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So, I forgot to mention part of my adventures Friday - in my rush and worry about my bags, I managed to leave my brother's Christmas present, the vinyl single of Franz Ferdinand's 'The Fallen' on the 424 bus. I waited for the next couple of buses (the 424 is the airport, and runs a short loop) with no luck. Well, having left things on buses and trains in the past, to have them disappear into oblivion within fifteen minutes, I had resigned myself to never seeing the record again.

Still, I called Translink's Lost Property office today just in case, and miraculously, someone had turned it in. The woman on the phone took down my name and number, and said they'd hold it until January 15th. My faith in humanity has been restored.

It probably says something about me that I want an antique or antique-styled pocket watch as much as I want a pair of mirrored sunglasses (think Morpheus, but with earpieces). Unfortunately, I largely can't afford the first, and have yet to track down mirrored lenses in anything other than Bono-style wrap-arounds. Someday!

...I have no idea what era I wish I was living in, but it's obviously not this one.

Grades are in, mostly - so far I have a 72% sessional average, which, if not fixed, is Very Bad - my first choice major, Microbi, had an admission average of 82% last year, and my second choice, Cell Bio and Genetics is 75%. Granted, I'd have the second right now if not for the fucktard of a Bio prof and his totally arbitrary marking scheme - I think he basically wants us to reproduce his lecture notes from memory, because while my final wasn't perfect, it was better than a 56%.

Deep breaths. I will not look at the whole elephant, just start eating.

Current Mood: worried

Yes, it's six-thirty in the morning. I really ought to be asleep right now, but nooo, I'm sitting up reading various Torchwood things. The new ep was good - it made me actually like Owen some, and had Ianto in a pinstriped three-piece suit(!) and Jack in waistcoat with pocket-watch chain. I swear, this show totally feeds my love for classy and slightly archaic men's clothing. Need more suits. And a pocket-watch.

And I remember now why I like living on my own - my mom can be so passive-agressive sometimes, and it drives me crazy.

Oh, and Doctor Who is made of win. Am up to ep five of the second series and enjoying it immensely.

I made my connecting flight in Vegas, but my luggage did not, because US Airways is made of fail. It's coming on a flight tonight, so I'll have it tomorrow morning. My Leon cosplay stuff arrived fine, and is awesome, but more on that later, and my copy of PS2!RE4 is here too. WIN.

It's a bit weird being home - it feels like it's been both forever, and no time at all. The house is almost exactly the same, but some random furniture has been moved, so it's a little strange.

Internet shall resume sometime tomorrow - if I'm lucky, around one am tomorrow morning, but I have these awful visions of missing my connection in Vegas and being stuck the night there.

...Over at the blog

Yes, finally. I know it's really simple, but I liked the image a lot, so bah. And I finally updated the sidebar, too.

(And I am totally having one of those moments where I consider switching back to blog entirely)

Not really that coherent, mostly for Julie.

Two post-Cyberwoman Ianto-centric pieces, bit of language but not much else:

Wide Open Spaces
Scrapings

And one post-Countrycide Ianto-centric with some graphic Jack/Ianto in the second part:

Lost, part one
Lost, part two

(Can we guess who Cocoa's favorite Torchwood character is? I think we can)

Dear Jack,

Your first-aid skills suck, but you are forgiven because it worked anyway and because that was really hot. Please, feel free to do that again some time.

Love,
Me

(Bonus points to the handful of people who know which Jack I mean, because God, are there a lot of them XD; )

( What the hell ^^ Yoinked from Ammie )

After like an hour of fiddling with screentone effects and what-not, I totally decided to scrap my previous plan for a new blog layout and start over. The moral of this story? Nocturne art, while pretty, does not work with any style other than super-clean. The Hitoshura layout has exactly two fonts, one of which is Times New Roman, and no special effects or brushes at all - I should have done the same with this Isamu screencap from the start. Ah well, I like where it's going now, so all is well.

Also, did some checking, and Ally can (and possibly does) have a CA driver's license, which is a truly terrifying thought, and my MA driver's license is totally valid here as long as my study permit is, and if I were to permanently move here, I'd basically just have to surrender my old license for a BC one. Hooray!

Back to editing and Torchwood (it's like the X-Files with more gay and cute Welsh butlers).

...Well, okay, mid-afternoon, but I just got up. Music I have aquired over the last few days, by various means:
- :wumpscut:, two albums
- Cesium_137, one album
- Ministry, one album
- Skinny Puppy, one album
- Front Line Assembly, three albums
- Assemblage 23, five albums
- Apoptygma Berzerk, ten albums and ten singles
- Metropolis compilations, four albums

Why yes, that is in fact a shit load of music. And I've got about six billion things I want to say right now, all of which are probably worth of their own entry, but I will settle for this - LA!Asher's profile now has a spot for current hair color (subject to change without notice), and I have little snippets between him and Ally for both 'verses floating around my head. But for now, laundry and Heroes!

I think this would make Asher implode of happy. Both Ashers. It makes me really wish I knew how to ride a motorcycle, and had a lot of money.

Back to Firefly and Photoshop!

Tags:

In no particular order, with no major immediacy.

- Finish Christmas lists
- Go Christmas shopping
- Rip Altan CDs for Justin
- Buy some DVDs and burn tv shows onto them
- Get at least one of the Nocturne endings
- Find X movie and bring it back in Jan to show Caitlin
- Give Yana back her manga
- Header image for Anya's userinfo, wiki profile pics for her and Asher
- New layout for this blog argh
- Renew domain
- Some other stuff I can't remember right now

Also, what is it about this area that seems to bring out the industrial/EBM musicians? Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Assemblege 23 down in Seattle - yeah, there's tons in Europe, too, but a lot of the NA ones seem to be out here in the Pacific Northwest. Not that I'm complaining, as it increases the likelihood of tours coming through here, I just don't quite get where they're coming from - rebelling against the organic-hippy-Starbucks lifestyle out here, maybe?

Speaking of - recs for 80s and 90s industrial/industrial rock/industrial metal woul be appreciated - I'm making up a playlist of stuff for LA!Asher.

"You just don't like it because you don't like it!" - Julie to Caitlin, on Choco Mountain in Mario Kart 64.

Mario Party and Mario Kart 64 with friends is a good way to spend an evening. We also got overpriced pizza from Domino's because it was the first one we found open at one am, and had some interesting roleplay-meta kind of discussions while playing Mario Kart - what sort of characters we're drawn to, what influences our OCs' personality and backstory, how voices differ between characters, that sort of stuff.

The only downside to this is that I've got an exam at 3:30 pm, although luckily it's English and open notes.

Oh god, Julie, why do you show me these things? I am never going to look at a cactaur the same way again.

Or possibly a Mr. Coffee. I think that may have forced my Tseng to use that spork on himself.

(And ahaha. Someone totally needs to show LA!Asher video games. And by 'video games' I mean 'Final Fantasy 7', because the irony would kill me ded. In a good way)

Also, everytime I see a reference to Leeroy, I'm going to be sitting here going 'LEEEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEENKINS' in the back of my mind. Because it's never not funny.

Apparently my default AIM downloads folder is listed as being created in 1984.

On the plus side, though, my Gallery install stopped being made of stupid! So I sat down and imported all the folders from my previous two installs, so everything that was in the last one, plus some, is now here. I've got a few more folders sitting around my harddrive to go up, but I need to sort and edit some of them first.

(And Mara-thing, we totally need to do a photoshoot with the wedding kimono at some point, just because that's one of my favorite outfits and I have so few photos of it)

Quote from Augustine, found on the forums:

"Once Jack and I concoct a way of installing the Wii onto my laptop all will bow to me! Well at least until one of you swings just a bit too hard and the Wiimote flies into the laptop. Then I live under the tables feeding on scraps mourning the loss of my dear companion. While this may sound pitiful and emo, on the plus side, the room will be cleaner."

Rick: "make sure to avoid the rat trap by the pop storage locker :("

I got about three hours of sleep last night, which was enough to sustain me through my Bio final (only had to utterly BS one question, yay), but I've had a cup of tea, a cup of Starbucks peppermint hot chocolate (as much as I hate to admit it, delicious), and a can of Rockstar Juiced, and I'm both about to fall asleep, and on the verge of seriously wigging out - I have no idea how I'm going to make it through my 7:30 - 11 shift tonight. I am also desperately striving to remain chill - Katamari and Oscar Wilde quotes help.

There is some one on third talking, or listening to a movie, or something, and I can't figure out who it is to yell at them.

I have to be up in six hours to write an exam I really need to pass, and it looks like I'm going to end up laying awake wearing another layer of enamel off my teeth, as I've discovered I grind them when I'm angry. And right now I am very angry.

I love DC++ so much. There's a hub on the school network, which means it bypasses the bandwidth throttle, which means I just downloaded nine episodes of Heroes in half an hour. And some old school industrial rock. And I'm going to go download more Firefly.

And a RR non-rant (because I am not ranting any more. I promise) - I am ecstatic to see not one, but two people choosing to play Arab characters in Jerusalem, including, it looks like, one member of a terrorist cell. That takes balls and skill, and I'm happy to see people rising to the challenge - this is going to be one hell of a ride, I think.

...I reeeeally should study for Bio. Failing would be no good very bad.

Only In Canada, Eh?

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