Okay, so far I LOVE the shot twjudyfound:



here is what strongest_shld had:





and here are two from an SW friend:





they have other pics here: Star Wars Spectacular

EDIT: more from Cai-Tin Bardar:





He's got some great shots of the whole troop of us starting HERE.

Click to see their full sizes!!!

The kids with us were the neices and nephew of the sister of the guy under Lucas >.> yeah whatever XD They were put under the charge of Han and myself and they were great kids. And HEY rurouni_jedi, they were twins and a younger brother XD

I'll put up more as I get them!!!! And least this shows I was really there and was really more than a blur, hahaha.

Mmm, yeah. I got bored decided to be Friends Only...yes I'm random. But Ami Yuy made me this schway banner that I LOVE, so I guess I'll stay FO XD I may remove this later but for now I'll keep it up. I love everyone so feel free to ask for me to friend you ^^

Last night was loads of fun!!!!

First we all headed off to dinner, but Amy and I got our Llamas from Caitlin first. Caitlin your parents are soooo cool, yay Llamas!!!!!! They are so adorable and fluffy ^^ I still don't know what to call mine...Mr. Fluffy Bottoms is the best I've got so far ^^'

Then after dinner it was time for Anime Club, wooo! Trevor (State_Alchemist) arrived a little before club started, yayness ^^ We had a fun mini-adventure trying to find a working parking permit thingie, until we gave up and (later) figured out that the reason we couldn't get the buttons to work was because they had covers on them...because you don't need a parking permit as a guest over the weekend, and I guess the "weekend" start Thursday night o.O

Anime Club was loads of fun. We came in a little late for the first ep of Elfen Lied, but that didn't matter too much. Woh....weird series! But it's not that bad, I kinda like it and wont mind coming to club to watch it. The bloody stuff doesn't happen all that often, though when it does....eeeee! After that, we got to watch Cowboy Bebop because someone had forgotten to bring Outlaw Star. Yay CB!!!!!! I haven't watched the series in AGES, like middle of High School. I was so happy to watch it again, and I hope we just leave off of Outlaw Star and keep going with CB for the rest of the semester.

Thennnnnn it was time for food. And ummmm, yeah...Xander's roommate....DDR alone....um umm ummmm *huddles in corner*

....

So we all went on a food run - Jared, Caitlin, Phaedra, Xander, Amy, Trevor and me - to Taco Bell and In & Out. Trevor, Caitlin, Amy and I came back and watched the newest ep of Bleach. Woooooo Yoruichi!!!!!!!!!!! ^^ SO much coolness. And then Trevor and I popped over to Jared's room to watch the Hokage funeral episode of Naruto....because I like that episode even though it's really sad and makes me teary >.>

Afterwards I walked Trevor to his car and we talked for like an hour...or two...

And then the fire alarm went off a little before 2am, ACK! So Trevor hung around with us all for that. And then everyone filed back inside...even though Felicity said the air was still kinda toxic (someone set off a fire extinguisher) and to enter at your own risk o.O I stayed behind to talk with Trevor...and we talked for like another hour XD

By the time Trevor finally left it was like 3:30 in the morning. And the poor guy had planned on just downing a whole bunch of Red Bull and not sleeping because it was going to take him at least an hour to get home and then he had work at 9:30 or something. Sorry Trevor ^^'

I quietly snuck back into my room since Amy had gone to bed ages ago, read a little more Don Quixote and then went to bed at 4am.

What a night!!!!

Was able to just wake up in time to make it to Japanese thankfully, though Amy and Caitlin didn't end up making it, buuu. AUGH Adjectives!!!! I think I might be getting the hang of them, maybe >.> Really need to practice them tonight before dinner and work.

Akibiyori with Trevor, Jeffrey, Shea and Yuriy tomorrow, woot! So excited ^^ Not sure whether I'll do the eye-makeup for Urahara though...

DUDE

That was the most bizarre, slightly amusing, sad and insanely tragic and depressing book I've ever read o.O The one good person in the whole book ends up stranded in the jungle and held hostage by a guy who has him reading Dickens all the time >.> The one time help comes, the guy drugs him and hides him so the rescuers never find him o.O And you have to assume he spends the rest of his life there, no one back in London ever knowing what happened, presuming he is dead.

WTF?!?!?!?!

I practically threw the book across the room, only it's 2:30 in the morning and Amy is asleep ^^'

But...man....WTF?!?!?!?!?! So bizarre and utterly dejecting.

@.@

Been a somewhat productive day, aside from missing guitar >.> Stupid alarm clock.

Work-study went all right. I had planned on leaving at 4, even wanted to leave earlier than that, but didn't end up leaving until 4:30. Then straight back to the room to bore myself to death with reading critical literary theory essays. Urgh. I totally die whenever I read those >.<

Then dinner and amusing talk as always ^^ Back to the room again to read Handful of Dust, which I need to finish before tomorrow. Only 300 pages...

Hung out with Phae and Caitlin a little bit and watched the Food Network...LOVE that station! Iron Chef came on which made me very happy. I adore that show ^^ It was a really good one too, though I wish the challenger had won.

And then it was back to reading. State_Alchemist and I cheered each other on in our studies. He had an 8 page paper to finish and I had my book. He finished his paper, and I've only 20 pages to go ^^ Debating whether to continue staying up to finish it, or to just go to bed. Amy's went to sleep quite awhile ago sicne she has work at 8, and sleep seems really tempting right now...

Is it sad that a little peice of me died this morning because the internet wasn't working?

And that I am completely serious about that? I ached inside...

But now it's all better ^^ at least while I'm using the computer in the Costume Dept. XD

Hope the net is working back in the rooms now...

Must review adjectives for Japanese because OMG they cause me WOE!

Have a lot of reading to finish before tomorrow too, ick.

I'm going to Akibiyori I decided, I really want to see Jinyo, Shea, Yuriy and State_Alchemist and if I don't see them now, I wont see them till ALA at the end of January o.O

Meep, back to work!

I love Japan XD

Saw this on my friends list. Apparently there's a Bleach Rock Musical in Japan right now...and it looks REALLY cool. This person posted pics of it from a magazine, and added in some random fun captions. The pics are amazing...everyone really looks like the characters!!!!

Bleach Musical

No win for me for the HP Look Alike contest on CosplayLab, oh well. :( Not really all that bummed actually. The girl that won was one of the two I really liked, so I'm happy at least one of them got it. (If this was a Bleach contest I'd be crushed if I didn't get Urahara...hope they do Bleach soon XD)Actually more bummed that the girl Ann and I voted for on the Harry Potter part of it didn't win. I knew it was a given that PikminLink would win because...well...she's PL! But that other girl looked more like Harry Potter and I liked her Quidditch outfit alot.

Anyway. In the middle of Rotella's class right now, on break...and I am SO sleepy! >.> I really want to go back to the room but I know she'd notice I was gone...unfortunately I'm on the other side of the table directly in her line of sight ^^'

Back to class now...

Slept till 10ish this morning >.> Had a meeting with Jankowski to talk about my senior project, but when I got there at 11:30 she was being interviewed for those little profile things that are on the Chapman website. No biggie, I hung out in the hall and started reading what we're going to be discussing in class at 2:30 ^^' Meeting went fine. I'll be doing Tale of Genji for my senior project and right now my main focus is rereading the text and reading articles about it. Yay fun! I really do mean that actually, I'm excited ^^

For some reason I'm $20 poorer o.O I tried to withdraw $20 from the ATM in Argyros yesterday for the Disneyland fun, but it said I couldn't from my Checking (which made no sense) so then I tried to get it from Savings, which it allowed me to do...end of transaction, right? But when I went online to check my account, it showed that $20 had been withdrawn from Savings, which is correct, but that it had been withdrawn from Checking, then given back, but then withdrawn again...?!?!?! So it shows that $20 was withdrawn from both my accounts, and that's not right!!!! I called my bank earlier today and all they said they could do was file a discrepency report with whoever (forgot what they said) and that was about it. Lovely...So I have to hope I hear from these other people soon and we can figure something out. I know the transaction was over because I got my card back, so there's no way someone could have come behind me and withdrawn money from my account. Yet an extra $20 is still gone from my account which has me very frazzled. Urgh.

Must continue with that reading before class, ack.

Yay for costumes! I loved wearing my Hogwarts outfit again today, even though it decided to be randomly hot today >.>

Disneyland = Yayyyyyyyyy. You can read Caitlin or Ann's post to see what we did. We all had a great time ^^

Fire Alarm @ 2:30 am = Booooooooo. If it really was someone who lives in Henley and we find out...they will wish they were already dead *glare* So not cool. I'm now wide awake because of it...

Sooooo does not feel like Halloween!

I've been so focused on school and working on costumes and stuff that Halloween is like pfft. I used to always look forward to it and make a big deal of carving my pumpkin...and I didn't even carve a pumpkin this year! Guess we're all just totally Halloween'ed out already, what with the Anime Club Halloween party on Thursday, the charity event I went to on Friday, and then the photoshoot on Saturday. It was like being at a con again or something for the weekend! And it's such a bummer that Halloween is on a Monday...I think everyone was celebrating it early over the weekend because of that.

But yeah, anyway, Happy Halloween!!!!

I'll be wearing most of my Hogwarts gear tomorrow to celebrate ^^

Everyone still up for checking out Disneyland tomorrow afternoon around 4? That would be me, Caitlin, Phaedra (if you're interested) -I have passes for all of us though I think it only gets us into one park...and then Amy, Ann and Jared. The park closes super early, at 8, so we'd still have plenty of time to do other things or come back to the dorm to study and watch movies or something. We can talk about it at lunch and during Japanese class tomorrow!

Time for bed...

P.S. Iruka plushie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhh the day is done *dies*

I could say a lot in this post because we did SO much today and had a really fun time, but I'm so dead tired so I'll just do the basics...Caitlin or someone can recount the craziness that went on during the day XD

So, anyway. The photoshoot was fun. Kinda smaller than we expected I think, but still really cool. I am so eager to see how the pics turned out!!!

It's fun to walk around the mall in cosplay gear and get looks XD

LA traffic is EVIL

Vinnie's party was fun. His mom makes such yummy food!!! But we were all pretty brain-dead by then though ^^'

Time to read/sleep...

Yay for parties ^^

The Anime Club Halloween Party last night was lots of fun. I totally missed dinner because that scar stuff I got was being a total pain in the ass. I think I prefer to use it once and throw it out (so I need more already), and I'm wondering if having makeup on already caused problems...before I didn't have makeup on when I tried it out. Anyway...

Erin spent the night and went to the party with us...as GAARA!!!!!!! I love her gourd o.O

So she was Gaara, after like an hour with scar issues I was Iruka sans vest, Caitlin was casual Sasuke, Amy was Kiba (grrr), Ann was in her cute catgirl outfit, Jared was Golden Boy and Kara was Ranma. We all looked awesome ^^

We got to watch the actual last episode of Gankutsuou last night, squee ^^ Just an epilogue really, but I was happy for it and made the ending of the series not so terrible anymore. Then we all played DDR, wooooo! Caitlin and I tried it out twice and it was a lot of fun though we both are kinda bad XD Torre is an amazing DDR'er o.O

Speaking of Torre...he and Vinnie were dead people, wooooooo! Vinnie made the dead people chains from Bleach and he and Torre had them attached to the front of their shirts. That was pretty darn cool.

After that we, minus Ann, Torre and Jared, all went back to the room to watch the newest episode of Bleach.....sooooo much awesomeness is happening right now, ahhhhhhh!

And that was about it. A really fun night and I found things I need to repair on my ninja shoes already and I can't wait to start work on my ninja vest.

Totally have not studied for the kanji quiz today *panic* so I'm off to do a little bit of that right now, augh...

Charity event for adults with disabilities tonight, going to be Princess Leia for that...hope my Mom and I can remember how to do the hair right >.>

And then photoshoot tomorrow!!!! I can't wait for that! I'm dying to be in Urahara gear again.

Oh, and the fourth floor looks really cute, I love the decorations they put up for Halloween.

Bah Kanji!!!!!!

TIRED!!!!

o.O

More costuming last night and fun group bonding with Caitlin, Ann, Amy, Torre, Vinnie and Jared. Didn't get to bed till about 2, meep. Had work at 7 today *yawn* and was able to get off early so I could get back to help set up for the International Food Fair in time.

Yay so much fun!!!!

The ladies who did the tea ceremony were oh so nice and the tea was really nifty and yummy ^^ I got to wear a kimono again to help serve food, that was a lot of fun. Didn't get to eat that whole time though and I hadn't eaten yet o.O Everyone seemed to love the lemon chicken, which was totally true once I tried it, it was tasty. The seaweed and cucmber salad thing was great too, as were the riceballs. The Japanese booth won best in show or whatever for the fair :D I was so happy about that, though it's not wonder with the immense amount of care put into it all. We had three tables where everyone else has like one, and we had all sorts of decorations and displays, plus the tea ceremony itself!

Moved my conference meeting with Jankowski over to next week because I wasn't sure how long cleaning up was going to take and I soooo wasn't ready to meet with her about my project ^^'

Back in the room now and so ready to sleep. I have class at 4 but I'm not sure if I'll go. I haven't missed that class once yet, and I'd like not to at all...but the class is so super easy and rather boring and I would prefer to just sleep, shower and work on my research project until dinner. Hmmmm...

Anime Club Halloween Party Tonight!!!!!! Wah!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

Need to stop spending! But oh how I love it XD

Caitlin, Ann, Amy and I all made a trip to The Village (Orange Mall) to check out Wal-Mart for candy and cosplay supplies and Hot Topic for Naruto goodies! I picked up a shirt, two iron on patches and two figures...o.O Stupid figures, hehe, they will consume my thoughts now! One of the ones you can get is Iruka, but HAHA they don't tell you what is in each box. So I got one and it was Sasuke, and so then I was compelled to get another and I got Sakura. Not bad, they both look pretty nifty, but ohhhhhh how I want Iruka! Naruto and Kakashi look cool too. Caitlin got Gaara, and he is SO awesome looking. Will wear my shirt tomorrow I think...

Study!!!!

Eeeeee the contest is up for those of you that want to vote ^^

There are three Harry's I thought were really good and two Hermione's are thought were better than me...but you can still vote for me if you'd like...I'd like it XD

http://www.cosplaylab.com/contests/harrypotter.asp

Back to reading The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe...Thanks Ann ^^

hahaha...

You scored as Hoban 'Wash' Washburne. The Pilot. You are a leaf on the wind, see how you soar. You have a good job, and a stunning wife who loves you (and can kill people). Life is good, which is why you can't help smiling. Now if you can just get people to actually listen to your opinion things would be perfect. </td> Hoban 'Wash' Washburne 81% Capt. Mal Reynolds 63% Shepherd Derrial Book 56% The Operative 56% River Tam 50% Inara Serra 50% Kaylee Frye 50% Zoe Alleyne Washburne 44% Simon Tam 38% Jayne Cobb 25% Which Serenity character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

I had fun trying it a few other times and I got Zoe and Mal...so technically I'm like all of the three main crew people in charge XD

Waaaaaaaaaaash ;_;

In other news...did NO homework today, guitar was TEH fun with our sub guitar teacher and I finished my patches and ninja shoes, wootness for me!!!!! ^^

Ahhhh the craziness!!!!!!

So Saturday night the cosplay madness continued after I got back from the bridal shower I attended with my Mom and Sis. I got back around 4:30 and Ann and Caitlin were in the room working on cosplay stuff and watching movies. I joined them and finally changed out my crappy diamonds on my Urahara coat to much cleaner ones. Still need to clean the coat up and iron it and stuff, but it looks much better now ^^ Also made some more progress on my sandals, yay ^^ The whole night was crazy. The room was a MESS, it scared me o.O yet was also amusing. Gabe, Kevin and a friend of theirs joined us for a few hours and we all bought two pizzas at some point. Yay delivery!!!! They left around 9 I think, and from that point on the night got weird. We all got more and more tired from all the work we'd been doing and everything was making us laugh. We watched Naruto, One Peice and then....that Bobobo-bo-bo-bobo-boboboOMGTOOMUCH! show o.O I went stupid watching it. SO INSANE. And then it was like 2:30 I think and we finally stopped and cleaned everything up and went to bed.

And then it was this morning, woot! Ann was awesome and did a photoshoot with me for my Hermione costume so I can enter the contest over at CosplayLab.Com. We started the photoshoot around 11, Caitlin was our lackey (best lackey ever!) and we went to the Fairhaven Cemetary because they have an awesome english-styled church there. Ann took like 300 pics or something and then we were done, yay ^^ I'm excited to see how it all turns out.

Then we got back, grabbed lunch and headed out again around 1:30 for Little Tokyo! Caitlin got some tabi socks for her Hitsugaya costume and I got another pair of geta sandals for my Urahara costume since I'd totally trashed mine from PMX ^^' We also stopped by Anime Jungle and bought goodies XD Another keychain for me! Urahara again, and a nifty Naruto folder.

No more money, ahhhhhhh!

And now time for work *DIES*

So tired and the weekend is gone and I have done NO homework...yet it's been an insanely awesome weekend ^^

Eeeeee kimono!!!! Japanese class was fun. The quiz went all right...I think o.O Then it was time to try on the kimono, woot! I had done my hair up like Bespin Leia ^^ I forgot what a pain that hardo is though, haha. Wearing the kimono was soooo cool! Takes forever to get into it, but it felt so neat once I was wearing it. Can't wait till Caitlin gets pics up ^^

Now I'm in work-study, woo. Must drop off my Intent to Graduate form after that and then it's time for costume shopping with Caitlin and Ann later. Yayness. Must work on costumes tonight before D&D!!!!

Back to work I suppose...

Oh! Jared your parents are soooooooo cool! They are so adorable. Your mom is really sweet and your dad seems like a nice guy ^^

The ending for Gankutsuo made me hurt inside. I am sad.

I totally forgot the old motto of "anime endings suck". I used to know that back in high school, and I now suddenly recall that in anime club during that time, we never seemed to finish series' ^^' Now I remember why o.O

Gankutsuo was SO crazy awesome cool...until the last 15 minutes or so of the last ep. How is that the last ep?!?!?! Make no sense! I couldn't even get to bed right away last night because I kept thinking about it >.< I can't even remember the last scene of the last ep, it's all just a jumbled blur to me and I can't believe that was the ending. Suckiness.

Oh yeah...

OMGWTFBBQKEITHMUSTDIEIKILLYOU!!!!!!!!!!

*cough*

That little dope has never bothered me as much as he did last night. Why did he have to be so LOUD and never SHUT UP?! AUGH. I really thought that when I finally snapped at him he'd cool it, but noooooo he just kept going. I wish Mark had thrown his boot at Keith's head instead of his foot...

After the sadness of Gankutsuou's ending we all headed back to the dorms to do Japanese homework and watch Bleach and Naruto. But first!

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bother

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XD

Potter Puppet Pals amuses me WAY to easily, hehe.

So yeah, I actually finished my　Japanese homework fairly quickly. Didn't hurt that I had worked on the sentences in 18th Century Brit Lit earlier that day, hehe. And Amy and Kara helped me out loads...thank you!!! ^^ Then we all gathered again to watch anime.

( OMGBLEACH!!! )

And then the craziness of Naruto continued...why oh why...

I have ep 156 now but I don't even have much interest to watch it, how sad...

Anyway, must start getting ready for Japanese class　right now I suppose. Gotta figure out what I'm going to do with my hair for when I try on pretty kimonos. Eeeeee, so excited!!!!!!

following the butterflies...*boom*

おわりだ