however i LOVE REISHIN-SAMA

but my bff character is the minster of finanaceeeeeee. it is his mask. and his peerless beauty that i doubt i will ever see.

i don't hate eigetsu. i'm a little indifferent to him.

but seriously, i'm bored with this whole 'eigetsu is a homosexual' arc. i am only watching it because SAKUJUN MIGHT BE ALIVE.

i haven't liked/cared about seiran since he fucking took an antidote while playing that russian-roulette style dice+poisoned sake game with sakujun because it is fucking cheating. sakujun took no antidotes.

even emperor ryuuki isn't doing much. i wish he'd just do an official summons and force shuurei to marry him or something, i'm tired of her being all 'you could wait for me forever and still i might not come'. i'm tired of it. she was his consort and did not sleep with him! what a whore.

but maybe if sakujun is still alive, she will love him. if he is, i am sure the whole 'because governor kou is a woman you are all getting sick. take her and offer her as a sacrifice' deal is HIM TRYING TO GET HER CAPTURED AND BROUGHT BEFORE HIM.

also i think that if ryuuki DID order her around a little, and wasn't all 'i will let her make her own way without my influence/i will not force her by pullng rank', she might love him. she loved (possibly) sakujun BECAUSE he was like ryuuki, except selfish.

TAKE WHAT YOU WANT AND PAY FOR IT, SAYS GOD. he is acting like her parent instead of her lover. she will not see him unless he makes himself be seen. sakujun did that, and her heart always beat fast around him.

and he stole kisses from her more than ryuuki did, and she did not hit him once.

okay, so, i did get a little teary at the end!

because ryuuki will never let go of shuurei ever! and really, my heart just thudded at the end when he says 'no matter how long it takes, i know my deam will be waiting right here, where we first met, beneath this tree' and it's just really pure! this series is just such romance! SUCH ROMANCE. i love it. it's a little upsetting because i don't know if shuurei loves ryuuki at all. i know she cares about him, but.

seriously, her bawling because sakujun died. that was sad business. she was so attracted to him, and he kissed her all the time.

anyway there was a small montage of the series with the end song playing again, which is so pretty, and IT SHOWED SAKUJUN KISSING HER THE LAST TIME WHEN HE WAS BLEEDING FROM THE MOUTH IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND SAD and i really, really need to go to sleep because it is work in the morning but i want to start season two quickly but. sleep. i finally have a normal schedule.

also the first seven episodes of tenchi muyo. i drew ryoko. ryoko is so hot. man, seriously. she almost raped tenchi she is all 'LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME' and he's like no thankz i'll pass. tenchi is a fag for not hitting that right away.

i was thinking about that one guy that was sort of ryoko's boyfriend for a little while in in tokyo and how he took a laser/bullet thing for her, and how sweet it was because he was way hotter than tenchi with his osaka pancake face. anyway later on he's talking to someone and he's like 'she was cute at first but she's so coarse' or something, and ryoko hears, and it's really sad because i think she really liked him. but she kicks his ass, so.

but still. i loved sakujun. shuurei started to. he reminded her of ryuuki, except there were fundamental differences, and apparently that was the difference between affection and attraction. shuurei is into weird guys.

but the minister of finance is still my favorite and shuurei should marry him. just because of that one scene when it storms and she is afraid.

ps shuurei at times reminds me a) of furuba's tohru and b) of ouran's haruhi. just occasionally though. haruhi is much more badass and tohru is much more likeable. but they have similar responses from the surrounding characters.

and now i sleep. and tomorrow i work. and then season two.

ps i hate updating livejournal. it's so tedious.

anyway i had an amazing time in europe. these cities were all older than our country. there was such history in them - everywhere, ruins or old buildings or just works of art that were monumental in size and beauty and detail. the arc de triomphe was breathtaking. napolean saw the constantine's arc and wanted one, so he commissioned one, only it was like a million times the size. it's so big, and the carvings on it are gorgeous. there is a place in paris, in the gardens near the louvre, where you can see five monuments all lined up; the arc, an old egyptian obelisk, the eiffel tower, the louvre's pyramid, and la defense (?). actually, i'm not sure about the eiffel tower, but anyway it's excellent and i took many pictures.

also, as an aside, i hate taking pictures too. and looking at them, and sorting them. ugh. but i took many for my mom and grandma.

ps, as far as the louvre goes, it's so huge and there is little time. i saw the essentials (ie the mona lisa, venus de milo, winged victory, raft of the medusa) and seriously, the winged victory stopped my heart. it was so beautiful. and raft of the medusa was enormous.

also in paris someone tried to sell me cocaine :(

london was crazy because talking to anyone was new and exciting because of accents. and there were different kinds of british accents! it was so interesting. and i was able to leach wifi in london, but paris and rome try to make you pay and i refuse to pay for wifi. and it wasn't really that dirty. paris was filthy though. anyway i got the actual british version of terry pratchett and neil gaiman's good omens, so i was super excited about that. and they don't pronounce gaiman as 'guy man' like i thought; they don't even pronounce it as 'gay man'. you know how it is pronounced in britain? 'JAY MAN'. seriously.

rome was also amazing. i mean, people try to steal your shit (no so much in london, but in paris and seriously in rome), but the city is so beautiful and people are pretty laid back and the flavian amphitheater (coliseum) would have been more amazing if you could wander around in it, but you couldn't. anyway it was still marvelous to look at. i loved the pantheon, though, and also i had mixed feelings about it. i went in expecting it to be, you know, a beautiful old temple. and to an extent it was, except all the places there should have been gods, there were saints. and up where zeus should have stood there was an alter. it's used for church services. it made me really angry, because the building was older than christianity itself, and it was made specifically for the gods of ancient rome; parts of its architecture specifically correlate with that theology. so the new religion moves right on in and makes a church out of a temple. i think it's done in bad taste. but i guess it's better than if they had destroyed it...

uhmmm, there will probably be more later, or maybe there won't. once i get the pictures developed i'll rifle through them and remember some more stuff.


THE REAL REASON FOR THIS UPDATE:
...i felt guilty updating about anime before europe, so.

i've been watching saiunkoku monogatari, and it is slightly reminiscent of fushigi yuugi, except it holds my attention more. i am honestly not a fan of yuu watase.

anyway, so like, the main girl is slightly annoying in the beginning but she gets less so. and there are some secondary characters that i love. i was sort of all right with seiran for awhile, until THIS EPISODE and yes i DID LOVE SAKUJUN MORE and anyway he better not be dead. HE BETTER NOT BE. he is by far too awesome.

you heard me. sakujun. LOVE SAKUJUN. jesus christ.

okay i am drunk. i am not a beer drinker, and i am on my second. by the way, twice so far a bartender has bought me an additional drink.

anyway we are having a great time. also i am on monji, my new eee pc that did cost much but not too much and there maybe typos because i am drunk and also this keyboard is so tiny!

anyway just a drunken update mmmmmm.

yes, i have not been here for awhile, boo hoo.

to make this simple:

( anime )

( arts )

( fanfiction )

( real life )

( acen )

i just wanted to say that i've been with you for a long time. it's approaching, what, four years now? five? you know i have no head for time or maths.

i've seen you grow from a snotty little kid into something almost respectable. i mourned along with you the loss of your first real opponents, your mentor, and then your closest friend. even the man you could have called father.

well, now your closest friend is going to kill his brother.

so the point i'm trying to get to is i REALLY DON'T WANT ITACHI TO DIE.

but since kishimoto already said this whole year was sasuke-centric, how can he not? his eyes were bleeding! for christ's sake.

anyway, other than freaking naruto, here is a basic rundown of me (i am sure it is terrible interesting):

i have been going to work and school and martial arts class as usual. i was playing baldur's gate ii/throne of bhaal pretty heavily for a few days and my wrist hurt so i freaked out and didn't play for a week and now my wrist is fine. i have mostly been reading fanfiction - harry and draco - and i'm on around chapter fifty of the fruits basket manga which i am also reading.

i and rereading the curious incident of the dog in the night time, and i reread a picture of dorian gray and i read do androids dream of electric sheep and i started reading evermeet which is forgotten realms history by elain cunningham who wrote all of those moon elf books that i always read until i realized that she wasn't a good writer. but i'm thinking maybe she isn't terrible and i'm reading it again to be sure. it's already aggravating though.

the other thing is that i haven't been doing any work outside of school. i should be writing, otherwise i will never publish a book. however i only read when i am not in school. as far as art goes, my painting teacher said "i think i need one of your pieces for the student collection," so he is giving me a check for $200 for a piece that hasn't been chosen/finished yet. it could be something i have yet to do. that is awesome. i am very very poor right now.

went to mitsuwa and chinatown on saturday. i should have gone to work to make money, instead of not making money and spending it. but i had a good time and there was delicious food.

the cute kid in my class who is an excellent painter sits down nearby to me and rolls his shoulders and grimaces so that i will ask if his back is sore so he can get a massage out of me. after the first time he is always doing that. it's funny. he's like 'man i'm so sore from going to the gym' and i'm like 'if you want me to rub your shoulders just ask, i take any excuse i can to get my hands on you' and it's lolz. please not that i did not actually say that and he didn't say that in quite that way, but it's close enough to our banter to not be too misleading.

also i am twenty now. it was my birthday. now i have to be a real adult and not a teenager. i'm feeling intense anxiety about that and i can't even legally deal with it (alcohol consumption). but on a lighter note my trip to europe is mostly paid for. and i can drink away my sorrows there. except i should not be sorry for anything in europe, i should be happy and having a marvelous time.

one of my coworks who is awesome is taking a test for working with planes and he will probably pass and it will be a much better job because he hates this one and then it will be me and celia to run the freaking store and that's it. mostly celia as i am an inbetweener. but seriously it is balls except i'm really happy for him if he gets it. i hope he does. something should go right for him.

otherwise maybe i want to finish up this junior college shit over the summer as best i can. i want to be a flight attendant now. i want to travel now. i seriously can't stand my job. maybe i can start weekends? who knows, but i feel like i'm stagnating. it's this flat land with no trees or hills that i hate probably.

i am rambling so much i don't even know what i'm talking about. i have not been sleeping well lately either. maybe i will go to bed now.

at work today someone called to make oversize prints. he needed them in color. when it is larger than 11 x 17, we have to print it on our oversize machine, and that costs money. most people who need these kinds of things have a business or some sort that can afford to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on prints.

when i told him it was ten dollars per square foot, he said, "why don't you just use a gun" and then "no one is going to pay that much", and it's not like i can say "people pay that much all the time". what is he expecting me to say back? i obviously can't argue because he's a fucking customer, so i just don't say anything.

he wants to do business with us, he says, but doesn't want to pay so much. he wants a manager to talk to. i gave him to celia.

this is what transpired:

apparently he tried to haggle with her. for six of these prints it costs three hundred and sixty dollars. so he said (she tells me after), once there were no deals forthcoming, "how about i give you a hundred dollars for the six of them?"

fucking ridiculous. we laughed about it for like twenty minutes after he got off the phone. this isn't ebay buy it now or best offer. this isn't a pawn shop. this isn't even a franchise, it's a fucking coporate owned print shop. what a freaking wiener.

and he was like "so you're gonna turn away business?"

it isn't business, you retard, unless we make money. we don't just lower our prices because you personally can't afford it because you personally are not our target market.

ugh.

and the other thing is that when denwa and i went to see "the orphanage", the ticket lady says "you're aware that this is in spanish with subtitles, right?" and i'm like "people actually get angry about that?"

i mean seriously, what the fuck. it's so hard to read, right, america? you're such a lazy pig that you can't be bothered to see a movie unless it's in your own language, and judge it solely by that. once i told my dad to see "pan's labyrinth" when it first came out and a few days later he called me and said "you never told me it had subtitles" and i was like "what are you talking about" because i didn't even think it was relevant. he didn't see it and apparently thought i was trying to trick him. what the fuck ever.

i think he eventually saw it on tv or something and thought it was good.

but anyway, whenever someone is like 'what subtitles i'm not watching this shit' i want to hit them in the face because that's about as ignorant as you can get and i hate the people that make this country fat and stupid and lazy. i know it's not everyone, but it's a huge amount. seriously, we're the most overweight and unhealthy country, we're hugely illiterate, and for a country as diverse as ours we're still heinously racist.

seriously, people suck. you can't bully businesses into charging you a third of the price and eating vegetables or watching subtitled films once in awhile does not make you a homosexual, and even if it did that isn't a good or a bad thing, it's just a thing.

ugh. UGH UGH UGH.

ps cartilage piercings hurt like holy fuck, and my haircut is super cute.

okay, i am selling shit. mostly manga. buy it from me.

here is the ebay link for the random lot of crap that is going for way too little.

also, here is a list of series i am selling. if you are going to buy it, tell me - you can pay me with paypal (or in person, whatever) and i'll send it or give it to you.

full metal panic vol 1-3
saiyuki 1-9
saiyuki reload 1-4
full metal alchemist 1-4
king of hell 1-10
alichino 1-3
berserk 1-11
fruits basket 1-13
angel sanctuary 1-14

seriously, just make me a fucking offer.

in other news, i switched bank accounts and now i have all kinds of fun things. and also a student credit card, so i will have a means to purchase stuff when out of country. the charge for the exchange (which is supposedly more reasonable through the card than through other exchanges) is like 3%, so that's kind of awesome. also there are a million more of these banks around than where i was.

oh, and merry christmas i suppose. please buy my manga. super cheap. v.v sadface.