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1. Really excited about having a day off soon.

2. It was a pretty good amount of busy today at work. Not too overwhelming what with being short-handed, but still pretty busy.

3. Got a fair amount of translation done today, too.

4. Also remembered to make a music post! I keep thinking about it at times when I'm not at the computer and then forgetting about it when I'm here at home. -_-;;

5. Speaking of music, I started using last.fm again and am kyuuketsukirui over there if anyone wants to friend me. I think I didn't install the scrobbler the last time I got a new computer, so until I was recently reminded of its existence by a friend request, I had totally forgotten about it.

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Gah, I really have to remember to do these more often! Anyway, tonight's post is five favorite R.E.M. songs. R.E.M. are one of my favorite bands, so I could easily pick ten, twenty, thirty favorite songs, but here are five I really, really, REALLY love. :)

1. Nightswimming
These are in no particular order, though if I had to pick just one to be the only R.E.M. song I'd ever get to listen to from now on, it would definitely be Nightswimming. It's just so beautiful. *_*

2. What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Man, I don't understand a word of this song (not really uncommon for R.E.M. songs), but it's just so upbeat and catchy.

3. The Outsiders
It was a tough choice between this and Around the Sun for a song off this album (I made myself not choose two songs from the same album to help make choosing easier), but in the end I went with this one.

4. I've Been High
Ugh, another one that's just so impossibly beautiful I can't even.

5. The Great Beyond
Another catchy one I really love.

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1. Really busy day at work today, so the time went by quickly. (I hope tomorrow's not as busy, though, because we're going to be very short-handed.)

2. I made some delicious stir-fry for dinner and now have lots of yummy leftovers to take for lunch.

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1. Bluh. I really don't like working mornings. I mean, I do because the time seems to pass faster, but I'm always so tired. Thankfully I was able to come home and take a nap afterwards, though, and at least tomorrow and Sunday I work in the afternoon.

2. Even though most of my day was taken up by work and napping, I did get some stuff done tonight! I posted a new chapter of A Child's Child, which means yet another goal for this month has been met.

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Show Love with No Remorse (100 words) by kyuuketsukirui
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Nana
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Komatsu Nana/Oosaki Nana
Summary: Cuddling is definitely a lover thing in Nana's head, not a friend thing, but Hachi is her first real best friend, so Nana's been trying to rewire her brain.


I wrote this for the 3W4DW anime/manga/manhwa/manhua drabblefest and then forgot to post it on AO3 once it had been more than three weeks, so here it is!

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Title: A Child's Child
Original Title: コドモのコドモ (Kodomo no Kodomo)
Author: Sasou Akira
Publisher: Action Comics
Genre: Seinen
Status in Japan: 3 volumes, complete
Scanlator: Megchan's Scanlations
Scanlation Status: Ongoing
More Info: Baka Updates

Summary: In a small town in Tokyo, the PTA argues about teaching sex ed in elementary school, but what nobody knows is that eleven-year-old Haruna is already pregnant. When she decides not to tell any adults, it's up to her classmates to help her through this ordeal. (Note: This is not loli. Sex happens off-screen and the artwork is not fan-servicey.)

Chapter Summary:
Haruna's pregnancy is starting to show, but everyone just assumes she's gained weight. However, when her crush Daigo calls her fat, she can't resist telling him the truth...and a little lie.



Chapter 10: Love Triangle?

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1. Did everything on my to-do list LIKE A BOSS.

2. A few days ago Irene noted that I sounded super quiet on Facetime and she could barely hear me. We assumed it was a bad connection or something, but tonight I randomly decided to play with the voice posts thingy and that was super quiet, too, so I was like ughhhhhh fuck is something wrong with my ipod??? Even though I bought it less than a year ago (though it's probably almost a year now, because it was an early birthday present), it was refurbished and not through Apple, so it didn't have a full year warranty, so if I have to take it to get fixed, it's not free. Bluh. Plus I don't want to waste time going to the Apple Store.

So I googled and after a lot of results that were not at all what I was looking for, finally found a thread that sounded similar and people suggested cleaning out the microphone hole with a toothbrush bristle or the round end of a needle. I tried poking at it with a toothbrush, but that did nothing, so I tried a needle and that got out quite a bit of stuff. I realised that the microphone hole is actually supposed to be quite a bit deeper than it was. Apparently it was filled almost to level with pocket grit. >_< Oops. So now it's better. I tested it with the voice memo.

3. I've gotten a lot accomplished and am tiredish, so hopefully if I go to bed now I can get to sleep without too much trouble. (I have work in the morning.) If not, I can always come home and nap afterwards.

4. I had a super delicious snack today! edamame cheese flavor Jagariko. *_* (Jagariko is a type of stick-shaped potato snack. Sort of like shoestring potatoes, but thicker than that.) Even on sale it's $1.98 for a tiny pack, though, so I probably won't be buying too many, but omg so good. SO GOOD. *_*

5. I got caught up on Korra!

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1. So productive tonight! I am on a roll, whee!

2. Lots of annoying stuff at work today, but it was fairly busy, so that was good. (Definitely busier than usual for a Wednesday, especially in the evening.)

3. I ate leftovers for two meals today. Both were stuff that really needed to get eaten up now, too.

4. I started reading The Hunger Games and am so far really enjoying it.

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I was originally going to do a joint post for 107 and 108, since 107 is almost entirely textless, but somehow I wrote almost 600 words of summary for it anyway? So I guess I will just go ahead and post it on its own. XD

Beneath the cut is a detailed summary of 7 Seeds vol. 21, chapter 107 by Tamura Yumi. Don't click through if you don't want spoilers. Download the raw here.



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1. I have to go back to work tomorrow (so nice having two days off in a row!), but at least I can sleep in, since I don't work until the afternoon.

2. I got a lot done on my days off!

3. I'm getting so close to finishing Lego HP. I think I have about 5-6% to go (most of which is house crests). I think all of it is in the game levels, too, though there may be a few gold blocks or character tokens still left in Hogwarts. I figure I'll finish up the levels and then see what's left. Oh, I do know one. It's that stupid bash everything bonus level inside Borgin & Burke's. I played it once and got like 950,000 or something, but I couldn't get the last of the stuff, possibly due to glitchiness (I could target some things, but nothing happened when I shot at them).

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I decided I was going to ride my bike to Target today, which is not very close, though I didn't know exactly how far it was until I mapped my ride when I got home. But anyway, I thought it would be a nice outing, and it was! Though I had a kind of blah time at Target itself because I was feeling in a very anti-shopping mood, I guess, where I wanted to buy things but there was too much choice and everything was overwhelming, so I didn't end up buying much of anything.

I did get two t-shirts, though, which is one of the reasons I went. The main reason I went, though, was I wanted one or two new around-the-house shirts, but they did not have what I wanted. ;_; I know it's all summer clothes now, so less chance of long sleeves, but I had hoped that since I wanted loungey/sleep shirts that long sleeves would be a year-round thing, but I guess not. :(

I also stopped at Carl's Jr. for dinner on the way home and had a tasty burger. Dinner also suffered from "too many choices, can't deal". I wanted to try somewhere different or new or I don't know, but there were too many places and I couldn't think about it, so I went with a safe choice. Blarg.

Anyway, round-trip was almost fifteen miles, whee. :D

And now tomorrow I have the day off again! Though I made the mistake of telling my mom I'd go out with her and she's coming over in about six hours, so I suppose I should get some sleep. >_< At least I can nap afterwards...

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1. I've been trying once again to cut down on soda and I feel pretty good about how I did this week. I had three days of no soda at all, and on the days I did drink any, it was just a single can or glass, no refills or anything.

2. I have tomorrow and Tuesday off! That's exciting. It will be less exciting later in the week when I have to work five days in a row, but eh. :p (I really do prefer to have my days off separated, because I like how it breaks up the work week, but one of my co-workers is taking some days off this weekend, so I had to switch with him tomorrow.)

3. I ordered pizza tonight, and then I had a brownie later. Best dinner! (I also had a really tasty salad at work for lunch, so yay veggies.)

4. And speaking of food, I had yummy okonomiyaki last night. At my store instead of having weekly fliers with the sales, we have a monthly magazine and it includes some articles and stuff, too, and next month's has a big spread at the beginning about okonomiyaki and it made me really want some. And as it turned out, I still had some mix and sauce at home, so I just bought some cabbage and green onions and a bag of shelled edamame (I have regular ones in the freezer but did not feel like shelling them to put in), and then I chopped up some cooked chicken I had in the fridge, mixed it with a bit of chipotle miso sauce and tossed that in the mix with the veggies, and it was super delicious! It makes two servings, so I have another one already made and waiting for me in the fridge, too. I think I will eat that tomorrow. :D

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1. I finished another book! I've lowered my reading goal for the year to ten books, but I still don't know how doable that is, considering I haven't felt much like reading anything. ^_^;; This was only my third for 2012... But still! I have a ton of books on my ipod, so surely there must be something interesting.

2. Meanwhile, I'm reading Kimi ni Todoke 16, which is super cute as always. :D

3. I finished summarising volume 20 of 7 Seeds! That felt like it took forever. ^_^;; I think doing it chapter by chapter is definitely better for me, though, since it means I can post more frequently.

4. I played through the Gringotts level of Lego HP 2 again tonight (free play) and thankfully got everything this go so I don't have to play it again! It took me forever to find the last goblin at the end and I was afraid it was another glitch (I've heard it can sometimes glitch and never give you the fifth goblin), but I finally found him. Ugh. Stupid game. I did have more glitching on the story of the three brothers level, though. I had to just shut it off and will try again. I had trouble the first time I played it, but finally got the pumpkins to shoot at death, but this time even if I got them spinning, they didn't have enough oomph to get to him, and just kind of fell down instead. Ugh, this game has so many glitches (I had some with the first Lego HP, too). Still, I'm like at 87% or something, yay!

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Woohoo! The last chapter of vol. 20! Hopefully I'll have some of 21 for you guys soon, too. And vol. 22 will be released on June 8th, so there's that to look forward to as well. :D

Beneath the cut is a detailed summary of 7 Seeds vol. 20, chapter 105 by Tamura Yumi. Don't click through if you don't want spoilers. Download the raw here.



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I haven't been talking about what TVs I've been watching lately, but I seem to have been watching a lot.

I am actually really behind on Legend of Korra, because I keep feeling like I need to pay attention to it more and thus can't just have it on when I work or I'll miss what's going on. But then that means I don't watch it at all. >_< So I think, including today's episode, I have like four eps to watch. Maybe I will marathon them all on my next day off. I have been really enjoying what I've seen of it so far, though, and am pretty spoiled for the eps I haven't seen, because I don't like how Tumblr Savior works, so I don't even bother trying to avoid spoilers.

Of the shows I was following on a week-to-week basis, I think there was just Happy Endings, Community, and Parks and Rec. The season finale of Happy Endings finally aired somewhere and so it's now available to download, but I haven't watched it yet. I wasn't thrilled with the season finale of Parks & Rec, though. I'm really glad the campaign arc is over, because I was getting so tired of that. I really wish the Ann/Tom relationship would be over, but maybe next season will start off with them breaking up.

As for Community, I really enjoyed the three episodes we had this week. Who would have thought Jeff would look so good shirtless and with eyeliner? I don't usually find him attractive at all, but damn. Also I guess Leonard is gay? I feel like this is a "see, you can't criticise us for not having any queer characters because look, we had a blip and you miss it moment that made a very minor character gay!" kind of thing. Which I suppose is better than being all "oh yeah, so-and-so was totally gay but it was just never important to mention it in the show because we're so above sexuality being a thing". Bluh. Go, Leonard, with your hot young boyfriend, though. XD Anyway, I don't really have any thoughts about Dan Harmon leaving next season. I'm not the type to pay attention to who is behind the scenes on stuff, so as long as the episodes are funny, I don't care. Which means, we'll see!

Um, let's see. Oh, I was watching Scrubs for a while, but I think I watched about halfway through season one and then just got tired of it. I really like Turk and Carla (both individually and together), and I like JD okay, and Elliot grew on me. But the JD/Elliot relationship just ugh. I did not want to watch any more of them. -_-

So instead I've been trying other things! I decided to start watching season two of Psych, because I'd enjoyed season one okay, but found myself kind of burnt out by their antics by the end of the season, so never did watch any more, even though I had downloaded three or four seasons. I've watched about half of season two and am enjoying it quite a bit, so maybe this time I will go directly on to the next season! It's just the sort of mindless TV I need when I'm working. I would like to watch more serious shows and movies (I have a lot on my hard drive!), but it's like what I said about Korra, I need to be able to pay attention and if I'm working, I'll miss important stuff that's going on, and yet I don't like just sitting and watching something.

I saw some funny gifs of a cartoon on Tumblr, but it wasn't until the tenth time or so that one came across my dash that it was tagged with the title so I could look it up! It turned out to be Bob's Burgers, which is super awesome and my new favorite thing. It's about this guy and his wife who own a burger shop, but really the stars of the show are their three kids, Tina, Gene, and Louise. I love all of them, but I think Louise is my favorite. I have zoomed through season one and just watched the first episode of season two tonight.

Speaking of cartoons, I totally forgot about Adventure Time for a while, but have just downloaded a handful of new eps since the last time I remembered about it. (So much easier to watch shows when they're already over! This whole following week-to-week thing is tough, especially when there's no one on my flist talking about it to remind me to go download, which is the main way I remember my other shows.)

I also started watching a ridiculous anime called Shirokuma Cafe (Polar Bear Cafe), about a panda (named Panda), who hangs out a lot at a local cafe owned by a polar bear. But it's not just a world of talking animals. There are also humans, and no one remarks on the fact that animals can talk or own cafes or whatever. Panda gets a part-time job working at a zoo. As a panda. There's a fulltime panda, too, but Panda-kun just goes a few days a week. XD

Oh! And I watched the first episode of Suburgatory, which seems to be a show about Snowflake-chan/Othergirls-san. Not sure if I'm going to keep watching it or not, because I didn't really like the main character at all, but I might give it a few more episodes.

I also downloaded, but haven't watched yet, Party Down, because cesare and I were talking about Adam Scott (Ben on Parks & Rec) and she recommended it.

Any other ideas for stuff I should watch? Doesn't have to be new (in fact, I prefer shows that are finished and can just be downloaded in one chunk rather than watching as they air). I do have a preference right now for sitcoms and cartoons, due to the not being able to concentrate on more serious stuff, but I'll take suggestions for anything.

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Title: Snuff
Author: Terry Pratchett
Number of Pages: 416 pages
Book Number/Goal: 3/10 for 2012
My Rating: 3/5

Summary: When Vimes takes a holiday to his wife's family manor in the country, he's expecting to be bored out of his skull, but when a goblin girl is killed, he finds himself with an investigation on his hands.

Review: This was enjoyable, but I just didn't love it. The theme of a species previously looked down upon and treated badly by humans and everyone else becoming more accepted has been used in many Discworld novels and it's really geting old. If the surrounding story is good enough, then I'm happy to go with it, but I just really found the story lacking in this. I kept putting it down and not reading for days or weeks because it just wasn't keeping me interested. I really like Vimes (I used to say he was my favorite character, but that's now Moist), but Vimes on his own is much less fun than Vimes with Vetinari and/or the rest of the Watch. I like Sybill all right, but I really dislike how anything with Vimes and Sybill together turns into all this stuff about gender stereotypes and "oh those women, how can we ever understand their ways!?" I guess that's part of Vimes' characterisation, since Pratchett doesn't do that with other female characters, but it's not something I enjoy and it makes me dislike any time Vimes is with Sybill (which was a lot of this novel). I do like Young Sam, but he wasn't in this very much. And I love Willikins. He was probably the best part.

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1. I had a nice, relaxing day off. My mom had emailed me the night before saying they wanted to come over and get something out of the garage, but I told her I wanted to sleep in as long as possible, so to try and not make a lot of noise or come in the house. And apparently they managed that, because she said they came over around eleven and I didn't wake up until over an hour later, so yay.

2. I got everything done on my to-do list! Lots of translation, mostly, but that is what I need to do the most of.

3. I went to El Pollo Loco for dinner and had a delicious burrito. It was just the right time of night, too. A little past the main dinner rush, so it wasn't too busy, but still light outside. It was also nice and cool, so I rode around a bit afterwards instead of going straight home.

4. I made brownies again, since I still had half the frosting left, as well as a few more caramels. I bought some brownie mix that had chocolate chips in it this time, so they're even better than before, which I hadn't thought possible. *_*

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Oh my goodness, I tried to pick some awesome ballads and just had a horrible time trying to get it down to a manageable list. D: Even after deciding this post would just be Japanese artists, and then narrowing it even further to Japanese male artists, I had so many songs. D: I did finally manage to get it down to ten, though. (I mean, I'm sure no one is going to complain about more songs, but I think small batches makes it easier for people to download without getting overwhelmed, as well as keeps me from burning out on having to write stuff up!)

1. The Boom - Chuuousen
I love the wistful tone of this song (though the lyrics aren't really particularly sad).

2. Fujii Fumiya - Wara no Inu
He has so many great ballads, it was hard to choose just one! But this is a good one. I love his voice.

3. GLAY - Together
Ugh, this is so pretty. *_* It's an orchestral version of the song and I love it even more than the original.

4. Mr.Children - Kuruma no Naka de Kakurete Kiss wo Shiyou
Another wistful song. I love the lyrics, too (I love almost all Mr.Children lyrics!).

5. Ozaki Yutaka - Oh My Little Girl
This was one of the first songs I downloaded off the internets!

6. Penicillin - Mother Goose
Oh, this song! His voice! The music! Everything! *_* If I were doing these by the amount I like them rather than alphabetical order, it would definitely be in the top three.

7. Raphael - Eternal Wish~Todokanu Kimi e~
I don't know any other songs by them and I don't remember how I heard this one, but it's so, so beautiful. Just wow. Chock full of visual-kei ballady goodness.

8. Spitz - Namida
Hearing this on my ipod today is what gave me the idea for the topic!

9. Tokunaga Hideaki - Saigo no Iiwake
I love his voice so much!

10. Yuzu - Karappo
The harmonieeeeeeeees. *_*


I'm also still taking ideas for future music posts if you have any specific themes you want to see! :D

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1. Day off tomorrow, yay! :D

2. Payday today, yay! :D (Well, tomorrow really, but I don't work tomorrow, so I got mine today, and it's direct deposit anyway, so I checked my bank and it's already gone in.)

3. It's halfway through the month and I feel like I'm pretty much on track to making the goals I set myself for May.

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I didn't get a whole lot done today (though I did do a bit of translating). Mostly I slept in and played Lego HP and read my flists and watched some TV. I went out for a bit to get dinner, which was nice. Really it was just the sort of relaxing day I needed. I didn't have the brain to be productive, but hopefully that will change after recharging today (and I have another day off on Friday, woohoo!).

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