Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Go Ask Alice

Damnit. Just as I'm about to post I forget what I was going to talk about. I hate it when that happens. I had something in my head all planned out and now its just gone. Hmph. Oh well. I've had Kill Bill Volume 2 tunes stuck in my head all day, on account that I watched it again today. I watched it yesterday as well, along with the first volume on Monday. I can't believe September is actually almost over; today being the 30th and all. Speaking of the 30th and the fact that tomorrow is the 1st, the official launch date of theOtaku:Redifined, I'm really eager to see what Adam, Justin and James have in store for the site. I'll be sure to check tomorrow when I get the chance. Ah, here's what I wanted to talk about: I've been really busy lately. Really, really busy. Schoolwork just seems to be piling on, after school activities seem endless, even this upcoming weekend wont be any break for me. I just finished a TAG assignment that is due tomorrow in Social Studies; that was a fucking annoyance. Yeah, I understand that TAG's help us develop skills in writing and stuff, but they suck ass. I also added some things to the math we had started on Tuesday. We didn't have any homework really; we got most of it done in class but there were a few things I needed to add. To pile on top of that, I've got two big projects that I'm worrying about right now. One is an "America & Me" essay. We have to write a 500 word essay on our heroes for a contest, not to mention a grade in English. A grade that's supposedly going to be worth around 100 points. @_@ It took me forever to decide on who my hero was; I finally chose my mom as my hero because of all the things she did and sacrificed to take care of me after she and my dad divorced. Maybe once I finish the essay I'll post it here so you all can read it. And, I've got an assignment in Social Studies that I have to do; its a biography. I have to interview someone of 45+ years and then write up a three page biography on them. This upcoming weekend is my last weekend that I'll be able to interview someone, because the thing is due next week on Friday, so that's what I'll be doing all weekend. >.< To add to the busy-ness already stated above, my mom and Lonnie's wedding is this next Friday. October the 8th, the same day my biography is due and the same day that my Hero essay is tentatively due. Why does everything have to fall on that day? Why? Why??? Gah, this weekend is Blaike's 16th birthday as well. If I knew that he wanted something, I'd be getting him it, but I think all he really wants is his license. Y'know, I hate typing with people talking behind me in the kitchen. I'm just such a paranoid freak...I can't stand it when people read over my shoulder. It makes me nervous and jumpy. I also get nervous when posting my work online because I'm self-conscious and I fear that people will dislike it. Eh. I'm ok with it though, I really just dislike it. People at school are really beginning to bug me. Especially those pricks who only are nice to me for answers. And then there are the kids who volunteer themselves as my partners without my consent and goof off the entire time or (if I'm working in a group of three) fight with the other person I've been forced to work with. Then, there's the bus. The kids on the bus, most of them anyhow, are rude, inconsiderate asses. They're loud and they really bug me. Then there's the fact that we have so many people riding my bus that there are almost three people in every single seat. I believe that this morning, there was probably one seat with two people in it. And they just keep throwing more and more people onto the bus. No consideration of how many people are on the bus. I'm getting quite irritated lately and I always feel like I'm mad at the simplest things. Maybe I'm just stressed or something...Meh, we'll see... -DDG

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Wakey, wakey. Eggs and bacy.

Hmm... How would you spell 'bacy?' You can't have an 'e' or it'll sound like basey and you can't have an 'ie' or it'll sound like(or people will mistakenly pronounce it like) basie. Ah, oh well. Enough with the matters of grammar and spelling because, 'bacy' is not a word anyhow. Yes, my piece-of-junk-computer-I-have-condemned-to-hell at my mom's house is finally on the internet, yay! Its still slow as ever, but I can deal with that. As long as I have a way to post if I can't do it at school. Haha! Take that, Shin! =P And, yes, I know I owe you, Xio. I don't know how I owe you, I mean, is it really that hard to post for me? It sure wasn't that hard for me to post for you. =/ Oh well, I guess I'll pay you back by letting you borrow my Kill Bill movies. Hmm... My story is going quite smoothly as Xio explained. Yep, certain peers in my class have ascertained an interest in my story. Hah. Ascertained. Mrs. Wolfe(my CEWT teacher) didn't know what that word meant. Haha. And she's supposed to be a teacher! Oh man, would I love to have told her, right in the middle of class, what the word meant. I can only imagine how embarrassed she would be... It would have been quite the enjoyable experience. I will most definitely NOT be getting to anyone's sites tonight. And if I do, I most likely wont comment, so, sorry if I don't make it to your site or if I do make it to your site, I don't comment. -DDG

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Hi there, everyone. No, its not Kayla. Its Haruko/Xio. Kayla couldn't post today. Her computer's still busted (but its close to being fixed, she says) and our really evil computer wouldn't let her get on. I'm hoping this still counts. I'm going to say this for Kayla: "Haha Shinmaru! You still can't beat me!" Anyways, she's been writting in her story quite a bit. There's also a few kids in our class who've learned about her story and have been asking to be part of it. Like our friend Alexa wanted to be part of it, and at first she was going to be a bank teller, then a police officer. We still haven't found a place to put her in yet. She wants to be a Japanese Mafia leader, but we're sayin' "No!" And another kid, Levi, is going to be a hitman. Thats a definate thing. They already got the story all aranged. I'm sure she'll post in her story archive soon. Kayla's mom is getting married! Yay! Her mom and Lonnie are going to have the wedding not this Friday, but the one after that. I've been invited. Kayla says we don't have to wear dresses, but my mom's probably going to make me anyways, so I plan to sneak some blue jeans and a t-shirt. I'm hoping I'll get away with it... Thats all I know so far, and I have to go. So, later all, and don't forget to remind Kayla that she owes me for this...

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Monday, September 27, 2004

Must post. Must post...

Whee, another before Jumpstart post. Yesterday's soccer game was pretty good, even with my bad knee. I played really well despite my injury and my coach was really impressed with all of the awesome saves I got. The game was really rough though. At one point, me and another player were wrestling on the ground over the ball. The game was so rough, that my mom was hysterical. She said that everytime the other team would get the ball, she'd get all panicky that I might get hurt because of all the things I had been doing that looked pretty painful, just to stop the ball. During the first half I played defense and did one of those sliding kicks that you see like, people on TV do all the time, where the other player has the ball and a person on the other team comes up, slides across the ground and kicks it away. Yep, I did that. It was fun, too. Other than that, my mom says she's going to get me a different wrap because when I was wrestling on the ground over the ball, the wrap I was wearing slipped down and my knee got all scraped up. Actually, both of my knees got scraped up. Hmm. We lost the game, 4-5. They were a tough team. In fact, there is something really wrong with how the Optimist league teams are set up. Something very angering, that I think I'll rant about tomorrow maybe... or whenever I get a chance. Well, I'll try to type more tomorrow I guess. -DDG

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Sunday, September 26, 2004

Promises are meant to be broken...

Well, I know I said that I would update the Story Archive today, but, I can't. I don't have the correct floppy disk with me. >.> What are the chances that I'd have all of my floppy disks except that one with me? Obviously the chances are quite high. I submitted another piece of fan art that I just drew a little while ago. I like it, yet, I don't like it. I liked how I drew both Liquid and Solid Snake's hair, but I wasn't particularly pleased with how Liquid's face turned. Guess I need to draw him a bit more, huh? Well, anyway, go vote for that! =P -DDG

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*grins*

Ah, I don't think I've ever been in an AIM chat that hilarious since I signed up for AIM, heh. Yeap, last night I was in was of the most hilarious AIM chats I've ever been in, um, ever. It went on for quite a long time and some very interesting topics somehow popped up. It was also quite fun to make some new friends, such as Ken. But enough about that. Onto other matters! You know what I forgot to do last night? I forgot to update the Story Archive. You know what I'm going to do immediately after I post this? Update the Story Archive. My new fan art of Arcanine is up, so check that out if you haven't already. I also submitted a wallpaper last night; I haven't checked to see if it got in yet. I will after I post this, though. I'm quite pleased with the wallpaper; I haven't made one in quite awhile, and I sure haven't made one that I spent that much time making. I'd say I spent about 2 hours on the thing, getting it just right and putting all the frieking words on their and then fading them all. Cliche is doing well; Almost everyone who signed up and got in has posted. I also let Wave_of_Death join because she didn't get to see the sign-up until today, so I made an exception. I think there are three more people who have yet to post, but I haven't been to OB and checked to see if anyone had posted since I got on. Hmmm. I was having some trouble with the images that I have hosted on my website not showing up last night; I don't know if they're still not showing up today and I don't know what the problem is. The odd thing though, is that their just my images that I've hosted and I know that the two backgrounds I made for Crucifix and Aqua, that I hosted on my website account, are showing up perfectly fine. Its really quite odd. I guess I'll just check to see if anything's going wrong today if they're still not showing up. Ooh, I have a new pet. Its a praying mantis; its pretty darn cool. I plan on keeping him/her/it here at my dad's because I've got enough pets at my mom's, heh. My dad already likes it, he says that its his video game buddy because he has the jar that its in sit beside him on table while he's playing .hack//QUARANTINE. He says he'll make sure to *try* to feed the thing, too. Keyword here: try. Xio's going to beat me senseless at school tomorrow because I couldn't get her Sora and Legato pictures printed. Its not my fault, though; my dad left the ink refiller over at my grandma's house. So there's nothing he can do about refilling the black ink cartridge right now. God, does it suck to have my black ink cartridge out of ink. Because with it empty, I have to print EVERYTHING in color or it wont show up. (Oh, yay! My images are showing up today!) And also, without the black ink, that means that I can't print any pictures, either. *frowns* Even though my locker is already plastered with pictures of Snake, I still want some pictures of like, Knives and Elk and Kakashi. *grins* You know, I think this is my first post in awhile that's been of decent size. So, lets have a little celebration! Yep, an image made just for the occasion. ^_^ Alright, I must check everyone's sites who've updated and then update the Story Archive(for real this time, I swear). -DDG

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

''I've been ready for five minutes now.''

Cliche is up now. ^_^ I do think its going to be a pretty good RPG. I also got the Underground for it up and I just post an Underground for .hack//TRUTH a few minutes ago. I'm hoping that the .hack//TRUTH Underground will get some responses from viewers who have some interesting ideas for it; that'd be really nice because it does get a bit tedious when Xio and I are the only one's coming up with the great ideas. Well, that's not entirely true; Wave_of_Death has came up with some pretty good ideas as well; one of which I can't talk about right now because its a secret that wont be revealed until later. I started writing episode summaries of the Pokemon episodes that I have on my tapes. They're not too hard; I've got about a page done now(front and back) and I have the name's of most of the episodes, not all of them though because some of them were recording after the name of the episode had already been shown. I also have to get the episode numbers for them which I plan to get from Pokemon Elite 2000; its such a reliable site, heh. I'm going to submit some fan art after I post this; its of Arcanine. Two head shots of it, a picture of its footprint, some info on it from the Pokedex and its name in braille. I think I'm going to do more Pokemon drawings like that; it was pretty fun, heh. Hmm... guess that's it. I think I'll add some more of my story to the Archive; I haven't done that in awhile... -DDG

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Friday, September 24, 2004

Shh!

I'm sneaking on right now. Kind of. We've got a bit of free time right now at the end of CEWT so I'm messing around with the new email the school set-up; I'm changing the colors of it and stuff ^_^ Its fun. I wrote both of the alternate endings to my story last night and started and continued working on the first After Story Extra today. Xio's all happy because it involves her, heh. I almost thought I wouldn't be able to update today, but lo' and behold, here I am, updating. =P You can't beat my Shinmaru! I've injured my knee...somehow. I was getting off the bus yesterday and then as I was walking up the driveway my knee started hurting all of a sudden. Now, my knee has done this on multiple occasions ever since I twisted it badly last year, but the pain usually subsided after about a half hour or so, but, this time, its still hurting me. The funny thing is, it only hurts if I bend it off at an angle, an angle that I've tested on my other knee which doesn't even hurt that knee at all, but hurts the one that's injured... My mom said she would get me a brace today; I'm wearing a wrap right now. God, I really wish something interesting would happen that I could write about, I mean, I've really got nothing to say that's worthwhile anymore. I guess I'll try and think of something to write about tomorrow. Oh, and I do hope that I'm going to my dad's house tonight. I really don't want to spend a night at home and I really want to see my dad. I mean, even though he's out of jail now, he has a job that he has to go to and community service and whatnot so I really don't see him all that much during the time that I'm over there. Ok, later. The bell's about to ring. -DDG

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Thursday, September 23, 2004

I. Hate. School.

School is boring. Yeah, that's right. School is boring. I've been bored almost all day. But, I'm not here to talk about school. I'm going to talk about the situation of my story. I ended it. Last night. Yes, I finally ended it. And the ending Xio says is a sign of the apocalyspe because something completely amazing happens with one of the characters. No, not Tommy. I can't tell you what happened, though, because it'll ruin the surprise. Now that I've got the main part of the story finished I can get started on writing the two alternate endings and then the little extra stories that I had in mind that would deal with a few characters who were important to the story but didn't get as much light shined on them during the story as I think they should have. Also, I swear I'm going to post more of my story this weekend. Ok, 1 minute left until the bell rings; Its a full day today so I should be able to maybe edit this again in CEWT or something. -DDG

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Yesh, Yesh I am the best...

Well, I'm updating at school again; I'm in the library and I just had a very quick lunch(thank god 8th grade got let out early for lunch today!). I've got about 15 minutes before I have to go to Jumpstart. The computer at my mom's house is still busted and I would update during CEWT but I'm afraid that Mrs. Wolfe wont let us get on the computers today because its a Friday schedule and we usually do other activities that don't involved logging into the computers. But, I finally figured out what I had to do in FireRed to get farther. It did have to do with my Pokedex. When I first started playing yesterday, I had 56 registered Pokemon, so, I went out and caught 4 more, then went to Pallet Town, talked to Professor Oak and he told me about something or another that was going on and gave me a new upgraded Pokedex. Then, I followed my rival(who's name is Kas, for the record) to One Island where I did a few things, and was half way ready to be able to trade with Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Then I did a few other things and now I've got exactly 100 Pokemon registered in my Pokedex and I can trade with Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. And, if you don't know already, in Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, it is possible to collect all 386 Pokemon. Yep, that's right. And what a fucking task that's going to be... Snorlax info: (for Mimmi) Snorlax blocks the way to Fuschia City making it so that you must find the Silph Scope in the Celadon City Game Corner basement and then rescue Mr. Fuji and get the Poke Flute(which is a very useful item, heh). Snorlax is also a very good Pokemon to have in your team. ^_^ I'm actually having a sort of brainstorm for my story as of late; I wanted to write in it last night but Xio had took it yesterday afternoon and I didn't get it back from her. But, she gave it to me this morning so I'll be writing in it tonight, after I play FireRed for hours and hours, heh. My mom says I'm addicted because I was still playing the game while I was putting away the dishes last night lol. I've finally decided on what I want to be for Halloween. =D It took me awhile, but I finally decided that with how my hair is right now, I can make myself look similar to Snake or Big Boss(depends on which one I can get a costume of easier, probably Big Boss). Man, it'll be so much fun... Alright, I'm out. Later. -DDG

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