Hah, got home and found an email informing me I had been removed as a moderator for fissionmailed. o_0 Oh well, I hadn't been able to post much lately, so I can see where people might have thought I was leaving the comm.

Dad came on "surprise visit" to town. I'm apathetic but not antagonistic. It's usually around July/August that his guilt complex kicks in and he makes the yearly visit to make play at parenting. My brother's finally put his foot down and staunchly refuses to speak to him anymore, so that leaves my sister and I to entertain my father until he leaves Monday. Too bad this is my weekend to work? :-/ It normally wouldn't be an issue, but we've opened up four new units in the hospital, and we're completely understaffed to handle the work load, so everyone's just overwhelmed. I have literally spent the past two weeks working, going to the gym, and sleeping, and outside of seeing gilhamilton and Megan on Sunday, that's it. I am seriously beat.

Other than that, have been completely unmotivated to do much of anything. I really need to get back into school. While the academic challenge was murderous when it vied with work, it still got me up and moving and thinking about things. :( I miss it.

..........that is all I have to say in this update. MY LIFE IS EL BORING LATELY.

GUYS GUYS

THE SUZE (sarshin) HAS TAKEN A TURN FOR THE SICKY WORSE. :(

SEND HER GOOD VIBES SO SHE GETS BETTER AND DOESN'T SPEND THE REST OF HER VACATION UTTERLY MISERABLE.

Today, I got an awesome box full of tea from athenemiranda. :D I am probably excessively excited about receiving dry herbal leaves wrapped in plastic, BUT I DON'T CARE, I LOVE TEA, GODDAMNIT. I'll be returning the favor as soon as I STOP OVERSLEEPING and get to a post office. <3 Hopefully tomorrow.

BUT WAIT FLIST, THERE WAS A TWIST


SCENE: KITCHEN
ME: ME
BOX: FULL OF TEA...AND...!

ME: Ho yeah, look at all this tea - oh shit, these are some really weird looking tea bags.
ME: ...These are not tea bags.
ME: THESE ARE COOKIES.
COOKIES: [look vaguely familiar]
ME: ...!
ME: OMG IT'S TIDUS AND YUNA.
ME: [IS SO TICKLED]

I ate Yuna first, forcing Tidus to look on helplessly as I destroyed his love. I don't know what this says about me, but SHE WAS DELICIOUS.

<3 Thank you so much, Thene.

Trying to ignore the gloom and doom of HOLY SHIT HUMAN RACE that seems plastered all over the news today, a meme:

Name your 10 absolutely favorite couples (het/slash/bi/canon/fanon) and ask people to see what trends they notice about your couples. Try to pick different fandoms:

1. Michael/Selene [Underworld]
2. Link/Tetra [Legend of Zelda: Windwaker]
3. Link/Midna [Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]
4. Midna/Zelda [Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]
4. Tidus/Yuna [Final Fantasy X]
5. Tidus/Auron/Jecht [Final Fantasy X] <--they don't have to have sex, just sit around and have weird, Freudian psychological overlays and existential crises with each other - Braska can feel free to join in, too
6. Snake/Raiden [Metal Gear Solid]
7. Eva/(Boss)/Big Boss/Ocelot [Metal Gear Solid]
8. Mal/Inara [Firefly]
9. Simon/River [Firefly] <---not so much for the creepy getting off factor, so much as the psychological ones
10. ChiChi/Goku [Dragonball Z]

Wow, that list was harder than I thought to write. I didn't realize how little I officially shipped until I wrote that. XD I'll read just about anything.

So I finally finished Final Fantasy X.


...


*SNIFFLE*



EDIT: DESPITE PEOPLE NOT READING THE TITLE OF THE POST, I NOW HAVE TO WARN THAT THERE ARE NOW SPOILERS IN THE COMMENTS. SORRY, FLIST.

The new Star Trek film is fun, exciting, upbeat, colorful, and most importantly, completely accessible to newer and more casual fans in ways the original series never was. I can't wait to see the inevitable fandom meltdown when the new fans meet the old guard. :D

Also saw trailers for upcoming Transformers and Terminator movies. Felt strong desire to see. What has Hollywood done to me?

List 10 9 fandoms. With each fandom, those on your friends list will try to guess what your favorite pairing from that fandom is. Then, if they want, they can post it on their journals and allow you to guess too.

Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda [Tetra/Link - taure]
Firefly/Serenity [Mal/Inara - a_spoonerism]
Fushigi Yuugi
Final Fantasy X
Super Smash Brothers [Snake/Link - taure]
X-Files
Harry Potter
Underworld [Selene/Michael - last_archangel]

Poll #1395970 feefees
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

I should feel guilty for using Anima on Seymour.

One more quiz, and I'm done with Probability and Statistics! Yay! Took the final today, and while goingg laksdjkl;jflkajfkl;das! when I realized it was full-semester cumulative and none of the problems the teacher put on the practice final were actually on said final, I think I did pretty decently. The only part of the test I actively blanked on was regarding critical values (which are insanely easy to figure out, of course), but I'm hoping those aren't major points I lost. The only thing I seriously kicked myself on was missing the extra credit worksheet on Friday - I was so exhausted from dealing with thes server turnover at work that I completely forgot about it. It's probably going to be the thing I kick myself over, since I was in a precarious position to get an A, so I might just have to suck it up and accept I got a B in this class. It's more a blow to my perfectionist ego than anything else, if not a hardwon lesson about how much online classes are so not worth the money. But it's my fault. I just had no motivation and procrastinated like crazy. I'm just not mentally disciplined enough to teach myself at home and keep up with due dates when I'm not physically attending a class - plus taking the course in the middle of a work transition was a really bad idea. OH WELL. My GPA's still competitive, even if it means having to kick ass in the rest of my classes.

Speaking of, I'm currently debating whether or not to take a trignometry course during the summer semester. I might just push it back to Fall, where I could take it with organice chemistry, but that forces me to push Calculus into the spring semester. I'm hesitating to sign up for the class because I'm trying to schedule a vacation in the middle of June with sarshin, and while pushing it back a week puts it after her finals, it would put me in the middle of midterm territory. While normally I can bounce back after missing a week of class, Trig is a class I actually struggled with in high school, so I'd hesitate to miss that much class time, especially in a summer course. Organic chem isn't even an option - it's a lab credit, and there's just no way I could afford to miss an entire week of those. fffff we'll have to see. I might just wait until Fall for personal reasons as is.

In other news, my family now has a dog. I am not at all a dog person, but apparently the rest of my family has been hiding from me that they are, so we're compromising. The cats are not happy about this development, but Toby taking it hader than Fluff. Fluff just struts his stuff around and makes it clear he ain't putting up with no dog's bullshit, to the point where he has actually convinced Murphy, a dog twice his size, that he is not to be messed with. Toby, take some lessons from your brother - if you don't run, he won't chase you.

Other than that, I'm finally getting back on the wagon after puttering around for a few weeks of missing the gym and feeling generally stressed. I started reading again - and started up with The Hours again, just to get myself back in the rhythm. Hopefully the mental sludge will begin to erode when the brain is stimulated.

Oh, and FFX update - I'm finally at Sin! Who is turning out to be That Boss. :(

Disney/animation movie meme stolen from taure. I mostly did this because I was curious to see just how much Disney had impacted my youth, versus now, where I watch very little to no television. :)

( ZEE LIST )

THIS IS THE BIGGEST NOSTALGIA TRIP I'VE HAD IN AWHILE. 8D

I leave fissionmailed for twenty-four hours, and what the hell. Seriously, guys, I thought I was in the wrong comm. XD But it was all worth it, if only because of the amazingness of some of the threads. I AM SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT YOU, LEGEND OF ZELDA POST.

So, Final Fantasy X. I'm at the battle with Yunalesca, which I imagine means I'm almost at the end of the game. Tidus has been given the Jacob's Ladder treatment, and I highly suspect Auron's going to leave my party soon WHICH MEANS I NEED TO STOP RELYING ON HIS RIDICULOUSLY HIGH HP TO SAVE MY ASS EVERY TIME. Right now I'm going through the panicky upgrade process for Lulu and Yuna, since they're my most underused characters and really need some HP upgrades. D: fffff why do I think this game is going to make me all >:O! by the end?

Outside of gaming, I'm vaguely considering getting a side job for a couple months just to build up revenue before I move out. No idea if I'm really going to go through with this, though, since night shifts wipe me out enough already. Oh well, we'll see. :)

Edit: Oh hey flist, look, the trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is out. Whaddya think? Being one of the five people in fandom who apparently isn't bitter about the OotP movie (and in fact, liked it better than the book), I think it looks pretty decent.

So, uh, I finally got out all those Christmas gifts out for the fab crew. :x Sorry for the delay guys. Uh...happy spring solstice? 8D (AMY AND PAUL, IF THOSE GIFTS DON'T GET THERE IN TWO WEEKS SO I CAN PUNCH THE AMERICAN POSTAL SERVICE IN THE FACE. >:O SIXTY DOLLARS, MOTHERFUCKERS.)

And I am almost done with FFX! I'm climbing up the mountain to the Zanarkand Ruins as we speak, collecting gil so I can pay the bastard fayth for the last aeon. (SERIOUSLY, WTF, YOU'RE DEAD. WHAT ARE YOU POSSIBLY SPENDING THAT ON?) After that, I am apparently preparing myself for anger and grief, according to my flist.

In redundant news, Tidus is still a wanka. 8D

Nintendo Announces New Zelda Game for the DS

fffffffff I don't know how I feel about the look of this, flist. On one hand, yay for more WW style on the DS! On the other hand, trains.

NO SERIOUSLY

TRAINS

( school whining )

Of the fandomly related, I purchased and completed Watchmen over the course of last week. It was in some ways less than what I expected, in other ways more than what I expected, but its triumph as a piece of literature is in the fact that it is not what you expected. Had I not been thwarted by spoilers earlier on, some of the ending might have had more impact, but it still begged contemplation of its elements regardless. I don't know if the whole of me has fully digested it yet - that may require a secondary reading. But as thus, I am now ready to go see the movie and either feel remarkably underwhelmed or satisfied. We shall see. :)

As for lighter fare, I've been obsessively playing Final Fantasy X, mostly because I'm stubbornly inclined to finish a game I accidentally spoiled myself for within an immoderate time frame. I'm currently at the wedding sequence, and Yuna has just made her flashy exit, with Tidus trundling along with his usual bumbling. Emotionally, I've done a full one-eighty and embraced him as a protagonist. He's my favorite character in the game, now. What does this say about my flist? His douche-ness has long since been surpassed by the likes of Seymour and Jecht, so I can't hate him anymore. How could I? Pity becomes anybody forced to wear that outfit. I'll probably replay the game in a couple of weeks and do some more detailed posts about it. As of right now, there are parts of it that drive me up a wall, but underneath a lot of the stupid, there's a surprising depth and occasional hint of intelligence (just not from Tidus' end, mind you). But otherwise - blitzball is still stupid, and sarshin still can't play it drunk. 8D

ALSO: FIC RECS PLZ

HI GUYS THIS IS AWE SOM V FRIEND
SUZE



so YYYYEAH
OH BBYY Y EAH



/retardqtation of your list is go vvvvvv dddo not reject my seuzenesss

FFFFFFFFFFFF missed the cutoff date for the Amat apps. D: Whoops. But its been a busy couple of weeks, so I'm not surprised. I can always try next cycle, though if the Johnny isn't already taken. It's better that I have more time to work out his personality section, since the mods there apparently love their tl;dr.

On another note, thanks for all of the support, flist. <3 I'm sorry to whine at you, but thanks for the kind words about the class.

Also thanks to flist, I am obsessed with beating FFX, especially now that I've figured out that battles require strategy, of which I have managed to procure some, and I'm doing fairly decently at it. Plus, my visceral dislike of Tidus has slowly morphed into an appreciative fondness and now he's my favorite character in the game ohwhatthehell self. I still think the big surprise at the game is that he disappears from Spira to be reborn in the MGS games as Raiden. Jus' saying. DON'T SPOIL ME FLIST. I'll post some more of my impressions about the game in a later post, but I won't go into any serious digression about it until I've played it through a second time. I get the feeling it's a game that you have to play several times through to pick up on all the details.

NOW SPEAKING OF FFX GAMEPLAY, A TECHNICAL QUESTION FOR THE FLIST -

So my Yuna now has the ability to PRAY, but somehow that's now the only command function she can perform. I've lost the ability to cast her other spells, such as NulBlaze or NulShock, which, trust me flist, these are very important to have. Does PRAY somehow render her incapable of using those other spells, or is it an effect of having low stats somewhere (and if so, which ones and how do I raise them)? Did I switch settings, armor, etc. without realizing it? Help would be appreciated.

I want to drop this course so badly. I hate it so much. I don't understand any of it. It's the biggest waste of money that I've dropped out of pocket for a class in years. I'm so furious that it none of it's clicking in my head, and I'm terrified of failing. I'm so angry and stressed out over this goddamn hospital merger that I was completely not prepared to take a course this heavy over the Internet of all things. I'm so angry with myself I'm in tears.

Flist, I am completely lost and I need some help. If anybody who's decent with math or recently took probability and statistics could help with what's under the cut, I'd appreciate it -

( ffffff )

Anyway, any help could be appreciated.

Because I felt sick again, I stayed indoors. Rather than using this time productively to do either classwork or read classic American literature, I decided to finally start Final Fantasy X, which has been sitting on shelf for almost a year now unplayed. I'm up to the ship battle with Sin, which is the first time I've managed to score myself a GAME OVER, so I figure that's a good stopping point. BLAH BLAH UNINTELLIGENT COMMENTS ABOUT THE GAME UNDER THE CUT

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Anyway, now that the retardedness is out of the way, I have to say that FFX has made me painfully aware of how much video games have lowered my standard for good dialogue. ;-; Stop making fun of me, mom.