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.

All of these long weekends are going to make me so lazy. The fact that Christmas vacation is right around the corner doesn't really help either, I think. |D

So! What was I up to this weekend... stayed on campus til late on Friday for a meeting, hopped around with yukitsu in Shangrila after class on Saturday, then spent the whole day with her, kye_kestrel, khursten, synatri (THE MYTHICAL CREATURE IN OUR PARTY!), ficcentricity, anothermiyaw, lonelybusiness and 77ws. We ate at Emerald (DELISHUS HUEG CRABS ARE DELISHUS AND HUEG!), then zipped over to Greenhills to buy Kat's DS and generally to stupid and fun things together. Came home really late, but the folks didn't seem to mind. khursten, bb, thank you so much for taking me home! ♥

Have deferred Serious Business and modly duties for a bit in order to get cranking on my 25-drabble birthday gift for kye_kestrel, the drabbles I owe psychoshoujo for her birthday way back when, and all the other Christmas drabbles that people have requested so far. If you still haven't requested, go here and poke me with watcha want!

I HAVE, however, completed some of the Christmas gifts already. Here's a list of the ones I've posted so far:

+ KHR, SB!6918 (for a_lighter_side)
+ Oofuri, semi-Chiyo/Rio (for m_moneypenny)
+ Lucifer + Sandman, Lucifer pr0n & Mazikeen introspection (for lethologica)
+ KHR, 5927 fluff (for kye_kestrel)

Will be pimping them as I finish them, but expect a master list up on Christmas Day OR whenever I finish the whole set.

~~~~ /o/ *goes back to writing! Extremely!*

Friends, lovers and fellow music whores, answer this poll, please~ ♥

I've already started compiling the playlists and mixes that I will be posting, given the feedback that I've gotten from you guys. In order to prove that I've been working on it, here's the first set of links! :3

( Love Songs Mix: The Last Love Song on Earth (SET ONE) )


I say Set One because I actually have a crapload of love-themed/sentimental/mushy songs to post. Also note that this particular mix is more of a playlist than anything else, so feel free to listen to them in any order.

OH ALSO. lonelybusiness, remember the list of songs you posted over here? I'd really like it if you could upload them on some file-sharing service somewhere. Limewire's being bitchy! >_<

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Posted up some fanfiction at stitchedophelia~ all three of them were written in fulfillment of this meme and the people who totally pwned me in it. psychoshoujo, lonelybusiness and synatri: I'm talking about you. B|


Full Metal Alchemist. Shedding light on fire. [Roy & Ed, dramarama]

Ookiku Furikabutte. Popsicle toes. [Oda x Kanou, fluff]

Persona 3. Look at the follies of love. [Shinji x Aki, angst, spoilers for the October Full Moon]

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Got pretty much nothing done at the office today because I woke up late and I had to leave early in order to go to the hospital for Test #3. That's fine, though -- work is slowing down again. I'll probably have things lined up for next week. Will be back at the hospital for the doctor's consultation tomorrow, armed with all the test results... everything sounds pretty much normal according to the tests I've read, but I had no way to interpret the blood test, so we'll have to see.

Dad will be coming with me, though. That might be difficult. He's allergic to doctors and surgery and radiation and such, so I expect to see him and the doctor having a mini-showdown in her office. ~_~

The hardest part will be waking up in time for the appointment, though, to be honest. It's at 9 AM and my house is far from Medical City so I'll have to be up by 6 AM. SIX-FUCKING AM. D8

On a lighter note, I called ADMU up and confirmed the grad studies gig~ I'll be joining the masses and enrolling this semester. Now I just have to wait on word about the teaching gig with the Eng Dept. Maybe it's high time that I follow them up. o_o

Btw, the Supernatural season finale was sad but generally not as awesome as I would've liked it to be. The season finale for House, though... there are no words. x_X

Went back to the office today~ it was kinda annoying, though, because the LAN cable I use to directly connect to the teh awesome godly office intarwebz connection was jacked for some reason. u_u Ended up subsiding on the wireless, but that wasn't really bad because it's actually a little slower but a little more stable than my direct connection at home.

...I should be disturbed by that, shouldn't I?

Uh, anyway, work's been slow, so I spent most of my time oggling P4 with kye_kestrel, chatting with khursten (I assaulted her first -- I need material for a D18 fic I'm planning! ficcentricity, IT'S THAT ONE! *A*) and bugging synatri. I also managed to get a whole bunch of drabbles done; most of them are for kitsune_jade (her birthday's coming up) and a few are for the people who pwned me in this meme.

I also whored some long overdue DDL manga links. I had to be careful, though: the front pages of the sites I was downloading for were SNFWS!

...I was yawning the whole day. I think I better sleep early tonight.

Fandom bitch moment of the day: Wat. Wtf is an Oofurian. More importantly, WTF IS THAT ART IT'S UGLY.

Have a meme, people.

Name a character (or real person) and I'll give you
(a) three facts about them from my personal fanon,
(b) a reason he/she sucks,
(c) a reason he/she is awesome,
(d) five things that never happened to that character/real person,
(e) five people that character/real person did/refused to fall in love with and how. Have at it!

EDIT: OH SHIT I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO MENTION THAT THIS IS MY 666TH ENTRY.