Ramblings and Musings of the Insane, Philosophical Ladybug

Well, earlier I completed the first exam for World History. Now, since I came back, I've been working on the second exam for Sociology. I've almost got it done. I just have to think of a bureaucracy and give three reasons based on book info to prove that it is one. That shouldn't be too hard.

On Wednesday we had to take stuff back to the library. This time, since I finally got my adult card registered with the city system, I got the Cowboy Bebop movie there and then found that volume one of Fullmetal Alchemist came in at the county system. I wasn't expecting it to be there already. The last time I checked, I was still third on the waiting list.

I watched approximately half of the Bebop movie yesterday morning. It was slightly odd to hear that one bad guy talking like Valon. XD Also, I realized that the Bandai Sunrise company seems to have a bad habit of putting more swearing into the English versions of animes than was there originally. **was watching the movie in English, but with the subtitles that went with the original version, in order to get both stories.** I wish they wouldn't do that. It's highly irritating. That's what they did with Gundam Wing, too. The problem is, I prefer the English cast for both those shows. XD They just sound wrong in Japanese.

I also broke down and decided to try to find the Saiyuki movie at Best Buy, because neither library system is getting anything related to that fandom. None of the Best Buys here seem to carry it, according to the computer. Blah. I wonder if Circuit City would have it. They're pretty much like Best Buy.

I realized that usually the shows I like to hear in Japanese are most of the magical girls shows (with the exception of Magic Knight Rayearth). The girls just sound a lot cuter in Japanese, and it suits the mood of the shows better. MKR isn't your typical magical girls show, though. They fight with robots that look like Gundams, and there's lots of blood. XD; I was really surprised when I was watching it and suddenly blood splattered everywhere. I was like, "I thought shoujo shows didn't have blood."

Saint Tail is really cute. XD I wanna see more of it so bad. And I want to get the rest of the mangas. Borders has stopped having them on the shelves, but I think I can still order them from their warehouse. It's really partially a romantic comedy, with the kid who's trying to catch the thief slowly falling in love with her, and vice versa. Saint Tail actually isn't a "magical" girl at all, since she uses illusions based on her dad's magic tricks and such. I'd like to know how she first got started being the Robin Hood-type thief, though. The series opens after her adventures are already well underway, so there's no tale of how it began, unless that's a flashback in a later episode.

Oh yes, I don't think I mentioned this, but last Saturday I finally bought The Cat Returns. Since the sale isn't on anymore, Fred Meyer's price of $19.99 was the cheapest I could find, so I decided to grab it up before it disappeared just like Grave of the Fireflies did. We were out looking for fans last week and happened to be uptown, so it was the perfect opportunity. (Wal-Mart was actually out of fans. @__@ We had to wait till Monday to get another one.)

And we saw this fascinating old movie called Paper Man. XD It was about these five college students who invented a fictitious person after mistakingly receiving a credit card made out in the name of the fictitious person. Then one by one they start dying mysteriously, and it looks like the computer they're using might be acting on its own to cause the problems. It was awesome, with a surprise twist at the end. I like it when movies lead you to believe one thing only to discover it's something else entirely. And it made me wonder: what would happen if someone reprogrammed Kaiba's supercomputer? o.o

^^ I made an icon in honor of that fic idea. **pokes it.** See? XD It just was too good to pass up. It's not really me, though. But it's cute for Valon. Icons with Alister (like my default icon) are better suited to me.

I got a temporary paid account for two months, to kinda test it out and see if I like it. ^^ It only cost five dollars. Having more user icons is definitely a plus. I guess that's my favorite feature of the paid account. XD;

So let's see. . . . Last week, on Wednesday, I did get to get the Saint Tail DVD, as well as My Neightbor Totoro (on Aubrie's recommendation) and the only volume of Magic Knight Rayearth I hadn't seen, the sixth volume from the second season. I'll talk about them in a minute.

We got them on our way down to Lehi to get my aunt, because as I mentioned in a previous entry, we have been planning for months to take her on a nice drive through the small town of Salem that I've talked about before. Something always seemed to go wrong. First somebody would be sick, then the car would get sick, and on and on like that. XD; (And now the car's sick again! It can't seem to pass inspection!) Anyway, so this time we finally managed to go. It was really hot, but at least we went in the late afternoon, when it wasn't as boiling as when it's earlier in the day. We had a good drive, and found a house or two for sale that we'd like to look in once the car recovers.

So then later on when we were home, I watched Saint Tail. I decided to use the Japanese track. For most shows I like them in English, but others just seem to sound better in Japanese. Saint Tail is one of them. ^^ I really enjoyed the episodes, but I'm so used to the manga that I feel bad the anime altered some of the great manga moments. There's this hilarious part where Meimi knocks Asuka Jr out with a potion that Seira made. XD That wasn't in the anime, sadly. ;__; But I love it anyway! And Meimi has a pet hedgehog. How's that for unique?

The next couple of mornings I watched My Neighbor Totoro. Aubrie was definitely right about it. It's so cute! There's just something about it that's really nostalgic and magical. I adore it. Much better than a Disney film.

And of course, MKR was awesome, as always. Nova was devious and wicked, the little rascal. And yet, when you know her true motive and the reason why she had it in the first place, she really doesn't seem that terrible. She's really childlike, not understanding the true consequences of her actions and trusting Debonair, thinking of her as a mother. She's one of the most fascinating characters on the show.

I was horrified to hear about London this morning. I wasn't really surprised, with everything that's been going on, but it made me really sad when thinking about all the innocent people who were hurt or even killed. It makes me mad that people do things like that, not even caring who they're killing. They just want everybody to die, it seems.

I've been writing that fic that has lots of flashbacks to Alister's childhood, but I'm thinking that in light of what happened in London, maybe I should put it on hold for a little while. At the beginning of the year I came up with Alister's mother being on a bus that was attacked. I had a scene written that is the aftermath of that, but as soon as I heard about London I rushed to try to change it. The fic is supposed to be showing the horrors that happen in war and what happens to children such as Alister and Miruko, but still, I don't think I'll finish the fic for a little bit. I should work a bit on the chapter fics anyway.

MUWAHAHAHA! FINALLY! I have a Saint Tail manga!! I've yet to see the anime, but now I've seen the manga. And it's great! It's very interesting to be reading a manga that has a certain Christian slant to it. I'm enjoying very much ^^

I also got the Lunarock CD out of the library. There's only 8 tracks on it, and four of them I already have, so I just saved the other four tracks to my computer so I can listen to them there ^^ I luv Moonlight Densetsu! And Ai no Senshi! And Who Do You Think You Are?! is hilarious XD The other one, Daddy's Girl, is sweet. It would still fit Jupiter if they'd just change a line or two. After all, we all know that her parents really are dead and she has the whole apartment to herself, so the line about being glad to have her own room doesn't make much sense XD Poor girl. I'm sure she'd be glad to be sharing a room with her parents, if only she could have them again.

Would you believe I finally got the next chapters of Paper Flowers and Back from the Grave up?! ^O^ I couldn't find the right song for Paper Flowers, but I prayed about it and almost instantly I was inspired to look at the lyrics for my Touched by an Angel album. I found the perfect song! You Were Loved, by Wynonna. It's so sweet and full of siblingish cuteness! I also found another song there for a later chapter, Believe in You. Can't remember the artist for that at this time XD

It's taken me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do with Back from the Grave, but at last I did ^^ I brought Rini back and revived Jedite from his eternal sleep. And Neflyte appeared to Molly to give her a warning. I love how it turned out!

It's amusing that there's so many different spellings for his name XD The original is Nephrite, but I never use that. Sometimes I use Nephlite, but in the fic I prefer Neflyte. There's also Nefrite, Nefryte, Neflite. . . . XD

I also did a poem, which I'm calling my Easter poem for a couple of reasons. It's the first time in ages I've tried writing rhyming poetry and it really actually came out sounding beautiful instead of silly!

And another poem I wrote (that doesn't have copyrighted characters in it, heh heh) has been accepted for a book of poetry! That's the second one to be! I'm so happy. I shall be published! XD! And millions of people will read my poems. I hope they can be touched and made to think. That's the effect I want my poems to have.

Hmmm. Well, this is the Easter weekend beginning. Today is Good Friday. I hope I can do something good over the weekend that will make Jesus happy ^^

And I hope RC's having fun on her vacation =3 And that she'll be back tomorrow XD Man, the both of us need laptops! Seto, give us some laptops!!

Seto: No.