eighthphase

Today, as usual, I spent procrastinating working. (I actually got a little bit of work done, but not very much.) Most of the procrastination time was spent reading Cardcaptor Sakura~ I love that manga, it's so cute. Also Cardcaptors was one of my first anime... um, even though the English dub was pretty bad. (Though, I'm watching some of it now, and it's not actually that bad. I mean, I will never forgive whatever company did it for what they did to the names, but the actual voice acting isn't that bad.) I actually like some of those voices better than in The Sealed Card (Michael McConnohie as Fujitaka? That sounds kind of weird. Kirk Thornton as Touya? Yeah, no.), but most of those are pretty decent, too. It's an excellent cast, even if it doesn't sound all that great ^_^; Well, it's not that bad. I mean, Johnny Bosch did Eriol~ So obviously that's okay.

I had something else to post about, some kind of really deep discussion-type thing, but I forgot most of it, and I think if I tried rewording what I remember now it would just be... weird. /: I can say that I really haven't made progress on my paper, and I doubt I'm going to have it done by tomorrow (even though I had all break to work on it... oops). It's proving really difficult to write, and I don't like that. There are ideas in my head, but I can't make them come out the way I want them to, and it's really annoying me. Writing isn't supposed to be hard for me. I guess it's... I know what the big picture is supposed to look like, but when it comes to the details, I can't get them down. Which is what plagues my normal writing, not my essays. Then again, most of my essays are 'this is bs this is bs this is bs' but I feel like I can't do that with this one. This one feels too important to just bs my way through. ...plus I've never faked my way through seven pages, let alone fifteen...

Maybe I'll try again in the morning. If I get up a little earlier, I might even be able to finish it. It's not like I've never written essays that near the due date, anyway... and I did five pages in an hour once, that wasn't that hard, and I only have to write six now. (I've got one page done, anyway...) I'm still way behind on the reading and the IDs but... I should be able to catch up on those easily enough, I think hope think.

...mmm, Clow Reed-centric fic. I think I might just have to find more~ :D Or maybe Eriol this time, since I read all that Clow-centric fic this morning. While procrastinating. .///.;

I'm trying to figure out the timeline for Exanimare. It's not exactly difficult, since there's only, like... five entries in it, but it's still weird. /: Especially since more than half of them aren't finished. T: My fault entirely, obviously. I'm liking the world, even if I haven't gone as far into it as I would like to just yet. The cast of characters is growing, though! :D Elizabeth's gaining a personality, and then there's Cassandra and Hypnos. I don't actually like Cassandra, though. /: Then again, back when I started this whole thing Azel was kind of based on me, and Azel definitely doesn't like Cassandra, so I guess that makes sense.

And as much as I'd like to finish the stories introing Cassandra and Hypnos, I don't really feel like writing right now. /: Maybe I'll go looking for actors or something, get a better idea of what they all look like in my head, since I'm not so good at art that I can actually get the pictures in my head down on the page properly. I'm much better at writing, in that sense.

I expect tomorrow to be a very mediocre day. I want to say that that should bother me, but doesn't... but it actually does bother me, a little. Well, at least I can admit it.

Today was a productive day. I finished the trig homework I couldn't figure out, including figuring out how to do it (no thanks to Mr Martin, who was no help at all, but rather thanks to my amazing textbook-reading skillz). I'm almost done with Shadow Souls, I have a nearly-finished drawing of Mao as she might look in said book, and I have a kick-ass group thesis. It's kick-ass.

Relatedly, I love talking over my writing with people. I love figuring out how to make it better. Granted, at first I don't usually like having something I'm proud of picked apart, but once I get over myself I love getting feedback. Mrs Waller was kind of shocked, I mean, Jacob and I were both all "Mrs Waller, help us with this thesis please!" (note: Jacob is not in my group, his thesis is completely different) and she was happy about it because that's what she wanted people to do, but nobody was doing it. So she was really pleased that we were.

And I'm really bored right now, so I'm off to play some Tales of the Abyss~! Maybe this time I'll actually get through Mt Roneal, lol.