I am totally enjoying writing Asher in RR. I think some of this is because somewhere over the last several months, I've settled into him in a way I hadn't before. He was the first character I ever seriously wrote, and in the begining, his characterization was all over the place. Honestly, I cringe a little just thinking about some of the early posts I did for S_F. RR!Asher...is really what he was intended to be, honestly. The right ratio of asshole to decent human being, at the right times. Only took me, what, a year and a half XD;? I hope Anya doesn't take that long.

And I could ramble about Asher's characterization and personality for paragraphs and paragraphs (as, uh, a few people here know), but for now, have a little Asher and Ally snippet - first time they met, oh so many years ago. I meant to write more of it, but as you can tell by the post date there... no, not gonna happen. S_F-verse, but RR-verse is more or less the same, except they're each two years older, and LA doesn't get nearly as cold as Midgar.

Movie-wise, we saw Children of Men tonight, and I will be a dissenting voice, it seems, and say it was good, but not amazing. The world/setting were well fleshed out (although there was a certain amount of hand-waving in the history that bugged me in what was a rather cyberpunk movie. Cyberpunk thrives on the absence of the hand-waving found in most sci-fi). Unfortunately, the plot was a little simplistic (I guessed pretty much all the ending a third of the way in) which meant the 'this could be us' message was a little heavy-handed. Still, worth at least one watch, if only for the setting.

My dad and I went into Cambridge today to so some shopping and have lunch. My big quest was to get a new Tatsumi suit at Keezer's, but that ended up not happening. We did, however, find an vintage bomber jacket that fit me perfectly, but was unfortunately way too beat up for the price they were asking. Remembering that I sort of needed one for Leon, we set off on a bit of a quest through the various thrift stores. No success on the jacket, but the Garment District had a bunch of the navy blue tactical pants I needed, for $20 less than the cheapest online place, so I bought the smallest pair they had, which is maybe a touch too big (as in I'm right on the border between small and medium, and these are mediums).

My inner perfectionist is screaming that it'll look terrible and everybody will be able to notice, etc, but the more rational part of me points out that twenty bucks is twenty bucks, it's not that obvious, and if I really feel like I should, I can take them in along the inside of the leg an inch or two. Cosplayers: taking perfectionism to a whole new level.

Jon brought over his Wii today, and I gotta say, screw Sony and Microsoft, I want a Wii. Oh Nintendo, how could I ever doubt you? The controls are both intuitive and fun, the new Zelda is sweet, WiiSports is strangely addictive, and the Virtual Console stuff seems to function pretty smoothly (Squeenix, I'm looking at you and your PSX ports with their shitastic loadtimes). Now I just need money for it >.>

I have been in a ridiculously good mood the last two days, despite having tons of shit to do 'cause I slacked the first few weeks of vacation. Hooray!

Happy new year, all. I ended up having a supremely low-key night. Winter came over and had some dinner and we talked, and then met up with Grace, Emily, and Dan, and headed back to Emily's house, as it was parentless. I was the alcohol-supplier, being the only one who had any, but this was pretty much just amaretto and gin (Liz, you were right - gin is far more awful than vodka. It tastes like how rubbing alcohol smells). I actually didn't have that much to drink at first, but then had the bright idea to try out a variation in Liz's Ninja in the Night recipe with amaretto, which was delicious, but nobody else wanted any, so I ended up having five by myself. Grace and Emily got a bit tipsy, and decided to call people in other timezones right after midnight to wish them a happy new year, so we did that, and listened to music, and then decided to sleep.

Which didn't work out so well for me - I laid awake until six am, at which point Grace got really sick (and not hungover-sick, but sick-sick), and me and Emily had to help her clean up, and by the time we actually fell asleep, it was seven am. So I am really tired right now, and my usual recap is going to have to wait until later. Hopefually today wasn't an omen for what the rest of the year is going to be like.

West-coast people, I miss you guys D:

Leon totally hums 'Secret Agent Man' to himself as he drives to work. You know he does. Because he is a gigantic adorable dork.

*sings* Secret... aaaagent man~!

WAIT WHAT VNV NATION IS PLAYING AT COACHELLA THIS YEAR. I am going to kill my brother. Like literally kill. Franz Ferdinand last year, and now this. Particularly as VNV Nation is doing a NA tour, and unless I stay in BC over the summer, I'm missing it, because I have finals when they're doing the east-coast portion, and thus will be in BC.

WHYYYYYYY.

Went to the mall today to do some shopping, and while I only managed to get presents for two people, I hit minor paydirt myself - EB Games had new copies of SMT: Devil Summoner for thirty bucks, twenty dollars less than Amazon, which is where I was going to order it. So I snatched it up >.>

Of course, I just checked, and there's a copy of DDS1 used, for $55. Do I buy it? By the time I've made up my mind, it'll probably be gone >.>

Well, my mom didn't totally flip when I mentioned staying in BC for the summer, which is good. Still need job, though.

And Megan inspired me to play a bit more Nocturne, so I picked up my Musubi save file (as I've got a bunch of side-quest things to finish before doing the True Demon one), and played some of that. Very minor spoilers for Tower of Kagutsuchi bosses, but I'll hide it anyway.

( Ahh, Nocturne. You are so full of crack. )

Know what we need to do when we get back to Vancouver? Go out for some really good seafood, because I have yet to be exposed to really good seafood (clam chowdah excepted), and it's time I changed that. Or at least fish and chips or something. Unless you hate seafood, in which case I'll try to figure out someone else who won't look at me like I'm crazy when I suggest it XD;

(This is less random than it seems, I swear)

EDIT: And this place. It looks like some one crossed Finale's with a traditional English tea room, which is pretty much the greatest thing ever.