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Hi, Faith!!! Been some time, eh? Well, I've finally gotten the ACT and PSAT exams and my National Honors Society application out of the way, so I'm feeling a lot less overwhelmed with schoolwork and all. Whew. Now I've got a twelve- to twenty-page research paper to write, but I've chosen to do it over the Disney films, so I'm actually having A LOT of fun with it. I was going to write it on Grimm's fairy tales, endangered species of animals, or Harry Potter, but our teachers in the English department didn't want any two students writing reports on the same topic, so I had to keep changing mine continuously. Not that I mind! I just felt that I knew too much about Disney to be writing a research paper on it, ne? But yeah, I'm actually surprised about how much I DIDN'T know about Disney. I have like twenty books and several database articles I've gathered up, and I just want to sit down and read through them all. If only I had the time! But no, I've got to skim and take notes. Aww! I actually picked up this book about the moral themes in classic Disney films.... Really cool. Anyway.

Yeah, I've been missing my friends terribly, with all this schoolwork and such going on (seriously, my lack of contact with you guys lately is sickening me), so I thought I'd drop you a line here.

Speaking of which, I just have this insane urge to write today.... I only just finished my homework, and I've been going nuts all day thinking, "I HAVE TO WRITE SOMETHING!!!! D8" But I had to make up for six classes I missed for mock trial competitions today, so I was kind of swamped, especially with this research paper stuff. And it's late now, yeah, but there is no way I can go to sleep without writing SOMETHING first. I don't even know what to write, I just want to do it. I get that feeling a lot, though, hehe. It's a rare case when I actually sit down to write something with a plan in mind, you know? But yeah, there I go rambling again. Guess that's what I'm best at! P:

Ah well. I'll hopefully be hearing from you soon then, eh? Take care! ^_^

Yes, i got an email too. I'm glad that she's alright...

I know! She seems to have so many opportunities that i never got to have a school.I'm quite envious because some of that stuff sounds like fun. See here, we don't have college / uni programmes or a school newspaper or anything. Our system is more or less... we have compulsory subjects and a couple of options until year 11. After year 11 we can either drop out, stay at school or go to college. Either way there are no compulsory subjects. But there are so many subjects that they have in America that we don't get the chance to study until university level.

University has a lot of opportunities... i have no idea how i'm going to fit everything in.

Really? I tend to prefer manga over anime, to tell the truth. I'm not really sure why.... I don't know if it's the bookworm in me or if it's just the simple fact that I find most mangas to have stories that are, overall, better developed than their anime counterparts. It could also be the artist in me? I work mostly in black-and-white value sketches, and manga drawings are excellent to learn from, I've found. Who knows?

And yeah, I order most of my stuff online anymore. Wish we had some anime stores around here, but that's a rarity no matter where in the United States you go, it seems....

Oh! I have been to a Hastings before! It was kind of small-scale, though. They had a variety of DVDs and such, but they weren't exactly current. I remember I went there when I was looking around for the Death Note DVDs (this was before I had the privilege of online shopping), but they only had the first volume in a value pack with the manga. At that point, I was still looking for volume five, which had been released three weeks previously, and I already owned the complete collection of the manga along with the collector's edition of volume one. Haha.

My father did pick up my Axel PA figure there, though! And he got a Vaan and a Rinoa for my brother. And Balthier! I got my Balthier figure there! How awesome is that! :D

Oh, yeah, and here would be the Takagi and Mashiro team from Bakuman....



Not very good examples (that first one makes Takagi's hair look a little too blond), but probably the best one's going to find for this series. It hasn't really picked up a very substantial fanbase yet. Anyway. Can you not see the resemblance??? I CANNOT GET OVER IT. o_o

Ooh! It's sounding amazing already! I really love that about any story -- the whole "shades of gray" concept. I finally have some time to myself, so I'm loading the first episode right now. (Computer's so SLOW tonight.... Ugh.) I'll watch a few episodes and let you know what I think, hey? ^_^

I know! I came back from work, quickly scanned over my emails, and saw that I had a few messages from Twitter saying you were following me again. O_o And then I signed in and wondered why you hadn't made any updates. :P Had to go to your page to read them, haha. I'm "re-following" you now, so hopefully they've sorted that out.

Aww thank you so much, Faith-sama! ^^

And I find that kind of funny... because I would have drew this way back in wintertime, right? I would have just started the second season of Code Geass then, but I remember that C.C. always reminded me of the kind of character you would create, somehow. I just seemed to always think of you whenever she made an appearance. Haha. So I decided I would try drawing her for you, and if you hadn't seen Code Geass already, I would recommend it to you. And it just so happened that you had seen the series and actually loved her character. How awesome. :D

Anywho. You were on a family vacation, eh? It sounds like things didn't exactly go as planned.... Haha. But I'd still love to hear about what all you did. ^_^

And I haven't checked my email, as usual. Hehe. But I think that Twitter site sounds pretty interesting.... I'll have to check it out tomorrow. Right now I'm getting ready to watch Saturday night (or Sunday morning :P) anime! CODE GEASS IS UP NEXT HECK YEAH!!!! It'll be a rerun of episode seven of the first season. Fun, fun! (I'm so glad they're still airing Code Geass instead of finding some old crappy show like Moribito to fill up the time slots.... Ugh.)

But yeah, anyway. Guess I'll hear from you soon, hey? ^_^

FAITH-SAMA!!! You haven't been around in a while, eh. Aww. D:

But, yeah, so I was going through my old room when I came across my sketchbook. And what do I find in there...? That drawing I promised you around December. Hahaha.... I kind of forgot about it after everything that went on around that time. But we're getting a new scanner, so I should be able to get a nice high-quality image up for you, eh? I can't believe this is nearly eight months later than I promised it.... ^_^'''

Anywho! I thought I'd let you know. I think, once I get that scanned, I'll send it on to you first, and then add it to my art gallery I'm putting together for my profile page. Yay! :D