practicality

Am home, somewhat unfortunately. We had a lovely very fall sort of day yesterday - slept in, spent the afternoon cooking Thanksgiving dinner (well, Liz cooked, and I just helped where needed), which was delicious despite how suspicious the turkey log-thing was, and then we sat around, watched amusing videos on the internet, and then Nightmare Before Christmas.

Dante and Virgil are now both totally done, as are the spats for Leon, which means I just need gloves - I think a trip to Metrotown later this week is in order. We spent a lot of the weekend bashing CLAMP (while cutting out Tsubasa outfits) and discussing various Yaoicon plans. Which has me craving ridiculous sappy BL anime (although not Gravi - seen that twice through, at least). So...suggestions are welcome XD; Pr0n is okay too, as long as it's entertaining pr0n. Oh, and I've already seen the FAKE OAV, too.

Choose twelve of your original characters in any particular order. (NO PEEKING AT THE QUESTIONS AT THIS STAGE!) Then, answer the questions that follow.

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Yeah, I've got too many S_F characters (people owe me posts, damnit), and I really desperately need to do something with some of these guys.

I think many of my problems in life would be solved by getting laid. Unfortunately, this seems to require being straight and having no standards, neither of which are true.

Damnit.

Amber/other Viko people - interested in coming out this weekend, but I totally forgot it was Thanksgiving - I don't want to interupt any plans if you've got them. But if not, I've got Monday off, and actually could be off Friday, too, so...when works best for you guys?

Things I Have Learned Recently:
-I am too white for my kanji dictionary. Seriously, I can hear the Japanese language going 'Haha, stupid white girl' XD;
-Strawberries are motivational!
-I can fall asleep again after my neighbor's music wakes me up
-VNV Nation is strangely an excellent mood-lifter.

Things To Do Today:
-Fabric store
-Beat Aciel, the little bitch
-Buy tea
-Buy soba noodles
-Actually do English reading
-Finish Chem lab report

Dear neighbor, I don't fucking care if quiet hours end at seven am. Eight thirty on a Sunday morning is too damned early for your bass to be throbbing through my room. I also don't care if you were watching Friends last night, and turned it off at twelve-thirty instead of one. I could still hear it. And guess what? I can hear you now, too, talking loudly to someone in Chinese! At two am! Fuck you!

Dear floormates, you actually seem like a tolerable bunch, but please, please stop asking me the same damned question. Yes, Massachusetts is sort of far away. But I am getting really sick of people asking me 'Why did you come here?' and giving the same answer. Do you ask all the international students, or is it just because I'm American? Really.

Dear friends, I have my reasons for the decisions I've made in the last year or so. Technically, these are entirely my bussiness, and thus not your's, but I will enlighten you anyway. It apparently comes as a surprise to some of you that these reasons are not simply 'Jo'. No, they're really not. I do in fact have my own opinions, reasons, and life, outside of Jo. And, in the future if you want to know my thoughts, actually ask me instead of someone I am barely on speaking terms with, instead of making assumptions.

Yes, I know, I'm a bit short at the moment, but I have had it up to here with these things. I do actually like you all (well, save neighbor and those who are already well-aware of my opinions of them). And neighbor has finally shut the hell up, so I'm going to try and sleep.

Great big

Happy Birthday!

to Amber, and to Elisha. Hope your special days are good :D

There was a fire in my house, three floors straight up from me - dunno what caused it, and if it spread at all. The end result is that we spent two hours sitting around the commonsblock, mostly because the sprinklers had flooded the stairwells and probably all of fifth (I'm on second). My room is okay, although the carpet outside (by the stairwell) has a huge wet patch, and I suspect the girl on fourth in this stack of rooms is probably royally screwed. As is the guy on fifth who started it, if only because we may all gang up and kill him after we sleep. Seriously, I was about to go to bed when the fire alarm went off at midnight; a couple people on my floor were in bed already.

Haaate. So much haaaate.

Chocolate worked wonders, as did the help of some slightly more level-headed individuals. Have come to the conclusion that this may be a 'we'll see' sort of situation, I think. There's one knotty bit left that I can't talk about with any of the usual suspects, just because it would make me a huge asshole. So, I'll give that a few more days, and if it's not worked out, calling counselling.

On the non-cryptic front, I survived my first midterm this morning! Got a little hung up on a combustion reaction question, mostly because it was working out really neatly, and then suddenly stopped, and I started rechecking all my math 'cause I thought I had done something wrong, but no, it's just that this isn't high school and the math doesn't work out so neatly any more. The next question confirmed this, so I finished with like...two minutes left.

And this song came on my mp3 player this morning, and I had to smile a little, because it's totally my love life right now. And the love lifes of several of my friends. So I thought I'd upload it.

Vienna Teng - Unwritten Letter #1

Fun song - it's a tango :D

Hikawa is so sketchy. The 80s suit, the receeding hairline, the really suggestive pose as he talks to you... Yeah, Hikawa totally wants Hitoshura's ass. Then again, though, who doesn't?