i'll paint the stars

Firstly, greenconverses, I so totally missed your birthday like a total loser. I hope it was a good one! <3

BUT LOOK, I did that meme of yours! :D (pkstar, your icon meme is up next!)

THE 20 QUESTIONS MEME
The One Rule: Tag 8 people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

Tagging... hikariblue, kashewmoo, link621, februaryfour, tylerdurdenmiko, pergamond, valeriebean, and oraxia.

Of course, don't let not being tagged stop you if you wanted to fill this out! Spread the love~ :D

( And on to the questions! )

And with that, I shall leave you. Because I don't know how it got to be 1:19 already but this makes me sad. D: I should consider ambling to bed before the hour is up.

Meme time! Tagged by perfectassassin~

1. Write your username.
2. Write your 2 favourite bands/groups of the moment.
3. Write something you ♥, aka lemme see your heart.
4. Write the name of your favourite person of all time.
5. Write the name of your recent favoured person.
6. Tag 6 people to do this meme

( Lookie here! )


Real update ideally tomorrow; gotta get the Disney pix off my camera. :D; (Not that there are a ton, but still. Illustrative purposes!

I think it may be the same temperature inside my office as outside of it. Apparently having no heat last week has made things just as unpleasant this week. I'm seriously beginning to think that 2010 is playing one big joke on me. D: I did even read something the other day about January 2nd purportedly being the worst luck day in the entire year. Yeah, you got that one right. Ah well~

Actual updates still pending, but suffice to say the Half Marathon was full of COLD and SLEET but still awesome~ Next time I'm putting all my music on my phone so I can have an iPod and a camera at the same time, because I ran by Lewis and Wilbur and Bowler Hat Guy in Epcot and you have no idea how sad I was that I had no camera! Disney afterwards was also cold but the lines were short and the hot chocolate was good. We also discovered that Winter Summerland Mini Golf is pretty fantastic, and there are no Perry the Platypus plushies (try saying that three times fast!) to be had.

Yesterday was kind of the break I shouldn't have taken but really needed. I swear, I've pretty much been on the go since I went home in December; I barely had time to check email at home and I didn't get much work done, then it was back to Gainesville for two days before the AAS in D.C. and then back to Orlando for the Half and a Disney-full weekend before returning Sunday night to fight with installing Windows 7 because it kept resetting my monitor refresh rate OUT OF RANGE in the middle of installation so I couldn't finish it. Three tries in and lots of Google searching later, I disabled the video card and finally got the silly thing installed. Eesh! Seriously, this is the second Windows install that did that to me. Microsoft, you need to get your act together and stop changing refresh rates on flatscreens while you install. For serious. D< So I stayed home yesterday and went grocery shopping and did laundry and caught up on Heroes. And here I am back at work today.

Also, It took me at least an hour today to figure out how to scan all my trip receipts into a PDF to turn in (crazy new-fangled machines) and now I'm just finishing up lunch before I get all the stuff I have to mail out and then try to do two weeks' worth of work in an afternoon. Whee~ (Or something.)

But before I go, stolen from Blanche:

India Foxtrot Yankee Oscar Uniform Charlie Alpha November Uniform November Delta Echo Romeo Sierra Tango Alpha November Delta Tango Hotel India Sierra, Charlie Oscar Papa Yankee Alpha November Delta Papa Alpha Sierra Tango Echo India Tango Tango Oscar Yankee Oscar Uniform Romeo Lima India Victor Echo Juliet Oscar Uniform Romeo November Alpha Lima.

:D

So! It's been quite a week. :D; Tuesday and Wednesday was Magic Kingdom and Epcot (and Downtown Disney) with Jennie, which was tons of fun despite the crappy weather on Wednesday. We nonetheless managed to save the world from Duff Killigan and the Killer Bebes and Señor Senior Senior and son. (I gotta admit, that Kim Possible thing at Epcot is fantastic~) Also, Space Mountain is open again! They redid the line area with games to play, and now they have a digital projector, but that's really mostly it. Still we went on it three times despite the 70-minute wait each time. Totally worth it. :D Oh, Space Mountain, how I missed you!

Thursday was a do-absolutely-nothing day; there was some approximation of Thanksgiving dinner (chicken casserole, okay, but there was stuffing and mashed potatoes and corn and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie! And strawberries and Jell-O XD;) and HSM3. This morning I dropped her off at the airport and bummed around Downtown Disney a bit before picking up some tree-decorating stuff at Target (it was kinda scary in there, but not as bad as it could have been, thank you empty-for-Thanksgiving college town) and... uh. Running, and Alien Swarm because I didn't get to see it before! Is it sad that one of the highlights of watching that was the new version of the PJO trailer? XD;; ::fail:: It was actually pretty good, though - not as horrific as I was expecting. I still think Kevin needs to be more buff, though. Oh, but CN? I saw what you did there, with Gwen's last outfit. Cute.

Oh, also, I have now seen The Guild. You may rejoice. XD; I could not stop watching it. I think Valerie knew that would be the case, though. ;D I perhaps will need a my gaming icon back, now that a chunk of the nerdiest people in the department have started up a game. Also, I require an AD&D player's handbook. (Off to Amazon...) And, following tradition, I Kai did something stupid right off the bat that got him out of commission for most of the first fight. But! I took out a goblin all by myself! With my giant sword. :D Too bad second edition doesn't have greatswords...

And lastly, I've been working on the next chapter of my PJO fic (finally!), but anytime you get Percy and Hades in the same room, things do Not Go Well. Nor do they go According To Plan, apparently, thanks guys. -_-; It's like, I don't know, getting The Monarch and Doctor Venture to have a nice little serious chat. Only I gotta admit, Percy's cooler than Doc. And, er. I suppose Hades is cooler than The Monarch, too. Y'know. XD; At least I think I have the end bit plotted out, even with my horribly crazy last-minute addition to the storyline. I can only hope it's not going too far. >>; Anyone who knows Nathan will be relieved that I will not be going with his horribly depressing suggestion, at least? XD;

Oh, and because it sounds neat! A meme! ( I actually need to fill this out for greenconverses and antistar_e; I've been meaning to but I don't think I'll have the brainpower until tomorrow. But I will! I swear!)

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.


Lastly (for real this time), I shall leave you with tree-topper Square Pig. Because, why not?

Okay, here are the pictures for that meme I did a couple days ago~

( Lots of pictures ahead! )

ASdfjIOFJADUFIHAOFUAWR90w YES, PLZ. I NEED MORE. But I suppose I can live with a release date. That's better than nothing, right? dfjasjfjfdo trailer trailer trailer trailer trailer~


I want to go home and EAT but my mosaic is still interpolating and my Post-BCD data is still queued for staging. (In English: computers are slow and they need to hurry up!) Plus I might try to go running tonight; it's not like I have to be anywhere until 11pm. XD And I got rained on yesterday so I didn't do quite the full five miles. Hopefully I will not get rained on today. (BTW, Florida, please have nice weather tomorrow. The space shuttle needs to launch! This is what, their fifth try? D:)

Also, uh. This looked neat, so let's give this a try?

☢ THE SELF-INSERT MEME

Firstly, a happy birthday to pergamond! :D Because we're still on the same day~

Next, one more drabble down, one to go! I probably could've waited until they were both done, but that would've made too much sense, clearly. I swear I haven't forgotten the last one! I might even give it a go tomorrow. :D;

For asphodel:

Fandom: The Last Herald-Mage
Prompt: Vanyel/Stefen/Lendel
Notes: Somehow, if I had to make an FST for TLHM, "I Believe in You" by Evanescence would top the list. This is kind of based on that? Only short. :D; (Seriously, I could wax eloquent on it for chapters, if I dared.) 301 words.
Title: ( Taking Over Me )

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In other words, I realized that I might actually have a life if I didn't spend so much stupid time re-writing the entirety of PJO, starring Percy and Nico. XD Dear God, make it stooooooop. (Actually, don't, as I seem to be perfectly happy in my insanity. ::dies::)

I bring you three more drabble-ish things in the struggle to complete ten prompts. XD

For torasetsuna:

Fandom: Firefly
Prompt: Mal/Wash, the Cowboy Bebop episode Toys in the Attic
Notes: Watch me fail at Whedon-esque witty banter! Jayne saves the day~ 426 words.
Title: ( It )

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For pergamond:

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Prompt: Atobe/Eiji, a romantic date sorting through Atobe's wardrobe
Notes: Totally not as awesome as your not-a-drabble, but I hope it amuses! 439 words.
Title: ( Lilac and Lace )

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For link621:

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Prompt: Pillar Pair/Ryoma fail
Notes: I think this is everyone fail, but that includes Ryoma, right? 676 words.
Title: ( Just Passing By )

Aaaaaaalmost... time to leave! Please do not thunderstorm on me when I want to run! (Actually, it looks sunny out there now. Win!)

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will - allegedly - create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

I will only take requests for this until Tuesday or so, since I can't promise a lot of internet activity past that. ^^; Unless you don't mind waiting a while for me to choose icons~

Anyway, noctaval picked ( the following: )

I hope I did that properly! :D;

I really should get to bed. D:

I should probably be doing something useful, like writing, but I really don't feel like it. I did, however, start my fic for the current merlin_flashfic challenge. I think I have 'till Saturday - I should check! Either way it should get done tomorrow. It's not like it really needs much plot... XD Incidentally, I realize I like to blame a lot of things on Gaius, ahaha~ And I have a pretty good idea what my next contest entry will be about... now I just have to write it and get it in the mail by the 15th!

I did spend my early evening putting Drew's bodysuit together - well, the orange part. It actually went pretty well, though I have stupid hips and was afraid for a while it might not fit. XD I have to take the sides in a bit on the top, but otherwise I think it will work okay~ I would take a picture, but it looks kind of lame hanging on the hanger. XDD Also, orange bodysuits are extremely unforgiving ::cries:: Hopefully the belt will help. >>; All the same, I should probably eat healthy for the next week. XD And remember to do situps tonight. Next up is Jennie's Lara top though, before I work on Drew any more! And I also need to get that BeVin exchange thing done, but at least I have until the 20th... Gotta find a night next week to break into my office late at night to do that. XD

So, random Trek trivia of the day: we were watching "The Perfect Mate" last night and the empathic metamorph, Kamala, LOOKED SO FAMILIAR. It drove me crazy all night, and into the morning; I finally looked her up on IMDB and guess who? JEAN GREY. XD Everyone clearly has been on Star Trek.

And I don't think a lot of people will do this, but I figured I should try? Write down all the dumb stuff I say XD:



D: I feel like I may have had more useful things to say, but I cannot think of them. But! I am the virtual co-owner of alibi2014's bread for the duration of Passover, which is kind of awesome. XD