Because I don't like the thought of random, creepy people stalking me.


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I don't know how many of you have already seen this, but it's well worth watching.



LOL, the sketch! Omg, the South is so stupid.

Run, run as fast as you can;
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man.

I hope they see the Gingerbread Man too. :D

Philly just broke a record set in 1887. It's SIXTY-EIGHT degrees here right now.

I like that temperature, but not in February. That's like how we got snow last October.

Unseasonal weather, GTFO!

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM.

Why isn't it Wednesday yet!? D:

I'll say this here really quick. Obama's speech once he was announced President-Elect was so inspiring and touching and INTELLIGENT. Nothing Bush could have EVER hoped to say, and omg, I can't believe the position the world and the country has come to be in to be so moved and desperate for help.

Eight years ago, I was pissed that Bush took Gore's deserved win away from him, but I was only 13. Four years ago, I was so pissed so many people blindly stuck with Bush. T_T I wanted to move to Canada like the other pissed Americans were doing. I lost all respect for our country until now. I haven't felt proud to be an American until now for the first time in eight years. Let's hope Obama's words aren't an empty promise and that the right thing will be done with his aid. ^-^ I'm eager to see the improvements to the country and world in his upcoming first term.

I had a scary encounter with a squirrel yesterday. I heard a noise while I was on the computer in the family room (which could be called the basement too). It sounded like something fell over in the room behind me but I ignored it. Not too long after hearing that I turned my head, and I saw something coming towards me... I looked again and saw a bushy tail and gray fur. It clicked in a second that it was a squirrel. I screamed and scared my mom who was upstairs. >_< It scared me a lot! I saw the back of it as it was running away. Then I felt weird and paranoid, like it was gonna come and attack me. XD I ran upstairs and kept the door shut. >_< My sister told me the day before that she heard something coming from the heater room while she was typing up her paper on the computer. She said that she kept hearing noises. My mom said today that that must have been the squirrel falling down the heater chimney. Dumb animal. >_< My mom called the SPCA after I told her I saw it, but they were gonna charge us $185 to leave a cage here overnight and come back for it tomorrow. We did it ourselves instead because my dad had a cage. We caught it earlier today. It must've been hungry. I think it might've chewed up some spots of our carpet if I'm not mistaken...

Snow Day today! It relieving. I just hung out with my mom today. Hehe. We went out to get some things we needed, and then I helped her clean the house and the mess in the basement. Oh, and we were worried that the squirrel might chew the cords of the computer. As you can see, all is well.

I downloaded the song 2cm by Rie Fu off a rotation site yesterday to see if I'd be interested in her. She has a good voice, especially good English too! The song sounds different from others I've heard. I'm in the middle of listening to a Gazette song finally because stringyrurouni got me to drool over Aoi. :E I love it! it's called Anata no Tame no Kono Inochi.

This made my day yesterday. XD This is the most hilarious thing I've ever read.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cheekyweebisom/44289.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cheekyweebisom/45033.html

http://www.livejournal.com/users/cheekyweebisom/45452.html

Also, that guy singing and dancing to the Romanian song got all over and now I've seen it on TV! And he's from New Jersey. XD Now there's this article about it here: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050226073809990007. Or if you haven't seen the video yet, watch here: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050218113409990008. I hope those two links work.

Yesterday was great. During 3rd period, that announcement made my day. We were getting out at 12:20! That's two hours early! It hadn't even started snowing yet, but I think they were scared cuz it was supposed to get bad around the time when we get out. It was a good thing cuz I didn't finish my lab for Micro that was due. Since we didn't have 8th period, I didn't have to do it during lunch. I was feeling really lazy anyway (what else is new, right?). Later I walked home with my friends that I usually walk home with--Roxanne and Kelly--and my neighbor who was very hyper yesterday and today Jeff! We stopped by to visit Mr. Leven, my Chemistry teacher last year, because I haven't seen him since the end of the year last year, after finals. Jeff decided to show Roxanne and Kelly how he likes to set fires in Leven's class (with the teacher's reluctant permission, of course). He put his hand through the flame, and it caught on fire because of the alcohol. It smelled like burning flesh; it was sickening unless you don't know what burning flesh smells like, I guess. The good old days. ^^

Well! The snow decided to be evil. We only got a two hour delay out of it today. :P The day felt like it would never end earlier, but it went by fast later on. It didn't help that it felt like a Monday. *sigh* But in the end it's okay because I'm happy! I got to see my crush Kevin during Physics as usual. ^^ I'm hopeless, but this time I really do like him. I don't dream about it like I did with my old crush. Could I be pathetic? I just think it'd be cute/funny if someone got us to hang out or something, like with Hyde and Megumi. But Hyde and Megumi were introduced, and my crush and I already know we exist and all of that.

Now all the juniors at my school are getting their licenses before me! Something has to be done. I was eligible to get my license LAST MARCH! I've been driving practically everyday since I got my permit in Sept. of 2003. I drive everywhere when it's not my whole family together. Ugh. My mom said I can get it next month. That's only a few days away...

I downloaded a couple of new things. I downloaded DAI's Hi no Ataru Sakamichi PV because I think that song is beautiful. The PV was beautiful too, fortunately. I just downloaded a clip of Kremlin Dusk that Hikki sang at her showcase in NYC on the 23rd. I'm impressed that she sang it so well. Kremlin Dusk takes a lot of power from your voice, and Hikki has had trouble some times in the past with her voice in live performances. But she did well. ^_^ I love Hikki! <333

himuragumi gave me some inspiration to write a song from my addiction to it. I want to write something about wanting more. I'll see how well that goes. ^_~ Oh, and I should have chapter 3 done by tomorrow if all goes well. I worked on it some more last night, trying to get away from my writer's block plague.

Oh yes. I have no qualms about going to Temple anymore. And me being the idiot I can be didn't look under Critical Languages on Temple's site. I did that yesterday during Grad. Project and saw that they DO in fact have Modern Greek and Japanese, along with German! This is where I'm conflicted. I already know that I want to minor in Japanese. I already speak Greek fluently, but it'd be nice to learn more words, I guess. I'm close to fluent, you could say, with German. What am I gonna do!? And since I'm going to Temple, I can get my car!!!!!!!!!! ^__^ I'm just gonna go to UMD for Grad. School probably.[/rants]

Oh...WOW. I hated quizzes before, and even though I learned in Behavioral Science about how incredibly general quiz results are...these are the most accurate results I could have asked for. (And I read lobster's [you need a nickname >_<] and realized how true those were for her! From what I know about her, that is.)

Stolen from rocknlobster. Mine now! XD

<td>You are a Fork.



You are special, unique... and shiny.... but you just don't know it. Many admire you for your outward appearance, but you haven't truly expressed all of the great stuff inside of you. You have the potential to do great things and help others, and this will help you in the future. When you hold a grudge at someone, however, this can be dangerous. Despite your calmness that most people perceive about you, you keep a lot of feelings bottled up inside that one day can make you explode and stab something. Instead of resorting to that, you can say, "Go Fork Yourself!"

Most compatible with: Knife, and Sock.


Click here -- What Random Object Represents Your Inner Self?
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Today I finally heard back from the University of Maryland. It was a little disappointing. I wasn't accepted, but they said I could transfer there for the Fall semester if I wanted. I don't understand why they didn't just accept me then... It's disappointing because I really REALLY did not want to live at home, being even more imprisoned at home and in my stupid town. I don't wanna be dependent on my parents anymore. Even if I got a job, I'd still technically be dependent living here. *sigh* I guess it's only good because I'm assured to get my own car now! The two schools that I was accepted to I'm gonna have to drive to. I'm hoping to get an apartment maybe in my junior year of college, or whenever I'm allowed to, with someone if I really am to go to school around here. Penn State University at Abington is a crappy school for me, so it looks like I'm going to be going to Temple. I really hope Temple has classes I can take since I wanna minor in Japanese. If not, then I don't know what I'll do. I guess Temple isn't that bad, but it is in a dangerous, dirty part of Philly (not the most dangerous part, though). I drive by Temple all the time. (lol) Now I'm just trying to make my self feel better by convincing myself it's gonna be okay. I'm just afraid I'll have no social life. All my friends will be gone. But! I can visit you, ladytiramisu!! ^_^ That'll be fun.

rocknlobster, I finally listened to your latest phone message you posted. You don't really talk that fast. But I'm up north, so...yeah. ^_^

candiedapples made me my cool, and very pretty, new Ai-chan icon! Bow down to LFF for making it with her amazing skills and to Ai-chan for being so terribly cute. ^__^ *girly jump*

Since my daddy-o's birthday is tomorrow, we went to a Greek restaurant downtown called Zorba's to eat dinner. It was so yummy! I got chicken σουβλακι (souvlaki, or kebob) cuz I love them and haven't eaten one in a long time. Chicken souvlaki with tsatziki and rice and potatoes = YUMMY! ^^;; And my sister got the same thing. And yeah. My mom got some yummy looking meatballs, I think marinated? seasoned? with lemon, and my dad got lamb. Lemon, olive oil, and oregano are VERY popular seasonings in Greece. I love them. That was good, yes, but that wasn't where we were originally supposed to be. We had planned a week ago to go to Dmitri's, a mediterannean place near South St. We got there, waited our wait to get seated, looked at the menu, and everything went downhill from there. -_-;; My mom was really complaining a lot about the menu (it was miniscule and expensive) so we just got up and left right after we got our waters. It wasn't really embarrasing to me as much as it was stupid and a complete waste of our time. We went through a lot of trouble trying to find somewhere to park too.

Aya, Mika Nakashima, and Ellegarden are my favorite new (semi-new, I'd say) artists now! I've been into Aya since last spring? She is a fan of Nirvana like I used to be--but I never realized it till later like I did with Green Day. I got into Mika with her new single, Sakura Iro Mau Koro. It's really pretty, and if given the chance, I'd cover it. And then I got into Ellegarden when one of my favorite rotation sites posted a song of theirs. They are the most American-sounding Jrock band you can find. AND they have good English. ^^ Pluses and cookies to them.

No school once again tomorrow! I'm just gonna be celebrating my daddy's birthday (I think he said he'd get ice cream cake! but I doubt it). I still haven't done anything I said I've wanted to do this weekend. I've been out too much. But I did get to watch I, Robot, which I liked. I really really really REALLY wanna write chapter 3 of LAPOE (Love and Peace or Else...that's my new abbreviation ^^ ) so I can get it rolling. rocknlobster, whenever you can beta chapter 2 would be very helpful!

Also, while I was listening to my iPod in the car and we were cruising through Philly to dinner, I was listening to Hikki's cover of Shounen Jidai (I just downloaded it a few days ago, YAY!) that she sang on "20jidai wa ike ike!" I got more confidence and inspiration to compose my own music. I have no doubt that I'm creative enough to do that. Yeah, I'm all talk now, but once high school is over, I'M COMING OUT! XD rimokon, that's so cool that you have a band! I'd love to be part of a band, or yours!, but I can't...unless I find people. :/

This was supposed to be a short post...eh well.

I got lazy last night and decided to just relax and watch TV, so I didn't update like I said I would. *shrug* Here come the goods. (I just finished typing this entry and realized how long I make them. I don't post often, just when I have stuff to say so it alls piles up. What do ya want me to do!?!)

I went shopping today, but my sister and I left home late in the afternoon, so the only store in the mall we went to was Gap cuz of her indecisiveness over a sale they were having. A good hour there, and that was at just one mall. They didn't have a shirt there in her size, so we drove over to a different mall that was 20 minutes away and bought it there, checked out another store...then left. We stopped at Old Navy to get some price adjustments the evil way because the people at Old Navy are malicious, that they are. They told my sister that she had only 7 days to get a price adjustment when it never said that on the receipt. The evil way she got it done: bought it again, returned the old stuff with her original receipts. :P Dumbasses, really. She has 90 days to return it anyway. What's the big deal?

After that, we picked up some extra groceries, and then went to the YUMMY Bertucci's! I love Italian food so much. But something happened at Bertucci's that I've never seen before in my whole life. The fire alarm went off! (We have fire drills in school every month. It wasn't the alarm itself that amazed me. It was the incident.) It went off because there was too much smoke in the air...or something. There was no fire, but a cop and an emergency vehicle from the fire company came within literally a MINUTE of the false alarm. But the sound that alarm made was ear-splitting. Everyone was covering their ears. It was horrible. It lasted for a few minutes too. At first I thought that I would pass out from the repetitive, loud, staccato-type sound with the flashing lights...but it turned out fine (wasn't close to passing out). Everyone applauded once the obnoxious sound stopped. The restaurant had to call the fire company to get a code needed to turn it off. I was starving by that point and inhaled my food. ^_^

New message from Hikki! You gotta love her. I love her so much. I love how she's practically friends with her fans, but not really with her newer fans yet. (Haha, suckers. XD) *treasures, idolizes, hugs Hikki!*

I finally bought RK Vol. 11 last night! GREAT volume. I haven't seen that Aoshi episode for two years, since I saw it the first time through. I'll probably buy Vol. 12 and then stop buying them until the beginning of the Jinchuu arc, or else I'll be paying close to $270 buying all 28 volumes. *cries just thinking about it* (;_;) I just figured I'd read those few and buy them later since I have the shit editted episodes that I taped from CN (considering it'll be a while before I own the DVDs...). Oh! While I was at B&N last night, there was this twisted but adorable book called The Book of Bunny Suicides that I was reading in the cafe. It sounds so wrong; hell, it kind of is. It's basically a book with short comics or just one whole picture on a page of how a bunny can commit suicide. It's not bloody, not necessarily graphic in a gory sense. I don't know, my sense of humor still thought it was cute. How someone thinks of drawing that is beyond me. Cute wittle bunny wunny. XD I heard Intermezzo Sinfonico last night at B&N too! Ahh...I thought it was a message from God or something the first time I heard it there too. After last night, that makes it 4 times I've heard it playing while I was there. I wanna cry happy tears as soon as I hear it, but then I'd look like a schizo, ne?

( I'm too happy to mix my comtemplative part of this post with my happy part from today, so it's hidden behind here! )

( Crazily long--but cool--movie meme. )

WHEW! x_X

I have a four-day weekend! No other school does. ^___^ Yay for President's Day! Also, I FINALLY found somewhere to download Meev's Valentine's Day Message (thanks to rocknlobster!!!). Omg, he's hot. (I am so happy to have been a fan of Meev's while he was still an indies artists. SO happy.) And he was more serious in this message than he was in his New Year's Day Message, I think. I just need to know what he's saying! He speaks clearer and more...what the hell's that word...relevantly? That's what it seemed. Well, you gotta figure, in the New Year's Message, he was screaming "HII!!" and saying "ata ata" in his hushed voice. Here...he doesn't. XD

( 'How common my interests are' meme )

List of things I want to accomplish over break (because they're FUN, not cuz I have to...):
1) Finish chapter 3 of my fic
2) Finish writing more of my song lyrics
3) Write something about love
4) TBD...
Hey, my 17 1/2th birthday was yesterday (which is more like a half hour ago)! Six more months until I'm legal. THANK GOD.

My more therapeutic post about today coming up tomorrow. Γεια σου!

I just realized how much fun it would be if I wrote my LJ entry in a different language. *makes mental note* Of course, I'd include the English verson too. Writing it in Greek would probably be a pain cuz when I type it, it doesn't make the accents. I have to copy and paste those myself. Huhh. (<~~ *sigh*)

I'm still in need of a RK fix. I have himuragumi, but I have to wait for that to update (even though it updates nicely for me to read!), and one week there takes forever in real-life. Still, I do love it. And I've been wanting to reread Broken Pieces ( *wuv* ), but I don't have the time to sit here for hours non-stop to read it all like I did before. (Fun memories.) Of course, I do have a four-day weekend coming up for President's Day... How insanely cool is that? And I didn't buy Vol. 11 of the manga yet. I'm gonna do that next time I go to B&N, with what's left on my card I got for Christmas (what would I do without mommy? ^^ ). So what's left?

I really like the guy in my Physics class. I learned from my last crush, and I'm not gonna go as over-the-top as I did with him. I never talked to my last crush because I made myself too nervous. But I'm keeping this crush tame and sane. Heh.

On Monday is my daddy's birthday (48!) so on Sunday we're heading down to Philly to eat at a Mediterranean place called Dmitri's. It sounded yummy when I looked it up on the net. Also, we had a German project to do where we made a Power Point of a city in Germany, and I picked Frankfurt. No, Frankfurt doesn't have anything to do with frankfurters. Frankfurt is really pretty. Really. Who would've thought a bunch of wurst-eating Germans would have such a pretty city between the Rhein and Main Rivers? I wann go there now when we go to Europe this summer. I will die if I don't go to Europe this summer. Then I'll be looking more forward to heading over to 日本 during and after college! Yippy! I'm soooo crazily hopeful for this summer and the Disney World class trip.

I'm working on a couple Ai Otsuka sets. I'll have them posted when I'm finished. I listened to some Mika Nakashima songs yesterday. I liked them. She has a really nice voice. And DAI's new album Need Your Love (their SIXTH album! Crazy) comes out on 2/16! OMG THAT'S TODAY! *jumps* I love the clips from it that I've listened to.

There's been rumors going around u-o.net that Hikki is making a new Japanese album to be released this summer. Hikki did admit on her blog that she wrote two new Japanese songs. I honestly prefer her Japanese music over her English. Exodus wasn't as good as I expected, or that it could've been. (Yeah, you already heard this from me before, blahblah.) I only really liked a few songs from it. That's not Hikki quality. It's still really good though. She needed to promote it a lot more. Anyway, Hikki wrote two new Japanese songs...and I would die if she released them. ^__^

Miyavi has a Valentine's Day "sweet comment" on his official site, but for some reason I couldn't download it. I also found the download on jcrack, but the link wouldn't work at all. *sigh*

Well, I was so angered by this useless, Hallmark holiday that I had to know the truth. Why celebrate Valentine's Day and force people to have a reason to do something just on this one random day? My...irritation...was put to some justice once I found the history of Valentine's Day. ^^ It still doesn't really make sense to me, though. :P

Happy Valentine's Day anyway! <3

You're in for a treat! I wanted to post my lyrics for my good people out there. I trust that no one does the wrong thing with them (

It just goes to show you how much someone can change in just a few months. I hung out with my long-time friend Jason tonight. We haven't seen each other since the summer, maybe even before, like since he graduated last year. He noticed that I changed a lot, though. He said that I've become more outgoing and such. That was actually a relief to hear that. But...there's been a big gap between myself and some of my friends lately. I don't think some of them will ever know me, and yet I think that others will if they don't already.

My dad is contagious, so I haven't been able to go near him lately. I've been wanting to give him hugs these past few days but obviously I can't. (My family...God, I can't even describe my family. It's not your typical American family. We're very Greek, very loud, and very communicative. We show the love, but that is just us. My relatives aren't really like that. I never really explained my family before. I don't think anyone knows, not even my best friends. x_X)

Wrote more melodies for my lyrics today. I'm not changing myself for anyone. I'm not gonna ever change my music and my style to suit the...what's the word... Crowd? People? I refuse to be like anyone else. And, rocknlobster, that's where some of my arrogance might show, if you wanna call it that. Actually, I'm more stubborn. Stubborn--but not quite. People piss me off. And then I start to wonder, "Do people see me as a unique individual, or am I just like everyone else?" I fear the answer.

Now off to go melt over himuragumi.

There's a new picture of Hikki on the layout of u-o.net that I saw about a week ago, since I re-remembered to start visiting to read all the new Hikki hype/news again! It's a beautiful picture, and I have no idea where it's from (what magaizine/photoshoot, I mean)!

( It's automatic, soba ni iru dake de karadajuu ga tsukunatte kuru. )

himuragumi has the best of me now, especially with this KenshinxKaoru moment going on. Omg, melt. *melts everywhere* I'm in love. Now I can understand why I've become such a romantic.

rocknlobster, you really got my brain stirring. You're a sweetheart! ^^

You Are A Romantic

You are more romantic than 80% of the population. You life your life like a fairy tale... or at least you try to. Living for magical moments, you believe there's only one true love for you. Love is the most important thing in your life, and you don't take it for granted. Your perfect match loves to be in love as much as you do!

Quizzes=poopy. It's just fun seeing what they say. I don't know about this... *blink* ...Is it true? For some reason I think those results might be too excessive for me...but...

So I felt like playing around and doing something dark while I was waiting for the Super Bowl to come on on Sunday. I figured I'd share. ( I see the light! )

I think I need another haircut soon. And I'm so mad that all this schoolwork is being given to me when I don't wanna do it!!!!! I just really wanna write my songs and my fic. Geez. Is that so much to ask?

By the third week of February, U of Maryland is sending me my letter of acceptance! *knocks on wood, crosses fingers*

Jason, a good friend of mine, is (or should I "was" now...) a huge fan of the Eagles, and he's really down after their CLOSE loss/mess up last night. I don't blame him. The Eagles blew it; the Philly curse still holds, and hopefully not for 85 years like the Red Sox (grr...Boston). I'm going out with him on Saturday to play pool and inevitably get something to eat, and I feel obligated to cheer him up. I have a feeling that he won't be by then, or not to the point where I know he usually is (despise his other hardships on his mind now too). I need to be there for him a little bit more than I have in the past. We're both having similar problems. *sigh*

My friend's brother who I hate got his license before me! He hardly read the book when he went to get his permit A LONG TIME after me, and now he gets his license after he took two lessons with an instructor. There's either something my friend didn't tell me or miracles really do happen. Plus, he's not into driving. I think he's borderline anorexic. He runs a lot. Good news being that I'm gonna get my license no later than next month after having my permit since September of 2003!!!!! (Grr.) Oh well. I'm a very good driver. ^_^

"I think she's trying to be Asian." I heard the girl that I despise say that in the locker room today in Gym class. It really scared me. That sentence haunted me for most of the day, sadly. I really questioned my interests and my obsessions. I finally admitted to myself that maybe sometimes I can become too anti-social over them...but I do not in the least bit want to be Asian. And I hate it when people think that, think that I want to be. I know none of my beloved LJ buddies ( *cookies to all* ) think I do. I know I have people who can understand when something is going too far. I have plenty of interests. Why don't people tell other people who want to learn French, for example, that they're trying to be French? Well, then what's wrong with taking up an interest in the Japanese language and culture, huh? BECAUSE ALL ASIANS LOOK THE SAME???? I don't understand what it is that makes people think this. I hate labels, I hate assumptions, I hate conclusions. Pardon the rant. ^^

Ugh...this is one tough week of school. And torturous. More about my feelings another time. AND LINAY UPDATED WITH A NEW STORY! Read it here. This isn't the sequel to Broken Pieces. I got overly joyful when I got the e-mail that she posted this. I can't wait until the sequel!

I'm dead. x_x *zzzzzzzzzzzz*