"UGH! It's cold! I hate cold things, like winter! And corpses!"
"What about corpses eating ice cream in the winter?"
"Ice cream's okay. But not if it's being eaten by corpses! Then it's like... Are you going to finish tha-- EW! YOU'RE A CORPSE!"
"Well, it's not like THEY have anything they can do with it."
"Do you like ice cream?"
"...yes..."
"YOU'RE A FUCKING ZOMBIE, AREN'T YOU?!"
"OH GODDAMMIT!"

I'd like to say I haven't posted for a while due to the state my computer chair has been in:



As you can see, it's quite unsittable. But okay, actually I've just gone into one of my extreme "introvert and produce stuff" phases. (In fact, the cat in question is curled up behind me in the chair right now, napping with her front paws on my foot. Awwww.) And I'm still kind of there - "Kirk adopts a homeless Vulcan" plotamari is now up to 44,000+ words (and I am having so much fun writing this, even if it's the exact opposite kind of fun from writing Ace Attorney fic) - but that just means I'll have stuff to post when I get back? I dunno.

Also Ginger goes back to the vet first thing in the morning, because the poor bun is still having sneezing fits so bad that she's waking me up several times a day. But she's still typically grouchy and energetic and has a great appetite, and isn't wheezing in the lungs anymore... that's something. And I have a picspam of cuteness to put together at some point.

At any rate, this morning before akatonbo went off to work, I had a weird thought pop into my head, and made the mistake of sharing it with her. As often happens, once it was shared, it just kept getting more and more wrong and hilarious, so I set my alarm and we took off after work to go hunt down what we needed for a really horrible doll story.

This is not that doll story; it's only the second most horrible idea we've ever had with them, which I actually had a while ago, but tonight we found the right stuff. :D

( Even Vulcans do not talk about it among themselves... )

• 22:03 Prevacid has gone OTC! Shock! Joy! I'm switching back from Prilosec tomorrow. #
• 22:05 Watching "Hairspray" makes me happy. #

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First Pidgin stops letting me into chats and now AIM keeps telling me "connection timed out"...and now Pidgin says I've been logging on/off too much and won't let me on for ten minutes.

...I'm not gonna ask what's next. I probably don't want to know.

So I was reading the NaNoWriMo forums, and someone was asking if there was free (creative writing) software for the Mac, and I was thinking "If you don't have more money than you need, why do you have a Mac in the first place?"

Disclaimer: All canon-based characters, situations, and plotlines are copyright to their original owners, creators, and designers. I make no profit, nor want any.
Title: Course of True Love: 69 of 100: Words
Word Count: 100
Romance: Yuuki Juudai x Johan Andersen
Genre: Romance
Challenge: ficlets100: Claim: Yuuki Juudai x Johan Andersen: prompt 003: wires
Rated: PG-13
Notes: These ficlets do not relate to each other in any kind of a way except for the fact that they're all about Juudai and Johan. Comments and criticism gratefully accepted.
Universe: Pretty much canon. A generic time in the future. Possibly future fic will come from this.
Summary: A hundred drabbles concerning the relationship of Yuuki Juudai x Johan Andersen.
( Rescue )

My day in Tweets:

• 23:25 Oh, ew. I won't be able to finish this story tonight like I was planning without some more information from the company's PR. #
• 08:55 MC Lars' "This Gigantic Robot Kills" is the JAM. #
• 10:11 Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story? Also the jam. (Today's secret word is "jam.") #
• 14:41 Today must be Ignore Matt day at PR firms nationwide. #
• 19:32 I seem to be having tremendous difficulty adjusting to my life-style. #
• 20:55 I accidentally bought @wilw's Just a Geek on the Kindle store. Did you know all Kindle purchases are one-click? I didn't! Damn you, Wheaton! #
• 20:55 (Yes, I am a gigantic goon and it is not even a little @wilw's fault. That said, now that I own it I quite look forward to reading it.) #

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Man, I didn't get any writing done today. Bah.

I have a paper due next week which I haven't even started...the other two I have worked on and at least have satisfied the length requirements, though they need to be edited for quality. And I have an edit to do on someone else's intro for a paper...guess I'll have to do that tomorrow.

I am boring! Boring!!

Frankly, though, although I berate myself for times when I am not self-disciplined--like tonight--overall I would rate my self-discipline level as being a little too high, actually. I got up at 5:30 this morning to go to the park for an hour and watch the sun come up. (Actually it was too early for real sunrise, but at least I got to see false dawn...) And yesterday I got up at 6:30 to do the same thing...so it's not as if I am an enervate blob.

All the time.

41143 / 50000 words. 82% done!

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What teamwork looks like in Dragon Age:

"Oh man. Somebody's going to have to go in there and lure that thing out."

Morrigan: Alistair
Alistair: Zevran
Zevran: Dog
Dog: GRR!

The dog is pretty amazing. I still have a couple of quibbles about this game, including one rather major WTF moment that I'm still waiting around to see if maybe it's a timing glitch or a plot point I can't yet access. Still, it's grown on me a bit.

You can go a long way toward saving a standard plot with a few fun characters.

Eating a lot of fresh beets will make your urine turn vaguely pink.

This is something you should be told before you eat a lot of fresh beets and then use the bathroom.

Hm. I think today I will sort out various LJ challenges that I want to write at some point in my life, and get started on cleaning out my tags list here and reworking them. I've noticed some of my tags are over the allowed character count and as I'm a bit fussy over that, I want to rework how I do them. I dislike seeing names and such cut off. I could probably just rename the tags, but I like doing a thorough housecleaning now and then.

I'm also behind on my Fics of the Day (eek!). I'll get caught up on those, and will continue them into December, but after December, no more. Not that there aren't wonderful fanfics out there, but I keep forgetting about it. That might be due to NaNo, but we'll see. If I can keep better track in December, then I'll consider the possibility of changing my mind.

Speaking of NaNo, I'm nearly done. I'm taking today off of it for brain resting purposes. I NaNo'd Saturday and worked on my White Ice Shadows yesterday, so the brain needs a bit of a rest. But tomorrow I shall charge forward with all cylinders blazing and cross the great mark of 50,000. Not that I will be done. I have a personal goal of 60,000 to reach. An average of ten six thousand word chapters. Tomorrow will be chapter eight, so after that, two more. And I have a very good idea of what will happen in each one. The first great arc of the story will be told. I want to finish before the end of November, so I can reread and see if anything needs editing before I begin to post it to FF.net, hopefully on December 1. I'm quite looking forward to seeing how this one is received, given that it's a concept I'm quite certain no one has ever done before.

Well...not quite like I'm doing it, anyway. Those of you who know what it is (It's a GX fanfic, for those who don't), know what I mean, or should.

So, I'm going to go delete my tags for my fanfics here and work on reorganizing them into a better fashion. I'm also working on editing my headers for fanfics to make them a little more streamlined if at all possible, and informative at the same time, if that should be possible as well.

And if I get a moment to breathe today, I'll watch some GX episodes. Doing another rewatch, currently in the Camula arc. It amuses me how people are flailing about how darkness is bad there, given the way the show ended up. It would've been nice if Juudai had been all "sure, some darkness is bad, like yours, Camula. But the dark is cool for sleeping in and you can have a fun scary duel in the dark, so it's not always bad." And then to top it off, beat her with some kind of darkness-based card somehow. Which is hard given that he doesn't have many. But maybe he could've done something like...oh, I dunno. Used Necro Darkman to Special Summon Edgeman. Maybe someday I'll rework that duel in that fashion.

I'd also like to redo Darkness's first duel in season one, so it isn't against Juudai, but Asuka. It would've been nice if she'd won, because it would have given meaning to her search for her brother, instead of making her a sideline sitter and having almost no effect on the overall plot.

I'd better not start ranting. I'm very good at ranting about how Asuka was useless during the entirety of GX except as window dressing. Not a damned thing she did couldn't have been done by someone else. I love her to pieces, but she was just badly used in canon. Poor girl.

Also, I think from now on, I'm going to put my gen_drabble fics just here and at gen_drabble, and not on FF.net. No need to clutter the place up, after all. I might also remove some of the previous gen_drabble that I've done, as well as some of the ficlets I did for 365drabbles from FF.net and keep them here only. Maybe I can pick that up again for 2010, and actually finish it. If I do, I'll just post them here and at 365drabbles, also not FF.net. Save FF.net for other postings.

*toddles off to hopefully get something or other done today*

Whee!! Farmers in the city, city folk out on the farm! Sooo much fun slashy potential!!!

Guh, if you have not, everyone must go read (or re-read) skylark97's awesome story Out to Pasture. So much love for Mason and Connor!! *____*

Plenty more stories to be written on the subject, though. Hop to, then post them here!!!

Good fences make good neighbors.

I had a GREAT weekend. /fistpump I really really needed it. I'm taking it as the brief calm before the unremitting ATTI IS A TREMENDOUS SUPER-BITCH STORM that is coming in the next few weeks. (I am actually preemptively apologizing to everyone I can think of for being ANGRY ALL THE TIME. Cause I know I will be, and I don't want to accidentally incinerate any gorge-crossing contraptions if I can help it.)

Saturday I went to the zoo with tsaiko and it was freaking awesome. We had a great time, most of the critters were out and about - even the orangutans were on the O Line! - and all in all it was quite fun. (Well, except for the fact that they had an open-caged exhibit on Orb Weavers in the Invertebrate house. sob why would you even. I eventually decided on some completely undignified flailing half-scamper in order to get past it and out the door.) There was a high preponderance of animals presenting butt, though. Or just face-planting in general.

And, I fell in love with the fat iguana above. He was totally passed out sleeping, using his neck bulges as a pillow, and if you look closely, his tongue is totally peeking out. I find that too adorable for words. ♥

Sunday...Sunday was good for other reasons. ( /knocks on wood )

Also, upshot of that stuff is that I am getting a mini extra payday, and I have decided that I am going to finally get my tattoo that I've been wanting as a YAY I DIDN'T SUCK treat, and also after that, possibly another commission. Assuming I can decide what I want. i am open to suggestions



Also, theladyfeylene, I totally had a dream wherein I went to your house and was peeking in your windows. After like several (dream) days of sitting in the bushes across the street and staring forlornly. WTF i do not even dreamstalker? o__O