Currents of Time

Last Sunday, our router decided it hated life, the universe, and everything in it, and attempted to commit suicide. Obviously, this took out the entire computer network here. My brother hacked into it (yes, we had to hack our own router) and managed to get it working again, but it was unreliable and flaky for several days.

He was originally worried that someone else had hacked into it and locked it. They hadn't, but he closed it so now you have to have your computer registered with it via MAC address.

But now I have internet again! Yay.

Really, I suppose it was just as well, because I had quite a depressive slump and I'd been doing so well, too. ugh. God, I suck and I have no idea what's wrong with me so I'm going to shut up now a few days ago (IT'S GOING AWAY NOW, I SWEAR), and this spared everyone else having to see any of that.

((Edit:
And I apparently missed LJ's fandom users going up on arms over excessive journal suspensions/deletions/whatever. Er. Man, reality, I was joking about the online world trying to end while I was stuck away from it.))

( In which I go on a tangent about summer plans. )

So. I need fanfiction, stat. (Did you know "stat" comes from an abbreviation of the Latin word "statim," which means "immediately" or "instantly" and the like? I miss Latin class so much it hurts sometimes. No lie.) Now the question is just, which fandom? Check for new Transformers stuff? Brave the Final Fantasy sections (ha, that's unlikely)? Maybe I will see if the Jak fandom has anything interesting to offer, now that I have been murdered by beaten the, er, first three. (I can't say I will ever attempt Jak X, since it appears to consist of racing racing and more racing and no thanks. Perhaps I am wrong on that, though. I haven't looked very much into it.)

Edit II:
RIGHT YES. The Adventurer Appreciation Campaign in Final Fantasy XI was finally a complete success for me, in that Hisime finally got herself an Adventuring Certificate! It's now hanging over her bed! See, she is very happy about it. /hurray

And SquareEnix launched the link-to-able Wings of the Goddess site! Just a video up for now. I get chills at about the time the text reads, "Are the echoes of history all that remain of the past?" Though the song playing through the opening scenes usually gets me, too. I love that track (Memoro de la Śtono) so much.

Edita:
I wore my Giant Heartless Logo shirt today, but no one commented on it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH SOCIETY? HAS NO ONE IN THIS STATE PLAYED KINGDOM HEARTS?

New York was fun. My brothers roommates were as unobtrusive / annoying (respectively) as he said they were (see, he's in a triple). I got to one-up the annoying guy several times, though, so it was all good. ...I just get some sort of sick pleasure from proving people wrong when they hold the opinion that they are always right and know everything.

Oh, we went to a presentation about mathematical patterns in nature (the school was offering a whole bunch of little classes and lectures and such). The math professor giving the talk wasn't a native English speaker, but it wasn't too obvious. However, while he was talking about repeating and mirror images, he kept using this one phrase; identically the same to each other. It cracked me up every time, and he must have used it at least seventy times. It just sounds so silly. XD

I could've done without the eight hours (each way) of driving, but you can't have everything.

There was a surprisingly large amount of roadkill. I'm used to seeing skunks and squirrels around, but foxes, raccoons, possums, deer, and cats? In ridiculous quantities? It was very sad.


I got the KT Tunstall CD and Classics Bumblebee (he's adorable!). Actually, I was a little disappointed. While admittedly the Classics line hasn't been out very long, it has yet to even have a slot on the shelves here. There were several pegs at the store we visited in NY, but that Bumblebee was the only one left. I was hoping to see Rodimus and Starscream. ...well, I'm sure they'll hit this state by next March, anyway. Now, the odds of us getting a Target in time for the Ultra Magnus and Skywarp set, on the other hand...


I have got to stop reading that one gender-bent Starscream fic. It is making my poor brain cry.


In other news, I now have not only succeeded in developing film for Photography, but I have made prints, as well! Oh, happy day. Maybe I'll even be able to catch up at this rate (I mean, I'm only, what, four weeks behind everyone? It's week six now).

Also, Guitar is killing me. I cannot hit half of those chords, and the ones I can hit I take too long to find. At least I can read the sheet music (when we're not using tablature). It also makes my wrist act up. I've been having to wear my brace again. I really hadn't missed the thing.