Friday, April 15, 2005

And yet again...
...I lose.
I was holding the scrollbar and slowly reading the lines. The article one...I was gritting my teeth. Actually, my retainers that I wear at night...I was gritting them so tighly, I think they might've warped outta shape...
*sighs and sinks in chair* Not fair man, not fair. I really think I'm getting discredited because I won that review contest way back on Octobor 31st, which I STILL haven't received the prize for. O_O 5 1/2 months! C'MON PEOPLE!!!
But I'm pretty pissed. I worked super-hard on that article and did tons of research. But you know what? I was sure the psychology one was gonna win. Why? Because it's Evangelion (or however the crap it's spelled. I don't watch the show - I hate it). I knew deep down that that would succeed because of its popularity rank among the big cheese of the site.
The writing of it really boils my blood..."However, in the end, we were completely blown away by shooting stars' research article on the psychology of Evangelion."
Blown away. Yes. Make me feel crap just some more...(hey, mine has a better rating with 100% at 86 votes >.>).
Sure, FMA is popular. But, well...
I'm overwhelmed with all the people who have read Alchemic Truth, though. I'm EXTREMELY happy. In fact, I'm number eight in the most popular writer rank! ^_^ What gets me curious, though, is the left columb - the one of "Highest Rated Writers". Just how the HELL is that calculated? I have a great score (99% with three articles - unlike the rest, with only ONE). So how is it Adam's on there...?
Oh well. I'm still pissed. But I wonder how long it'll take the winners to get their prize...
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Thursday, April 7, 2005

   YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
YAAAAAAAY!!! I'm so happy! I got a thin little envelope in the mail - actually, it was to my parents, but anything involving the school district means me - so I checked it out. I stared it down for a few moments before ripping it apart.
I thought about that dream. I hoped for the best, but had a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach about the results.
Well...
I GOT INTO BOTH HONORS CLASSES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL!!! Waaaaagh! *starts sobbing* I'm...so happy! I'm not stupid afterall! Well, I thought I would get into Honors English, but I also got into Honors Biology! I can believe that...'cause I sucked on the test, or so it seemed. ^.^
Oh yeah, and thanks for all the comments and compliments on the FMA article. I read every single one of 'em, too...and I feel special. XD
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005

I rock XD
Squeee!!! My article about FMA has been posted! ^^ I worked pretty damn hard on that thing! >.> Lots of internet research 'n stuff. Da net is your best tool in these cases. XD And I'm glad to see ya people like it! I'm all gidy...
We got Hikari in band on Monday. Well, actually, Mr. V had put three new scores in the folder slots, and there, right on top, was Hikari. =^.^= I'm so happy! We played it during Tuesday - the entire band period ('bout forty-three minutes). I'll be honest and say that it needs a lot of work. I think it would be helpful if Mr. V actually played the track to the band a second time...he played it for them, but way back in Janurary. It's very choppy in places. But me, Meg-chan, and Lorenza were all pumped on playing the piece.
Hikari is totally different from what we normally play. With a lot of the pieces we get, various groups of instruments are featured here and there. But not Hikari - nope, Shimmumura-san seemed excited and wanted the piece to flow. MAJESTIC!!! It sounds extremely different from everything else...and I love it.
For once, me and mah buddies in band (that would be me (duh), Lorenza, Meg-chan, Liz, and Ryu-chan) have an advantage over the whole band - even Mr. Vandenbosch. We've heard Hikari way too many times and know how everything fluctuates (*giggles*). We frown upon parts that sound craptacular in band that sound awesome in the music. Our favorite mis-hap, though, is the huge symbol crash. Okay, lemme try and desribe the part...
Where it would be in the lyrical part, "Don't get me wrong I love you, but does that mean I have to meet - your father" is this excited flurry of soft but strong brass. Then, right at the gap of "meet - your father" is this huge symbol crash and it sounds spiffy. Well, the symbol player kinda sucks (because most drummers don't have too many brain cells in 'em >.>) and played it not only weaky, but a beat AFTER! >< Holy crap I was pissed.
Other news...
We also got our report cards Monday. ^_^
Art: A
History: A-
Math: A
Science: A O_O (Not a borderline A-, but a solid A!)
Gym: A
English: A
Literature: A
Band: A
TOTAL GPA: 4.000!!!
I was dancing around my homeroom while some kids stared me down to hell after I exclamied about my 4.0. Mrs. Hogan (the one who told me to go ahead and take over the world last quarter XD) gave me the "atta girl!" compliment. I even told her about my myOtaku AND the comment on how crazy she is.
Mrs. Hogan: Well gee, you should just go and teach 'em a lesson!
Me: I dunno...I kinda like the position I keep on that network...=_=;;
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Spring Break, Day 6
Okay Ben:
1.) We can't post comments not relating to one another's posts...it's the new ToS.
2.) It wasn't hard to figure out it was you. You're the only person who knows of myOtaku (besides Lorenza).
3.) Your AIM address. Dude, we've chatted a lot before. >.>
4.) The name. Angel obsesser.
Anyways...
I'm watchin' Azumanga Daioh vol. 1 right now...to be exact, it's episode two, "Osaka's Day". I haven't watched it in a long while, because my buddy Waffle-chan had it since New Years. T_T;; So I went over there, and what did I get?
Not only my DVD back, but the second Inuyasha movie, Inuyasha DVD vol. 27, and the Full Metal Alchemist video game. The second Inuyasha movie is actually really good...and in the specal features section...during that whole Inuyasha top thirty thingie, they have puppets! XD
No, seriously - it's the part where Inuyasha and Kikyo are tricked by Naraku - and it's all in PUPPETS! Damn, it's the funniest thing you'll ever see if you're an Inu fan. Waffle-chan and I both agreed that we can never watch the first episode the same way ever again. ^^;;
Um um umm...*can't think*
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Friday, March 25, 2005

Spring Break, Day 1
If you read el comments from below *points*, you'll see somebody called Angel of Life. Well, that's my friend Ben. Err, from school. And if you're wondering about "placing third" and stuff, then...don't. ><;; He'll insult me to no end, and that's what I'll do to him. *grins crazily*
Buwahaha, it seems most of you are fooled by the fact that I am only in eighth grade! XD See my freinds, having good writing skills is a great way to trick people. But this is me:
Random Person #1: "Woah, I thought you were in high school."
Random Person #2: "You're only in eighth grade...?"
Katana: ...*sweatdrop sweatdrop sweatdrop* "LOOK AT MY DOB! August 2nd, 1991! I'm only 13!"
XD
Well, um, anyways...
Like the title says, this is the first day of spring break for me. Yes, we got Good Friday off, but as an "institute" day. You know, seperation of church and state and all. >.>
I didn't win Young Authors, which made me pissed. I know one of the kids that won the fiction category, and he's in sixth grade. He was the second person announced, which means the first person was also in sixth grade. So tell me, how do two sixth graders win over my Revival? Although, I think I didn't win because I won last year, and, well, you know, "equality for all". But the good news is that my buddy Lorenza won for the non-fiction category.
Non-fiction goes totally against our writing styles. Hell, we ONLY write fiction! But she wrote a book about her dog Dakota during the week following his death. Dakota was a German Sheperd/Husky mix, and he was barely one year old. He had one blue eyes, one brown eyes, and he was a hyper pooch with a big heart. I liked to call him Numbnut because he was kinda dumb, but still so sweet. Well, he got hit by a car and died on his way to the animal hospital. As Lorenza put it, "Heh. He got a good chunk of their bumper." She wrote the book about his life, but mainly about the accident, and I can fully see why it was chosen as a winner. I will always miss Dakota, and their house seems empty without him.
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Friday, March 18, 2005

The Randomness of Randomness of Katananess!
God I'm high. XD
Um um ummmmmm...let's see...ah yes! Tomorrow is my OMDI tournament, where me and my fellow LIVE! It's RaDIo! groupees get to go to...to..to...um, some high school in northern Illinois where the town is a B word. >.> So if you're going, look for us! We're the group "Six (Five) Chicks and a Rooster"!
Holy freakin' crap, I can't type!
GOOD NEWSITH!!! I got Numbnuts Unite! to be hosted by Golden Sun: Adepts Refuge!!! Nope, it's not on their server yet, but I've been accepted and me and Kemo-kun (Kemosabi) had fun chatting over MSN a couple nights ago. He kept calling me "dear"...that was freakay...
Third quarter ended today, which meant the half-way mark in the second semester for us eighth graders. Makes me sad...after we graduate, I have to say bye-bye to my band director, bye-bye to my art teacher, and hello to shots. >.< NOT looking forward to that.
We were reading the (old) book in Lit, "Brian's Song" and were watching the video yesterday, today, and Monday. Well, the era is 1965, and it was filmed in 1971. There was this one part, about ten minutes (not even) into the flick were Gale puts mashed potatoes on Brian's chair, and then Brian sits on them. Gale gets up, and he's wearing short shorts. White short shorts, actually. But at the point, the entire class shot back and went "WOAH!"
Gale: *stands up, revealing short shorts*
Class: *blown away into the back of their chairs* WOAH!
XD
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Sunday, March 6, 2005

My life should be a soap...
No, not a bar of Dial with "Katana" ingraved on it, you weirdos. >.> Due to recent tradgedies in my life, I haven't been up to posting.
Wednesday morning, at around 8:15, my friend's house burned down. This friend is Kelsey, and she was my first friend when I moved to where I am now, way back in fourth grade. We've sat next to each other on the bus every year.
Inside the burning house were her father and younger sister, Emma. Her dad was quickly found and treated for smoke inhilation and third-degree burns. Emma, however, was trapped inside. When the firefighters found her and brought her outside, she was dead and had to be revived.
Emma and her dad were airlifted to Delnor Community Hospital, then to Layola.
And all this happened just one hour after the bus picked up Kelsey. That was the last time I ever saw that house.
Emma was showing no brain activity. Even if she did wake up, she would probably have never moved her talked for the rest of her life. Her parents couldn't take it, and took her off of life support. Emma died.
She was only five years old.
I cry whenever I think about her. (I'm doing it now.) She was a cherubric little girl with a bright personality and an energy streak. I remember seeing her as a little baby in a stroller when I went out for a walk five years ago. And now she's gone.
She's gone and not coming back. That's the fact that I find hardest to accept. Even though I'm horrible when it comes to the death, I usually get over it. But not now. It's been almost a week, and I still break out in tears whenever I think about her.
I was out in the yard today and drew a picture of Emma as an angel. She was adorable. But I welled up while working on it more than once; my vision became blurry when I didn't expect it. She's dead. She's really gone.
Kelsey's in the band, and Mr. Vandenbosch gave us pep talks two days at the beginning of band. "We look after our own," he says. We were trying to think up ways to help out Kelsey's family, and, for once, the resident idiot thought up a good idea.
"Why don't we try and get Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to help rebuild the house?"
That was a great idea, we all murmured. Problem was, as Mr. V said, is with insurance (stuff I really don't get). But we're all enthusiastic to try and get EM in.
If you want to read some online articles about the events, then check out the following links:
Emma's Death
More Info
The best obituary I found of Emma
An earlier report
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005

I should submit sommin'!
I want to contribute sommin', but I'm not sure what. I want to review Zatch Bell, but I haven't seen anything of it. >.> So I'm like, make a quiz! But I don't have a graphic program anymore...I may have to ask someone. I've been thinking of making a quiz called "What Type of Otaku Are You?", to see just what kinda of Otaku you are - a mainstream one, a veteran, etc. At first, I was planning on calling it "What's Your Level of Otakuism?" but then I figured some people might be insulted by the results. So I didn't.
This reminds me...I took the Final Fantasy quiz with the live action stuff and stuff...and voted that it was inaccurate. I go back and - guess what?! - the rating is at 100%. And it's not just that quiz; there were a few others that I voted no, they weren't accurate, or that others thought it was inaccurate, but they're at 100%. How is that possible? We've been slammed by percentages recently, and just one no changes everything. And I really don't think I was the only one who said the quiz(zes) were inaccurate.
Anyways...
Play try-outs are this Thursday and Friday. I signed up for Thursday because that's when all my friends can be there. That also means staying after school three days in a row (today, tomorrow, Thursday). But I don't mind. XD
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*disappers for dinner*
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*returns with coffee*
I'm back. XD
And, uh, yeah. I have to go tomorrow for our speeches in English...we had to do one of those explainy speeches and, of course, I did anime. ^^;; It's mainly because people who hear us talking about it always wonder what the heck it is. I'm being creative in the fact that, where everybody else has done the history of their thing, I'm doing what it is.
The question of "what is anime" really got into motion about a month ago, when me, Meghan, Lorenza, and two other people, Rina and Peter, all pre-tested out of the certain English unit. So the conversation one day:
Meghan: Guess what song I woke up to today?
Me: Uh...Hikari symphonic.
Mehgan: *grinning* Close.
Me: Simple and Clean. >.>
Meghan: Yeah. XD
Lorenza: I fell asleep one time and woke up as Inuyasha Renga blared in my ears...
Me: Yeah, this morning I listened to the Osaka song, Shikkari! TRY La Lai on the bus. <.< Oh Gawd, that gets stuck in your head.
Meghan, Lorenza, Me: Lai la la lai la la lai lai lai...
Rina: o.O Wha'cha guys talking about?
Me: Shikkari! TRY La Lai! ^^
Rina: ?_? O-okay...
Then they usually ask someting like "what's that anime thing". Yeah, usually "thing" or "stuff".
>.>
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Sunday, February 27, 2005

Where's Kat? NOT watching the Academy Awards, of course!
Just this morning, I logged on and there were 100,500 members. If that wasn't scary enough, there are now 100,568. Or something like that. >.>
After reading DDG's long explantion on why not to post everyday, I realized: "Hey! I should add her to my friends list!"
Moral: Ehh...?
Change the background to this place. OH MY GOD! Yeah, I never do that kind of stuff, and I prefer my simple little design because it doesn't take out a knife and gouge out your eyes. XD All it is is the full picture from where my little karaoke demon comes from - *points to her picture* - and thought would be with three girls: one enjoying the singing, one sweatdropping at the performance, and the demon going all-out. What's weird is that I look like the sweatdropping gir...but then my demon form looks like the karaoke girl. o.O
Moral: Too much Yu Yu Hakusho!
Today was the first tme I've ever went to Goodwill. I went there to pick up a costume for this OMDI thing, which is an old-fashion radio show. Man, that place is what one would call crap-HEAVEN! It's a bunch of tacky and crappy items and stuff...but you can find some useful stuff there. Sometimes.
Moral: Unless you wanna look poor, don't by all of your clothes from Goodwill.
And lastly, I entered a contest on the Conte's website...which was where you submitted a poem about how their music makes you feel/think/whatever. You e-mail 'em your poem, and Steve judges them. Entries are due by tomorrow - XD - so I got my lucky break by finding out about it today. The winners will be announced on March 1 (that rocks). The grand prize winner gets an autographed CD with the six songs Steve sung at Ohayocon and an autographed copy of the lyrics from one of the six songs. You got bonus points if you could name the six Yoko Kanno songs played, so I took a wild guess. Those wild guesses were:
Could You Bite the Hand?, Heaven's Not Enough, Stray, Call Me Call Me, Rain, and Living In the Shell.
Even if you don't get the grand prize, the first and second place winners get autographed somethings. I don't remember. >.>
But I'm hyped, and feeling slightly fangirlish.
Moral: Never let Kat see what Steve Conte looks like. Ever. Again.
XD
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Maybe I should...Ooh, shiny object...
><;; Don't ask.
I got a blood test today - *points to bruisey thingie in elbow pit* - and had three mugs of coffee (in total) today. I am currently dripping snot onto the keyboard like a faucet, and I have the G Gundam song "Song of Winners" stuck in my head. A bunch of male Japanese bassists' voices. Yay...
The rest of the house is dead quiet because it's 11:17 and I really, really should either be wet or drying off by now because I reall, really should've hopped into the shower at the end of Full Metal Alchemest eighteen minutes ago.
I cleaned my computer area today. >.> No, seriously, I did - *points at the area under desk, which is strewn about with wires, extension cords, wires, and more wires*.
*sneezes*
Agghhh...hold on...*disappears*
*blankness*
*a sniffle can be heard*
*from the left side comes a huge sniffle, then a snort, then a HW-WANK! sound*
*Kat returns and tosses a tissue into the wastebasket*
Now I must go and do those motions. >.>
...I'm back. And I really don't know what to talk about! I'm really, really think about making it a priority to post everyday on myOtaku. Really. Really...really. *gets punched*
Finished the lit book "That Was Then, This Is Now". I hate S.E. Hinton. Even though she wrote "The Outsiders" at age sixteen - well, I can write better than her, and I'm frickin' thirteen! ...Then again, I am rather a genius when it comes to writing, so...
*gets punched yet again* Damn, who keeps doing that? God...
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