Yep!  As the title suggests, it's my birthday!

And I'm turning 21.

If I really had to choose a fictional character I relate to the most,  part of me would say I relate to Klavier Gavin from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.  I may not be a rockstar or a prosecutor, but I can relate to him at the most basic levels: we're both truth-seekers, we both love music, we both tend to be perfectionists, we can both be amicable when caught at the right time.  It's almost as though I've found the male video game character version of myself.  Only I don't have a rock band and I don't have a cool "objection" pose.  And I'm not as graceful, for that matter.

Another part of me would say that I relate more to Duo Lon from King of Fighters.  We're both quiet types, both of us seem to be insatiable bookworms [according to the manga, Duo is somewhat of a bookish type if I remember right...], we both get defensive easily when confronted [this I saw in both the game and the manga], and both of us seem to have an obsession with the paranormal and with unidentified organisms. [Or in my case, identified ones that I've never observed before.].  Like Klavier, it's almost as though I've found another male video game character version of myself.  Only I'm not an assassin from an ancient clan and I'm not nearly as graceful.  Nor was I nearly as pampered or sheltered in my childhood...

I guess I really couldn't choose

I really wouldn't be able to choose which one I relate to more.  Maybe a fusion of the aspects of the two I seem to relate to the most.

I just got two brand new kittens yesterday--a boy and a girl [Romeo and Trucy, respectively]. 

Romeo--well...I wouldn't change his name.  He's been called that since he can remember, so why change a good thing.

Trucy--I think I named her pretty good.  I swear she's a little escape artist...
--I would have named her Shen if she would have been male; probably still would be an escape artist, but loves to fight--poor Romeo's the victim all the time.

Pics of the darlings will come.  EVENTUALLY.

Me and some classmates compiled a list during lunch today.  Disturbingly hilarious if you've gotten really far in biology--especially at the collegiate level.  And yes, there is an AJ:AA reference in one.  Care of me.  The rest of my tablemates at lunch allowed it.

e_e

Fark you flu virus.  just...fark you.

...I swear I'm going to need some sort of program to animate the sprites that I've been working on.  The kid!Klavier sprites, I mean.
Because they deserve to be animated because of adorableness.  And lots of it.

...Yes.  You heard me.  Animated.

They need to be. 

Because ickle-Klav is cute.
And his cuteness makes me smile even when my throat's killing me.

And on that note I shall leave you with this:
COUGH MEDICINES FOR PRESIDENT.

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...Yeah.  Been a week since I posted.  And since I'm off of spring break and back in my dorm...Hoh-yeah!  Funville!

...Okay.  Maybe that sounded a little insane.

So...since I don't have much other to announce...

That's all I am right now while playing the flashback case in the fourth case of AJ:AA.

...Can you blame me?

How could you not think this is adorably hot? :

 

Or this:


As compared to THIS:


I'm not crazy, am I?  AM I?!


...On unrelated notes that are not related to my fangirly squealing...

1) I gets to take my betta home on Friday.    Unless some jackass in my class tries to claim that betta like my first two claims were jumped.

2) ...Garlic cheesy bread is awesome epic win.

3) I hate chemistry.  That is all.  <.<

4) I hear my boss is supposed to be back today.  I'll have to see at work today.

Saturday was hell.  Pure and utter hell wrapped up in a 24-year-old brother and his three sons.  I mean, I can understand him wanting to do his laundry since his lazy wife wouldn't know how to clean if her life depended on it.  But to make me watch his three sons on MY WEEKEND, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE QUIET AND PEACEFUL?  ...He's going to pay dearly for that.  I was going to watch Whammy.  But no.  I had to watch freaking TARZAN with my nephews.  I mean...I love them to death...but TARZAN?  I hate that movie.  So overplayed...

And then they got bored of it and decided "WE WANNA PLAY PLAYSTATION.  WE WANNA PLAY PLAYSTATION." ...

...So much for peace and quiet.
...I think even my little betta got drove nuts by it.  No wonder he freaks out when I approach his half of the tank...I mean...he was calm when I got him at Walmart.


And today?  ...It's been better.  I FINALLY bought Apollo Justice [at Gamestop, no less.].  AND IT WAS THE LAST COPY IN AT GAMESTOP.  THE LAST COPY.  I get back into the car to scratchoff the lottery ticket that grandpa had handed back--I win six dollars on it.  And they got nothing on their scratchoff tickets.

And the jerk broads on the floor aren't being noisy...HUZZAH.  Peace, quiet, AJ, and pasta.  Combination for a great afternoon.

The worst thing that could happen to me today would be that the history professor could cancel class.  He's so eloquent and he's always so funny and outrageous that his class can be a beacon of light in a very dull, dreary day.  I love his class to bits.  I really do.

How would it possibly benefit me?  I'd get some much needed study time for my microbiology test. 

...Yes.  "Merfrickten".  I didn't want to say "Motherf***ing" in lab, so I said "merfrickten."  But not without good cause.  If you saw the kinda snow I saw, you'd say it too.

...Also: on the way to lab, since it was the one of the Gas Laws lab...I turned to my partner and said "I've got my gas laws."
I don't care if I'm almost 21.  I can be immature too!
...Yes.  Not the real gas laws from chem, but...who said I was doing chemistry gas laws?


...PS:  I hate when I have a chance for a scholarship but I'm ineligible because of no parental college alumni.  That is all.
PSS: ...Screw Kate and Leopold.  OSWALD AND LEOPOLD.  <3
PSSS: ...I mean Oswald x Goenitz.  Damn hot old-is-the-new-moe-luvins.

I'm not getting the betta I originally wanted, so I'll settle for my second choice.

After all, he's a pretty  shade of blue and he's WAY more mellow.  He's a sweetie.  And I'm gonna name him either Kirihito or Kristoph.

...I'm not too disappointed.

...Though I could have chosen the other pretty blue betta and named him Leopold Goenitz of the Wildly-Blowing Winds.  Or Goenitz for short.

But I'll stick with Kiri/Krissy.  I will.  Because he's a cute betta.  ^w^

You know...
I think I've made myself laugh too hard.

...Seriously.

YOU KNOW YOU WANNA TOUCH HIS TRALALA!

xD

...Okay.  That gets that outta my system.

I'm gonna go touch Daryan's Tra-La-La hair now.  -RUNS OFF.-

Yep.  That's what I am.  Happier than Klavier Gavin on happy pills.

...Yep.  That's right.  When I cash my check from work I'll be getting a good amount of money.  Enough to buy things.  And have some leftover.  :D

I guess you could say I'm as happy as Oswald with a royal flush.  xD  But Klavier on happy pills is WAY HAPPIER.  xD

<----- This is Klavier.

It's cold.  It's rainy.  And I worked my arse off.
Nope.  Not complaining.

I mean, my boss even COMPLIMENTED my hard work.
Of course, then again, she treats me almost like a second daughter; but I don't think that's all of why she complimented it.  Even the cashier lady who I referred to in a previous entry as "the fifty-year-old" said it was a job well done.  Who knew that when I stop being lazy for a good hour I can get a lot of cleaning done on one huge sign?


...Also, be back on Sunday.  Gots to go gets food.  And possibly Apollo Justice.

...Betta fish.
They give me a hilarious obsession.

Okay, so we're studying the aggression behaviors and the female mate preference in betta fish in Animal Behavior lab.
After we set up the little dominance hierarchy, we're talking about things and the professor says: "Hey, um...class, what do you think we should call ourselves while we're doing this little experiment?"
I chime in "The betta data service."  The class erupts into roflcopters and lollerskates.  That includes me.
And then...after the aggression hierarchies and female mate choice things, we got to test whether or not we could provoke a male betta with inanimate objects of different shapes, sizes and colors.

My group's objects: a small, yellow flashlight [brought in by partner A], a pair of sunglasses [brought by partner B], and my MP3 player.
We get the betta that I've nicknamed Duo Lon [He's got purple streaks on his fins and he's dark blue except for a couple of gold spots near his gill flaps.], and so for a minute, partner A holds her flashlight near the tank [the flashlight is turned off] and the betta totally flips out and does its aggression display.  We let him rest a minute, then partner B holds his sunglasses near the tank.  NO REACTION from Duo the betta.  I just pull my MP3 player out of my hoodie pocket after we let Duo rest, and DUO GOES FREAKING NUTS WITH HIS AGGRESSION DISPLAY.

...So I went, "You agitatin' my betta?" repeatedly.
It was crazy.

LOLLERSKATES IT'S A BETTA PICTURE THAT I FOUND ON THE IN-TAR-WEBZ: 

You must submit to the bettas.  They are cool fish.

Huzzah.  Maybe I didn't time it the same as everyone else.  I think the official countdown had three days scheduled for this case.
But screw that.
Even though it pained me to have to pin down a certain someone in the end.

...All I can say is... PHOENIX YOU DAMN IDIOT.  You don't go trying to run across a burning bridge.  Seriously.

Even LARRY had the sense not to do that.  AND HE'S FREAKING LARRY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

Ah yes, punky hasn't been as faithful in keeping up with her Countdown to AJ LJ posts...but...

The Stolen Turnabout -- Easily the most freaking confusing case in the game.  I mean...I love Ron DeLite to death [who doesn't?] but...yeah.  Case confused my poor sleep-deprived Valentineless brain.

Recipe for Turnabout -- Another personal favorite of mine.  Poor Maggey.  Oh.  And Gumshoe liek weenies.  EDGEY!  YOU NOSEBLEEDING NOW?

Turnabout Beginnings --

I'd much like to thank ichi_graphics / ichimaru_sama / Ichimaru-san on DeviantArt for this lovely layout~.

So...THANKS ICHI!  It's a great V-Day gift, if even a day late~.