RE: Soul Eater, episode 19:

sa;lfkj;asd everyone is so cool, gah. ♥♥

And Stein is hot. Wow. He and Medusa would make such a dynamic couple, fr rlz.

This sucks. I've been feeling rather crappy since Friday afternoon, when my body decided to cause me tons of pain. I dunno, I just suddenly got these heavy stomach aches, followed by a throbbing headache. Also, there was lots of sweating. And vomiting. Not a lot, but vomit is vomit. I felt much better in the evening, but still not quite the same. I still don't, actually. My head feels a little heavy at times and I can't look at the computer screen too long. I can if I squint my eyes, though.

★ Federer and Wawrinka won the gold medal in the Olympics on Saturday! Gah, I was so happy when I heard the news, and I was even happier seeing Federer on TV, all excited and jumping up and down and hugging Wawrinka and being practically in tears... gorgeous moment. Federer - he needed this, he really needed this. I think him being emotional said enough. Hopefully, this will give him the boost he needs. Go, Federer! ♥

★ Fatima came back from her vacation, yes~. And Romy will be back... tomorrow, I think. (Or maybe tonight.) In any case, this means I'll finally get to send an email to everyone to try and convince them to come see TDK IMAX with me. :Db

★ First day of school today! ...but not for me. :] It was really noticeable; everywhere I went, I saw groups of teenagers talking like crazy and shopping (waaaay too late) for school supplies. I wonder how things went over at my old school. :( ...I WONDER WHICH SEVENTH GRADER GOT MY LOCKER? :|

★ Speaking of school, I should be getting most of my textbooks this week. Awesome.

★ Work started today. Except I didn't go, because the employment agency has not sent me an email with my schedule. Either they have completely forgotten about me/have no use for me, or they will be sending one tomorrow or something, because they figured, "Oh hey, she won't be working till later this week, so we'll send her schedule later, too." I hope it's the latter.

★ I need a new bag for university. I adore my Nobuta bag, it's gorgeous, but the quality is too crappy to be able to carry all those heavy books. Sadface. Plus, on the front, it says 野ぶたをプロヂユース and I don't want 1) girls approaching me and throwing fangirl Japanese at me 2) people thinking I eat and breathe Japan. I mean, I do, but they do not need to know this. Only after they get to know me. :]

★ YAY I GET TO GO BAG SHOPPING. I love bags.

[edit] The gold medal for men's doubles in tennis. Yeah, I should've mentioned that.

"Nothing ever changes in this world." :]

I just deleted all of my tags. On purpose. Obviously I am insane.

Hopefully this will somehow motivate me to create and add tags to entries that go three years back. Yay.

[edit] What the hell? Apparently I have to manually remove the tags from the entries, because otherwise they'll be added to the tags list again every time I try to edit one of my older entries. Uh, fail. ...Hm. Never mind.

AS;LIDGGJSA;LGJSALGDJ ARE YOU SERIOUS GODDAMMIT

FEDERER FUCKING LOST

HE LOST

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH

I HATE JAMES BLAKE I HATE JAMES BLAKE I HATE JAMES BLAKE.




...okay, I don't. But holy fuck, am I frustrated. FEDERER. YOU BETTER WIN THE US OPEN NOW AND WIN AGAINST BLAKE. AND NADAL. AND DJOKOVIC. YOU KNOW, EVERYONE., YOU STUPID ASSHOLE. JESUS CHRIST.

Okay, since I won't root for Nadal ever - I'm just ~irrational~ like that - I'm rooting for fucking Djokovic now. WIN, YOU MOFO.

[edit] uh, oh yeah. olympics tennis. also, my day has been officially ruined.

[edit the second] ALSO. Pieter van den Hoogenband came in fifth in the 100m freestyle final. FIFTH. That just makes me sad. He (and the now retired Inge de Bruijn) used to be so awesome in the Olympics. But I guess making it to the final is good enough, considering the majority of the swimmers is in their early and/or mid-twenties, while Pieter is 30.

I coloured my first manga panel, yaaay~. It's Haruhi and Tamaki, from the latest Ouran chapter, Chapter 63. Also, this means spoilers. It's a pretty major one, I think, so... click the cut at your own risk. 8D

My sister's creditcard I just bought seven textbooks for £119.89 → €150.357 (this was €152 yesterday - yay, stockmarket? 8D) → $223.902

PAIN.

And that's not even all the books I need. Though, to be fair, four of those seven textbooks are only necessary for the second semester, so if I'd only bought books for the first semester, I wouldn't have had to pay this much instantly. But uh, yeah, I want to save on shipping costs. 8D

I want to buy some anime/manga/merchandise so bad (I haven't done so in months), but I can't, because of these freaking books. And as of this September, I'll have to pay for college every month. Yeah, I'm getting a grant and stuff (available to nearly all students here), but still.

Oh, Japanese Studies, you'd better be worth it. good chance it is worth it, considering i've read one of the classes consists of watching anime every Friday, lawl

As much as I adored his performance, I'm going to try and answer honestly here. Yes, he was absolutely amazing in The Dark Knight and yes, I do think he deserves some kind of acknowledgement - and I don't think you need to be alive for people to recognise your stunning performance - but whether he deserves an Oscar... I don't know. I don't know much about acting. I can't always distinguish a good performance from an okay performance. I can't tell you whether his performance was Oscar-worthy or not.

That being said, I can honestly say that I completely believed he was the Joker. No matter how much I tried, I just couldn't see the actor behind the character. For a certain amount of time, Heath had come a psychotic killer that will completely fuck you up if you make a wrong move. And because we all love comparing--he really did do so much better than Jack Nicholson. Honestly, Jack Nicholson's performance was good, but if you look closely, it could've been any of his other roles, except with make-up and a purple suit.

Subjectively, I want Heath Ledger to get nominated and to win. Objectively, I'm not sure whether his performance deserves one. Besides what I said before, I also think Aaron Eckhart was absolutely phenomenal, and if Heath gets nominated, then Aaron Eckhart deserves to get nominated, too. Ideally, Heath would win Best Actor and Aaron Best Supporting Actor (my favourite and second favourite, respectively), but... yeah. I highly doubt that will happen.

I want The Dark Knight to win Best Picture, though.

Um. So basically, the tl;dr answer to this question is, "I don't know."

So today I had an appointment with an employment agency. I'd applied for a job at a clothing store (the New Yorker's first store in Amsterdam), but it was offered via an agency, so... appointment. Four o'clock. In the city.

Because I am a loser who cannot afford to waste money on transportation every single time I want to go to into the city and because I was planning on seeing it for the second time anyway...

I went to see TDK. Alone. Again. Yes, the two times I went to see TDK, I went alone. Is that sad? (This is an actual question.) Anyway, I want to say TDK is soooooo much more epic the second time, I really want to... but I can't, because that is definitely not the case. (I've read a lot of people feel differently, though.) I don't know why. It could be because I knew what was going to happen, which isn't very helpful when watching this movie. Could've also been because I was really tired--I didn't fully register a certain awesome and very quick Batpod scene because of it. :| I also had a lot of thoughts running through my mind for some reason. I can't remember if they were TDK-related or not. I just know that my mind wasn't as cluttered the first time, and that I was a lot more into the movie.

Whatever, though, it's still an amazing movie. I definitely plan on seeing it a third time, in IMAX. AND I WON'T BE ALONE. Hopefully. :| My friends will be back from vacation next week, so I'm hoping I can persuade at least some of them to come with me to IMAX.

Oh, and an awesome thing happened when I bought my ticket. Here, the movie is deemed unsuitable for teenagers younger than sixteen (R-rating in the US, isn't it?). So... they asked for my ID. \8D/ First time ever! It was pretty cool. Though I do wonder if she asked for my ID because she's required to ask any teenager, or because I actually look younger than sixteen... um. :/

Anyway, employment agency after that, blablabla, sign this and that, yadda yadda yadda, they'll let me know when I'm supposed to work, and done. According to the ad I responded to, the job is from August 18 to August 26. That kinda sucks, since that's when my friends come back. I won't have time to catch up with them and hang out before our first day of university. On the plus side--MONEY. I need it. A little less than before, because my former employer finally deposited my money (YES \:D/), but it's still very much needed.

While waiting for the tram to come, I saw someone who looked nearly *exactly* like Elijah Wood. His hair was a little lighter than Elijah's and he had light, faded green eyes, rather than blue ones, but other than that... exactly. the same. He was so... gorgeous. I was sort of staring at him and he stared back (probably thinking to himself, "...why is this chick staring at me? :|") and I wish he had to catch the tram, too, because he was so pretty. I could've stared at him for hours, I think. I like Elijah Wood and I think he's sort of cute, but I never thought I'd stare at him so much. shutup i know that wasn't elijah wood but he looked so much like him he might as well have been. ...does that sentence make any grammatical sense? my brain is tired.

I wish I could see him again. Pretty guys ftw. *______________*

Ouran, chapter 63.

I fucking love young Tamaki. ;^; ♥♥♥♥♥♥ The Suoh family (sans bitchy grandma) makes me wibble so much.

AND HARUHI AND TAMAKI SAGD;LJASD;GA SO CUTE AND SO AWKWARD. LOOK AT PAGE 26. THEN 27. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!!!!!!! Hikaru has no chance, man. :D

Oh, Hatori. You make me so happy.

Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi's new manga.

It's pretty good so far. Good for some lulz, in any case. :D

Speaking of lulz--why are the TDK party posts over at ohnotheydidnt (my... guilty pleasure. ;_; save me, please save me) so funny. as;lgdjs;a comments are not allowed to be so awesome. Neither are .gifs and bad fanfiction.

AL;SG;ASLDHG; GOD, WHY AM I SO EASILY AMUSED BY THE MOST RETARDED THINGS. D:

Changed my name from oyasumi_ to kotomichi.

It hurt. :(

...and now I'm thinking it would've been nice to wait till October... something, which would make it this journal's third-year anniversary. Oh, well. I changed it on August 8th, 2008 (on purpose :Dv) which should mean lots of good luck. (Though being born on the eighth of October hasn't helped me in any way, so far. But whatever.)

Anyway, don't be all 'wut' when kotomichi comments and replies on your entries: it's just me, oyasumi_. ☆

I knew the opening of the Olympic Games was going to be amazing, since China loves doing everything spectacularly, but... wow. It was epic. ~EPIC~. I think my favourite parts were the drums in the beginning (so cool), the tai chi and the lighting of the fire, which was so original and awesome. I also really liked the smiling sun - I think? - the kids drew. Cute.

Pretty much everything was amazing, actually. I was even impressed by the countdown! I really wonder how they managed to pull everything off, especially since some things seemed to come out of nowhere.

And I loved some of the dresses! The red dresses the women who held the signs every time a new team came in, wore? Freaking gorgeous. ♥ They were red with a bit of yellow, I think. At some point during the introduction of the athletes, they showed a few women playing traditional instruments and their dresses - primarily white with a bit of red - were totally freaking gorgeous, too. I... want one. *____*

The introduction of the athletes was boring, as always. I was really just waiting for Federer to come out - he was his country's flag bearer. :D HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROGER~ ♥♥♥ I love how the crowd cheered so loudly for him. And I thought Yao Ming and that little kid together were adorable.

Unrelated, but yesterday I realised I missed another episode of Heroes, just because I wanted to watch 10 Things I Hate About You. (I really like watching this movie, for some reason. I try to watch it every time it's on TV.) I've decided that I don't care, though, because I'll take Heath Ledger's amazing smile over Heroes anyday - especially since I don't like Heroes all that much anyway (it gets boring far too easily) and since the "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" scene in 10 Things is ~brilliant~.

[edit] ...do I want these photosets from the new Hyouteimyu? I dunno, I might buy Daisuke's (and Aiba's, because hello random temporary comeback! :Db), but... SERIOUSLY. Fifth cast, what. Hyoutei A, what. Hyoutei-fucking-B, what. Couldn't they at least have kept the same Atobe for the two Hyoutei casts? Also, sorry, fourth cast, but I still haven't watched Higamyu. 8|

HOLY SHIT LIGHTNING

IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING EXPLODED ;_;

I'm not editing that previous entry. :|

I'm bored.

I need a job.

OH HAY FORMER EMPLOYER PLS TO BE FUCKING PAYING ME. :| I want money, kthx.

Real point of this entry? To whine about how I WANT TO WATCH THE DARK KNIGHT AGAAAAAAAAIN. D:

IMAX, please.

(This icon is so awesome. I admit, I totally rooted for them. I still do. :D)

OH MY GOD THERE IS A FUCKING MOUSE IN MY ROOM I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE FUCK HE IS RIGHT NOW SODGJA;GJDS

This has to be some kind of twisted joke. I told Kavita like two, three days ago, at work, that I wasn't afraid of some of the mice running around there, because they actually looked kind of cute.

AND NOW THERE IS ONE IN MY ROOM. THIS IS NOT FUNNY.

[edit] I'm about to have a fucking heart attack.

[edit the second] I think I'm going insane. I saw the mouse near the trash can, which is like, right next to me. Freaked out for a moment, but then just stared at him for a bit. And then, he... disappeared. Either he ran behind the trash can at lightning speed, or I am going crazy. :|

The Dark Knight... wow. Wow.


So, yes, I seriously loved this movie. Did anyone else leave, feeling differently? I did, but I'm not sure what it was I felt. All I know is that I need more Heath Ledger. If I'm not mistaken, 10 Things I Hate About You will be on TV this week.

As usual, I hated the people in the theatre. There was this one group of four students (?) that really bugged me. They came in during the commercials and were really loud for people who were late. And they continued talking way too loudly in the beginning of the movie. Then they shut up for a looooong time, thankfully, until I suddenly heard one of them... snore. Yeah, seriously. They were sitting a few seats away from me, so I heard... her, I'm going to assume, very clearly. And I don't think she was faking her snoring. Almost immediately after the movie ended, I heard one of the girls - the snore girl, I think - say something like, "That was one of the worst movies I've ever seen."

...

Good taste. U haz it?

Anyway, at least that means I won't be bothered by them at the next movie, of which I hear there's rumours of Johnny Depp being a possible Riddler. GOD, I HOPE SO. Not because it's OMG JOHNNY DEPP *______* but because I think he would be amazing. Of all the villains, the Riddler suits him the best.

[edit] I'd like to add that this movie didn't feel like a Batman movie at all. It felt more like I was watching a dramatic, action-filled crime thriller that just happened to have Batman in it.

And the more I read about The Dark Knight and the more quotes I see, the more I realise just how freaking amazing this movie really is.

FEDERER IS GOING TO LOSE HIS NUMBER ONE POSITION NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ASGODJ;SJGA

I hate Nadal. ;_______________________;

I hope he gets to be McEnroe's partner and I hope Federer and Borg kick his ass. a;ldgjad;gja/dgl

[edit] I'm so, so upset right now.