the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

Right, so. Yesterday was the first regular school day after the shitstorm that was Ondoy.

The atmosphere was rather... well. It wasn't great, but it wasn't entirely terrible. Still, it's rather haunting, going around and hearing people talk about nothing else but what happened, or occasionally spotting someone crying on someone else's shoulder. My students, for the most part, are okay - we talked long and much about exactly how the tragedy could have reached critical mass the way it did, along with a more regular concern: grades.

I've just spent most of my day checking all of their remaining requirements and computing for their class standing - it doesn't look like I'll be failing anyone this semester, and overall, everyone did stellar in my classes. Tomorrow will involve some negotiations on the parts of a few of my students, and I'll probably let them have their desired grade bumps if they can argue with me well enough.

On the grad studies end of things, I've still got a paper to write. Felt shitty over the past few weeks, so I really haven't been able to do it. Thankfully, I returned to my calm and happy place by rolling around and fixing all (yes, all) of my backlogged files and changing my icon sets, so I think I'm recharged enough to give it a shot. Tonight, perhaps.

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Now let's talk internet things.

First off: HI AND HELLO TO THE NEW FOLKS THAT jusrecht INTRODUCED ME TO! ♥

Aaaand pimp outs.

NEW POST UP ON ORZISMS: Contextualizing Manga the Right Way (And Then Some)


Fic pimps from stitchedophelia:

The World Ends With You: Life is Inevitable and Death Goes On (requested by mienaihoshi ♥)
Suikoden Tierkreis: Stone Shadows
The World Ends With You: Every day is the end of the world (requested by yukitsu ♥)
The Skytides RPG [theskytides]: Now this day too enters history (requested by yukitsu ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Death is another country (requested by botling ♥)
KHR: Fiore di Nuvola. All the words... (requested by botling; you might want to read my minibang beLIEve if you want to tackle this one ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Come up through the summer rain (requested by botling ♥)
Devil Summoner: Solemn talk of distant rain (requested by botling ♥)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn: O little sparrows, mind your place! (requested by jusrecht ♥)
The World Ends With You: They only let him go wrong out of kindness, I suppose


Snippets and drabbles for my original projects, all requested by yukitsu:

Bloodsport: I wrote on a wall, "I've gone ahead"
Bloodsport: You have outgrown your first kimono
Bloodsport: An old friend you just met
Endtimes: There are no strangers under cherry blossoms


I've actually finished a host of other prompts from the ones people requested from me sometime back, but I won't be posting them up just yet.




...Right, back to work.

khursten and yukitsu were over the whole day yesterday, and it was glorious~ we got a lot of plotting done for theskytides, and we watched part of the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica. Ahn~ nostalgia~~~~

Anyway, we've sent in all the relevant apps and revisions. Now we're just waiting for word from the mods.

Slept hella late and ended up waking up at 11 AM - joined the Porn Off Night at a poke from botling and met a whole lot of lovely new people. Was brain dead throughout most of it, though, because the heat was fucking horrible.

It's cooler now, and I'm just pounding out fic things and reading manga until I get lazy enough to go to bed.

...I should be putting in all the memes that I owe people here, but I'm really terrible at answering that stuff. Can people hit me with the links to memes that they've tagged me for so far?

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Mini fic-dump here:

+ The Skytides RPG: Hibari Kyouya & Raidou, first encounters

+ For 31_days: Persona 4, Doujima & Souji

+ Porn-off Night III selections: Bleach (Aizen/Urahara + Yoruichi), Persona 4 (Doujima/Souji, Adachi/Souji), KHR! (6918), Gankutsuou (Count/Haydee)

I'm really happy about being able to write so much these days. *w*

To kick things off, have a conversation I took from plurk:

izkariote: HARK.
izkariote: TIS MY BRAIN IN A BOWL.
izkariote: BEHOLD.
izkariote: IT IS MUSHY.
factorielle: ...You worry me.

--Because that pretty much sums up how last week was for me. Spent most of my time ficcing and attending to some faculty things, but mostly ficcing because March is the month of GAR and fic-dumping, since several of my good friends celebrate their birthdays this time around and like hell I'm going to let them go without getting a gift from me, even if it's fail.

This also means that I ought to kick myself into shape again and pound out the long overdue fics that I owe other people who celebrated their birthdays while I was busy. I'll be free very soon, so it shouldn't be a problem.

ANYWAY SO. This weekend was pretty insane~ khursten, yukitsu and I met with Tricia, who is this uber cool Pinay doing research on the local yaoi community for her scholarship grant in Osaka. It was a night of Lights Out Talk and wonderful conversation AND OMFG D18 DOUJIN BECAUSE SHE IS AWESOME AND MANAGED TO SECURE THREE BEAUTIFUL TITLES FOR ME ASDLKGHK;AHSDGH;ASHDKLGH;LAHSDLKH;GHASDHG-- *brainsplode*

Um. Anyway. Yeah. Bottom line is, she's a great person, aaaaand I have more Peeco and Banyuu in my collection. |D

Attended class on Saturday before meeting up with khursten again, for her birthday celebration - yukitsu was with her, and we zipped over to Binondo for food tripping with kye_kestrel, ficcentricity yue_dermond and 77ws. We went over to her house after we finished up, where I watched some Gintama, broke Lynffles' brain with one of my critical readings, oggled my doujinshi yet again and rolled around until around two in the morning.

Was supposed to get home in time to celebrate Mass with my dad, since it's his birthday today, but I didn't make it - thankfully, my parents were okay with it. I just have to make sure not to do it again. Am upstairs now and finally done with most of my internet backlog.

Doctor's appointment tomorrow and on Tuesday. Beyond that, I've got to finish birthday fics for theprerogative and botling and teacherly things for my children. Might chill out a little longer, though, since I'm still kinda "bwuh" after being out for pretty much the whole weekend.

On other awesomeness, I was accepted into Amat. This makes me ridiculously happy, but also terribly worried. o_o

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FIC DUMPING TIME. ♥

( KHR: Return on Investment, Devil Summoner, Persona 3, Persona 4, Reborn!, Gintama, One Piece, Eureka7, Bounen no Xamdou, Metal Gear Solid, Kekkaishi. )


L-lots of fics. *shamefaced*

On other news: HELLO TO THE NEW PEOPLE ON MY FLIST. ...Hello, at least, to the ones I know and the ones I don't who bothered to comment on my F-O Post. orz Please comment there if you want me to add you back, guys. :|

I quite literally rolled out of bed, into the first (pretty) things I pulled out of my closet and tumbled into the car this morning in order to join my Mom, my brother Pio (the one getting married) and my Tito Lorrie and Tita Faye on a trip to Shangri-La for some last minute shopping and family bonding tiemz. Cue much Peralejo-Punzalan dorkiness, customary Ribbing the Soon-to-be Groom and walk walk walking all over the mall.

Spoils of holiday parental financial abuse include:

Topshop Clothes (YAY PINSTRIPES! YAY VEST! YAY GRAY PANTS!)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner - Raido Kuzunoha and the Soulless Army *insert Fangirl Shriek of Happiness Here*

Oh, and I ran into girl_blunder and my cousin xianu. Sorry, sweetie... I didn't have my and yukitsu's gift to j00! ;A;

Got hoem early enough to try out the game (I called my character Hikaru Shinta. ...Yeah, bite me.) before the Christmas Eve Mass which had a repetitive but otherwise decent homily and an unbearably slow Our Father song. Family loitered around in the living room afterward before we did the usual Advent Wreath prayer stuff. Then we got to attack the Potato Salad, pandesal and Christmas Ham.

I received a surprising number of gifts, and much love to all the people who gave them to me. Oh, and mom apparently bought me even more stuff before the Shangri-La trip just so that I'll have things to open. ...I love my Mom. .__.

Peralejo Christmas lunch tomorrow, with a whole bunch of relatives who haven't been back in the Philippines for years. It'll be a busy holiday season, I believe, but I have no regrets.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, ALL. *BIG INTARWEBZ HUGS*