Currents of Time

... I AM BACK FROM IGNORING THE ENTIRE WORLD NOW. (No one: *noticed*)

So my parents bought themselves a Wii. The system completely cheats at baseball. It came with Wii Sports. The next thing on my mother's list (she... she has a list! I do not know if I am proud or trying not to giggle helplessly) is Wii Fit. NO ONE IS SURPRISED.

I know this because I was abducted and forced to spend the night back at home last night. Without clean clothing or a hairbrush or toothbrush or anything! Though I also borrowed most everything I needed. (It really wasn't planned. Mom wanted to go run a few errands with me, then we had to swing by the house so I could grab one of my old textbooks, then we decided to go through some of the stuff I left at home, then she had to take care of the dog, then my father came home, then it was time for dinner, then they wanted to show off their Wii, then it was 10 o'clock at night...) (Then today was apparently TAKE YOUR CHILD TO WORK!! day, so, even though I am much older than the target age range, I went in to annoy my father.)

While I was home, I HAD SOMETHING LIKE ...EIGHT? INCHES CUT OFF MY HAIR. It no longer comes down to my waist. Just the base of my shoulder blades. It... it is very strange. I haven't had hair this short in... possibly ten years. I nearly killed myself with the brush this morning when I mistakenly attacked my spine instead of the tangle that was supposed to be there. It is very strange. I have been complaining about my hair for a while, because it takes so freakishly long to dry and to comb out and whatall. I am not sure anyone ever expected me to actually get it cut, at this stage. We might have taken it shorter, but this length is enough of a shock as it is, and also my hair is ridiculously poofy when left to its own devices, and any shorter and I begin to risk not being able to pull it all back.

... IT'S REALLY SHORT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS. WHERE HAS MY HAIR GONE.


I am about three steps away from declaring myself on hiatus from FFXI, but I know as soon as I do that, I'll be struck by the urge to log in and get stuck à la .hack//SIGN or something. Possibly just this statement will have that affect.


Someone was lame enough to steal our recycling bin. I am irrationally angry about this. Mostly because I have no vehicle and the closest place to go get another one is... uh. A ways away. GREAT EXERCISE, ANYWAY. I shouldn't have assumed ours would get brought in when I went running off with my mother. ARGH. (I shouldn't have assumed that one of the neighbors wouldn't suddenly need another one, either, apparently.) I AM SO ANNOYED. A RECYCLING BIN. HOW LAME YOU CAN GET? THEY'RE FREE. CAN'T YOU JUST GO GET ANOTHER ONE. I know all of you either have a car or know someone with one! I have seen you all use one! I have endured whichever one of you (what, I don't know their names) it is that thinks sitting in the driveway and honking ceaselessly is a good way to win friends! I DO NOT HAVE A CAR OR READY ACCESS TO ONE. YOU ARE ALL SUCH JERKS. I will stop e-yelling at the people who don't even know I exist now.


LOOK AT THIS! I completely don't have the money for it (how pathetic is that? I COULD COME OFF ACADEMIC LEAVE IF I COULD JUST GET A SECOND INTERNSHIP, OR IF YOU LOSERS AT THE FIRST ONE HAD, YOU KNOW, NOT DECIDED TO KICK ME OUT FOR NO KNOWN REASON AND YES I AM STILL ANNOYED ABOUT THAT HOW COULD YOU TELL), but they are giving us DVDs! (Now all they need to do is NOT EDIT THE EPISODES DOWN, RIGHT? Why is this so hard?) ... ... and also I may or may not have told my mother she should buy it and she may or may not have agreed. uh. yay.


IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO READ ABOUT BLOOD PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS NEXT PART.

( Because I am talking about blood. )

OKAY YOU CAN LOOK AGAIN I AM DONE TALKING ABOUT BLOOD.

And am about to throw another chunk of cut text at you. Because more to prove I really have written this and am just too freakishly shy to post it where I am supposed to... It's too long. I will probably try to cut it down first. JUST, YOU KNOW. I SWEAR I HAVE THIS WRITTEN I AM JUST... ANGSTING ABOUT POSTING IT OR SOMETHING.

( THIS IS ABOUT THAT DANCE CLASS I TOOK LAST SEMESTER. YEAH. REMEMBER THAT? )

And then someday I will actually, you know. Work up my courage and actually PUT IT IN THE COMMUNITY. OR SOMETHING. GEEZ. I've never made a community post and it intimidates me some. That is all. ...


..... yaaaay?

D'you know what the unfortunate thing about taking a dancing class is?

Class gets out and you've been dancing for three hours so you're exhausted, and then you sleep through Anatomy and Physiology. And then you sleep in the car on the way home (by the way, you're the driver). And then you sleep in your food and get sauce in your hair, but that's not so bad, because you have to shower anyway, since you're coated in sweat.

Though your mother worries you'll drown, sleeping in the water like that.


...Actually, thankfully, no, mostly you're just really tired.


ALSO, UNLIKE LAST YEAR, MONDAY NIGHTS ARE TOO BUSY, SO NO ONE TALK TO ME ABOUT THE HEROES PREMIER BECAUSE I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET. (... does anyone reading this actually watch Heroes? Possibly this is an unnecessary comment.)


Since I think I broke the Post Office (rather, the post office broke my wallet, but surely that's good enough?), I think I'm going to try to start writing letters again. SHUT UP. I LIKE WRITING LETTERS ALMOST AS MUCH AS I LIKE GETTING THEM. It makes me sad when I cannot send them! Got a couple I'm gonna resend for the third+ time (and a couple just disappeared. Poor things. Lost in the postal abyss)... and then I'll probably try to write new stuff. (Don't worry. If you haven't said you want me to mail you random things, I won't.)


(By, "I'm going to try to start writing letters again" I mostly mean, I'm going to pretend to be fictional characters and they'll either drag you on a crazy adventure or just write you a letter. REQUESTS?)


Edit:
SCORPION HARNESS SCORPION HARNESS scorrrpiiooooon haarneeeeeeeeesssssss ♥

Amusement has followed me today. First, my brother introduced me to this song. I do not play Half-Life, or really any games of that type, and as such generally do not listen to their music much! This song (from Portal), however, is ridiculous and reduced me to hysterics on initial listening. Lyrics include this:

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

HILARITY. Hear and watch it here.

I will play this game.


Second. Today's (well, technically yesterday's, now) addition of The Insecticomics. All so sadly, sadly and painfully true, but funny in there.

That comic led to an extended discussion between Aniko and I about Dinobot, wherein we pretended to be serious but were actually laughing so hard we were having troubles breathing. Good thing that doesn't convey over text unless you say as much. I am resisting the urge to copy some of that conversation down here.


Those are not the most important thing, though. The most important thing is that a picture of the new Dancer job's AF (special armor that can only be worn by people playing that job class with nice stat bonuses and the like. It looks neat, or at least tries to) on a male character turned up (we've only seen it on females so far). Now, the armor design is generally about the same, just minor tweaking here and there, but, uh. This is Dancer. The outfit (their AF!) is silly.

( Image! )

It is unusual for them to put someone in Not Windurst. I'm not complaining - I like San d'Oria (or, er, at least I like the Western entrance to South San d'Oria, since that's outisde town but whatever) better than Bastok (as perhaps evidenced by all three of my characters being from San d'Oria).

Anyway, that image is glorious and hilarious. Hey, internet! What I would love to do is visit the Alla forums and see what other people are saying about it! How about you let me? Hee, he has a little flower on his headband.


And they changed work hours so we close at 7 again. All in all, not a bad day! Which is amazing, considering we just entered Daylight Savings and I hate that.