Currents of Time

petition to have keyboards fucking standardised I HATE GETTING USED TO A NEW KEYBOARD WHERE ARE MY FORWARD AND BACKWARD BUTTONS WHY ARE PAGE UP AND PAGE DOWN OVER THERE AKSDKAJLSDJJSFKDHKLASJDLKSAJLKD



anyway i have a new laptop now, in theory this one will work, unlike my old one, which works but only in the sense of "it turns on and sometimes you can use the folders in it."



But also seriously why can't people/companies just have like. One keyboard model. plz. I'm dying.

My power-hungry laptop is on battery power right now, so let's see if I can actually get this entry up before it passes out on me.

Anyway! I hope everyone had a good Sunday / Christmas! Full of awesome things and stuff not being on fire (my current personal favourite, that last one). I will write up a longer entry on that whole drama later, but since my computer is a BATTERY VAMPIRE, and because it is late and I am tired, I am going to be quick!

GUYS.

GUYS I GOT MY #1 CHRISTMAS LIST ITEM.


PLAYSTATION 3


(Just in time for them to announce the PS4, I am sure, but WHATEVER.)


SO EXCITED.

And I wanted to share my **EXCITEMENT**

Aaand, as I always do when I get a new gaming toy, I would like to request some game recommendations! I own a few already (I will list them below), and I have a list of stuff I want to get already (though they aren't all out yet), but what are your thoughts, you people who might have some?

Games owned:
Final Fantasy XIII
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Little Big Planet 2
Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One
Sonic Generations
Transformers: War for Cybertron

Hi! I haven't made a proper update in over a month, so here is a brief summary of my life since then:

( Snip :> )

Some other things are that - hey! They announced the BotCon theme! IT'S ANIMATED! They've posted Dead End (a Jazz repaint), and he is... so pretty. *_* Also, the people I was planning on going with have had to cancel on me. Does anyone want to go and need a room/mate (I currently have a double at the Sheraton, which is the hotel right next to the convention center)? I am not very loud or dirty!

(On the BotCon note, I am probably going to be selling the 2009 set figures, freebie, and Razorclaw. Is anyone interested in any of them, or should I just pawn the whole set off somewhere? I have the 2010 set, too, as well as Double Punch, but since I've never even removed them from the foam - or bag, in Double Punch's case - I'd prefer to sell that all together. These don't include the comics or pins, by the way. I KEEP THOSE.)

(Edit: minor clarification: the 2010 toys are going, that's a definite. I am still iffy on whether or not I'll be parting with all of the 2009 figures, but it's still a pretty decent chance.)


And, for those who are interested in that sort of thing - probably not many of you, but TOO BAD - rana_mehlota will now be posting pictures / videos of LIFE IN THE STILL-RATHER-SPARSE WORLD OF FFXIV. Probably not many or often, but there it is.


But! The biggest thing* is that I went and bought a Nintendo DS lite (with help from my mother - early birthday present, go)! It is not here yet, I ordered it from THE INTERNET. But, hey! I have never owned a Nintendo system before (though I did use my brother's Gameboy to play Pokémon when we were younger). Catch me up! What are the games to own for this thing? (I mean, I have my own list of potential titles to pick up, but hit me with recommendations, anyway, if you have any. Even if you think it may already be on the list! I LIKE RECS.) (The only thing worth noting is that I really don't like Mario - I know, I'm a bad person - so I'm pretty much discounting that entire series, unless there is one that I ABSOLUTELY MUST OWN OMG or something.)

Also, any accessories I should pick up? Screen protectors are already on the list.

* Not actually The Biggest Thing, but I don't feel like writing about that right now. (It's a good Thing, at least! :3)

NERVES, if you'd rather. We are sorry. My brain has defaulted to Al Bhed again. (Actually, it's a bizarre Spanish and Al Bhed mashup, which is even worse. "Estamos cunno," indeed.) I will try to type in English.

It's just caught up with me fully. It's a little over two weeks to BotCon and I am starting to stress out a bit. My parents still have the disposable phone they bought for my brother back in November when he drove himself back to campus alone (for the first time) in a blizzard. They're sending it with me, but I don't know how to answer it.

I've tried, but of course to make it ring, I have to dial it and, while watching me try to dial one phone while trying to answer another is probably hilarious, it is not something I appear to be at all capable of. Curse you, rotary phone. And when I have my parents home, they always just show me rather than letting me actually answer it, which is the only way I'll reliably learn it. So I'm going to go to Cincinnati with a phone that I can barely even turn on, never mind answer or use to call someone with. HELP AUGH.


Also, transportation from the terminal. I have never in my life hailed a cab. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO THESE THINGS I LIVE IN VERMONT. I can navigate subway systems in Japan and Montreal, and I even managed the Japanese bus system (why was I able to figure out everything in Japan when none of it was in English? I will never understand that), but I don't know the first thing about getting a taxi and getting them to take me somewhere.

Doesn't help that the only time I've been in a taxi, the driver nearly killed all of us several times. That was a horrifying night.


Also, despite the amount of travel I've done, I have never actually gone anywhere completely by myself. AAAAH!


Any help or advice or anything anyone has to offer would be greatly appreciated.

HELP HELP I AM GOING TO DIE

FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR DEITY HERE. NO.

I DO NOT NEED TO WRITE ANOTHER SILENT HILL CROSSOVER, AND IT MOST CERTAINLY DOESN'T NEED TO BE A DIRECT SEQUEL TO THE FIRST ONE. (NO ONE EVEN READ THAT. YOU'D THINK THIS WOULD DISCOURAGE ME.)



... MIRAGE, I SWEAR, IF YOU DON'T STOP SMIRKING AT ME SO SMUGLY, YOU'RE NEXT. YOU'LL GET STUCK IN THE HELLTOWN WITH SOMEONE NAMED JEREMIAH AND YOU'LL BE CHASED BY DEMON CAT-CARS OR SOMETHING. EVEN THOUGH THAT MAKES NO SENSE BECAUSE WHY WOULD YOU BE ANGSTY ABOUT A CLOSE CALL WHEN YOU HAVE A MILLION AND TWO OTHER MORE REASONABLE THINGS TO ANGST ABOUT. SHUT UP AND GET IN THE BOX WITH ALL THE OTHER ALTERNATORS.

please dont it would be so lonely if you were all packed up

mirage why is there a spiderweb on you the spiders should all be dead or asleep or something by now and that wasnt there yesterday



There are Hanukkah songs stuck in my head. This would almost make sense if not for two very minor details:
- Hanukkah is over.
- I am not Jewish.


I have no sanity.

I CANNOT STOP hearing my watch tick.

It is on the other side of the room because I threw it there.


AUGH!


But as soon as I glance at it, it stops. Clearly my watch is trying to drive me insane. It is WORKING.


( Unrelated: Work Angst. )

So. It's the 21^st of February.


...Look, if anyone asks if you've seen me, there are only two correct answers.

1. No.
2. "Jecca"? I don't think anyone like that actually exists. Obviously you are insane.


Because if they're female, they are probably my cousins and they are probably looking for me so they can forcibly drag me out to go barhopping, because "lol u get free beerz on ur twenee-first birfday" or whatever.

If they are male, then they are my father and he is helping them.



So, uh, in conclusion? YOU DIDN'T SEE ME.


My parents - and everyone else, but that's not unexpected - totally forgot, but yay I get cake later anyway!