read to me

More manga. Chobits volume 1, CLAMP's take on the beautiful magic/alien/robot chick moves in with boy student genre. As has been pointed out elsewhere on LJ (I'm too lazy to make a link, 'cause...lazy), it's incredibly creepy, taking all the disturbing elements of this genre (e.g., the boy is a whiny bastard interested in porn, and works in a 'hospitality' club, while robogirl is eminently victimizable tabula rasa) and putting them in your face, while still being cyuuuuuuuuute as all get-out. Don't expect the lush art of Clover - this is as close to 'ordinary' art as I've seen them do. Done in Tokyopop's right-to-left format, but much more readable than most of their RTL volumes (glares at the indecipherable Dragon Knights).

'x' quiz, stolen from tanja

You're Shirou Kamui!
Congratulations-- the Power of God is in your hands. Well, maybe not, but you do occasionally feel as if the weight of the world is on your shoulders, and sometimes you just want to run away to escape it all. You mean well, but you are sometimes short-tempered and don’t necessarily think things through before you do them. Friendship is very important to you, as is loyalty. You have a lot of growing to do, but deep down you really are a good person.
Which Dragon of Heaven are you?
Quiz by Kerianne

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Found a magnetic IZone frame to put the loose photo that's been on Mom's table forever. Its looseness irked me, especially in proximity to someone who routinely knocks over glasses of water, cups of coffee, etc. So then she expresses disappointment that there's no easel and she can't put it with the other standy-up pictures on the teeny table with the standy-up pictures on it. SOOOOOO I've spent the best part of the evening making a prop for it. Out of popsicle sticks, since that's all that's in the house.

It's drying now.

And how was your evening?