| Still iritated... |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|09:53 am] |
I'm still irritated about my "friend", and what's got my goat today is remembering how in her e-mail, she bitched about me "drinking her beer and her chuuhai." That's pissing me off because she offered them to drink. (And her whole thing was I apparently guzzled her booze, but oh, when she wanted to go out for a beer, I was too tired. Yeah. Fever? Sick? Breathing problems? Pshaw, I'm just being self-centered and ruining her fun. Oh, and yeah. One beer. I don't even remember drinking a chuuhai, and also, I'd have rather had juice or tea. -_-)
Bitching at someone for taking the drinks you offered...yeah. That's a great host, right there.
I still haven't read her e-mail back. |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|09:10 pm] |
1. I went to the (female) doctor to complain about the Pill being a bitch with me and she's put me on a higher dose for the next three months. I'm not especially pleased about this, but I think I failed to explain myself properly (I always get tongue-tied around doctors). Also I'm convinced that birth control in general hates me (as in, implant didn't work and now I don't seem to be having much luck with the Pill. O BOY).
2. I am actually tempted to try an MMO. Yeah, you heard. This from the woman who isn't interested in MMOs. What is it? Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine. Well, it's free (or So I Heard). I don't know. I might. I might not. Like I say, I'm not really interested in MMOs at all.
It looks pretty good, but I really dunno.
(Also Megaten is totally taking over my life. I don't care, though).
3. I was going to make Xmas cards this year. Now I am not so sure. EH.
4. Dear interbutts,
FUCK YOU. Levelling up is not the be all and end all of gaming. In fact, I've heard it said that the SMT games rely more on you exploiting elemental/non-elemental/whatever weaknesses rather than fucking grinding. Except what do allll the walkthroughs ever say? Level up.
UGH.
FUCK. YOU.
( blah about P4 - may contain spoilers )
5. I should probably shut up now, right? |
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| Wii Fit Challenge~: YA-HOOO~ |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|11:59 pm] |
Time spent: 1:03
Calories burned: 280
BMI: 28.90
I skipped yesterday because I wasn't breathing well and also, yeah, I was too ragey for it. ^^;; But I definitely was going to exercise today. My throat is still kinda bleh, which is why I was, I thought, completely off on the rhythmic boxing thing--so imagine my shock when I got my second highest score.
I also got a "Perfect march!" on the marching-band game--a major step up from one time when I did it and the cable from the wiimote to the nunchuck thwapped me in the face and knocked my glasses off (I got l33t m4d SK1LLZ, y0~). I also tried the obstacle course, again...three times. There is something to be said for sheer, unbridled determination to not lose. I finally figured out how to work with the ice, so that's a major hurdle cleared, and I am very, very close to beating the bastard of a game.
I also noticed that jackknifes do not kill me as much as they did a week ago--oh, I still laugh at the game for even thinking I'm ready for even thirty, much less "challenging" the trainer--AHAHAHAHA, no--but I got up to fifteen before I wanted to die. Before, it was around ten. So, yeah, much improvement. I might bump it up next week. :)
The big thing, though, was my weight went down, quite a bit--I'm finally under 29 for my BMI! No more giri-giri obese! Just firmly overweight!--and it doesn't feel like the times when I would look at the lower BMI it spat out and go, "You lie like a lying thing. LIES!" The last few days, I have actually had that same "getting into better shape" feeling I had when I first started. So this lets me know my reassessment was right, and I'm on the right track. I do want to add more yoga in, but I think that's going to wait until the obstacle course is no longer rubbing my face in the dirt. XD |
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| Today's awesome: HP covers redesigned |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|10:09 pm] |
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Harry Potter Redesign - The Harry Potter book covers to look like classic Penguin Books.
I love the one for the Philosopher's Stone and Deathly Hallows. :) |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2009|01:30 am] |
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| It's been a day. |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|11:35 pm] |
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Yeah, it's been a day.
People who know me in RL know that I get angry--truly angry--pretty much once a never. Pissed, yeah, I get pissed at the drop of a hat, but angry? No. I control my temper and let a lot of things slide precisely because I know how bad it is when I get mad. In the last ten years, I can count on one hand how many times I've gotten angry. Last time I got truly angry was in 2006.
( Until today. ) |
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| Whoohoo! All done! |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
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NaNo is over!
This pleases the Beatles. |
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[Nov. 30th, 2009|09:55 pm] |
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| Yeah, no. |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|10:01 am] |
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So guess who deigned to e-mail me out of the blue yesterday?
Yup, the "friend" from September. And how did she e-mail?
"holy crap. having a life is great and all but i'd like to stop for a minute. [emoticon]
how are you doing?"
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( Yeah, I'm done. ) |
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| Patrick Stewart is awesome. |
[Dec. 1st, 2009|09:00 am] |
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Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence - As a child, the actor regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the horrors of his childhood remained with him in his adult life
And for the creepiest domestic abuse PDA ever, staring Patrick Stewart's voice and hand. D:
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| NaNoWriMo...officially IN YOUR FACE! |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|06:21 pm] |
Yes, ladies and gentlemen...despite November's repeated attempts to brutally murder me, and work's steadfast determination to suck out and stomp on what's left of my soul...I've done it.
I've conquered NaNoWriMo 2009, to the tune of 50,108 words. :D
I won't say much on the subject of my victory, except: OMFGYAY, and also, TSE II devolved into a mess of skipped scenes and half-written ideas at the end there. Mostly because I was running out of time. I don't think half the scenes I jotted down are in the right order, but hey, it's a start, and I've got at least part of the end sandwiched in there. Now all I have to do is write the middle.
...Um.
Google Docs link is here, now properly updated with the latest edition of TSE II. It's a spastic, half-written chaotic jumble, though, so...a lot like anything else I've put out, actually. Oh snap. Anyway, just warning anyone who actually attempts to read it.
Off to go into some sort of coma now. Will deal with finishing the stories properly/editing them...much, much later.
*thud; snore* |
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| NaNo 2009 result. |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|09:52 pm] |
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Well, I made a grand total of 83,504 words. I didn't quite finish the side story because it's going on for longer than I thought it would, but I can finish that later.
I still managed to write much more than I thought I would this month, so I'm happy. ^_^
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| On Family and Other Sour Spots |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|12:40 pm] |
I hate family holidays. It's not as bad as it used to be. There isn't a mind numbing soul obliterating anxiety about them anymore as there used to be. There's just a dull ache of worry and some slight stomach tremors. Really the worst bit was that I thought I'd probably never have to go to a shin dig like this again. I would go one day, I just would never have to.
I didn't want to talk about where I'd been what I'd been doing and how I was. I'm better but not so well that I can always talk about Zac or Wyoming or what was a fairy tale life that while childish and unsustainable was also beautiful. I just can't talk about it especially with people who don't get it and no one in my family gets it.
Instead I gave short answers and listened to long unending diatribes of how awesome everyone else is. I was glad they were well but I could have done without the jabs at where they were compared to me. I sincerely hope I never did that to them or anyone else, though my successes are so few and far between, I'm sure I've had little opportunity to knock some else further down that way.
In particular my cousin, who works at Fenway went on and on about how boring but glamorous her job was, how much she hated living at home (though she does nothing there but sleep and hang out), and how wonderful her parties and nights out were. I wanted her to be successful. I was prepared to hear about her success and joy so it didn't even sting that much when she kept slighting me and where I was or discarding some of the work I have to do like chores and house upkeep and whatnot.
What did sting was to find out later that her job at Fenway pays $9/hr she works no more than 30hrs a week and she doesn't get benefits. She'd sat there and scorned my retail work as less and demeaning when we make the same hourly rate, I work full time and my job gives me benefits. I don't have an hours commute by public transportation to pay for or anything.
In other more pleasant news my bro got a letter from Mass Maritime and we think it might be his acceptance *hopefully*. I've got to wait for him to come home and open it but I'm super hopeful for him. It's very exciting.
Also, they've finally corrected the comp and literacy portions of the mtels, I should finally have results and hopefully a license on the 9th. Maybe I've be able to pick up some second term work or start vigorously looking for the fall. I'm apprehensive and excited. I don't know what I'll do if this doesn't work and my parents feel strongly I'll need several other back up plans that I'm not sure how to approach but I'll have to figure something out soon I guess. |
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| Wii Fit Challenge~: The word of the day is 'bitch' |
[Nov. 30th, 2009|11:59 pm] |
Time spent: 1:09
Calories burned: 324
BMI: 29.2
Feeling: HULK SMASH AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
The obstacle course is a punk ass bitch. Do you hear me? A PUNK AS BITCH.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH.
I beat the beginner level--I started it, yelled, "I am going to make you my bitch today!" and proceeded to pwn it. No, it wasn't as high as the first and only other time I beat it, but this time I beat it at a walk and felt confident I could do it again, unlike the first time, which was sheer, unbridled luck and panic.
Since I had beaten it, it gave me the option of the advanced level.
PUNK. ASS. BIIIIIIIIITCH.
*froth at mouth*
I am not even kidding, I was screaming at the game, calling it every filthy name in the book...and calling it filthy names because it obviously calculated the calories burned based on the "meters" you had progressed, not how much you did, because there was no effin' way I only burned eight calories one particularly bitchtastic time.
And what, you may be wondering, make the advanced level that much more of an evil bitch of a game?
The ice.
That's right, there are points where the platform is ice, and your Mii will slide right off if the next platform you need to jump for is out of position. All you can do is watch as your Mii slides right off the edge, because your other choice is to commit suicide and leap into the sea.
I was literally making infuriated screaming sounds that sounded like they should be coming out of the Hulk.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.
And to top it all off, I redid my BMI reading (because I was stuffed full of coffee and bibimbap when I got home) and when it finished the "balance" measures it told me..."you should do the obstacle course to help you!"
Thank god you can't really rage quit the Wii Fit, or else I so would have. XD |
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[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:03 pm] |
In non-gaming related news, I dug out most of the Anita Blake books (1-10 because 11 and 12 are dross not as good from what I recall; also I'm missing 3 and 8, but I can request/get them from the library).
I've been meaning to re-read them because I can't remember anything about anything and I've only read them all once (the only exceptions being Blood Noir (library didn't get it) and Skin Trade. I had to stop with that because it basically made me want to vomit*).**
I was going to make a poll about if anyone wanted to hear what I had to say and then I thought, "Well, the three people reading this journal probably don't give a monkey's either way". And...I might not always remember to do it or get fed up. Or something.
As it stands, I am about ten pages into Guilty Pleasures (aka #1). I'm thinking of taking it on the bus with me tomorrow, but putting a post-it on the front that says something along the lines of "Stop judging me! I'm only reading it for the lulz!" But...that might not be so good of an idea. Also I might lose the post-it. And I don't tend to read so much on bus rides any more. And I doubt people on the bus give a shit, really (totally should've done this with Twilight, though).
By the way, you have ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lkh_lashouts (on eljay) to thank for this because they all know waaaaaaaay more than me about, well, everything (there's times when I feel like a casual observer to all of this - it's not the first time, either. Happened with Farscape, happened with Hellblazer, too. Occasionally happens with other stuff as well - if I listed all the fandoms that happened in, we'd be here till Xm-- oh, wait. The next millennium, then). I don't know what I'm going to do with my newly re-discovered knowledge, though. Probably be snarky. I like to think I'm good at being snarky.
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*Dear Laurell, going on about how manly Anita is and has to be so the police listen to her doesn't make for good reading. Seriously, if you're that bothered (and we know you are), why didn't you make her a damn man to begin with? Oh wait, 'cause then you wouldn't get to write bad IKEA porn, amirite? No love whatsoever, Me.
**Also this totally reminds me that I quit a lot sooner with the Merry Gentry books but, then again, they lost all semblance of plot a lot faster than the Anita books did. I stopped after #2. I tried with 3, and 4 just made me want to throw it across the room just from the opening page (not a good idea since I was in the library at the time). |
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| More NaNoing |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:47 am] |
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SQ
Working on: Rescuing Mari from the docks, bringing her back to Atlantic Ave for the final battle.
Word for this chapter: 1560
Have somehow miscalculated my score so that I'm 1000 words behind my previously estimated word count. Am back from my folks' house, am clean and have on fuzzy socks, will be making a second cup of tea. Am certainly not wasting time futzing around on DreamWidth. Nope. Definitely not doing that. |
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| Wii Fit Challenge~: You dirty, rotten cheater! |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|11:28 pm] |
Time spent: 1:04
Calories burned: 289
BMI: 29.07
This game is a dirty, rotten cheater! ARGH!
As an addendum to the "likes to kill you by making you plummet to your death" thing. I learned today in the CHEATING ROTTEN obstacle course game that it also likes to flatten your Mii like a pancake by making logs roll over it.
And I cry FOUL FOUL FOUL to some of my Mii getting clobbered by a pendulum; I said to jump, dangit. And WTFBBQ to me supposedly losing 1.1 kilo in a day. A day I spent stuffing my face with grits. I'm going to chalk that up to me having not had dinner, since the aforementioned grits left me stuffed to the gills. I didn't even get hungry until, of course, two minutes after I started exercising (I popped a sweet potato in the oven and let it bake while I was exercising. Mmmm, sweet potato.)
Also, my arms and legs want to fall off and diiiiie. *death* |
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[Nov. 29th, 2009|01:30 am] |
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| i've climbed the stairway to maturity! |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:35 pm] |
I think I am going to draw a fanart of the spacey girl and the errand boy from P4. Because they are sooooooo cute ♥
Meanwhile, spoilers. Also someone dumped a whole bunch of plot in my game today!
( Read more... )
Oh, and! I have now maxed Yumi's link, and also Dojima's (I loved the final scene of that, it was so cool and adorable all at once). Stats maxed so far are: knowledge and expression. I am level four on courage and understanding. This is a whole heap better than my stats were in P3. Ooh, and I aced the last two exams!
I am one link off maxing both Yukiko's and Yosuke's links, so I'll probably be doing that some time soon (although my priority's on the current dungeon because it's upsetting and disturbing and I just want to get it over and done with. |
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| Wii Fit Challenge~: Plummet and Die |
[Nov. 29th, 2009|12:15 am] |
Time spent: 1:00
Calories burned: 287
BMI: 29.44
Yup, weight went up again, but I ate a Southern Breakfast (tm)--cheesy grits and real sausage and ate ramen for dinner; this is not a shock. It's also not that upsetting, since I'm viewing things as a restart--I slacked off, I did exercises that were ineffective, and so now I'm starting over. I'm not going to worry unless I start going up for a week straight.
The cycling game can blow me. I'm not even kidding. I wandered around the area trying to find the last two flags, then said "Fuck this," and quit the game. I had been doing it for about fifteen minutes, and it counted none of that time. asdfghjkl;
I'll do the short course; the long courses can SUCK IT. GAH.
( Also, Wii Fit has a perverse love of making your Mii die spectacularly ) |
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