( Heroes 413/414. )

Oh, went back to school today! It was all right, though I already had reading assigned. Meh. At least I don't have class until 3:30 tomorrow. 8)

Wow, I've been a slacker when it comes to using this thing. I'd blame Twitter, but I think this always happens to me over the winter break.

To sum it up so far:

Went to Tahoe for the first week, which was a lot of fun. Me and Erin just chilled, played lots of video games, and went skiing. It was nice to be up in the snow for a while, since it was on the ground the whole time we were there. And I had been looking forward to just playing a ton of games, since I seem to have the hardest time finding a spare moment to play when I'm in school.

After coming back was the pre-Christmas insanity. I wrapped a ridiculous amount of gifts, but it all turned out really well in the end, and the holidays were generally drama-free. Here was my haul:

- 16GB iPod Nano (orange; his name is Gailardia ♥)
- Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Star Ocean: First Departure
- Star Ocean: Second Evolution
- Inglourious Basterds DVD
- Sword and the Stone DVD
- Princess Mononoke DVD
- Kingdom Hearts pin
- $20 LJ gift certificate (from Damned!Santa)
- 3 hats
- 2 pairs of socks
- 1 long-sleeved shirt
- 1 pair of leggings
- 1 coat
- 1 scarf
- CD holder
- $25 Best Buy gift card
- $20 Target gift card
- small box of Lindor chocolates

So yeah, believe it or not, that's my first iPod. I went without one for a while, but... I finally decided it was time. Super Mario Wii has been a lot of fun, especially with the multiplayer. I just ran into Cyuss in First Departure, which I'm happy about 'cause I started liking him before I booted up the game. Ahem. Showed Erin Inglourious Basterds the other night and she enjoyed it, as I imagined she would. Oh, and I got a paid account and extra userpics for my Zack journal with the gift certificate, so that was exciting! I wanted to use the Best Buy gift card to buy a new battery for my computer, but apparently Best Buy doesn't sell batteries. Poo.

Oh, and then the day after Christmas I went with my buds to go see Sherlock Holmes. It was definitely a fun, enjoyable action flick, but not necessarily anything amazing, in my opinion. I'm glad I saw it, but it didn't get me all obsessive the way Iron Man and Star Trek did, for instance. Still, RDJ and Jude Law? Can't go wrong there. I may have flailed in my seat a little when he started grabbing at his pants in that one scene.

One more exciting thing that's going to happen before I go back to school is that nest will be visiting here for a few days! Me and Erin are going to pick her up from the airport tomorrow, and we're planning to meet up with famira and wyna_hiros on Saturday. Will be awesome.

I don't want to go back to school yet, boooo. I'm sure I'll be okay with it once I'm there, but meh. 8(

surprise!
a holiday treat meme


I will go and respond to other people ASAP.

But in other news, I am now home! However, I'm only here for like a day and a half, since I'm leaving tomorrow to go up to Lake Tahoe with Erin and her parental units. It was a lot of fun the last time we did it, so I'm looking forward to it. Not looking forward to packing tonight, but oh well. Where are my ski clothes?

However, at this very moment I'm with Erin as we babysit her cousin's kitten. This cat is the cutest little all-black furball, but it is active beyond belief and we've been spending most of our time making sure she doesn't get too close to the heater. SO CUTE, THOUGH. >3< She keeps trying to get on the keyboard, though. My typing fingers apparently make a very good toy.

Oh, and this is kind of old news, but I got a twitter account! It is over here, so if you follow me, I will follow you back! I think I got most people through the email search system, but just in case I missed anyone.

And uhh, that's about all for now, I think! Oh! I wrote up all of those holiday cards, so those should be going out soon.

I haven't done this in a while since it usually seems redundant, but I've probably got a few new friends who might not be as aware of what Damned is, so...

( rp ad go go go. )

THANK YOU demyx, for showing me this.

Man, this thought hadn't even popped into my mind, but somehow... ZACK IS IN BIRTH BY SLEEP.

Dude, he is the cutest thing! He must be like 14 there (since he looks much older at age 16 in Crisis Core, even though I realize this is kind of a different style; still, 14 makes sense) and d'awww, I want to pinch his cheeks. And apparently he's BFFs with Ven, which is odd because my mind is like "SHOULD THERE NOT BE AN ADORABLE 11-YEAR-OLD CLOUD AROUND HERE" but... that's probably too much to ask for.

Anyway, I was already looking forward to this game, but the need for it has increased exponentially. I'm kind of wondering where the heck he was in KH1 and KHII, but I doubt the creators will think to explain things like that. Hopefully he doesn't up and die again.

This is just... so surreal, seeing how I played a KH version of Zack at one point, hahaha. I never thought it would actually happen. But I am so RPing teeny adorable KH version Zack when this game comes out. I TRY NOT TO LIKE... ASSUME I'LL PLAY CHARACTERS BEFORE GAMES ARE EVEN OUT, but... c'mon. Zack + Kingdom Hearts = CAN'T GO WRONG. Probably.

But now I will be disappointed if a KHIII happens and Zack doesn't show up in it all older and hot.

Man, this means that I am going to have to fight against Zack when playing as Terra. This doesn't seem right somehow. :(

Okay, done spazzing.

【THE TIME CAPSULE MEME】

Reading my one for 2008 was pretty entertaining, I must say. The craziest thing is that me, Erin, and Maia all still had our icons from a year ago uploaded. What the heeeeck.

I will try to get my thoughts in order about last night's Heroes episode when I have time, but for now all I've got is this slightly spoilery set pic that made me smile this morning. (And a bonus fanart.)

( snip snip )

So I have been kicking around the idea of a musebox lately since I've been in an organization mood and I want to keep track of all my journals (for easier tossing out in FoC?). And also because I wouldn't mind some random threading with people when I feel the urge. And just for whatever else I think of. I JUST FEEL LIKE IT, idk. Anyway, I've thought of two names. One I just came up with since I play a lot of main characters/hero types, and the other is an old Sora journal that I wouldn't mind converting into a community 'cause I like the name. But yes, help me decide?

Poll #1490046 Musebox?
This poll is closed.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23

What should my possible musebox be called?

I certainly wouldn't mind suggestions, either!

Because I actually have the time today...

( Heroes 411, 'Thanksgiving' )

Wanted to give one more shout out for HOLIDAY CARDS, and then I'll probably go buy some and start on them on Monday or Tuesday. ♥

In other news, wow, app_this_plz makes me way too excited. I know chances are that most things won't actually come to fruition, but I did get a Nathan through it, so I have some faith in the system. And it's just fun to poke around it in general.

Already got my work done today. I'm totally half-assing this Greek Civ paper, but oh well. Our professor basically told us that if you wrote to a prompt and had good grammar, then you'd get a good grade, so I can't be that motivated to do a super good job on it. It's a lower division class, okay.

Going to see Inglorious Basterds tonight, so I'm excited about that! Other than that, I'm just kinda chillin'. Life seems so empty now that I beat 358/2 Days, pfft.

So, after some thought, I've decided that I'd like to do some...

HOLIDAY CARDS

This was largely influenced by going into my school bookstore and seeing the cute cards they have there. Ahem.

Anyway! If you would like a card from me, please leave your address in a comment here! (Comments are screened.) I will, of course, not share it with anyone else, and no one needs to feel obligated to send me a card in return or anything like that. If you are on my flist, you can have one! I'll also try to make sure to leave my address for anyone else who happens to be doing this.

I'll do my best to get them out before Christmas, though I'm going to buy a non-denominational set of cards to be safe. Since I know not everyone celebrates, blah blah blah. UMM, YES. Honestly, the amount that I tl;dr in them depends on how much free time I end up having, but I'm big on personalized messages, so it'll be more than just "Have a nice holiday." 8D

But yes! Feel free to comment. I'm looking forward to writing these up 'cause I'm a dork. ♥

LEECHGRAVE WENT DOWN.

Bed now.

I HAVE INTERNET AGAIN. \o/!!!!!!

My computer is wiped cleaaaan, so weird. It also has all these programs on it that I don't really want, so I need to go through and uninstall those. I downloaded Avast! first thing since I don't want that to happen again, and... yeah. I'm running Google Chrome as a browser right now since that's what it came with, and it's weird. Will probably have to get Firefox soon since I don't think Chrome supports LJ Login, fff.

But yes, I should be around from now on, whew. This is going to feel really weird until I have all of my stuff back. BAW, POOR LAPTOP, YOU GOT GUTTED. :(

Days update: The bosses are kind of annoying, aren't they? I ended up giving up on beating the Halloween Town one last night. I know how to do it, it's just a matter of having patience. But I'm on Day 257 or something so I've been making progress.

Now to go catch up on everything and work on an essay, boo. But I have the day off tomorrow so that's fun!

Oh, and Heroes last night was loooovely. I'm so psyched for next week! And I have to pimp this gif from last night just 'cause I can.

( Sort of spoilers? But it's kind of worth looking. )

Update about the whole internet situation. I ended up coming home this weekend since I needed to find my start-up disc (which I did, to my immense relief) and then back up all of my stuff with the help of evildrew's external hard drive. (Thanks again for that, Andrew!)

So tonight I'll go back on the train and then I'll take my computer in tomorrow and it'll hopefully be all reformatted by Tuesday. Then I should be around a lot more. I'm glad this seems to be working out, since I was beyond frustrated about it for a while.

Anyway, here's a meme that I was tagged for by lady_angelina:

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy.

( snip snip. )

I apologize if I tag someone who's already been tagged: bondofflame, continuum, endless_abyss, evildrew, famira, nest, otakara, and wyna_hiros, you're up!

While I'm irked about my internet situation, I've been somewhat cheered up by the fact that I just bought a leather jacket off of eBay with the purpose of using it for a Dean Winchester outfit.

I'm... not quite sure how this happened. This is the result of going to a convention and missing dressing up so damn hard.

I will be the smallest Dean ever. Holy crap, why am I doing this.

Last night I had a dream where I hugged Luxord. Except it was also kind of Mary? But definitely Luxord. He was wearing boxers under his Org. coat.

I think this is my brain telling me that it wants to just play 358/2 Days and RP. I couldn't agree with it more.

I'm somewhere in the 150 Day region, by the way. For anyone who might have some reason to want to know my progress. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Having to read 211 pages in one day for school fucking sucks. Oh my god, at the end there I just felt like my eyes were going to close on me while my brain turned to mush.

At least I have internet back. Yeah, it was down since like Friday or Saturday and I had to shell out $40 for a wireless adapter to get it working again, and of course the connection is crap, but it's better than nothing. (Oh, and my laptop bluescreened earlier on top of it all. THANKS A LOT.)

I just want to... sleep. For a long, long time. But I should read this four page thing before, and AUUUUUUUGH I have a ton of reading tomorrow, too. Not as much, but like... 77 + 14 + 15(?) + 21 = 127 FUCK ME FUCKKKKKKKKKK and I have to go through and read some stuff for that literary magazine thing and I KNOW I'M JUST WHINING BUT THIS FUCKING SUCKS. That 77 is for Oedipus Rex, though, which I've read at least twice before not to mention it's quick reading, but wow, the fact that I'm even making words on a screen after looking at so much typed text is kind of making me want to just... die.

Well, exaggerating, but fuck I need this weekend already. I WANT SUSHI AND UMMMMMMMMM okay going to stop before I get any more incoherent. BYEEEEEEE.

Okay, a real update! I'm making one.

School has been going fine, which is partly because I'm only taking 12 units, so my workload is generally manageable. Sometimes the reading gets heavy, but there are also some times when it's pretty light, so it's been good so far. I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune when my papers are due, but that's kind of the norm, so.

I've been trying to get involved in other stuff that will help boost my resumé (that doesn't... actually exist yet, OOPS). First off is that study abroad internship I mentioned. In fact, I have to leave to go do my "office hour" in 25 minutes or so. That part is just chilling in the office one hour a week and answering questions for anyone who walks in. I also have to do other stuff, such as giving presentations, participating in a photo contest, etc. It's pretty chill, though, so that's nice.

Secondly, I turned in an application to my college newspaper to work as a copy editor next quarter. I'm really hoping I get that since the hours aren't too bad and it actually pays. *__* In fact, I should email them and make sure my app made it into the right hands.

Lastly, I'm an editor for a literary magazine that my major is putting out. At this point all it involves is reading over the submissions every week (poems, stories, etc.) and grading them. It's actually kind of fun, though that might be because I'm used to doing this sort of thing due to reading damned apps, ffff.

Speaking of which, I've read almost all of those, so now I'm going to attempt to power-play through Days so I can read those four apps. I'm not sure how well this plan will work, but it's worth a shot, right?

Oh, right, and I had my birthday! On the actual day I had a lot of class, but still made it out for some Italian food and was surprised when some of my friends who I went to Japan with were there as well. It was really sweet of them to come. Then I returned to the apartment and ate delicious German chocolate cake. The following Sunday my parents, my brother, and my brother's boyfriend came up and we went out to lunch with some of my friends, so that was nice. Oh, and Erin was up here all last weekend and we had a great time. We went to a lemon festival, saw Zombieland (which we both loved), played Arkham Asylum, and watched Heroes together on Monday night before she left.

My haul:
- $200, half from my mom and half from my dad
- Hat, scarf, and Halloween candy from my mom
- Two years of paid LJ time and 1 year of extra userpics from my brother
- Friendship bracelet from one of my friends who I went to Japan with
- Half of the price for the Heroes doujinshi I bought was paid for by Erin, plus she came up to see me

I think that's it. I'm probably going to use some of the money I got to pay for y-con, since yes, I'm finally going! Only for a day (Saturday, AKA Halloween), but I'll also be chilling in San Francisco for the weekend, which I'm really looking forward to. But yeah. ANYONE GOING TO Y-CON? Zalia, I know you are, at least! We should meet up. Erin's going too. ♥

( Heroes 406, 'Tabula Rasa' )

Someday I will talk about something that isn't Heroes. Today is not that day. orz

I am so backlogged on posts, but I just had to talk about this episode.

( Heroes 404, 'Acceptance' )

Slightly unrelated, but pimping this site because it is putting up some niiiice Heroes promos that I have never seen before. Like this one. MAN OH MAN. And this. BRB FANNING SELF.

Aww yeah, S4, treating us rite. ♥