No! Yes! ... Maybe!

I am only a little behind, geez, leave me alone.

Remember how I was all emo 'cause I suck and being social is hard and nothing interesting was happening and wah wah angst (the "Less Awesome" section)? It was pretty much all negated, which means I either jumped the gun due to fail!brain or that my whining broke the universe (I prefer the latter explanation), because over the weekend I was both invited to a Halloween party (WHAT) and the VT region posted a date, time, and location for a kick-off party / write-in aaaand it was a day I had off work! WHOO!

Also I Halloweenified the apartment, which was fun. I carved a pumpkin! I also strung some orange lights over the doorway to the kitchen and hung some fake cobwebs all over the fake tree. I was gonna put 'em in the stairway, but then you'd only see them when you went in or out and bah! BAH, I say! And the pumpkin stayed inside because one, none of us were going to be home until late, anyway, and two, I did not want it to get smashed by jerks.

The party was really fun! We played Scrabble (and I somehow won, which, uh, first time for everything, I guess) and carved pumpkins and ate ALL THE JUNKFOOD and then I had an epic sugar crash on Tuesday, the likes of which I have not seen in a decade or so. Oof. Also there were fluffy cats! And they liked being pet! So every time one came within proximity to the group of us (it was a small party, so I did not get oversocialised! And most of us did not know each other, so there was not the group of people and then one or two straggles who sat around feeling awkward!) a few of us dropped everything to give them belly rubs or ear scritches.

The NaNo thing was less awesome, but still fun. It was a weirdly huge group (never seen it that big, wow), which was fine, but our region leader had to bring his kids and they ran around screaming a lot, despite his best efforts. And the girls next to me were talking a lot and I kept finding myself eavesdropping on their conversation instead of working on my story. But whatever, they didn't seem to mind my occasional interjections. And I'm up to 2.5k (ish. I'm writing in two different word docs and I don't feel like doing any math beyond adding the first two digits of both numbers), which could be better but whatever, I spent yesterday in a haze and then I had stuff to do today and I AM REALLY GOOD AT MAKING EXCUSES.


In other news, I have really, really got to remove this song from my Video Game Remixes playlist, because every time it comes on, I end up going back and listening to it, like, a million times, because it is THE CATCHIEST EVER oh my god.
Awesome: I have 31 hours next week (and despite this, I am only closing once! Which is very exciting) and the first two days of November off! I did not ask for them, they were just GIVEN TO ME. So I at least have the option of getting a good start on NaNo. And I am feeling a lot better than I was! AND WE GOT THE NEW GLOVES AT WORK YAY YAY YAY they are so much nicer than the ones we've been using oh my gooosh.

Less Awesome: oh god nanowrimo. Also, apparently there are no interesting Halloween events anywhere near me, so I guess getting out from work early on Monday (and not working at all Saturday) doesn't really make any difference. And my NaNo region has absolutely nothing planned for write-ins or even a pre-November meet up. EVERY SINGLE TIME I DECIDE I WILL FIND SOMETHING TO DO TO BE SOCIAL... see, this is why I don't bother. Well, that and the fact that it never comes to anything anyway, 'cause I'm a loser.

EVEN LESS AWESOME: Square has apparently hit the bottom of their coffer for FFXIV, and so, sometime next month or perhaps in December (there is no information on this anywhere, other than that it is happening), they are going to start charging for the game. How much will they be charging? WHO KNOWS! THERE IS NO INFORMATION ANYWHERE! Hopefully not the full $13, because it is not worth that yet, and are they going to stick with their original plan of cutting fees if you play FFXI, as well? Basically I am really kind of freaking out (like, unreasonably so) because NO NO NO I don't want to have to pick one or the other and damn it, considering their plans for FFXIV v2.0 next year, I really, reaaally don't want to miss this once in a lifetime storyline (APOCALYPSE!! Or CATASTROPHE, anyway, since part of the plan for 2.0 includes completely reworked maps, so the entire world is going to be redesigned. And characters won't be reset, so it's not even like they're ending the world and starting a new one, this is really an actual thing that is going to happen in Eorzea. WANT TO SEEEE). So, uh. Damn it, what do I do? Other than cry over my current inability to afford both games, I mean.

LEAST AWESOME: I know I said I was done talking about the Family Drama, but adskjflgbfjdbhs my cousin's mother-in-law has had to quit her job and move in with him because she was the best option, and he's got to go back in for another round of spinal fusion surgery and either something else is going wrong or it's just psychosomatic but his vocal chords are beginning to not work so I DON'T KNOW I am resisting the urge to throw things across the room only because I know it wouldn't do any good. BUT I have her address, now, so I can write her letters, if I want.

OFFERED AWESOME: oh right speaking of letters - I do have a couple people on my mailing list WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT they probably know who they are, but I feel like bombarding the post office again (every time their state of NO MONEY AT AAAAALL makes the news, I remember I am supposed to be single-handedly reviving them), so if getting snail-mail interests you, check out this entry, here, please.
jecca_mehlota: (Moogle-go-round)
( Nov. 3rd, 2010 06:30 pm)
All the people running attack ads lost the election again. :3 VERMONTERS DON'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU BASH THE OTHER GUY. WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT HIM WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR US (I mean, it was very, very close, but still. I am glad we once again show that that shit doesn't work here.) (This also means that the positions I cared about will all be filled by the people I preferred. Double win!)

NaNo. I'm already behind, but I've also already written more in the last two and a half days than in the five months prior, so I'm calling it a win, anyway. LOOK, WORDS. I MADE THEM!


So, you know what bothers me a bit? When people who should know better by now do that whole asexual = aromantic and possibly asocial or even antisocial thing. A little earlier this week, I was talking with someone and they said something that I'm hoping was supposed to come out as, "Boy, I wish I were more like you in that I could be perfectly content not being in a relationship because DAMN, they're a lot of drama and heartache!" ... but which came rather out more along the lines of, "Boy, you're so lucky you're a heartless icebitch who's going to live and die all alone because you hate everyone!" Followed by a, "you know, even if you do ever get into a relationship, you'll have to have sex. It's the law!" Because, yeah, asexuals? Are NOT AT ALL aware of sex being an important part of a relationship to non-asexuals! THEY SOMEHOW MISSED THAT MEMO. It's not like society throws it in our face every day! RRRG. Fortunately, I won't have the opportunity to speak with the individual in question for another few days, which should be more than enough time for me to stop being all snarly about it, now that I've vented my frustrations. (To the individual in question, who'll probably see this eventually: please don't bother apologising. I'll have put it behind me by the time you see this and all you'll manage to do is remind me that I was annoyed. Instead, just don't do it again.)


...AND IN "WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE" NEWS, AS OF THIS WEEKEND I WILL HAVE BEEN PLAYING FFXI FOR SEVEN YEARS OH MY GOODNESS and still not a single level 75, though that's not the level cap anymore, but shut up. This calls for ... something. I don't know what. (AN INTERVENTION??) Thank goodness FFXIV isn't near as excellent, or I'd really be in trouble now.


(Hi, by the way. I'm back from being a hermit! I would make an intro post for the newcomers, but I already linked to my old one and, really, sadly, nothing much has changed... Whatever, here's the old one again.)

OH WAIT I AM NOT DONE Halloween! We didn't get anyone looking for candy (MORE FOR ME I only bought one bag this year, though, after last year's turnout), but I am mostly glad that I did not have to WALK HOME. 'Cause it was on a Sunday. And the buses don't run! So, three miles in the dark, alone, past a cemetery. AAAAA but I was saved from being eaten by ghosts and instead me and a few friends sat around watching Halloween-themed movies for a bit and it was fun. Yay!

(Also, I saw a lot of people wandering around in costume on Saturday. One of them was a Mudkip.)


ONE MORE EDIT I'm going to pull the links from this music meme at the end of the week, so if you've any interest, you'd best head over.
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.
This afternoon, I went to a NaNoWriMo write-in at the local library. Was fun!

AND NOW: PICTURE POST AAAAUGH
Note: despite these all being Halloween pictures, most of them were not actually taken on Halloween. Wheeha!

Images )

Crud, my tea got cold. /non sequitur
jecca_mehlota: (Twilight)
( Oct. 27th, 2009 11:08 pm)
I honestly think that if I didn't have to be up in an hour to put stuff on my face, I would go to bed now (bed before midnight is pretty much unheard of for me). I wasn't supposed to work today, so I didn't think anything of staying up [entirely too] late last night [this morning] to beat FFVIII (that was fast). And then Aniko's work called after I'd had maybe four hours of unconsciousness? And it woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep. But, no big deal, right? I can take it easy, maybe nap in the afternoon. Oh, what, the phone again? Now my work is calling? Sure, I always need more hours. I'll agree to come in! And then, perhaps a sign of mounting insanity or just sleep deprivation-induced poor judgment, I ended up walking to work (it's a little over two and a half miles). AND THEN I GOT TO WALK HOME, TOO. So, um. Very tired Jecca.

But I got a free sandwich out of the deal. Yay, free food.

Anyway, as you may have guessed from one of the comments above, I've been busy playing FFVIII. A couple of those times were my own fault. Aniko wasn't even around. I turned it on to go draw some magic (let's face it, that's probably a bit boring to watch) and then next thing I know it'd be much later and okay sure I'd have all the spells I needed but where did the day go? And then - augh. Wait, at least one person on my friends list has not finished this game.

Oh, look, a cut. Minor FFVIII spoilers )

Aaanyway, the oven at work is possessed (it's that time of year, I suppose). Keeps going too hot, but as soon as you notice, it cools back down.

I am bummed that I am working Saturday night. Oh, well. I GUESS THIS MEANS ANIKO AND I WILL JUST HAVE TO EAT THE CANDY WE BOUGHT INSTEAD OF HANDING IT OUT. GOSH. TOO BAD.

Oh, right, just glanced down at the tags (sometimes I fill them in first, sometimes last, and sometimes I add some, then add more when I go off on huge tangents). I still remember my NaNoWriMo log in. Nooo, what am I doing. noooooo. Still have block, have no story ideas, nuuuu.


Thank goodness, it is almost midnight. Hopefully I sleep enough tonight and can catch up on life tomorrow before going back to work. Or after work. Or, I don't know, something, anyway.
New computer has been mercifully problemless so far. It's running Vista, so everything looks wrong and I haven't got it all figured out yet, but I disabled the UAC and a bunch of other stuff so it no longer asks me if I want to allow everything.

It wasn't annoying me too much until I noticed it didn't remember things, and I'm not forgiving enough to put up with having to tell it YES I AM SURE every time I try to open anything.

I AM, HOWEVER, MOST SORROWFUL ABOUT MY LOSS OF WALLPAPERS. :(

COMPUTER BLAHBLAH )

Enough of that. November! You and your WRITING, man, I dunno. I like NaNoWriMo. I don't think I've ever really made the 50k word goal, but I've never minded. I can't write like that. I can't toss my inner editor aside and just write. I think it's really awesome that some people can, and do, but I cannot. I look at November more as a month where I say, look, self, just write something, yeah? And that works. I do write more in November than I do every other month of the year (...possibly combined). I don't always finish what I start, but it gets me writing, and that's my real goal for the month.

As I said perhaps more coherently to someone in an Instant Messenger conversation this afternoon: I dunno, I'm amazed by people who do write 50k in November (or more!) but I can't do it. I can't just write 50k words blindly. I do like using it as a starting point, though. IT IS NOVEMBER YOU WILL WRITE not, It is November and you will write anything and everything because OMG WORDCOUNT (or should that be, "it is the eleventh month of the year, which is to say, November, and you can and will write both and and every single that occurs to you throughout that month because hitting your word count goal of fifty thousand words is entirely more important than anything silly like reason or sense or even coherency."?).

So right now I've got about seven WIPs I've been poking around at, and I'm at a dead end in all of them, so maybe I'll try to start yet another one tomorrow, or maybe I'll just sit on them until I come up with something. BUT WRITING! Yay, me!
Will catch up on flist entries, uh. Tomorrow or something? I dunno. Maybe it's the excessive cold in my house. Being too cold for too long makes me be weird sometimes. Just quiet now.

Anyway, to be honest, probably wouldn't have wandered over at all (sorry - just feeling so blah these days...) but have a bit of a request?

s'almost November, and we probably all remember what that means... (WRIST PAIN, is what that means.) Wasn't planning on signing up again, but received a threatening email from them. They knew I was thinking of backing out, and that's not allowed. So. Appear to have registered again. .....

But think I'm going to go about things a little differently this year? I'll still be writing, but I don't have a story - no stories, I've gone completely brain dead this semester, and I'm pretty sure I won't magically think anything up in the next ten days. Never know, maybe I will, but for now am working under the assumption that I won't, so here is my plan (and request):

I'm going to try and write a bunch of short stories. I'm collecting prompts. So. Prompt me/request things? They can be fandom-specific or things you want to know about my original characters/universes (though I don't talk about those much, so I think the only one you guys'll even know about is the Jade/Okame set), I don't care. I'm not guaranteeing I'll write everything I'm given, but I'll at least consider it all, and I'll try. So give me a fandom (or multiple, because I'll do crossovers), and some characters or a general story idea you might wanna see me try and tackle next month! I'll post up everything I actually finish.

If you're not sure whether or not I know the fandom, suggest anyway. I get into more than even I think I do, and asking never hurts, anyway.

Already got a few - like, ten or so - from Aniko, including a few fandoms I've never written for before (House and Heroes), as well as some more familiar ones (lots of FFXI, potentially another Top Gear/Transformers crossover thing...), but would like more? Thanks in advance?
I ...remembered my NaNoWriMo password.

That is amazing. *boggles over this for several minutes*


But I'm not sure why I bothered to sign up again, considering I've already decided I'm not even going to pretend to try and hit 50K. Habit, I suppose.

... If WST-Live! does for some reason hit 50K, I may have to kill myself. I'm serious. It cannot possibly go on that long.




Top Gear on YouTube is hooray. Return of Amphibious Cars! Glee glee glee! (Ha haaa, Jeremy and Richard counting sugar?)

Transformers comes out on DVD tomorrow. I am so happy. But for now I watch Heroes. (Edit: 20 minutes in and I've had to explain to my father who Nathan is five times so far. Ouch.)

Edit II:
DVD obtain'd! I went with the Best Buy deal, with the little Robot Heroes. Plus, free Megatron lithograph. Wouldn't have paid for it, as it's really not that spectacular, but... free Megatron lithograph.

Did end up buying the Best Buy-exclusive Megatron figure, though. I already have two versions of Ratchet, so despite the mold's obvious superiority I left those for other people. I wasn't planning on buying either, honestly, but the Megatron looks really nice, and he doesn't have that annoying blue-whatsit all over that the general release one has.

So, grabbed him.

Then I tied the little Cliffjumper and Prime to the strings of my hoodie-thing and walked around with mini-robots danging about all day. No one commented on them.


I am so in love with my fandom's canon. Never leave me, Transformers. Never!
jecca_mehlota: (Fortunately their aim is appalling)
( Nov. 7th, 2006 04:23 pm)
THAT'S RIGHT, PLOTBUNNY, COWER. COWER IN THE FACE OF NANOWRIMO, AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE INSIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO THE BEAST. NOW RUN AWAY AND NEVER RETURN.



In less caps-locky news, voting is awesome. So is Titanium Scourge. Also so is the 20th Anniversary edition of TF:TM. This is turning into an expensive week.
jecca_mehlota: (Leap!)
( Nov. 4th, 2006 11:13 pm)
LJ's working again, hurrah. No work today, but had an icky weekend and I'm lagging behind a bit on NaNo. I'm blaming my brain. Had a bit of a conversation with it earlier this morning, actually. Yes, yes, I talk to my brain. I do not regard my brain as part of my sane self and disown it on almost a daily basis. I realize this may, in fact, be rather odd.

So, yes, as I said, I talked to the Brain today.

It was confused. )

I really have no idea what caused that idiocy. Stupid brain.


Edit:
Then on Sunday I thought it was Monday, and then on Thursday I thought it was Monday again. There's something very wrong with my internal calendar.
/edit

This song always - always - makes me feel better, no matter what. It's not necessarily a happy song, but I think it's kind of hopeful, and I ... really just love it (just in case my using it for most all the labels on this journal didn't make that obvious enough). It's my inspiration-for-living song, or something. I really don't know why.


Also, Mike is over here playing Ecco: Defender of the Future. He's fighting the crocodile. My nerves are effectively KO'd, and sanity might not be coming back. In so many ways, this game is worse than Silent Hill.
jecca_mehlota: (Drifting)
( Nov. 1st, 2006 12:01 am)
NaNo!

... Goodbye, remaining sanity! Please remember to come back in December.


I am not ready for this. @__@


Fortunately for everyone else, most everything else related to this mess I keep getting myself into will be at least under Friends lock.



...But first I'm going to write that three page mythology report that I'm fairly certain is due tomorrow. Also, it is nice to be able to use the computer again. (Addiction? What addiction?)



LJ WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THE YEAR IS INVALID. IT IS STILL 2006 RIGHT? UPDATE, YOU MISERABLE SCRAP HEAP.

I love how it actually works after I add the caps-rage. Now I don't want to remove it, for fear of LJ breaking again.
jecca_mehlota: (Leap!)
( Oct. 29th, 2006 08:05 pm)
Weather's awful. Work was terrible, and I refuse to elaborate on that other than to say, "One of the high points was when I was assaulted by an insane, drunk woman Friday night."

... fun times.


Going downtown after classes end tomorrow and attacking the toy store, because new toys make everything better. (I realize I should have outgrown this mentality when I was seven or something, but really, I just like toys.) They'd better have either the Classics or Titaniums, or else I'll be disappointed about the wasted gas (a dire threat, to be sure).

Subject change: NaNo notes )

Halloween is Tuesday, but I'll be in guitar class all evening. Probably going to carve a pumpkin anyway, though.
jecca_mehlota: (Drifting)
( Oct. 23rd, 2006 12:47 am)
NaNoWriMo starts in eight days. Aaaaagh! Aaaaaaaaaaaaa - oh, hey, Titanium Scourge is out? Perfect! I just picked up a pay check today!

Toy store even carries Titaniums (unlike Classics and Alternators and... well, most everything), so maybe I'll stop by after classes tomorrow and see if they've gotten him in yet. I wonder if there are plans to make the other two Unicronians. (Is that even a word?) (( Edit: Didn't see him today. :\ ))



Back to NaNo, though. Probably going with the Final Fantasy XI bit. I've obtained permission from most everyone who has a character (or two) that I'll need to use. Just need to get in contact with Crytuf and Shadowlotus' player. And Nehima / Nomii's, though I'm quite sure she won't care, as I use her characters all the time. Better to avoid potential problems in the first place, though. Of course, getting in touch with her is going to be a problem. She didn't give me her dorm phone number or address, she never checks her email, and she doesn't use instant messaging programs. Annoying.



Dear Primus, eight days? Ugh. I am so, so slagged.
I just got the email notification from NaNoWriMo that it's time to register myself again.


How is it almost November? *eep* I have no idea what I'm going to try and write about this year.



I can't remember if you're "allowed" to write in other universes. I could probably pound out 50k+ words for a story based in the XI-verse, despite having no story ideas at the moment. Plus it has the benefit that, while having locations and basics of a way of a world and way of life established, the characters are not entirely pre-established. I have to know my three characters in and out, and it's rather easy to throw in new characters. I also have permission to continue using my friends' characters (though that gets into the pre-established characters thing).



I could also try doing something with Jade and her little girlfriend "stalker-pest" (ahah, Jade, you are fooling no one).


Hm. I need to start thinking about this if I want to have any sort of a plan of attack by the end of the month.

Edit:
I uploaded a few more Ecco Haiku on my FF.net account. I don't really know why I keep playing those games.
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