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Monday, June 29, 2009

5:47PM - Damn you June

Have died and am dead. Will reanimate this weekend.

Just a bit more.

Current mood: exhausted

Monday, June 22, 2009

11:30PM - My life post-paper

It's quite appropriate that Ikki Tousen seems to have Grown the Beard with the focus switching to Kan'u. The first two episodes of Dragon Destiny were better than all of Battle Vixens put together. How I'm supposed to choose my allegiance between Love-Me-I'm-Stupid, Crazy Awesome and WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE is beyond me, although I suppose Hakufu is out of the running for having the lamest supporting cast. Kakouton can take both Kan'u and Chouhi pretty much single-handedly in this department, but Kaku's presence isn't buying Sousou any favors here and it remains to be seen how the scales might tip when Chou'un and Zhuge Loli Koumei finally show up. I hear neither of them even gets any panty shots.

Raging headache rages, for no apparent reason. No energy to do anything but watch me some fanservice. Adstring beach event a sparkling success with dolphins on top. I need to do more writing. Perhaps shall play scenes from a hat with random characters. No idea what I'll hand in for ICon as a lecture proposal tomorrow oh god.

Why am I still awake?

Current mood: tired

Saturday, June 20, 2009

1:17PM - In the meantime

I tried to this ten favorite characters meme and realized that oh man it's hard. I'm very fond of a lot of characters, but picking up ten that are really my very absolute favoritest is Something Complerely Different. I've managed to come up with a list of ten who are, in one way or another, special to me, but it's like pending revision forever.

They are, sort of in order:

1. Werner Locksmith (Planetes)
2. Romana, both of her (Doctor Who)
3. Feanor (The Silmarillion)
4. The Fourth Doctor (Doctor Who)
5. Roj Blake (Blake's 7)
6. Steel (Sapphire & Steel)
7. Sapphire (Sapphire & Steel)
8. Dominique Francon (The Fountainhead)
9. Hagan Gebicung (Attila's Treasure)
10. Delenn (Babylon 5)

(I'm kind of in a bind about the last two, because I love them, but they aren't special like the others. Don't be asking me what that means.)

... I have no idea what they have in common. Like at all.

Current mood: awake

Thursday, June 18, 2009

9:49PM - Oh hell yeah

Phase 3 complete. Phase 4 at 60%. I estimate another four to six hours' work in total, assuming no further rewrites. Which means I might even be able to get back on RTH and catch Adstring tags tomorrow. And maybe sleep all day on Saturday instead of Sunday. That'd be so nice.

Hopes I should not have them.

Current mood: determined

1:39PM - שאומרים במקומותינו, פפפפפפפפ

אתם חושבים שאיתמר פארן יחזיר לי את הכסף אם אני אגיד לו שלא בראש שלי לשתף פעולה עם האוננות הספרותית של ניר יניב?

Current mood: annoyed

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

6:56PM - Paper spammin ur LJs

Phase 2 complete. Phase 3 at 50%. Phase 4 pending advisor review.

Three days.

Current mood: exhausted

5:15PM - Lookit me, I metabolize

It's rather amazing how lots of thinking makes you hungry. Phase 2 about two-thirds complete.

Current mood: working

Saturday, June 13, 2009

7:29PM - PROGRESS REPORT YO

Phase two firmly under way to be wrapped up by Sunday. Or maybe Monday on the bus. But any later and I lose my right to sushi Monday night.

Current mood: busy

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

12:58AM - Can't sleep, paper will eat me

Phase one complete.

Current mood: deaded

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

11:30AM - My list of woes:

DISCLAIMER: None of the things noted below, barring perhaps the second, is really in any way important. The only important thing is that the paper revision is going pretty well.


1. I will never actually be happy until I realize LJ RP is not a popularity contest it's like I don't exist.

2. If I had any sense in my head I'd announce a hiatus from RTH or at least step down from the Council, but what's the point of doing that just until July?

3. IT'S HOT GUYS.

4. Playing Dynasty Warriors is spoiling me for all other sorts of stress release.

5. I do not yet have an ICon lecture. I have not yet contacted Keren about my Fantasycon lecture. I have no time to contemplate eithet tragedies.

6. All of the above mentioned things are, in fact, much worse than my tone makes them sound.

7. But I don't really have woes because there is no me, there is only paper revisions.

8. Oh god why isn't it the 30th.

Current mood: stressed

Saturday, June 6, 2009

7:16PM - This is how I not deal

Pissy grumbly spitting-nails mood. Can only be alleviated by repeated button-mashing and killing mass amounts of mooks with a doomfan or possibly a twirly shortsword OH SUN QUAN WHY ARE YOU SO UNDERRATED YOU GORGEOUS ELFQUEST LOOKALIKE YOU or by getting like some real actual crack for my fanservice moths. Look guys I got angst and Kevin being romantic instead, what the hell gives? I did not moth-bomb that party to facilitate people's love lives, I did it to get lulz and naked men. AND ATTENTION.

For the record: Ikki Tousen fails. It's not a bad animu, but it is a terrific concept played for about ten percent of its potential and the rest is panty shots. I am this close to starting an OC game based on it just so I can get some actual Romance of the Three Kingdoms reincarnation streetfighting drama rather than have awesome scenes of girl!Lu Bu walking open-eyed to her painful destiny interrupted by Sun Ce's bouncing tits. I cannot afford to do this, but I want to. I really want to.

I have no idea what I can do right now to relax. Halp. Send cat macros.

Current mood: stressed

Thursday, June 4, 2009

6:06PM - GTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTGTLOLOLOLOLOLOL

KEYBOARD FIXED

Current mood: ecstatic

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

7:01PM - Public service announcements:

1. Hey you guys, a good friend of mine is looking for Worldcon roomies. Is anyone going to Worldcon? The man in question is organized, helpful and good conversation. Highly recommended. You all need one. Takers?

2. עברית! אז מי רוצה לדבר בפאנל נשים חובבות באייקון? נו תבואו, אני אנחה אותו ויהיו צחוקים ותיאוריות אקדמיות.

3. So just as a notice, next week I officially do not exist. That is to say I'm revising a paper. So I'm not actually here. Or anywhere. Don't call me, don't ask me to do stuff, there is no me. There is only the paper.

That is all.

Current mood: busy

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

8:45PM - Oh teaching job woes

There's nothing sadder than a student continuously trying to show how very clever and advanced he is and succeeding only in showing how little he understands the course's basic material.

Desperately hungry, busier than I expected and absolutely have to get to my River Twine stuff tonight. Sigh and more sigh.

Current mood: starving

Saturday, May 23, 2009

11:43AM - Well, hmpf to you too

I have this nagging suspicion that the reason nobody writes any decent Yue Ying/Zhuge Liang fic is because people have a problem with the notion of a couple whose attraction is mostly intellectual. As in they can't write two people who love each other for their epic smarts. Every time I read a fic in which Yue Ying is all like "YES BUT DOES HE LOVE ME AS A WOMAN" I want to die a little. All these people deserve to be doomfan'd till they're on fire.

... Zhuge Liang is so evil. I mean, wow.


Oh right. New people. Adstring. Hello! As you can see it's all a bit Chinese here right now. I mow down mooks with a tetsubo. It'll pass.



Also Holy fuck space.

Current mood: hungry

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

6:25PM - Some improvement

Thank you for is telling me not to panic. I feel vaguely better now. Have my kitty icon.

In other news, have installed StumbleUpon. My productive life is over. You should try it too.

Current mood: mellow

10:51AM - !

When they tell me my essay has potential and encourage me to submit it for another round of peer review they do actually mean that it didn't suck balls and that if I were to follow their revisions they might print it, right? Not 'go away you're terrible don't bother us anymore', right? Right...?

Oh god I don't know.

Current mood: stressed

Monday, May 18, 2009

6:12PM - I only wish to say:

I'm about to upload Leekspin to my course's website as an important source for my students. My academic field is better than your academic field in more ways than I can detail in a mere LJ post.

Current mood: cheerful

2:47PM - Based on some history or other

Remember what I said about nothing being as orgasmically satisfying as running into a pack of fleeing mooks with a tetsubo? Belay that. Casually strolling round the battlefield swatting people left and right with your Taoist-magic-spewing doomfan of fire has its charms as well. Especially if you get to die collapse dramatically in Liu Bei's arms afterwards. I am the greatest strategist, scholar, mage and glory-hogging meanie in all of ancient China. And I do not have tuberculosis.

Current mood: satisfied

Sunday, May 17, 2009

5:18PM - No news on the Japanimation front

I have braved the Pit of Voles in order to see if the Bleach ship wars really are as bad as the DW ones and they are worse. Orihime you poor thing what have you ever done to deserve such bashit, I think I shall avoid any and all Ichigo/Rukia fan activities to escape being associtaed with the crazy. Although I'll feel sorry for Rukia if she's left out of the Canon Ship because she has got no luck with the guys. I mean dude, her other option is Renji.

Anyway why does Emospada get no hate? He's as much in the way of a Favored Ship as Orihime is just from the other direction. I suppose IchiHime fans can afford to be lax since they have the Word of Titty Kubo on their side or whatever. I dunno I just ship what I see on the screen. I'm trying really hard not to be oppressive here. Except towards people who don't ship Yoruichi/Urahara. Or who ship Shinji/Hiyori. Or who ship Captain Grumpypants with anyone at all. He's this tiny you guys he doesn't reach Hinamori's shoulder. Or Matsumoto's anything.

In conclusion, I ship Unohana/Yamamoto for teh OTP and you can't stop me. Unless you're Kenpachi and in that case ow.

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