Kizuna

storme: Why am I imagining Allan/Qubine slash?

yuki_scorpio: THAT IS SO BEAUTIFUL IT NEEDS TO BE DONE.

Huh. It snowed.

It just occurred to me that the copy of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence I bought from eBay never arrived. Just contacted the seller about it. Meh.

According to the time on my FF7 save file, it took me over 10 hours to get out of Midgar. Though I guess some of those hours were when I just left the game and went to cook or do stuff. Finally on the world map. I want to play some more, actually, but sleep also seems like a good idea.

Back in 2007 I did the "year in fic" meme, but hadn't done it since. I think 2007's fics were ones that were worth talking about (although nobody read the post, bah, which put me off doing it again for 2008). I wish I could still write the way I did then. In the past few months I haven't even opened Google Docs (where I store my writing). These days all my words are flat and meaningless. But overall, I think 2009 had been a year where I indulged in cheesyness. It had also been a year where I uploaded fics to ff.net and had them added as favourites by a bajillion people but hardly ever received any feedback. Overall I wrote only a few stories, but they were long, and all TLR, and they made me happy although the fandom is tiny and has too many lurkers for its tiny size and makes me feel lonely. Anyway, I noticed that my TLR writing is very different from my PoT writing. The TLR ones seem a lot more... shallow? Maybe it's more to do with my state of mind, though. 2009 had been very strange and nasty, perhaps I didn't want to tackle difficult issues in my stories the way I used to.

I wonder what 2010 will be like. Maybe I'll finish a D1 fic, but more likely I'll write more Dave/Rush. Ah, delirium. In fact, let me go check that thing I started a few months ago...

2009 had been a year of clusterfuck and huge disappointments, though it went up a lot towards the end thanks to one person. You know who you are. Thank you.

I watched The Day of the Triffids. Having not read the novel or seen the previous adaptations, all I can say is 1) the idea is good, 2) Eddie Izzard is fun and 3) Moving, carnivorous trees are comical. That's about it. Ah, I can also say that Dougray Scott reminds me of Rich Hall. XD;;;;

I spent today at Buldy's* place, where we had three Xbox360 (and other consoles) and eight people playing L4D, Guitar Hero, Gears of War, Halo, Mario racing, Counter Strike etc. Much beer, pepsi and pizza was consumed. I think I might need some of those games. But I don't have the time to play anyway...

*cosplay coworker. Have finally settled on using his net name, which, incidentally, is what his mates call him anyway. Sort of like me and the name Pez.

Tomorrow will be spent on FF7.

1. Bought Within Temptation's Acoustic Live at the Theatre album. It is wonderful. ♥

2. Taught my three-months-old nephew how to play the DS. And educated him on the importance of Reptile/Nu.

GEORGE TAKEI IS ON SATURDAY KITCHEN RIGHT NOW WTF.

Last night saw my third ever SUDDENLY NO ENERGY episode. Thinking about it, I went about five days having very little salt in my diet, which likely was the cause. So now I am armed with an isotonic drink and am munching on savoury snacks. Need some Pocari Sweat! Maybe I'll get the powder from Japan Centre at some point.

I've just been told I need to read Calvino and Borges. I've always meant to! But there's never enough time to do stuff. Doesn't help that 1) I'm a very slow reader, 2) I can't read while travelling because it can make me very sick.

Anyway, I'm still at work. Office closes at 12:30, apparently. After that I'm going to get a pair of cheap shoes for cosplay, then head home. Then I will pack stuff and go to London for a few days, maybe coming back on the 27th or 28th.