It always cracks me up that Ramza orders milk in the bar. XD He is so cute XD; I just want to pinch his cheek (or possibly his blindingly white butt).

Fresh Karma. At least the colors scanned nicely.

Well, tomorrow ends the Nanowrimo. I never got any farther than what I put up, but I am not upset, because my friend is very close to completion (and I think she will complete it..) and, at any rate, it's given me an idea.. That story will simply be a story that I write on whenever I want a break from Claris & Clarity, as it will hold to the 'Wrimo ideals of being utter crap and nonsense.

I am really cold but I still want a Coke that's been sitting the fridge and will thusly make me much colder than I was before... .__.;

Ali, I think you could get a part time job as a stand up comic, because I think you're bloody hilarious. XD
::hugs you:: I'm sorry that your work sucks eggs, and don't worry--my cauldron of hate bubbles over much more often than yours does. XP;

To my friends, although only one of you will likely ever read this, and I don't know when you will: All of today, and henceforth for as long as I can, I am MAKING AN EFFORT TO BE PLEASANT here, so CUT ME SOME SLACK, DAMN IT.

I'm glad I'm not alone in my observations of the Shrine Knights, but hey people--I purchased and finished Tactics long ago (like when it came out :3;), I'm not a newbie here. :B But unfortunately, in a moment of idiocy, I deleted my Ultra-Save that had all my good stuff on it (like LOTS of treasure), and am just now redoing the game.. but it's been so long that I can hardly remember the full plot, although most of the locations and lines are familiar to me.

I think I need to name some characters Graymalkin & Paddock (there was a third one, with a name that was also cool, but it escapes me just now). I don't like Shakespeare in general--I find his plays rather annoying to read as I have to keep looking at the text notes for understanding, which besides disrupting the flow of reading is just bothersome. But one can glean a great many good quotes (and character names... Graymalkin is a really cool name X3) from'em.

I should be studying for Physics, but... um... I don't feel like it. =P I did read all of Macbeth though...

Oh yeah--my egg didn't break. Me project, sucky as it seemed, was a success. Miracles happen.

Livejournal is not a functional state at the moment, therefore I must once again use Truth for Emotional Waste.. which, to be honest, is what it was originally intended for anyway, and what I'm about to say is kind of important, and it's something I've been trying to say, but haven't fully been able to because of my penchant for tact and politeness even in this forum where I'm supposed to be able to speak freely (and that is one mother of a run on sentence). Therefore, I present to you, the Imperfectionist's Manifesto.

There's something that I and a lot of other people need to get straight here. As a complete package, I have a lot of flaws, as most packages wrapped in human skin do. These flaws include but are not limited to--hypocrisy (yes, I admit it! I am guilty of hypocrisy! And if you can't admit that you are also at times guilty of hypocrisy, then you are an enormous hypocrite), bitchiness, emotional... ness, paranoia, and pigheadedness. These are common flaws, although more often nowadays one must replace emotional with apathetic. However, in addition to these flaws, if I am your friend (and a lot of the time even if I'm not, really), I promise this: I will always help you when you need. I will do everything I can to help you. I will support when you need it, even at the risk of dropping whatever seemingly important thing I may be previously engaged in (i.e., homework or a video game, just to cite two examples) to provide that support and attention. I will probably not always be happy to see you if you've pissed me off, but I will be pleasant if you've been pleasant to me. I will appreciate whatever you have to submit for my attention, be it writing, or art, or a character profile, and I will read it in a timely fashion, often dropping what I'm doing to do so. I will commiserate and sympathize. I will listen. I will try to understand. I will try to separate the jokes from the seriousness, but being imperfect, I'll likely fail a lot.

I will not tolerate being ignored. I will not tolerate discourtesy from people who say they are my friends. I will not tolerate being made to feel unimportant. I will not tolerate being discussed behind my back in an 'inordinately cruel' manner.

I'll make mistakes. I'll have losses of restraint, because I'm an emotional person, that's who I am. When I'm upset, I'll show it. I'll sulk, I'll be moody. But I'll also do all those things for you outlined above. But that's who I'll always be, and you know what? I'm okay with that. And if you're not, then I have two words for you.

FUCK. YOU. Fuck you, okay? Fuck you. I don't need you, I don't want you, I don't want you to ever fucking talk to me again if you can't deal with that. I don't want to fucking know you exist.

If you can understand that, however, then we'll be great friends.

Thank you and goodnight.

[TACTICS] Argh... I got through all three of the battles at Riovanes Castle, and then when I get to the battle on the roof with Elmdor and Lede and Celia, Rafa goes and gets herself killed because she's too weak to withstand Celia/Lede's attacks!! x__X DAMN YOU RAFA!! I have another save that's just before I go into the castle (if I didn't I'd be REALLY pissed), but still, I have to do all those battles again.. .__.

I feel so sorry for Izlude. I wish more could have been done with his character. Also I've decided that I really dislike the Shrine Knight outfit.. maybe it looks cool in a drawing, but the sprites look fat for some reason. o_o [/TACTICS]

I've finished my Physics project and it right sucks. Not only is it just plain ugly, but it's not heavy enough on the bottom, so it topples when you drop it with the egg in the compartment. HOWEVER, even with this, the egg still didn't so much as crack when I dropped it over our balcony (at a height of about 15 feet) and onto the cold hard tiles below. BUT, the actual drop is 20-25 feet (according to the project sheet), so there's still a high likelihood of that factor causing the pyramind to topple mid-air and crush the egg upon impact with the dirt. If the egg breaks, I get an 80. If it doesn't, I get a 100. I think I'm probably going to get an 80, but, I tried. -_-

It is 4:10. I've nearly completed my Physics project (though it is indeed extremely crappy and the egg will probably break, but at least I'll get an 80, which is a higher grade than I normally get in that wretched class) and not done much else, but the Physics project is the only due directly tomorrow, so. Right now I'm procrastinating on the final part (making a compartment for the egg to sit in) and am catching up on blogs. I found another writer's blog to read, although I've never read any of this person's books, it looks like it will be an interesting read nonetheless. If I ever become a writer of any great merit (or even a writer of small merit) I hope to keep up a blog in much the same fashion. The more I read about this writer, though, the more I think I want to be like her, much like I want to be like Neil Gaiman, although the connection is closer here I suppose because this writer is of my same gender. However it seems like she is very close to Poppy Z. Brite, and I have read some of her work, and it's very good, but also very flowery. I worry that my writing isn't flowery enough to be considered meritorious: I think I have a good grasp on vocabulary and sentence structure and so on, but I don't think I write in such a way that people finish and say to themselves 'That was beautiful', which worries me.

Writing, as this writer explains, is extremely difficult work. It really is very, very hard, as I'm sure many of you that read this blog know. But I love it so much. I really, really do. There are times when I want to tear my hair out because I don't think I'm writing well enough or that I'm conveying it right, but I love writing so much. There's nothing quite like creating your own little world and people and their stories. It gives you a great sense of power and control, since how everything works out is entirely up to you. Wonderful feeling.