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Just a couple more weeks until my "Threatre of Kiss" dvd is shipped out to me. I'm really looking forward to it.

I started reading 'Only the Cat Knows' by Marian Babson today. Usually, books written in first person make my stomach churn; but Ms. Babson has been doing a marvelous job of keeping my little food processor at ease. So far so good. Dante Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy' is also an excellent read.

I sincerely enjoy the Olympic games and all that they stand for, but I must also admit that about 15% of my tuning in every night can be attributed to the excessive near-nakedness of the numerous men's swim teams. Ryan Lochte...wow young man. Wow...

So it looks like I've firmly decided on Epidemiology and Biostastics as my top master's degree choices. My hope is to work on my Ph.D. at Hopkins once I complete my master's. That'd be a pretty bold move on my part, seeing as how competitive their Public Health program is, but what's life without risks and making gutsy moves? I've got to try. I mean, the worse that they could tell me is 'No', right? And I really love the prospect of becoming a full-time scientist! It's full speed ahead from here on out folks.

My sister and I are thinking about taking a trip to Venice within the next year and a half or so. I wonder if it's worth it. I mean, I've always wanted to go, but aside from that fact I don't have any other reason to go there. Florence and Milan are beginning to look better and better right now.  Perhaps we'll visit Canada soon too. Who knows?

I haven't been this into the games since about 1996 (when I was just a pup...aaaaaaaw). What really gets me going is swimming, diving, indoor volleyball (which I usually find pretty boring), and gymnastics.

I think that the new scoring system for gymnastics is pretty *bleh* and gives several opportunities for dishing out crap scores, but that's just my opinion. I also think that both the U.S. and Chinese female gymnasts were given some pretty shitty scores for certain performances that they should have gotten excellent scores for. I'll never have 100% faith in the gymnastics judges...bunch of cheating bastards. All that aside though, China's gymnastic team is just as awesome as ever. I really felt for the little girl that fell from the uneven bars. She was doing so well before it all happened. I just hope that she can get that mistake out of her system and give us an awesome performance in the finals. The U.S. team is hanging in there too. I'm so proud of the little n00bs. All that's left is for them to get in there and kick ass in the finals.

The men's 4 X 100m Freestyle relay last night was made of so much win. Both the French team and the U.S. team were outstanding. Lezak caught up with Bernard out of the freaking blue-- and after such smug comments were made about the U.S. team too. Yeah...karma Bernard, karma. I can't stand to hear people talk crap like that for no apparent reason. If anyone on the U.S. team had made such a comment about the French team, then rest assured that I would have been cheering for France last night; and don't get me wrong, because it's not like Lezak's win was a complete and total blowout. He and Bernard were neck and neck, so it'd be pretty stupid to make it seem as though the U.S. team just left France in the dust, because they didn't. Despite the whole rilvary thing though, both teams did a marvelous job. I just hope that Bernard comes across less arrogantly next time. That guy's chalk full of unbelievable talent, so let's see some true sportsmanship and less showboating please. Thanks.

The women's indoor volleyball game with Japan was really good-- so was the men's against Venezuela. The men's game was actually quite a spectacle. The U.S. was up by two sets, then the captain sustains an injury and Venezuela takes two sets all of a sudden. Just amazing. I've never been THAT into volleyball in my entire life. 

I didn't go to bed until 2 am on Saturday. I just couldn't tear myself away from the tv -___________________________________-'

This year's events have been great thus far. Now I'm ready for track and field, my favorite events in the Olympic games.

All I can say is that China put on the most beautiful Olympic opening ceremony that I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. Words can't express how grand the whole thing actually was.... It was just amazing.

I think my icon sums it up, however.

Instead of doing something productive, I decided to find a YA series that I'd started as a teen, but never finished...for whatever reason. I picked up The Dark Angel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce from my job and prepared myself to be dazzled. It started off great! I couldn't get enough the series and finished the first two books in record time. But then the third book just went and f*cking ruined it for me. Talk about being one pissed b*tch.

The heroine was majorly screwed from the time she left her mother's arms to the very end of this series.

Five stars for the first two books, minus two for the crappy ending.

I could have been reading something else.

My dad! *lol* Oh man my dad. The little mouse in our house (Dr. Seuss much?) finally decided to make it's debut a little while ago. My sister called to my dad and was like "Papa. There's a mouse in the kitchen." Why did my dad, who was asleep and in his pj's at the time, put on his work boots, and then went outside and found this huge-ass stick that looks sort of like a walking stick to kill the mouse with? O__O I asked "Um, papa. What are you doing with all that stuff?" You know what his reply was? "Well, we don't have any traps, so I'm going to get it with this stick. If it runs, then I'll stomp him with my boots." 

*inhale*

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD!!!!!!!!

It was so funny. He was in there banging around so much that he scared my poor little nephew to death. I took him in my room and watched 'Thomas the Train' with him until dad finally gave up. Seriously, my dad was totally into trying kill the little thing. He even went to sleep with the freaking boots on and with that stick propped up on the corner of his bed. 

Dad is so awesome *lol*. I love the guy.

I was talking with one of my buddies on AIM just a little while ago, and she basically told me that she thinks that fangirls are stupid. *lol* Well, I don't think that's true. Just because a girl is infatuated with and gushes over a hot guy/girl, that doesn't make them stupid. I mean, look at some of my buddies here on lj that gush over JE boys. Many of them speak at least two different languages (fluently nonetheless) and one of them is even in medical school right now. Hell, I even tend to have little spurts of *gaga*-mania going every once and a while, but I think its safe to assume that my hormones and my intellect are fairly independent of one another. So yeah...that was a pretty passive generalization that she had going there. But whatever, that's her opinion and at least she said it to me only. It's not like she went onto a JE forum and started a ruckus or anything. Despite the fact that we don't agree on some things, we can at least talk about them without wanting to beat the living shit out of each other in the end. That's what buddies are for *lol*.

You know, I was sitting at my desk today, doing absolutely nothing, and then all of a sudden I was bombarded with memories of my childhood. Despite the fact that my parents weren't very financially stable for most of my young life, I never felt underprivileged or unhappy. I had three loving, and sometimes very annoying, siblings to keep me company. Though my father worked from 6am to 5 pm, he always took us out to play for at least an hour, had dinner with us, and read to us every single night. My mother was a stay-at-home mom, but she made a living as a seamstress. She made some of the most beautiful pieces of clothing that I'd ever seen. Most of then have yet to be challenged (aesthetically) as far as I'm concerned; and whenever I became ill during school, I always felt secure in the fact that there was always someone at home to come and get me...and pet me up like the spoiled brat that I was *lol*. I guess I'll stop by mom's grave and drop her a 'thank you' this weekend. 

So yeah, even though those memories came out of left field, I can't even begin to describe how awesome they made me feel. I'm grateful to have been born into my family...despite wanting to shoot a few people every now and then.

I listened to this song like 9 times on my mp3 player today, and it made me feel really giddy. I can't believe that those guys went from this to this.  It's very amusing to realize that one of my favorite groups were real live bishies back in the day *lol*. And all that pretty hair! Did the first two vids not remind you of shampoo commercials? *lol* They're all so masculine now though. The drummer has also changed, but he's been with the band for 10-11 years now, so yeah. The lead singer is actually the little leprechaun in my icon *lol*.  Anyway, they make good music.

I just realized the being a loyal fan can be rather expensive. I've spent about $100 on L'arc~en~ciel items, and in less than 4 days! But it did get me a poster, a photobook, 2 magazines, photos, postcards, a T-shirt, and a concert DVD. Not bad for $100 bucks, considering the fact that had I bought these things when they were first put out on the market, I would have spent $200 fairly easily.

Yesterday I decided to clean up my room a bit and was quite amazed to discover that I own such an extensive manga collection. I guess I'd never really given it any thought before. Since I'd been collecting them for quite a few years now, I'd kind of forgotten about some of them. The collection consists of:

Ranma 1/2
Inuyasha
Maison Ikkoku
Tough
Kagerou Nostalgia
Peace Maker
Immortal Rain
Hana Kimi
Absolute Boyfriend (totally not mine)
Tail of the Moon
One Piece
Naruto
Pet Shop of Horror
Crescent Moon
Fruits Baskets
Shaman King
Trigun (&Maximum)
Rurouni Kenshin
Sandland
DBZ
etc.

...and that's just to name a few. 

I also have the first year's worth of the English version of Shounen Jump and a few Korean manhwa. Then there's the doujinshi phase that I went through. Rurouni Kenshin, Bleach, One Piece, Trigun....yeah, doujinshi.

I can't even begin to name half the books stacked away in boxes in my closet. Video games and CDs...don't even get me started.

Fandoms are expensive. I guess they can be quite profitable too-- if you're willing to part with stuff while it's still hot, that is.

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For some strange reason, I feel particularly pissed off today.............