In Which INVISIBLEMAN!Inui/Snakewifey!Kaidou Is Canon Like Your Mother

...Err, sorry for the wait? It kinda kept slipping my mind, honestly. But, just in case, here's June in a sentence. I got: sunburned, grounded, my hair cut, humiliated, enough books to last me through another Cold War, a cold, a little homesick for anything non-fish, a couple cookbooks in Japanese and using the metric system (double the translation!), homework, a kanji test, lost, a wind-bell, interrogated about Prison Break, enormously depressed, a pretty tank top, too much cotton candy, the answer to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd before Agatha Christie tells you, CLAMP figurines, two bags of marshmallows, sheet music by Yiruma, Winamp skins, inspired, and to finally touch a PS2 after a three-month-plus famine. (In other words, you didn't miss much.)

Oh, and did I mention that I'm still in school? And that I'll remain so until, hmm, the last week of July? Yeah. Oodles of fun, that. *grouse grouse*

Anyway, things are very busy now 'cause of the Nansho School Festival (Nanshosai) coming up. It's next weekend, and everyone's working super hard for it. The festival is three days long, but there are really only a couple of major events that we're preparing for - namely, the parade, the food stall, and the stage. For the last one, I'm apparently going to be an MC (?!?!! - but someone else will write what I'm supposed to say, thank God) and I've also been recruited for a dance group (to... "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride"...?!). So hooray! Synchronized dancing for the win! Most of the clubs (kendo included) have been temporarily suspended for the sake of the festival, since almost everyone's staying late after school every day (till about 7:30!). There's a group of kids, for instance, whose sole task it is to sew each classroom's costumes for the parade. Each class has a different theme for the parade, which they pick themselves and buy the materials for. In fact, I even watched a video of last year's parade - it was really cool! One class did brides and grooms - they obviously had a lot of boys - and then another did angels and demons, cheerleaders and jocks, Akihabara geeks and maids (not kidding about this, really). There was even one class where everyone was dressed up like Son Goku, and someone toted around a boombox playing the opening theme to Dragonball Z.

So what's my class theme, you ask? ...Well, with such predecessors, it's only natural that we pick something awesome (and super-nerdy). You know. Something like, oh...

Mario and Peach.

(...My only regret is that we can't do Toad. He's sooooo cute! Oh well.)

But yes, we really are doing Mario and Peach. Our class's group of sewing girls have been hard at work making twenty pairs of blue overalls and red caps for the past week or so - they haven't even gotten around to cutting out all the pink fabric the Peach costumes are going to require. (I'm being Peach, by the way. I always pick her for Mario Party, so it's only natural...)

Okay, gotta go - I just finished Prince of Tennis this morning, and I've been looking forward to diving into this colossal fandom for some time. What a ridiculous series, though. It kicks physics in the face with every new counter Fuji invents. (Don't even get me started on "synchro" - or, as I prefer to call it, celestial maidens!Golden Pair. I mean, hello, tendrils of cloud everywhere. I can practically hear the unintelligible Chinese warbling in the background.) And that art. Truly, there is no other word for it but heinous. Still, while I have no respect for Konomi Takeshi (especially with his flagrant gay-bashing - the irony! Surely he doesn't think it's boys sending in 12000 votes for Keigo Atobe in the popularity polls...?), I have a very healthy fear of this monstrous fandom, which may very well be called the flagship yaoipalooza. Don't even get me started on the doujinshi. It may have passed out of its golden age some time ago, but by no means does that mean that this fandom is dead. Eep.