Attempted GIP -_-

[ria_oaks]

Needed a new icon so, for lack of anything better, here's one of the many Wesley/Lilah ones floating around my hardrive... feel the angst! :P No clue who it's by, but I don't take any credit for it except for right clicking and going "save". ^_^

Anyway, got nearly 2 hours of work done at library, so go me. Slowly making progress into "Beloved"; I'm at 50 pages and it's ~275. Hope to have it done by Friday, preferably before, then can concentrate on essay for Monday. Last essay of the year! Well, discounting the final exam... *shudder*

*few minutes later* *blinks* Why the hell isn't this icon appearing? Blah. Will try to get it to work; barring that, will probably just use one of my other various W/L icons... *sigh*

*fiddles around more* I can't get it to work, nor can I get one of my other ones to work. Does anyone know what the problem might be? They're the right image and file size; I'm not sure what else the problem could be... they show up fine when I open them in my image editing program, but they won't show up in LJ.

Well, in the meantime here's my previous Angsty!Lex one. Will glare at this some more until it works. :P

Comments

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Mm.. If you go to Japan for like, real and stuff.. Would it be cool if I came along providing that I paid my own airfare, living and food accommodations; supplied my own spending money, and so forth? I've always wanted to go to Japan. ;_;

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

O.o *thinks* I don't know... I'd enjoy the company, but I'm not sure Mom would want to end up third wheel to us. You could always, like, come at "conveniently" the same time and "accidently" run into us. :P But seriously, I don't think Mom would go for it. Otherwise I'd love for you to come along. ;_; I really want a friend who's into anime and VGs and such so I can go fangirly and go nuts in Mandarake. :P She just doesn't get that stuff. *sigh* I could bring it up to her, if you want, but it was supposed to be a 'mother-daughter' vacation thing and I think she'd want it to just be the two of us. ;_;

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd agree that it would be more work to get me to come. We'd have to get both sets of parents to agree, a separate hotel room for me, and stuff like that. It would be nice, especially since my travel experience hasn't been very....distinct. Plus traveling with a friend would be a lot of fun. It would be nice to travel too since I went right back to school after graduating. -_-

Nah, it's ok. One of the things that I considered would be that it might be a 'mother-daughter' thing.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

It would be really fun... I have to say, all things considered I'd much rather go with a friend then with my mom, much as I enjoy travelling with her. ^^ Maybe in a few years a group of us could go over there? Like, after we graduate? That would be cool. I'd like to do some travelling once I graduate. Also, if I go on an exchange in 3rd year then I'd like to do some travelling around Europe if anyone wanted to join me. ^_^

[bronzejarith.livejournal.com]

Response to your non-existent comment: Yes. Which I am trying to fix, but lj is being a total PMSing biatch tonight. >.<

My planned expedition to US is probably a no-go, too. Sigh.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

? Non-existant comment bwah? *confused*

Really? That's too bad. ;_; Why? What happened?

[bronzejarith.livejournal.com]

To something BK said.

Hn. I'd be -welcome-, of course, but I take it summer isn't the best time to visit. Right now, the plan evolves around "hop on a bus and visit two friends in the same state." Right.

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Maybe not after we graduate, since some of us graduate a lot later than others....*cough* :(

Maybe like, during one summer or something?

I think.. I want to stay away from Europe for a bit. Any traveling that I've done outside of this continent has been to Europe. :| I'd much rather go to a more culturally distinct place. :/

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Ah.

Why isn't summer the best time to visit? Well, other than visiting people you could travel a bit... which state are they in? You mentioned California earlier. If so, at least you could go to San Francisco (Yaoi con!) and Disneyland and stuff. And stalk stars in Hollywood. :P

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean after we've all graduated... it's hard to know; things could change a lot in a few years and of course people could take years off and such so yeah, graduation could differ... guess we'll see.

Hmm... but, correct me if I'm wrong, pretty much the only places in Europe you've been are Poland and a bit of France, right? There's plenty more to see. :P England's worth it, as is Paris, Southern France, and Italy... all very culturally distinct. *g* Still, I know what you mean - myself, having been to Europe several times, I'd like to go somewhere completely new and different. And Japan certainly is _that_. *grins* And of course because of anime and VGs I've been wanting to go for years... *crosses fingers*

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Germany, not France. But I've only been to Germany to hop planes. :p

Oh yeah, I've no doubt that the many places in Europe are all culturally distinct, but I dunno; if I look at Canada and then glimpse at say, England, I don't think I'd see much immediate difference. If I compared Canada to say, a country like Egypt, then I'd think that I'd see an immediate and drastic difference, and that's the sort of distinct-ness that I'm looking for.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, that doesn't count. :P

Honestly I'd say that much of Europe it pretty darned different from Vancouver... especially, say, Rome. All those small, cobbled streets and stone and ruins and stuff... and of course the cathedrals. London... well, it's got similarities to here (coughtheweathercough), but it's still different and uniqely "British". Besides, really any big city looks the same. Tokyo I hear looks just like any other megalopolis in the world, it's just that everything's in Japanese. ^^ Even Kyoto is in parts just a typical city. Once you get out into the country, though, it gets more 'traditionally Japanese'.

And heh, Egypt would certainly be... different. Not exactly a place I'd like to go these days. Steering clear of that entire vicinity of the world. :P Although I think I've heard that even Cairo is pretty much just a typical city... I tell ya, urbanization is taking control of the world. -_-

Still, granted Japan is, in many places, certainly _very_ different from her. *g* Regardless, I wouldn't say that Vancouver is anything like most European cities... back East, namely Montreal, they'rea bit more European, but Vancouver's just... typical North American city. ^^ And it's of course _far_ newer than most European cities - which is really one of the main differences...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was using Egypt as an example.

What you said is probably true, as I have only really visited one country in Europe. It has cobbled streets, it has various stone ruins and stuff, it has cathedrals, castles, and so forth (I've visited most of the major ones), so I probably wouldn't be interested in seeing the same thing over again, except with some variation here and there. I licked the walls at a salt mine. That was cool. Of course, I am pulling stuff out of my ass right now and assuming, since I don't know what the rest of Europe is really like. But I'd still rather go to Japan or some Asian country rather than Europe. :/

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Well, I really couldn't say for certain since I've never been to Poland and thus have no clue how the rest of Europe compares. :P But it's true, that's pretty much what Europe's made up of... it's worth seeing the major stuff (you gotta go to the top of the Eiffel Tower at least once in your life :P), though. Still, I def get why you'd rather go to Japan, since it's completely different. Plus, you know, anime and all. :P

[bk635.livejournal.com]

http://www.paradise.caltech.edu/~kfoltz/pictures/isit2003.html

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

*glances through* Hm. Neat. Really does look like any old city for the most part, though. ^^

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Stttttttttttiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllllll.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Hai, hai, it would still be muchly cool. :P

[bk635.livejournal.com]

I win!

[bk635.livejournal.com]

It'd still be cool if I could come..

I know!

I can be a daughter too! I'll wear pink frilly dresses and and makeup and stuff just so I can go to Japan. :O

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

*smacks* Please don't traumatize me like that again. ;_;

Hehe, you could dress up in a sailor fuku and sing karaoke in Mandarake... evidently that's what the staff there do. :P

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Ok well if I don't end up going (*sniff*) bring me back a Japanese school girl PRLZZZ! Make sure she's over 14 though, I don't wanna get nassy with kiddies <3

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

*sweatdrops* Don't bet on it... but other (more _plausible_) gifts can be worked out. ^^

[bk635.livejournal.com]

http://www.joysjapanimation.com/toys/images/kuroneko.jpg

or

http://www.usagi.org/~doi/doi/ufo/ranma/ranma1.jpg (middle one plrz)

Good luck. <3

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Kuroneko-sama and Shampoo, ne? I'll see what I can do. ^_^

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Kuroneko-sama = kitty that sits on top of my monitor next to my two kitty twin stuffies.

Shampoo = cute girlie that sits inbetween my two kitty twin stuffies ontop my monitor.

Or get both. :D