Today I went to the ACC to work out and do a little studying. My home environment is not very conducive to focusing on my Japanese textbook, and so I ran through a couple of lessons while eating fish and chips. Damn, I'd forgotten how cracky my textbook was back at Exeter. Japanese for Everyone features Michael and Barbara Webb, two newcomers to ( Read more... )

My mom made a very good point today that I found interesting. My family, even at our financially best, has never been particularly attracted to 'luxury' items per se. The bulk of our 'fun' expenses were spent on travel, theme parks, and resorts. ( On traveling, and staying at home. )

Arrived back from Singapore this evening. Doing loads of laundry and trying desperately to stay awake long enough to make sure all my interview-appropriate clothes get washed. I find it irritating that I have to pack, unpack, and pack again all in the space of 24 hours. Pity my face is breaking out. Bad enough I'm overweight, acne on top of that ( Read more... )

*weeps* Well, the contest I wrote fic for is underway. And the formatting has been completely stripped from my entry, and so a lot of what needs emphasis is GONE and looks stupid. Not to mention there's nothing differentiating the summary/notes from the fic main body. I think I'm going to go hit myself in the head for a while, and then while I'm ( Read more... )

Over on FFrants, someone posted a while back a review that took a threesome fic a little too personally. Now we have more holier-than-thou fun. I'm very amused, needless to say. Pity the threesome fic isn't that good --Hiei/Kurama/Yuusuke does have so many possibilities. *drools ( Read more... )

I need to find me a beta or two. -__- I need an extra set of eyes and a separate mind to see how my writing fits and doesn't fit ( Read more... )

I'm back from Singapore! W00t!

I've been feeling lazy, and so didn't really want to type up a report half as detailed as my first one. That said, I'd like to remember a few things...( In which I go on my first utterly unremarkable date, regret college, and give new meaning to 'Teh_stupid, it burns.' )