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8D 8D 8D So so so so so so so so The roomie and I were looking at cats. Like. Getting cats. Blick found a tiny tiny adorable Siamese online, listed from a no-kill shelter. Blick, of course, <3 Siamese. So, we went to look at him--both of us, y'know, since we're living in the same place. And. And. And he had an unlisted brother. And oh my good god I fell in love. He is tiny and precious and has a Siamese-shaped face and a very talky (TINY!) little meow but he is black and white instead of Siamese-colored. So so so so so I called my parents. "...*sigh* If you promise to take care of it then fine; also if you bring it home and it pees on the carpet it's living in the basement." 83I'M GETTING A KITTY.And I am going to name him The Monarch. And his nickname will be Arch (pronounced "arc," except when he is arching Doctor Venture). Tags: awesome, pets, yay
Current Location: Goucher - Athenaeum
Current Mood:  ecstatic
Current Music: Dr. Horrible - Theme
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Last Song on Earth1. If the world was ending and you could listen to one song, what would it be?Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars2. How did you first come across that song?![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) strawberrykick sent it to me over Yahoo! one day. She always sends me the best stuff. 'A' 3. If it reminds you of a person, is that person still with you?It does, and yes. ♥ 4. Does anyone else know what that song means to you?...I don't think so! 5. Where would you listen to it, and with whom?With that said person. I don't care where. Whether in the corner of a bomb shelter, in a cozy living room, or in the open as debris flies and reality pulls itself apart, I'd want to finish off my last moments on a dying world locked in an unending hug. If I lay here...
If I just lay here...
Would you lie with me and
Just forget the world?Tags: friday five, friends, love, music
Current Location: Goucher - Van Meter
Current Mood:  loved
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So. NaNo is coming up. The last couple years, I've known about it and just... not bothered. Not that I haven't cared; it's that I haven't really had the time to bother. (Because I totally have the time to bother this year lololol sure. ;;;;;) Even with all the stressors I've had recently, I've been... itching to write things. Plotbunnies falling on my head~ o/ ~Thing is, I don't know what I want to write. I have a bunch of ideas for worlds, but... very few for stories. In a lot of cases, I know my characters, but not what to do with them. Aaaahhhh this is why I find it so much easier to write fanfiction. *_* The four biggest ideas I have are, not surprisingly, all fantasy. Two traditional high fantasy, a modern fantasy with high fantasy elements, and high fantasy/D&D in a non-traditional setting. One is to finally start in on writing with my dragon boys, Ambrose and Malachai (and Viktor). I know so much about their personalities, and a fair deal about their interactions, but... actually writing the story. Ehh. The thing about that, is I invented them when I was still in high school... the story I had in my head for them at the time is kind of one big fat cliched romance novel but with gay. Maybe not quite, but it was really more about sex and angst than plot. I'm not sure where I'd start writing a new plot for them. Hmmmh. Second is to get something going in my gigantic overarching high fantasy setting I've been ping-ponging about in my head for awhile. The setting is D&D inspired, to a point, with some medieval and very vaguely Byzantine influences. I finally drew up a Main Adventuring Party about a year ago... and I'm already thinking about scrapping them. I have the problem with this that I tend to have with a lot of stuff I come up with: I care more about the secondary characters than I do about the main ones. (See: Claribel's beta, Kay; Amelia's father, Reinhold; etc. etc. etc. ...) The reason I even still care about this setting is that I like my villain (whose name I can't remember off the top of my head, hurhur), and I like my antiheroes/antivillains. This is the world my assassin triplets fit into: Alexis, Megan, and Tyson/Tiffany (haven't settled her name yet). Inspired by Alecto, Maegaera, and Tisiphone, the Greek Furies. (Yes, MU*!Alexis is a rendering of Fury!Alexis.) I'd kind of like to write their story out fully, but... frankly they aren't main characters; their story is just random sideplot backstory. They're not important without someone to fuck up. So, an option for this world is to... make main characters I don't hate, and try to plot them up. Heh. It's also possible that options 1 and 2 fit in the same high fantasy setting, and the dragon boys are just spin-off side characters, vaguely a la Discworld. Not sure. Third, would be writing up Riuna's story. Modern fantasy, dragons again. I have the first chapter of this written down loosely in script form, and have verbally storyboarded it for a graphic novel. Problem there is I don't really have the skill at this point to draw it out like I want, so prose is probably the way to go for now... Basic plot is demon-huntery; modern world, people don't think monsters exist, blah blah that sort of thing. Concentration is on one specific "demon," though, that the hunters themselves don't even believe in. Blah blah dragons are extinct blah must be something else blah blah. I like the story, but it's a little hard to describe without just dumping the entire plot right here. Fourth is to say "fuckit" and just spend NaNovel time working on my D&D campaign setting so I can finally start the effing game. It's not exactly a novel, and I never intend it to be, but there's a lot of writing to be done for it. Semi-medieval Asian setting; primarily Japanese in content as far as language, mythology and structure go, but with added bits of other Asiatic mythoi and histories. I need writeups for setting background, setting conventions, race adaptations and new races, some class adaptations, mechanical adaptations and flavor mechanics, religions, both helpful and enemy NPCs, individual towns and regions, and some semblance of module/plot to get the party started (literally). This also involves a lot of organization and coding everything into a Wikidot for player use. Suggestions? Tags: help?, nanowrimo, writing
Current Location: Fairways - Living Room
Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head
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If notgarystu's sources are correct, today is National Coming Out Day. So to all of you who haven't already figured it out: I'm a Wiccan pansexual goth-leaning tomboy. Yes, I gender-identify as "tomboy." Also, I probably have mild OCD, mild dyslexia, panic disorder with mild agoraphobia, and some form of depression. (This will probably come as less of a surprise to my internet friends than to my ones outside the tubes.) Wheeee. Oh. And I'm a kitsune therian. Tags: health (mental), holidays, lgbt, life, reloligion
Current Location: Fairways - My Room
Current Mood:  calm
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Haven't done one of these in awhile. 1. At what age do you think it's appropriate for someone to get their driver's license?18. I didn't get mine until I was 20, and honestly, I think I'm a better driver for having waited until I was mature enough to handle it. You get irresponsible teenagers out driving, they get irresponsible driving techniques ingrained into their muscle memory/instinct. Most of the people my age that I've driven with suck at it. :| 2. At what age do you think it's appropriate for someone to first drink alcohol?18. Sending kids into college at 18 with the expectation that they won't drink until they're legal at 21 is stupid. It causes 18- to 20-year-old college students to sneak around, buy booze through legal friends (potentially getting those friends into trouble), and drink illegally anyway. Instead of pushing what is basically an abstinence program, teach older teens the meaning of moderation and drinking responsibly and let them drink at 18. You'll have many more responsible moderate drinkers and many fewer irresponsible illegal drinkers if you just teach the damn kids how to do it right. 3. At what age do you think it's appropriate for someone to become sexually active?16-18. This one is more subjective; it depends on the relative emotional maturity of the person in question. For some this answer may be as low as 14. In general, I am an advocate of not getting heavily into anything until one is older; I'm also an advocate of overall moderation in sexual activity. I didn't do a thing until I was 20 (including kissing), and in retrospect I'm glad of it. 4. At what age do you think it's appropriate for someone to vote in elections affecting national and/or local government?16. In today's American society, there are untold numbers of 16-year-olds who are more politically aware and responsible than a corresponding number of those in their thirties or older. And at this point, 16-year-olds (in my experience) are mentally responsible enough to understand all the breadth and depth of a vote. Saying otherwise is insulting to those of that age. Also, those who aren't really competent enough to cast an informed vote? Probably aren't going to cast a vote. (And again: plenty of people over 18 who aren't informed but vote anyway. :|) 5. At what age do you think it's appropriate for someone to be conscripted for military service?Not applicable? I don't believe in drafting. In such a state where it becomes necessary, however... 18. That's about the average age when boys (because Ra knows girls can't be drafted! *hiss*) would become responsible enough mentally and able enough physically to actually be of use to their country in the service. Any younger and you're getting a far greater number of boys halfway through puberty and/or still with the general mentality of a pre-teen. Tags: friday five
Current Location: Fairways - Living Room
Current Mood:  content
Current Music: Indiana Jones theme
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FUCK SHIT BALLS MY WRIST HURTS =( Agony agony agony. Last night I took two Aleve, two extra-strength Tylenol (lol my last dose) and wrapped my wrist in an ace bandage just to bring the pain down enough to allow me to sleep. Unwrapped the bandage right before my (very hot) shower today, and was fine for most of the day. Now it is made of utter agony once again. This is worse than arthritis pain (and yes, I would know; I've got arthritis in a lot of my joints as it is...), and I have utterly no fucking clue what to do about it. I wrote that last sentence with one hand so that I could BITE DOWN ON THE WRIST OF MY OTHER to keep enough pressure on it to stop the agonizing agony of owwww. It has never been this bad before. No, seriously, it only started hurting like this... within the last couple weeks. And last night and today are the worst it has ever been. I put pressure just below my elbow? Pain goes away. I tilt my hand back? Pain goes away for a few moments, then comes back. I put pressure directly on the wrist, right under the heel of the hand? Pain goes away. HURRAY, I HAVE NERVE DAMAGE. Fuck. o.x I... have no idea what to do about this. GO TO A DOCTOR HURRHURR yeah with all that money I have. I also don't think the on-campus clinic is going to do me much good. :/ Fuck. ...Weird. Okay, the pain has lessened now. By a lot. ...I'm typing on my computer, with the laptop in my lap, which means that it's held level by my wrists. The last two weeks I haven't been on the computer almost at all. YAY, MY WRIST IS SO EFFED BY TYPING THAT NOT-TYPING IS PAINFUL. Graaaagghhhh. I'm just going to have to... get myself a wrist brace and pump myself full of pain meds until my nerves and muscles fix themselves? This is gonna be fun. :| Tags: health (pain)
Current Location: Fairways - Blick's Room
Current Mood:  ow hurty pain ow
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Monday night I stayed out at Scott's until almost two. With class at nine, I got five hours of sleep. Last night I was at Linda's until nearly one. When I woke up this morning, I felt so nauseous and headachey from sleep deprivation I just couldn't fucking move. I honestly thought I was ill, and told Blick to go on to classes without me while I just passed out. Woke up a little after noon, feeling hungry and still very slightly headachey but otherwise fine. I'm gonna throw on some clothes and go to my next two classes, at least. Going to need to email my morning professors and go "jesus christ i am sorry but i was so ill i thought i was gonna die." It's the second week of classes. Fffff. Well done. I hate getting up early; have I mentioned that? Bleh. The sad thing is, I am much more okay with it when I'm going somewhere for an extended period of time. I did the whole 8:45 - 3:15 public school time schedule for twelve years, no problem. When I had early work shifts at Headstart and Parkside, I wasn't happy about it, but I handled it fine. Going somewhere where I sit in one place for a couple hours, pack up everything back into my backpack and go to an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BUILDING for an hour, have this long break of wtf in the middle, then go to two more classes in two more different buildings for three hours? It's too much shifting and bullshit. I want one large academic building with lockers in. Or, you know. To go to a job which will pay me. I'd feel much less shitty about early rising then. :/ And either way, I'd be settled in one place for an extended period instead of going all the fuck over the place. All that shifting around is really fucking stressful. Meh. Tags: blah, college, sleep deprivation
Current Location: Fairways - My Room
Current Mood:  blah
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Hurhurhur. First day of classes! My first class started at 9:00 this morning. Intelligent move #1: I stayed up until 3:00am last night/this morning because of seeing Inglourious Basterds yet again (god I love that movie) and talking with friends. Now, mind you, I expected this, and I was okay with it because I know that, well. First day of classes. No one's going to need me to be incredibly intelligent today. Intelligent move #2: For my wake-up alarm, I keep a date in my phone calendar. I then change the date/time of this as necessary if I need an alarm. The reasons I use this instead of the actual "alarm" are: a) I don't have to turn a calendar reminder on and off; it's off as soon as I "view now" and on as soon as I change its date/time to a moment in the future. b) The calendar reminder functions at all volume levels of the phone, including "all sounds off," so long as the calendar vibrate is on. So if my volume is off for whatever reason, accidentally or otherwise, the calendar alarm still sounds and will wake me. c) I never have to fanagle with it to get it to do what I want; I merely set a date and time and it goes off then and doesn't go off until I move it, and it always alarms exactly when I set it with the exact tone and vibrate settings I have already set. (The alarm keeps asking me ON/OFF WEEKLY/DAILY/MONTHLY??? and I'm like argh.) The problem? It is September 1st. When I reset my alarm at Stupid O'Clock last night/this morning, I set the time properly, cycled the day around to the 1st--and forgot to switch the months. Derp. This is one time I'm thankful I slept poorly; I woke at 8:40 instead of my intended 8:30 going, "...Why didn't I hear my alarm?" Hurrrrrr. AND INTELLIGENT MOVE #3: I thought my class today was at 9: 30 and got there at 9:33. Stuart, of course, was talking when I walked in, and I merely assumed I was a couple minutes late and he'd started right on time. It wasn't until about 10:30 as Stuart was talking that my brain caught up and started going, "...Wait." Fffff. It's 11:18, my next class is at 1:30; I'm going to nap for an hour and a half. *flop* Tags: goucher, idiocy, lolwat
Current Location: Fairways - My Room
Current Mood:  embarrassed
Current Music: Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
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( Image under cut. )19 credits. 8D Oh-oh man my Mondays and Wednesdays are going to suck. At least I get a break for lunch, though!(?) Tuesdays are gonna be awesome, though. With Stuart (Painting II--I had him as my prof. for Painting I and loved him so much I made him my advisor XD), we almost never paint in the studio, unless we're doing still life. So if I pick an out-of-the-way place to paint so that I'm not in the way of the next studio class coming in, I can just KEEP GOING for another hour and get more painting done. And having only one class on Friday is awesometacular. :D Especially since Fridays are D&D day for Scott's game. Man, though, they always do some weird shit with trying to figure out where to stick German class. So far the classes have been held: just off the academic quad in Van Meter/technically the second floor (Van Meter being the main academic building), just off the front/ground entrance in Van Meter, in the basement of Van Meter, and in the tiny little conference classroom in Pearlstone, the post office/bookstore/cafe/dorm building. And now it's in the science center. Notice that not once has it actually been in the language building wtf. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH CLASSES START TOMORROW AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. Tags: goucher, schedule
Current Location: Fairways - My Room
Current Mood:  AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Current Music: Groove Coverage - Poison
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Seeing myself referred to as "Katy" on the internets weirds me out. I mean, I'm not secretive about my name on the internets, obviously. It's just... odd. Especially when people who knew me as DAS first use it. Idk. I get that some people feel more familiar with a person if they can use that person's "normal" name when talking to them...? The thing about that, though, is "DAS" feels more like my normal name than "Katy." Katy may be my given name, but it doesn't really feel like my name anymore. It's the moniker I happen to retain from my childhood because I don't think I could convince my family to call me by my chosen name. :/ Hell; Scott, Arctic, and Ricky all call me DAS. Gives me stupid-happy smiles that they do, too. Other friends use other nicknames, too, and I welcome that. (My Squishy calls me Squiggley and that gives me stupid smiles.) And I do still respond when people call "KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYTEEEEEEEEE!!!!" at me across the quad/hallway/street/whatever. I haven't referred to myself as "Katy" for years, though. Unless introducing myself to new people, 'cause, necessity; societal norms, blah. I dunno. Just putting that out there. I really prefer DAS. Really really. Even Kachi is better than Katy. Katy just feels so... young. Like it's the name of a much smaller me that doesn't really exist anymore. I've evolved past that. I'm even liking Kate better. (Katy is evolving! Katy has evolved into... DAS! (Which rhymes with jazz.)) ...Idfk. Tags: random, reflection
Current Location: Home - Living Room
Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: Lady Gaga - Lovegame
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HAS A MEME. Stolen from a couple different people. Interlude Step 1: Put your music player on random. Step 2: Post the first line (or so, some are hard) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what SONG AND ARTIST the lines come from. Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly (No lyric hunting! That is cheating!) Step 5: After doing the 1st through 30th, listen to one more random song and post it as your title. Skipping things in foreign languages, Christmas songs, instrumentals, and shit I have archived on this hard drive somewhere that I don't actually know wtf it is. ( 1) Who wants to separate the world we know from our beliefs? )Tags: memes, music
Current Location: Fairways - Living Room
Current Mood:  blank
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And I just want to clarify that this is, in fact, a GOOD sign! When I don't have anything to say, it means I don't have anything to complain about. X3 Things have been pretty amazing. A couple setbacks and some serious shit here and there, yes--everything's not been tea cakes and roses, but not everything has been hell, either. And even when things have gotten pretty awful, it doesn't seem nearly as bad as it could, mostly because I have the bestest best friends in the entire world. Ever. zavule, notgarystu, yami_loni. I'm looking at you three. Thanks, you guys. ♥ You keep me sane and grounded and make life worth being in for awhile. I'm happy, I'm healthy. (Potential TMI warning:) Being on the pill is meaning I only have to bleed about 3-5 days instead of 5-7 7-12 (yes they were that bad), and that my hormones don't make me SPAZ THE FUCKING HELL OUT ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING for a two-week stretch. (End TMI.) I don't have to worry about medical bills or eviction notices or any of that jazz that I COULD have giving me a heart attack. My biggest concerns are finding the time to drive home and visit my friends and to read the campaign setting/write up a character backstory for the most recent D&D game I've joined. xD Right now, life is pretty sweet. ALSO. It is August 10th. Happy Birthday to muh preshus, my yami~, Yami-Loni. <3 Love ya, babe~ [Edit] I just noticed that my three best friends are two males and a crossdressplayer. Hurhurhur ILUGAIZ [/Edit]Tags: awesome, friends, life, update
Current Location: Fairways - Living Room
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: Naruto
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So, like. Stuff. Shut up, I'm sleepy. I did the things with the stuff and the conventions and the geekery and it was a whole big ordeal and much fun was had. No, this is not the Con Journal. That would be lame. Title refers to: I have had no internet at my apartment since July 14th because Comcast are a bunch of morons. This should ( should) be getting fixed tomorrow between noon and 3pm, as that is when I have an appointment for someone to come fix my shit. (They put the wrong apartment number--B vs. D--on my account because I set it up over the phone and apparently I was being handled by a twit, and when the guy came and set it up (I had to call him across the hall, by the by), he didn't bother to fix said problem. So the person who last had their account under my apartment number, their contract ran out, and Comcast came out and shut it off. Even though I was still in there. Because my correct address was not on the account and my address was therefore not in the system as active. Thanks guys. At least I'm not being billed for any services up until it gets turned back on, hurhur.) So yeah. The only internet I've had has been while I've been at other people's houses, and of course, when I am at other people's houses, I am kind of not really paying attention to the internet. So. Yeah. If you're wondering where I've been, why I haven't said anything, why I haven't done something I was supposed to do--internet goes where? Oh also I broke and fixed my car. And got blisters from my costume's boots. And panicked over getting rent paid for several reasons. Also my luggage was lost on my flight down. STRESS MAY ALSO BE A FACTOR IN MY NOT HAVING BEEN AROUND MUCH. I love you guys I will get back to you when I'm sane again. ...Don't ask me when that will be. <3 Tags: internet, random, update
Current Location: Scott's House
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary
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