So a little while ago, my mother sends me an email telling me that my birthday present will be arriving rather early this year. "Okay..." I responded, rather bemused. Well, this weekend a box arrived, marked "fragile" and with a markered picture of a cracked glass on it. Perhaps they bought me glassware ( Read more... )

Back in April, I went to DC and New York on vacation with Yoshiko and Vicki. Overall, it was a pretty good trip, with lots of great experiences and food and friendship and so forth, but there were also some squabbles (turns out three people don't always all want to do the same thing) and - most tragically - I lost the camera card holding half of my ( Read more... )

I've started reading Fukuyadou Honpo, and it's making me surprisingly nostalgic considering the story takes place in a family-run confectionery shop in Kyoto. It's about three sisters, you see, with the two older girls closer in age and the youngest several years after them, and I just finished the chapter about how they used to bicker and fight ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned before that my brothers are adorable? I think I have, but it can always use reinforcing. Anyway, my mom sent me and my sisters a copy of a paper Alan wrote for class last month, and I have decided to share it with all of you, so you too can feel fuzzy inside (and/or sad that our nation's schools have failed to teach him proper semi ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't heard, spring is on the way!

( It's melting! Meeeeeeeelting! What a world, what a world... )

It's been about, oh, seven months since I last cleaned off my camera, and I was talking to Yoshiko and she mentioned she wanted to see my Clamp in 3D-Land and Clamp no Kiseki figures, so what the hey. Pictures, anyone?

( A walk around the block. )

PSA: My parents finally managed to move to Ohio just this weekend, so if you've still got my old Moorpark address on file somewhere, you might want to delete it ( Read more... )

Having now read volumes 1&2, I can confirm for anyone wondering that Gakuen Alice is weird. And disturbing. And incredibly cute, which makes the incredibly DEPRESSING, HORRIBLE things that happen that much worse. It's like if Koge Donbo decided to rewrite Kodocha as some sort of psychotic child abuse story with magical powers. I both love it and ( Read more... )

A partial list of things I have gotten my little sister hooked on in the last two months:
Vampire Knight
Love*Com
Skip Beat
Scanlations
Final Fantasy X

I am a horrible, horrible big sister. ^-^

Say, is anyone else getting tired of psychoanalysis in their TV shows? I don't mean about them (that's one of the fun parts!), I mean characters going " ( Read more... )

My little brothers both just got AIM accounts. This is a big deal because a) they are somewhat young and b) they don't like to talk on the phone (all of us kids were like that, though). So I'm rather excited and proud ( Read more... )