Sakura of DOOM

Back home!

Thankfully, the car wasn't towed, and I only got stuck with two parking tickets. My first flight ended up being delayed, so I thought I was going to miss my connection, but the connection ended up being delayed as well. Yay, sort of?

Also, rilina has posted pictures of the trip, including Sasuke-rabbit and the Hayride of the Lost!

During my time there, we managed to watch eps. 1-4 of Coffee Prince, random episodes of the Nana anime (from the episodes we watched, it seems to be a straight adaptation of the manga, usually with frames taken right from panels and word-for-word dialogue matching), and the bizarre Nanami episodes of Utena.

And now, to catch up on book write ups! And LJ posts!

Today we went to a country fair! I have never been to one before, but this one promised apple picking and a corn maze. Alas, it was not a giant county fair with deep-fried twinkies and crafts contests and awards for biggest vegetables, but still! I feel very superficially touristy American.

I got llama and goat spit on my hands when I fed them, and yelled "llama llama llama" and thought of VVC. Then we checked out a little rabbit playground, populated with rabbits up for adoption. There was a huge cluster of white rabbits gathered together, all engaged in grooming each other, sleeping, and all around being social. We looked some more, only to discover a black rabbit hidden behind a playhouse, lurking.

"OMG! He's Sasuke as a rabbit!" Rilina said.

"He so is! Maybe his hair will turn purple."

Clearly Sasuke-rabbit was lurking there, marinating in his own angst and scorning the sympathy and fur-licking that the other shinobi rabbits had to offer.

When we had returned, Sasuke-rabbit had stopped lurking behind the house, only to be lurking next to the food. Presumably his angst continued to o'erhang him like a hat.

Also! There was a giant rubber ducky perched over a ton of water pumps, for no reason I could figure out. Maybe the pumps were for a rubber duck race?

OH! Also, there was the best sign ever at the fair! Neon yellow and orange letters over a rustic wooden structure helpfully spelled out "HAYRIDE OF THE LOST." The only way this could have been better is if it had been a Hayride of the Damned!

We then fumbled our way through a corn maze. I wonder who came up with the idea of corn mazes. Like, some random person standing in the middle of corn fields suddenly thought, "Hey! I could make a maze here and make some money!" Thankfully, there were no aliens or children with creepy eyes lurking in the midst of the corn, though there were a lot of bendy, stalky non-corn plants that attempted to attack us. We also failed miserably at finding these six posts and the corresponding hold punches (I accidentally typoed that as "sex posts," which is an entirely different thing!).

After that was apple picking at some rather scrawny trees. One of the apple varieties was labelled "Fugi," and we couldn't figure out if that was a different variety of apple, or if was "Fuji" misspelled. We weren't allowed to pick any of them, so I couldn't tell from taste. The honeycrisps had pretty much all been picked clean, though I grabbed one off the ground and dusted it off (it was pretty tasty). Mostly we ended up getting ruby jons, some red deliciouses and some golden deliciouses. I vaguely remember my sister telling me that really fresh golden deliciouses are actually good and not the gross mealy things in supermarkets. So far, I haven't tried any, so no conclusions there. Rilina had a ruby jon, but said, "It tasted apple-like? I don't know, I can't tell."

Then we had corn dogs for lunch! Whoo! And we split an apple fritter (really tasty) and an apple cinnamon donut (pretty tasty, but not as good as the donut from yesterday. In fact, the donut from yesterday is the best donut I think I have ever had, with the possible exception of the Mister Donut chewy ones, but that doesn't quite count as it is not a traditional donut).

Also, I keep trying to find After School Nightmare 1 in a bookstore, since Rilina has 2-4 and I really want to read it. But we have gone to three different bookstores, and all of them don't have it! Curses.

I have safely arrived at rilina's, despite obnoxiously loud fellow airplane travelers, the guy next to me completely hogging my armrest, the insanely early hour at which my flight landed, and monstrous trucks barreling along at 70 mph freaking Rilina out on the highway.

She has to go to class later, but since she has Her Majesty's Dog 7 from the library (I didn't even know it was out yet! Mely my usual means of discovering new manga volumes has failed me!), Word Freak, a ton of anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion Angelic Days (aka, the high school version!), wireless and an air mattress, I am sure I will easily entertain myself for hours. That, or I will be unconscious on the floor from sleep deprivation.

Also, unlike the airbed at Mariposa, this one inflates fully, meaning there is less of a chance of falling off while laughing hysterically at assorted anime fowl of DOOM.

Also also, Rilina showed me the cover of Tokyo Babylon 1, and all I can say is that I feel Subaru's trauma comes not from dramatic night scenes in front of sakura of DOOM, but from the truly awful outfits CLAMP draws him in. On the inside full-color pages, Seishirou has a perm, and two misshapen cherubs trumpet over a world the shape of an egg. I think that must be where the creators of Utena got the idea for the whole "Like a chick, we will crack open the shell to birth ourselves and revolutionize the world!" thing.