spent the whole day with shabzilla, jackoweskla, and swtjemz! also saw nihongofrancais and texted with longleggedgit!

got a pedicure and ate a bunch of sushi for lunch!

Saw Harry Potter! Liked it!

went to a bar and then got dinner and then to karaoke!

Going to San Francisco tomorrow!

All of these needed exclamation marks!

Safe in San Jose! need to take out contacts ow.

more news as it breaks.

I am at work with shinigamitabris! It is all shiny and professional, and they let me on the internet, those fools. I even managed to get repacked with only one emergency (we were in the car before I remembered that I had unplugged the computer, but then left the actual charger plugged into the wall). And the constraints of traffic meant I didn't get to hug elise_maxwell goodbye when we dropped her off for work D: D: D:

I fly to San Jose this afternoon to meet up with swtjemz, shabzilla, and jackoweskla. For some reason this necessitates a stop in Denver, but whatever. Keep your fingers crossed that this time the system actually believes in me, unlike when I left PHL last week and when my brother did a few days before that.

If members of the Pelli family were meant to fly, apparently we would print our own boarding passes.

Also, Happy Birthday to musesfool! You can be the Remus to my Sirius always.

Ugh, snaplinks updated yesterday and broke all my control-click action! Since i use both snaplinks and control-click constantly, this was something of a drama. But I got it downgraded after digging around a little. (downgraded, not degraded, like i said out loud. although i degraded snaplinks a bit as well, before i fixed it).

Tabs: No wonder you hate change! Everything breaks every time you upgrade something!
me: NO SHIT.

This is my last night in Seattle D: but i understand that Shabz is warming Jemz's bed up for me as we speak.

have a mankey

Title: Sleight of Hand [Ohno/Nino]
Rating/Warnings: PG for Aiba and Kis-My-Ft2 trying to help.
Summary: Ohno and Nino have a standing bet.
AN: I found this half-finished in my folder and just sort of plugged the rest of it in. This is not in any way the Remix pinch hit I am supposed to be working on. If you want to see the full explanation for the trick that Nino does, you can read it here.

( Sleight of Hand [Ohno/Nino, PG] )

Title: A Tough Nut To Crack [Hashimoto/Totsuka]
Rating/Warnings: R for ABC and their Z. Who is entirely illegal.
Summary: Hasshi gets his way. No one is shocked.
AN: This is just entirely shameful, and my hope is that now that I've written the Hasshi/Tottsu i can definitely not ever write it again. Um, for Hasshi's birthday on the 15th? where he will turn, haha, 16.

( A Tough Nut To Crack [Hashimoto/Totsuka, R] )

I am eating Cheezits and listening to the Tegomass album, so things are pretty chill on the West Coast. Also I wrote a couple je100 drabbles for the cake challenge finally, and you should too, if only so that the completely shameful Hasshi/Tottsu isn't still sitting at the top of the page D:

Rachel made me do it D: D: D:

It's also really nice to have not had a single sinus headache or any other allergy drama for a bunch of days in a row, and to not need to drag my allergy medicine along. I'm completely allergic to Pennsylvania, yay. hilariously, i watched a thing on the news once that said the worst allergen place in the whole country was my area in PA, and the second worst was Burlington VT, where i was at school.

I was the only person in the whole state being like "WOW THE AIR IS SO NICE UP HERE" because i'd come from the only place worse in the whole country. Win or fail, you decide.

Tori Amos in concert was amazing. She played a bunch of older stuff (Crucify, Precious Things, China, Cornflake Girl) which was awesome because I haven't listened to any of her new stuff since college. Lol, but now we're listening to "Winter" on my laptop, which I sang for a Tri-M concert in high school while my incredibly gay friend who also adored Tori played the piano. sociofemme can probably guess which friend that was :D

Tori Amos is weird as hell, but goddamn is she talented. She had five keyboards going at one point (the Bosendorfer with a keyboard on top of it, and then on the other side, a two-keyboard organ with another keyboard on top of it) and just O.o gah, her voice is so powerful live. She's phenomenal.

also amazing is Plum bubble tea, which apparently i am too white to order, because the lady was like "um, are you sure? Reeeally sure?" It's not onigiri, but it'll have to be close enough. おいしい！

And I bought my mother a tote bag. copperbadge, i thought of you.

Seattle is very pretty so far! I was warned against all manner of poor weather, but instead it's like a vaguely cooler version of Pennsylvania. Actually, I thought it would look a lot different from PA (California does), but it really doesn't, much. Although it sort of looks more like Vermont.

In other weird news, it seems that whenever I have my period, a bunch of you do too. Even when you are on other continents, lol. Those pheromones are srs busnss yo.

I sent a text message to my brother (in Italy) yesterday that said "I'm in Seattle. I think this is the farthest apart we've ever been D:" and his response was "I KNOW. It just means we have to kick ass twice as hard!" COME HOME, YOU FOOL. Italy is for chumps D: D: D:

But my Remix is posted and in the moderation queue! So at least that's done with.

Elise is looking up Japan airfares for August and they're like $835. WAAAAAAANT. Now that it is actually 'go to Japan' time for me and i'm not going, i'm way more enduringly sad about it than I thought I'd be. I kind of thought I'd get over it, like a grownup, esp since i'm still on vacation on going on planes and seeing people!

but no. I want melon cream fanta and ume onigiri and Kiomizudera and Chidoricho. I WANT MY SHINKANSEN. I want w-inds. and new lightsticks and K8 goods that look like penises. sadfaaaaaaace.

OH WELL. I HAVE A TABS AND AN ELISE. I will make do.

I am safe in Seattle! I made it in one try and everything.

Hey, does anybody still have the Skies of Memory video that BleuVII made a million years ago? It's the one where he cut out all the cutscenes from Chain of Memories. I totally have it, but it's at home on my harddrive, so I can't hand it over to shinigamitabris right this second.

That's what you guys are usually good for :D anybody have a good link for that still?

Apparently we have changed baggage policies again, and now it's $15 to put any suitcase on a plane. Pretty soon it will be $20, haha!

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS I HAVE THREE FLIGHTS. I find it to be ENTIRELY UNREASONABLE that I am expected to fly across the motherfucking country with no suitcase. I don't even NEED a fucking suitcase, except i'm not allowed to take more than 3oz of anything like, you know, CONTACT SOLUTION.

So now I have to go to Wal-mart now, at midnight, to find travel-sized things and asdkgjalsgkjajga FUCK. HATE. SO MUCH HATE. I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS. Why are American airlines so fucking annoying? Why? Why is every international airline 23490238 times better? My brother got to take 2 44-lbs suitcases with him because he booked through Swiss Air! I JUST WANT TO TAKE MY SHAMPOO, YOU FUCKERS.

You know, if i were the most expensive way to travel in an economy like this, I SURE AS HELL WOULD NOT GO OUT OF MY WAY TO DRIVE PEOPLE INSANE. *full of rage*

Title: Night Practice [Seigaku]
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for drinking?
Summary: On the third Tuesday of every month, like clockwork, the three of them meet at the same bar.
AN: I'm not sure how this happened? Somehow this all came together in my head on the way home from marksykins's place the other night. I wasn't away that I had any AftS! future fic in me, but here you go.

( Night Practice [Seigaku, PG-13] )

This is how I feel right now.

I'm taking all my laundry over to my parents' to do so that it's free, so i'll probably be around after my hair appointment. feh.

Happy birthday to snowqueenofhoth! You can always be my adorable and questionable kouhai, and sooner or later I will definitely present porn to you.

My baby brother is on a plane to Italy right now and won't be back for months, if ever. WAAAH. GIVE HIM BACK. ;.;

New JE100 Challenge: CAKE! go write me drabbles.

I'm close to 3k on the Remix, and it's going okay, I just don't in any way want to write it. or do anything besides maybe cry some more.

I should be SUPER AWESOME EXCITED to leave for Seattle/CA Thursday, but I have packed nothing and done no laundry and do not want to drive back to PHL any more unless my brother will be there when I arrive ;.; ;.; ;.;

My Pokemon Platinum guide arrived, and it's seriously four times thicker than i thought it would be LOL. I should flip my game on and go collect berries for the day but I don't want to do that either. If you don't pick them in time, do you lose the berries? or do they eventually regrow?

My face hurts. FUCK YOU, ITALY.

I am back safe from marksykins's! Despite the fact that GPS did not believe in her address, I made it.

It takes like four pieces of major technology to get me from home to Marks and I still get lost. What on earth did people fifty years ago do?

also, apparently I still know all the words to both of Story of the Year's albums, even though i haven't listened to either one of them since I left Vermont three years ago.

Must. Write. Remix. Ugh, why am I so fail lately?

my brother's afghan is done, at least. He's taking it to Italy with him as a present for his girlfriend. D: I don't want my little brother to go to Italy for years and years! We're taking him to the airport tomorrow, so I should really try and get something done, because tomorrow I'll be like destroyed. D: D: D: D: D:

At least I get to see marksykins tonight. If she can stop breaking bands for a couple hours to squeeze me in.

Shiny Whismur! Yay!~

I finally blew that $25 sociofemme sent me for my birthday on a book about dinosaurs and a 3-D Pyrmid puzzle. It looks really sexy and translucent! But sadly no millenium spirit possessed me afterward and caused a bunch of other badass stuff to happen.

I just read through the first batch of YGO manga on www.onemanga.com and never realized that they'd told the Kaiba Kyoudai's adoption story in the original manga. Both of them are crazy freaks in the original, but then it turns around and explains in detail why're they're so messed up, plus plays the "PLEASE SAVE MY OLDER BROTHER SO HE REMEMBERS HOW TO SMILE AGAIN" card. OUCH. So then Mokuba became like my favorite character wut.

On the same topic, the picture in the Duel Monsters anime of Mokuba and Kaiba playing chess, the ones in their lockets, is taken taken directly from the original. And the age difference between them is five years.

Sometimes I think that Kaiba only has a helicopter to make his coat flap dramatically. Why are all these bullet points about YGO? Again?

Yami: "I'm not Yugi. I'm a 3000 year old pharoah."
Mokuba: D: (his face seriously looks exactly like this)
Kaiba: Pish. You've been brainwashed by that idiot, Ishizu.
Yami: Remember that time you were trapped in a card for days during Duelist Kingdom? Or when disembodied dudes spoke to us during our last five duels? Hm? Here, have an extended flashback of all the creepy things that have happened to you during the last 70 episodes.
Mokuba: D:
Kaiba: Pish. You're all morons.

Happy 4th, everyone! I have a ton of crap I should have done today but then did none of. And tomorrow Feds and Roddick play! GANBATTE, RODDICK!

I should really go get dinner. because I am eternally five, I want hot dogs.

While discussing the teenage boys whose bodies they are possessing:

Marik: *makes some comment about Bakura's host body*
Bakura: "This guy? Pfft, my 'landlord' is easy to control."
Marik: "'Landlord'? LMAO THAT'S HILARIOUS."

Needless to say, the HK bootlegs did not sub this exchange terribly well, but I LOLed nonetheless. PS: I have no idea why I know the Japanese word for landlord (it's yadonushi, if you wanted to know, although yanushi also means landlord, weirdly). This is almost as amusing as the fact that they've started subbing Yami's smug little "Hn~" noise as "Piff!"

PPS: why is there not a crapload of amazing hot and wrong body-switch porn for this show? marksykins says this is proof that fandom does everything wrong, and I AGREE. Also somebody has to seriously write some mokuba/yugiyami/kaiba because otherwise I will have to do it D:.

Also the Yugi/Marik duel where he sets up the endless loop is one of the coolest duels in the entire series imho, and I love that episode like crazy. In no small part because Kaiba shows up and yells "Aren't you my rival?! Can't you see our road?! YOU HAVE TO BEAT GOD TO MOVE FORWARD!" which not only is so ridiculously shounen that it makes my heart go pitty-pat, but also echoes Yami's dismissive boast at the beginning of the duel when Yugi tries to warn him about the god cards. "Kami no Card? KAMI WO TAOSU!"

I think I meant to say this a little bit ago, but CreateSpace somehow fixed the issue with the two Japanese spots in Chaotic Butterfly, and I told one or two of you that i'd give you the heads-up when that was straightened out so you didn't get the weird one.

so now it's as fine as it's going to get and you should all buy my book. Or just download the PDF and tell me I'm great, whichever. Although at the moment i'm at like $17 in royalties, which means they might actually have to send me a check soon, lol. I think I have to top $20 for that, iirc.

I sort of feel like a tool every time I repost that link, but then a few more of you buy it and the feeling goes away. :D You know the PDF's been downloaded 127 times? That's crazyness ♥ and I hope whoever's been reading it has been enjoying it.

In other loltastic news, my father is like 3/4s of the way through the book, which is about 7/8s through farther than i thought he would get. I've been very proud of the old man. Although I couldn't quite smother the entire giggle when he said "Flynn-kun" out loud the first time, and I think he can't say "Tsukioka" because he keeps calling him "the little one." It's all very adorable.

He says he would have made the Rin/Goto fight have lasted longer and had another blow up and i made the D: face because honestly just writing that one was entirely displeasing with me.

I've been doing, for all intents and purposes, nothing for a solid week, and then I somehow managed to double-book myself for tomorrow. What the hell, self.