Let Winterlight Come

Roomie and I both did this together. It's fun having a roommate on LJ sometimes. XD We can bitch at each other about fandom and iconing and we totally understand what the other person is talking about, even though we're not in the same fandoms.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
liangzhu goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Kaonashi.
coiled_iris gives you 16 red evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
dammitliv gives you 4 pink tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
elagnithgins gives you 7 teal chocolate-flavoured gumdrops.
karinberry gives you 12 light green orange-flavoured gummy bats.
lucentstreak gives you 15 light green strawberry-flavoured wafers.
musikologie gives you 2 dark blue lemon-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
nihongofrancais gives you 7 brown banana-flavoured jawbreakers.
slytherisa gives you 5 blue grapefruit-flavoured gummy bats.
swtjemz gives you 11 blue strawberry-flavoured pieces of taffy.
velvetgunfire tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
liangzhu ends up with 79 pieces of candy, and a rotten egg.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

And now I have... one minute to finish my costume, figure out my alternate costume, and take a shower. >.> *zooms*

....I should've learned from last night to go to sleep before or at the same time as my roommate. >.> At least I'm definitely more tired tonight, even after a nap, so hopefully, I'll be able to sleep more tonight.

Pancake Breakfast was a lot of fun, but in different ways from last year. I saw a lot of friends from Coffee Night and elsewhere, and felt like I did less work than the last two times. It took me around half an hour to get my yukata on; I think the first step of just tying the thing closed was as hard as tying the obi. XD But Hitomi thought I was a genius, so yay~

I didn't take many pictures, but there are about a million floating around and I will get some. During George and my performance (with Arash, for two songs), there were so many camera flashes going off, and there were photographers like, crouched on the ground right in front of us and you could hear the clickclickclick... I wanted to laugh because it had such a celebrity feel to it. XD Ah, today would've been such a good day to start that photo-meme that's going around again... it'd cover Pancake Breakfast, International Quiz on Friday, the Halloween party on Friday night, and actual Halloween.

My parents came by, and BROUGHT ME A PUMPKIN. ♥ Actually, they brought a large pumpkin for the house, and a small pumpkin for me (which I discovered after I left), a pot of mums, and a carving kit. And also the stuff roomie and I ordered from HMV, some cough medicine, and vitamins. >.>

For one week, recommend / share:
→ Day 1: a song
→ Day 2: a picture
→ Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
→ Day 4: a site
→ Day 5: a youtube clip
→ Day 6: a quote
→ Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

I really want to just rec this channel, but まるです。 (I am Maru) is a good starting point. Maru is a big fat cat with adorable sock-mitten feet and an awesome, quirky personality that shows in cutehilarious ways (Maru loves boxes) and who lives in Japan. ♥ If he was my cat, I don't think I'd ever watch TV... not that I watch TV on the TV much these days anyway, but you know what I mean.

Maru also has a blog with nice pictures and other little characters like Harry the stuffed hedgehog and a giant Kapibara-san! Eee.

In other news, between my GPA, my lack of previous clinical experience and the fact that the clinic applications apparently close twelve hours before the time stated in the e-mail sent around, I will definitely be here another semester to take clinic. -_-; You can submit a late app if there's still space in clinic, but the only thing I really have going for me is my senior status, and if I have to retake classes like I think I do (but I don't for sure, because the head of clinic hasn't gotten back to me yet), I don't even have that. >.>

Pancake Breakfast rehearsal was today, and it was extra-chaotic. Every semester, things seem to get more (unncessecarily) complicated, so that was fun. >.>

Good news! I did a lot better than I thought I would on my midterms! There was one, all essays, that I took while sick, and I pulled off a 95%. How, I don't know, but I am not complaining. XD

( Bad news! Eh, you don't need to read about it~ )

Oh! More good news! I get to help Matias make the prize baskets for the International Quiz on October 30th. Fun times ahead. :D Also, roomie and I are full of creativity and making our Halloween costumes this weekend. /O/

For one week, recommend / share:
→ Day 1: a song
→ Day 2: a picture
→ Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
→ Day 4: a site
→ Day 5: a youtube clip
→ Day 6: a quote
→ Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

This one is surprisingly hard, not in the least because I have been failing at reading new things this year, and I'm so indecisive I can't pick a book to recommend. It usually depends on who I'm recommending a book to, but! I'll try with: a comic book!

Marvel 1602 (it's Wiki, so it does have the entire story written out for the spoiler-phobic who take this rec seriously XD) was written in 2003 by none other than Neil Gaiman, and illustrated by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove. It basically took the Marvel universe, and placed it in, well, 1602, during a time where the 'witchbreed' - mutants - are being hunted down and killed.

One thing I really like about 1602 is the variety of characters Gaiman packs into eight issues (though for me, it's one hard-cover book XD). There's Charles Xavier and the original five X-men, Daredevil, Magneto, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, the Fantastic Four, Dr. Doom, Stephen Strange, Nick Fury, Thor, Captain America, Hulk and others, all renamed to be a bit more period-appropriate (I suppose), of course, as well as several historical figures. There's a departure from the typical Marvel illustration style, which is also nice; it looks more hand-drawn, more hand-colored, and less flat, somehow.

Gaiman doesn't really have much time to establish different personalities with the 1602 versions of the Marvel characters, but it's not really necessary. The plot is interesting and different just because of its context, but isn't particularly innovative or 'new.' But 1602 is really just a fun spinoff with a few twists thrown in. From a company where most spin-offs take place in roughly the same time as canon, just with different people in different configurations, it's a really nice alternative.

I have a batch of icons up for voting at pickmybest (...which seems to be dying, but what the heck), and more opinions would be lovely if anyone has time/interest. But no pressure, really. XD


Over heeere

It's a mix of V6 (for jmusic50, Versailles, with a few of Uruha, Gou from Megamasso, KAT-TUN, Ayabie, Vistlip, and GLAY. If you'd like to vote, please pick your top five (from 5th to 1st) and say why you like it; it can be something simple, like, "Nice crop!" but a bit more detail is always more helpful. XD

I will probably crosspost this to dammitliz, so... yeah. Sorry for the repetition. :P

And now, I'll start this meme, even though Thursday is a weird day to start on (especially when it's only been Thursday for twenty minutes - I still haven't decided if this still counts as Wednesday):

For one week, recommend / share:
→ Day 1: a song
→ Day 2: a picture
→ Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
→ Day 4: a site
→ Day 5: a youtube clip
→ Day 6: a quote
→ Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

Like zenni, I can forsee myself having trouble sticking to one rec per category, so I'll start off on a good foot, and go with two. Ha.

This is the song I was originally going to link, because I have been listening to it a lot lately, and I am still in awe of V6's sex lyrics. >.> Maybe it's because they're a senpai band in JE, but I was not expecting this from them at all.

V6 - Voltage

The lyrics are here if you're interested. It really is about sex, I swear.

But this song was playing when I was pondering this meme, and I thought it'd be nice to also actually rec someone less well known (though among Johnny's, V6 is not a frontrunner among LJ fandom, at least), so:

Def Tech - Future Child

Def Tech is a Japanese-Hawaiian group that pioneered their own genre they dubbed "Jawaiian," - Japanese-Hawaiian reggae. This song shows off their style pretty well (and they use the word Jawaiian in it!); it's not for everyone, and I can't listen to them all the time, but they're good if you're having a good day. XD Kinda funky, kinda weird, but fun.

( Random memage snagged from slytherisa )

Yeah, this post is pointless. :D Well, it's kind of GIPy! Sato Takeru looks quite a bit like Kame in this picture, and not as sleepless/hungry as he has been looking in Mei-chan, which I am caught up on now! I want to squish Mameshiba so much... and I really empathize with him (aside from the whole... competing with his brother thing, 'cause I don't see that happening with me anytime soon XD). Though... Erika and I are both wondering if Yamada Yu's character is supposed to be a high-school age girl, because even with Asian unaging skills, she doesn't quite look young enough. >.>

And on a barely-related note ('cause they weren't in the episode at all), I had no idea the actors playing old!Hongo's butler clones are actually (rather adorkably lovely) twins. Pretty and stalkable. Ooh, and one of them is in another drama with the actor playing Aoyama, with both of them acting as cafe workers. Yay, snappy uniforms?

I also watched D's Snow White PV Offshot (that Iris squished for me <3333), and I don't think Ruiza has ever been so flat-out adorable as he was when he was clinging to Hide-zou. ♥

I am vaguely disappointed that I am not being half as productive on the anonymeme this year. I wonder how I did it last year... On the other hand, I'm not really being productive anywhere, so this is relatively normal. >.>

Hoarding of things is going pretty well, except that I completely failed at the hoarding of Pi Li MIT and have been watching it as i download. And I'm slowly slowly watching Ryuusei no Kizuna (first episode two nights ago, second one... maybe tonight). So far, I like it... Nino and Ryo's character's confused phone conversation about Post-Its was the definite highlight for me.

Um... yes. Maybe going to dim sum tomorrow. :D Yay, more greasy Chinese food (*eyes leftovers in the fridge*)! But dan tat, too. :D Yeah, I missed Chinese food while I was at school.

Snagged from tobinsguide!

( That Big Icon Table Meme )

I just got out of a ridiculously long and repetitive floor meeting for the girls at the I-house. Our meeting went for almost an hour and a half. The guys were done in ten minutes. x__x

Still haven't finished the other post. I have some ranting to do about my presentation, and then some more ghei fun (and what Keri is calling my first kiss - with a boy. DUN DUN DUN. I disagree, but have to concede that if you go with the basic definition of a kiss, then yes, it was). Maybe I'll put the ghei fun here.

But first,

Book meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.

I had two books equidistant from me, so I used both of them.

ASHA (1998) clarifies this role for clinicians in keeping with district, state and federal regulations. Speech-language pathologists with appropriate ESL training beyond the usual academic preparation may provide the primary direct ESL instruction. However, speech-language pathologists without the requisite training can assume a collaborative consultation role along with trained ESL instructors. Requisite knowledge includes second language acquisition theory, comparative linguistics, and ESL methodologies.

- Noma B. Anderson, George H. Shames, Human Communication Disorders

The dog was talking! Not really talking, since its mouth wasn't moving - but communicating through some means other than speech.

Stand up and follow me! the dog commanded.

Nakata did as he was told, clambering to his feet.

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

This seems to be my week for playing tutor. Yesterday, I helped Daichi with his presentation on magic tricks, and Keri with her presentation on the results of a travel survey her group did. And right now, I'm helping boy!Kai (maybe I should just call him Chengkai now) with a cover letter for a professor working with alternative energies.

Someone should pay me. XD

Bored, so... ( The answers to the unguessed questions on the explode-a-meme )

Tomorrow is the JE Meetup in SF! Yay! Hopefully I will wake up on time, and be able to get out of the house without too much explaining at why I am actually leaving the house before 10am. >.> I have unfortunately not finished the NEWS chibi!pirates, so they will not be coming with me and I guess I could do them now, but... but.... zzzz.

Been a long time since I crossposted this way. XD



[20 Kanjani8 icons from the TORN fancams (6 animated) - Over here at dammitliz]

Like it says on that post, please don't ask me for the original videos, because my conscience doesn't like the animated icons. >.> See the post for a less cryptic explanation.

Mom got a glimpse of my computer when I was working on these, saw this and asked me who he was. I stared at Ohkura's crotch for a minute and pondered what to say. For some reason, 'stripper' came to mind, but I just said, "He's a singer." Mom calls PSing "picture stuff," too. But she's getting better about the whole Japanese music thing. I was listening to Matenrou Opera's Kaze no tori in the kitchen last week and instead of saying, "Oh, More Japanese Stuff? :/" she just asked if he (Sono) was also playing the piano.

And now, time for an icon meme. I usually see this one done with just the icons people have uploaded, but dammitliv (ice_cubed) did it with All Of Her Icons Ever, so I thought I'd give it a try and mix the two. The first icon in each category is from the ones I have uploaded, the others are from an assortment of fandoms.

( I ramble about Photoshop a lot. )

aljfwiejaaw goodnight.

Mom just said "we'll have to make you more like Michael." This is exactly why I don't get along with her anymore. She wants me to be more like my friends, more like her, more like Michael - as though we're all really the same person, and I'm just weird for not being able to "get over" things like my anxiety about driving. x_x

But enough of that. l33t_dreams gave me some icons for this meme:

1. Reply to THIS post, and I will select four or five of your userpics that I like.
2. Make a entry and talk about the icons I have chosen.
3. Other people will then comment on your entry and you will do the same as I have done for you.

4. If you want to ask about any more of my icons, comment with them! Pls? Am bored.

( Behind a cut because I ramble! Also, in case other people want to add some. :D )