Dogs can be cool. I want one to take to the park... but well-behaved animals are somewhat rare, and Peppy might eat it.

Oh, I made a music suggestion for you on a recent post. Check out Ulrich Schnauss :)

... I don't know how I got logged out.

Ooooh~I shall go check this recommendation of yours. :3 I always need new things to listen to.
This dog seems pretty cool~ I'm just not entirely fond of the animals in general, you know? And even though she's big, this is probably one dog that Peppy would kill and devour, like you say. XD

Your agenda looks excellent; Szayel, Mayuri, Adashino, Kisuke, Dr. Crane, and Vincent are on their way. I hope you all have fun! Did Ulquiorra and Uryuu arrive alright? I gave them quite a large budget, but they're both so straight-laced that I assumed they wouldn't do anything silly with it. Hopefully I was right.

Bill Gates' pool has a submarine soundsystem. I want one too, but for that I'd also need a submarine environment. *phones Reever* Why the hell don't we have a roof pool?! Reever: We do, it was installed at Chirstmas, you just haven't been out of your office since last quarter. M: ...Ohhhh. *straightens vest*

So, pneumonia is going around up here. Everyone's coughing. It's making me nervous (although that doesn't count, because I cough loudest). Two acquaintances are in the hospital with it. Did I mention that I'm having a really good week? -_- Sorry... I may need to go talk to some crustaceans. That inspired the oddest thought: I'd really love to be in a deep ocean vent right now. I guess it sort of makes sense, it's warm and dark and peaceful. There are strange ancient bacteria that make everything a pretty color. Speaking of pretty colors, Renji's hair is a very pretty color. I have absolutely no train of thought. But that is excusable, because I am the type of person that chases butterflies for no reason other than to see where they're going. Or sometimes to capture them for biochem. *shrug* Kids these days are conflicted, so what did you expect? Catch and release? Please. It's not which butterflies get caught - it's which butterflies get dissected and which butterflies are used in west nile virus and malaria-related labs. Yeah, we're avant garde. We're switching from mosquitos and fruit flies to butterflies. Liven up the lab a little, you know? Wow, I've been on so many science trips lately. Maybe I haven't had enough coffee? I definitely haven't had too much... After all, the difference between undercaffeination and overcaffeination is.. wait. They're opposites. Damn. I feel like I could be Komui right about now.

Szayel and Adashino may well have sent me their lab writeup, but I've lost my inbox. I seem to have misplaced my lobby, as well. It used to be light in here, and much larger.. Did I order a downsize in my department? There's a strange wheeled apparatus - oh. It appears I was merely trapped beneath my desk. Aha! I have solved - *falls over*

^ That's about how much I can think right now. Maybe getting lunch would help, but I don't want to move. I'd love to go to sleep, but I'm terrible at sleeping in public. Dilemmas, dilllemmmmas. I couldn't remember if it had two "L"'s or two "M"'s, so I gave it extra of both.

You don't mind if I dump crack like this on you, do you? I can't take all the seriousness that's been forced on me, what with talking to police officers and filing restraining orders. I don't mind that bit, but everyone seems so down/agitated. I process serious things by refusing to assign them any mental, social, or emotional value. Police officers and mothers are apparently on a different mental plane... *sigh*

Well then, moving on. I think I'll try to find some lunch. And maybe try to make more sense later. Until then~

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Oh, by 'talked' I meant that I commented on her LJ a couple times and I think she responded once [no, I'm seekritly ninja-ing around your hood talking to your friends. *stalkstalkstalk*]

I meant to write more last night, but I got kidnapped by Sophie and Gayatri, and we went out for dinner and coffee. Of course, we all had to laugh at the fact that I eat slower than a geriatric goldfish and can't fit food in my mouth that most people consider bite-sized. "Erica, PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH!" became an inside joke. Thank god there was no sushi around .__. *cowers* And then, I was standing on a street corner, and this carload of asian kids got t-boned by an angry russian in a geo metro. But since they azns had a stop sign and he didn't, they would have been placed at fault without a witness to tell the cops that they had stopped, and were already halfway through the intersection by the time this guy plowed into them at 50 mph on a residential road. So I hung around and gave the police a statement. I love it when my life is eventful... But what I don't understand is why car accidents flock to me like that. I'm always standing on some corner with some random friend, and some random people get in an accident 10 feet from me. Perhaps I have a mushi.

Speaking of which! I skimmed to lengthy report Szayel and 'Shino sent up, and in essence, Ginko is completely normal by medical standards. There are a few abnormalities in his test results, but nothing significant... I guess it's just because he's Ginko. *sigh* Poor doctors, they were so disappointed that they prescribed him some energy pills for amusement. Which, personally, I think is just as much fun as finding out that he's an alien or something. I wonder if they considered that possibility? I'm not entirely convinced... Like we talked about, he infects the space around him with skewed logic... It's like he rejects reality and substitutes his own version. Could he have similar abilities to Orihime?! *gasp* *phones Kisuke* Kisuke-chaaan~ I have a test subject you might be interested in! But he's severely caffeinated and doesn't like thumbs or avacados, so watch out fo- Yes, I know avacados are one of nature's superfoods and we should all eat them. I, myself, love avocados. Ginko was headed to- No, Szayel and Adashino didn't catch anything. Fine, you can have a raise if you find out what's up with him. Consider it a special assignment. Feel free to recruit any ninja you'd like to catch and restrain him. *hangs up* Running this business can be so trying...

Shiro is such a cool name! *steals* I really do enjoy my little bouts of insanity. They keep me sane. [like my Ginko logic?] Hmm... Pehaps you should learn to kickbox too, so you can blow off steam without having to kill anyone. Or you could always buy plushies of characters you don't like and massacre them, although that would be alot more expensive than the free folks out on the street.

*sigh* So my warring factions of fetishes are disturbing my inner peace. Honestly, why can't I be more decisive? Does my pathetic attention span really affect every area of my life? Today I read the same story for... Pretty much the entire day... Well, that doesn't really count. For one, though it was incredibly hot and the pairing was Shuuhei and Renji, I was thinking about Uryuu the entire time. Tsk, tsk. That in itself spells hopelessness. And secondly, I fequently interrupted myself with bouts of dancing to hiphop. There's this one Kanye West song that I was listening to; it had a lyric I liked - "she don't believe in shooting stars, but she believe in shoes and cars." Haha. Then I started brainstorming lyrics to a song about Bleach. It's still in the works, but if I ever get the entire thing to flow together I'll tell it to you. I want to fit some more big words in there. Makes me feel so learned |] So far the only one I've got is 'gratuitous,' which isn't really that impressive of a word.

I think I'll go make some tea now.

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Dear lord! 4 comments! :0

*deep breath* I really hope this won't offend you; myself, I'm not upset, but I still feel pushy saying this - the common exchange rate of art for fiction is about 1,000 words for a page-size colored picture ("a picture's worth a thousand words..." lol). The amount I've given you so far is a little more than 2,500 words. So I've written more than enough to make our trade fair. I don't mean to say that I won't write more or that I wouldn't write solely for your amusement, I just didn't want you to feel like I was cheating you... or something. I do want to continue this story and develop the characters more; write their backstories (and their deaths. *cackle*)... Just not right now. I've got a little too much on my plate in terms of real life.

Speaking of said life, UUUGGGHHH! *dies* I've spent the entire day studying for Italian. Stupid irregular verbs, you have to memorize every single conjugation... Of which there are 6, only for the present tense. Why didn't I just take Japanese?

So yeah, I still haven't posted those pictures. I don't remember promising anyone paintings... Did I? I know I talked about painting, and I worked on it for a while, but I haven't even picked up a brush in two months. I've been too busy. And none of my paintings were good enough to show anyone :/ I still haven't quite got the hang of mixing the colors. God, I feel bad. I've been saying I'd do things like post pics for several people, and there's one person who made a watercolor for me and asked for a picture of Ginko in return, which I haven't even started sketching. I'm having trouble keeping everything together. My GPA is somewhere down around 2.0, and I'm about to go on probation. If only I had magical powers, people wouldn't care if I did poorly in school.

...And I know that sort of sounds like bullshit since I spent the entire day yesterday doing nothing productive. I just needed a break. We all do that at times.

G-good god, how did Yume survive in Kirigakure? Wouldn't they just kill him for being such a massive embarrasment there? I think he secretly must be incredibly talented. Either that, or lucky enough to seem that way whenever someone important is looking. I like him. Especially since his last name is Shinohara ^^ And- the team's sensei is named CHIE! Like Chie Mihara! I love her shoes! ← why do I feel so nerdy saying that? Maybe because I'm relating fashion to ninja... But we've all seen the anbu uniforms - they must have put some thought into them, fashion-wise, right? Sure looks like it to me.

I think car accidents are so amusing. Of course, I don't like it when people get mangled/killed, but who would anyone be kidding if they said high-speed metal-crunching destruction wasn't cool? My favorite so far was a 3-car crash outside the library. My friend Drey kept a license plate that flew off one of the cars. I have this habit, now, of watching cars pass and trying to decide which ones would be most painful to be hit by.

I wonder how I got the idea that Kata and Star were the same person? I think there was one time you said you were hanging out with Kata one night, and Star had posted on her journal that she was hanging out with someone the same night, and my powers of deductive reasoning got ahead of themselves. *shrug* Hey, I'm not L, nor do I want to be.

Your dream is sad ;__; but also sort of Miyazaki-esque. I'd like to be able to write a decent comment (especially since you just friggin wrote FOUR), but ...er, I can't think of anything to say. So I'll come back later tonight. Maybe think of this as more of a quick 'hello' than an actual comment...?

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My favorite thing about Japanese is that the word "friends" is so close to the word "pants." (nakama→hakama)

I just drank four frappuccinos and I still feel undercaffeinated.

Ahh, nothing like porn to heal the soul/calm the mind/make real people seem unattractive. Especially ShuuKira. Kira is so secretly grounded, and Shuuhei is so secretly messed up.

I feel profane, but can't bring myself to swear.

I feel like I should have something of consequence to say, because all I do lately is throw crack all over you and then get emo, then go back to crack. But the only serious topic I want to talk about is politics, and those are always boring even when they're exctiting. Politics is sort of like beetle wrestling. Or cheese racing. Or figure skating.

So instead of any of that, I'm going to ask you questions.

1) I'm so excited to hear that your prof friends are going to help you study in Japan. What area are you looking at going to? Got a particular college in mind? Are you afraid of being squished into subways so crowded that people don't even need to hang on to their briefcases to keep them suspended? [← true story. Hesselgrave sensei was once shoved into a subway so tightly that he couldn't move, and wondered if his briefcase was in a similar state. He let go of the handle, and sure enough, people were packed in so tight that they held it up.]

2) At what point did you get into anime/manga? And which one was your first? For me, it was Sailor Moon. I think I would have been 4...5? Somewhere in there. The ice cream man once tried to get me to give him one of my action figures (sailor mars, I think) as payment for my ice cream. It was a traumatizing experience. After that, I (of course) loved Pokemon. But I didn't really join anime/manga culture until two summers ago, when I started reading Naruto. Now, your history~ tell me it~

3) You listen to alot of Japanese music, but are there any American bands/genres that you particularly like?

4) Ireland or Switzerland. Pick. For me, I'd have to say Switzerland. It's a beautiful country, right next to Italy and France and all those important places.

Even the questions are getting cracky, so I'm going to stop. Buona notte, D-san.

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*hug* No worries, Kuro-chan. You didn't say anything offensive, I'm just on-edge. So I apologize. [I swear the lady sitting next to me just stole a piece of my scone. She's mumbling, and acting sort of.. schizophrenic.. completely the type that would steal a piece of a stranger's scone :/ ] But I'm considering forcing Reever to take a vacation 8/ that man really must have no need for sleep. And speaking of which, I've tragically made the entire transition to being a morning person now :| I go to bed at around 8:30, and wake up around 1am. But at least I've gotten my tolerance for straight espresso and of black coffee back!

Nakama is really old. Only the shinigami and arrancar in Bleach use it. But then again, no one wears hakama nowadays. Even though they're really hot on some guys. I'm all for bringing hakama and nakama back.

So, this is another one of those I'm-just-tossing-a-hello-your-way posts. Sorry! I'll write something more substantial later..

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Sorry it took so long to reply :/ the last couple days have had me crashing as soon as I got home. And sleeping in the car on the way to school. *sigh* Life and I need to put our relationship on a little hiatus, I think.

Kyoto seems like a cool place~ I'd love to visit it. How long would you be going? Myself, I finally got fed up with my ridiculous Italian teacher and dropped the class... So any plans I had of studying there are being reconsidered (unless I have the opportunity to take another Italian course. I hope so, alot of students have been complaining about the current Italian teacher. Maybe they'll get a new one?) Anyway, I'm trying to decide whether to take Chinese or Spanish next quarter. I know Chinese is supposed to be really hard, but I've got alot of friends that speak it who'd be willing to help me study. So... *shrug* Spanish is cool, though. I love Spanish rap. Being able to understand it would be great.

Well... bloodied-up boys with ninja/samurai skills are way cooler than pretty boys that go well with flowery backgrounds. So shounen anime is clearly better! Er - at least I think so. Not to say that prettiness is a bad thing, because boys like Uryuu and Byakuya are very pretty. Plus, shoujo manga don't tend to have much of a plot. And they're all about every day life, or vampires, and I find vampires completely unattractive. They're like giant mosquitos. And I am especially allergic to mosquito bites. ...Ramble-kai!

I have yet another Nihongo question for you, Sensei! In Bleach, a shinigami's first zanpakuto release is called Shikai. The second is Bankai. Do these terms relate to any other system of... stuff? Or do they just sound made-up? If I remember right, the 'kai' part means release. But the prefixes don't make any sense to me.

It's okay to fail at being American. I think red and green is a perfectly valid color combination. It doesn't remind me of Christmas at all (unless it's kelly green and true red). And that alone makes me a downright terrible American (but sort of a good Mexican). You, however, must secretly be Japanese.

Don't feel geeky about your original characters! I'm too lazy to come up with those. I do like to unnecessarily overdevelop the existing characters, though |] I suppose that some oricharas wouldn't kill me...

Alright, I'm going to give myself a deadline so I actually get around to it: I promise you value study pictures on Saturday at the latest (and by 'latest,' I mean midnight pacific time). For now... I need sleep. More later, sorry this is short.

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Gooood morning~! I'm in a good mood, because it looks like it might be sunny today. And I now have mondays, wednesdays, and fridays (mostly) free. YAY. And I got commissioned for a charcoal drawing! Which I should really go get to work on... I've got that, one other, and some texture studies to finish. Er- of course, I mean I'll do that after I dig out my camera and post some pictures. How come days off are still busy? Eh... It doesn't matter. It's still a break. Tomorrow's gonna be insanely busy, though [all my stupid counselor's fault. grrr]. I need a car so bad. Anyway, I'm gonna go make some coffee.

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