Hello neighbor. You've come to the journal formerly known as ella_w. Most of what's in this journal is posted under friends lock for no particular reason. Perhaps I just like clicking the button. I tend to ramble on dorkily about things like Harry Potter, soul bonding tennis, gay ninjas, Oscar Wilde, my dependence on caffeine, literary characters with Daddy Issues, and various and sundry stupid Japanese shit, along with whatever my other obsessions of the moment are. Oh, and sometimes I talk about my real life. If any of this sounds appealing feel free to friend me. Just drop a comment here so I know who the hell all these people who apparently find me interesting are.

Also, I write/draw/laugh at my own jokes at shitbox_project which is far more hilarious and interesting than this journal will ever be. You should go friend it. Ferdinand the albino peacock owl compels you to.

Is there a law that every drama with Jun in it also has to involve the lead girl punching the shit out of people? Because it seems there is and god I love it.

Also, why in the world did someone think one random blond streak was definitely necessary to complete Jun's hairstyle? I just keep... staring at it. Like it might detach itself and jump at me. Oddly enough, it doesn't really do much to detract from Jun's attractiveness. It's just sort of there.



As you might be able to tell, I am watching Gokusen 1 at the moment. I've been reading a few blogs about Americans teaching in Japan recently (oh my god, can you tell how boring this past week has been? Also, I apologize for bombarding all of you with IMs constantly. Also a result of the boredom.) so it sort of feels like watching a dramatization of all the discipline and school system problems in Japan that those teachers talk about. Only, with far, far more attractive visual examples. Mmmm, Mattsun. And Oguri Shun looking completely different. The Rui look is better for him, though the watch me be so damn punk look isn't horrible.

Kelly, I think you should watch this too. I feel like I'm watching live action air gear. Only with slightly less physically impossible rollerskating. I swear to god one of the characters is Onigiri's long lost twin brother.

ETA: Kelly, you should definitely watch this. I swear, they should really have named it "Watch as Matsujun plays a slightly more emo version of Ikki." Lots of gang violence and trouble youth and learning the importance of friendship. Now I'm just waiting to find out who the Gokusen!Kazu is. Perhaps Oguri Shun? He's got the blond hair~ alskdj

Why is this my favorite thing ever?


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Sigh. Should have been asleep two hours ago. Oh well, I'll just be half asleep through work tomorrow. :/

ETA: New plan for the future, get oversized sunglasses and a stylish hat and pretend I am a famous person during my flight to Japan.

I am writing down here because it's 3:48 and for some reason I've decided I will forget otherwise. And, you know, it's really important to remember this.

A person quoted in an NPR story about Rowling's Harvard commenciment address:

"You know, we're Harvard. We're like the most prominent national institution. And I think we should be entitled to … we should be able to get anyone. And in my opinion, we're settling here. "

Oh Harvard, never change. Wait, actually, you probably should change. It's a bit worrying when four years of higher educaton only makes the entitlement and egotism even more obvious. I think it's the "we're like" that really makes that quote so deliciously ironic.

The speech is actually rather amusing and well written. You can listen to or read it over on Leaky, I think.

Also, posted some ridiculous Hana Yori Dango fic on tofuidol in case anyone wants to check it out:

Six times Makino Tsukushi was annoyingly late, and one time she wasn't.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE MEME! YAYYYYYY~

Um, yes. New meme! Because I find it really interesting. Post a recording of you speaking in a foreign language! And if you want, post a transcript/translation for everyone!

Me, though god this is really utterly embarrassing because Abbey wanted me to record myself Sakurapping too, so I did both at the same time. Um. Ignore the sort of weirdly quiet "rap" in the middle of this. I spent about three hours last night learning how to sing We Can Make It with Kelly so we can karaoke the hell out of it in Japan next year. I'm both proud of and saddened by myself. (That thing is hard, okay.) But I'm not actually alone in the house right now, so I had to keep it kind of quiet so they don't think I'm insane and kick me out or something.

Anyway, here goes. I'll translate too:

Ah ha ha, so embarrassing.

( please forgive any blatant errors, spelling or otherwise. I should check this over but I'm lazy. )

ETA: Ah ha ha, apparently I wrote "I'll translate" and then completely forgot to actually translate it.

( There are a lot of ums in here. A lot. )

A long time ago greensweaterlj did an icon meme, which I have yet to reply to, so um... here goes?

01. Reply to this post (ask for the meme...) and I will pick six of your icons.
02. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
03. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
04. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!
( 05. icons icons icons )

&hearts&hearts&hearts

Gosh, you guys. I think I'll never recover from how amazing Hana Yori Dango is. I just watched all twenty episodes of both 1 and 2 in about three days. Abbey is telling me I should wait and watch something before I go rewatch but all I want is to go back and see Domyouji get punched in the face by the most awesome girl ever and watch Rui being all I am L and Fuji Syuusuke's love child and therefore am amazing and wonderful.

Gosh.



( picspam that doesn't come close to summing up my love, but I felt like posting anyway. )

Anyway, since Abbey is probably right, and I should wait to rewatch all of that, poll time! What should I waste my time watching next?

Poll #1195468
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What should I watch now?

I would like you all to watch this video, which reminds me that even though I might fail all my classes this semester by not finishing my finals, there is always Ohmiya. In the end, the world is a good place.

:)



FYI WHILE IT'S ALL AMAZING, THE IMPORTANT PART WOULD BE THE LAST FIFTEEN SECONDS.

So obviously instead of doing my work, I end up searching through my old word files for the ~super secret project~ Maartje and I have in the works. (It's not actually all that super secret. I will probably tell you what it is if you ask. But I'm very excited about it.)

Anyway, I keep reading all these old fics I started and never finished.


"Because when Touya Akira, he of the eternally pressed slacks and disturbingly perfect posture, tells you to lighten up, you know you’ve got a problem."

Why have I not finished this fic? Why have I not finished any Hikago fic? Why am I not writing my paper right this instant? All excellent questions.

( doing pointless memes instead of my work )

And since everyone and their mother is doing it, and this is a hopelessly pointless entry already:

Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on yaoi, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other.

I think this may be the cutest picture I've ever seen.



Kelly and I made hardcore macaroni and cheese tonight, aka not the kind you eat out of a box. It was delicious. I also managed to get absolutely nothing productive done, despite telling Maartje all about how I was going to finish fic, and telling myself all about how I was going to work on my screenplay. Oh dear.

debitt: ...oh my god Kazu got kidnapped and drugged by a cult of nudists or something
debitt: I wish I was making this up

This is why I love Kelly. I should probably be studying for my midterm right now....

likeafox: I'm guessing they're sexy lady nudists?
debitt: sexy nudists of both genders
likeafox: yesss
debitt: hold on,let me get my photobucket account banned. *uploads*

Aside from the whole continued betrayal of trust (and why in the hell do I have any of that left? Anyone know?) and the buying into hideous ad-based ideals etc. etc. the new removal of basic accounts is just plain stupid.

I couldn't deal with posting to a journal that has ads. That's why I bought paid time for gonnarokuyou when I started actually posting there instead of just commenting on other journals with it. I wanted the icon space, I cannot deal with posting to a journal with ads, I bought time. Two facts:

1) I cannot afford to, and even if I could probably wouldn't want to buy paid time for all my journals. Two is already seriously pushing my willingness to pay for lj time. I've got about three more that I (used to) use occasionally, if you don't count the several communities I started/use.

2) If those basic accounts become paid accounts against my will (hasn't happened yet, but honestly how long do you think that development will take) or if I feel the need to make a new journal in the future, I'm not willing to post on a journal that has ads. I'm just not.

So yeah, lj. I don't think I'm alone in the above two sentiments. You're going to lose hella user produced content, especially among RPers (which I'm not really a part of, but dear god are they a big presence on lj). Without content, you lose users, and without users you lose that oh so precious ad money. Christ. Idiots all.

Apparently Brad is pissed too, which makes me feel vaugely better though doesn't really fix anything these days. :|

Buried under work, so what do I do?

Four hour walmart trip, three cups of coffee, and no work. :|||||

Actually, that is not entirely true. I read "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" today, which is amazing. Now I have to write some sort of coherent reaction paper about it, which is probably not going to happen tonight which should be a problem, but for some reason I can't bring myself to care.... This is bad. Work fatigue is not allowed to hit until spring break. I have two papers and a two part midterm before then. Also, the midterm is for Japanese and includes an oral section which is terrifying. I've never had an oral exam before and I do not do well with the whole talking to people thing. :|

Stolen from the lovely butt-bow. (That's your new nickname, Kelly, I hope you enjoy it.)

Three and a half things meme

During commercial breaks, have your partygoers reenact Daniel Day-Lewis's baptism scene by the crucifix. The best Daniel mimic is then rewarded the opportunity to drink everyone else's drinks right then and there. Whatever's already mixed in the room. "Drraaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnaage." This is either a big win or a big loss for your faux Daniel, depending on how s/he feels about alcohol poisoning.
-From TWoP's Oscar Party Planner

I nearly laughed out loud when I read that. Which was a problem because hypothetically I was in class when I read it.



( my answers: )

Flailing under work again. Oh joy.

Anyway, I'm planning on posting my screenwriting stuff this semester on tofuidol, but I'm weirdly paranoid about posting original stuff publicially. So! Would anyone like to be on my screenwriting filter over there? Comment here and I'll add you.

Still ella_w. Well, still formerly ella_w.

So I got a $25 gift card to Barnes & Noble from the woman I did my winter term with, as a thank you present. (Also some amazing chocolate, which I'm trying to convince myself not to finish off right now.) But yes! I need your opinion! What should I get with it?

Also, I just made myself a writing journal, which is currently empty aside from the wonderful layout greensweaterlj patiently helped me with. (She made the delightful header.) But some day, possibly soon if I get off my lazy butt, it might be filled with bunches of my writing! Including that which it is named for, Tofu Idol. :PPP But you'll probably have to friend it/get put on a filter for that, because I have this weird thing about posting my original writing on the internet without f-locking it.

Anyway, it's here: tofuidol

likeafox



Let's have a party, guys.

This showed up in my gmail ad area. It was with a lj comment from Abbey. That is all.

Well, that's not really all. Also, I'm disgustingly sick. I ate an entire bag of coughdrops yesterday and suspect I'm on my way to the same today. It's awful. I did write several pages of Tofu Idol, though, because I do ridiculous things when I'm sick.

ETA:

( Who comments the most on this journal? )

Hey guys. This March Oberlin College is hosting a Relay for Life, and some of my friends and I are putting together a team, of which I'm team captain. (I feel like I should get a little captain's hat or something.) You can read more about it on the website, but long story short Relay for Life is run by the American Cancer Society, and raises awareness, celebrates survivors, and raises money to help fight cancer.

I'm posting here in the hopes that some of you (if you're able) might want to donate money to my team, the illustrious Team Triceratops. We chose the name because Triceratops are badass. Also, because we wanted to use the slogan "Help make cancer extinct, just like us. D:"

IF you'd like to make my day and donate to my team, you can do so on my relay page Just click the button that says donate!