Updates: Ok, I have updated the Staff page. Devilitchi has been let go and NekoOtaku quit. ::Looks over at Dethl:: I hope you don't decide to quit any time soon, either. I also updated my To-Do List. And I updated something else which was just on a whim. I felt like talking about myself XD so I updated the Castle History page.

I have to apologize to everyone who has sent me mail lately, including staff submittions. I've been kinda putting them off and putting them off. That's my first order of business. Tackling my e-mail box. Sorry everyone. <_< I do tend to forget about that box every once in a while. Though, some of you really had some good stuff.

Commentary: Well... let's see. I just had to take a break from the net for a while. Been catching up on reading mostly and of course, had to go off to work. I do have one major announcement, though, that I have kinda been sharing with everyone. XD I went out and bought me a Gamecube!! Once I get my next paycheck, I'm headed for the mall and going to buy The Wind Waker. $168 for system, Super Smash Bros. Melee, a memory card, and another controller for my sister. o_O Oh dear God I felt faint spending all that money. ^_^ But... it's wonderful. Now to catch up with all of you guys.

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Updates: Don't forget! If you are interested in participating in Camp Hyrule this year, hop on over to http://camphyrule.com to sign up. Registration only lasts for today through to the 28th and closes at 5pm PST.

Commentary: What is Camp Hyrule? An online event where gamers get together to enjoy a full week (July 15 - 19) of nothing but fun! There are games to play, activities to do to win you points, chatrooms, and a message board, and even special guest appearances in the amphitheatre. Oh and did I mention? It's all FREE!! Just have an account with Nintendo and you're ready to sign up. ^_^ See you there!

On the site, the games listed so far as being part of the event are: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendogs, Mario Kart DS, and Pok,mon XD: Gale of Darkness. Twilight Princess alone should be worth going for.

To learn about last year's experience, check out my Camp Hyrule 2004 Report. ... Oh, I do so hope that I have better luck with the NOAs this time. ... And I don't have DSL this time. *Sigh* <_< Nor do I really know how much time I'll get to participate what with work and all. ::Shrugs:: Oh well, the chatting was nice last time.

((Oh and I don't mean to upstage Neko-kun. I'll miss you, Neko. *Sigh* You did good work and you actually TRIED to get things in on time.))

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Updates: Whoop. Yeps. I'm leaving. But hey, I have good reasoning. Yes indeed. Sorry to leave the Majora's Mask guide hanging like that... >_>

Commentary: Well, here's how I work: I always take on a lot of tasks thinking "Yeah, I can do this," when in reality, it's more than I can handle, and basically, I can't do any of them because I'm trying to do all of them. Sorry, but life doesn't work that way.
I mean, I've got to finish up the ninth grade to open up tenth grade, I just opened my own site (shameless plug) which I had been planning for a while now, and I was working on here. Not only that, but over the past few weeks, I've been working with my dad going to conferences and other album recordings to... record albums. It's all just become chaotic to try to keep these deadlines when I know it's impossible. Something had to be cut. And unfortunately, that something was this.
But hey! I'm still over at my site (link above; forums aren't up yet because they're uncooperative). And my email is there, too, if ever you want to chat (I need to put my AIM name on there, too).
Well, then. I guess this is goodbye. Yeah, so I was only here for a few weeks, but I can still say bye, right?

... right?

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Updates: I have been receiving one or two occassional e-mails that have mentioned the failure of links. While I doubt that I missed pages that had links to these broken locations that once existed I will do an investigation. In the mean time, let me state this better than I did before.

The Image Gallery has replaced all MCLoZ image files. Therefore, if you are trying to view our old gallery pages or the images at their old links - they WILL NOT work. They are eradicated. They are gone. I cleaned them out. You can find them ONLY in the Image Gallery. I'm sorry if a few of you don't appreciate this decision for whatever reason but it's a LOT easier for me in this case. "Easier" is a precious word in my vocabulary as of late, used sparingly, and only after much thought.

Commentary: In other news not Zelda related. I finished Harry Potter: Half-blood Prince today. I won't give outrageous spoilers, but please be warned, I'm discussing the book and trying to be cryptic which doesn't always work. You've been warned.

I really enjoyed the book... I loved it. In fact before I finished it I even confided in my sister that it possibly might beat our favorite, Goblet of Fire. And then... my FAVORITE character of the book did not go the way that I wanted him to. Which character...? Highlight to read my further commentary, HEAVY SPOILERS included.

Snape *sniffle*. And yes, he's always been my favorite character - isn't that odd. Oh why oh why did she decide to do that to him. The idea that he maybe did owe something to Dumbledore and was not as evil as he seemed was a wonderful idea. Actually... if you ever read my books, you'll find one of my own characters has this evil personality but I fawn on him and enjoy watching him grow to lesser evil - he's had it so rough *sniffle*, you can understand why he would be snippy but deep inside the kind little boy is always lurking. ::Pouts:: Rowlings. You have disappointed me. Though... maybe Malfoy lately has filled in the hole the loss of Severus left. Why would I pick such characters as my faves after all they've done to Harry? Meh... >_> I dunno. Everyone has a past that has shaped their lives. If you can see that past and forgive them just a little, what kind of person will you find hidden deep within?

Anyways, yes, a very enjoyable book. I'm sure after I've nursed my sore spot, I'll probably bump it back to top status. ... Maybe...

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Updates: Recently posted on IGN was the rumor of a possible release date for the Twilight Princess in Japan: November 15th. However, Nintendo has not confirmed this release date and should therefore only be taken as simple rumor right now. However, if it's true, that sets the American release date around the holiday season.

Commentary: Also, on a more minor note: Do not forget about Camp Hyrule Registration cropping up in little less than a week away. It starts on the 26th and will end on the 28th. Don't forget and miss out on all the fun!

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Updates: No, they didn't ask. I'm doing this because I want to. At the moment, Zelda Dimension is having some serious hacker problems with their forums. While they have given up the idea of using phpBB, they are not detered from the idea of using forums. At the moment they are prepared to use free forums. However, if they can earn enough through donations they would like to be able to purchase either Invision Forums or vBulletain. If you can spare a little money, please help them out. Visit their site at http://zd.zeldad.com for more information.

Commentary: Henry has had to deal with so much already. It's really a great shame that someone has to feel malicious enough to put him through even more. ;) Help him get back at this blasted hacker.

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Updates: The Shop Locations for the original Legend of Zelda's 1st Quest have been added. Hopefully I'll get around to the second quest's and then I'll get to work some on the TMC's Beta Zelda Files. ~ I also corrected an error I made in the added Image Gallery rules. The fan art section can include the following: Fan art, comics, and cosplay costumes. Short story short... if it's in my Fan Art gallery, it can also be in your gallery. And if you aren't sure, ok, just post it up anyway and if you see it get deleted in the future ^_^ sorry, I voted against it.

Commentary: While I have not been all that successful reading Harry Potter today, I was successful in getting a nostalgic taste for my childhood. On the tv I came across the movie Neverending Story. Now there's a movie I have not watched since I was a child and is one of the few things that I blame my love for fantasy on and choosing it as my chosen topic. While I was enjoying that it occured to me how cute it was. I mean, why don't we have movies like Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, or even Labyrinth (down Bowie fans!) coming out. People in costumes worked ten times better than the CGI stuff I've seen lately.

For me, when I watch these shows I want to be able to believe this stuff. There is something so fake about CGI and, while I know many will criticise me for this opinion which is no doubt aptly wrong, there is something that seems so lazy and half-meshed about it. The CGI effects in Spider Man 2 for example, or even the Harry Potter movies. That troll looked so AWEFUL! While I know I say a great many things against Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings trilogy, I will not deny that I appreciated his good taste and judgement when it came to the costumes and thought his choice of CGI for gollum seemed as if he were on the whole "lazy" about the character. "Meh, just throw the stuff on the computer, who cares." While so much more goes into good costuming and make up. For one definite, at least it doesn't look like they are detached from the backgrounds.

Eh heh. Ok, I think I'm done with this one for now. No, don't bother trying to e-mail me and yell at me about the live actor they used for gollum's actions or how much really does go into computer interfacing. I know they do a lot of work and I know that stuff is very difficult, but let's face it, that technology is still not up to standard and can never hold a candle to good ole guys in costume. <3 The Rock-biter. He just wouldn't have been as fun. Costumes are even able to carry the style, tone, and flavor of a movie far better than a computer generated object which seems so... "souless".

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Updates: The Image Gallery rules have been updated with the two rules I recently posted and with one extra tidbit. If, when you are trying to contribute TBZF images, if you want to have your e-mail displayed as Image Contributor, please include it in the image description and I will not only include a link to your gallery profile but to your e-mail.

On another note, the Contribute Beta Images worked really well. ^_^ OoT Files #113 and #114 have been added. ~ Also, while I'm not really going to be able to post about it every time someone adds something new up in the gallery, we do have some new Fan Art in the gallery section that people have been contributing. Be sure to visit and look at them. They are quite wonderful.

Commentary: Honestly, I thought there was a line for e-mail in the gallery profile which is why I intended to link to it originally anyway. I'm going to chat with some of my PHP-knowledgable friends and see if there isn't something that I can't do to fix that. That will make things so much easier and it's what I had intended originally. I'm rather disappointed when I discovered that small fact this morning when I added in those new TBZF files.

Oh, and, I got my copy of Harry Potter. <3 I haven't had a good chance to really sit down and read, but I am in Chapter 5. ^_^ Wah! It's great, though I still miss his early days when he was just excited to be going to school. I'm still not sure I like this "war" stuff but ::shrugs:: still a good book. Oh, and another note, I go back to work tomorrow. *Sigh* Back to finding time for everything going on in my life.

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Updates: Ok, I guess I'll be updating the gallery rules tomorrow. It's great you guys are finally uploading your images. ^_^ It's great! However, two things that have popped up that I wish to discuss.

Fan Art: When posting up your images, please post Fan Art ONLY!! No screenshots, no sprites (I'll be adding those myself to the gallery at a later date), no official art. I want to see YOUR art... or ok, the art of a friend that might not necessarily be yours. I want to see drawings. Nothing Nintendo-released.

TBZF Contribute Beta Images: It seems a few people don't understand what TBZF is. The "Beta" Zelda Files. "Beta" refers to the early versions of a game as it is being developed and something that the general public has never played nor will ever see again. Official Art, concept or not, does NOT belong here. Nor does anything Twilight Princess related belong here since all the screens we've seen have the potential to be the final version or Beta. It hasn't been released yet so of course we don't know what's Beta or not. Screenshots from already released games is what belongs here. And if I like the shots, if they feature something new or something strange not already seen in the gallery, I'll move them and they will become a permanent part of our Files.

Commentary: I will added these rules to the Image Gallery rules tomorrow. ^_^ Have fun, though. Don't be afraid. I'm not yelling. These were problems I didn't forsee and I'm learning right along with you as you go. Thank you all for your contributions. Even if they didn't make the cut I still enjoyed the fact you are trying to contribute.

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Updates: The "Collectible Items" section of the Minish Cap Items guide is now picturified. Also, two entries that I totally forgot about about have been added, the Heart and the Wake-Up Mushroom, in the Collectible Items and Special Items section, respectively.

Commentary: And now that I think about it, I still have two other items in the Special Items thatI forgot about totally. >_< Feh. I'll get 'em next time. Which should be the last update of the Items guide. so then i'll have to move on to more actual new sections, finally.

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Updates: Not only is the clean up still pending (though it is completed on my computer), but I had one last thing to add to the gallery. I moved the TWW Preview Pamphlet files. I had almost forgot about those until I saw them in my harddrive files. Anyways, I'll try to do the clean up today and just get it out of my way and find something really constructive to work on.

Commentary: I purchased Dark Cloud 2 recently. I've been wanting it for a while. I was already a pretty big fan of Dark Cloud. Building the towns. I must say, I'm a LOT more impressed with Dark Cloud 2 which gives more building options, tons of mini-games and XD cute kids. I think I've already logged 30 hours and I'm only starting the third area now. That's what I call a good game. It's long and involved and if I get frustrated I have a way to take my mind off it. And I'm not really even getting into the nitty gritty of collecting medals, playing the golf-game Spheda, or making inventions. I think I need to revise my Top 10 list.

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Updates: As I said in the title, the Image Gallery is now completed. All fan art, comics, costumes, game screenshots, art, and box art is added up. And everything in the Z News and the E3 News Page has been appropriately redirected. All I have left to do is to go back and finish the main bulk of the clean up. The Images are now gone but now to irradicate the many text files that contained and displayed those many pictures. Hopefully by the end of it all, my poor FTP list will be a lot shorter and things will be so much neater. I've got my work cut out for me. If you notice any broken links PLEASE NOTIFY ME IMMEDIATELY! Thank you. I appreciate it, everyone.

Commentary: ::Dusts herself off:: Now that that's done, a little recreational chit chat. As I'm sure most of you realize, something rather special is coming this weekend. The release of the next Harry Potter book. <3 Yes, I'm a HP fan. (Duh, I only write for the same age group with similar fantasy material.) ^_^ I've already got my copy reserved. The last time I didn't have the money and had to wait around two months or so before I got a copy of Order of the Pheonix. *Sigh* The only sad part is... that at the end of each and ever HP book that I read, I go through a serious writer's-depression. Meh >_> one day... my book will hopefully be as enjoyed as HP. -_- I hope. God, the depression is already starting. I'm going to end this now.

^_^ Don't expect much work around the site to get done after this weekend. I'll be returning to work hopefully after tomorrow and then with a new book to read... As soon as I get home I know I'm going to go into seclusion in the privacy of my bedroom. God... it's been a while since I had a full day of engrossed reading. I think that last time I really enjoyed a book was Artemis Fowl. I read that thing for seven straight hours before I finished and returned to the real world. ^_^ I look forward to that fun. HP had better not disappoint me.

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Updates: Ok, I went through and while I still have to do the fan comics and cosplay sections, I cleaned quite a lot of the site up. What does this mean. There are going to be a few broken links in the E3 News page section and up in the News Menu. As soon as I can, I'm going to go into those files and edit it to fix those things. I'm not going to go through old update files and bother with fixing the stuff. Just the important areas.

Commentary: Meh... wheee... lots of fun. Next on the agenda, take care of staff project turn in and then do the fan comics and maybe FINALLY I'll be done with the Image Gallery and be able to get some content up on the site.

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Updates: Hehe, for more of the story, please refer to the commentary, but the main gist of it is, MCLoZ now has a banner for any site interested in posting it up.

Commentary: Went on the photoshop tutorials last night and learned how to make that kewl light effect you see in the background of the banner. It's a random "do whatever and see how it turns out" type thing. ^_^ I kinda invited my youngest sister along for the fun and we went to work creating a whole bunch of those nice effects. Rissa (as I'll call her on the site for now on) created that effect you see in the image and it was SO nice that I decided to use it to do the site banner and together we had fun both of us creating that. She actually had a lot of good ideas, but if I'm using too much TMC pictures, blame it on her. She thinks Link looks adorable. I was going to try to do something Twilight Princess-y but she protested. And the tiny unreadable text I sprinkled in... all her commentary. I think it turned out rather nice. ^_^ Either way, the sister time was probably far more valuable in the end.

Half of the credit for that banner goes out to my twelve year old sister, Rissa. She seems to be appearing more and more around the site, huh? She's still disappointed I'm not using her screenshot commentary in the gallery anymore. :\

Oh and anyways, today is clean up day. I'm going to go through and clean up a lot of images and stuff. You guys shouldn't notice anything but if you do... MagicFox made another stupid mistake. *sigh* LOL

Edit: You know an odd thought occurred to me that I had to share. If I ever had to leave the site... I wonder if Rissa would be interested in taking over. She's already expressed interest in doing one. ... Hrrrm... it's weird sometimes to think of what the future might hold.

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Updates: Ok, I think I have corrected my stupidity error. I checked pretty carefully but... obviously I'm human and can probably miss the obvious. If anyone finds any broken images, please TELL ME!! I still can't believe I did that.

Ok and back to our regularly scheduled programming, more box art has been added. Except... I do need to go through and in each description give credit to the person who gave it to me. I ... kinda got side tracked. I'll do that ASAP.

Commentary: Meh... unfortunately we humans must learn through error and now I know I will never do that again, nor try what I was attempting that lead me into the ftp files in the first place. *Sigh* Ok, I'm now going to walk away with my head bowed... a little bit wiser than I was before.

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Updates: You ever have one of those days? I was having some problems with uploading some of the new stuff today and had to go into the ftp files to answer a question. When I got there I noticed some strange... occurances. Stupid me... I went through and ended up deleting what seemed to be file name "copies". After dinner and returning a thought occurred to me and in the end. >_< I REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!!

The Image Gallery is temporarily offline while I go through and correct some rather egregious errors that my stupidity caused. o_O And I have no idea how the heck I'm going to correct this.

Commentary: *Sniffles* And ... I was going to have a rather nice update planned for tonight.... >_< d*mn my stupidity!!

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Updates: First, I have updated The Beta Zelda Files - Ocarina of Time section. Files 106 - 112 have been added. Enjoy! I know I did. I've never seen those before.

And then, I updated our Link to Us page. We now have the following buttons:




I also cleaned up that page and got rid of those less-than-adaquate buttons. Sure they were nice when MCLoZ was two years old but... I'm making the images now and they are much higher quality. Now I just need a banner for those that are interested in one....

Commentary: Yeah, obviously, I didn't make all those buttons in one night. I've been playing with them over the last several months just as a time-waster project. Tonight I got bored enough to put the finishing touches on all three of them (actually, there were five but I ditched the last two since I don't need THAT many buttons and... they weren't nearly as good). So, yeah. Enjoy. I really needed that mini-button, too, since I've been asked in the past if I had one and I know Zelda Connection had to sever one of my buttons down to size. ^_^ And I think it turned out so cute. I really loved it. Tried to carry the same idea to the second regular sized button... it turned out ok but not anywhere near as good. The mini-banner... actually, I started that one as a test ground to learn how to fade parts of images. It really needed a lot of cleaning, but yeah, I guess in the end it's not that artistic. LOL.

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Updates: ::Rolls up sleeves:: Ok, here we go. Let's get started with the updates. First, I would like to proudly welcome the grand return of one of the better site that existed on the net before a tragic accident. Please welcome Zelda Dimension back to our list of affiliates. It's great to see Henry back in action - and this time with the assisstance of his girlfriend, too. Good luck with everything!!

Cameos: Where's Mario? has been updated. ~ Zelda Secrets and Oddities - Peculiar Game Glitches: LttP/FS: "Super Scroll" by Jinkondorf and "Walk on Water Glitch" by Stryke. | MM: "Floating Massacre" by madyson | TWW: "The Oddness in the Moat" by Bish, "When Pigs Fly!" by Sarah, and "Falling Valoo" by Swordsgirl. ~ Link's Infinite List of Torture *Items 207-211 added by anonymous, Kathryne Vance, twilight king, Jonathan, and Sarah.

Commentary: And with that, I'm now all caught up on the majority of my mail and I now just have the Image Gallery to complete. w00t.

About that Cameos page... ever get the feeling that you really put a lot of work into something only to come out in the end that you prolly could have done a lot better? I've been getting that feeling quite a lot lately... *sigh*

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Updates: For today's update (which was suppose to be a lot longer), allow me to introduce to you a new affiliate. Please welcome ZeldaFront - RPG to the list of affiliates. I normally only allow sites but these guys have done a wonderful job and... exceptions were made.

Commentary: "Where's the beef?" *Sigh* Sorry guys, but hotmail seems to be down and conspiring against me. All of the Oddities and Torture Items get sent there to help keep my real mailbox neat clean and tidy. Been trying all morning hoping it would come back online, but nah. :\ Go figure. I finally get ambitious enough to tackle it. -_- The beta pictures and box art images are in there, too. So I can't even download those to get some work done on that.

Anyways, here's my Immediate To-Do List full of my next tackle items:
-Zelda Secrets and Oddities
-Link's Infinite List of Torture
-Cameos
-Box Art Images
-TBZF Images
-Finish Fan Art Gallery
-Clean the site*

What's "clean the site" mean? Well... now that I have TBZF files and the Fan Art Gallery up and all the game photos are now added.... the old galleries are still in the site's database. I'm going to go through them, and the files on my computer, and clean things up and free that disc space. Don't worry, in case something happens to the gallery, I'm only going to "move" the old files on my computer, so I'll still have them and they'll be ready to upload the moment something goes wrong.

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Updates: Huzzah! Sections 2 and 3 of the Majora's Mask walkthrough are UP. Yeah.

Commentary: Ohayoo gozaimasu.
Where have I been? Gone and stuff. Got called to unexpected trips. More than one in a row. This has never happened before, which is why it's odd. But that's okay, because in these trips, I've made money. I now have enough for a DS. Yeah!
. . . So, yeah. Anyone signed up for Camp Hyrule? Of course you haven't! Sign ups are from July 26 - July 28. Those are seriously odd sign up dates. Only three days to do it. My summer camp gave us, like, four or five months. o_O
I... have nothing else to say. So... see ya.

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Updates: And all the links have been updated on each of the gaming pages. All the screenshots, box art, and official art links now jump over to the gallery which is looking every so wonderful. <3

Now, to work on my not-so-wonderful mailbox. I'll get the main stuff up first and then try to get those images up into the gallery and finish the Fan Art gallery as well. Don't forget, folks. If you have any new Fan Art that you would like to add, just jump on over, create your own account, and load them up. ^_^ I know I would very much enjoy seeing them.

Commentary: Yeah, I couldn't sleep so I decided to waste the extra time doing a little piddly work around the site as well as get in some much-needed surfing time. You want to know when the last time was that I actually just surfed the net for "me"? *Sigh*

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Updates: Have you noticed? ^_^ I'm sure most of you have, but the delay in between updates on this page is not an indication that no part of the site has been updated. I've in fact been working extremely dilligently on getting all of the Image Gallery completed. I just uploaded the last of the Minish Cap pictures. XD The game pages are all done!! All I have left now is the fan comics and cosplay pictures but I'm not half as worried about those.

Commentary: I will now be working on updating all the game pages so that way they link to the gallery properly. After that T-T I need to tend to my e-mail box again. @_@ I think I even have a staff submittion in there that I never got up yet. *Sniffle* "DOJI mo aikyou to waratte." ^_~

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Updates: Not only have the Updates Archives been updated with all the news logs from June 2005, but the new Anime and Manga Reviews have been placed up. Yes, plural, because I have another Special Edition for you. July's Edition covers Vision of Escaflowne, while the Special Edition is a personaly favorite, Hikaru no Go, which seemed appropriate becase of its recent licensing by VIZ.

Commentary: ^_^ Yeah, I still have my sight. I'm fine. It was an interesting experience, though. They only lightly sedated me and told me that I would be a little coherant and could hear everything that was happening. I did fall asleep through about an hour of it (and it was only an hour and a half procedure. Still... it was wierd to be conscious for all that. I was a little scared at first but... ^_^ I guess my curiousity and the uniquness of the whole thing got the better of me. ::Shrugs:: It was fun, actually.

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