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forelyse tagged me for this a couple days ago - I have a fantastic tension-headache right now, and need to take a deep breath and just chill.

Name ten things (in no particular order) that make you happy and tag five others:
1) Hugs
2) A nice hot cup of tea
3) Sleeping in
4) Mail
5) Chocolate
6) Cats
7) Cat macros
8) Long hot showers
9) Good fic/art for my favorite pairings (particularly the obscure ones)
10) Laundry fresh out of the dryer

Tagging: minasehijiri, kin_leung, riddled, kurosakihisoka, naoka_chan

And now, a nice hot cup of tea ♥

Yoinked from gamera, because I am bored. Some of these are very easy, some, maybe not so much. And there's a few older fandoms of mine in the mix because I only tended to have a small handful of things I'm really really into at a given time, which is less fun, as well as some things I'm a fan of, but not in fandom for.

1. Post a list of fandoms.
2. Have your friends guess your favorite character from each fandom.
3. When guessed, add to the list your favourite characters and a sentence explaining why you like them.

1) Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (riddled) One with two - Lucifer: Sexy Evil Bastard, and man is he evil. Delightfully so.
2) Resident Evil (grayhour) Leon: Pretty without being girly, gigantic dork, consume Nice Guy - what's not to love?
3) Devil May Cry (grayhour) Vergil: Classy, and I have a soft spot for snarky uptight bastards with daddy issues
4) FF6
5) FF7 (riddled) One of the ones with two right answers - Rufus: Same as Vergil, largely and Tseng: All the loyalty with a strong side of sexy badass
6) FFX (riddled Braska: Pretty, and a total nice guy without being really naive.
7) X (bramblyhedge) Seishirou: Sexy Evil Bastard. And an assassin!
8) Cardcaptor Sakura
9) Torchwood (bramblyhedge) Ianto: See explanation for Horatio, pretty much. And he's pretty!
10) Yami no Matsuei (grayhour) Tatsumi: Cheap bastard, and a pretty one at that - totally a man after my own heart.
11) Hamlet (grayhour) Horatio: Many people have heard me ramble about why Horatio is the greatest guy EVAR, but basically - he's the sort of guy I want to be: smart, kind, completely loyal.
12) Fullmetal Alchemist (bramblyhedge) Roy: Snarky and wonderful!
13) Heroes (bramblyhedge) Hiro: Adorable nerd-boy ♥
14) House, MD (riddled) Wilson: Same reasoning as Braska (Cuddy's up there, though ^^)
15) Star Trek (bramblyhedge) Spock: My first fangirl-love ever. He's so wonderfully deadpan and smart.

So, my friend Justin is thinking about transfering from Engineering to Science (a move I fully support), and was talking about going down to talk to Engineering Student Services about it:

Justin: So, basically, I have to go and tell them 'I don't want to be raped up the ass by you any more, I want to be raped up the ass by someone else'
Me: Science uses lube!

And then today, I was talking to Justin about Kei-kon, and mentioned posting about it on our messageboards as an FYI for people in the club:

Me: ...It'd be like...the Wargamers invade UVic, or something.
Guy next to us: All I heard was 'Wargamers invade UVic' and I already think this is a good plan.

Seriously, I love the Wargamers. We've had mass sing-alongs to both Weird Al and 'The Ultimate Showdown', watched Rammstein music videos on Youtube, had discussions about about Dante's part time job as an exotic dancer (you know it's true. And it totally needs to be written. Or drawn), and regularly quote geeky webcomics.

And reading break, hooray!

Got tagged by Elisha!
Rules: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 10 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.
( I suspect half you people know all this already... )
Tagging: riddled, bramblyhedge, trenchkamen, shyvus, skuldchan, sephysarkon, mimi_hearts, aria_moonstar, grayhour, baka_oxymoron

After looking over the exam period window, and realizing that Anime Boston was the first weekend of the exam period, I went 'Okay, no way am I going to have all my finals in the first four days of exam period - there's no way I'm going to be able to make it to this con.' Which sucks, because I was selected as a craftsmanship judge again and had to turn it down.

Well, the exam schedule was posted today. And guess when my exams are XD; One apiece, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, of the first week of exam period. And then I'm done. So. Depending on how job-stuff works out, I may actually come home in time for AB for two weeks or so XD; Though I bet the judge spot has already been given away, sadly. Maybe I'll e-mail the coordinator and ask if she's looking for any more staff - I would like to be involved somehow.

Early-morning ebaying has paid off - I scored a shoulder rig for Leon for $77 including shipping - given that new it's $160 plus shipping, and most of the ebay auctions have been ending around $80 plus shipping, I got a good deal. I am also ridiculously tired because I couldn't sleep last night, but that's what energy drinks are for!

Errands for the week:
-Dressew (need more leather scraps, pin backings?)
-Shopper's (rubber cement, insoles)
-Michael's/hobby store (black and gold model paints)
-Student Health Services (make appointment)

You know what's funny? How my three-month old headphones are less functional than this 20-year-old Walkman. When I have some extra cash, I totally need headphones that don't suck - in the meantime, I'll have to do with these.

I totally wish I had my car out here - this would make great driving music, and make proper use of my tape deck ('this' being a mix tape of early 90s industrial - mostly Ministry and Skinny Puppy).

Also, TGIF. This week has been crappy, and I'm glad it's over. The time for video games has begun!

I've finally started collecting photos for a cosplay website (after deciding to make one, what, two years ago?) and....why is it that the only costume I have more than two good photos of is my Subaru shikifuku? You know, the one I wore to all of two cons? I know, I know, it's because I did a couple photoshoots with it. But still. Everything else is trying to pick the least bad photos.

There's a few pretty priceless humor ones in here, though. Like Yami does Hooter's. Or this moment of shower whackiness.

Being in both a tabletop game and an online game at the moment has been making me think about what I like and don't like about each medium a lot recently. Online is more characterization driven, which I like, because I love playing with characterization, but the tabletop stuff has thus far been more pure fun, because the 'RP IS SERIOUS BUSSINESS!!!1!' element is totally gone. Maybe this because LJ isn't involved - I have a theory that the LJ servers are not actually powered by electricity, but by drama.

I've also been itching to play Eva again lately, or Ally. I damn the lack of Sparda RPers XD; I may end up re-writing Mira for a Shadowrun game that's starting up (as I think my Sprawl-verse game is probably a pipe dream) - maybe that will fulfil my 'kickass girl' desires.

I may strangle the next person who tells me what a totally awesome, cool lab position they've scored. This will likely be Yana. No, I don't have anything yet myself. Yes, I still have e-mails to write. Yes, I probably will end up working at White Spot or somewhere equally sad this summer.

...This will probably seem a lot better in the morning, but right now, I'm just utterly frustrated and on the verge of tears.