March 1st
Mattsuns birthday today!
March 2nd
We're making a recruitment ad for the volleyball team, Coach said we would upload it to youtube. I'm a little sceptical about weather that would work, but filming is fun, so I don't mind that much.
In other filming news, Iwa-Chan and I have to make a short film for Media class, we've recruited Makki and Mattsun to help, which was either the best or worst idea I have ever had.
March 4th
Iwa-Chan and I went on another date today. We went to the zoo, and he held my hand and let me drag him around to see all the animals. We were allowed to hold baby monkeys, and we got hot chocolate and coffee at the cafe (coffee is bad for your skin, but Iwa-Chan lives by it). It would have been a perfect day, if only for one small problem, and I mean that quite literally. You see, we also ran into Tobio-Chan, and his small orange boyfriend (I don't think they are actually dating, but that's not the point.) Chibi-Chan is loud and annoying, and got in the way of Iwa-Chan and I's beautiful date. You already know Tobio-Chan sucks, so I'm not going to waste any ink on him.
Bye-Bye,
-Toru
7th March
Now that the elation of dating Iwa-Chan has worn off (mostly, we're boyfriends), I've noticed nothing much has changed. Yes, we kiss and cuddle and are more intimate, but we don't treat each other any different. Iwa-Chan still hits me upside the head when I do something stupid, I still cling to his arm and drag him off to go stargazing, he's still shares his lunch with me and buys me food and now that I'm on a roll he's just so damn good for me. What on earth does he see in me?
8th March
We started writing the script for the movie thing, it took awhile but we have decided that it's gonna be a documentary on conspiracy theories, but the documentary itself is hijacked by aliens, kinda a found footage thing, like the Blair Witch Project. This means that we don't have to be super good at filming, and Makki and Mattsun wanted it to be funny, so we don't have to take it to seriously. I'm the main actor, which is super fun, and we found a conspiracy blog on Tumblr that gave us some great material and ideas. OK, I said I found it, but the truth is I and a few friends overseas write it, but no one knows that, not even Iwa-Chan. Anyway, the blog is mostly about the origins of different conspiracies, and then looking at the main proponents of things like bigfoot and the Loch Ness and digging through all the evidence and finding out if it's valid or not. The blog is super fun to write, and the script we are working on is actually kinda good.
That's all for now,
-Toru
March 10th
The team is having a potluck dinner, so Iwa-Chan and I spent the entire day baking, we made quiche, and then lots of little cupcakes. Because there would be quite a few people there, we figured we would quadruple the recipe, but we didn't realize the original made 25 cupcakes, and because they are mini cupcakes, we now have about 200 of them. That's a lot to ice in one day, so we dusted about 50 of them in icing sugar, and Iwa-Chan is going to come over tomorrow and help ice the rest of them with proper icing in the team colours, of course.
11th March
We finished icing the cupcakes today, we ran out of icing halfway through (Iwa-Chan would have you believe it was because I kept eating the icing, but it was because we had so many cupcakes, honest.)
They turned out pretty good, Iwa-Chan fed me one, but I was concentrating more on Iwa-Chan's fingers on my mouth rather than the flavor.
13th March
Filmings going pretty well, we spent today testing out the camera, and figuring out how we are going to do this. The script is mostly done, but it still needs a few tweaks. We have the rest of the month, and a lot of next month to finish this so I think we'll be fine.
16th March
It was Iwas Aunts wedding today, she lives a few blocks down, and was quite a small reception, but it was very sweet, and I was right, there was dancing!
All the lessons paid off, and we didn't make fools of ourselves. I don't think I'll be able to convince Iwa to come back to classes though, and honestly neither of us have time for that.
18th March
Today was spent making props for the short film. We don't have enough money to actually buy all the things we want (we could barely get a mic and camera) so we're being creative. This is a lot harder than I thought it would be, and there is still so much to do, we need to decide whether to use the microphone in parts that isn't meant to have professional sound. And we needed to find locations and stuff. Most of the props are the 'evidence' for all the different myths. Saki is coming back soon, and she said she would help with costume design, so at least we are all going to look the part.
Bye bye
-Toru
March 21st
The team went to the pool today, as some sort of upper arm training. We spent most of the time swimming laps, but after we were given some free time, and someone started up a game of 2v2 volleyball. Iwa-Chan and I were on the same team, and we mostly crushed it. The only game we didn't crush it was all Iwa-Chan's fault, for being all wet and shirtless and just... I'm not a saint, OK?
22nd March
POT LUCK DINNER
Saki is back in town, so she came with us. This is the first time I've seen her since Iwa-Chan and I started dating, she wasn't that surprised, and apparently thought we'd been dating since last year, soooo, that's a thing. Change of subject, the cupcakes were a success, and they were all eaten too, which is surprising. Makki and Mattsun brought in a tub of sprinkles, I guess now I know where they went. I don't think that was all the sprinkles, so stay tuned.
All in all, dinner was good, and apparently, Saki has news, which is why she's back in town.
That's Omoness.
Bye-bye
-Toru
23rd March
Sakura is moving to America, now that Takkaru is old enough to be at school all day, and is mostly fluent in English. She wants to get her degree, and when she was offered a huge scholarship she would be stupid not to take it. I'm not sure how she will manage with school on top of being a single parent, but my sister isn't a quitter, and she deserves this chance. Of course, I'll miss her, before she was just living a few hours away, and in a few months she'll be on the other side of the world, but it's not like she's not going to come back, and she promised to visit a lot, and we'll skype and call all the time. But it's going to be hard, at least I have Iwa-Chan.
-Toru
25th March
We're started filming proper today. It takes longer than I thought it would, and lighting is super hard. I'm playing the narrator, Iwa-Chan and Makki and the cameraman, and Mattsun is doing the sound-boom-thing, (don't know the English for it and I'm lazy).
We still haven't decided who's gonna edit it, but we can use the school computers editing software, so it might be a team effort.
28th March
It was raining today, so we spent lunch in an empty classroom playing Settlers of Catan. I swear, I had so many fucking sheep.
30th March
My knee isn't getting any better, the ankle healed up fine, but I have to wear a special kneepad to keep it from moving as much, and Iwa-Chan and Coach have limited the amount I can practice, I'm not supposed to practice at all, but it's not like that's ever stopped me before.
Another chapter. I have a bit of the next one done, but yall deserve this. as always, if you have any ideas for chapters, hit me up. tell me what you think in the talky box, and have a great day!
-Phoenix
ps. Sparkles, you rock.