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February 9th, 2010

11:59 pm - Not actually a GIP, after all. ...Suddenly having two new icon spaces isn't really a good reason to get a new icon just because it makes me laugh uncontrollably, is it? Also, I totally called it in other post about FMA scanlations. They don't make things better at all. ;_; ( Spoilers in this cut! ) Incidentally, my suspicion that FMA is going to end with 108 chapters is increasing. Because, well, this has to be the darkest hour before the dawn. On a lighter FMA related note, there is this post, for all your inappropriately lulzy greeting card needs. (There are chapter 104 spoilers in the comments, though). And the promo trailer for the FMA:B dub. Which starts in the US on Valentine's Day. And, now for something completely different: A meme I yoinked from ypaladinofchaos. Leave a comment saying, "COMMENT" and I will give you five words I associate with you. Then post about what they mean to you, along with this, at your journal. My answers are: ( Behind the cut ) Current Mood: awake Tags: fandom: anime/manga, fandom: fma, gip, memes, spoilers

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February 7th, 2010

11:44 pm - Cue romantic music So, yesterday I went to altheas and lena_supercat's wedding. Which was lots of fun - certainly the most entertaining wedding I've been to. Partially because, for once, I actually knew people beyond a few members of extended family. I probably knew people - including the bride and groom - much better than I normally would. Cue d'aww moments. Partially because, well, geek wedding FTW! LOL Gazebo! And partially because of altheas's glorious collapse. Face it, Rob, that's going to be family gossips for you guys for decades. Fainting in the middle of your own wedding... The reception was much fun, too. With all the sangria and the origami flowers. And the vodka toast. And the tequila toast. And the dance list with songs such as Numa Numa and Skullcrusher Mountain. I mean, how can you not approve of a wedding where they play Still Alive during the cutting of the wedding cake? Class. Current Mood: happy Tags: friends, partay!

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11:01 am - I imagine it'll be even worse when I see the actual scanlations HOLY SHIT FMA! Current Mood: stunned disbelief Tags: fandom: fma, spoilers

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February 3rd, 2010

08:55 pm - GIP! (Because I can't really think of anything to post about right now) ...Yeah, I think the icon says it all, really. It was either that or yammer about the TTGL movies and their awesome ridiculousness. I need more things to talk about. Current Mood: amused Tags: fandom: anime/manga, gip, lolarity

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January 29th, 2010

10:38 pm - And today's dose of DO NOT WANT is... So, this afternoon, our hot water heater sprung a leak. Aaand the plumber won't be showing up until some time tomorrow. (No, I don't have any more precise time frame than that. Just... tomorrow). So the iPartment is currently without hot water. Great. *sigh* On a less irritating note, courtesy of csakuras I do believe, we have some fannish trivia I have just found out: Apparently, Hiromu Arakawa is a mother! Oh, and her son is about two years old - which means she managed to give birth and raise a baby without ever getting behind schedule on Fullmetal Alchemist. Which is really quite impressive. Actually, there's some speculation over at that link that the time frame explains a hospitalisation of hers a few years back (Just after the ED NOT DED thing) - which, if I have my dates correct, means that her baby was born at about the time that I started reading the manga month by month. O_O Current Mood: annoyed Tags: fandom: fma, ipartment

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January 27th, 2010

09:24 pm - Here, have some crack If you in need of something hilariously awesome, then look no further, for I have found a thing of wonderment: A (male) ice skater, performing a routine to... Poker Face. There just really aren't any words for this sort of thing. Link courtesy of Go Fug Yourself which is far too addictive for anyone's good. Current Mood: amused Tags: lolarity, randomness

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January 25th, 2010

10:42 pm - There is something fundamentally wrong with the world right now There were Easter Eggs at the supermarket today. Why were there Easter Eggs at the supermarket today? Current Mood: confused Tags: randomness, wtf?

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January 24th, 2010

10:49 pm - *spins around on my chair again* FUCK YEAH NEW COMPUTER CHAIR! *\o/* Well, got for Christmas sort of new, anyway. ...SHUT UP, MY NEW COMPUTER CHAIR IS AWESOME! And you'd think so too, if you'd spent the last four years with an old chair you'd yoinked from a nature strip. (Look, it was free, and I am a Uni student. The logic there is obvious. I just had to put up with the fact that the stuffing of the seat was leaking, and it was no longer adjustable) Look, it spins and goes up and down and I can roll around my room, and the back can be adjusted! It actually has a decent back... Okay, I probably ought to cut back on the spinning, it's making me dizzy. Anyway, last night I went to the tennis with Mum and The Sister. First match was Lleyton Hewitt versus Baghdatis, which started out with a set and a half of Hewitt trouncing Baghdatis, before Baghdatis retired due to injury. Which may explain said trouncing. This was admittedly somewhat disappointing, given the two have something of a history of epic matches, but what can you do? Next match was between two female players whom I had never heard of before. Which ended up rather more interesting than the first one, even if it was a straight sets victory, mainly because at least there were some decent rallies going on before people won. Look at me, talking like I know shit about tennis... Current Mood: dizzy Tags: ipartment, randomness, teh family

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January 16th, 2010

11:32 pm - And a gratuitous PLOCK for laurenmitchell Hey, fa11ing_away, you seem to have left some clothes here in the bathroom. Just what should I actually do with them, since I really have no idea. On a similar note, I need your new address so I can forward mail to you. Via PM or email or whatever is fine, I just can't recall all your new details right now, and I assume you'll want your mail. In other news, today I went to lena_supercat's birthday barbecue, which was fun and meant I could catch up with lots of people whom I haven't seen in a while. And, you know, having generally geeky conversations as we hung out by the Yarra. Which was a fun way to spend an afternoon. Apart from the sunburn. Ouch. In fannish news, I read the newest Jasper Fforde book, Shades of Grey, and rather liked it despite it being rather darker and less comedic than his other books. Pun not intended. Anyone else read it or know of somewhere I could chat on it? Oh, and over in wankdom, Victoria Bitter has decided to leave fandom! FOR REALZ!!one! Does it count as pseudocide if you say you still have 6 weeks to live? And in serious news: So, I hear it really sucks to be in Haiti about now. I must go through the stuff at help_haiti and see if any fan-artists/icon makers/fic writers I like are offering their services. Current Mood: sore Tags: fandom wank, fandom: jasper fforde, friends, ipartment, links

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January 12th, 2010

11:29 pm - Well, that started with a bang /extremely cheap joke And I am now in possession of a shiny new housemate, whom still I require a snappy nickname for. And it only took one car crash for him to get his stuff here! ...Yeah, apparently there was an incident with his car driving here. The front of it is kind of smashed up. But hey, no-one was injured. And the iPartment now actually has someone who owns a car. Go us. Incidentally, I am incredibly, incredibly greatful for the cool change. The weather has been utterly ridiculous for the last few days. And I don't sleep well in hot weather. Current Mood: hot Tags: ipartment

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January 10th, 2010

09:59 pm - Oh look, it's FMA Day! So, today the FMA fandom got a new episode, with an all new OP and ED, and a new scanlated chapter. Damn, it's good to be us. Firstly, ZOMG CHECK OUT THE NEW OP AND ED HERE! I think I love them both ♥ and I definitely need those full songs. But yes, lovely shiny awesome OP and ED, though there are screencaps and spoilers for the episode in that link. (From what I could tell the episode wasn't the greatest, but next week, eeee Hoho backstory time!) I also have other thoughts on the OP and ED, which are both thematically kind of similar, and involve spoilers for those who haven't read the next arc in the manga: ( Vague manga spoilers, ahoy! ) As for chapter 103 of the manga, it was a bit less HOLY SHIT FMA than the last few. But that just meant that it didn't end on an excruciatingly painful cliffhanger like the last few did. It did move a number of plot points forward and there was a lot of awesome (and a few amusing moments), both for our main characters and for the civilians, but slightly less ARGH HOW COULD YOU END IT THERE than last time. And I was amused at the way Ed asked a whole bunch of the questions fandom has been stuck on for the last month. Oh Arakawa, you either planned this out incredibly well, or you hang out online reading the fan reactions. Or both! ...So can we have the next episode and chapter, plz? Current Mood: excited Tags: fandom: fma, links, spoilers

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January 9th, 2010

10:43 pm - *insert emo going away song here* And I am now deficient one housemate, now that fa11ing_away has spread her wings for the distant shores of... New South Wales. Okay, not that distant, but still. She has gone, *sniff* and The New Guy (Who is going to be referred to as such until I come up with a snappy nickname for him) has yet to actually move in, even if his bedroom furniture is down in the store room. ...Which means I am very shortly going to be the Token Female of the iPartment. I am not entirely certain how I feel about this. I must come up with a plot for making the boys my minions, since obviously I am the boss around here On the plus side, most of the kitchen and living room stuff now belongs to me. And the dodgy washing machine. Thrilling, I know, but hey, more bookshelf space. And in fannishness and a much more cheerful note, since FMA scanlations don't seem to be up yet and the episode with new OP and ED isn't until tomorrow, I give you THE RETURN OF BATZAKU! (Yes, remember that staggeringly brilliant idea I became enthralled with a few months ago?) Courtesy of some random artist I found on DeviantArt. Also featuring Lelouch crushing Suzaku's dreams. Current Mood: thoughtful Tags: fandom: anime/manga, fandom: comics, fandom: fma, friends, ipartment, lolarity

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January 7th, 2010

07:43 pm - Anime Reviews: Long Time, No See Wow, it's been a long time since I've done one of these. As in literally over 6 months. Ah, whoops? I suppose that's what happens when one is busy with Interning and Uni and assignments and exams and travelling all over the place. Unfortunate consequence of this: The first couple of things on this list I literally watched months ago, and so it's now not so much immediate impressions as considered reactions. Which is both good and bad, since it means fandom has had time to get it's claws into me. Posting in order of when I watched them, and everything potentially has spoilers all the way through. ( Death Note (anime) ) ( Code Geass and Code Geass R2 (anime) ) ( Read or Die (OVAs) ) ( Ouran High School Host Club (anime) ) So, that'd be that then. Of course, finishing up that lot means I am rather deficient in my "To Watch" list, since I haven't got a real lot sitting around at the moment. I do have some assorted manga catching up to do, too. Anyway, I currently have the first season of Black Lagoon, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. (Yeah, I know. But it's a classic, so I figured I should watch it at some point. And it was on special at JB Hi-Fi) But beyond that, I am totally open to recommendations. My older comments and reviews should give some idea of the stuff I like; beyond that I would prefer completed series, either something I can grab a box set of, or just a season torrent with subs. Possibly something a bit more cheery and happy, since... yeah. Current Mood: calm Tags: fandom: anime/manga, reviews, spoilers

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January 3rd, 2010

11:11 pm - And for my first post of the new year, I chose to talk about... Well, it's a bit late now, but Happy New Year, all! (And for the Doctor Who fans, Happy New Doctor, since that has taken over my flist as of late.) I've been busily socialising over the past few days, hence the lack of postiness. On New Year's Eve I went over to Tristan's. It conveniently started raining just as I got off the tram, so we ended up sitting in his kitchen and/or living room, eating drinking and drunkenly watching anime (Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu, for the record. There was a drinking game). Oh, and at Midnight we went outside and stood at the tram stop shelter to watch the fireworks. Because that's the way to celebrate, donchaknow? Friday was fa11ing_away's going away thing here. (Yeah, in a week or so I is losing a housemate. *wipes away emo tear* And I am yet to come up with a snappy nickname for the new one) There were about 20 people or so who showed up. And we had drinking and pizza and ridiculousness. And I wasn't actually the first person drunk, huzzah! And yesterday, I was intending to go to one of the comedy gigs at 303 in Northcote. Of course, they were sold out, and in my great good fortune I didn't find out about this until I actually got there. In Northcote. Which was a waste of tram ride, and caused much grumpiness. So instead I went back to the city and had a nutella crepe. Because what can't be solved with the judicious application of nutella crepes? Listening to Won't See Me Coming from Gankutsuou on repeat is also rather theraputic when one is annoyed, I have found. Hopefully, things should be settling down a bit for now. Well, at least until next weeks housemate changeover... Current Mood: tired Tags: friends, i need sleep, ipartment, partay!

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December 29th, 2009

11:15 pm - Am back from Christmasing And so that was Christmas. And, um, Adelaide. Christmas lunch was at Mum's, with her and The Sister and Mum's friend Robyn. Which was entertaining and hey, we got to hear about someone else's family drama for once. (The Sister's BFF - who is also Robyn's daughter - woke her mum up at 7am, having just come from the town jail. No, she hadn't been in jail, some dude beat up her brother and got arrested for it. On Christmas morning.) Presents were: - New computer chair from Dad. Which is still at Mum's place, since I didn't fancy taking a freaking chair on the train to Melbourne. - Sister got me some Body Shop stuff, chocolate, and a copy of the book Where's Bin Laden? (3D version). Cue lulz. - From Mum there were a bunch of lollies, some flavoured margarita mixers, and a Pandora bracelet. I entirely expect to be getting charms for it for about my next ten birthdays. Then on Boxing Day we headed off to Adelaide. Which was... Adelaide. It apparently dies at like 5pm in the evening. We did, however, get to see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema, which was quite a bit of fun. The Panda's at the zoo were cute! I shall upload pictures, if any of mine actually turn out decent. Oh, and I am currently boggling over the fact that I didn't get sunburnt at all in Cambodia or Singapore, but I did in freaking Adelaide. WTF, universe? Next on the schedule: New Years. Actually, on a vaguely related note, anyone want to go to the movies tomorrow or on Thursday before whatever NYE thing you have going on? I have two free movie tickets that expire at the end of December. Current Mood: chipper Tags: fandom: anime/manga, partay!, plotting, teh family

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December 22nd, 2009

11:12 pm - Adorable last minute presentage ahoy! Oh amusement. So, I put out my presents for fa11ing_away and the HouseMatt, since I honestly have no idea if I'm going to get another chance to see those two before, well, Christmas, what with heading off tomorrow. So, when fa11ing_away got home from work, and started frantically rushing around to put my present together, she didn't have any cards left. So, instead she drew my one. With a chibi Ed Elric in a Santa hat on the front. It's really quite adorable. I'll have to take a picture or scan or whatever at some point. Yes, it was blatantly inspired by the fact that when she asked for a few minutes to get things I ready, I told her I'd kill time watching the newest FMA episode. And now I must pack for Christmas, since I've scrounged a lift with The Sister and her BFF tomorrow morning. God, I am getting so damned fed up with all this packing. No idea how likely I am to update/read my flist over the next week or so. Depends on how busy I am, and how much Internet time I have. But Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/[insert holiday greeting of your choice here] all! Current Mood: amused Tags: fandom: fma, ipartment, lolarity, toodles

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December 21st, 2009

10:20 pm - *abuses this one Christmas icon horribly* So, I've finished my Christmas shopping. *\o/* Though I probably shouldn't have done it all in one day. By the end of it, my arms were full of bags and they were painful to carry. Yowch. And our plans for actual Christmas seem to be on the worked out side of things. So, I'll be heading down to Ye Olde Hamilton on the 23rd (I think, pending travel arrangements), and stay with Mum for Christmas Eve and Christmas, having Christmas dinner at her place. Then on Boxing Day, we are apparently heading over to Adelaide for a few days. Yes, yes, I know, LOL ADELAIDE. Anyone know if there's going to be anything fun to do at Adelaide just after Christmas? And after a couple of days there, we head back to Hamilton, and then myself and The Sister head back to Melbourne a bit after that. So I'll be back at the iPartment maybe on the 29th? Ish? Before New Years, anyway, which reminds me, anyone got any plans for New Years? ...And now all that's left to do is wrap presents, and back for the Christmas break. And catch up on fandom things. Current Mood: tired Tags: plotting, shopping, teh family

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December 18th, 2009

11:24 pm - I kind of regret no longer having the Cthulu/FSM icon on LJ now So it turns out the inexplicable extra bandwidth was not a mistake after all! Just a change in the Internet plan set up. Which, well, I can so totally live with. Also, I just played several games of a Cthulu based card game. I was winning the first game, until I lost my sanity. But I actually won the second game! And I didn't go insane! Huzzah! \o/ And in more serious news, fa11ing_away just got an interstate job offer. Which is wonderful news for her and all, but it does mean that, as of the middle of January, the iPartment is going to be one person down. So, if any of guys in Melbourne are looking for a house to share - or know of someone who is - let me know ASAP, and we can talk over email or AIM or something about the details. ...Yeah, getting a new housemate is kinda important about now. Current Mood: busy Tags: ipartment, lolarity, plotting, request to flist

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December 17th, 2009

08:38 pm - Someone screwed up somewhere, and it wasn't me! For some reason, today - the last day before our monthly Internet clocks over to the next month - our remaining bandwidth has inexplicably doubled. Which means I have about 3 and a half hours to download, like, 20 something gigs worth of stuff. Quick, flist, what should I download! Current Mood: devious Tags: plotting, wtf?

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December 13th, 2009

11:30 pm - I so don't feel ready to start thinking about Christmas Oh God, Mum's asking me what I want for Christmas. And naturally, I'm having a mental blank time beyond the generic stuff. Quick, flist, help me come up with ideas! I've already asked Dad for a new computer chair... Current Mood: contemplative Tags: request to flist, teh family

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