Sea-Salt Ice Cream

For the first time in my life, I tasted it, and my god, I don't want to live off of anything else.

I'll write a sequel for "Sea Salt Ice Cream" now, if you want. I'm so definitely in the mood.

Summer Vacation

So. For my summer vacation, my goals are to eat, sleep until three in the afternoon, read up on Birth by Sleep and 358/2 Days (possibly coded, chances of that getting to the US are slim to none), and... repeat for the next three months.

But also! Most importantly! If you are a roleplayer, I need YOU! D<

Summer is a very boring time if you don't go out with your friends a lot. Which I don't. Because friends like to go to crowded, exciting places, and crowded, exciting places means heat, and it's already going to be hot during the summer, and the less energy I exert, the better it is for everyone.

Besides, friends like to drag you out in the middle of the day. Now, over a typical summer, I wake up at 9-10 p.m. and go to bed at about noon. Why, you ask? Because, my friends! You must escape the heat of the day and the annoyance of families! How many times have you been lured out of bed into a hot car on a hot day going to a hot Wal-mart with its feeble pocky supply and less-than appealing video game selection? If you've answered too many, your answer is correct!

The only time I've ever caught myself awake during any given summer day is to swim. I love swimming. Hell, when I was little, I used to want to be a synchronized swimmer. But then swimming would lose its fun and just be about money and performance and not at all about the water. You know it's true.

I want to learn how to ride a bike this summer, too, which typically requires daylight. Please feel free to make fun of me for reaching the age of sixteen and not yet knowing how to drive a simple machine. I can drive a car, but not a bike.

I dropped all of my Honors' classes (thank god!) so I'm not doing any summer assignments. Olette thinks independant studies are the worst, but I'd soooo much rather do that than anything else I'm stuck with. If I did get an independant studies paper, I'd write about Kingdom Hearts, and fail it. ("What the hell is a Heartless, and why does it have to do with a Nobody?") Yes. I'd fail more miserably than I fail math. (2+2 = 1? WTF?)

Thanks for reading my miserable ramblings. (Really, thank you!)

Apologies.

I've been updating on deviantART, but not on theOtaku. I feel really, really guilty. I'll update Prosthetic Imagination soon.

GET MABINOGI PLZ. D:

Thank you all, so much.

The support from the otaku community here has been overwhelming, and I thank you for it. Every day, I've been printing up these prayers and yesterday, at the funeral, from your prayers and deviantART's prayers combined, I was able to give the Lotridge family exactly 1,001 prayers from as far as Japan, the Netherlands, France, and so many other places. And you have no idea how the looks on their faces when I handed them that scrapbook warmed my heart. They were so grateful for your thoughts and prayers, and I know that Courtnei would have been, too.

On a lighter note, do any of you have Mabinogi? If not, get it. D: NOW. It's amazing. You'll never be bored.

-OA

Please!

Please, comment with prayers and words for the family. I plan on making a booklet of the prayers for the family, so I want them to know how kind and supportive the community is. I'll leave you anonymous if you wish, but think about how uplifting it will be to see how many people support them, even from miles away.