the kangaroo communique --> back-up style!

This week has been absolutely lovely so far, with all these meets with friends~ it's just too bad that I wasn't able to go out with mlina. That would have made it even lovelier. :<

Also: Red Cliff was absolute win. HORSE PUNCHING, GET.

It's been a nice and quiet day at home for me, just like yesterday. Beautician came over to do my nails and some waxing (yeah, I'm preparing for Singapore, bite me), and I got to roll around and poke people that I don't often get to poke on IM (signifies, I'm looking at you). I also got to enable a lot of people to do a lot of shiny things, so that is always cool! Am also still on my jazz trip, since I'm working my way through the huge set of songs that khursten gave me. Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald are pure ♥, always and ever.

...Speaking of music. Let me tell you, flist, that the section of my external HD that I devote to my music finally ran out of space yesterday. Cue me madly scrambling around to distribute files to the laptop and less congested drives on my main PC.

This must be a sign. Guess I'm bringing home a new external HD and possibly a DS from my trip next week.

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Since I literally tore myself away from playing more Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, have a fic dump:


+ Tempting me into the garden; KHR!, 8018, for questofdreams
+ I'll tap into your strength; Suikoden Tierkreis, Jale & Sieg, for mienaihoshi
+ The aftertaste is gonna break your heart; theskytides, Roy & Rou, for tasogareika
+ Another grey day in the deep blue world; Persona 3, Shinji & Aki, for tasogareika
+ Above the thunder; Air Gear, Rika, for annotate
+ Bring me lasting light; Gintama, Gintoki, for khursten
+ In between the moon and you; Bleach meets Devil Summoner, Byakuya & Raidou + Ichigo, for kitsune_jade
+ Hell's bells
+ Splintering the night; FF7 meets FFT, Ramza & Cloud + Sephiroth, for kitsune_jade


And my belated birthday set for starkissed:

+ Necromancy; soul_campaign, Mukuro & Sakura
+ A playfully dangerous stranger; XXXHOLiC, Doumeki & Watanuki
+ How fire took water to wife; XXXHOLiC, Clow & Yuuko
+ Our time is running out; X, Sorata & Arashi
+ Hide-and-seek among the tea flowers; Yuuto & Karen
+ Rose, oh pure contradiction; KHR!, Hibari & Kyoko + Kusakabe
+ Private star systems; KHR!, Hibari & Kyoko
+ The heart of your gesture; Hibari & Kyoko


Pimped some of these on comms already, so you've prolly seen a few of them. Or you've already seen all of them, if you're following my fic journal. o_o

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.

Quick pimp-outs before updates!

+ Fanfic for fushimiru, theskytides RPG; Raidou and Naoto, "When are you going to love you as much as I do?"
+ Fanfic, Metal Gear Solid 3; Big Boss, "Slowly twisting the lilac stalks"
+ Fanmix, KHR!, for desumethis; Xanxus & Squalo - Married, with Domestic Violence!


It's good to be mixing again, and even better to be writing again. Currently working on a *cough* surprise KHR! fic, and it's going well. I just might make the deadline without problems.

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As some of you already know, I went out with my folks to the Canadian Embassy. Passport renewal is death serious business, so serious, in fact, that it entailed being stuck on the road for nearly two hours (CURSE YOU, WEATHER!) and another hour-long wait because the dudes ahead took forever and a day.

Was supposed to go and see khursten (and later meet up with the Koushien for dinner along Tomas Morato), but we had to take a rain check because lol, well. Rain. Anyway, ended up tagging along with my folks the whole day - first to Glorietta (mom wanted to get her watches fixed at the service center), then to Megamall (dad wanted to canvas the prices of shotguns at the gun convention).

In spite of the fact that I've only pretty much just gotten home, it was rather nice, spending time with the folks. One funny thing that happened today was my dad attempting to read what I was working on over my shoulder. I... sort of panicked because I was doing gay porn. Um. Yeah. /)_(\

Oh, I also saw yukitsu for a bit! We finally got our gelato! ♥

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Because of all the waiting time I had today, I got to finish Misha McGlenny's McMafia, after nearly a year of picking it up and putting it down. It's a fascinating read exploring the relationship between organized crime and globalization, and I strongly recommend it to whoever's into those topics.

With that done, I can go on to crawling through the other selections on my book shelf, and the book that lonelybusiness lent me a long, long, LONG time ago. *sob* RL keeps me pretty much too busy to really go through books unless I'm in transition or transport, since I'm usually occupied with so many other things when I'm actually free.

This has to change, though. Gotta make reading for leisure a much more regular habit, the way it used to be.

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Funky animu again this season. Bakemonogatari and Tokyo Magnitude 8 look exceptionally well-done, for one.

Here's my attempt at compensating for all the fail when it comes to gifts and personal deadlines. @_@

Belated Happy Birthday, signifies. This also goes out to botling, my original enabler for this pairing. ♥


( The Unlikeliest Impossibility: 1896, version SKYTIDES. )