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Just renewed T-T.org for another year - this year makes five years I've had it registered - I can't believe it's been that long. I really haven't been doing much with it lately - just my blog and photos, mostly. I've come to the realization that none of my fansite projects are ever going to be done, although I still would like to put together a cosplay website. I've become a bit disillusioned of fandom as of late, but I'm still interested in costuming (although I've had no time to actually work on it). I'm thinking of doing some sci-fi/fantasy stuff for NorWesCon in the spring - either something Earthdawn (because I really like the art style and clothing designs used in a lot of the books), or a set of Vulcan robes, after the discovery that Enterprise actually has lots of Vulcan bits in it, as opposed to the five minutes of those two guys in First Contact.

Also, I am going to kill the roofers next door, who started pounding (and I mean pounding; it sounded like someone was hammering on _our_ wall) at 9:30 this morning. I'm on vacation damnit, I want to sleep.

Back in MA for the next week and a half. My car hasn't been re-registered, so I've only got the minivan in the afternoon, which is kind of a damper on plans. House is largely same old, although my bedroom is half-entertainment center now, which is somewhat awkward. Makes me feel better about my place in Van, though, because man, I forgot how messy and cluttered this house is.

Flights yesterday were okay - somehow my bag ended up getting routed through LA, so after forty-five minutes waiting at the baggage claim for it, I went to the desk and got told it would be showing up in about six hours. They delivered it to the house this morning, but it seems like it got left in a puddle somewhere - a bunch of the clothes at the bottom were all wet.

I feel like I should be doing something productive or creative, but I'm just not in the right mindset right now...

Whiny shallow post time! Because this is my blog, and I can do it if I want. I noticed last week that some of my jeans were feeling uncomfortably tight. So today I dragged out the tape measure to see if I was growing, or my pants were shrinking. The verdict? It is most definitely me. My hips are almost four inches bigger than the last time I measured them, in early June. I know I'm not fat, and I feel shallow for saying this, but damnit, I want my favorite pants to fit again. I can't even get the zipper on my suit pants up anymore. I don't have money to buy more pants D:

I know what it is, too, honestly. I stopped working out over the summer because I was busy and never around, and didn't pick it up again in the fall. And I've finally really hit the end of puberty, which means my metabolism has started to slow down.

I need to start working out again in January - my course-load is a lot lighter, so I actually have time. And I also need to remember that while I can prove that I can eat that whole pot of pasta by myself, I really shouldn't.

I've totally messed up my sleep cycle, and I'm kind of tweaking about my exams, so here I am, blogging at five 'til four in the morning. Just finished Gibson's new novel, Spook Country which was...alright, I guess. I enjoyed it, but I was introduced to him via his Sprawl stuff, and it is the Sprawl stuff that I continue to be most awed by. I'm not sure what it is that attracts me to the cyberpunk/industrial/synthpop vision, although I know some of it is my rampant techno-fetishism.

This train of thought led me in turn to consider dying my hair again. It's been almost two years since the last dye job, which means that most of my friends here have only seen my dyed hair in photos. It might be cool to try for silver again - some part of me resists the idea, though, even though I know it's just temporary.

Time is a strange thing - it seems like forever since that last dye job, almost two years ago, and yet it seems like my high school graduation, around the same time, was just yesterday. Time elongates, and then compresses, doing strange things to your perspective. I know this does particularly weird things to me, as I have a tendency to live by reminiscing about past, or worrying about the future - never in the moment. That's slowly starting to change, though, as I become happier with who I am and how my life is (and in the course of writing this paragraph, I was suddenly struck by a memory of a hike I took on the Bluff Mountain - not so much the walk itself as the scenery).

...Part of me wants to segue into why I'm one of the few people who seems to really like both Earthdawn and Shadowrun (and a few other equally different pairs - alt folk and industrial, anyone?), but I think I may stop here before this post gets a little too Delirium-like.

It's that time of year again! Comments are screened, anybody who wants a card gets one (I've sent them all over the globe in the past XD; )Unfortunately, I don't have the time/funds to do cookies again this year, but I will try do in-character cards if requested - they always turn out amusing.

I'll make a f-locked post with my own address shortly ^^

I would much rather sit inside my house and clean and read Mage books by myself than go out to UBC to play Fireborn. This is in part because while it has stopped snowing, it is still cold and wet and windy outside, and in part because I haven't been having that much fun in the game lately. I know it's basically self-fulfilling: I'm not that interested, so I involve myself less, and then have less fun, and become even less interested. This is in part because we've spent the last two months or so of sessions chasing after one goal, and because I've managed to get myself into a corner as far as characterization goes. It's fantasy in the modern world, so I decided it would be fun to play the skeptical cynic who doesn't believe in any of this stuff (counter to the rest of the party, who question nothing). Things have been getting increasingly weird, but she's largely written this all off as either a dream, hallucination, or psychotic break. The problem with this is that now that particular personality point has been made, I can't turn around and suddenly be 'Okay, all of this weird shit is real!' without it being horribly out of character, and I can't think of a suitable catalyst for the change. I dunno, if someone else smacks her and points out the 'look, you were just talking to a _whale_. Underwater.' bit, that might do it.

I did get most of my dishes washed today, though, so my kitchen looks like normal people live here now XD; Next up, living room.

Two of the Group Projects from Hell are finished and over with. I basically had to do the poster and presentation for one of them myself, but it went over well in the end. This just leaves one more presentation on Tuesday, which unfortunately is also accompanied by a long-ass paper. The presentation is group, but the paper is individual, which is both good and bad - bad because I'm on my own, but good because I can do it on my own pace. I will prevail!

Also, Jon is the most wonderful man ever, and Umbrella Chronicles is pretty sweet. That is all.

So I've spent too much time today sitting around trying to come up with a name for my Nethermancer. The Second Step's random Earthdawn name generator seems to be really convinced I want to name him Ari, as it came up a bunch of times - I don't, for more or less the same reason I don't have any Maras or Jonathans - characters with names of friends just seems awkward.

So! I've come up with Isak and Miska - leaning towards the first, but I'm terrible at picking names (Asher got named by Clare and Jesse. After Jesse's _dog_) - opinions? Surname to be picked once I have a first name decided on.

(Yes, I am totally avoiding schoolwork with this pointless exercise)

So, after metaphorically slapping myself around for being a bit of an asswipe for the last week and a half, things are looking up. I cleaned out my fridge last night, and have been doing laundry today - I should probably do dishes as well, but eh >.> The massive group dice order I organized came in yesterday, so I'm going to go pick it up and pay duty on it today. Project Runway 4 also started airing last night - first episode shows a lot of promise for this season, although I am too lazy to provide further commentary.

After Tuesday night, I've also sat down and done some thinking about Earthdawn stuff. I'm definately going to keep Jorim around in my binder, ready to restat in the future when I've got a good fit for him - the current party was, honestly, not it, which is why I didn't get to do most of the stuff I wanted to with him. I've come up with two different concepts for a new character - I need to do some research on one of them before I make up my mind. They are as follows:

Male human Nethermancer: Original idea was to do something rather TB!Sei-esque - kinda gay, somewhat sociopathic, tendency to give silly cute names to terrifying undead monsters. That idea + this party = NO, though, so I've toned it down to a personality a little closer to how I play Tseng - mostly calm, with just a touch of sarcasm and dry wit. Probably a little less scary than my Tseng, as, well, Tseng is an assassin, essentially, and this guy is not.

Female T'skrang Taildancer: This I need to look up more on, as Taildancers are only in the newest edition, which I don't have PDFs for. But personality-wise - young and energetic, hasn't quite grasped that she isn't invincible yet. Not really violent like Igthakon was, but probably at least a bit physical - not afraid to smack someone she thinks is dumb (although, Aaron, Igthakon fangirl Y/N XD;?). I don't know how well another hyperactive T'skrang would fit with this party, though XD;

Is it true that D20 gives you cancer?

Leading healthy game researchers seem to think so. Luckily, all Catalyst Game Labs products are cancer-free!

I lol'd.

I should be working on my Linguistics paper, but listening to techno and writing character backstory up is way more fun.