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Main Article - How Hot Is It?!
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I dunno, like 97, 98 degrees. More than what we've been having the past few months at least, and while I prayed warm weather would arrive, I didn't mean arrive without air conditioning in the house.

Seriously, it's an oven in this place. Makes sleeping insanely uncomfortable and it's kept me awake so much I'm getting really insomnia-tic about the whole ordeal! I'm so tired right now, but I can't sleep, and if by some miracle I manage to, I wake up smelling like a factory in China due to my genetics consisting of "heavy and merciless sweating to the point where BO is the only way to describe it"!

Not that you all needed to know that, but if I'm sounding a bit off in this entry, it's due to lack of sleep, as I mentioned.

Now, there are only six spots in the whole house that are cool enough to sleep in. My brother's side of the room (with four fans that mom and dad aren't making him share with me pointed at his bed), my grandmother's room, my parent's room, the living room, the TV room, and the oven. No, I am not kidding about the oven either, I'd rather stuff myself all nice and tucked in right into the metal maw of that old hunk of junk than be right here, in my computer room at my desk, which is also BTW in another part of the basement, which is supposed to be cool by default! >_<

Now then, why do I not just sleep in the living room or TV room since they aren't occupied? Well, the living room is simple. My sister occupies that room. -.- Apparently mom and dad let her sleep in there since her room was too hot. Now then, why not the TV room?

"You're too fat to sleep on the couch in that room, you'll break it."

...this was coming from a man who outweighs me by a good thirty seven pounds and sleeps on the damn thing all the time. And I'm not fat. >_> I'm a little overweight, but hardly 'fat'. That's besides the point though, the old timer isn't using logic. I told him the outweighing factor. Here's his reply.

"You'll stay up all night if you sleep down here."

Keyword: Sleep. If I was staying up all night I wouldn't BE SLEEPING ON THE COUCH! Here was his retort.

"Sleep in your bed, it's what we bought it for."

So just because you went out and bought a 70 dollar futon bed means I'm supposed to suffer sleep deprecating levels of heat?! What, do they WANT me to die of heat stroke?

"Take one of your brother's fans."

Admirable comeback, considering you told me NOT to take my brother's fans. Only two issues though. One being that "one" fan won't be enough for the LARGER half of the room. Second issue being that taking one away, or two for that matter from that closed off area will drastically increase the heat on that side, still evening out to an uncomfortable level, and for both of us instead of just one. I know because I HAVE done this. Here was his retort.

"Then you get out of our house and follow your own rules."

As much as I wish they WOULD kick me out of the house at times so it would prompt me to survive, and perhaps strike the one in a million chance that I strike it rich on the streets from acting like a crazy hobo with a 'Change plz' coffee mug, dancing with my underpants on my head at the red lights, they won't kick me out, and I won't leave due to me lacking the funding to pursue a career in freeloading. I tell him, however, that I AM working toward getting out on my own. Believe it or not, it did in fact NOT end here, and he had a retort for this.

"Bullshit. If you were working toward it, you'd have gotten another job by now."

...since when has it been any concern of his about my work? I realize: I am not well educated. There are few jobs I can land at all, let alone land this economy hitting me like a bad case of swine flu. I took great offense to this. He basically told me that he doesn't believe in the hard work I've been doing. The writing, the job searches, the college research, he doesn't believe any of that. And he doesn't even believe proof, like how he walked in on my sister reading some of my writing, or how a college actually CALLED me the other day.

Maybe it's my blood pressure rising from all this F@#KING HUMIDITY, but I can't stand that old man ALWAYS believing himself to be this god of reason. He thinks he's always right and that everyone should agree with him. I used to think for awhile I was just being a typical teen and rebelling against my dad, but now I know that the reason I rebel is because he's such a self-rightcheous pinhead! AND NOW WE'RE ALL SUFFERING BECAUSE HE CAN'T FIGURE OUT A WAY TO FIT A LITTLE MONEY INTO OUR BUDGET TO AFFORD A COMFORTABLE SLEEPING ENVIRONMENT! IT'S DRIVING ME BATTY!



But enough about that, time to catch up on things.

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Up, Up, and AWAAAAAAAY!
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Is it just me, or has Pixar NEVER failed to make an excellent movie? I mean, Cars was KINDA lame in my opinion, but it had its charm, and wasn't terribly awful like some other stuff out there. They have Wall-E, they have the classical Toy Story, then have Nemo, they have Bug's Life, they have it all!

Their recent movie, however? Up? It wasn't good. ....IT WAS FANTASTIC!

A story about an old man who shared a dream with someone, and almost gave up on that dream when he parted ways with said person, but persevered in the end! Mistaking the dream for a material placement, only to learn in the end that it was simply the experience! Oh, Pixar fans, and everyone in general, you HAVE to see this movie! I won't spoil another bit of it, just go! SEE IT! In my opinion, it was Pixar's best, and had everything a good family movie should. Heartwarming, breathtaking, imaginative, and inspirational!

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Naruto Corner: Recent Chapters and Anime
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Been awhile since I've brushed up on my Naruto opinions with you all. Time for my reviews of the two recent arcs we've gotten through; The Invasion of Konoha arc in the manga, and the Three Tailed arc of the anime!

INVASION

Most people called Pain's conversion to the good side and self sacrifice to undo all the death he caused was a cheap and stupid plot device and cheesy. I say...whysat? I mean, it's not often you see villains converted anymore, and he did have a good reason to be. I mean, that's my opinion at least.

As for the resurrections, I saw something along these lines happening, what with the J.K. Rowling-esque death chains. I knew Kishimoto wouldn't kill off this many characters for real, because that's twice as cheap as bringing them back to life. -.- It's like getting himself out of character development work. We all know Shizune has a deep backstory to develop...right guys? ...I said right? x.x

All in all, this arc seemed more about the symbolism and metaphorical aspects of the story than the realism, so based on that opinion, I give it a three thumbs up. If you wanna know how I can do that, consult my agent.

THREE TAILS

The filler is finally over. Granted, I liked it at first, it began to drag WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too long, and everything in it became too unorganized to me. Here's what I liked and didn't like about the filler, which BTW spanned almost 20 episodes. -.-

Liked

+ Guren was an alright villain with a neat power. I actually thought of an ability similar to it.
+ Yuukimaru was adorable
+ It dealt with a cannon subject, the Three Tailed beast
+ TOBI AND DEIDARA FUNNIES!
+ Some nice action here and there, and a bit of fanservice
+ The Omakes were great
+ KRAZY KABUTO!
+ The moral was actually a good one.

Dislikes

- The fights toward the end were too...hastily put together and overall uncreative. Smoke dragon? Tentacle monster fusion? Kabuto's dead soul jutsu actually leaving the memories of the corpse in tact?
- Some plot aspects were totally random. A dimension where the Sanbi appeared...leading inside his stomach? What, does he live inside out or something?
- NOT ENOUGH DEIDARA AND TOBI FUNNIES!
- The start of the shirtless Sasuke opening/outro
- A filler right before an arc everyone just wants to end soon...GG Viz.
- 20 episodes? I mean, the last one wasn't even that long!
- YUUKIMARU HATH GONE SSJ3!!!
- The moral, while good and memorable, was repeated WAY. TOO. MUCH!

Overall, I don't think this is one of those fillers I can just let slide by. -.- It was severely unneeded plotwise. I am happy it's over though. And I DO realize why it was implemented.

Viz isn't stupid. They know what loses them money, and fillers do that. However, they're required by Shonen Jump's contracts to keep an ample chapter distance between the manga and the anime. It's like how the recent arc of the manga was slightly rushed as well. I found out SJ has been hounding on Kishimoto for the past four months for something, and I'll bet you anything they're forcing him to move the plot so fast it loses meaning. Bastards...

But yes...Hebi arc for the anime next. Meaning...Deidara's only got a little while longer to live!



Oh well.

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Thank you all for reading my journal. Just remember it was written under the conditions of sleep deprivation and boiling blood. x.x See you next time! I'm about to turn off all the fans, close the windows, and bake this damn house till my entire family gangs up on my dad to let us have AC. >_>