There are quite a few things I want to do this summer. I figured I'd maked a list.

Decide on Cosplay Costume --10%
Make Cosplay Costume --0%
Further Progress on Persona 3 FES, FFVIII, and Dragon Quest VIII --?%
Complete D/P Pokedex --?%
Make a Mini Manga Series --0%
Read Un-Read Manga --0%
Watch Un-Watched Anime --0%
Read Un-Read Novels --0%
Improve Fitness --40%
Learn More Japanese --0%
Improve Ambidexterity --5%

Here are some of the characters that I have considered making my next cosplay costume of:

Trucy Wright, Ema Skye, Lamiroir (Apollo Justice)
Yukari Takeba, Elizabeth (Persona 3 FES)
Witch Princess, Harvest Goddess (Harvest Moon)
Saya Minatsuki (Black Cat)

Suggestions are appreciated! I'm 5'6" though, so a lot of shorter characters are ruled out...

Look what I got!!

(The white spot is a head that I cut out of the picture...)

Happy Easter! I shared my Chiyo Chiyos with you. ^_^ (they're from Target)

Ok, it's more like a get-together with some friends to play SSBB, but I might not be on this weekend because of it.....mwa ha ha ha I shall make them battle and unlock all the characters for me! *menacing laughing persists for the next few minutes*

Uhhhh, other than that, I've hardly been getting much time to draw, I have to read 300+ pages of classical literature and write two essays by Wednesday, I really wanna start my comic, and my dog is really fat! *awkward pause* *clears throat* ....and, for the aforementioned reasons, I may find myself unable to attend to my inter-web related duties this weekend......

*hyper-ness continues*

I finished Apollo Justice late last night. Lots o fun! But....now what do I play on my DS?!!

I know I want to start another cosplay costume, I just can't decide who I should cosplay as. There are a few candidates from Apollo Justice, but there are still some games I'm waiting for that might have tempting characters, especially Dragon Quest IX.

I'm thinking of writing more blogs in my spare time (wait, what spare time?), maybe a continuing story or something if I can dig some old idea out of the back of my brain....Okay, that sounds painful. 0_0 Maybe I'll just look through the file cabinet...

I have to read three more chapters of The Odyssey, then Romeo and Juliet, then another unit of English, all by March 20th....so what am I doing writing a blog? Oh, that's right, I'm a procrastinator!

I'm not really into the mushy stuff, but I made a drawing for Valentine's Day anyway.

Gotta go to art c.lasses so I'll edit this later...

**Later**
Woo-hoo! My art c.lass-mates gave me candy. ^_^ Then I got to eat dinner at a hibachi restraunt, where I got stuffed past my capicity. I even got a free piece of cake from a newly-wed couple that were celebrating at the restraunt. I pawned off my drawing on them, lol. Duhhh, I guess that's it. ^_^

As promised, I got plenty of pictures, although I wish I had gotten more. So now I'll plop them in here in no particular order...

I caught these two while they were getting their badges:

Got any soul candy?

Ahh! I can't defend against jutsu while holding a camera...

Hey, what'd I just say?

I wanna see some blue hair, mister!

Hot, hot, hakama!

Oh, there's my blue hair...

Well, they aren't concealed weapons...

Does it hurt, going up in the onion?

The judges of the cosplay competition.

I see we have a visitor from Sinnoh, as well.

Hey, I know you! (Okay, I had to get in on the pose.)

I've been replaced! Three fold!

I wrote this short story for school one morning. I figured it would be a waste to work on something that's only for school, so I decided to post it here. Uh, I guess it'd fit in the tragedy genre.

Protégé
by She-slime

"Was it really...all a waste?"
Ever since she was young, Kura could summon powers beyond the abilities of most humans. Her mother told her that these powers were known as 'conjuring' and that only a few gifted people could do such things. Her parents were very proud of her, especially when she was accepted into a conjuring academy at the age of five; the youngest student to study there since its establishment. She quickly progressed, as did her powers, and her grades were the highest in her grade.
On the day Kura received her A-filled report card for level five conjuring studies at the age of seven, a record setting feat, her parents celebrated with a small feast, the most lavish they could afford. As her father began to serve the first course, a blinding light flashed in the sky and quickly filled the room. Then black.
Kura awoke to see a devastated land that only faintly resembled the town which had stood there before. A strong burning smell hung in the air, but there was no sign of smoke. Kura's house, if it could really even be called a house any more, lay in a wreck around her. The only thing that kept her from harm was the barrier that she had erected around her at the last moment. As she let down the shield, she felt a warm drip on her forehead. Upon realizing it was blood, she looked up. Kura screamed at the sight of her dead mother and scrambled away from the woman that had, in her last moments, flung herself over her child and braced herself against the oncoming disaster.
Kura called out to her father. She desperately crawled over the rubble that was once her home. With a loud thud, she tripped and fell. Looking back at what she had tripped on, she saw her father's hand, recognizable by his wrist-watch protruding from a pile of bricks that had been a chimney only minutes before. Kura screamed and cried. She ran without a destination, desperately flew from that which could not chase, yet would not be left behind. She finally ran out of breath and lay distraught in the dead city.
A tall, lanky man gingerly stepped over the crumbling wall of the former conjuring academy. "No one?" he spoke to himself, "Not too many smart conjurers these days. A shame, really." Just as he was about to give up on finding any survivors, he heard a timid cry from amidst the rubble. Investigation produced a trembling, muddy Kura. The man knew that only an exceptional conjurer could have survived the devastation that he had witnessed, and invited Kura to study under him as his protégé, as she had no where else to go. Kura tightly grasped the man's hand as they circumnavigated the former town and headed towards the closest sign of civilization.
Eight years after the destruction of everything she knew, Kura was a powerful conjurer, second only to the man who taught her. However, Kura felt that there must be one other person on her world that was more powerful than her; The conjurer who had summoned the catastrophe and directed it at her town, for such a blast had never been seen in nature, was still somewhere, waiting for her to exact her vengeance. Even after winning an underground conjuring tournament, in which the loser's life was in the hands of the winner, Kura still felt she wasn't powerful enough. She begged her master, the man who had retrieved her from her town so long ago, to teach her the mana-blade technique, his most powerful ability. The man refused and told her to keep winning tournaments and silencing his adversaries.
In her twenty-first year, Kura attempted her sixth consecutive tournament win, only to be over-whelmed by a fan-favorite contender in the last round. She survived only by the whim of her opponent. Her master, who had not seemed to age a day in the past fourteen years, shunned her for her loss. She once again begged him to teach her the mana-blade technique, to which he lashed out at her and further scolded her. Despite the stinging pain in her cheek, she obediently followed him to their dwellings.
After following her master's order to the letter for another year, Kura was instructed to fight a girl who had, one way or another, displeased her master. Accompanied by the man to which she owed her life, Kura confronted the girl, a fellow conjurer. The girl used powerful defensive spells which repelled everything Kura could conjure. Seeing that Kura was in severe need of encouragement, her master told her that the girl was the one that had destroyed her town, that the girl was the only one standing in Kura's path to becoming the second most powerful conjurer in the world.
Enraged, Kura prepared to launch a final attack against the girl. The girl stood, stunned. She pleaded with Kura to stop. She told Kura that she didn't destroy the town, it was the man. Kura twitched in anger. To even suggest that her master, who had stood beside her all these years, was her ultimate rival was unforgivable. Unable to ignore such a sin against her master, she conjured an attack, one which, if aimed correctly, would render her opponent unable to tell a lie. The girl did not conjure the slightest defense against the attack, and practically stepped into its trajectory.
Kura told the girl to tell her the truth of the destruction of her city. However, the girl told Kura the exact same thing. "I did not destroy your town. Your master summoned the catastrophe upon that city. That's why I've come to fight him." The girl paused, teary-eyed, "You see, that city was my home as well."
Kura stood dumbfounded. Her master's voice came from behind her, "Even you can't mis-conjure a simple truth attack." A hot tear ran down Kura's cheek. She heard a metallic sound; a sound that could only come from her master's mana-blade. She gasped for air as the sword pierced her torso. She stared at the tip of the knife protruding from her chest, trying to fight the darkness enveloping her field of vision. She thought, "Was it really...all a waste?"

Taking a break from the convention and just figured I'd let off a little steam. Well, not that I have any reason to, I guess that's the problem. I guess I'm just getting bugged by things that I shouldn't be bothered by. I guess the best advice I could follow would be "don't let it get to you", but I'm not really sure how to do that, obviously. *sigh* I got a bit depressed yesterday, too, but for even less of a reason. I'm annoyed with myself for being so introverted and whatnot, even if that's not exactly true. I'm just being childish, and even though I know this, I act the same way. Well, I guess it's about time I dig my way out of this spiral of despair, so, until next time. I'll be sure to post plenty of pictures. (I even got to meet a pikmin ^_^)

EDIT: Feeling much better now. I'll try to post everything about the con (that I can remember) tomorrow or Monday.

I got some pictures of the whole Franziska Von Karma costume (see below)....but I forgot to put on the gloves and draw on the beauty mark before I took the pictures! Oops. I'm gonna get my eyebrows waxed tomorrow 0.0 *cries* "Only for cosplay!!!"

In other news, I pre-ordered a Harvest Moon game that's coming out in Japan later this month. Too bad I'm practically illiterate when it comes to Japanese, lol. I also ordered an art book of Yusuke Murata's color illustrations of Eyeshield 21. ^_^ And I'll have them at the begining of March! Yay!

Now for some posing....

w00p! w00p! I'm gonna finish! I'm really gonna finish! *does the happy dance*

I only have to do the cuffs on the sleeves and make the skirt and I'll be F-I-N-I-S-H-E-D! My Franziska Von Karma costume will be complete! Just in time, too. The convention starts on Friday. 0_0 Heh heh, I didn't get any school work done this past week though, so my teacher will be happy that I'm finally finished with it as well.

>_< Speaking of school, I filled out this worksheet for this career choices course and said that having a job that used a lot of mechanical tools and such wasn't important to me (I want to be a professional comic artist/writer). The substitute teacher was giving me a hard time about it, saying that I'll need to use air-brushes and CAD software and such. Guess what? I looked up CAD. Ends up it's computer software (computer-aided design) used by electrical engineers, architect, fashion designers, just about everything but comic artists according to the article that I found. Ooooh and she was telling me that I should do more research on art colleges to see what they actually do. Not to mention that she told me that I need more than just talent!! GAH! I know she meant well, or whatever, but DANG, that's insulting!

Ugh, I'll just concentrate on my costume. ^_^ It's much easier to be happy.

Finally! The shirt is finished! I have only to make a vest, skirt, cuffs, brooch, earrings and finally decide if I'm going to keep the whip before I am officially finished with my Franziska Von Karma costume!! Uhh, I'll finish! I will! >_<
This is the wig I chose:

Uh, just ignore the bookshelf. ^_^

I still haven't taken a good picture of the shirt. I'll be sure to get one of the entire enamble once I'm done with everything. I even got disposable contacts (surprisingly comfortable, by the way)!

As I have mentioned, I'm working on a costume of Franziska VonKarma. I was extremely lucky to be able to find a wig of the right color, plus the type of boots she wears were "in" last season, so they're on sale now. Amazingly enough, I was able to find a sewing pattern that I can use to make her shirt.
I was almost half-way done with the shirt when I came to a step that I was surprised to find in the English language instructions, considering how much confusion it caused me. Not to mention, if I do what I think it's telling me too, it will end up too small for me, despite the fact that the pattern is marked as a full size larger than what I wear. I'll probably end up having to improvise, but, truthfully, this is my first sewing project where I've both followed a pattern and not forced my mom to do most of the sewing. ^_^ I just hope that I can get it done so that I can move onto the vest and skirt. The brooch and cuffs on the sleeves pose more problems, but I think I'll just go one step at a time for now.
Well, if anyone has any suggestions, drop me a line! Until next time then. ^_^

I have a lot of things I have to do, none of which I am doing at the moment. I'm preparing a Franziska VonKarma costume so that I can cosplay at an Anime/Gaming con I'm going to next month, rushing to finish all my educational stuff by the end of the grading period, trying to script a short movie to make with my friends, and, perhaps most importantly, keeping up on my gaming!

I finally got a PS1 memory card, so I've been playing FFVIII. I love it. ^_^ Currently, I'm on the second disc. I've also been trying to make some progress on Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland (PS2) which I hadn't played for two or three years. 0_0 I really wanna finish Dragon Quest VIII but I haven't played it in quite a while. I just can't beat Doulmagus and his clones. I can't even remember how to spell his name, it's been so long, lol. I haven't even touched my Wii this year (sob) but that will all change once SSBB comes out (if it's ever going to).

I'm getting excited about Apollo Justice coming out, as well as two Harvest Moons (one for Wii, one for DS), but everywhere I look, different subtitles are listed for the same game! It's so confusing! I'm not sure if I'm going to reserve HM DS Cute, but I'll probably end up getting it sooner or later. I recently checked my Animal Crossing: Wild World town, which is infested with weeds and cockroaches, and I couldn't even remember what my town's name was! Maybe I should switch games periodically...

Anyway, I'll be very happy if my costume works out. I still can't believe I found a wig of the correct color. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about thos sleeves, though. I'll try to post pictures when it's finished.

  Sooooooooooo.  Sunday Night Shows!  Here's what I watch on TV on Sunday evenings!

First, on Fox, and about 8:00 The Simpsons!  I keep watching FOX until Desperate Housewives is on.  This is the ONLY place that I will EVER admit that I watch Desperate Housewives.  Ever.  So.....Kids, don't lick nine volt batteries.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Weeeelllll, it took me until today to actually remember to look up Animal Crossing to see if it was actually planned for Wii yet, but still: yay ^_^  

     There's a lot of talk on the forums about what people want to see in it but I'm sure Nintendo will have some great surprises for us.  I was wondering when a game would be announced that would utilize the Wii's wi-fi features, one that I'd be inteested in anyway, and 'click' there it is!  I hope that more great games, and not just the latest of the greatest series but new ones too, will come to Wii and really take advantage of the internet options.  I understand that not everyone can get their Wii online, but wouldn't it be awesome to be able to trade pokemon wi-fi, or you could even download your team to the remote and battle your friends at their house if you can't get online.  I'm sure that not all of the Wii's capabilities have been explored to their fullest, and I look forward to seeing all the great ideas that people come up with: and not just the developers, what about you guys?  I'm sure we all have some ideas of what we want to see on our Wiis;  What are your ideas?  I hope you post them on your blogs and go into detail: just be sure to either copywright/patent it or relinquish all rights   I really don't wanna think that any of our fellow gamespotters would do that, but I don't wanna encourage anyone to get into a lawsuit