GUYS. If you read Tsubasa and are marginally interested in Kurogane/Fai, you need to check out hang_nga_79's SUMMER CONTEST. ♥ HG never does anything halfway so there are literally dozens of prizes and categories and drawings and all around awesomeness. There is a website to make for easier browsing of the rules and possible ways to enter. This is a top-notch contest and I would highly recommend entering if you're a fan of that particular pairing. I'm actually going to be entering a contest piece myself ((I'm taking the plunge, songofthehawk!)). This will be the first time I've written anything lengthy for the fandom. NOTHING LIKE A LITTLE PRESSURE. Join me? ★

And you know what, I just thought of a title for it. Good gracious.

FYI - There will be no third part to the APOCALYPTIC!NejiTen. I started writing it but I really liked where the second part (which is really the first part) ended, so I think I'm going to stop while I'm ahead. I might eventually finish what I've written already and just make it a one-shot unto itself.

Also, some of you might like to hear that I finally talked to my mom about how hung up I still am about the situation with my sister. My mom recently had a very revealing family discussion with my dad's side of the family and they sorted some things out that he and my stepmom had been repressing for awhile. So she asked me how she could make things better between Jennifer and I ( and I promptly burst into tears. )

More Rome discs are on their way to my mailbox. I think it's time to start posting my thoughts!

Soooo right. We were watching random tv shows when I get up because I thought I smelled something burning. This happens to me a lot, I'm paranoid about fire and I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night because I think I smell something burning. Colour me all kinds of shocked, though because when I lean out our window I see FIRE. Huge friggin' flames and aaaah. @_@ At first I thought it was a car D: Which would have been bad. Turns out it was a dumpster.

We called the fire department, heard people out on the street yelling "OMG CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT" and general craziness. Then we decided to make a little video of what was happening.

Enjoy~


Fire! from dancing dropbear on Vimeo.
(If video skips, pause and let it load completely before watching)

I haven't slept since yesterday. Maybe I can finally sleep now if I tried?

I just made my first icon in adobe photoshop

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lesbiassparrow, you HAVE to watch this. It's perfect.

Here's a rundown of episode one. So many great things happen in this show. Episode one alone has two epic medical emergency moments! It's like someone took House MD, got rid of the screenwriters and hired trained monkeys to write the scripts instead, and then made it all... Japanese. That last factor alone guarantees a certain measure of bizarre awesomeness that only the Japanese can bring. Plus bogus medicine, the best crack of all. The show even does that cg graphic thing where it illustrates the symptoms/failing organs like in House. Only here it looks like human innards are made of plasticine.

( The Medical Dragon has ARRIVED. )

• 04:44 nrrgh. can't sleep due to pain. waiting for meds to kick in. this blows. #
• 07:17 DLing more stuff for Unit 01. More videos and finding my other music stuff to restore. #
• 08:51 Putting torchwood S2 eps on now. Yay. :3 #
• 08:57 FUCK YES I FOUND MY TORNADO TATSUMAKI ALBUMS. THIS IS A HAPPY DAY INDEED!! #
• 09:01 AND MY BICE STUFF. HOLY CRAP WOW #
• 09:27 man, I didn't know I had so many hidden music treasures on my backup DVDs. This is so awesome. #

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Her name is Pretzel!!

もういい。

痛み病がもうたくさん。

引越しもたくさん。

家族の中に、サッポトが全然ない。パラサイトシングルになったから。

あたしの価値がなんだろう。ないかもしれない。まあ、その感じがしてるんだ。価値がない。この体が動けない。あたしが今、心しかないものになったんだ。人間あるまい、このあたし。痛み病からもらった生活はもうたくさん。もういい。


そう。あたしは価値がなくしたものになったんだ。

Whoa, Kaneshiro Takeshi is going to play Zhuge Liang in a new John Woo film about the Battle of the Red Cliffs??? (also, Tony Leung is in it apparently XD)

Apparently it's being released this week in Asia and I had no idea.

I must see this movie. o___________O

Progress update Gamecenter CX

I'll cut this in case there are people like me out there who consider knowing in-game challenges and cheats before unlocking and playing them themselves to be spoilers.

( トーヴェの運命は…？ )

ROFL

So I went shopping for clothes today with ebc's mom, and I was supposed to look for a new warm hoodie and a new pair of pants. And what did I get?? A t-shirt and two pairs of underwear!! XD What the heck is wrong with me!! They were cheap, though... :3 But still! I need warm clothes because I didn't pack enough warm clothes for coming here. Oh well. I'll manage... Even if I've been now wearing old and weary sweatpants because my jeans are in the laundry XD ROFL (They're the Adidas pants that I got from Sara when I was like 12, so they're second-hand and a decade old)

Man I'm so stupid... They even had this offer, two for 25 dollars, for these woollen hoodies... But I didn't like them because I felt that they were too short (I mean that they barely reached the waist, and I like mine covered)... But if I wasn't so picky, right now I could be sporting a pink hoodie... I'm so stupid... LOL

Anyway that's enough babbling about shopping :3

1) Am I the only one who finds the poster for Maou really hilarious? Every time I see it on my flist I start laughing.

2) Code Blue episode one is out. I want to watch it but I am so lazy to download. Refer to #3.

3) I also want to watch beyond episode 1 of IRYU: TEAM MEDICAL DRAGON but I can't!!! My problem is I have all these dramas and shows on my hard drive in a million pieces but I can't join them because I don't have enough drive space.

4) I think I'll wait for Osen to be subbed completely before continuing with it. Again, this is indirectly because of #3.

5) Iguana no Musume: AGAIN, NOT ENOUGH DRIVE SPACE FOILS MY EVERY MOVE AND DESIRE. ANGST.

Don't you all wish, like I do, that dramas would be released in a more regular file size? Most american tv rips are on average 350mb an episode. I feel that is a decent enough size to maintain reasonable quality for something that is about 40 minutes long - which is approximately the length of one jdrama episode, anyway. I don't understaaaaand. Why the crazy need for 1~gig avi files? *grumbles*

Title: Umbrage
Pairing: Ayumu/Hiyono
Fandom: Spiral Anime (no spoilers, really)
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Spiral is not mine.
Summary: An unprecedented Hunter viciously attacks the Blade Children, leaving Hiyono hospitalized for a gunshot wound and Ayumu furious.
Notes: I don't know if this even makes sense... it's been so long since I watched the anime that I really need a refresher. If anyone is wildly out of character you are allowed to pelt me with rotten fruit.

( but how I wish it was your temper you were throwing/ damn you for being so easygoing )

NEW FANDOM. ♥ I promised hang_nga_79 a "Zero feeds from Kaname" scene ages ago and I have finally delivered! And please note that it's not really Zero/Kaname in the way we usually think. It's basically HATE!feeding because, honestly, they despise each other but there are definitely hints of the pairing if that's what you're looking for. It's ambiguous for just that reason. ((Because, admit it, you know it would be hot.))

Title: Listen and Submit, My Servant
Series: Vampire Knight
Pairings/Characters: Zero/Kaname, Zero & Kaname
Word Count: 796
Rated: PG-13

( I would kill you, but Yuuki would be sad and I protect her, always. )

I just heard about Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu Na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~ and this was quite a pleasant surprise. Y'all may have heard of Someday's Dreamers, this looks to be a spinoff/sequel show that is OH SO PRETTY. Guess I'll start back up on regularly watching anime.

This weekend was marked by a wedding (hurray!) and company and lots and lots of good conversation with Yuki. There are so many things to love about this relationship, including but not limited to the ability to have conversations where we can be fully honest with each other and not feel horrible about it. This relationship continues to be so breath-takingly right. I'm so very, very lucky.

Saturday saw Anne get married to her boy from college. They both looked so incredibly happy it was wonderful to see and be there, and the reception was fun. I saw lots of people I haven't seen in a while. Additionally, it spurred some conversation and thinking for me and these are always good things. I was on dress-fixing duty for most of the evening (the bustle just wouldn't stay up) but it was all good and everyone was very happy.

Sunday was into the city with Kara and her boy to walk around for a bit before the airport. I found a wonderful little herb store that I'll have to go back to, although I miss Mystickal Voyage. I'm on a quest to find one of those incense burners (the spiral one) and the powder that goes with them. I'll resort to ordering online if I have to, but I really wish I could find someplace locally so I could smell the incense. Either that, or a trip back to MD, but that seems somewhat less likely. The herb store did have a good selection of tarot cards, though. All of this jumps back to my need to look at priorities and set them and find that happy balance.

And dammit, I will. This week. Plus I will also accomplish things in lab. I feel better already for having sorted through the scientific papers I have on the computer, although I need to finish getting all of the citations into EndNote, etc. I have a naming system now too, that will help me keep track of those pesky papers. This is a wonderful thing. The feeling of making forward progress is a good one.

Yuki is also one of the most wonderful people I have ever met. I don't think I can say that enough. Seven months and the only bit that's worn off is the complete and utter disregard for reality - all of the happiness and smiling and ability to talk and be silly and spend time together easily is still there. Love is truly a wonderful and amazing thing. I'm very thankful I've found it.

Oh Gamecenter, why do you hurt me so? XD

I've briefly mentioned Gamecenter here before, but now I want to talk about it again. Gamecenter CX is a Japanese TV show where a guy (Arino) is challenged to play (often ridiculously hard) games. Most of them for the original Nintendo, though he has done challenges on the Xbox and PS2 (among others) as well.

It may not sound like a lot of fun watching some poor guy struggle his way through retro games, but you start to really feel for him. Especially when he loses his last life on a boss he's tried to beat 30 times in a row (and consequently has to start the game all over again 8D). It's a mess trying to find Gamecenter videos on youtube, but there is one user who seems to upload full episodes... it's just difficult trying to piece them together @_@; Here's the start of Arino's Super Mario World challenge (with a look back on his previous Mario challenges). Just to give all of you a taste of the show.

In 2007, Gamecenter made their own game. For the DS. It's a brilliant little game. In it, Arino is the one giving you challenges. The game is filled with retro game clones/parodies and Arino will give you silly challenges for them. Things like "Score 50000 points here to move on to the next challenge", "clear the first stage without using your shuriken", "do the first race without drifting" etc, etc. I played this game all day yesterday @_@; When you're tired of doing challenges, you can also play the retro games just.. as regular games. I managed to actually beat one of them. Ahahahha XD



( Pictures and more game babble... )

In other news~ I'll be seeing Kaizers Orchestra live again 8D This Friday, in Ålesund. Ahahaha, we're set to leave on Thursday, we'll order tickets tonight and go pick them up tomorrow. Iiiih, I am excited. I also hope Ålesund will shine with perfect weather all Friday long, since they're doing the show outdoors. Whaaaa~

Okay I know I just posted but I realized if I don't write this shit down I'll forget it all. So here we go.

( AX '08 )

HOLY SHIT DOCTOR WHO FINALE

Will update this entry when I'm more coherent (and after watching the confidential episode for it).