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feeling: sore
listening to: manzai insanity
Heard kind of a sad story tonight. Would be more effective to relate if I had caught all the details, but still sad.
So first, some background: my nephew's other grandma has cancer, and apparently it's advanced enough that some doctor(s?) have told her she might not survive the rest of this year. We all just found out about this... maybe a couple months ago. But sometime in the last week or two, Nephew went to church with his grandparents, and they were talking about someone who had passed away and the funeral was set for the next Tuesday. Well, a few days or so later, someone (I don't know who) was telling Nephew about some upcoming schedule/plan (I don't know what... see what I meant by not knowing much detail?), and his response was "I can't do that! Grandma will already be dead by then!"
He thought the funeral they were talking about was going to be his grandma's, and he spent who knows how long living with the idea in his head that she was going to die on Tuesday.
I felt so bad for the kid at that moment. It's all straightened out now, of course, but geez. What a weight for a 7 year old child of divorced parents to carry.
Anyway... I seem to have two new obsessions this week... a Japanese manzai duo called Kirin and the legendary Super Mario Bros. hack known as Cat Mario. Have spent the past couple days loading up on both - playing Cat Mario, watching it on Youtube (seriously, look it up. it's sadistic and hysterical and the guy narrating it is even more fun than the Mario Frustration guy.) and living with the BGMs stuck in my head... like right now. Ahem. And Kirin... unfortunately the only sources I have to download their appearances are all on Clubbox, so they're ridiculously slow in coming, but I've seen a few now and even begun acquainting myself with the M-1 Grand Prix (big annual manzai competition) for the sole purpose of seeing more of them. They are seriously the most adorable manzai team I have ever seen - and those who know much about manzai will know that's kind of a hard combination to come by. ¬_¬ And lord, Kawashima Akira's VOICE. sdkjaksdf. I die.
Er... yeah. I was trying to take a break from the computer and typing lately since my arm has been especially sore. So I will now return to watching M-1 Grand Prix 2001.
EDIT: And yeah, my Cat Mario@Youtube obsession has branched into a fangirlfest over the user who uploaded it. He is HILARIOUS and his accent is adorable.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 5/21/2009 12:35:00 AM
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