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Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Demosthenes and Locke! XD I am in love with Ender's Game. I want to get a copy of Ender's Shadow.

Yet... I've read it so many times over that slight binding and water damage is becoming apparent on the outside, and though the inside is still intact and in good shape, I am afraid of what I might do to it. oO;; Hence, I am trying not to carry it around too much or destroy it, like so many other favorites. ><

[I HAVE gotten a lot better with that though, so hey.]

Today in Japanese was rather wtf. We were going over grammar points (the -tai verb form, which means "I want to") and all of a sudden Roxane screeches, and we all turn with a o_O

Roxane: Sensei! My contacts... it's OW moved like the lens is off place and can I...
Sensei: Ah. Otearai (bathroom) ni...
Roxane: IKIMASUKA!!! >< *covering eye*
Sensei: ARE you going, or do you WANT to go?
Roxane: Ehhhh? *almost falling over now*
Sensei: Ikimasu, take out the masu, change it to...
Roxane: ...tai! Ikitai!
Sensei: Otearai....
Roxane: Otearai ni... ni... i... kitai! *eye becomes redder, and redder, and redder*
Sensei: Mmm, very good. Douzo. (go ahead.)
Roxane: *scurries off like a drowning rat*
Sensei: See, you can practice Japanese real-time anywhere!
Class: .......

Ah. And then he had us do a self-introduction, and the class completely failed... well, not exactly... but hell, I remember those crazy paragraph introductions we had to do back with Matsui sensei.... anyway, this was the kind of stuff people came up with.

[For clarification, changing the ending of a select verb from -masu to -tai converts the meaning of select verb from "I *verb*" into "I want to *verb*"

shimasu is a verb that means "to do."]

Sensei: *picks randomly* Doty-kun!
Mike Doty: *stands up*
Sensei: Douzo. (go ahead.)
Mike: ettou... konnichiwa. *bow* Watashi wa Mike Doherty desu. (hello. I am Mike Doherty.)
Mike: um... se ga takai desu! (I am tall!) *gestures*
Mike: Tottemo kakkoi desu! (I am very handsome!)
Class: *cracks up*
Mike: XD Soshite tottemo tsuyoi desu! (And very strong!) *flexes arm muscles*
Class: *cracks up more*
Mike: Sorekara... (and then...)
Mike: Angelina Jolie wo SHITAI. XDDD *nods all around, bows, sits down*
Class: ..... *silence* *a split second later* *PING* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~

... aaand we keep laughing for about 5 full minutes while sensei futilely tries to quell the eruptions, but people are just bursting with laughter and he completely fails.

In other news, I find I don't talk with my freshmen friends much at lunch anymore. I talk with Tiff mostly, and if not I just kind of sit and relax and listen.

You know something?

Aside from random tidbit chitchat talk, when they get into discussions they are ALWAYS gossiping about some specific person they dislike and they lower their voices and the subjects in question change but it is always the same. I think that's why I never really have anything to say, aside from occasionally interjecting questions like "who?" "he a freshman?" etc.

=X I feel bad for the senior Dennis. Whoever he is. Apparently he has pimples. I wonder if he really actually stalks Kristy or if it is just, perhaps, our imagination...

Not that I'm any better off or anything. Mostly I just end up listening to Tiff rant about her completely screwed over band happenings and audition stuffs and how her mom wants her to quit next year but not if she doesn't make it to ECYS or SHS wind ensemble and how people are all better than her etc etc... And then we lapse into friendly silence and just kinda sit there and listen to gossip floaaaat over on the wind.

It is not so terrible as it sounds, though. We are also random people. XD Tiff is funnyyyyyy~

"Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peaaaanut last night. Last niiiiight I found a peanut, found a peanut last night~ Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it ooooopen last night. Last niiiiight I..."

Remember: the enemy's gate is DOWN.