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☁ When I was in 8th grade, we did a video of our year for our English class. My friends and I did a lot of the work for it, because we were geeks like that. :P Anyway, there was drama surrounding that which I'm not getting into right now; the point is that very few people got a copy of that tape. Seven including myself, if I remember correctly. I found the tape again recently, so I decided I would get it put on a DVD. That way I could have it, put it on my computer, do... something with the VHS (I'm not sure what though, it feels wrong to destroy it. :/) It came back Monday. I'd hoped that the quality would be better, but the fact is that we are talking about a 15 year old VHS here. Realistically speaking, it's as good as I could've hoped for... though holy cow, there's a lot of typos. Extra cool is that apparently they have a thing going on at the moment where they send you a free extra DVD. Didn't actually need it, but hey, I gave it to Stef. ^_^
There was also a video I did before I moved the first time, of the apartment I grew up in and at school and stuff. Too long in places, but overall amusing, at least to me. Probably boring as hell to most people. Totally worth it. :D
☁ The home video did make me realize something, though- why the hell was I not ever tested for ADD as a kid? Seriously. I always thought it was an adult onset thing, and when I told my mom the theory, she said that I was always like this, the being easily distracted by shiny and not able to keep my attention on anything for long (books seem to be the singular exception- even then, I will often be reading two or three books at once, and have been for as long as I can remember). I didn't actually believe her until I started watching the video, and 16 year old Ver kept getting distracted by EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Holy crap. It'll be fine and then all of a sudden... "Light!" or "Kitty!" or what have you. And if someone else is in the room, forget about it. >_<
Then again, I still haven't been tested, I just operate under the assumption that I'm ADD. (Apparently ADHD-PI, actually. Of DSM-IV's list, where six "symptoms" are required for a diagnosis, I have eight. Seriously, the wiki page explains so much about my life, except for the trouble in school part. I managed to escape that bit because I worked really hard to get that positive attention. Middle child syndrome. XD) I can't be bothered to do anything about it, though. It's annoying, but it doesn't have a HUGE negative effect on my daily life, so I've never felt like it was worth making a big deal about to a doctor or anything.
☁ This sounds like a fantastic opportunity, assuming it's not some sort of elaborate scam. The biggest things are that one, I would need to be able to take three and a half months off. Yeah, not happening. Two, it's 11 days over the stay allowed without a visa. So I would need a Japanese visa. By September. I don't even know if that's possible. It's a nice idea though, and I would love to do it, but guh.
☁ I'm not much for singing shows, but I did see some of the auditions for The Voice, though I didn't watch it after that. I found out recently that it was over, so of course I looked up who won- turns out it was my favorite! Yay! Seriously, I could listen to his audition all day. Incredible voice. Funny thing about it is that the studio recorded version isn't as good. Go figure.
Sadly, my other favorite apparently didn't make it into the top 8. Boo. Too bad, he has a great rock voice (even though he was singing a country song).
☁ More Suikoden II reactions, in no particular order!
- Ugh, I hate leveling up. And sharpening weapons is fucking expensive as all hell. I'm trying to get everyone prepared for the night attack, which means I'm going from Banner to Gregminster and back again, over and over again with different characters, with trips back to HQ and Kuskus in between. Bah.
- Speaking of Gregminster, I remember it being bigger. Huh.
- Awww, cute white baby dragon. <3 It's awesome that Futch got a new dragon, too.
- The really sucky thing about this night attack bit is that even though they tell me it's the "last chance" to get Luca, they're full of shit, because it's not the end of the game (at least, I hope to hell it's not the end of the game, or I'm totally screwed for getting the good ending. Also it would be very short for a Suikoden game.). So I'm going to have to deal with him again. Yaaaaaaaay. -_-
- By the way, why is everyone surprised that Prince Crazycakes killed his father? (Haha, nickname is Llama's, too good not to use :P) REALLY, GUYS? He wants to burn and kill EVERYTHING, yet this comes as a shock?
- Funny game glitch- when buying new armor, if Flik isn't in my party, the game still thinks he is- it doesn't kick anyone out, it seriously lists seven characters for my party. It's just Flik though, no one else, and I can't actually use him. Just kinda weird.
- Not-so-funny game glitch- I haven't actually decided whether this is a glitch or just Viki being... well, Viki. Half the time when I try to teleport to Kuskus, I end up somewhere totally random. I've only had it happen with Kuskus, everywhere else I always seem to get to fine. It isn't really that big of a deal because I can go onto the map and teleport back to HQ, but it's still annoying. I may just put this one down to Viki's Blinking magic acting up.
- Could they have made the Miklotov/Camus any more obvious? My god. Also Miklotov reminds me of Sanada in PoT, appearance wise. I haven't decided whether this is a good thing or not, since even though it amuses me, I never actually liked Sanada.
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D
There was also a video I did before I moved the first time, of the apartment I grew up in and at school and stuff. Too long in places, but overall amusing, at least to me. Probably boring as hell to most people. Totally worth it. :D
☁ The home video did make me realize something, though- why the hell was I not ever tested for ADD as a kid? Seriously. I always thought it was an adult onset thing, and when I told my mom the theory, she said that I was always like this, the being easily distracted by shiny and not able to keep my attention on anything for long (books seem to be the singular exception- even then, I will often be reading two or three books at once, and have been for as long as I can remember). I didn't actually believe her until I started watching the video, and 16 year old Ver kept getting distracted by EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE. Holy crap. It'll be fine and then all of a sudden... "Light!" or "Kitty!" or what have you. And if someone else is in the room, forget about it. >_<
Then again, I still haven't been tested, I just operate under the assumption that I'm ADD. (Apparently ADHD-PI, actually. Of DSM-IV's list, where six "symptoms" are required for a diagnosis, I have eight. Seriously, the wiki page explains so much about my life, except for the trouble in school part. I managed to escape that bit because I worked really hard to get that positive attention. Middle child syndrome. XD) I can't be bothered to do anything about it, though. It's annoying, but it doesn't have a HUGE negative effect on my daily life, so I've never felt like it was worth making a big deal about to a doctor or anything.
☁ This sounds like a fantastic opportunity, assuming it's not some sort of elaborate scam. The biggest things are that one, I would need to be able to take three and a half months off. Yeah, not happening. Two, it's 11 days over the stay allowed without a visa. So I would need a Japanese visa. By September. I don't even know if that's possible. It's a nice idea though, and I would love to do it, but guh.
☁ I'm not much for singing shows, but I did see some of the auditions for The Voice, though I didn't watch it after that. I found out recently that it was over, so of course I looked up who won- turns out it was my favorite! Yay! Seriously, I could listen to his audition all day. Incredible voice. Funny thing about it is that the studio recorded version isn't as good. Go figure.
Sadly, my other favorite apparently didn't make it into the top 8. Boo. Too bad, he has a great rock voice (even though he was singing a country song).
☁ More Suikoden II reactions, in no particular order!
- Ugh, I hate leveling up. And sharpening weapons is fucking expensive as all hell. I'm trying to get everyone prepared for the night attack, which means I'm going from Banner to Gregminster and back again, over and over again with different characters, with trips back to HQ and Kuskus in between. Bah.
- Speaking of Gregminster, I remember it being bigger. Huh.
- Awww, cute white baby dragon. <3 It's awesome that Futch got a new dragon, too.
- The really sucky thing about this night attack bit is that even though they tell me it's the "last chance" to get Luca, they're full of shit, because it's not the end of the game (at least, I hope to hell it's not the end of the game, or I'm totally screwed for getting the good ending. Also it would be very short for a Suikoden game.). So I'm going to have to deal with him again. Yaaaaaaaay. -_-
- By the way, why is everyone surprised that Prince Crazycakes killed his father? (Haha, nickname is Llama's, too good not to use :P) REALLY, GUYS? He wants to burn and kill EVERYTHING, yet this comes as a shock?
- Funny game glitch- when buying new armor, if Flik isn't in my party, the game still thinks he is- it doesn't kick anyone out, it seriously lists seven characters for my party. It's just Flik though, no one else, and I can't actually use him. Just kinda weird.
- Not-so-funny game glitch- I haven't actually decided whether this is a glitch or just Viki being... well, Viki. Half the time when I try to teleport to Kuskus, I end up somewhere totally random. I've only had it happen with Kuskus, everywhere else I always seem to get to fine. It isn't really that big of a deal because I can go onto the map and teleport back to HQ, but it's still annoying. I may just put this one down to Viki's Blinking magic acting up.
- Could they have made the Miklotov/Camus any more obvious? My god. Also Miklotov reminds me of Sanada in PoT, appearance wise. I haven't decided whether this is a good thing or not, since even though it amuses me, I never actually liked Sanada.
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D