11:20 PM

Also, breakdancing primary school kids are the cutest thing EVER.

Pop dancing primary school kids are also the cutest thing EVER.

As are retro dancing primary school kids. Cute. Gah.

I went back to my primary school today (after many many many years, gah) and it was a bit like getting whammed upside the head by a nostalgia truck. That I used to be /this young/ and I used to go /here/ and I used to be taught by /these teachers/ with /these people/.

I saw the teacher who taught me when I was six years old. She's a grandmother now, and much as I remember her, only not really.

From the lofty view of all of sixteen going on, I feel old.

9:56 PM

One day, I'll write something that begins with "Once upon a time".

9:44 PM

Kit- You saw the Weiss parallels in Guns and Talks too? XD We just went to watch it today. Only we cast the leader as Youji and the sniper as Aya. The bomber is /so/ Ken, and the hacker is completely Omi. XD XD /So/ cute. I wanted to ruffle his hair and feed him cookies. We wanted the poster, too, n.nx, but see no way of procuring one. Keeping an eye on places that sell movie posters. Daymn good show. Gonna get the VCD if I can find it. XD

In other news, Asuka. DNAngel. Mmmm. Although, man, just get Daisuke out of there already. >.>;;x Scans (and from last month's Asuka) forthcoming if I stop being completely and utterly lazy.

In other news, I'm not sure if I've mentioned this yet, but for the first time in the year, I actually have a competent Chemistry tutor! It is a very novel feeling, since when I was in the other JC for the first three months, I had the /worst/ teacher I ever had the misfortune of encountering teaching me Chemistry and being my civics tutor. I can't say much about her teaching techniques, but I had complete Issues with her attitude and personality, and she's the reason why I was so very glad to leave that school. >.>;x And then when I went to the school I'm in now, I had a rather sweet old lady who was actually a resigned teacher taking on relief work. Very nice lady. She had a habit of referring to us in Chemistry metaphors (so i see you're all in the excited state, can you lose some energy and return to ground state for the lesson), but was kind of... boring.

So yes. Competent tutor. Kind of pissy, but at least I actually understand what's going on during Chemistry for the first time in the year. (it's also probably my fault for reflexively falling asleep during chemistry lectures before the june holidays. >.>;;x) Now all I need is to... uh, cover everything in the subject before what I'm learning now. Bwagh.

Doesn't mean I like Chemistry very much better, but hatred is lessened when I know what I'm actually doing.

Thursday

5:54 PM

So I left my wallet in the canteen /again/. This is the third time, I really have to stop doing that. And my friends retrieved it for me for the second time, for which, grateful and all.

I think they were trying to scare me or play a trick on me. Since one of them asked out of the blue if I had any change, because she needed it. I didn't, so I told her and went back to what I was doing, at which point they threw my wallet at me.

Wednesday

9:45 PM

So after twelve hours of being ignored, my stomach decided to turn itself off in a fit of pique.

I wish that the cafeteria would actually, y'know, have edible stuff at 3, 4 o'clock. But it doesn't. And I was stuck in the library from 3-9 anyway, so bwah.

Oh well. Food.

Tuesday

9:02 PM

Kaori-chan - We were given that practical, too! Only we didn't do it in the labs, we did it as a kind of test when the labs were out of bounds to us last week. I think I mislabelled the dratted things. n.nx It was supposed to be a test, but there was intraclass consultation out the wazoo, anyway. /Wierd/ practical. n.nx

7:01 PM

Aside: I don't believe that there's going to be a movie about giant spiders. I really don't. When I saw the preview in Spiderman, I thought that, y'know, it was a joke, given the movie. Apparently, it's not.

/.../

5:50 PM

It amuses me that I saw a sign in a carpark telling cars to go "DEAD SLOW", but I'm easily amused. I also got my hands on a copy of Coraline! And I read it. Creepy book. Very creepy, for a children's book, I'd say. Still good.

I also lost my Chinese file, rar. I left it in the LT, and when I went back to look for it, it was gone. >.>;;x I'm /always/ leaving things in classrooms and LTs. My brain doesn't seem able to cope with the concept that I'm physically hauling stuff /other/ than my file around. >.>x

Sunday

10:54 AM

I really like this shirt of my sister's. I think I'm going to steal it. It's white and soft and kind of too big for me, so the sleeves fall way past my wrist, but... soft! And huggable. I like it.

Saturday

11:41 PM

So I went down to Kino to check if they had Asuka, and they didn't. Tuesday or Thursday, they said. Wah.

And me and Aine walked around a bit, got CDs, then went to study. I covered most of Energetics until I got a headache and started knocking my head on the table, but only a little bit. I hate Chemistry. >.>;;x

Then I played a little bit more of my very slow replay of FF8. And I kept talking to the screen, only I wasn't paying much attention to what I was saying, so over the course of an hour or so, I managed to call Zell Zack and Squall, call Squall Seifer and Cloud, call Seifer Squall, and reprimand the wrong characters for being dumb. Seifer's kind of a jerk. But he amuses me. Romantic dream my ass.

10:11 AM

And just an aside, Le Chatelier's Principle is really fun to say. Easily grasped concept, too. The entire class is probably butchering the pronunciation, but it's just... fun to say. Le Chatelier's Principle.

My new Chemistry notes are bound up in a booklet, not just a loose sheaf. It strikes me as vaguely nifty.

9:19 AM

I dreamt yesterday that my school band was playing the Xenogears soundtrack. Only some parts sounded a bit more like FF7. But, yes. FF7 soundtrack.

I also dreamed in an RPG that I thought I played, but now I've woken up, know that I never. There was a lot of jumping around and falling blocks and the prerequisite dorky!rule-following!main-character, and the cool!heck-care!mentorish older guy. I think they were members of a priesthood. The mentorish older guy was, of course, not at all impressed with the running of the priesthood. I dream in cliches.

And there was a cave, and candles, and later, a car.

Thursday

8:24 PM

The school at night is dark and quiet and deserted, for the most part, except the library. Which is mostly deserted anyway. Walking past the huge windows that overlook the parade square in the library, one sees more of oneself than the outside. What lights are on are dim and orange, and when it's about to rain, the sky is dull pastel purple.

(also, when i'm walking around by myself, it scares the shit out of me. but i think solitude and my school is pretty.)

My mom just handed me a bowl of really, really tiny grapes. Little ball-bearing sized grapes. I'd think they were runty unripe things, but they're sweet.

*munch*

Tuesday

7:57 PM

<Davros> nome-you wouldn't know what to do with a tactical nuclear warhead. Best you could do would be to club Cyl about the head with it.
* PteroPsaa ponders what's so tactical about a nuclear warhead...
<Cylis> What is a non-tactical nuclear warhead. 'What are these nukes for?' 'Those are our tactical nukes, General.' 'Hmm good. And these?' 'Those are the nukes that we built for shits and giggles, sir.' 'Hmmm. Good job men. More funding.'

4:33 PM

Someone had taken their cat and her kittens down to the void deck of their apartment block as I was walking home.

The kittens were no bigger than my hand, tiny and fearless and perfect, and they wandered around the tile wherever they wanted, and moved faster than anything that size had a right to.

They were so precious.

Monday

9:24 PM

On Friday, we had a practical involving yeast cells, some manner of gelatin-like substance, and H2O2. It basically involved mixing the yeast with the gelatin-like substance and dropping bits into calcium chloride to 'set' the stuff into little balls. Kind of cute, actually. Easy practical, too, and we ended with tonnes of time to spare.

So /naturally/, everyone started playing with the leftover mixture and calcium chloride. Pouring the stuff into the beaker of CaCl2 results in something that resembles nothing so much as snot. And if you drop them into H2O2 for a while, they kind of turn into balls of miniature bubble-wrap...

The things that amuse us.

2:24 PM

Came home early today due to cramps and apathy, only I left the apathy bit out of the blue slip.

There was a fire drill before I left. Everybody died.

Saturday

9:41 PM

So, for some reason, there's a segment on the news today dedicated to the pronunciation of "Esplanade".

...And gosh, but that is one really, really ugly building. From the outside, at least. The inside seemed okay.

6:55 PM

<b0red0mschi1d> I get selfconcious just saying "when I was in the Navy"
<Meia> You ran two hundred miles everyday, with a full pack, barefoot and backwards over water?
<Meia> Uphill?
<mobic> pulling an air craft carrier
<Meia> With your teeth.

Serving the community is extremely hot business. I guess it doesn't help that I was wearing black, with a shirt over my shirt, but then I do things like that like that. All I did was fold pamphlets and ask people to do surveys, which wasn't much, but oh well.

And then I had sushi.

10:23 AM

Now reading: I Caught Gay From The Dark Lord.

...Fanfic, how I love you.

In other news, Gohou Drug 2 and Nervous Venus 5 are out in Chinese. (i blinked at nv 5, went '...', then '...it exists?'. next up, clover five. if only.)

And now I have to go and be of service to the public.

Wednesday

9:29 PM

And what happened to Google?

9:27 PM

So they had the blood donation drive at my school today. I would have gone, but I didn't get a consent form, and I am completely and utterly creeped out at the thought of, you know, needle the size of a toothpick UP MY ARM. Injections scare the hell out of me, and that's needle the size of a needle in my arm for three or four seconds. My friends who donated blood said it didn't really hurt. Maybe next year.

(and, it's odd that i am absolutely and completely unaffected by graphic vampire!fic, while being squeamish over controlled bloodletting for general benefit to mankind. hm.)

Night duty the library for the day where my class ends earliest. Really. Sucks. But at least I got quite a lot of work done, until I got bored and started reading Harry Potter book 1 again, since there was a copy behind the counter for some reason.

Friday

7:24 PM

You know what? /Maybe/ a mailing list on fanfiction wouldn't be the best place to start talking about one's /new horse/, but there we have some people. I give up, I really do, although I'm not sure what I'm giving up on.

(And, since I re-read Tokyo Babylon 7 yesterday, I just want to note that I miss TB Subaru and everyone a lot. Wah.)

Went out with Jo-chan and Aine-chan, ate sushi, got a t-shirt that laces up the front. In black. Very cool. Oh, and Happy National Day, everyone.

Tuesday

9:26 PM

But in other news, me and Jo-chan went to Seoul Garden, I just got my allowance and am completely broke, and I'm seriously contemplating staying home on Thursday. Also we got a Love Psychedelico CD. It's wierd, but I like the singer.

9:09 PM

You.

You know who you are, and if you don't, you should. I don't know /what/ you think you're doing, but you're seventeen, and that ought to be old enough to show at least some basic respect and courtesy for other people, even if they're just your age, and that means that if you're /fucking singing in class loud enough to be heard the next room over/, and we ask you to stop, /repeatedly/, and in the beginning at least /politely/, that should be a cue to actually stop and not sing /louder/.

I also don't know what else you think you're doing, but if you can't show your peers respect, then at least show it to your /teacher/, and that includes not /fucking singing in class loud enough to almost drown out the teacher/ when she is talking. No one finds you funny. The point of lessons is to learn, and if you don't want to, at least not-learn /quietly/, like everyone else. Or failing which, at least /try/. Even the /teacher/ doesn't find you funny, and no one finds you asking /really, truly dumbfuck questions/ in class and disrupting everything when you don't even have your work in front of you funny, perhaps on accounts of the fact that it's /not funny/, like you apparently think it is.

While I've met a few teachers not worth their job or giving the time of day to, this teacher isn't one of them, and on the basis of that and the fact that she is a /teacher/, you should please to show her some courtesy, too, because you are giving the entire class a bad name and slowing our progress to a standstill, and if you fail your fucking AO-level paper this year and I even /catch/ you complaining about it in my presence, I will /slap you in the face/. Because if you fail your paper, so far as I can see, it will be through no fault of anyone but your own, because the teacher has been giving us so much help and so much slack that, in fact, if I even catch you complaining in class /now/, I will /fucking kill you and feed you to the fish/.

Repecting elders is one of the most basic guides to courtesy here, and I don't know how you've managed to get to this age while still maintaining the attitude you have now, but the next time you piss me off in class, I /swear/ I'm going to start screaming at you, because apparently going past the "throwing things to emphasise displeasure" point hasn't left any impressions.

Sunday

4:31 PM

Things that, inexplicably, delight me:

- Sitting on the ridiculously high, tiny blue chairs that the school library has new, leaning a little back with my knees braced against the edge of the table, cutting out pictures and words. I don't think I've ever outgrown the delight of cutting out pictures and words, and playing with sharp objects.
- The fact that the scissors I had been using had the name of my school library and the year scratched into the blade, in thin and neat letters, although I couldn't figure out the tool that had been used.
- The staff librarian and other student librarians taking food up to the library from the assortment laid out for parent-teacher meeting downstairs, because I was still cutting things up and they needed someone to man the counter anyway.
- Lunch in the small, dark room where the phone and past year papers are kept, connected through the red-spot room and beyond.

Then I went and met up with Jo-chan, Aine-chan, and Kaori, and me and Aine went to Jo-chan's and watched Coyote Ugly and Minority Report until it was very late, read until it was later, and slept over at her place.

Friday

7:11 PM

And in other news, my school has visiting students from... Taiwan? And they are SO CUTE. That is all.

7:11 PM

So Biology practical today involved milk /again/. >.>x At least these samples hadn't been left at room temperature for any length of time, but the consistency was still pretty ew. >.>;x It involved adding enzymes (casein, I think,) to the samples and leaving them for a while so they could work. And after seven minutes, one of the samples had coagulated into something with roughly the colour and texture of tofu that clung stubbornly to the test-tube and refused to come out, even though I needed it for further testing.

So I took it, and I held it upside down and I shook it and with the help of a miniature plastic spoon (the type mcd's gives for stirring coffee with), I managed to get half of it out, but the spoon was too short to reach the last third of the sample, at the bottom of the test tube. So I shook some more, and I held it upside down and I tapped it against my palm vigorously and told it to come out, dammit, so it plopped and obliged, onto the desk.

This had better be the /last/ of the milk experiments. >.>x My friend was probably worse off, though, because the contents of the /other/ testtube came out readily enough, but having experimented with shaking the first one upside down for a while, she went on to try that trick with the other sample.

Chemistry yesterday was a complete disaster, too. First my benchmate mixed up the chemicals, then when I restarted the experiment (measuring fresh samples of /everything/, because i didn't trust and couldn't remember what was in the bottles anyway) I accidentally used the wrong amount of a reagent, then I forgot to add sodium thiosulphate to one of the experiments... rrgh horrible.

Thursday

6:44 PM

And then we ate Men's Pocky while studying. Men's Pocky is good Pocky. Mmm.

6:28 PM

So me and Jo-chan and Aine-chan yesterday, and I am absolutely the world's worst friend /ever/. Happy birthday, yoo. But apart from that, we had dinner, we had a conversation on the bus that probably scandalized everyone we were sitting next to, and we looked at manga and didn't buy anything.

Out on Saturday if we're lucky. n.nx They want to watch Minority Report, I wouldn't mind watching it again, but I don't know if it'll still be showing.

Checked out a book from the library that I liked a lot. Interface Masque, by a lady whose name I can't really remember now, since I passed the book on to them. n.nx I liked it. It was interesting, kind of about information and power and the control of information and power and the now, only a couple hundred years in the future. Good book.