Cannot. Resist. Cute. GAH.

Look at this -

Why are Japanese candy mascots always so damn cute?
Here, compare little yogurt!Puccho to the Jelly Belly mascot.




Worlds apart, as you can see. :p


Anyways, I'm seriously considering a local bank's offer of a free account (since I, uh, don't have one yet) that has 4 per cent interest and gives me an iPod shuffle for 10,23 €. ♥ Doesn't sound bad, does it? :D

Also, I feel betrayed by European Apple shops. xD I mean, look at this:



That's the U.S. Dollar/Euro exchange rate of this year. It started at 1,29 USD = 1 EUR in January and has been rising to a spectacular 1,46 USD = 1 EUR. Yet still the German Apple store wants 79 € for an iPod, even though 79 $ is actually 55,8697 €. Grah.
Ah, well, it's not my concern anymore. I'll be getting mine for even cheaper soon. ♥

Hello, dear f'list! How are you today? xD" I feel strangely good. I have the sneaking suspicion that it's because I've done all my homework for this week *and* next week. It's a very liberating feeling. ♥

• Memes! Both from silver_spray. ♥

1. I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment here and state they want to participate.
I don’t yet know what that gift will be, but you will receive it within 365 days. The only thing you have to do in return is "pay it forward" by making a similar agreement on your blog.
(I hope I can come up with something good. xD)

2. Comment, and I will comment back with a picture of the fictional character that most reminds me of you. Then post the same in your journal.

• I was supposed to write a story for my Philosophy class until this Wednesday, but on my first try, I completely missed the subject. It's not really finished, vut I don't think I'll try and save it - I'd rather try a completely new one.
But I felt like posting it *somewhere* (xD), although probably only one person on my f'list will be able to, like, understand the German. (Yeah, I'm lookin' at you. ;D)

( So I'll put it under a cut so I don't bother anyone too much. )


• LEOPARD. WANT.

• I let my sister borrow my iPod (shuffle) yesterday while she was vacuuming (listening to music makes it a lot less of a chore, really :D). Today she told me there was one Tenipuri song she liked and hummed the start of the tune, and I *knew* I knew it, but I couldn't put my finger on which song it was. So I skipped through my Tenipuri section until I figured out that it was Atobe's CHASER～穢れなき追撃者～. But on the way there, I came past one song I didn't recognize at all. I listened to it and was at a total loss; I thought it might be a new Best of Rival Players I'd gotten, but I couldn't remember downloading one recently. So I got fed up, checked my list on iTunes (yeah, so I had to kick off ask my mom for a few minutes' computer time) and it turns out what I thought was Wonderful Days by Pulltab to Kan was actually Wonderful Days by Fujiki Naohito (I obviously hadn't noticed Tenipuri!Wonderful Days was missing).
So. And here I thought my iPod was screwing up. Damn, would've been a good excuse to have my dad buy me a new generation shuffle. xD


... That story was completely pointless. x3