gorgeous day: reredefined

On the recent LJ mayhem: I'm not "jumping ship", as they say, because I have a permanent account here, and I'm optimistic about the one-of-these-days option of the old-version comment pages coming to us. But since it seems to be a thing, I suppose I'll let you all know that my Dreamwidth account is, in fact, ltgmars. I've had it sitting around for a long time without using it, but if people are actually going to start posting there, I'll do my best to cross-post and keep up over there.

So yeah, if that's your thing, or you feel like that might be your thing at some point, add me. :3


... real post at some point, I promise.

Now that I've given you sufficient time (six hours) to get used to the fact that I will be updating, constantly, faithfully updating, zealously updating, thanklessly and tirelessly updating my LJ, a fun fact for you:



Did you know! that if you refresh your LJ Inbox at the exact moment a new message arrives, the timestamp for how long ago the message came in is "Never."? I learned this several months ago! And it's happened to me maybe five or six times since, because I am always, always refreshing my Inbox.

(I'm so sad, I know.)

(This involves a sizable amount of A*ashi talk, unfortunately, but it's not specifically about them, really. Almost. Kind of.)


I did it, guys. I changed my default icon. I never thought this day would come.

, I'll miss you. (Pretty KenKen, plus Fastball lyrics for extra awesome... by far one of my favorite icons I've ever made.) You've been my default icon for over 3.5 years. I'll always cherish the time we've spent together. But things change, and people (users and their icons) go their separate ways. You'll still be here, a part of me, but just not my default icon anymore.


( ... so what next? )

(Posted with my default icon.)

Cami's going to be here in a week UNFUNFUNF YEAH GIRL.


Today I've been more inspired to write fic than I have been in a while. There's an anonymous fic meme (for a fandom -- or at least its overarching umbrella, 'ella, 'ella, 'ey, 'ey -- that I'm not allowed to mention unfiltered) running around and I randomly wrote a goofy drabble (it was fun!) and later on someone said that she liked a fic of mine and someone else agreed and it was probably my mom both times but man I'm so stupidly happy. And then there's a fic feedback/concrit meme and people are petting my ego even though in this fandom I've only really written the one story (as well as some drabbles and a oneshot that I don't really like to think about) and it makes me feel good, so good.

Guys, I'm like a puppy who needs constant attention and positive reinforcement, and when I get it I become so hyper and out of control it's not really... human. Anyway, please forgive me. BUT HEY MAYBE I SHOULD WRITE MORE FIC BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT VERY GOOD AT WRITING PEOPLE ARE NICE TO ME AND IT MAKES ME HAPPY.


OH HEY YO THESIS.


(Lately I've been listening to Shiina Ringo instead of Arashi (YEAH I SAID IT), but I'm excited about seeing Cami and feeling good about myself and in general extremely wired right now so I'ma listen to some more Arashi (TIMES TWO BITCHES) so that I can write it in my "Current Music" or whatever.)


... oh God, I'm so sorry about this post, guys.

This is apparently my 500th LiveJournal post. To think that I've only had 500 things to say in the span of nearly six years. (Though personally I'm surprised that I even had that much to say.) To celebrate, I'll treat you to some fun facts:

1. I intentionally mispronounce some words. One example would be "Chipotle", which I pronounce "chih-POT-uhl".

2. I unintentionally mispronounce at least two words for regional reasons: "miracle" ("MER-ih-kul") and "pillow" ("PELL-oh"). (I blame my Indiana hometown and the characteristic Midwestern pin/pen merger.) In addition, I unintentionally mispronounce at least one word when read but not when said out of a written context: "awry" ("AW-ree" -- the word splits in the wrong place in my mind when I see it). I also used to misread "determined" as "DEH-tur-mind", and for years I never made the connection to the spoken word "determined" (pronounced correctly), which I knew and used independently.

4. If you misspell something, I will judge you. In turn, if I misspell something, I expect to be judged very harshly and openly. (At least if I'm a hypocrite, I recognize and welcome the consequences. Eheh.)

5. I'm a shameless collector (anal completist). If I've decided to collect something, I collect to completion. One such collection (which I'm still working on) is of Agatha Christie books. I've probably only read a tenth of what I own so far.

6. As of yesterday, I've gone skydiving. *thumbs-up*

7. I'm afraid of the dark and sleep with the lights on.

8. I'm really weak at writing effective summaries (they're either a sentence long or almost as long as whatever it is I'm supposed to be summarizing), so OH MY GOD, CAMI, DON'T RUSH ME.

"Let's see how long I can keep up posting daily." Posted two days ago. Ahahaha.

How am I supposed to post daily anyway? My daily goings-on are nothing special. It works for you all because you have such interesting lives compared to me.

Today my Chinese drill professor (I have two -- the male drill professor and the female main class professor), who also speaks French and a little bit of Japanese, commented on the similarity of the Japanese word for "shoes" (kutsu) and the Chinese word for "pants" (kùzi). As many of you know, when you enter a house in Japan you have to take off your shoes. My professor talked about how once his Chinese friend was asked to take off his shoes before entering a Japanese house and started to reach for his belt buckle to take off his pants. Just a minor misunderstanding.

Also, I'm a proud owner of a permanent LJ account now. :D Trying to fill up my icon slots... At this point, I've filled it to the amount of slots I had back when I still only had a paid account. (I don't use too many icons. Then again, I don't post too often.) I really enjoy making my own icons (I like having icons that no one else has/can have), but they're not very shiny. I'll take another crack at it soon.

I'm going to go back to the good ol' days of writing fairly regular LJ entries. I used to write 'em once or twice a day, and I'm impressed that a lot of you beautiful people are actually able to have some semblance of nigh-daily entries. I think that what sets me apart from you is that 1) I can't seem to write about daily life in an interesting way like you guys can, and 2) I'm a lazy bum.

( But I've decided to give it a shot. )

So...
Everyone...
Look forward to my shiny new LJ posts!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D

(Just poking fun. I love these boys to bits.)

Because I know you all care, I'm going to tell you a tale:

Bored at work today, I went through my LJ icons and redid the tags and stuff. Which means none of them will show up in my old posts or comments, which makes me sadface, but the drop-down list looks so shiny and organized, which makes me happyface.

I also stalked some communities to find icons, because I've been too lazy to make my own. Plus, my iconing skillz = eergghhh... But I found this kira-kira icon of Haine from Shinshi Doumei Cross! I'm on such a Tanemura kick right now (she's one of my favorites, after all). I think a Tanemura website is on the list of things to do for bwg!

...

Ehhh, that's all.

I just bought some things on LJ. 105 userpic slots... doushiyou, doushiyou~ XD

minkyleigh, emiriya, x_beautyaintall: please join project_nero. Everyone else can stalk, but only project members can join. It'll work, really.

I really wish my head didn't hurt like this, but I don't think it's getting better anytime soon, so I may as well edit now. *tooootally not in the mood ><*

(What is a "New York state of mind" anyway?)

Sorry that my posts have been kind of morbid lately (for the most part; my posts about Kamakari are borderline creepy, but never morbid). The funeral's on Thursday (I don't think I can go, 'cause it's in the morning and Thursday's my last day of work... I don't really want to go anyway, because dude, it's a funeral; I cried the entire afternoon during/after the memorial mass yesterday, so I don't think I can manage a funeral). The wake's today. Again, I don't really want to go. Besides, I think I've given Mr. Gerencher his due and thought enough about him and cried more than too much on his behalf. </terrible person>

But I had a lovely evening yesterday with my favoritest people ever. We ate dinner (though I just drank water) at Papa Vino's, and then we went to Alan's house, where I gave Alan his promised Super Smash Brothers Melee pwning (not really. I lost 3/4 matches with him, though I blame the stage for at least one of them. XD The last match was on Hyrule, and it was a beautiful match, though he won with a clutch move when we were both down to our last lives and injured like whoa). I really will miss these kids. So fscking much.

But Beth and I were talking in the car beforehand, and it really is odd that it all felt like some last-minute-happy-happy-before-we-all-ship-off-to-college reunion instead of a solemn-Gerencher-memorial reunion. We all get together for the purpose of remembering Mr. Gerencher and celebrating his life, but in the end, we end up goofing off and having fun like we usually would with such a close-knit group of friends. Realistically speaking, though, I think Mr. Gerencher would have wanted us to have fun instead of sit around and be sad for a long time. He was a nice guy when he wanted to be, after all. :D

So there you have it. Much quiet depressitude for the past few days and maybe a couple more days to come, though I've been keeping up with the RL posts on my f-list. After the sad stuff that I'm too much of a coward to go to today and tomorrow and moving Diki into Purdue on Friday, I'll spend the weekend catching up with scanlations/fics/whatevers that I've mostly skipped over recently, and then next week is my "organize your stuff, loser!" week. And also the week when I finally reveal my mailing address so that you guys can flood my college mailbox with LOVE~!

But yeah. Thanks for putting up with the rather :( :( :( me lately. ♥