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[25 Dec 2009|09:12am]
I got a laptop!

...Now I just need to figure out how to USE it!



ALSO DISTRICT 9 FOOK YEAH AND IT COMES WITH A FRENCH AUDIO TRACK, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW HILARIOUS THAT'S GOING TO BE



and now a nice long nap. <3
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[24 Dec 2009|06:37am]
WATCHING PLAYTHROUGH OF PENUMBRA BLACK PLAGUE ALONE AT NIGHT WITH THE LIGHTS OFF = HORRIFYING

WHAT A WAY TO START CHRISTMAS EVE
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[13 Dec 2009|01:47am]
I may or may not have had my very first migraine a few hours ago. I had a fever, still have it actually, and what started out as a normal headache turned into a... face-ache. The bones in my face hurt along with the top of my skull, I've never felt anything like it, it hurt so bad I cried. If that's what a migraine is then I can see why they're such torture for people who get them all the time. I've only ever had painless ocular migraines before. Hope this isn't the beginning of a new trend in my life, all I need is more obnoxious painful shit to deal with.
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Writer's Block: Voulez-vous parler ... [12 Dec 2009|07:31am]

Which language(s) do you currently speak? If you could learn only one other language, what would you choose, and why?

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I speak only English, because I'm pitiful like that. I can speak/understand Japanese and German with about equal fluency (which is to say not much, but enough to get by okay if I were dropped into the countries and had to survive.) I know some French. I know a tiny bit of Spanish, and an even tinier bit of Latin.

If I could choose any language to learn, it would be Czech. I've fallen in love with it, but it seems to be tremendously difficult to learn, which breaks my heart. I think it's a gorgeous language by both how it's spoken and written, and I love the accent and find it quite sexy, haha. I think I've come to love it even more than German, which had been my true language love for about 6+ years, so it's kind of a big deal. A bonus to learning Czech would be gained competence with both Slovak and Polish. Also I'd love to go to the Czech Republic, but that's... really not what the question was asking...

It bears mentioning that my horrible lack of confidence prevents me from SPEAKING any of the languages I attempt to learn, I get so flustered if I try that I prefer to not speak anything else but English around others. I have problems. :<

Are you pleased with this answer, Jan? Of course you are.
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Writer's Block: Go it alone [09 Dec 2009|05:38am]

Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children? Do you think this ostracizes people who would be perfectly content to remain single and/or child-free? Is this pressure worse around the holidays?


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Yes. Yes. Sometimes.
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[07 Dec 2009|08:46pm]
The rare amusing posts from GameFAQs (about FFX/X-2):

"Paine is actually Auron trying something different."


"I can't think of any childraising expert who says 'if your child is being picked on, tell them to earn the respect of their peers with a heroic suicide'.

That's because you live on Earth, not Spira. And Spira obviously has child-rearing problems; if children aspire to become sporting equipment when they grow up. I don't think they have child raising experts. Think of Rikku and Cid. Cid is more concerned about trumping his half-breed niece's dreams then making sure his own daughter doesn't go around dressing like a whore."


"Chappu is sexually attracted to men. He tried to deny it but couldn't, that's why he 'would propose when they won the tournament' because he knew he would never win and that's why he joined the crusaders. Not to protect Lulu but to get away from her so he could have some man love without anyone noticing. Not taking Wakka's sword because he could handle the Al Bhed weapon was euphemism that Wakka didn't understand as Chappu assumed Wakka always knew (they used to sit under the tree and talk about boys when they young) the reason Sin was able to 'crush' him was because the crusaders weren't supposed to be fighting Sin at the time. Chappu and some other flamboyant Crusaders were rolling around on the beach having some fun time. Sin happened to pass and.... Well he wanted to join in :S it didn't end well."
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[07 Dec 2009|12:19am]
My head feels like it's in a vise... or a vice, haha. Stupid. I know.

The more I write on my novel, the more I realize just how ridiculously long this first half is going to be. I've actually forgotten to write a scene that's pretty important. I don't feel like going back to add it in yet, so I guess I'll be bullshitting as though I had actually written it all along.

I stopped playing FFX-2 and switched to FFX for a few days now. I could not for the life of me remember how to get the Magus Sisters, and I just looked it up, I would've never remembered that without looking at this guide. I'm not even going to fuck around with the Sun/Venus/Saturn sigils this time... it was bad enough in my original save, fuck it.

Pain pain pain, what else is new. I don't feel very good. SSDD.
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[30 Nov 2009|10:46pm]
http://community.livejournal.com/silenthill/1036086.html#cutid1

Well, it was only a matter of time. I'm surprised he lasted this long. If this is true it is sad, but expected, and I'm sure he'll go on to better (if not necessarily bigger) things. This feels like a part of my childhood dying though, with no more of his SH or Bemani music. That is such a sad thought. It's not like he'll stop making music though, but still... it's the end of an era. :(

commence bawwwwwing
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[29 Nov 2009|10:11pm]
LOL @ tonight's Amazing Race. Even though my favorite team got the boot, it was worth it getting to see a bunch of drunk Czech people. I KNEW they couldn't make it out of there without having at least one alcohol-related task. Brian: "Everything seems to be going right on this leg!" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE DRUNK.

I have been on such a Final Fantasy kick lately. I have the strongest urge to replay FFVII, yes, again. I drew the 3 FFVII lead females today for the first time in YEARS, and was struck by how much less I suck at drawing compared to years ago. I was also kind of amazed that I remembered each of their costumes perfectly. I have an excuse in Yuffie's case, since I've had a poster of her up in my room for the last 8 years or so. The picture of Tifa came out the best. I've always liked drawing Tifa. Then I tried to draw Penelo for some reason, and even with a reference it was awful. Fuck Penelo.

Anyway I just downloaded several hundred MB's of Sims CC and I'm eager to see it ingame... that's it for now. Oh, and I verified my wordcount on the NaNo site today. I was going to work on my novel some more but it's been put on hold for a few more days. I'm working out a few kinks in the upcoming plot points, since my characters have complicated things by their refusal to take the story at the pace I had originally intended. Boys, boys...
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FFX-2 again, and Sims stuff. [25 Nov 2009|09:30pm]
[ mood | sleepy ]

I did indeed get Mascot, it was so much less difficult this time. The digging ended up being the very last thing I did this time around too, and the Attack assemblies eluded me just like before, I guess they're programmed to be harder to come by than the rest. Angra Mainyu was much trickier this time around, it kept using Perdition's Flame every time and offing 2 of the girls right at the beginning of the battle. The last time I fought it, Rikku was left alive with like 100 HP, and by some amazing stroke of luck (or rather an amazing moment of stupidity on the AI's part) it cast Demi. DEMI. ANY other attack could've killed her, and it casts DEMI! I laughed as my party was revived and Yuna Catnip'd it to death. I never noticed this before, but a Hasted Trigger Happy gets in 19 hits, that's good to know for later.

Sitting at 92% now, 100% is probably out of reach given the few things I've skipped/missed. I think I was supposed to make Rikku the culprit in the Mi'ihen Highroad thing, but I did the Chocobo Eater instead, I'm not sure but I think that means I've missed a few points and possibly something else. It doesn't really matter though, 100% isn't that big of a deal. I'd still like to get it in one playthrough, but there will be other opportunities. I haven't done the Den of Woe yet, saving it for later since it's my favorite part of the game. And though I'll probably say "fuck it" again after I try and fail numerous times, I still want to attempt to beat Trema. That's the only thing I've never done in this game. It would be nice to actually accomplish that, since I always do the rest of the Via Infinito... I'm nearly halfway down the damn thing this time around.

As for The Sims... I was playing with some of my 'half-demon' kids in Uni, I had just moved everyone into their dorm, and stuff started glitching. Some of the academic performance meters aren't rising, which if they're still able to get good grades won't matter, and the dorm keeps getting outrageously high bills delivered. I used motherlode so they'd be able to pay them, but still, it's annoying. These kids were all supposed to be cousins but aren't counted as related by blood in-game, and ended up sleeping with each other thanks to ACR. Ugh. Also one of the girls had a crush on her FATHER, since they aren't counted as related either because I spawned her in CAS and didn't connect them through the family tree. It's all very awkward, but then again they're supposed to be demons, so it doesn't really matter. Just a little weird is all.

Thanksgiving tomorrow. Doesn't feel like it though. Not looking forward to it as usual... oh well.

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[22 Nov 2009|12:21am]
Wow, I played FFX-2 basically all day long... I woke up a little before 7:00 AM, and aside from two brief breaks, played till around 10:00 PM. Halfheartedly going for 100% in one go again, although since I skipped Gunner's Gauntlet yet again and don't plan on going back to it, that probably won't happen. I cannot stand that minigame, it's probably my least favorite thing in the entire goddamn game, even worse than Sphere Break. Speaking of which, I beat Shinra on my third try this time, I could hardly believe it. As long as I don't fuck something up between now and the end, I should be on track to get the Mascot dressphere. I'm in the middle of chapter 4 at the moment. Every time I play this game I love it even more. I wish it weren't so widely despised. It's not like it's the worst thing Squeenix ever shat out, not by a long shot...

Also, and this is totally stupid, but I don't see why everyone seems to hate the Leblanc Syndicate, especially Leblanc herself. I love all of them, and if I were in the FFX-2 'verse, I'd join up with them in a heartbeat.

I forgot just how many pairings I liked in this game. Since nearly everyone is gay (no, really) it's like a shipping extravaganza at every turn. I think I'll go hunt for some FFX-2 art on pixiv.
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I am way too excited about this. [20 Nov 2009|09:55am]
[ mood | unsettled ]

I have succeeded in tracking down another one of the many cartoons I saw as a child but could not remember the name of! This one in particular I have been trying to track down for at least 10 years now. I saw it only once on "O Canada," which some of you may remember as being an old show on Cartoon Network that showcased Canadian animation, most of which was aimed at adults. Though I didn't care much for the show since I found the cartoons too bizarre even for my standards, I watched it anyway.

This cartoon, entitled "Arkelope," disturbed me so much that the memory of it stayed with me for all these years. I've thought about it quite often, and I recognized the art style immediately on the website and finally got to watch it again a few minutes ago. It's a little over five minutes long:

video behind a cut in case it lags your friends page )

Even now I find this cartoon extremely unnerving. Nevertheless, I can't begin to express how relieved I am to finally have found it, as my inability to locate anyone else who had even a vague recollection of this cartoon had started to make me wonder if I had dreamed it up or something. But here it is in all its surreal, disconcerting glory, at last.

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Talk about a post about nothing. [18 Nov 2009|11:47pm]
So I ate this sandwich today. It was good, but it had Dijon mustard on it. This shit tasted so horrible that it ruined the entire fucking sandwich, even though there was only one tiny package of mustard on it. I ate it like 12 hours ago, and every once in a while I have these, uh, taste flashbacks, like it was a traumatic experience or something just to eat this fucking horrible ass mustard. It was so sour and vile that it tasted like a chemical of some sort. Just... terrible. Why, god, why?
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[17 Nov 2009|04:22pm]
holy balls my body is in a lot of pain today
honestly it's hurting in ways I've never felt before


also, lol @ doing dares and ending up with something completely incompatible with the genre of my novel, but writing it anyway

IN THE FUTURE, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT
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CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES, COME ON!!! [13 Nov 2009|08:24am]
[ mood | accomplished ]

50118 / 50000
(100.24%)



AWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEAH

In your face, NaNo procrastinations of years past! I HAVE CONQUERED YOU SUPER EARLY THIS TIME. HUZZAH. And I only have about 100k more to go before this story is anywhere close to being done.

I feel fooking awesome right now, even though my back is killing me, I'm so tired I'm hallucinating, and if I have to type much more I'm going to scream. It's all worth it!
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[11 Nov 2009|10:55am]
43108 / 50000
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My MC's are semi-drunkenly making out at the moment. It's about goddamn time.
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[09 Nov 2009|11:43pm]
[ mood | awake ]

Okay, I'm getting more and more convinced that this novel was just MEANT TO BE or something. Not only have I found it suspiciously easy to write, but there have also been numerous things popping up related to both Sweden and the Czech Republic recently, the birthplaces of my two MC's.

The most recent leg of The Amazing Race involved the teams going to Stockholm (MC's hometown.) Okay, not that strange, they'd gone there before. So I looked up the current season up on Wikipedia and apparently the teams will also be going to Prague (other MC's hometown) in a couple of episodes, making it the first time the show's ever gone to the Czech Republic. ALL DURING NANO-TIME. Strange. BUT HOLY SHIT I'M GOING TO TAPE THOSE EPISODES SO HARD, DELICIOUS PRAHA~

So then this morning as I'm laying in bed attempting to fall asleep, I turn on the TV and Anthony Bourdain is on, and since I despise that man I'm about to turn the channel when something tells me to wait. So I leave it there for a few minutes and gasp, the episode is all about Sweden! I only watched the first segment, but sure enough it took place in Stockholm. One of the guys he was having a meal with cracked a hilarious joke, something about how the meatballs they were eating were "very Swedish" and "didn't say much." I fukken lol'd. And then felt embarrassed because I was laughing watching a show I hate, all alone in a room, based on knowledge I'd gathered in doing research for my novel.

There's been other little things, but those are the big three. Now logically I know I'm only noticing these things BECAUSE I'm looking for them, but it's still pretty neat to figuratively think that maybe the planets have aligned to grant me my success in this year's NaNoing. Or something. I don't know, I'm so fucking tired. Back to writing.


oh and also i'm going to attempt to find somewhere to watch an upcoming czech soccer match yes i am a gigantic nerd leave me alone oh god why have i fallen so hard for this country and its language and culture ffffffff

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[09 Nov 2009|06:01am]
33133 / 50000
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Yeah... taking a break now.
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[08 Nov 2009|11:56pm]
OH GOD WHY IS THIS SO EMBARRASSING TO WRITE

You'd think after the horrible awkward-fest that was my '07 novel, not to mention RPing Helmut, one of the most repressed fucking characters I've ever encountered, that writing this wouldn't be so difficult. BUT IT IS, OH GOD, IT IS. Why must I have such a severe second-hand embarrassment squick? And yet part of me is just laughing in sadistic glee as I write these scenes.

This is only the tip of the uncomfortable iceberg.
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[07 Nov 2009|06:51am]
21256 / 50000
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O_O

On day 7, folks. DAY FREAKING SEVEN.
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