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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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Today, I was in the restroom when the fire alarm went off. Can you imagine trying to get to the restroom after having drank several cups of peppermint tea...in less than two hours? Then having to rush and get out of the bathroom because you're afraid that you're going to be blown to bits or be burned to death....in a stall...on the toilet nonetheless?! Boy I tell yah...-__-'

Well, at least I got another paid break today *lol*

Anywho, I was one of the smarter employees who, instead of hanging out in front of the library, stood several blocks away from the scene as the fire fighters did their thing. Why would you stand directly in front of the very building that you were just told to evacuate?  

But yeah... Nice timing bladder.

You know, I know that I always say this but, Louisiana is such a bizarre place as far as weather is concerned. Yesterday we were enjoying beautiful, spring-like weather. The air was warm, the sun was shining brightly, and I stood and watched Michael Douglas film a scene in front of the courthouse on my lunch break. This morning the air was still very pleasant, just a bit of a chill but that's normal. Now, at this very moment, it's snowing outside. And no, I don't mean those pitiful little semi-frozen raindrops that we usually get. I mean that it's freaking snowing outside. Seriously, what's the deal with this state?

[EDIT]: I'm gonna finish up all of my work now, because they're probably gonna send us home early today (with pay w00t). I'm not coming in to a mountain of freaking work on Monday. Ain't gonna happen. I also forgot to put anti-freeze in my car. Hopefully it'll work by the time I get to it -__-'.

The Good: There's this little old man, but not THAT old, who has a really annoying habit of riding around the neighborhood in his battery operated wheel chair. 

The Bad: Birthdays of loved ones are fast approaching. 

The Ugly: Family reunion ideas are being thrown out early this year.

There's some old guy hitting on me at work. I saw him through the window in our break room and hid in there until he went around the corner. Normally I would never hide from anybody, but I have a headache this morning and I really don't feel like telling him to burn in hell again. Yes, I told him to burn in hell yesterday....long story. 

Anyway, this dude is like, almost pushing 65 and has grandkids older then me. He's older than my dad by twenty something years for shit's sake! I just want to puke every time I think about him slinking up to my desk with that lecherous, pervoid grin on his face. I had to throw him out of here yesterday for bothering me while I was trying to update patron records. Please remind me to keep my freaking office door locked.