9:26 Sunday Night   Reminders of Better Times I was recently talking with Katie, with whom I was dear friends with through 7th, 8th, and much of 9th, grades. We kind of separated in 10th, but we've always been friends. Katie is a good person. She's the kind of person who doesn't really not like anyone. And even if I go for weeks without really talking to her, if I show up at the lunch table she sits at, she'll totally welcome me. I wish i was as unconditional as she is. Her friends are so very loyal to her, and she very much deserves that. Anyway, we were talking about Sailor Moon one day, and about a week later, I saw her in the halls before school, and she said "Oh! Teresa! i have something for you!" and she pulled out of her backpack, a CD of about 18 subbed episodes of Sailor Moon StarS. So i took them home and i forgot about them for a while, and today i remembered and pulled the CD out and put it in my computer, and i watched the first episode and... wow. I'm so full of sailor moon nostalgia from 7th-9th grades that I don't even know where to begin. man oh man. Those were good days, in a way. I always tried to get into anime the way that she and her friends did, but the only ones i ever liked were Sailor Moon and kind of DBZ. I may never know why. but that's the way it is. They were memories I don't feel embarrassed about, even though, well...sailor moon isn't exactly what you call brilliant material. it's like...i don't know. i read (looked at pictures from) a book involving sailor moon, i think, like a manga, i guess, when i was really young. five or six years old, i think. Then when i was in fifth grade, i watched sailor moon's first season when they dubbed it and showed it on cartoon network. it was like the best thing ever. better than teenage mutant ninja turtles, power rangers, and all those other kiddy shows...sailor moon was the ultimatum in my mind. the ultimate cartoon. I know there are tons of people, "otaku" i think the term is, americans who wish they were japanese, total manga/anime obsessed who would see my view point as total and complete heresy because sailor moon is so crap. but you know what? it's a beloved childhood memory and i don't care who you are, sailor moon will always be number one in my world of favourite cartoons. I'll pretty much always wish that I was her. if i could be any superhero(ine) ever, i'd totally be sailor moon. Sailor moon kicks so much ass. i'm probably going to be pretending i'm sailor moon for the next month. I'm going to probably even pretend that caleb is my tuxedo mask or something. hahah. that poor boy has no idea what he was getting into when he started dating me. i love it. mwahahhaha.