LOLOLOL CAITLIN AND I HAVE BEEN ROOMMATES FOR TOO LONG

Princess Tutu + eating Bagel Bites = BLISS





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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! :D


Have a picture of TURKEY BABIES.
You know, turkeys are kind of ugly birds no wonder we eat them en masse...but the young ones are pretty cute.

Karen is making a hand-turkey right next to me and being very detailed-oriented.

Anyway~
Hope everyone has a great holiday! I'll be at home briefly and then I have to get back to Burbank so I can work on BLACK FRIDAY. D: (At least it's only a four hour shift but I am not looking forward to it. Bleh.)

And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to lionboogy!!

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You know, forget fabric.

My next cosplay will be made from...




BALLOONS.



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I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I’ve been to the LACC only once for e4 and VGL so I wasn’t used to the convention center or anything. I was wary because it was in LA but in the end I actually really enjoyed myself! The venue really wasn’t that bad. The best thing was that there was a lot of indoor space. We could chill inside with the AC on, unlike last year where I felt like half of the con consisted of us walking in the sun for the majority of the weekend. The only downside was if you walked to the place where registration was it took you forever to get back to where the dealer's hall was.
I think another reason it was enjoyable was because I went easy on myself costume-wise. I only brought Ahiru and Toph, both pretty comfortable and easy to manage for the most part.

I think I am going to break up my con posts since I really rambled on about Friday. If I added Saturday and Sunday to the mix this would be way too long. It's...probably too long already.


( AX: FRIDAY! )


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Okay so I figured I should post about Fanime since it was what, two weeks ago?
But first!! I passed my permit test today! By the skin of my teeth Now I can start to practice driving legally again~~! YAY. That's one thing out of the way. So much stuff to do still. D:


Ok. On to my fairly long post about


( FANIME 2008 )



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So my dad randomly decided that he wanted to see Ben Stein's movie (er, documentary?) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed this evening. I was pretty much stuck going because we just picked up my mom from work and would have been late to the movie if we stopped at home first. At first I was like, "Boo boo I want to go home and chill because I am tired and running on 4 hours of sleep." But in the end I am glad I went to see it.

The main point of it was that in academia today there are universities in which teachers of science who even mention the words "intelligent design" are "expelled" so to speak from their job. Denied tenure, reputations tainted, etc. Even journalists who give intelligent design equal footing with evolution get black balled. It also spoke of the ongoing debated of Darwinists vs. scientists who believe in Intelligent Design theory. This is nothing new of course, we all know that that is a huge debate in the scientific world. It was NOT a film trying to prove Intelligent design or anything, it just showed the bias in the science world and the loss of freedom of speech in this aspect.

There are a two things I want to note after watching this:
1)What's going on right now really is not a debate about science vs. religion. There are religious scientists, for example. It is a debate on world views. Whether you are a theist, atheist, agnostic, or whatever--you have a world view. Science and religion are two different things. One asks the question, "Why?" (religion) and the other asks the question, "How?" (science)
I don't think these are contradictions. I have no problems with science as a Christian. I enjoy learning about science. (Despite me whining about my bio class last semester. Durhur)

2) While watching this, I remembered WAY more biology than I thought I did. XDDD (LOLOL BOB THE RNA IN HIS PRIMORDIAL SOUP Caitlin let us make fanarts)


Whenever I watch something about science or study anything related to science I always come away with this thought: The more I think about the complexities of the universe as shown to us in science, like the functions of a cell, the more I am compelled to believe that God is behind it. Oddly enough science has strengthened my faith many times. We are such complicated beings and there are such complexities in nature that I just cannot believe things happened by chance.

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And just for the record: I am not posting this to engage in a debate on SCIENCE VS. RELIGION or if evolution theory is correct or not. That wasn't the point of the documentary and it is not the point of the post. It's just something I felt like posting about, especially because it is rare for me to make serious business posts. XD



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I'll make a Christmas post tomorrow but that lolcat has been amusing Matthew and me for days.
We're so weird.



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Stolen from slave_to_anime! (Once again it proves that memes always come up when I should be studying. :B)

Band: Proteodoxa
Album: Arthur Honegger Discography

1. Grant Kenny
2. Bruneau hot springsnail
3. Ben Christo
4. Stadions Arkādija
5. Ladislav Slovák
6. Michael Kogan
7. Francesco Musotto
8. Kaisariani Monastery
9. Adjusted Winner procedure
10. Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
11. Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits
12. List of state leaders in 1914
13. Gry Larsen
14. Osceola, Iowa
15. Daihatsu Rocky

Hidden bonus tracks:
1. Deductible
2. Aaron Harris

I don't know about you guys, but I DEFINITELY forsee "Bruneau hot springsnail" being a HUGE hit.
(I also see "List of state leaders in 1914" sounding like "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. Just instead of naming events you'd be naming...ahmm...state leaders in 1914.)
I guess my album title is ironic, especially if there are no tracks by Arthur whatshisface.

Well--one final down! Two more in class finals to go and one due by e-mail before 4:30 on Friday.
For some reason I thought my Hinduism final was at 1 today. I was all ready to sleep in. Before I went to bed I decided to double-check my schedule for this week and saw it was at 10:45. I am so glad I checked! o__o;;


Hooookaaay, back to studying for my second final! After this final I can finally focus on bio. D:

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The existence of paopu fruit?? :OOOO

The real name of this fruit is "carambola" but people call them star fruits. x3


After reading their nutritional value and generally wasting as much time as possible, I realized I should keep studying for my bio lab quiz (CARBS LIPIDS PROTEINS) that is tomorrow...and Japanese too. Bleh. >:|


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Firstly, Happy Birthday to codymau! Hope its a great one!


So classes started today. Today (as all Mondays will be) is BIOLOGY day and nothing else and sheeesh, I felt like I've been in class for half the week now. I was walking back from class and thought, "Wow, so it's only Monday."
Bio lecture wasn't bad and the teacher seemed pretty cool. The lab teacher also seemed pretty cool (and pretty lax?) but the lab was SUPER boring and tedious and we didn't really finish. We had to count beans 27 times for as a lab on natural selection. As I said: boring and tedious.
But whatever. No lab for two weeks since we have Monday off for labor day!

Tomorrow is all my major classes so I hope that goes well. I also hope to start working soon! I need monies!

Oh yeah! So I helped man the anime club table for about an hour and we had some people sign up. (Even with no poster or anything on the table. Well, I made one eventually and Phae printed out some pictures so our table wasn't so sad.)
I was wearing my Roxas jacket (because it gets cold in the classrooms not because I like wearing jackets in hot weather--then again, I always seem to anyway. Weird habit of mine. o_O) and one of the girls recognized it pretty much right away. YAY. Saix is her favorite and wanted to know how to make it. Another girl who signed up was a German exchange student and one guy lived in Japan for about 13 years. I hope this means we'll have a generation of awesome anime club attendees. It was getting kinda sad by the end of last year...

How could I forget? Yesterday I found out (as Phae, Caitlin and I flipped through the phonebook looking for restaurants and making up a story to go along with a doofy little phonebook character) that pineapples do not grow on trees. For some reason I thought they grew on trees! I've been so misguided all my life and I am not sure where I got the idea that they grew on trees? Maybe I've been getting them confused with coconuts.

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I've been tagged by aznbassplayer and bartboy41 for this meme so I guess I should do it, huh?

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. "Come Sail Away" - Styx

2. "Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi

3. "Little Wonders" - Rob Thomas

4. "Axl Rose" - SR-71 (LOL I still listen to this song a lot...at least it is out of my head. D:)

5. "Let Me Live" - Queen

6. "All My Love" - Led Zepplin

7. "My Pace" - SunSet Swish (Bleach Best Collection)

I am not going to tag anyone so if you feel compelled to do this meme, by all means! :D


OH MAN I need to work on costumes! -____-;;


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Sora progress pics! Wheeee.

Well, Caitlin finished the wig today! ♥ ♥ Wig desu!

I wanted to take a break from sewing the pants, and I wanted to see how the top part of the outfit looks all put together so far. The jacket needs some tweaking but it is mainly finished.

( Hey pictures! )

K...back to sewing!

And I need to study for my Japanese quiz at some point...


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Yay~ Easter is almost here!

( Good Friday Readings~ Psalm 22 and John 19 )

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Two words: Takarazuka Revue! :O

Khine (a girl I know from Japanese 343 and 345) invited the 345 class to a showing of Elisabeth, one of the Takarazuka musicals.
I only knew a little bit of Takarazuka through cosplay and such, so I finally got to watch one!

I like musicals and big sparkly costumes, so I enjoyed it. XD Because there were no subtitles Khine's sister was the translator, which helped greatly. She recognized me from ALA. (Which surprised me. o_o; I don't really know her! But she's really sweet.)

For those who don't know what Takarazuka Revue is, it's an all-female revue in Japan. Khine explained it in her e-mail: "So in case anyone doesn't know already, the Takarazuka Revue is an all-female revue in Japan that does mainly Western musicals. Like Cook-sensei said, it is very difficult to get into the Revue, so you'll see some incredibly talented performers who can not only sing and act, but DANCE beautifully as well! (Takarazuka's renowned "triple threat") Most interesting, of course, is the "otokoyaku" (or "male-role player"), which is a unique artform developed by the Takarazuka Revue and refined over its 90+ years of existence to capture the essence of being "male" as seen from a woman's viewpoint."


Khine gave me a copy of the soundtrack too! (Wasn't expecting that.)
They meet every week, so when I can I am gonna try to go to more meetings and see more of these sparkle-y Japanese musical/dance shows! :D


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I cut my finger on a fortune cookie yesterday.

That is one experience I never thought would happen!

Careful guys, those things are totally sharp.

o_o...



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