the Utena Dub Episode One: the Rose Bitch-- I mean, bride!
It's sad, but this makes more sense than the actual show. I love it. Unfortunately, some of the voices are hard to understand. Overall, I still give it a thumbs up. "I'm straight!" "Bitch, please."
Cool version: I always wake up thirsty. But yesterday morning the air conditioner was broken on my side of the house, so I woke up covered in sweat and massively dehydrated. I got up and put on my swim suit, but then I had to run to the kitchen to get a drink because I felt awful. As I was pouring myself some milk, my mom asked me a question. While trying to answer, I started losing my vision and felt dizzy, lightheaded, and nauseated (like I was going to vomit). So I started hyperventilating. My mom, realizing what was happening, told me to lie down, so I sprinted back to my room since I knew I was going down any second. My mom then brought me some Gatorade and made sure my legs were elevated to increase blood flow to my head. I completely lost my ability to control body heat, so (although we didn't check it) my temperature was probably over 100. My hands felt all tingly and I didn't regain feeling in them for several minutes when they started and continued to hurt for quite some time. I kept drinking fluids, and about two hours later I was ok.
What would have happened if I hadn't gone back to bed: I would have vomited, fainted, and gotten heat stroke. I think that's a good reason to skip swimming.
I've realized that, in my head, summer break doesn't start until morning swim practice does. The days I didn't have to go to school during semester test week were a sort of limbo. Swimming- last week, the new heater wasn't hooked up and the water was way too cold. I believe the coldest day was at 68 degrees. There were actually a couple people who had to get out of the pool in fear of hypothermia. I actually felt fine after about a 3-400, but it was pretty ridiculous to be swimming in that water. This week has been worse. Today the water was 90 degrees. It was like trying to exercise in a freaking hot tub! We did some stuff in the deep end which I was very grateful for. While kicking and keeping our hands up, Moose said, "Who feels like they're getting heat stroke? Raise your hand." Of course, we already had our arms up. It was amusing. So everyone kept complaining about the heat, and Jared was getting annoyed with us because of it. He said something like, "I'm a drill sergeant; I have zero tolerance for complaints." And I just had to reply, "Don't you think its a bit hypocritical that you keep complaining about us complaining though?" PWNED! David, Moose, and Thomas all congratulated me for that comment. Jared's normally a cool guy, but he really deserved to knocked down a notch. Back to the temperature problem. It's just our luck that it's completely overcast, chilly, and rainy when the water is freezing, and there's not a cloud in the sky when it's boiling. Bleh. Anyway, I <3 morning practice. It's so much better than swimming during the school year.
My aunt is in the hospital again for about the 50th time since October. I wish she wasn't suffering so much. Why is it that my grandparents and my parents are the only ones helping her? My mom has absolutely no time anymore what with caring for Aunt Elizabeth and trying to keep up at work with the new electronic medical records system. I'm glad I can help her out by scanning charts at work. There are lots of other bad things going on that I'm at the liberty to talk about. Let's just say being an Archer isn't so great right now.
I have a "nodule" in my earlobe that needs to be cut out. It'll need stitches. Oh boy.
Somehow I ended up on the freaking obligation list for school. I gave my history book to Mr.Clifford, and HE LOST IT. He said he was locking them up, and now I get a note saying mine's not there! What the hell!?
Here's some good news: I'm getting a new bed. Yay!
This morning, as I was eating breakfast, I glanced at the local newspaper. There was some article about farmers distraught over what the rain has done to their crops. Ah, RAIN. I love it. Rain at this time of year is key. The more rain we get, the greater our chances of getting to do FIREWORKS. Independence Day is one of the greatest holidays of the year because of FIREWORKS. Now I'm all EXCITED about blowing up FIREWORKS. But I still have to wait an entire month. Gah!
I'm also very EXCITED about COMIC CON. It's going to be AWESOME. I plan to watch some anime, go see some indie films, buy stuff, go to panels, and...THE MASQUERADE. I can't wait. Three special guests I'm most excited about seeing: Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, and Alison Bechdel.
I was actually thinking about Sandman (Neil Gaiman's comic) earlier today while listening to the Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack. I associate that music with the comic. It's all good.
The paperback of Fun Home by Alison Bechdel supposedly came out today. (haha. I made a joke.) According to Wikipedia: "Fun Home has been listed by several publications as one of the best books of 2006. The New York Times included it in their list of "100 Notable Books of the Year". Amazon.com listed the book in its Top 50 Books of 2006, and also in the Top 10 Memoirs of 2006. The Times of London placed Fun Home at number 10 in its list of the 10 best books of 2006.Publisher's Weekly ranked it as the best comic book of 2006." It was also name TIME Magazine's book of the year for 2006. I want to get it.
Okay. When I first saw the title of this video, I was hesitant to watch it. But it was linked to by the Church of Moo, and they've had lots of great stuff. And it turned out okay. Quite funny actually.
