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07:17 pm: Why the hell not; let's do some bullet points.

• I disappeared again for a while. I actually had a good reason for it, though! The power cord/AC adapter for my laptop just randomly up and died about a month ago, and I was extremely strapped for cash, so I couldn't replace it right away. My laptop had to sit there and be a paperweight in the meantime. Aaand, I kept meaning to make a post in here mentioning that, but never got around to it. Oops. I think partly because I mentioned it on Twitter when it happened, so it felt like I'd already told everyone about it. Never mind that the majority of my flist are not on Twitter, that I know of. Double oops. Anyway, I've replaced the cord, so I'm back now!
  
  
• ...Speaking of Twitter, if you have one and I'm not following you, feel free to add me. (If you don't mind the occasional extreme late-night manga-reading reaction tweet spam, that is. I think I'm not too obnoxious about it? I hope?) I have to say that another reason I haven't been updating my LJ nearly as much these days is because I will tweet small tidbits and feel sated, whereas before I would save a few of them up for an LJ entry.
  
  
• Quite a few people on my flist were doing cliche_bingo; it looked like fun, so I decided to give it a shot too.
  
  ( my bingo card )
  
  
• Finally, I am in a letter-writing mood lately, so it's that time again: LETTERS! Anyone want a letter from me? You wouldn't even have to write back (though I'll be honest, I would love you forever if you did). If you'd like to get a letter from me, comment in this post saying so, and drop your address in my contact post, if you haven't already. People outside the States are totally fine as well; I have a ton of international stamps that will take forever to use otherwise.

That's it for now.

Tags: addresses, attempting to be productive, computer woes, letters, real life, twitter, writing

01:03 am: I linked this in Twitter already, so some of you will have already seen it, but basically...I'd love for all and sundry to spam me with prompts over at my writing journal. I know when I take requests I rarely end up finishing them all, even though I try...but this is a little different. I'm hoping to find inspiration, but I'm making no guarantees on writing everything. Because of this, I'd actually prefer you leave a lot of prompts, because it'll give me more to work with. Think of it as doing me a small favor. Anything goes!



Tags: attempting to be productive, writing

04:49 am: You guys. You guys. Why did you not tell me that Hana Kimi had crossdressing? I mean, everyone always said, "Oh, Hana Kimi is so good!" which is all well and good, but didn't do much to bump it up on my priority list. However, Girls in Drag = Very Yes. I've read like the first six volumes now and I really like it. So, yay!

I actually shouldn't be online right now, but I am sneaking on for a sec (well, a little longer than that) because I just finished my Konoka/Setsuna picture for yuri_challenge and I wanted to post it right away. Of course, I still have two more prompts I claimed, so. Hopefully I will finish those soon. Argh. I just don't know what it is with me. I used to be good at making deadlines. Or even...there are things I say I'll do, like taking drabble or sketch requests, and I mean to do them, but I get sidetracked and then...after a while, I start to feel guilty for not doing them yet and they start to feel kind of like obligations. Then, even though usually I still want to do them, I start to feel extra pressure, which in turn makes it harder to do things. I DUNNO. Things would probably be easier if I didn't have Super Awesome Catholic Guilt Powers^TM, but I'm still not sure how to shake that. Hm.

Anyway, speaking of Negima, I just read 200. *__* I HAVE MISSED YOU, SECCHAN! She had her wings out and everything! ♥ (Though did she really need to be naked for the entire chapter, Akamatsu? sigh.) I'm beyond bored with Negi's arc right now (do not care about shounen training), but things look like they may be getting more interesting on Setsuna and Asuna's end.

Oh. I keep meaning to mention this and forgetting: I bought some catnip bubbles for my kitty. She's a hyper little spaz, and she loves catching bugs and chasing her laser light and that sort of thing, so I figured popping bubbles would be right up her alley, not to mention the catnip part. Well. Turns out she's afraid of them. I blow bubbles, she hides under the couch until they all pop. Then she comes out and enjoys the catnippy residue on the carpet. Oh, Éowyn.

Tags: art, attempting to be productive, cutest otp evar!, manga, negima, rambling

09:53 am: The high yesterday was -8° F. Right now it's -24° F. This is without the windchill. Sometimes I just love living in Minnesota.*

My computer looks to have something seriously wrong with it, and so I'll probably be sending it in for maintenance. Hopefully that won't take too long, but I expect to be pretty scarce until it's fixed. I can get online from home, but it's only a pretty awful dial-up connection on a shared phone line, so not that convenient and not something I can use a lot. Oh well. I'LL SURVIVE.

I've actually been relatively productive in the past few days, despite somehow managing to get sick again. I made a bunch of icons (this one included; I like it a lot!), finished knitting some hats and scarves for various people, and am almost done with some (already woefully late) things for yuri_challenge.

...And then there's the Bleach fic I wrote for Howie's birthday. Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Uhm. I wrote Ichigo/Kon-in-Rukia's-gigai. ...snuzzie GIVES IT HER SEAL OF APPROVAL.** :D

Looks like most people don't mind if I do the book blog thing in this journal, so I'll probably start that up...as soon as I work up the motivation to type out the first one. Yay, books!

I swear I actually had a LOT more I meant to write about, but now that I'm actually sitting down to do it, nothing else springs to mind. Isn't that always the way.

Instead, have a meme! Give me a fandom and the title of a story I haven't actually written, and I'll tell you a little more about the story in question!

Going to sleep now, but I'll reply when I wake up. ♥

*For those keeping score at home, that was SARCASM.
**Or...something.

Tags: attempting to be productive, bleach, books, computer woes, frigid sub-arctic temperatures, icons, meme, reading journal, writing