Words That We Couldn't Say

Hey guys, so.

It turns out that if baking powder gets shaken up a lot at some point, when you open it for the first time it kind of explodes.

... I have washed my face but I still have baking powder in my eyebrow.

IT'S SNOWING YOU GUYS.

Okay, so it's really nothing to write home about -- it's just sorta drifting down, hitting the ground and melting, and because it's dark out it looks pretty much identical to rain, but I went and stood in it and I got covered in little bits of snow, so it is DEFINITELY SNOWING. SNOWING, YOU GUYS. However, it is now (obviously) also ridiculously cold. I am camped out in my loungeroom with the heater turned to full and my knees are still cold...

And on other, also awesome news -- I have been recontracted for next year! My schools want to keep me on, so once I sign on the dotted line (and I will), it's set and I am definitely in Japan until August 2011.

(Also, I just realized that I misspelled my "JET Program" tag -- it said "JET Progaram". All better now.)

Edit: I lied. The snow is sticking. The broken down house across the road has a charming white coat of snow, as does the car directly outside my window. Awesome.

My town has loudspeakers located all over it. These are to allow the morning 'wake up!' announcement, the lunchtime bells, the 4:30 "go home children" announcement, the 5:00 "go home everyone else" bells, and the 8:30 "good night" announcement. My town is quite small, did I mention this?

About five minutes ago (it's 9:20 at night) there was an alarm sound, then a long announcement I couldn't understand but sounded like it had people's names in it. Now the local fire trucks (all two of them) are doing laps of the town with their sirens going. They don't seem to be going anywhere (they've gone past my apartment twice now), they're just... lapping the town. With their sirens going.

I'm not concerned about anything being wrong because 1) this has happened before, and 2) if anything was up, my boss who lives literally right over the road would come and tell me what was going on. So I think mostly the moral of this story is 'my town is odd'.

I was at one of my schools the other day -- one of the ones that's out in the country -- and the second grade teacher and I decided to go gathering chestnuts. While we were at it, I found this little guy:



I think he can be friends with the fellow in my icon.

Edit: Also if anyone's interested in my photos, keep an eye on my my flickr account. I just set up iPhoto to allow me to do direct updates from it and it's really easy, so I think I'll be uploading a lot more from now on.

Right, I'm selling off a bunch of stuff before I go to Japan. Please have a look through and preferably buy a lot of stuff!

All prices are in American dollars, and do not include the price of shipping. I am located in Australia.

Please feel free to ask questions, request bigger/different photos, or anything you need to make yourself sure of your purchase.

( Posters )

( Cosplay )
( Clothes and Accessories )

( Assorted Cute Stuff )

Thank you for looking!

Cross-posted to a bunch of places.

Today I interviewed the English language voice actors for Shinji Ikari and Vegita.

It went very well.

My life is increasingly strange, and yet AWESOME.

I AM GOING BACK TO JAPAN! I've been accepted into the JET program, so I'll be leaving you mob at the beginning of August, for anywhere between one and three years. Don't know where yet, but I'll keep everyone updated!

I was seriously wondering if I was going to get through, so right now I am a very happy Shasta.

So Shasta, what did you do today?

Well, today I helped Amanda Palmer sell t-shirts. At one point she phoned Neil Gaiman and put him on speakerphone so we could all shout at him, and I almost fell ontop of her ukelele in excitement.

So Shasta, what did you do today?

Well, today I wrapped myself in bandages while wearing a leotard, and then sewed the bandages to the leotard. While still wearing both. Until two in the morning. Because I am INSANE.

So Shasta, what did you do today?

Oh, today I cut bandage strips out of stretchy fabric and then wrapped myself in them.

... my life is weird.

Dear god. The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade rickrolled THE ENTIRITY OF AMERICA. LIVE.

I LIED. I are posting from a hotel in Shinsaibashi with the flu, doing an epic joint post with Cesca. --> Cesca is here.

Cesca: tOGETHER WE WILL ATTEMPT TO MAKE A COHERENT HUMAN POST BEING!!

Starting with!

TOKYO GAMESHOW

- EPIC LINE RIDE! (No one can complain about Manifest EVER AGAIN..Japan does line rides better yo)
- SQUEENIX CLOSED THEATRE -- trailers for Birth By Sleep, 358/2, Dissidia -- CLOUD HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED, GUYS (hands up who's suprised? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?) -- and, um, other things. Oh! All the new FFXIII stuff.

Cesca says:

Birth by Sleep - YES YES WIN YES OH GODS YES! AQUA = BEST CHARACTER. Ven and Terra are cool but...AQUA!!!!

358/2 - BOO BOO FAIL SUCK..IF I SEE ANYONE COSPLAYING THE MARY SUE (14TH ORGY MEMBER OF FAIL) IMA SLAP YOU GOOD. The fight scenes with all the Orgy members in your party are AWESOME AND EPIC!!! AND HOSHIT MARLUXIA DOES A SHOUJO TRANFORMATION HEALING MOVE AND SPARKLES!
In conclusion... Orgy Fight Scenes = win. Entire plot line with fail Shioux/Xiou whatever her fail name is...EPIC FAIL. Will skip all cut scenes in this game.
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Dissidia - SHINY SHINY LOVE WIN!!!! FULL OF HAPPY CRACK!! xDD Everyone has turned sparkly and has more diamantes/ruffles and frilly stuffs on their costumes...even Sephiroth..I care not..this game is gonna rock pants and be full of happy shiny pretty girlified men. BRING IT ON!!

The 3rd Birthday - DO WANT!!! Squeenix has joined the survival horror bandwagon. AND OH MAN I AM SO HAPPY THEY DID!!! Sexy, dark and mysterious..ohh baby.

FINAL FANTASY 13 - YAYYYY!!!! Lightning...she speaks...and she is SEXEH VOICE!!! The world is full of rich beautiful smex and kinda like Star Warsy...in a very good way..Man this game looks sooo shiny and pretty!!! It's meant to be the first of the three in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series. I can almost see the "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.." Man the summons...Shiva/Ifrit etc....oh the looove!!!

FINAL FANTASY AGITO 13 - IS BEING RELEASED ON PSP!! YAYAYAYAYAYYA!!!! The school kids are the best damn ass kicking schoolkids in the history. The world is kind of steampunk/World War 1 like...awww yeah!!!!! Man it's hawt..

FINAL FANTASY VERSUS 13 - OH GODS I CANNOT WAIT!! THIS IS ALL MAFIA STYLES!! Set in the present day kind of thing..Hehehehe the Prince has a name but I forgot it now.. =.= He wears a little dinner suit of lol..I don't know who that girl is he's having that Romeo and Juliet moment with...BUT SHE IS FAILFAILFAIL!!!! Boo to that girl. BUT the team of little gangsters who go on a road trip with the Prince are AWESOME. BOY BAND POSE...EPIC SLOW MOTION WALKING!
Versus 13 reminds me of Reborn with the whole Mafia thing...that makes me RIDICULOUSLY HAPPY!!! Boy band road trip with pretty men who all jump on each other and ruffle each other's hair....FUFUFUFUFU~~~!!!! 8D

I also played the Reborn games, the Macross Ace Frontier game, the Soul Eater game and the Gundam 00 game....THEY ARE ALL AWESOME AND I LIKE THEM VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will go buy thems or flail more till they come out...


...ok I'm done...

Shasta: I also got to play Dissidia! Tickets to any of the closed theatre events were really limited, which meant it was pretty hard to get tickets to more than one thing, anso we got them for the Squeenix closed theatre trailers, but when I was sitting around waiting to get into that some girls handed me two tickets for the playtest of Dissidia. I spent the next five minutes bowing and flailing in equal measure. The game is awesome goofy fun, I got to play as Squall and Zidane. It's not complicated, but it does exactly what you'd want it to do -- lets you beat the crap out of friends and foe alike as your favorite FF character. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I have the flu, so I want to stop, uh, doing just about anything right now, but! Coming soon! Tales of our epic, EPIC photoshoot. Hopefully with photos included, but we'll see how that goes.

Hay guys. Off to Japan for five weeks. Email etc will still be checked until the 26th, but then I'm all vanished until the 12th. See you all when I get back!

HAY GUYS.

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Oooookay. Bad news, folks.

I shall not be going to Manifest this year. After rigorously prodding my finances this way and that way, I've realized I'm horribly underfinanced for doing both that and my Japanese trip, and so I had to give up one of them, and it had to be Manifest.

Obviously I'm a bit bummed, but such is life sometimes I suppose. In terms of being able to get stuff done and keeping stress levels managed it has its advantages -- and for money too, of course. I'm sorry I won't get to see everyone over in Melbourne, and I won't get to hang around with all my awesome friends. That being said, I expect you to all go and have an awesome time for me and not show off too terribly when you get back. ^__^

So, today I went to see the new Batman movie.

It was kinda awesome.

What was even more awesome is the fact that it doesn't come out in theaters until Wednesday. :3

They confiscated our mobile phones, guys! I don't think mine could have taken decent photos anyway, since it can't even take a good photo of a static object in broad daylight, but they took it and checked our bags before letting us in. And there were 'Gotham Times' newspapers on our seats (two pages of newspaper anyway) which had a Joker spreadsheet thingy inside. Ces is going to scan hers~

... oh yeah, the movie. I really enjoyed it! Which considering I didn't even really like the first one at all, is a pretty major feat. I felt like the sort of got the hang of the Batman character a lot better this time, and also Heath Ledger was brilliant (dry sob). His character has been set up for a lot more screentime in upcoming movies, so I wonder what they're going to do... It's a real bugger, because any further movies without the character in it will feel pretty odd. Oh well.

But in short, awesome movie! Awesome time! Baby's first preview screening! We took Batman purikura afterwards.

THE INTERNET HAS BEEN RETURNED TO US.

I celebrated by spending the evening watching the Pride and Prejudice BBC miniseries. Go figure.

Two days until moving house! I am writing this post because I'm procrastinating on packing, because packing is scary! Today we went to Ikea and bought a giant bookshelf, yaaaaay. (Also other things like a desk, and a wardrobe. But I feel the giant bookshelf deserves the most mention, because. GIANT BOOKSHELF.)

(If I don't do more packing soon, I'm going to move into the new house with some furniture (from Ikea), half my book collection (already in boxes(to go in the bookshelf!)), and NOTHING ELSE.)

Hehehe, I intended to just fool around with this thing and not post any of my results, but this one is so cranky and pretentious I just couldn't help it.

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Edit: And in a twist I should have foreseen, due to what a large portion of my lj actually consists of, the generator keeps giving me Genji-themed haiku. Which are amusing, and not all that much more incoherent than the actual plot.

Okay, so I need some kind of program that's good for taking notes and such for stories. I know there are some, but I've forgotten what they're called. Obviously I'd like something free if at all possible. Does anybody know of such a program, and where I can get it from?