joy and shadows

Skier made out of people: incredible.

Dancing cow people: jigga wha?

Baroque acrobats: classy!

Birth of Venus: she must have been cold.

Michelle Kwan: enough already, pls retire already kthx

FERRARI F1 CAR DOING DONUTS: FUCKING KICKASS AWESOME KILLER OMG WE LOVED THAT PART.

After you die... In the Ground After death, you will cease to exist. In all likelihood, your carcass will be deposited in the ground.

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I knew it all along.

Ordered violet contact lenses today for my Isane cosplay.

OMGsoexcited. I've always wanted to try colored lenses. My choices were somewhat limited, as only one manufacturer appears to make colored lenses that are strong enough for my prescription, but they were ordered today!

Have to go over to Ethicon for a bit. Am contemplating making a fast sneak to the fabric store before returning to work. XD

North Korean Anti-USA propaganda video

Fucking USA!

Either this was inspired by "America! Fuck Yeah!" or the other way around, because the similarity is there.

You know? I think I'd like to have babies. Lots and lots of babies! It'll be so cute to take them everywhere with me. Like to R-rated movies and to quiet libraries.

It might be about time to go back to church, too. I don't know how I've lived without God in my life. It was so empty and hollow. I was always worrying whether people liked me, but I won't have to worry about that any more, because Jesus loves me and so should you.

This whole career thing is for the birds, too. Whatever possessed me to go to grad school? It was seven years when I could have been having babies!

Also, all my anime friends? Sorry guys, but it's kind of a worthless hobby. You all can decide who's going to get my cosplays. jaina, you might have to get sewing lessons from someone else. I have to stay home because I'm ovulating that day.

Now I'm going to go home and read "Alice in Wonderland." Wheeeeee!

It's about that time again, yes.

Before I try my luck on eBay, I'm offering the following for sale:

Excel Saga complete set, original release (not the thinpak): $30.00

Gunslinger Girl v1 + box: $10.00

Wolf's Rain v1 and 2 + box, plushie, and soundtrack: $30.00

The Incredibles, new in package: $10.00

Texhnolyze v1: $5.00

RahXephon Movie: $5.00 (already have a copy)

Saiyuki v11 - Following the Scripture: $5.00 (already have a copy)

PS2 Game Spyro: Year of the Dragon: $5.00

Shipping via Priority Mail or Media Mail, to be determined by how many things you want. I do ship internationally, but all DVDs and games are Region 1.

I haven't blabbed about my weekend in weeks! I'm sure you all missed it a LOT.

Busy weekend, but in a good way. Friday night we went out for a very swank dinner at 3 West with one of my husband's friends from the R&A. They're visiting the USGA this week, and husband is good friends with the technical director. I tried merguez for the first time, and we had a lovely bottle of cabernet to go along with dinner, and dessert was banana and peanut butter spring rolls with vanilla ice cream. Mmmtasty.

Saturday was spent on domestic duties such as cleaning the floor and bathroom and making polenta and spezzatino for dinner (alternately titled "How Arafel Discovered the Joys of Instant Polenta.") Normally to make polenta, you boil cornmeal in water while stirring until it softens and cooks, and it takes 30 to 40 minutes. Instant polenta - dump it in and it's done. w00t! Husband spent the day setting up our new home theatre system, and we tried it out on Serenity, which fadingembers gave me for Christmas.

Sunday was Team Haxx0r Cosplay Day. jaina came over about noonish, and we spent the day on our knees in the kitchen (not that way, you dirty pervs!) drawing lines on black fabric. I have to say that things went VERY well, and we had plenty of time to watch Bleach 64 before we moved on to basting pleats in front of the Steelers/Broncos football game. Lookin' good for Katsucon, yes. Afterwards, I did some work on my own cosplay while dropping in and out of watching the Panthers/Seahawks game. We had the Traditional Football Meal of bratwurst on a bun with sauerkraut accompanied by beer. Neither game was terribly exciting, IMO - both the Broncos and the Panthers committed four turnovers, and you can't do that shit esp. in the playoffs and expect to win.

Now, back to work. I have done nothing productive for work all morning. Oh, and GIP too.

There's nothing quite like going to the eye doctor and having her tell you that you need reading glasses to make you feel old old old.

Le sigh. Fartiness, ahoy!

It has been a banner week for Intarweb lolz, and the week is not over yet.

First, on some video game forum, a cosplay thread is started. Late in the thread, someone posts a photo of me as Diao Chan and makes a comment sth like "nice costume if the girl was hot." Several other prepubescent gamers chime in with "she looks mannish." I found out about it because the OP stole my own bandwidth to insult me. (This whole thing just made me laugh - when you have a bunch of pimply kids who prefer underaged Japanese porn stars waving around your photo and calling you mannish, you have to consider the source and just say "LOL INTERNETS!") At any rate, I posted to say "Wanker, don't steal my own bandwidth to talk smack about me," and the rest of the thread goes "LOL INTERNETS" and they all come down on my side. Sadly, it looks like the thread was deleted. :(

Then we had a shiny new Usagi Kou wank, and that ALWAYS makes my day. The icing on the cake was some pics posted by the now deleted cospoop that were recently taken of Ms. Kou, and she's getting a tummy. Ah, grownup metabolism, you are the great leveler of playing fields.

Now World Wide Web War 1 is brewing between YTMND and eBaum's World, and the dramatic reading of the emails and the associated YTMND stupidity is going to entertain me all day long.

Oh yes and ( House MD minor spoiler )

The fellow who runs Fansview had a heart attack at Ohayocon!

It has been a bad couple of days for hearts. I hope he'll be all right - he's a very large guy, so that upped his risk, I suppose.

Tell you one thing, when I get back to work tomorrow, I'm getting me a new GP and a cardiologist. Good grief.