Refraction

Random Anime Birthday: Haruka Ten’ou (Sailor Moon)

I am so sick of everything right now.
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Random Anime Birthday: Minoru Kokubunji (Chobits)

“This is disgusting. If you have a heart you will sign this. If you see my name on it then obviously you don’t need to send this back to me.

A site that we were able to shut last year has returned. We have to try to shut it down again! A Japanese man in New York breeds and sells kittens that are called BONSAI CATS. That would sound cute, if it weren’t kittens that were put into little bottles after being given a muscle relaxant and then locked up for the rest of their lives!!

The cats are fed through a straw and have a small tube for their faeces (waste). The skeleton of the cat will take on the form of the bottle as the kitten grows. The cats never get the opportunity to move. They are used as original and exclusive souvenirs. These are the latest trends in New York, China, Indonesia and New Zealand. If you think you can handle it, view and have a look at the methods being used to put these little kittens into bottles. This petition needs 500 names, so please put your name on it!!! Copy the text into a new email and put your name on the bottom, then send it to everyone you know. If you notice that there are 500 names on the list, please send it to: mailto:anacheca@hotmail.com”

Right.

Let’s set the record straight: There is no such thing as a bonsai kitten. Bonsai kittens could not exist. Think about it. They would die under this kind of treatment. Not only that, the website itself is laughable. Products are not priced, and there is no secure way to purchase them. What kind of commercial site would not have Paypal as an option? You don’t even need a business to offer Paypal. Granted, this isn’t exactly a “respectable business,” but still. The tone of the website is actually quite strange — “Bonsai Kitticulture permits from the U.S. government…” I highly doubt the American government would condone such an activity. “In fact, if you take a week-old kitten and throw it to the floor, it will actually bounce!” This doesn’t sound serious. At all. {{link http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm The entire thing is a hoax.}}

I admire you people who sent it on: your hearts are in the right place. Unfortunately you’re throwing yourselves against a cause which doesn’t exist.

Same goes for those letters which promise that so-and-so will get such-and-such amount of money if you forward it. Like I said, your hearts are in the right place. But it’s pretty difficult to track an email.

I don’t like forwards. They clutter up my inbox (which is low on space already) and waste my time.

So do everyone a favor and delete them.

Random Anime Birthday: Puchiko (Di-Gi-Charat)

I love Di-Gi-Charat. It’s *so* cute.

I expect to see everyone go to the One Acts. Preferably all on different days, too, so you can give me a ride home too ^_^ Just kidding.

I got {{link http://bloggie.thorned.nu/ your}} email, but I don’t think I could compose a coherent email at the moment, so you’ll have to wait a little. ^^;; Sorry!

Random Anime Birthday: Seika Mori (Gun Parade March)

And so the long march back to school begins. >.O I am really starting to dislike school. I’m always tired. -_-; Winter Break needs to be longer…. say… a year or so XD

Physics is making me lazy with sig figs. Honestly. You should have seen how out teacher dealt with the SF’s in the problem last class… he didn’t. I raised a point about the answer only having one sig fig, and he said, “Well, let’s not worry about sig figs.” ARGH! How annoying! Moving on…

Stagecrew was disorganized, as always. Not only did I not have the slightest clue what was going on, the head changed his mind about seven times X_x; Oi. I didn’t get home until close to 7. *sigh* And he wanted me to stay even longer. -_-; Times like this I wish I had a car and could drive. But then I think about how scary driving is and what a terror I would be on the road XD

I borrowed what should prove to be very interesting books from the library yesterday: Does God Play Dice? and Nihongo: in defense of the language. Does God Play Dice? isn’t a religious book at all (thank heavens — pardon the pun). It’s about the mathematics of chaos. I’ve always found chaos interesting. The idea that true randomness exists, that everything is left to chance, rather than being predetermined. We’re talking TRUE randomness. We’re not talking about thinking “Why did she just say that?” when you know there is an underlying cause. We’re talking iterations of 2(x^2) – 1. I guess a part of me is just attracted to the unknown, the fact that nothing can be known for certain.

But in chaos there is order, and in order there is chaos; the two are not polar opposites but more interrelated than we can comprehend…

Random Anime Birthday: Widoshiku/Akira Onishi (Time Stranger Kyoko)

-_-;; The one year anniversary of this little blog is coming up soon! February… something. I think my first pitas entry is the 5th, but that’s because I deleted my VERY first one (on the 3rd.) So I should have a layout change around then. Which means I have to work on it now. I already have a picture in mind, I just need to know what to do with it. ^_^

Stagecrew yesterday was fun because we actually did WORK! (Yes, I know it’s shocking.) Well, okay, we didn’t do work for the first part. I was supervising Gary and Eric as they wrote an article for the Big Bang (you can read it on Tuesday. ^_^) Then I spent the next hour in the green room pretending to work on props but actually talking to Gary. We found Eric sometme later and started moving things around and painting. (Outside. It got chilly at 6:00.) We became frustrated when we couldn’t make the black any darker (don’t ask.) We moved everything back inside, and then everyone chipped in a little bit so that Eric could go to Oakridge and buy us food (we were asking everyone to bring us food. How shocking when they actually did.) Two of us left early to go see a play >>; So we weren’t left with too many people. However, may others came to fill their place (very unusual.) However, by this time Gary and I had to leave.

Photocopying for BBSJ today was okay. But why do I always get there earlier before everyone else?

And why do the people running the food stand never give me free food?

Random Anime Birthday: Seiji Ogata (Hikaru no Go)

I’ve been thinking about a few things. I figure that although it doesn’t seem like it, I am highly dependent on music to get me through my day. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “theme songs”, songs that are stuck in my head are usually there for a good reason. I mean, I doodle lyrics all over the place because they’re always in my head.

“Hold me
Whatever lies beyond this morning
Is a little later on
Regardless of warnings the future doesn’t scare me at all
Nothing’s like before”

— Hikaru Utada, “Simple and Clean”

“Hajimete no koi hajimete shitta
Konna kanashimi ga aru koto”

— Maaya Sakamoto, “Yubiwa”

“Pray kamisama hoshiiyo sayonara wo iu yuuki wo
Kujikesouna ima wo kowashitaino
Datte nidoto deatta koro ni modorenai kara
Pray kamisama oshiete kono koi wa owarinano?
Kudakechitta omoide mune wo sasu no
Soshite nidoto deatta koro ni modorenaku naru”

— Yuko Sasaki, “Pray”

And I’ve done a little thinking about the whole Gordon Campbell incident (I like to take my time thinking.) I don’t believe resignation is necessarily the answer; what I would like him to do is step aside while he “seeks professional help” and sorts himself out. I firmly do not believe that currently, he is in any state to be our premier. (No pun intended.) While it’s true that the majority of us would not be asked to leave our jobs of we were convicted of drinking and driving, the premier is a different matter altogether. He is a public citizen and he represents the people of our fair province even when he’s on vacation. The fact that he did it on vacation does not excuse him at all. Whether or not he was on his “personal time,” the fact remains that he committed a crime. And here’s where analogies to Ralph Klein break down. Sure, Mr. Klein is an alcoholic, and he got into a scrap at a homeless shelter, but he didn’t break the law. Mr. Campbell did.

In any case, Mr. Campbell will never be able to shrug this off, and his reputation as a politician has been seriously tarnished. He will no longer be able to run for pubic office without one of his opponents using this against him.

Random Anime Birthday of the Day: Takashi Ayanokouji (PitaTen)

A friend gave me a link to an {{link http://www.ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html AOL 12-year-old newbie translator}}. It’s absolutely hilarious.

Observe:

“Hi everyone. I just finished my English homework. It was really hard.”

(Actually, it wasn’t, but we’ll just use that as an example.)

“HI EV3RYONE!!1!1111 WTF I JUST FINISHED MAH 3NGLISH HOMEWORK!1!11 WTF IT WAS RILLY HARD1!11!11 WTF LOL”

Oh, and let’s take a look at the Declaration of Independence (I have a thing for mangling history documents):

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

“W3 HOLD THESA TRUTHS 2 B SELF-EVIEDNT TAHT AL MAN R CR3AETD 3QUAL TAHT TH3Y R ENDOWED BY THEYRE CREA2R WIT C3RTANE UNALEINABLE RIGHTS TAHT MONG TH3SE R LIEF LIEBRTY AND TEH PURSUIT OF HAPIENS1111!!!1 OMG LOL -TAHT 2 SECUR3 THES3 RIGHTS GOV3RNMENTS R INSTITUT3D MONG MEN DERIVNG THEYRE JUST POW3RS FROM TEH CONSENT OF DA GOVARNAD -TAHT WH3N3V3R ANY FORM OF GOVERNM3NT BCOM3S D3STRUCTIEV OF THESA ANDS IT IS TEH RIGHT OF DA PEOPLA 2 ALTER OR 2 ABOLISH IT AND 2 INSTITUTE NU GOV3RNM3NT LAYNG ITS FOUNDATION ON SUCH PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZNG ITS POWARS IN SUCH FORM AS 2 TH3M SHAL SEM MOST LIEKLY 2 AFECT THEYRE SAEFTY AND HAPIENS11!! WTF”

O.o?

**Random anime birthday of the day: {{link http://www.tcp.com/~doi/tokimemo/char/saki.html Nijino Saki}} (Tokimeki Memorial)**

-_-;; That was an absolutely HORRIBLE PHYSICS TEST! AUGH! Bad bad bad bad bad bad! -_-;; I swear, I will be LUCKY to pass that test. In all honesty. I have never done so poorly on a test (except for a math one… but we won’t go into that.)

I need to catch up on some site work. ({{link http://www.kyuui.nu/~majesty This one}} in particular.

What Anime Critter are You?

Kero-chan! ^_^ Kawaii desu yo! *nodnod*

My head hurts. Editing is not fun; neither is staring at a computer screen for four hours straight trying to find a picture of surgeons using fiber optic cables. ARGH. >< I have a headache.

“Iris” … “Vector” … “Onaji hoshi ni umare futaridakara” … “A Thousand Miles” … “Pray.”

Yep, that’s how it goes *giggle* Oh yes, this is officially a riddle XDDD Just to entertain my friends, yo. And drive them nuts! ^_^ Squirrels like nuts. (You might want me to elaborate on this *hinthint*)

Today, Stage Crew was rather pointless, as everyone left early… -_-;; BAH. You know, I’m really worried. The plays are in two weeks and we have ONE load of white laundry and ONE load of pink. We need four of each -_-;; Plus we still need EIGHT squeegies. Not fun X_X;;

I do find it rather sad that such a good team as the Senators may simply be packed up and moved away. Ice hockey essentially represents Canada; to be without a team in our country captial (therefore the capital of ice hockey) is nothing short of disgraceful. While I am very confident that some measure will be found to keep the team in Ottawa, apprehension still lingers in the back of my mind…
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