Stolen from chrissy_sky 

Riku:

Why do you insist on changing your personal canon/back story at the drop of a hat? Especially when I'm in the middle of using you for a project? Now I won't be able to write you properly for *weeks* until you're straightened out. And even then I may have to go back and change stuff to fit with your new story.

If you're going to tell me a story quit jumping around and leaving things out for crying out loud.

Sincerely,
The Authoress

Dear Everyone,

 
On Monday we got a call that my grandfather had an aneurism in his brain. He was in the hospital on life support and wasn’t expected to make it through the night. My mother and I took the first available flight to Ohio to say goodbye and deal with the funeral and my father is flying up tonight to be with us.

 
Since my family lives in a small rural town I have access to intermittent cell service and can only access the internet from the public library. Hopefully now that the initial chaos has calmed down I’ll be able to contact those of you I didn’t have the chance to before.

 
As it stands now the visiting hours are planned for Thursday evening and the funeral will be Friday afternoon. Barring any unforeseen consequences I should be back home by Sunday evening at which point I will post again if I don’t get the chance beforehand. Thank you for your understanding.

 
Sincerely,

Terra_Tenshi

Dear Patrons,

Why oh why do you all insist on asking me "are you sure?" or some variation thereof when I tell you we are out of something? Do you honestly think I'm lying to you? I'm sorry that I'm ruining your child's birthday/Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/etc. but just because you "OMG have to have it like yesterday" does not magically make more of them appear in our stock room.

No Love,
PBK Sales Associate

P.S. Know that every time you insist I go to the back and check (for the billionth time to day) I actually just grab some water and check my messages before coming back out and informing you that we don't have it, again.

I have decided that when it comes to programming computers are quite often like little brain-damaged children. You try to tell them to do something in the simplest terms possible and in as many different ways as you can POSSIBLY think of because they are incredibly dense and yet they keep doing it wrong and eventually you get to the point that you just want to shake them and scream "STOP BEING RETARDED!" at the top of your lungs because they are making your brain hurt. And then you have to keep reminding yourself that it's not really their fault that they were made this way and yet it does not make the urge go away. [/rant]

Oh, and on a question of morality: Is the fact that my professor gave me the nested if block from Hell to code grounds for slipping arsenic into his diet root beer? y/n

...Oh yeah, that' right. I have to go with the rents.

...Shopping.

...I hate shopping.

...If anyone loved me I would tell them that they need to leave me comments to cheer me up but as my approximate love level is non-existent...

Maybe I'll work on writing fic while I'm out.

As opposed to, ya know actually caring about shit like fashion.

Possibly I should go get more writing supplies and stuff.

I should also call Hikari because if I don't get to sleep then neither does she dammit.

...And now I have to go shower, fuck.

If there IS any love out there feel free to comment with the fandom you'd like to see me work on next.

These stories aren't posted anywhere as of yet. They're still in the working stages so any comments and advice are appreciated.

( Communication as an Art Form by Riku Takahashi )

 - Originally intended to be my creative writing, short fiction piece for my English class. The original ending was slightly less ambiguous.
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 - AU as of the release of Kingdom Hearts 2. IS a sequel to my "All I Want For Christmas..." of the yaoi advent calendar. The song lyrics are from The Gift sung by N*Sync (a song I am ashamed to say I know).
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 - Originally meant to continue the "All I Want For Christmas" sequel at the request of hikari_okami. I had to struggle at the end to keep it from going into angst-ville.
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 - An angstier ending to the RikuxSora lemon. Could have been a lot darker but I honestly like the characters too much to want to screw them up too horribly.

I should totally stop using my LJ as a rant forum.

I should also update more often but that mostly depends on my getting a laptop which is still several months in the future at least.

It's so frustrating though because I WANT to update more and I WANT to write but I can't until I get a blue-million other things done. Possibly it would help if I stopped ranting about the unfairness and actually did some of the crap but where's the fun in that?

Meh.

Okay, done now. And off to clean my room. Hopefully you'll start seeing fics and posts more from me starting next month when I've finally had time to get caught up on everything.

Today (well really mostly yesterday but as I haven't been to bed yet I'm lumping them together) has been a GOOD DAY. This fact is made even more awesome by the fact that when I got up this morning it seemed like it was going to be a really bad day. My ENGH220H teacher decided to be a dick and basically told me that I needed to totally rework the subject of my LNF paper if I wanted to get a passing grade the day before the damn thing was due and my fever finally caught up with me. Here's how the rest of the day went in a nutshell:

+ Actually got all my paper revisions done in time for class and managed to psuedo sleep

+ Got to school on time and intact under my own power

+ Handed in my paper and got to write haiku about video games

+ Hung out with awesome people at my table

+ Ate a delicious meatball sub and had money left over

+ Bought a delicious white chocolate mocha which was on sale and still had money left over

+ Got all weekend homework done at school

+ Got into planning a peacful protest involving going to Washington and playing video games in the streets

+ Got Parker to say he'd give me extra credit if I did

+ Got two hugs

+ Spent two hours of class watching Parker do hysterical 3D modeling, listening to Stephen Lynch, stealing Terence's hat, and just generally laughing my ass off.

+ Experienced what shall now be known as the WHY PEOPLE DON'T ALL SUCK incident (more on this later)

+ Mom took me out to dinner

+ All my comics updated on time

+ Have cool new music for my iPod

And on top of these facts tomorrow (today) is my 18th birthday. I get to hang out with my best friend all day. My parents are taking me, them, Taka-chan, and hikari_okami out to dinner at the Melting Pot. There will be fondue and desert and PRESENTS.

Rock.

I think I'll go LJ stalk Kevin (foofy_attorney) now. Will post about the above mentioned incident LATER.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.  (Sorta, Taka-chan's not really GONE, just busy)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.  (Xenosaga for the win)	× I've tried marijuana.
✓ I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.  (HE WISHES! It would mean I actually CARED!)	× I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.  (I changed a lot between Freshman and Sophmore year in high school, I've been pretty much the same ever since then.)	✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

( it goes on... )

Okay, hypothetical journal readers. I have finally returned and woah was that absence way longer than I intended for it to be. EXCUSE TIME!

1) Right after I wrote the last entry work picked up and they wade me come in every single shift for two freakin weeks.

2) For some reason my school decided to be stupid and give midterms BEFORE Christmas instead of after even though that meant they weren't midterms so much as they were thirdterms.

3) Something happened at work that upset me so badly I had trouble dealing for several weeks and eventually lead to my quitting at PBK though I may return if I can work stock (more on said upsetting event later).

4) My school work started taking up a lot more of my time along with SGDA stuff.

5) My Econ teacher broke his foot and became a huge bastard because of it (I ended up passing the class with a low B, considering I usually get straight A's well...)

6) My sister had (and is still having) issues that she can't really deal with on her own (or so she claims)

7) I had to register for my next semester classes

8) Finals, 'nuff said.

9) Birthday's for three of my "precious people"

10) Plans for my upcoming birthday are all ready in the works so stuff's going on there.

11) Mine and my sisters rooms are totally getting re-done in preparation for the fact that her dad (whom she lives with now) wants to move to Washington and has no intention of taking her with him.

12) My mom and dad have been having issues over my mothers lack of employment and I keep getting caught in the middle.

13) I've been having issues with getting enough money to cover my school tuition (see above)

...And I think that's about it.

Luckily for my my last final was on Tuesday afternoon, unluckily for me I was getting sick before finals even started. As such I spent the over 3/4 of the last 24 hours sleeping the sleep of the dead. Now however I am rested, slightly more perky, and in a good mood. After I finish this I'm probably gonna check on all my friends (both on-line and off) and see what's up.

I have some writing stuff in the works so expect me to post it here and possibly over at the Gas Station when I get it all written and edited. Be warned, most of it is crack and fluffy crack at that.

I will try and update here more regularly and since me and hikari_okami are supposed to meet and work on BBAU stuff tomorrow I will try and nail down most of the basic stuff so that I can actually get something posted on epic_bb_au. Anyone who still has that community joined and will be willing to check it out is a saint of patience. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

Now lets see? Anything else going on in life? Taka-chan is in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum down at Stages so yay him though it means he won't be at Friday nights until the play ends in mid April, just before my birthday. hikari_okami is taking 16 hours this semester so probably not a lot will be heard from her except on Friday's although we are talking about going to the Ren Faire one of these days. Not this weekend but next Friday and Saturday I get to go to school and help babysit a bunch of high school seniors from Texas, grrr...I hate high schoolers, Prof H had better love me for this. SGDA is on hiatus for the next week and a bit and we already have a rough schedule outline for the rest of this semester so hopefully we won't have as much chaos as we did this term. kielasanderaiii and astroaries got me all hooked on xxxHolic, Tsubasa, and Death Note so expect to see those added to my normal fandoms as well as Pet Shop of Horrors now that I own most of it. I'm thinking I may overhaul my layout so don't be surprised if it changes all of a sudden. Oh, hikari_okami's site finally goes up the end of March so I'll post a link to it when we get to that stage.

Good News: passed all my courses this semester, got into ENGL220 Honors for next semester

Bad News: Am taking between 19 and 20 hours next semester, am probably getting a job shortly after my birthday

And now time for the upsetting work story, I loved PBK, I really did. I only had one manager I didn't like and even she and I were starting to get along towards the end there. I got along with all my co-workers, life was good. And then it happened.

A woman comes in pushing a kid in a stroller, the kid was maybe one or two years old, two and half MAX, and crying. Not wailing screaming or anything but honest-to-God, tears rolling down the cheeks, crying. This is not the first time a kid has come into our store in tears nor do I expect it to be the last. In the grand scheme of things it's not really that big a deal. The woman though differently apparently, she pushed the stroller a little ways into the store and then stopped dead got in front of the kid took them by the shoulders and started shaking them saying "Stop crying, STOP crying." When the kid doens't stop the woman backhands them across the face, since the woman is wearning a hige diamond on her bony little finger the kid ends up with a cut several inches long across their cheek to their lip. I swear I about went over and slapped the woman myself, my manager literally had to hold me back and drag me into the back room to keep me from killing the woman. I probably would have knocked my manger down too but I knew she and her husband were trying to get pregnant so...

Anyway, it turns out that its company policy at my store that only managers can confront people in a situation like that and then only very specific circumstances (eg. if you don't stop them right then they're going to kill the kid). So I don't like it but I promise not to say anything and I go back out, the woman is in the process of leaving the store with the kid and our other manager is offering her a bacdaid and some Neosporin for the kids cheek. The woman refuses saying, and I quote: "No, let her suffer. It's her own fault and she needs to learn." I am so tempted to slash that woman's tires if I ever see her again. Grr...

And...yeah that's about it. I had some other stuff thats been going around lately but I'm not quite ready to deal yet so I'll post it some other time. See ya'll tomorrow!

Sorry I haven't been updating lately guys but I've been excessively busy...and for once work isn't to blame. Well, at least not soley to blame. I've dropped down to one shift a week for the most part but I still have 12 hours of classes as well as being the historian of SGDA. Then there are the projects, homework, and upcoming midterms. Plus I'm on the planning commitee for a major club event at school. I'm not trying to be a whiny brat but with all this stuff my Yaoi Advent Calender writing as well as my two friends birthday's and the holiday season have managed to sneak up on me. As such I've been running around like a crazy person the last couple of days and anticipate more headless chicked imitation in the near future. I will try to update here when I'm able because I do enjoy it but I just thought I should let you know that for various reasons it's one of my lower priorities at the moment. I will however be lurking around so feel free to drop me a line, leave a comment, or try one IMing me.

Today was actually a REALLY GOOD DAY!! At last! My string of horrible, rotten, evil, bad luckiliness is BROKEN!!! [does the dance of the incredibly happy hamster]. Dad got a bunch of free CD's from work and he let me have as many of them as I wanted. So I know I get to overdose on the newest CD's from a bunch of my favorite bands without having to pay for them. Score!

Then I went to school for psychology which is okay because I actually like the subject and it looks like its gonna be a really easy class from what everyone says. (diz181 didn't open her book like the whole class and still managed to pass.) Our teacher tends to ramble...a lot, but you can't have everything I guess.

Finally, the thing I've been dreading for the last week came up, the Comp 100 test. You see I really didn't WANT to get stuck taking Comp 100 because it's BASIC computer applications which would probably bore me to the point of tears so I decided to test out of it. The first problem with that plan came in the fact that neither astroaries nor kielasanderaiii managed to pass it. The second issue was that it was so freaking HARD to find a time and place that I could actually take the stupid thing. So I finally ended up having to take it on my lunch hour yesterday because if I hadn't I would have been stuck in the class no matter what. Good news is I passed it, with a 83% of course but passed nonetheless (80% is the minimum passing requirement). The bad news is since I am done to 12 credit hours without that class come Monday I have to go and try and get the Math 190 class added to my schedule. Which means I have to kiss my free Wednesday's goodbye. It also means that since math is my worst subject I'm gonna have to cut my hours back at work. Last night I was just going to quit because I have started to HATE my job. With a fiery, passionate loathing which knows no bounds. But my parents are being all disapproving, and lets face it...I like the money and even one 4 hour shift a week nets me more money than they have EVER given me for allowance in my life. So it's kind of like rock meet hard place. So I'm gonna stay for at least a little and spend any spare time (HAH) creating voo-doo dolls of my managers. Yay.

Moving on. hikari_okami and Taka-chan were over last night. Taka-chan came late and only after I'd threatened him into coming by telling him I was holding hikari_okami hostage. He had to leave anyway since he had a choir fundraiser this morning anyway (Seriously the only way I would be up at 3am is if I'd stayed up all night). hikari_okami was drawing a picture of Langdon, Terry, and Wendy from BBAU in the same halloween costumes the three of us wore this year. She ended up leaving early because I haven't been feeling well lately. Awww...

...You know I really should update BBAU. I think I will this weekend after I finish my homework. If I can manage to FINISH said homework. I really should be writing yaoi advent calender stuff. [le sigh] Not enough days in the week. I swear. Maybe I should stop goofing off when I'm supposed to be updating huh?

...But that would constitute WORK! KUSO!!!

Argh...astroaries is being a brat of EPIC proportions. She's been bitchy all day and was apparently pissed that I was talking to kielasanderaiii and having a decent time. She even forbid us from speaking of yaoi or anything yaoi related in her presence because it would make her 'pass out'. Grrr-ness. Then later when she was complaining even more I called her a 'grumpy-grump' (I work at a kids store, give me a break) and she got all offended (and her mom told me that that wasn't nice) and she yelled at me about how she was sick all break and didn't feel good and I owed her an apology.

Then just before she left she told me that this was my final warning and that she was expecting an apology at lunch. FAT CHANCE!!! I spent three days with a sore back and unable to move properly because of her and her temper and just because she was sick (which I didn't even know about) doesn't mean I'm required to bow to her EVERY WHIM. If she has issues I'm sorry but I was sick on break too and you don't see me taking it out on everyone else. She is such a crybaby, which is so unbecoming considering we're in college. Argh!

I can say this for certain, I don't want drama but she's not getting that apology. I think I'll go to lunch elsewhere today and avoid the evil toad demon.

Today was not really a good day and so far today is shaping up to follow the trend. First thing yeterday my mom wakes me up because she randomly decided that we needed to go get pancakes at IHOP. I hate IHOP. When I told her I didn't want to go my dad said that he didn't either and my mom stormed off in a huff. Joy.

At three I had to go in to work. I had the closing shift which in and of itself is annoying because there is always too much to do in what little time you have and I ALWAYS get stuck with bathroom duty. To addd insult to injury it was the last day of care card so the store was absolutely NUTS and I get yelled at by quite a few people who were pissed that things were out of stock or that they had to wait in line. Yeesh...

Then I get home and my computers not working, so I had to replace the moniter, which was a headache and a half because some of the prongs on the new plug were bent, and even then I couldn't get my internet to work. Grrr...

Then my mom came in and threw ANOTHER hissy fit. And said that she wasn't going to take me to school today. I can't wait until I get my license later this week.

Finally I called it a day and headed for bed. Then at four o'clock this morning my cat woke me up and I haven't been able to go back to sleep. So I'm stuck going back to school tired for my first day of classes. Oh joy.

Let us hope that the day will get better because after all it can't get much worse. And I totally just jinxed myself. [le sigh] At least I don't have work again until Wednesday. I guess that counts as good news. Right?

So today was a triplets day, hikari_okami came over around 3 which was just shortly after I'd gotten up. I stayed up WAY too late last night reading the last of this awesome fanfic that I stole from Ariel's favorites list and playing Mario Kart DS which I'm pretty sure should be registered as a drug with the FDA. Anyway, hikari_okami just recently got FFXII and has been playing it almost non stop so she set it up pretty quick and got into it. At first I was enjoying watching her because after all it IS Final Fantasy. Turns out that it wasn't actually all that interesting or fun looking.

At first I didn't say anything because it seemed almost like blasphemy but then Taka-chan got here are eight-ish after we had dinner and he ended up thinking alot of the same things I was thinking. The battle system is awkward, the graphics sub-par, and the learning curve is way too steep. Not to mention that the license system is a silly concept and pales in comparison to the sphere grid. hikari_okami swears that it's more fun than it looks and will defend it to the death but all together it seems that maybe the reason it hasn't been getting a lot of press attention is because it's not really living up to ANY of the hype. I know, I'm not a professional game reviewer and I know that even though I am majoring in Game and Simulation Programming I still don't know a lot about how hard it is to program games and such but after Final Fantasy X and all the other games this seems like they tried to do too much new all at one time and so the little details they normal focus on got away from them.

Final verdict. It would probably be a decent game if it were not a series entry but for Final Fantasy the whole thing just seems kind of blaugh.

And yeah, that's about all we did today. Now I'm reading on-line comics and fanfiction even though I have to be at work at 11am tomorrow for a five hour shift. So I should probably go to bed soon. Later everyone.

Sorry in advance to anyone I offend with this post but, to those of you who didn't know today is Dia de los Muertes also known as Day of the Dead. It's a Mexican holiday that's usually celebrated with parties, including people going to their loved one's graves to speak with them and leave offerings of their favorite foods. Infants and children are remember and honored on November 1st while November 2nd is used to honor those who have died as adults. However in some cities November 1st is used in preparation and the actual celebration takes place on November 2nd.

Because I grew up on the Mexico/US border Dia de la Muerte is a special holiday for me. I find it ironic that Halloween/Samhain/All Hallows Eve is approx 3 days from Dia de la Muerte. I have this sort of theory that the gates to the afterworld open at 12am on October 31st and close at 12am November 3rd. And since I'm inventing my own religion as I go along I can believe just about anything I want to believe.

Shortly before midnight I'll go out to complete my own celebration so I thought I'd update this before I did that. I hope you all had a good day and please take a moment to look back fondly on those that you have lost today.

'Night all.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!!! Sorry but Halloween is my favorite holiday of like ALL TIME! The original plan for tonight was that Taka-chan, hikari_okami, and I were going to go to my math teacher's haunted house. Unfortunately my mom decided that she didn't WANT to do that and ended up locking us out of the house. So the three of us working together managed to break in the back door and headed for the living room to decide what to do. Taka-chan mentioned that he would love to go trick-or-treating which I like but haven't been able to do since the year I was 13 because my mother decided I was too OLD to go trick-or-treating. Luckily hikari_okami and Taka-chan both stuck up for me to my mom and we got into our costumes and went out anyway. We got a ton on candy and had the most random conversations and just generally had a great time. We traded candy and watched House and got really HYPER. And now hikari_okami and Taka-chan are gone and I know that tomorrow my mom is going to be all disappointed about how many calories is in my candy and how immature it was of me to go trick-or-treating just because my friends wanted to go. But even so I'm happy and content and nothing can get me down right now. I love days like this.

I know you're probably wondering why I didn't update last night like I usually do, but I do have an excuse.

Last night was the Atomic Comics Halloween party at the Mesa store. Technically it started at 5 but hikari_okami and I didn't get there until 7 because her mom didn't want to take us when there was a lot of traffic out. Becuase of that we missed the Iron Manga contest which is too bad because hikari_okami LOVES that contest. Shortly before we got to the party we got a call from Lanae who I haven't heard from in a REALLY long time so that was pretty cool. As usual we bought a lot of random stuff (I ended up with the newest issue of Hands Off! and the entire Earthian series). I talked to manicrabbit, after her Para Para dance segment, (anyone who goes to these parties knows who she is) and orangeoctopus (who unfortunately is moving to Seattle).

hikari_okami had dressed up as Alucard from Helsing and was getting a LOT of praise for the costume. She decided to enter the cosplay contest and so while I was waiting for her and taking pictures I ended up talking to three people (whom I'd never met before) and having a pretty good time. Duhckie, Mai, and Sensei (really that's not his name but it's what Duhckie calls him so I do too) were really cool and fun to talk to and when Michelle joined us it got even better.

We had to leave a little bit before midnight because our ride showed up but I got everyone's e-mail addresses so I plan to keep in touch. Unfortunately I couldn't update when I got home because I had to go right to sleep so I could get up early this morning for work at 10am. Which I just got back from and was GRUELING since it was a Saturday shift at the MALL. Working weekends at the mall is like standing at the gates of hell when they open up and the damned all come flooding out.

So now I'm gonna go crash, just thought I'd update before I became useless again.

I took my last final (Math 114) today and now I'm off until November 6th!!! YAHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll miss kielasanderaiii but I'm gonna have fun just vegging out. Watching anime. Reading all my fanfiction. And sleeping late (on the days I don't have work). It's gonna be a much needed break, especially considering that my schedule next semester is CRAZY.

And yeah, that's it.