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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