practicality

To whoever keeps putting gum in my hair in second period English - could you switch flavors, please? Peppermint is getting boring.

I actually meant to do this meme the first time I saw it on Julie's LJ a few months back, but oh well, round two works too!

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:

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[Voice]
[There's some scuffling sort of noises - it sounds like the recorder has been turned on by accident by someone fidgeting around with it. There's the voice of a teenage boy - it sounds like he's muttering to himself]

...This place...what is it? There's so much machina here...

Hmmm....Al Bhed? But it's so cold...
[There's some more sounds of someone walking around and examining things before the audio feed times out]

[Locked to Sheska]

I forgot to ask you on Friday night - when did you want to start training? I haven't seen the brat Yuffie around lately, but if you'd like her to come as well, you're welcome to get in touch with her.

I am probably spending way to much brain-energy this week on creating steampunk!Rufus for The Sky Tides, although it has given me more info to add to my vast store of utterly useless facts. A symptom of this is that while I am usually not really into the 18th/19th century harlequin romance heroes, there's something about the mental image of Rufus horseback riding - 19th century clothes, tall riding boots, jacket off, shirt sleeves rolled up slightly - that's really incredibly hot.

Anyway. As a distraction from my shallow fangirling, have hilarious goldfish. I literally laughed for like two minutes straight.

Also, I just have say this - 18th century lit and the lack of standardized capitalization blows. Trying to read sentences where half the nouns are capitalized is really hard - it totally messes up all my visual sentence break cues.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I uploaded this a few days ago and never posted it. Have some sweet Rufus-appropriate house techno: David Guetta - The World is Mine

Another year of surviving - though this one was a bit more interesting than most. And twenty years a Turk, now. I suppose that should be a terrifying thought, but it's more a way of life than a job.

Suit sewing is a go - I have two weeks before I have to start in on term papers, so I am using them to my cosplay advantage. I am already sick of welt pockets, but ah well. I will be able to add suits to the list of 'sewing projects I could do in my sleep' (other entries - hakama, kimono, and vests) after this, I think. Ced and I have been scheming recruitment and photoshoots, which is always fun, although it's all still planning right now.

Related to that, more Case of Shinra is up - there's canon confirmation for two fanon assumptions (Rufus's mother's death, and the Turks helping evacuate Midgar), evidence for my 'President Shinra is less of a dick than we thought' theory (he uses his son's birthday as his passcode for everything), and Tseng in a Hawaiian shirt. I am kind of loving it.

And not at all related to that, I put up Halloween photos - they're here, I'm too lazy to embed right now.

I made a pretty layout! Code taken thrashmetal and tweaked to fit my needs~ Was getting tired of the default on DW and my ancient (read: I made it in 2006) Vergil layout on LJ was well past it's prime.

Things That Are Awesome
-Midterms! Are! Done!
-Chocolate fudge for the party tomorrow is actually appropriately fudgey
-Halloween = I finally have things for Clow to do in Desai
-Finding a stuffed black panther at Value Village for $3. It will become my cute tentacled bodyguard soon
-UBUNTU 9.10! They finally fixed the 3D rendering problems on Intel graphics cards.
( which means... )
--Fun fact: the OSS drivers for my display and and wifi card are better than the closed-source Windows ones (okay, so they fixed the display bugs...but only on the Vista drivers).
-zombie!Scientist is a go!

Things That Are Not Awesome
-Value Village was out of fake blood :(
-Attempts to make creepy bright orange marshmallows resulted in very very pale pastel orange marshmallows. Still tasty though!
-Sleep cycle is still fucked ughhh. Going to try and work that out next week I think.

Verdict? Awesome day.

Relevent to some people's interests! The first chunk of the translation of Case of Shinra is online (NB: the arrows at the bottom only go up to page three. The drop down menu goes up to page six). Interesting bits:

-Reeve is badass
-teeny BC!Turks cameo (blink and you'll miss it)
-The presidential office has an ESCAPE CHUTE
-I was totally right about them having Rufus be fine after Weapon's attack
-And this little gem which is so awesome I am going to quote it here, when Tseng shows up post-Sephiroth gut wound and all of the other Turks think he was dead:

She suddenly jumped up and gave Tseng a hug.

"Oh come on, Elena. You know I want to do that too," said Reno.

"No need to hold back, Senpai."

Real life news is that midterms suck, my house is still a mess, and that is pretty much it. My blog had it's eight-year anniversary back on the 10th, which is awesome although not really noteworthy. Trying to decide if I should be lazy this year and dress as Virgil for Halloween again (stfu, I know I'm a nerd), or get off my ass and actually do my zombie umbrella scientist idea. Decisions.

(ps HEY NEW PEOPLE o/)