なんでやねん？！

So, there's an ikemen show called 'IKEMENDEL no Housoku.' (Ikemendel's Law) The name comes from Gregor Mendel, you know, the guy you probably learned about in high school that did genetics experiments with pea plants?

So, everything in the show is HOLY FREAKING GREENER THAN THE GIANT WHICH BEARS THE COLOR'S NAME and there are pea-shaped props and furniture everywhere. And the skits / contests are based loosely around the theme of Mendel's theories, etc.

It's crack on ice, I tell you. I'm watching a bit with Yonehara Kyosuke (of RUN&GUN), Kamakari Kenta, and Ono Kento. I took a bunch of screencaps.

( So cracked it can only be from Japan... )

You know how, sometimes in the heat of the moment, something seems REALLY FREAKING FUNNY and then you go back and read it again / think about it again / reflect on it later and it really just... doesn't hold up?

Well, this post does not suffer from such. I came back across it while retagging stuff and was laughing so hard I had to close the window or get in trouble at work. Holy crap, that is comedy gold. (I only posted it last month, but it feels so long ago!)

So, yeah. I'm trying to go back and un-private some entries. When I had closed-down for a bit I had made them ALL private, so all my stuff older than a couple months is all privated and locked-down, and I really want to fix that. Plus I am in desperate need of tagging, so I can easily find all my Kanesaki spamposts. I am in Kanesaki-glut-mode right now, and it is very nice. TTATT

ETA: Oh, my gosh. I totally forgot about my birthday post, last year. You guys spoiled me rotten, and it was the best birthday I had in forever. I cried reading it, you know. You are all far too good to me, and I am really lucky to have such amazing friends. ;A; I was going through so much stuff at the time (with my grandmother). I really didn't think I'd make it out of that situation with any sanity intact, between caring for her and my mother's depression and my sister's depression. Amazing how things change. Thanks for not giving up on me.

Happy Birthday, America!

Requisite YouTube video.

It's very short.

Okay, what the...

Abe Yoshitsugu, meet Francis Bonnefoy...

Since it's a holiday weekend here, I thought I would post something happy. Also, hello to the few new friends on my list via the friending meme. I hope you don't come to hate me too much over the upcoming weeks and months. ♥

I will be consuming alcohol tonight, so who knows how it will end? Though, last time I just got a bit silly and verbose. There were no crazy LJ posts or weepy IMs. I have a bottle of sour apple pucker, and that stuff is like freaking liquid candy. I think about the worst thing I can do nowadays is make a drunken voice post or post stupid links to something, so I'm not terribly worried.

I spent half the day watching Gintama episodes and laughing hysterically. I think I will save that show for when I need cheering up, because it does not fail to do so. Ever.

I also made a post over at henshin_heroes, reposting the Suga Takamasa stuff I posted like, three years ago. YOU MISSED THEM, dimmie! At least I save like EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER POSTED and just reposted them :)

&hearts ANYWAY. I am scanning Kanesaki photos and keeping them safely away from any liquids in case I spill something, because I think my heart would break if I ruined them by accident. :|

xelloss_poo, the candle from 'Ave Maritare!' SMELLS SO GOOD. I want to light it so badly, but I don't want to use it up! All the magazines / pamphlets / photos / fliers that were in the package smell like it, now. (TT A TT)

I may post a rip of 'SakuraSAKURASakura' with a watermark. I'm still debating. I have the first disc done, I'm just trying to decide if I really want to upload it or not.

Oh, and randomly... I have been looking at a fanart site where the artist seems quite obsessed with drawing Prussia in women's underwear. I can't decide whether I'm intrigued or horrified. I think it's a bit of both. It's not a big help that they draw a really hot Prussia. Goddamnit. I picked up a few Prussia x Germany books on JP auctions that I really paid too much for, but oh, well. Enjoy life while you can, I suppose.

I was wondering...

I have a bunch of DVDs, some older, some newer, that were either never released or never released in their entirety to the fandom as rips.

I was ripping something this morning and realized how absolutely ultra-fast my new computer is (6GB of memory and whatever processor this has means a 2-hour DVD only takes TWENTY MINUTES to rip/convert the first pass... O_O)... so I am debating sharing some DVD-rips.

My dilemma is this:

I know things will be shared around no matter how much I try to stop it, so...

I was debating watermarking my videos. This way, it's not a perfect copy, at least.

Opinions? I mean, obviously I myself prefer unwatermarked videos but if it's all I can get I'll gladly take something with a logo or watermark on it, if the option is that or nothing.

The videos would still be decent watchable quality, they'd just have a watermark in the upper left corner that would say something like NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION on it.

Also, I really HATE to do something like this, but since my experiences in the past have been, shall we say... less than pleasant, I'd like to share without having to worry about all the redistribution crap. The stuff might still get redistributed, but I won't feel so crummy about it with a big ol' watermark on it. Plus it would deter picky people who are kind of bitchy about wanting perfect copies.

It isn't too rude or awful of me to be considering this as an option, is it? :( I always feel bad over things like this. I have a stackful of Natural Face / White Cube DVDs and some older stuff, plus a few newer things I'd be willing to share, I just hate the abuse.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Regarding my last entry...

After a nap and some thought:

I do sometimes wonder what my life would be like had I gone in a different direction with my school and career.

But... I wouldn't change how things are now, even if I could. There are a lot of events and relationships in my life now that are priceless to me, that I couldn't imagine giving up... and that I really wouldn't want to if I could.

So, yeah. I'm not going to be a great actor or a noteworthy director... but I'm still me.

Going through my flist yesterday, a few people addressed me by name for some reason or another, and it made me stupidly happy. That might sound strange, but for me it gives me a feeling of, "I have friends that care about me ♥!"

Yes, I am a bit ridiculous.

All this business of watching plays is really REALLY giving me a nostalgic longing for the theater. I miss it so much. It really kills me that it's been almost ten years since I did anything film and theater-related.

( Rambling reminiscience about my film and theater 'career' )

I've kept a lot of this stuff to myself because it sounds silly to me to talk about it nowadays. Yeah, it was just college theater and some screenwriting workshops, but for me it was pretty major, life-changing stuff. Sometimes I get a little bitter and wonder what might have happened had I not become ill and dropped out of school, and followed up with it as a career.

I'd probably be waiting tables somewhere in New York, trying to get a job, or... well. Doing what I'm doing now, I guess.

Oh, my God in Holy Heaven.

I got my SakuraSakuraSakura DVD today. I may have been in a rotten mood the last week, but if there is one thing that cannot fail to cheer me up, it is several hours of Kanesaki, including a good chunk of it with him in tights, acting like a doofus.

(Yasuka and Daisuke helped, too.)



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Sigh.

I checked the mail today when I got home from work, and there was a notice from my student loans servicing center... again.

THIRD NOTICE. SEND FORMS WITHIN 30 DAYS OR ELSE... et cetera. Except... now I've made FOUR phone calls and the person on the phone told me EACH TIME that everything was fine, and no more paperwork need be sent. We're going on seven months of this runaround, now.

I've documented who I spoke to and what they told me, and explained this every time. I don't know who else to talk to about it. I'm going to have to call them AGAIN and repeat the entire story. AGAIN. I don't want to bitch out the person on the phone, because I know they're just doing their job, but I'm not sure I'll be able to help it. This is just absurd.

Anyway, also in my mail was something good!



Abe Yoshitsugu's debut solo single, 'Unmei no Hito'! ;A; A little bird was kind enough to help me procure it, and it's finally here. ♥ ♥ ♥

It's really pretty! It's cheering me up considerably from all this stupid crap going on.

1. I have been a crankypants lately and am done with that now. Thank you for putting up with me. :| Work had me stressed to kind of a breaking point.

2. *keysmash* I was checking the cast list for Advent Children while I was watching AC: Complete and noticed that Ohkawa Toru is voicing Iason for the new remake of Ai no Kusabi. I am not sure anyone can live up to Shiozawa Kaneto, but I want to see the attempt (Rufus = Iason, my brain is breaaaaaaking).

Itou Kentarou as Riki. Again... no one can replace Seki Toshihiko, but... will give it a shot.

Miki Shinichirou is Katze. I giggled a little.

TORIUMI KOUSUKE AS GUY. That crazy fucker.

I am kind of excited to see this, now.

YAY MY COMPUTER DISPLAY PROBLEMS ARE FIXED!

THIS is what fixed it.

That was the only thing I hadn't tried tweaking.

I don't know why I suddenly started having problems, but that fixed it. I know the settings now are different than the ones I had before when it worked fine, but I'm not going to complain.

Thank you everyone who tried to help in my last post ;;

Now that I think about it, I think I might have seen the color profiles dialog pop up the other day when my cat was walking all over the keyboard. Something might have gotten changed. Either way, it works now and I AM HAPPY YAY.

Something really fucked up is going on with my computer :(

I was going through some Advent Children screencaps I just took, and I'm having problems. I can't figure out for the life of me what the hell is going on.

This image looks perfectly fine on my screen, uploaded to imageshack and viewed on the internet.

If I open it on my COMPUTER (default image viewer) or in Photoshop, it looks FUCKED UP. Really badly fucked up.

This is how it looks in any photo viewing / editing program.

Why would it look fine if I open it in Firefox but not okay if I open it on my computer? Why do the colors look all fucked up? What the hell?! All my other images are fine.

EDIT: ... and ALL the images on my computer are like this now. I didn't touch anything or change any settings!

EDIT2: Apparently everyone ELSE who looks at the images says they look fine. But they look really messed up for me :(

I had typed this thing up to post on a BBS that I frequent, but I decided not to end up posting it there. It is not really written 'journal style' but more like a narrative, but it details all the garbage I have been having to deal with at work.

I changed some terms to keep confidentiality at my job, but it should be understandable if anyone desires to read it. Normally I lock these work posts, but this one is acceptable as a public entry, I think.

( Badly-implemented EHR systems SUCK. )

This is why, in addition to being sick, I have been too exhausted to do a damned thing in two weeks.

There was a time that I debated writing a public blog, like the I AM A JAPANESE SCHOOL TEACHER one about my job and the stuff that goes on in the hospital, but between confidentiality issues and the fact that the stuff I would write about wouldn't be endearingly amusing, but really sad and scary, I never did.

inappropriate:

I LOCKED MYSELF OUT WITHOUT MY KEYCARD.

I emailed you and am posting here, hoping that you will see this before it is time to get home.

I didn't put my wallet back in my purse when we were bringing in groceries, and so I don't have my keycard. ;A; I noticed when I was checking my purse for my keys, but I was already IN THE CAR. :(

Please reply to this or my email if you see this, so I can stop spazzing. :(

If you don't see this before I get home, I'll be sitting in the car in the garage, crying and waiting for someone to go into the building so I can run in. At least there are sodas in the trunk! ... Too bad we brought up the toilet paper, though.

SORRY FLIST. (I haven't posted in days because I got really sick from my sunburn, and am still recuperating. ;A;)

I've been out of commission since I got back on Sunday, thanks to my sunburn being more like sun poisoning.

Cracking, bleeding, blistering, peeling, a LOT of pain, and a semi-high fever are making me miserable right now, so I probably won't be back to LJ for a few days.

All this being the result of 90 minutes in the car with the sunroof open. I was careful to avoid the sun all weekend, and then on the way home got fried.

Stupid sun.

I am so irked.

Before I went away for the weekend I was shopping online at Old Navy. They were having massive sales on some stuff I really liked (like, stuff was 3.99 and 4.99 instead of 14.99), so I picked out a bunch of things. I tried to checkout. The site decided to undergo maintenance.

I had 19 items in my cart, and the total was about 50-ish bucks.

I cannot login all weekend due to being out of town and when I can log in, they're still down.

I log in today. All the sale items are back at regular prices, but they're still in my cart. $137. I'm not paying that. The price almost tripled. If the site had gone down at any other time... if it had just stayed up for literally two more minutes I could have checked out.

Maybe I'm just extra cranky from the sunburn.

YOU GET THE LEMON ICON. Grr. ... and stuff.

I had a great, great weekend.

I highly suggest anyone interested watch THIS silly video I took of dancing at the reception. It is golden.

I am sunburned like bacon. :( However, I drove like 100 miles or so total between places, in my mom's nice car. Yay for practice!

I am so exhausted, I will post more later.

P.S. leahsideas.com is a personal weblog I made for family stuff.

As much of a pain in the ass as it was getting to this point, the wedding was very, VERY nice. I took so many pictures and videos.

My brother and his new wife.

Full wedding party. (My sis is the one on the far right in the fuchsia)

My brother, my sister, the bride's sister, and the maid of honor.

Really pretty outdoor pic of my brother and his wife.

My sister and Hayato, very cute.

My brother and our mom.

REALLY sweet pic of the bridal couple.

I took most of my shots in between the 'professional' shots, while they were trying to get everyone posed, so everything is more natural looking.

No pics of me, sorry guys. I was bloated and sick from meds, so I played photographer. I had a great time, though.

I'm way out in the boonies at my little brother's wedding today. There's actually wifi in our room, so I'm using my iPod to update.

It's been OK so far. Hopefully everything goes as planned today. We're having a reception here, and then going all the way out to Burke to my aunt's for a cookout tomorrow before coming home.

I saw my dad for the first time in at least two years, and he and my mom actually spoke to one another without problems.

inappropriate ended up getting sick, so she stayed home with the little hellbeast (Kin-chan).

I'm leaving today, won't be back until late Sunday night, or possibly Monday. Be good while I'm gone!

And for the road, a weird observation while playing PSP Tactics...

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Excuse my ugly hands, but the job they did on my nails today was ;A;!

I am so... so... tired. I went to the mall and got my hair cut (in an adorable very short in back but longer in front sort-of bob!) and got my nails done for my brother's wedding (50$ for a full acrylic & gel set, but they are gorgeous...), and now dealing with wedding drama. Nothing's ready, nobody has a place to stay, blah blah blah.

I got prescription VitaminD supplements at the pharmacy. I got generic, not namebrand. Co-pay on SIX PILLS? 20$. They'd better work.

I drove a lot today. I am feeling better about it. Went to the mall and came home in heavy traffic just after 3pm. I had to run back out for my meds during RUSH HOUR.

So, memes are going around like the flu!

I'm not really expecting anything, but... RP Love Meme

Apparently I am most like fantasy writer Orson Scott Card

And it is time for Leah to pass out. I have emails and comments to reply to, but it'll have to wait. I'm just exhausted. Yesterday I had a dream about being William Shatner's chauffeur. IDK, OK?

My blood pressure levels are in the 'danger' zone, right now.

We switched over to our new ordering system at work, last night. Everything was bedlam. I had to stay two hours late to even try to catch up with the problems, and then after that I couldn't even get my regular work done. I have two hours' worth of reports left over from last night to add to the two hours of reports I need to do tonight.

Then, my desk collapsed on me. It just caved in. It's a huge, heavy table. Collapsed right on me.

I get home and check my e-mail and the Direct Loans servicepeople have emailed me back. Remember this entry where I was complaining about the federal government's handling of my student loans?

It is now six months since all this started, and nothing is fixed. The email they sent me is making the veins in my forehead bug out.

( I don't believe this crap. )

I am very sleepy suddenly, and Kin-chan is hounding me to feed him his dinner, so I will make this a bit quick.

I am hoping this will not fizzle out like all my other ideas. I made a blog (an actual blog, not a livejournal or what have you) for doujinshi chatter. I don't always feel comfortable including it on my LJ entries, and I decided I didn't want to clog up todokanai with informational / general chatter posts, because it would be a bit much.

So, in order for me to have a place to jabber on about doujinshi at random, I made a blog.

Doujinshi Blog! Anyone is free to poke it if they like.

I can't really say what is going to be there, or if I'll keep up with it, but I like the idea of having the ability to just pull random books from my collection and chat about them without having to worry about scanning and things like that.

It's a very minimalist, text-based layout and such. So... yeah. Feel free to tag along for the ride. I don't get to do the kind of socializing/discussion I would like on my scans LJ, so I'm hoping this will fill that spot.

Kin-chan is such a dumbass.

While inappropriate and I were sitting at work, dealing with problems...

OUR LAB FRIDGE F@$%ING EXPLODED.

No lie. The biggest *zzzzt!* sound I've ever heard... and then sparks, flames. Bright orange. Smoke. Wires melted. 10-12 feet from where I sit. We almost had a heart attack.

I need a 'what the fuck' icon.

Me: OUR FRIDGE BLEW UP
Nori: How'd you manage that
Me: I DID IT WITH MY MIND OK
Me: ALL MY FRUSTRATION FOR THE IDIOTS I DEAL WITH CULMINATED IN A REFRIGERATED CONFLAGRATION OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
Nori: xD
Me: BOOM

Looking at my bloodwork results from this week... they're weird. Almost everything is smack perfectly in the middle of 'normal' reference ranges, except for a few things, which are really 'puzzling' and 'bizarre', according to my doctors. They can never seem to make heads or tails of my results.

( Weird, as usual. :| )

Sorry for not elaborating after my last post, but I was REALLY wiped! Yesterday was surreal. I passed my driving test with NO problems. I got dinged an insignificant number of points for forgetting to shift to the proper gear on a hill start/stop (neutral, not reverse) and that was basically it. The amazing thing... I had the same people at the DMV as last time. The guy at the counter that was really rude didn't even remember me, and the woman that tested me actually COMPLIMENTED ME on how much better I did this time. Maybe she felt bad for giving me such an unfairly hard time last time.

I spent a little more money than I should have between then and now, but I bought some extras at the grocery store that I usually don't spend money on (a bit more expensive cut of meat for dinner, a bottle of wine to share with my roommate), and I bought some pens.

I'm sorry for being crappy at responding to people, lately! I start to read my friends list, and then I go back to comment on things and I get so tired I have to lay down in the middle of doing something. It's really annoying. I didn't get a call back about my bloodwork so it must be mostly normal. I slept a really long time and felt a little better, but this weird sore throat / swollen glands / fatigue thing is really making me agitated. I'm thinking of asking if they think I might have mono. It's easy enough to test for, but I'm not blowing fifty bucks getting it done in the ER. I'll wait for my doctor.

Now for not-boring crap.

* I reuploaded the website I previously had with my Doki Doki Survival screencaps and stupid commentary. It went bye-bye when we relinquished our server, but I reuploaded the stuff on the shiny new hosting. It's located over here. If you've been on my friendslist for a while you probably have seen it. If not, you may not have. It's really dumb, but it amuses me.

* I have been sitting on Nico for hours. I wasted my whole day. :| I did, however, find some amazing stuff.

- Someone covering Raphael's 'Promise'.
- Similarly, Gackt's 'Mizerable'.
- And the Kamen Rider Black RX Theme.
- Gackt's 'Vanilla'. Wow.
- Really great cover of Gackt's 'Jesus'.
- Cover of the Vocaloid song 'Cantarella'

Really, if you want to browse yourself, just the Gackt stuff, you can use this search key: Here.

And on Youtube....

- Vocaloid Kaito singing the Hetalia 'Delicious Tomato Song', except he keeps subbing in 'aisu' for 'tomato'. X3;; Kaito, so cute.

I was also watching the Vocaloid nendroid videos because they are so fucking adorable.

- America... Fuck yeah! (Hetalia, sorta!) Short, but I loled.

- Total Eclipse of the Heart, Literal Video Version A redub, where they redo the lyrics to explain exactly what's going on in the video. My sister showed me this and we were dying.

* The lyrics to Klauzer's 'dead or alive' finally got posted. Holy mother of fuck. The Engrish is an ART FORM. Here: tenipurisong.blogspot.com/2009/06/dead-or-alive.html

* JetPens stocked a line of Slicci floral print limited edition pens on May 28th. I bought the last one of two colors yesterday. Half of them are out of stock already. Pens are serious business.

And I'm very very sleepy now. ;A;

I GOT MY LICENSE.

Details later, I am incoherent.

chasing_ivy and I were having fun with Gakuensai no Oujisama and Doki Doki Survival screencaps last night, so I figured I would post the highlights for the enjoyment of everyone.

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