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I should NOT listen to CTY canon songs. They make me depressed. But I'm testing if my mp3 player is working properly (sometimes it does weird things to the songs) so I have to go through all of them =_=;;

I don't feel like posting on CTY right now, so I'll do that later. (I'll probably end up doing it after the totoro party)

.... -listens to song- .... >> This is depressing. Earthy sent me the few songs he had... Oh, speaking of that, maybe I should get back to translating. I also need to shower. Yes, I know it's the middle of the day. I shower when I want to, I eat when I want to, I work when I want to, I sleep when I want to... I don't give a damn about the time. So please do not annoy me about that. Because people have. And it's annoying.

( Ramble )

On a side note, I managed to find sheet music to American Pie, Stairway to Heaven, and Nightswimming. American Pie and Stairway took forever. They're too popular. Lots of sheet music for sale. I had to cut through lots of site routes and google links and even then it took a really long time for me to find a place with all 7 pages. But I did. And it's the piano solo version. And it's good quality. =D So yay! I've been messing around with it on the computer.

Stairway I found at the same site. But it's not very fun to play. Just the general melody and a few chords to go with it. It's for easy-playing. It's so simple I could've written it. =_= Kind of sad. It's still fun to hear the melody coming out of the piano, but it's pretty plain. American Pie is much more interesting.

I just printed Nightswimming out and I'm not so familiar with that song, but it doesn't look bad. I should bring all of these to the totoro party! XD Speaking of that, I'm also debating whether or not to bring my camera there. Since it's pretty much a CTY gathering party, if I take pictures and upload them, they can probably qualify to go on Eliza's site too? That'd be cool. It'd be really cool if everyone uploaded all their pics and sent her the links. But then she would be severely overworked. Hmm.. maybe I can help! =D Well, whatever. I should go shower, practice cello, mess around with the piano, clean my room, translate BR, translate FMA, and perhaps search for more sheet music if I have time. Pretty tight schedule. Better get started on it.

Aaagh...

-falls over dead- That was a LOT of work. I just finished translating all of the urgent needed Busou Renkin chapters, and it was so much worse than usual translating. Because it was all missing character summaries or forewords, or, worse of all, Author's Notes on every single damned chapter...

Normally in 13 pages if you put all the text together you form maybe... two, three paragraphs? Sometimes less, on battle scenes, sometimes more. But this time I got sent 13 pages of FULL TEXT. 3-4 paragraphs on each PAGE.

So I'm sure you understand why I fell over dead. But I am rather proud of myself. After all, let's see. My last post was at 1:30 or so. Roughly 5 hours have passed. And I actually got most of my tasks done. I showered, practiced cello (for an hour, too, surprisingly enough _ _;; ), and messed around with the piano like I wanted to. Nightswimming was really repetitive. They could have saved about 2 (or 3) pages if they bothered to use the repeat sign. But it's... pretty nice. I still think the sheet music of American Pie is best, though, even though it's hard.

Anyways, after that my parents came home with shaved ice! And it had good toppings, too. Yummmmm... Ai-yu and Xian-tsao and all of that good stuff... and pearls like the ones in pearl milk tea~ and naturally they had condensed milk. =) Delicious! And THEN guess what happened. My mom dragged me away... to do deskwork for her. I had to input all of the stuff on her checkbooks into the computer. Like, who the check was to, how much it was, what category (tax? fuel? payroll?).... that took a really long time.

Then I came back. And translated till I dropped. And I actually managed to finish BR. @_@ Which makes me really happy because that means I'm still able to translate at super-speed... Chinese skills haven't deteriorated too much. Didn't look at FMA yet, but I didn't expect to finish until tomorrow. So this is good. I also cleaned my room up somewhat and played with the dog.

@_@ Did I count wrong somewhere? How did I fit that into 5 hours? I just translated for definitely over an hour, and the deskwork with mom's checkbooks was over an hour for sure, too. Cello was almost an hour... so that's about four hours... so I ate, cleaned, played (with the dog), played (piano), printed out sheet music, and showered... all in the space of one hour? No, just piano and eating should add up to that... aaaaaaah I'm confusing myself. Whatever. I somehow managed to do everything, and it can sit at that. =D

PHWAHAHA I HAVE MAD CHINESE SKILLZ

-gloat gloat gloat- Okay time for dinner.