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Happy birthday takewing & (a little early) parsnip_chan!!!
If you give me a character/pairing & prompt, I'll do my best to write you a birthday drabble. ♥ I hope your birthdays are awesome!

Talking about animelist the other night with Bri and Meg got me thinking about trying to catalogue my books again, too. I used to use a site to do that, but the interface was

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Mentally impaired and developmentally disabled/delayed.

I'd say the things I'm juggling my time on are a mix of internet and rl things, but like I said before, nothing really important. More like, "oh, should I read a book, or answer my email, or play a video game tonight?" Tough choices like that, haha. In a way it feels dumb, but the fact remains that I have various recreational things I want to do and I can't do them all at the same time. Yeah, that's the thing that confuses me about when I was in college. I was still fairly internet-addicted then, and had homework and projects and papers and stuff, and two jobs, and the clubs and organizations I was in, and just random hanging out with friends...it felt busy, but in looking back at it, I feel like I still somehow managed to have more free time to do random shit, as opposed to now. It's probably more a question of the quality of time, rather than the quantity, though. I slept even less then, too, haha.

I never wrote like, epics, but I definitely used to write more long fics and stories, with a plot and rising action and climax and all that, while lately I tend to stick more with drabbles and ficlets that are more like...a snapshot of specific bit of time, I suppose. The fic I'm working on now (the Genshiken one) is taking it's time developing, and I'm gonna let it. It still probably won't end up super-long, but definitely longer than what I've been writing lately.

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Oh. Thanks for explaining, Jessie!

No, no - that's exactly the thing I face! Like "watch OP, reading manga, RP, chat, write?" Because I can't do all of them at the same time. I've tried and it's just not possible [plus my hands hurt afterwards from tensing up while I'm typing]. I think in that setting too, there was a system set up - things that were due, classes to go to, etc. Whereas after school, we form our own hours and all that. As for sleep...our bodies can take more damage when we're younger. ...I sound like an old person, but you probably get what I mean.

Yeah, see, that's the kind of stuff I really MISS writing. I remember a few years ago, I was writing my fic for santa_smex and while I shouldn't have done it all in one day, I was surprised and elated to see at how it was developing. These days, I'm still waiting for my writing to END, rather than expand, because it's like...it feels unfinished otherwise. And that bugs me and makes me feel like I'm doing nothing...which shouldn't be a big deal, since I am currently spending my time doing much of nothing, hahaaha.

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I guess I could have just said "retarded" but that's generally frowned upon. >.>

Ahh, okay! Haha, Briii, our lives are so haaard! That's a good point about the structure and stuff too. I think that sort of thing makes it easier to work out a workable routine, or something. And yeah, I get what you mean. I used to sleep like 3-4 hours a night every night and I just can't do that anymore without wanting to die after a few days. Now I usually get 4-6. \o/

It's nice, and a change of pace. I actually read over some o-o-older fanfics of mine (from like ten years ago, seriously), and was surprised by how much I liked them. And was like, "wow, I wrote this?" They were less of the vignette sort of thing and very much stories.