Speaking of disastourous American-made anime live adaptions, has anyone seen Dragonball: Evolution?  I kinda want to.  You know, just to see how bad it is.  Oho!  And get this:  Apparently, a sequel is in the works!  Isn't that exciting?!  brb, going to kill myself now kthxbai.

Also, Leonardo Dicaprio and anime????  WTF???

In less depressing news, a new Hana-Kimi one-shot will be in Hana to Yume next month =D.  I wish Nakajo would do a real series again though.  Sugar Princess was pretty boring disappointing.  And in news that makes me ecstatically happy, Obata is going to resume the We Were There manga this June!!!!!!  OMG YAY!

• Crappy sleeping schedule.
• Hours at work (and inevitably the dollars in my paycheck) drastically cut.
• WORST BIRTHDAY WEEKEND IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!
• Am not losing weight, but gaining.
• Chronic writer's block.
• Computer crashing (twice).
• Losing all my music, anime, manga, and programs because of said crashes.
• PMS.

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• World History II (...despite not having to take World History I)
• Intermediate Algebra  (Ew.)
• Advanced Radio Broadcasting (In which everyone will think I'm a flake due to my lackluster Assistant Programming Manager duties last semester (for reasons outside of my control), and the fact that I haven't been able to make a single one of my radio shows during winter break despite having signed up to).
• ???

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I know it's super early to be talking about Christmas (even though at work we've been playing Christmas music since MID-OCTOBER DX), but as I'm planning on custom drawing my cards this year I'd like to get an early start on how many I should draw/print :D.  So, that being said, if you would like a Christmas/Holiday (specify) card from me this year, comment with your address~  All comments are screened, so the only creepy stalker you'll have to worry about is me :3.

ALSO, ALSO.  I'll be taking commissions this holiday season.  I'll have more information on this soon =).





I miss talking to people.  Sorry I'm so fail DX.

-April

A new Full Metal Alchemist series is in the works!

ADLFKAJFLAKJFA;FJ  YAY!!!!!

As one of my favorite anime of all time, this news (obviously) excites me to no end :D.  The only things that I can dig up on it is that it'll start airing in Japan in April 2009 and that it'll follow the manga storyline more closely than the first.  I'm curious to see what they'll do with the beginning episodes.  After all, up until the end of season one in the "first series," the anime had followed the manga fairly accurately (from what I hear).  And, though it breaks my heart to say it, it's not like they can continue from where the original anime ended--- especially if it's supposed to now follow the manga storyline.  Hmm....

In other news, I'm almost done watching Honey & Clover (the second season).  I'll be doing a write up about it in the near future.  After that, I'm going to re-watch Code Geass and do a write up about that. akdfjalfkja;f that anime XD/DX.  The more I think about it though, the more I'm tempted to rumage around the fandom and it's fics.  I have a few fic ideas for it myself :3.

Speaking of fic, aside from my weird ShinoIno piece, I've had another plot bunny plagueing me for awhile now.  It developed shorty after learning the "truth" of the Uchiha massacre and won't go away.  The story, I can already tell, is going to be looong, but I can't tell exactly where it's going or how it's getting there.  I do know that Sasuke is going to rip off Toph :D.  I also know that Danzou is going to play a large role in it.  ...And a bunch of other things that will happen, but the actual plotline seems rather muddled.  Oh well.  I'll work on it.

B-but new FMA :D. aflakdjfa;fkja; yay!

-April
 

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Catchy Song of the Day:  "You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor

That aside, work tonight!  Woo, paycheck, here I come!  Not that I'll get a single cent of it--- thanks a lot, school.  At least gas prices have fallen a bit....  I'll also get to see what my schedule for next week is.  I'm hoping I'll get more hours than I did this week (I signed on for twenty at the very least and I barely made ten this week D:), but considering Mary's cut everyone's hours that's unlikely....  Grr.  If I didn't like working at Borders so much I'd quit and find another job.

My attempt at being a great student this semester is off to a rocky start.  I miss my first Graphic Design assignment as well as my Adolescent Psych paper D:  I'm turning my papers for Psych in late, but there's no way to make up for my Graphic Design one.  Bugger.  Creative Writing and Radio Broadcasting are going well though.  Well, I think Radio's going well; it turns out we hand all assignments in online, so it's a little confusing.  However, I'll be on the radio by next month!  Hurray!!!  And you can listen to me too, haha.  WKKL streams :D

I haven't had much time to write this week, but I've thought of a way to start my ShinoIno fic.  Somewhere in the middle of the fic, Ino is assigned to follow up on a mission she had completed a month or so prior to when the fic starts.  However, because the mission turned out to have a rather large impact on her and work it's way into a number of conversations throughout the fic, I figured it might be worth actually writing about said mission.  It'll be a prologue to the story.  Yay :D.

I am currently (as we speak) working on my Kakashi-Shisui piece.  I've decided it'll be apart of an arc, since there are a few other story ideas I wish to elaborate on, but won't fit in this particular piece.  My goal is to finish it by the end of the month and then get it beta'd.

My other goal for the month is to officially get voting up fornaruto_choice.  Why do I fail so epicly at this contest? DX

Gah, I've hit a filler in Bleach (well, like everyone else too, apparently), but I'll watch it anyway.  Now I can confidently move onto the manga though :D.  Just gotta find out what chapter the anime left off on (which was cute IchiHime cuteness XD).  It just occured to me that I like a lot of pairings (or pairing ideas, at least) for this series, but have NO IDEA what I'd look for in a fanfic.  I don't know what there is to really fic about in the series, haha.  If anyone has any recs I'd be much obliged though :).  I'm pretty much open to anything and any pairing.

Aside from Bleach, I'm watching Honey and Clover.  I'm on.... episode five.  It kinda reminds me of Here Is Greenwood.  Unfortnately, I have no interest in Hagu so far, so it's a little annoying how two of the main characters seem to be obsessed with her :/.  I'm hoping as the series progresses she'll be more fleshed out; right now she's looking a little one-dimensional.

Well, I'm off to try and write a bit before work :D  I have an interesting meme I want to work on, too.  I think people's answers could be very interesting :3.

-April

So, here's the low down:

I HAVE A JOB!  I was hired for a new Borders "concept" store back in May, but as it just finished being built a week or two ago, I hadn't actually started work until last week.  I went to orientation last Friday and then began what's dubbed the "sorting" process at the actual bookstore (orientation was held at a hotel).  "Sorting" is basically grunt work; we're unboxing books, shelving them, sorting them, etc, etc....  IT'S HARD WORK, but I'm having fun :D.  Everyone's really nice and upbeat (so far), which is a nice change of pace in the work environment.

Unfortunately, my hours are crazy and I only have one day off a week, which basically leaves me with very little time in the day to do much more than to work, eat, and sleep.  Come July 10th things will run a lot more smoother though; the store will open and though I hope to be working full-time during the summer, my weird schedule should regulate itself somewhat.  I'll be incredibly happy when that time arrives.

I'll be bumping the closing date on 

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