the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

Before all else: FIC PIMPS!

Fanfics for kye_kestrel, in celebration of her birthday!
+ SUPERNATURAL MEETS soul_campaign. Feel the freedom like no tomorrow.
+ HUNTER X HUNTER MEETS soul_campaign. When burning bridges won't come down.
+ KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! In the custody of trolls.

Other fics:
+ OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE. No dust upon the furniture of love (Christmas gift for istrill!)
+ METAL GEAR SOLID 4. Burn the length and breadth of the sky (iWHORE request from gaijin_ikei!)

sob, I'm going to have to prepare to write a crapload very, VERY soon.

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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY CRAZY WEEKEND, FLIST. ...Although the crazy didn't actually start over the weekend itself, but last Wednesday.

Little brother's organization was scheduled to sing Christmas carols at our house on Friday night. Everything was pretty much set - both my parents and my grandparents were going to stay in to watch, and my mom was even going to bring in Anika, my niece, to be cute and listen to the performance. They received word, though, that the mother of one of our family company's most loyal co-workers passed away in Baguio, and that meant that both of them had to go right over and be with her for a bit. That meant that the kids HAD no audience, especially since they planned on bringing our grandmother with them and my older brother Paolo was likely going to choose his latest computer game over watching the kids sing now that my parents weren't going to be around to keep him in place.

That is where I came in, because mom promptly left me in charge of finding them a new audience. Which I did, by posting a shoutout to Plurk (thanks to everyone who replied or tried to make a way to make it, btw!) and poking my buddies at the Faura smoket. At the end of it all, khursten, psychoshoujo and yue_dermond joined me for the evening, in exchange for free food, nice beds and good company. :3

The kids were really, really good for something totally amateur, and the best part about it was my lovely younger brother sang a full song in Filipino! I've never heard him sing in Filipino before. o_o It was also nice hanging out with the girls and kicking around, and I'm especially happy that Yue was able to come because I know how far my place is for hers~

The day after that was the start of my Epic Weekend, which involved Khursten and I zipping over to Trinoma in order to meet up with yukitsu, kye_kestrel, 77ws and the mythical synatri in order to celebrate the purchase of Yukeh's First Dress Ever, and Lynffles' birthday! Traffic was a bitch, which meant that I didn't get to stay all that long since I had somewhere else to be right after lunch, but I got to eat with them and chill for a bit! My only real regrets are that I didn't get to be with Lynffles all that long for her birthday blowout aaaaand I didn't get to watch my other half get dolled up. OTL

Bore through more terrible traffic in order to go to Pasig and come to mlina's lovely house and celebrate Christmas with her and her group! Managed to spot dreamlessness, nonartisan (WHO GAVE ME ANOTHER MINI GACHAPON CREEPER TO HANG FROM SOMEWHERE) and mochalic before they had to zip off, and chillaxed with Noey, redmoonmurder, Kang and the rest of Noey's friends before I had to leave YET AGAIN for the party I was going to host back at my place.

Faura Smoket Crew (guest starring psychoshoujo again, because I wanted to take her out for a weekend!) trickled in car by car sometime after I managed to get home (through significantly less terrible traffic), and it was absolutely lovely to have nearly everyone under my roof! THERE WAS SO MUCH FOOD slakdhgakshd household prepared stuff and everyone brought something to either eat and drink! And I introduced the lot of them to my parents (who all found them "respectful" and nice, ahaha!), took them on a tour of the whole first floor of my house (two batches with commentary, lol), and smoked a lot of interesting things from Jakarta, which Faith brought back with her from her vacation there! It was beautiful and fun and amazing, and the people who weren't able to make it were really, really missed BUT NO MATTER WE SHALL HAVE ANOTHER PARTY SOON.

khursten and I slept sometime after 4 AM - she and Mia woke up a little before I did hours later, and I was totally incoherent until we had lunch with my family. Saw them off sometime after that (BUT NOT BEFORE WATCHING THE SEASON FINALE OF GLEE), then kicked around until Mass. Dinner with family was nice as always, and I ended up accomplishing about 70% of all my backlogged student things before bed~

THIS COMING WEEKEND IS LOOKING CRAZY AS WELL, AHAHAHA. Hello, holiday season!

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With the general paperwork out of the way and my students on track before the break, this week looks like it's going to pan out rather nicely. Kicked it off, in fact, with dinner with Anjo and khursten at Kamimori + dessert at this amazing DIY yogurt place called Fruity Froyo - I treated my little brother out to both once he managed to join us, since I figured I ought to do something nice for him for Christmas.

...Speaking of Christmas gifts. I've been weirdly inspired to give lots of people stuff - like, people beyond the usual suspects anyway. I guess it's because this is my second year of gainful employment at ADMU, and I've got money to spare. Time to give something back, y'know?

I am also going to spoil myself by buying a PS3, and I'll likely have a unit in my home sometime before the end of the year.

Yep.

It is time.

I debated upon putting this in my academic faggotry filter, but I suppose I'll just do that the next time I've got stuff for it.

Sometimes, I Do Try to be Smrt: Academic OTL @ Orzisms

This is the "launch" of the section of my blog where I'll have a running dump of some (or maybe most) of the papers I submit or publish for my classes. Longer explanations are over at the post along with download links to the PDF versions of my papers, so feel free to head on over if you're interested!

I should have done that, like, at LEAST a year ago. I-I seriously suck at maintenance when it actually counts. orz

On other news, I dropped an RP I really loved yesterday.

More coherent post on that, among other things, to follow.

Poll post~! ♥

[Poll #1306163]

Konking out early last night really, REALLY helped, but I STILL woke up before 7:00 AM. >_> I managed to go back to sleep and kinda recover that lost hour though. Pio and Mai Mai had slept over although I didn't even get to greet them since I went to bed early, so breakfast was pretty lively. It was too bad that my parents had this thing in Batangas (Barrion Foundation scholars, yo~) -- at the rate we were all going, we could've sat there, talking all the way until lunch.

Mai was asked to give this talk to the incoming Management Engineering freshmen in Ateneo, so she camped out in my room, working on her Powerpoint on Aidan!Laptop while I poked around and flailed with yukitsu before she and I both had to leave FOR PHILIPPINES KOUSHIEN!. I hitched a ride with Mai in order to do English Department things. It turns out that since the department's underloaded with regard to professors, I'm going to be teaching nine units rather than six: I might also handle a Lit 13 class.

This excites me and scares me. More classes means more stuff to check, more people to deal with and overall, more pressure. There's also the fact that I'll be studying at the same time, and-- well, let's just say that when I was writing out my schedule from tomorrow all the way to June 10 (the start of classes), I really, REALLY needed to smoke. @_@

...It was nice, though, watching Ate Josie fixing up the cubicles and seeing my name taped up in one of them. I hope I'll do well.

Anyway, the rest of the day went swimmingly~ met up with lonelybusiness, ficcentricity and, of course, yukitsu -- synatri came around later, AND I'M ACTUALLY EDITING THIS POST TO ADD THIS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I FORGOT HER IN THE ORIGINAL POST. *is shot* Yukeh went to get the charger for her DS replaced, but beyond that we were just flailing around and bitching/chatting/spazzing/fangirling the whole day. I think I totally amused them with my whole "WHAT GAME DO I GET" dilemma, but I walked out of it with WhorePuppy!Zack an original of Crisis Core at the end. I've updated the wishlist accordingly. YUKEH, SRSLY, I LOVE YOU LONG TIME.

On that note, expect to see a Paranoia Meme here soon.

Peter was with the driver when he came to pick me up -- I later dropped him off at Eastwood and headed home (THE TRAFFIC, IT WAS MIRACULOUSLY NONEXISTENT). Emails yielded this badly punctuated review that was trying very hard to flame one of my fics but failing miserably; apparently, FF.net has a thing with sending me stupid people to slap bad reviews these days. I emailed the idiot back and told it (yes, I say "it") that I'm happy it reviewed, but really, I can't take it seriously since its grammar and punctuation fail on so many different levels. I'm expecting this loser to reply with another flame, but I don't intend to read it.

Parents aren't coming home, so I'm prolly going to take a puff or two in my room. Btw, daniela_lynx, thank you SO MUCH for linking me to that post with all those add-ons! I've gone ballistic installing them. ♥

Tomorrow will probably be spent studying (MUST. MAKE. LESSON PLANS.) and fixing that new layout I mentioned a post or two back.