Tuesday, February 22, 2005

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So through a rather odd series of events, yesterday I got to start reading Fruits Basket manga.

I posted yesterday how I *finally* realized I could watch dvds on the school pcs since there's no ideal way to watch them at my house at the moment (look back if you want to read the whole freaking argument. Yes you have to go to my archives, I post such long things more than one day at a time would be ridiculously far to scroll through.) So after I started feeling blah yesterday (oh just go look back and read the whole freaking post) I was kinda schlupping around the net and eventually felt like watching Toki O Koeru Omoi (Inuyasha move 1) but it was late and I missed the 3:45 and 4:45 busses. I then went and read more fanfic because I was into my hyper INUYASHAINUYASHAINUYASHA mode in which nothing else whatsoever was capable of entering my consciousness... and missed the 5:45 bus by like 15 seconds. (I've started using only numerals for numbers here; most people don't read carefully and those are more instantly recognizable. You may now thank the magnanimous Aliryn-chan for making your life a split second easier.) And since I have to catch a second bus at 6:15 at the latest to get to my house, and the next time the first bus left was 6:15, I was in something of a predicament. You see, we're broke, and we turned the ringer off the phone at home, so there's no way to tell if someone's calling (ie some lame credit card company that really doesn't need our money but acts like it's a matter of life and death). My mother has a cell phone but she usually doesn't turn it on unless she's out of the house (a habit we realized yesterday was a bad one if the ringer's off the house phone). Now I was supposed to be home a bit before five (yes it takes a long time for me to get home. Two long bus rides and a lousy hike at the end.) but since my mother's really sick she was asleep and therefore didn't know I was home. I couldn't call her to let her know, obviously... so I took the 6:15 bus from campus and got off at the mall and went in because hanging around outside after dark when you're just a whimpy girl all alone is one of the most abysmally stupid mistakes that can be made. Inside the mall is more safe because it's well-lit and there's lots of people everywhere, even on a Monday night. So I had no way to get home, no way to get ahold of my mother, and no way to know when she'd wake up and call me, I decided to go down to the B. Dalton (a bookstore chain that's owned by Barnes & Noble if you didn't know) in the mall. So I went and looked at the manga and wanted to read stuff... I felt like reading something kinda happy and cool even if it was serious so I reread vol 5 of Alice 19th which is this cute little 7-vol series by Watase Yuu-sensei that I read because it's fun. I then looked at the other stuff they had (not much) and thought, I've heard an awful lot about Fruits Basket, I guess I'll try it. They had Immortal Rain 2-4 but I didn't feel like it (I don't pretend to understand myself, either o_O ) so I could get away with reading FB. I got through 1 and part of 2... and it's so cool! Her art isn't my favorite but I love the story. It's so cute! "Kidnap the Princess!" Haha! They're these messy violent boys and they get so upset after she leaves! (those relatives of hers >_< what jerks. Her senile(?) grandpa's funny tho' ) And the one friend of hers... the "wave detector"! What a kick! And you know, I'm beginning to see the Japanese idea of Americans (they call us Yankees or Yanks! I thought that was some old word no one used! What a riot! I know the second one at least is supposed to be deragatory but I can't bring myself to let it bother me. haha. anyway a lot of Americans are the way we're stereotyped... though I don't know any personally... can you stereotype a group you're in o_O !?) as funny. I don't feel insulted... it's a bit of a stereotype but FREAK! It's FUNNY! (comment brought on by thoughts of her other friend.)
Haha. First series I've liked that didn't freaking hurt. I always go for the painful stuff... I have this long drawn-out philosophical argument as to how you can't have any real joy without pain, and that they come in equal amounts--a little or a lot, it's a little of both or a lot of both. So... I dunno why I like it... but it's a kick ^_^ !

Oh btw my mother did wake up eventually and called me--more annoyed than worried but I do stupid things like miss the bus all the time so I guess she probably figured it was something like that. Ha. She said she didn't mind coming to get me but she has hardly any gas and can't buy more... so I'm gonna have to be more careful. (That means no more AIM after my last class an any given day, ElvesAteMyRamen-chan! Or kasie2998! *sniff* ah well there's always other times. I'd still try but I have this little glitch in my brain where once I get into a thing, even if I know I have to stop, I'm like, I'll care about stopping after I've stopped, which obviously doesn't work. Sorry!!!)

Sooooo... I've got a philosophy test in a little less than an hour... which I did absolutely no studying for whatsoever. I never even did the reading in the first place... all I have to go on is a bunch of juvinile class discussions with people unwilling to change their stance even though they only have the opinions that they do because they leeched them off everyone else. They won't even think about it. Anyway... I'm not *too* worried about the test, though. She said it was stuff like multiple choice and true/false and matching. ("I love matching" she said o_O this being my TEACHER) So I figure I can wing it, though I probably can't. But I can never bring myself to care enough to actually do anything about it. I think it has to do with my depression... I've shoved it out of my mind so much because I can't take it so it like builds up or something so I can't deal with anything in real life... so I revert to escapism... again. Oh well. At this point I'm too screwed up to get fixed without massive overhaulling of my entire internal being and I'd need a shrink for that but I don't have the money for one. Ah well.

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Ah, I'm sorry I didn't go to anyone's sites since, like, Friday! I came by today!!

And now I'm off to find better ways to waste my time than freaking talking my friends' ears off about nothing in particular!!!
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