yea, so like i was talking about in my post last night, operation goaticide is under-weigh. i dunno if "goaticide" can actually be considered a word, but o well. it's a word now. so anyways, i'm back in study hall (first time this semester, i'm doin' pretty good) and in ms. sefranek's room currently. and guess what?! i have nothing better to do than to sit here and type this! yay.....
so on thursday my mom decided she wanted more pictures of my brother (matt) and i, and took us to sears to, what else, get our pictures taken. how exciting. eh, it was fairly painless, except i'm no good when it comes to forcing a smile. and for about one-third of the pictures (they only took five or so) i was having some major issues producing an acceptable smile. anyway, what i was getting to was that by taking these pictures, my mother (and relatives she showed the proofs to) have come to the conclusion that as matt and i have gotten older, we look more similar. it probably helps alot that i got black lo-lights; matt's hair's always been darker than mine. since we have no life, we were discussing this over french fries (which matt kept stealing mine that lil' bastard), popcorn (which mom gave some to matt to appease his fry-stealing tendencies), and pizza (matt's a teenage guy, needless to say he has a big appetite). matt's eyes are wider and darker, then there's the obvious gender differences (but i do believe this whole thing was comparing facial features in the first place). anyway, just saying, not that you care, not that i care, i'm just taking up space.
for the last couple days i've been working on my website. i'm starting construction on the reviews section, and i'm almost done uploading all of the read or die screen caps. so i've been rummaging through the bowels of the internet searching for acceptable pictures from anime series(es) that i've seen to make into buttons. here's the evangelion one i made.
well, i think i'll just get back to uploading. until... whenever...
yes, sticks. it seems that just about every guy that went walking in the woods picked up a stick and carried it around till we went back inside. there was also a report of a severed fox's head by the railroad tracks, but i never saw it personally. the food was ok, but we needed more snacks. we only got snacks after lunch, while we were more hungry in the morning. -.- anyway, i also learned that i'm like tim (jessie's boyfriend tim) in the fact that neither of us eat the weird-shaped fries. i got this one from jessie as she ate my weird-shaped fries. i didn't even notice that i did that, it must be an involuntary habit. o, and we built captain ron's pirate ship in the lego activity. everybody else made something god-oriented and including a "stairway to heaven". we made a pirate ship with a tootsie roll wrapper flag and a sorry excuse for a jet ski connected (originally it was supposed to be a treasure chest). later on right before we left they gave us all letters that our parents had written to us. 
my mom drew an awesome picture of a dragon (she copied one of my statues) on her letter, and i would scan it and stick it here, except i don't have a scanner. hell, i haven't even got a printer. (well, we have one, but it's only for macs, as all but two of the computers in out house are macs. we have around 10 computers, and no we're not rich, they're just really old computers. remember the lil' ones we used in grade school? (well, i had them at my grade school) yea, those are the ones we got. our newest, besides mine, is the very first version of the imac) hopefully i'll get one (a printer) when i go to college.
it should be waiting on our front step when i get home. ok, so i'm just bored again in free. english homework just doesn't sound appealing right now.... or ever.... anyway, this weekend wasn't all too exciting. matt and my dad were outta town all weekend, so it was just me and my mom. on saturday she was gone ALL day, tho, so after the parade and shopping with jessie, it was just me and the dog. i was really tired and in a bad mood, so i ended up taking a nap from about 6 till 745. after that my mom called and we went back up the mall and bought my dress. i didn't buy it originally because i wanted a size smaller (since it's strapless) but they didn't have it. my mom told me that her friend could take it in the tiny bit that it needed, so we went back up and bought it. on sunday i skipped church since my mom wasn't feeling well, so we both just slept in. after that i went to work. yea, that was my weekend.
this morning rob's lil' brother was pissing me off and being insubordinate (a violation of clarinetamandment vi) so i was yelling at him. everybody seems to think it's funny when i get mad at people, but i wonder if they'll think that if they're the one i'm mad at. if they're still laughing i'm thinking that they're really gonna need some good insurance after i leave. or something. anyway, person number two was this freshman kid in my pottery class who was being a real smartass. of course i had to correct him. he was telling bob how horrible bob was doing on the potter's wheel, and that of course he could do way better. my ass he could. 
this kid is such a fucking moron that when the wire we use to cut the pot off the wheel wasn't on the table next to the wheel, he took some random tool and pried his pot off. causing it to have a nicely sized hole in the bottom. after class, he has the nerve to gloat.
at this moment, the person is shinji ikari from neon genesis evangelion. shinji really gets a bad rap from the world. from the people in his world, AND the people out here. they say he's a wimp and a wuss and a whiner, etc. etc. but i say different. sure, he does whine on occation, but he's really more of a pacifistic person who is constantly trying to appease others. asuka comments on that one, telling shinji that he's ALWAYS apologizing for something, it's not HIS fault, so he should stop apologizing for everything. she really gets into saying that too. but that's just the way shinji is. he hasn't had the best of childhoods either. his mother died, his father is a jackass, and he grew up away with some... teacher? of his. technically he did run away, but his father told him to leave too, so that just added to the whole jackass/bastard thing that is gendo ikari. as to the wuss and wimp comments. honestly, how many 14-year olds will go into a giant machine-like thing and pilot it against vicious enemies time and time again? sure, he says he's too afraid to pilot the evangelion every so often, but he does end up piloting it anyway. the kid is only fourteen. when i was fourteen i know i wasn't so secure with myself, just like shinji. i think the reason people are so intolerant of shinji is because of the way other young anime characters are depicted. many hero/heroines of anime stories are young kids in anywhere from 8th to 11th grade. these characters are depicted as being extraordinarily brave in fighting evil and other such things. shinji is portrayed more like an 8th grader would actually act. so anyway, hats off to shinji ikari, the third child.
but that would be really difficult because of all the coding in there that i'm not familiar with. i can do html and ccs (or is it css?) but that's about it. i'm too lazy to learn the rest. i like the polka dots anyway. i was just thinking how nice it would be to have an anime character lookin' at'cha whilest reading this.... whoever you are.....
(yep, just mike, i'm gonna try to avoid using last names. they can be annoying) blog is entirely made up of posts about politics. HOW CAN YOU THINK ABOUT POLITICS THAT MUCH?! i find it astonishing, really i do. then again, people probably find it astonishing how much i think about anime/books/things that aren't real. or maybe it's more of a "oh my god, get a life...." or a freaky impression, i really don't know.
Cat-owners of america, be warned! Today's cats face a very different lifestyle than the cats of 30 years ago, back when catnip was just thought of as a toy-stuffing. Now, however, things have really gotten out of hand. Talk to your cats, because they need to know when catnip is ok, and when it's too much. Do you want your precious fluffy to end up like the cat shown here? It all started as a simple assasin business, but he let things get out of hand. The next thing you know, he's associating with potion-stealing ogres and talking donkeys that don't shut up, and being forcefully subdued by the knights. This cat was caught smuggling catnip and sentenced to hang from a wall by his forepaws in a tower till whenever. Unfortunately, he and his associates had outside contacts who assisted them in a jailbreak. Talk to your cats, they'll listen.
so anyway, my computer is finally letting me download gifs from 
maggie is very tall.... very, VERY tall, but her personality comes across as very meek. she's just rather shy. maggie is probably the biggest bibliophile in the entire read or die universe, even more than yomiko and michelle. after all, maggie is the one who goes through some serious withdrawl when she hasn't got anything to read. maggie also has a strange affinity for small confined places. back in their hong kong apartment, maggie slept under the table with a bedsheet over it, and when the sisters moved into nenene's apartment in japan, she chose to room in the closet under the stairs (actually, it was next to the stairs but whatever). maggie on numerous occations puts her life in danger in order to protect and/or save anita and michelle (but mostly anita). this she is greatly underappreciated for, as anita always gives her a hard time and is almost to a point of being abusive. maggie being the passive and shy person she is, just lets it go. hats off to maggie mui, the middle paper sister!
anyway, one time they wandered down aisle 7 or 8 and went into one of those warps, and something happened, and anita died. i can't remember for sure, but i think it was junior who shot her..... weird..... anyway, the next one i had last night featured mainly anita, but michelle showed up towards the end. it was some really weird depiction of anita's mysterious past. of course, this isn't really what her past is like in the series, but it was in my dream. anita was some kind of egyptian princess thousands of years ago, till she got sick of sitting in the middle of this dark room all day surrounded by attendants and decided to run away. so she's escaped and is running through this weird, old, dusty house and somehow runs through a time warp and one point. then she finally finds an exit and runs outside to the modern world, where michelle finds her. apparently the two of them meet maggie later. but yea, that's is, end of dream.
i can't remember if i have any homework to do or not. i think there's something i should be doing for ap chemistry, as i brought home my binder over the weekend, but i can't remember exactly what, and i don't feel like doing anything at the moment. tonight is the last night i have to do whatever i want for the rest of the week. i have to work tomorrow, friday, and saturday nights. i've found my job kind of monotonous lately. 
it's probably because i'm all by myself with nobody to talk to (save the occational "i'd like to order a cake") and it's mostly cleaning. at least now no one can accuse me of being incapable of moping, sweeping, and washing dishes. i can't wait till college, i'm planning on applying for a new job after i turn 19 (the magic age of employment). i can't wait till graduation either. or the last day of school. did anybody know that our last day is friday may 13th? sarah pointed that one out to me on thursday.
