in ur tank. eetin ur fishes.

So, had my H1N1 vaccine today - gotta love being on the priority list! Of the dozen or so needles I've had stuck in me over the last month, it was the least painful. In fact, I hardly felt it at all. Good, yeah?

Except now my arm is hurting like a really hurty thing. Ow.


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Anyways, on to the topic: I'm not doing Nano this year, due to extreme cases of FAIL in recent years, but my system rebels at the idea of not doing insane amounts of crappy writing in November. It just feels wrong. So I've made a commitment to write 50000 words put together by the 30th. Yesterday I split the words between a DS9 AU I've been wanting to write for years, and a Torchwood/Dark Is Rising crossover I've been wanting to write for years. I highly doubt that either of these will ever be completed.

The point? I would much like prompts/requests. As many as possible, please - don't worry about giving me too many. Anything that's half-decent I'll edit and post as Xmas fics, the other stuff I may or may not post raw depending on how embarrassingly terrible it is.


Also? cheloya: Please let me know what you would like specifically for your birthday fic.


Once again, f-listers: If you would be so kind, please please please give me some prompts to work with. I'd appreciate it ever so much!

Saw this on the wall outside my apartment today.



So adorable. And also creepy. But mostly adorable.


Little ears! Fuzzy fuzzies! Itty bitty toeses!

This meme's been going around recently. II Week is September 14-20th.

( 30 Things About My Invisible Illness You May Not Know )

I had about an hour of huge energy and feel-goodness today. Then it went away and I was tired.



PS: cheloya? I'm still sticking to one volume a night, so there. :P

Things done today:

- Bought textbooks (blech! expensive.)
- Cleaned out car
- Removed tangle from cat (wore rubber gloves for that)
- Took eleven(!) boxes out of my room & to the recycling.
- Sorted old textbooks into 'sell now'/'sell later'/donate/keep
- Listed ISBNs of all 'sell later' books on college website
- Spent 2 hours reorganizing books & DVDs


Tired now. Tomorrow is work, but possibly after that I will clean out my closet. Possibly.

Seriously, what the fuck? SNOW!? Freaking SNOW!? It's April! We've had sunshiny semi-warmness for over a week straight! And yet, come April 1st, we get SNOW!?

. . . this is an April Fool's joke from the Planet Earth, isn't it?

*grumbles*

I mean, even in the Yukon we hardly ever got snow into April.


I wanna be waaaaaaaarm!

Started going to karate again tonight, after being away for five freaking years. The result? PAIN. Had to walk home in the cold nasty darkness with wet hair from all the sweating and that was unpleasant. I ran a hot bath to help stave off tomorrow's inevitable stiffness, and dropped in a bath bomb from Lush. yuuuuuum. Read a bit of Mind Fuck while I relaxed (I have two copies, one good copy, and one for bathes and bus trips and other book-damaging things so that I can read it whenever/wherever the fuck I want, thank you very much.) I always, ALWAYS forget how freaking amazingly well done it is and how much I love it. I didn't even get to the sexy bit, and it still gave me the happies. After getting out of the tub, I had some frozen yogurt. :D



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Of course, none of this compares to the fact that my own little fuckingdarling uke, aka cheloya, got her paws on a copy of Corambis a whole week early. (>_<) Death, death to you!

I think I'm going to go off and rant for a little while.

Oh my god, I slept for 17 hours straight and my head is all spinny-spinny.

Louis-Bear,

I don't *want* to go to sleep right now. I want to stay awake another 3 or 4 hours, sleep through my classes, and ignore reality. I really don't want to wake up early to finish the assignments I've put off, even though I had a three day weekend to work on them. I fucking hate that I'm so weak-willed that I can't force myself to do a 30-minute assignment until 20 minutes before class starts. I want to be able to sleep when I'm tired, and not have to drug myself insensate on pills to get to sleep at a "decent hour" so I can actually wake up in the morning and get to school. I don't want to have to keep a calendar of what pills I take on what nights and how many, just so I don't get addicted. I want someone to nag me in the morning and force me to get up, so I go even when I've only had an hour's sleep so I don't miss so many classes by sleeping in. I want to sleep for as long as I'm tired, and stay awake for as long as I'm not; screw the 24-hour diurnal cycle of planet Earth. 28 hours would be way more appropriate. It's almost one in the morning, and I'm in a bad mood.

Goodnight, Louis-Bear. You're missing a ribbon, did you know? It's okay. I still love you best.

This week:

Dishwasher broke.
Roommate whined a bunch about it.
FQ fixed dishwasher herself!! *cue amazement and applause*

Otherwise, not much happened. Slow week. Played some video games - Phoenix Wright II, Harvest Moon TOT, and Dokapon Kingdom. Sick on Monday; took the afternoon off. Presentation on Wednesday, which I royally screwed up. Read a bit of FEWL; am trying to pace myself so it lasts longer. Tried and failed to get a job.

I am completely frozen right now. When will it be summer?

Friday was a good day

- I read the second half of Swordspoint. (utterly awesome, btw, and my uke has redeemed herself)

- I finally finally got my hands on Phoenix Wright: Justice For All

- I got a Keurig Elite B40 Single-cup coffee maker.(1) It shall live in my room and it shall be my pretty and I shall have warm beverages when I am semi-nekkid and there are people home. :3

- I went to see my grandparents! <3<3<3(Still there now, on their clunky old PC) Gramma and I are going to see a play today.



(1): It also makes tea, and I can fill a reusable K-Cup with my own loose leaf teas and have yumminess available at any time. I only have hot cocoa right now, though.

So, as of today:


:: Wrist is still fucked - no more sewing for me!
:: Lamp is still broken - don't walk near the window!
:: Outside is still freezing - FAIL of all FAILs.




cheloya:
Last night you asked what time it was that we were both getting to ready to sleep at the same time.

Well, you asked that at 4:15am.

FQ <---- FAIL at proper sleeping habits

Still haven't cleaned up the glass, am just avoiding that section of my bedroom. It is now significantly darker, what with that whole sunset thing we have going on, and so I had to put down my book. (I was rereading Volume 5 of From Eroica With Love, which is campy and hilarious and omgtheirloveissoforever.)


I need to buy small binders and lots of lined paper. Last semester my schedule was such that I used large binders instead. And pens! My favouritist, bestest-working pen is, alas, out of ink.


Skipped the doctor's appt today, on account of being lazy.

So. Today's Friday. I have no classes on Friday. I can sleep in on Friday.

So why did I wake up at six in the morning?

OH, RIGHT. I kicked over my floorlamp in my sleep and was woken by the sound of shattering glass.

*grumps grouchily*


Also, now I have no light but that of day and my MacBook.

IT IS DARK IN MY ROOM NOW, AND I AM SAD.

Somehow, November always puts the blogging part of my soul into a coma. Go figure.

Anyways, I'm alive now. Totally failed at Nano, btw. *sadface*


cheloya: Presents mailed about a week ago by air mail, should hopefully arrive before Christmas. Try not to look at the customs form or the surprise will be spoiled. ;)


Now, drumroll please . . . there is, for the first time ever, a very real possibility of me getting a non-aquatic pet! *cheer* Need to get a job first, tho.


Been at the parents' for the last week-ish . . . forcing mum to watch Doctor Who with me. Also, painting. Roommate wanted a painting for xmas, which was seriously irritating, as I do my art in the kitchen and thus could not hide anything from her.

Finally going home tomorrow, yay. (I was originally getting a ride on Saturday, then Monday, then Tuesday, and now, finally for sure, Wednesday.) I miss my stuff.

We interrupt this month of being a zombie to bring you this public service announcement:

My BPAL came in! I got a bunch of imps to sample.

Alice
Aeval
Belle Vinu
Bordello
Dorian
Dragon’s Milk
Faustus
Morocco
O
Scherezade
Scarecrow
Sea Foams Blood
Tenochtitlan
Scherezade
Serpents With Glittering Eyes & Forky Tongues
Wanton
Witch’s Garden


(4 of these were free surprises! Aeval, Faustus, Tenochtitlan, Wanton)


I tested Alice yesterday . . . result: super-sad!face. It turned to baby powder on my skin.

Dorian & Belle Vinu were pretty awesome, though!



We now return to your regularly scheduled Zombie!month, accompanied by furious attempts to finish the Nano on time.

DUDEZ. SRSLY. I HAZ A CLONE.

No really. One of my local nano-peoples.

IS MY FREAKING CLONE.

omg!omg!omg!omg!omg!

Also, I am going to a drunken halloween party and thus will not be able to start at midnight. T_T



. . . Alternatively, I could start at midnight, and see what happens. E & gang would probably be Not Very Impressed, unless they're all passed out drunk by then, but it could result in Some Amusing Prose.


Note to self: bring Moleskin to party. Also, remember to buy booze.


There's something wrong with me, that I would rather stay home and wait around for midnight to come than go out to a party and have fun with my friends.

Quick - what/who should I be for Halloween?

Yay! IS TWENTY-ONE!!!! This is like Christmas, except that IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!



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WTF happened to my layout? SERIOUSLY, WTF!!!??? I didn't even change anything! >_<


ETA: Phew, all better now. That was freaky.