doing miserable on a mid-term, getting only three hours of sleep 
(Which would probably keep Hitomi running for DAYS), drinking five
bottles of 

HEY!!!

I'm human too you know and get tired like everyone else.

Yeah, just not as often.

First, most warriors in Japan belonged to two differing groups, the 
religious persons or the samurai.  The only people outside of this
were the Ninja which were composed of hinin.

[snip] :|


If he was a warrior, then his teeth would not shine.  A member of the 
samurai class blackened their teeth.

[snip] :/

Since when did women have nail polish in that period?  Also, the powder 
used on the face was white rice powder.

:(

  Sigh.  

  I, Bruce R. Brunk, do here by formally announce that my next
creative endever will _not_ be the sequel to Ninja Scroll (the tape is
currently lent to a friend, and I'm not going to try and spell the
real title by memory.)  that I had mentioned before.  Even if I hadn't
already decided that I didn't have the background to do a proper job
of it, this more then proves to me that I have no business writing
anything of that nature.

  Oh, I better add:  Hitomi, please don't take offense by the above
paragraph, nothing therein was directed towards you.  Probably
shouldn't even be writing this, but I read your note with in 15
minutes of calculating that the ~2000 posts I read and ~20 hours I
spent doing research for one component of a 9k long chapter netted me
1 or 2 names (one of which I already knew) and a set of initials.

  With productive research like that, I wonder how I'm ever going to
be able to do anything really serious.




Bruce

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| Bruce R. (just call me Ryoga) Brunk       | All those animals.            |
| Lake Oswego, Oregon                       | People eating Akane's cooking |
| Senior Systems Engineer, FEI America, Inc.| and liking it....   Something |
| brbrunk@agora.rdrop.com                   | weird is going on here!       |
| brbrunk@industrial.com                    | - Saotome Ranma               |
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