* I finished the Star Trek XI WiP in that last post, marking the first fic I've actually FINISHED (BBX doesn't count, it's a WiP even if I'm posting it as it goes) since June of last year. Tragically I've still got 3 5000 word one-shot WiPs. I mean, you'd think once I'm that far I'd just get the fuck on with it, but apparently not; my ability to finish the things I start has suffered a lot over the past year or so.
* Dog had her operation. She's okay, healing up pretty well even though she has five sets of stitches all over her chest and stomach. She had these fatty tumours that weren't malignant but were growing and were starting to get in her way.
* Have totally fucked up my sleeping pattern. Well, not as totally as this time last year in Japan when I was sleeping from like 3pm-8pm, but I am going to bed at 6-7am or so every morning, which is pretty fail, especially since I have to go back to uni next week. orz Today I even missed an appointment I had at THREE IN THE AFTERNOON because I slept in, which is not cool. Most of the time I manage to function overall despite extensive fail at the details, but ugh.
* On the topic of uni, having a bit of a timetable dilemma. Mum insists I do a full subject load. I was originally intending to only do 3 subjects (2 Japanese, 1 Law) and do the international negotiation competition in Japan in December. Which I am still planning to do, but I won't know if I'm in the team until about October, which is obviously too late for signing up for another subject if I'm not. I have a fairly high chance of getting in, but mum is not convinced by that argument. Also, I think she's just fundamentally opposed to me having free time or something. So now I need to find another law subject. But I hate about 80% of the courses they're offering that I haven't done already, and the other 20% don't fit into my timetable well. Labour Law outright clashes with Equity, which I have to do. Evidence is a final year subject which I COULD do, but which everyone says DON'T DO IT AT THE SAME TIME AS EQUITY, YOU'LL DIE, so I think it would be unwise. Family Law is the one I'm leaning towards at the moment... the problem is that I'd have six hours of lectures in a row on Tuesdays which is a bit feral. Sigh. I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and deal with it; it might not be fun but I'm probably at least capable of it.
Also, I'm going to have problems with my work shift AGAIN. Fucking uni timetables. Sigh.
* On a completely different not, I have almost finished FFXII. Actually, I once again almost did that thing where I beat the final boss by accident, except I in fact realised it was the final boss on his final form (when there wasn't a HP bar I got suspicious) and also, he killed me. Honestly if I'd known going in that was the final boss I would have held off-- aside from all the sidequests I hadn't done yet, I knew lv 46 was too low for a final boss. So now I'm spending copious hours on said sidequests. I think I'm going to end up spending double to triple the amount of time on sidequests as I did on the plot. orz
* Back to Star Trek and fics, I have taken temporary leave of what little sanity I may once have possessed and have signed up for
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lazulisong'S FAULT AND I WILL HAUNT HER TO THE GRAVE. >:| The really depressing bit is that the minimum limit is 15K, but my fic is going to be so much longer than that that it's not even funny. I am apparently INCAPABLE of short. My idea of a short one-shot is like 3000-10000 words. Tell me to write something big and you get fucking BOYBAND!X. Or the epic tale of James Tiberius Kirk, in this case. orz When I started planning it I thought the whole thing, being in three distinct parts, would be 50K. Which was already big. Now I've started writing part i and I think it'll easily be 50K by ITSELF. The deadline is two months from now. Thankfully each part will stand by itself so I might just do the first part for Big Bang and say it's a trilogy. Wah. This also saves me from stressing out about the third part, which will actually require an action plot and at the moment my plan basically consists of "??? PROFIT?". Action plots are a lot harder for me than character or humour driven things, and if I'm going to write this damn much I want it to actually be as good as I can make it, so anything that'll let me avoid rushing it and doing a subpar job can only be good. Even if this does end up hanging over my head for years like BBX because of it. <<;* Directly connected to the above point, I have been listening to Folie a Deux on repeat. It's interesting to note that it's one of those albums where the more I listen to it the more I up the song ratings in iTunes. Some songs the more I listen to them, the more bland they start to sound as I get sick of them, but other artists work the other way around where I'm a bit meh the first time I hear it and it grows on me like fungus with each subsequent
listen.
* ... I really am going to have to get a Star Trek XI icon.
- Music:Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
The resulting study practices were what one would definitely not call conventional. I think I played about 70 hours of video games in the study period-- I finished Suikoden Tierkreis from close to the beginning and started on FFXII International. I also watched a lot of TV, read a lot of fic, and surfed the internet a lot. There were bizarre sleeping patterns. When I did study I did it in the family room with headphones on to block out the TV, either in the armchair or rolling around on the heated carpet. One might wonder where I even found TIME to study with all the procrastinating going on; it basically fell into the pattern of force self to go through all the reading for week 1 for this subject, play video games, force self to go through reading for week 2, watch tv, do reading for week 3, play video games, eventually crawl off to bed....
Except I must have been doing SOMETHING right, because I got 83 for Property. To put this in context, this is the second HD I have ever received in law, because law is hard and only 10% get above 70 (D) let alone above 80 (HD)-- I think it's like 2% or something. To put it more in context, that's the subject where I FAILED THE TAKEHOME. I cannot even comprehend how I managed to get from fail to HD. zomg.
Also, my other marks were good enough to make me feel happy with myself too. Japanese Law & SOciety, the other law course, was 76. Advanced Readings in Japanese Law (the translation course) was 78 (unsurprising, I got 78 for both my translations during term and I suspected I'd get it for my final too). Teaching Japanese Content was 83. So I didn't blitz Japanese the way I usually do, but to be fair it's gotten a lot harder since I came back from Year In Japan. They expect me to read and write academic linguistic papers/presentations and translate highly technical and specialised things like legislation now, so.
In conclusion: HOORAY!
And now back to your regular scheduled programming of me being a geeky idiot! I haven't really been updating LJ much at all, so here's an overview of what I've been up to:
* Finished Suikoden Tierkreis. It's a DS game and I spent a good 70+ hours on it-- I wasn't expecting it to suck me in that hardcore. I even got the character guide and the official complete guidebook for it and started writing fic. However I fail at finishing anything right now so along with a Merlin fic, a STXI fic and BBX, it is currently in stasis.
* Started playing FFXII. Well, I'm actually nearing the end now, so I'm beginning to branch off on sidequests. In some ways the Zodiac Job version is easier (Quickenings don't take up MP anymore) but in some ways it's a TOTAL BITCH because you have a limited skill set and so I've only got one character with a full set of white magic and she can't use powerful weapons. Also some of the optional bosses and random encounter enemies make me want to punch Squeenix in the FACE.
* Saw the Star Trek movie on Tuesday on a total whim. I'd been sucked into the fandom and it was still playing at the cinemas and I was like, you know what, I'm going to go out tonight and watch it! And I did. Man, I love having a car. The movie itself was super fun. On a side note, that's the first time I've watched something on a big screen since about August last year when I saw HanaDan Final at the movies in Japan.
* Speaking of loving having a car: for someone who practically hasn't been to Belconnen at all since early highschool except for football matches, didn't go there much more even then and still had trouble remember which one was Belconnen and which one was Tuggeranong until recently, I seem to be spending half my life there since I got a car. About five of my friends live in the area (three in the same suburb), so I've been there for one friend's 21st, another friend's uni get together after exams, and over to Mari's several times to just generally socialise. I've also been that way to pick up my dog from the groomer and to put my car in for a service, and I'll be back next week to see an osteopath. Apparently all roads lead to Belconnen now? At least I am gradually starting to not get lost there. I've spent a fair amount of time getting LOST in Belconnen, too.
* In future I will be spending more time in Sydney too, it seems. Was going to go up this holidays to see
_leareth but as I'm likely to be going up next month, when choffman and ariseishirou are staying with _leareth, and again in October to see the Mikado and possibly Wicked in my next holidays, I thought that enough was enough. XD* I got Ruddbucks! Really my dad should probably keep them because he's the one who paid the tax on my trust fund and also I owe him a nebulously large amount of money from when I was in Japan, but he is graciously giving it to me to pay off the remainder of my debt to my brother and my credit card.
* Need to get an external HDD so I can backup my netbook and send it back on warranty. Hm.
* I think that's everything? Aside from getting my hair cut tomorrow. After some dilemma and facebook polling, I've decided to leave it long for winter and cut it short in summer instead of cutting it short right now.
* Things I need to do: Send emails to people in Japan. CLEAN, because my computer desk and room look like they've been hit by a typhoon and they've been that way since I got back from Japan-- seriously, I've still got a suitcase on my bedroom floor. The main problem is that I have too much stuff and not enough places to put it so it's going to take a major overhaul and some genius tetris skills, but it's driving me CRAZY so it needs to happen while I'm on holidays. Where was I...? Oh yeah. And I need to do some laundry and upload my photos of Japan. Some writing would also not go amiss.
On that note, have some excerpts from the various fics which I am sort of working on at the moment. Sort of.
( Saved on my computer as 'Queen Merlin of Campalot' )
( Suikoden Tierkreis, saved as 'yandere!Meruvis' )
( Star Trek XI, saved as 'appropriate workplace behaviour thing' )
In other news, my exams finished on Tuesday, and I have the first real holiday without assignments and stress in what feels like forever. YAY. \o/ In other news... well, so much has happened since I last posted that it's hard to comment on anything particular. I've been watching ridiculous amounts of news in the past few weeks and keeping an eye on Iran and, somewhat less by choice, the current goings on of Australian politics. I don't really have anything to say. Oh, except this: why, America, WHY did you have to start calling your scandals -gate? Because obviously if you do it, we have to do it, too. Not that that's anything new, but it's been particularly grating on my nerves this time.
Although, as the Chaser pointed out, having a scandal called "Ute-gate" is so embarrasingly Australian. I swear, that name makes me want to scream. orz
... Anyway, whatever, I am now very unwisely creating myself a writing meme that totally reveals my unfortunate tendencies in AUs--
Give me a fandom, internets, and I will give you a (short. hopefully. probably. if it's not short I'll never finish it) ficlet turning it into a highschool AU!
Obviously only applies to fandoms I know reasonably well. :|
ETA: Finally going to bed, but feel free to keep requesting, I'll do them when I get up again.
Tammaiya: .... I suddenly wonder if my mum thought we were dating or something. O.o;
Leareth: huh?
Tammaiya: I relayed the story to her because I thought it was funny
Leareth: what, you and me dating?
Leareth: XD
Tammaiya: and she said something along the lines of "I didn't know (Leareth) had boyfriends"
Tammaiya: Me: ...................... uh................. ANYWAY.
Leareth: ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leareth: *IS DYING OF THE LAUGHTER*
Tammaiya: I KNOW
Tammaiya: HAHA WHAT
Leareth: OH DEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR
Tammaiya: TALK ABOUT OUT OF NOWHERE
Leareth: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell
Leareth: I'll admit I AM a corrupting influence ............................... XDXD
Leareth: BUT STILL
Leareth: OMG LOLOLOLOLOL
Tammaiya: I didn't need corrupting, I was a lesbian long before we met even online. XD but that's hilarious. I never know what crazy stuff goes through my mother's head.
Leareth: TRUE DAT
Tammaiya: I mean, maybe that's not even it, but it just SOUNDS like that
Leareth: well
Leareth: i don't count myself as strictly straight
Tammaiya: she could just have assumed you were a lesbian, not necessarily dating me
Tammaiya: but. XD
Leareth: and we DID go on holiday together
Tammaiya: true *g*
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