Exclusive Insanity

Someone wrecked the speakers for the computer... And it was between yesterday and this morning. Yesterday, they were fine. Today, I turn them on and first they're at full blast, and then - when I turned them down to the point where I could listen - they were incredibly fuzzy.

Margh. My sister are idiots. And my parents don't give a crap about the speakers, so since I'm the only who cares I'LL probably have to buy new ones.

No one else is ever using them if I do - I don't care how childish that is. They are not going to ruin MY speakers.

The computer goes in today. If dad doesn't buy new speakers, I'll do it myself. 'Cause I can't listen to stuff like this. And I still have anime to watch on this computer.

Bleh. I'm so selfish. Ah well.

Grandpa's funeral yesterday was basically a church service with a eulogy tacked on. I hate it when they do that. Grandpa would probably hate it too, because despite the fact that our entire family is Roman Catholic, he actually wasn't. My grandmother was.

That's what tends to annoy me about people who take their religion to an extreme, though... They act as if it's the *only* right way, and try to push it onto everything. Unfortunately, a lot of my mother's family is like that. They're good people otherwise, but damn, that gets annoying.

There were a lot of pictures at the reception, and my sisters and I went around looking at them. It was nice to see things my grandpa had done. I don't have regrets, really, but I'm glad I got the chance now to find out a little more about him.

Today's my busy day, but I'm ready for it. I have to turn in some poems - but all I have left to do is type them up and print them off. So, it's all good. Other than that, classes will just be lecture.

I'm also meeting V at lunch today, since we have the poster sale at the campus for the next two days and we're going to check that out. It's tradition, though - we do it every year.

Hopefully there's nothing good, so I don't spend any money.

We will also be taking our computer in tomorrow morning to get all the spyware removed from it. It is getting a little out of hand. And the fact that as I am typing this, a popup interrupts me only proves my point.

In any case, we will have a spyware-free computer by tomorrow afternoon. At least, according to the guy on the phone, who said it would only take a few hours.

I watched Kyou Kara Maou episode 31 yesterday. It was pretty good, very exciting. I enjoyed it muchly.

I still have to watch 32, but I'll do that later.

Also, Happy Valentines. I was going to write a fic, but forgot completely. Ah well. Have a fun day anyway.

Forgot to mention, my comic updates today! Heh... I like today's comic - it's not the greatest, but I love what Jeremy did with the art in this one. It's very nice.

In any case, you can find that here, if you're interested.

I want to thank everyone who commented with nice and comforting thoughts about my grandfather. Honestly, I don't know what to think about right now - it's way too easy to carry on with life as usual. But I guess that's what you do, isn't it?

The funeral is on Tuesday. The obituary was in the paper today. I feel okay, and mom seems to be doing well. She went in to work today - to keep herself busy, she said.

I remember when my other grandfather died, my dad went out for a long walk. Of course, he had that awful disease where he couldn't move or talk very well, so once again we knew it was coming. I knew my father's dad even less than I knew my mother's.

It's strange. I never knew my mom's mother - my real grandmother died before my parents even got married, so I only know my grandfather's second wife. And even her, I don't know very well. I didn't know my dad's father very well because you couldn't get to know him in that state. I know my dad's mother VERY well - I'm sure that I'd be crying if she passed away.

It seems so strange to me, though.

In any case, I got my comic stuff done yesterday, and some writing, and a good chunk of homework. I had belly dancing and I saw Jeremy for a while. It was a pretty good day.

Meh... weird...

I watched through episode 29 and 30 again last night with Jeremy. He wasn't as sad as I was, the bastard. But his favorite character dies later, so hah! Never mind the fact that I didn't want that character to die either... bah.

Oh well.

Episodes 31 and 32 of Kyou Kara Maou are available for download - yay! That means I'll have new stuff to watch. Excellent. I also have more comic stuff to do, and I'll probably have more schoolwork to take care of after lab this morning. Bleh. Oh well... School comes first, and then comic. Then KKM.

I can be patient. Really.

Looks like this entry is going to be extremely short... But I have nothing to talk about at the moment, so... yeah. Guess it'll have to do.

Yesterday was my busy day... Fun times. I have four poems due to hand in next week. They're already written, since I intend to turn in the ones I brought to class, as he told us was probably a good idea.

I also have a program to write, which I've been slacking off on. Ah well.

And I have lab this morning... I typed up what I think I might end up doing in the lab - I really have no clue if any of it is right. Bleh. I guess I'll have to go in and see.

I did nothing of interest yesterday, other than figure out what I'm going to do with this new story I'm writing. Looks like it'll be seven parts long. I was hoping for a shorter one...

At least the parts seem to be fairly short. Part one is only 14 pages. Not like Game Over, which is about 25 pages each or something like that.

I feel like I'm disappointing people, but I want to write the new story.

I was supposed to go to bed early last night - I really was. I signed off early and everything. My sister and her boyfriend were watching a movie called Frailty. I decided I needed to know what happens.

It was a really creepy movie.

I'm sorry I watched it now... I wish I'd gotten more sleep. I hate morning shifts - I'll probably need to bring some Advil with me because I'm going to have a bitch of a headache by the time my shift is over.

Ah well...

I didn't do a hell of a lot yesterday... read some fanfic, watched some anime, did some bits of writing here and there... Nothing special.

Well, I'm working on a new story, but I'm not necessarily sure that's worth mentioning yet.

We'll see.

Okay, so I had to come to schooland type this entry in the last half hour before class... As it turns out, my sister is using the computer at home for some kind of homework that took forever and that is being done at the last minute. Heh. Ah well...

In any case, I have a new icon! Daisuke and Ken looking all innocent-like. Hah! Everyone knows that is a lie.

I like it, though. It's not new - I took it from icons I'd already made a while ago, because after talking with kessie a bit, I realized I wanted more Digimon icons. So... Daisuke and Ken. And you can sort of see Hikari's arm in the background. I doubt that SHE is up to no good, though.

Heh. Oh well.

I watched a couple of episodes of Hikaru no Go yesterday, and Digimon movie four. Fun times. Hikaru no Go is such a damn good show - it was great to revisit. And I always like going back to Digimon, of course. That's just one of my things.

I'm also playing around with a couple of ideas... not sure if I'm going to do anything with them, but it's fun to speculate right now. I really need to get writing again.

I got absolutely nothing done yesterday - but that doesn't surprise anyone, does it? It seems to be a habit.

Ah well.

I did manage to buy the fourth volume of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, which was absolutely fantastic. I think I like the new world they're in the best of any they've been in so far, just because now they've got a mystery going on. I love mystery stories.

Can't wait for the fifth volume.

I put in a pre-order for the first Fullmetal Alchemist DVD. Also, to get free shipping (because if I'm going to pay that much anyway just for shipping, I might as well get something out of it) I added the second Card Captor Sakura movie to it. Syaoran is voiced by Mona Marshall in this particular dub, which I think will be interesting. I'll be thinking 'Izzy!' through the whole thing, just like I did with Lucemon in Frontier and Bikky from FAKE.

It'll be fun, though - and it'll be nice to have the movie on DVD. It'll also be nice to have FMA DVDs that WORK.

The site says it isn't coming out until March 8... I hope that's a mistake, but it might just be Amazon.ca being backwards. In any case, I want my free shipping, so I can survive until March if I have to.

I've been listening to this song a lot lately... It's pretty. Very slow, but very nice. This anime has great music.

I never got as attached to the characters as I did with some shows, though... I don't know. I think it lacks a little in character-development. Not to say it's *bad*, but while I'm getting a great emotional sense from these people, I don't feel like I know them as well as some characters.

Maybe my standards have just been raised since shows like Hikaru no Go and Fullmetal Alchemist. Weiss had characters that were sort of angst-defined, too, and I liked that one well enough.

Ah well. Gundam Seed is a good anime. I'd recommend it, if you can work out after about nine or ten eps who everyone is that they introduce in the first couple of episodes. I was totally lost for the first bit; for a long time, the only names I really knew were Athrun and Kira.

But it all worked out.

At my evening class last night, my instructor had lost his voice, so we only had class for an hour instead of three hours. Basically, he got us to read poetry and commented on it with what voice he had. Then we went home.

I wasn't complaining.

Homework is all done for now. I'll have to write a post-report after this morning's lab, but that's later. Homework for Thursday is done and handed in. Homework for today was finished even before he told us we no longer have to hand in our pre-reports; we just bring them to lab as help now. I'll probably write a poem some time this week, but that's not so much a requirement as something I want to try.

Hopefully I can relax for a while today. I like that idea.