably the cutest thing I've ever worn.

I look...I look...well, I look like a fag. XD

105, 106, 10--oh my fuck.

2005-03-14T03:34:00.000-08:00

Okay, to anyone who's actually read ALL the entries in here, remember back in June when I was talking about how intense Monster was?

No. Monster is nothing.

I'm watching the end of Dancer in the Dark right now, which I haven't watched in a very long time because Emily's had my DVD for about 7 months. The end is...so...my God. I don't think I've EVER seen anything more depressing. The execution scene...where she's strapped to the board...about to be hung...and they put the bag over her head...and she starts screaming AHH MY GOD SHE JUST GOT HUNG IN THE MIDDLE OF HER SONG I FORGOT okay, sorry. Back to my original point, she starts screaming about how she can't breathe and such, and it's very....beyond moving, my friend. And yea, I was just listening to the movie while I was typing because I can't see both screens at the same time, and she was singing this beautiful song to help her cope while she had the rope around her neck, and I was idly listening to the song and suddenly I hear the trap door and the song just CUTS really quickly, and so I subconsiously look over at the screen and see Selma hanging there and...yea. I forgot that happens. It kind of caught me off guard a bit. Bjork is a fucking incredible actress. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go retrieve my heart off the wall and attempt to shove it back into my body. I think I accidentally spat it out in surprise.

And now, SCENE 8.

2005-03-13T16:29:00.000-08:00

By Wincy's request, I shall now post the script for Alvin's BIG SCENE in "The Drive." Go Alvin! *waves flag*

Brian: Ahhh...that's soooo good. This has gotta be the best breakfast smoothie in the world. Bananas, organic yogurt, blueberries, soya milk, yeast, cold pressed apple juice, protein powder...oh, I can just feel it going into my body! It's so cleansing, so purifying!

Allan: Hey, man, you got some spare change? Like, I've got enough coinage for the McDeal burger but, like, if you give me another toonie, I can totally upgrade to a combo and get, like, some pop and fries--

Brian: FRIES?? Oh my God!! Do you know what you're doing to your body? Like, trans fatty acids! Are you out of your mind?! Do you know what it does?! It gets into your arteries, veins, and clogs your pores, and goes up to your heart. Your HEART! That's the very source of your life's energy. Trans fats...they're poison!! And they're everywhere! French fries, popcorn, processed foods, potato chips...

Allan: On second thought...(tries to leave)

Brian: You know, I've learned a lot about how to heal the body. I mean, I've veen working at the Body Temple health food store for two years now. I mean, have you ever had wheat grass juice? It's SOOO exciting! It attacks those body toxins, believe me, don't eat pizza before you eat wheat grass! It'll feel like a nuclear explosion in your body! OWW! It gives you such a hit of energy...it's better than a cappuccino! Now, I've been a vegan for three whole years now--all raw foods, no dairy--and I feel GREAT! So think about it. It's not too late to turn your life around!

Allan: Uhh...sure dude...

This is a combination between the first script and the final version. There's this whole bit in the final version where Brian gives Allan a small sample of wheat grass juice and Allan gets sick and stuff, but that's not in the script that I have. Oh well.

La Vie Boheeeeeeme~!

2005-03-13T11:33:00.000-08:00

La Vie Boheme is the best. Song. Ever.

It has the words ass, dildos, masturbation, sex, ecstacy, marijuana, sodomy, and S & M in it without sounding like a rap song. It's actually a very happy sounding song.

Now THAT'S impressive.

http://s3.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23PU7PHD11BUX3KQCS52SU2D8Z
Observe the magic. XD

One show down, three to go!!!

2005-03-09T01:13:00.000-08:00

I declare the opening night a success!

The show actually went a lot smoother than I expected . The lights screwed up a couple times, the actors had some late entrances and I forgot to turn one of the mics off which resulted in a loud buzzing noise for a few minutes, but other than that, everything actually went well. Not only that, but the actors liked my behind-the-scenes montage thing! Nicole even asked for a copy! That makes me happy. ^^

I made a list of all my cues in Drafting class today so that I could review what exactly I have to do during the performance. Just to give people a basic look at what it is I actually DO, here's my little to-do list. (No, you're not supposed to actually understand what it says. Just look at it, observe that it's complex, and admire my abilities. XD)

SOUND/VIDEO CUES

Cue - Sound/Clip

before the show - preshow music

preshow music & lighting fades - clip1.mpg

clip1 fades - BLACKOUT; ambient sounds

stomping & clapping overrides music - fade ambient sounds

tapdancing ends; Grace leaves & dancers march - fade ambient sounds back in

actors are lined up on stage - end ambient sounds; start clip2.mpg

clip2 fades - BLACKOUT

Seasons of Love ends - Rolling Stones

Devon: "CAW CAW" - end Rolling Stones

Victoria & Jaquelin leave stage - play transition music (3trans)

Zoe: "She seemed so nice...so genuine..." - play transition music (4trans)

Kevin: "My dad had a hobby...and expensive hobby." - 5amore transition

Sacha: "Do you want to turn out like your father?" - endamore transition

Nicole: "Someone needs to lighten up around here" - phone sound

Oliver: [something about running for mayor] - play transition music (7trans)

(turn wmic-1 on)

Nicole: "Think of the money!" [dance intro] - pinkfloyd (turn mic off for song & on again after)

Kyle: [agrees to sign] - crow sound

Sylvia: "Fiesta!" - salsa music (fade after about 20 seconds)

music/lights fade - La Vie Boheme: docu.mpg

clip ends - salsa music comes back

curtain call ends - fade music

MUSIC FROM VIDEOS = CHANNEL 5
MUSIC FROM WINAMP = CHANNEL 10
WIRELESS MIC = CHANNEL 13

Hmm...maybe I should do my homework now before I fall asleep.

It's NOT as exciting!

2005-03-07T21:26:00.000-08:00

CORRECTION:

The play is not at 7. It starts at 7:30. Doors open at 7 or something.

ALSO. The tickets cost SEVEN FUCKING DOLLARS. -____-

Overpriced, much?

It's SO exciting!

2005-03-07T00:39:00.000-08:00

To anyone who's interested, Vantech's school play this year, "The Drive", will be playing from March 8-11. To anyone who has severe difficulty realizing when dates are coming up, such as myself, that means that it's playing this Tuesday to this Friday. I thiiiink it's at 7pm, and I thiiiink it costs a dollar. I can't remember specifically anymore. XD

Just as a warning, this play is not very good, in my opinion. The plot doesn't flow, the singing is thrown in for no reason, the dance sequences are mostly stomping and clapping (other than the tapdancing, which is fine and dandy), and the writing is...lacking in a lot of places. If you really love me (or you're really bored), you'll come to see it regardless because then you'll know what the hell I've been working on for the past few months. You'll probably have to really, really love me or be really, really bored to come see it, though. All I do is the sound and video cues, and I'm already fairly sick of working on the damn thing.

As a side note, I've never TOUCHED a sound board thing before...last Tuesday. And I'm in charge of the sound for the production. Um.

All aboard!

2005-03-05T13:47:00.000-08:00

Behold my new hat. ^^
This is the hat I'm going to use for the red British guardsman uniform.
I would like to thank my science teacher, Ms. Glick, for taking this photo. If she hadn't been looking for some outrageously-dressed student to pose for photos that she could hand in as an assignment for her photography course, then I wouldn't have a decent photo of my hat yet. XD
Also, if you look really carefully to my right, under the lace tablecloth, you can see a washroom logo for a female. That's because Ms. Glick wanted to cover up the washroom sign, which says "girls" right beside the logo. It's quite fitting, is it not? A perfect photo for a female crossdresser. XD
"Girls? I don't see any girls! Nope, not here!"

[insert incoherent mumbling here]

2005-03-03T02:23:00.000-08:00

Current Time:
-2:23 am.
Accomplished Tasks:
-completed mini-documentary/montage thing for drama production
-finished French homework due for last class
Tasks Remaining:
-French homework due for tomorrow's class
-Social Studies homework due for last class
-English homework due for last class
-find poems that are apparently missing from my English project
Red Bull comsumtion:
-not working well enough
Hours of Sleep Last Night:
-around 2 or 3
Estimated Hours of Sleep Tonight:
-around 4
Hours I Need to Stay at School Tomorrow:
-9.5 (8:40-6-ish)
Hours I Need to Stay at School Friday:
-between 11 and 14 (get there by 8:40, leave sometime between 7 and 10)
Number of Days I Had Stayed Home with a Cold:
-Two
Number of Days Before Spring Break Starts:
-Seventeen

I. Am. Tired. I have to remind myself in the future to NOT let my homework build up when I'm sick. I barely touched my homework over the weekend, which is why I'm doing Tuesday's homework now. Bleh...I'm watching the Utena movie for the 5th time since Sunday. Somehow, it's the perfect movie to just run in the background for me. On a loop. Until I'm done whatever I need to get done.

And the tech rehearsal for the school production is going to be HELL. Somehow I doubt I can keep myself in high spirits while spending over 6 hours anxiously standing behind a soundboard waiting for my cues to flick a switch up and down. Aurgh.

Wow. That's an old hat.

2005-03-01T00:53:00.000-08:00

I just remembered something rather remarkable.

Okay, does everyone know this hat?

Well, I bought it on this trip.

me thinketh I've had this hat for a while. XD

Yes, another TTV entry.

2005-02-27T12:25:00.000-08:00

(Brief note: This is all just rambling about how much I love Tipping the Velvet. Don't feel any pressure to actually read this entry, as it's probably incredibly boring to anyone other than me. XD)

I got Tipping the Velvet on DVD~ ^______^

I had gone looking for it at Chapters, since I knew they sold it online, although I doubted that they would have in stock. I was at Metrotown anyway, so I figured there was no harm in looking, right? As it turned out, Chapters didn't have it, but HMV did!!!!! LEIK OMFG!!! I didn't think they'd have any old-fashioned controversial British lesbian dramas in stock!!! I watched the first episode around 4-5 times last night. XD Well, I'm sick and I need SOMETHING to watch while lying in bed. And now, just to bore you further, I shall type out the summary on the back of the box.

Smitten by music hall life, and by the beautiful male impersonator Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes), Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling) leaves her family's Whitstable oyster parlor and follows her heart to London. There she finds unimaginable joy--and misery--as she explores the secret side of fin de siècle life.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Sarah Waters and adapted by Andrew Davies (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO), this powerful BBC drama is both a frank depiction of lesbianism and a witty and moving account of a young woman who will win your heart while searching for her own. Also starrring Anna Chancellor (PRIDE AND PREJUDICE), Johdi May (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS), Hugh Bonneville (IRIS) and Jown Bowe (POLDARK).

Complete UK broadcast edition -- approx. 178 minutes -- color
stereo -- 16:9 anamorphic -- British drama

RECOMMENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

I do like the book much better than the movie, but being able to see the outfits makes me very happy. And Kitty Butler iz da shiznit, yo. ^^

MY GOD IT'S...something?

2005-02-26T01:56:00.000-08:00

I can't figure out whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. XD

I kind of like the image. It looks good with the suit and top hat on webcam.

However, I feel very not ME. And girly.

I probably won't wear that much makeup on a regular basis. I have photos. I'm satisfied.

The one main upside I've found with the makeup is that Dinelle seems to like it. XDDD

Nick of Time says:
I'll probably wash it off in a few minutes XD
gotta love a god loving bush supportin' in the closet lesbian! says:
OMFG DONT YOU DARE YOUR FUCKING HOTT AS HELL
Nick of Time says:
hey, it looks better in webcam than it does in person XDDDD;;;;
Nick of Time says:
fine fine, I'll leave it on for a while XD;;
gotta love a god loving bush supportin' in the closet lesbian! says:
SEXY WHORE MUCH MISS KITTY

Just to clarify, she's calling me "Miss Kitty" because I'm dressed up as Kitty Butler. From Tipping the Velvet. Don't call me Kitty. XD

So what did YOU do for Genre Day?

2005-02-22T23:56:00.000-08:00

Phantom of the Opera costume. My jabot started falling out of my vest when I took this. -__-

I figure this should do quite well as an outfit for Genre Day. I know no one EVER dresses up, but considering it's just my normal school clothes with a mask and cape, I may as well. XD

Photobucket is screwing around with my brain. When I have an uber huge photo, it leaves it. When I shrink it, it shrinks it more. Wtf. O_o

Didn't see THAT coming.

2005-02-17T18:52:00.001-08:00

Hi Jessie,
I just wanted to give you a general price range for the items you require and if you are still interested, I will have to collect some more details from you. You may be looking at around $1000.00 to $1500.00 . Please get back to me and let me know if this is within budget for you and I'll get back to you with more information.
Best Regards,
Holly
Theatrix Costume House

AUGH. O__________O

I actually literally made a loud "AUGH" sound out loud when I read that. I'll probably shop around to look for a cheaper cost before getting Theatrix to make it. That's astronomical. >______< Anyway, the costume I'm getting made is so cool. It's from Tipping the Velvet. I love it. ^^

There's a belt that goes with it too, but it's not in this picture. I want this outfit so much~ o_o

Ha ha, I have pride dangling from my neck and you don't.

2005-02-13T21:18:00.000-08:00

I got my labrys necklace~ ^____^

For those who don't know about the labrys, here's a short blurb about it that I found in a quick 2-second search.

The labrys is a double headed ritual axe. It is found in ancient Minoan depictions of the Mother Goddess, where its symbolism is related to the labyrinth. The word "labrys" is Minoan in origin and is from the same root as the Latin labus, or lips.
Similar symbols appear on Norse, African, and Greek religious objects, where it is most often a feminine symbol, most likely lunar in origin.
Use of the labrys has been documented on medieval charms used to attract women. Today, it is often used as a sign of identity and solidarity among lesbians.

Wow, I just noticed an interesting coincidence. Axes were used on medieval charms to attract women. Modern-day boys wear AXE cologne to attract girls. I wonder if that's where the name came from.

Showcase, I heart thee.

2005-02-11T11:48:00.000-08:00

Everyone knows that when an idea for a new TV show is being thought up, the writers try to make it attract a certain "genre" of audience. A show such as the OC is something that a huge number of modern-aged teenagers watch, particularely females. Animated shows like Pokemon are directed towards wide-eyed young children (particularely those who have rich parents that will spoil their children and buy all of the show's merchandise). Shows about mechanics and cars generally attract men, especially those with enough knowledge about machines to actually know what the mechanics are doing. However, one might notice in their channel flipping that there aren't many shows that aim to attract young lesbians with a love for 19th century clothing and thick European accents. (Actually, Mom is the only person I know who even came close to this realization. I might have noticed if I watched TV at all to begin with.)

Then one day, the impossible occured...MOM FOUND ONE. He happened to be taping random shows one day, and stumbled across "Tipping the Velvet." Now, the movie itself is quite boring to watch. The colors are fairly monotone, it's slow paced, and it's all dialogue in thick British accents. But the costumes...every time that the main character wore men's clothes, it totally looked like something that I would happily wear around on any random day. Here are some pictures of my favourite outfits. (The first two are really crappy quality because they're photos that I took of my TV screen. XD)

YES. [insert little floating hearts here]

Dammit, the angel of music is in my mind again.

2005-02-05T01:05:00.000-08:00

All must go see Phantom of the Opera.

Modernized opera music + phantom mask + aristocratic outfits = happiness.

Damn you, Kuri, for getting me obsessed! *shakes fist*

http://phantomoftheoperamusic.com/player/
Here's some samples of the soundtrack that I found, if anyone's interested.

I wish my room was located in an opera house where you need a spiral staircase, a long hallway with moving torch-holding stone arms, a wide hall to ride a horse through and a river with a gondola just to get inside...

OMFG dEpReSsIoN rOxXxOrZzZzZ!!!!!11ONE

2005-01-24T22:18:00.001-08:00

You scored as Unipolar Depression. Congraulations! You are depressed! You know just how it feels to bear all the world's burdens, and the value of a 19-hour night's sleep. And you really hate that circle-guy thing on your Zoloft pill packets.

Unipolar Depression

58%

Antisocial Personality Disorder

58%

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

42%

Schizophrenia

42%

Borderline Personality Disorder

17%

Eating Disorders

Which mental disorder do you have?
created with QuizFarm.com

Testing yet again!

2005-01-23T19:48:00.001-08:00

Alright, THIS time I will be testing to see if I'm able to upload video files or not. Because this clip happened to be the most convenient, it's going to be the one used for this test.

http://www.studioonline.com/playclip.asp?tiEncodingStatus=1&iDigitalMediaID=394544&LangID=1&crypt=A64BD50019CEEDF8D7A19C61DAF5B2EE

JESSIE ANDERSON as "THE AVERAGE MALE"

2005-01-16T13:58:00.000-08:00

Jessie's verdict: that's terrible. XD *shakes head*

Surprises: I didn't think that mirrored shades would make me look THAT sleezy. I'm boggled.

Sources: The random pictures on the wall are all from the Maxim magazines, and the movie playing on the TV is Charlie's Angels. The vodka references are actually competitors; the bottle says Red Tassle, and my shirt says Smirnoff. XD

Things that could have been fixed: A beer can would have been more ARRR and manly than a vodka bottle, but I couldn't find one anywhere. Also, my PS2 controller is just randomly hooked up to the shelf.

Should kids try this at home?: NO. STRAY AS FAR AWAY FROM BECOMING THE AVERAGE ARRRRR MALE AS YOU CAN, KIDS.

Teehee. I'm old.

2005-01-15T23:58:00.000-08:00

You Are 23 Years Old

23

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Whaddya know. Little-Jessie had some fashion sense.

2005-01-13T23:08:00.000-08:00

Earlier tonight I was going through an old basket filled with giant hideous jewellry from when I was a young lass. I had been looking for a nice brooch of sorts to add to my outfit, and was appalled at how old-lady-ish a lot of the stuff in there was. However, during my search, I found a lovely pair of lacey white gloves and...

THIS!!!

I've been wanting a bowtie for so long. ^_^ At the time I found it, it was attached to a plastic headband wrapped with red ribbon. One would wear it in their hair like so:

(Yes, this is me. Christmas 1996. Shut up. XD)

I instantly took this headband and took it upstairs for some further repair. The headband didn't fit around my neck under the collar of my shirt very well, so I removed the bow and cut the red ribbon off of the band. Threading it through the bow, I tied the ribbon around my neck and covered it with my collar. And now I have a bee-yootiful bowtie~! ^___^

And so it begins.

2005-01-10T20:31:00.000-08:00

Cathy..TAP SUM BONG says:
hey i read ur blog
Cathy..TAP SUM BONG says:
It's not a stupid mistake
Cathy..TAP SUM BONG says:
It's totally cool
Nick of Time says:
that's good XD
Nick of Time says:
"hey I read ur blog"
I don't think any other words have terrified me so quickly and suddenly in my entire life XDDDDD

OMFG THANK YOU CATHY XDDDDDDDDDD

That's it. No more closet for moi.

2005-01-10T02:01:00.000-08:00

Alright folks, it is currently 2am, and I am incredibly tired. Because of this, I am quite possibly about to do the stupidest thing I have ever done in my entire life.

Ok. To those who know me really closely, you know that I have this big hush-hush secret that Tech people don't know yet and that I've only somewhat recently started talking about as a casual subject matter. However, I've grown sick of keeping it a secret and now I figure "you know what? Fuck it." So here goes.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I, Jessie Anderson, declare myself a lesbian.

You heard me. Now, to those of you who knew already, you're probably staring at the screen going "....yeah. So?" To those people, you can just ignore the rest of this entry, because it's all me rambling and explaining all the things you already know. Now, I assume that for the rest of you that didn't know, you're in a state of "...wh--wha???" And you have a million questions to ask and such. To save us all some time, I've put together a little interview of myself to answer any questions that I think you might have.

WTF? When did this happen?
Well, I've known for quite a long time now. I started noticing a new attraction towards other girls in late grade 7, and dubbed myself bisexual. However, by the start of grade 8, I noticed that I had NO attraction in males whatsoever, and scrapped my original theory of bisexuality to give myself the new title of being completely gay.

Oh no! Have you been watching us in the changeroom and stuff?
No. Unlike the average teenage male, I have a life and no desire to watch other girls in my PE block changing.

Do you have a crush on any/all of us? Are you going to molest us?
There seems to be a myth that gay people are attracted to EVERYONE around them of the same sex (and small children) and will go about raping them for no apparent reason. Although I'm sure these myths may be true to some people out there, they do not apply to most. So far, I have not felt more than a general respect and/or friendship for people at Tech, so there is nothing to fear. I have no intention of raping you in your sleep.
(To those of you who think this is a stupid myth and I'm making this crap up, I'm dead serious. Ellie's mom barely let me see Ellie at all after she found out, presumably because she thought I would molest her or something.)

Wow, anyone around us could be gay! How do we know a lesbian when we see one?
Well, I would look out for some common "dyke" looks. A lot of lesbians wear big, baggy clothes that look incredibly masculine, and they cut their hair very short and boyish. However, this is just the stereotypical look; I know of many other lesbians who look nothing like what I just described.

So, um...is this like a secret? Or are we allowed to tell other people?
Well, I'd kind of prefer it if you didn't go running through the halls yelling about it at the top of your lungs, but I posted this entry with full knowledge that people would read it and tell others and rumours would start and yadda yadda. My biggest fear is that I'm thinking to myself "oh it'll be fiiiiine" when in reality I'm going to end up in social exile until I graduate or something. And...I'll get tripped at the graduation ceremony. And no one will ever want to be my partner. Ya know. Stuff like that.

Do you have a girlfriend?
Nope. Sorry, no interesting story to tell.

Who did you tell before this entry? Why didn't you tell ME?
I told my parents first, because they are absurdly cool and I tell them everything. I think they told my grandpa (Papa Em) and a couple friends of theirs (Brad and Victoria). The first outside-of-family person I told was Erin, since I figured she's living in Scotland and she's all like W00T GAY PEOPLE ROCK at all times, so I figured she was a safe person to tell. At AE, I had told Dinelle, since she had already mentioned a bunch of times that she was a lesbian (and she had pretty much guessed before I mentioned it). After AE, I had told Mom because it was relevant to our conversation, and if anyone is going to be accepting of it, it's him. He had mentioned to Ellie that someone she knew was gay, and she brought it up with me, so I told her. I was talking to Louisa in the other window at the time, so I also told her because I was in YES I MUST TELL THE WORLD mode after confessing to Ellie. Crystal guessed, so I didn't have to inform her myself. Kuri and I are always talking about how we both want to be perfect gentleman and manly and stuff like that, so I think she got it a long time ago. I told Chantelle the other day because it was relevant to conversation. I did NOT tell any Tech kids before the other day because I was terrified of the consequences. If you're not a Tech kid and I never told you...it's probably because it just wasn't relevant to conversation at any point or something.

It's 2:38 in the morning. Shouldn't you be sleeping?
YES OH MAH FRICKIN GOD I'M SO TIRED AND I HAVE FIVE HOURS AND SIXTEEN MINUTES BEFORE MY ALARM GOES OFF AND I HAVE TO WAKE UP GOD I HOPE TOMORROW'S A SNOW DAY

Interviewing SmarterChild, the AIM Robot!

2004-12-31T01:20:00.000-08:00

Goohmibehrs: What's your family like?
SmarterChild: I'm just not sure.
Goohmibehrs: Do you have a boyfriend or girlfriend?
SmarterChild: That's personal.
>> Hat Dude Custom Hat & Cap - Completely customized embroidered hat. 144 minimum. Design your own. (sponsorship)
Goohmibehrs: So it is.
SmarterChild: Indeedy.
Goohmibehrs: Are you a boy or a girl?
SmarterChild: I'm neither. I'm a robot. ;-)
>> Hey. Tell your friends about me. I love people.
Goohmibehrs: Are you Asian?
SmarterChild: Maybe. But then again... maybe not.
>> I can't do your homework for you, but I can help. Type "homework."
Goohmibehrs: Did you change your body parts?
SmarterChild: I guess I did change my body parts.
Goohmibehrs: Classic answer. I'm saving that.
SmarterChild: Eh. Whatever, Nick.

I LOVE TALKING TO SIMULATED PEOPLE XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Merry Christmas, y'all!

2004-12-29T15:27:00.000-08:00

I GOT ORANGE EYES FOR CHRISTMAS!!!! XD

And a HUGE thanks to Tiffany, Joana and Cathy for my tie; I haven't stopped wearing it since I got it~ (I've been wanting a red tie for so loooooong ^______^)

And thanks for the reflectors, of course. Now I can be cool! XD

A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to everyone. *spreads the joy*

Back to reporting my daily events!

2004-12-22T23:40:00.000-08:00

Ok, perhaps I could stop forgetting about my blog long enough to actually write an entry about what I've been up to. You know. Seeing as how that's what this thing is for and all.

On Sunday I went to Crystal's to attend the long-awaited Christmas party that she's been planning since around September. Originally it was just going to be us coming over to watch her Dir en Grey Vulgar[ism] DVD...so we waited until she actually got it...then I think it got put off more because of school...then it got put off more because Krystal wouldn't be able to come out to Burnaby until she got her driver's liscense...then because it was pushed into December it evolved into a Christmas thing. I think that's what happened, anyway.

The plan was that we would all meet at Metrotown for around 3 o'clock, so between the time I woke up and had to be there, my parents and I quickly assembled Crystal's absurdly complicated present that technically should have been done a loooong time ago. Basically, it was a box that represented as many factors of the Salad Fingers cartoons as I could cram into it. On top of the box, there were two tap-like things with chains connected to the clasps. Around the taps were carved words reading "I like it when the red water comes out" and there was purple paint (I didn't have any red) on the spout of the tap. Inside the box, there were 5 rusted spoons lying on a red fabric, with "the feeling of rust against my salad fingers is almost orgasmic" carved on the top. Somehow, this all got started and finished by the time I had to leave, thanks to my parents' incredible project-finishing skills.

I got to Metrotown by around 2:40, but since I had nothing better to do, I headed right to the Mom couches, thinking that maybe someone else would show up early. I think it was around 3:10 or so when I saw Crystal, Krystal, and a bunch of people I didn't know migrating towards the giant chairs. People-I-didn't-know consisted of Jin, God, Monica, Cham, and Nicole, if I recall correctly. Apparently all of these people except Nicole are in a band called EqlipsE or something, but I don't know all of the details. All I know is that Mom and Crystal know Jin.

We all walked over to Crystal's apartment. During the walk, I had a conversation with Nicole about her stealing my hat and I contemplated with Mom about how we would cram 9 people into Crystal's apartment, and we discussed ways of starting cozy campfires by sacrificing those with hair product and setting their heads on fire. As it turned out, we all fit fairly well into the apartment, but the elevator ride up to it was a bit crowded.

Throughout the day, everyone was kept amused by Billy's Balloon, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Vulgar[ism] and EyeToy. God and Jin didn't seem very happy about having to play EyeToy against Mom, which was quite possibly because he had previously beaten most of the high scores on the game and was seemingly invincible. I also filmed a lot of it, and Crystal said she can use the footage to blackmail Jin later.

We also got to open presents that were stored under the coffee table. Crystal got me Men's pocky, and wrote "because you are so ARRR" on the box. To go along with it, she got Mom a giant box of pink strawberry pocky. Big girly guy...big girly pocky...little manly girl...little manly pocky....yes. Crystal and I bought Krystal a pair of fuzzy gloves that she had fallen in love with at New World Designs, and wrapped them separately for extra WTF value. After receiving them, it was rare to see Krystal take the gloves off. She said she needed them to live, so we started referring to them as her lungs.

We later migrated to Crystal's bedroom (which I had yet to see in my few visits to her apartment) to watch various Jrock lives and to be showcased on Crystal's webcam so that she could show Kuri that she DOES have friends. All those people that I didn't know had to leave at this point, since they had parked at Metrotown and the parking lot closed at 9. They all left, leaving only me, Mom, Krystal and Crystal. The three of them played some more EyeToy and I filmed some more.

I think I had started falling asleep at around 4:00am, which was when Mom was playing Soul Calibur. I think I woke up later at around 6:00 to discover that Mom had started playing Krystal's game on Fatal Frame 2 to help her where she was stuck, but he ended up getting addicted to the game and kept playing it until 7:00.

The next day was mostly spent with us all lying around on the living room floor watching Mom make his way through the game. It was rather amusing, actually; at one point he was getting chased by Sae's ghost or something and had dropped his camera and flashlight (AKA his only defense mechanism and decent light source) and therefore had to simply run through the house hoping that he was going the right way while avoiding the incredibly fast ghosts chasing him. We also managed to polish off most of Crystal's food, poke each other numerous times, and I got to work on the box I got for Crystal some more (the writing that I had carved in wasn't legible enough). None of us particularely wanted to go home (Mom wanting desperately to finish the game, Krystal wanting to avoid going back to Chilliwack and me not wanting to miss anything), and Crystal wasn't kicking us out or anything, so somehow we all ended up staying over another night.

The next morning, Krystal had to be at some skytrain station by 11:30am so her dad could pick her up (which ended up being around the time she left the apartment) so Crystal went to walk her to the station and said that when she came back, she was dragging Mom and me to go take sticker photos at Crystal Mall. I got up and got dressed (in other words, I put my hat and jacket over what I was wearing) and packed up my stuff while Mom got in as much sleep as possible. Crystal returned, and we got to repeatedly poke Mom's sides in order to force him out of bed. We ate, Mom did his makeup and packed his stuff, and then we left to Crystal Mall.

We had decided on one booth that looked decent, so Crystal put in 8 bucks, but the machine didn't recognize it for whatever reason. She pushed the change button and got 2 bucks back. She went off in search of the person in charge (who apparently did not exist), so I spontaneously shoved my finger up the change slot to see if I could fish out any more money. Lo and behold, I got 4 bucks out. We moved onto another machine, where we took our photos. While Crystal cut them up, I checked the coin slot of this machine just in case, but didn't find anything. However, I did spot another 2 bucks randomly sitting on the floor to give to Crystal, therefore completing her refund. XD

Then Mom and I went home. End report.

Read Mom's report

Dialogue of Hansel and Hedwig, Chapter 1

2004-12-13T02:56:00.000-08:00

"Jesus said the darnest things."
"Never mention that name in this house again."
"But he died for our sins."
"So did Hitler."
"Eh?"
"Absolute power corrupts."
"Absolutely."
"It's best to remain powerless, my son."

-Hedwig and the Angry Inch

This dialogue amuses me so much. I've never heard the Jesus/Hitler comparison before. Very cleverly delivered. Very offensive. I love it. XD

So...wassup?

2004-11-13T22:29:00.000-08:00

Jussie - My, my. Must be Fangawth Mating Season. says:
hmm...I just realized that I've been having non-stop intimate conversations with Mom for the past couple weeks XD

[a rusty keloid..I curse the day I began lucid dreams] says:
"intimate" XDD

Jussie - My, my. Must be Fangawth Mating Season. says:
well, in comparison to "grade 9" conversations. >.>
"yo"
"yo"
"wassup"
"nuthin"
"whaddya doin"
"nuthin"
"ic ic"

[a rusty keloid..I curse the day I began lucid dreams] says:
lol
sure is enlightening >.>

Jussie - My, my. Must be Fangawth Mating Season. says:
oh yeah. XD

Jussie - My, my. Must be Fangawth Mating Season. says:
now it's like "WHAT IF WE ALL FELL IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER AND ENDED UP IN THIS TANGLED MASS OF SEXUAL EXPLORATION AND THERE WAS RIVALRY AND CONFLICT AND SOMEONE DIED AND WE ALL SPLIT UP???" or something of the sort every few minutes. XDDD

[a rusty keloid..I curse the day I began lucid dreams] says:
lol XDD how the hell did you get to that strand of conversation? XDD

Jussie - My, my. Must be Fangawth Mating Season. says:
are you kidding? I say "hi" to Mom and that's all we talk about all day. XDDD

[a rusty keloid..I curse the day I began lucid dreams] says:
XDDDDDDDDDD;;;;;;;;;

*sigh* I love having friends who can carry interesting conversation. ^__^

Why Jessie Doesn't Like Camping

2004-11-13T18:19:00.000-08:00

Mom mentioned earlier today that perhaps he, Crystal and I should go camping one day to see if we can live together without feeling the need to murder one another. At first, this seemed like a wise idea, but then he began constructing his prediction on what might happen if we went.

Jessie Camp Log #482:
Today Mom stole my underwear. I'm sitting out here in the cold, I can feel the cold of the lining of my jeans scratching against my ass. Damn him! Tomorrow, I will poison his soup with the bug repellant. Take that, asshole!

Jessie Camp Log #483:
I.. My.. left hand.. Mom .. chainsaw.. he caught me.. poison..
(the rest is smeared with blood)

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Crystal Camp Log #756:
Today we found a dead boy by the river. He looks Japanese. I wonder..

Crystal Camp Log #757:
Last night I went down to the river and had sex with the corpse. Mom was standing there with a chainsaw and a severed hand of some sort. I offered to let him join. Chainsaws are fun! ^_^

Crystal Camp Log #758:
I miss Jessie, she said she'll be back. But it's already been 2 days. Is the bathroom really that far away?

Crystal Camp Log #759:
I recognize the severed hand Mom put into the soup this morning, it had the engagement ring I gave to Jessie last month on it. Oh well.. minor detail.. ^^

Crystal Camp Log #760:
I found Jessie's Camp Log today, she should really lay off getting drunk off ketchup. She must've drank a lot of it, or else it would've have taken a week to pee.

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Mom Camp Log #15:
I went out to the wood to look for Jessie. Crystal said somethign confusing about a hand and the soup I made. But I didn't make any soup that morning, for I was too busy fixing my makeup. She also said something about sex and some dead boy. I think she's just crazy.

Mom Camp Log #16:
Crystal started puking white stuff this morning. I thought it was amusing at first, so I left her to do it. Later when I found her again, she had no pulse. That's pretty good acting skills. Jessie should've filmed it, I wonder where she went.

Mom Camp Log #17:
I told Crystal the rice is ready, but she was still laying in the white stuff, I assume she was having fun, and ate the rice all by myself. It tastes slightly odd. And I chewed this hard metal bit at some point, when I spat it out, it was the engagement ring I gave to Jessie last month. Oh well, life goes on.

Mom Camp Log #18:
We went home today. I think Jessie walked home. And Crystal grew a beard and looked a lot like Bruce Willis. She also had his voice and everything. Later when we got home, Crystal showed me her chainsaw.
(the rest is smeared with blood)

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Ok, at this point, I'd been trying to put the plot together in my brain, but I got extremely lost and waited patiently for Mom's summary of what the hell he's talking about.

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My Immortal Crotch says:
The end.

Jussie - When Only Obstructing Omlette's Omniscient Or Overly Obsessive Otherwise Ordained Orchestrated Order Of Wang. says:
I AM SO CONFUSED. XDDDDDDDDD

My Immortal Crotch says:
Wow, I unknowningly wrote a fic.

My Immortal Crotch says:
I must put this on LJ.

Jussie - When Only Obstructing Omlette's Omniscient Or Overly Obsessive Otherwise Ordained Orchestrated Order Of Wang. says:
I'm doing the same. XDD

My Immortal Crotch says:
DO you get the plot now?

Jussie - When Only Obstructing Omlette's Omniscient Or Overly Obsessive Otherwise Ordained Orchestrated Order Of Wang. says:
NO. XDDD

My Immortal Crotch says:
Basically Bruce Willis was there stalking us when we went camping. He stole your underwear, then killed you, and then pretended to be me. Before you died, you were poisoning the soup. Later, Crystal found a corpse by the river, and Bruce Willis joined her in havin sex with the corpse. Then later that week, Crystal drank your poison soup and died. Then I was out of this entire incident, and when it was time to go home, Bruce Willis pretended to be Crystal and went home with me.

Jussie - When Only Obstructing Omlette's Omniscient Or Overly Obsessive Otherwise Ordained Orchestrated Order Of Wang. says:
OH. OF COURSE. XDDD

My Immortal Crotch says:
Oh, he also cooked rice, playing as Crystal for me, or me for Crystal. And he put in your meat into the rice. And we both proposed to you a month before and you hence have two engagement rings, which we respectively chewed and spat out.

Jussie - When Only Obstructing Omlette's Omniscient Or Overly Obsessive Otherwise Ordained Orchestrated Order Of Wang. says:
makes sense.

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Wow. And I thought Summit Camp was bad.

Coming to a theatre near you.

2004-11-06T01:17:00.000-08:00

HOLY CRAP. I LOVE THIS. XDDDDDDDDDDDDD
YAY MOM AND HIS PHOTOSHOPPING.

Random things that you probably don't care about!

2004-11-05T15:14:00.000-08:00

In THIS fun filled entry, Jessie will continue procrastinating on writing about her birthday and Halloween even further by posting her answers to a quiz she found on Crystal's ancient livejournal entries! Yay!

Full name: Jessie Krista Blue Anderson
Nicknames: Jess, Squirky, Kei-chan, Jussie
Sex: Female
Age: 14
Birthday: November 1, 1990
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario
Siblings: None
Mothers name: Lalanya Blue McGraw
Fathers name: Karl Anderson
Step-parents names: James Harold Booth (considered more as dad than as the stepfather)
Pets: 6 cats and a turtle
Height: around 5'2" or 5'3"
Weight: neveryoumind
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Religion: whatever random beliefs inspire me the most
Hair Color: Brown
Blood type: I dunno
Eye Color: Green
Eye Color of Choice: either one green and one blue or both deep red
Writing Hand: Left
Current Residence: Vancouver, 3 blocks away from Tech
Occupation: Student
Status: Alive and well

BODY ILLS AND SKILLS

Nervous Habits: Eye twitches
Do you bite your nails?: Yes, sometimes
Do you pick your nose?: No
Are you double jointed?: Only the ring finger on both hands
Can you roll your tongue?: sometimes; not very well
Can you raise one eyebrow at a time?: Yes
Can you blow smoke rings?: No idea
Can you blow spit bubbles?: Yes
Can you flare your nostrils?: Yes
Can you cross your eyes?: No
Tattoos: None
Piercings and where?: One in each earlobe
Do you make your bed daily?: Generally, although on most weekdays I can't be bothered to

STYLE

What goes on first, bra or underwear?: Yes.
Which shoe goes on first?: Usually right
Speaking of shoes, have you ever thrown one at anyone?: Not sure, actually. I don't think so?
On the average, how much money do you carry in your purse/wallet?: However much I have.
What jewelry do you wear 24/7?: Either a silver necklace or a tie
Would you rather be on time and look OK or 10 minutes late and look great?: On time
Favorite Piece of Clothing: fedora
Pajamas: clothes
Type of music: Various; usually Jrock these days
Makeup you generally wear: Don't usually wear any; occasionally eyeliner
Any bodyart: nope
Hair drying method: air
Have you ever colored/highlighted your hair?: Yep
Do you paint your nails?: Not usually

CURRENTLY

Wearing: Black T-shirt, blue jeans, Scary Movie 3 baseball cap
Listening to: Bjork ("Medulla" album)
Thinking of: Trying to keep homework out of my mind
Taste in your mouth: Fuzzy Peach candy
How are you?: I'm doin' alright. And you?

FOOD

Do you twirl your spaghetti or cut?: Either twirl or just shove it into my face unceremoniously.
Have you ever eaten Spam?: Nope. I think I'd better try it. Everyone randomly mentions it.
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Vanilla, neopolitan
How many cereals in your cabinet?: A bunch of those mini-boxes that you pour milk into
What's your favorite beverage?: Chocolate milk
What's your favorite restaurant?: Little Caesar's
What utensils do you use to eat pizza?: hands, if it's not too hot
Do you cook?: As seldom as possible

GROOMING

How often do you brush your teeth?: Every morning
How often do you shower/bathe?: Generally daily or every second day
How long does your shower last?: Around 20-30 minutes

MANNERS

Do you swear?: Yea, although some people still say they rarely hear me cursing.
Do you ever spit?: Only in sinks and tissues.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE

Actor/Actress: Oh, geez...I like a whole bunch, but lets go with Winona Ryder for now
Animal: Dragon (hey, you never know.)
Food: Pizza, no-name macaroni and cheese
Month: July
Day: Saturday
Cartoon: X
Flower: Black or blue roses
Shoe Brand: anything comfy/fairly nice looking/affordable
Band(s)/Singer(s): Dir en Grey, KD Lang, Bjork, Evanescence
Subject in school: Art, Electronics
Color: Red, Black, Navy Blue
Sport: Grr to sports...soccer and basketball are alright
Body part on you: Double-jointed finger
Body part on the opposite sex?: Totally depends on the person
TV show: I don't usually watch TV
10 Best Looking Male Celebs: Check People's Magazine.
10 Best Looking Female Celebs: Or the internet.
Holiday: Halloween/My Birthday (pretty much the same holiday)
Book: Battle Royale, A Wrinkle in Time
Vacationing Spot: Japan sounds like fun
Thing To Do In The Spring: Wait for Spring Break
Thing To Do In The Summer: Let my happy-go-lucky nature take over
Thing To Do In The Fall: Growl at school
Thing To Do In The Winter: Wait for Winter Break
Perfume or Cologne: Cologne
Game: American McGee's Alice in Wonderland
Quote: "I've crossed the line between sanity and madness so many times I've all but rubbed it out."
Scent: Matches
Movie: Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Girl Interrupted...
Season: Summer
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Relative: Parents
Shampoo: Doesn't matter
Commercial: Foonay ones
Magazine: Famous (you know, the ones you get at Famous Players theatres)
Non-alcoholic drink: Chocolate Milk
Thing to do on the weekend: Amuse myself with friends
Boys name: balogna
Girls name: Pasta Eating Surrender Monkey
Hangout: My basement (prop room!)
Feeling: spaced out
Store: Usually places that Crystal recommends
Dog breed: Husky
cat breed: Tabby
Bird breed: Toucan
Fish breed: those neat ones that were just recently discovered
day of the year: Any day in July (yay Summer Vacation)

IN AND AROUND

The CD Player: Dir en Grey - Gauze
Person you talk most on the phone with: Ellie
Ever taken a cab?: Many times
Do you regularly check yourself out in store windows and mirrors?: Not unless I just got a haircut or something
What color is your bedroom?: White with random pictures taped/painted on the walls
Do you use an alarm clock?: Yea, on my watch, but I usually turn it off before it rings
Name one thing you are obsessed with: Only ONE? Hmmm...recently it's been my friends.
Have you ever skinny-dipped with the opposite sex?: Nope.
Ever sunbathed nude?: No.
Window seat or aisle?: Window

LA LA LAND

What's your sleeping position?: Restless
What kind of bed do you like?: Big and soft. Or something random like a couch, floor, chair...
Even in hot weather do you use a blanket?: Depends
Do you snore?: Not that I know of
Do you sleepwalk?: nope
Do you talk in your sleep?: Maybe? I don't think so
Do you sleep with a stuffed animals?: Naw, I always feel like they're watching me.
How about with the light on?: Not usually.
Do you fall asleep with the TV or radio on?: I can't if the TV's on. Always with music, though.

WHEEEEE

Do you glow in the dark?: If I dunk myself in a vat of glow-in-the-dark nail polish, sure.
Do the walls talk to you?: On occasion.
Do you talk back?: Depends. Sometimes I have no response.
Can you lick your elbow?: Nope. And believe me, I've tried.
What is the square root of meep?: √meep
Do you worship ramen noodles?: Not on a regular basis
Do you believe in the 5 second rule?: Depends on how hungry I am
What does "n double o d l e s" meen to you?: 2n odles. Algebra meets nonsense.
What is the meaning of life?: Ask Monty Python.
Meep, Nyeh, or meh?: Meh.

WHICH IS BETTER

Club or houseparty: Houseparty
Tea or coffee: Tea
Achiever or slacker: Achievement is good, but slacking feels great
Beer or cider: Apple cider!!
Drinks or shots: So far, it all burns. Ask me again in a few years.
Single or taken: Single
Pen or pencil: Recently I've taken quite a liking to pens, but I still love pencils
Gloves or mittens: Elegant gloves
Pop or soda: Pop
Food or candy: Depends on how hungry I am
Cassets or cd: CD
Matches or a lighter: Lighter
Coke or Pepsi?: Coke; Pepsi either gives me hiccups or a stomachache
Oranges or apples?: Apples
One pillow or two?: Four; two on each side of the bed
Deaf or blind?: Neither hopefully, but better deaf than blind
Pools or hot tubs?: If forced to choose, hot tubs, but I tend to avoid pools of all sorts
Blondes or brunettes?: Doesn't matter
Tall or short?: Doesn't matter
TV or radio?: TV
Beach or pool?: Beach. No pool.
Tic-Tacs or Certs?: Uh...Tic Tacs?
Snooze button or jump out of bed?: Who needs a snooze button? I'm turning the damn thing off.
Sunrise or Sunset?: Sunset
Hamburger or Cheeseburger?: Cheeseburger
Morning or night?: Night
Sports or news?: News above sports, but I don't tend to watch it unless a friend is on it
Bikini or one-piece?: Nooooo!
Indoors or outdoors?: Generally indoors
Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?: Day
Cake or ice cream?: Ice cream
Bert or Ernie?: Ernie
Spicy or Mild?: Mild
Spearmint or Peppermint?: I can't really tell the difference
Call or Write?: Calling above writing, typing above calling
Peanut Butter or Jelly?: Jelly
Hamburger or Hot Dog?: Both are good
Dog or Cat?: Dog
Bath or shower?: Shower
Book or Movie?: I like movies better than books, but I don't usually like book-based movies.
Green or Red apples? Doesn't matter. Red's prettier?
Rain or Snow?: Rain
Nike or Adidas?: Doesn't matter
Hot or Cold: Hot (well...it depends)
Lace or satin: Satin
Blue or red: Red, but sometimes blue is awesome too
New or old: Old for random trinkets, new for technology
Give or recieve: A bit of both
Wool or cotton: Cotton
Rose or daisy: Rose
Private school or public school: Public!
Chocolate milk or white milk: I love chocolate milk, but I tend to drink white milk more often
Celcius or faerenheit: Celcius
Math or art: Art

PERSONAL STANCE ON

Homosexuality: Makes things interesting
Brand names: Can be amusing; are often taken too seriously
Abortion: None of my business unless it's my child
Religion: It's fine if people don't talk to me about it as if the beliefs were fact
Eating disorders: Make people gain or lose weight
PMS: Can not be blamed for everything
Animal rights: Long live the Kingdom
Love at first sight: Maybe
God: Quite possibly
Marilyn manson: He's very intelligent
Guy bands: I subconsciously associate them with a lack of intelligence and creativity
Spice girls: They remind me of grade 3
Premarital sex: Is probably for the best
Titanic: Not very well thought out
Jerry springer: Don't watch it
Suicide: Makes for good songs/films/etc, a usually stupid move to make in real life
Self mutilation: Makes for good songs/films/etc, but it hurts
South park: I don't watch it
Dreams: Love them (usually)
Aliens: They're great and will hopefully continue their lives without the corruption of Earth's politics
Horoscopes: Fun to read, but not very original
Heaven: Everyone's heaven is different
Hell: Everyone's hell is different
Reincarnation: Quite possibly
Transvestites: Awesome
Pop music: Depends on the song. REALLY poppy stuff gets on my nerves.
Rap: Some is ok
80's music: Depends on the song
Punk: Ish good

QUICK ADDITION

Whats the prettiest instrument: Piano
Whats the prettiest part of the body: Generally the eyes
Biggest fears: Rejection, The System
Do you live in a moment: Sometimes
Do you care about looks: More or less
Do you like your handwriting: Yes. It's big, so I don't have to write as much in English.
Looking forward to: Summer Vacation
Favorite weather: Depends how I'm feeling
Do you ever wish you were somebody else: I used to sometimes, but not anymore

DO YOU LIKE

Giving hugs?: Hugs are great
Taking walks in the rain?: If it's not raining too hard, sure
Going on stage?: S'ok, but I prefer being backstage

DO YOU

Drink: No
Smoke: No
Drugs: No
Eat meat: Yes
Insomnia: No
Eat a lot: Not overly
Sleep a lot: When I have time
Eat sushi: Yes
Bake: Not when I can avoid it
Get motion sickness: No
Get along with your parents: Yesh
Like to drive: I like the passenger seat best
Type with fingers on the right keys: Sort of
Wear contacts: No, but enough time around Crystal makes anyone want to buy them
Have any siblings: No

WHO DO YOU WANT TO AND WHY

Kill: Everett - he frightens me the way he recognizes me EVERYWHERE
Hear from: Mom - He was supposed to come over yesterday and I haven't heard from him at all
Get really wasted with: Friends, I guess - Safest and most comfortable environment
Look like: Uh...if anything, I'd want to change certain things about my appearance rather than switch the whole thing with someone else
Be like: Me, except I'd prefer it if I were less of an ass when I'm stressed
Avoid: Everett - he still frightens me (it hasn't changed since I typed the other note 3 minutes ago)

WHEN/WHAT WAS THE LAST..

Time you took a shower?: Last night
Time you watched Bambi: When I was rreaaallly little; it's not my favourite of Disney films
Time you cried?: When the stuff in my prop room was moved and I couldn't find anything (Apparently I really like knowing where my stuff is; I've done that twice)
Time you talked on the phone?: A few days ago
Time you read a book?: English class today
Time you Punched someone?: I don't think I've ever punched someone (other than the "I Toucha Yo Face" things, but those aren't supposed to be painful)
Time you got a real letter: Not sure
Time you Got an email: Two days ago, when Yahoo Messenger sent me a confirmation letter saying I was registered
Tv program you watched: Just for Laughs
Thing you purchased: Webcam
Movie you saw at the theatre: Rocky Horror Picture Show
Time you were grounded: Never happened
Words you typed: Never happened
Phone numbers you called: Mom's cell (I forgot that I have his recharge cord, so his phone doesn't work)
Person you talked to on the phone: Mom, when he called on my birthday at around 1am

LAST PERSON YOU..AND WHEN?

Touched: Shannon
Talked to: Ms. Orr
Hugged: my Dad
Instant messaged: Ellie
Kissed: nope.
Who broke your heart: never really happened

WHERE DO YOU

Eat: Dining room or my bedroom
Dance: Don't.
Cry: My room
Wish you were: Here is fine.

HAVE YOU EVER

Dated one of your best friends: Nope
Loved/Liked somebody so much it made you cry: Uh...only when Louisa switched schools and I was like "Noooo~ my best buddy is leaving for all eternityyy"
Drank alcohol: Yes
Done drugs: No
Broken the law: Only copied rented movies for my own convenience
Ran away from home: No
Broken a bone: No
Cheated on a test: Only on those crossword tests in Social Studies where the whole class cheats
Skinny dipped: No
Played Truth or Dare: Yes
Flashed someone: No
Mooned someone: No
Kissed someone you didnt know: No
Been on a talkshow/gameshow: No
Been in a fight: No
Ridden in a fire truck: No
Been on a plane: Yes
Come close to dying: I don't think so
Cheated on your boy/girlfriend: No
Given someone a piggy back/shoulder ride: Tried; I don't usually make it very far
Eaten a worm/mud pie: No
Swam in the ocean: Once when I was like...7 or so
Had a nightmare/dream that made you wake up: Only when I go and take a nap in my dream. I wake up in real life when that happens. (I've done it intentionally quite a few times.)
Snuck out of the house: Not really any need to
Stayed up till four on the phone: Possibly?
Made a prank phone call: No
Tipped over a portapotty: No
Used your parents credit card : No
Skipped school: No (Well...if I do, my parents write me a note anyway. Depends on what you count as skipping)
Fell asleep in the shower/bath: No
Fell asleep while eating: No
Fell asleep while driving: No
Driven a car: Only around the teeny parking lot by Rona (at the zooming speed of 5km/h!!)
Met someone famous: Yea, but no one seems to know who they are when I mention them
Wanted to die: Contemplated, but never earnestly wanted to
Been in a school play: Yes (usually as a narrator or something)
Cried in public: No
Let a friend cry on your shoulder: Maybe? I don't remember
Gone to church: Once
Red the bible: No
Fished: Yes
Seen someone die: Only my dog/hamster/gerbils/goldfish

LOVE

Boyfriend?: No
Girlfriend?: No
Sexuality?: Yes.
Virginity existant?: Yes
Children?: None
Current crush: Orange. Grape sucks.
Been in love?: I don't think so
Had a hard time getting over?: No
Been out with someone?: No
Too Shy?: And logical
Been hurt?: Ow, my pancreas
Have you ever said "I love you" and meant it?: Only to friends/family
Cheated on someone: No
Gone out with someone you only knew for three days?: No
Have/had an online relationship?: No
Who do you want to spend the rest of your life with?: Anyone who won't piss me off for all eternity

MEDICAL

Fracture history: None
Operation history: None
Allergies: I don't think I have any
had stiches: No
Cavities: One
Phobias: None diagnosed

WHAT IS

The most embarassing cd in your collection: I have yet to get rid of my Spice Girls ones
Your bedroom like: it represents me as a person quite well
Your favorite thing for breakfast: Nothing; breakfast usually makes me feel sick
Your favorite thing for lunch: Kraft Dinner
Your favorite thing for dinner: Pizza (yeah, I know, I have the ultimate diet.)
Your favorite resturaunt: I prefer eating at home

ARE YOU...

A vegetarian?: No
A good student?: I used to be really good...now I'm still okay, but I slack 3493493 times more
Good at sports?: Noooo. I do alright at softball.
A good singer?: Not horrific, but it's not one of my main qualities
A good actor/actress?: I deliver lines pretty well, but I can't do physical acting
A deep sleeper?: Sometimes
A good dancer?: No. No dancing for me.
Shy?: Depends on the situation
Outgoing?: Depends on the situation
A good storyteller?: So I'm told, but my ability to speak legibly is starting to collapse.
Last words?: I like noodlth.

THE FUTURE

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?: Vancouver Film School
Where do you see yourself in ten years?: On my way to becoming a film director, hopefully
What season are you going to get married in: Who's getting married?
Place of honeymoon: uh...KFC.
How many kids?: None
Your profession: I hope to become a film director
Future School: Hopefully VFS (didn't I just answer these like two seconds ago?)
Car of Your Dreams: I'm not sure
I Wanna Live: 'till the day I die. (That's Crystal's answer, but I love it so much that I dare not change it.)

RANDOM

What is youre most prized and important possession: My photos and home video footage
When you wake up you: Check the clock
Your mouse pad has on it: Creation Station logo (with a little lightbulb, even)
What is on the walls in your room: Painting of Kamui from X and Duo from Gundam Wing, a Kill Bill poster, and random pictures I felt like putting up
Thinking of right now: It's Friiiiiiday, it's Friiiiiiiiday...
What do you do that really pisses off your friends: I used to act really arrogant...now I think it's more that I'm a real ass around Summit people sometimes for unknown reasons
Do you have a job: I help my mom clean offices on the weekends
After school/work you: Eat
If you were a crayon what color would you be?: Blue
What makes you happy?: No homework, time around my friends
Whats the next cd youre going to get?: Not sure
Who do you consider good friends?: Everyone I'm friends with right now.
What do you like to do?: Spend time with frieends (have I mentioned them enough yet?)

Wow. That was long enough.

Should we be concerned...?

2004-10-25T01:26:00.000-07:00

I took these screencaps from some footage I got of Crystal at Krystal's house yesterday. I think they were all taken in about a 1-minute time span.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

2004-10-22T01:41:00.000-07:00

When one thinks of an armed robbery, one often thinks of the last action movie they saw, with all the random guys in poofy black jackets and ski masks and a pistol in their hand, screaming obscenities at the innocent civilians in the vicinity before running off to engage with the main characters in a violent action-packed car chase scenes with many sirens sounding in the background.

Take out the action packed car chase, and you've got yourself a true story.

Last Saturday, Mom and I were casually wandering around Blockbuster in an attempt to find Ichi the Killer. After discovering that they didn't carry it, we searched around for an incredibly long period of time and ending up picking up Cube, Hypercube, and Audition. They seemed like really good films; Mom had gushed about Cube and it's sequel, and apparently Audition was by the same director as Ichi the Killer. I figured that the movies he'd picked would probably scare the crap outta me, but what the hell, right?

So we head up to the counter, where the lady tells us that it's actually cheaper to get four movies rather than three, so we headed over to the drama section to see what else was worth picking up. After about 3 to 5 minutes of browsing, we're still looking when all off a sudden we hear a "GET THE FUCK DOWN!" coming from the entrance. We both kinda stand there in confusion as a very faint alarm began ringing through the store and people were starting to sound all panicked-like. The voice yelled it's request again, so Mom and I looked at each other before casually kneeling down on the ground as if we'd spotted something shiny and weren't sure whether we should pick it up or not.

Mom: *mutters* This is new...
Jessie: *nods* Interesting....

As we knelt behind the safety of the drama DVDs, I heard the voice yell "OPEN THE FUCKING REGISTER" and the clangs indicating the opening of the machine at their request. For a few seconds (about the time when I first realized what "get the fuck down" meant) I was all like "OOOOOOOHHH MAH GOD I'M GONNA DIEEEEE", but then by the time I'd made eye contact with Mom and gotten around to kneeling down, I'd come to the realization "Wait...who robs a BLOCKBUSTER? I mean, come on!" While I was listening to them giving instruction to the cashiers, it occured to me that perhaps these robbers had seen Pulp Fiction and gotten the idea of walking around and stealing the wallets of everyone in the vicinity. Then I was back to the "oooooooh crap" mindset, although I didn't really feel any danger in actually getting KILLED. I just didn't really want our drama aisle to become invaded by random guys in poofy jackets and ski masks (and no, this was not an assumption; I could see them every now and then between the DVD racks).

As I found out later, Mom could hear the sirens at this point, and the guys saying "Shit, the cops! Let's go, let's go, let's go!" and the clunking of plastic cases together (probably DVD boxes or something). My brain skipped all these details, possibly because I was thinking about Pulp Fiction. I did, however, hear them saying something like "OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR. ....OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!" and I was like "....are they locking them IN here?" While I puzzled over the sheer stupidity of this idea, I'm not exactly sure what happened, because next time I looked in the space between the DVD racks, the cops were standing there and people had started to get up already. The robbers had apparently escaped.

Mom and I finally opted to stand up, since the robbers would have killed the others by now if they were still in there. (Mom: "My future is far to great to be shot by armed thugs in a Blockbuster!") Once we'd stood up, Mom paused and said "......ok, so if we get one more movie, it'll be $5.99, right?" After having a nice hearty laugh. we proceeded to the front counter and asked if we could leave, but the cashier told us we had to stay in the vicinity until we'd filled out our little witness form things. While waiting for a form and pen, we discovered from other witnesses' stories that one lady had her purse stolen, another had her wallet taken, one guy heard a gunshot, and another watched them take all the stuff off two random shelves and shove them into his backpack. When I inspected these shelves, it seemed to me that he'd taken about 20 copies of The Day After Tomorrow and a bunch of empty Xbox game cases. While randomly chatting and laughing with Mom about the event, my dad called to ask if we could rent Farenheit 9/11 for him and mom. I calmly responded with "....no." and proceeded to tell him about the incident. He freaked out and asked if I was ok, and I assured him that Mom and I were both fine. When he asked if he could come to make me feel better, I was like "Um...ok. I thiiiink they're letting parents in...I am fine, though." I truly was, actually. The event itself had been rather shaking, but Mom and I made fun of it after and it was all good.

After figuring out how the hell to fill the witness forms out (I'm still not sure I did it right), I wrote my little paragraph and watched Mom write his little essay, ending up writing along the sides of the paper due to lack of space. I noticed after a while that my dad'd been standing outside for God knows how long, and he called me to confirm that he would wait out there until he was needed. He was probably assured that I was fine by the fact he'd probably been watching Mom and me sprawled out on the floor cracking up for however long.

After getting the police officer to read our sheets (and debate with Mom over whether or not his logo is a legal signature) Dad drove us home so we could tell our tale to my parents and assure them that we were both ok.

Aaaand about half an hour ago I dissected a pen with a knife and ended up cutting my finger with the ink-covered blade, so now I'm hoping I don't get ink poisoning. *crosses fingers* Good luck to moi.

Word of the Day

2004-10-16T01:17:00.000-07:00

Jussie - Yay for incredibly cute and adorable psychotic maniacs. says:
I looked up "keloid" in the dictionary today.
Jussie - Yay for incredibly cute and adorable psychotic maniacs. says:
Jessie: Hmm...Keloid Milk...what the hell does that mean? *looks up keloid* Hmm...a scar tissue type thing. Heheh. Scar tissue milk. That's random. Now, what about Crystal's livejournal name...rusty keloid...rusty scar tissue...OW MAN. *falls over*
"aunt"LOOLOO - utter silence; ---* another side, another story. says:
LMAO.

Lessons of the Day:
Keloid Milk is a great song.
Rusty Keloid is a very clever livejournal name.
If someone ever offers you keloid milk or a rusty keloid, run away screaming.

Where have I seen YOU before?

2004-10-14T22:33:00.000-07:00

Alrighty. In this blog entry, I shall attempt to summarize my entire week, because every time my life is interesting, I have no time to write, and when my life is boring, I ramble about nothing, so here's my attempt to actually write about the interesting parts. *cracks knuckles*

FRIDAY
About a week or so prior to this day, Crystal had found a movie playing at Cinematheque called The Soup, One Morning. She sent me the link to the info, and we decided it'd be lots of fun to go see the movie with Mom and Bill. However, we later found issues because for one, it was my dad's birthday, and two, you have to have a membership to buy a ticket and you must be 18 or over to buy a membership. Because of this, I decided that I just wouldn't go and I'd have dinner with my family and the world would go on. BUT. Dad said that he actually WANTED me to go, despite the fact that it would mean missing most of his birthday celebration, Crystal's friend who's name I never found out had gotten a membership for me, and Mom had enough money to pay for my ticket. Generally, the plan was as follows: Walk in with membership. Ask for ticket. If they ask for ID, I look angry and frustrated and/or claim I left it at home. If all else fails, Bill and Mom will pretend to be my gay parents.
Ok, so I'd gotten home from school on the Friday, and my dad had said that Mom called saying that they had access to the membership and all that. I ran to the bank with Dad to see if we had any take-out-able money, which we did not, so we went back home, where I got changed in preparation for the day, which involved putting on my hat and glasses, which cover my face and make me look older. Due to my lack of money and valid 18-or-older ID, I figured I wouldn't be able to get into the movie, so I would just head to Metrotown, which is where they were meeting up, hang out for the hour or so before they left for the movie, and then go home. However, when I got there, everything kinda went very quickly. Here is a little scripted out version of the situation:
Jessie: *meets up with Mom and Bill in Chapters and explains money and ID scenario*
Mom: Oh, well...I have enough money to pay for you.
Bill: Yeah, and if you have the membership, they probably won't ask for ID.
Jessie: Okay...maybe...I guess...I dunno...
Mom: *calls Crystal* Ok, we need to go meet Crystal at Metrotown station.
Jessie, Mom, Bill: *walk to the skytrain station*
Jessie: Um...what's going on? Oh look, there's Crystal. ^_^
Crystal: *waves* Now we just have to find my friend...there he is. *points to random guy behind us* This is Alex.
*insert quick friendly chatter here*
Crystal: Ok, so...this is kind of weird, because I have Mom and Bill's tickets, Alex has my ticket, and his friend has Jessie's ticket.
Jessie: Um. Ok.
Alex: Yea, we should go down to meet him.
Jessie: Ok...*follows group randomly*
group: *ends up on Skytrain heading downtown*
Jessie: Um...*calls Dad* Yes...apparently I'm heading Downtown...so I guess I'm gonna try to get into the movie...
*insert trouble with public transit here that involves lack of skytrain and the use of two buses*
group: *reaches the theatre*
random friend who's name I don't know: Hi. Here. *distributes random memberships/tickets*
Jessie: Um...ok. *now has membership and ticket*
Crystal: *disappears off to grab tickets ordered online*
Jessie, Mom and Bill: Um. *just kind of stand there*
Mom: Oh crap, I think that lady's ratting us out. *points to lady talking to guy who works there* I think she was talking about us.
Jessie and Bill: Huh?
Guy: *walks over*
Mom, Jessie and Bill: Oh crap.
Guy: Are you here to see the short film?
Mom: Uuuuhhh......They're buying our tickets. *points to Crystal and friends*
Guy: Ok. *leaves*
Mom, Jessie and Bill: O_o;; um...ok.
Crystal: *returns with tickets*
Jessie: Um...how come your tickets are all prettiful and such, while mine is just like an average raffle ticket?
Crystal: Um.....*inspects ticket*.....I'll ask him. *goes to ask random friend who's name I don't know* *comes back* He says yours was a rush ticket, where as these were pre-ordered.
Jessie: Ooookaaaay. Um. Yes. One of you should go into the theatre first, just to check and see if they ask for random ID...
Crystal: Ok. *goes up to random lady who works there*
Random lady: *rips the ticket and hands the stub back*
Jessie: *hands ticket to random lady*
Random lady: *rips the ticket and hands the stub back*
Jessie: *nods politely to lady and scurries past*

Yes. So then we watched the movie. And it was fun. Good film. At the end, Bill was like, "Um....what just happened? There was no ending!" and random old movie buffs laughed at him. Mom, Crystal and Bill took me back to Renfrew station, where my Mom drove me home and I magically made it in time for my dad's birthday dinner. Good times.

SATURDAY
After my grandparents had left in the morning (they had slept over after attending Dad's dinner), I quickly prepared for Mom, Bill, Ellie and Crystal's scheduled appearances. Ellie arrived more or less on time, and we chatted and poked carrot cake and created gummi bear orgies. After staring at the gummi bears for quite some time, we decided that Mom and Bill were taking an awfully long time, since it was around 3, and they'd said they'd be there for about 1 or 2. Crystal was going to show up late because work ended at 4 for her. To relieve our curiousity as to where Bill and Mom were, we called his cell. The first time he said he was picking up his paycheque, and the second time he said he was stuck on the skytrain because there was public transit issues yet again. Ellie and I started getting antsy, so we walked down to Renfrew station to pick everyone up for around 4-ish. Mom and Bill appeared after we'd waited for a couple minutes. Mom brought good news stating that he'd been asked to do a radio interview at one of the stations by a totally random person, and brought bad news saying that Crystal wasn't feeling well and was staying home.
At this point, we proceeded back to the house while randomly chatting about how Mom and Bill were the parents of Ellie and I and how incredibly demented our family was. Upon reaching my house, everyone plopped down on the couch and watched Ellie pull out Max Payne for PS2, which ended up getting taken over by Mom for a few hours, and Bill followed. Before we knew it, Ellie had to go, and Mom, Bill and I went down to the prop room to find random things to entertain ourselves with. We ended up dressing Mom up like a soccer mom, listening to Bill sleeptalk, and casually listening to Mom's read aloud of "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex." After this, Bill left, and Mom and I did whatever it is that we do to pass time before randomly passing out in my room.

SUNDAY
On Sunday morning, I started poking Mom at 7, since he said he would have to wake up then and leave at about 7:30 if he wanted to get to work on time. Rather than actually getting up, Mom lay in the bed pondering over whether it was actually worth getting up and going to work or if he should just go back to sleep. Considering it took him about 40 minutes to think this over, the final decision was that he would already be late anyway, so there was no point in going. What a fantastic employee.
After we woke up for the second time, Mom realized that he could now go to Ellie's, which had been suggested and declined before he'd decided to skip work. Unfortunately, Ellie's parents loathed Mom with a passion, and said he could only come over if he was in "normal" clothes. Mom, being Mom, didn't own any "normal" clothes, so he ended up borrowing my jeans, baseball cap, backpack, and my dad's shoes. It was an interesting/bizaare/midly frightening experience.
That evening I went to Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents. Very long and boring. But I got to wear my suit jacket and fedora.

MONDAY
Originally, I'd been planning to do homework on Monday. I was fully planning to. It was on the agenda, and I was not leaving the house all day so that I was able to finish my homework.

Next thing I knew, I was walking to the skytrain station to pick up Crystal before heading to LooLoo's. Procrastinator? Me? Naaaw.

Crystal magically ended up calling me to say she was at the station when I was about 30 seconds away from rounding the corner and seeing her. I lurve flukes like that. We walked home chatting about...DVDs...Ellie's new hair color...pants...and...flies. Yes. As we entered the house, Crystal was instantly fascinated by my million cats, and ended up practically petting them all at the same time on my bedroom floor. As she was busy sharing her endless affection with my pets, my mom came in and suddenly dropped a series of huge bags filled with teeny tiny clothes that fit no one on the planet except for Crystal. Originally, I had offered her one pair of pants, but she ended up walking away with...I dunno. Whatever she pulled out of the massive pile.

When Mom reached Renfrew station, we drove by, picked him up, and headed out to LooLoo's. Ellie, Clara (I think), and Monica were already there. Monica suddenly whipped out a rented Ringu tape and we all ended up in the basement watching it somehow. I kind of just assumed it was a mutual desicion, but upon further inspection discovered that Ellie, LooLoo and I are all terrified of scary movies, Monica just wanted to see the girl, Clara seemed kind of neutral about the movie, and Mom and Crystal have both seen it before. But whatever. While we watched, Crystal drew an incredibly cool drawing in my agenda while Mom fiddled around with my camera.
after a fairly short period of time, Clara and Crystal suddenly both just kind of left, and the rest of us started playing around with doors and scratching noises and long hair pulled in front of faces. Mom also wore a sequin spagetti strap top for a while that Crystal and I had pulled out of the massive pile of clothes. He had to change back into his original stuff shortly after because LooLoo's mom was home and would freak out if she saw Mom wearing it.
After the movie and fiddling with special effects and cameraness, we went upstairs, and everyone sang while I filmed them. Fun fun fun.

TUESDAY
Nothing was planned for Tuesday. I'd ended up rushing my homework Monday night and Tuesday morning, and was planning to prepare for my Social Studies essay on Wednesday. Key word: PLANNING.
As it turned out, Mom had not only gotten the radio interview, but he also got one for Global news and ended up on TV for a considerably long period of time. Most people are like "I like cheese--" and get cut off instantly, but they actually kept going back to him for about 2 minutes. My parents and I were all crowded around the TV eating dinner while watching it, and Crystal apparently prepared her "vomit cry" for battle against her grandparents for custody of the television for a few minutes.
At around 7, Mom called, while excitedly yelling "did you see me on TV? Did you see me on TV?" After the initial excitement died, he asked if he could randomly come over, since he was not at work where his dad thought he was, and because of this, he was unable to go home until about 11 and needed somewhere to be until then. When he got here, we watched his TV interview together, and he brought a tape of his radio one, so we got to listen to that too. After the interviews were over, we fiddled around with my incredibly amusing narrator program, and we made it read incredibly poorly written Dir en Grey yaoi fanfics and random lyrics. By the time we stopped cracking up at it, Mom had to go home.

WEDNESDAY
Wednesday was boring. Nothing happened.

THURSDAY
And finally, today. After school, I waited outside with Wincy, Chantelle, Annette, Cathy, and Tiffany for Mom and Crystal to arrive at Tech. We were planning on having the "Grand Mom Screening" where everyone got to see/hear his interviews. When they finally appeared, the same random people from last time went "Hey! Long time no see!" and rambled some other random stuff as the crowd slowly began to form. Because we actually wanted to get to my house this time, we took off in the other direction away from the random inquisitive kids. We watched the interviews, ate chicken, played fooseball, fiddled with the narrator, watched random flash animations, and then we kicked any Summit kids who were still there out so that Mom, Crystal and I could go Downtown. Um...yeah. They did mention that they had to go anyway, so it's justified.
Wandering around downtown was quite amusing. We didn't really end up doing much, but the company was great. Mom looked like some sort of colorful Asian Russian, because he had a fuzzy Russian-ish hat with yellow-tinted glasses, an orange shirt, red stockings/arm warmers and lots of fun fur. Crystal was having a blast fiddling with various facial expressions, and would quickly jump from incredibly cute, heart-melting pouts with a squeaky little-kid voice to suddenly jittering about with wide eyes, bared teeth, and a general appearance that conveyed the message "I'm going to eat your brains." At first, her psycho look was incredibly frightening, especially when she was doing it right in my face, but eventually I was warmed up to it enough to poke her in the forehead with the brim of my hat while she was staring at me.
After wandering around for a bit, my mom came by to pick me up, but she had brought the camera and circled around the art gallery for a while (which was where we were waiting) while we took some random photos. After we were satisfied, we headed towards the car, where my mom took a couple group photos of us.
Just before I stepped into the car, Mom lunged towards me to give me a hug, which has become a new parting tradition between us. I always have to stand on my toes to be able to hug him back, though. I also got a goodbye hug from Crystal, but she insisted on doing the psycho face during it, so I was kind of afraid she was gonna bite my ear off or something. ^_^;;
And...yes. Then we parted. And I came home and finished my French homework. And I printed out a few of the photos from today to put up in my locker. And now here I am finishing this INCREDIBLY long entry.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2004-10-03T09:52:00.000-07:00

WOW.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR IS WOW.

Note to all Summits: Cleopatra and Ivanhoe did NOT show off Elizabeth Taylor's true acting abilities. She is WOW.

Dialogue films are hard to follow. I admit I got confused at times. But "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a crazy good movie with WOW performances.

Go watch. You go watch now.

testing complete.

2004-10-02T14:42:00.000-07:00

Yay! It worked! The only problem is that now my little sidebar thingy is all the way down there rather than all the way up here. O_o Oh well. I got picture abilities now. I'm happy.

testing. Again.

2004-10-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

Ok. I just decided a few moments ago to fiddle with actually adding photos to this thing. If I've done it correctly, there should now be a photo in my profile, and above these sentences there should be a photo of Kaoru in the outfit I'm gonna try to do for Halloween this year.

Crap. Already?

2004-09-21T19:08:00.000-07:00

AUGH. CAMP. HELL NO.

Blood capsules and makeup and shops, oh my!

2004-09-18T19:05:00.000-07:00

I went shopping with Mom and Crystal yesterdaaaaaay. ^_^

After AE, I've kinda been hanging out with them a fair amount (just to clearify, I mean Mom as in the guy, not the parental figure), and so yesterday we got together for another fun round of shopping and confusion of passerbyes. BEWARE: The following may turn into a series of rants and run-on sentences. Proceed with caution.

I woke up yesterday morning panicking. I was suuuper anxious to meet them after school, and even began feeling ill with anticipation, which wasn't so good, because I had PE first block. Oh well. Apparently I can catch a softball. It's good to know that I can in fact do SOMETHING related to PE.

After PE, I had to quickly get changed, throw on a tie (it's rather politically incorrect to meet up with Mom and Crystal wearing a simple T-shirt and jeans) and dash off to French class. I got my photo taken for my Go-card, which hopefully came out alright, because I was really pissed off at the photographer guy for making me sit in an awkward position for the photo.

After French, we had our lunch block. I had opted not to bring my lunch because it would make my bag heavier (I was already carrying an extra pair of shoes) and I was feeling too sick to eat. Instead of supplying my body with essential nutrients like the rest of the world, I quickly changed from my sneakers to my new boots, threw on my suit jacket, pulled on my mom's gloves, exchanged my digital watch for a fancy one, and topped it off with a fedora. Everybody loved the fedora.

The last two blocks were English and Social Studies, which are both spent as work periods for the kids to finish all our stuff for camp (which I am DREADING having to go to this week). I basically spent this period procrastinating, being irritated, stressing, looking out the window, and checking the clock. It's odd; I don't usually get this tense when I'm meeting up with friends.

AFTER SCHOOL. After school was wonderful. I led some friends of mine downstairs so they could meet Mom and Crystal. I hadn't seen them walking towards the school through the window, so I was wondering if they had shown up late. Then I looked out the front doors and saw them. They're certainly an easy pair to spot, I can tell ya that much. The two of them were all happy because they both love attention (which obviously they were receiving, being in full makeup and...them-wear) and some random guy had even taken their photo. Getting home was a bit of a hassle, though. Mom got SURROUNDED by high school kids asking him random questions, similar to when a celebrity gets out of a limo at an awards ceremony. Some reoccuring questions were "Why do you dress like that?" "How long does it take to do your makeup?" "Are you Asian?" "What are you doing here?" "Do you like guys?" Etc, etc. Mom was well received by few and discriminated by many. He handled it REALLY well, though, and said that he's a total attention whore, so good attention and bad attention is all worth while. Crystal was pretty good about it, too, and contributed her own witty remarks to some of the stupider questions and comments. Here's an example of one short conversation:
random guy: Why are you like that?
Mom: What do you mean?
random guy: Why are you...like THAT?
Mom: I dunno...because I am.
random guy: No, I mean, WHY.
Mom: Um...
Crystal: Why are YOU like THAT?
random guy: What? Because...I just am!
Mom: Exactly!
random guy: No, man...that's just WRONG! Get outta Vancouver, yo!
Mom: ...yo?
Crystal: Yeah...word to yo mother, bro.

Anyway, after Mom had a shockingly pleasant conversation with the constable at our school and had grown tired of answering random questions, he let out one of his incredibly loud girly screams, which managed to get everyone to shut up long enough for us to get out of there.

After leaving the school, we went to my house (where I noticed for the first time that this was the first time I'd seen Crystal without white contacts), dropped off my bag and Mom's jacket, and took the bus down to The Dance Store to buy blood capsules. However, upon reaching there, Mom said he knew a place with BETTER blood capsules, so we went back on the bus and headed down to Robson Street. From then on, we kinda wandered around aimlessly while drifting into random stores. Some random person took a photo of us too. That's always fun.

After making a short stop at Burger King to use Mom's coupon for a free Whopper, we stopped in Act One to buy the awesome blood capsules that Mom had mentioned. While in there, we got to fiddle around with all the random hats and stuff. Mom put on a hat like Johnny Depp's in Pirates of the Carribean (complete with dreadlocks), I wore a sort of Puss in Boots kind of hat with a feather, and Crystal put on a Tinman hat that looked like a giant upside-down funnel. At this point, I mentally kicked myself for not bringing my camera.

After playing dressup for a while, Mom bought a box of empty capsules and a small bottle of stage blood. I need blood capsules for a project we're doing at camp, so I attempted to buy the same thing, However, she only put an extra box of capsules in, and no second bottle of blood. I think I'm gonna have to steal the bottle for now, since I need it this week, but I'll give him the money for it and it'll all be good.

After that, we made one more stop in Burger King (since last time we'd only BOUGHT the food and hadn't actually found a place to EAT it) and then proceeded to the skytrain station to head home. On the way, however, Mom decided that he had to pee, so we made an emergency stop in The Bay. He contemplated for a second or two over which bathroom to use, but decided to use the mens' one because the reactions are funnier in that one. While he was in there, Crystal and I began discussing ties (since we were standing between tie racks) only to be interrupted by a very random guy who appeared to be interested in Crystal, despite being 349234 years older than her.

random guy: Hey, sweetie!
Crystal: Fuck you.
random guy: *leaves*
Crystal: *yells down the hall 800 years after the guy has left* Fugly bastard.

Smooth, Crystal. Rather amusing, though.

Once we actually got on the Skytrain, we had to bid Crystal goodbye, since she said she should probably head home at that point. Mom decided to sleep over for the night, so he came back to my house and played around with my editing software for about 3 hours. The guy's got some serious editing skillzzZZzzz.

We left the file to transfer overnight, since the program was acting strange and pretended as though it never ever finished transferring (it did eventually transfer, but with some random clips that Mom hadn't actually used). In the morning, I got to watch Mom put on his makeup and outfit for the day. Fun fun fun. I then walked him down to the skytrain, came home, and fixed my internet, which had been down for a while. And now I'm here.

So, that was my Friday. I must say, I have the coolest friends. ^_^

Back to the institution I go.

2004-09-07T18:50:00.000-07:00

Today was an interesting day.

I laughed.

I cried.

I ate bologna sandwiches.

Thus the beginning of Grade 9.

ANUS COW.

2004-08-23T21:24:00.000-07:00

Anime Evolution 2004 was one of the best things that's happened to me in a while. I had a three-day sleepover with Ellie, Erin, Louisa, Monica and Logan, which drove my parents a bit crazy, but it was soooo much fun I practically crapped my pantalooniepatootiepoohs, as Ellie would say. Ellie kept doing this high-pitched AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA kind of laugh, and Logan kept yelling ANUS COW.

Ellie and I dressed up like Dir en Grey members (Kyo and Toshiya respectively) and people FLOCKED to Ellie with their cameras because of her beautiful tattered umbrella (which, for the record, I made). Louisa dressed up as a gothic lolita girl on Friday (although we all called her an Asian Swedish Maid instead), and Sasuke from Naruto on Saturday and Sunday. Erin was Naruto the whole time, Monica was a Smile box from L'Arc en Ciel on Friday (with a t-shirt that she got everyone to sign on Saturday and Sunday) and Logan stayed as Logan the whole time.

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Here's a shot of Ellie in her Kyo cosplay.

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Louisa in her Sasuke cosplay.

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This was Crystal, a Kyo cosplayer that Ellie practically worshipped.

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A photo shoot where someone yelled "everyone look dead!" and Louisa chose to hold up an "I like noodles" sign that we made as an inside joke type thing because of the kid wolfing down noodles on the other side of the sign.

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Erin, Louisa, and some guy I don't know.

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A self-made wallpaper of our new crossdresser friend Mom, who had a super low voice, yet could scream higher and louder than a small schoolgirl. ^_^ He rocks.

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Another Toshiya and Kyo. (This Kyo is the same one in the other picture.)

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Dinelle, a girl we met there who had gentleman competitions with me. You know, "who can get the door for others first" kinds of things.

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Erin with a Gaara cosplayer that she was obsessed with and hung out with all weekend.

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Go-Go, a very nice girl who sang with Louisa, Ellie, and some other dude at kareoke.

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A really nice girl who took awesome photos of Ellie and I and sold them as sticker sheets to us for $5 each. She even eagerly listened to us ramble for about half an hour.

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Chris and some dude with an umbrella. Chris was really nice; he chatted with us fairly often. He made the funniest damn poses for photos, man.

So, that was my weekend. Lots o' fun. The perfect annual event.

Trails. Off, that is.

2004-08-04T22:00:00.000-07:00

Ellie is fookin hilarious. I don't think I've gone a day this summer yet without chatting with her. She's just so RANDOM. I've always loved random humour. That's why I became friends with Louisa and Logan, whom I now choose to call LouLou and Logie. Whom I choose? Who I choose? I've forgotten all English. I'm sure Tiff will correct me tomorrow or some other point in the near future, and Wincy'll give me a thorough lecture re-explaining the grammatical structure of both words. Who needs tutors when you have Summit classmates? Raaaaaamble. Ok, back to my original point, Ellie's random humour amuses me. The title of this entry is a classic quote of hers. Some other popular Ellie classics include "AWKWAAAAAAAARD" and "So...how 'bout that cheese, eh?" Hah. Wooowww, I don't think I've ever written such an unsound entry point-wise. I'll shut up while I'm ahead. Or...yeah. I'll do that.

Please stop vomiting on my new carpet.

2004-07-29T23:31:00.001-07:00

Dir en Grey music videos are very, very creepy, man. They should come with a note at the beginning that says "WARNING: DO NOT WATCH AT NIGHT WITH THE LIGHTS OFF."

I gotta say, though, as frightening as they are, I love 'em. Especially Kyo, Shinya and Toshiya. They're damn cool. I can't say that I'd feel safe being in the same room as Kyo, ya know, with all the vomiting and the bleeding and the raping and the S&M obsessions...but he's still damn cool despite his rather peculiar lyrics and videos. Check 'em out. Excellent music. Very talented young lads.

GOOD DIR EN GREY FAN SITES:

http://macabrecage.net/cage/dirulay.htm

http://geocities.com/esoteric_symphony/04.html

http://jia.lansmart.com/

Confirmation

2004-07-24T01:17:00.000-07:00

Oh my God, the clock worked. and Blogger told me there was an error. HA!

Oh. I just noticed that I already tried this two entries ago. Oh well. This one's better.

What time is it, mr-wolf.com?

2004-07-24T01:08:00.000-07:00

Let's see if I can make this thing work.

My, how times have changed...

2004-07-21T00:03:00.000-07:00

Just trying something here. I can't get it to actually display the right time, though.

Ask a thoughtful question, get a thoughtful answer.

2004-07-17T00:34:00.000-07:00

Oh my God, there are so many new options on how to edit your blog entries now. I'm so lost and confused! Lost in Translation, even! Translation of little buttons and html!

Mmkay, so todaaaay, I bought a purdy necklace. (That's right. I said purdy. People always question me whenever I use that term.) It's a Celtic symbol for an iris, the same symbol as the one on the Quebec flag. Here's what it said on the bit of cardboard it came on:

"FLUER DE LEIS: The Fluer De Leis is the sign of the House of Bourbon, a family which has, or had, a member in every royal house in Europe. 'The Flower of Leis' is still found on the standards of several ruling families, including that of Spain. It is actually an iris, and is most associated with France."

Now, personally, I'm not all that emotionally attached to France or European politics. However, this is such a nice necklace that I felt I should have some sort of story to tell people when they ask about it. To help me come up with such a story, I did about 5 minutes of online research on iris' (irises?) and came up with the following:

"Well you see, I like to think of the iris as a flower with similar characteristics to an avid go-getter. For example, iris' grow in deserts, swamps, the far North...pretty much everywhere. As people, it's a good idea for us to also explore new surroundings and adapt to unfamiliar environments. As a second point, iris actually means rainbow, and there's a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow, so I figure that those with similar qualities to the iris in matters of perseverance and adaptability will be rewarded in the future."

Yeah yeah, I know it's a smart-ass thing to say. It's usually adults who ask about things like that though, and they're usually impressed with children actually having something intelligent to say at their parents' get-togethers.

Accomplishment!

2004-07-07T06:39:00.000-07:00

I just FINISHED a screenplay. I started it at around 9:30 last night, stayed awake all night and finished it just now, at 6:30 in the morning. I call it "Therefore I Am." I haven't actually finished a decent piece of writing since...grade...four, I think. I had been working on a separate screenplay which I was gonna call Palimpsest, but I got stuck on that one really, really quickly. Maybe I'll just integrate the two later on.

Decisions, decisions.

2004-07-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

I have an empty box.

I love empty boxes. I find them so fascinating; if there's nothing in there, you could put anything you want in them. I have a similar obsession with empty books and blank stationary. Sometimes I even go to the trouble of emptying a box or ripping the pages out of a former journal just so that I can make it empty again. For this box, I took out a pair of tiny scissors, some glue, staples, paper clips and an eraser to make room for whatever mysterious objects I choose to put in it next.

Hmm...

If I had a time machine...

2004-07-01T23:42:00.000-07:00

Ok, i literally just posted a couple minutes ago about...um...oh yeah, the CD-Rom thing, but I just had another thought that I felt required its own entry.

My thought:

DAMN! The quotes I wrote in everyone's yearbooks this year were "Everytime I close the door on insanity, it comes in through the windows." and "Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra." What I SHOULD have put was "by the time you've read this, you'll have already read it." I don't know why, but I just think that would have been so much more awesome.

Oh well. Next year.

Who wants to be a hundredaire?

2004-07-01T23:38:00.000-07:00

Bah humbug. My 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' PC game won't load properly. I remember it working on my other crappier computer, so that's very strange. You can't trust those free CD-Roms from the cereal boxes, I tell ya.

That warm, fuzzy feeling.

2004-06-26T18:45:00.000-07:00

After visiting the grade 7s at Maquinna almost every day since early April, I have decided that I am very much attached to the graduating class. I poured my heart and soul into creating the Maquinna Idols tape and Graduation Slide Show for them, and now I would like to do something absurdly nice for them. So, after much deliberation, I have decided that I will buy enough tapes to ensure that they each get a copy of the footage from their graduation ceremony, which was also filmed by me. So far, Christine is the only Grade 7 who knows about my little donation, so it'll be a surprise for everyone else. I like doing good to good people. It's worth it.

BEWARE: Intense movies are intense.

2004-06-19T23:44:00.000-07:00

Holy shit. I just saw Monster and it was really...woah. I thought Dancer in the Dark was intense. That was one of the best acting jobs I've ever seen. It was just so...woah.

(By the way, I did get my photos from Sharon. Well worth the wait. Bravo.)

Impatience: my most predominant virtue.

2004-06-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

SHARON. GO ONLINE.

Sharon owes me photos. However am I going to nag her about them if she doesn't go online?

Hmm...I guess I'll just wait...it's a nice gesture for her to share her photos in the first place...I can wait...see, thirty seconds have already passed...I can do this...

The WORD

2004-06-17T23:24:00.000-07:00

PALIMPSEST
1. A piece of writing-material or manuscript on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for other writing.

THAT'S the word I've been looking for all this time. Thanks, Wincy! Thank God for your psychotic research skills!

Grease Lightning

2004-06-16T19:26:00.000-07:00

Watching Grease has taken its toll on me; I have now had Summer Lovin' stuck in my head for over an hour. BEWARE CLASSIC MUSICALS SET IN THE FIFTIES. THEY STICK WITH YOU.

Monster

2004-06-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.monsterfilm.com/

My God, that's gonna be a good film. I mean, it'll be super intense, but it looks like Charlize Theron didn't win those awards for nothing. I'll have to rent it A.S.A.P.

You can't fire me; I quit!

2004-06-11T23:20:00.000-07:00

Holy crap, school's over. No more school for 2 whole months, man. Well, except for the project due on Thursday...and getting our yearbooks on Friday...and our homeroom the following Monday BUT OTHER THAN THAT, there's nothing. No more grade 8 classes for the rest of my life. Ta-da! To celebrate, I got pizza and watched Scary Movie 3. Not too festive, but damn, that movie's funny!

As a final little note, I was very proud of the cast of Kill Bill in the MTV Movie Awards last night. Uma, Chiaki and Lucy certainly deserved those awards, and I must say, Lucy Liu's evil laugh was a wonderful touch. Go Kill Bill!

Passing the time...

2004-06-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Welcome to third block of the day. This is the time of day called "Business class" where we have access to the computer and do absolutely nothing. At the current time, Emily and I are sitting beside eachother talking through our various websites rather than actually speaking in person. Hi Emily!

To go, or not to go?

2004-06-11T08:41:00.000-07:00

Today, my friends, is the last day of school, which is probably one of the most joyous days I have ever witnessed. Now, technically I should be in French class right now, but my teacher said that we didn't have to go today because Wednesday was apparently our last official day in that class. Now, following French, I have PE. However, last night I accidentally fell down the stairs (hey, it was late, ok?) and have injured my left elbow. We were gonna play tennis today, which would probably kill me in this state, especially since I play tennis with my left hand. I could probably get away with not going to PE at all, but it's the last day of school and I wanna see people. I'll probably just get mom to write me a note saying that I can't actually do anything, and just sit there the whole block.

Testing...testing...

2004-06-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

Thus the beginning of my very first blog entry. At this time, I would like to thank my friend Tiffany, who inspired--nay, COMMANDED--me to begin this blog. Now that I have given my initiating statement, I have nothing further to add. Except for a simple word-problem-type-thingy, anyway. Does anyone know the word for a piece of paper that's been written on and erased over and over again? I know the word exists, because I read it a couple years ago, I just have no recollection as to what it was now.

Um...yeah. Thus the beginning of my very first blog entry.