So the art museum is throwing a Masquerade ball and I am going to it, duh. Hopefully the mask aspect will be less creepy since everyone else will have their face covered, too.

Tomorrow if I'm not too sick--I'm getting sick and it SUCKS wah--I'm taking the train to New York, and me and Foosh are gonna watch "Were The World Mine". Can't seem to get away from the gay-themed movies...we watched "Latter Days" in BiGLARU last Thursday. I did enjoy it, even the sexytiems parts (except there was a fascination with full rear nudity, which doesn't exactly float my boat and was more awkward than sexy, but whatevs), though I think the first half of the movie is really really rushed. Rumela put it best: "It was kinda 'Oh, by the way, I'm in love with you' after five minutes." The second half of the movie was very well done and flangsty, though. If anyone else has seen the movie I'd be happy to discuss it <3

What else, what else...uh...anyone got any good books about Giorgione? I have to write a paper about how his painting "Laura" is a paradigm of Renaissance Venice's contradictory attitudes towards women. Venetian courtesan culture...<3

Hebrew continues to kick my ass. What really bothers me is that this last quiz I took, I studied for. I even had a system in my head of recognizing words. And then as soon as I get the quiz I totally fricking blanked. You can't tell that I studied, and that really, really upsets me. There's also the fact that he rushes the quizzes and I don't have time to think about them...everyone else in the class is either Jewish or are freaking geniuses, so they're all done within like ten minutes, while I'm the dunce working through her third sentence after she skipped four of them to come back later. I'm pretty sure I'm floating at a C average in that class. How the hell is Sanskrit easier than Hebrew, can anyone tell me?

Uh...nothing new on the fandom front since none of you are into As The World Turns. I am going to schedule myself to finish CaBW and start RewriteCanon, not to mention finish the sporks...

Halloween pics should hopefully be on my computer soon I'll post them asap.

Guess that's all for now~ I notice that most of us aren't posting prolifically lately; I know it's school for me; how are the rest of you guys doing?

Anyone who gets the reference wins a Broadway.

Sorry I've been away, folks. But really, there's nothing much to blog about. I go to class, chorus, and BIGLARU. In my spare time I plan my As The World Turns epic fanfic. I started a study group for Japanese on Monday nights; I've only had one meeting thus far but it was fun.

I've been having a lot of nightmares recently and I don't know if it's just because I'm under stress because Sanskrit has been kicking my ass or what (though I fail to see what Nazis murdering original characters in The Sound of Music has to do with Sanskrit). Also, this morning I woke up at like 4 AM unbearably thirsty. And I'm starting to get sick; the back of my throat hurts. Brushing the back of my tongue helped, though, so I'll keeping doing that.

I'm also in the process of converting my mood theme from the standard to one composed of my icons. So I should have a fun new mood theme once it all happens. It just takes forever to upload them all.

This weekend looks like it'll be fun, though ^.^ My Venetian Art class is going to the Metropolitan tomorrow, and then on Sunday I'm going to a Ren Faire with my folks. If I get batteries I'll take pictures <3

60% has been upped to 100%, so Steph is going to drive me and Lisa to ATWT auditions on Tuesday! I'll be ditching my two Art History classes, so I have to e-mail the teachers to let them know what's going on, and just hope it won't cause a problem. I've been thinking about if I actually make it, if the filming will interfere with school, but I figure I'll cross that bridge if/when I come to it. Right now I'm just excited at the prospect of (probably) meeting an Emmy-winning casting director, and maybe just maybe working with Michael Park.

Evidence of his awesome:

Scene, circa 2002/2003


Bloopers, 2006

Three names I go by (besides given name):
Sempai, Luna, Honey

Three Jobs I Have Had In My Life
Aquarium volunteer, Auntie Anne's associate, Macy's associate

Three Places I Have Lived
Lived in the same house all my life

Three Favorite Drinks
Vanilla soymilk, fruit punch, McDonald's sweet tea

Three TV Shows That I watch
As The World Turns, So You Think You Can Dance, uh...Friends reruns?

Three Places I Have Been
Disneyworld, Disneyland, Hollywood

People Who Call Me Regularly
N/A

Three Of My Favorite Foods
Cheeseless pizza with pineapple and garlic sauce, mashed potatoes, these badass vegan chocolate chip cookies I make

Three Friends I Think Will Respond
The ones who would already did this

Three Things I Am Looking Forward To
Going to uni, going to seminary, adopting kids

Three Things That Are Always By Your Side
Laptop...laptop...laptop

Interview cancelled
Watching As The World Turns soon
Best friend's birthay, yay!

Currently, my favorite non-anime TV couple is Luke/Noah from As the World Turns, though the show has a lot of cute pairs that come in second (Tom/Margo, Lily/Holden, Casey/Alison). And since I still love Friends to bits...I can't decide if I like Joey/Phoebe, Joey/Chandler, or Chandler/Monica best.

Chapter 7 to Gift!Fic is finally up. *Performs do-ge-za* I apologize for the long wait. There were a lot of reasons--time, interest, embarrassment/nerves, not to mention just writing the first draft--but it's up. Y'all can thank eggsoversexy, since her going to Nepal is the reason why I stopped pussyfooting around with it. Sara, I adhered to mostof your edits; some things I left as they were for various reasons. I thank you in the chapter, but I'll thnak you again here for being my beta and providing me with that...interesting...link.

College is being a somewhat PITA; I have to show Uni that my AP US History score precludes me from needing to fulfill a history requirement, and that I passed a competency test for Computer Science...otherwise I will be stuck taking a history class, a comp sci class, and a math class (it's complicated). Wouldn't mind another history class, but not at the price of computer science and math. I'm double-majoring; I don't have time for classes outside Art History and Foreign Languages.

Which reminds me! I have awesome classes this semester :D

Students in Transition - All transfer students have to take this. Even the teachers admit it's a "whatever" class, and it's only 1 credit. But they've said that transfer students do have an easier time adjusting when they take the class, which will only help my GPA.

Elementary Japanese - I've been DYING for an actual Japanese class, so I jumped on this immediately. Now Fooshie and I can practice with each other (she takes a Japanese class independently, as well)!

Elementary Sanskrit - I jumped on this because their Southeast Asian studies department is small and I figured it might not be around in a different semester. I'm VERY excited about this class...the Vedas were written in Sanskrit

Venice - More accurately, History of Art in Venice. This one's exciting to me because I might be part-Venetian on my father's side (we know we are Calabrese, with Sicilian and Venetian as possibilities). Plus, the Italian Renaissance is my favorite period in history, so anything that'll teach me about is a class I wanna be in (although most of the art world was centered around Florence at that time BUT WHATEVER)

Islamic Art and Architecture - When we went to Epcot, I was dragging my mom around "Morocco" and pointing out what little I already knew about Middle Eastern art, so my inner nerd rose again and I signed up for this class. It's very different from Western art in that Islamic art is mainly non-representational; it should be interesting.

I'm also going to sign up for Intermediate French; I forgot a lot between French I and II at community college because there were years in between them, and I don't want to start forgetting French like I forgot Spanish. Uni has a teacher education program, and New Jersey gives PRAXIS exams for French, Italian, Spanish, and German, so I think I'm going to go through the teacher training program and get certified to teach French. Which, oddly enough, is what my mother wanted to do; this is cool in a "fulfilling both our dreams" sort of way. It's a thought, in any case.

What else...well, I started writing As The World Turns fic. Hope it's good! My pipe dream is that the producers stumble across it and decide that I'm so good that I should be immedaitely hired to write for ATWT. Heh. If only...

Trick question! Your Significant Other is/should be one of your friends.

For that matter, what's everyone else in your life who you're not sleeping with? Your Insignificant Others? This is why I write ensemble-cast fic and am hoping to see a Luke/Noah+Casey/Allison core group in ATWT. It's also why I hate those songs praising the romantic partner as "the only one I'll ever need". Bullshit. Your spouse/lover isn't the only important person in your life, and neither should they be. God gave us parents and children and siblings and friends and extended family and pets and strangers and hobbies so we could experience the full range of love, not so we could dump them all in a heartbeat to "prove our devotion" to the one person we like to sleep as well as talk with.

Read this on Feminists4Life (the prolife group on Facebook):

First time posting here, hi *waves*. So, I logged on livejournal yesterday and everyone was posting about the abortionist who got shot and killed. It was the typical responses, about how all of us pro-lifers must be rejoicing in the streets because the abortionist weas dead, and look at all the innocent babies who had been saved *headdesk* or just the typical ranting about how the pro-life position sucks in general. Ofcourse, I thought it was reprehensible that the abortionist was killed and I hope the lunatic who did it gets locked up for the next 25 plus years, but you know, I just keep scrolling through my FL until I get to an entry that: says that all pro-lifers deserve to be round up and gassed. WOW. I really could not believe it. The girl who posted this isn't a casual friend. She's someone who I pray for on a regular basis and that I post really long comments to, give advice to, I've told her about my life, so on and so forth. I was really disgusted that a so-called 'friend' would even say something like that, so I did comment her entry.

I told her I was a member of Feminists For Life, what the organization does and why I think abortion is wrong. I also told her I thought we could respect each other and agree to disagree, but that is clearly not the case. She then proceeds to write me a lengthy reply in which she says I can't be a feminist and be pro-life (heard that one before) and that I don't give a damn about childfree woman, yadda yadda yadda. Newsflash, I actually am childfree and never want kids. It's interesting how many assumptions people make about me based off the fact I am pro-life. So, I wrote her a somewhat angry reply.

Turns out, another LJ friend of mine is friends with the girl who thinks I should be gassed, and replied to my comment that, yeah it is pretty hard to respect pro-lifers because we want to impose our views on people and force women to go through unwanted pregnancies even though it's mentally and physically traumatic and we don't give a damn about that. To which I kind of just replied with what I said to the girl who made the original entry.

Anyway, it was just really disappointing. Most of my LJ friends are pro-choice but I wasn't expecting to read something like that.

Just wanted to say thanks that none of you are giving me undeserved crap. For the record I am not happy that Dr. Tiller was killed, and also that the killer was a paranoid schizophrenic and can't be said to accurately represent the pro-life camp (it's also been requested that I strees that paranoid schizophrenics rarely become violent, and if they do it's usually against themselves).

On a slightly happier topic, I am mucking my way through Chapter 7 2.0 of gift fic. It's taking a long time because I had no idea how embarrassing having a beta is, especially for pr0n (there was one comment I just flat-out skipped reading because I knew there was no way I could change what I had initially written, not out of pride but out of embarrassment). Times like this I curse being a Virgo; our perfectionist streak makes taking even concrit gracefully pretty difficult.

So right now it's me quibbling with myself, because on the one hand I want to write it the best that it can be, and on the other I'm like "Jeez, Luna, it's just porn; you've read the crap that others shit out and they get rave reviews; why are you worried?".

I've also been distracted by ATWT and the loffly Luke/Noah. It's good to know that I don't have a "type" of OTP, because they are nothing like TsuSoka or even Duo/Hilde (my first OTP of OTPs). Well, at times they can be Duo/Hilde-ish, mainly in how they watch each other's backs. If anyone wants a real quick, rather tongue-in-cheek summary of the relationship, here:



(Many thanks to G for sending me this video). One of these days I'm just gonna do a videospam of my favorite moments. Probably soon.

I'm giving blood again later today so I better start eating and drinking now. Was gonna go pick up my diploma and get my final transcripts sent to Uni but I'll do that tomorrow. Today is Twitchy and Kevin's birthday; I think I'm seeing them on Sunday so I gotta do something nice for them.

So may I say I am IN LOVE with this album? As Tori gets older, her lyrics become more accessible, but the actual music itself gets more and more "out there". They're also getting longer, which is odd for a CD with 17 songs on it. It's also the first CD that had a song that made me laugh on it..."Mary Jane". It's about a kid who wants to smoke weed, but he's disguising it by asking his mom if he can spend the weekend with "Mary Jane". To wit: "Do I know her family? / Is she even mannerly / When she's out in society? 'She even bakes' / She even bakes? / 'These odd brownies'" LOL

No new additions to the GW and YnM jukeboxes (jukeboxi? jukeboces?), but I did start the ATWT (As The World Turns) Jukebox.

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As it turns out I will not be back home until tomorrow, because bus times conflict with G's Japanese class. But I promise I will finish the beta version of chapter seven of gift!fic. It will be up by Saturday.

Mets game was win :) Quite literally. 6-1 Mets. \o/ Go team that I wouldn't care about if Steph hadn't introduced me to them but whatevs baseball games are fun!

I am now addicted to As the World Turns. Luke/Noah remain the best part of it, with Casey/Allison (het couple, btw) a distant second, but I'm actually getting into all the other storylines. Okay, it's not just that it's two guys, even though that helps. Luke/Noah just have this perfect chemistry. G tells me that a lot of the touchy-flirty stuff the actors do, they just throw in as they're shooting (instead of rehearsing it), so I guess that's where the organic-ness of it comes from. They have this edge over most of the other couples in that they actually feel "real". Like, if it were RL, I wouldn't buy most of the other couples as real couples (or I would, but only with some trepidation), but with Luke/Noah, totally. Jake and Van are such good actors. Another example!



And well soaps are fun ^_^ I watched "Passions" a long time ago, but that show jumped the shark...and a school of fish...and a pod of dolphins...before crashing into the pier and sinking like the Liusitania. ATWT seems to take itself somewhat seriously, and that's probably why the show has lasted for 50 years.

Had a really weird succession of dreams last night. I don't remember all of them, but I dreamed that Joey was trying to kiss me against my will. Like, he picked me up and wouldn't put me down, and I kept trying to hit him but for some reason my slaps were really weak and I couldn't get him to put me down. Ayjay had to come to my rescue. Disconcerting dream is disconcerting. :/ The next one was that I lived in some sort of farm/apartment complex with the X-Men, except they'd all disappeared for some reason except for a female version of Wolverine.

This is one of the songs we did in the Cabaret so I REALLY wanted to hang onto it :) Me and Twitchy sang it together.