Currents of Time

So, now that we’re halfway through the month of November and I don’t feel like suddenly actually committing to getting 50k words out of myself by the end of the month, I have suddenly come up with exactly what I am going to do for next year. Maybe I can come up with something slightly less hilariously lame. We shall see. I HOPE I DO NOT FORGET BECAUSE it made me giggle at the sheer idiocy of it. I have made a note to myself, but who’s to say if I’ll remember it’s there, or that I won’t lose it somehow, or… whatever.

I was maybe stupid enough to tell my manager I’m totally able to work Thanksgiving. Uuh. Self, what. At least I’ll get out at 3 instead of when it is DARK AND COLD AND DINNER IS OVER. And, according to my brother, who has worked for the same store (well, same chain, different location. Where I used to work), Thanksgiving day itself is actually pretty slow. Probably because everyone’s busy cooking.

In entirely unrelated news, the ending of Final Fantasy X still makes me do that weird thing where your eyes are leaking but you aren’t really crying? Except then the credits start rolling and I don’t have to watch anything anymore and then I kind of do cry a bit. I know I wrote a memo to myself regarding watching things that will make me cry shortly after cleaning my glasses, mostly concluding that I should not do this. I WILL NEVER LEARN.

I was going to beat it last night, but when I went to tell Aniko to STAY OUT OF THE ROOM because, you know, spoilers, it somehow came around to me starting a new file. But no such thing happened tonight and it's kind of like Ecco in that once I get the idea in my head that I need to play it, I can't get it back out until I remember exactly how it hurts me. (This is Dissidia's fault, though. How dare you use the musical cues, game?! Ecco is almost always entirely my own doing.)


Man, also, at work this evening I suddenly had an awesome idea for something to write (not the NaNo thing, that’s actually a day or two old), but by the time I had finished walking home I’d talked myself out of it. I can’t quite bring myself to say it’s a terrible idea, simply because it amuses me, and while I won’t deny at all that my sense of humor is questionable at best, it is hard to dislike something that genuinely entertains you, isn’t it?

Part of the problem might be that it was FFVIII-related, and I am ridiculously intimidated by the idea of even writing, never mind actually posting, anything about it. And I worry a lot about getting everyone wrong, because mostly I either don’t relate to them at all (personality-wise, I mean) and so wonder if I’m really doing them any justice, or because I relate to them entirely too much and then I wonder if I’m projecting. And my brain is really addled from LIFE these days and I can't remember if canon is as ambiguous as I'm coming up with or if anything is actually established. And I can't be bothered to go looking because don't wanna, though it could possibly give me a "BUT IT GOES AGAINST CANON" excuse, because of course AU fic is entirely out of the question. Of course. uurgh.

Comes up with the strangest ideas, that one.

FFXI had maintenance and an update today. SE changed things at some point to allow us to download the new files before the servers were actually back up and running, which was nice of them. It used to be that we'd all end up camping the [Play] button and then all crash each other out and break the game as we all tried to download several thousand files over the next day or so. Now we can at least get some of that out of the way before the game's back. So after maintenance started, I logged in, downloaded the files, and logged out. Whoo, files.


And then I went around, did some homework, did some reading, did some random tidying, ate some food... the usual.

Maintenance was extended two hours (nnnot that I was waiting for - okay fine there's a quest I was on that I'd really been enjoying the story for, and I really wanted to finish it to see the ending...) (IT WAS DELIGHTFUL AND WONDERFUL AND ALSO FULL OF THOSE ABSURDITIES WE'VE ALL COME TO EXPECT FROM SE THAT STILL ALWAYS CATCH US OFF GUARD SOMEHOW), but things are back up and running now, and people are busy being slightly horrified by SE's choice of items needed to increase the gobbiebag size (oh god why), and it is only now when I am sitting at my computer checking things I would normally have checked much earlier in the day (like, oh, my e-mail?) that it occurs to me that somehow my brain equated "FFXI is down for maintenance" with "there is no internet." I went and checked a couple pages, was disappointed in the lack of updates, and then immediately though, 'well, of course no one's updated. The system's been down all day.'

I wonder if I always do that, or if this is just a random exception.


Speed edit:
Oh god the post-update/maintenance drama is always some of the best stuff in the world. ♥ XD


Also. There's someone on the forum who has a signature that always makes me both laugh and swear simultaneously.


"You are now consciously breathing."

And then, without warning and for not apparent reason whatsoever, Jecca had a massive hysterical breakdown, couldn't calm down enough to work back out of it, and ended up arriving an hour late to her exam, thereby missing it completely.



... Fortunately, her teacher is the greatest person in the world and is letting her take it later in the week.




But for now she's actually listening to some advice and trying to chill out a bit while wasting time on AIM. But no one is online except her brother, so she's not really talking much. How boring.

Edit:
This just in: Square Enix endorses chocobo prostitution.

My brother wants to breed Storm Trooper, since chocobos you get from breeding tend to have better stats. I asked where he'll get a female chocobo for that, and he said he might trust the bazaar sellers who claim to have level 10 stats on their chocobos.

So you pay them to use their chocobo to...

Choco-whoring.

I shouldn't be surprised. These are the people who came up with FFVII's chocobo system, after all.

My dearest, darling Brain, I have but one very short, very simple message for you:



NO.

We beat Silent Hill 2 last night. ( Minor Spoilers for the end of the game follow. )


Changing topics entirely, what's up with people saying, "Oh, my Primus"? Isn't that like saying "Oh, my Zeus" or something? I... was pretty sure Primus was the name and not the title. *boggles*



... um. My brain just went from Silent Hill to Transformers and... Crossovers. No. SO MUCH NO. I need a "delete" function for my brain. Stupid brain.



I got a package in the mail today from a friend out-of-state. An extremely late birthday present, whoo! It's the *erm, guesses at height* 8 12 inch (or so) Squall Leonhart figure from the Play Arts line SquareEnix is putting out these days. It's a very nice figure, and I think Squall's a pretty interesting character, but... Now I have the Squall, the Vincent, and I still have the I still don't know the height on these things 14" Kimahri figure. I do not know what to do with any of them. I have no room for them! Especially not the Kimahri. Arg. (I love them anyway, of course.)

I do like the little 4"-ish figures more, mostly because I can buy the two or three characters I want and then perch them on a corner somewhere, but these ones I keep getting? Too big.


I have no concept of measurements. Could you tell?