Update on the state of the Siobhan in its natural... wait, no, by nature I'm a slacker, this so isn't my natural habitat. Oh well, WHATEVER.

Time spent at uni over past two days:
Thursday: 9.30am-1pm/4pm-12.30am;
Friday: 11am-2.30pm/3.30pm-10pm/10.30pm-1am;
TOTAL: 24.5 hours

Things achieved:
* Draft of my part of the memorandum, coming in at just under my allotted 2500 characters.
* First draft of the themepark poster for the competition (yeah, don't ask); forgotten how much I enjoy drawing, haven't done much since highschool but it's looking pretty good. Also, Devil Judge Cat is pretty lolful. Will be uploaded when I scan it to add colour & text and so forth.
* Work training completed. It was supposed to be from 2.30-5.30 yesterday but only took me an hour, partially because it was all computer stuff that I apparently picked up really quickly and also because everyone else came in for training in the morning session so I had a very personal training session.
* Submitted the last pieces of assessment for semester 2.
* Picked up one of Mayuka's letters of proof of enrolment.
* Uh... ate meals? IDK, it feels like an achievement.

Things yet to be achieved, hopefully tomorrow:
* Booking hair appointment. My roots are starting to annoy me. Although otherwise I've been looking pretty damn bitchin' this week. No photos, though, because it's really hard for me to take quality photos with the location of the mirrors in my house and I am too tired for the effort, no matter how nice my clothes look.
* Booking osteopath if there's time, maybe? Part of the reason I can't sleep is back and shoulder pain.
* Sorting out how I'm getting from Canberra->Sydney on the 29th.
* Going into new work to sign stuff and talk to practice manager in charge of rostering about fact I'm gone for all of December.
* Get cracking on research assistant work? NEED MORE HOURS IN THE DAY. Or really, days in the year before the payment period expires.
* Memorandum editing etc. I dunno, I'm waiting for everyone to put theirs together and Mamoru and Kareem to go over the structure and Japanese and stuff.
* Answer emails, send emails, etc.

Pointless Facebook updates:
Legion.

Reasons I am not asleep right now:
* Caffeine, intended to keep me going while working but overshot the mark.
* Low blood sugar, now remedied.
* Back and shoulder pain, hopefully remedied by pain pills.
* Heat... which is not as bad as it could be. I simply have to remind myself of how I basically did not sleep for 2~4 weeks in Japanese monsoon season and was almost delirious with it to recognise that fact.
* General Siobhan-like insomnia. IT SUCKS TO BE MEEEE.

Reasons I hate Canberra's weather and can't wait to go to Japan where it's winter:
* 37 and 38 degree celsius days
* Grass went from green and lush looking to straw-like in a week
* It rained just enough today to make the air HUMID
* Inevitably my car sits in the sun, and inevitably it is like getting into an oven.
* Even walking around outside after being in air-conditioning bears some oven-like resemblence.
* I spent most of today in an airless room with no windows and a single fan that kept blowing my papers everywhere. >:|

okay, am actually tired again now, time to try that sleep thing again.

You guys, I am SUPERWOMAN.

Or that's how it feels. Or how it WOULD feel, if I was not half-dead of tired. Instead it feels more like I am simply expected to be superwoman. *shifty*

Here is my... hm. Week. Yes. Hell started before then, of course, but I've already whinged about the copious amount of assignments and studying for my Equity exam, so let's just start with last Thursday.

Thursday: Spend morning on last minute preps for exam. Spend three hours in exam, bust hand.
Friday: Go over to Mari's. LAST DAY OF FREEDOM. Spend evening on Japanese history translations and research assistant work for lecturer, awake until dawn.
Saturday: More Japanese history. Mad working on Big Bang. Repeat awake until dawn.
Sunday: More Big Bang. Finish Big Bang. VICTORY!!!! But still awake until dawn.
Monday: Working on arbitration problem, type up summary of issues and relevant law. Go out for dinner with schoolfriends, as on Tuesday Victoria flew off to SE Asia to travel for 3 months. Out until 1. Awake until... dawn...
Tuesday: Working on Japanese essay. Fucking essay. Hatred in depths of soul. Go away for meeting with team members, work on arbitration problem. Come back, write essay. Brief break to watch NCIS, then more essay. Posting of Big Bang. More essay. Yet more essay. I hate writers' block. Essay finally finished at FIVE IN THE MORNING. (But still needs editing.)

Finally, today, which really took the cake.

8am: Wake up. Zombie groan. 3 hours sleep. WHY IS THIS MY LIFE.
9am-11am: At uni, working on problem.
11am-1.30pm:
- Pick up family law assignment (got 75, may be saved from a Pass after all. Why did I get by far the best mark for the assignment I put by far the least work into??)
- Drive home, sort out employment contract for research assistant thing, print off letters for Mayuka's old primary schools, purchase JR East rail pass, have lunch
- Drive to Garran, visit one primary school with letter from Mayuka's dad (long story; basically she was my student in Japan and she used to live in Canberra and now needs letters from her old schools to apply for middle school in Tokyo), go to work to drop off key, discover that I DO have a job in the new merged practice and that training is, in fact, TOMORROW, visit the second primary school
1.30pm-8pm: At uni, poring over the Japanese-language version of the facts and UNIDROIT principles of commercial transactions and writing up arguments, also in Japanese

and then I went home. and emailed people in Japan. and was tired. and am still tired. but I don't feel like I can sleep just yet, so I may watch Gossip Girl and then try. I should be doing research work, but the thought makes my brain weep. As does the thought of getting up for a meeting at 8.45 tomorrow morning, working until 1.30, going to training from 2.30-5.30, and then going back to uni.

orz

We're pulling an all-day-all-nighter on Friday. I miss free time. And sleep. I miss sleep. *wistful*

Meanwhile, have a Star Trek Big Bang fic! it's amazing, I have actually posted a fic. And hopefully will post more fics. I've been thinking about the fics from the pairing meme. When I have a life again and do not feel terminally tired, I will write them. The meme is still open, on that note.

PS: I know I've referred to it on numerous occasions, but I don't know if I've actually made a proper explanation. I am going to Japan on the 30th of November, flying back on the evening of the 3rd. The first week will be spent with my team prepping for the comp/at the comp. After that mostly I'll be staying with friends in Tokyo, but having procured myself a JR East rail pass, there'll also be a trip to Niigata (to see a former student and friend) and to Sendai, cause I just wanna see Sendai and there's a bunch of day trips I can do from there. youkofujima, wanna hang out?

Oh my god, it's over, I may never hold a pen again. Srs you guys, there are blisters and my knuckles ache. orz

but whatever, is over, don't feel like I failed, going home now to enjoy my not-really-peace-at-all-because-you-have-three-jobs-two-assignments-and-a-course-that-will-basically-consist-of-12/7-meetings-until-you-go-to-Japan--

... that got WAY TOO LONG.

w/e, you know what I mean. EITHER WAY I WILL BE ONLINE TONIGHT. and watching Glee. And also, people, do the meme! there's fic prizes. and you may get them sooner than anticipated because lately I'm in a fic-writing mood.

So today I had my revision class for Equity. I am feeling slightly less panicked; I remembered more than I thought, and I've finally started my summary. However, me and trusts need a break for each other, and that means it's MEME TIME. You know, the usual, I give you cryptic clues, you guess the pairing...

This is kind of an insanely bizarre list. I mean, some of these will be obvious to anyone who's ever seen my fic journal or spent five minutes in a fannish discussion with me, I'm sure, but because I'm setting the criteria as pairings I have put significant thought towards over the last, oh, 3 months or so, it displays some rather odd biases. For example: there are a lot of video games. I've been playing a lot of video games. XD; There aren't any solely book pairings - despite doing some actual fiction reading of late, no die-hard OTPs have emerged - but there's a fair amount of western TV and animanga pairings cropping up, plus the occasional movie. Didn't include any OT3s. And for a twist, and also because I couldn't come up with any clues that weren't either blindingly obvious or ridiculously cryptic, there are two lists to be matched up together. The numbers don't correspond, but there's the same pairings in both lists. Just one has relatively obvious clues to help figure out the hard list. *g*

( this way for a time-wasting meme! )

some of these clues are the lamest ever. DON'T BLAME ME, LAW AND BIG BANG FRIED MY BRAIN. orz

ETA: I feel guilty enough for being obtuse like this that I'll offer prize snippets for pairings you guess, for those as want them, although they're probably going to have to wait until the New Year when I get back from Japan. XD;

Things:

* I have handed in three assignments over the last two days. Jap->Eng final translation, Eng->Jap final translation, last family law assignment. That last one may have been crap, but I am resigned to satisfying myself with a pass in that course (a part of my soul cringes; it will be the first P on my transcript) anyway, so w/e.

* It is just under two weeks until my Star Trek Big Bang is due. Somehow, with finals upon me, I feel inspired to work on it again. Funny, how that works... But heads up, betas, I throw myself on your editing mercy since I still need to finish chapter three and write most of chapter 4. (Note my hurry is entirely related to FINISHING the story and not at all to wordcount, given I already exceed the minimum by over 20,000. INABILITY TO BE CONCISE, THY NAME IS SIOBHAN.)

* What remains: history take-home due Monday, Equity exam in a week, history translations and history essay by the end of the exam period sometime. Plus the arbitration memorandum by the 23rd, although that's a group effort.

* Speaking of history, I have one question left and I'm rereading the relevant text for it. It's a chapter from a Japanese middle school text. To translate,

"(...) in other words, the idea that we should try to understand nature and the world around us relying only on human logic was developed."

Me: ................. this makes us sound like Vulcans. orz

* Still playing many, many video games. It is my coping mechanism for stress. One of these days there will be game blogs, I swear.

* Did you guys know that "Beowulf" is a surname? Best surname ever, or best surname EVER?

So finals are finally upon me! I've even been compelled to make a check-list of them, because there are so many assignments with varying due dates that there's a chance of getting muddled. Plus, it makes me feel better when I can cross them off.

The current situation:

1. Japanese presentation on the Sengoku Jidai (civil war period), Thursday 29/10

2. Japanese-English final translation, by Wednesday 4/11: I thought it was done but it needs fixing in parts. At least the first draft is done.

3. English-Japanese final translation, by Thursday 5/11: I've started it. It's hard, because it's a Henry Lawson short story, and for those who don't know he's a really, REALLY Australian writer from about the late 19th, early 20th C. The story is about a swagman. It uses words like "the traveller up-ended his bluey against his knee [...]" and "fuzzy, blucher boots". orz

4. Family law assignment, by Thursday 5/11: afjskdlfsd this is such wank. Whatever, it's only worth 15% and I'm looking at a credit at best in this course anyway.

5. Japanese history final, by Monday 9/11: can't do anything about this yet, I don't get it until this coming Monday.

6. Equity final exam, afternoon Thursday 12/11: I need to do some hardcore study for this. Preferably starting this Tuesday, because I have to go over the entire course, do a summary and read all the cases I haven't read, keeping in mind my inability to buckle down without wandering off to procrastinate for hours at a time. It will depend on the status of the assignments, though, because I can multitask, but I can't effectively switch my focus from studying for a major exam and working on an assignment. I like to keep them separate where possible.

7. Japanese history essay: Should've written this ages ago. Theoretically it was due ages ago, but our sensei is really kind about deadlines. However, now I have this Japanese essay I haven't written to do by the end of the finals period... I guess I'll write it after Equity is over.

8. Japanese history translations x2: This was also due during the semester and is now due by the end of finals. In my defence, I and two others from our 6 person class thought it was choose 1 of 3, not do all three. orz

Then, when that's all over, we have to get our memorandum for the Japanese arbitration competition done by the 23rd of November. To put it in context, it's a legal submission detailing our entire case (in japanese). And the arbitration itself lasts 4 hours, if that gives you an idea of how much there is to said case. So I foresee a lot of long days and probably nights in my near future as we slave over first the legal research and then second the 20+ page memorandum outlining our arguments. orz NO REST FOR THE WICKED.

Totally changing the subject, my hair is still purple, and Australian weather is evil as usual. One day the maximum is 12, the next day it's up near 30. Today was one of the up near 30 days. It was very hot. ugh.

I kind of want to make game blogs for the many copious amounts of games I've been playing, but writing that much tires me when I'm stressed. I also need to finish big bang by the 17th. GANBARE, SELF, YOU CAN DO IT.

To end this entry on a more amusing note, I showed Mari KH 358/2 Days the other day. Now, I had the vague feeling when I started the game that Roxas's voice was lower than I remembered, but there's not a lot of voice acting and it's been about 3 years since I played KH2 or something so I decided I was imagining it or it was DS speakers or something and went along with it. Mari on the other hand is an expert in all things seiyuu, and she was like, no, it's definitely different, the original Roxas sounded like a girl!

We checked the PS2. Indeed, Roxas's voice was higher. What was going on? Had Square changed the VA for some reason? They'd even redubbed the scenes that were in KH2 as flashbacks.

So then we checked the wiki. It was the same guy... just now he was 18 or 19, instead of 15.

HAHAHAHAHAHA HIS VOICE BROKE. apparently Square did not see that coming? XDDDDD

Spent several hours at work this afternoon. Slow day, got a fair amount of sengoku-jidai reading done, came home and was totally done with it so I played KH 358/2 instead.

In fact, I finished it.

It was SOUL-CRUSHING. Even knowing it was coming, it broke my heart. Irony unintended.

I need fic, stat. D:

Roxas and Axel just keep on getting gayer.

I am completely terrified by the amount of uni work I have to do over the next three weeks, which is largely brought upon myself by procrastinating throughout the semester.

I have to give this oral in my Japanese history class next week. In Japanese, obviously. Just as obviously, I am giving it on the civil war period because I'm that predictable. But the thing is, I keep getting distracted by people who were in mirage of blaze. "OH HEY. IT'S KENSHIN. HE HAS A FUNNY HEADSCARF THAT MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE A TEMPLAR, LOL."

Also, I already knew this from said mirage of blaze, but Japanese history is fucking MADE OF CRAZY, OKAY. I am still only reading about the decline of the Muromachi bakufu and there's already a confusing amount of succession battles and people stabbing each other in the back and assassinating other people and power struggles and what have you, most of them within the shogun Ashikaga family. The bit that really leaves me scratching my head is the last major revolt before it all decended into the sengoku jidai free-for-all. Basically, the 8th Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimasa didn't really want to run a country; his wife and advisors (peacekeepers? they're kind of like the police force) had all the power. He didn't have any kids, so he decided to abdicate and persuaded his younger brother Yoshimi to take over. Except then his wife Tomiko gave birth to a son, Yoshihisa. Of course this ended in a war between Tomiko and Yamana(one of the powerful peacekeepers) on one side- the western army - and Yoshimi and Hosokawa (another powerful peacekeeper) on the other side - the eastern army.

Which, okay, so far so par for the course.

However, a year after the fighting starts... the armies swap sides. The east army allies itself to Tomiko, the west army allies itself to Yoshimi.

And I'm left going... what the FUCK? How does that make sense?! You can't just swap sides! it doesn't work like that! what!

orz

meanwhile the neighbours are having a loud party and I want to punch someone in the head. NOT WHILE I'M STUDYING AUGH.

ETA: Oh yeah, on Wednesday I cleaned my room. For five hours. It was epic. It was MIRACULOUS. All the contents of my wardrobe are now, in fact, inside my wardrobe. Neatly. Folded in piles according to type of clothing, or hanging on hangers divided by season and then colour. But more impressive than this, far more impressive, is that I managed to achieve the restructuring of my shelves that has been a dire necessity ever since I got back from Japan. I had about 50 books sitting on the desk in piles for months because there was NOWHERE TO PUT THEM but now through the magic of moving things around, all my books have homes. All my souvenirs from Japan are either on display or safely in a box. I CAN USE THE DESK TO STUDY.

It is like a miracle.

And I'm totally going to take a photo just so I can show you all! But not until I clean the dressing table and stuff, so that means at least another week. My room totally looks like it belongs to me now, though. Looking at it would give anyone the impression that I like things about Japan, from Japan, and in Japanese... plus fantasy novels, soft toys, and the colours blue and purple. ^^; Looking closer/an ability to read Japanese would also reveal a lot of manga, video game guides/magazines/etc, and things like Mirage of Blaze and doujinshi. And mirage of blaze doujinshi. Which speak for themselves. In short, my room is ME. The only thing missing is the Discworld obsession, and that's only because I have an entire shelf devoted to my Terry Pratchett books next to the computer desk in the rumpus room. XD;

To everyone who commented on the last post, thank you. ♥ I have a bad habit of forgetting to reply to comments, so I just thought I'd say that here just in case.

Dad's doing a bit better - they actually let him out of hospital on friday. Well, technically he hasn't been discharged; he's in this hospital at home program where a nurse comes by every day to poke him with needles. He won't be back at work for a bit and his tests are still too low, so he's taking very high doses right now. But he's looking a lot better.

Unfortunately the rest of the household has kind of fallen to pieces. Mum has put her back out really badly - it's gradually getting better and she can walk around a bit more now but she still can't sit. I, meanwhile, feel like my uterus is being invaded by tiny, evil-minded little gnomes with pick-axes and steel-capped boots. On the one hand I'm probably happier to be having a period than anybody with no serious worries of pregnancy or whatever, because it's been 9 months and that's not healthy (eventually the only way I induced this one was to go back on the pill), but on the other hand, it has been 9 months, which means it's 9 months worth of AGONY. I've taken painkillers and I still can't stand it. asfjkldsjfklsd

Things I have been doing instead of writing my Japanese history essay include:

* Watching Strawberry Panic
* Reading Across The Nightingale Floor (first book in Tales of Otori)
* Playing Tales of Vesperia and Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* Reading the second book of The Ring Finger Knows
* Watching The United States of Tara, Ashes to Ashes, NCIS, Gossip Girl & Glee on a weekly basis

I have thoughts on most of these things, but I am currently in far too much pain to share them articulately, so, uh... hold that thought.

I have to say, flist: today has sucked. Actually, yesterday sucked too. Tomorrow is also scheduled to suck. I don't really want to talk about it that much, but here's a brief summary:

* Got 57 on my 40% Family Law assignment. Ouch. Lowest mark to count all degree.
* Had another family law assignment due this afternoon. Got it done, just. There was this whole thing with the due date... but ugh, nvm, done now.
* My dad was admitted to hospital yesterday. He's got blood clots in his lungs. I think they should be able to treat it and everything, but he'll have to go on warfarin for at least the next 6 months which means weekly blood tests. He'll probably have to stop drinking, too. Anyway, at this stage he'll probably be in hospital until Tuesday.
* The translation was due today. I'm not sure if I'm happy with it and between work and the assignment I was pushing for time, but it's submitted. Hopefully it all went through properly and I didn't miss anything.
* Despite being my class-free day, tomorrow is looking to be so insanely busy that it just makes me tired thinking about it. It's like, Tai-chi, Endocrinologist, meeting with lecturer about research assistant work, meeting with team members about division of labour for the arbitration competition, and somewhere in there I've got to fit a blood test, dropping off a contract at work and visiting dad in hospital. I want a break from life. Sigh.

Which is why now seems like a good time for a current OTPs meme! Sorted by level of obscurity/popularity. I have other pairings I would call OTPs due to my overall history with them, but they're not included on the list due to current lack of obsession. Or just not springing to mind, whatever.

( My OTPs, let me show you them. )

OKAY, YES, I WAS BORED, SUE ME. The sad thing is I know that some point after hitting send, I'll be like, OH, I FORGOT (FANDOM), DAMMIT.

Show me your OTPs, flist! if you're bored enough or more concise than I am, anyway.

Y hallo thar, LJ. Once more, despite best intentions, it has been a while since I last updated.

... Wow, way to make this sound like Confession. ANYWAY.

Since then, I have been to the hairdresser, watched Ponyo, gone to Sydney to see Wicked and The Mikado, went through a debacle with my car battery dying, and come back.

First, the hair! Usually I don't bother with fashion picspams. Mostly because I am usually a very boring person, fashion-wise, and when I'm not, I'm still a lazy one. (Also not terribly photogenic.) However, the fact that my hair is now purple automatically makes anything I wear more interesting, so there's a handful of photos beneath the cut. (It's very hard to convey the actual bright fuschia-ish-ness of the colour, it tends to come out more deep red in photos, but whatever.)

( Yes, that's right, I actually dyed my hair purple. )

Anyhow, moving on from that:

* Ponyo was perhaps not the greatest Ghibli masterpiece ever, but it was cute and endearing and a really sweet take on the Little Mermaid.

* Nosebleed seats for Wicked, so it probably would have been better if I could see more, but the production was really well done. ( small ending spoiler ) Also, I always shipped Elphaba/Glinda, but I would consider adding Fiyero into the mix after the musical. I don't remember being that interesting in him in the book, but he and Elphaba were kind of cute in the stage version and I could be persuaded by Fiyero/Glinda.

* The Mikado was FANTASTIC. Anthony Warlow was so, so funny as Ko-Ko. Of course it's the best role in the show, but he played it beautifully, and The List (a song about people who deserve to be executed, which always gets updated to fit with modern times) was absolutely hilarious and included Kevin 07, Steven Fielding, Godwin Grech, the surtitlist and yuppies in the inner west who drive 4WDs, amongst other things. (It was very Australian, you have to know about Aussie politics to get the first three.) We were three rows back on the side, which were the cheap seats and you couldn't see the surtitles without craning your neck but they were actually really good seats for something like Gilbert & Sullivan, where you could see all the exaggerated comic expressions and all the slapstick movements. It was overall a really impressive production, and I found it especially interesting how the costumes and stage were all a fusion of Japan and 19thC Britain to highlight just how un-Japanese the operetta really is. (Some of the costumes were HIDEOUS with their bows and lace and pink, but funny. XD And I really liked the fans which had "The Times" newspaper printed on them that the "gentlemen of Japan" had.)

* I was originally intending to spend the weekend at _leareth's place. This plan was rather derailed when I discovered my car battery was flat. In fact, I had to delay my trip home by one day, because it turned out when I bought the car my parents and I had somehow forgotten to do anything about roadside assistance and NRMA made me wait 48 hours from joining before my membership activated. In the meantime, everyone kept asking me if I'd left the headlights on and nobody believed that they turn off automatically even if I do forget. Which they do, by the way. It turned out I'd left the interior light on when I was getting my stuff out of the car. So in the end I didn't get to stay over at Leareth's-- it was too late by the time I realised my car was dead on Friday, on Saturday night it was too hard to arrange a way to move my stuff when we were going to the Opera House (and also, by the end of the night I could barely walk from sore feet), and I had to be with my car to call the NRMA on Monday morning so Sunday was out too. In the end we just went shopping Saturday afternoon, went to the opera together with my brother in the evening as planned, and I caught public transport to chill out at her place on Sunday evening. Sunday public transport sucks, on that note. :|

* On a related whingy note, I was feeling kind of like my drive home was cursed in a really mundane way, because on top of the delay from the battery - which also meant I had to leave in a hurry without being quite ready because neither my brother or I thought it through when I rang the NRMA, nor did we expect them to arrive quite so quickly, and then the guy jump-started the car and was like, right, you can't turn it off for an hour, and I was like, ... crap, that means I have to leave for Canberra like, NOW and get petrol on the highway. :< But anyway, that aside, between the sore calves (walking in flat sandals because I couldn't wear my boots after the blisters), cramped hands (fsjklfjsdlfsd KH 358/2 Days, it's a good game but it's like an express to RSI central and my hands STILL hurt), my sunglasses breaking on the weekend and the weird weather (it was raining so hard at one point I could barely see the car in front), I was SERIOUSLY beginning to wonder if someone was trying to tell me something.

... hm. this is getting long. There's other stuff I could talk about but the post is already rather tl;dr and also has taken me far too much time to write, so I think I'll leave it at that. Anyway!

Is it terrible (... hee, typo as tribble) that I would consider getting the PS3 version of ToV just so I could dress Flynn, Yuuri and Estelle as Luke, Asch and Tear? :|

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Well, okay, the fact that this presumably means Flynn is a playable character might also factor in. And maybe that new pirate chick. Not that I HAVE a PS3. All I'm say is, the thought is there...

Meanwhile, the negotiation could have gone worse. My Japanese was shaky because I was really nervous and also my vocabulary concerning art and the moral rights of the artist is rather non-existent, but Kent said I got better towards the end and I'll have more time to prepare properly and drill vocab into my head for the real thing. Plus our Japanese team was apparently much better than their English team so we did not bring shame upon the ANU, etc etc, and Kent will not have our heads.

On the other hand, my CANNOT COPE, OFF TO DO ANYTHING BUT WORK levels of inertia, procrastination and all-around avoidance are rather unfortunate. I still haven't started the weekly translation, japanese essay or historical translation. made of faiiiiil. orz

In other whingy news that probably explains the whingy, my back hurts to the extent that I couldn't sleep last night, which-- combined with timing-- makes me suspect a hormone cycle of the should be having a period variety. Alas; this marks the seventh month in a row since I've had one. The last was before I left Japan. I suppose that means it'll be at least another month before I do have one. (And before anyone worries, I know why and it's nothing serious, just annoying. I need to lose weight or go back on the pill, preferably both.)

But back to more interesting things - I finished Gossip Girl season 1.

( Spoiler alert! Just in case anybody intending on watching this is more behind the times than I am. )

okay done now I swear.

PS: it is raining really hard! yay rain! it's been raining a fair bit recently, the dams are almost at 50%. \o/

Another one of those posts where I kick myself for not posting more regularly. XD; Since the last post, there's been some developments, mostly in the sense that I've played a ridiculous load of video games. And done some uni work. But you know.

( Uni stuff )

( Video games, in brief and not overly spoilery terms (Dissidia, FFXII, Chocobo to Mahou no Ehon 2, FFXII:RW, Gyakuten Kenji, Avalon Code, Tales of Vesperia) )

( Work )

( Fic, translation, TV )

Anyway, my mum's last day of work is Tuesday week. I won't really notice the effects of it straight away because I'm going up to Sydney that week and she's going to Brisbane the week after, but I do wonder how this is going to turn out... I'm not sure how well I will fare without my no-people time, it was hard enough moving back into my parent's house when I came home from Japan...

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH FUCK YOU, DISSIDIA, FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!!!!!!! $#*&()$@*($@#*($)(@#!!!!!!!!!! IF KEFKA DOES NOT STOP FUCKING KILLING ME, I SWEAR TO *GOD*--

... you know it occurs to me that there may be a problem here when the video game I am playing to escape from the stress of all the uni/writing/translation deadlines I am freaking out about is making me scream this much. :|

And I thought I was almost at the end when it was all, AND NOW FOR SOMETHING NOT SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! at me. I think I'm going to have to level whore. I hate level-whoring. orz

( Twitterings. )

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Really I've got a lot of things to be grateful for and mostly this boils down to petty whining. In fact a lot of this smacks of privilege and I'm complaining about things that I chose myself to do. However, I need to get this out of my system, so taking that as read-- a list of things that are annoying me, starting with the most petty and fleeting and working roughly up to the somewhat more substantial.

( FML: the director's cut. )

Okay, now I've got all that whining out of the way I feel a lot better. I swear the next post (whenever that may be) will be more interesting and positive.

( Twitterings. )

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