August 18, 2002
...You know, that's just plain

...You know, that's just plain bizzare, Lisa, as my aunt and cousins are here too, with their strange senses of humor too. For example, after you showed me VirtualStapler.com, we were fooling around with it and laughing and being stupid sometime around eleven o' clock at night. The next morning when I finally get up and go into our living room, my cousin Ursula has found a stapler and has it sitting next to her. When she notices me, she picks it up and starts clicking it with an idiotic grin on her face, and we both crack up. Hmm...so what else is new, other than my cousins and I belong in an asylum somewhere....Oh, yesterday was one of the best days of my life. Not THE best, but one of them. We drove to one of the T stations (the T is kind of like the Boston subway, only its not all underground) and rode the train into Boston. We first went to the Museum of Fine Arts, 'cause my cousin Ursula is an artist (she's a year younger than me and has already sold three of her paintings...) and looked at an exhibit of modern art, had wonderful desserts at the cafe there, and got tickets for a They Might Be Giants concert that night. Then we went down to Cambridge and browsed Sasuga Bookstore for a while. Ursula got some nice origami paper, she and her sister Natalie squealed over a giant Totoro plushie, my Aunt Donna gave me a twenty dollar gift certificate (hehehe...more manga!), and I manged to get a three week advance on my allowance from my mom. So I am now the proud proud owner of the Tokyo Babylon artbook and YnM 3, which I had to cover with two of the paper bookcovers the bookstore in Japan put on my CCS volumes when my dad bought them for me so I wouldn't have to look at Muraki's face on the cover. Unfortunately there's only about four panels with Tatsumi in them. I won't fight you two for any YnM bishies (actually, I wouldn't fight anyway...) as long as I can have Tatsumi. Don't know why I like the man, I just do. Anyway, when I saw the artbook up on a shelf, I just kind of stop and stared with my mouth hanging open for a minute or two before reaching up and taking it down. After that we went up to the North End, which is the Italian section of Boston, and had some really good Italian food for dinner, and saw a bunch of old people staked out by the side of the road in their lawn chairs chatting. It was very amusing. We then went to the concert, and they played my two favorite songs! *does happy fangirl dance* I was so happy! Me and my mom both sang along to all the songs we knew. It was around 11:30 PM at that point, so we went home and I fell asleep right away and didn't get up until noon today.