Currents of Time

Maybe I just don't get the point, but April Fool's Day always seems kind of ... dumb to me. (On the other hand, I'm one of those people who can keep track of the date. ... If not necessarily the day of the week, as evidenced by my thinking Tuesday was Wednesday and Wednesday was Saturday.) I am always surprised when people get all up and freaked out about news announcements and stuff on this date because, uh. Hello? It's April 1. Most of it is just obnoxious.

But I think what The Allspark has done to their layout is amazing (it was the entire site for a while, but now it's just the main page and the Transformers discussion forum, where there are a bunch of time travel threads (we're back in 1985!), which amuse me greatly.

Who's Unicron?, A Transformers convention would be SO COOL, We're getting more episodes!, and discussion of information from SECRET INSIDE SOURCES are ... well, most of them, really. But I think they're funny. (Also, there's an an entirely new [fake] subforum.)


Anyway, as often as fanficrants makes me run screaming (when I can be bothered to check it...), this entry is actually pretty awesome.


I went out walking and, as you do, ended up in a GameStop. They're having some big... sale thing. But I didn't want any of the new games they had for cheap and, anyway, trying to not spend money! Buuut they had Ōkami (I still need to finish that game, arg) for the Wii! Which I've been trying to sell my mother on for, uh ... since whenever she bought the Wii. Coming up on a year, now, if we aren't there already. And I finally succeeded! So I picked it up for her. And then they were giving out promocodes for this free, browser-based online RPG, so I checked that out. Kinda fun! I made it to level 4, but now I am out of Action Points until tomorrow, which is pretty lame.


THERE ARE TRILOBITES IN FFXI AND MY BROTHER KEEPS TRYING TO GIVE ME ONE. asvdghn.ln So far I've escaped the horror because my inventory's been full. At least my keyboard-mashing and wails of despair are still amusing to / a source of amusement for others?


Oh, man, spring is coming. Allergiiiiessss, whyyyyyyy. MAYBE LAST YEAR WAS A FLUKE AND THEY WON'T COME BACK?


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Oh, right. April. I didn't sign up, but for my own future reference, the current word count (untouched today thus far) in the "official" word doc is 5,381. I don't know how much of that's actually writing and how much is just me blathering about plot details in allcaps and shorthand, but that's the number I'm going with.

Also, YouTube's got some funky stuff going on in select videos (for today, anyway). It's kinda neat. Worth a look, anyway.

So, aside from giving me a few reminders as to why I don't like the college up the hill and am glad I don't attend there, Jon Stewart event? HILARIOUS. He went at the governor quite a lot in the beginning, which was both fun and funny. He also kept talking to the signers, which was funnier than it should have been, since they'd be translating the question he was asking rather than answering and... I dunno. IT WAS FUNNY.

Then I went back home and logged onto FFXI with the intent of doing something, I think... Actually, I think we did do something (I... Ani and Nabi and I were all in a party. BUT WHY?), but I can't remember what.

Oh! Wait, yes, okay, we did a fight for Nabi, but we didn't get the drop she wanted. Okay. Okay, got it.

( Anyway... )

I decided to catch up on Transformers comics, and I'm pretty glad I did! I had coupons for 40% off, so I got two TPBs for close to the price of one, and I'm actually enjoying them a fair amount. I know I shouldn't be surprised or convinced by the hate people've been throwing at them lately, but sometimes I forget how cracked out fandom can be. I was going to say people who's opinions usually line up with mine were hating them, but after I'd typed it, I thought about it and, no, while I generally have some amount of respect for these people, they usually don't agree with me.

Of course, the series does have a fair amount of problems (for example, the list of continuity discrepancies on the wiki is kind of horrifying and hilarious all at once), but the sheer, violent hatred I'd been seeing seems a bit out of place. Anyway, though, the art is really pretty.


Earlier today I went with my mother to a Japanese festival thing, which sounded really cool, but ended up being kind of lame. Oh, well. Got red bean paste out of it, so obviously this was not a complete loss.


...Most of yesterday, I was really grumpy (I'm chalking it up to not getting enough sleep and then being woken up multiple times that morning). Today, I still have not had enough sleep, but I was set on "ridiculously happy" until around three hours ago, when my sleepiness caught up with me. Now I'm just tired. I don't need to be up all night waiting for a monster to maybe spawn, though, so hopefully I'll get a decent amount of dead-time.

We have a new store manager at work. Her name is Donna. Pretty much my only exposure to the name "Donna" is through Doctor Who, and as a result, when I call her on the intercom, I have to make a conscious effort to pronounce her name the way everyone in the store does. "Dah-na." I can't dooo iiiit. Of course, I pronounce half my words wrong (well, "wrong", which is to say, 'different from how most other people in the USA would pronounce it'), anyway. Like Nevada. I have always done this. So perhaps no one thinks it is too strange.

Today was my last day of working for a while! Probably until next month!

MOSTLY because I am going to Mexico on Friday (so excited!) (but argh, I'll be missing the first new episode of Supernatural, which is a bummer), but also because I need the time after I get back to move into my apartment, find my classes and figure out my internship, and also get the bus routes. So much to do...!


I've been having a merciless headache for the last little while. To be fair, it was much, much worse last night. BUT STILL AUGH OW. I think it's at least in part due to dehydration (I hope it's at least in part due to dehydration?). I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the nausea. Uuugh. At least I'm getting being ill out of my system now instead of while I'm away? Unless we get it for both, in which case I declare war on my immune system, as it clearly hates me.


I haven't been typing up any more of my November writings. No one is surprised~ (Possibly no one cares. Goodness knows I largely don't.) Maybe I'll get going on that again, at least so I can get rid of the paper copies.


So... Waiting for my brother to arrive so we can waste our Beastmen seals trying and failing utterly at getting any sort of decent drops from the 'Under Observation' BCNM. One out of twenty runs. ONE. That's not so bad for the peacock charm, but Utsusemi: Ni? That's awful. Ugh. What an absolute waste.

Though there are massive ... Buffalo-things tearing around all the newbie zones, and that's always fun. Whee, New Year's event.


May be doing something Thursday. May go poorly. Oh, specific drama-thing. Why you so crazy?

So. I kind of collect journals. I don't mean to, but then I'm in the bookstore just browsing, and, oh, that's pretty, and next thing I know... Also, people buy them for me a lot. ♥! JOURNALS!

I actually do write in them. Sometimes they sit around a bit while I try to figure out what to use them for, but they all get used.

I've fairly recently discovered a new, uh, brand, I guess, of journals! Paperblanks! (ooh, look, they have a site!) Aniko bought me one like this (ha! I couldn't get a decent picture with my digital camera, but Amazon has it!) for my birthday/Christmas, and I didn't do much with it until June, but even before then it was very pretty and I liked the texture of the pages, and I liked the weight of it. Aaand I was in Borders on Wednesday (seriously, the second half of my first class was dedicated to browsing in a bookstore. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?). We were supposed to pick up a book relating to the class (which I did), and then grab a journal. I already have a journal for the designated purpose (dream recording), but I followed orders like a good little minion and went rummaging around in the journals section... and I found THIS, and it is so pretty and and and. I had to buy it. I HAD TO.

IT JUMPED OFF THE SHELF AND LATCHED ONTO ME. I COULDN'T PRY IT OFF. WHAT ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?

And I'm totally going back and picking up this one (edit: I went and purchased it. You're not allowed to be surprised) and this one at some point, too. (I HAS 5 DOLLAR COUPON FROM SPENDING MONIES ON BOOKS, ALSO, SO. SAVINGS! well, no, not really, since I had to spend quite a bit to get said coupon...)

(But, hey, if you like journals, too, see if you can find one for yourself. They're lovely~)


Anyway, I've been using it to record my thoughts on That Thing that's been eating at me, which I keep on mentioning vaguely (see, it's not that I don't trust you guys, it's just that this is a really sensitive subject for me, and I know I'll probably react poorly to almost any reaction - or lack thereof - to it, given time to mull over it, so I'm not going to put it up here. If you really want details, bother me over AIM or through email or something.), and I think it's helping, at least somewhat. I can at least get my thoughts out in a semi-coherent manner and sort them, without leaving it open for just anyone.

...Jecca, just anyone could pick it up and open it. Just because it isn't posted online... Oho, you underestimate me! I'm sure I've mentioned once or twice that I have my own writing... I've been using this. (I happen to think it looks pretty. It makes my handwriting - which, as some of you have seen, is pretty darned awful - look less ridiculous and illegible than it normally does. And it's not something just anyone can read. Unless you can read it, in which case I'm a bit off the mark, there.)



I finally allowed the stupid pop-up to update me to Firefox 3, and I'm not sure I like some of the changes they've made. The address bar, for one, thinks it is being helpful by drawing from the page title. NO, WHEN I TYPE "t" I EXPECT THE TOP OPTION TO BE MY JOURNAL, NOT ... whatever the heck it is this time! STOP IT. grrrr. (Oh, dear, I've just outed myself as an impossibly lazy web surfer, haven't I?)


ALSO: Potentially good news for me, less so for at least half of you scrolling past this. I think my bizarre and sudden NOT TALKING TO YOU bout with the Transformers fandom may be coming to an end. (I don't even know what brought it on. I just woke up one morning too annoyed at it to even consider dealing with any of it.)

Thank goodness. I have missed my giant robots. Also it's been like, what, two months? Surely something interesting has happened in my absence...

ALSO ALSO: crud, Jade and Okame are scratching at my brain. They don't bother me much, but when they do, I pretty much cannot ignore them. Normally this isn't a problem, because normally I can write. Unfortunately, I am not capable of such things at the moment. DAMN YOU, CREATIVITY.

ALSO ALSO ALSO: OH MY GOD I HATE TVTROPES you can tell i love you by my decision to not include a link to it in here MAKE IT STOP

I've been cleaning out a few of my Interests (mostly generic stuff) and, yes, adding a few more in, and I'm... not sure if these two were always next to each other or if this is the result of me removing something, but the fact that "oh no mitochondria!" and "omigod i'm on fire!" are right next to each other very nearly killed me just now.


Have you played (or read, since it's a book, too) (OR SEEN, AS IT IS ALSO A MOVIE, WHICH I DID NOT KNOW!) Parasite Eve? You probably won't get the joke if you aren't familiar with Parasite Eve...



(That they were entered at different times and completely unrelated to each other makes this all the more amusing.)


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adsfhgljhk life. If I survive to the end of the week, instead of exploding in a ball of mess, I will be amazed. I just. Cannot. Incoherency now. The problem with asking for advice here is I can't tell half the story, so I can't, really.

If I am wildly distraught over Something at any point between Monday morning and Wednesday extended to Thursday evening, I would like everyone in the world to tell me, "Well, you did think it was a bad idea."

Because I just know this is going to end in blood and tears and pain and general unhappiness on all counts, but I'm going and doing it anyway.

(This has been a bad idea since all of time, but especially so since this last Monday. Oh, god, what am I doing?)

...Possibly I am going over there and being sick all over the place now.


BAD TIME TO BE ILL, JECCA, M'DEAR, YOU HAVE TO RIDE IN A CAR FOR FIVE+ HOURS TOMORROW. It'll be fun! Worry about this later!


Now where are all the funguar? I only need one more Dark Crystal to make a stack, and I'm only 150 experience from level 12. I STOP AT 12. Come on, Ronfaure, I know there are funguar here.

So, I've not mentioned, but my parents have been away for the past while. They're getting back in a few hours. Family reunion/birthday party/thingamathing, in Maryland. My brother and I did not go, because we don't know the people who are there, because we have work and I was supposed to have classes for some of it, and because PLEASE JUST I NEED SOME TIME TO NOT BE RUNNING AROUND AAAUGH and because like hell am I spending three days in a car driving all over New England looking at scenery because my father wanted to take the extremely long way. I told Mom that if the police call to tell me one or both of my parents are dead, I'd understand and we wouldn't judge her. She was very grateful.

But it's been exciting while they've been gone! Something new is wrong with the dog, the lawn mower broke (again, we just had the stupid thing fixed), my brother was aggro'd by a wasp and I had to tell him how/help to treat it, then a wasp came into the house (apparently not done with him), there was a daddy-longlegs the size of, I don't know, Africa or something in the bathroom (SERIOUSLY, AT LEAST AS BIG AS MY PALM), but then it migrated to the stairwell (and now it's disappeared), there was a massive spider in the sink in the upstairs bathroom, the moth eggs on the kitchen window hatched, life threw a major curveball at my head, but the only surprising parts about it were the ones you wouldn't think were surprising (ha, the typically surpising bit ... wasn't. Okay, part of it was slightly. Mostly it was awkward and a bit embarrassing, oh, dear) (AND OF COURSE the parts that reasonably could be freaking me out aren't and the ones that really shouldn't are. Self, you are so uselessly inept at everything), and a bunch of other bizarre stuff (like it hasn't rained the entire time they've been gone. This is a record for Days It Has Not Rained This Summer). Also I stole my brother's .dat swap to make Mithra stand in the better position.

I think mostly I was posting because "wasp aggro" sounds funny. SO YES. Today my brother was stung by a wasp while trying to mow the lawn, after the good mower broke. We took broken mower + wasp sting as signs of divine intervention and decided he was not supposed to be mowing. So he stopped.

The wasp that came crawling in (literally) is still trapped under a cup on the floor. Actually, it hasn't been moving. I think it might be dead.

ALSO NABIKI WAS JUST NOW EATEN TO DEATH BY A VERY SCARY NOTORIOUS MONSTER. Then it came and air-swam at me, but then we docked in Nashmau right as it came to murder me and I LIVE! bwaha.