May. 1st, 2010

1) I have been inadvertently elected to the state legislature, but do not know what I am doing; fortunately, my mom has made me a cheat sheet. Fumbling with it, I mentally promise my clearly-confused constituents that I will do better next time - I'd forgotten about the session, because I'd just come from

2) Visiting the Smoking Marsh, where a dense yellow-green mist covers everything most of the year. The marsh is very small, and all of it is visible from a wooden observation tower built by the entrance. I've been here before, and remember telling myself, "next time I'll remember to bring a tripod for the camera." I didn't, though. I hadn't even planned to be here, because I am

3) Anita Blake, and had crashed my stolen spaceship in the vicinity after doing battle with an enemy ship. The surface of the earth is under attack by octopus-like creatures who live deep beneath it, called the Uneasy Men. They build spaceships and attack us with them intermittently - some environmental variable makes it difficult for them to reach the surface very often, but we have not learned to predict it, and never know when an attack will come, and how big a fleet they may push through.

We haven't learned yet to build ships ourselves. We steal them from the Uneasy Men. In my capacity as Anita Blake, I stole the first one several years ago, but have since retired from space battle to concentrate on my career as Batman. But my current Robin, of whose costume I did not approve because it looked kind of like the Tick's and had weird little funguslike protuberences coming out of it for no reason, has been killed by the Uneasy Men, and I must exact vengeance.

However, I have removed my heart and placed it in a casket hidden deep in the mountains to make myself cruel enough to be an effective warrior - and there is evidence that the Uneasy Men know where it is. The mad scientist who used to be my partner is confident that we can protect the place if it sees any ships going there. Just as he is telling me this, an alert sounds. An unidentified ship is quickly approaching my heart.

We take off to defend it, but we are tricked, and the first ship is just a feint. A second one lands near where my heart is hidden while we are still engaged, and a third, bigger than I have ever seen before, appears before us. We manage to defeat the huge ship, but we cannot risk going back to where my heart was to see if they have really found it. Digging at the place may only tell them where it was, if they didn't know exactly already. We can only wait to see what will happen to me.

4) I go to clean the kitchen, but the garbage disposal is broken and the sink's all clogged. Crap.
I can sometimes determine what was on my mind at the time I got to a kanji in Remembering the Kanji by the weird associations that spring up when I look at them.

cadet - 曹 - Regis Hastur
holy - 聖 - "The Holy Things at Hali"
challenge - 挑 - when they send Carolin Orain's finger at the end of Hawkmistress!
person - 人 - Deathle Thompson
excel - 秀 - Excel. Like, from Excel Saga.
style - 式 - Ishida from Bleach
core - 奥 - Jenova from Final Fantasy VII
beat - 撃 - the stick from Now and Then, Here and There
slow - 遅 - when there are sheep on the train tracks while Bradley's trying to get to the capital in that one chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist
join - 併 - Kuruku turning the little girl's family into creepy puppets and fitting them together like a puzzle in Unico and the Island of Magic
greatness - 傑 - Rin taunting someone from high up in Please Save My Earth
arrive - 到 - when Azer shows up and tries to kidnap Amira in Otoyomegatari
valley - 谷 - the Valley of the Wind from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
the radical Heisig calls "gully" - where Princess Mononoke takes place. Because Mononoke is kind of a cut-down version of Nausicaa, and "gully" is kind of a cut-down version of "valley."
attire - 装 - the 'umble ratskin from Echo Bazaar. (For this one, the kanji seems to have picked up the 'umble ratskin a while after I learned it - I think it had to do with the Ninja Turtles before I started playing Echo Bazaar?)
fabricate - 築 - the middle two radicals represent Anita Blake! She is in a tree, with bamboo?
daring - 敢 - Denice from The Tales of the Continuing Time. I don't know why, okay? I don't think it's the best adjective for her.
junior - 徒 - Dash from The Incredibles
inspection - 視 - the anal-retentive guy from that one episode of Pete and Pete that ends with a barbecued-ribs-eating showdown
exhaust - 尽 - the story where the bard goes to the north pole in Song for the Basilisk; also, Articuno's cavern in Pokemon. Though maybe it is more precise to say that I associate that section of Song for the Basilisk with Articuno. I have no idea how that came about.

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