So I recently moved and told Verizon to transfer my service over. I order on the 30th last month, they tell me it's going to be ready on the 2nd. It's not, I call them, they tell me oops, phone is 2nd, internet is 10th. Still not working on the 10th. I call them again today and they tell me that for some reason they canceled my order and I have to call sales department on Monday to either re-activate the order or make another one. WTF. I'd switch to another company, but Verizon is the only one I know of which has decent internet at $20. I refuse to pay &70 to get internet and phone from Optimum. =/

Luckily, I apparently have either a nice or stupid neighbor who doesn't lock their wireless service, so I'm interneting on that. I feel sort of bad about it though, but I'm not using it to download or stream anything and the guy has at least 24Mbps.

So yes. That is why I haven't been on LJ in two weeks. And now when I come back, I see this thing about a new Code Geass manga doomed to fail. I mean, yay, C.C., but what the fuck. Lelouch and Suzaku imposters? Weird artwork? Edo period in those clothes? At least make it appear like they're in the same universes. And hell, there's so much shit that can be expanded on in CG with characters that they know the audience loves, and they decide to make a cash cow spinoff? Write about the Knights of the Round. Write about the Emperor's generation. Write about C.C. in her early "I WANT TO BE LOVED" days. Every character aside from Suzaku and Lelouch have a backstory that's been barely scraped at by the current content, write about them, stupid. Don't write about some genderbender with a cyborg arm in the Edo Period. Have you no shame, Sunrise?

tl;dr summary of the whole post: Verizon and Sunrise are such fucking trolls

So, the new "trailer" (30 seconds of battle system) for FF13 came out on Youtube, the failtastic host says that it's the most anticipated game of all time, so I lol my ass off at that in the comments (even the whole Crystallis group as most anticipated game is questionable with that of all time part, nevermind just FF13 when half the fandom thinks Versus will be better). And then I got told off by someone who is convinced that FF is the best series of all time and has been going strong for 20 years (surprisingly, I didn't get told that I'm just jealous). Which is so completely irrelevant to my point. And of course, because I suck at being the bigger person, i responded and attempted to reason with the person. It ended in failure. XD

Raise your SAT and ACT scores while having fun playing a state-of-the-art video Game.

Yeah, I don't know what your definition of state-of-the-art is. Stop failing at life, US Army. And why are you even capitalizing game?

I got 5 E's (90+) and 4 S's (75ish-90), which is pretty damn awesome since the S's were gym, lab (which is pass or fail), English (which doesn't give out E's first marking period), and US History (which I have no excuse for).

Only problem was that my English teacher absolutely loves my writing, but is a complete not-funny loser and decided that he'd have fun with grading and give us sarcastic comments. I got "written work not up to standards." Which is cute and sarcastic and all but.... Dude, my parents are going to see this. I don't know how to explain sarcasm to them in Chinese.


And yessss, I finally found an excuse for using this icon.

Anything I learn in this class either angers or depresses me. And it's not even about the slaves and the Indians -- I've already become disillusioned with that way back in middle school -- but it's the hypocrisy and the way they treat their "own," the other white Christians. They go and form mobs to pelt a handful of young soldiers who committed no crime but wear a British uniform with sharp ice and rocks and freakin' broken clam shells for God's sake, and then when the soldiers get scared and open fire, killing five people (out of this huge mob of hundreds), they get their ass hauled to jail and Paul Revere runs around screaming his head off about this Boston Massacre. And then when the colonists are fighting their Revolution for liberty and justice and civil rights, they decide that anyone with the audacity to exercise their rights and express sentiment against this Revolution should be silenced, tarred and feathered, and stripped of all rights and property without a fair trial. Real nice, guys. Model of democracy right here.

I mean, intellectually, I can understand why the people acted with such paranoia and hatred, but goddammit. Can this country ever do anything other than oppress, kill, and bully?

They should really change the course name to History of Douchebags and Assholes already. =/

(And the colonists are such whiners. The French start revolting because most of the population is dying of famine. The Americans start revolting because the British want them to pay for the tea they threw overboard. =.= )

But more importantly, this is so fucking adorable. There's also a really boring version with a narration. I like my pretty, unexplained colors and elevator music better. Also, this video has made me realize that holy shit, the innards of a cell would make a pretty badass Katamari-esque video game. Like, you're a protein or something (or better yet, an amino acid and you get to turn into different proteins AND UNLOCK NEW ABILITIES) and you go around completing missions and the different cells are all different stages. it would be awesome. In a horrifically nerdy way.

And that motor protein: WANT. I mean, I know I have them. But I want like a two feet walking plushie version.

For some reason, the board of education decided to trade in perfectly good, beat-up volleyballs for new volleyballs that feel like bricks. They're hard and heavy and hurt like hell if you bump them. The entire underside of my wrists and forearm ended up being bright pink for two periods. And now I see a bruise forming. =/ Stupid school system. IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUDGET CUT SHIT BECAUSE OF THE RECESSION, THEN STOP BUYING BRICKBALLS AND GIVE ME MY QUANTUM MECHANICS ELECTIVE BACK.

Also, the school threatened to fail us in gym if we didn't buy one of their "safer than yours" locks for the locker rooms. The locks (which are actually just heavy masterlocks) are also $12 each. =.= And they're trying to sell it to us by saying that "You get to keep it for next year too!" I JUST BOUGHT THE GODDAMN LOCK; I SHOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP IT FOREVER, SHITFACE.

I have biology right before lunch.

As if school lunch isn't bad enough, it's going to smell like frog guts in preservative fluids.

I don't have an elective. Again. Goddamn it. Four semesters, eight free periods, and the only things I've gotten into were Math Research (which everyone gets into) and AP Physics B.

( God, I want to be young again. )

Random Note: Wow, I just love how I go to LJ's main page and they immediately start taunting me about how I could've saved $100 on my 360 if I just waited a year. Also, I'm waiting for the Sony fanboysgirls to start bitching. As we all know, there are no girls on the internet and there are no guys on LJ.

I think my favorite part of the week is Canaan. xD I don't even love it that much; it's just a fun watch with a decent amount of pew pew pew.

Today's episode was pretty ridiculous though. Maybe it's because I don't have an emotional attachment to any of the characters, so most of the emotional scenes were lost on me. But wtf, dramatic effect. Hakko gives one speech and Santana dies, but she starts sobbing wildly all over the loudspeakers and everyone else just gets a headache. And this is the anime that did a ridiculous amount of research in guns down to the very model of assault rifle that the Chinese military uses? FAIL.

I also happen to love how Hakko's mouth is moving and Canaan is kneeling over on the ground in horrible pain, and Mr. Reporter is just "huh..... I wonder what's happening..... Lemme slowly saunter over to Hakko and ask her about this." I don't care if you don't understand why you can't hear anything, Canaan is obviously screwed over by Hakko's voice so make her STFU. I don't care if you do it by stuffing a tissue in her mouth or kicking her in the face. =/ Guy has obviously not watched enough anime in his youth.

Also, random remark: I just realized today that I always have to be in motion when playing sports. Like, always. I have to jump when I throw a basketball; I can't throw it with my feet on the ground. In kickball, I can't kick the ball past the pitcher when I'm up, but if I'm playing soccer, I can kick a fast ball in midair fairly well. And you know how (good) tennis players run to a spot, stay there, and then smack the ball once it comes to them? Yeah, I can't get those. Once I stop, I lose all sense of timing and coordination and I either can't get the ball after the first bounce or I miss it, but I'm much better if I hit the ball while running. WTF is wrong with me?

Also, I'm really bloated right now from Doritos. I don't think that's a good thing. >.>

Like seriously. Rosa should just grab that shotgun and blow her head off. She freaks me out. People are dying gruesomely left and right and she's all "BEATRICE ONLY WANTS TO PLAY WITH US TOGETHER! YAAAAY~!" What the hell is wrong with that girl. She should be the first one Beatrice kills.

Also, George is stuuuupid. When the crazy monsters break in, YOU TRY HARDER TO OPEN THAT MAGIC-REPELLANT BOX. DON'T STAND AROUND WITH AN ARM IN FRONT OF SHANNON LIKE YOU'RE A MAN. A REAL MAN FIGURES OUT HOW TO SMASH THAT TINY-ASS BOX OPEN.

And I heard she's going to be a recurring character in the second season of Dollhouse. So naturally, even though I should be studying for the PSATs (there's a scholarship or something if you get a good grade on it) or deciding which college I want to go to, I watch Dollhouse.

And honestly, I don't get why people don't seem to like it that much. It's not revolutionary or amazing, but it's a solid show, and it definitely starts picking up as it goes on. The only real complaint I have is that Echo always seems to have the same personality in all of her roles. I don't know if it's because Eliza Dushku sucks at acting, or because Joss Whedon only writes about kickass chicks, but the series could have really done with more differentiated personalities. I don't particularly care about the characters (except for Topher because my nerd-heart goes out to him), but it's not like I completely don't give a shit about what happens in the series. So I'm actually going to be watching season two because I like the show and not because of Summer Glau. Although I will be fanboygirling tremendously over her.

Also. I finally got around to watching it: March of the Penguins was crap. =/ It's a watered-down documentary pandering to the general populace. Instead of getting awesome, interesting facts, we just get melodrama. I spent like five minutes watching two penguins nuzzle each other with a sunset and piano music in the background. They're standing next to each other and moving their heads, get over it. In that time, I could've been sobbing violently over a baby penguin getting pecked alive by skolls.

It's the time of year for a new animu season~ And you know what that means: I decide whether new animes will be good or bad based on nothing more than a summary, a picture, and a handful of trivia because I arez godly liek that.

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And... we're done! You may now resume your normally scheduled life~

The fact that they're missable makes me feel "NOOO, I HAVE TO DO THIS" and then I end up dungeon crawling for ten hours. grabbing items and running around in some huge God forsaken desert without an in-game map (which is hidden in some God forsaken tiny corner of the desert) trying to find tiny little pillars strewn across the stupid desert. Thankfully, I went onine like a normal person and found a map.

I wish RPGs would stop torturing us with the level-grinding and just let us get through the story. I mean, seriously, who plays RPGs so they can choose attacks from a menu?

On the bright side, I'm hopelessly in love with David and stupid fake British accent. My only regret is that the fandom universally ships David x Rush, which is gross because Rush is such a loser. =/

I got my Xbox 360 Pro for $350. Now Amazon is offering Xbox 360 Pro plus Fable II (which is worth about $40) for $250. With that included game, it's cheaper than the fucking Wii. And I really want Fable II.

And of course, Nintendo isn't going to budge its price one bit (because they always make profits off their consoles, while Sony and Microsoft lose money on consoles and hope to get that back through the games). So. WITH ALL THESE PS3 AND XBOX 360 PRICE-CUTS, WHY DIDN'T I JUST GET A WII BEFORE AND BUY A XBOX NOW? FUCK MY LIIIIIFE.

Apparently, Jason Mraz threw the intermission soundbite from K-ON into his song "Try Try Try." Now, I'm not really a K-ON fan, and I don't know who this guy is, and I keep on spelling his name Jazon Mraz, and I don't even know how to pronounce his last name (you silly white people and your putting of constanants together), BUT I HAVE TOTALLY CONVERTED TO HIS FANGIRL RIGHT NOW BASED ON THE OVER 9000 GUTS AND SENSE OF HUMOR HE HAS. And the song wasn't half-bad.

Also, in case anyone is wondering (like I was), yes, the soundbite is in every single video of that song on Youtube, so there are three possibilities: 1) it's legit, 2) everyone on the internet downloaded that song from the same troll, 3) it's a government trolling conspiracy.

More importantly, the question should be: why couldn't he make an anime reference in a song in a less cringe-inducing way? It's like that feeling when youre listening to really nice music at full volume and then some jerk signs onto AIM and they happened to set their sound to some annoying "WHOOOOOOSH" wind sound and now the entire song has been ruined and will be for the rest of the week, and then that person has the nerve to IM you with that "WHOOOOSH" sound effect so the next time you see him, you slugged him a few for that. <s>Actually, that never happened to me, but I do know someone with that whoosh sound effect on AIM</s>

In other geeky news, I got The Last Remnant for PC because I hear the 360 one had shit graphics and loading times. And 360 controllers work on PC anyways, so yay. Will write up a tl;dr review tomorrow or so~

It is so bloody amazing. There are really no words. I didn't start watching with particularly high expectations; I watched Grave of the Fireflies once and was sorely disappointed because I found it mostly slow and tedious and not the tear-fest everyone had claimed it to be. So I had thought that Spirited Away would be like a Disney film; something cute and nostalgically innocent and childish. I'd get a few smirks out of it, probably from some slapstick comedy in which somebody's face is invariably hit with a blunt object.

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I stole a music meme from transient_days~

Bsaically, meme asks questions, meme-taker puts entire playlist on shuffle and writes down whatever song comes up each question. <s>Somehow, I feel like that is a terrible explanation for anyone who doesn't understand how these things go.</s>


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Final words: I need more happy music. And more animu music. I think the two go together well, so everything's all good. <3 Except for the world ending and all my friends thinking I'm a dirty little liar and the guy I like flat-out rejecting me. Oh, and my nonexistent boyfriend dumping me. And I probably haven't even covered the half of it.

I found this in my ad sidebar on LJ's front page: How Do I Smell to Edward Cullen?

Naturally, I just had to take it. 8D

Since the stupid HTML code they gave me doesn't work, go for this link.

I'm pretty sure the adventurous spirit part comes from all the "would rather go outside and do something productive instead of Twilight-related."

Also, I love how completely blase the last few lines are. It feels like Meyer's editor was writing it: "You're fucking amazing. Edward loves you. You're speshul like a snowflake. Go you. =.= God, I have fucking Masters in Comparative English Literature, and I'm stuck in this deadbeat job trying to corrupt the teenagers of America and I still get paid shit. FML." Or the quiz-maker is some tween who reads Twilight and can't write emotively. I think the editor story is lulzier, though. And it lets me curse more. =DD (<-- secret agenda behind everything I post)

and raising these stupid twins who are obnoxiously hard to raise because they're always crying in sync and crap. And you know how those little spawns of Satan repay me for all my hard work? They turn out ugly. It's an unforgivable sin; I'll never be able to play that goddamn family again. Although on the bright side, kids from my new family will have a lot more dating options since the twins' father sort of.....had a lot of affairs....and like 15 kids....and half-siblings sort of aren't allowed to be together.... Even if they don't realize they're half-siblings because the Sims likes to take the drama and lulz out of everything. Bitches.