Currents of Time

If I am annoyed about something, I do not think it is out of line for me to rant about it! If you (any you) have annoyed me, yes, maybe I will, in fact, rant about you! Maybe I will do it to a single person, or a small group of people! Maybe I will do it here! Maybe I will make an aggravated status update on Facebook! I don't know. I cannot predict these things. Whatever I do, the point stands, I am annoyed, and I am venting! Many people do the same thing. It is not necessarily a bad thing to get anger out of your system! If the fact that I am going to rant when frustrated is unacceptable, then perhaps you need to stop doing things that you know piss me off? (I'm not talking accidental things, here. I mean, I specifically tell someone that something they've done, and do a lot, annoys me, and could they please try not to do it in my company? And they continue to do it and then get annoyed when I get annoyed and expressed my annoyance. Seriously, though, if I've told you more than ten times, I give up and just resort to complaining to other people.) (And, hey, if I don't feel like making a big deal of it enough to tell you directly, but am still annoyed at the time? STILL LEGIT.)
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[A million spoilery things about Supernatural, especially the most recent episode, go here!] I am ... not sure anyone on my friends list watches this show anymore, so I don't really want to say a lot of spoiler-heavy stuff, even under a cut? It makes sense in my head... BUT OH MAN THIS SHOW. That is all!


I am apparently the only person in the world who takes allergy medication to allow myself to wake up. I mean, I am still groggy as all get out, but I can at least be awake! But uuugh I feel like blah! And my brain isn't working properly, which is really annoying.


Man, I'm almost out of stamps. Not sure what I'll do when I actually run out. I like writing letters but uurgh buying stamps, what a pain. I'll probably pick some more up eventually, though, because I am weak. (I came to the revelation the other day that, despite having gone through ... uh. A LOT. OF STAMPS.* In the last year or more, I have only had three letters in reply! Good thing I don't write for the responses. XD) (Haha, one of them I still need to finish my response to. Someone wrote back to the "GT"-verse letter a couple of you got, so I'm like... contractually obligated to respond, or something. And also I want to. So!)

* "Forever" stamps come 20 to a sheet and I'm about to use my last two. I don't use them for international mail, and a couple times I've used some of my prettier or sillier stamps, which I have to stack, since none of them are equal to... whatever stamps are costing these days.

... Hm. Actually, I'm almost out of envelopes, too. This is more surprising than it should be.

...and a refresher for anyone else, I guess?

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Feel free to ask any questions about me or my life!

There is no hot water. There is no hot water until Monday. Misery. I have enough clean clothing to last that (I scheduled Tuesday as wash day, then I'll pack Wednesday), but there's still that bathing issue.

I ... may or may not have packed my carry-on already. aha. ha... (No! It isn't finished! Because I'm going to print off or write out pieces of my Works in Progress so I can work on them, but I still have almost a week to work on them before that, so making hard copies now would be really silly.)


I get new glasses on Tuesday! I am so excited. I have needed new lenses for the last year, but it's become bad enough that I've only barely been able to see the board in classes, and I sit near the front. Oh, eyes, why do you betray me so?


We had our group presentation in one of my classes today! Two of us turned up, but the third - he wasn't around last week, either - wasn't in. Apparently he informed the teacher this morning that some stuff had happened and he was actually out of state, and that's fine, I do understand that these things come up. I do wish he'd let us know, though. Walking into class on the day of a presentation to find out a solid third of your material isn't going to be there is a little disconcerting.


I was totally going to say something about Life on Mars but it's potentially spoilery and mostly jesting on my part, so I won't.

"Fits of boredom" isn't really the way to describe it, but sometimes for no reason that is readily apparent to anyone, I will go poking around in the stuff in my closet. It seems like something a person would do when bored, but I can be in the middle of writing, or homework, or playing a video game, or... any sort of thing (so long as I am in my bedroom at the time) when this happens!

Today I pulled out the suit-hanger thing (we got it from our old neighbor when he moved. It's a special... cover-thing you can put a nice suit in to keep it protected or something. I know nothing of the hows and whys of clothing maintenance) and opened it.

But this one does not have a real suit in it! It's actually got a costume. For a couple years, my brother and I, and some friends of ours, would go down to Baltimore for Otakon, and we would, yes, cosplay. You may defriend me in shame now.

Anyway, first year we went, my mother and I spent a lot of the summer leading up to the convention making a Yuna costume (from Final Fantasy X, not X-2) for a friend. This was harder than it should have been for two reasons, the first being that I was absolutely adamant we find the perfect fabric. We hit every fabric store in the state twice, but it was worth it because we did find everything. The second was that the person we were making it for was, you know... in Texas until mid-July, so we were making what we could from memory and guesses and some year-old measurements we'd taken for a sewing project in Girl Scouts. Anyway, the Yuna outfit turned out beautifully, though we ran out of time to finish it all the way. The flowers on the skirt were added after the convention. Still - it all looked great.

Second year, we hit every fabric shop in the state, a few in Maine and New Hampshire (I was at school in Maine and, of course, NH is between Vermont and Maine, so), and eventually resorted to going to the "fabric district" in Montreal because I was no less adamant about perfect fabrics than I'd been the year before. This one was for me, though!

Also, we bought something like twelve different patterns because, of course, no one had one to match what we needed and we had to mix and match and improvise. (Yuna was remarkably easy to make - just some altered sleeves and a pleated skirt and a strip of white for the top and a fake obi. It was the decorating that was a pain.) BUT WE SUCCEEDED! (And we made a simple Moogle-outfit for the guy who is not my brother. My brother was Kyo, from Fruits Basket, because they dress the same, anyway. IT WAS AWESOME.)

So I now have a (very nice, if I do say so. Several other people - people I do not know! - have said the same, so I am inclined to believe it is, in fact, nice!) Quistis Trepe outfit. The "casual" one, not the SeeD one. Even though we only see her wearing her glasses in the SeeD uniform. She's nearsighted! Maybe they just didn't feel like adding glasses to her world map model! (Maybe they are there and I have managed not to notice them!)

I got it out because I had to put the legging-things - which I'd had in with my socks until I got rid of nearly all of my socks a week ago - away, and I thought putting them in with the shirt and skirt would be the best place.


I have no idea what to do with it, now, though. I probably won't go to an anime convention again, because they're no fun by yourself and I don't have anyone to go with anymore.


...Man, I love Final Fantasy VIII. Mentioning characters from that game always makes me remember that. I should replay it!

Jecca approves of:
- Pizza parties during class.
- Finishing her holiday shopping
- Going to California to see her friends and getting out of work for it.
- SNOW!
- Finding the newest wave of Robot Heroes.
- GameStop employees humoring her strange requests.


Jecca disapproves of:
- Slushy, messy roads that nearly get her into her first car accident.
- Finishing her holiday shopping (what? Seriously? That's it?)
- Having to spend 12+ hours in or around planes tomorrow.
- Learning the assignment she e-mailed in after missing class on account of illness never arrived.


Jecca is a bit surprised by:
- The car not stopping when she applies the brakes (she's fine).
- Coming home a bit late after staying in town a little longer and then going to buy cheese and then finally getting home to learn her mother has been calling the police looking for her. Oops.


She's away now. She doesn't know if she'll have internet access at all, so she's printed out her work, which might be enough to keep her entertained for the entire flight out there.

The gaming lounge downtown closed! SORROW! More sorrow from downtown, but significantly less so, the Oasis Diner is changing hands. Didn't go there much at all, anyway, but it's still too bad. They're going to completely change it.

Unrelated, my wrist decided it hasn't proven how much it hates me in a while, so now I am stuck in the giant brace-of-no-articulation until the pain (which prompts an odd desire to cut my arm off) passes. (It's really not that huge, but I hate wearing the thing.) I HAVE NO WRIST ON MY RIGHT ARM. It is driving me insane. FLEX, you useless joint! *waggles fingers in futility* Neck is acting up, too, though that's an easy fix (but hearing and feeling my neck crack-pop in like ten places is never not going to be a bit worrying). At least my knees are behaving.

Also unrelated, obtained deluxe Movie Arcee! I'm not sure if they restock Sundays or Mondays, but by the time I have been getting there on Wednesdays, they only have, like... Payload or Dreadwing or somesuch other character that I do not want. She has a functioning kickstand! It is awesome or possibly I am just entirely too easily entertained. (Now if only Concept Camaro Bumblebee would just stop being sold out everywhere...)

Plus, new Heroes. (Yeah, yeah, that started last week. Shush.) (Also, there is no way this 'no longer entirely subtextual' subtext is unintentional.) (ALSO, Claire, ew, and didn't that hurt? JEEZ.)


...Finally, Mom made pumpkin cheesecake. Life is good.

I don't know if it's because I work until 8 and so have missed dinner with the family basically every night I've had work ever since my brother got home from college (which upsets me quite a bit, actually. I am a tad pathetic, perhaps), but I feel rather cut out of the conversation loop here at home these days.

Apparently my mother is going out to California to visit her relatives (okay, okay, they're my relatives, too, but it's not as if they care about me so I've started to return the favor). She flies out Tuesday morning. I think she comes back the following Thursday.

... When was this decided? Augh! Why is everyone going away next week?



Picked up the Transformers movie soundtrack. I'd already figured by the titles and artist credits on the back of the case, but I was still a bit disappointed to discover the whole thing is just vocals (some of which weren't even in the movie). I really want the score, if only for the track that plays when the Autobots come down, because... wow. I need that.


Been having troubles sleeping. Not sure why, but really beginning to feel it. My coherency is down even more than usual.

The snow level is back under three feet! Yes, we have a yardstick visible again. (Really, it looks a lot like the first image in this entry.) We've recovered the driveway and removed the snow from the tops of both the back and front porch roofs. The front porch and walk, though... Well, Dad keeps insisting we need to dig them out and Mom and I keep trying to convince him we don't actually have a front porch.

There's nowhere to put the snow, anyway. The snow's taller than me next to the driveway, next to the road, and next to the other driveway on the other side. We'd have to put it on the porch or something.


I've not had time to advance any in Jak II this weekend and I'm sure my lamp appreciates this, but... I knew my brain was going to be eaten by these games. I'm actually kind of surprised it took this long.



I picked up reissue Soundwave, and I'm not ashamed to admit that it was almost entirely because I wanted the Ravage figure included in it (not that I have anything against Soundwave. I rather like him. Still, it's Ravage).


Also, I know I said I was going to inflict Top Gear on travelers_flame, but she was quite literally snowed in on Friday and I only managed to catch up with her earlier tonight, by which point it was rather too late to do anything. Maybe next weekend, if we're lucky.

Finally got into town and registered today. Only in three right now, which isn't enough to mark me as a full-time student (need twelve credits, only have nine), but I'm waiting to hear back about the English Comp class. Hopefully I won't have to take that, seeing as how I've taken multiple English classes before and have written several research papers. Ugh.

Got into the Seminar course I need to graduate, which is good. It always fills up fast and I was stuck with either an insanely early commute or an extremely long commute (went with long and was wait-listed for a better time/location), but got home to find they'd called about six minutes after I'd left to ask if I wanted into the new section they'd just opened. Yay! Also got into the Communications course (also a requirement) and Psychology of Dreaming (elective).

Not sure what I'll pick as a forth if I don't have to take English Comp. ...Primus, I hope I can get out of it. I'm so sick of English Comp classes.


Best part of this all so far is I managed to keep my classes contained to the same days they were on last semester, which means I don't need to try and rearrange my work schedule. Not that it matters, since I'm only being scheduled for, what, four hours a week every Friday? Terrible. At least they're giving me a thirty cent raise, starting this week. ~_~


Also, HOLY SLAG, E-MAIL. FF.net, did you send those all out on time and I just didn't get them until now, or have you been backlogged, because I was not expecting ten (or more?!) review replies to greet me this evening. ...er, yesterday evening? My sleeping habits need work, I think.


Finally, found a few people to inflict my "Send OCs to Silent Hill" story on. Hooray!

...Every time my dog enters this room, he manages to knock something over. Now Skyfire is behind the television. (I don't even know how this was managed, considering the television is nowhere near where the dog's been and is on a desk.) Hope he doesn't mind spending the night there. >.>:

Finally picked myself out a new screen name for AIM.


That only took three months.


Whatever. Least now crazy person doesn't know my name. :D *revels in not being Friends-Only again*


(Also, worst work day I've had in weeks and... *:D!* This is so weird. AND I FEEL LIKE SUCH A FREAK FOR BEING WEIRDED OUT BY BEING PERPETUALLY HAPPY. ISN'T HAPPY A GOOD THING??)