I've never done pink all over before, and now I have :D
I used the absolute last of the bleach in our house, every bit of dust of it, but I managed to lighten my roots enough to dye them much lighter ;D I'm pretty pleased with it!!! I still need to trim the ends and shape it some, buuuuuut now I'm fucking sick.

AGAIN.

groans.

Liz and Pat were sick earlier this week, so I shouldn't be too surprised, but still!!! My throat hurt yesterday and then today I woke up feeling like absolute ass, and it hasn't improved since then ;w; Liz did get me dinner from our favorite hole-in-the-wall Chinese place, with the hope that spicy food would fix me, but no dice ;w; I feel very loved ♥ But definitely still sick.

I'm trying to play the JP event because, Switch, but I haven't been able to focus at allllll today.


bonus pic of Lumos with the nuis ♥ I'm love her (and them!)

I somehow lost track of time and now it's March and I have to apply for graduation by the 15th AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

okay okay okay

Mostly, I've been watching enstars stage plays and they've been so good, actually?????? They're really well adapted and delightfully entrancing; I can't stop watching them. Oops???? It's just been fun!!!! We finished up the Valkyrie one right before my class started this evening and I'm still reeling from how much I wanted to punch Shu in the face the entire fucking time, in the best way possible.

uhhhh Liz & I went out last night and saw my classmate's band, which is a recurring thing since they're indie and play in a bunch of small, cool venues. Also, affordable XD I'd lost track of the days and almost missed it, but remembered like...an hour and a half before it started. SO. GOOD ON ME FOR REMEMBERING IN TIME!!!!

I'm also dying my way through screenwriting class...again......it's so fucking bad that I can't deal with it. The teacher just isn't very engaging; she has no idea how to lead a discussion or organize the class. And then there's a disruptive student that she also doesn't seem to be able to wrangle, making it basically impossible to contribute to discussions without him interrupting.

oh my godddddddddddddddd we're "discussing" the academy awards from last night (which I didn't watch because I never do and also was seeing my friend perform soooooo) and by discuss I mean she's just rambling on and sorta like....saying things like "Has anyone seen this movie?" as if that will spark a talk?? I don't fucking know. It's not working. I wanna rip my hair out.


OH RIGHT I DYED MY HAIR LAST NIGHT!!!! It's mint now~~~ I've never done this color before and it's not quite right yet...partially because my hair was still kinda red/pink in sections. I think one more round of dye will fix it, but it was after 2 am sooooo I was done for the night.

HAIR IS (mostly) DONE BEING DYED AND FRIED!!! Or like, technically not dyed at all yet because I still need to tone it but I got was so tired last night that I just had to go to bed....you know, because I'd gotten 3 hours of sleep the night before, like a moron.


Ta-da!!!!
Disclaimer: holy fuck I'm so fucking stupid do not ever bleach your brows like I did because it's SO FUCKING UNSAFE I have no idea what's wrong with me. I had to bleach them twice to get them this light and at no point did I stop myself!!!!!!! I did, however, comment on how fucking stupid it was multiple times, so maybe that counts?

Anyway, in the continuing tragedy of my weeb life, aka don't take theatre class if you want to stealth write fanfiction because people will call you out on it, we had to practice verse vs. prose in class today. Our assignment was to write a monologue in prose and then rewrite it in iambic pentameter.

Simple enough, right?

Nope, I was like HOW DO MONOLOGUE???? so my professor elaborated by advising that we think about someone with a strong opinion on something and have them talk about it, etc etc etc, and my fucking Trigun brainworms ass thought process is just a refrain of MILLIONS KNIVES as I desperately try to come up with anything else.

Thankfully, my teacher offered to give more specific prompts to anyone who needed one and I was like YES PERFECT something to force my brain to think of something, anything that isn't MILLIONS FUCKING KNIVES.

And so my teacher comes over and gives me "Someone defending their choices for why they did something" as a prompt.

And then I sit there, silently, not writing, despite the 10 minute time limit ticking down because now there's no fucking way I'll be free of writing about Knives.

Whatever.

I can handle this; we're not required to share our writing with the entire class and while I do try to push myself to, I'll just keep this one for me. AND SO off I go to bust out as much of a monologue as I have in the remaining time + try to figure out how to manage iambic pentameter.

Eventually, time's up, professor asked how it went, all that good shit- AND THEN. And then, instead of asking us who wants to share, he pairs us up with our fellow classmates and tells us to share our monologues with each other. COOL. GREAT. EXTRA GREAT BECAUSE I GET PAIRED UP WITH SOMEONE WHO I KNOW IS A FELLOW WEEB BECAUSE HE TALKS ABOUT ANIME WITH THE PROFESSOR so my only hope is that maybe he doesn't watch Trigun.

Unlike my fucking professor, who already maybe sorta caught on that I wrote Vashwood fanfiction for an assignment earlier this month and gave a very knowing look when he saw me and Liz and our current hairstyles.

BUT I DIGRESS.


I pass him my notebook, which has a tiny shitpost note I left for myself about "lol Knives" in the corner and hope and pray he doesn't notice and/or know what I'm going on about.

SPOILERS: HE DOES. He said I wrote a really good monologue but also that he knew what it was referencing and now I'm dead forever I flew too close to the sun and I've burned up with my love for a dude who named himself MILLIONS KNIVES.

lays on the ground

please remember that I am a 33-year-old with a mortgage and these are still somehow the things that happen to me XD

Tomorrow, we drive to NYC to acquire Chi!!! And also probably stationary from Kinokuniya, because ummmm I need Japanese stationary for Japanese class, obviously.

( bonus pic of me + wife )

I was up until 5 am doing homework, partially because Liz and I were rping from like midnight-3 am before I was like OH FUCK SHIT HOMEWORK THATS DUE AT 9 AM.

and then I had to do it and I'm so tired

It was for my digital media class and it's so self-indulgent but we were allowed to use whatever we want in this visual + audio project. And like. I can't help myself; I used Knives and his music from Stampede and his literal knives as assets and I had to spend a chunk of time in Audacity cutting a track apart into smaller clips and just. Yeah. That's why I'm so fucking tired because my class is also at 9 am so I am dying.

And yesterday evening Pat shaved a bunch of my hair off and helped me bleach it - instead of homework!!! - because even though I was like "no I like having funky hair colors I'm not going for pale white-blonde" like a week ago, here I am: further continuing my descent into madness. I cannot believe I'm stanning a guy named MILLIONS KNIVES but I never claimed to have good taste XD

However I didn't get all the blue lifted and I need to trim it some more, which is how my professor ended up pausing class to ask if my yellow-blonde hair was the intermediary stage before it becomes another color and I had to admit that yeah it is but I have to lift the blue-green out of it before I can get to pale lavender/white-blonde. And then he commiserated with me....

And then one of my classmates asked if I watch anime.

So I think I will go take a nap forever XD

I LOVE KEEPING TRACK OF WHAT I DO BUT THEN LIFE GETS BUSY AND I FORGET EVERYTHING OFUHSDIUFH!!!!!!!!

Fuck I haven't updated since before Katsucon, whoops!! I would like to write a proper Katsu recap but I don't have the brains for it right now :T And I'd really just like to say hi to dreamwidth and post a few minor updates.

-work has been insanely busy but we've had record breaking sales so like, yay
-I got a small part time job at the jewelry studio Pat works at, doing photo editing and listing pieces for sale online
-Liz dyed my hair and it's a beautiful bright red/maroon/purple experience now, I love it
-I started working on a bullet journal planner and I'm already way behind on it, but I'm having fun
-Ritalin has been really helpful but I'm still forgetful as fuck, so that's where I still struggle

Basically I need to get my shit organized but getting my shit organized is a continual struggle where I feel like there just aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done but also have downtime to chill. Ya know, the usual!!

Once I outline it better, I'll return with a katsu update/recap/whatever. It was an amazingly fun time though, so it is good news. I just did a lot at it so there's a lot to write!!!