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So, I've got art bunnies. What the heck am I supposed to do with art bunnies? You know who I blame this on? I blame this on two people, whose last names are Pullman and Arakawa. That's right, I'm talking to you, Hiromu Pullman and Philip Arakawa! Darn you both! grumblegrumblegrumblefreakingbunnies... It's bad enough that I get random plot attacks, now things are pestering me to draw them. I can't draw! Why don't you understand that?! Leave me alone! You don't want to see what I'll turn you into! Bother someone else! Freaking Hughes. Freaking Pantalaimon. Freaking Dust. Aaand now I realize that I could just as easily be talking about my cell phone and iPod. Except for the Dust. I don't have anything related to Dust. Aside from dust. Which everyone has, and certainly doesn't name, so I'm not special. No, I am not going to name my dust.
(A/N, zomgah: In the above paragraph when I originally set out to switch Pullman and Arakawa-sensei's names I realized that I have no sense of which of Arakawa-sensei's names is the first, and which is the last. And I'm not sure where it's been switched. I mean, 荒川 looks longer and is clearly the last name, and if I could remember either of the pronunciations for 川 I'd be fine, but I can't (... except for the one that's in Szechuan. Szechuan's also got four in it. Or maybe it's five. It looks like legs hanging down in a fireplace. This is how I understand these!). And I know "looks longer" doesn't necessarily make it Arakawa, because chakra is a long word that's just... well, I'm not going to attempt to find the kanji, so live with it. Then there's 弘, which looks like it's got a little "mu" on the end, or maybe that looks like a "ma". It's something that starts with m. The rest of it I've got no idea on, and I'm pretty sure katakana doesn't end up in kanji, anyway. I hope someone who can actually read Japanese is laughing at me over this. And now that it's been confirmed that Arakawa is indeed her last name, it greatly disturbs me that it's almost always switched to the American order. That's just unfairly confusing! Ah well, at least my instinct for which was more last name-like was correct. Gah!)
My tea tastes vaguely of lychee. I've got no idea why. I don't think anything lychee flavoured has ever been in this house. This scares me. (Almost as much as it would scare me if my cola-type pop had a popcorn aftertaste).
I was actually out in the sun today! Probably for a total of two hours or more! Reading! I might be less deathly-pale next time someone sees me. Hehehe. Ah, and so many dorks run screaming from the sun. Like it's some sort of obligation to have an aversion to it. Pah! There's nothing wrong with the sun! The sun is a mass of incandescent gas! It's 93 million miles away (and that's why it looks so small!), it won't hurt you if you go out into it every once in a while. It's probably lonely up there in the sky. Probably doesn't know what a proper dork looks like. What if the sun is a scientist-type, and you're preventing it from seeing all the specimens? Huh? Ever think of that? What if the sun decides to come down and find you and burns us all to death in the process, because you wouldn't go out in the sun! Darn you! You nerds! Darn you all! Super Mario 3 is was a warning to you all! The sun will come after you if you don't go outside! Just you wait!
Aaand, on that note I think I'm going to go teach myself to draw.
(A/N: A quick Japanese-type lesson, to fix anything I may have permanently confused you on. This will, of course, be handled in an equally incompetant manner. Katakana - ma: マ mu: ム. Kanji - four: 四 (yon or shi), five: 五 (go), power: 力 (chikara, or if you're used to Naruto-type spelling, chakra. I think it's the same. I mean, basically. Uhh. Oh, who knows). Misc - Szechuan: 四川. Which appears to actually be made up of four and river. River is 川. As you can guess by now, it is pronounced "kawa." In Japanese. I think it's "chuan" in Chinese, but I've got no idea what tone it'd be in. Whether that's Mandarin or Cantonese, either, I can only guess (my guess is Mandarin, because that's what my friends know, and I'm pretty sure I've been told that river is chuan. But isn't Szechuan from the Canton region? Which would make it Cantonese, and... oh, screw it. Szechuan. Four. River. Spicy food). Yaaaay! Which makes this (荒) the "ara" part. And I am now determined to find out what it means. Which appears to be "wild" or "desolate." Though I'm not sure how a river could be desolate. Not that just sticking two words together actually makes a compound word like that all the time. And now 弘. Which I've got no idea on, and apparently neither does the internet (or at least the parts of it that I can read). Perhaps it's one of those words that just doesn't mean anything in English. If I resort to a online translator and tell it it's Chinese I get "great." (Japanese gives me "Hiro"). Hmmm...
Now you have an idea of the sort of havoc I wreak on my Chinese friends when they're trying to study, see? Only I go on about "android ship-in-a-box" (something with 国 in it, because that's ship-in-a-box. Beats me what android was. There was also a gas-pump one. But he didn't go with country.) and "walking-box" (兄). I'm also increasingly of the opinion that nine and powerlook too much alike (九 and 力). And that is your meandering lesson of the day. I hope you learned something important. I know I have increased my knowledge of kanji by about two. Which is a lot, considering I only know about twenty. Letsee... king, tree, book, person, Japan, mouth, river, gold, alchemist, fire, chikara, heart, bright, gate, alcohol, one, two, three, four, five, eight, nine, ten, ten thousand, evil, triangle, square, woman, man, brother, fish, water. All right, I know more than twenty. I should... er... go do something now before I edit this entry a fifth time.)
(A/N, zomgah: In the above paragraph when I originally set out to switch Pullman and Arakawa-sensei's names I realized that I have no sense of which of Arakawa-sensei's names is the first, and which is the last. And I'm not sure where it's been switched. I mean, 荒川 looks longer and is clearly the last name, and if I could remember either of the pronunciations for 川 I'd be fine, but I can't (... except for the one that's in Szechuan. Szechuan's also got four in it. Or maybe it's five. It looks like legs hanging down in a fireplace. This is how I understand these!). And I know "looks longer" doesn't necessarily make it Arakawa, because chakra is a long word that's just... well, I'm not going to attempt to find the kanji, so live with it. Then there's 弘, which looks like it's got a little "mu" on the end, or maybe that looks like a "ma". It's something that starts with m. The rest of it I've got no idea on, and I'm pretty sure katakana doesn't end up in kanji, anyway. I hope someone who can actually read Japanese is laughing at me over this. And now that it's been confirmed that Arakawa is indeed her last name, it greatly disturbs me that it's almost always switched to the American order. That's just unfairly confusing! Ah well, at least my instinct for which was more last name-like was correct. Gah!)
My tea tastes vaguely of lychee. I've got no idea why. I don't think anything lychee flavoured has ever been in this house. This scares me. (Almost as much as it would scare me if my cola-type pop had a popcorn aftertaste).
I was actually out in the sun today! Probably for a total of two hours or more! Reading! I might be less deathly-pale next time someone sees me. Hehehe. Ah, and so many dorks run screaming from the sun. Like it's some sort of obligation to have an aversion to it. Pah! There's nothing wrong with the sun! The sun is a mass of incandescent gas! It's 93 million miles away (and that's why it looks so small!), it won't hurt you if you go out into it every once in a while. It's probably lonely up there in the sky. Probably doesn't know what a proper dork looks like. What if the sun is a scientist-type, and you're preventing it from seeing all the specimens? Huh? Ever think of that? What if the sun decides to come down and find you and burns us all to death in the process, because you wouldn't go out in the sun! Darn you! You nerds! Darn you all! Super Mario 3 is was a warning to you all! The sun will come after you if you don't go outside! Just you wait!
Aaand, on that note I think I'm going to go teach myself to draw.
(A/N: A quick Japanese-type lesson, to fix anything I may have permanently confused you on. This will, of course, be handled in an equally incompetant manner. Katakana - ma: マ mu: ム. Kanji - four: 四 (yon or shi), five: 五 (go), power: 力 (chikara, or if you're used to Naruto-type spelling, chakra. I think it's the same. I mean, basically. Uhh. Oh, who knows). Misc - Szechuan: 四川. Which appears to actually be made up of four and river. River is 川. As you can guess by now, it is pronounced "kawa." In Japanese. I think it's "chuan" in Chinese, but I've got no idea what tone it'd be in. Whether that's Mandarin or Cantonese, either, I can only guess (my guess is Mandarin, because that's what my friends know, and I'm pretty sure I've been told that river is chuan. But isn't Szechuan from the Canton region? Which would make it Cantonese, and... oh, screw it. Szechuan. Four. River. Spicy food). Yaaaay! Which makes this (荒) the "ara" part. And I am now determined to find out what it means. Which appears to be "wild" or "desolate." Though I'm not sure how a river could be desolate. Not that just sticking two words together actually makes a compound word like that all the time. And now 弘. Which I've got no idea on, and apparently neither does the internet (or at least the parts of it that I can read). Perhaps it's one of those words that just doesn't mean anything in English. If I resort to a online translator and tell it it's Chinese I get "great." (Japanese gives me "Hiro"). Hmmm...
Now you have an idea of the sort of havoc I wreak on my Chinese friends when they're trying to study, see? Only I go on about "android ship-in-a-box" (something with 国 in it, because that's ship-in-a-box. Beats me what android was. There was also a gas-pump one. But he didn't go with country.) and "walking-box" (兄). I'm also increasingly of the opinion that nine and powerlook too much alike (九 and 力). And that is your meandering lesson of the day. I hope you learned something important. I know I have increased my knowledge of kanji by about two. Which is a lot, considering I only know about twenty. Letsee... king, tree, book, person, Japan, mouth, river, gold, alchemist, fire, chikara, heart, bright, gate, alcohol, one, two, three, four, five, eight, nine, ten, ten thousand, evil, triangle, square, woman, man, brother, fish, water. All right, I know more than twenty. I should... er... go do something now before I edit this entry a fifth time.)
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