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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?

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*.

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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I really want to see L'arc~en~ciel perform live T___T. I was supposed to go Hong Kong and see them, but (as always *damn it*) something came up. It's another money issue, obviously. With the way that things are right now, either my sister or I would have been able to go. Not the two of us together like we'd initially planned. We both decided not to go; as opposed to having one float away on an intense wave of satisfaction, while leaving the other here to wallow in self-pity alone. I would never do that to her. As much as we've been through over the past couple of years, we're pretty serious about taking each other's situations into consideration. I will definitely pay life back ten-fold for screwing me~ *Mwuaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaaaa* But yeah...  

No Ken-chan....

No Yukihiro- chan....

Tet-chan.....

No chibi Hyde *sob*

Well, I guess I can hang on to the little mg of hope that I have of them coming back to the US. Please guys! ...Yeah right. Even I'm not that delusional....