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Well,

jedizero is officially moved into his new apartment and I am officially the Friend with the Big Car. I don't mind the title, but running into traffic caused by an accident on one freeway and traffic caused by a fire on the other isn't exactly a fantastic drive. Mulholland wound up being a shortcut, despite being a much longer road. Yay actually moving!

No word on the egg yet. I'm still hoping.

Thriller Bark isn't near as bad as I thought it'd be. Of course, now that I've said that, I'm sure there'll be something tonight that absolutely bites me in the ass. Still, though - not too bad as of yet.

I've also kind of promised

edward_hyde that I'd do an AMV for it, so there better not be any mind-shattering trauma ahead. :|

OH. SPEAKING OF TRAUMA.

( Fannish OP rant ahead on the subject of traumatic pasts and why trying to rank them is /dumb/ )

Also, this is the series that inspired the phrase, "Life sucks and then you ~~die~~ become a pirate," so. Yes

That said, I truly am enjoying it in spite of the nightmare fuel and soul killing angst. 8D

On a completely unrelated note, how about some music?

27: A song that you wish you could play

I can almost get it on Guitar Hero, but I'm fairly certain that doesn't count. Still. This song. ;^;

28: A song that makes you feel guilty
...I don't. I. What? Guilty? Honestly, I don't think this applies to anything I listen to.

So.

28: A song that ~~makes you feel guilty~~ ~~screw the rules I have music~~ is on your mind

Honestly, I still know all the choreography from Songfest because I am a dork. Also, I did promise an AMV to it, partially because of this:

Yes, those are dancing zombies. No, I don't know why. No, there is no reason for it, even in context. Yes, it's a Big Lipped Alligator Moment. Yes, even One Piece has those. No, I couldn't believe it either.

For those of you who prefer a different vein of geekdom:

And you wonder why I love Disney so much.

( All Thirty Days )

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: United States, California, Oxnard
Current Music: Thriller - Michael Jackson

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I realize I owe you all a post pertaining to life things, such as jobs (I has one 8D), summer housing (staying in Calabasas), thesis (I'm just about finished), and such other things. None of that is on my mind right now, however.

I just watched The Beast Below and I would like to ramble for a bit.

( I wasn't kidding when I said 'ramble,' by the way. Also, spoilers. )

Current Mood: disappointed
Current Location: A14 B
Current Music: Song of Destiny - Fellowship! OST

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I. Hate. Campers. So much.

I suppose I should qualify that statement lest the nature-inclined swarm me with less than benign intent.

In the restaurant business, a camper is someone who stays at their table long after the meal is over. They either don't pay their bill for a long time or they pay it and stay there anyways. It's the most frustrating thing in the world to a server, because people who are already finished staying at the table like that means that said table cannot be bussed and resat and the server therefore cannot earn any more money off that table. When one's section is comprised of a scant four tables, this is hell.

Camping is acceptable if the camper compensates the server for their time. Check any restaurant etiquette guide and it'll tell you the same thing.

I had a six hour shift today: I clocked on at four and clocked out at ten. In this time, I had two sets of campers.

Simultaneously.

Now, my sections had two tables and two booths. Booths are the most requested seats in the restaurant and therefore make a flipton of money because of higher traffic. Having two booths is a good thing.

My first set of campers camped at one of my tables for an hour and a half. Five dollar tip off a twenty dollar tab. Frustrating, but doable.

My second set of campers camped in one of my booths for over three hours. Eight dollar tip off a twenty dollar tab. It sounds like a lot, but I tend to earn 20% tips, which would be 4 on 20. In the time that they sat there, I could have turned and burned at least four other tables in addition to them and made a good four times what they left me on that one tab. The worst bit was the fact that two girls were taking up a six-top booth on one of the busiest nights I've seen since I came home for break. Those booths make serious money...when they're not occupied by campers.

I walked out tonight with $50 (mostly by the grace of a very generous six-top that wasn't technically in my section). My brother's shift tonight was two hours shorter than mine and he was in a section with less traffic. He walked out with $70. In addition, a week ago when I worked a lunch shift that was just as busy as tonight's shift but had me in a section with less traffic, I worked for three hours. That day, I walked out with $50.

I. Hate. Campers.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Home
Current Music: His World - Crush 40

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( Cut for just about the entire spectrum of my journal content, from rants to confusion to squee. )

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: A22 A

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For those of you who were wondering where the heck I disappeared to tonight, I was at an Air Force basketball game. I screamed myself hoarse (which is interesting when one has a cold to boot) and had a great time. It helped that we won by 21 points (because falcons eat frogs, horned or not, amirite?). :3

And since we had the OMGSO!FAIL!refs tonight, I've decided two things:

1) I'm bringing a black and white striped blindfold to Saturday's game and pulling my Blind Ref act every time they make a bad call;

2) I want to use the line "Now that you've finished watching them molest our players, would you like to actually call something?" somewhere. Because that's kinda what tonight's game was like, and I'm actually pretty happy with that line. XD;

And now a meme, ganked from

ladybrighid333 because it looked like something I'd do:

1. Comment with any subject that you would like me to rant on, with possible probable swearing involved. Any subject - I don't even have to agree with it.

2. Watch my journal for your rant. (Unless I just can't muster up a rant for your subject)

3. Post this in your own journal, so that you may rant for others. The end.

I'm looking forward to this one. X3

Oh. One more thing:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ggmoonycrisco! ♥~

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: Home and Snowy~
Current Music: American Idiot - Green Day

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I'm not going to bother to cut it because it's relatively short. Just be warned - oh hell, I'll cut it anyways.

( Yeah, cut for minor Chrno Crusade anime spoilers, you know the drill~ )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: London
Current Music: SAKURA Drops - Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra

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So, come one in the morning (which is just Good Idea Time for Kiaxet, don't'cha know), I decide it would be fun to watch some Chrno Crusade AMVs.

Wrooooooooong.

( Cut for Chrno Crusade anime spoilers and massive tl;dr )

The long and short of the tl;dr (SPOILERS ABOUND, BTW) is that I hate the Chrno Crusade anime because the writers take a strong and steady set of characters and, through a sequence of events that is both uneducated (WTF Christian influences?) and horribly contrived, proceed to overwhelm and shatter them.

Now, those of you who RP with me or have heard of my escapades may argue, "But Kiaxet! Breaking Rosette is one of your favorite pastimes!" First of all, um, no, it isn't. (Do I really give off that impression? o-o;) Whenever that happens, it generally has to do with the plot. ~~The one exception is when the Master got to her in Template, but hey, that's the Master.~~ Secondly, you'll notice whenever I decide to take her down through Brainbreak Bypass, I always make sure she can come out the other side (oftentimes with help, but nonetheless). None of this crazy Killing-My-Muse-Now stuff, thanks very much. If I ever get to the HI MY BLOOD BURNS :D point and am actually serious about it, please take my laptop, as I will no longer deserve it.

So, yes. If I never watch that anime again, it'll be too soon. End rant. *bows*

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: London
Current Music: Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - UVA Academic Village People

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I've been looking for a series of Harry Potter comics my friends showed me a while ago. They were all simple and hilarious, and the one I remember was of Willy Wonka throwing a pair of tennis shoes into a potion Snape was making "to give it some kick."

I found it.

It's by SnapeSnogger.

And you know what? She's not bad. There are only two fatal flaws in her art IMO.

The first: the overabundance of nagas. OMFG MF nagas in my MF fandom! *is shot*

The second: her inability to grasp basic facial anatomy. I am speaking, of course, about her COMPLETE AND UTTER LACK OF NOSES.

Now, see, Keysha-chan doesn't do a whole lot of noses in her chibi style either. Frankly, that doesn't bother me. They're supposed to be chibi, so they're not supposed to be serious. The lack of noses there is excusable. Chibi comics make missing noses okay.

The problem is, SnapeSnogger does that no-nose style for pictures that are supposed to be serious and dramatic. How the hell am I supposed to take your angsty!Vincent Valentine picture seriously when HE LACKS A NOSE? It makes me shake my head in shame and sadness that she draws that kind of thing.

And then when she does a picture that actually HAS a nose in it, it's as though the picture wasn't even drawn by the same person! That is how much her style improves. Seriously, why can't she draw noses more often? They make her stuff actually look good.

...but I've noticed she draws noses when she's doing a pic for somebody else. QUICK, COMMISSION HER. Then we'll actually get some noses in that neck of the woods, hallelujah.

...Forgive me. It's 3:15 in the morning and I'm tired. ^^;

Current Mood: NOSES PLZ KTHNX.
Current Location: On My Soapbox
Current Music: Wyoming Highway - Highland Elias

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So, just to clear things up from last entry, evidently the after-party wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Everybody smoked and got drunk (Jorja and the volunteers not included) and Liz and co. left early. I guess I really didn't miss all that much.

I don't feel so bad now. ^^

Anyway, I decided I needed some good deep Chrno Crusade fanfiction. Something by Scarred Rose, maybe. So I go to the Chrno Crusade section of the pit and look around.

And I find this.

Aaaaaaaaand yet another one of my fandoms bites the dust.

OH MY HOLY JEEZ IT'S CONTAGIOUS. Why does the badfic spread? WHY?

And the really sad part of this is, I have some serious Chrno Crusade/KHII plotbunnies floating around in my head. Sora, Donald, and Goofy (why can't I write those names in any order other than that anymore?) get dropped into the CC world. (I don't know how. Gummi Ship malfunctions maybe? It'll certainly give the Elder a chance for a good scene or two. Yeah, that sounds good. ~~I swear, the Gummi Ship is the ultimate plot device.~~) Of course, a Heartless problem pops up. (I'm not sure if it happens before or after Sora and co. show up...probably before. Nobodies too - may as well do all of it, huh?) Sora is amazed when he witnesses firsthand that OMG you can kill a Heartless with a Sacred! The Nobodies, however, seem to be immune, and Chrno insists he can't sense any demonic energy in them. This scares the hell out of the Order - how do they fight something like that? Then Sora and the Keyblade show up...

And we need an Organization member screwing up this particular world. I'm thinking Xigbar, because he doesn't really do anything in the game except accuse Sora of being a traitor and get pwned. I have a feeling I should bring Aion in there somewhere, but I think he'd get along with Xemnas better than Xigbar.

Or Saix. I think he'd get along with Saix very well indeed. Maybe I should...

But if I do Saix instead of Xigbar, I won't get to have a Xigbar/Rosette fight. For some reason, the very idea tickles my fancy.

Then again, so does the idea of a Rosette/Axel fight...

Aw, hell, I don't know. All I know is that I have plotbunnies, I feel as though they have been tainted, and I have some serious sporking to do.

~~Because anybody who attempts to Sueify Chrno needs to be punished. Severely.~~

Current Mood: Violated. Just like my fandom.
Current Location: Sporkland
Current Music: White Daisy Passing - Rocky Votolato

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Somehow, I don't think Kingdom Hearts fanfiction is good for me.

First of all, I tend to read them with intent to spork. I have found very few fics that actually grab and hold my attention and that are Sue-free. I can think of one so far, and that's

tafkae's fic in progress. (She says there's another good one, but it has KHII spoilers, and seeing as I'm not done yet...yeah.) All the rest have been, without exception, pretty bad. I found a rather promising one today...but then there was a Sue...the plot was interesting, but I really don't want to wade through 53 chapters of Abused Orphan Girl-Sora Sue to find out what happens. And all the pairings the Suethor said she would do...why don't we just have an orgy of canon characters and get it over with already? Jeez.

Secondly, THE SUES. God help us THE SUES. No more on that.

Thirdly and finally, every other fic I find has King Mickey either dead or captured. I'm sorry, you can't do that to King Mickey. The only person who can beat King Mickey in melee combat is God. Maybe Solid Snake on a reeeeeeeeally good day. But a bunch of Shadow Heartless? Like hell, Suethors.

And they always take him out "before he can draw his Keyblade." What manner of bunk is this? Keyblades tend to draw themselves, and instantaneously at that. To attack a Keyblade bearer head-on and get there before he manages to draw his weapon, you'd have to be traveling faster than the speed of light. Especially if the Keyblade bearer in question is King Mickey. Man, if Kingdom Hearts had the Force, he'd be Yoda.

Yes, I know Yoda died. It does not detract from my point. Yoda was not killed by Heartless.

So I need to take a break from sporking, do my homework, and get more sleep. It really doesn't help that the general came to visit today.

And my Office programs went on the fritz. Outlook, Word, Excel...all went boom. Evidently you can only upload the Student-Teacher edition of Office onto 3 computers, and my laptop was the fourth to have our particular version. Once the trial period runs out, you get nothing. I had to shell out nearly $30 to get a new copy.

Which actually isn't bad, considering that copies tend to run anywhere from $80-$130. Our student store struck a deal with Microsoft, and I love them. Both of them.

And the tech guys ROCK. I have a KHII desktop, and the second they saw it...well, evidently they'd just been talking about video games in general and KHII in particular when I walked in. That was one of the best two-hour conversations I've ever had with a random group of guys (and that happens to me more often than you'd think). It also helped that my laptop was custom-made in a room full of self-admitted computer geeks. (They admitted me into their ranks when I wanted to see somebody's laptop taken apart. There was so much dust in the fan...this is why computers overheat so much.) It pretty much cumulated in me promising to e-mail them the contact information of my resident computer genius and one of them promising to give me his barely-used copy of Soul Calibur III.

I like the techies around here. They're fun.

EDIT: After some contemplation, I have decided that Solid Snake could never defeat King Mickey. Chuck Norris, however, may have a chance.

Current Mood: Happy with the techies.
Current Location: E. Pengilly
Current Music: Who Says You Can't Go Home - Bon Jovi feat. Jennifer Nettles

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Satellite transmits my voice

Wake you up from half a world away

Ranting About Things That Don't Matter (read: Business As Usual)

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Re: Tonight's surprise!shift

Letters to the World, Part...Oh, Let's Go With VI

Game and Meme

More CC musings

I KNEW there was a reason for it!

After wandering through dA for a while...

Pardon Me While I Go Make Holes in the Wall with My Head.

Boo on Sues! HOORAY GEEKS!

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