What time is it again?
*squints at the clock* One and a half hours left in my wait for Aniki-sama to come online. My body's already attempting to shut down, but considering my bed is currently covered in junk since I was cleaning out my room today, I have insentive enough to simply sit here and wittle away the hours till I can fitfully collapse in the daylight hours. Besides, I wanna take a shower before I get into my nice CLEAN bed with CLEAN sheets and CLEAN pillowcase with CLEAN pajamas... Hmm... I see a pattern here. *smirk*
Call me obsessive, but I can't stand going to bed the day after I sleep in my bed when I'm not absurdly clean. Even if I've only slept on the sheets once, if I'm remotely dirty when I go to bed one night, I'll refuse to sleep on the same covers the next night. This reached an all time high (low) at Colgate when I was so lazy I didn't wash my bedsheets for two months. Disgusting, I know, but the top comforter was never removed after the first month. After that I just put down a towel ontop of the bed and used one of my three throws to cover myself.
I think it has something to do with the fact that I grew up with a microbiologist for a mother and a botanist/biologist for a father. Mum taught me all about microbes, viruses, and bacteria while Dad taught me about the various uses of plants and the dangerous/harmless creatures that roamed the desert. Even now it's hard for me to watch movies or tv episodes about a deadly epidemic or being completely devoured by insects or arachnids. Although I was able to watch an episode of The Dead Zone that dealt with a horrid virus without too much of a problem, and ever since I became friends with those three daddy long legs a few years ago my fear of spiders is slowly being overcome. Slowly but surely. Still... I don't think that picture of a cochroach getting stuck in that one girl's ear from Breakdown Palace will ever completely leave me. Just try leaving your ears uncovered the night after you watch that... *shivers*
I finally gave up on getting Laura-chan to read my fanfic. I've been bugging her for the past three months, but she's almost as stubborn as I am. That's one of the things I love about my Wifey-dono! :) She sent me an amusing Harry Potter one-shot today. It was Ron/Hermione, but I've come to forgive that slash after the appearance of dearest Luna. My husband doesn't deserve anything less!
Strange as it is, Luna strongly reminds me of my Hogwarts RPG character, Ana Daily. They're both even in the same House. ^.^ Ravenclaw all the way! If she's a Prefect her fifth year it'll be official. Ana was the second Prefect of Ravenclaw House at Kwan's Hogwarts. The first was the silly Fissy who deserted us around the beginning of Febuary 2000. In May Kwan finally approved Ana as the next Prefect, and her "reign" lasted until Hogwarts finally dissolved a year and a half later. The RPG is sadly long past... but the friendships we forged are stronger than they ever were in those turmulous days when we still went to classes as the "notorious" Lokomai, Malfoy, Sam and Lila Stone, and Ana.
Raya turned her Ravenclaw badge in for a ghost pass, wandering around and helping out when and where she could. Dear Ellie took over the Sorting Hat when Isi dissappeared before our eyes. And Kwan... I never actually got to know her as Justin or Cindy did - I think I only talked with the woman once through email - but she started the school that brought me to the accepting embrace of family, and for that I am forever grateful. In a way, Kwan has already achieved the one thing I have so often desired... to be remembered. Regardless of her shortcomings or her failures, all of us remember the place as Kwan's Hogwarts. Not as a Harry Potter RPG, but Kwan's Hogwarts. None of us will ever forget her and the impact she placed on our lives, even if we did not know her as more than as one distant accquantance to another.
I know I'm selfish in that way. I want to be remembered for something. My biggest fear has always been to be forgotten. As if I never existed or made a mark on anyone. To look back down from the afterlife and find that everything was just as it was before my arrival; that after I had left the room my brief occupancy was quickly filed away and ignored. Of course, this simply goes along with the fact that I'm likely the shyest person amongst my various friends. You'd never know it, for my happy fa
Call me obsessive, but I can't stand going to bed the day after I sleep in my bed when I'm not absurdly clean. Even if I've only slept on the sheets once, if I'm remotely dirty when I go to bed one night, I'll refuse to sleep on the same covers the next night. This reached an all time high (low) at Colgate when I was so lazy I didn't wash my bedsheets for two months. Disgusting, I know, but the top comforter was never removed after the first month. After that I just put down a towel ontop of the bed and used one of my three throws to cover myself.
I think it has something to do with the fact that I grew up with a microbiologist for a mother and a botanist/biologist for a father. Mum taught me all about microbes, viruses, and bacteria while Dad taught me about the various uses of plants and the dangerous/harmless creatures that roamed the desert. Even now it's hard for me to watch movies or tv episodes about a deadly epidemic or being completely devoured by insects or arachnids. Although I was able to watch an episode of The Dead Zone that dealt with a horrid virus without too much of a problem, and ever since I became friends with those three daddy long legs a few years ago my fear of spiders is slowly being overcome. Slowly but surely. Still... I don't think that picture of a cochroach getting stuck in that one girl's ear from Breakdown Palace will ever completely leave me. Just try leaving your ears uncovered the night after you watch that... *shivers*
I finally gave up on getting Laura-chan to read my fanfic. I've been bugging her for the past three months, but she's almost as stubborn as I am. That's one of the things I love about my Wifey-dono! :) She sent me an amusing Harry Potter one-shot today. It was Ron/Hermione, but I've come to forgive that slash after the appearance of dearest Luna. My husband doesn't deserve anything less!
Strange as it is, Luna strongly reminds me of my Hogwarts RPG character, Ana Daily. They're both even in the same House. ^.^ Ravenclaw all the way! If she's a Prefect her fifth year it'll be official. Ana was the second Prefect of Ravenclaw House at Kwan's Hogwarts. The first was the silly Fissy who deserted us around the beginning of Febuary 2000. In May Kwan finally approved Ana as the next Prefect, and her "reign" lasted until Hogwarts finally dissolved a year and a half later. The RPG is sadly long past... but the friendships we forged are stronger than they ever were in those turmulous days when we still went to classes as the "notorious" Lokomai, Malfoy, Sam and Lila Stone, and Ana.
Raya turned her Ravenclaw badge in for a ghost pass, wandering around and helping out when and where she could. Dear Ellie took over the Sorting Hat when Isi dissappeared before our eyes. And Kwan... I never actually got to know her as Justin or Cindy did - I think I only talked with the woman once through email - but she started the school that brought me to the accepting embrace of family, and for that I am forever grateful. In a way, Kwan has already achieved the one thing I have so often desired... to be remembered. Regardless of her shortcomings or her failures, all of us remember the place as Kwan's Hogwarts. Not as a Harry Potter RPG, but Kwan's Hogwarts. None of us will ever forget her and the impact she placed on our lives, even if we did not know her as more than as one distant accquantance to another.
I know I'm selfish in that way. I want to be remembered for something. My biggest fear has always been to be forgotten. As if I never existed or made a mark on anyone. To look back down from the afterlife and find that everything was just as it was before my arrival; that after I had left the room my brief occupancy was quickly filed away and ignored. Of course, this simply goes along with the fact that I'm likely the shyest person amongst my various friends. You'd never know it, for my happy fa