I am being forced (not entirely unwillingly) to do this meme, so here goes!

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life, and pick A FAVORITE CHARACTER/PERSON from it.
2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it


1. Melusine series Mildmay
2. Chrestomanci series
3. Naruto Gaara
4. Oofuri Mihashi
5. Dark is Rising
6. xxxholic Watanuki
7. Loveless Kio
8. Vassalord
9. Tsubasa Fai
10. Invader Zim GIR
11. The Great Mouse Detective
12. Fruits Basket
13. Yami No Matsuei Hisoka
14. Legal Drug Kazahaya
15. FullMetal Alchemist
16. Kuroshitsuji Finian
17. Host Club Tamaki
18. Kyo Kara Maoh Wolfram
19. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Mad Hatter
20. Howl's Moving Castle (the book, not the film!)

I dunno how to do the, like, namey icon thing D: But Sakanda got all of these right

I got new glasses today and they are FREAKING ME OUT!!! Like, not the way they look, because they look mostly like my old glasses, but just...the way everything looks with them. Like, my left eye was worse than my right, so I'm used to my right eye being like "hey, what's up, look with me, this is what it really looks like" and now both of my eyes are evenly matched (I think) or maybe even my left eye is now better than my right and it's FREAKING ME OUUUUT!!!! Also, it's kind of making me sick. I don't like these very much ): Maybe I'll just wear my old ones...

I am still sick D: Not so bad today, though. I spent until about 1:30 sleeping, and then I read Harry Potter till my mom came to see if I was dead feeling okay. And then I did my homework. Or...some of it. I wrote my report for that one class. Now I just have to read three journal articles, and research a trend in libraries for tomorrow... Hmm.....

Also...I think I am failing one of my classes. D: It SAYS I have, like, a 76 or something, but I added it all up and stuff, and I only came up with 63. Not cool, not cool. But hopefully this next report will boost my grade, anyway! I would probably have a better grade if I hadn't skipped so much stuff and ended up with, like, eight zeroes. Oh well! I can't exactly go back and do it now. She already gave us the answers to the stuff. That would be CHEATING!!! Unless, you know, since I haven't actually looked at the answers, i could still do it without knowing, but she wouldn't know that, and I'd probably get points taken off for lateness anyway!!! I suppose I could try the extra-credit report...

So, my family had another Thanksgiving today. It was nice, I guess. We had it at my church (which I don't really go to anymore...). Basically, I hid in the other room and read Harry Potter until it was time to eat. And then I ate. And then I went back into the other room and read a little and then got sick and then slept the rest of the time. And then came home and thought my stomach would destroy itself and curled up on the couch and slept some more, and then woke up, ate some saltines, watched Pete's Dragon, read some more Harry Potter...and now I'm supposed to be doing homework.

I kind of hope I feel better tomorrow, and kind of don't. If I do, yay, I don't feel like crap. If I don't, yay, I don't have to go to work and I can actually do my homework which is gonna take me FOREVER because it was, like, a three week assignment that's due Tuesday that I haven't done anything for, yet. D: I am such a bad student!

Okay, so Thanksgiving, totally awesome!!! I actually woke up early today! So that I could take a shower. But then Damon was in the shower, and then my mom had to take a shower, and then I got to. Yay! But, like, everyone took a shower this morning. EVERYONE! And there are six of us. How did our hot water not die?

Anyway, we ate lots of food~ And my Grammy made her date-nut bread, yay! But she did NOT MAKE ENOUGH!!!! I only got to eat four slices D: I wanted MORE!!! But there will be a second Thanksgiving on Sunday, and she will make more then. And she'll make CHOCOALTE PIE! Totally awesome.

And speaking of pies...I ate WAY too much pie today. Because at my Mimi Nette's house I ate two slices of chocolate mint pie, and then later we went to my aunt's house and ate more pie, and I had chocolate heath bar pie and apple pie. SO MUCH PIE!!!!

My aunt had a super cute fat cat without a tail. It's so cute! She also has a super cute not-quite-as-fat-but-still-pretty-darn-fat cat who is MEAN and HATES PEOPLE!!! She hissed at me and tried to bite me for NO REASON!!! But tailless cat was super cuddly. AND FAAAAAAAAT!!!! <3 I love fat cats.

I am excited about Thanksgiving. My grammy is gonna make date-nut bread, which I never thought I would like, but which is actually one of the most delicious things in the world once you put butter on it. Anyway, I am also excited for Christmas! I still have to get some shopping done, though.

In related news, working around the holidays sucks. Everyone comes in and buys a crapload of food, and it just sucks all around for everyone involved. Because, there are really long lines. And, I don't want to deal with all these people. And, everyone is buying super huge, super heavy turkeys. And, it is nearly impossible to keep up with carts. And! I have a cold, which makes everything suck more anyway.

I still need to interview a librarian. Maybe I'll send my little sister to school with the questions and ask her to give them to the school librarian to answer? Haha, but that would be terrible. But I think I'll do it anyway. Because 1) I dunno if the public library is open tomorrow. 2) The public library is undergoing renovations. 3) The people at the public library probably hate me by this point for asking them so many friggin' questions for my classes. And 4) If I have my sister give the questions to the school librarian, I don't actually have to talk to anyone, and everybody wins!

Also, I am doing pretty good at Rhythm Heaven. Also, whoa, rhythm is a crazy looking word!

So I went to see the Blind Side last night. AWESOME movie. But, holy crap! That New Moon movie came out, and there were SOOOO many people at the theater. It was INSAAAAAANE!!! or something

Also, this cold. THIS COLD! It is not awesome. I mean, it's mostly just a stuffy nose right now, no big deal, right? WRONG. For whatever reason, it is messing with my memory. Liiiike, two days ago I was working on my speech for school, and when I finished I was like, "Oh! I'd better time myself. I'll just run upstairs and grab my watch, which also has a stop watch." So I run upstairs, and in the, like, half a minute it took me to get to my room, I had forgotten what I was looking for. Then yesterday I almost left for school without my lunch. And then today I woke up and forgot to put my glasses on and was wondering why the heck everything looked so blurry. IT'S TERRIBLE!!!

And I have to work, like, 9 and a half hours on the day before Thanksgiving. I think I will DIE. I think I will also have to bag more turkeys than I ever want to see in my life. And they're so heavy! And COLD!!!! Please save me.

I wrote...the outline to a speech! Which is all I need, really. I have to practice it tomorrow, hopefully it is 6-8 minutes!! I also have to make my visuals ): I have some pics I could maybe use, but honestly, tootsie pops is not a topic that screams the need for visuals. But we're supposed to have some no matter what.

Also, I am filled with a renewed hatred for Hannaford. I worked just 15 minutes shy of being able to get a dinner break, and they gave me my plain old regular break late, and we were SO busy, and I had to push carts three times, and...Yeah. Hannaford sucks.

And I really want some chocolate lately, but my mom didn't buy any this week! She bought starbursts instead D: Not that I don't like starbursts, I just feel an overwhelming desire to eat chocolate. Maybe because they have, like, ten different displays of it at work.

So, there was a meteor shower last night, and since I'd never seen one before, I decided I ought to watch it. 'Cept, I'm a pansy and got scared to go outside in the dark by myself, so at 2 a.m. I woke up my little sister and made her come out with me in her PJs. Anyway, in half an hour we only saw about five meteors...not as cool as I was expecting. And then every time we saw one my little sister tells me how she could hear it, telling me how they light up because they collide with the atmosphere, which, Zachary told her, is eight miles away.

Also, I am getting my sister's cold, which means that my throat is VERY sore. My newest policy in the ridding of colds is to drink massive amounts of water to flush it out, and to cut down on my sugar intake, since I figure that sugar will make it fester or something. So far, my throat still hurts and I've had to use the bathroom a lot more than usual. And I'm doing bad at cutting down on the sugar. I like me some ice cream and candy...

My cat was cuddling with me, but I accidentally kicked him in the face and now he's ignoring me ):

And Pandora has decided to update my station, and now I have a bunch of new songs D: I like my old songs, those are what I want to listen to, not these. So I am ruthlessly giving the thumbs-down to songs within about five seconds of them starting, haha

So, I guess the practice for the alumni concert is tomorrow, but I tried to find out what time on Facebook, and it didn't mention the practice at all, so...yeah. I dunno if I'm gonna go.

Also, I started writing a new story, and I want this one to be really good, but I don't know if it is!!! I'd ask my sister, but she'll just say yes anyway to make me happy D: I WANT AN HONEST OPINION!!!! Should I post a little snippet of it here under a cut?

Also, I got a splinter at work, but it's teeny and I can't find it. So my finger just hurts whenever I touch things |:

And I still can't find much information on tootsie pops! My speech on them is due on Friday!!! I also need to research the Children's Internet Protection Act and start writing my final paper on that, and I need to go interview yet another librarian and write another report on that, and I need to see about bringing up my grade in one of my classes because it sucks, and I have to re-write the memo that my group got a really bad grade on... Why does school suck? Oh, and I need to talk to my adviser and see about changing my major, and then sign up for classes for next semester. At this point, I doubt I'll be able to change my major for next semester, but I'll take, like, some general courses or something, I guess. I still haven't told my mom that I want to change my major ): She'll probably be mad at me when I do.

So I am very tired right now. Last night I went to see the Fourth Kind, which freaked me out. Anyway, I watched Seven Pounds after, and I was sort of calmed down, but then as I was walking home Zac mentioned the Fourth Kind and I got freaked out again. Okay, so I wasn't scared of being abducted when I went to bed, but I kept remembering all the really creepy stuff from the movie, and I thought I might have nightmares about it or something. But I ended up distracting myself from all of that by thinking about plot lines for a couple of stories. And then...I just couldn't fall asleep. I dunno what was wrong, but I just couldn't sleep.

I ended up not falling asleep until about 6a.m. or something, and then my mom woke me up at 9, so I only got three hours of sleep or less. And then I had to work. And now I have to do homework. But I am SO TIRED!

Also, me and Manda got xxxholic 14 and Otomen 4 yesterday!!! Yay! I get to read them once I've finished my homework. Got some initiative now, huh?

Sigh...So, I sent Communications guy the email mentioning my "girlfriend" and he didn't even notice it. He replied as if I had said nothing at all about anybody. It's a bit disappointing, to be honest. He's still being all creepy ):

Ah! Okay, so first off, Obsidian got a virus (or, a few I guess) and I had to have Manda's brother Zac fix him for me. But now he's good as new! He gave me Firefox, and it's a bit distracting. Very red.

Also...I've been trying to figure out how to put Communications guy off a little, and Manda suggested (because he came to my brother's play and Manda was also there) that I ask him how he liked my girlfriend. Well, I didn't think I'd be able to do it to his face, but...I just sent him an email! Ah! Anyway, she also suggested that I then start in complaining about the results of Question One. I didn't do that in the email, but...I may bring it up in class Friday..? Eeeeek! I'm a terrible person!!! But...it is very amusing xD

ERRRRGGGGH!!!! I have realized anew why i dislike talking to people (although the logic behind my discovery is a bit...yeah, it doesn't make sense). Anyway, I was out pushing carts at work, and I had five red carts. We're not supposed to push more than five carts at a time, because apparently we can't steer them if there are more. Also, blue carts and red carts do not fit together. But this woman comes up with a blue carts and is like, "Do you want this cart? No?" So I shake my head no. Then she puts the cart in the thing, and on passing me again she says, "Why don't you try 'no thanks'. That's nice, huh?" in a really rude way. I mean, wtf! I wasn't being rude by not saying anything! And why the eff would I say "thanks" for a cart? I'm not going to use it, giving me one more cart just makes me have to work harder without gaining anything from it. I mean, if she'd actually pushed the cart inside for me I would have said thanks. Also, if she had asked, "Do you want this cart?" and not continued by saying "No?" I would have told her, "No, that one's the wrong size" but I figured that since she said "No?" she already knew that it was the wrong size.

Anyway, she completely ruined my night, which I know is stupid, but it's true. I've been kind of emotional lately, and the fact that she was so rude to me when I wasn't rude to her at all just got me really upset, and then I was all angry and anti-social, and I didn't even smile at the little girl who said "hi" to me, although I at least waved, and then when I got back in I was all paranoid about whether me not saying "have a good evening" or "thanks" or "you're welcome" was going to come off as rude to the costumers, even though I don't normally talk to them anyway.

I! AM! SO! CONFUSED!!! I swear, every clock I look at says a different time. Well...okay, I'm exaggerating. But Sunday I woke up and looked at my watch and it said that it was 10:30. So I got up and took a shower and I get out and I look at the clock on the oven in my kitchen and it says it's not even 10 yet, and I'm SO CONFUSED!!! Until I remember that we set the clocks back. Then I look up at the clock in the kitchen wall a while later (yeah, wtf, we have two clocks in my kitchen) and it says that it's noon, and I'm like, "why isn't my mom back from church to take me to my Grammy's?!?!" But only a few minutes later I get up to get a drink, and the clock on the kitchen oven says it's only 11. Wtf!

Anyway, most of the clocks have been sorted out in my house, but two of my watches (I have three...) are still an hour ahead; My digital one which is also always five or ten minutes fast which I never wear because it's ugly, and the new one I have that also says the date and the phases of the moon ('cept I still haven't fixed that yet!!)

I have a cold D: Luckily it's not a really bad one, but my nose is super itchy and runs a little after I go outside, and I'm a bit coughy and I've been getting headaches like no one's business. Although the headaches might be because I need new glasses. Speaking of which, I have an eye appointment on November 24. But isn't that the day before Thanksgiving? Or am I completely wrong about what day Thanksgiving comes on?

In entirely unrelated news, Communications guy wants to go see Where the Wild Things are with me, but I don't want to go see it with him because 1) I've got stuff I'm doing on Friday, when he wants to see it, 2) I already watched it with Alicia, and although I really liked it I don't want to watch it again in theaters, thanks, 3) that would seem a bit like a date, and I am trying to make it 100% clear that I don't like him that way, because even though I told him that, i don't think he really completely got it.

Today at work when I was pushing carts, some guy asked me if we had smaller pumpkins inside. I knew we had wee teeny pumpkins, but I didn't know if we had any other size. And I told him so. Anyway, he went in to check, and he found some and bought, like, a friggin' cartload of pie pumpkins. He saw me again as he came out of the store and gave me a thumbs-up. So I gave him one back. For some really stupid reason, that pumpkin man and his thumbs-up made my day.

Also, I AM PUMPED FOR HALLOWEEN!!!! But SOMEBODY still has to make her dress. I have alos decided to wear tan tights under my pants, since I have to roll them up, that way my legs won't get cold. And if I do that I can be even more like Tombo, and NOT WEAR SOCKS!

Nah, I'll probably wear white ankle socks, too, anyway.

( Weekend Mis-adventure )

Also, I went to see Where the Wild Things Are with my little sister yesterday after the combo Birthday party for my Uncle Mike, cousin Dan, cousin Kristen, and cousin Dawn. That movie was so awesome!!! I almost cried a bunch of times, though, and apparently Alicia did. But I love that movie!!!

Okay, so first things first, my midterm was WAY easier than I expected it to be. We had an hour to do it, so before I went to take it I re-read all the answers to the quizzes we have taken. And the midterm just used questions from those quizzes. Like, not even worded differently or anything. It was the easiest thing ever. I finished in fifteen minutes and then I used another fifteen minutes to check over my answers. Anyway, I only got one question wrong, because it wasn't on the quizzes (it must have been in one of the activities I didn't do).

Second...Communications class guy and I were talking through email, and he sent me an email that was, how shall I put it, definitely that of someone who is madly in love. I figured it was time to tell him I don't want a serious relationship. So I emailed him back and told him I just want to be friends. then he emailed me back, and yadda yadda yadda. Anyway...I think he's still assuming that eventually I'll take the next step or something...which I don't think I will... Well, we've established an "only friends" thing here, so basically I'm thinking that it's okay for now, and once this semester ends I'll probably end up never seeing him again, and I can just sort of...let the whole thing drop. Yep. Situation diffused (sort of...) Yay...

Anyway, we had to pick topics for our final papers in one of my classes today. I picked kind of a vague thing, but I can hone it down later. It's mildly more interesting than the other choices, and I already did a little research on it when I did one of my journal article critiques, so, yeah. It's all about CIPA, also known as Children's Internet Protection Act, which basically is: school and public libraries who receive certain funding MUST filter internet sites so that nothing inappropriate can be accessed by children. Anyway, it's both a good and a bad idea, and depending on which school or which library, it will change how active they are about it, and how much content they filter, and what filtering systems they use, and yadda yadda yadda, all this crap... I think i can write ten to twelve pages... Now I just have to learn APA style! Ga-siiiiigh....

Also, I think I might need new icons. I don't use half of those, and three of them are angry, and it's not like I'm that angry...

Uuuugh... So, first things first, I have to walk to work today, ew gross, and I think my sneakers are still wet from all the rain yesterday. If they are, I have to wear my NOT work sneakers, and then feel bad if they get dirty. Also, I am very cold right now, and it makes my toes hurt, and my fingers not function to their fullest ability D:

In other bad news, I have to take an online midterm tomorrow. WTF!!! I'm glad I actually checked my school email for once, or I wouldn't have known. Not only that, but this midterm is time-limited, I have only an hour to take it. And, it's only available tomorrow, but this is the class where things are due on Thursdays. Wtf, teacher, way to make this confusing. What if I hadn't checked my email? I would have gone to that class site on Thursday to do my assignments, and then I would have realized I had missed the midterm, and there is no way to make it up.

Although...My online class where stuff is actually due on Tuesdays seems fairly easy for this week. I think. It looks like I just have to look at a couple of sites and learn how to write proposals, and then I have to pick a topic for a proposal that's due....in the future sometime. Anyway, I have an 89 in one class, but only a 79 or 75 or something in the other class D: I hate online classes. If I don't get my grades good my mom will be mad at me again, and I could be in danger of losing scholarships. But, in my not-so-good grade class, I have an opportunity to re-do the critiques from last week, because apparently my citations were wrong (and, wtf, I thought my APA citations were correct! That's what I did last time!!!) and I did one article that was too old, I guess (although I thought I was really careful not to do that!)