***stardust

Had a *great* day today! (Again! what's *with* this?? *laughs*) Woke up about 3pm, watched a few episodes of Haibane Renmei, took a shower about 4.30, watched some more Haibane and hung out on aim for a bit...went out about 6 with Laura for some dinner...popped back here for a minute, then over to WIlliam's to catch the African drumming/dance thing - which my roomie was dancing in! ^_^ It was *really*, really cool...same drummers as the drumming-thing we went to last semester (for the most part..one of the ones I thought cute was, sadly, absent, but..anyways..*g*), some of the same songs, I think. Totally rocked, tho. And the dancing was really cool - Haruna and a group of other people'd gone to a workshop this afternoon with this woman, one of the top dancers in Ghana, and learnt some stuff..I took a few pics and stuff..Haruna was so good! yay! ^_^ ...a ways into the thing, tho, they again came out and dragged people up there to dance...the first time, Laura and I didn't, tho Haruna tried to get us up there...but then the next two times, we went up. And we sucked, it was kinda bad. *giggles* But we weren't the only ones sucking, and it was kinda fun, so it was cool. ^_^ Hung out a bit, then used up some meals, and came back here...where Laura and I set about teaching Haruna all of..well..our generation's equivalent of folk dances.
So, I downloaded the Macarena, the Chicken Dance, the Electric Slide, and the Hokey Pokey. (All of which, yes, are readily and easily findable on KaZaA.) *mad giggles*
The Electric Slide, I got to re-learn for myself, I never really knew it 'til about last year anyway, and I'd forgotten it...but it was great fun, once we got it figured out again. *g* Then it was Haruna's turn - she put on one of the cassettes she just got in the mail from her grandmother the other day..and taught us a dance. Which was just cool. ^_^
Amazingly, I think only maybe two or three people came out into the hallway..and they glanced over at us, but didn't even saw anything..*shrugs* Ah well, so much the better, I guess...*g*
We realised we'd forgotten the Y.M.C.A., so I started that downloading..while we waited, we kinda hung out...were talking and stuff, Laura and I were trying out what bits and pieces of Japanese we know on Haruna...ehrm..yeah. We brutally murder our pronounciations, but...*giggles* (Note to merani-chan: "burn" is "moeru" ("moeta", past tense)...) Dude, even frickin' "karate", we hadn't realised how horribly we've all Americanised the pronounciation---! ^^;;;
Haruna and Laura started singing the Japanese theme for Sailor Moon...then we started trying to come up with other songs we might know that she'd know...Laura had me start downloading all these Gundam Wing songs...and I played Zone's "Secret Base"....("futari" is like, two people, together)...I informed Laura that Gackt was a solo artist, not a group 9_9 ...and then showed her some pics cos he's preeeeeeetty. ^___^ Then I'm like, waitasec, why don't I just show you a video? So, I broke out all my cds of j-jock vids...and the three of us sat down to watch. ^_^ Haruna loves Glay, so we went thru all of those videos...showed them a bit of Dir en Grey, and they were quite disturbed..*giggles*..(and it wasn't even one of the scary ones! geh. *g*)...watched some Gackt, and they were suitably blown away ^_^....a bit of Luna Sea, "Gravity" we liked, "Deja vu" they were a bit disconcerted over, due to the mega-hair and randomly '80s goth look (which I *love*! gah. *g*)...Laura mentioned that Gackt reminded her of Bowie, and I was like, DUUUUDE! I've been thinking that for forever, but didn't think anyone else'd get it!! So I put on some db vids, for comparison...then we switched to snippets of Labyrinth...guhhhhhhhh..... *drools*
Err, right. Then we were getting a bit sleepy, so we stopped with the videos...I played one of the Gundam songs that'd finished (oof...j-pop...*shudders* ..*hehe*)...played Y.M.C.A., and taught it to Haruna. And apparently, I've been doing *that* wrong for years, cos I've been doing the C backwards. *face palm* ehhhh, fuckmuffins. Ah well. *g*
Heading to the front desk, Haruna accidentally called it the Macaroni...thus leading to our joke of the evening. *giggles* (Tho, as she later said, it's SO make a great commercial!!! *laughs*)
So, Laura left, and Haruna and I decided to get some cleaning done, cos it *reeeaaaaallllly* needed it in here...it really *was* getting kinda dangerous. ^^;

And now I'm off, I've got e-mail to get thru...
...but before I go...I really wasn't as depressed on Valentine's as I prolly sounded here. I was a bit, in small spurts, but..*shrugs* I had too much fun making and delivering my U2 valentines, and being all dressed in red (the shiny red pants, white shirt with glittery red guitar and "rock!" on it, my red silk shirt, a heart on my cheek and my hand (the latter from Britty - that's *her* v-day tradition, drawing hearts on *everyone* ^_^), and the Mackie boots)... I called Himeros, so we got to talk for a bit at least...
After dinner, Laura and I decided to randomly go visit Dionysos for a bit..which actually turned out to be really fun. He was in a pretty good mood - almost hyper, actually. *giggles* Cuteness. We all talked a bit...then he was working on a new layout for his website in Photoshop, I suggested a site for fonts...and we (ok..mostly I) ended up helping him iout some, making suggestions and things...yay. ^_^
Then, I sat around for a bit...and made *the* most gratuitous desktop paper *EVER*, utilizing the pics of custom-conversation hearts that Megs sent my way.... (my initials and Lar, mine and Bono's, SEXY DEVL, U2, FOAD...and, uh, some other ones, DRUM SKIN, etc.. *coughs* ..don't ask.)
But yeah...I'm off. g'night. *g*

*Ananda Daydream * 2:42 AM * *

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