Ok, so finally have more than ten minutes of comp time, which meaaaaans.....

( PICTURE TIEM NAO! )

Aaaaaaaaand now I've gotta run because we're going to 찜질방! I LOVE ME THE 찜질방!

So much for that theory.

Job's asked me to work extra this weekend, so I doubt the video will be ready for Sunday. Perhaps it'll still be out late Monday night, but I'm afraid it's looking more like Tuesday'll be the day. Sarcastic apologies to anyone that has to correct their diaries as a result.

Watched Advent Children again last night over at my mother-in-law's. Struggled to explain half of it to Safty. Reckon it'll be the first Blu-Ray movie I get, should I ever fall into a heaping helping of cash and buy myself an HD TV. Mmmm, Hi-Def.

Anyway, off to work I go.

e·no·phile also oe·no·phile (ē'nə-fīl')
n.
One who appreciates and enjoys wine.
A collector of wine.


[Greek oinos, wine + -phile.]

e'no·phil'i·a (ē'nə-fĭl'ē-ə) n., e'no·phil'ic (-fĭl'ĭk) adj.

oenophile. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oenophile (accessed: May 17, 2008).

Example:
The phone rang again and I decided not to answer it. I should have never let Bob know I was an oenophile; he keeps calling to find out what wine goes with various snakes.

Sorry about the delay on this, I have been flying home from vacation (and yes, my arms sure are tired) and just got in.

I'm sitting here surrounded by book-filled boxes and laptops and scores of copies of The Dresden Files. everysecondtues and thehoyden have been drowning me with amazing Harry/Marcone fic all day.

Our evening out has turned into a spontaneous squee/book-fest in which we have been lavishly reading slashfic aloud to each other - i mean, lavishly reading alllllll the Harry/Marcone scenes from Books 1, 2, and 5 :D :D :D. We just got to the point at book 5 when Marcone saves Harry's life with the freaking *Spoiler of Spoilers*.

"Theirloveissopure!" Hoyden just gushed.

"Their love is so impure," Tuesday amended.

Then we all chorused in agreement.

"Theirloveisso.... approved by ancient artifacts!!!!!!" I flailed.

"You are going to make a livejournal post about this?" Hoyden demanded. "You have to! Jesus approves!"

JUST SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, HOW CAN YOU EVEN RESIST THIS:

( in which I paste giant blocks of text at you so that you can understand the exponential level of hotness in these books, omg. )


sdkjf;slajkld Seriously. Harry goes all tongue-tied and crushlike around Marcone, and Marcone's just like *patpat* careful, honey, you'll hurt yourself. Soulmates omg. alsdfjas;ldj.

*pimp pimp pimp pimp Jesus endorses this pimp*

So, basically, this week is my one week off for May. Last week i was in Norfolk looking for an apartment, next week I'm in Atlanta singing for a wedding, week after next I'm in Chicago. That sounds very jet-setty but really it just means that I will have spent every single weekend this month stuck in an airport except for this one, when I'm focusing on catching up on work and not dying of jet lag.

So I was all looking forward to my one week off and MY MOTHER calls me on Tuesday. "Surprise!" she says. "I'm driving to Indiana to help you move!"

"You realize I'm not actually moving until July now," I said.

"But I have all these moving boxes!" my mom said.

So I've spent the last two days trying to work from home with my mom dismantling my entire apartment with packing tape and whispering things like "I DIDN'T WANT TO FLUSH THE TOILET BECAUSE YOU WERE ON THE PHONE" and "YOU SHOULDN'T SNAP AT YOUR BOSS" at me during conference calls.

She's also decided to gamely attempt to embrace this new phase of my life, the Asian period. "Are you learning to write Japanese?" she said, examining my Hiragana for Fangirls workbook. "That's so smart!" She also asked me if I wanted to move my "little man plushy." She was referring to Ryoma.

Tonight we went to see Iron Man and on the way in she starts singing along to Bump of Chicken. Specifically to "Namida no Furusato." Me: This is only like the second time you've ever heard that song. Her: Shh, I'm trying to sing.

Inside the theatre we caught a preview of the 2-night showing of Death Note that's everywhere.

My mom: *pointing to Raito* Is that that guy who was in that show you kept trying to get me to watch?
Me: ....do you mean Nobuta?
Mom: ...was that the one? the one with the pig?
Me: *IN HORROR* THAT'S NOT KAMENASHI KAZUYA, MOM.
Mom: well, okay!

Then she sagely advised me not to eat popcorn hulls. Because I'm a five-year-old.

She did, however, enjoy Iron Man. "OOH, ( SPOILERS!  )" she said loudly. Along with "WHO'S STAN LEE?"

When I explained Stan Lee: "How do you know that? I've read Marvel comics my whole life and I don't know that."
Me: Well, when you are around geek culture long enough, you learn these things whether you want to or not.
Her: Is that what you are now? A geek?
Me: Can we just go back to talking about how hot Robert Downey Jr is?

My mom thinks Iron Man is the best movie she's ever seen. "That was better than Star Wars!" she said. "That was better than Pirates!"

I'm so glad to know this is hereditary.

Progress on the new episode goes well. I have to re-record some things and then edit the video together, but if all goes according to plan I shall have it finished by either Sunday or Monday. Not bad, right? Something to look forward to at least.

Rehearsals go well. Guy playing Louis is still having difficulties, but I wasn't acting with him this time. I think the girl playing Harper and I have done some really impressive stuff in our scenes, lots of genuine emotions coming out. Mostly anger and hate and misery, of course. But the director seems to be getting a kick out of our work. Also lots of fun to see Dave, who was the Dame earlier this year in that production of Sleeping Beauty, playing a rabbi. Oddly enough he doesn't struggle so much with the hebrew, so much as he does words like "adept" and "flux". But he's wonderful.

I got the new Flight Of The Conchords CD. Love it to death, although I kinda prefer some of the original versions of the songs, e.g. "Boom" sounds much better on the show for some reason.

By the by, for those of you wondering where "Take it to the hoomph!" comes from, watch this and skip to the 2:00 mark.

Title: Goodnight, Moon
Author: the_staci
Fandom: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Sephiroth/Zack; Cloud/Zack; Zack/Cloud
Rating: NC-17
POV: Third
Summary: In the winter of their third year in Hojo's clutches, the monster and the god form an alliance to get what they both want, and the puppet gets its strings.
Warnings: non-con; mind-rape; angst
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. The characters and universe depicted within belong to Square-Enix.
Author's Notes: This...I don't even really know. I just got the idea and wrote it out. I'm pretty awful to Zack and Cloud. It's not at all happy, and is kind of graphic when it comes to the non-con. Don't click the link if this isn't something your comfortable with, please. Concrit and feedback loved and cherished! And I apologize in advance for the doomy and sad. *winces* It's about 3300 words.

Goodnight, Moon

Oh look, fanart! PG-13 for kissing . . . and ghey sunset. *snickers*

( you can take what's left of me )


^_______^

I've been rather distracted the past day and a half or so, so I've been unable to really take in the response to my last LJ post, but judging from about a dozen or so responses I should probably start telling you all to calm down.

First of all, I was not deeply insulted or even that bothered by the LittleKuriboh fan-art on DeviantArt. I thought it was rather weird, but nothing offensive. I suppose I shouldn't have used the word "abomination" even in a jokey fashion. I mean, it's a picture of "me" dressed up as some Dragonball Z character. It's about as offensive as Carrot Top. Actually, scratch that. It's considerably less offensive.

The only part that actually concerned me was the business about "He'd better be a good husband" or whatever, because that's my personal life and nobody has the right to suggest I'll be a bad husband without even knowing squat about my real life behaviour. But that's the only part that even remotely irked me.

I did not expect you to all go on some bizarre crusade attacking this person - and had I known that was the reaction I'd stir up, I never would've drawn any attention to it.

I apologise.

notquiteroyal.net has turned 4 years old!!!!!

- and has been rewarded with having its domain registration expire.

so while i work to turn it back on, all of my ....stuff is down.

but the site's still there, and should be back soon, along with all of my hostees' sites!


i kind of wish i could throw a party or something. four years old! My home on the internetz is all grown up!

I.... fuck. I just realized, after signing for THREE PACKAGES TODAY for my friend, that I can buy things from the SM website.... like the water bottles... and the Super Show stuff... and the pencil case... for the actual price, not YesAsia's widly high prices....

*bites lip in restraint*

Also, I need the Super Show CD. Dear god, I need that CD!

FEELING ABOUT 95% HEALTHY. THIS MAKES ME YAY~~~!!!

So after class/after I called Chris and flailed about him RUINING THE KOREAN SUBWAY SYSTEM FOR ME FOREVER, JEEZE, I went to Baskin Robbins and had me some Apple Mint and when I was told it comes with two scoops, Blueberry ChikachikaCheesecake. Yes. Shut up. I'm a freak. I know. I'VE ONLY GOT A LIMITED AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO STUPID FAN CRAP HERE. Also, thet put what looked to be a few coco puffs on my ice cream. And Apple Mint tastes like apple flavored toothpaste.

Alternately, I'd like to apologize for the vast amount of fandom flailz this journal is. I'll be back to usual come July 12.

edit; hocrap, this is a real song?! Part of me needs to hear it.

peruse-verb [puh-rooz]
1. to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
2. to read.
3. to survey or examine in detail.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/peruse

While she was perusing the papers her students had just turned in, she noticed that one of them had been plagiarized.