I totally forgot the best part of going to the movies the other day. We were running kind of late, because Anthony was out doing errands before picking us up, so in the car, Grace was ranting about him making us late, and he goes 'I'm sorry, I needed my iced latte!' There was five seconds of total silence before I burst out laughing and Grace started screeching 'You what?!'

Totally unrelated, but Eva is wicked fun to write. Almost as much fun as Ally, although in a totally different way - Eva is all ass-kicking, non-nonsense fun, and Ally is perky, friendly fun. And the mental image of Sparda tied up, laying on her sofa is still really funny.

Feeling slightly less like dying, although my throat has moved from horribly painful to just horribly swollen. Also have four hours of community service down. Now, off for some Sirius/Remus fic (I had a craving), and the Museum of Science tomorrow.

Senior project presentations were this morning - went pretty well, actually. I discovered that it's the anticipation that makes me nervous. I came out of the bathroom after getting the wig on and stuff, and Mr. Menard basically grabbed me and threw me up in front of a room full of juniors. Bit of awkward-ness here and there, mostly because I got the room of non-geeks (Seriously, my school is the nerdiest place ever, and none of them had played FF7), but it all went of well. Yes, I have photos, I'll post them later. Unfortunately, my body has decided that now is a good time to catch a horrible cough and sore throat, so mostly all I want to do is sleep and play FF8, which I've realized is the video game equivalent of a Mercedes Lackey novel - easy reading, a bit contrived and 'WTF?' in the plot department, but ultimately some nice light fun. Which explains why I've sunk twenty-five hours into it in less than a week.

Irvine: It's okay, we all know you're socially inept, Squall!
Squall: ...Remind me to kill you later.

Cid: Everyone, Squall is your new leader!
Squall: ...Noooooo *sob*

Squall finally grew a personality, and I have to say, I'm really liking it so far. Bit like Asher, although he actually thinks things through. And Nocturne came today, so there will probably be ramblings on that interspersed with the FF8, although I think I'm still at the 'Wha...?' stage of Nocturne-plot.

And I decided last night that the Sprawl would make a great RP setting, and then spent half of my shift at work (I got called in the middle of breakfast by a co-worker who was sick, ugh) working out various details of said RP in my head, despite the fact that it is not actually going to happen. And I totally need a job I don't completely hate. Whiny loud small children argh.

(Edited as I play, to avoid spamming you all)

Everyone: Squall! Do something!
Squall: ...I hate you all so very, very much.

He's so harassed. Like Pilot in Farscape.

And...it flies? What?

EDIT: Squall has trust issues, yaaay! And Rinoa is annoying. I know, she means well, but...hasn't she ever heard of knocking? If I was Squall, I'd have been all 'ARGH GET OUT OF MY ROOM I'M SLEEPING.'

So, instead of playing one of the many other games I've got half finished at the moment, I got really bored yesterday, and decided to pick up FF8, which I hadn't touched in months. And...I actually managed to get somewhere. And become somewhat emotionally involved in the game, even if said involvement is mostly mocking/yelling at the characters. I don't pretend to understand the plot, really. But yeah, kinda sucks to be Squall - he gets stuck dealing with all the idiots, it seems. His face-in-hands 'Oh god why me' moment made me totally crack up. And Irvine is officially the Gay Cowboy, because Brokeback Mountain jokes will never get old. Ever.

I also realized this morning that the one character I RP the most is one of the ones who doesn't worm his way into the back of my head and pick up backstory and strange quirks. This is probably because he has canon backstory, and I actually have a consistent partner-in-crime, unlike all of my other endeavors (Touya to Jesse's Yuki. They are all domestic and almost painfully sweet. Mmmfluff).

And apparently I'm not totally screwed on my senior project - had my last meeting with my advisor, who's notorious for being a hardass about these projects, and he was impressed - the phrase 'Oh, wow...' was used a lot, along with 'I'm proud of you' and 'your logbook is incredibly detailed'. No, I don't know how it happened either.

More to come later, including another Isaac/Raphael conversation, that Ada/Leon fic I've been talking about for weeks now, and possibly strange Asher introspection. And photos. But not right now, because I am really weirdly tired this week.

Prom was Saturday - pretty fun, aside from the fact that the music kind of sucked - too much shitty hip-hop. I blame the juniors. But the food was excellent, and everyone looked great, as did the place we had it. Other than that, I've spent my free time working on Sephiroth, and going to my hunter safety class. Sephiroth is actually almost done (for my given definition of 'done') - just need to cut bangs into the wig, and attach the buckles to the front of the coat. And it's weird, I'm so used to being stressed out and having stuff that has to be done, right away, that now that I don't really know what to do with myself, and I feel like there's something that really needs to be done, even though there isn't. The fact that I currently need both food and sleep probably aren't helping.

And I have continued to manage to hold out against KH2. Because I am a cheap bastard, and I have too many other games to finish anyway. Oh, and I got accepted at UBC, which means I now have to make up my mind where I want to go - there, or the University of Washington. Leaning more towards UBC, though.

Ugh, apparently I spoke too soon in my last entry. I forgot this week was midterms. So - Calc 4 and Microbio tomorrow, and then British History Friday. I also need to do another 13.5 hours on my senior project to meet the time requirement. I think I may start keeping score at the bottoms of entries or something. Had hoped to have it all done by Friday, but...so not happening. Prom is also this weekend, and while I wanted to sew a little something new to wear, I'm not sure I'm going to have the time, particularly with the hunter education class as well. So busy, agh.

And to top it off: it snowed last night and this morning. Yes, it's April. I hate New England weather so much sometimes.

You know you spend too much typing stuff up on the internet when you're emphasising something in a paper journal and almost do it like _this_.

And I got up this morning with the intent of writing a long ramble about canon and my relationship to it, but then I spent my whole afternoon working on my project, grocery shopping, and watching movies. So only two little things, for the moment - I really want to bounce my Leon off of someone, although I know the few RE fans reading for this are spoken for RP-wise, and I wish I was better at plot. Plot is my biggest problem as a writer/RPer - all my other flaws are things that practice will fix, but plot is my big frustration, because practice hasn't really done much on that, as far as I can tell, and I don't know what will.

And Sephiroth is actually starting to resemble some sort of finished product, yaaaay.

EDIT: Dude, where the hell is my copy of X13? I need annoyed!Satsuki, because she totally needs a 'People suck.' icon. Yes. I am playing a savior of humanity (AU RP, for those who don't know), who hates people. This actually works. And somebody totally needs to make a Satsuki-tenatcle porn crack, because it's asking for it. And call her on how stubborn she is XD; Also, I will laugh so much if someone actually takes Kusanagi, because the whole fandom pretty much pretends he doesn't exist. Including, uh, me. Except when I'm laughing at his eyebrows, which look kind of like a small rodent crawled onto his face and died. Sorry, Kusanagi.

Okay, I am hitting the point in the year where I am this close to snapping. I think the only reason I haven't yet is that it's been nice all week, and nice weather puts me in a good mood. Paper due Tuesday (yes, I've already started it), Sephiroth needs to be done by Friday-ish (goal for tonight: finish the boots entirely), I have to do fifty-six hours of community service by the first week of May (grad requirement), and to top it off, I've spent the entire afternoon being moody about RP stuff. No, nothing to do with anybody I'm currently playing with (although, uh, Asher would really like that cup of coffee sometime this century). No, this bit of moodiness can probably be summed up as follows:

Dear Leon Scott Kennedy,

I'm already writing you. Lots and lots. More than I've written anyone other than Rufus, and Rufus is an irritating, insistent little bastard (fun, though). I am not playing you, no matter how much it would give me yet more opportunities to get inside your head and play around with your backstory - for starters, I don't have anywhere to do so, nor anyone to play off of. So please, leave me alone for five minutes.

-Cocoa

PS: Claire, that goes for you too.

...Who's sleep deprived? I'm sleep deprived! And going to find food before more Sephiroth-work.

Pluses: My hair is now bright royal blue, and thus, totally awesome. There will be photos later. I also got smacked with a bit of inspiration for a little snippet of Claire-Leon post-C:V conversation, which will probably join the Ada-bit in my binder tomorrow during calc.

Minuses: Apparently we had a project summary due today. Needless to say, I haven't started that. I'm going to have to at least make myself begin it tonight, although I can finish it tomorrow morning. I also still haven't figured out how to import .m3u playlists to my mp3 player, argh.

And I totally can't concentrate on anything right now. Blargh.