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I move fairly well with music as it is. But a bunch of people I know were doing a ballroom dance lesson, and it was going to be ten dollars each. I said why not, hee.

I already knew the box waltz, thanks to a Mario, and something cha-cha-esque thanks to Yamamoto-soutaichou. Now I know the basic steps of a waltz, along with the under-arm turn, and a devplie, as well as the chachacha, the foxtrot (which was my favorite) and a turn and then dip with the foxtrot, and sorta the samba. I didn't quite master that last one before we were done.

But man. I love dancing. I need to get back to practicing my tap, I can probably use my kitchen counter for warm ups and such. And then.. I don't know. I'd love to find more chances to dance.

My face is painted and I'm at work. I love Fridays. I've heard nothing yet about the teaching position, so we'll see how that goes.

And now, a meme.

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

erraticflow gave me Bleach, Star Trek, and Babylon 5.

( Bleach )

( Star Trek )

( Babylon 5 )

So in summary, go watch Babylon 5, the first two seasons are on Hulu, so go get hooked. And then seek out the third and fourth seasons, which were the best. Star Trek is good, but the fandom is splintered and crazy liek woah right now. Bleach is repititious but I enjoy the bit characters, so I'll probably stick with it.

And I'm coming out of the closet about being a Naruto fan to say GO KAKASHI! Latest chapter is win. He gets to be smart and put things together. :D This is why Maes and Kakashi working together is a dangerous thing in Adstring, la de da.

Hello, new friends from theoregontrail! I'll try to seem interesting. We'll see how long I can keep that up. ;)

So I'm reading the last book of C. S. Friedman's Coldfire trilogy. It's been really neat and different so far, but I'm reading more and more slowly. I don't see how it can end in a way that makes the previous two books as good as they were. It might be Robin Hobb's fault. I read her latest trilogy most recently, and the ending was a complete cop-out.

Forgot to thaw my turkey leftovers tonight, so I have to figure out what I'm doing for dinner, oops. Thawing, the bane of my existence.

~*~

I need to figure out what the next Team Evil plot should be for Adstring. There's a possibility with Alyx's D0g, taking her and getting a small army made to combat the robo-dinos of the inner city. But then what? They've already done the Incursion. Carmen's not gearing up for a war, she wants to rule the city and outmanuever Kakashi. She's an intellectual evil, not brute force. Maybe she could start setting up some sort of network. I need something before she starts getting bored. Bored Carmen would not be good.

At least she's got things lined up in Oregon. Heeheehee.

So our band is a teaching band. These last few Mondays the drummers been working on musical theory with one of our snares. It took a little bit of time for everything to make sense, but last night I wrote a swing-tenor score. It's written with the correct notation, it's readable...

This might not seem like a huge deal, but a lot of Scottish drumming isn't written right. And swing tenor scores don't tend to get written at all. Not only do tenors have the least to do in a traditional score, writing down the flourishes is tricky. Now we have an original hornpipe written by one of our pipers, with an original snare score by our snares, and an original swing tenor score by me. I'll be working on scoring the two jigs later. It's a very satisfying feeling to know that I finally got it.

I also started learning chanter, which is what you learn before pipes.

~*~

Now onto silly things. I got accepted into the Oregon Trail game with Carmen Sandiego. Last night, her wagon was half-full and already looked amusing - she's with Barricade the Transformer and Thom Creed, a teenage superhero. Just that combination of three right there could lead to some very interesting things.

Now another got accepted. The Patapon Army. And the next application in the queue? Zekoi's baby Sasuke. I am already cracking up over here.

I have a feeling that this wagon might not exactly make it to Oregon. But they're going to have a very wild time for as far as they do get.

~*~

And Penbee reserved Sokka at Adstring. If I'm good with my time and Oregon!Carmen isn't too taxing, I'm going to have to pick an Avatar character too. Iroh's so similar to Maes, but I do miss playing him. Azula could be amazing fun.

Yes, seriously, this is me posting twice in two days. I'm planning on trying to remember to post more often and to look at my own flist more often. Yell at me if I slack off on it?

Tonight, after band practice, I'm working on my Carmen application for the Oregon Trail. If she goes well, I might consider Maes too. I kinda like that it lasts two months - I can do that, I think. That being said, if you've got any concrit for my Maes or Carmen, something that's off or weird, please, please let me know now before I stick them in a new game?

And now, for the much-delayed Metrocon report that is divided into sections for convenience, hee.

( The flight and subsequent road trip for Unohana )
( For Friday, I cosplayed Urahara Kisuke )
( For Saturday, I was Konishi from TWEWY )
( And Sunday I was Carmen Sandiego )

And that was my first Metrocon. So next year, the plan is the Masque AND the Rave, to do the Star Party, maybe to see the Fire Tournament, and hit more panels. I'll decide later on the chess match. I might give it another shot.

Yeah, the con report's a bit late... and the pictures will be even later, lol. Oh well. I tend to forget my personal journal.

The Transformers movie comes first. I'm not going to spoil anything, don't worry. I have to say, I was pleased with part of it, but one aspect of it really, really disappointed me.

Transformers was a children's cartoon. What they added in the first as far as sexual content goes was fine, it made it fit the stereotypical movie mold. It wasn't unexpected. But all they did in the second movie was ridiculous. Dogs humping all the time, everything about college being sexualized, the pants 'jokes,' the drugs? What the heck? Why? People brought their kids to see this movie because THEY grew up on it. Instead, a woman near us had to explain to her children that it was drugs in the bag, and at another point the group next to me was going "Don't go there, we know, you don't have to f---ing say it." And yet, the movie did say it. Over and over.

It was cheap. I will not buy this movie. And I won't be seeing the third in theatres if/when it comes out, unless I hear the makers grew up. My favorite character got a good moment in this. But I would be embarrassed showing this movie to guests, quite frankly. So it won't be on my shelf.

But there was fun to last night's outing anyways. The movie was decent despite the immaturity. And we went to the German place near my house for dinner, where we ran into Prince Hesperus of the Anime Fest Orlando RPG, lol. I have no clue what his real name might be.

Mm. I'm tired. But it's a stress tired, so a nap would be useless. It's RL stuff, and it'll get worse before it gets better. But it will eventually get better. The worst isn't sustainable for any period of time.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you?

Hey! Guess what!

Hurricane season starts today!

Wooho-- wait. That's not a good thing.

Oh well. Last season wasn't too bad. Sure, the lake flooded the seawall, the riverwalk, the street, and half the lawn, but the Fay herself wasn't too too bad.

Hee. We'll see what happens.

First, the quick summary that goes outside of the cut: Jacon was fun. It wasn’t my favorite con, that honor so far goes to AFO, but it may have been the most organized I’ve been to. Granted, I’ve only been to AFO twice and Megacon twice before this, but things seemed to move at a pretty good rate. The one delay I know about was the hotel’s fault, so, yeah.

I was Urahara Kisuke Friday and Carmen Sandiego Saturday. Plain clothes on Sunday for the win, hee.

( And now the part of the post that's very very very long! )

So the plan for Metro is:
Friday: Maes Hughes
Saturday: Urahara Kisuke
Sunday: Mitsuki Konishi or Kisuke encore.

And then for AFO I should have four to choose from since Tsunade will be in the mix as well. With Plushie!Slug.

Oh. My. Gosh.

Yes.

Yes.

YES.

I have a new favorite sci-fi movie. Yes, more favorite than Firefly.

Yeah, I got distracted again. Funny how Adstring tends to do that. :) I'm not dead, the Wolverine movie was highly disappointing, and I get to see Star Trek tomorrow.

Anyways, have a meme, that I'm stealing from all sorts of people: Give me a character or a pair of characters, and a one- or two-word prompt, and I'll see what I can do for you.

Things I'm feeling up to writing from: Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Saiyuki, Star Trek, Babylon 5, or adstringendum.

Give it your best shot? :D

I set aside time on Wednesday to sweep, to do basic cleaning. I don't know where that time went. So I figured I'd do it on Thursday during my lunch break. I'm not quite sure why that didn't work either.

So I'll dash home after work at noon (yay for Friday half-days) and sweep, and be enthusiastic about seeing Re and meeting Ollie, and then I'll realize there are still hours to go before I see them, and I'll stare at my toes and wonder why I'm not doing something productive. Maybe I'll pick up TWEWY again. I'm getting so very close to beating all of the noise. There's two I haven't found, and I haven't beaten all of the bosses on all of the levels yet, but I'm getting there.

The new Bleach chapter... I really have no idea what KT is on. But at least we're going back to Halibel vs. Hitsugaya at last! And then, please, PLEASE let us have Shunsui vs Stark... the FMA chapter was amazing.

And now, for the drabble. Niggsy asked for Ukitake and tea, ( and so this happened: )

I know. It shocks me too. But I'm actually doing things! Whee! Today I'm hanging with Lisa, this weekend I'm seeing a couple of RP friends - Re and Ollie. Next week I'm meeting an old RP buddy - Tri. Then on the 30th it's the Mob Of Ls to the Death Note movie with the Bleach Mob and meeting three other roleplay peoples! I don't know those three very well yet, but it's still awesome and promising.

My taxes got mailed off yesterday. It's hard to get them in the mail when you don't owe anything and you won't get anything back. But there they go, off to the IRS.

My rent apparently went up last year. And this year. And I got told last week about last year's increase, and I had been misinformed about this years'. I have been discussing it with the rent guy. Apparently I am not on the email list he thought everyone was on. But I now owe money. So I'm paying that off, joy, and... the chances of me getting to see the Bleach Musical are now approximately nil, lol. That's all right. They were already very low.

Unless somehow I manage to finish one of my books and sell it... now there's an idea. My stories' issues are that they have plot. Lots of plot. But... the characters aren't particularly endearing, besides the ones that somehow end up dead. There's the hermit Centaur, the grumpy Gargoyle, the hate-filled Aerie, the untrustworthy and gorgeous Elf, the guilt-ridden Mage, the depressed Nymph... yeah. I need to find stronger voices for them in the narrative.

Anyways. I requested names and nouns for Bleach drabbles. ( Nannete asked first for Jinta and Fish )

Work and Writing! Hey, look, I know one letter of the alphabet at least... I've been having difficulty alphabetizing things. But that's a side note.

I'd love to get my Bleach drabbles again. So I turn to you, f-list. Give me the name of a Bleach character and a noun, and I will see what I can do, please? That could get things kick-started back into working order.

Also speaking of Bleach... I hope the Yammy spoilers are true. Why? Because that would be the first time in a very, very long time that Bleach has not been predictable.

In work-related news, our affiliate continues to send everything to me even though they were told I couldn't do a specific couple of tasks. So they send it to my email box instead of the guy whose name they were given. Why? Why do I have to see your ridiculous demands time and time again even when I'm not involved? Leave me alone!

Oh, and... if you're in the North-west USA area... watch out for heartless. Michi's been making some. ( Or Chixim, as she can now be called. )

Thanks to Dreamscape, I've now had to set up labels for my guys. Here is what I got home to after work this afternoon. Or... yesterday afternoon, now: http://i40.tinypic.com/25urtj8.jpg

Apparently there was another anon meme. I'd thought it would be on the 16th for some reason, but subtract ten from that, lol. Adstring actually came out well from it. There was far less trolling than there has been in the past, yay. And no new things, even, either. It seems like it's just the same people being idiots as in the past, and maybe some of the older ones have even gotten tired of it.

In other news, an unmarked baggy of tea bags in my cabinet is proving to be very yummy. It's delicate and, well, tea-flavored. That little aftertaste that's so perfect.

It's also freaking cold. I'm wearing a blanket. Stupid Florida. WHERE did my 70s and 80s go? Now it's what, 50s? Brr. I would say 40s, but I think that's exaggerating a wee bit too much.

I get to help Lisa pick out a kitty tomorrow. Yay kitties!

Back to tagging and logging, hee. And wondering if Blaze is wandering on.

Listening to Trinity Blood music makes me want to watch it again. There's something so lovely about cello music. And speaking of cello music, I need to rewatch the last season of Angel. I think, if I can figure out how to play her right, I'll be playing Illyria next.The difficulty will be in blending together both, ah, personas. I'd probably take her from the last episode, 'do you want me to lie to you,' and such.

Anyways, now for a meme from Youko. ( She chose Urahara for me. )

09; Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character.

La de da:

Re - Ed
Kat - Goku
Ryua - Joshua
Blaze - Ansem
Niggsy - Kenpachi

Hikyojin, my laptop, is fixed. He still won't run AIM, but... Whatever. I'll stick with meebo.

I am not going back to myspace or facebook. I'll pass on the viruses there, thank you very much.

You know, I never had this many problems with Precious or Behemoth. Just Hikyojin. Oh well. It's fixed! Now to catch up on things. >.>

adstringendum makes me happy. Heehee. Language warning on the happy link, that's Gojyo again.

It's not AIM having problems, I'm pretty sure. I think it's my laptop. AIM won't work, YouTube won't work, and Hulu won't work. AIM was laggy and freezy.YouTube loads completely and only plays two seconds. Hulu loads completely and plays without sound. I think it's safe to say it isn't all faults of those companies. I called the tech guys at work, and I'll call them again in an hour if they haven't answered yet. Somehow I'll get him repaired.

I love hot coffee in a cold office. I could do without the cold office, but, you know.

I am scared by the latest chapter of Saiyuki. Why? Because of Goku's narrative. "We all knew we were insignificant, but hey, we tried." That really sounds like someone is going to die. Hakkai's already a bloody mess, Genjo Sanzo is too. They're going against Ukoku at half-strength. Of course, this could also be the cue for Kougaiji's party to show up... But who would they fight first? Because Genjo makes a very easy target right about now.

Sometimes my co-workers are scarily oblivious to the world. I get that they're all older, most of them grandparents, but still.

Tonight is the second-to-last band practice before the last Highland Games of the season. We have Champion Supreme, there are no doubts about it. Even if we didn't show up, the amount of points we have means we've won. But we're going. It makes the band money and the Dunedin Games are the big ones. And I'm hoping they have the iTenor shirt... there is NO merchandise for swing tenors. Even bass drummers and drum majors have more than us. Everyone loves the bagpipers, highland fling dancers, and snares. ~le sigh~

Anyways. I less than Sanzo you all. ;) Which I guess means that I Kamisama you all! heehee.

I'm going to get my slow cooker going for the first time after lunch. I am looking forward to seeing how the dish turns out, but I'm not worried. I love cooking, but it might be nice to be sitting working (at work, no less) while my food cooks itself. It's an oddly amusing thought.

I am slightly excited about today. I have been trying to get more people hooked on Babylon 5 since, well, forever. Two days ago, Adstring's Mayuri player came onto AIM. This was awesome in itself, school and work has been eating her time. Then she said she was thinking of apping Bester from B5. Yesterday, one of the best applications I've seen was waiting in the queue - Bester. It's so awesome, not just because Londo has a canonmate. It's because I love B5 characters. Even the one guy who really is pure evil is intriguing, Mr. Morden. They're all fantastic. Well, correction. All of the ones that have enough info to be playable are. I really did not like Ulkesh, ever. But there are such deep minor characters too. Neroon comes to mind first. He showed up in what, four episodes? And yet was so powerful and moving. Number Two was great. Zathros was hilarious. I simply love seeing the characters. Except Ulkesh.

Tisha and I might still get to hang out tomorrow. I'm hoping. I'm waiting on confirmation. It would be a shame if that falls through too... that would make two RP friends who were down here for Disney that just couldn't find time.

You know, while I'm being random, I might as well link to an RP thread that's still going and I'm still having fun with. My Gojyo now has Kat's Goku convinced that Son Goku means "stupid to the highest extent" and that he should change his name to Mono Tonto. WARNING for language. It is Gojyo, after all. Poor Monkey.

People being wordy for the sake of being wordy and not precision are getting a little tiresome. I'm doing research for my next article, this one assigned, and all of the sources go out of their way to throw more words in. "Look! I have a dictionary and thesaurus! Whee!" No. Bad writer. Go away. No cookie for you. To be certain, precision in diction is desirable. But you need not add, toss in, throw into the mix, and elaborate with options that are redundant and repetitive and say what you've said already. ;)

I finally got around to starting and using my original writing filter. It's still opt-in for anyone. I don't want to spam people with it, and I don't want it public, so it's going there.

Hm. I wonder if I write too much. Oh well. Have an icon with one of my favorite B5 quotes. Ivanova is win.