glee!

better than a party, o yes, by a long, long stretch.
i am terribly sorry about the prolonged neglect; i've been harrowingly busy. finals. o god, finals.
i went out a couple days ago and bought anime, and a videogame. and mr. tivey knows i want to be a (paid-and-published) writer, and is being oddly solicitous about lending me books. so. now i have a backed-up list of things to read, as well as anime to finish watching and videogames to beat, and dresses to complete. stop looking at me like that; it's finals week, and i haven't gone anywhere near a sewing machine.
oh, and in ceramics today i had this burning urge to knit or crochet something. and it was inspired in the strangest way! ...we were watching The Day After Tomorrow (Jake Gyllenhaal is so cute. he looks like a puppy that wants to be picked up and held.) anyway, it was the Frosty Library Scene, and the girl whose name will forever escape me was wearing her long grey scarf around her neck and over her head like a hijab. i must assume that it kept her ears nice and toasty. at any rate, it looked quite romantic, and snug, and since i'm always scouting ideas for new projects, it of course caught my eye. so now i am hunting desperately for the black yarn, because i WANT a shawl like that--
o yes. and i went to the dentist and had the *worst* speed-sealant application. Ever. he stuck me four times, in different spots; the assistant was bumbling, and throughout the entire encounter they talked about a hole that was in the x-ray room floor. afterward we (pudyu, simello, and i) went to hunt desperately for shoes for simello to wear to her friend's cincinera (sp?). she's already bought a cute dress. anyway, we went to carousel mall, which was, as predicted by the empty parking lot, deserted. the little plastic ride-on train has been dismantled and replaced with tables; the carousel's music is quiet, as though it knows its unhappy fate. i must go back to that dying place, sometime soon, with a camera. the last i heard of the mall, the city has planned to bulldoze it and turn its grounds into a lake. and what will become of the carousel, then? i'd really rather not know.
i think i'm growing out of the loligoth-style. a shame, too, because i only just got started...

ps. i wonder if i ought to give Coby the address to this thing. hum.