Got this from Mihime's LJ, but since I don't know how to do LJ cuts yet, I decided to post it here where it won't clutter anyone's entire Friend's page. : )

"X" = have seen the majority of a series
"V" = have seen more than 5 episodes (but not the entirety) of a series
"O" = have seen 1-5 episodes of a series.

I. Action and Adventure

(X) .hack//SIGN
( ) Airmaster
( ) Battle Arena Toshinden
(V) Bleach
( ) Blood+
( ) Burst Angel
( ) City Hunter
(X) Cowboy Bebop
(X) Dragonball
( ) Flame of Recca
( ) GetBackers
(V) Inu Yasha
(V) Lupin III (any)
( ) Mai-HiME
(V) Naruto
( ) One Piece
( ) Tenjou Tenge
(X) TRIGUN
( ) Saiyuki
(V) Yu Yu Hakusho

Total Here: 9/20

II. Comedy and Parody

( ) 2x2 = Shinobuden
(X) Adventures of the Mini Goddesses
(X) Azumanga Daioh
(O) Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan
(V) Di Gi Charat
(X) Dragon Half
(X) Excel Saga
(X) Fruits Basket
( ) Galaxy Angel
(X) Here is Greenwood
(V) Kodomo no Omocha
( ) Kyou Kara Maou!
(O) Midori Days
(X) Ouran Koukou Host Club
( ) Pani Poni Dash
(X) Project A-ko
(X) Ranma 1/2
(X) Tenchi Muyo
(O) Those Who Hunt Elves
(O) Urusei Yatsura

Total Here: 16/20 (25/40)

III. Drama and Miscellaneous

( ) Beck
(O) Full Moon wo Sagashite
( ) Gankutsuou
( ) Genshiken
( ) Glass Mask (original or new)
(O) Haibane Renmei
( ) Hitsuji no Uta
( ) Honey & Clover
( ) Kaleido Star
( ) Last Exile
( ) Le Portraite de Petite Cossette
( ) Monster
( ) Paradise Kiss
(X) Princess Mononoke
(X) Read or Die OVA
( ) Speed Grapher
( ) Twin Spica
(O) Weiss Kreuz
( ) Wings of Honneamise
( ) Yakitate!! Japan

Total Here: 5/20 (30/60)

IV. Ecchi/Mature

( ) Agent AIKa
(O) Cutey Honey
( ) Ebichu
(X) Golden Boy
( ) Grenadier
( ) Hand Maid May
( ) He Is My Master
( ) Iketeru Futari
(X) La Blue Girl
( ) Lingerie Senshi Papillon Rose
(O) Mahoromatic
( ) Mezzo Forte
(X) Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
( ) My Dear Marie
( ) Najica Blitz Tactics
(X) Negima
(X) Puni Puni Poemi
( ) Ikkitousen
( ) Wicked City
( ) Yumeria

Total Here: 7/20 (37/80)

V. Fantasy and Supernatural

(X) Angel Sanctuary
( ) Aquarian Age
(X) Berserk
(X) El Hazard
( ) Final Fantasy Unlimited
(X) Fullmetal Alchemist
(X) Howl's Moving Castle
(X) Magic Knight Rayearth
( ) Mushishi
( ) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
(X) Record of Lodoss War
( ) Scrapped Princess
(X) Slayers
(X) Tales of Eternia
(V) Trinity Blood
(V) Tsubasa Chronicle
(X) Vampire Hunter D
( ) Violinist of Hamelin
(X) Vision of Escaflowne
(X) X: TV

Total Here: 14/20 (51/100)

VI. Historical and Alternate History

( ) Anne of Green Gables
( ) Basilisk
( ) Barefoot Gen
(X) Chrono Crusade
( ) Grave of the Fireflies
( ) Fire Tripper
( ) Kaidomaru
( ) Legend of Condor Hero
( ) Millennium Actress
( ) Nadia - Secret of Blue Water
(V) Ninja Scroll
( ) Otogizoushi
( ) Peacemaker Kurogane
( ) Porco Rosso
( ) Rose of Versailles
(X) Rurouni Kenshin
( ) Samurai 7
(X) Samurai Champloo
( ) Steel Angel Kurumi
( ) Victorian Romance Emma

Total Here: 4/20 (55/120)

VII. Kids and Family

(X) Angelic Layer
( ) Astro Boy
( ) Beyblade
(X) Castle in the Sky
(V) Detective Conan
( ) Digimon
( ) Doraemon
( ) Hamtaro
(X) Kiki's Delivery Service
( ) Kimba the White Lion
( ) Monster Rancher
( ) My Neighbor Totoro
(V) Pokemon
( ) Samurai Pizza Cats
( ) Sazae-san
( ) SD Gundam Force
( ) Sonic X
(V) Speed Racer
(X) Spirited Away
(O) Yu-Gi-Oh

Total Here: 8/20 (63/140)

VIII. Magical Girls and Boys

(X) Cardcaptor Sakura
( ) DNAngel
( ) Earth Girl Arjuna
( ) Elementar Gelade
( ) Hime-chan no Ribbon
( ) Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
( ) Magic Users Club
(X) Magical Girl Pretty Sammy
( ) Magical Stage Fancy La La
( ) Mahou no Star Magical Emi
( ) Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
( ) Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
( ) Ojamajou DoReMi
( ) Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo
( ) Pretear
(X) Sailor Moon
( ) Saint Tail
( ) Tokyo Mew Mew
( ) Ultra Maniac
(O) Wedding Peach

Total Here: 4/20 (67/160)

IX. Romance

(X) Ah! My Goddess
(O) Ai Yori Aoshi
( ) Air
( ) Ayashi no Ceres
( ) Boys Be
(X) Chobits
(X) Fushigi Yuugi
( ) Hana Yori Dango
(X) His and Her Circumstances
( ) Kimagure Orange Road
( ) Kimi ga Nozomu Eien
(X) Love Hina
( ) Maison Ikkoku
( ) Marmalade Boy
( ) Peach Girl
( ) Piano
( ) Please Teacher!
( ) SaiKano
( ) To Heart
( ) Video Girl Ai

Total Here: 6/20 (73/180)

X. Science-Fiction

( ) Appleseed
( ) Blue Seed
( ) Bubblegum Crisis(any)
( ) Crest of the Stars
(V) Galaxy Express 999
(V) Gundam (any)
(V) Macross (any)
(V) Outlaw Star
( ) Patlabor
( ) Planetes
( ) Please Save My Earth
( ) RahXephon
(X) Saber Marionette (any)
(O) s-CRY-ed
( ) Soukyuu no Fafner
( ) Space Battleship Yamato
( ) Stellvia
( ) Vandread
( ) Voices of a Distant Star
( ) Xenosaga: The Animation

Total Here: 6/20 (79/200) (No Martian Successor Nadesico? FOUL!)

XI. Shounen-Ai and Shoujo-Ai

( ) Ai no Kusabi
( ) Descendants of Darkness
( ) Earthian
( ) FAKE
( ) Fish in the Trap
( ) Galaxy Fraulin Yuna
( ) Gravitation
( ) Haru wo Daiteita
( ) Kannazuki no Miko
( ) Kizuna
( ) Lesson XX
( ) Loveless (Only read the manga...)
( ) Maria-sama ga Miteru
( ) Mirage of Blaze
( ) Oniisama E
( ) Seikimatsu Darling
( ) Song of the Wind in the Trees
( ) Sukisho
( ) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
( ) Zetsuai/Bronze

Total Here: 0/20 (79/220)

XII. Sports

( ) Ace wo Nerae
( ) Ashita no Joe
( ) Ayane's High Kick
( ) Baki the Grappler
( ) Battle Athletes
( ) Buzzer Beater
( ) Captain Tsubasa
( ) Eyeshield 21
( ) Ginban Kaleidoscope
( ) Hajime no Ippo
( ) Hikaru no Go
(O) Initial D
( ) Major
( ) Monkey Turn
( ) One Pound Gospel
( ) Prince of Tennis
( ) Princess Nine
( ) Slam Dunk
( ) Suzuka
( ) Wild Striker

Total Here: 1/20 (80/240)

XIII. Surreal and Psychological

(X) Akira
( ) Betterman
( ) Boogiepop Phantom
( ) Elfen Lied
(X) FLCL
( ) Gantz (does the abridged series count?)
(X) Ghost in the Shell (movie or TV)
(X) Hellsing (original, not Ultimate)
( ) Jigoku Shoujo
( ) Karas
( ) Madlax
( ) Melody of Oblivion
(X) Neon Genesis Evangelion
( ) Noir
(V) Paranoia Agent
(X) Perfect Blue
( ) Princess Tutu
(V) Revolutionary Girl Utena
(X) Serial Experiments Lain
( ) Texhnolyze

Total here: 9/20 (89/260)

This is one of the lamer "All About You" memes I've encountered, but I was BORED, so here ya go.

001. Real name → Nicole M. Kirsch
002. Nickname → Nikkie, Nikkie-chan, Nihime, Pumpkin, Ethyl (my dad is weird)
003. Status → single
004. Zodiac sign → Aries
005. Male or female → Female
006. Elementary → Davis Elementary School
007. Middle School → Heard Middle School, then North East MS
008. High School → NE HS
009. Smart → sometimes
010. Hair color → Dark brown
011. Long or short → just long enough to pull into a ponytail
012. Loud or Quiet → depends on who is around
013. Sweats or Jeans → Jeans
014. Phone or Camera → eh
015. Health freak → nope
016. Drink or Smoke? → Don’t smoke anymore, but LUV me some wine
017. Do you have a crush on someone? → nopers!
018. Eat or Drink → EAT.
019. Piercings → ears
020. Tattoos → not yet… my BF stole my idea and now I need a new gimmick

FIRSTS:
023. First piercing → ears when I was 8
024. First best friend → Brooke Sosnowski… that bitch.
025. First award → can’t remember, likely a field day ribbon
026. First crush → Bill Martin in kindergarten
027. First pet → Shadow, an ornery cat who only liked mom and refused to get out from under our couch during the day
028. First big vacation → Niagara Falls when I was 10
030. First big birthday → Sweet 16, the only surprise party ever thrown for me


CURRENTLY:
049. Eating → Instant noodles
050. Drinking → pepsi
052. I'm about to → take my break
053. Listening to → Harder, Faster, Stronger, Better by Daft Punk
054. Plans for today → finish working from home, go in for an evening shift at Borders, come home, open the bottle of Honey Mead I bought at the wine fest yesterday and do some writing while chatting with Shan-san

YOUR FUTURE:
058. Want kids? → Maybe through adoption
059. Want to get married? → Would love to, but don’t see it happening
060. Careers in mind → I’d love to be an editor for a magazine or a publishing company, but at this moment, I’ll settle for a full time secretary gig

WHICH IS BETTER WITH GIRLS?
068. Lips or eyes → I’d prefer that they have both…
070. Shorter or taller? → no preference
072. Romantic or spontaneous → cannot both exist in the same time and space?
073. Nice stomach or nice arms → uh, I like my men with some meat on them…
074. Sensitive or loud → I could have sworn you could be both… I’m sensitive but loud…
075. Hook-up or relationship → hook up because I am SUCH the slut, don’t you know? OK, who thought this line of questions was a good idea? O.o
077. Trouble maker or hesitant → I’m done with this part. Tis stupid.

HAVE YOU EVER:
080. Lost glasses/contacts → no
081. Ran away from home → I pretended to once and hid in a closet
084. Broken someone’s heart → Uhhh, yea… I still feel badly, but I just couldn’t love them the way they wanted me to
085. Been arrested → No
087. Cried when someone died → Yes, I’m only the world’s biggest crybaby… so yup!

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. Yourself → to a point
090. Miracles → Yes
091. Love at first sight → I’m not even sure I really believe in love anymore…
092. Heaven → Undecided
093. Santa Claus → Dumb question # 9
094. Sex on the first date → Only if self-esteem isn’t a valid concern of yours, but I myself wouldn’t go there
095. Kiss on the first date → Why not? O.o

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now → Just Mihime, ‘cause then I’d be in Pittsburgh and not dreading the snow in Erie… ~_~
098. Are you seriously happy with where you are in life → I could be happier
099. Do you believe in God → Agnostic here
100. Post as 100 truths and tag → Will post, no taggies

Freakachris ([link]) made me an icon!! Isn't it spiffy!! Pretty hammer... all shiny and twinkley. I dub the: The hammer of JUSTICE!!! ^_^ <3 OK, I just went all Amelia of Slayers on y'all there, but hey, she got Zelgadiss, didn't she? I could use that kind of luck...

Other than that, nothing too terribly much to report. Still working on writing (slowly). Unfortunately, I'm kinda hung up on my favorite purple haired, reincarnated spazz character... yea... her and my perverted priest, Eli. How my writing buddy Shannon hasn't beaten me over the head with my own notebook yet, I'm not sure.

I've been filling my free time with watching play throughs of survival horror games on Youtube. Ahh, sweet Youtube. I love survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil... unfortunately, I SUCK at them. Of all the things I miss the most about college, just crashing in the dorm room in the evenings watching the guys play games comes close to the top of the list. A couple of months ago I got to watch Freakachris play some Bioshock and since then, I've been watching survival horror games on Youtube. Just finished watching a runthrough of Rule of Rose... they say that game was nearly banned for being too "sensual" and "explicit." Honestly, I would have banned it for "lack of sense in plot." WTF?!?! Steer clear of this one, Chris, LOTS of creepy young girls.

In other news, go see the new Indiana Jones movie!!! A friend and I caught the midnight showing last night and LOVED IT! ^__^ That is all! Take care!

Heather's birthday? Check.
Valentine's Day? Check, survived.
St Patrick's Day? Check, after waking up at 2 pm on my buddy's couch and hoping that the yellow puddle in the kitchen was just a spilled beverage, not someone drunkenly missing the bathroom.

Actually, St Patrick's Day went great this year! I DDed as always, but only had to cart around 4 people (last year, I had two car loads). No one got belligerently drunk, no one got sick and we stayed up unil 8 am playing Wii Sports.

Unfortunately, with this holiday over and done with, the NEXT major event is MY birthday. I hate my birthday. It has nothing to do with getting older or anything like that. Years ago, my mother chose my birthday as perfect time to explain to me that my father was having an affair and she had kicked him out of the house. Seeking solace with my friends, I drove 2 hours to my old alma mater, and visited with my friends who were still in school... and got stuck there when a week long blizzard hit town. Honestly didn't mind being stuck in a town with my friends with nothing better to do than to watch movies for a week, I just hate snow in general and don't like the inability to pick up and drive anywhere at a moment's notice.

At least on the plus side Tekkoshocon is coming up... Last year's Tekko was one of the best cons I've ever attended and I'm looking forward to it again. It's going to be the weekend following my birthday, so at least there's that. I need a fun vacation to get my mind off of things. Lots of things worrying me at the moment... going to try to not think about them tho!

Sweet light, I hate Erie winters. This has better have been that "in like a lion" part of the adage because I don't want to deal with another storm like this weekend's during St Patrick's Day, when I'm pulling my annual designated driver duties (whoo for alliteration!). My shift at Borders on Saturday was initially changed into a half shift on Friday, then completely cancelled early Saturday afternoon. The roads were slick as heck! I was nearly sideswiped on Friday because a person coming out of a Burger King parking lot couldn't stop and ended up sliding into traffic.

I haven't been doing much writing recently. The muse has been elusive and I've been having a few health concerns that are weighing on me. I hope that it's nothing serious, mainly just aches and pains in places that have no reason to ache or pain, but unil my health insurance becomes affective next month, I won't know for sure. I am working on one piece currently, a fictional piece regarding the history of a character I play in a roleplaying game on Gaia Online.

I saw this posted on BluSheepArt's [link] journal and felt the need to post it here. A lot of people operate outside the confines of what "society" would consider "normal." My heart goes out to them. My little patch of Erie is not by any means what you would consider a "progressive" or "understanding." I had enough problems growing up just because I developed outside the realm of conventional female behavior (i.e. I read too much, didn't use makeup and wasn't obsessed with boys). I don't know many homosexual people, but the ones I do know are awesome, and I'd never wish anything ill on them.

Post: I make this journal because this topic bothers me a lot. I found this on bryzunovrokk's journal before. Isn't it scary to see in what sick world we're living in...?
If someone feels encouraged to make any insultings: you're just brainless bastards.

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.

I am the boy who never finished high school, because I got called a fag everyday

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.

I am the woman who died when the EMTs stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I didnt have to always deal with society hating me.

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.

I am a warrior for my country serving proud, but can't be my true self because gays aren't allowed in the military.

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.

I am the person ashamed to tell my own friends I'm a lesbian, because they constantly make fun of them.

I am the boy tied to a fence, beaten to a bloody pulp and left to die because two straight men wanted to "teach me a lesson."


This is the boy, Matthew Shepard. On October 7, 1998 Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson lead him to a remote area east of Laramie where they demonstrated unimaginable acts of hate. Matthew was tied to a split-rail fence where he was beaten and left to die in the cold of the night. Almost 18 hours later he was found by a cyclist who initially mistook him for a scarecrow. Matthew died on October 12 at 12:53 am at a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS GAY!!!

---IF YOU BELIEVE THAT HOMOPHOBIA IS WRONG... REPOST THIS
AS "HOMOPHOBIA."

---IF YOU ARE IGNORANT... IGNORE

Intolerance is ignorance and there's too much of it in the world. We're all people any way you look at it. And in this day and age you would think we would have evolved enough to find ways of making the world better and not finding new prejudices and wars to fight.