A Better Word for Weird

*deep breath*

GOOOOOOOOOOO GIANTS!!!!

Seriously, this was the first Super Bowl I've been interested in for a reason other than the commercials or the halftime show. And my team WON. WHEE!

A queez!



You are breakfasty, like a pile of pancakes on a Sunday morning that have just the right amount of syrup, so every bite is sweet perfection and not a soppy mess. You are a glass of orange juice that's cool, refreshing, and not overly pulpy. You are the time of day that's just right for turning the pages of a newspaper, flipping through channels, or clicking around online to get a sense of how the world changed during the night. You don't want to stumble sleepily through life, so you make a real effort to wake your brain up and get it thinking. You feel inspired to accomplish things (whether it's checking something off your to-do list or changing the world), but there's plenty of time for making things happen later in the day. First, pancakes.

50 BOOKS 2008
7)) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

roguebelle requested explanations for the following:
bishounen: In Japanese, translates to "beautiful youth," though it is understood to mean (to use a more vernacular phrase) "prettyboy." It's most widely used to describe any male character from anime who looks slightly (or very) feminine. Another one of my interests, Dilandau Albatou, is an example of a bishounen, though even he might fall on the more male-looking side of the spectrum.
So why's this in my interests? Because sexual ambiguity is yay, that's why. ^__^

buachailleen: Pronounced "book-a-leen" with emphasis on the first syllable, buachailleen are Scottish faeries who appear as young boys and run around on summer nights messing with sheep. They fall on, I think, a happy medium with regard to humans- not particularly nice or particularly malevolent, but rather just mischievous. My faery-dude who I've posted art of a coupla times is a buachailleen, and if I ever try my hand at a webcomic, it'll be about the little group of sheep-worriers I've had running around in my head for some time now.

earthbound: My favorite video game of all time!!! Also one of my most treasured fandoms, inasmuch as I "do fandom" anymore. The game is an aerial-view RPG for the Super Nintendo, and in it you play a young man who's awakened one night by the sound of a meteor crashing not far from his house. From there begins an adventure involving aliens, psychic powers, a traveling blues band, an evil dimension-bending statue, monkeys, cavemen, hippies, vision quests, magic cake, the loch ness monster, a walking dungeon, zombies, ghosts, dinosaurs and time travel, just to name a few things.
Some years ago I managed to become a big fish in a small fandom with my 20-chapter Earthbound fanfic, Cycle, which picks up on our heroes 10 years after the game ends and has since been called "the 'Casablanca' of Earthbound fanfic." Its sequel, Mutation, has become a very long work-in-progress which I'd still like to finish...

my scottish ancestry: The only part of my geneology I've done any looking into (though I would like to do more someday...). My mother's maiden name is Crawford, a very Scottish name, though so far we've actually traced them back to Ireland. BUT. It was right around the time when a whole bunch of well-to-do Scots were coming over and seizing the Irish farmers' land and living on it. Soooo there's a good chance my ancestors were Scottish assholes XD Dunno how proud I am of that, but it feels cool to know where one comes from. Even if it's from assholes.

nhsi: Stands for "National High School Institute," or the "Cherub" program. It happens every summer here at Northwestern for Junior high school students. I did it for theatre when I was between 11th and 12th grades. It's fun being a former Cherub at Northwestern, because you can strike up conversations with other former Cherubs that start out with, "Remember that time during Cherubs..." and watch non-Cherubs roll their eyes. :P

pgsm: Stands for "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon," which is a great example of Japan's wonderful ability to take a good thing way too far. Hey look, we have a successful cartoon with hundreds of episodes! Now let's make it a live-action show! And have stage shows! With songs! I have a DVD of one of the stage shows. It is deliciously ludicrous.

takarazuka: More Japan stuff! More sexual ambiguity! Takarazuka is Japan's all-female acting troupe known for staging lavish musicals. The actors live together in dorms, train and rehearse all the time, and are not allowed to date while they're in the company. Hard.Core. I'd do it if it weren't for the not-allowed-to-date thing. And the being American thing.
My favorite otokoyaku (or "actress who plays male roles") is Oozora Yuuhi *points to icon*. She's a wonderful comic actor; she played Nicely-Nicely Johnson in their production of Guys and Dolls. She was also Rudolph in one of their many Elisabeths. And she's pweeetty *_*

And with that, I'm off to campus. I has callback!