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I bring icons!

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Naruto (characters: itachi (mostly) & sakura, ino, hinata)
Bleach
Pandora Hearts

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The stress-dreams are back in full force. Last night I found myself struggling not to cry on the phone as I tried to explain to my mom's answering machine that because I'd committed some minor infraction, law school faculty had broken eight of my fingers (EDIT: Apparently my dream-self cannot count; I had both thumbs and the last two fingers on my right hand still functional, so it was actually only 6), I couldn't get medical care, and exams started next week. (My dream lied; they start tomorrow.) I'm fairly sure some of this is due to sympathy for my friend Eli, who broke his hand after a fall several weeks ago, and who will be going into finals with a couple of his fingers still numbed and slow.

Of course, most of it is due to the fact that my first exam is tomorrow. And, as was proved to me when a classmate called last night with a question I couldn't answer, I'm woefully unprepared.

Today will be spent at the library. We'll see what tomorrow holds.

Current Mood: stressed

I am applying to Grad School right now - it is so stressful, guys. I mean, BP-triggering stressful. I keep telling myself it will all be over in a week (because that's when the majority of the applications are due), but my poor brain feels like it is stopping and starting, and I keep eating sugary snacks and sleeping 12 hours a night - except for when I wake up having panic attacks. :(

It's no fun at all. I don't feel like this should be that hard to handle, but it is....

And to top it all off, I keep staring at these Statement of Purposes that ask you questions like, "How would your presence contribute the diversity of this school?" or "Explain any inconsistencies (i.e. bad grades) in your academic record" or "What kind of adversity have you overcome in getting to this point in your life where you are applying to grad school?"

And the answer is, "Well, I'm bipolar."

But I have been told not to put that by so many people who are aware of these things much better than I. Part of me is like screw it, this is who I am, it is something that happened to me, and I'm not ashamed of it, and then part of me is so afraid that this one single word would going prevent me from getting in anywhere.

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Current Mood: drained

Itachi x 23
Sasuke x 39
ItaSasu x o6

We are back from spending a long time away from home. After church, we went straight to Mom's place and hung out playing Final Fantasy Tactics on our PSP until it was time for Sarah's birthday dinner Part the Second: Immediate Family (as opposed to in-laws). It was fun hanging out with family, but Oreo seems to have missed us very much, so I think it's time to go hang out with him.

Today I'm thankful for the wonderful brownies Mom made (we have been craving chocolate so badly the last few weeks), plans for Disneyland in two weeks coming together, getting to play FFT again, coming home to our kitty, and getting to watch Peter Pan last night.

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
- Anonymous


I drew stuff at Church today and decided to share. It's been a while since I posted any art.



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So a while back Melanie mentioned the movie Primer, and it was also mentioned in an xkcd comic, and I had never heard of it. According to xkcd it is quite confusing. XD I looked it up on Netflix and there it was, and it was PG-13 (I don't watch R movies), and it mentioned a very confusing storyline with something about a time machine and sported a lot of negative reviews that said things like "THIS MOVIE IS TOO CONFUSING" so I decided to rent it and give it a go, because all the negative reviews were full of typos and usually that means it's a good, intellectual movie and not for the dim-witted.

I have no idea what I just watched, but I LOVED IT. Two thumbs up. I'm bringing this to our movie night!

Fantasy Sheep on eBay is having a free shipping offer for orders over $200.

Anyone fancy a group order?


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Thanks!

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Hello,

I have a few things for sale. All prices include shipping for the US (international buyers, please message me).

I'd really prefer to use PayPal (and if you do decide to use Paypal, I'll have to add $1-2 to each price due to PayPal's usage fees), but for other payment methods, please message me.

Details and information for each item, along with pictures (some colors vary due to lighting and camera flash), are behind each cut. Some items are already cross-posted on cosplay.com's Marketplace.

NOTE: I also don't put items on hold due to unpleasant past experiences, and I'm not trading either.

Thank you for your time.

( Long, dark brown wig. $25.00 )

( Black boots, size 10. $30.00 )

( (3 yards, 16 inches) Metallic coin trim. $10.00 )

( (2.5 yards) Black fringe trim. $6.00 )

( (1 yard) Burgundy lining. $3.00 )

( (1 yard) Red matte casa satin. $5.00 )

( (1.5 yards) Yellow transparent polyester fabric. $3.00 )

( (1.5 yards) Light pink transparent polyester fabric. $3.00 )

Hello, all. This is my first batch of Naruto icons, and they have... Futurama quotes on them? Why? ...It amused me, that's why.

(05) Katamari Damacy series
(05) Klonoa (Wiimake)
(08) Naruto (w/Futurama quotes)
(24) Cat Face

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More HERE at fear_the_icons

Current Mood: okay

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So I realise I keep forgetting to put this up here, but:

I'm coming home December 19-Jan 4 (...3rd more like, since I leave at the butt-crack of dawn on the 4th). I've got some plans, but if anyone has anything they'd like to do throw it by and I'll see what I can do.


Also, I just came back from seeing Wicked in Osaka. FRICKEN. FANTASTIC. I've never actually seen it before but I loved it. Elfaba (sp?!?) had the bestest best voice evar. Wanna see it in English so hard.

Current Mood: happy

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[Total] ➣ 37 icons
[Naruto] ➣ 29 (Team 8; Mostly Kiba)
[Azumanga Daioh] ➣ 8 (Osaka and Chiyo's "Dad")

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(Conclusions manifest, your first impression's gotta be your very best...)

Happy birthday, Walt Disney! I probably wouldn't have thought to mention it if we weren't following three official Disney Twitter feeds, but we are, so I did! I think we're going to celebrate by watching Peter Pan. It would be awesome if we could celebrate by watching our Snow White Blu-ray Disc, but we don't have it yet, because we haven't been paid. Come to think of it, our list of "things we're going to buy when we get paid" has gotten pretty long. So long, in fact, that I think some things might have to go. Sad. Snow White Blu-ray Disc, however, is not one of those things.

Anyway, we watched the Dreams Come True special about Disney animation last night, and it was pretty awesome. We're pretty sure the idea was to get people more interested in the Princess and the Frog (of course), but more importantly, hand-drawn animation. They had a ton of celebrities come on and talk about their memories of Disney movies and what they like about them and stuff. It looked like they were trying to appeal to all demographics, too, saying, "Look, all these people like it! You can like it, too!"

But what was really fascinating was when they talked to Dick Van Dyke. He talked about things like how he saw Steamboat Willie on its first run, and how one time (much more recently) he was out walking his dog and he sat down on a park bench to rest, and this little girl saw him and carefully sat next to him, then starting rocking from side to side as she sang "Let's Go Fly a Kite," and the two of them sang the whole song together! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!! Also, I'm super jealous of that little girl.

Whoopi Goldberg was fun to listen to, too. She told about when she took her granddaughter to see The Lion King when it first came out, and as she's watching the movie, the little girl turns to her and says, "You're not very nice in this movie, Granny!" While on the other hand, they were sitting next to James Earl Jones, with whom she really wanted to make friends. According to Ms. Goldberg, the little girl wouldn't say two words to Jeremy Irons♥ (I'm wondering if I should explain who all these actors played in The Lion King... Oh, just go watch the movie. You'll find out.)

Of course the special had a lot of information on The Princess and the Frog, so we're a little annoyed that we know so much of the story already, but we're sure it will be fantastic anyway. ( For those of you not opposed to knowing this stuff (probably everybody but us), we noticed some interesting parallels with a certain popular manga series... )

There were actually a couple of downsides (other than the spoilers) to watching the special though, including missing the Muppet Christmas special on another channel (but Celeste DVRed it for us!). But most importantly, it drove us crazy. It also happened to describe our problem exactly when someone was talking about Aladdin. He wants to go to the castle and get a better life and just be awesome and stuff, but there's very little he can do about it, while meanwhile, the palace continues to stare him in the face, which is something that he can easily change but doesn't. It's all like us and Disney. We want to go to Disney and work there and be part of the magic and stuff, but we're not entirely sure how to do that (though we're not doing nothing!), and in the meantime, we keep staring at all these Disney movies that only make the longing worse. I wonder if Twitter will help anything...

Today I'm thankful for Mom and Steve loaning us rent money (still waiting on paychecks... sigh...), interesting parallels between The Princess and the Frog and Fruits Basket, Celeste recording that Muppet special for us (now hopefully she doesn't accidentally delete it before we get to her house to see it), getting to watch that Disney special, and Oreo being okay so far on just one dose of medicine a day.

Current Mood: calm