Below are the most recent 22 friends' journal entries.

Friday, November 6th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	9:45p	Aaaagh. *headdesk* I shorted out the stove today. Spilled a little instant-ramen broth on the controls, and zap! That was all she wrote. Lucky thing I figured out how to unplug the whole shebang, or we'd have a smoking crater for a house right now, and then who'd feed the fish? Still, we are left stove-less until Dad fixes things. I think the next level of fail is to set something on fire. This is why I really should stay out of the kitchen. -_- On the subject of Winterthing presents (NOOOOOOOOOOooooo....), I think I'll be giving out skibbles or something this year. I about killed myself crocheting something for everyone last year, and I'm pretty sure everyone's sick of yarnthings anyway. ;P I'd do baked goods, but, well, see above re: kitchen fail. Current Mood: embarrassed Current Music: The Night Pat Murphy Died - Great Big Sea (3 Comments |Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	7:20p	Raaaath! :D D'you think little-Ashley ever watched Sesame Street when he was a kid? (I'm mostly trying to figure out whether Uncle Blackie would be horrified or keel over laughing. ;) ) Current Mood: delighted Current Music: Batty-batty-batty-batty-batty-batty-bat... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
deepbluesquee	10:16a	On the one hand, Mischa's restlessness seems to have tamped down a bit and isn't making my skin prickle anymore. On the other, Hurricane J is apparently hair-trigger pissy, complaining endlessly about her fridge-freezer (and anything else she can think of) and moaning about having to come over here when she's sooooo busy back at P-campus! RRRGH. .......On the other-other hand, I may be mollified somewhat by the thought of a two-day conference where we get to stay in a posh hotel, fed three-course dinners and can use the pool for free. *blinks at advert* EDIT: ...Pfnerk. Tweak just commented 'Don't mock the princess!' XD Current Mood: aggrieved Current Music: Billy Joel, Allentown (Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	8:17a	Wow, going to bed late for three days running must be doing something right. I actually slept through the night for a change. XP ...And dreamed that I was hanging around in an enormous rambling flat with guiltyred and yoshideranged that was way, way bigger inside than it was out and all old wood and varnish, in a city that was half-flooded Venice style and contained a few inflatable buildings, but that's neither here nor there. Ahem. Whatever it was, I actually had to be woken up by my alarm instead of waiting for it. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
deepbluesquee	2:27p	...Um, Rath? Mischa's been looking suspiciously distracted all day, occasionally touching his lips and not even dignifying 'Mis peering at him with a hair-swish. It's quiet. Too quiet. XD Apparently I need to get him laid more often! Current Mood: dirty (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
koi_lungfish	7:15p	Sudden unexpected old characters Was re-reading old original fiction, abandoned ten years or more now. Had forgotten how much I liked some of the characters. Have regained a dozen angels, a thirty-thousand-year-old philosopher serpent-man, several priests of various gods, and said various gods. Can tell how young I was when I wrote these stories; there's only two perverts and one cannibal in the entire lot. Now I just need to work out if it's a good idea whether or not to brush off the dust, beat out the sentimentality, fix the mistakes, dig up the plots and, err, finish the damned stories. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Lordi - "Devil Hides Behind Her Smile" (Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	7:08p	All right, all right, it's official - I am fed up and bored out of my tiny little mind. I can't settle to anything, the headcast are racketing around the place like fractious bears (which doesn't help the not-settling), I can't concentrate on a book and my sole bit of productivity has been another almost-page of Pepper's birthday present. Or rather, Pepper's late birthday present. GAH. Current Mood: cranky Current Music: Battlelore, Shadowgate (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
raisedbymoogles	10:56p	Two years and $metric assload of debt, floating down shit creek... So, I emailed my former professors at OIP&T hoping to get a recommendation towards a brand-new college. The emails were returned as undeliverable. Went to the website to see what's up. Turns out, the programs I graduated from? Don't exist anymore. This is not a good sign. Current Mood: worried (4 Comments |Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	9:07p	Yes, yes, I know, three-plus times in one day, but this is really, really pretty. EDIT: Argh, I suck. Just have the link. XP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1CtiI3SZJI (Comment on this)
raisedbymoogles	1:44p	Screw you too, body. Screw you too. Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	2:06p	Um. I am mildly perturbed. Apparently Mischa and 'Mis had a stand-up fight at one point - well, I say a stand-up fight; it was more like a knock-down-drag-out-try-to-throttle fight - about whether or not Seph would go the way of Daddy Dearest and...dispose of his harem when he got married. It seems Mischa was around when the last harem got rather nastily killed off just before he married Lucrecia... Speaking of Mischa, I'm getting recurrent mental images of him in an outfit that looks alarmingly like the one from Assassin's Creed, and I don't think he's just wearing it for Halloween. O_O Yes, yes, I know it looks far too like Assassin's Creed. Give me five minutes when he's actually standing still and a better lump of paper and maybe it won't. XP Current Mood: awake (32 Comments |Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	9:22a	Help help I've got a terrible urge to braid my hair! I can't really cover the office looking like Pippi Longstockings! ...Well, not without a mirror to see if I've gone wrong. *tugs hair* ((It doesn't help that I'm starting to get the itch to Do Something with my hair again. This generally leads to dye, haircuts and occasionally green hair Happening.)) Current Mood: cold Current Music: Joseph, dream coat, etc. Any Dream Will Do (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
raisedbymoogles	8:38p	So, for my *actual* birthday... ...there were Pancakes, and Pie, and Presents, and this birthday is brought to you by the letter P oh my god I totally did not do that on purpose. XD Also Phone Calls from my grandparents argh there I go again! And DDR Hottest Party 2, which is quite fun, although I think the Wii dance pad is a bit smaller and less forgiving of crooked steps than my PS2 one. (A bad workman blames his tools, a bad dancer blames her dance pad, I know, I know.) Anyway, despite the increased fail, I did dance on it twice today, which is probably a record for me. Oh my sweet zombie Jesus, I'm 25. *angst angst angst* I'm kind of envious of all the NaNo people (so, like, half my flist this year). I'd love to do it, but - well, I've got a ton of other stuff to work on. My goal this month is to finish those four springkink prompts I Epic Fail'd on last round, and sneak them in on this round. At least then I'd have one less thing to feel guilty over. ...Oh, and also this stupid 'personal essay' bull I have to do for applying to this university. I hate doing those things. They combine the gut-wrenching panic of a test you haven't studied for with the shame and madness of exposing your fragile psyche to some faceless strangers who have the power to decide your immediate and long-term fate. ...Or maybe that's just me. Current Mood: okay (19 Comments |Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	8:42p	*HUGS!* Happy birthday, my moogle! :D *showers with flowerpetals, porn and many many hugs!* Current Mood: exanimate (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
raisedbymoogles	10:03p	Battle for the Smithsonian! XD Have I mentioned how much I love the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History? If they'd let me set up a cot in the gift shop, I'd totally spend a week there. I may attempt it once they open the Hall of Human Origins. I'm a bit of a geek. The reason I gush is because my parents took me to the Museum today, as a birthday Thing. It's been a while since I've been in DC, now that I think about it - not since the Cherry Blossom Festival, which was in early April. Anyway, was a lovely time. We spent most of the day in the fossil exhibit and the Hall of Mammals. Dinosaurs! :DDD And and ancient ancestors of dolphins and horses and turtles and dogs and something that I swear is an ancient ancestor of a chocobo. XD So that was a lot of fun, and now I have a plushie whale to play with too. (Needs a name.) And then after that there was amazingly-awesome dinner at a Korean barbecue place. Om nom nom. .......Tired now. *thud* EDIT: Almost forgot! I found a Chick tract entitled 'Who Is Allah?' on the Metro on the way back. It's currently stashed in a plastic bag in my purse until I figure out what to do with it. A ritualistic burning and burying of the ashes seems ideal, or I could just scan in some choice bits and let y'all mock it. Current Mood: tired (10 Comments |Comment on this)
deepbluesquee	8:49p	I got home from Whitby on Thursday, collapsed in a heap and slept like a log; went out all day on Friday, went back to Mum's for Indianfoods then collapsed in a heap; got home today, did three loads of washing, then collapsed in a heap with the final film installment of LotR. (I'm not getting into commentary on that post-reading the book, I'll be here all day and it's a bit old now anyway.) In short, Whitby is wonderful. There's an air of melancholic decay in most of the purely-touristic seaside towns I've been to, the sense that even in the high season the town is slowly sinking into a shadow of its former self, and it's only worse when you go when the tourists have all gone home. The faint, ever-present sense of despair - though that might just be me being all maudlin. ;P Whitby doesn't have that; there's tourists there, true, and undoubtedly it will be quieter when it's not, well, the big Goth weekend, but it's a hale and thriving town that just happens to have tourists come in every now and again rather than relying on the unpredictable holidayers to turn up and keep it alive for one more year. There's a different feel about it entirely. ...In other words, yes, I'd love to go back as soon as I get chance. ^_^ It was fantastic seeing Rath and Koi again, and I totally see what Rath meant about Whitby fish and chips. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Friday, October 30th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	10:01p	Trick or treat? (Om nom nom.) It's the Halloween Meme, ganked from (lj)artoni! Because I won't be going trick-or-treating for realz. *sad* 01 ► Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative. 02 ► Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions. 03 ► Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy. 04 ► List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link! Mine is on tinypic, so feel free. Here's my candy: And the candy I've gotten so far: Current Mood: overwhelmed Current Music: Roll the Bones - Rush (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	5:53p	My continuing tragic quest to contribute something to the universe before I croak. Carved a pumpkin, all by myself. Why a fish? Well, it's less obvious than a face. Also, I listened to the TF:TM soundtrack at work. With the volume up. Just in case there was any lingering doubt among my coworkers that I am the dweebiest dweeb that ever dweebed. Current Mood: lonely Current Music: Kairi - Kingdom Hearts II OST (12 Comments |Comment on this)
koi_lungfish	9:40a	Everyone needs some tank porn in their life Reasons last night was fun: Sudden unexpected Lupie! Lupie's drawing of us watching Dead Snow Good curry Cola cubes Bronze putting barley sugar in Lupie's boots Bronze's reaction to the sour candy Mad scientists are good. Mad German scientists are better. Competant mad German scientists are awesome Weiß getting all the way up to the abbey and back in six-inch platforms Weiß writing a letter to the Pope pointing out that he is the second coming of Christ Weiß' expression upon being shown tank porn Bronze's utter horror at discovering he was in the same room as tank porn to which Weiß had reacted Best of all: Bronze, in the recliner: *explains why he and Weiß are going to end up in a hole in the ground bashing their cocks together* Koi: So this is some sort of homoerotic mating ritual? Bronze: *recoils in utter horror!* Recliner: *KERCHUNK!* Bronze: *is catapulted to Switzerland!* Current Mood: awake Current Music: And One - "So Klingt Liebe" (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	8:55p	Random prompt #1, on IJ anyway. Seph/Zack/Cloud, pregame smut. :D As requested by ardwynna. ( Yes, he's doing it on purpose. ) Current Mood: pleased (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 26th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	9:34p	Quick, prompt me! Because I have got to break this writer's block before I go insane. And also because I am quite frankly sick to death of my own angst. Porn prompts especially appreciated. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2 (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
raisedbymoogles	9:55p	xkcd is wrong. I'm a week from turning 25, and I still feel like I have no control over my own life. Case in point: despite my misgivings I'm getting down the names of some colleges to apply to. I'm absolutely dreading going back to school,* but I just don't have any other options. *little black raincloud over mooglehead* I was actually researching degrees in game art, because as long as I have to go back, I might as well go for something really cool, right? :D ...Apparently that was a bad idea. Dear readers, my search took me into the dark and slimy underbelly of the American educational system, where degree factories tart themselves up with glittery programs and beckon the unwary into dark alleys. I'm not sure I still have my wallet. True to form, it took me most of the afternoon and well into evening before I thought to look up some actual job openings in the field. Turns out nobody in the gaming industry's actually looking for someone with a 'game design' degree. Art, yes, animation, yes, architecture even. But a holder of a game design degree from Art Institutes may as well tattoo 'sucker' on her forehead. ...Yes, I'm aware of the irony, considering where I got my associate's. Don't think I'm not kicking myself over that. *Except in the case of the school in England, but that's my 'infinitesimal chance' school - I'd have to sell a kidney to pay for it. Current Mood: apathetic Current Music: Lucia's Theme - Lunar 2 Eternal Blue OST (7 Comments |Comment on this)