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So I've kind of been ignoring the Intranets in favor of being with people in RL. How strange! How new! I've reached this strange plateau where I am consistently about 70 entries behind on my flist.

Well, behind on everything except [livejournal.com profile] thremedon and [livejournal.com profile] mistful. Speaking of, NEW COVERRRR. Speaking of, LASSST CHAPTTTTEEEEEERRRRRRRS.

Some DDG fangirling and some fandom-related ranting. )



Moving on to other aspects of my geekery, I have finally seen the original Star Wars trilogy and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. My nerd cred has received a major boost!

As for other endings I've experienced lately, cut for some anime fangirling of Itazura Na Kiss and Natsume Yuujinchou, minimal spoilers for series/season finales. )

On the RL nerd front, I went to (1) Equus last Wednesday for a pre-season showing and only paid $30 because Columbia is very good to its students. I loved it. I loved it so much I didn't even pay attention to DanRad's exposed package. I also went to (2) NY Anime Fest on Saturday, which was a nice time. I got to hang out with some cool firsties and [livejournal.com profile] splintercat and her boy-thing. And then, (3) Neil Gaiman's tour stop for NY was at Columbia['s Teachers College]! I take inordinate pride in this. Yay for Columbia supporting the geeky side of book-learning! So I went and had a lovely time listening to Neil be funny and wise for two hours, and now I have a signed copy of The Graveyard Book to show for it, even if I don't know when I'll be able to read beyond the first chapter.

Which brings me to the actually real RL front, where school is sort of getting away from me. I have a paper due for Romantic Poetry on Monday, which happens to be the day of my Psych midterm, and I am not ready for either. Can I write five pages on the use of the word "minstrelsy" in Coleridge's poems? I like the idea because it allows me to explore interpretations we already touched on in class (automatically know I'm not doing it wrong!), but still, writing an entire paper on one word could present a challenge.

(Also, I really want to drop Psych? The readings are unbelievably boring, it really does nothing for my transcript, and I have discovered I have issues with being awake at 8:30 on a Monday morning, surprise surprise. However, I've already promised my friends in that class that I would do a share of the study guide, so I am forced to stay on until the midterm, which is the day before the drop deadline? Dilemma...)

Also, one of my friends--previously referred to on this journal as Paypay--is in the Sign Language Club and has been teaching me things. Today, I learned how to sign "L-U-K-E, I (AM) YOUR FATHER" and "NOOOOOOOO." Also, "What's up, zebra?" is our new unofficial catchsign. You heard it here first.

And thus, this tl;dr post to break all tl;dr posts has come full circle at 6 o'clock in the morning. It is time for me to put this and myself to bed.

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Also, regarding the latest episodes of Itazura na Kiss, OH MY GOD, IT IS NEW MOON/ECLIPSE ALL OVER AGAIN. WHAT THE HELL.

Keita actually scares me with how much he resembles the Jacob Black of my imagination (please note that second link is official art from the Japanese edition of New Moon). Plus, the plot parallels are frankly eerie: he's the hot to Irie's cold, he's the best friend who wishes he could be more, his and Irie's rivalry simmers just below Kotoko's notice, etc etc etc. Now all that needs to happen is for Kotoko to cry her eyes out for the equivalent of 500 pages and then to have Irie's baby with Keita playing the emotionally tortured midwife.

ETA: Was that a spoiler? My bad. :/

Mood creeped outMood creeped out
Music Still on the street - w-inds.
Tags: anime, books, itazura na kiss, twilight, wtf
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I DON'T CARE IF I'M LATE TO THE PARTY OR SOMETHING, I'M DAMN WELL GOING TO SQUEE IF I WANT TO.

OKAY, ANIME FLISTERS ([livejournal.com profile] arekuru, I'M LOOKING AT YOU). I NEED YOU TO GO TO YOUR NEAREST DOWNLOADING STATIONS AND PROCURE THE FIRST TWO EPISODES OF ITAZURA NA KISS. LIKE, NOW.

Okay, I guess I should explain this a little more. This is a summary, adapted from ANN:

In the romantic comedy story, Kotoko, a high schooler in the lowly F class, finally tells a fellow senior named Naoki, an elite from A class, that she has loved him from afar since she saw him on their first day of high school. However, Naoki, a haughty "super-ikemen" (handsome male) with smarts and sports talent, rejects her offhand, saying he "doesn't like stupid girls." Fate intervenes when a mild earthquake ruins Kotoko's family house. While the house gets rebuilt, Kotoko and her dad stay at the home of her dad's childhood friend...whose son is Naoki.

But that is seriously only the half of it guys. Kotoko is cute and unassuming and everygirl, and Naoki is super cold, but there are already some pretty hilarious chinks in his armor, and KOTOKO'S FRIENDS ARE AWESOME. OMG U GAIS, KOTOKO'S GUY FRIEND, WHO IS TOTALLY UNABASHEDLY IN HEART WITH HER, SPEAKS IN KANSAI-BEN, IS CRAZY, AND SERIOUSLY COULD BE NAKATSU EXCEPT HE HAS THIS HILARIOUS YAKUZA HAIRSTYLE THAT MAKES ME TOTALLY UNABLE TO TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY, LIKE EVER. HIS NAME IS KIN-CHAN.

WATCH THIS SHOW FOR KIN-CHAN, GAIS.

Seriously, I have not had such a viscerally positive reaction to an anime in a LONG TIME. I HOPE THIS SHOW STAYS AWESOME, BECAUSE IF IT DOESN'T I WILL BE SAD AND CRUSHED.

ALSO, DUDE, I'M GONNA BE AT NYCC IN 12 HOURS. NEED TO SLEEEEP.

Mood excitedMood excited
Tags: anime, fangirling, itazura na kiss, nycc
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