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"Get out of the bison's mouth, Sokka." [July 24, 2008 @ 6:31pm] [ mood | Content ] [ music | T.M. Revolution - Resonance ] I took the day off today to watch the second half of the final season of Avatar, and /damn/. What a show. ( Cut for spoilers! ) And yes, at the end of the epic, Toph is still my favorite. (1) laps, so get running!

Fic Post: Better than the Real Thing [TeniPuri] [July 18, 2008 @ 12:29pm] [ music | Suzanne Vega - Stockings ] rikkai_exchange reveals are up, so it's now safe to post this: Better than the Real Thing: 2882 (though only slightly), G-rating. Niou and Yagyuu visit a gallery of forgeries and fakes. Set prior to the Kantou matches with Seigaku, and references (obliquely) the manga canon. For onlysayitonce as part of the rikkai_exchange festivities. Much love for my beta, lady_of_water. ( No room for a little smudge out of place, hmm? ) (4) laps, so get running!

Moving Blues [July 18, 2008 @ 12:00pm] [ music | 米倉千尋 - Feel Me ] I haven't updated in a bazillion years, and not for lack of free time. The internet is finally hooked up at the house, though I haven't managed to locate my wireless router yet, so it's just Morganna plugged into the wall. The moving van finally arrived yesterday, so the house is now filled with boxes. I've been unpacking pretty continuously since yesterday afternoon. At least now I have my TV, so I can enjoy the glory of NCIS on a screen that is not my laptop's. There is /so much stuff/ to be unpacked, it's ridiculous. I couldn't even get into my kitchen this morning because there were so many boxes. I am happy to report that I am making somewhat of a dent, though with some less than pleasing results. Two of my bookshelves were completely destroyed and will have to be thrown out, and a couple other pieces of furniture were damaged. Most upsetting, though, was that about half of my Christmas ornaments were crushed and had to be thrown out. Galen finishes up Institute today, so hopefully his schedule will loosen up a little for the next couple of weeks. I've barely started job hunting yet; I'm to busy unpacking, watching NCIS, and just generally being a bum. Actually, if anyone wants to come visit, this would be a great time :D so get running!

Drabble Meme Post III: Play With You [TeniPuri] [July 02, 2008 @ 6:28pm] [ music | Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk ] For cinoberis, who has waited far too long for this: Play With You: Oishi's liquor-loosened tongue lets Eiji in on some of his more private feelings. ( It's just really, really sad. ) (1) laps, so get running!

Hiatus...again. [June 20, 2008 @ 11:15pm] [ mood | Buh D: ] [ music | キグルミ - くるっと・まわって・いっかいてん ] Moving van's coming in the morning on the 26th, and I'll be in the car driving out to my new place that afternoon, so I'm taking a hiatus from the Tubes long enough to finish getting my house packed. At the moment, there's still a lot of work to be done. And I haven't forgotten about the drabble meme prompts. They're coming, just slowly. (1) laps, so get running!

Drabble Meme Post II: Grin and Bear it [TeniPuri] [June 13, 2008 @ 12:23pm] [ music | "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" Marathon! on TV ] Drabble Meme Post II, for neitaro! This is my first time writing Rokkaku, and I hope it's along the lines you were hoping for. Grin and Bear it: Saeki, Kisarazu Ryou, and a teddy bear who knows too much. ( I didn't do it. ) Two done! (4) laps, so get running!

Drabble Meme Post I: Food Fight [TeniPuri] [June 10, 2008 @ 10:22pm] [ music | Caramell - Caramelldansen [Speedycake Mix] ] Drabble Meme Post I, for whisper132! Hope this scratches your Maruihara itch. Food Fight: Maruihara with a special guest appearance. Tanabata takoyaki fails to live up to Marui's discriminating palate, and Kirihara tries to fan the flames. ( Fried food vengeance! ) One down, five more to go! (7) laps, so get running!

Drabble Meme! [June 09, 2008 @ 9:58pm] [ mood | Bored ] [ music | The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song ] Necessity may be the mother of invention, but boredom is the source of all bad ficcage. That being said: Drabble Request Meme! Pick a fandom from the list below, and leave a comment with a pairing/character and a prompt. I'll comment back with a drabble. Everybody wins! ( Pick your poison :D ) Really, I am packing up the entire house and am lonely and bored, so bring on the prompts! (11) laps, so get running!

May Term 2008 Photo Spam! [June 07, 2008 @ 11:47pm] Well, it's about damn time I made a photo post about my trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos archipelago. It's very graphic-heavy, so I apologize if you're on dialup and trying to see these. I've resized the photos so they're more managable, and I've split the trip into two parts: Santa Lucia ecolodge on the mainland, and then the Islands themselves. Enjoy! ( Santa Lucia, Ecuador ) Before you take a look at the Galapagos shots, I'd like you to know that I took every one of these pictures with a simple point-and-shoot camera. No telephoto lenses (and frequently no zoom at all) were used. Just something to think about, and you'll see why. ( Galapagos Archipelago ) (9) laps, so get running!

On Holiday [May 04, 2008 @ 10:47pm] I'm away in the Galapagos and Ecuador until the 27th, so no comments will be answered until after that point. See you all then! (5) laps, so get running!

[April 25, 2008 @ 8:01pm] Today was the last day of classes that I will ever have at college. That still hasn't completely sunk in yet, and actually, I'm not sure it ever will. (8) laps, so get running!

Birthdays! [April 20, 2008 @ 10:23pm] The 20th of April is a day full of celebration for me. So very very happy birthday to green_icemice, to Marui-kun, and to my beloved Fox. If I didn't have tons of schoolwork to do, there would be art and fic and cake; as it is, I'll have to settle for review sheets and SuperANOVA print-outs and poorly-constructed PowerPoints. so get running!

[April 19, 2008 @ 10:23pm] [ music | ALI PROJECT - Friendly Like in Childhood ] Galen and I may have macro-ed the puppy last night. Maybe. ( Kozue has done nothing to deserve this. ) (4) laps, so get running!

Fic Post: The Long Wait [TeniPuri] [April 17, 2008 @ 2:55pm] [ music | Don McLean - Crossroads ] Author reveals are up for subrosa_tennis, and apparently I'm rather good at disguising my writing. As such: The Long Wait: Oshitari x Atobe, G/PG. In which Oshitari's soap opera hobby becomes Atobe's humiliating addiction. For the subrosa_tennis short fic round. Major thanks to Miss Justine and to repto, who betaed for me. ( Life was not supposed to be this cruel, not to a member of the Atobe family. ) so get running!

Still not dead. Mostly. [April 16, 2008 @ 9:02am] [ mood | Optimistic ] [ music | Rie Fu - 5000マイル [Album Version] ] It's been a while since I made a post, so here's an update. A lot of really good stuff has been happening in my life lately, and I'm still pretty busy with school. K-chan and I finished our Vertebrate Zoology experiment (we cleaned it all up yesterday) and just have to crunch our data and write it up. I'm down to three tests left until the end of the semester, and three papers (one of which is, granted, twenty pages minimum, but hey). The job front has been less than promising. I finally heard back from SoundWaters, where I'd applied to do environmental education, and I didn't get the job. Basically, I'm not sure anymore where I'm going to end up after graduation, and that thought is kind of frightening. I do feel that my not getting this job is a sign of some sort, and I hope that the meaning will become clear to me soon. On a better note, now that comps are over, I've had more time for a social life, and in addition to spending more time with friends, I've actually started seeing someone (who, ironically, I met through comps study group). He has been a very positive influence on me, getting me up and out of the house to go do things, and I've been having a great time. This is a time of great change in my life, but honestly, for the moment, I'm enjoying it. And that in itself is noteworthy. (1) laps, so get running!

Ur exams, I passes dem with honors. [April 08, 2008 @ 5:27pm] !!!!! I PASSED COMPREHENSIVES WITH HONORS! There will be celebratory semi-drunk bowling tonight! (13) laps, so get running!

[April 08, 2008 @ 12:48am] And just when I have resigned myself to be something less than what I'd so wanted, the wind changes and with it my luck. I cannot even begin to describe what has gone on today, but suffice it to say that I cannot remember a time when I have been so elated. so get running!

[April 06, 2008 @ 8:02pm] [ music | "The Return of the King" on TV ] reddwarfer has given me an excellent and much-needed distraction. 1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons. 2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose. 3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts. 4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee! She selected: Sell your brother for fun and profit! This is an image from one of Kousaka Tohru's "Okane ga Nai" series (from one of her doujinshi, but I can't remember which one). This series is just so terribly ridiculously disturbing, and features the sale of siblings in order to alieviate gambling (if I remember correctly) debts. Sadistic Mode is Kousaka's circle name, by the way. I can't remember why I iconed this (it's one of the oldest ones I have), but I do know that I'm kind of morbidly entertained by this series. DO YOU EAT CRABS? This is an image from L'Arc~en~Ciel's "SMILE" album. I'm not even that big of a fan of the album, but I thought the photos from it were just fantastic. I was lucky enough to see L'Arc in concert a few years ago, and Hyde's little spurts of English (such as asking the entire Baltimore stadium if they ate crabs, because earlier that day, he ate two) will make me giggle obnoxiously until the day I die. This is one of my simpler icons, I think, but I really like it (perhaps because of that). Yay death! Oh X. This icon is of Seishirou, from that monster set of CLAMP creations, "Tokyo Babylon" and "X" (specifically the "X" TV series). Seishirou and Subaru were one of the first really canon pairs I liked, and their relationship (both in the canon and the fanon) is still something I like to talk and joke about. Speaking of which, I should really do some fic here, or at least a drabble. Hmm. Nikoniko Marukkiri This is one of many icons I have from a TeniPuri doujinshi; I'm pretty sure this is from a TeniPara anthology, but honestly, I don't remember. It's Marui and Kirihara, who are my OTP. This may be my most-used icon; it's happy and cute and really simple. Hope that was entertaining! I look forward to playing with all of you :D (2) laps, so get running!

This is just not my week. Also fic stuff. [April 03, 2008 @ 11:42am] [ music | 柴咲コウ - 恋愛感染経路 ] It's official: senioritis has hit me like a Knuckle Serve to the face. Now that comps are over (I hope), I'm finding it so difficult to focus on working. Which is bad, considering that the semester's still got a good amount of homework with my name on it. ( What's left for Spring 2008 ) In other news, I have a couple of fic deadlines right around the corner (megane_o_hazusu stuff and Bunta's birthday come to mind right off the bat, but rikkai_exchange needs some serious attention before I head off to the Galapagos), but a miserable case of writer's block has hijacked my brain. Is anyone interested in doing a flash-fic session with me sometime next week? It worked like a charm last time, and was tons of fun to boot. Leave me a comment or a message if you're interested. (2) laps, so get running!

[April 02, 2008 @ 10:05am] [ mood | Near-dead ] So I may or may not be posting from my Vertebrate Zoology class. The only reason I say "may not" is because there is a very good possibility that I am actually still asleep, or that I have fallen asleep in Vert Zoo and am dreaming about posting. That is how exhausted I am. Saturday was Earth Hour, so to celebrate, Rachael, Leah and Evan came over and we all played cards by candlelight. For us, it actually ended up being Earth Two Hours, since we were having so much fun that we neglected to check the clock. I was sad to find out that most of my friends didn't know about Earth Hour, particularly since my school prides itself on being very Green. I will make more of an effort to make people aware next year. Sunday, Miss Justine and I finally got to pick up where we left off in AniPuri (we were smack in the middle of the Hyoutei training camp and hadn't had time to watch for the last three weeks). I really miss having new geniuses to read every week; it gave me something to look forward to, something I could be excited about. Lately I feel like that sort of passion is missing in my life, and the result is, I suppose, exasperation and exhaustion. (3) laps, so get running!

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