So, China is off until 2011 due to my teeth/jaw needing to be looked after. I'm annoyed and relieved and disappoint all at the same time. Yeah.

Instead this year I'll be going to Bible College to do a one year PostGrad qualification in, uh, whatever people study there. XD I'm looking forward to the study and essay writing after three years of non!essay language study.
Though, THEY DON'T OFFER GREEK IN 2010. WHAT IS THAT? I WANT TO LEARN GREEK PLZ. >:

Flat hunting is going well. We've (me, flatmate #2 and #4) got a few places lined up and its a matter of decided which we like best. Flatmate #3 is getting married in early January, so he won't be flatting with us next year, funnily enough. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SO MUCH. 8D
We're joking about getting him a bottle of Coke for a wedding present.

Job hunting has been abandoned in favour of getting money from the government. Since I'm a student next year I can get allowance over the holidays which makes me a super happy person.


/listens to moar Brooke Faser.

...I love this thing. :3
(Though I have no idea what song it's from XD)

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In other news! digthenym has introduced me to a whole ton of star wars books, and I am going to spend the rest of my life reading them. I forget sometimes how much I love this series...

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IN OTHER OTHER NEWS. STAR TREK + MONTY PYTON = JOY
( MMMM. SHATNER!KIRK )

DRAGON AGE IS THE SHIZZ. JUST SAYING.



I've heard rumours that you can only end up with Alistair in the endgame if you are a human noble. If this is true I will FLIP SOME SHIT at Bioware after all this effort I've put in. MAYBE I WILL SEND MY ELF OFF WITH ZEVRAN AFTER ALL.

I never cared much for blueray, until I found out that Star Trek XI on blueray had a whole hour more of extras on it. I am so sad that neither I nor anyone I know has a blueray player.


Also, I may be going to China next year. For a large part of a year. Where they potentiaally have no livejournal.

:|

The Ongoing Adventures of Three Cosplayers in Christchurch, otherwise known as Two Mods and a Japanese Girl, sometimes known as What We Do When We're Bored.

I'm still writing up my Auckgeddon entry Why so many words to describe one weekend? but for now have a meme!

Stolen from otilu!

- Take four books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

Book One!

- "Who's there?"
- "Fie on't, ah, fie - 'tis an unweeded garden"
- "To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions"
- "O it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious peri-wig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatter..."
- "Go, bid the soliders shoot."

Book Two. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket arthoniel!

- If you have ever peeled an onion then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer...
- "All year long we build an enormous outrigger, which is a type of canoe, and the day the tides turn we have a feast and a talent show."
- After so many franctic encounters and tragic experiences, the children were not accustomed to leading such a calm life...
- "Let me out," Olaf said, with a muffled chuckle, "and I'll tell you."
- Beatrice

Book Three.

- Some things start before other things.
- "Yes but my father said that free advice often turns out to be expensive," said Tiffany.
- "My talents are an instinct for making cheese and not running around panicking when things go wrong."
- What was there now wasn't the same silence there had been before.
-For ever and ever wold without end.
(Yes, it's suppose to be wold. XD)

Book Four. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones. otliu!

- In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
- It thought aloud, in a little crackling, flickering murmur...
- She bundled everything on the bench into a heap around the skull at one end and began chopping onions.
- "That's just playing with a person's feelings-!"
- "Besides, it's raining out there in Market Chipping."

So guess away, my pretties! ^^

I AM MAD.
QUITE POSSIBLY CLINICALLY INSANE. SOMEONE NEEDS TO CHECK ME INTO AN ASSYLUM AND JUST LEAVE ME THERE.

That is all.

WHY AM I THE MOST EASILY ENABLED PERSON IN THE WORLD?

No really. I was browsing app_this_plz to help convert people to the ways of Squarewarts, and being VERY STRONG and not looking at any of the 'we want yous' at all, until right at the end where a Kyon was all: WE WANT AN AU HARUHI FOR permanent_way.

The end result being I now have a reserve there and a huge headache from banging my head against a table for twenty minutes. WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF? ;_____;

Though it'll be fun playing another Haruhi somewhere~ I think I need to make her less emo.


Has anyone played at permanentway before? Any reviews?

Ganked from bellzooks. ^^

Leave a comment with the name of one of the characters that I rp with and I'll reply with:

01. Full name
02. Best friend
03. Sexuality
04. Favorite colour
05. Relationship status
06. Ideal mate
07. Turn-ons
08. Last sexual experience
09. Favorite food
10. Crushes
11. Favorite music
12. Biggest fear
13. Biggest fantasy
14. Quirks in bed
15. Bad habits
16. Biggest regret
17. Best kept secrets
18. Last thought
19. Worst sexual/romantic experience
20. Biggest insecurity

My list of characters can be found right here.

Step 1: get a laptop. Insure it because it's nice and shiny and you really do love it lots.

Wait three months or so to get attached to it and set it up just the way you like. and to stick copy of the latest Star Trek Movie on it for your fangirling pleasure.

Step 2: Drop it off the bed. About 20cm height will do, just as long as the screen cracks and the LCD fluid leaks. (Panic/drama/etc with this step is optional.)

Step 3: Call your insurance provider/lifesaver/mate and let them know that you're after some cash to fix your baby. Weep a little when you hear how much excess you'll have to pay (NZ$250).

Step 4: Take the laptop along to a laptop company and hand it over into their careful and well-trained hands. Be relieved when they tell you that they'll sort out the cost with the insurance company so you have to do little else, and also a little annoyed that it will take three/four weeks to get a new screen in.

Step 5: Get a call from said Insurance company telling you that it's all good, they've heard from the people doing the fixing and that once you pay the excess they'll pay the rest and your life will be wonderful. Such joy and peace of mind.

Wait three/four weeks time to give the laptop company time to call you back re: COME GET YOUR BABY, IT'S FIXED.

Wait another three weeks.

Step 6: Get fed up with this stupid waiting. YOU WANT STAR TREK, DAMNIT. so call up the laptop company to ask just how much longer it should take. Imagine your surprise (and theirs) when they tell you that they haven't even ordered the new screen as they're waiting on the insurance company to tell them that they've approved the claim. Yes. The same insurance company who called you all those weeks ago telling you that everything was sunshine and rainbows and approved insurance claims.

Step 7: Call the insurance company and ask, very politely, what the hell is going on.
Be put on hold for.... fifteen minutes should do it, and then have one nice woman telling you that they've called them and it's all wonderful.
Be annoyed because you need that laptop damnit, regret not calling earlier, but go back to that wonderful fanfic you were in the middle of because at least it's all sorted out now.

Wait, oh, ten minutes.

Step 8: Have the Laptop company call you back and tell you that yes- they've heard from the insurance people. BUT because it's been so long and your laptop is now OLD AND OUT OF DATE the screen you need is no longer in stock and will take four/five months to be ordered in.
The nice man on the end of the phone will tell you that he's sent an email to your insurance company telling them to simply buy you a new laptop instead because that'll be easier. The relief you get when he tells you that you can get everything off your old laptop is minimal and not very relieving at all.

Step 9: ?????

Step 10: PROFIT.
~*~* RAGE *~*~

Step 11: (Yet-to-be-completed) Call up the insurance company and rage. Or something. I'm trying to think of nice, calm words with which to express my displeasure at their incompetence.

ALSO. I WENT TO THE DENTIST TODAY AND HE CHARGED ME NZ$75 FOR HIM TO LOOK AT MY TEETH FOR 5 MINUTES AND TELL ME I WAS ALL GOOD.

YEAH. THANK'S FOR READING, IT FELT GOOD TO WRITE THIS DOWN. I THINK I WON'T HAVE TO KILL ANYTHING AFTER ALL. :)

One thing I'll never understand about myself if why (OH MAN WHY?) I watch the lj comm bleachness. It's an ichiruki comm run for ichiruki fans.

I should state here that while I don't have a thing against Ichiruki and those shippers in general, I really can't see where they're coming from. Maybe that's 'cause I've only read the manga or I'm blind or my head is screwed on wrong, but yeah. Now you know.

The reason for this post/rant/whatever this is going to become stems from this post discussing how 'The Lust' arc in Bleach was just epic fail for IchiHime all round. It's well written, well argued and I can't disagree with most if not all of it. (Just so you know, my issue isn't with the essay. The essay was just the catalyst for my thinkings.)

My personal opinion is that this (the Lust Arc) is going to be a HUGE point for Hime's character development, where she has to come to the realisation that she did fail in her promise to herself not to need help, and that really, what is she doing anyway?
IchiHime might still become canon. If it does, or if it doesn't, I will still ship it. Ships, to me, are never about canon This coming from one who also ships Zutara, Dramione, etc.

My real problem here, I think, is with the level of IchiHime hate/negativeness that popped up in the comments to karenai's essay. I'm not too involved in the Bleach Fandom, so bleachness and Bleach Assylum really are my only contacts with that world outside of RP. But it seems that everyone hates either 1)Hime, 2)the way Hime has become (which I don't mind all that much), 3) IchiHime.

And I'm sad/confused 'cause I don't know why.

Is it really that repulsive to some people that Hime has a crush on/loves/whatever you want to call it Ichigo, but has issues with herself and with life and can't seem to get the balls to stand up on her own two feet?

Is it that there are IchiHime fangirls/boys, who (somewhere on the internet) are making asses of themselves and turning my MOST FAVOURITE SHIP into some kind of EW. because of their assery?

Is is really just that reading 'kurosaki-kun' one too many times has put you off this? Yes, she does it a lot. You'll have to take it up with Kubo as to why.



So, yeah. I dunno where I'm even going with this. I'm just sick of the Bleach fandom seeming to constantly hate them.
THE END. ^^
/non-reseached, BLAH-Y rant thing. ^^

my cat died yesterday.

On facebook, twitter, here, CNZ I've started making a post with the above sentence, but then I stare at it for a few seconds and then delete it.
I want to post about this so that people can know, but it just feels too weird/selfish and I don't want people being all sympathetic at me.
Yeah, weird right?

I miss my cat.

I think I'll make this private, then unlock it in a week or so, when it's further down people's flists.

I've seen Harry Potter! \o/

I'm sad to say that something I thought would never happen has occured. I ship Ron/Hermione. It was a huge surprise to find myself, halway through the movie, wishing that the two of them would just get together already, and that Ron would stop being such a stupid twat. (In the past I have hated Ron with a passion and thought that the only thing more wonderful than Dramione was freshly made french toast, and even then only just.)
I guess this is what happens when you don't have much to do with a fandom for a few years... (Or don't see the fifth movie.) At least I can still say that Harry/Ginny still makes me go: Hmmmmm. with skepticism and stuff.

Also, I am sleepy.
And far more apathetic than I should be with all these vocabulary words I need to know for Japanese and Chinese.


And you can tell I'm avoiding study because a) I'm updating my livejournal and b) I'm acutally writing about things, which I hate doing. and have in fact deleted half the entry 'cause I'm feeling rather: "wth? why am I sharing this with people?"　
/sleeps.

以上だ。

And now that I don't feel like I'm dying anymore and can type coherently, LET ME PICSPAM YOU ALL WITH HOW I SPENT MY WEEKEND.
( I hate dialup. You may too by the time these pictures load )

/stressful but extremely fun weekend of cosplaaaay~

Sometime tomorrow I'll picspam the epic adventure, but for now I'm going to sit and do nothing.

( well I lie. One pictures~ )