my modus operandi is amalgam.
Today I bought this shirt. This is either totally lame or totally awesome. It’s probably a bit of both, just like me.
There was nothing to do at work today; everyone who needs to be there was gone and the rest of us had little to do. I installed 13 Firefox skins on my computer, haha, and kept going back and forth between them. Do I want Black Japan or Pimpzilla. The choices in my life are so difficult.
This morning when my alarm clock went off to the strains of Super Junior, I wondered what day it was and realized with a mild shock that it was in fact the last day of the year. It’s weird, normally I at least get a little nostalgic at some point during the holidays; and you’d think since this has been my happiest year in a long time I’d've been more so – but no, I’m just kind of in this mode where I’m thinking, ‘well, okay, come on, 2008, let’s get on with it.’
Tonight I am ringing in the new year by myself, curled up on the couch with Chinese food, Starbucks ice cream, a stack of dvds, and my laptop. I’m cozy and comfy, and it dawned on me suddenly, as I was driving through the rainy evening earlier listening to Fujiwara Motoo seduce me into a state of nostalgia with his voice, that I am completely content right now. This has been a quiet year, but it’s been the most monumental year for me of the 2000s in a lot of ways. This was the year I finally learned to stop looking back. This was the year I finally learned to stop living with one eye over my shoulder and one foot poised to go down some other path. This was the year I finally decided that if I wasn’t going to show myself any respect then I’d never be able to ask it from anyone else. This was the year I finally let myself want something. This was the year I finally went out and got what I fucking wanted for myself.
It was also the year I burned a t-shirt and left livejournal forever and came back 3 months later with my tail between my legs, but you know what? Even the act of going “fuck this, I’m out of here” was empowering on a fundamental level for me. I’m not the same person I was when I left. And now I can honestly say that I’ve done one truly stupid no-holds-barred embarrassing thing on video that I will never live down. Which, I mean. There are plenty of more embarrassing things I could have done on video. Let the lesson of this new year be that we should all count ourselves lucky for that. 
Here is my year, in fandoms.
January:
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throwing another yule log on the fire.
I have unofficially declared this holiday….timespan…. to be Pimp Shit You Love Week. Really more like a ….couple of days. Or months. I don’t know, I like talking about crap I love, okay, and next up is:
And yet, every year, somehow, I wind up having a fabulous time writing my fic, and then i wind up pinch-hitting!!! (I love pinch hitting for Yuletide. I just… love it so much.) And then i wind up going through all of the fics in all my favorite fandoms as if they were written just for me. And sometimes I am lucky enough to get recced and sometimes i am lucky enough to get comments, and more than sometimes i am lucky enough to get the loveliest presents ever ever ever, and it makes me so so happy and gleeful and giddy, in this way that only Yuletide manages to produce, every single year.
If I might just call your attention to the following:
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Aja Aja: 
Aja Aja: i just
Aja Aja: read
Aja Aja: this
Aja Aja: thing
Aja Aja: a loosely translated bio thing on him
Aja Aja: that said he is
Aja Aja: 5’9″
Aja Aja: and
Aja Aja: weighs
Aja Aja: 88 pounds
Aja Aja: .
Epon Schiele: that’s not physically possible
Epon Schiele: he’d have to be dead
Aja Aja: THAT’S WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT L, TOO.
Tonight, you may call me BUMPSHOP.
Let’s talk about Bump of Chicken, my beautiful, beautiful friends.
This was the moment I discovered Bump of Chicken. Little did I know when I was making flippant LJ polls that eight months later this band would have taken over my heart.
Fic: Tedomari. Hikaru no Go, my love.
Hello, everyone.
It is Christmas, and on Christmas we should have things we love, so here is Hikago fic, one of my favorite things in the world.
- At least a month ago I started writing a fic to go along with quaedam‘s beautiful beautiful Akira/Hikaru fanart that she drew for me. And then about six thousand words and two re-writes in I went “fuck it, this isn’t the fic I want to write,” and I wrote this one instead.
- shushesyou has been working on a Tezuka/Ryoma fic since July of 2006 and I have been privileged to be her beta for the entire duration. There is a line from that fic that stuck in my mind, and really stayed with me throughout the writing of this one. It became the cornerstone for the theme running through my mind. In a stroke of coincidence, she finally completed that fic recently, after a year and a half, and I’m so excited for her.
- This fic is dedicated to quaedam and thewhiteprophet in parts, equally – and to all of you who are feeling the Christmas spirit, and all of you who aren’t. ♥
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ASDFSDKJSDFKL.
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HIS CD BOOK IS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. The cd is clearly based on the Little Prince and the drawings are too only it’s the Little King! OMFG ghhhhhhhklasjdfkld
and I can’t even listen to the cd because I just got it and I’m at work and I have to be here til four and I can’t even listen on lunch break because I have meetings straight thru today and AHHHHHHH BUMP OF CHICKEN
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i pre-ordered Orbital Period and Amazon.co.jp actually delivered it to me today, the day it came out in Japan, which is amazing! – except they didn’t leave it. D: So now I have to wake up early tomorrow and pick it up and then i will HAVE IT IN MY VERY OWN HANDS. MY VERY OWN TO CLASP TO MY BOSOM.
but I am not upset about them not leaving it in the drop box, and this is why.
asdkjf;askfkjd I love Japan so much.
My purchase came WRAPPED IN KANJI PAPER. WRAPPED, LIKE A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. ♥_♥ Thank you, Toshiro Matsuyama!!!! You wrapped my ebay win LIKE A PRESENT I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. :X:X:X:X:X:X
and you even sent me a present!!!!!! it’s a dessert!!!!!
it’s an eraser!!!! IT’S A DESSERT ERASER. IT’S A BOWL AND IT’S A DISH AND IT’S AN ERASER.
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This is just a test to see how the blog posting service functions from Dappad.com.
3 things I wish at this very moment:
- that i could afford to hire a maid, lol (actually, i probably *can* afford to hire a maid – hello christmas present for self?)
- that i could have a blog that was separate from livejournal, but also separate from fandom, but which people could still know was me and was somehow loosely linked to my fandom blog. HMMM. will have to think about that.
- that i had a cat. i could cuddle with it!
Also, right now, it is snowy and lovely outside and if the snow doesn’t melt then it might just be a white christmas. i love living here! – your chances of having a white christmas always increase exponentially.
