It always makes me happy when I see something from my childhood adapted into a movie. It makes me even happier when the adaptation is a good one. I want to go see Prince Caspian again, but probably won't get to go until after my next rotation. It's the exact same feeling I had when I first went to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I wish I could fly out to Colorado and go see it with everyone back home and then play D&D afterward like we did with the first movie.
Narnia was so special to me as a child. I think it's because I desperately wanted some sort of magic in my life back then. It's not that I had a horrible childhood, it's just that I was one of those kids at school that never really fit in. I read a lot of books and did a lot of pretending I was someplace else. Didn't have many friends until I hit high school, so the thought of being transported to a magical land where I not only fit in, but would have adventures and be loved was very appealing to me. It's no wonder I go to these movies and dwell on them for a long while afterwards.
I can only imagine what it's going to be like when Pern finally hits the big screen. Probably won't even matter if it's good or not, I'll still have to be physically removed from the theatre. I get too attached to things.

OMG REEPICHEEP!!!

( More Caspian Gaspies (Spoilers) )

Laundry and cleaning now. And perhaps a nap.

Today was kinda sucky. I have too many papers to read tonight and too little motivation and brain power. Scared to death of my surgery rotation next block. I think it may just kill me.
But on the plus side - Mmm, chocolate peanut butter cake~.

What kind of bank doesn't have quarters?!
I can't believe I had to go to two different banks to get quarters because the first one was out. That's just...strange.
I feel very productive this morning, though. Managed to pick up supplies for Angelique's fluid therapy (and give her the first dose), mail off several things that I've been meaning to for about a month, pick up quarters, set up a study session for tomorrow, and start my laundry. Now I'm going to relax a little bit and eat lunch before getting to the second half of my to-do list for the day.
It should be noted that the opening thingy on Soul Caliber 3 makes me want to play Space Invaders.

So MyAnimeList.net is horribly addicting, as many people in my life have recently found out. This has sparked a lot of thought on my part - one for how I rate shows and how said ratings have changed with the groups I've hung out with, and second for all those shows I used to enjoy for their pure dorkiness and haven't watched in a long time.
So this evening I watched some of the Knights Who Hunt For Eternally Glowing White Crosses. I needed some hot Nagi action, what can I say. Plus, I seriously needed to turn my brain off and not think about the tragedy I dealt with all today. Much better to focus on ridiculous, pretty-boy angst. The outtakes on these DVDs are /hilarious/. It makes me want to watch the show dubbed just to see what jokes they put in the script (like the hilarious "And your little Fuhrer Todo too!" line). I feel a little better and I think I'm going to clean up my kitchen before getting some sleep.
Oh. Right. I guess I should look up the side effects for all those chemotherapy drugs...and prepare my journal report...gyaaaaah...

I feel like I'm on fast-forward all the time right now. I'm constantly hopping from one task to the next without time for thought or contemplation in between. I went from seeing appointments to rounds to deciding what I'm seeing tomorrow to running out with the Bib Studs to calling Ange's vet to...well, I guess now I have to do my discharges for today and my research for tomorrow. Joy. The one thing I didn't get done today was setting up a nurse appointment for my vaccine booster. I'll have to do that tomorrow.
I miss Neuro. *sniffle* Last rotation, surgery days were nerve-wracking, but it did break the week up nicely. Receiving every day is kinda gonna suck. I'll be singing a different tune during SAS next rotation, I'm sure. I hear the average amount of sleep for those people last week was 3 hours a night.
Speaking of which, the sooner I get this done the sooner I go to sleep. Time to get crackin'.

I should note that MyAnimeList.net is going to be a horrible addiction to me until I get my list all written out. I think it should bother me that I have 43 entries right now of things that I've completed, and that's mainly the stuff I just put in off the top of my head. *sweatdrop*

( Character Ramblings )

EDIT: I forgot I meant to rant about the awesome worship service there was this morning. The Worship Team really was on top of its game this week. I love it when they bring in the violin on top of the guitars, bass, drums, and piano. And after communion they sang a song that I guess is a couple years old but I had never heard before - Bring the Rain by Mercy Me. I think the words say it all.

Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain

And then there are some moments when you look back and say "How did I get here?"
I just watched some bits from NeoRomance Festa 6 and NeoRomance Festa 6 in Osaka. I can still close my eyes and envision the inside of the Pacifico Yokohama as I watched Yuuki Hiro take the stage for his song. I remember the feeling of getting to our seats in the show in Osaka and realizing we were /so/ close to the stage. These are familiar memories to me, ones I can replay whenever I pop in the DVD. Osaka I basically have memorized due to the translation project with setra.
And then I realized as I was sitting here that these things happened just over 4 years ago. 4 years. That's a long time. Back then I was just at the tip of my Nao-kun obsession and it was "Fukuyama...who?" and "That one guy who plays the violinist in the upcoming music game." Heck, that was before Haruka3 was even a twinkle in Koei's eye.
But so much else was different back then. Vet school was still a dream. I was pondering setting that dream aside temporarily to do missionary work. The thought of two semesters in a row with 18 credits so I could graduate on time was scary. D&D characters ran around in my head and I had no cats. I knew more Japanese back then, that's for sure. Sensei would smack me down if she saw me now. *sweatdrop* I thought I wanted to be a surgeon and go into orthopedics. I thought I was going to stay in Fort Collins another 4 years. If you had told me I was going to move away from my very happy and comfortable life in Colorado and move by myself to someplace where winter reigns surpreme I would have either laughed or gotten very frightened. If you had added that I would also chop my hair off, I would've thought you mad.
It makes me ponder how different I'm going to be four years from now. I wonder where I'll be and who I'll know. There are friends I haven't met yet and places I don't know that I'll call home. Somehow, that's exciting. Scary, but exciting.

EDIT: It should be noted that despite all the everything that has happened in four years, Nao-kun is still dorky in his blog and wrote a very nice entry today narrating his instant ramen experience. Some things never change.

Y'know what's fantastic about rotations? Only having 3 sick days for the entire year. So when I wake up feeling like death with a fever of 102 during my first rotation, calling in sick really is not an option.
At least the ibuprofen is kicking in now so hopefully I can be coherent today. I suppose I need to find socks.

I so need an Avatar icon. Or 12.
Ironically, despite this week marking the start of clinical rotations, I still got to hang out with awesome people this weekend. And frozenwater let me borrow Soul Caliber 3! Ya~y! Smacking people down with my original characters is far too fun. Tonight rubyd came over and we watched the two newest Avatar episodes and some episodes of 12 Kingdoms, since I've never seen it besides the one episode we watched at PosseCon all those years ago. Oh PosseCon - where I got addicted to Fruits Basket and killed with chocolate.
Avatar is awesome. SO awesome. I cannot begin to articulate the amazingness of the two episodes we watched tonight...( but I guess I'll try. )

I suppose I should sleep now so I can be well-rested to study and do stuff tomorrow. Oyasumi~!

I'll admit it - I have a double standard. When Colorado pulls this "Snow in April" crap after a week of marginally nice weather, I find it cute and endearing. I have more of a tendency to shake my head ruefully and say "Oh, Colorado. There you go again." With Minnesota, I have more of a habit of thinking it's spiteful. Spiteful, spiteful Minnesota refusing to give up its already horrifically long winters. Spiteful.

There really is nothing like watching one of your favorite characters out of your head beat down other characters with a giant stick. Literally. Man the character creation thing in Soul Caliber 3 is shiny. I can hardly wait for Soul Caliber 4 to see how much /more/ shiny it's going to be. Maybe they'll give us more than four voices to choose from. Maeru's voice doesn't quite fit, even in Japanese.

((Teehee - Katriana vs. Zaella))

Freaking out before my rotations. Ya~y!

( I wish...more than anything...more than life... )

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Right. Now I'm gonna go lay in bed and stare at the ceiling.

Pre-Ultrasound Final: "Holy cow, I'm so glad this course is pass-fail. I only have to worry about getting a 40% on the final!"
Post-Ultrasound Final: "Dude. I got a 95% in the class! Why is this pass-fail?! I could use that A!"

In other news, frozenwater-tachi are awesome. <3, I tell you!
Also, I'm really wishing that my stomach would stop being painful and ucky. Yes, Body. I get it - stress is bad for me. I promise you you'll eventually get a break...in a year or so. Maybe. But see, you don't have to worry about that final anymore! Instead you can focus on the other 6-ish classes you still do not have any semblance of a grade for...

I was really irritated earlier this evening by some stuff...but for some reason that all seems rather unimportant in the face of getting a free cookie with my dinner. It's the little things, really.

It's odd seeing people I associate with one fandom/interest suddenly popping up in another fandom/interest. Like notable people in the NeoRoma fandom cropping up on the Bishie Hotline list or seeing the editor for an AMV and going "Wait...I attended that person's panel at Detour." It should be noted that I used to think Minnesota was "so far away" and never thought I'd live near to some artists and fanfic authors I loved. What a small world we live in.
Tonight I went shopping and spend far too much money on clothes. I've never really cared that much about clothes and yet suddenly I need to look professional every single day. I envy those classmates who have always cared about clothes and don't need to suddenly obtain new wardrobes. This is going to be a long process. It's a bit irksome to have to wake up and /think/ about what I'm going to wear in the morning. How do people do it? It's a mystery.
I've got probably 75% of my assignments for this week finished. Here's hoping I can finish the rest of them tomorrow afternoon/evening so that I can get out at a reasonable time on Friday. Gotta take my kitty to the vet.

Updated my previous post with the correctly guessed answers to every fandom but Fafner. Geez people, you make one AMV and suddenly everyone assumes that's the only character you like. Shouko's way up there, and her particular storyline is the lynchpin for all of Fafner, but I actually put a couple characters above her. Example: See icon.
The entire thing really wasn't fair, though, since most people guessed boys for some questions and they did correctly identify my favorite male character...even though my favorite character in the show is actually the heroine. I should've done "Favorite male, favorite female." That would've been better (and made my job easier). Some of them were too difficult to decide, and if I were to take this in a week or so some answers might be different.
In other news, Orientation is slightly scary but at least today there's a potluck. I also want to pass out from exhaustion. Too tired. Way, way too tired. And I have way too much to do in the next few days, as well. This weekend I need to not party so I can get actual sleep ((though I'm debating Friday Night Dinner again)).

This has been the weekend of food. First we had lunch at the Mall yesterday after my family got here, then last night my parents and I ordered pizza (...and wine...) and watched Firefly. This morning we went to Key's Cafe before church and then the ceremony...which had a reception with tasty morsels afterwards. Then there was champagne to celebrate and then dinner at Kikugawa. Yeah. I don't think I'm ever going to eat again, which is a problem considering all the leftovers got put in my fridge.
Now my family is heading back to the airport and I am back in my apartment, already changed into my pajamas and feeling like the world is shiny. Tomorrow I start my hospital orientation.

Right, I suppose I should talk about the actual ceremony. It was pretty short (only around a half hour), but still special. I had to be a group leader for leading people up to the stage, which made me nervous, but I did not trip or fall. It was fun to see all my classmates getting their coats, and our class speaker was /awesome/ and hilarious. ("The 8th Habit: Read less Covey, study more Radiology.") We chose well. There was a lot of talk of the transition we're making into a new era of our lives and how proud we should be to have made it through the first three years of our curriculum. We're all excited. And terrified.
Now I need to organize my things for the next week. Sometime in the next two days I probably should go shopping for some more professional-type clothing. I've been slowly adding to my wardrobe over the past couple months, but it's not nearly enough probably. Fortunately I just got an email that says we can still wear casual clothing tomorrow and Friday.

Now that meme from vulchu.
( Guess My Favorite Character Meme )

Now I'm going to lay on the couch and play Angelique until my body decides it can move again.