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Name: Paige
Gender: Female
Interests: anime, manga, video games, books, and many varieties of japanese idol boy.
Expertise: staring at dazzling screens, doing pretty okay at school, creating alternate universes, indulging obsessions, living at newswriting, and existing.
Occupation: Pirate captain
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Member Since:
10/23/2003
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| Sometimes, when playing video games, you just want to stand up and say, in a firm and unquestionable tone of voice,
"Rinoa, I do not want to hijack a train so that you can kidnap a president. I do not want to frantically input codes while you give me useless advice about avoiding guards. Especially under a time limit. I am a motherfucking mercenary, so why don't I just take my gunblade, kill the guards and then throw your goddamn president out the window?"
or,
"Darth Vader, maybe if you weren't so goddamn slow, we'd beat Algol. Maybe if you stopped talking about the Force and started using it, we could actually get on with our lives."
Really, man, the train hijacking is killing me.
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| The most important thing that has happened to me lately, besides graduating, of course, is my newfound and most ardent love for Ben Barnes.
He's Prince Caspian, if that helps a bit.
Much as my undying adoration for Orlando Bloom blossomed from a rather mediocre first impression, so did my love for Ben Barnes. Orlando Bloom began with a passing glimpse at LotR, which I was completely unfamiliar with on all fronts. I thought, "Oh look, a girl," and then, "Oh wait, a boy." I was unimpressed until I suddenly fell madly in love with him.
To this day, I still don't know how or why that happened.
So with Ben Barnes, it started with my sister's perpetual watching of the Disney channel. I said, "Oh look, the new Narnia movie. That guy who plays Prince Caspian has nice hair." My sister was skeptical.
Then I saw the movie, and I didn't really like it, then suddenly, towards the ending, I thought to myself, "Dude, Prince Caspian is hot."
And thus, history was made.
Plus, he's going to be Dorian Gray in a movie next year, and if you know me (or are even remotely familiar with the book) then you know that that is a very, very good thing.
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Eight more
days of school!
A lot of lasts have happened in this last month. This is our last layout
week (a twenty-page zinger of a layout week that is gratefully rather
uneventful, which is either testament to my skill as editor or just sheer dumb luck).
I wrote my last stories last week. I took my last AP test (hopefully
another 5) and today we supposedly had our last advisory (that's a good
thing). I'm also currently writing my last commentary for Tsuruda.
This is one of the quotes I am using: I am known for the gentleness of my
disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss
Cardew, you may go too far.
I dunno, man. I don't know how I feel about college yet. I'm
looking forward to the summer...
For the past three weeks or so, I've literally done almost nothing but play The
World Ends With You. It's the most addictive crack I have ever
smoked, and currently I am in glee, for I have the power to make my two male
leads into gay schoolgirls that frolic around Shibuya in platform heels, if I
so choose. (Currently, we are gay schoolgirls frolicking around
Shibuya, though we are wearing sneakers). It is like being God.
The other day, I saw this kid with Mike's hair. It was as if he had found
Mike's cut-off hair and glued it to his own head in exactly the same way Mike
had his. It's really weird.
Lalala~
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| Sometimes I have moments where I am a pure, unadulterated dork.
Recently, as I was walking home from Town Center one day, I was listening to the Twilight Princess theme. (If you've ever played a Zelda game, think the music that plays as you walk through the main field). I was walking through Waena Park, coincidentally in a large, empty field, and I had a moment where I thought, "THIS IS SO EPIC. Where's my sword? Where's my horse?"
It passed once I saw the sidewalk, but for the thirty seconds or so that I walked in the wide, empty field, I felt exactly like Link, on my way to the next dungeon, with Epona waiting for me just ahead.
It was epic. Trust me.
I also finished Crisis Core (not the missions, though, just the main storyline) and I cried for maybe ten minutes straight at the ending. I've never cried for a video game before, but I wept for Zack. It cemented the Final Fantasy series as MY FAVORITE SERIES EVER!!!...and also ensured that I can't play CC again for maybe like two months without bursting into spontaneous tears.
On a real life note, it is sad that I actually can't wait to shed my editor title and leave the Trojan Times behind me forever. I never thought I'd feel like this. I wouldn't have felt like this if I had graduated last year. I'm in no hurry to go to college, but with everyday the paper chain in L205 gets smaller, the more free I feel. How sad it all seems.
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| While I must admit that the first hours of playing SSBB were pure hyped-up happiness moments, I will say honestly that I am an RPG lover at heart. Fighters are fun, and all the wonderful potentials of "customizations" and "unlockables" can keep me occupied for years (until the sequel hits, anyway), but RPGs are a whole world of OCD that suits me perfectly.
There are legendary weapons. There are side quests. There are optional bosses. There are levels and stats that determine strength and vitality. And then there is Paige, who has the neurotic drive to want to finish them all. This syndrome is particularly bad on games that actually keep track of your completion, like Kingdom Hearts II or Final Fantasy XII.
I actually derive a certain comfort from mindless leveling. Sometimes, when I'm feeling blue, I'll pop in FFX and head down to the Omega Ruins for some killing and Sphere Grid hopping. I do this one less nowadays, since I've actually finished the entire Sphere Grid with several characters. More recently, I do FFXII in the Nabreus Deadlands, in that lovely point of infinite skeleton reincarnation. We're preparing for Ultima and Yiazmat, among others. One day.
So I got Crisis Core on Wednesday, have invested 6+ hours in it already, and have learned that there are 300 non-storyline-related side missions to complete.
I'm sure we can all guess what I'm going to be doing madly for the next month.
In non-game news, I'm still very obsessed with Oscar Wilde's writings. This is probably because, I've reasoned, everything he describes is fabulously beautiful, with lots of overblown adjectives thrown in for good measure (I love adjectives...and beauty!), everyone is brilliantly witty all the time (I want to pun spontaneously too!), plus, there's that undertone of misogyny and pederasty everywhere. The Picture of Dorian Gray enthralls me. It is fortunate that Wilde is my author (and Dorian Gray my book) for Tsuruda's final project.
I am rather sad that next week, we are back in school already. Last quarter of high school ever, coming up.
I applied for seven or eight scholarships. I'll probably do a few more next month. I hope I get at least one.
My goal for fourth quarter...get a job! I want money! There are brilliant games coming out this summer, and I always love buying books in excessive quantities. Money is needed for these small joys. There's also college to think of, I suppose...
Well, goodbye for now.
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