Poor Claudia, what a terrible day. I'm always losing things too, I know how frustrating it is.  But you did find it, that's the important thing!  And your cousin won't still be mad at you!

Learn from Betty Draper's mistake: you find the couch first, then design the room around it.

My ancestors haven't stopped moving since immigrating a hundred years ago, so we don't have a home province yet.  We're a fickle bunch.  In the meantime, my home province is my always faithful fainting couch.  Its theme song is the Mahna Mahna song.

You have such a big heart to watch over that poor girl!  I hope she learns to fit in better and makes some friends to play with.  The only good thing about school is being with friends!  (Don't tell Janine I said that.)

You are friends now with the girl!  That makes me so happy to know!  I remember you saying once before she gave you a big smile. Its totally true you would be the best senpai for her ever!  Is it something that has to be arranged or can you just sort of be her senpai?  Do you think she has one already?  It sounds like…

I'm glad your friend is feeling better.  Was it Mrs Grin who yelled at her?

Oh no, that's terrible, I don't like to hear things like that.  Is she feeling better now?  I hope you were able to help her feel better.

Trouble girl won national awards!!  I am so glad to hear that!  Was this during a ceremony?  Did you see her smiling?  Its such a relief to think of something good happening to her!  I read about senpai and kohai because its a new concept for me.  I think its a really good idea, but I can see how mean people would…

That would be me, I'm moderating here now.  I don't have time to read every post, so I'm just doing random stops.  I didn't single you out because of the sinister eyepatch, I want you to know that.  Totally random.

Caipirinha, you have to see the Clint Eastwood segment in The Witches!

Claudia, is this the holiday where you invite ghosts into your home?  I just heard about that!  On this interview for Kuroneko, this guy said that the studios in Japan always showed ghost movies in summer because of this holiday.  I was going to ask you about it!  I wish we had a holiday like that here.  I hope you…

Sempai are the older students, right?  Yes, they really should know by now that this poor girl needs particular attention.  What if there was a real emergency?  I wish she was in your class so you could watch out for her all the time.

Not a tropical storm so early!  Now I'm going to worry about you! Is this why you had a disaster drill, because of the storm?  I'm glad your school is well prepared, but not if they make you go out in a storm just so you don't miss school! If they really want you to be safe they'll let you stay at home! And Mr. Helmet…

What does moderated comments mean?  Is something going to happen when I click POST?  I'm scared to do it now!  But I kind of remember long ago getting a weird message once that a post had to cleared by a moderator or something?  It might be a Disqus glitch! But I'm still nervous about hitting POST!

Souvenir chocolate is pretty serious, I think.  To bring you chocolates from far away?  It means he was thinking of you from far away!  Oh oh.  You might have to arrange for EB to meet you at your class and plant a big kiss on EB right there in front of everyone to make sure everyone knows you have already chosen your…

R MUTT! I had to look at that for a moment before I got it!

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition must be the best example of this.

It was!  But mostly it was tragic and sad.  The actor playing the mother also played the mother in Onibaba.  In both movies she killed samurai, although in this one it was for revenge, the last one it was for survival.  Oh, and the director was her husband!

Well, I won't ask about the family situation again unless you tell me about it because I don't want to interfere with personal things between you and your cousin.  I'm glad to know you and her have gotten so close! Before you arrived the first time to stay with her, had you known her very well?

BEATCOCO.  That's the greatest thing I've ever heard! Claudia, you need to make a Beatcoco portfolio immediately and present it to Armani!  YES, this is the future!  And mixing 20s and 60s is a great idea, too!  I have noticed how similar a lot of fashion from those two decades are, they'd be ideal to mix!  Like,…