long and useless

I'm here! I'm alive! I'm going to import all my LJ entries here! I'm trying to figure out a place (or rather, two places) to store all my fanfiction! It's going to happen! 2012 is a new year!

... this is the sort of time I wish I had magic fingers that could snap! and everything would automatically configure into exactly how I want it to be. Such wishes!

Happy new year! And I just realized I haven't read any Yuletide fics yet!

I'm not sure if anyone on my flist actually still likes Sailor Moon, but it was a big part of my childhood and I'm sure it was a big part of someone else's and maybe still? I have a bunch of random SM stuff - stickers galore, cards, pencil boards, notebooks, playing cards. Silly stuff, mostly. I've been reluctant to get rid of them the past, oh, fifteen years, but it's time. I'm trying to pare down my 'stuff' and this is a good place to start.

If anyone would like to give them a good home, I'll be happy to ship! (the slowest, cheapest path of course)

Happy Belated Holidays, but more importantly, I REALLY WISH HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE MOVIE WAS HERE. LIKE, NOW.

This movie is going to be fantastic, really fantastic. I WANT TO SEE IT.

WANNAWANNAWANNAWANNAWANNA.

While Proposition 8 failed to pass (so far) in California, in Arizona and Florida, constitutional amendments that recognize marriage as between one man and one woman, unfortunately succeded.

As of this morning, Arkansas is banning unmarried partners from adopting children (and thus targeting gay couples) and it's one of those things that I hate; they use what they believe is neutral language to present a bill that does nothing but discriminate against two different groups of people. They make it about the children, when it's so much more about their own bigotry and intolerance. Children my ASS.

Happily, both South Dakota and Colorado rejected the measures to ban abortion in most cases. South Dakota is probably the biggest relief because the same bill was introduced in 2006 (remember THAT?) but without the amendments they included this time around (it's now OKAY TO GET AN ABORTION IF YOU WERE RAPED AND/OR A PRODUCT OF INCEST. GEE. THANKS). Some people thought the measure might pass this time around because of the amendments, but logic apparently won out for once.

For my own state Washington, Democrat incumbent Gregoire has been projected to be the winner, which is a tremendous relief if you live in our state and have seen Dino Rossi campaigning. He skeeves me out and besides that, I'm in disagreement with him over most of the major social issues. Ho.

We now have:

- The right to die.
- Another small increase in our already-high sales tax (but since this is supporting our mass-transit plan, I'm okay with it).

So basically?

THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY GOOD YEAR FOR ME TO COME BACK TO AMERICA. XD

Dude, I really wish I understood the appeal of High School Musical.

The new season of Smallville is wonderful; Lois and Clark moments abound! I've been waiting since, well, season four for this to start and get some steam going. I know, essentially, the Clark and Lana relationship had to resolve first, but it took so very, very long.

House is not very interesting this season, thus far.

I keep missing Bones.

I finally watched the second X-Files movie and it... was... odd.

I need to find a new anime-viewing-partner since I left all mine back in Japan. *weeps*

Is it weird that I don't like the Twilight books, but I can't wait for the movie to come out? I totally want to be in the theatre for that and see how they do 'sparkly vampires' and whether a screen!Edward would tick me off quite so much.

The Chaos;head anime is strangely hilarious. Creepy!Otaku for the win!

I just read Yotsuba and seriously, one of the funniest manga I've read of late. No relationship drama! No angst drama! No four-panel comedy sketches! Just lots of wackiness, and I am so into it right now.

I'm finally catching up with Tsubasa and XXXholic.

Catching up with Inuyasha is something I'm debating right now; can I really go through fifty+ volumes of Inuyasha/Kagome angst again?

Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece are somewhere on that list.

I bought five new yaoi manga volumes yesterday, and I haven't touched them yet. I was perusing the shelves and there sure are a lot of new ones. As in, there are ones I never thought would get translated and published in the US.

I'm really boring today.

That is all.

Because I actually did have a book near me.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next four to seven sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest [unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1].
6. Tag five people.

Bendix laughed. "Of course not! Time has to end somewhere. But there's a problem with the very mechanism that controls the way we've been scooting around the here and now for most of eternity."

"And that is?"

He looked left and right and lowered his voice. "Time travel has yet to be invented! And with the entire multiverse one giant hot ball of superheated gas contracting at incalculable speed into a point one trillionth-trillionth the size of a neutron, it's not likely to be."

(Um, whoever)

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I love my new job; it pays well, I'm getting a ton of experience, I'm not as bored as I was teaching in Japan, and I'll be considered for a raise in three months. WHEE. Plus, tentative travel plans for Japan, Taiwan, and China. I'm trying to figure out a time to visit Europe, but I'd really like to spend at least three weeks there, so I think I'd best accumlate vacation time and spare money so I can go on a bit of an adventure!

Plus. I'm home with my family and friends (friends? what friends?) and I really need to un-recluse myself. I want to attend more cons in the USA, but I'm not sure which ones I can make it to, if any.

I kindasorta wish yaoi-con is in LA, if only because of the entirely selfish reason that my sister is there and I'd be able to kill two birds with on stone. There's also Anime Expo, but I might leave that for the next time since it's huge and I like small cons a wee bit better. Any suggestions for cons? I'm keen on going every which way since I want to see parts of the US I haven't yet seen.

I've been meaning to post about this for a while now, but on July 24th, I officially ended my three year stint in Japan. =) I went a little off the wall with the stress of moving back stateside, getting things cleaned and packed up, canceling my gas, electric, phones, and etc, and just saying goodbye to my friends here. So overall, it really sucked. *ponders* To move from Japan is like experiencing a mini-war.

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I'm at Kansai International Airport and Russia was beautiful and fantastic, but I literally had a crying bout at the checkin counter; I can't believe I started crying in front of the checkin attendant! She looked so scared that she let me come on with overweight luggage. 0_0 That was surprising, considering how strict they are.

I guess it's also because I came back from Russia with one of my best friends in Japan and we got separated during immigration and customs and I can't find her now, and she's probably headed back towards our old Japanese home city of Toyama... so I basically missed out on saying goodbye. I'm really sad about that.

Anyways. I guess this is goodbye to Japan.

=)

Fow now. Bwah ha hahhahahahahahahahaha.

When you spoil yourself, there's no one you can blame but yourself. Ha. -_-;

I really need to stop compulsively clicking on links that SCREAM SPOILERS.

Otherwise, Midnight was almost unanimously liked across the review screens. XD Score for RTD.

I dreamed about this week's episode last night. It involved a dalek in a green dress. I'm not sure what this means.

Also. Do you know that moving from Japan is one of the biggest hassles that EVER WAS? The only thing I'm grateful for is that I'm not moving to another apartment in Japan; the costs for that alone would have been like carving a piece of flesh from me.

You're eating mud to stave off hunger.

Happy Holidays! Forgot to mention that I'm home, stateside, for winter break!

Hope everyone got their cards! Had a heck of a time organizing them. Total kill this year? 86 cards, to eleven different countries. It was awesome in the post office as I had a chat with the two guys manning the twenty-four hour window about who these people were.

I LOVE MY LIFE!