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Don’t write a journal for six months. Write two in two days. Sporadicity, aw yea!

But I just need to write another journal because I need someone to gush to. Please tell me one of you is familiar with The World Ends with You? Because oh my god, I just picked it up and fell in love with it all over again. I deleted all of my save data (which was painful, seeing as how I had the game 99.9% complete… but I wanted a fresh start and a new challenge!) and started anew, and now that I’m playing through it again I remembered just how amazing it is. Seriously, this game has made me run the emotional gamut, from weeping to cackling hysterically with laughter. There are no words to describe how much I love it. I’ve fallen head-over-heels in love with it all over again.

Reasons why TWEWY is fucking awesome:
1. The story. I won’t give away any of the big spoilers, but the basic premise is this: you, Neku Sakuraba, wake up in the Scramble Crossing in Shibuya without any recollection of how you got there, and you’re instantly thrust into the middle of this game… the Reaper’s Game. You have seven days to complete the missions given to you by the Game Master… fail to do so, and face erasure. You’re a Player in the Game with no way out, and you and your partner are fighting for a second chance at life. Because all of the Players have one thing in common: you’re all dead, and to play in the Game, you had to give up that which you hold most dear. It is an absolutely gripping story. I am so emotionally invested in it, you have no idea.

2. The characters. I don’t think I’ve ever had a game where I’ve loved every single character in it. But this? Oh my god, I love everyone, baddies and goodies alike. Even this dickhead Joshua, who grates me the wrong way and gets on my nerves… I still secretly like him too. Gah, I just can’t get over the characters and how their stories all unfold.

3. The humor. This game is fucking funny, let me tell you. I don’t even know where to begin. From math jokes (You factoring hectopascals!) to food jokes (The proof is in the pudding… the pudding of their doom!) to slip-ups (Umm.... To write the countless thongs of... Dammit!) to just sheer idiocy (Ha! You're the idiots, yo. I ain't treadin' on thin ice! Shibuya ain’t cold enough for ice, stupid!), it’s all so lol-worthy. And yet, it can be so serious when it wants to be. Like I said, it’s made me cry more than once.

4. The design. I’ve never seen anything like it. This game is so revolutionary. I just adore the graphic design and the attention to details. And it’s done by the same team who worked on Kingdom Hearts, so of course the character designs and outfits are all kickass (by the way? Kariya’s vest, Beat’s hat, and Rhyme’s pendant. I want them all. I am totally planning on making them this summer). And it’s not just revolutionary in art style, it’s also unique in terms of how you can play it – you can plan your pin sets based on your own skills and fight using your own techniques, and you can shift the battle settings from Easy to Normal to Hard to Ultimate. You’re your own master. It’s a really refreshing way to play.

5. The music. I don’t usually play games with full sound on, but this? I constantly have my headphones plugged in so I can rock out to the beat as I’m playing it. Plus, I have the soundtrack on my iPod. The music is killer and so much fun to listen to. I never get tired of it.  

Long story short, IT’S AMAZING. And I really hope that I’m not the only one who’s familiar with it, because I really need someone to geek out and obsess with over it. xD

Oh man, is the last time I updated my journal seriously 2010? I'd say it's time for a new one. xD Feel free to ignore me though, this is pretty much just going to be a rambling wall of text like all of my posts are. I never shut up.

First of all, I'm so sorry about my absence the past week! I feel like I missed so much, aha. Alas, my poor laptop got slammed with another virus that seriously fucked it up and messed with all of my programs, including important stuff that runs in the background… erk. My dad finally gave it back and told me to try it out and we'll see. It's still a little sick, but now it's more of a cold than a virus and I'm still constantly scanning it. I hope it survives. I get antsy without my computer on me.

And I finally got my computer back on Thursday, but spent the last three days visiting one of my best friends in Vermont. She goes to college up there and is spending the summer working there, and I hadn't seen her since Thanksgiving, so it was awesome to finally get to see her again. I had a blast, it was wicked fun.

Besides that, summer's been pretty nondescript so far. I'm taking a summer class right now, which is absolutely terrible. It's sleep-inducing. Three solid hours. Of sitting there. And listening to an ancient professor just talk nonstop about god-knows-what. No book, no syllabus, nothing. Just him talking at us. Not to us, at us. And he speaks so slowly and deliberately with many pauses and never finishes a sentence without pausing at least five times. It's mind-numbing torture. Hurghhhhh.

I've also been trying to find a job, and there was one offer that looked so promising – a substitute teacher position at a preschool that focuses on the literature and the arts. I went to an interview, they gave me paperwork to fill out, I had to get a TB test and get fingerprinted, and then they told me to schedule a time to come and observe for two hours before they put me on the substitute list and I could begin working.

An hour after I called and scheduled an observation time, they called back to cancel it and said they'd reevaluated their summer needs and they already have three extra staff members so they won't be needing me and didn't want to waste any more of my time.

Needless to say, I'm both pissed off and depressed. Looks like it's back to working at my Grandpa's pharmacy for the summer. :/ Bah.

I haven't done too much other than that so far this summer, though. Mostly just classes, trying to figure out work, and catching up with my family and friends, that sort of thing. I've been considering going to Connecticon though – the only problem is that none of my friends who live here are into that sort of thing. I'm trying to see if any of my college bffs want to go, but most of them are in Boston, either working or taking classes. Soooo… we'll see. xD I'm running out of time to make a decision though, since it's July 8th – 10th. I'd really like to go since I still have yet to go to a con! I tried to make it to Anime Boston the past two years but it keeps conflicting with Easter and other plans. S'aggravating, but what can you do.

But yeah, enough about me! How are YOU guys? How's life? Are any of you still with me by this point? xD Thanks for putting up with me and my rambles! <3

Post-surgery update: I am recuperating! Getting a little better every day. I'm just trying to take it one step at a time, you know?

But now I have a whole long list of things I want to get accomplished over break now that I'm feeling a little more up to it. So I figured I ought to document it here to keep track of it all.

To Do
-- Eat my fruits and vegetables (LOL JK TOTES NOT HAPPENING, GUYS. :D But I will attempt to make a chocolate fruit salad and ingest it if the opportunity presents itself, alphabet-pie. It will be my Christmas present to you. Merry Christmas.)
-- A canon-verse Organization XIII Christmas drabble set. Right now, I have ideas for XigDem, MarVex, and LarxNam drabbles, so I'm just going to focus on finishing those before Christmas. I don't think they'll be very long individually, hence the drabble set.
-- A Very TTT Christmas ficlet.
-- SushiBee's kiriban from ages ago, involving steampunk lesbians.
-- TTT Chapter 9.

That's all I can think of right now. Someone keep me on task, yeah? I'll need the motivation to write in between all the hubbub of Christmas preparation!

...and recuperating from surgery. Not how I was hoping to spend my first few days of vacation, but at least I'm semi-lucid now, so I guess that's good.

I had to push forward all my exams earlier so I could get home in time for surgery on Wednesday, which kind of sucked -- one exam on Friday, one on Monday, and one on Tuesday, so I basically had one day to study for my very last exam. Which. Kind of sucked. Hardcore. But whatever, it's done with, that's all that matters... not gonna dwell on it. I'm just glad to be home. Even if I'm in pain right now. D:

Basically, I had to have these two cholesteatomas surgically removed from my eardrum, which are like, idk, growths that formed because of a hole in my eardrum that was supposed to have been patched when I was in fifth grade. My ENT was like, "There's not one, but two of them -- I've never seen anything like it before! I'm surprised you're not in more pain." Hurr hurr, that's me, a medical freak of nature. My medical history is. Pretty fucking ridiculous, let's put it that way.

Anyways, I was in surgery for two hours, they were able to remove them, and they had to reconstruct my entire eardrum. I'm just glad that the anesthesia went far better this time than it did the last time I had to go through surgery. Last time, they put the mask over my face, and I felt like I was suffocating, I couldn't breathe, I wasn't breathing in any oxygen obviously, just the gas that puts you to sleep... and I tried to fight it off, so the nurses had to physically hold me down on the cold metal table while the doctor held the mask over my face. It was traumatizing. This time, they were able to knock me out with the IV before doing the mask, which was a relief -- I remember being strapped down to the table a la Hannibal Lecter, which was a little disturbing, but I don't even remember the mask part, thank god.

I'm rambling again, aren't I? Yeah, I've been kind of out of it all day today and yesterday. And I slept nonstop on Wednesday after getting home, only waking up to take more painkillers and eat.

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I've kind of run out of steam now. I think I'm going to back to bed for a little bit. Still feeling really dizzy and nauseous and hot and. Not good. But I just wanted to keep you guys updated as to my whereabouts. <3

Oh! But I wanted to throw something out there before I passed out again... Christmas. I wanna write a Christmas fic. But I don't have any inspiration at the moment -- should I do something TTT-verse or canon or what? Anybody have any requests or prompts or anything they'd like to see? Hit me with them!

(Don't worry, I'll keep this relatively spoiler-free. xD)

I went to the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows last night! It was my first midnight release, and oh my lord, it was absolutely amazing. I got there at around 7:15, heading over there right after my class got out. Unfortunately, that means I didn't have time to get all snazzy and dressed up, but it worked out due to the awesomeness of my friends. I was wearing my Hufflepuff shirt (that I got from HP World this summer -- oh, that reminds me! I never posted any pictures. Anyone still interested in seeing 'wm?), I kidnapped my friend's Hedwig owl and held it the entire time, and I got to carry one of our Harry Potter lanterns. One friend had her Slytherin hat and scarf and wand, and the other had a HP witch's hat and her wand. So we were all decked out pretty awesomely.  They'd been sitting outside until 6:00, so I joined them near the front of the line.

It was fucking freezing out, but hey, that's part of the experience! Freezing your butt off on the cold pavement. xD And we were just geeking out when we saw cameras and a guy from 7News with a microphone! They were filming us and interviewed people and asjkfalkfjdalkfvlk it was awesome. I held Hedwig while Julia stroked her with her rubber monster gloves that she brought along, and the camera guy loved it and spent like ten minutes with us. xD Too bad they didn't end up airing all that epic footage -- but we did appear on TV! www1.cw56.com/news/articles/en… 54 seconds. I'm the girl with the bright blue-green-purple-black jacket. 8DDDD Unfortunately, my back's to the camera and they had to choose the moment right when I was texting my twin sister and spazzing out, BUTHEY. I WAS ON TV. 8DDDDDDDD

At 8:00, me and my friend Julia decided we'd go get something to eat at a Chinese place. We figured we'd take our time since there's no way they're letting us inside before 10:00 and it's so damn cold outside and it's nice and warm and here... so we ate dumplings and talked the whole time, and it was lovely. 9:00, we decided to suck it up and head back, when Sarah called us. They let us inside. FUCK. So we run all the way back only to find out that they're not letting anyone else upstairs because even though they've let like a thousand people go upstairs to the floor where the theatres are, they haven't let anyone else up to the theatres. Keep in mind that we've been sitting outside at the very front of the line since 6:00/7:15. Liana comes down to give us our tickets and they almost didn't let her back up! Me and Julia waited in line for nearly an hour before they let another group of people go through. It was sofrustratingarghhhhhh but we did make friends with a group of highschool girls behind us, and the wait was just another part of the whole experience. S'cool. But when we were in line, Sarah called us freaking out. Apparently we're in different theatres because we got so separated.

Then we get upstairs. So. Many. People. It was insane. We're waiting in this massive line and trying to talk to one of the people in charge about getting back together with our friends (who, by the way, had all of our bags and stuff!). Basically, it was this whole long ordeal that ended with, "Our friends are in Theatre 4 and we left to go get food and they're holding seats for us and they have all our stuff but now they said that asklgrsjlkvslkgslg." "Are they holding seats for you?" "Yes." "You can go on in then."

BUTHEYONTHEBRIGHTSIDE. Sarah was so determined, she managed to score us kickass seats! We got front and center, right in front of the bar so we could put our feet up and everything. And then we had two hours to kill, so we just talked and laughed and ate popcorn and I had my computer with me so Liana tried to teach me how to play Minesweeper (did you know that there was actually a point to that game instead of just clicking randomly and trying not to get blown up? I HAD NO IDEA.) and it was awesome.

AND THE MOVIE OH MY GOD.

This is, without a doubt, my favorite Harry Potter movie so far. And seeing it at midnight was so perfect, because everyone was all dressed up and so pumped about it. Everyone laughed and clapped at all the right parts, there was a wolf-whistle and laughter when Harry stripped down to his skivvies to dive into the pond, the entire theatre broke out into applause when Dobby said, "Dobby has no master! Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!" I'm going to keep it relatively spoiler-free since I know most of you haven't seen it yet, but here's what I have to say.

* I learned that Harry Potter does not look good in a bra.
* He also cannot dance. At all. We were rolling in our seats when he tried dancing with Hermione. Ohgod, so funny.
* Luna and her father are quite possibly the best party dancers ever.
* I still hate Ginny/Harry with a fiery passion.
* Bellatrix is a sick, twisted freak (the torture scene with her on top of Hermione? oh god, it was so good) but I love her so much. She's just. Helena Bonham-Carter is amazing. So talented. I'm in awe of her. Gahhh. <3
* I love Fred and George so much asdfghljagalkga. "How you feeling, Georgie?" "Saintlike." "Come again?" "I'm holy. Holey, Fred, you geddit?" "The whole wide world of ear-related jokes, and you go for, 'I'm holey'? Pathetic." "Reckon I'm still better-looking than you!"
* Ron is an idiot. But he's still downright hilarious. Pfft.
* And my god, the movie was funny! It's so serious and dark too, but they did such a good job with slipping in all these hysterical moments that made the entire theatre crack up.  Good shit.
* There were some disappointing moments like always, don't get me wrong (I won't go into them here, again, cause I dun wanna spoil), but I still adored it overall. The parts that bugged me didn't bug me too bad. Seriously. So good. I need to gush about it wish someone. xD
* There's more. So much more to spaz over. I'm seeing it over Thanksgiving break with my mom, sister, brother, and a close family friend and her son. It's our tradition to see the Harry Potter movies together. And I'm glad, because it's def worth seeing again! Plus, I need to see it a second time to soak it all in.

After the movie was over, we could barely move once we made it outside the theatre. Then Julia saw a sign over a door that said "Elevator" and we just looked at each other and RAN. The elevator was broken, of course, then we noticed a door that said "Exit." We were afraid that it would set off an alarm if we went through, but we tentatively opened it and saw stairs. Julia, you fucking rock. We made it outside into a back alley and just ran, laughing triumphantly and feeling utterly badass, when we noticed a chain link fence blocking our way back out to the streets. We were able to find an exit through a barely-noticeable gate that you had to push just right to get through, but we did it! We bypassed the entire crowd outside, and it was AWESOME. We felt so sneaky. xD

Of course, hailing a cab was nigh impossible. EVERYONE was trying to get a cab, and the taxi drivers were being assholes. We were about to give up and walk the entire way back home in the cold when Julia managed to flag down a cab, and we stole it from another group who were trying to get another cab. She's very aggressive like that, aha. But we finally made it home at about 3:30.

So I crashed at their place for maybe three hours. I had to get up at 7:00 and take the T back to the other side of campus so I could take my meds before it was too late (I'm on medication for migraines. If I forget one night, I'm literally out for the rest of the day. I go through the worst withdrawal symptoms ever. I feel like such a drug addict. And of course I forgot to put them in my backpack in the morning) and pass out for another few hours before getting up for class at 10. But it was totally worth the lack of sleep. It was fucking ace.

Then I went back to bed at 1:00 and slept until 8:00. Heh. I'm heading back to bed now too! Gotta get up bright and early to get work done. Still got a metric fuckton of work to do before Thanksgiving break, and even more work to do over break. Ha. Ha. Ha. I'm ready for Christmas, I'm telling you. So close...

Well, that was one massive fucker of a post. Soz, guys, I'm annoying like that. I'm sure you're used to it now. xD And now... I'm going back to bed. I've got a ton of work to do in the morning (one group presentation and one 11-page term paper done, two more massive papers to go!) but at least I'll be well-rested!

Pfft. So much win. <3