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I don't feel like ranting about my lame woes, so how about a crosspost from my LJ last week?

Buuuuuut, after hearing once again that I needed to give up wanting to be an actor, Kelly asked me tonight if I was taking her fall class. When I said yes, she said, "Oh good. I think you are very gifted. You are meant to be a leading lady, but you just need to figure out how to go about it. I had to do the same thing." She also said after Carter and I redid our scene that I need to be in movies set in the 1940's, because I apparently have that air about me (yeah, you can laugh at the idea if you want, but I am terribly delighted by the compliment).

She also told me that when she was in college at first, that she never was cast in anything and that her parents were hard on her and to not give up. I told her that it meant a lot coming from her, because it did.

So yes, I am continuing acting lessons with Kelly. She is fantastic. I think she is a great mentor and hopefully I can learn a lot more from her.

On one downer note, I do miss my girls terribly. Especially now that school has started again. I thought I wasn't going to make it to Ren Faire this weekend and I considered calling Ashley to see if she could bring me down to WCU for the weekend, but it looks like I will be at Faire after all. I need to try to plan a visit after Ren Faire season has ended. I do hope some of my friends will come visit Faire.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand, because my posts must always contains geekery, it has been announced officially that there will be a second Fullmetal Alchemist series. While Fullmetal is my crack, and I worship the voice actors (I even sent Vic a lengthy e-mail a couple weeks ago), I am hesitant to openly fangirl about the announcement. The canon between the anime and the manga is vastly different, so people are wondering if this second series will continue off the first manga or be an adaptation of the manga. A manga inspired anime would be fantastic. The manga is indeed superior to the anime, and it would be great to see some of the manga only characters animated (I imagine the exchanges between Lin and Ed would make me pee myself laughing, as also Mei's fantastical imaginings of Ed before she actually saw what he looked like). A sequel to the first might only make things worse. The first series ended on a depressing note, and the Elrics were no longer able to use alchemy. So ... if it's a sequel, is it going to be them fighting the evil forces of Hitler on this side of the Gate? If the writing is good (and the one good thing about both the manga and anime is that the script was very solid; moreso in the manga, but things made sense and loose ends tied together tightly), maybe it will all work out. I'd really like to see Winry get her equivalent exchange, even if they say it doesn't truly exist. I don't think after all the crap she's gone through that it is too much to ask that the Elrics come home to her. I don't even need to see Ed and Winry get together, just let her have her surrogate family back. Her parents (and the Elrics') are dead, and her grandmother and dog are both pretty old. Come on, let Winry earn something for her sacrifices. She deserves it.

Okay, I am going to bed, because I haven't had time to sleep much this past week, and I have to be at work by eight.

Currently Watching Gackt: The Greatest Filmography 1999-2006 Red By Gackt see related

I am in need of serious advice and I'm not sure who to turn to. This also may involve a heart to heart and lots of crying on my part.

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Anywho, Otakon was fabulous. More fun than last year even. I did not meet anybody this time around (well, we did talk to the girlfriend of the guy who draws VG Cats, and she was pretty freaking hilarious). We saw Kappei Yamaguchi, a seiyuu (Japanese voice actor) who has played Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha, L, and does the Japanese dubs for Bugs Bunny and Kyle from South Park. I attended a panel on beading and embroidery, and one of the girls hosting it has an amazingly gorgeous costume. I saw the costume contest list and she won one of the advanced awards (I so want to make a costume awesome enough to enter a contest next year). We also saw JAM Project perform, and it was campy J-pop anime theme song fun. I also sat in on ADV Film's information panel to listen to some of the business side of anime dubbing, as they are one of the companies that I am interested in working for. I prefer FUNimation though, as they tend to get the better titles. ADV has been having some financial problems lately, but they seem to be working through them.

Celeste and I saw the Nana live action movie, and even though we both saw it before, I have to say because of the insanity of otaku, that may have been the most fun I've ever watching a movie on the big screen. I actually really like that movie a lot. It's a very sweet movie about two twenty year old girls named Nana who meet on a train bound for Tokyo and, in a series of events, become room mates and best friends. Celeste and I decided next year that we would cosplay as the Nanas together, with her being the cute and perky Nana and me being the rocker punk Nana. We are actually really excited to be doing that cosplay together.

I also sang karoke! In Japanese! I sang at one in the morning after waiting over an hour for my turn, and I was crazy nervous, but it was so much fun. I sang "Glamorous Sky" from the Nana movie, which has become one of my favorite songs as of late. If I can make it to an open mic night at WCU this year, I might sign up to sing that much to the annoyance of the rest of the people there. It's a really wonderful song about sacrificing love to follow your heart, which is what rocker Nana did. She could have originally followed her boyfriend to Tokyo and played housewife to him, but she chose to stay in their hometown first and work on her singing and then come to Tokyo to make it big on her own when she was ready.

In other geekery, when I got home from Otakon, the collection of Gackt (Japanese rock star) music videos and the movie Moon Child (featuring Gackt, Hyde, and a Taiwanese actor whose name I can't remember right now, but the movie is like hot Asian men overload) had arrived, so I entertained myself with more goodness. I think Vanilla might always be my favorite song of his, as it was the first one I heard. Wonderfully catchy and very filthy song. *does the Vanilla dance* My favorite video, and I don't know why, is Oasis though. One thing I noticed after watching twenty music videos in a row or so is that Gackt has a tendency to use Caucasian girls in a lot of his videos and a lot of them are filmed in the U.S. He also dies in quite a few of them. I don't get it, but the songs are catchy. *does the Vanilla dance again* Oh Gackt, I may be five years late in jumping on your band wagon, but at least I will be there for your Hollywood debut. Yup kids (and none of you are listening), Gackt is costarring in a movie with Josh Hartnet called Bunraku some time next year. This nerd cannot wait.

More geekery follows. This was my first weekend working the Faire since it has opened. I was very nervous at first, but I'm getting more into it as time little by little. It helps that I have wonderful company in Jen, my Faire BFF and her boyfriend, Ethan (otherwise known as Joan of Hearth, scullery maid, and Septimus Claybourne, the snake oil salesman). They are both much younger than me, but we somehow have managed to click and become the fastest of friends. I have also connected well with another youngster, John (whose character is Russian and I can unfortunately never remember the same), who is a very sweet thing and very good to his mom, who I also like very much. My Faire sisters and Faire dad are also well loved by myself. My favorite thing to do at Faire is Peasant Dance, and my currently red face is due to my enjoyment of it. So if any of you lovely people come to Faire, expect Nada Hemptwister (me) to come and drag you into the dance.

Oh yes, and Faire sells Final Fantasy and anime inspired weaponry. Yessssssss. I can't afford any of it, but I might be caught staring dreamily at a gunblade from time to time (Squall will always be the fictional love of my life).

I think that almost wraps up the geekery. For some reason, I was not scheduled to work today or tomorrow, so I'm going to try to do something productive. I really do need to get that bedroom cleaned out and get rid of stuff. I'm debating as to whether or not I should take the bus out to Redner's and get some groceries, as I do need to give a note to Susie, but that's part of the thing I need advice about... No, I'm not quitting my job. Other things might change...

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Neil Patrick Harris is the most adorable little supervillian ever. I just want to hug him.

Currently Listening Gekido Gekidou see related

The best plays in the house are at the end of a dark season...

What's new in the life of Liz? Not much socially, but the acting class thing is progressing along well. I find myself much less nervous in front of Kelly, a freaking movie star, than people at WCU. She's also much more diplomatic with her students. She doesn't play favorites, and she wants to help everyone. Since I am more confident in front of her, there is less suckage on my part and much of her criticism of me has been positive. So...

Fuck you, West Chester University Theatre Department. Yeah, you heard me. You can suck my proverbial dick. I've gotten more out of four weeks than I've gotten in four years from you.

So anywho, my partner and I are doing a scene from Equus. I picked it up a couple weeks ago, because I fully intend on seeing it when it comes to Broadway.

In the last few rehearsals, Ren Faire has been focusing on music groups, the shows and dances. After learning the social dances, I think they need to make a comeback. What a fun and simple way to meet people, even for awkward turtles like me. I'm still trying to find period appropriate shoes that will fit though...

Lymphedema clinic has been going well, save for the mini adventure in the ghetto last week to get fitted for stockings. My leg has gone down significantly, but my foot really hasn't. Hopefully will the stockings, it will go down enough that I can get into shoes.

Otakon in three weeks! I haven't even started fixing up my costume yet. Tearing apart and sewing the red jacket back together shouldn't be hard, but I wanted to make the black jacket for Ed and fix up the pants. My wig needs an overhaul too... Honestly, I've been so busy that I'm not too concerned if I don't cosplay this year. I might just wear the red jacket around for shits and giggles, or paint some of my jeans with the Flamel symbol.

I did start working on my costume for next year though. Granted, that is depending on my self confidence and weight, but I want to create a replica of Ayumi Hamasaki's "Bold & Delicious" costume from her Arena Tour 2006. Red wig, silver beaded mini dress and thigh high silver sparkling boots. I figure I need a year to figure out how to work just what I need to do to build this thing so it won't fall apart on me.

Work has been all right. The customers have been awful and fantastically stupid, but my coworkers are great. I think I do have to mention that a creeper customer kissed my hand and declared that he loved me. That was awkward... But yeah, I've invented a new term for idiots we at Redner's have to deal with. We now call them "spooners." Paul also came up with the phrase "Your incompetence triggers the red button," in reference to the red button that appears on the self checkout screen every time a customer can't figure out how to work the self checkout registers. We're going to make t-shirts for that one. Sarah and I also have a lot of fun being dorks about Goo Goo Dolls and anime.

Anyway, I have to go to lymphedema treatment in the morning, so I'm going to go to bed. I hope everyone is well and happy.