Musings of an Otaku

I think it's probably been ages, but I've finally posted more then a couple of updates on FFN. The KRL ones would have been posted last weekend if it wasn't for the problems with FFN. I'm actually really excited about the the new Naruto fic that I've posted and it's making a little difficult to work on KRL. It certainly doesn't help that I really don't know what's going to happen in the second chapter. ^^;;

I imagine that it will probably be quite some time before I'm able to update again, possibly a couple of weeks. I've only been able to get a lot of writing done this week because RMH is on vacation. Still even then there was a lot of messes that I had to try and fix, not to mention all of the calendars that I need to prepare for Short Calendar on Monday.

Does the drama never cease?

I had originally planned on using this week to get all of the work done for all of the homework I have for the paralegal class I started taking. The class is, at times, mind numbingly long. 9-5 every other Sunday and Saturday make for incredibly long work weeks.  T.T

So I will be dealing with 12 day work weeks every other week until May. As a result it looks like my writing will be much slower in coming.

I still can't believe I have two days off.

I just started typing a name, just Jareth name (Ack!) and the aforementioned is still repeating in my head.

Le sigh.

So does anyone have any fic recs?

( Warning: PO'd rant post. May contain harsh letters. )



I think I'll go emasculate something now.

Or read Labyrinth fanfiction. At least it will take me to my happy place.

How do I hate you? Let me count the ways.

Well actually it’s just one BIG way. What the hell where you thinking? Considering the fact that a good portion of lawyers have no idea how to use a computer then why did you set up e-filing?

Yes, it’s more convenient, and it certainly is faster then wasting the time to fill out a form and fax it over. That is not the problem that I have with you. The problem that I have with you is that the e-filing so called ‘help’ line is filled with people who don’t know what they’re doing. If you’re going to require PDF formats then you should damn well have a link on the website or one available for converting .doc documents to .pdf format.

The fact that your rep didn’t even know what a .doc format was….well, I have no words.

I called for help in filing the damned reply I was on hold so long after finally getting to a rep because they didn’t have a damn clue that I was able to figure it out myself, and I was the one who was thanked by the rep for providing them with information that they weren’t aware of.

Is it just me or is there something seriously wrong here?

Like I said, no words.

Ok, from now on I am just going to wait until the rest of the movies from the Twilight series (if they do decide to do all of them) are out and just red box them.

I laughed a lot in this film because the dialogue was so cliched and at some points bad.

They did not do the books any justice. I think they went crazy with the special effects and such for the vampires, and there were times when the soundtrack just was off setting with the movie.

I was not impressed, and I was really disappointed that they didn't show anything on the other characters AT ALL.



Although I really wasn't expecting much. I just hope this doesn't ruin things for me when I try to reread the book.

100 Million BC

An elite military team on an important mission travels back in time, but they dudn't come back alone.

Ok, I knew from the summary alone that this was going to be a potentially bad movie. Fortunately, I red boxed it. I also rented my dad War of the World II while I was at it. Well the fact that the War of the Worlds II trailor was on the previews for this movie I knew it was going to be really bad. Then I watched the trailor:

Oh. My. God

They basically raped all the Jurassic Park movies (Hello! Huge fan!) and Godzilla movies. So, so Bad.

I don't think it can even be called a B Movie.

I expected it to be bad but OMG.

So very, very bad. Movie has hardly even started, and I can't stop laughing.

The time travel device is called a fuckin' Rainbow Device.

Not to mention the fact that it has bunch of trailors that are just ripe offs of relative good movies:

I am Legend...I am Omega (Zombie like creatures instead vampire like, and a bunch of men that think they the last ones get together to save what they think is (I assume) the last living woman.

AVP....AVH(Alien v. Hunter) The alients that you do not see and large spiders.


All trailors are very bad.


WARNING: SPORATIC COMMENTS


Music in the movie is the dramatic sort, but pretty good, and a couple of the actors are ok. One of them is even slightly hot in that red neck, white trash sort of way.

Yes, drug up a bunch of militants before sending them back to dinoland.

Oh! Shiny blue light!

Well, that sucks. When one of the guys transported he got fried and melted into a tree.

At least when they do close ups of the raptor (How could they do this to you!) they look close to JP quality. As long as they don't move.

"Go!" Grabs guy running off. "Leave me a fucking gun!"

Also really nice how the people that have been stuck in the past for six years with no mirrors have wonderfully stylish hair and modern clothes...considering they left in Pre-Cold War era.

Really bad, glaringly FAKE CG dinosaurs. It makes me feel cheap. The Rex on the cover is JP quality.

Well, I need to watch JP2 just to remember what good CG/puppet dinosaurs look like.

Very bad movie, but it was....interesting,..

"Did you just make me a fuckin cliche?!"

So that quote was sticking around in my head all day at work. It's based on fairy tale princess captive cliche. So I'm going to start a collection of drabbles...I seem to be into those lately....based on that idea. I plan on doing one for both the Escaflowne and Naruto fandoms. I'm not sure if I want to go into any other fandoms since the only ones I do are Inuyasha and Dragon Ball Z (I don't care that they're canon, I still think Bulma and Vegeta are a crack pairing).

Maybe DBZ.

I only have a title for what will be the Naruto collection: Fairy Tale Crack.

O.M.G.

Just spent the past 3-4 hours typing non-stop. I met my nanowrimo quota for the day but my butt hurt.

5K+

*dies*

Ever since last Friday I have been feeling extremely off-balance. Enough so that Sulsie-kohei was worried that I might have vertigo, but I dealt with it the same way I deal with my seizures: it's a bit troublesome (I'm not sure if I was channeling Haruhi or Shikamaru with that line), but...meh.

Then today I woke up sick.

Of course it would be the day that I had so much work backlogged that I was worried that I wouldn't be able to leave the firm until late. Fortunately, the work load looked worse then it was and I managed to get everything finished that needed to be done today before I did what all the girls at the office said to do and went home.

You know...this probably could have been avoided if my primary doctor had given me a prescription for an antibiotic instead of anti-vertigo med that increases seizures.

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

She didn't even apologize! She got all defensive when I informed her of this little tidbit and asked if there was something else I could take. she made it sound like it was my fault. (Which yes, I was a bit concerned when she mentioned it was an anti-hystamine, but I decided to check with my neurologist since I recently discovered that I could take some.)

I am so switching back to my previous doctor.

And yea, no way in hell am I paying for that visit.

On a different not, even though I'm about 20,000 words behind (I should have been at 32K words today and my current count is 18,838) I am very pleased with the way Nanowrimo is going. This is farthest I have ever gotten, which is a surprise since I wasn't even planning on doing it. If I can reach at 25K words I'll be happy.

At the very least this has not only gotten me back on a writing schedule, but it has me writing original fiction once more.

Ok, I think it's safe to say that you spend hours upon hours writing hundreds of pages of fanfiction (cumulation) that it is safe to assume that you are the definition of a geek.

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

I've spent the past week watching nothing but Disney, Chipmunks, and Dragon Ball Z.

Yes, I have the maturity of a 5 yr old.

I also just watched Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D. Very fun.

I will have to watch it on my Dad's big screen tv at a later point.

Tell me, am I the only one who laments the fact that Disney no longer does traditional animation?

I love The Emperor's New Grove and The Great Mouse Detective...and a lot of the other classics.

Which The Emperor's New Grove should be considered a classic since it has a lot of the elements and reminds me of the older Disney.

Now I have to bring my 3-D movie into work so that the lawyer I work for an Gale can watch it.


I also bought the History of Trunks for...um...research purposes.

Seriously!

I love this fic, I really do. It's probably the first one that I have where there is a heroine that is as feminist as I want her to be. She's not toned down, and she's stubborn on her feminism to the point of annoyance.

But this fic does not seem to be rolling.

I have no idea when the next update will be, but I'll be surpised if it's before next month.


Le sigh.

Well, finally got the Ouran box set in. I’m glad to finally have it on dvd, but there are some parts where I just prefer the fansubs. While it’s nice that they keep ‘ore’ in the subs (even if they only have it as I, they don’t explain that it is a male form of I), how could they translate ‘moe’?! They word they used, which at the moment I can’t remember for the life of me, seems grossly inadequate. Then there’s the fact that they use ‘dripping with good looks’…

 

How does that make sense!?

 

That’s not what it’s supposed to be!

 

Translations aside, which is something that is hard to adjust to when your use to fansubs, the box set is nice. Even if the actual boxes that Funimation makes aren’t anywhere near as nice as the thinpak boxes that ADV did, I still like the box set. The reversible covers are nice, and I especially like Tamaki’s.

 

Now lets see if I can actually handle watching the dub to see how they handled the whole ‘ore’ bit.

 

On another note, I’m seem to have gotten really into Dragon Ball Z. Just got season 5, and the History of Trunks and Bordock movies.

 

That’s nothing to say of the drabbles that I’ve been doing for the fandom.

 

Which is just plain weird.

One of the things I absolutely HATE about living with my parents. Because they HAVE to have satelliate and absolutely REFUSE to get me a box, even if I paid for it, it's frickin' impossible to watch any tv.

I really don't give a crap about tv shows, but I was really looking forward to the presidential debate. I got to watch about 20 minutes before my brother decided he had had enough and changed it to the Red Sox game.

I don't give a crap if it's the Red Sox v. Yankees. It's a stupid, boring sport and damn it! I want to watch the presidential debate!!!

I know I sound like a child but it's not bloody fair. I am the only person in the damn house that doesn't have a satellite box. Why the hell can't Bobby go watch it in his room?

I think I've basically given up about watching tv at this point, since the last time when I actually got to watch the shows I wanted was two years ago when I lived in a dorm.

BTW - Sylphiel has the cutest Flare Arrow attack. Slayers daisuki! I can't wait until Next comes in the mail.

Kyaa! Zelgadis-sama!

.......I still want to watch the presidential debate.

Here's a bit of advice. NEVER write romantic death scenes while listening to the music from the final romance scene for Will and Elizabeth for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
 
Especially when you're at work.
 
I am so close to tears right now.
 
I never cry, damn it!

Sorry about the no update yesterday. Parents were leaving for the Cape and I had to tear my room apart looking for the broken adaptor for the GPS. I had absolutely no energy to do anything computer related with the exception of some online payments.

I'll type everything Esca related tonight.

....is what I'd like to say. It looks like I won't be able to update until later until after tonight. So I'm going to wait until next Sunday.

Well, it's finally happen. The thing that I was always hoping to avoid.

I've started writing a Naruto fic.

T.T

Help me.

Why is it that a enjoy writing such sick characters like Dilandu and Orochimaru? What does that say about me?

This fic will probably be waiting for years to see the light of day. Until I get it completed or get close to the end it will wait to be posted and only my beta will see it. I don't want it to be too long. Maybe twenty chapters or so.

Quick note: due to the sensitive nature of my job any work rants will be friends locked. So if you are interested let me know. Of course, there won't be much by the way of details due to confidentiality and everything.

::sweat, sweat;;

Well, tomorrow is my first day as a secretary/paralegal (yes, that is my official job title). For the first time...probably since February I will be getting and being somewhere beside the hospital for nine.

I am so, so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,so,
so,
so,
so,
so,
so,

NERVOUS!

It's worse then the butterfly in stomach feeling. I'm going to have so many duties once they have me suffiently trained. I'll post a copy of the official list I was sent for your amusement tomorrow.

Today has just been horrible with dealing with the twisting feeling that I get whenever I think about the fact Oh-My-God-I'm-Going-To-New-London-and-Starting-My-First-Day-of-Work-At-A-Law-Firm-Tomorrow-Morning-OH-MY-GOD-OH-MY
-GOD-OH-MY-GOD!

At least the only person I'll have to deal with tomorrow is Gale.

As far as my Esca fic I haven't gotten a terrible amount written and I was hoping to post tonight, but I am just way too excited/nervous. I have a seven page interaction between Van and Hitomi that my beta assures me is good that will be posted, at the very least. Maybe after the first day I'll be able to calm down enough to write a little something more.

And I have an unfortunate inkling to start a Naruto fic.

.......NOOOO!!!!

   I think that if I was capable of vocalizing my internal panicing it would of Tamaki proportions.

Look, there goes my soul.

Ok, I think it is safe to assume that hell has officialy froze over.

I HAVE A JOB.

An actual job that pays and is not customer service or retail related.

O.O

My mom's friend, Gale, managed to get me in for an interview for one of the lawyers at the firm where she works. An hour after leaving the interview at 11:40 am, Monday, July 21st 2008, a day after I turned 25, I got a job offer.

KYAAAA!!!!

I called nearly everyone on my contact list, much to their annoyance. I've been job hunting for nearly three years for something decent and finally I have a job.

If it works out then I will be able to move out of my parent's house and too New Hampshire before the end of April as I planned.

Yay!

Ok, it's rather sad how a shiny, new keyboard can be such a motivational boost for writing. In five minutes I've written nearly a quarter of a page for KRL. Update will be sometime after midnight EST.

I love my shiny new keyboard that glows with a pretty blue lights.

*happiness*

No update today because I am a depressed bum.

It's amazing what a lack of a stable income can do to a person. Tomorrow I'll try very hard not to take a nap after volunteering and actually get some work done on this fic.

Seriously, it's not the fic. It's lack of motivation.