I've been thinking about doing this for awhile now. And going back and forth, back and forth, back and...well you get it. It's more for my own piece of mind than anything else really.



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I have no morning classes this semester which is yay!!! I have packed three in one day (Thursday) though but I can handle three classes once a week. NO. MORNING. CLASSES. I'm just gonna let that sink in for a bit.

So most classes are English (and one Bio lab class that I *should've* taken with the Bio class my freshman year but I was a dunce then, didn't know that most science classes consisted of a lab + lecture component) and this other class (something called Ocean Planet, I have no idea what it's about but it was the only open class that meshed with my schedule) I took just because the parents are making me take five classes to be considered a full time student. Taking five English classes in one semester is not smart so I needed a bit of variety for the two classes that aren't going toward my (new) major. (One of the English classes is Creative Writing so that might just leave two hard classes with a lot of reading/assignments. Another is Intro to Literary Studies and another is Poetry - the genre.)

Of course classes start today and I still haven't picked up my books. I was going to go Friday but then we experienced a mini blizzard and I just opted for staying inside and lazying on the couch. I'll go after my one class today and then I wanted to buy one or two new books just for leisure reading but I have to order them - don't think this particular bookstore will have them in stock there already - so I have no idea when I'll pick those up (assuming they order them for me).

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a seasonal meme that I should've posted way before this:



and this popular meme that's going around:

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

"It was, of course, a ridiculous idea that Mr. Darnay would not notice whether she was there or not - Sue chuckled over it herself at the time - but she found, as the day wore on, that her idea was not very far from the sober truth."

In context, this quote is oddly appropriate for my sex life in 2012.

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Pretty recently, someone over at scans_daily posted these Jessica Jones scans from her book ALIAS. The only exposure I have had to Jessica Jones was from seeing her in Young Avengers (and I think she makes a cameo in Avengers: The Children's Crusade too), where she appears to be a reporter and is pregnant with Danielle. But, to me, she's one of those supporting characters who captivated me SO MUCH that I NEEDED MORE OF HER (YA doesn't totally deliver on this front because it's not HER story, which I understand because it focuses on the young group of Avengers so y'know...but that still didn't help the fact that I wanted to know more about her and read her story from the very beginning.)

( A DELUGE OF COMIC TALK, MAINLY ABOUT SHIPPING AND HOW GREAT ALIAS THE COMIC BOOK IS BECAUSE THAT'S JUST HOW I ROLL APPARENTLY )

So what I've gathered is that I have actual crushes on like A LOT of people, uh I mean comic book characters.

*and if I could get issues #16-28 + all of Pulse all would be kittens and rainbows and nothing would hurt*

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( fic year in review )

34 fics overall

Previous Compilations:
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010

( fandom reflection meme )

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Finished a fic late last night and posted it today after a quick self-beta:

like a journey i just don't have a map for (1398 words)
Fandom: Power Rangers: Ninja Storm
Rating: Teen
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hunter Bradley/Cameron Watanabe
Summary: Cam gets drunk, and tries to sleep with Hunter. It kinda doesn't work out for him that way.
Notes: Written for smallfandomfest for fest10. For the prompt: Power Rangers, Ninja Storm, Cam/Hunter, morning after

I had wanted to write for this prompt many, many moons ago (alright - more like two fests or something-like-that ago). But then I could never write the beginning I wanted, and then this fic ended up being rewritten three times before it ever really was even finished so of course it's taken me like half a year or something to totally complete it and post it.

I like it now - as much as I like anything that I produce creatively (which is not very much - I'm sure, a month or two from now, I'll be embarrassed to remember I wrote this - my insecurities, ladies and gents).

BUT YAYYYYYYYY FINALLY IT'S FINISHED! *crosses off one fic, two more to go*

*celebrates*

I had also considered titling this "At the bottom of the bottle" but I don't know. And then I happened to be listening to Savage Garden in the background when I was finishing up and decided to steal the title from their lyrics.

Of course I was totally right about a theory I have and this thing that keeps happening to me where if I leave a story hanging in the middle of writing it, I have SUCH a hard time getting back to it. Like. So much difficulty, it's unbelievable.

I started writing this fic on Christmas Day, and I got through 977 words in one sitting. Then I left to do something, don't remember now, maybe to go eat or something (or to play Bejeweled), and when I got back to it, I had no idea how to continue. I hate when that happens - I make a good headway on a story and then I leave it for awhile to go do other things and when I come back to it, it's like I haven't looked at the story in YEARS (when - in reality - it's only been several hours at the most).

I always say I want to finish writing at least three prompts for the fest, but then January 31st comes around and I've like written one or none. Really, really hope I can break that trend this year.

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I will say the one awesomest thing to come out of these changes LJ is making: non-paying folks (like myself) can edit their comments now. HAPPINESSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Seriously. That's one of the major things I missed when my paid subscription ran out (that and the 30-userpic limit). c:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL WHO CELEBRATE THEM AND A HAPPY SATURDAY TO THOSE WHO DON'T. <3333333333

(I'm gonna go back to playing Bejeweled now. Which is seriously addicting and turning me into a computer zombie. I had things I had to do today, stupid game, like attempt to clean my room, read a bit, and try to work on essay for re-admission to Nursing school. None of those things are getting done today, sigh.)

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So there was a lot of catching up on movies. (Reviewed in the order they were watched.)

Morning Glory
I love Rachael McAdams and that's a guarantee that I'll like pretty much ANYTHING she's in and this movie is no exception. It was fantastic. I liked that it focused more on Rachel McAdams' character and not so much on the romance. I mean, there was SOME romance but it didn't take over the whole film. I hate the idea that a woman can't be successful and have a hot guy too. She (generic) can and this film delivers wonderfully on that.

Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton were awesome too.

Killers
Tom Selleck!

I like Katherine Heigl, I do, but this movie made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. It was trying to be a cool spy movie, and - granted - it did have some awesome action but I felt like it tried to be way too many things at once, like it wasn't satisfied just being a rom-com when just being a rom-com was all it needed to pass muster. Like, I have no idea what the father's role was exactly. Was he the target Spencer was supposed to kill in the beginning? How did he know that Spencer was a trained killer? What was Holbrook doing at the hotel?

Also, I think that's why the mother drinks so much, and is kinda a loopy-head (trying to be nice) - she's trying to cope with having probably found out a long time ago that her husband was a trained killer or working for the government as a trained killer or whatever the hell he did (see this movie confuses me so much because it felt like a mish-mash of stuff that never really went together or was explained properly. Although one particular scene did remind me of Hot Fuzz a little bit, where the whole town practically turns on Simon Peggs' main character - Ashton Kutcher's character even says at one point, "Isn't anyone not trying to kill me?" Which was one of the most memorable quotes).

I dunno. Maybe I didn't like the extreme violence, although what extreme violence was doing in a rom-com I have no idea.

I Hate Valentine's Day
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett!!! I love them. And I love that they reunited for this movie as the main romantic leads too. And yet this movie...still flopped? I mean I wanted to LOVE it so much but I couldn't. (Clearly, My Big Fat Greek Wedding will forever remain their best movie together.)

Um. I still haven't finished it yet though, TBQH. It's probably an average rom-com at best, and if you've seen one average rom-com, you've seen them all. It's an 89 minute film, and I only watched like 15 minutes of it. Ah. Maybe I'll come back to it someday and finish it.

From Prada to Nada
So, this is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility and while I haven't watched S&S yet (any versions - that's why I haven't watched it yet - SO MANY VERSIONS TO CHOOSE FROM WHERE DOES ONE START?). I loved this. It was AWESOME. And, well - just awesome is the only way to describe it really. I pretty much zipped through watching it when I woke up. I loved its pace and that it was a really simple story but not at all boring. I loved both of the sisters and each of the men the sisters hooked up at the end. I loved all the background characters (except Olivia and Lucy, but they weren't all that fleshed out in terms of characterization to begin with so I don't feel too bad about it).

JUST PERFECT.

(What I find kinda funny in a sad way is that Netflix has Iron Man 2 streaming, but they don't have the first Iron Man movie streaming. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? Who wants to see the second movie streaming before having seen the first one?)

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So I finished marathon-ing two whole seasons of Warehouse 13 plus the three episodes of s3 I saw when SyFy had their marathon last Friday. Once I can get a hold of season three, I'll watch that from the beginning too but so far Netflix doesn't have s3 (yet - blahhh). But I'm so proud of myself for getting through these two seasons in just one whole week! That never happens to me. I catch up on TV kinda like a turtle would catch up on races.

I'm also psyched that it's getting a fourth season.

Of course the minute I was (semi) caught up, I started plotting fic. A Steve Jinks/Joshua Donovan fic. I don't even know. I just know I need more of them in my life.
underneath your clothes (adult, 635 words) by dahlia_moon


And I rewatched recently s4 of another show I used to love once when it was on the air a few years ago, Wildfire. It made me think up (and write down about 1,000 or so words for mini_nanowrimo) of a Wildfire/Batman fusion fic in which Jason Todd = Kris Furillo's character, essentially. This is a story I'd really like to do, but it's a bit of an overwhelming project at the moment, mostly because I don't have any recollection of past seasons. I think this might be because I started watching late into s3 and never caught up and so am now tasked with watching the earlier seasons for the first time.

So many of the characters in Wildfire can translate quite easily into Batman characters too - well, maybe I'm exaggerating; only Jason's character can possibly translate over to the other universe while with the other characters, you might need to take some liberties.

And I just now realized: Kris Furillo is played by Genevieve Padalecki (née Cortese) who's married to Jared Padalecki (and she also played Ruby in Supernatural too) who plays Sam Winchester to Jensen Ackles' Dean Winchester in Supernatural WHO VOICED JASON TODD IN THE ANIMATED MOVIE, BATMAN: UNDER THE RED HOOD.

Six degrees of fandom, MY MIND, IT IS BLOWN.

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(I know I updated yesterday, but, man, is this getting to be a stressful month and I just need somewhere to vent.)

- So, upon the tragic death of Dr. N, we didn't have class Monday or Tuesday of this week - neither the lab nor the lecture - and today was our first return to the lecture classroom since we heard about his death. And everybody is pretty much up in arms because here we are, a week before we have to take both the lecture and lab final on a very hard subject, and we didn't cover all the material (we were close to it but we didn't finish) and so we're like floundering fish on dry land.

The difficulty is no one knows what's happening now or how we can continue the normalcy for the short time we have left of microbiology. We have a professor come in - a very close friend of Dr. N's - who told us of Dr. N's death and who's going to be teaching the last few classes there are left. But while he was a very good friend of Dr. N's and knows pretty much a good portion of what Dr. N's system was, the truth of it is that he is NOT Dr. N. And therein lies the problem and hardships.

But apparently everyone else was like, "We pay money to go here, and this is not acceptable. There should be a procedure in place for when something like this happens and blah blah yadda yadda ya." God, like all these people can think about is money and I get that it's before finals week and everyone's stressed and we're all freaking out and this is college and not free education but god, again, the world is not just about us. But we are apparently a very selfish species.

- And I apparently need an English adviser. Frick. (Well, to be fair, Rodney did tell me this when I told him I wanted to pick a major, so it's not like it's surprising but I was hoping if I pretended to not know, it'd go away. Hint: it hasn't - they just e-mail you). I'm so not good at talking to professors - or ANYBODY for that matter.

- I had an extra cup of coffee today because I'm apparently useless after 10 pm and just pass out because my body apparently hates me and I can't stay up past midnight anymore. I have no idea what that is about. Except now I'm jittery and like I want to run a marathon; I am sure the crash will happen soon-ish and I will pass out and not finish studying and that will make me feel guilty in the morning. And I've been making flashcards since about five pm this afternoon and just for one class AND IT IS NEVER ENDING. SERIOUSLY IT WILL NEVER END AND I WILL LOSE WHAT'S LEFT OF MY SANITY.

So in conclusion: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*MORE FRUSTRATED CRIES*

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1. Think of up to 20 ships you support.
2. List them using descriptions of the characters involved rather than their names.
3. Have your f-list guess as many of the ships as they can.

Because I repeat fandoms, I've indicted what fandom it is to help you. (Although I think they're all really easy and really obvious.)

1. the lost moon princess/the earth prince (Sailor Moon) Usagi/Mamoru - guessed by gladdecease

2. the angry Fire Nation prince/the Southern Water tribe girl (A:tLA) Zuko/Katara - guessed by gladdecease

3. the Prince with a heart of gold/the princess who robbed him (OUAT) Prince Charming/Snow White - guessed by gladdecease

4. the white-lighter/the witch who fell in love with him (Charmed) Leo/Piper - guessed by pencil_gal

5. the emerald archer/the eyes and ears of the team (Smallville) Ollie/Chloe - guessed by gladdecease

6. the 145-year old vegetarian vampire/the doppelganger (TVD) Stefan/Elena - guessed by pencil_gal

7. the star basketball player who was kind of a douche at the beginning/his tutor girl (OTH)

8. the nerdy gay Jewish son of the Scarlet Witch & the Vision/the Kree-Skrull hybrid (Young Avengers) Billy/Teddy - guessed by gladdecease

9. the leader of the Athosian people/the runner (SGA) Teyla/Ronon - guessed by gladdecease

10. the soldier whose hair has a mind of its own/the genius scientist who can barely be tolerated (SGA) Sheppard/McKay - guessed by gladdecease

11. the green martian girl/the clone of one of the World's Finest (Young Justice) Miss Martian/Superboy - guessed by gladdecease

12. smooth Count Chocula/the kickass blonde detective (Psych) Gus/Juliet - guessed by gladdecease

13. the gun-loving, grey-haired grumpy detective/the annoying man-child fake psychic (Psych) Lassiter/Shawn - guessed by gladdecease

14. Green Arrow's protege/the Flash's protege (Young Justice) Speedy/Kid Flash - guessed by gladdecease

15. the magician's daughter/the blonde Asian archer (Young Justice)

16. husband/wife team (Terra Nova)

17. the young soldier/the smart girl who rambles scientific facts at inappropriate times (Terra Nova)

18. the hot law officer with the British accent/Snow White's daughter (OUAT) Graham/Emma - guessed by gladdecease

19. the vampire barbie/the hybrid werewolf + vampire who's sired to the bad guy (TVD) Caroline/Tyler - guessed by pencil_gal

20. the smart-alecky reporter/the red-blue blur (Smallville) Lois/Clark - guessed by gladdecease

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