Before anything else:

THANK YOU SO MUCH, LUVI!

She got me the loveliest, most shamelessly fangirlish gift ever for my birthday, and I totally didn't expect anything. SERIOUSLY, I LOVE YOU!!!111oneoneone

Much love also to le_esperance and mlina, who both popped me before on the premise of getting me a gift!

Much love as well to khursten and botling for the paid accounts and icons, and to desumethis for this lovely fic!


Now for update things I've accumulated since the last time I went online~


( Written on June 3, 2009. )

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And now, today's updates!

I went to sleep last night thinking "Y'know, it'd be really cool if my internet connection went back up on my birthday but LOL AS IF THAT WOULD HAPPEN!"

And it did. @_@

THANK YOU, EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, FOR ALL YOUR LOVELY GREETINGS AND GIFTS! I gots mah paid RP accounts, and icons, and fiiiiic, and love! *A*

Some members of the family were over earlier for a nice, quiet lunch~ some others will be coming in later for dinner! Dad and I will also be getting my laptop, with luck!

...Obviously, I lack coherence. Must be the happy. I feel like a kid again!

Was up and rolling around in bed by 5:30 AM today. WTF BODY CLOCK. Also: WTF BRAIN, YOU'RE WIDE AWAKE. O_O

Late meeting at the Eng Dept later that sounded redundant. Won't be going with anothermiyaw and yukitsu to that, um, event. Iyeah.

ANYWAY, NOW FOR MY REAL REASON FOR POSTING. Finally managed to archive all of the fics I wrote for the Reborn Drabble Meme that kicked around at caelestin's LJ for a bit. Links below:

+ --> genfic: D, 27, 59, Romario
+ --> pairing: 1896
+ --> pairing: 6918, 10069, 2759
+ --> genfic: Kokuyo
+ --> genfic: Spanner, Shouichi, Gamma, Genkishi, 59, 18
+ --> pairing: 8018, ColoLal, 8059, 6927, Spa27
+ --> fic set: the Varia
+ --> pairing: D18


Although some of them are staple pairings or characters for me, most of this stuff are first-time attempts to writing the pairings or characters in question. It doesn't look like I failed TOO badly, but well. |D

WHOOPS. Little bro's awake. SCHOOL TIME alk;dgh;ash;gshagasdh;shd DUN WANNA TEACH NO MORE sldk;ahglk;ashdgh;ds CHRISTMAS BREAK COME QUICKER.

NEW LAYOUT! NEW PROFILE!

izkariote izkariote izkariote

O Hibachuu: y so moe? X3

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I think it's safe to say that my "vacation" officially started yesterday; skipped out on my niece's birthday because I was feeling reclusive, and although I really should've dropped in, I don't want to say that I regret it in the least. From the looks of it, I seriously need some Me Time.

Sunday was pretty uneventful: today was the exact opposite. Slept late due to plotting shenanigans with khursten (D18 Kink is Serious Kink, okay!), and ended up getting jostled awake by my mom at 9:45 AM -- exactly 15 minutes past the time that we were supposed to leave for the hospital. I pretty much stumbled out of bed and "bwuh?"-ed my way through the waiting and through the appointment.

Thyroid Dramu Update: latest scans show I'm clear, but my doctor is, of course, still adamant on me getting the operation. She's not pushy, though, which is cool; she even suggested several sites that I can browse regarding alternative methods of treatment, just in case I really don't want to do the whole Cut Myself Open And Sing While They Take My Thyroid Gland Out thing. She mentioned the fact that the papillary could easily spread to my lungs, which, of course, is important to me given the fact that I smoke. Still ambivalent towards quitting the habit though -- I enjoy it too much, and as I've told many of my friends, smoking has done more than just given me a form of stress relief.

Went off to ADMU after that because I really need my last paycheck for the semester and my Mom kinda wanted to see my cubicle (which she did, along with meeting some of my colleagues). I'll have to go back on Wednesday to see if the Department secretaries are finally available.

Managed to snag some R&R time at home before heading off to Makati to meet with lonelybusiness, ficcentricity, yukitsu, 77ws, kye_kestrel and khursten. AWESOME CHOCOLATE COMA CAKE IS AWESOME. *staaaaaaares at factorielle* 8D

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Lemme do some quick and brutal updates on why I've been so out of it and what's in store for me in the next semester.

• I spent pretty much all of last week checking the crapload of student works and exams that I've accumulated since the end of August -- that ought to explain why I've only been visible on Plurk and y!m rather than LJ. I'm still reeling from all that text, so you'll have to excuse me if I fail at anything that has to do with writing and archiving for a bit. +_+
  
• I am not kidding when I say that I won't have a semestral break -- I might even be digging my own grave by forcing myself to take this week off. I have lesson plans to make and preparations to do regarding the graduate studies units that I need to take up this coming semester. I've also got duties to fulfill for the committees that I'm in over at the faculty (i.e. editing scholarly journals, fixing the formatting on some literary criticism papers, canvassing for potential text books). orz Teaching is serious business, yo.
  
• The papers I was referring to in this post are for classes that I'm still waiting for word about, so I really don't want to post them until I'm sure that they didn't suck. Something tells me that I'm going to end up posting them anyway, given the fact that some of you guys are breathing down my neck about reading them. *crai* I might contact some scholars and professors abroad about reviewing them, depending on the results.
  

Now, about fandom life. I have but one thing to say: I HAVEN'T BEEN UNPRODUCTIVE, JUST PRODUCTIVE IN THE WRONG WAYS! My logs over at reborn_biz can testify to that, along with the fact that I have been making headway with my animu and icon backlog. Natsume Yuujinchou made me wibble lots, and Bounen no Xam'dou totally fucking OWNS me. If you haven't seen those series yet, I DEMAND THAT YOU WATCH THEM NOW.

Also, I've said it once and I'll say it again: I HATE YOU ALL FOR MAKING ME ITCH TO FANFIC. I NEED MY TIME FOR OTHER USELESS THINGS, OKAY. But expect ficcing soon. I WILL WRITE WITH MY DYING WILL.

redmoonmurder, please poke me regarding mod shenanigans. I will be home tomorrow, so you can whip me into working if it pleases you. ♥

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NaNoWriMo in ten days.

I, uh, kinda want to shoot myself.

On the other hand, Return on Investment, here I come, bb. TIME TO SHOW SOME OF THOSE BITCHES HOW TO DO THE KHR ORGY RIGHT, DAMN IT. *coughcoughFlamesandFamilycough*

Stormy weather has made for a very sucky connection as of late, but things seemed to have stabilized. This is proof:

God Made the Distance Between Me & You.

A Shinjiro Aragaki & Akihiko Sanada FST.

DOWNLOAD HERE.

Feedback's appreciated, folks. :3

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Reason stupidity on the literary end of things has my critic bug biting me in the arse, and I'm currently torn between getting a Multiply or sticking to this journal and just making all my literary article shit public. I... kind of fear for my sanity though. Really. And it's back to the claim by good old Alexander Pope, and I quote:

If ain't awesome, don't eat it.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it ain't worth it, don't do it.

...Okay, so he didn't EXACTLY say that, but he DID emphasize on how we really shouldn't waste our time on things that aren't worth critiquing or studying.

Still, if this keeps up, the inner bitch in me will roar. And I'm a little older now. I've got the tools, and I'm pretty sure I know how to use them.

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This month has been crazy but awesome for me. Never done so much academic reading in my life. o_o

And something tells me I'll say that again, a few years down the line, when I really AM drowning, literally, under papers.