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mugen_edamameLooks like LJ is starting to co-operate again. Honestly, if I didn't have buddies here I'd've jumped ship and just burn my time on DW. It does insist on kicking me out every time I log in, which is why updating hasn't happened as scheduled. Anyways,
HOW IS EVERYONE I HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL.
The welcoming of 2013 was plenty fun, we went to this restaurant/club place that caters to anyone with a head full of white hair, and there were two singers on stage singing mostly pre-war music (as far as I could tell, at least. I had a really long retro-music phase when I was a teen and I'm pretty decent at golden oldies, but some of the stuff that was playing apparently pre-dates the creation of the English language), with occasional nods to my family's requests to play more modern songs (so we could sing along, loudly and badly and along with the barkeep, to Adele). There were poppers and hats and masks and shouting and bad dancing and bad singing so all in all, it was great.
School started on Monday, but we only managed to reach Japan in the wee hours of Tuesday mornings, because flights from Friday through to the weekend were fully-booked. We took Tuesday off, because sleeping in class isn't my idea of a useful way to spend time, and instead headed off to the closest Ikea (which is still really far away) to buy duvets/comforters/quilts (I've got no idea how the classification of these things work). It was nice to see actually rural-y areas, with wide open fields and those high riverbanks you see in every manga ever. And there was a pretty great mall near Ikea, and we had first shabu-shabu (which I'd only recommend if you like meat and the taste of meat and the smell of meat and nothing but) that we changed into sukiyaki (which is craptastically fabulous honestly). Then we went to Ikea, wandering around and judging furniture. Though it's a long-ass train ride to get there, we got beautiful duck-feather duvets/comforters/quilts for a third of the price of the cheapest ones you could get near where we live. So, SUCCESS.
Really should be trying harder to study better, but I'm only human, and not a very good one at that.
Oh, our cat got into another big fight, and had her eyelid sliced open. When we saw her it was all meaty and bloody and I assumed the eyeball had just been clawed out. Took her to the vet, and after the swelling went down she looks pretty fine, if, oh, seven thousand fourty three times more evil than ever before. She's aggressive and bad-tempered and has the physical build of a cow but we love her dearly and wish she would stop getting serious injuries from fending off other cats (we fend them off too, and have the helpful attribute of being very, very much bigger.
What else...
I want everyone to come to Japan and/or Malaysia so I'd have more friends because I made lots of friends in 2011 because who knows why and it went so well that I'd forgotten that I'm actually bad at making friends. The desperate ache to have a long hearty chat with someone can't always be filled by my little sister, because while she's easily the best match for me to talk about almost all things, she's still littler, and some things you just can't tell to littler ones.
OH. THE MAIN THING.
Scheduled for surgery on my knee, end of next month. The doctor's appointment letter is a terrifying beast, and his explanation of cutting out my knee cap, putting it back in the right place, and shaving off my tendons and cartilage and stuff till it all rests pretty is effing terrifying. University preparation course starts in April, and who knows what frame of mind I'll be in since I'll be in recovery through all of March. HOPE THE BEST FOR ME, PLEASE ;A;
Spending winter holidays at home was fantastic. Hot weather, good food, cheap movie tickets, and easily the best company ever. I'm ridiculously thankful that dad works for an airline, and booking tickets is both convenient and, more importantly, not that expensive. Though if anything I do worry it makes me even less inclined to go Out There and mingle and stuff god what is wrong with me.
So that's the past week or so. It's been going okay, but I'm starting that slow-burn panic trying to think about university applications (the processes here are both archaic and extremely hasty), because the one I'd like to go for has its deadline while I'm back home probably heavily sedated with a newly-fixed (hopefully) kneecap.
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THINGS OUT MY FRIENDS.
And generally, of course, take care c:
ur Holiday in Langkawi. That's my cat's head. I am very brown indeed. Don't look at the text if you have ever held love for me in your heart.
HOW IS EVERYONE I HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL.
The welcoming of 2013 was plenty fun, we went to this restaurant/club place that caters to anyone with a head full of white hair, and there were two singers on stage singing mostly pre-war music (as far as I could tell, at least. I had a really long retro-music phase when I was a teen and I'm pretty decent at golden oldies, but some of the stuff that was playing apparently pre-dates the creation of the English language), with occasional nods to my family's requests to play more modern songs (so we could sing along, loudly and badly and along with the barkeep, to Adele). There were poppers and hats and masks and shouting and bad dancing and bad singing so all in all, it was great.
School started on Monday, but we only managed to reach Japan in the wee hours of Tuesday mornings, because flights from Friday through to the weekend were fully-booked. We took Tuesday off, because sleeping in class isn't my idea of a useful way to spend time, and instead headed off to the closest Ikea (which is still really far away) to buy duvets/comforters/quilts (I've got no idea how the classification of these things work). It was nice to see actually rural-y areas, with wide open fields and those high riverbanks you see in every manga ever. And there was a pretty great mall near Ikea, and we had first shabu-shabu (which I'd only recommend if you like meat and the taste of meat and the smell of meat and nothing but) that we changed into sukiyaki (which is craptastically fabulous honestly). Then we went to Ikea, wandering around and judging furniture. Though it's a long-ass train ride to get there, we got beautiful duck-feather duvets/comforters/quilts for a third of the price of the cheapest ones you could get near where we live. So, SUCCESS.
Really should be trying harder to study better, but I'm only human, and not a very good one at that.
Oh, our cat got into another big fight, and had her eyelid sliced open. When we saw her it was all meaty and bloody and I assumed the eyeball had just been clawed out. Took her to the vet, and after the swelling went down she looks pretty fine, if, oh, seven thousand fourty three times more evil than ever before. She's aggressive and bad-tempered and has the physical build of a cow but we love her dearly and wish she would stop getting serious injuries from fending off other cats (we fend them off too, and have the helpful attribute of being very, very much bigger.
What else...
I want everyone to come to Japan and/or Malaysia so I'd have more friends because I made lots of friends in 2011 because who knows why and it went so well that I'd forgotten that I'm actually bad at making friends. The desperate ache to have a long hearty chat with someone can't always be filled by my little sister, because while she's easily the best match for me to talk about almost all things, she's still littler, and some things you just can't tell to littler ones.
OH. THE MAIN THING.
Scheduled for surgery on my knee, end of next month. The doctor's appointment letter is a terrifying beast, and his explanation of cutting out my knee cap, putting it back in the right place, and shaving off my tendons and cartilage and stuff till it all rests pretty is effing terrifying. University preparation course starts in April, and who knows what frame of mind I'll be in since I'll be in recovery through all of March. HOPE THE BEST FOR ME, PLEASE ;A;
Spending winter holidays at home was fantastic. Hot weather, good food, cheap movie tickets, and easily the best company ever. I'm ridiculously thankful that dad works for an airline, and booking tickets is both convenient and, more importantly, not that expensive. Though if anything I do worry it makes me even less inclined to go Out There and mingle and stuff god what is wrong with me.
So that's the past week or so. It's been going okay, but I'm starting that slow-burn panic trying to think about university applications (the processes here are both archaic and extremely hasty), because the one I'd like to go for has its deadline while I'm back home probably heavily sedated with a newly-fixed (hopefully) kneecap.
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THINGS OUT MY FRIENDS.
And generally, of course, take care c:
ur Holiday in Langkawi. That's my cat's head. I am very brown indeed. Don't look at the text if you have ever held love for me in your heart.
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Date: 2013-01-08 09:55 pm (UTC)1) "Honestly, if I didn't have buddies here I'd've jumped ship and just burn my time on DW." Dude, I know what you mean. I'm never here anymore. I barely even read fic on LJ now. I've got, like, 3000 pages on AO3 to read, and then five or six rec lists to go through which will likely lead me once again into AO3, and I barely even write anymore (Untamable weighs heavily, guiltily on my mind, and I can't write for anything else) so LJ these days? not for me, no sirreee.
2) everything peachy here, glad to hear you're alright as well, thank you~
3) "The welcoming of 2013 was plenty fun, we went to this restaurant/club place..."
That sounds fun!
4) IKEA HAHAHAHA YOU CAN'T RUN FROM IKEA, IKEA IS EVERYWHEERRRRR- sorry. old joke here.
5) I've been neglecting my studies for fic. Lots and lots of fic. Teen Wolf has eaten my soul, and I occasionally take breaks by reading Supernatural fic. If there's a Fanfic Addicts Anonymous somewhere, I need it.
6) OH MY GOD YOUR POOR KITTY! Hope she's better now. And I'm sure her new battle scars make her look fierce and properly terrifying in the face of her enemies. (as for my cats, they still don't get along. fur flies every time they meet without a door between them. it flies. LITERALLY)
7) "She's aggressive and bad-tempered and has the physical build of a cow"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
8) HOPE YOUR KNEE SURGERY GOES WELL! I really do, oh dear, that really does sound terrifying, oh god. Tell us how you're doing before/after it's done?
9) THE CAT HEAD OH GOD WHAT, WHAT? HAHAHAHAHA
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Date: 2013-01-13 10:13 am (UTC)1. What's an A03 even, man? And I mostly just do journal posts. Comms I'm in never update anymore (not unlike the mangas I follow goddamn)
4. But Ikea is so good to us ;~;
5. I had a brief fling with BBC's Sherlock, but I'm still 100% emotionally invested in DGM and it's just killing me with lack of everythingness sobs. We should start one bb.
6. She's a fierce idiot and we love her and she now looks bad-ass as hell. (Back when her big brother was alive, she'd always try to pick a fight with him, but in the end they'd just snuggle up together and doze it was so cute. She's such a brat she'd just follow him everywheeere. FIGHTING IS BAD KITTY CATS.)
7. There's this one picture. I'll show it to you and you'll understand.
8. Roger, babe c: It's the most severe thing I've ever had to do so far, so I want to make sure I record it properly because OCD moments are crazy.
9. BECAUSE HOLIDAYS ARE WHEN YOU'RE MOST ALLOWED TO BE EFFING INSANE.
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Date: 2013-01-16 04:18 pm (UTC)4. Ikea doesn't have the kind of sofa I want. I am disappoint. =(
5. ...I had a brief stint with Sherlock too. now I'm just dying while waiting for season 3 (which will come never, as we all know). also, since we're discussing fandoms, THE HOBBIT WAS SO BEEEOOTEEFOOL OH MY GOD. i agree we should totally start a FFA Anonymous, but how would we do that?
7. please do.
8. >_< good luck good luck good luck hope it doesn't suck! (hey that rhymed. woo.)
9. IT'S CUTE HOW YOU THINK PERMISSION FOR INSANITY IS LIMITED TO HOLIDAY TIME HAHAHA
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Date: 2013-01-17 01:20 pm (UTC)4. The Ikea here might. They've got all sorts. Big furniture buying is a mysterious process though.
5. IT'S NEVER COMING OUT we all know that. And because of a thousand pretty bad reasons (laziness ranking highly) I still haven't watched the Hobbit so SHHSHSHSHSHHH. And I dunno. Try to make a community but then go read ff instead?
7. hang on still trying to find it
8. I'LL PROBABLY NOT DIE.
9. BB BB BB BB I'M STARTING TO GET REALLY BITTER ABOUT FRIENDS WHO GRADUATED OR ARE GRADUATING UNI BB HOW DO I STOP BEING BITTER AND START BEING AWESOME INSTEAD.
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Date: 2013-01-25 09:37 pm (UTC)5. HOW DARE YOU NOT HAVE WATCHED THE HOBBIT YET THAT IS GLORIOUSNESS THAT MUST NOT BE MISSED WHAT ARE YOU DOING
5.1. clearly this fic addicts anonymous will never happen because... of fic addiction. ironic.
9. dude... I'm so not the person to ask. i basically stopped talking to all the people i knew because they all got into medicine (only at different universities) and so no matter what they're talking about it always ends up being mentioned and becomes about 90% of what they say, so. yeah. i don't really talk to them these days. er.
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Date: 2013-01-26 06:41 am (UTC)5. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE EITHER I'M SO VERY SORRY I'LL TRY AND CORRECT IT ASAP BB I SWEARS
5.1. Now I'm getting into translating doujins and this will not end pretty 8'D
9. it's like that, but with graduating and furthering their studies and dissertations and I'm just here going okay, okay. I'm happy for you, but would you mind being a bit sad for me?! /)A(\ but if I'm thinking like this and you're thinking like this and I'm p damn sure you're a p cool kinda person then maybe logically my default we're not too bad??!?!?!?! maybe sobs
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Date: 2013-01-09 02:14 am (UTC)" Honestly, if I didn't have buddies here I'd've jumped ship and just burn my time on DW."
/brofists I thought of posting more stuff on DW too, but then again I only have like TWO people on my DW friends list... Btw, I don't think I have access to your DW posts, cause I don't remember seeing any posts by you ^^;
"It was nice to see actually rural-y areas, with wide open fields and those high riverbanks you see in every manga ever."
Aaahhh the things that I'll always miss about Kyoto ♥♥ I think I'm still having a bit of post-travelling withdrawal syndrome - I still dream of those fields and riverbanks at night /lolsobs
Knee surgery: Damn, that procedure sounds awfully scary D: I hope it goes well and will be less painful than it actually sounds.
CAT: AHAHAHA your cat sounds just like my first cat (except that my kitty was a hot-blooded male, bless his little kitty soul). Has your cat been spayed though? I heard that spaying helps to mellow them out and they are less aggressive after that (well, sometimes) . But I've also heard of cats who still roam about and dish out nightly challenges for brawls with other cats, even after being neutered.... I guess we just can't put out that little tiger in their kitty-hearts, can we? :P
And gosh, that shooped picture XD Nice legs, hun.
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Date: 2013-01-17 01:25 pm (UTC)LET'S MUTUALLY FRIEND I'm mugen_edamame everywhereeee. Though barring one odd cross-dressing fic nothing is on my DW that isn't here. At least five good friends are still on lj so I stick around, though tumblr and plurk are apparently where it's at (I can't handle it man too many modernity)
Those riverbanks are such beautiful things in a sea of concrete and people. If I had one nearby I'd likely visit it all the damn time >A< so lovely.
It's a terrifying procedure, but I'm optimistic. Be optimistic with meeee.
She's been spayed, but she's still a crazy adorable murderous asshole who scratches and bites and demands your love even as she tears a hole in your arm. She's a cat with a mad-cow disease. We can't help but love 'em all.
I'M ACTUALLY REALLY RATHER FAT as you could see if you had my facebook (which I don't mind friending you guys on by the way jsyk <3 )
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Date: 2013-01-20 12:45 pm (UTC)YES I HAD AN AWESOME TIME. Funnily the thing that I miss the most about Japan? The konbini stores
THEY DON'T SELL THOSE DELICIOUS HÄAGEN DAZS MIXED BERRY ICE CREAM CREPES HERE.Also, the very berry parfait I ate in a little cafe was so beautiful ;_;I will wish and send all my optimism your way /transmit optimistic energy to you via the Force
Ahh, so tsundere, your cat. Like all great cats are.
YOU'RE NOT FAT NO at least not in that pic you posted. FB? I don't mind friending you either, but I hardly use it much these days. PM me your FB name? c:
WHAT IS WITH YOUR AMAZING ICON. Also thank you for the lj gifts you cutie <3
Date: 2013-01-22 01:24 pm (UTC)THERE'S THIS THING CALLED WHITE BLACK THUNDER ice cream and it's only sold in seven-elevens and it's maybe my god *sobbu* If you ever come by Tokyo, I'll take you to the oldest crepe shop in Japan~!
<3 Merci merrily, force-woman.
So tsun we just love her more WE'RE ENCOURAGING BAD BEHAVIOUR
WHY THANK YOU BUT EVERYONE LOOKS GOOD DOING THE MARY POPPINS JUMP maa i tried sending you a message and it didn't work so
rahayu adzhar(no subject)
Date: 2013-01-09 04:28 am (UTC)Yay for good holidays and a good New Year! (OMG Japanese food. Actually, I'm just kind of hungry right now. I have no idea what the difference between a duvet or comforter is. Are quilts the ones where the stitching goes through and there's no cover? And none of the above are sleeping bags. Now I'm tempted to write some sort of thesaurus!overuse fic where the bedding is described in florid, slightly incorrect detail the whole way through...) Sorry to hear that your teachers are being sucky =( Hope things get better soon *snugs!*
Ahh, I hate university applications so much. I think the grad school applications ended up making more sense than the university ones. I will keep my fingers crossed and send soothing thoughts your way! You're definitely getting there one step at a time!
Yeah, that knee surgery description sounds pretty terrifying. It's always different when you realize that the doctor is about to do what they're describing *to you* @_@ On the other hand, it sounds like the doctor went into detail and covered all the bases and complications, which is usually a good sign of someone who knows what they're doing/has experience/really wants the patient to understand everything involved so they can be informed. Unless they were giving you skeevy/I-know-better-than-you vibes during the appointments or something, in which case, trust your gut feeling. Here's hoping everything goes smoothly and the happy drugs actually make it easier to get through applications!
Glad that your kitty is ok! She doesn't look too evil in the picture, but then again, the hissiest, clawiest cat I know looks like an absolute angel as long as you don't try to play/pet/otherwise engage with her :p
Yeah, if fandom/the people and stuff I follow ever make the move elsewhere, I would probably follow, especially after all the formatting changes on LJ. On the other hand, even after LJ fandom fragmented/migrated to other sites, the bulk of the stuff I want to keep up with still seems to be on LJ. The other supposed hubs of activity are mostly on sites that give me a bigger headache than LJ/don't actually provide the sort of interactions or information I would be interested in.
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Date: 2013-01-17 01:36 pm (UTC)(see bed covers are a mystery to everyone. I just get anything that looks fluffy and warm and then just hope for the best. And all fic is good fic so do so if and when you can please!) And to be fair to them, yeah, I have this nasty habit of seriously idolising the people I like, so when basic-ass human nature gets in the way I feel personally betrayed. My feelings re: my teachers have been getting better, so hopefully I won't be a damned idiot forever.
Thanks! Largely I just need motivation now. The fear of failure is so terrifying, and watching people graduate and wondering if I ever will are making me drag my heels at this, and that's not a good thing at all.
The doctor specialises in knee injuries and knee defects, and he came to us highly recommended. It's just that the worst case scenario for even relatively mild surgery is terrifying, isn't it? Someone give me strength, I'm freaking out quite hard quite often nowadays.
She's got a thousand adorable pictures of her. Then there'll be one with her teeth sunk into someone's foot with lasers shooting out her eyes and you go yeah, yeah, that's what she's really like pffffft
The other hubs of activity don't seem to concentrate much on the logging part of blogging, and re-posting pictures and gifs wasn't really what I wanted when I first got started on lj anyways (the main reason being I wanted to post fics and make friends). So as long as you guys are here, and remain here, I'm pretty happy to just wallow in my lack of tech-savvy c: I reckon I really know what you mean, babe <3