That member of a woman's group put it so well.

Keep your rosaries out of our ovaries.

18442 / 50000 words. 37% done!

Solved the dilemma that I got myself into, but still too slow on the writing front for my tastes. It helps, though, not writing linearly!

I'll be posting my status reports over at stitchedophelia for the interested. The first one is over here, with an excerpt featuring I-pin.

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Pimping this meme entry again, because I like to TL;DR!

Anyway uh so what happened to me and why did I end up wasting so much time in ADMU over registration. Basically. they changed their policies when it comes to filing for tuition discounts, making it ten times more hassling than it used to be with extra signatures and photocopies and all... we weren't informed either (at least I wasn't, and I don't remember any announcement going up at the department), so I only found out about it after lining up several times over.

If that wasn't enough, there's the fact that after going through all the hassle, I was told that my class got "dissolved" - or more like, it's closed to outsiders, since it was meant to be a special tutorial for some of the other MA students in the department. It was just listed as an "official" class by accident.

So I go on campus the next day, and attempt to re-enlist for another class. Stupid AISIS doesn't allow me to. Twice over.

Yeah, it was a glorious fucking screw-up, I tell you.

I do firmly believe that the registrar over at my university should go through the process that they've made, just to see how inefficient and hassling it is firsthand. Maybe it'll kick them into coming up with something better.

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On happier news, I got to go out with the Faura smoket group and celebrate hamster_friend's birthday in their very excellent company. Trust in Ateneans to balance out stupid inuman shit with highfalutin personal philosophies and ghost stories.

(Note: must invite group to house. Parents get finnicky about people whom they have not met in person yet.)

My parents celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary the next day, which was nice and intimate. Anika was trufax adorable, and Mimi (Pio's first daughter, and my goddaughter! *A*) made a guest appearance!

Was tired as heck by the time I got home (haven't slept all that early since Singapore), but ended up staying around until 2 AM, bugging khursten and writing with my Dying Will. Just stopped writing to make this entry.

School's starting up again tomorrow. I feel a little more prepared to teach the subjects they've assigned me to teach this semester: now it's just a matter of preparing my syllabi and leaping into the water.

Well, I've learned one thing this week:

Attempting to write a little every day, while plausible, does not exactly deliver results. ~_~

On another note, Sango burgers and portabello mushroom spread are on their own unique, unparalleled levels of amazing. I have kye_kestrel to thank for suggesting that she, yukitsu and I go out to Rockwell yesterday, since I didn't have class. khursten followed us later, which was really cool as well. I realize that I truly live for weekends like this one.

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Orzisms post: on Katekyo Hitman Reborn, the one ex-boyfriend who wasn't an asshole

This link has done the rounds on part of the interwebs already, since jusrecht was kind enough to take time out to read it and even went so far as to linking it on her flist. It's basically my look at the series as it is now, and why I appear to be falling out of it.

Still ficcing, though, if only to finish Return on Investment and my new pet project, Fiore di Nuvola (refer to minibang!). Flaws aside, I've always been attracted to KHR because of its potential, and writing this perceived potential out in my own way, through fanfic, is always the best way to express that.

On more blog-related news: I set Thursday aside to fuss over the thing, so I have posts scheduled to go up every week from here until October. Will pimp the links out on this journal, whenever I happen to remember to do so.

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Finished Suikoden Tierkreis: I blame that on dreamlessness, who started the game sometime after me but finished first, thus kicking me into action out of guilt.

Yes factorielle, I will attempt to write BUT I CANNOT GUARANTEE QUALITY. /sob

Now starting on The World Ends With You, like the slowpoke I am. Terrible game, I tell you - brings out all the obsessive-compulsive tendencies in a player like myself.

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Contemplating another friends' cut. With the exception of the people that I meet regularly or poke a lot online, I find that the internet's becoming rather toxic for me again.

Not so long ago, my younger brother and I had an interesting conversation.

See, I was telling him about a friend of mine who's been going through some rough times due to a break-up with her boyfriend. Apparently, the guy's been whining and backtalking and generally ruining her to some of their common contacts and, I think, to complete strangers as well.

I asked my brother whether this is something that all guys do. He told me that apparently, at least in his age group, only gamer boyfriends do it. To quote, in his terms:

"I dunno why, but they're the only ones insecure enough to do it. Guys who aren't geeks will gripe and get angry but they're confident enough in themselves to not blame someone else."

Interesting, too, because I thought about it, and hey, the pattern fits.

Just so you know, asshole, yes, I'm talking about you.

Can you get any more gay?

I was almost inclined to like you. I thought that maybe, you could grow up and change.

Sucks to find out that I guess you weren't capable of it.

I make it a habit not to step in like this for friends because I respect them unlike you, but this was the last straw.

Now that it's been exactly seven days since I posted this and I've managed to tear myself away from Persona 4, it's time for some srs life updates.

Monday: Went by in an odd daze. =_= Honestly, beyond the usual talk at the smoket in ADMU, I really don't remember what happened.


Tuesday: Did the usual monthly check-up thing with my endocrinologist~ she upped my dosage, but beyond that, all looks well. Put in some P4 time as soon as I got home, and then dragged myself off to Spec Fic class. I was about 80% sure that I'd regret it, and it turns out that I was right... Spec Fic is only fun with Dr. Cruz is teaching it. With the exception of my cousin's report and the report of one of the other lit majors, all of the reports we've had in class have been poorly done and boring as hell.

I suppose I owe them one though. Managed to scribble down a lot of notes for ROI.

I'm reporting this week. I plan to show them exactly how it ought to be done.


Wednesday: Was brain dead and totally lazy, but I forced myself to go to class anyway. Going online to bug random people during my long break really, really helped though! Also - I can apparently still swing three classes on less than 30% of a brain. |D


Thursday: Woke up hellafuckingearly to go to the dermatologist, in which my face ended up getting zapped by a laser, swabbed with weird chemical stuff and pricked by needles and other sharp implements several times over. Worked on my report for Spec Fic as soon as I got home (9-SLIDE KICKASS REPORT, GET), played Persona 4 again and felt like chucking the controller at the screen because the dungeon was Pissing Me Off, edited ROI in order to post it (links below!) and ended up fixing my layouts instead.

...Speaking of which.

izkariote stitchedophelia izkariote stitchedophelia izkariote stitchedophelia izkariote stitchedophelia

S-so proud of them! And I took a cue from aflyingteapot and made sure the layouts had decent font sizes! ♥


Friday: Woke up feeling seriously ill, so I ended up canceling my sessions with my kids in order to recover. Was feeling slightly better sometime before lunch, though, so I hooked up with anothermiyaw. ...And I don't remember what I did when I got home. orz ANYWAY, after that I crawled through two hours of traffic with my parents to go and meet with khursten, magnetic_rose, sortinghatlover and a lot of wonderful Dolly people. KHURSTEN, I LONG FOR THEIR LJs. DDD:


Saturday: Woke up late and a little better than I did the other day, dragged myself to class and discovered first hand that I hate Derrida + my brain is most definitely still in Vacation Mode, swung by the office to pick yukitsu up and drag her home for the big family dinner party, in which we celebrated three things:

1.) My little brother Peter making it into Ateneo de Manila University, which was his college of choice. His girlfriend Millie made it too, and to Management Engineering, of all things. O_O
2.) The birthdays of my two sisters-in-law. *smishes them*
3.) My Aunt Becky and her husband Reuben's safe arrival from the USA!

I also got to see Tala and Ava, since JP and Jonat were allowed to bring their girlfriends over. Millie was there too - she's great company.

Went upstairs after that to attempt to finish P4 for the second time, only to discover that FUCK NO, THE GAME'S NOT DONE WITH ME YET.


Today: Been playing Persona 4, but I'm back around to bitchslap the creepy people buzzing around anothermiyaw read up on this panfandom RP that I've decided to join me (just poke me if you want the story behind that; it's kinda embarrassing), attempt to go back to Serious Business, edit more of ROI for posting, maybe save icons, maybe change the icons on my LJs, maybe archive more stuff on my FF.net account and--

I really, really wish I was still on vacation. u_u

Also: BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY, kasugai_gummie! I LEFT A SEMI-IMPORTANT COMMENT ON YOUR LATEST POST. *flailing*

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And now, for the curious:

Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Return on Investment

A possible future, ten years from now.

+ prologue
+ chapter one: Why I'm not where you are.
+ chapter two: Take the long road and walk it.

I should be posting about my day, but this amused me too much.

Here's another e-mail, brought to you by a guy I would like to call My Blathering, Self-Righteous Idiot of the Day:

SUBJECT LINE: I want to be a fan, but...

Please stop making gay stories for bleach or any other anime show. Because it's sick. Why do you people want to see two men fucking each other? If you want something to write about then here is a few people to write about. ByakuyaxMomo byakuyaxNanao ByakuyaxUnohana ByakuyaxYoruichi ByakuyaxRangiku ByakuyaxRukia ByakuyaxOrihime. Try this you will get better results.

Suffice to say, I was Amused. Capital letter intended.

Here's my response:

i there! I have some suggestions of my own to give to you. :3

First: try to avoid telling writers what to do. I don't tell you what to read, so don't tell me what to write.

Second: review your basic punctuation and grammar lessons from high school. People might actually be inclined to listen to you if you knew how to write properly.

Thanks for writing, but don't think I'm going to stop anytime soon~

Honestly, I have a special place in my heart for these people. They remind me of how much better my life is in comparison to their own.

Second post will follow about more mundane things when I get home, maybe. In order news, I FINALLY have a copy of Privilege of the Sword

Wow, I really DO belong on FF.net. I've been blessed by my first flame from Flame Rising -- he's infamous for prodding people like this.

Let’s play a game, shall we? Yes? Fantastic.

This game is called “Things That Can Write Better Than You”. The rules are simple. Please correctly select which choice can write better than you:

A. My left testicle
B. A toilet-full of chunky diarrhea
C. An inbred midget clown who swims in choice B
D. All of the above

If you chose the correct answer, D, then you have won the following prize:

A spot in my coveted C2 “Stories A Turd Out of My ** Could Write Better” (which, strangely enough was not one of the choices). Don’t despair! Even if you didn’t choose correctly, I will be kind enough to give you that prize anyway. Who said I don’t have a heart?

Congratulations! Please continue to avoid the dictionary as if it were an oozing, puss-filled sore on an old hooker’s a.s.s. And good grammar? Well, run away from it like it’s a festering syphilitic itch you just can’t scratch in public. Or in words you can understand: your fic sucks donkey balls, and that’s what you wanted me to think, right? Because otherwise, I’d have to believe this was an actual attempt at writing and laugh the crap right out of myself.

Best regards,
F/R

Lulz. I wonder if he actually thinks that real writers will buy this bullshit. I suppose he was hoping that I'm one of those fangirls that'll go "WAAAAAAAAAAAH SOMEBODY'S PICKING ON MEEEEE ABUSE ABUSE ABUSE I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF NAO."

Anyway, RL post to follow. I had to post this first because it amused me.

BEFORE ALL ELSE:

kitsune_jade, your birthday is coming up. Please compile a list of prompts/characters/pairings/ideas that you'd like me to write as a part of your birthday gift. You have 28 drabbles, give or take a few according to a length. And sorry, no, I don't think I'll be able to do your crossovers. ^_^;

ALSO!

Answer this meme if you ♥♥♥ me!

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Slow, slow day at the office... I spent it mooching off the bandwidth fixing the files that were dumped on me last week. Nothing new went up, but once everything is fixed, it'll be busy again. Of course, the REAL highlight was the internet connection itself down there - my torrents were fucking wild. I must've downloaded at least 20 80-350 MB files while I was there today. I wish my connection at home was that snazzy. D:

There was also that short but nice conversation I had with laurgasm, prompted by one of her posts on Twitter. See, apparently, this chick made it on national television for... and drumroll please:

For keeping a "paper journal". Aka, notebook. Aka, doing the remarkable thing of writing with a pen and paper in this fast-paced, modernized world.

Oh, Philippines. You have reached a whole new level of illiteracy.

That said. How's about somebody pay ME big bucks for scribbling in my notebooks? Maybe somebody should make a Pinky of me while they're at it. :D

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Going back to ADMU tomorrow.

DO NOT WANT!!!111oneoneone

Okay, so maybe I'm not THAT averse to trudging back on campus, given the fact that I kinda sorta have to. I'm still missing that last recommendation letter, and this is my only real chance to submit my requirements since I'll be in Batanes from Friday until Monday. There's also that small issue of submitting my application to the ADMU English Department. *crosses her fingers* pyrosinferno has given me a lot of support and tips in that direction, but who knows what'll happen, right? I'll just have to hope for the best. B|

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Band of the moment: 65daystofstatic. They sound like the love child of Bloc Party, Mogwai and the Mars Volta. I haven't been this into an instrumental band since... well, since a long way back.

For serious. With titles like "Welcome to the Times", "Aren't We Still Running?", "Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here" and "I Swallowed Hard, Like I Understood", how can you go wrong?

What's funny about this band is that I discovered them through rabid downloading of KHR fan soundtracks.

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Not so randomly: Paolo hung around the office today.

We're living in the same house, and we'll probably end up studying on the same campus. Now, even my work place isn't safe.

Our paths have crossed far too much for comfort lately.

Sorry, kitsune_jade, I couldn't resist.

Until today, I was unaware of the fact that trolls on the Internet could ever get famous. THEN I found out about crawfordjeremy702000.

See this? He has an LJ community devoted to his attacks. Imagine: a fucking LJ community. How many people actually get something like that? o_O

I took the passage below from the comm's description.

The internet is full of many trolls, it's true, but few of them are quite as incomprehensibly bizarre as jeremycrawfordj2000. You might say that this community will only encourage him, but--believe me--he does just fine without any encouragement at all.

This community is here for the next zillion people who do a google blogsearch wondering who the !@#$%#^$@!$%! he is. Feel free to post amusing transcripts of him losing it at you, femslash of any characters he doesn't find hot, and Martha Kent/anyone who's NOT "a younger man".

Anyway, this guy. He apparently stalks fanfic writers online and bugs them to do fanfics for his pairings/fandoms. If they say no, he leaves them with messages like "Ok then WELL FUCK YOU LYING BITCH" or "GO TO HELL" and other endearing missives.

This actually makes me glad that I don't deal with idiots this bad. @_@

Anyway, life stuff. Did more webpage thingies at The Office. Second day of the bleeds, though, so I felt ill for about two hours after lunch. Still under the weather -- lying down for about 30 minutes after I got home helped, but tired is tired. Will probably sleep early tonight. Like, VERY early.

Oh. The laptop also had some sort of mini-breakdown after lunch. Like, I opened up a PDF file and the whole thing just froze. Had to restart twice because I got stuck on the blue "Windows is starting up..." screen the first time around. Thing seems to be running fine now, although the incident was like a kick in the gut. u_u Pammeth needs a new Alistair!PC and must reformat Aidan!Laptop, like, nao.

Quote of the day, courtesy of my brother Pio: "So apparently, when you get married, gaining 10 pounds after is part of the package."

DAILY POSTS ARE DAILY! :D :D :D

Before all else: GO HERE FOR #OOFURI VICTOLY IF IT CONCERNS YOU. :D :D :D explodinguterus and rainy_takako, YOU GUYS WERE AWESOME.

Semi-slow day at work this time around -- it turns out that I pretty much cleared out all the backlog from the past two months that I was absent (read this post for the menial details), so by 4 PM, I was lollygagging on #oofuri and attempting to get getting some plot stuff done for ET. Was lucky enough to snag an early ride home with my mom and my grandmother, who ended up in the office due to pest control and scheduling problems. o_o

I made my Dad lol earlier though:

Me: Do you know what I call Tuesdays and Thursdays now?
Him: o_o?
Me: 500-PESO DAYS! BECAUSE I GET PAID!
Him: ... XD

Will be chillaxing at home again tomorrow; my wrist seems a lot better than it was yesterday (apparently, it's an on-and-off thing for the moment), so maybe I'll get some writing done? Will take breaks to watch animu in between, just to make sure it STAYS fine this time. And maybe I'll take some advice from yukitsu and smack a warm compress on this thing.

On the fandom side of things, I have:

1. Prepared my HD for the Spring Animu Deluge. It'll start with MACROSS FRONTIER, which is apparently coming out tomorrow. u_u
   
2. Caught up with Bleach by speed-reading and basically glazing over most of the dialogue and nearly all of the ridiculously long battle scenes. ...I cannot take the Vaizards seriously, even if they were former shinigami. THEY JUST LOOK SO WEIRD IN THOSE CLOTHES.
   
3. Resuscitated my rabu-rabu for D.Grayman. It still makes me squick at some points (BECAUSE IT IS GOTHIC DBZ WITH PRETTIER CHARACTERS AND A NICER PREMISE), but the love. It is there again. IS IT BECAUSE KANDA IS GROWING A PERSONALITY NAO? OR MAYBE IT'S CROSS' HAIR. LENALEE, PERHAPS?
   
4. Exhausted all current 07 Ghost and Kekkaishi chapters. *shakes their respective authors* I WANT MOAR.
   
5. Watched the commercial for the second season of XXXHOLiC. It still looks... HOLiC-y.
   
6. Started reading Amatsuki. UR RITE, paperonigiri, IT IS VERY INTERESTING.
   
7. Killed myself with Chi's Sweet Home cuteness. How many episodes will this have? Does anyone know? @_@
   
8. Felt my Gaydar blip like there was a mothefucking tsunami on my HD when I caught the first ep of Bus Gamer. ...I'm a little disappointed, but kye_kestrel is right: there will only be 3 eps. It can't get that bad. Can it?
   
9. Finished Spice & Wolf. ...I'm glad it ended well. THE OPENING SONG, IT ALWAYS MADE ME SAD AND FEAR FOR THE WORST.
   
10. Caught up (a little) with Ghost Hound. There is some weird shit going on in there. o_o
    

yukitsu, our project for this weekend is DVD burning, plottage, possible cakeeating-age, and snapping photos of my house. IS DAT COOL WITH YOU COZ IT'S COOL WITH ME! :D

EDIT: THIS is relevant to ADMU Lit Major interests, whether you're former or current. ._. Looks like we're saying goodbye to a master.