Hey everyone, have a happy and safe Halloween!

I'll post picture of this year's costumes once we get a shoot going. I'd love to hear about your costumes and fun stories! And I'll be sure to post my own if I happen to have any Halloween Hi Jinx.

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Kari out ;3

Yeah, that's right, a pink balloon was just stalking me. It was kinda freaky.

To set up the scene: When my grandma and grandpa go out of town I water the garden for them. They are out of town right now, and as such, I went watering today.

I had been to the garden by their house to water the roses, then went to check on the larger garden that's down the hill a little. I remembered I had to water the tomatoes by the house, so I went back to the house to do so. As I got over to the tomatoes, something caught my eye:

A pink balloon was sitting right outside the deer fence.

Now, I might not have mentioned this before, but this is a pretty rural area. My mom's, uncle's and grandparent's property are all next to each other, and make a total of roughly 9 acres. The majority of the area is forest; namely the forest most of my Yoruichi photoshoot took place in. The closest hose to my grandparents is down a hill, across a small field, and behind some trees. I don't know how a balloon could have made it all the way up to the fence.

So, said balloon had just caught my attention when a light breeze came along and started moving it. The balloon hugged the last 30 feet of fence, never floating more than six inches above the ground, before getting caught at the corner by a piece of grass and a plank of wood. I figured it would get dislodged and just go off into the forest, but no:

It freely turned a 90* corner.

Bwa?

Mind you, it's on the outside of the deer fence. By all rights it should have kept going straight. Not this pink wonder. It turns the 90* and keeps hugging the fence. Now instead of just keeping a steady pace, it would get caught on little clumps of grass and hunker down for a while. So while I'm watering, I would turn around to see the balloon in not only a new place down the fence, but always peeking at me from between clumps of grass or from behind a post. This continued for a good 10 minutes down about 100 feet of fence.

I'm watching this thing wondering if it's going to do another two right angles and end up in the garden with me, but before it reached the end of the long side of the fence, it blew away from the fence and over against a wall of blackberries and shrubs. I wish I could say it turned that corner, or was all of a sudden in the garden with me, or had just vanished without popping. I thought fun time with the balloon was over. I was pretty disappointed about that.

So about 8 minutes later, right before I left, the balloon decides not only is it going to get unstuck from the bushes, but float 5 feet up in the air straight back at me. I glared at it as it rolls over to the bushes again. It was starting to shift around again as I left the garden and I wanted to stay and watch it, but I had to go back up to my house. My mom asked me what I would do if it followed me. Honestly? I don't know. Think it's Magic Adventure time? Freak out at the phenomena? Maul it so it can't follow me anymore?

This all happened about a half an hour ago.

Sweet Baby Jesus, if I look out my window today and there is a pink balloon sitting outside of it, all bets are off.

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Kari out ;3

I watched Akira the other day for the first time.


What the hell did I just watch?

_{And I strongly advise against watching Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Akira, Princess Mononoke, and Interstella 5555 all in one weekend.}

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Kari out ;3

I just saw my 28,888th pageview. Does that mean I give myself a kiriban? *is already working on four pictures at once*


I need to have an anime marathon, now! I just got the course schedule for an art history class and now I feel the need to watch Evangeleon, Akira, My Neighbor Totoro, Doraemon, Godzilla, Lone Wolf, Shogun Assasin, Interstella 5555...not to mention some POKEMON. They are all on the schedule for class discussion! Mr. Sutcliff, you are AWESOME!


If Suzaku were a hobo, what would his sign say? I NEED HELP FAST. Points for the best one even! I'm desperate!

Things I've thought of but don't know if they work:
-Will pilot Knightmare frames for food.
-Have you seen this girl? *insert Euphie's pic*
-Will spin for money.
-Looking for Zero.

Suggested to me:
-WILL DO MOST ANYTHING FOR FOOD, BUT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT LATER.
-This economy is so bad, even demons are getting laid off.
(or: even I got laid off, or some variation thereof)
-Will reap souls for food.
I mean, I will actually eat the souls.
-Directions to the highway to hell?
-The end is near! (insert photo of Zero)

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Kari out ;3

I've got quite the list of stuff to deal with in this journal, so I'll get to it.


Yep, I'm back. Catalina Island was pretty cool. I did a lot of sitting on the beach and not getting tan. The shops were nice and it was a peaceful town. Some of us would get up at 4am to set up stuff on the beach so we had our preferred area and the awesome part was that no one would move or steal anything. We did a few touron (tourist/moron) things like glass-bottom boating and a golf-cart ride up the mountain. I'll update this journal with photos later. =3


The Good News: I was one of the 25 finalists out of 2464 entries.
The Bad News: I didn't place in the top 3.

I feel like the Director based his decision on a different set of criteria than the dA staff did. Basically the contest that was judged was not the one that was announced originally. But isn't that the story of all dA contests? I'm not so much upset by the way it played out as by the way it was announced. The article for the top 3 places was announced with a small and out-of-the-way link to the semi-finalists. Either the winners should have been announced a little while after the semi-finalists were, or the semi-finalists should have been included in the same article. It kind of made me feel like being a semi-finalist wasn't a big enough accomplishment for dA to acknowledge. :/ And I keep entering contests even though I know this is going to happen. Awesome.


It was pleasantly full, but I've already gotten through it.


I'm going to try and get those two prizes done this week before school starts. I've got two bigger pieces I'm working on as well, besides large personal projects that I've been working on and off of for quite a while. If only there were more hours in the day...


Yeah, that's right, it starts in a week. I'm rather excited about half of my classes. The other half can go jump off a cliff. I really don't like GE. Especially history. But I've got my Life Drawing class, so life is good. And just as awesome is my art history course is Contemporary Japanese Art, which is heavily based on anime and manga. God I hope I am going to love this teacher. Even better is that his last name is Sutcliff. *shot* I am praying that he's got long brown hair in a low ponytail and wears glasses. Bonus points for green eyes. *shot again*

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Kari out ;3