People often link to videos in their posts, so for once, I am going to do so as well. Because this is Important.
So important that I became a sponsor to be able to watch the new episode (out today!) an hour earlier. Even though Corina was in my living room and had already downloaded it. I also have it for my ipod. This is very exciting.

dilettantka posted a meme today and I haven't done one in a while. Also, it had 36 questions and so amused me. [/fabric geekery]

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A.

2) What was your dream growing up?
A.

( more questions here )

( My Answers Here )

ETA: Just spent two hours at the gym (though 30 minutes of that was reading an article about Hugh Jackman while I stretched) for the first time in three weeks and I feel awesome. Haven't gained back too much of the weight I was losing, and one way or the other my heart felt just fine being in the 160-170 range, where I used to feel /really/ overwhelmed if I spent more than a minute or so over 160. Now I think I will eat my economically-healthy sandwich and go to sleep. Work at 10 an all.

UPDATE OF VERY IMPORTANT-NESS: As a reward for me being so good and not spending money and going to the gym, RT posted THIS. Recreation. Mondays at 9 pm CDT. Sounds promising.

New 360 stuffies:
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Nintendo
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SONY
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....so, I got to watch the first 15 minutes of the Mircosoft keynote.

I can't decide if I love them or hate them.
I mean... they are giving my favorite upcomig game a LOT of press. (OMG Guests!)
On the other hand...... >.> I don't want to need a 360.

Ok, work now. I'll have more on the microsoft keynote and sony and nintendos after that I'm sure.

.... I may need to attend Anime Expo this year.
And by 'may' I mean 'will be' and by 'need' I mean 'OMG Morikawa Toshiyuki!'.

Does anyone maybe have a hotel room maybe? That they would like an extra person in? A relatively small person with some costumes from games that no one has ever played. (Haruka, Apocripha and Gakuen Heaven at this con.) I'm very quiet, I'll sleep pretty much anywhere, I love seiyuu and speak Japanese.

Anyone?

In the last couple of days, I've been blazing through dramas in my free time. So... some commentary is in order.

( Mei-chan no Shitsuji 8-10 )

( Atashinchi no Danshi 3 )

( TeniMyu - Imperial Presence B/B Version )

Then today... in addition to lots and lots of Halo, I watched several eps of VS Arashi and Shukudai-kun. I really think VS (not 'versus' Aiba and Sho tell us, but vee-es) is the unsung hero of their variety shows. It just has a tension and energy that none of the other shows manage and you get to see a side of the boys that I really enjoy. Also, Nino is a tiny tiny little man and I adore him. The guest interactions are just different on VS, in a way that I enjoy. Also... Jun and Nino really get to show their strenths, which is awesome.

Tomorrow, more work. Wednesday, probably pogs and Thursday 2071. Guh, this week will be killer.

First off... In trying to replace my lost dramas, I've been downloading subtitled versions of my shows. So! Today I got to show the first episode of "Ryuusei no Kizuna" to ladyofthegate and calhale. I know Jess didn't watch it too closely, but it seemed to go over moderately well. Later we watched Ep. 1 of Ouran... which is so many kinds of awesome that I didn't even remember them all. The current summer watching list is: Ouran, Tutu, FuruBa, Pretear, and... something else?

Last night I watched 5-7 of "Mei-chan no Shitsuji" and I'm in the midst of Episode 8 now.
( Babble as usual )

Also... having looked through my DVDs and other harddrives, I have a list of my download priorities for the next little while.
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( Entry From Friday Night )

Yesterday was made of pure unadulterated awesome. First there was karaoke with me, ladyofthegate, starlit_dragon, xrqz3728, baranoneko and newbie calhale. Dr. D (Chris) showed up right at the end of karaoke, but then there was dinner and Star Trek with mocny. In short I saw most of my favorite people in the whole world yesterday. Notably missing were ashitara (due to finals) and felessan, other Matt and laisha (due to out-of-state-ness) but overall, an awesome awesome day.

But today... today I can't stop thinking about a song.
( Konna ni Chikaku de )

Star Trek. EPIC WIN.

Very little accomplished today. At work or otherwise.
But... there was deffinite fun today. RvB season two again, and then watching Jess play her new game while I played around with some stuff in photoshop.

I changed the quote for my LJ layout. (It's been a quote from Cables for... over a year, probably.) Now, it is better.

Anyway. Sleep-time. Karaoke tomorrow. Very exciting. ^_^

I'm finally getting around to watching and reviewing my first eps of this season's dramas.

( Smile 1 )

( Meitantei no Okite 1 )

( Ghost Friends 2 )

( Godhand Teru 2 )

( Atashinchi no Danshi 2 )

If you are in the Ft. Collins or Denver area, you are cordially invited to:

Karaoke Hijinks (and stuff) with baranoneko
Host: Maya (sorta)

Start Time: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 3:00pm
End Time: Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 12:00am (or, whenever)
Location: DJs Karaoke and various

Description
Trip to DJs Karaoke in Denver (tentatively from 3 pm to 6 pm) followed by either viewing of the Star Trek movie or a small Halo party depending on interest.

A trip to H-mart before Karaoke (around 2 pm) is also likely.

Contact Maya for details or with further suggestions please!

Comment if you need my contact info or other info.


(PEOPLE WITH X-BOXEN: would any of you be interested in hosting a mini Halo-party? At some point in the future if not this weekend...)

Wow, Monday.
Was supposed to get up at 7 today to get to the gym in time for workout and breakfast before I went to work at 9 and Jess went to her Dr. appointment at 9:45.
That... didn't happen.
I woke up at 9:08. Panicked. Called work - found out that Truck was today and shifted my shift later. All in all, the work-bits were ok. I was not late (much) and had time to make breakfast (which I didn't eat until 2 pm anyway).

Work proceeded to be very long. I did get the truck unloaded in a timely manner and I did finish the Arranging Supplies POG, but the latter took /so/ long that we were closed by the time I left. The good news is that it sounds like we're going to be ok for payroll this week. The bad news is that coverage is crap because we only scheduled about 20 hours over. >.> Corporate logic FTL.

Once home, I made sammiches for myself for dinner and watched Jess make deviled eggs (they were massively tasty). In the midst of that, calhale called me and demanded that I go out to alleviate her boredom. ( Fangriling Ensued )

We also hit the IHOP for a small snack before I dropped her back at her dorm, so now it is very very late. Or early. Both. And I work at 10, but am getting up earlier to go work out and hopefully encourage myself to crash a little earlier tomorrow.

Ghost Friends 1
The production values may be a bit low... but it looks interesting. And less obvious and contrived than 'Quiz Show'. Also, pretty male cast. Yes.
The lead is cute and comfortably 普通. Which I like a lot.
And really, of all the B-level dramas I've watched. It might be the least cracky. So there.

Edison no Haha 3
I am really enjoying this show. I don't even know any of the actors in it. (Except Kikurin, but I didn't know him when I started DLing it). It's cute and inspirational all at once, and I'm curious to see where it ends up heading.
Also, yay for easy comprehension of science with subtitles. >.>

Now that I've spent the last two hours making huge order-reference sheets for wool felt andYudu products based on the JoAnn website and my own Yudu-SKU database, I think I shall sleep. Or work on writing for... that thing I'm thinking about. ^^;;

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From what I'm hearing through the grapevines:

Second Niou (double cast) will be Wada Taisuke. blog
Second Yagyuu will be Onoda Ryuunosuke. blog/profile (Born in '91. ;_; He looks like a cross between Kame and Baba. And that's a little freaky. He has done a lot of musicals though, including the Saiyuki Myu. ^^)

New Yukimura will be Masuda Toshiki (not the scarily old guy with the same kanji) profile

No information exists on New!Yanagi. Even the Chinese blogs don't know who he is yet. He was in an instructional DVD for Country Line Dancing. In Japanese. Yeah, IDK either.

In searching for him though, I found a Chinese blog with the same info that dilettantka had found and shared. It's here: bein' cool.

New Jackal was in Taiikukan Baby.
New Bunta ... is ... um... on Ameba. That's about all. Blog here.

Now food. Then L Movie. Yays.

When we got back from dinner tonight, I realized that I..... could do whatever I wanted. So I went off on a new search for kariginu to actually see how the heck they work. One way or another, I found Bokunan.
Which... was not the most useful thing ever... but then I looked at the other things they had, including maeita and the imitation inner collars to line up your layers too. (Undergarments too!) It also looks like they do custom orders, leaving me hopeful as to my ability to get kimono hangers or other accessories.

Anyway... back to Tomomori research. And then to the gym.

Just got around to watching 'Quiz Show 2' Episode 1.
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I wish I wasn't so busy wanting to rewatch Maoh and mourning the temporary (I hope) loss of my largest external, which houses all my finished dramas. It's totally interfering with y desire for more of the new dramas. Except this one.

Will be screencapping pretty Sho with fwippy hair for icons. Oh yes.

4/18
In the last two days, I've watched a lot of stuff...
The first 8 episodes of Project Runway Season 4, for one.

Also, first episodes of "Atashi n'chi no Danshi" and "Godhand Teru" and bits of the preview special for "Smile". I don't expect that it will be a great drama season, but it should have some fun.

4/21
We finished Season 4 of Project Runway tonight. I got Jess started on it and bought the DVD set from Best Buy. I was very very pleased with the results. I almost cried... and in the end, I was so so /so/ happy with the winner. ^_^

4/23 7:50 pm
Just got back from seeing This American Life in a live simulcast at the Cinemark. It was awesome. Seriously fun. And even the few people in the theatre who didn't know the show to start with seemed to enjoy it. ^_^ Only 90 minutes though, the website lied. Next week - L Movie subbed!

Yes, I haven't posted in ages. Work has been killing me and the rest of the time I've been distracted with chatting and Midsummer's stuff. ^_^

Today was a good day at work, all things considered. Got a lot done, and we're ahead for the week. Once home, I was ridiculously irresponsible and went out and bought a new iPod after dinner. I'm not sure what inspired me to decide that today was the day to do this... but... it's done now. He's a 16-gig purple 4th-gen Nano and his name is Eishirou. Yes. What?

I did have a fit of guilt when I got home. Iroh has been good to me. I thought about getting him for a long time, and I hadn't really out-grown him yet... though I was getting there. I'm still not 100% sure how I feel about the 4th-gen design either. It's pretty, but I really liked the compact-ness of the 3rd-gen. I also liked the flat screen and it's ability to have a silicon case and a plexiglass screen-cover. Meh.

Anyway, after getting Eishirou loaded up with songs and things, we headed out to the gym. (It'd been too many days without going again. >.>) And he got his first test... It took me a little while to pick a song to start my warm up and I wasn't totally happy with those two, but the rest of the songs that came up on shuffle? Well... it was a pretty awesome set:

( Within my 'On-The-Go Exercise' Playlist )

And now... either some dramas or some sleep, I'm still not entirely decided. I'm off tomorrow and monday, but work the weekend. Which means that I'm free for the weekend of the Midsummer's Revival! Yay!

I have been poking through my old old LJ entries...
On Dec. 8, 2002 in this entry.
I made comments about characters existing in multiple Clamp universes, specifically one that they killed off.
A certain person felessan commented to say to me:
"Woman
Have you ever heard of the concept of 'mutual exclucivity' where things DON'T actually hold a connection to everything else? Granted big companies like to do stuff like that, but I would seriously doubt that Clamp has any true intention of making all their shows one big universe, they simply enjoy plagerizing themselves."

I offer, in retroactive defense of myself: Tsubasa and XXXHolic. Thank you.

And good night.