Fresh madness in Fatal.

Well, the fencing place was closed, so we went to the comics store instead. The Cute-Nice-Guy who picked up my twenty was there again..

Kai bought the Director's Cut of JTHM and asked the cashier if they got a lot of female patrons..Bryan called Kai and myself freaks, and the Nice Guy said they got a fair amount of girls, but definitely more boys. I know for sure at least that Ali and Laris patronize there, and they seem to be girls to me, but both of the times we went Kai and I were the only chicks there. Ah well.

I republished all my archives/edited the template. In September, Truth will be a year old. Woo!

Wargh, the cable light started blinking earlier... I really hope it doesn't go out again while I'm gone (off to watch Kai fence).

This has nothing to do with anything, but I was wandering around once and I saw a site with a layout that went along the lines of 'it's a heresy to wear black' and I balked... It's like, hello, what color do you think priests and nuns wear? It sure ain't yellow, honey!

Vera, I'm a type Four as well. Not surprising.

I think supernatural forces are preventing me from answering my email. :\ The cable went out the other day just as I was beginning to, and now my mail service thingy won't connect.

Hee hee..sitting with my cat Patches in my lap and messing around on the computer and not having to worry about my grades for two months... it doesn't get much better than this.

Umm, before anyone jumps on me, what I mean by not even God can rule the earth is that not everyone in the world practices Christianity, and it seems a growing number of people don't practice a religion at all.

I don't really think it's possible for anyone to completely rule the world, to be honest. People have tried before--Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hitler--and they've always been shot down. The fact is that the world is too big and there are too many people for any single entity to dominate it. Not even God can rule the Earth.

But it's an awfully interesting scenario to think of.

I like these Zim rules all stories for the most part, but I want to know why everyone thinks Gaz is going to run over to Zim's side...personally I think that, in the HIGHLY UNLIKELY event that he took over, Gaz would just become a hermit somewhere. In a shack, with her video games. And a lot of guns. =P

And Jaimie-J, that AU Zim story on ff.net scares the hell out of me.

...but, then, so do most Zim fancharacters. Probably why your comic was so amusing.

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER! No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks!!

I didn't blog at all yesterday because on Thursday (shortly after I made my last post), Dad was outside roto-tilling and he sliced up a cable. But the roadrunner people are here now, and the light just came back on, so here I am. My junior year of high school is over, and for all intents and purposes, I'm a senior, since the seniors graduated last night (I think). I made it out alive--I got the B semester average in Chemistry I was worried about (got a 90 on my exam..my intense studying paid off :B) and such.

I watched Zim last night, twice, actually, both at 8 and again at 11. Mostly because I really had nothing else to do. Actually I drew this picture which was a product of watching all that Zim, reading too much I Feel Sick, and playing the song Karma Slave over and over again. It took me many hours, seriously... I'll scan it in a second *__*

"Of course I can get you to heaven, Claris," he said calmly, "but if you're not already an angel, then there are some requirements to be met..."

He turned to face me, his mouth split into a violently gleeful grin. The cold, sharp press of a knife dug into my skin as he spoke.

"First and foremost, you have to be dead."

That was about when the panic set in.

I shall participate in Towel Day! Even if Kai thinks it is dorky. As an added bonus, tomorrow is my last day of school and I'm not going to see any of these people for months.

The mail is always late when I'm waiting for something. :\ (no, it's not gay porn, it's a package from Larislet)

ME: Hey, Bryan? Has the mail come yet? I'm expecting something.
BRYAN: What are you expecting? Porn?
ME: ...Yeah.
BRYAN: Gay porn?
ME: ...Yeah.

I just want everything to be okay.

{FRET}
Bryan just changed all this stuff on the MSconfig because I and my dad have viruses on our computers...the virus is called bymer.scanner and it slows down the computers and funks up the network, but I'm afraid that the next time I restart Malfactor will not load up properly.. I'm tempted to restart now, but I really need the use of this computer tomorrow to help me study for my English exam...aarrggh... {/FRET}

My brother is messing with Malfactor and causing me large amounts of nervousness. o__o But I'm taking a break from my super-intense Chemistry studying, for which my final is tomorrow. My Algebra II final is tomorrow, also, but I'm hoping to have some time leftover after Chemistry to study more for that, since it is first.

Weelll I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I am getting a C in Chemistry this six weeks--an 84. The good news is that my semester average (which is the most important grade, anyway) is still an 89, thanks to my sexy sexy 98 last grading period. So, I can make as a low as a 70 on my exam and still flit away with a pretty B.

::squealing with fangirly joy:: There was a discussion on the SLG board that turned to the Irken reproductive process, and someone suggested cloning, and I said but if it were cloning wouldn't they all look exactly the same, and be the same gender, and then mentioned how I saw the female the first episode and this is a nasty run on sentence now so I am going to stop it and begin a new one. Anyway, Jhonen answered, and this is what he said. :B

There ARE female IRKENS, but they are as insignificant as the males in the current
process of procreation for the IRKEN species. Modern IRKEN spawning chambers
are floating biomechanical orbs that generate new fetal IRKENS to be grown in the
birthing plugs. you can tell the baby is ready to be unplugged by looking at the
exposed plug face - if the face is sleepy and red, the baby is not yet ready, if it is
green and smily, it's baby time.

The details as to how this setup came to be, and what purpose it serves is a bit
of a mystery, as I am working with files and accounts from sources that never
made it back from their respective missions.

Jhnen VEE

It was, of course, not a direct response to myself but just an answer to the discussion, but I am alight with fangirly glee anyway. Yeeeee XD

I'm collecting all the chapters of the first half of ClarisProject into one file and then editing them and making them suck less and all of that goodness. I know you guys care, that's why I'm telling you.

It is raining and storming very hard down here, and it is wonderful, so now I am going to draw and enjoy the sounds.

I am poking through the SLG boards (though I've only made one post as of yet...going under the nice, non-gender assuming moniker of nohbody [I loved that bit in the Odyssey like you wouldn't believe], in the IZ section...) and found this (rather old) post by J.V. which made me laugh very loudly in front of my keyboard:

When I do a JTHM run again, I plan for it to be the worst thing human eyes have
ever laid eyes on.

My thinking is that human beings always have this innate desire to improve upon
the past, to build higher and stronger upon the foundation built on experience.

I want to do something different. I wish to rebel against tha natural, and embrace
the perversion of human striving. I want to draw the book with my feet. I want
Johnny to be a happy little guy who works at Hot Dog on a stick, and who drives a
new Beetle.

In order for people to truly feel something new from the books, they will have to
be so horribly sickened by them that they want to throw drinks in my face. This
will give them something to talk about that far exceeds the usual noise about how
the older books were better than the originals. The new books should make people
cry for having spent any money on them.

There should also be a magical talking baby beaver in the book who gives Johnny
good advice on how to be a good person.

Hee hee hee. I cackle. XD; (even though, reading further on, Dan Vado [head person at SLG] doubted that it was actually Jhonen posting, and then later it seemed that it was actually him... hard to tell on a message board where anonymous posting is allowed, I suppose. Either way I was amused)

Umm...the ending sucked, but it was pretty good. Good job! Not very depressing tho, but I did feel a bit said when Zim found out the TRUTH.

What amuses me most about this review is that the person who wrote it added both myself and the story in question to their list of favorites.. XD;

Oh, and Tengu's Zim shriny page roxxors. :3

And before I go to bed, I love those pictures, Jaimie-J. X3;; And though it really does not have anything to do with the pictures, I have been noticing that people have been acting as though Membrane is Dib & Gaz's last name when it states clearly on the site that it is not (and that their last name is a mystery :B;). x__x;

OK. Now I go to bed and study for evil Chemistry test of Doom.

Updated Kurai(go read Claris ;__; pwease ;__;)

My past life:
I don't know how you feel about it, but you were male in your last earthly incarnation.
You were born somewhere in the territory of modern France around the year 1400.
Your profession was that of a banker, usurer, moneylender or judge.

Your brief psychological profile in your past life:
Bohemian personality, mysterious, highly gifted, capable to understand ancient books. With a magician's abilities, you could have been
a servant of dark forces.

The lesson that your last past life brought to your present incarnation:
Your task is to learn, to love and to trust the universe. You are bound to think, study, reflect, and to develop inner wisdom.

Do you remember now?

OH YES. I am a servant of the DARK FORCES. MWAAHAAAHAA.

Or, I was, anyway. *koff*

Hee hee hee... Go here and click on the 'Zim's impression of DBZ' link..it's not really Zim, it's his voice actor (whose name, I believe, is Richard Horowitz) making fun of Dragonball Z. It's hilarious. XD;

Next week is my last week of school. I get out May 25. I am ambivalent about this. While I naturally am happy to escape the hellish prison that is my school, I have the feeling that my summer might be less than pleasant. First (and this is unhappy to think of, but it's true) it's my last real summer, because after senior year is done I'll be packing off to whatever college is stupid enough to accept me. Second, if I don't get my license by July 1st, I'm in serious trouble (because that's when the graduated license takes effect), so I'll have to spend most of the first half of summer driving every day...and I know there are people who cry "I love driving!" but I don't. I am not good at it. But one must do what one must.

Thirdly, I fear that I am going to get a C for the semester in Chemistry. This is Very Bad. I do not know what my parents will do if it happens. I suppose I'll have to brush up on my begging for mercy skills.

Fourth, I must take the ACT again. I'll likely have to take the SAT a second time as well, but I haven't received my scores from my first shot yet.

Fifth, I'll actually have to decide which colleges to apply to. I think I'll go the safe route and apply to a whole bunch and go with whoever accepts me. I'm thinking now that I'll apply to colleges here, possibly to Penn State (where del is), and maybe even some colleges in California (preferably in the uh, San Jose area.. XD). I'm not looking for anything prestigious, even though I know that's what my parents would prefer. Money is the biggest issue, really, even trumping location. I'm taking it as a given now that I'll have to get a job and work through college, but I don't mind if I spend most of my time either studying or working, because it's not like I intend to get out much.

I find my academic situation to be mildly depressing, because I'm not below average, nor am I even average. What I am (my GPA, here, is 3.5, but weighted on a scale that counts A's as 90-100 it would be much higher) is marginally above average. Same for my current ACT score--the national average is a 21, my score was a 27 (want to kick it up to at least a 30). So I'm not stupid, by the standards, but I'm not a genius-child either (like Kai over there, with her fancy-schmancy 35 ;P).

I feel a lot like I'm only smart enough to know how much of an idiot I really am.