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Birthday
• 1990-06-13
Gender
• Female
Location
• MD, USA
Member Since
• 2003-08-03
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• DES's hikari
Real Name
• Tory (Dori, Tostito)

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Achievements
• A lot, not that they matter. Anime Club President/Fuhrer till the end of this year.
Anime Fan Since
• (age 4) Tonari No Totoro
Favorite Anime
• Gravitation, Weiss Kreuz, Hagaren (FMA), Kino No Tabi, .hack, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Goals
• To go on an insane shopping spree in Tokyo sometime soon. Gosurori...
Hobbies
• Drooling. Over many things.
Talents
• I make a mean ramen, mm!

myOtaku.com: shiroikarasu

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Things That Are Cool
I was talking to Exo just now and it reminded me of something I thought was pretty neat.

When we went to Rochester, we did some traveling to and from Syracuse/Liverpool area. The first trip we made in the dead of night (well, 9 PM maybe), and as we drove along we began to smell this smelly smell, kind of like sulfur or methane. It also got really foggy, even though the weather was clear in the surrounding area. It was kind of creepy, but we passed through and went on our way.
The next day when my parents made the trip in daylight they found out the area was a swamp called the Montezuma Wildlife Preservation. It was stink-free and clear in the daytime, but again on the way back at night, it was smelly and foggy. Pretty cool.

This little story is from more than a month ago I think. Both my FMA pocket watches and also my wristwatch had died (batteries) and we couldn't figure out how to open them, so we took them to a clock shop in the local antique district that did repairs. We walked into the shop and it was warm and packed with clocks of every shape and size and age. (My favorite was a vintage-looking Japanese Seiko clock that said "A Nice Clock" on the front.) The young lady at the desk told us to go "up the stairs" for the repairman; it turned out there were three steps leading into another room stuffed with more clocks, mostly grandfathers. The man who did repairs was tucked into a corner behind a table and surrounded by little wall-mounted drawers that I assume held all kinds of watch parts, and he wore one of those single-eye magnification lenses. When he waited on us he spoke quietly, brusquely, and with a heavy accent, maybe Russian or Eastern European. He changed the batteries in the three watches in under five minutes total and commented that the pocket watches were rather poor quality. Then we were off to pay. The whole time I couldn't help but think the man would hand me some old broken watch and say something cryptic before disappearing along with the shop, and the watch would open a portal to some other world. It felt very like a children's fantasy book. Very cool.

Those are some cool things. I'm going to finish re-reading a HaseoxEndrance fanfic now.
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