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*all photos uploaded/edited 2014/08/27, captions also added

So I bought some neko ears and the thingy that cats wear... you know... the thing with bells...

Ugh. Anyway, it was totally awesome, what with squishing riiight behind Kaname and Usagi on day two for the regional cosplay championships. I mean, like, SQUISHING. With my large heavy camera. And a Rin right in front of me, so that I couldn't actually extend my lens in case she poked it with her elbow or something.

Anyway, I was kinda stalkerish and took many many photos of Kaname and the sexy Usagi with my very very extendable lens - don't ask. Somehow I managed to find my way around that Rin's elbow.

I took like almost four hundred photos. It included an awesome Victorique from Gosick.

By the way, Facebook's being much more bitchy than usual and refusing to let me upload my day two pics, which are more awesome, I think, despite the fact that my camera was running out of batt fast. I mean, I wasn't allowed to go, and then I started crying, so my parents let me go - hehehehehe. Yeah so it meant that I didn't have time to charge the camera (a nikon, I think, I have a really bad memory).

Umm so I went over to find Yonor and Izumi, and took a bunch of photos. They were Euphemia and Anya on day one, and I was like, Code Geass! I love Code Geass so much, so so much. They were, uhm, Luka and Miku on day two... uh, Camellia, I think.

bunch of figurines

cute baby tam

another cute baby tam

baka mike

ehehehe

view of kaname

Hmm but I basically walked around with Tamara and Phoebe and Mike, stalking cosplayers with our cameras. It was fun. Even though my feet hurt.

SLEEP

Yesterday night, I went to bed at 10pm. After falling asleep for a little while (I presume I did indeed fall asleep) I woke up again and became pissed about how I couldn't get back to sleep - I was tired as fuck after an entire day outside with my class but hell if my brain was going to let me sleep.

Oh, so guess what, it was 11.40pm when I finally decided to give up and look at the time. I thought that it'd be closer to 3 or 4 in the morning, but it was barely two hours after I went to bed.

Great, so I tossed and turned and fucking fumed before I completely gave up at about 12. This meant that I got out of bed and read manga until 3.15am.

Then I went to bed. And slept. Until 7am.

It seems like it's only one day, but these kind of things happen every single fucking time. Every fucking night, (or something like that, I have a bad memory) I wake up and spend too much time trying to get back to sleep. I wake up about three times per night. I always wake up before my alarm. I can never fall asleep within an hour.

Also, it seems like most of my sleep time is spent half-aware of whatever dream I'm having. Which, however nice it sounds, is shitty. I know it's cool to be able to be awake and asleep at the same time. But when you're tired as fuck, no. JUST NO.

I want to sleep normally okay? I don't want any stupid panda eyes. No more panda eyes.

Another thing is that I can function normally even if I sleep three hours a night (function as in I don't fall asleep standing up etc, can hold conversation etc, and can actually make logical decisions). I have no idea if it means I'm just awesome and efficient and don't need to sleep that much, or my definition of 'function' is too lax.

IDK but Phoebe seems to fall asleep everywhere even if she sleeps five hours. Like, seriously sleep. I find it hard to fall asleep anywhere, including my own fucking bed. MY OWN BED. UGH.

I think I compensate by lazing around on my bed the entire day. It makes me feel more rested. Somehow.

Oh god, I need to write something, but I'm either too tired to use my brain or too busy to sit down. Thinking of original stuff requires more brainpower than reading others' stuff. Right? Right.

I think I'm just rambling here. I have no fucking idea why I even started this post, but since I've started it I might as well post it up. GDI my holidays, my holidays, why are my holidays so packed? CIP and ROD and training camp and oh my fuck just thinking about it makes my brain hurt somewhat.

By the by, Dr. Seuss is just fucking creepy. His books give me nightmares. Kids should never read them. And no, I've never thought that it was spelled "Suess". That's just wrong.

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FUCK YOU. Fuck you, okay? This is discrimination. Discrimination against the generation of a faster rhythm than you're used to, you old coots. I demand an explanation. I demand a tear-filled apology about how extremely wrong you were to show me this kind of shit and then - 


- AND THEN MAKE ME TYPE A FUCKING CAPTCHA.

We've talked about this before, Youtube. You need to catch up. Our shorter attention spans are obviously detrimental to your financial situation in some way, which must be why you're making us type the fucking captchas, but guess what, darling Youtube.


We no give fucks. 


We want videos. No captchas. 


No "too many comments" captchas, no "large volume of requests" captchas. Because fuck you, you're making us spend more time typing captchas than doing any real shit on Youtube. Not that we do any real shit, but that's kind of beside the point.


Remember. We've talked this issue of yours before. Don't disappoint us all.

KOREAN MUSIC FOR YOU!

http://koreanmusicforyou.wordpress.com (/EDIT/: 2/8/12: it's dead)

It's a very awesome blog, I have no idea why I didn't find it earlier. Anyway, it's k-pop download links (Sungha Jung's there too) and the links are up really fast - SHINee's Lucifer single only came out yesterday, but it's already online today. Thought I'd share the blog, you know, since it's awesome and all.

UNRELATED:

Anyway, the 'pirated'/'illegal' music online. Frankly, IDGAF. It's not like I don't care about the artists; I care, very much, especially if it's SHINee or UVERworld and stuff. But honestly, I'm planning on buying each and every one of their albums some time in the future (currently being stuck somewhere where no one sells them, and not having access to my bank account - it's for university - and not being able to persuade my parents to fork out a huge bundle of money for the albums) so it's kind of a moot point.

The only difference is that they'll get my money later... which honestly, might, just might be able to change their financial situation, especially if other fans feel the same way as me.

Might.

Honestly, I don't see how it matters so much. It's only the ones who never ever pay for any music who are annoying as hell. But hey, we all love music, can't fault others for not wanting to spend too much. Key words being "too much". I think that we should buy some stuff.

If only to ease our guilt.

XD

Encouragement that's not really encouragement

I seem to have perfected "veiled insults".

It consist of praising the person, but adding words like "good attempt". This gives the impression that the person tried, but still wasn't good enough (HAH, see that there? See it? See what I did?).

It's the ultimate insult. That person can't exactly return the "favour" without looking completely stupid, and it's a blow to their self-confidence, too.

It just makes them feel like... um...

You took a look, decided that they sucked, but felt that you should at least put a nice little comment to cheer them up. It also makes them feel like you know that they know they're not that good, so you feel the need to cheer them up a little.

The best thing is that it doesn't even sound sarcastic or nasty. It's perfect.

Veiled insults for the win.

Incidentally, if you throw me a veiled insult, I'm just gonna ignore the "veiled" part and the "insult" part. The only part I'll actually pay attention to is the "encouragement" part and "praise" part.

Off to throw around more of 'em veiled insults ~ baiii ~