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I'm probably not gonna be posting here anymore since 1) I'm over at Facebook more regularly and 2) I'm trying to publish a scientific article/finish my thesis/graduate/get married/find a job/sew/get through [fill in the blank]. Ah well. Feel free to remove me as a friend, I won't mind. the only reason i'm not deleting this is because my fiance has a weird sense of nostalgia. To all, it's been fun.

Matane.

I just finished re-reading "Bullets and Knife" by Oze. Monday's Megatokyo mentioned a genre called guro which, naturally, I had to find out more about. Boy howdy... Go ahead and Google or Wiki it if you care. It'll be fun...
I'm not quite sure how to respond to "Bullets and Knife". The story was...ok, it was too short to really have an extensive one. More like a premise than a story, a PWP. But, all you need to know was there was a guy and another guy and there was sex and piercing skin with knives to get off during it all. Would I wanna do something like that for real? No. Would I want to see something like that for real? I dunno. Did I think the imagery was captivating, maybe kind of beautiful? Yes.

Great, something else to keep from the in-laws and churchfolk...

Watching Bobby Flay get his ass handed to him AGAIN on Throwdown until reveling in the madness of Chef Duff and the Charm City Cakes crew in Ace of Cakes. Anyway, quick update: trying to get myself ready for my committee meeting in about 2 weeks and doing wedding stuff since we're now six months away. Also, sewing for Otakon. Not gonna be around much. :3

...ciao for now.

1. Waking up with the kitty.
2. Staying longer in bed than I should have with the kitty draped over me and purring.
3. Cherry blossoms in bloom.
4. Repeatable results that will allow me to move forward with my research.
5. Having a very nice sunny warm day.
6. This week's Naruto scanlation (LOL! 801LUV!). Bless you, Kishimoto-san for making today totally awesome. Heh...

it is about six months before the wedding, my committee meeting is most likely next month, i need to finish the marriage workbook for counseling by next monday, i need to pick a ring and flowers and nail down other details, and i still have to write a scientific paper to at least have a draft by the meeting.

yeah. busyness begins soon. if not now.

ai ya.

Hey, B'more/DC people! I'm coming home March 16th and leaving March 21st. Now, I'll probably be busy with wedding related stuff on the 19th and 20th, but...if you're free and I'm free, let's make fun happen. :3

bai!

Went to Kroger today, noted a sign on the display window for the Chinese restaurant there. Basically:
Need a person to cook with proficiency in Japanese food

Funny thing was this lone sign was only in Spanish.

Interesting...:3

drei_halbmonden. It's where the writings go. Various fandoms and original insanity. And, yes, Jamie, I will do some Sailor Moon for you.

XD Today was a happy day. Apart from the boss not being at work and turning in my DC title for Tamahome to get a lien-free NC one (the car is fully mine now!), I found a story I thought I had lost forever! I was in one of my weird moods when i wrote it, basically needed to dump a weird idea out in text so it would leave me alone, but reading it again years later...I still like it lots. :) I'm starting to think maybe I should have a separate LJ account for the fics. I think I will. To the interweb!

I used to collect my ticket stubs, but fell off when I was seeing so many close together. However, in recent history, I haven't been so geared to go to the theater. Haven't gone actually since I saw Curse of the Golden Flower with JD last year. There have been flix that at first I seem excited to go see, but then when I weigh the cost of the ticket and my budget as a grad student against how good I think it may actually turn out, the excitement wanes. Nevertheless, I'm kind of looking forward to this movie year. There are a couple of films I'm really, really anticipating and a few surprises/risks I'm willing to try. How 'bout you?

March
300

April
Grindhouse

May
Spider-man 3
Shrek the Third
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (It's got Chow Yun Fat AND Johnny Depp! And pirates! SQUEEEEEE! BTW, despite my yarhar love, pirate is NOT the new ninja. Ninja will always trump pirate. XD)

July
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (I will probably end up seeing this multiple times given the number of Potter fan friends I have.)

September
December Boys (Yes, you know why I'm seeing this. Yes, it is an outlier considering my usual tastes. Yes, I will cry unashamedly if it moves me to do so. No, I will not squee like a fangrrl when Radcliffe comes on screen.)

November
Beowulf (I acutally enjoyed reading this in high school...)

No specific release date
Hairspray (I LOVE YOU, JOHN WATERS!)
Sin City 2 (Busy year for Frank Miller, ne?)

If I’m drunk/high/bored enough
Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive

I know, I know, there hasn't been a surplus of good videogame to movie translations, but they're stupid fun guilty pleasures best seen with someone else familiar with the game who can rip it to shreds with ya. :)

Can't believe it's been about two weeks since I visited my fiance in Atlanta. Guess I'll give a quick summary 'bout what we did.

Friday
I showed up, and we got food at Checkers, watched NUMB3RS (as is our custom on Friday nights), played with Paris (his kitty), went to sleep.

Saturday
Had brekkie at The Flying Biscuit. Went to the Georgia Aquarium and saw all kinds of cool animals and bought a river otter stuffed toy which I dubbed Connor. Updated my manga collection at Borders. Got dressed up and went to dinner at Alluvia.

Sunday
Had brekkie at the OK Cafe (lives up to it's name...). Chilled until the performance at the Center for Puppetry Arts (you "heard" me) which was a collection of Poe works (including my personal intro to Poe, "The Cask of Amantillado") put on with puppets. Goth puppets rule. And there was a theremin! Had dinner at a great Thai restaurant and tried Voyant. Delicious. Watched our usual shows on Fox.

That's about it. I'm gonna go eat something now. Ciao!

Songs breed stories in my head. After hearing "Pain" by Three Days Grace, this untitled fic is what happened. It's FF8, Squall vs. Seifer (I didn't say Squall x Seifer 'cause it's not really a romantic pair-story but there is longing). Warnings: violence (but not too graphic), cursing ('cause I write like I speak). If you can think of a title for this, I'll be happy. Not betaed, so any mistakes are my own. Don't own anything related to FF8. Couldn't be arsed to format sober, so sorry for no clear breaks between paragraphs. I'll try better next time. ( Now, let's all be entertained by issues I have. )

Nerd+photoshop+ATHF lover= this

Also, here's a link to the original new atomic danger symbol

and here's just some safety symbols that I like

without getting into too many details, lest I embarrass her, I'll just say this: ROSEMARY IS TOTALLY AWESOME. SHE IS T3H WIN! XD I BOW BEFORE HER AND WEEP WITH JOY!

Just have to remember to call the Lord Baltimore Radisson tomorrow. ^_^

Before I go to bed after a night of dancing, I just wanted to log the greatest achievement for me during the outing. Last night, I showed that a black girl from DC CAN dance to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". At least one that had taken some country line dancing and tap and could meld the two with a little bit of visual learning from Riverdance and can-can footage. :3

Even impressed the black folks watching. XD

Today, I preordered Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the Waldenbooks in the Galleria on Pratt Street in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. "But, why?" you might ask, since I live in Durham. Well, those of you who are going to Otakon aren't asking. :3 That's right: the release is right in the middle of Otakon in B'more. Should be fun showing up in cosplay or GothiLoli for my HP fix. Yay! Multiple obsessions! XD

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Otakon: July 20-22
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: July 21

Life, she is good. ^_^

I've been at home today working on a research paper and because I don't trust Durham's drivers when there's 1 inch of snow on the road. It's been a pretty relaxed day of writing, listening to This is Corrosion (a goth/industrial internet radio channel), and chilling with the cat (who thought I was eating his food because the applesauce cups I have are the same shape and open the same way as his Meow Mix Market Selects). I'll probably clean up the house later today as I'll be helping someone this weekend with cosplay ideas and shouldn't bring them over to a hovel, ne? ^_^
But, the happiness of today, other than a day off endorsed by my boss (yes! i told him why i was home and he said go right ahead! lucky da!), is learning when the last (::sniff::) Harry Potter book is going to come out. AND that as a Borders Reward member, I can get 40% off if I preorder. XD However, I'm sure there are loads of BR members/Harry Potter fans who got the same invite, so the Borders site is running tres slow right now. My plan is to try to get it reserved at a Borders/Waldenbooks in B'more, get my book on Saturday (or, God help me, Friday night if they do a midnight release), and read it while waiting in Otakon lines. :3
Here's hoping!

dir en grey is coming to baltimore...
and i can't go.
the show is at Ram's Head Live on February 5th. A Monday. A MONDAY?! WHO HAS A CONCERT ON A MONDAY?! -__- i can't miss work for that! i have to have priorities now!
on top of that the tickets are 29 advance and 32 at the door (remember, grad student. money is always an issue). and of course, on their latest tour (Inward Scream 2007), they are stopping nowhere remotely near this f*cking burg. >_<
i am going to go to bed now to keep from thinking on this and getting more frowny.
night.