I've done a bunch of friending over at insanejournal, setting up feeds. I didn't do you all :( but I did friend everyone who posts often and whose posts I follow avidly. If I missed someone, I'm sure I'll realize it soon enough.

If any of you do end up coming over to IJ, please friend me!

And finally, I did set up a feed for my IJ: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/chichirinoda_ij/ I'd love for you to friend that, and feel free to comment. Anonymous comments are enabled, so it's not like you'd have to create an account.

And otherwise, sayonara. Mata ne!

I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

LJ has spoken, again, and their response is woefully inadequate. Sure, now they'll give a warning - and look! elaboration is back, and I'm very pleased for her. ponderosa121 is still gone, but by her own choice, just for the record.

But Elaboration's pic of Fred and George, who are 20 years old and not children is still considered a strike against her. Nice.

Not only that, but despite the fact that the consequences are now not entirely the same between actual photographs of real children being hurt, and artworks and fanfiction of fictional characters who can't possibly BE hurt no matter what you do to them, they are somehow still pretty much the same to LJ staff.

Those still saying "Well... I'm not into shota, it doesn't affect me", pay attention to this thought: fic about Buffy and Angel can get you banned.

That's canon. They had sex on national television, but here it's obscenity and not wanted.

WTF, LJ. WTF.

LJ has the right to make any rules they like, but I don't have to stay here and live with them.

I'm enjoying Insanejournal very much, and it's becoming very comfortable. I'll be staying there. Those on my flist who won't be moving, I'm sorry, once I've finished moving my links over and locking this journal down, I won't be reading my flist anymore. For those I absolutely need to keep up with, I'll be creating feeds on Insanejournal so I can continue to follow you. If you do come over to IJ, please say hello! As I said before, I'm "chichirinoda" (no underscores) over there.

It's a bit freeing, actually. IJ is all shiny and new. The communities are small, and just starting up, and there's a feeling of hope. All I feel on LJ these days is fear, anger and worry. I have enough of that in my life right now, anyway.

I'm really, really really sorry, but I have to call off game tonight T_T

Miko and I have been AFK trying to get stuff done for a costume for a convention for the last week. And we just found out it was THIS coming weekend, not next weekend, like we thought.

I know, we fail at life. Forgive us?

Game will be on next weekend despite the con, because the con will be over by then.

Again, really sorry. We just don't have time to get this done if we game tonight. *hugs all*

Well, we spent the evening working on trying to use a new technique, heating craft foam and trying to shape it into different shapes to make Hei's mask and mod Train's gun.

And we met with SPECTACULAR, UNBELIEVABLE FAILURE.

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

In other news, we also fail at finding money to send Miko to school. *whimpers* We're running out of comfortable options and looking at liquidating all of our savings. If we have to do that, there will be no yaoicon. There is not enough woe in the world.

OK, I THINK I've got this now...

Edited: Yes!

I've downloaded Semagic for the first time in like 3 years. I never really got into using it long ago because it was just as easy for me to come straight to LJ to post. But I hear you can post to multiple journals this way, so hey.

I've actually done some writing over the last three days \o/ Thank god. I think this whole writing thing is not going to go away again :P

Of course, I spent all that time working on a fic that isn't even one of the ones I owe anyone. Hee. *blush*

To those watching me for Strange Bedfellows, I'm sorry about how long it's been between updates. I am working on it T_T It's just going really slow. When the next chapter comes out, it'll be crossposted to the usual LJ communities, but the link will go to my InsaneJournal. There isn't anything in that fic that could get me banned, unless LJ decides to get REALLY prudish :P so I feel comfortable continuing to make that fic available on livejournal. The previous chapters HAVE been moved over to IJ, though.

Time to get to work on some more course stuff, I guess.

Edited Well, that didn't work. I can figure out how to post to one journal, and how to login to my insane journal, but how do I get multiple journals to show up on my list when I go to "post to multiple journals"?

So.

ponderosa121

I tried. I really did. I wanted to just have one place where I could put everything. I loved all the features, and I'm really going to miss some of them. I wanted to believe that livejournal would take the second chance I was given them and not fuck it up.

I'll be moving all of my fanfiction to InsaneJournal. Anything new will be posted there, and most likely the fics themselves will be moved slowly as I have time.

For now I think day-to-day stuff will stay here. I know that many of my flist are not fen, and would have no reason to move, nor necessarily understand my reasons for doing so. That's okay. But if I find that it's too annoying to post in two places, I'll end up defaulting to IJ in the end.

My username there is the same without the underscores: chichirinoda

Hope to see you there! If you have an IJ, please comment here and tell me about it. I'm going through my flist and friending the people who have announced their own moves, but I might miss some.

Life is kinda sucking right now, which is sad because I'm used to basically loving life all the time and rolling with the punches.

But honestly, the stress is starting to get to me, and I hate that. Not to be melodramatic, but I feel like I have this long, dark tunnel stretching out ahead of me and I don't really see the light at the end.

( Cut for rambling )

Dear body, brain, or whomever is responsible for this:

Snapping wide awake at 5:00 in the morning is doing nothing for my quest to actually feel rested and less stressed out.

Stop that.

Sincerely,

Me.

...I tried to amend a Writ of Summons and had it rejected by the registry because while the changes are indeed underlined in accordance with the rules, they were not underlined IN RED. It doesn't say anything about red in the rules. I looked.

So now I am spending my billable hours going over 4 copies of a 10 page document, drawing over the computer-printed black underlines with a red pen and a ruler.

I might only need for the original to be in red (for one thing, because you can't expect that copies will come out in colour, since I can't pull a colour copier out of my ass any more than I can pull a colour printer), but since I have to drive half an hour to get to the courthouse, I'm not risking it being wrong again. Earth logic has no application here.

WTF is wrong with people? Do they sit around trying to figure out the stupidest, most moronic things they can come up with to make my life 8 times more difficult and their lives marginally easier?

So I finished the book earlier today and I've been reading the thoughts and the wank and everything. There isn't much I wanted to say that hasn't already been covered, but ( Here's a few things, anyway, and a question. SPOILERS. )

So apparently people are finding my post and Blue's post about our TOTALLY LIFE-WINNING EXPERIENCE LAST NIGHT.

Now that I've had a chance to find my camera cable, ( here's the rest of the story, i.e., the pictures that accompany it. )

If anyone's having trouble seeing the pictures, I tossed a zip up on YSI: http://download.yousendit.com/11B9D6037ED366EF

I doubt it'll go to 100 downloads, but if it stops working and you want them let me know. Sadly, there's no pictures of the boys, just stuff and location.

So while the rest of you were eagerly anticipating some kind of book that came out at midnight, I was doing something FAR MORE AWESOME.

I was attending an exterior night shoot for Supernatural.

Let me say that again.

I WAS ATTENDING AN EXTERIOR NIGHT SHOOT FOR SUPERNATURAL.

( Let me tell you how it all went down. )

Anyway, I think I've tl;dr'ed about this long enough. If you want even more details, check out Blue's version of the story because I'm sure she included stuff I didn't and vice versa.

Truly, we completely and utterly win at LIFE.

EDIT: I've added pictures in a separate entry if you're interested in looking.

BROTHER OF EDIT: Our third partner-in-crime, miko_no_da has also included her own rendition of the awesomeness in her journal. If you're still giddy reading this stuff, go here and read!

!!

(Watch this space tomorrow for explanation)

I cut my hair and it's SHORT.

I have literally never had my hair shorter than maybe...past my chin. Not since I was born, anyway. I remember one time in highschool I got it cut to shoulder length and I was totally terrified it would be too short.

In the last few years I guess I've come to the realization that...it's only hair, lol. And even if it looks weird, it grows back. I died it black for Sakuracon, so I could play Itachi. And then I ended up liking it, so I've just gotten my roots refreshed and given it a bigtime chop job, so I can look like Hei from Darker Than Black at Anime Evolutions.

And I really, really love this cut. OMG do I ever love it.

( cut for pictures )

So, life's been pretty good the last little while, though I've still been doing a lot of bitching because of the heat. Heh.

Since my last update I've seen Ocean's 13 and loved it, and then seen Transformers twice XDDD Also loved that one, for obvious reasons. Of course, I'm totally clueless when it comes to Transformers, but Miko is a huge fan since childhood, so she filled me in on the stuff I didn't know. Frankly, the movie is awesome even if you don't know any of the background. It's just a great romp.

Tonight I have tickets to OotP. Yay!

Today is the first day of my week-long vacation. I plan to spend the whole week making a big dent in my university course and preparations for applications to law school, as well as working on cosplay. I spent the morning working on course and it did not suck. I've been getting so stressed out about the fact that I wasn't working on it that I forgot it was actually quite interesting and not that hard. I gotta stop doing that.

I've already cut out all of the fabric for Lavi's coat, except for the interfacing because I was stupid and didn't buy any :P That's on the agenda for today.

Working with actual suiting material beats the hell out of the couch vinyl I used for Sephiroth's coat any day. Plus I felt really proud of myself because I got to use the tracing paper to alter pattern pieces for the first time, and I think it's going to work! I'm getting good at this stuff, yo.

I have Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for GBA and I can't wait to start playing *vibrates*

On a completely different note, though, I have an urgent question:

Does anyone know how to play .mkv files? Nothing on my computer recognizes it, and I'm in dire straits because the only copies of Darker Than Black 13 and 14 I can find are in this format, and I must know what happens before my brain explodes. Stupid Funimation, licensing it and ruining my fun.

Hei~

I tried downloading a converter, but it was shareware and would only convert 5 minutes of it. I checked out the converted file and it lacked subtitles, so I am NOT paying for the stupid thing without understanding why the subtitles went away and/or some kind of guarantee that that would not happen with the full version.

So? Flist? Any suggestions you actually know works? I'm fine with either a player or a converter, so long as it WORKS.

I'm sick and tired of being limited by not being able to play these files, because it seems like more and more fansubbers are using this format. D. Grey-man is being put out by Black Order in both .avi and .mkv, and half the Devil May Cry episodes are also being put out in .mkv. I'm afraid I'm going to end up not being able to watch the rest of DMC, if this trend continues, as well.

*snuggles you all and runs off to play KH:CoM*

Hi, I don't post here enough. Most of the time I can't think of anything interesting to post about that doesn't involve bitching about something D:

But I have a couple of things now!

( Cut for a whole lot of rambling )

Edit: Oh yeah. We're going to be starting work on our cosplays for Yaoi-con, too. We're doing Lavi and Kanda from D. Grey-man, and we've got all the fabric and stuff for the costumes now. I need to pick up the materials for Kanda's sword and we also haven't fully worked out how Lavi's hammer is going to go, but we're ready to start working on the uniforms.

We're also going to be making an Allen costume for ilyat to wear XD That's going to be fun.

And since that's going so well, and this time we don't have to spend 3 months taking classes before we can start, we're also thinking of doing two more costumes. I'll be Hei from Darker Than Black, and Miko will be Train from Black Cat. I think that'll be a fun combination ^_~

It means that I'll be cutting my hair short for ycon. I'll also be keeping it black (It's been black ever since I coloured it for playing Itachi at Sakuracon). Hei has rather short hair, and I've never had it shorter than chin-length in my life! That's going to be a terrifying trip to the hair dresser.

So er...sorry about the capslock of rage yesterday. Stupid assignment. I did get an 89% on it, so it's not like it's really the end of the world. I just wish I could fathom how I could have improved it in the ways the teacher asked, because likely the next assignments (which are worth more) will be graded harder.

Ah well.

Despite all appearances, things are firmly in the 'okay' column with me, which is a nice upgrade from 'dying of stress'. Working from home was a stress of a different sort from getting prepared to send Mom off for vacation, and a lesser kind of stress as well, so I'm feeling a bit better than I have been recently.

I joined an RPG, which makes two I'm in, both of which are dead slow. I keep trying to tell myself that the dead slow thing is GOOD, because when life kicks up and is stressy again I'll be blessing the fact that it's not overwhelming to me. But it's also a bit frustrating to only get a response to my posts once a day or so. When I start new things, I like to get right in there and get involved, and I kinda feel chained to the starting block.

But when life kicks up and is stressy again, I WILL be blessing the fact that it's not overwhelming to me. Really.

I need to get more motivation to do the stuff I'm supposed to be doing. Like getting organized to apply to law school, and doing more course work.

Instead I spent all of today watching cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts: Re Chain of Memories (the shiny 3-D version that's only in Japan - hoo boy is it shiny), in an effort to develop enough confidence to apply for Zexion. Which I then did. And hopefully having two characters in the game will help me feel a bit more involved. It's not like it's hard to keep up with two, and two is my maximum.

I should be writing. Gonna go fold laundry.

( Cut for serious capslock abuse )

...go about your business.