( another piece of evidence )

in other news... i got my copy of wangan midnight: katou kazuki in blackbird.. and pati night 03... finally. XD

Ugh. My productivity has been so shot this week. XP People waiting on commissions, I promise I'll get to you soon! :<<< Time to get back on track.

Back's doing better, though! Medication's helping (even if it does make me sleepy sometimes).

******

A-also.... I hate to be an imposition, but... would anyone be willing to adopt me for Thanksgiving? 9^9 I don't have anywhere to go and I don't want to spend it aloooooone [whingewhinge]

Current Mood: worried

Today so far, I have:

- Lazed around with my cat lounging on my arm and being the cutest thing ever :'D
- Gone grocery shopping
-- Related: I got strawberry cream puffs :D
- Bought a random dude McDonald's
- Got to say hello to a very nice pitbull service dog
- HAD MY CAT SIT ON MY LAP OF HIS OWN FREE WILL FOR LIKE HALF AN HOUR this is amazing for him, because he likes being around me, but he's not really a lapcat \o/
- Found hibiscus soda, which I got three kinds of (plain, with lime, and with orange)
- Splurged a bit at Kinokuniya, but I found the Pandora Hearts artbook, so it took very little mental convincing for this; I had to reflect that it was very nice to be able to splurge without guilt :x
- I STILL HAVE TRIPLE BAKA STUCK IN MY HEAD. IT NEVER GOES AWAY. EVER. (I thought maybe Pygmalion would replace it, but no.)
- Not written a SINGLE THING ha ha ha ... hahhhhhhh ...
-- Related: I do have a story half-started, though, so maybe it'll actually get somewhere and I'll make count tonight :|a

Also damn, guys, the new sensei singing robot looks like he wandered off of the pages of all the bl manga I have been binging on this week. It's like candy of the very worst sort, filled with things that you know will make you feel queasy later, but you can't stop because there is something about it that is so compelling and then SUDDENLY IT'S HOURS LATER AND YOU ARE LIKE ?! HOW MUCH DID I ACTUALLY DO . . .

And I think I owe people uploads. IF I TOLD YOU I WOULD UPLOAD STUFF FOR YOU OVER THE PAST WEEK, NOW IS THE TIME TO TELL ME, BECAUSE I HAVE TOTALLY FORGOTTEN.

My arm is pinkish and kinda swollen right around where the flu shot went in yesterday, and it still hurts. Not nearly as much as a tetanus shot, though. But this morning I was in pain from my shoulder joint all the way down to the joints in my fingers. Wheefun!

Also today a doctory-type person came to our school because apparently the clinic or whatever that did the health check at our company meeting forgot to do part of it. So I had to leave my class - in the middle of teaching - to go into another room and lift up my shirt (I swear last year they were able to do this with my shirt still down) so he could check my breathing/heartbeat. And tell me that I'm fat.

Don't matter that he looked 90 years old, I felt like kicking him in the teeth.

and they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife
904 words
Hetalia
"They will know me or not by the strength of my life / I will burn with a light of my own / They will know me as Joan."

( and they won't call me mother, or sister, or wife )

Turns out I do not have a compressed disc! The doctor I saw today thinks that the pain I've been experiencing probably resulted from a pinched nerve in my spine, combined with the muscle strain I have that still hasn't quite healed. The pain has certainly lessened the last few days, so! Am still not back to normal, but am doing much better. :) Thank you to everyone who's been wishing me well, I really love you all. ♥

Also, not to be obnoxious, but I am still taking commissions! And still don't have another job, sad cries

Current Mood: relieved

There's a song with that line, too, and it's hideously catchy. :(

I am in that horrible place where I really want to write! but at the same time, everything I have to write is just ... not pinging me. :( I'm still excited for all of it, especially the yaoi_challenge pieces among the other things I have, but when I try to actually focus on them, my attention goes wandering and my brain decides to get lost on the road to coherency. Even really good ideas and suggestions barely seem to skim the level of my distraction; I would ask for prompts, but I'm afraid of dropping the ball because I would just putter out and be like :V instead. It feels a lot like when you have a horrible craving for one specific food, and while you can and do eat other stuff and you get full from it, it's not nearly as satisfying as getting what you actually wanted, only with the added dimension of WHAT IS IT DO I REALLY WANT, ANYWAY. Help, I have 2000 words to write tonight and NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT. ;o;

/whines

Man, I feel like I was going to make another point whenever I got around to posting again, but I've forgotten it entirely. Possibly it involved my cat.

- got my flu shot

- my partner and i had the exact same temperature when the clinic people made us take it before getting the shot - 35.5. apparently this means we are naka ii.

- now my arm is all pinchy and ouchy. i hope i can move it tomorrow.

- sent in ballots for kanjuni shows.

- it was rather vitally important that i get it done today, before the 13th.

- why? because years of playing baseball/fastpitch left me randomly superstitious.

- seriously. to this day i cannot touch the white lines on a ball field. and i avoid touching the lines when i walk across a gym, too.

- my arm really hurts.

- paid a bunch of my bills.

- being an adult is hard.

Current Mood: sleepy

To all American veterans, as well as those serving active duty: thank you.

To our friends in other nations who commemorate the 11th day of the 11th month as Armistice Day: let us hope we never again face such horrors as those that ended 91 years ago today.

Spent most of yesterday at the hospital, waiting; waiting to be seen at the ER, waiting to be seen by doctors, waiting for my prescriptions to be ready. The doctors think I have a compressed disk in my spine, and given how goddamn much it's hurt since mid-afternoon on Monday, I'm inclined to agree. :/ I won't know for sure till I see a primary care doctor and hopefully get X-rayed and/or MRI'd, but I've got an appointment set for Thursday, so here's hoping. [crosses fingers] In the meantime I've got lots of pain medication, at least. And music_enforcer and lunapome were so lovely, driving me to and from the hospital, keeping me company in the waiting room; and zinjadu came and kept me company when I came home and was completely wiped out, and when I woke up at 2:30 AM after 6 hours sleep I was able to hang out with wonderseal and laserdragon and achtung_baby cos they were still up. I have such awesome friends, you guys. ;___;

And now, since I expect to be wired for at least a little while longer, a meme! (My choices are somewhat limited because most of my books are out in the living room where people are sleeping, but oh well.)

- Take five books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

BOOK ONE
- He was facing Seventh Avenue, at Times Square.
- Rufus thought, But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you.
-"How did he look?"
-"He always looks that way."
-Then even his luggage belonged to him again, and he strode through the barriers, more high-hearted than he had ever been as a child, into that city which the people from heaven had made their home.

BOOK TWO
-King Gylfi was ruler in what is now called Sweden.
-Then Hermod rode back on his way and came to Asgard and told all the tidings he had seen and heard.
-Hreidmar took the otter-skin and announced to them that they were to fill the skin with red gold and then cover it entirely, and these were to be the terms of their settlement.
-Men who assess people's cases are called virdar [virda = to assess].
-May earth, stone-supported, first sink into the sea before the ruler's praise [cease].

BOOK THREE Guessed by llamrei (and quixotic)
-Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."
-What with the bruise on her cheek where he'd struck her the night before, she looked as if she'd been badly treated, and that worried him too—suppose some police officer should become curious?
-"I'm not a learned man, you can see that plain enough."
-"My respects to you and your tribe," Lee said.
-And Will looked from them to Lyra's rucksack and back again, and he didn't hear a word they said.

BOOK FOUR
-It began, as many things do, in a tavern: about eight o'clock on a Friday evening, in The Pot of Gold on Post-Hoc Lane in Simka.
-"If not there, to Professor Khan's room."
-As for Myoko, she did look tiny, even on the school's smallest quarter-horse, but she never had trouble controlling the animals she rode.
-As the duplicate had died, the real Dreamsinger had said, "I envy you."
-Laughing, Annah and I kissed . . . but I hoped we'd never be done with it, ever.

BOOK FIVE
-Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.
-Larry McLeod turned around and went straight back to town.
-Bonnie giggled and opened her arms.
-"Left the oil out of her one mornin' and burned the goddamn pistons right out of her."
-In the small clearing overlooking the power lines, the fire in the brush began to burn more strongly, urged by the autumn wind that blew from the west.

Current Mood: sore

- had the worst non-migraine headache today

- got to see vanessa and bryan again before they head home

- THEY CAUGHT THE GUY WHO KILLED THAT NOVA TEACHER TWO YEARS AGO

- AND HE WAS LIVING IN IBARAKI-SHI WTF

- so did not give it permission to rain today

- only eight kids in my class

- went to an awesome concert last night, for free (well, 500 yen for a drink)

- the older kids at work LOVE "here come the lions!!!"

- somewhere in the last couple of weeks i kinda stopped sleeping and eating much

- bought myself a harvest moon ds game from bookoff

- felt fairly articulate at my lesson today

- nearly puked twice walking to work this morning

- the bloc party concert that had been rescheduled (from May) to next week is now completely canceled

Current Mood: tired

I TOTALLY FORGOT TO MAKE THIS POST YESTERDAY. BUT YOU KNOW.

YOU GUYS, I HAVE A NEW LIFE PLAN.

Are you sitting, 'cause this is going to be something of a shock for those of you who've known me for a while.

Ready?

Ready?


I AM GOING TO MARRY NINO.


No, wait, hear me out. This is going to be perfect.


If I marry Nino, my boys who are obsessed with him will always be hanging around.

And Nino will be obsessed with playing his video games, so he won't notice me having an uwaki in the other room.

Also, as long as he got to buy new video games he wouldn't care what I bought.

IT IS A CUNNING PLAN.

A PLAN MORE CUNNING THAN THE ONE TO KIDNAP GO AND HAVE A NABE PARTY WITH TONISEN.

A CUNNING PLAN FULL OF... CUNNING.

Current Mood: amused

So the other night I dared enough_space to actually be awake within half an hour of me coming home from work; I promised her fic if she made it.

AND SO WAS WHAT WILL PROBABLY THE LEAST-POPULAR FIC IN 07-GHOST FANDOM WRITTEN. :'D Okay, I exaggerate a bit, but it is rather disheartening how much people don't like Ouka and Gyokuran and the others. I think they are amazing. :'( Based on a pet theory of #babydragon that Shuri is the fiance that Ouka mentions in passing when she's first introduced.

without, the thorns
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Gyokuran vets the princess' fiance. She is not terribly impressed.
SPOILERS through Kapitel 53

( without, the thorns )

Just got an email from Juniors with dates for KanJuni in the Shochikuza!

But the BOYS concerts are after I leave for the states! (T_T)

I am emo. So is Dots.


And why is there a Yuma w/7West set of concerts?

Current Mood: cold

Hey guys~ Commissions are coming along well; so well, in fact, that in the next couple weeks I expect to run out of commissions to do -- a prospect that fills me with much anxiety and concern, I have to be honest. :< So I am posting to say three things:

• First, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who's requested art; I'm so grateful and I've really been enjoying working on it. You guys rock.

• Second, if you are interested in commissioning a piece from me and have not yet done so, you can do so here.

• Third, if you have any suggestions as to how to better get the word out and advertise myself more, I'd love to hear it. I feel like my next step is going to be posting to a lot of fandom-specific communities advertising my services, but beyond that I'm not sure what else to do. So please do let me know if you have any suggestions!

♥

Current Mood: tired

So for reasons that I remain uncertain of, rather than work on anything continuous, today I decided I wanted to write Questionable Valentine Royal Family Fic.

Four drabbles, spoilers for Velvet's book as well as backstory revealed throughout the whole game. \m/

( I sort of feel like King Valentine is warning enough sometimes )

* was visiting through some kazuki fan blogs... it looks like he'll be a regular on an upcoming drama "indigo no yoru" (indigo night), starting 1/4. this was apparently revealed in the december edition of "cinema square". (his official blog only says to check him out in that edition, but doesn't specifically state his new job.)

* myu boys whose blogs i loved translating at least an entry or two for in the past: katou kazuki, kiriyama renn, shiozaki airu. special mentions: wada masato, shindo gaku. blog i liked translating least: nakagauchi masataka. (go figure... the funny thing is, i worked on at least 3 months' straight of his entries.)

* car got towed last night from apartment parking lot, because my parking permit was not visible... it was SO difficult to get it back. i also had to wake my mom and sister up at midnight my time, since the car is registered under my mom and they're all out east right now. so, yeah, we essentially spent an hour just driving around and then waiting. i am ever so grateful to matt for coming to my rescue.

* my team at work (the IT department) dressed up as the characters from the Clue game (and some other extra characters that may be involved) and made a game out of it. we dressed up; all of the places we sat in was labeled with the names of the Clue rooms (so they could find us); some of us decorated our rooms accordingly; we distributed clues among ourselves... and randomly drew a game participant out of a hat to award a prize to... pics later. although i have one of our group pics up on facebook. :) when i got home, a few friends came by and we played Clue. XD

* it's starting to get pretty cold... but i'm still surviving with sweatshirt and pj's. let's see how long i can hold out before turning on the heater. XD

* how did i spend halloween? i sat at home, scouring the intarwebs and reading random stuff. then i freaked out with the first doorbell ring (i do not like to open doors when i am home by myself and i'm not expecting somebody specifically). eventually, i turned off the lights upstairs.. then slipped down the steps. so to add to my aching back, i have an aching wrist and an aching tailbone. switching from standing->sitting and reverse... hurts. XD

* is it weird how something i greatly disapprove of in real life.. is something that i find interesting to read about in manga? specifically, student-teacher relationships. guilty pleasure, you could say. ^^;

* i started crocheting something.. only to find out that one of the materials i need to be able to complete the project is not available for sale... anywhere. blargh. it's a good thing i didn't get too far. but now i have another pound of yarn that i need to do something with. (i already have about 30lbs in my closet.)

* i haven't finished watching kamen rider decade yet... isn't that shameful? whereas, chibi_ginn, who i have finally suckered into watching a few kr series has finished it and is now watching w. (i dropped off when i decided that it was time for me to start reading the books i've been buying for the last 2 years XD)

* i'm considering signing up to take the jlpt again sometime, to give myself some motivation to cram on japanese studies again. it's gonna be bad if i fail lvl2 next time, when i've already passed it. haha. ;___; or maybe i should just start reading japanese newspapers... cuz a lot of the kanji, vocab, and grammar i had to learn to level myself up to the test are not ones i would normally encounter by reading manga, interviews, blogs, etc, or watching drama.

have more thoughts running, but i think i'll end here for now. :)

Case in point: I normally log into work as soon as I get in and my computer is booted up! TODAY, FOR SOME REASON, I DID NOT! And as a result it was something like 9:30 (a good forty minutes after I'm in at work) and I happen to rewindow in my tabs--and oh! Hey! GUESS WHAT I HAD NOT DONE. And we can't edit our time cards, a manager has to do that, and mine's in training today--so I shoot off a quick email and am like fffff, self, you're brilliant. /o\ Luckily, I guess she had a break where she could access her email, so she fixed it for me, but. Man. :( I have never made that mistake ever, and hopefully won't make it again. ;o;

In other news, I think I have figured out what it is that always bothers me so much, the first few times I try to write fic for a new fandom: I am so bad at figuring out where to set things. :( I mean, original fiction, it's cool! It's my world and my characters, I can handwave and say it happened in the year 200X and adjust things to suit my tastes. BUT IN FANFIC! Man, I think recently I have been sort of self-conscious about writing character pieces set in the middle of a scene, which is sad, because that is something I think I am good at! It is a style and a pacing and a thingy that I am good at see how eloquent I am, durhurr! But. I sort of feel like I want to expand, and do more things that have--plots? Do stuff that stands a bit more independantly alone? BUT THEN WHERE IS PLACE. Once I'm more comfortable in a fandom, it's relatively easy to handwave places, especially when the canon itself allows for openings--but even then, it takes me a bit to get adjusted.

It's weird, because in some cases it is a matter of the character voices or the style of the narrative or any number of things--but I think it ultimately boils down to "where do I put this? does it happen before X, after Y, or can I appropriately handwave it off at Z? WHAT AM I EVEN DOING." Then there's the whole "I want to write X, but I'm pretty sure it would only have the chance to happen BEFORE the series began, but we don't have enough backstory for me to really have anything to go with, just a gut feeling and niggling inspiration." I AM LOOKING AT YOU, AYANAMI/LAB.

While I'm at it, fffff I need to start working on pacing more. Dear self, stop skipping ahead and not fleshing things out; just because things are laid out in detail in your head does not mean that the people reading can fill in the gaps. :(

NaNo wordcount stands at roughly 6050, which I am satisfied with thus far. Write or Die is my glorious, glorious friend. Especially the desktop version, where my WPM is a lot more dismal than my general typing WPM, but is still cool to look at! NEXT GOAL IS TO GET IT UP TO AT LEAST 40.

Also what is with this gorgeous, gorgeous weather we've had lately. PLEASE TO BE STAYING THIS WAY, SEATTLE! You can rain at night and be beautiful in the day, I am totally fine with this.

Also also x2: I have this sudden urge for drama CDs with Fukuyama Jun in them. I have the 07-Ghost ones, but I have no BL ones and then NOTHING ELSE. This is a tragedy! If anyone has others, I hope they will have pity on me and share. :(