Home connection fux0red. Just a hit-and-run blog from work.

Feelings of raging inadequacy: check
Pointless fits of temper: check
Work-related frustration: check
Sense of impending doom: check
Attacks of social anxiety: check
General feeling that 2003 has finally begun in earnest: check

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So I get to work and there are two cameramen, a reporter, and an interpreter there to interview my grandfather.

Said news team is from South Korea.

This may very well be the only day I've ever really loved my job.

...I have the Tokyo Babylon live-action movie on VHS in my lap.

I came downstairs this morning and I swear the package it came in was sitting in its own little pool of sunlight. (I didn't have my contacts in, but that's not important.)

...o/~ IIIIII'M AS CORNY AS KANSAS IN AUUUUUUGUST IIIIII'M AS NORMAL AS BLUEBERRY PIE ~o

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday, dear ouji-sama,
Happy birthday to you!

...okay, so maybe it doesn't scan...

Whoever googled me for Robin Williams hamster microwave? I, uh, thanks.

#^^# Got rec'd and got to drive out to G Street Fabrics for my Katsucon cosplay entry. Am happy kitty. (Though, the fic that got rec'd--I realised after I wrote it that it's got a big glaring error in it, as Subaru wasn't living at the mansion until after losing his eye--but the reviewer didn't seem to mind.)

^_______^

...guh, I'm stupid tired. @.@

(And, mon amour, we are indeed working on it. ....though we could always use another beta-reader AHEM AHEM ^_~)

Ren: (she has no ears? what kind of leg-pulling is this?)
Me: she's a pussycat.
Me: but the kind of pussycat you'd get if you crossbred the Cheshire Cat with the March Hare, really

Very brief social bloggage yay!

*waves* (Sorry I didn't email you when I linked you... I really have a terrible time trying to get across to people that I enjoy their work/bloggage/whatever without sounding like my IQ is lower than that of mayonnaise.)

Oooh, purdy song. And, uh. Damn. How did you get a 4.53 song to fit into 500kb?

HOKAY off to go work on this ee-normous chunk of trance music.

Headachy, tired, cranky, and cold.

But on the plus side, I now know how to say "thank you" and "I am Lisa" in Imago commonspeak (the main language of my otherworld).

Invented languages are so cool.

And now, under the heading of "will wonders never cease":

So, at Christmas, I came into possession of Fellowship of the Ring on DVD (droooooooooool). Been watching the documentaries that come with it, which, on top of several other things, sparked my interest in re-reading the trilogy. I tried to read it several years ago, got through "Fellowship" and "Two Towers", and then, in a fit of pique, threw "Return of the King" across the room unread.

Now here's the really neat part.

My mom, my sister, and I are all squabbling over who gets to read the books first. Mom's mostly done with "Two Towers" and I think my sister picked up "Fellowship". (Now, if you know my mom--she's reeeeally not a fantasy person. Hell, she doesn't even really like fiction. And she doesn't actually enjoy Tolkien. And she's going to slog through the books because she can't wait to find out what happens.)

For my part--I've said, before, that I don't like Tolkien. And I don't, really; after a while his style starts to grate on my nerves (some characters, to say nothing of the narrator, take paragraphs and paragraphs to actually say something). But the man did create a damn good story, and a very rich world, and for that I respect him.

Plus, the guy knew how to draw maps. I wish I had that kind of skill. T_T

New Year's Resolutions, 2003

* Ensure that 2003 is tons better than 2002.
* Continue attempts to improve as a human being.
* Make an attempt to get through the LotR trilogy.
* Get some draftwork done on the project I planned to do for NaNoWriMo.
* Do loads more development work on my otherworlds.
* Tell granddad's lazy-ass slacker intern to stop treating me like a subordinate or I'll tell granddad how much time I spend covering for his mistakes.
* Get a better job.
* Finish "Tabula Rasa".
* Ensure that birthday, this year, contains no cancer diagnoses, slappings, or other major disasters.
* ...make some more New Year's resolutions, actually. ^^;;;

^_^ Happy New Year, everybody.

Happiness is an unexpected, late Christmas gift of coloured pencils that smell like sandalwood.

Also realising that dad's brand new digital camera can be used in place of a scanner... heh heh heh. >}

Okay, because the argument has been making the sweep, I'll toss in two cents.

So X has a large cast. I, personally, enjoy almost every character in that cast, when I read about them in the manga or watch the movie or listen to the drama tracks. I think that CLAMP is and has been doing interesting stuff with all their characters--sure, they've under-used some of their characters, but they've also left a lot of space for the reader to wonder about motive and personality and history. They're smart, and they're not finished with X yet. Hell, they have two and a half volumes left--they've already shown us that they can do a lot with a little, in their other manga.

As to fan-authoring and -arguing? I'm tempted to say "stop picking on the Big Four". I agree with Shoi that they're damn interesting.

Yes, I realise I mostly write about Subaru. (Subaru has my creative heart, I suppose, because I see a lot of myself in him--faults and all.) I have minor-character fic planned and brewing and half-written, but ultimately he's my muse, and it'll be a very long time before anyone can convince me that he's uninteresting. Truthfully, there are times when I feel pretty awkward abou my fic--sure, I dig SxS and find the relationship and characters fascinating, but will anyone else buy it?

Though, this does bring me to another point about Xfic in general--namely, that anyone who says "it's all been done" in regards to any particular dynamic, character, relationship, or possible event in X is full of it.

The fanauthoring contingent in this fandom is small. True, it's produced a large amount of material (including its share of cliche), but there's still a lot of possibility left, even surrounding the most popular characters. I think, as a fandom, we're just getting started on the really interesting stuff. It's already out there--lots of it, by a number of talented writers (and no matter what else you can say about the X fandom, we have got talented writers in spades). And I think we're going to see a lot more in 2003. People are thinking, and writing, and rediscovering/exploring their love for the series.

I think it's going to be a pretty damn good year for X.

And sorry to burst the pessimists' bubble, but there's not a damn thing you can say to change my mind.

So, my mom and dad gave me and my sister an early Christmas present tonight.

They got us a can of spotted dick.

...and to all, a good night. XD

...someone explain to me why I agreed to go to work for my grandfather the day before Christmas Eve?