the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

SATURDAY

Yaoi no Hi celebration at Mall of Asia. Took archangel_dream along for the ride, where I met up with yukitsu, sindapa, khursten, xhael, macgirl_13, stryderranulf, sortinghatlover, magnetic_rose and other faces old and new to celebrate boy porn over chocolate cake. Was given the work I need to do from Ranulf's end, and basically chilled/fangirled/bibliophiled the whole day.

Late night conversations and Gudangs made me realize how much I've missed times like that. After a harrowing semester (and it'll only get more harrowing from this point), going back to the people who truly matter in life was refreshing. The book sales and discount card power help too. X3

...This summary would be better, 'cept my brain is shot from weird weather and too much smoking. At least it's windy. o_o

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SUNDAY

Petrik and family (including my adorable one-year-old (and them some) niece were over for the weekend. They're all ecstatic about the publishing gig. Father dear has offered to buy copies of the anthology when it comes out and give it to all our relatives and (nearly) all of my friends. It was generally all right until dinner time, when the topic of conversation somehow moved to homosexuality.

Traditional family + patriarchal house + know-it-all brother = Not Cool. Will Not Discuss.

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TODAY

Was supposed to meet with Mahar to satisfy his craving for wild, passionate boysex give him this disc of eclectic anime pieces that I owe him, but he never came around. Spent most of my day in the smoket, and some of it at Caf Up. archangel_dream was freaking out over her Philo orals. miyachan and I were cramming fixing our stuff for Read or Die. We'll be handling Edith Tiempo during the talks at the Manila International Book Fair.

Home now, and a bit dizzy. I've got work I need to do for Comics Class, and I really ought to be working on my assignment(s) for Creative Writing. I should also be doing the shorts I plan to submit to Spec Fic and PSG. Then there's Madame Bovary to read and diagrams to encode.

*stares longingly at her Torchwood DVD*

...So after attending a bit of the RoD meeting, yukitsu and I stroll around Robinson's Galleria a bit. Comic Odyssey turned up Danger Girl and Fables 3, with the former being relatively cheap but beyond my budget given its priority on my list and the latter being horrendously overpriced. Then we go to Bestsellers, the book store the club was going to check out after their meeting.

There are no words to describe what happened next. Let's just say that I completed Fables, Lucifer and Temeraire all in one fell swoop. My ATM account might as well be dead, but crap, am I happy.

Sunday = Bookshelf Fixing Day. Again. @_@

On other news, there's a lot on RoD's plate this year, but everything looks worth it... I'll be blogging muchly for the club in the days to come, most especially for this weekend and all of next week. And some of the more tedious pre-convention tasks for LO have been completed to satisfaction. So far it's all systems go for the 26th.

You know you've been gone too long and maybe you really should start checking off all of those communities that you don't really participate in anyway when you're offline for two days and end up going through 220 entries on the flist.

To all those who volunteered, assisted, organized, went to, donated, or otherwise supported Read or Die Convention 2007 this weekend, love and kisses.

I'll go back to munching on sour gummy soda bottles now.

Updating from Nikolai. This makes me want that laptop even more. Good thing the parents are receptive towards the idea. I will be naming him Aidan in all likelihood. :3 Will be changing the name of one of Alistair's drives to Ouki as a result. Alistair is sure to be sad.

Numb towards requirements. I've got my midterm orals exam for Philosophy tomorrow (part of the reason why I can't make it to the RoD meet this time around ~_~), Retellings critical analysis of the Met's take on Romeo & Juliet (4 pages in; debating on whether I should bother with editing), Long Test #3 in Math 12 on Tuesdays (read: scr00d on Singles Awareness Day), Battle Royale analysis for Ethics with pyrosinferno somewhere next month and the Retellings compilation thingie (7 pages and counting for my yakuza Cinderella~ <3). There will be other things in the coming weeks, I'm sure.

Somebody tell me that I'm not the only one in the audience who's feeling weird over the passage of this semester. @_@

Annoyance over being kicked out of Retellings is slow to pass. It wouldn't have happened if I had known about what was going on. I asked, nobody told. Oh well. =_=

LO ladies, if I'm coming to turn up tomorrow it'll only be for the dinner or what-have-you that will be happening afterward. Details as to where you all will be following the RoD meet are needed.

I still hold by the fact that Sentou Yousei Yukikaze is one of the best science fiction series I've watched yet. Five episodes long, and each of them's pure love. If you haven't watched it already and you're unwilling to do the BT piracy rounds online, folks, it'll be coming out on Animax. The rampant boy love in it brought about by the fact that it's gay without ever meaning to be is a plus too.