Friday, February 27, 2009

You know you're addicted to anime when...


Still in the process of finding myself. However I found this list to be perfect when describing my addiction to anime so I thought I would post it. And the picture on the left is an example of what my dorm room may look like a couple of months after I move in.











You call your dog Shinji.

You perform a canon ball dive into a pool while yelling “Spirit Bomb!”

Your house has an anime room.

You and your friends flash peace signs and take girlish poses when you are
happy.

You get an anime tattoo, even though you’re scared of needles.

Your walls are covered in wall scrolls and posters from your favourite series.

If you use the term ‘Kawaii’ for describing everything.

You try to convince your girlfriend that ‘cat ears’ and ‘tail’ really looks good on them.

You can sing songs from your favourite shows, in Japanese, even though you don’t speak Japanese…

You spent hours looking through your library for a copy of “The Universe of Four Gods”.

You have legally changed your name to that of your favourite character.

You wear a necklace and fall down every time someone says sit boy.

You insist on having an entrance that includes spotlights, music, and raining cherry blossoms (while you hold a rose if you’re a guy).

Your only dream is to attend Tokyo U with a girl you haven’t seen in 15 years.

You play an instrument and you nick name it Inuyasha.

For valentines day you buy a stuffed dog and make up your own Japanese name for it.

If you get mad at you teacher and draw a picture of her as an anime demon cat.

You watch Iron Chef constantly to pick up great recipes (haven’t done it but plan to).

You’ve bought a £20 ring in the shaped of a dragon to show off at school.

You always have your hair covering your left eye and always flipping it so you look like an anime character.

You think that falling flat on your back with your legs in the air is a normal reaction to big news.

You are worried because you don’t have several desirable members of the opposite sex frantically trying to make you fall in love with them.

You shave a crescent moon onto your cats head, dye the cat purple, then take it to school and insist it’s Luna, your talking cat.

You go around town trying to eat donuts and act all crazy-like, all the while saying you’re Vash the Stampede.

To resolve a conflict, you insist in a duel.

The employees at Gamestop know you, and tell you when you walk in if they’ve gotten a new shipment of anime DVDs.

You’ve gotten angry with someone and placed two fingers on your forehead shouted the word “Makanekasopo!” (Special beam cannon or light of death) and then poked them in the eye.

You waste countless amounts of hair gel to get that “Goku look”.

You map out points in Tokyo where the Dragons of Earth might attack

You believe it is possible for a person to be severely beaten in the head with a large hammer, stick, etc…And still come out alive.

You have a moment of confusion whenever you go to school because there are no girls in those tiny little skirts that come with their school uniform.

You yell out ‘Baka hanyou Inu-Yasha!’ at your birthday party and everyone (except your parents) knows you’re talking to your boyfriend.

You tell your parents you need to stay out past curfew to save the colonies.

Each time you see a stray animal, you turn your hat sideways and throw one of those plastic Pokeballs Burger King was giving out in their kids’ meals yelling, “POKEBALL, GO!”

You add “no da” to the end of all statements you make.

The majority of your CDs are Japanese or the English version of a Japanese soundtrack or the English soundtrack of an anime that just decided that it would use English in its songs.

You misplace your manga and someone at school you don’t even know gives it to you saying they knew it was yours.

You incorporate Japanese, somehow, into every class.

You can sing songs from your favourite shows, in Japanese, even though you don’t speak Japanese…

You use random Japanese words such as baka, kawaii, and hentai.

You try to read every book from right to left.

You take a break from watching anime to go to your computer (nicknamed Lord Conti) to download anime (for previewing purposes only! ;) ), while visiting your favourite anime forum, while listening to Japanese web radio…

You call your parents Oka-san and Otou-san.

You say “ITADAKIMASU!!” before you eat your meals.

You think that locket your boyfriend gave you will turn you into a magical girl.

You’ll risk grounding to get a good new fanfic.

You constantly say “w00p” after almost every sentence.

You insist on chopsticks for everyday use.

Your bookshelf is filled with anime boxed sets and no books.

You stop listening to the radio because English makes no sense to you anymore and it’s your first spoken language.

You call yourself “otaku.”

All of your family portraits have been altered to the proper super large eye size.

Random battles seem to erupt wherever you go.

You take the time to write messages on your cigarettes, only to burn them right away.

Your dreams are animated.

You naru punch all the guys at school, and then wonder why they don’t follow you around like keitaro follows naru.

You hold your eyes really wide all day trying to make them stay big.

Duct tape is really funny to you and most of your threats involve taping people to walls.

When you’re washing dishes you yell out “SUPAH WAVE SMASHUH!” or any water attack.

You run out of space on your computer because the hard drive is taken up by hundreds of anime pics, mp3s, midis, and music videos.

You spend all night trying to figure out how many people you can get to go in with you on buying the complete collection of Sailor Moon episodes in Japanese.

You spend your whole spring break working on an anime webpage.

You expect to see a teardrop over someone’s head when they get embarrassed.

You start to speak with an odd accent.

You can watch two anime shows in the same room at the same time and still have the TV off.

You know your favourite character’s blood type.

Knowing Sailor Moon helps you on an Astronomy test.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to anime.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Trying to find myself...

I could be off blogspot for a while. So if I dont post for a while please dont think I'm dead, I'm just caught between things and I need to find myself before I go insane.

Friday, January 30, 2009

One semester down.

One more to go till graduation. I believe I will pass Algebra 2 with a couple of mistakes I noticed in my grades that need to be fixed. So I'll need to scan those in and email them to my teacher tonight so he can fix them tommorrow during teachers inservice day since we dont have school.

Friday, January 23, 2009

I'm moving...

Summer of 2010. I know thats not as soon as I was hoping but at the moment I have no job and very little money so I wouldnt have enough to move this coming Summer to back East. So I'm going to do my Freshman year at EAC and try to save enough money working while I'm at EAC. I'm hoping to be able to get a work study job even though they dont pay much. But its a job and it would pay some money. So Kelly do you want to come with me when I escape Arizona or do you have other plans? I'm not really sure where I'm going to back East but it could be Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia, or Florida. I just want to escape the Southwest to a place I'm more familiar with. I miss seeing rain (often) and snow during the winter. I also miss having the beach a short drive away. I know Arizonas next to California but its still a 6-8 hour drive depending on which part of Southern California you go to. I miss having the beach being anywhere from a few minutes to a 2 hour drive. So I'm ready to escape and I hope to be able to do it in the Summer of 2010. Do you want to come with me Kelly?

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Why is it always math....

.... that I have problems in? I know that I'm not good in math but why is it always with math that I come close to failing. My 1st semester algebra 2 exam is this coming week and I'm studying like crazy and am in the process of making the sheet of notes that I am allowed to use on the exam. At this point my grade in Algebra 2 is slightly below a D so its not that good but all I'm concerned about at this point is passing the class so I can graduate. I'm doing fine in my other classes but its always math that gives me trouble. So excuse me I'm off to check my Algebra 2 grades to see if there are any mistakes that I can tell that would raise my grade if I got them fixed. And I also need to do some more studying. So I'll probably update this coming week after my Algebra 2 and Chemistry exams.

However I fortunately only have 4 exams. They are Algebra 2, College Reading and Writing (this is going to be an easy one since we are just going to analyze an essay), Psychology (this also should be easy), and Chemistry.

In English my teacher gave the class a test before the break which he decided to count as the exam. I got a 92% on that which was the highest grade in the class. Thats the second time in a row I've gotten the highest test grade in the class and both times I got A's on the tests.

For media broadcasting I just have to do a final video project in class which is on the Musical "Grease" which my school is doing this semester so me and my partner who is the reporter (I'm cameraman this time) have to interview people who are in the musical.

I dont have a written exam for P.E. and knowing my P.E. teacher were probably just going to be playing outdoor games during class to help relieve some stress from exams.

For Public Speaking we did a debate which counts for our final. I suck at debating and I got a 72% which is still better than a F plus I hate the class. Not the students or the teacher but just the subject and the way its taught.

I got my Senior Sweater today. Its nice. Now I need to save up because I dont know how much a class ring is going to cost because they arent unsure at the moment and I need to save up some money in case I'm able to go on the trip to Sharm El Sheikh Egypt. Its the Senior trip but its not organized by the school so well see what happens. I found out that there will be no adults there so we get to chaperone ourselves. It sounds like a lot of fun and I want to go.

Monday, January 19, 2009

I finished my service learning hours requirement!

Well I finished my service learning hours graduation requirement. Basically its community service. My p.e. teacher who I needed to sign the form I had to fill out because I helped out with the school soccer tournament saying I had been there for a certain amount of time signed it and turned it in to the woman in charge of Service learning and I.B. Well I dont need to worry about anything I.B. since I'm not in the I.B. program not even the certificates. Oh well. So now I've got that graduation requirement finished.

Today all the Seniors had a meeting during lunch talking about raising money for Graduation, Senior Class Portraits, a possible class ring and all that stuff. We've already done the robe fitting since the school supplies them and we dont have to buy them. Basically they have a closet with a lot of grad robes (ours are blue) and you find one that fits you and is long enough so it doesnt look bad and not so long so you dont trip when going up on stage. Then when you find one they give you a name tag with your name and homeroom on it and you hang it back up. I suppose we wont see them till Senior Portrait or Graduation so its going to be a while. I honestly cannot wait to graduate. I just want this to be over so I can move on with life. Dont get me wrong I like my current High School its just that I'm getting bored and am having Senioritis. I'm looking forward to being a college freshman next year.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Spreading my wings....

I am a bird.
Perched and stretching ready to spread my wings.
I want to fly and soar and glide through the sky.
To feel the wind on my face and wings.
And to be free.
In reality you may know me as
a High School Senior
with Graduation a few months away.
Thinking god dammit High School sucks when you're a Senior.
You know it is inevitable but you are still waiting.
To spread my wings and be free.

I like my current High School but I also cannot wait to graduate. My cousin was right when he warned me that your Senior Year of High School is the worst since its your last year of High School and you know you will be graduating soon and you are really just waiting for time.

Well last Wednesday I helped out with my schools soccer tournament. I think the Jv and the Varsity team won a game each so Go Eagles! So now I should have all the community service hours I needed since I only needed 4.5 more and I was helping from 11 a.m. (I got to ditch afternoon classes!) to 4:30 p.m. Now I just need to fill out the paper and have my P.E. teacher who was supervising the tournaments sign the paper so its considered "verified." However I also managed to get my face sunburned. In the winter. And it was really windy and cold that day as a result of the wind. Now since I was wearing a jacket and jeans only my face got sunburned and as a result I've got a pink face at the moment which looks like I scrubbed a layer of skin off. Now well see how long it takes for this to go away. I'm one of those people who does not tan but burns very easily. So I normally have very white skin except when I burn. In which case its either pink or red depending on how bad the sunburn is.

But this is mild compared to when I worked at Sunsplash 2 years ago and one day I ended up having to stand outside checking wristbands by the slides near the castles for over 4 hours (during the Arizona summer in 115 degree (f) heat) with no shade and no breaks until one of the lifeguards noticed that I had been there for a long time without a break and sent me back to the Snackbar. Apparently I looked like a lobster according to my Mom who was working there and her friend Carolina. The thing is when I had started my shift that morning I was checking bags out front with some of the people from the Ice Cream Shop who needed some more help so they asked my boss for some people from snack bar and I ended up out there. You might wonder how I ended up by the Castle. Well while I was helping out the Ice Cream Shop people the owner of the park came over and grabbed me and stuck me out by the slides. But he did this without telling my boss so she was wondering where I had been for hours since the Ice Cream Shop people didnt know what the owner had done with me. So over 4 hours later when I stumbled into the snack bar Carolina was the first to see me took one look at me and had me sit down on a cooler. Then my mom saw me and I told her what had happened. I got a lot of respect from my boss that day after she heard what happened. She had assumed that I was ditching work and just avoiding doing anything until she heard what had happened to me. The thing is, is that the owner had forgotten that he had put me there since he had gone off to do something else. It took several weeks for me to heal from that sunburn. Thank god for Aloe Vera Sunburn Lotion. That stuff felt so good.