You're so Vain, You Probably Think this LJ is About You

Back from the cruise and tired as all Hell. I know, right? I actually did get a lot of sleep on the ship, but all the running around in port and traveling and rushing to make the Tutu event yesterday just wore me out.

Glad to be home, although I am sadly behind in emails and my flist. Hope everyone is doing okay. I did read a couple of entries that made me want to reach out and give all of ya'll a great big hug.

*HUGS*

I'll upload a few pictures once the laundry, etc. is taken care of and sundries put away.

Work tomorrow. Bah. But I should be finding out about the bonus in the next few days. Please, God let there be one this year. *sweatdrop*

Tutu event was great - I got my dinky douga signed by the American and Japanese seiyuu and Ikuko Itoh did a little drawing of Ahiru in the corner. *squee*

Princess Tutu has the gayest swordfights evar! Which makes sense: ballet, yadda yadda. Also, nekkid Fakir = love. I am a sucker for bad tempered literary knights in various stages of undress. Seriously...who isn't?

Yes, that is the whole content of this entry, other than to say I saw Dead Man's Chest again and liked it even better this time around. However, I will admit: I rewatched the first PotC and the sequel just can't touch it, in plot, acting, hilarity, and pure cheese. *loves them both anyway*

I am so weak. Sam Goody is having a 50% off, going-out-of-business sale, and I am putty in their hands. Picked up discs 3 and 4 of FMP: Fumoffu as well as the two disc special edition of Meet Me in St Louis, Two Weeks Notice, and the Animetoonz cd featuring Kikuko Inoue.

Afterwards, we went to the Vietnamese noodle shop across the street from the mall and had pho tai. Yum!

I watched the second disc of Princess Tutu tonight and I am just enjoying the Hell out of it. The extras are great: I love how they talk about the music of each episode as well as the ballet background of the plot. Fakir is the gay, bitchy boyfriend of my anime dreams! The scenes between him and Mytho are squee-worthy. *harts them*

Finally, a partial meme stolen from skint. I weeded out some of the questions because I was tired:

( I am from Planet Look at Me! Look at Me! )

Well, my Princess Tutu fansubs work...on my parent's DVD player. Oh, well. At least I can watch it now.

What finally pushed me to getting the series, besides raisai's recommendation? This quote from the MIT Anime Club reviewer:

"[Princess Tutu is] Cardcaptor Sakura meets Revolutionary Girl Utena, as directed by David Lynch, with ballet instead of sword duels."

How can you not want to watch that? LOL...

In other news, I am somewhat curious to see The Dreamers. The plot sounds a little like 'Les Enfants Terribles' in regards to the freaky, eff-ed up relationship between the brother and the sister. Oh, those wacky French! ^_~

And speaking of French, just saw 'The Triplets of Belleville.' Unusual and original. The animation wasn't really to my liking, but the grandmother was just *sob* Yeah, I liked the story very much.