the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

My weekend was pretty wild, because I kicked it off by hanging with my ADMU family over at Ayala Techno Park (AN EXTREMELY SHINY PLACE IS EXTREMELY SHINY) and THEN it was off to meet with the girls the next day.

Started off with me swinging by Medical City to see yukitsu, khursten and kye_kestrel - we ate lunch before heading up to help Rachel's family out with her dad's hospital room. Teng Papan is perfectly fine from the looks of it! *w*

After Rachel went off with her family, we took a road trip around to pick Khursten's mom up and drop Lyn off before we hit Khursten's hood. We rolled around until late evening before zooming over to 77ws's party thing WHICH DID NOT HAVE PRITCHON, FEEL MY DISAPPOINTMENT WAVES OVER THE INTERNET--!

People spotted:
- psychoshoujo, gzep (who is srsly amazing when he is tipsy/drunk) and seraph_dreams!
- Sammi and Justin, who holds the distinction of being her boyfriend for more than a year. Good job, Justin. T^Tb
- menismastah and the Antarctics folks! Adz, your hair! o_o

Night passed into morning in a haze of way too much laughing and a whole lot of booze. Khursten and I went home by 2, but we didn't sleep all that much due to Srs Talk, which I'll likely poke the other girls about at the soonest opportunity.

Running on minimal sleep at the moment and back at home, but I'm still hoping that the family will decide to eat out. It's been a while since we've done that~

EDIT, A FEW HOURS LATER: Yeah, we went out. It was amazing. |D

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HERE HAVE A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER FANFICS:

+ METAL GEAR SOLID. Everything you ever wished for (requested by daniela_lynx)
+ HIKARU NO GO. A thousand sunsets in a box (requested by [Bad username or site: mushroom_18) @ livejournal.com]+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN: PUBLISHING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS AU. It's called love at first, and it doesn't hurt (requested by theprerogative)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! The effect of impact on stationary objects (requested by theprerogative)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! I don't know one joke (requested by dreamlessness)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! Mischief of one kind or another (requested by _sabriel)
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! We are all of us haunted and haunting (extremely belated birthday fic for innocentlyjaded)
+ THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU. The smell of hospitals in winter (requested by theprerogative)
+ FULL METAL ALCHEMIST. Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair (requested by theprerogative)


AND SOME FANMIX THINGS:
+ PERSONA 3. Deuce: A Minato & Ryoji FST
+ VALKYRIE PROFILE. Woman King: A Tribute to Lenneth
+ FINAL FANTASY 7: CRISIS CORE. Crisis Core FST


YES THE KAREN!FIC GETS PIMPED TWICE. I-it's another thing I'm ridiculously proud of, because srsly: when I was writing the thing, I felt like murdering small animals over how difficult it was. NEVER AGAIN, OKAY. ;A;

Will continue posting the backlogged fanmixes very soon, along with my birthday gift(s) for g3ssh0ku just so that she'll stop linefacing at me.

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This coming week will be the last week of regular classes - got some papers to check, consultations to do, a final exam to deliver and a paper to fish. GO SELF, U CAN DUUU IT~

Aaaand once vacation hits, I'll be in holy shit Singapore.

Holy shit. Time flies! D:

So.

Long story short: I went to Vibal for an interview regarding freelance writing, and I got the job. This means that I'll be extra busy now, with the article requirement, teaching at ADMU and studying.

It may seem ridiculously harsh of me to be loading this stuff on my plate, perhaps, but I'm also trying to think on the level of me wanting to get published. Put my name out there, somewhere, and not just in the academic circles. We'll just have to see from there.

Also, on a related note: seeing innocentlyjaded and team7 was absolutely fucking wonderful, and psychoshoujo and I have got to hang out a lot more than we do.

Month has been batshit, but that can be generally said about this year. Still, these few rounds were particularly special.

Honestly considering dropping a few things now, in favor of others, most particularly real life. We've had a lot of vacations and stuff on the school front, but that does not mean that things are lessening any further, and the pressure really is on. I'll have to see, though - maybe it's just a mean season and I'm too immersed to notice the fact that maybe all of this will pass.

Times like this, though, make me extra glad that I've got some people watching my back. Oh, and food at Senyra? Fucking A++.

On other news: dad bought a shotgun. He is also going to go hunting again. For birds.

Yeah, I know. He's an adorkable old man.

Yep.

This is me, pretty much failing at updating anything beyond Plurk. o_o

Folks on the DW side of things, how are you doing?

Shoutout pretty much goes for the LJ folks as well. Been trying to keep up with your entries, but if there's anything I missed, don't hesitate to poke me.

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First month of class has pretty much come and gone, so us ADMU profs are puttering right along through our fourth week of sessions with our kids. Not much to say beyond the fact that I'm pretty content with the way things are going now. Got decent students, a nice schedule, and the stuff I'm teaching are things I'm comfortable with. Now it's just a matter of getting better and better at it.

Graduate studies load is 3 units less stressful now, and the class is progressing fine. Came up with a kick-ass pitch for a paper involving a psychoanalytic reading of Persona 3, and my prof seems sold on the idea. Looking forward to writing it.

And that reminds me: I should srsly post up the papers I've already written here, huh? On the academic filter and such and so. orz I keep forgetting. orz orz orz

If there's one complaint I could have, it'd be that I don't really get to see the folks that I became rather close with last year, by merit of my horrendously long break. There are other ways to see them, though. I guess.

Still, I do miss those times. Four hours of doing absolutely nothing but smoke and chill out. Hard to find pockets of Zen like that these days.

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I could talk and rant and rave a whole lot about that thing they call Faculty Day, but an online journal isn't exactly the best place to discuss such an event.

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RPing all of these characters in all of these places is an exercise in schizophrenia.

There is no better way of putting it.

GETTING THIS IN BEFORE TAG RAPE ENSUES YET AGAIN.

Petrik celebrated his birthday with the rest of the Punzalan kids on the 9th with a delishus lunch in the office! It's kind of lulzy how half my family has birthdays this month, with me being one of them. ANYWAY, it was really nice, lounging around and talking with the bros that I don't usually get to see around~

After that, I met up with khursten and yukitsu in order to check up on B. My prayers still go out to her - she's had a rough time as of late, and that, for those of you who do know what's up, is a dire understatement.

Slept late into the next morning due to srs plottage for theskytides and yescomrade museboxing, and then zoomed off to ADMU after I woke up from sleeping like a total rock! I've gotten most of my pre-sem teacher stuff out of the way, and I got to catch up with my colleagues in the English Department, which is always cool.

Best part about yesterday, though, was hanging out with lainewell, dark_profanity and their friend Viktor after I gave up on finishing my registration! MUCH INSANITY ENSUED.

I'm currently chillaxing at home - I feel the need to rest, since my hours have been odd lately. Enjoying the shiny laptop speakers that my dad has loaned to me indefinitely, along with the fact that we seem to have fixed our internet connection (with no thanks to PLDT). See, my dad figured that some of our defective phones might be bleeding into the connection, since we're all still using one line... now we're thinking of getting a direct line for the net from the box in order to improve it further. When we all have the time to get someone to do it for us. IN THE MEANTIME, THOUGH, IT IS GOOD ENOUGH. *w*

And on other random things:

• signifies and g3ssh0ku, ILU both. ♥
  
• Nnnn school coming up next week. I don't want it but I kind of do!
  
• My little brother is a man now. I feel so proud, watching him drive. ;w;
  
• ...Why am I considering apping at other RPs again.
  

Yeah okay, back to tag rape. orz


EDIT - Tried and tested: every single time I praise my connection, it hiccups.