rrr, so.... that one time I said I'd update frequently again...
that... apparently... was kind of a lie.
[insert Portal reference here]

Sorry, I've had this post going for a few weeks now...
m(____)m;;;

So.
What are the happs?

The Happs are mostly me avoiding posting to lj (f⌐ _⌐ )；
For no particular reason (other than there are so many things. All the things. It takes so loooong).
I'm really sorry to the few remaining souls shipping the Ye Goode Ship Livejournal; please accept my sincere apologies.

Lately I've not been doing an awful lot except for working four days a week, and going to the occassional class. This semester is going roughly the way last semester did - that is to say it's not quite half-way through the semster and I've already failed to hand in (or really even start) two assignments.
*sigh*
But I am also at a complete loss as to what I'm going to do next year, once I've graduated.
My options include

♚ Staying at university for one more teeth-pulling year, to do a diploma of education. If I leave it until later, it will be a two year degree (but a masters instead of a diploma). I've recently discovered, however, it may be my only slim chance at employment in this lifetime.

♚ Applying for the JET programme to teach English in Japan for a year or two, although if I am accepted, I won't leave until August next year (and I have little say as to where I am placed).

♚ Trying to find a job here in Perth. (CUE HYSTERICAL CYNNICAL LAUGHTER).

♚ Die in a ditch somewhere.

I think I'm just going to apply for everything and then decide.

Apart from 毎日毎日バイトと大学ばかり, Cake has been having small adventures.
If they were a katamari, they would be dubbed....
theatrical?
with just a tinge of artsy.
That's a lie. This katamari is mostly made up of food. And webcomics.
You may notice I've also been playing We Love Katamari.....
Other lifey things include:

♛ Preparing to sell our family home, which mostly involves me having to remove most of my clutterdecorations and keep my room reasonably neat all the time. It's horrible and feels like limbo, but looks like a bust soon anyway (yaaay~)

♛ Reading one kajillion new (to me) wonderful webcomics, with even more in my Immediate Links To Trawl bookmarks folder. I will devote an entire separate post to webcomicy goodness, although
※ Teahouse (NSFW),
※ Starfighter (NSFW),
※ Cucumber Quest,
※ Sfeer Theory,
※ Fox Sister
get a special mention.

♛ Going to art exhibitions and poetry literature events and strange post-modern plays with aerial acrobatics and being Cultured And Arty. I've even worn my fake hipster glasses and even faker Nile Perch glasses out （。・ω-。）

♛ I re-rainbowed my hair, and I have to say, it looks ALL KINDS OF FABULOUS.

♛ Reading! Books!
I've bought rather a lot of books recently, including, finally, a book by one of my favourite people ever, Joey Comeau.
※ I bought One Bloody Thing After Another (half of which is available online for free, I believe) - I've read it, like three times before, but I still read the whole book in one night, upon arrival.
※ I also bought Havemercy, which is co-authored by one of the authors of Shoebox Project, and read that in one night as well. It's so romantic *swoon* (and full of gay love~~~)
※ And I bought what I assume is probably Dianna Wynne Jones' final book Enchanted Glass - also read voraciously, although it was missing some of the twisty charm of her other novels...
※ Last night I read Neil Gaiman's Odd and the Frost Giants in one go.
※ And I'm vaguely avoiding my impulse buy The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric. It's gripping in its own way, but none of the characters have really endeared themselves to me, and one is downright nasty.
※ I also bought a children's dinosaur encylopaedia, to supplement the field guide that I can't understand...
And more.................
(Looking forward to the release of the next Discworld novel, Snuff, in October!!)

♛ Also been grooving to musics.
Although 2011 seems to be rather the Year of Disappointing Album Releases.
※ Wow. I haven't devoted a post to PON PON PON yet. Crazy.
It's GRAND and DANDY and after listening to it on Youtube for a week, I bought the album. Totally not a disappointment :D
※ Unlike Panic at the Disco!'s long-awaited release Vices and Virtues, which was so bad that I basically wash my hands of them.
※ Versailles' latest release, Holy Grail is slowly growing on me, but makes me powerfully nostalgic for the 'oldschool' Noble era. I was completely happy with the evolution of their new sound in the single releases last year and this year (DESTINY - The Lovers and Philia respectively), but the songs in the new album just aren't as shiny and I can't dig a major key for that long (at least, I think that's what bugs me the most). The newer songs sound a bit less Versailles and a bit more generic. My favourite song is, by chance (???) a TERU song, of course - Flowery.
※ The other exciting album released recently that I'd like to buy is a Muppets cover album, featuring lots of nice famous artists. It was up for free for a time, but now you'll have to scout around for it. The Muppets Theme Song by Ok Go and The Rainbow Connection by Weezer and Hayley Willaims (of Paramour) are basically the reason you need to google it right this instant.
※ I've also caught on to The Wombats, who are absolutely fantastic, and I am very excited to have tickets to their concert in October (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
※ Finally, there is the mixed horror and pure glee of the Vrock Disney cover album.
Jrock artists singing Disney songs, WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?
Most of it is.... that horrible trance-pop-on-speed Engrish monstrosity that they play in the Bodyline stores, some of it is old hat metal reinterpretations, but Plastic Tree's cover of Chim-chim-chiree is golden. Just what you'd expect from my favourite band (well, they tie with Versailles, of course). It's dark and slightly creepy, and beautiful.
And Nightmare's cover of Friend Like Me is golden for a very different reason...

♛ Fangirling over the DeviantArt galleries and Tumblrs of
※ Hamlet Machine (maker of the above Starfighter)
※ mmmira (whose tumbr is full of delicious and frequent goodness)
※ Chira-chira, of whom I am a long time fan, and who is a co-creator of the above Sfeer Theory and artist of Fox Sister.
※ gigidigi, the maker of the above mentioned Cucumber Quest

♛ I'm doing the JLPT level N2 in December. Not sure how I'll do, since I'm at the level below in reality, but that level is useless as a qualification, so...

♛ Generally hanging out on Twitter (f⌐ _⌐ )；

♛ Watching
※ more Carebears and being blown away by the water-colour backgrounds. You can see the grain of the watercolour paper 9__9♥ (also My Little Pony, but, like Lady Lovelylocks, turns out it is a piece of crap)
※ Adventure Time, which has changed my life.... FOREVER. Oh my goodness. I don't even have words; just watch it.
※ Princess Tutu a completely amazing anime that I've tried to work out how to explain many times with little success.
It's.... about ballet. And a girl who is a duck. And meta stories. And fairytales.
If you liked Utena, you will like this - it's very obviously got some of the same people involved. If you didn't like Utena, you will probably still like this. The main character is pretty adorable (and with a really cute husky voice instead of those horrid squeaky things girls always get). And all the music is ballet music. All of it. Tchaikovsky makes for great action music, I can tell you.
※ re-watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女), one of my favourite movies ♥

♛ Writing. Gasp. Madness. Maybe I'll get a short story done by the end of the year, lolololol.
I want to submit to s2b2, but I'm not sure if it will keep within the requirements, by the time I've finished...

♛ Playing my first Dungeons and Dragons game.
It's pretty fun, but I am a total noob at it. Luckily, so is almost everyone else and we have a lovely expert and well-versed DM who are very nice to us and basically walk us through it all. By the time we've finished, I probably still won't really know how to play. And OMG battles do my head in I have no idea. Also, battles are, um, really slow in D&D land - probably because we all spend five minutes looking through our lists of Things You Can Do and whatnot.
My character, Gideon Corbitt, is fab, though.
He is...... like a more bar-brawley Malcom Reynolds, a slightly less competent Spike Spiegel, more sleazey Flynn Rider, and a more drunk Shoebox!Sirius....
I wanted a character that could Punch You In The Face.
I am gearing him up to learn drunken master fighting, which apparently IS A REAL FIGHTING STYLE. Jackie Chan knows it.

♛ I got a tumblr. But I'm not ever going to use it. I just wanted to camp the username, because I'm a shining beacon of humanity.

♛ Restarted lindy lessons! Yay~~~ I've started from the bottom again. Oh, swing dancing, I missed you so.

♛ Trying to figure out why Firefox has been crapping itself EVERY FIVE MINUTES for the past week or so. Oh ho ho, you think I'm exaggerating. I don't know. I think it's a flash problem, but I have no idea. It just freezes up for about thirty seconds or so... Every five minutes. It's a bitch to watch videos or do anything productive. Ideas?
It's driving me insane

♛ Also, I think I might be officially in the early stages of whatever this thing is that I call depression. Too many bad days, now. Too many assignments avoided. Too many times I've wanted to cry, or stay up for the sake of it. It's all very trivial stuff, but when you add it up, it forms a bigger picture...
I'm not sure if it will keep sliding downwards if I ignore it (as I kind of plan to do) or if it will dissipate once uni is over....
And yet it's still easier to admit that, than to admit that lonely Cake is lonely - that's far too much like defeat. But all I want to do is read romantic smooshy things, and hug forever (okay, I do always want to hug anyway). It's really hard to deal with because I am very jaded and cynnical about romantical shennanigans, and although I can't remember what any of that was ever like, somewhere deep inside, I still have this idea of sunshine that I can't squash.
I still hold that it's all impossible nonsense, though.

And those are The Happs.
Whew (´—`;)~3

Also,
( here are some photographical happs: )

Okay, time for slepps.
Sweet dreams~~~☆

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m, so... hey, lj.
What's, um, what's up?

*awkward cough*

There's no actual reason I haven't updated in a few million years.

I don't seem to have anything to say beyond 140 characters these days.
Although I do have 1,209 words worth of links to share with you. And that's excluding the past fortnight's trawlings, since lj doesn't save drafts anymore whut.
(broken).

So you have been missing out on such enlightening thoughts as
What I, unfathomably, see every time I look at a croissant


And today's epiphany that if your parents die (because, as a friend so aptly and chillingly put it the other day, they are a "finite thing", even though you can never even imagine it) and you don't have a romantical partner or your own family,
you will be alone.
I mean, apart from siblings and other relatives.
It just never occurred to me before.

But don't be sad, because there are photos of basset hounds running.

And people who turn a merry-go-round into a flashmob horserace!

By the amazing Improv Anywhere group.

And last night I saw comedian Josh Thomas' show Everything Ever with my sister.
($30 at UWA til Friday, I think)
We saw his show Surprise last year and loved it, and were not disappointed this year.
He's much better doing stand-up in person in his own show than on television (Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation) or even on his podcasts. Josh Thomas' formula is basically to candidly overshare on every detail of his life, especially his love-life, and his cringe-worthy stories of awkwardness, and his understated observations and opinions all turn into one great, down-to-earth and charming show.
The informality and intimacy are really pleasant.
Did I mention the AWKWARDNESS?
And the CANDID and GENUINE OVERSHARING?

And he finished off the show with a Q&A session with the audience, even though he was already a little over time, just because he likes to have a finale ('that just sort of dies into a bored comfortable silence, like an old married couple). And it was the best way to finish a show, showing him as more than competent at casual improv, even while audience members are trying to set him up with their friends, or asking for career advice.

So I recommend going to see one of his shows if you get a chance, because even if you've heard the jokes before, you will always laugh. And feel disturbingly close to a stranger.

Here is a video of Josh Thomas doing a Q&A about gay marrige, although I have no recollection of the contents (or even watching it) because it's been sitting in a word document of links for probably half a year.

(Now that I've seen the preview, I recognise it. It is Serious Business, not comedy.)
This, although waaaaaay out of date, is appropriate because yesterday Prime Minister Gillard met, for the first time in Australian history, with marriage equality advocates to discuss reform.

Also, as a side note, proceeds from his poster sales are going to Beyond Blue.

Speaking of which, I have been on amber alert for depression most of the year, and expect to have spiralled downwards into that dark hole by the end of the year. But I might see if I can speak to a doctor and try some meds before that happens. Its a novel concept, but I'm powerfully reluctant to try, because I have doctor rejection issues. And sorting out your depression before you have depression somehow seems stupid. But it might save me from not graduating (she says as she updates her blog instead of doing her assignments due tomorrow).
Just, er, so you know, I guess. Everyone on the internet.
(f⌐ _⌐ )；

Anyway, I have many more things to say, but it's bedtime now
So I'll leave you with this pretty neat music video


Planetarium - Bump of Chicken
(Who are cool, but I don't actually listen to them...)

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P.S.
If you want to keep up with regular Cake-ness,
☆*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'THIS IS MY TWITTAR'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

up, guys?

I drew a picture~~
and uploaded it to my neglected DA account.
It's pretty horrid, but it might mark the beginning of something......

Also, I really need to name that character.
Taking suggestions for a sarcastic, obnoxious, flamboyant guy in his mid-twenties.
I can't keep giving everyone dandy old-fashioned names.
(Ohhhh but I want to).
Go to~~~☆

On a related note, here is an expression reference guide to one of Pixar's loveliest characters:
Russel, from Up.
♥

And here is a whole page full of delicious artings
1960's truck advertising campaign. It's cooler than the title might suggest...


☆ Makura no Soshi meme ☆

Awkward things


☂ The Awkward Tweet.
☂ When I realise I am talking to myself out loud in public (this is ALL THE TIME. All of it).
☂ The things I say around overtly religious people. To get a rise out of them. I'm fine with quiet religious people, but the overt ones really rub me up the wrong way. Sometimes I find non-subtle ways to work gay porn into the conversation.
☂ The way awkward is spelt. I love it. Who decided to surround a k by w's, they are my hero.
☂ Trying to keep up the momentum in a conversation with someone you don't know very well.
☂ Holding an umbrella in windy weather.
☂ That one time I had a lunch with my grandparents without my Mum present.
☂ Playing piano with tiny hands.
☂ Reading a large hard-back book in bed.
☂ My timetable for university next semester. Like one hour, four days a week. Whut.
☂ The way small animals drink from their drink bottles. It just looks frustrating.
☂ Being the fifth, seventh or ninth wheel. Especially when you are the event organiser.
☂ Trying to be positive and polite about young, over-enthusiastic people who tell you to look at their blog/story/artwork/favourite anime/hipster myspace photos....
☂ Refusing romantic advances.

orking five days a week is starting to get to me =____=;;
Craaaaaaaaaaap still got another two weeks.

Sorry, my brain is pretty much fried today, so no interesting, coherent post for you.
In fact, we are going with THE MOST INCOHERENT

And by that I mean:
here are some lovely things that will break your mind. Enjoy.

BREAAAAAAAAAAAAKKK YOOOOOOOUUUUURRRRRRRRRRR MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINDDD


Tune for Two


Eating tea with chopsticks IN SPACE
Actually, not so much mind-breaking as PRETTY NEAT, GUYS.

extreme poodles
BRAIN OFFICIALLY BROKEN
OHGOD WHAT IS HAPPENINGGG?????????
DOGS THAT LOOK LIKE OTHER THINGS; SOMETIMES MORE THAN ONE ANIMALLLLLLLL

Who knew that one day the mighty mind of Cake would be toppled by poodles?

In other news, today
★ I received a real letter in real life and it was dandy~~
★ I experienced my first Pokemon evolution (that fire pig thing to that pro-wrestler fire pig thing). It became uncute ;___;
★ I had a bath. I try this periodically, but I am just not a bath person, I am a blankets person. This was probably the best experiment so far, though - there were bubbles.
★ I avoided, yet again, doing all the things on my to-do list. All of them.
★ ATE SOLID GOLD A BANANA and it was so good. There may also have been peanut butter and honey involved.
(I guess people outside of Australia have no idea what I'm talking about. Trust me, you miss them when they're gone).

In an effort to salvage this sorry post, here is another

☆ Makura no Soshi meme☆
Things that give a clean feeling


♡ That moment when you are almost completely dry and warm after a hot shower after you have been swimming.
♡ A blank piece of paper.
♡ One's workplace after it has been cleaned and mopped at the end of day, all sparkling and ready for the next day.
♡ The morning after a stormy night.
♡ The rare moments when I can see all of the floor in my room.
♡ Sencha.
♡ Wearing lolita.
♡ After performing all successful scans and charges of a computer or device.
♡ Big blue sky.
♡ An empty inbox.

♥ Special side note: I do not need menthol in my facewash to feel clean, Neutrogena (`ヘ´) My eyelids do not need to feel like cold and burning~!

Next time I promise to actually post more photos and translations and interesting things, and possibly less capslock......
(or DO I???)

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Rap battles make it sound like there's only one winner / A rap friendship's much easier when you're a beginner!

T-rex, Dinosaur Comics (Ryan North)

So many things to do, so much smooshy mood.
Hay thar, lj.

Well, may as well suck all your free time into the vast blackhole that is the intarwabs.

Here is a neat picture -
a "map" of Sheffield
like a conceptual poppy-vector.

Whups, forgot I was posting.

Browsed the whole of Lily-fox's fabulous deviant art gallery. Feel better.

Anywho,
nightie night~

ood evening, my sweet gooseberries～☆

ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

I was going to post some Cool Things (yes, I am running out of coherent headings to group my scavenged links under), but it got late, so instead I thought I'd show you some (very selected) pictures of my university in Autumn.

Ha ha ha, cuts are for losers and people who care about your friends pages~~~
ヾ(`◇´)ノ


Just outside my Humanities department. Shocking shot, what with the lightpost and all, but I couldn't resist showing the lovely leaves and sunlight - this is my favourite thing about Plane trees, which are my favourite non-blossom tree (plums and sakura being my favourite trees of all).

These were fun to play in~~~


Another shocking shot (°д°；)
Believe it or not, this is an actual building.
I have yet to snoop inside, since it's the Shiny New engineering pavillion. I hear rumours that there are in fact classes held in here.....
(I did also hear a rumour that they blew a giant chunk of government money on a building that would only showcase things and not be used by students...)


Don't they look delectable?
Acutally, they look rather poisonous, which just adds to their charm.
Curtin students: can you guess where on campus this is?


Dramatic sky over the Architecture Building Of Doom, 201.
I swear, people who have graduated years ago are still traumatised by this building.
After about three or four years I sort of got the knack of it, but gods help me if I ever need to visit a new room...


Hello, Architecture and Health/MedicalCentre buildings~
I can never remember what this grassy court is called, so I always call it the library-engineering grass.


Looks a little like ♪ follow the yellow brick road.... ♫

I also tried to stalk a stray kitten (so cute~!), but to no avail.


Oh, we haven't seen this in a while. Today's list is appropriate!

☆ Makura no Soshi meme ☆

Things that gain by being depicted in a painting

(Here is the original explanation, in case you missed it. I only have about seven more lists to go.... I'm going to miss this)

Once again, I am also including photos, as they didn't exist in the Heian period.

✿ Sunsets. Sometimes.

✿ Food.

✿ KITTIES
(I follow @catcafecalico, a cat cafe I visited in Tokyo, for my daily dose of cute kitties...)

✿ Impressions and feelings (Specifically in paintings, not photos).

✿ Long-exposure shots of roads at night.

✿ Fairytales

✿ Information (in this case, I mean graphs are Pretty Neat, guys).

☀ side note: things that do not gain by being depicted in a photo: lolita petticoats. It is the strangest thing, but in photos they just seem to de-poof. Even when I was comparing my mirror image against my camera image, this seemed to happen ಠ_ಠ

Oh dear, I wish I could be more poetic. Sei Shonagon is rolling in her grave.

Also, I have some recipes to share~~! I baked both of these for my 24 Cups of Tea birthday party in May.
(Originally transcribed for a Japanese friend, hence some of the odd phrasing that I am too lazy to retype).

( Fun Baking Tiems )

Finally, have you ever heard or watched two celloists ROCK OUT?
Well, now is your chance.


Smooth Criminal on duelling cellos. OMG.
Somehow I'm reminded of Supernatural... (not a good sign).

You don't have to watch it all, but I'd listen to the whole thing; they really bust it out around 3:30.

Coming up next, on The Adventures of Cake:

★ More photos of cakes and dresses and shiny things
★ Cool Things
★ me FANGIRLING THE HECK OUT, because Versailles' new album Holy Grail is only two sleeps away~~~!!!♫♪♫

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o commemorate and celebrate the end of my essay hell hole and the start of holidays (where I have to wait and see if I've failed miserably because I had Issues, and where I am working every week day) until July~~~

☆Interesing notes before we begin our foray into the Wild Rollercoaster Of Emotion that is this blog post:
You can't see my bullet points properly, because my font is tré small

☠ ☁ ✿

(subtle, I know).

☠ Japan's economy is officially in bad recession
Apparently that was the most expensive natural disaster in history.

☠ Al Jazeera journalist recounts detention
Dorothy Parvaz narrates what she experienced while being held in Syria and Iran.
Yeah, my links are waaaaaaaaaaaaay out of date.

☠ Governments force our intarwabs to enable hacking with stupid security flaws
WTFWTF ಠ_ಠ

☠ All the Middle East shennanigans.
I find it really hard to keep up with any of this stuff, not having any prior knowledge, so I'm basically now limited so skimming my Al Jazeera twitter posts, and whatever narcolepticnemu throws my way (/the way of the general internet).
In this artcile:
Basically, everyone is horrible, it's all a conspiracy concocted by the powerful and we're all screwed.
You should read the article, it will Inform you. But also Depress you.
And wow, turns out Al Jazeera isn't the bees knees.
Argh oh gods, I couldn't even read the whole thing, it was too depressing. Especially the end.
All international incidents are orchestrated, I hate everyone.

☠ Here is more, about why Al Jazeera has to be dumb sometimes.
(i.e. political pressure and letting some morals slide so they can have funding to keep the other morals from being pummelled into the ground... I think?)

Wow, this all makes me look wonderfully informed and politically aware. It's all lies, I'm getting all the links from narcolepticnemu's twitter (@amnatea) - hope she wants the publicity. Because if I mention her on my blog, who knows what sort of crazy world of fame and fortune she will be catapaulted into. She won't be able to walk down the street without certain members of certain bandshookers offering her smack (that's a drug, right? Or is it snow? Should I just stick with crack? ANWAY, ILLICIT RECREATIONAL DRUGS, PROBABLY) and important foreign correspondant type journalists trying to get her on their evening news chat shows.

(Pro tip, I can make you famous. That's right, any of you five people that read this blog.)

☠ Teachers aren't allowed to be human
Apparently teachers are not allowed to have lives, and if they do, they can be persecuted and taken down by angry mobs of the lowest common denominator.
I don't know if this is the case in Australia, but I'm fairly willing to bet that if some parents were uncomfortable that a teacher at their child's school was odd or gay or once posed for nude photos or, I don't know, whatever these people get uptight about, they could get a teacher fired (probably screwing over their career for life).
What the heck world do we live in where we expect that people in certains sectors of the community are Stepford automatons with squeaky clean slates, zero personality, and not allowed a private life separate from work?
(I probably got this link from finding_jay).


☁ And finally, a thing that is sad, but.... in a good way? It's not depressing in an "I hate the world" cynnical, soul-hollowing way, just sad in a sad movie sort of way. It's a letter from Richard Feynman to his deceased wife. As Joey Comeau put it,

I'm torn! This was so clearly never meant to be seen. But it is too beautiful not to share.

The letter
I burst into tears.

☁ And here is something sad and wonderful and inspiring and sort of heart-warming,
Japan retirees go nuclear
(Yeah, that horrible pun-ish newspaper style title is all mine. I am going to a special place.)
Retired nuclear power-plant engineers (and retirees in general) in Japan are volunteering to work on the Fukushima power plant to spare the younger people. (;∩;)♥

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And now, ☆ HAPPY THINGS ☆

✿ A boy found a bottle with a message in it after TWENTY FOUR YEARS
and contacted the original sender and everything~~

✿ KITTIIEEEEESSSSSSS

THEY"RE SO FLUFFY
OHMYGOD

✿ MOAR KITTIES.

a cat and a baby cuddling

✿ EVEN MOAAAAR KITTIES
This seems to have been circulating again, lately, for some reason. But I win because I was going to post it, like, two days ago.

（=^・ω・^=） Maru, those boxes are too small for you!

(but the great Maru never gives up. That is why he is the most famous kitty on the intarwabs).
In fact, there's a whole article about
The 20+ Best Japanese Cat Videos On The Web
(this blog seems to be pretty neat in general.)

Also, I found this lying around on my desktop:

✿
It's Cake in the PMH (Princess Margaret Hospiital - for children) teddy-bear-ear headband you can buy for charity. It's so cute, I couldn't resist!

✿ Also, in cheerful Cake news,
★★OHMYGOSH★★
Today when I was walking back from the shops a cat came up and accosted me.
Like, ran up to me (WHAT???), loved the crap out of me for about a minute, then very suddenly wandered off.

(f°____°;)

(°/////°)

(*￣▽￣*)

I sort of felt like I should be fanning myself and blushing or something, afterwards. Or like I should feel used and violated?
I got kitty lubbs!!!!!!! It was SO NICE ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
But so odd. I actually asked the cat if it was maybe mistaking me for someone else or something (no reply).
(I did have milk and raw minced chicken in my bag, but since they were in sealed plastic...)

Seriously, why do you read this stuff?
Next, I'll be posting lolcats and talking about the sandwich I ate today or something.

Well anyway, let's finish with something positive and non-cat related,
✿ A really cute animation!
I highly recommend watching this wonderful, very high-quality short story.
(I highly recommend going to the original Vimeo source, this embedded window is titchy :\)

Vampire Gastelbrau from Hannah Ayoubi on Vimeo.

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P.S. thanks to marxipan_xlii I am officially addicted to Avatar: The Last Airbender
I know, finally, finally. I just didn't think it would be That Good, even though everyone said it was That Good, but it really is THAT GOOD. I'm roughly halfway into season two (and a big Zuko fangirl).

I'm not even going to bore you with my horrible hell hole of essay.
There are lots of versions of saved drafts all at various stages of despair and angst.

I only have one out of three essays left to write.
It is the worst one, in that it is a stupid topic that I have no exp's in or feel any real relevance to, and it's rather technical and theoretical. Instead of writing an essay in Japanese, my new sensei, for some unfathomable reason, thought we should write an essay in English. As if we don't do enough of THOSE. And it's on "politeness theory".
BOOOOORIIIIIIIIIING.

It was due last Friday. But if I hand it in on Monday, it will still be earlier than the other two essays I wrote, which were basically a week late.
I don't know if I will pass.
AH HA HA HA.

Don't even. I don't. Just.

Anyway, today went to Claremont for a spell, and dudes, it is PRETTY NEAT now.
And busy on a Saturday. It's all shiny and nice, like it isn't Perth. And new, which gives me that hit of Something Different that I've been getting withdrawls of. Still too expensive to actually buy anything, but I really want to visit the chocolate shop and the crepe cafe.

Anywho, today I got a coffee from Lemon Lane, and I have to say it's so dandy I'm considering becoming a regular for the uni break. I have been in a photographic mood lately, so I took a couple of snaps (and sent them in with +ve feedback~~ Do this, it's really nice).


ERNIE & BERT ♥
Yay, photoshop. All manual filters, thank you very much, none of this automatic app business.






Oh, BY THE WAY,
if you want to read a 6,000 word essay on Harajuku youth street fashion, I have one. Let me know.
Man, I didn't even describe all the trends - I only mentioned two, and that was because I needed some examples. I'm sure I could write a book on this stuff, hey.
(at some delirious point during the essay, I did actually consider it).

And then I get crazy ideas for other things to write.
Like... would it be wrong to write a tentacle-rape Boys Love story?
It.. it would be wrong, right? Even if it was loltastic....
But, but everybody likes tentacles, right, right?
(I have also proposed Woody/Buzz beacuse I am a horrible person. A horrible, horrible person.
....and I'm sure it's already been done.)

Speaking of which,

Spanish Buzz.
All your questions answered.
(if the video doesn't work, it basically goes:
Mexican/etc viewers hear a European Spanish.
Spaniards hear a regional dialect.
Pretty sneaky; I approve).

Luckily I am not the only dreadful human being writing things.
Courtesy of Dinosaur Comics' Ryan North, I have found
★ THE BEST BOOK BLURB ON THE PLANET EARTH ★
I laughed conintuously for about ten minutes, and then giggled randomly every ten minutes for the next hour after that.

Romeo and Juliet: Modern Day Sequel

Romeo Montague dies for Juliet and his spirit chases her through time. He awakens in this age on a volcano in Hawaii where he meets a wise Zen Master who teaches him about the modern world. Sadly for Romeo though, there is no sign of his beloved wife, Juliet. As the years pass, his memory of Juliet fades. Yet one day, Romeo logs into an Internet chatroom and meets a beautiful young actress by the name of Emilie. For some mysterious reason, both fall in love almost instantly. Romeo slowly comes to realize this intelligent, shy, and alluring young woman is his wife, Juliet -- now reincarnated as the famous Hollywood starlet, Emma Gallant. As the two star-crossed lovers recount their past lives in ancient Egypt and Atlantis, they must fight through many obstacles before they can meet again.

Man, I am gonna cry when blockquote tags are officially phased out of HTML.

ATLANTIS, GUYS. HAWAIIAN VOLCANOES. FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.
I could quote this all day.

Apparently I can actually turn this into a theme.

Look, here's an article about the guy who wrote the script for the worst recent movie ever,
and how the Scientologists ruined it.
Battlefield Earth.
He was so upset, he publicly apologised for it, lol.
I wasn't kidding about the Scientologists, either.

And now it's almost pumpkin o'clock, so I bid you
おやすみ～～～。°（ノД＜。°）。

Sweet dreams~~♥

P.S. speaking of which, I need to trade brains with my sister.
Last night I dreamt of an earthquake so vividly / half-awakedly, that I thought it was really happening. My sister dreamt of ROLLERBLADING DINOSAURS BUILDING A RACE TRACK ☆
Goddamn.

I took a better photo~


In other news, I am fairly sick. Or rather... I have a small cold that shouldn't be causing me any problems, but I am also not sleeping so well, so I am constantly ridiculously tired. I haven't gone to bed later than 9.30pm for the past couple of nights (goodness me, it's 10:09 now!).

I did a presentation on Japanese identity through fashion: Youth street-fashion culture in Harajuku, Japan today, and I think it went okay, considering I had to do it after the alloted class time, and I thought I was going to literally collapse whilst waiting (three hours) through others' talks. And I had to skim over it, since we were pressed for time. AND I BASICALLY WROTE THE WHOLE THING THAT MORNING.
Yeah, I think it went okay.
I have to write the whole 5000 word essay on Friday.
This is my fault, though.

Anywho, by Monday I will only have one essay to do, and I will have a week or so to do it, so...
(but it's boooooring as all heck and then some).

I am looking forward to starting the game of Pokemon (White) that I bought the other day! It's my Incentive!

Also, narcolepticnemu tagged me in a meme, guys.

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(WHUPS, it's 10:49. Way past sick!Cake's bed time =_____=;;;)

roductive things I have done this weekend:

☀ started a torrent of Tales of the Abyss anime (dude, you do NOT even want to know the reason.)
(um, okay, it might be connected to the doujin I bought in Akihaba...)

☀ helped cook dinner

☀ started reading the books I got from the libry about a month or so ago, for the essay/presentation due this week

☀ slept!

☀ got all dressed up with nowhere to go

☀ got all dressed up and met my sisters for breakfast

☀ created a photoshop brush (in PS7 (LEGIT!), which is lovely) for 書道(shodou, Japanese calligraphy)

☀ posted to lj

☀ half learnt my lines for my Japanese play to be performed on Tuesday for assessment
(don't ask, it's a boring office scenario we wrote. Involving keigo).

☀ Discovered my favourite Azumanga Daioh character, Osaka (or Ayumu Kasuga, but who remembers that?), was born in Wakayama!

☀ Learnt what eye floaters really are (embryonic detritus, apparently. Ew). Also, apparently we have blood vessels sittin in our eyeballs that we should be able to see in the same way as eye floater spots, but because they always remain fixed relative to one's retina, the brain tunes them out.
Facts!

☀ Come up with a very basic essay plan

History of fashion in Japan
Socio background, leading up to change of identity
Various trends & meanings
Mission statements and different angles, fashion as identity / rebellion / deconstructing norms
More trends and their deconstructed norms, new identities and current socio background / trends

☀ re-read one of my favourite s2b2 stories
Being Evil
(wait, that's not productive!)

☀ Gone to a group meeting to practice our Japanese play

☀ Rearranged my desk so I can actually see out of my window. Being on an angle is pleasantly surprisingly pleasant.

And then I woke up at twenty past seven this morning, feeling terrible.
I had spent all night having dreams that I spent all night sleeping terribly (interspersed with other strange problems), and of course, that meant I did spend all night sleeping terribly.
Which makes me sad, because I was very tired last night and went to bed very early (nine-thirty) in order to be well-rested for the arduous week ahead (full of assignments and tests and late nights).

Sad and tired Cake is sad and tired.
(That is, sad because she is tired)
And drinking cammomile.
And planning on having a nap before having to get up for the day.

And reading Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler).

And now I'm going to rewatch Sesame Street's Bert interview Andy Samberg (that guy who's part of that band that came up with On A Boat etc).
I just....
I just LOVE BERT SO MUCH ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Conversations With Berth Part I

(You should probably full screen this - Bert is getting cut off on my lj, I think...? Or just shoddy camera work?)

I think we should meme his lovely interview questions~
(let's do it, guys!)

⚜ I have a family:
2 parents, 1 sister + 2 half sisters + 1 half brother
=2.5 siblings?
I had a pet rabbit as a child, which I precociously named after myslf - "Jade", which is my middle name.

⚜ If you could be any kind of fabric, what would it be.... and WHY?
Something fluffy, like a blanket... so I could hug everyone and cuddle~~

Well, either that or rich, heavy Victorian style fabric.
(OR, UM, THE FABRIC THAT MAKES UP TERU'S COSTUMES)

⚜ How does the real Cake unwind and relax?
At the end of the day, I like to check my mail, catch up on twitter, hang about on the intarwabs for a while.
I visit Hiro and Sirius, too. (Well, okay that is how I spend half my time, unwinding or not).
When I'm stressed I like to listen to either very loud fast music, or very mellow music.
Tea.
Chocolate.
Drawing in my sketchbook.
Bake cupcakes.
Read something before bed time.

⚜ How does the imaginary Cake unwind and relax?
I ride my pet stegosaurus, of course!

⚜ If you could wear a sock from any time period what sock would that be?
Spats!
There is nothing sexier!

Otherwise, basically all the socks from Tutuanna and Mighty Soxer - Cake does love knee-highs...

(BERT WOULD WEAR 5TH CENTURY PUTTEES. HE HAD TO SPELL IT. I LOOKED IT UP ON GOOGLE.)

☆ I don't have any milk for milk break time ☆

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