I should be in bed now but I appear not to be.  It's been a long week and nearly a half, I'm exhausted (apparently not enough to be in bed yet), but it's going to get better.  It hasn't be necessarily bad, just long and tiring.  My classes seem good.  Started working on a story for Rob's fiction class that involves Jace and Sven.  They're some new boys. 

My computer is really lame right now.  It freezes constantly, and ugh.. it's driving me crazy.  I need a new one or to get it fixed or something but I don't have the money or time to give it to professional geeks to mess around with it anyway.  So ugh.  This is relevant because I needed some Milo tonight and watched Dirty Deeds which was really cute and amusing.  I have a soft spot for high school/college brats.  Which... is Milo.  In like everything I've seen him in.  But that's okay, he makes an adorable brat.

This song is threatening to inspire something.  Might be lil' Tony!  Might be someone new.  Might be mob!frat!Pete and the only person who would get that isn't on my flist.  Obviously I need to fix that problem there.

Okay, self.  Go to bed.

I hate this week already.

Not ready for school to start.  Meh.  Also, I wrote this thing.  It's angsty and sad.

Inspired by this video.

The Strong One

Nights like these with soggy streets and dripping clouds, the tail lights of traffic bled all over the ground, turning the puddles red instead of black.  It looked like the worst of accident scenes he'd been to.  It also reminded him that he hadn't seen the sky since Nathan's funeral.

( But even if he could see the sky, the stars, it was empty... )

Lookit what I made!



For my lil' Tony journal.  Awwww.  *is proud of mediocre non-photoshoping*

Wow.  Just had an earthquake.  Rumbled for about a minute or so too.

Update: There was a 6.5 or so off the coast of Eureka, which is five hours away over the mountains from us for some perspective.  My aunt, who lives there, has no power, but is fine.

"Nathan never made it easy..."

;_;

Quickest way to win me over: flight.

Why yes.  Yes I am spamming you.

Here's a Heroes fic and a half.  Or half and a fic?  I don't know, something like that.  I wrote these original on my RP journal, but they stand alone since I'm not technically playing this verse I suppose?  Very much AU, and um.. my own response to most recent episodes... mostly The Fifth Stage.  I'm still in the denial stage.  Might not reach acceptance.  Put that in your pipe and smoke it, writers.  *shakes fist*  Anyway.. this is not turning into a rant, I promise.  So these are kind of weird, and like I said, AU-y.  Also evil and mean, because... that's what I do.  I'm mean.  I'm a mean person.  Gr.

These were titled in part by veetvoojagig  "Batshit!Pete and HalluciNate".  So that's the series...  Heroes season 4 canon AU thingy.

The Mirror
( He stared at it in the mirror. Ever since he had pulled the bandages off, he hadn't wanted to look at it, but now he had to... )



Wanderlust

( Angela Petrelli watched with disapproval as her son threw clothes into the half-open dufflebag... )

Happy New Year everyone, a bit late. 

There was a lovely rainbow today.  It was huge, and so bright... it was really weird because it was actually raining pretty hard, but the sky was only partially cloudy.  It was very cool.  The most brilliant rainbow I've ever seen.  So that was a rather spectacular way to start out the new year.

My friends and I went mini-golfing, in the rain.  Since it's been raining here since like.. Christmas.  :D  I approve of this weather.  Anyway, it was fun, we were silly.  Then we went for ice cream at the awesome local place, which has PUMPKIN ICE CREAM, therefore I need to go back in the near future.  I...didn't get it this time.  I needed chocolate.  It was a need.  (chocolate = cure-all for cramps).  

The people who set off fireworks at midnight obviously need watches.  I've decided this after years of hearing fireworks go off like two hours before midnight, and then an hour after midnight.  But no fireworks AT midnight.  Maybe they're all drinking and toasting?  (which I'm sure firework people are doing, I swear one like crashed into our street or something, or came really close last night).  But it just seems dumb, like midnight is the time that you set off the fireworks because that's when you celebrate, but the people who set them off here seem to be idiots?  (besides, you know, the obvious amateur firework deal...)  Just a general observation and something that seemed... weird.

I don't really have much to say about the past year.  I'm too lazy to go through my old posts and post stuff about it.  I can tell you that I'll be thrilled to graduate this year and have no more school EVER.  I'm a little sick of people telling me I NEED to get my masters.  No actually I NEED to not have homework anymore, thanks.  I'm just so so so burnt out on school and I hate its guts, so really I don't want to go to grad school because I'm just tired, and no one seems to understand that.  *grumblegrumble*  Really the thing I need is a job, and that hasn't happened yet.  I guess just.. persistence for that.

I do want to say that I've enjoyed everyone's comments and posts on LJ not just in the past year, but in all the years I've been here.  What, like five now?  Or six?  I haven't told you guys that enough, that you all do mean a lot to me and I harth you all :D  I hope everyone has a great new year.

................I just heard some fireworks.  YOU'RE WAY TOO LATE.  ...

Avatar was epic and gorgeous.  Wow.  I kinda got teary a few times, I admit...  But I get choked up over Planet Earth and I like my nature porn (and geez, the scene with flying, yeah, that'll get me every time).  I really liked it.  It was a big too long I thought, I was getting restless, and so was dad, but yeah, it was really good.  Very well executed.  It was another fun movie, with some interesting concepts that I'm sure could have been better expanded upon, but.. I'll take the pretty :D  I want to live on a glowy planet.

I really liked Sherlock Holmes.  It was just fun, enough to keep you actively engaged and not too much to be heavy and wearing down.  Downey made a good bratty Holmes and Jude Law was awesome.  I really like Rachel McAdams too.  The folk-y music was great too.  Overall, a lot of fun.  I'll go again.

Had a good Christmas all in all.  We went to my Aunt's and then stayed at Grandma's.  I was so tired I slept for 12 hours.  We wore the dog out too on a really long walk that she wasn't used to.  She did fine though, and she did fine with all of the people and my aunt's dog and everything.  By far, Guinness is the most well-behaved canine in the family.  She doesn't pester in an annoying way and she doesn't steal food or pee on things, and she's really sweet.  But anyway, it went well, it was nice to see everyone.

I've been watching season 2 of Heroes now that I have it and season 3 on DVD, which is pretty cool.  They had a freaky ending for season 2 where the virus was released that scared the crap out of me.  So glad they didn't keep that.  But I'm not even sure how they would have gotten out of that to be honest, that may have been a case of writing oneself into a corner.  You can't really make a cure for that fast enough to stop it from spreading even if you quarantine the town, because it's an airborne virus, and it would just kinda.. go.  Everywhere.  Like colds.  But anyway, since spontaneous contagious viruses are top on my list of Things That Seriously Freak Me Out, I'm really glad they didn't go that route. 

However, that meant I finally figured out where this came from:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-cHmUH3voA

Silly boys.

Anyway, for my own organization purposes and because I felt like it, a list of stories that survived No-Time-At-All semester:

- Animal (yup, still working on it...even started the next chapter, complete with kennings!  yay!)
- Not Your Princess Story (because I have ENDLESS material for this one)
- Anomaly (I'm restarting this one.  Same idea, different beginning and places for characters.  I didn't like how I started it last time)
- Untitled mirror thingy fic... (more info on this when I actually have info)
- Jace and Sven (They're semi-new)

Looking forward to seeing Avatar and Sherlock Holmes sometime this week.  It'll be nice to finally see some movies now that I have time again.  :D 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Happy Hanukkah to pensive1  albeit a bit late though... :/  But <3 anyway.  :D

A half a week after finals got out, I turned in my final Old English essay.  It's a half a page short (going in halves here apparently), and I hope that's okay.  I just.. ugh.  I'm so incredibly done with school.  This semester just whipped me out, and I hated my two English classes... the OE seminar was cool and Russian was fun, but the English classes just sucked.  Even though the professor I really didn't like gave me A's on both of my papers.  It's nice to know that she's not biased because she didn't like me in class, but apparently she loved my papers.

Anyway.  I hope to dive into some writing now that I have the time, though that's relative... we'll see.  Still excited about Sherlock Holmes, and OMG IRON MAN 2 eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  Yeah.  I don't really think there's that much else to say.  School just took over, there really hasn't been anything that note-worthy.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday though.  :D  I put cards in the mailbox today but apparently they won't go out until Saturday because I missed the mail truck anyway.  Also made truffles this year, they turned out... interesting.  I'll have to post about that later.

Finished my essay for Geoff's class, now I just have my Old English one to finish. Harriet told us we could get it in "before January" LOL, so we're not confined to finals week, which was very nice of her. So almost done with that. *big sigh*

AND THEN THIS OMG:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. EEEEEEE. E.

Almost done... almost done...

Okay, so backlog of stuff here. So the interview at Safeway was as ambiguous as ever. They were not happy at all when I said I was a student. Apparently working around student's schedules is NOT something they want to do. Thanks guys. You do realize your store is in a college town, right? They said that they were going to call me Tuesday (today) if they were interested, but after the student thing, they didn't sound very interested... And there was no call today.

However, I'm not um that disappointed to be honest. It would have been a 16 hour a week job doing bagging and stocking, which would be fine, but the hours sucked. They weren't flexible at all. They had two shifts, either 6am to 3pm or 3pm to midnight. Now this wouldn't be as horrible if I wasn't going to school. But I could only work the evening shifts during the week, and I'd have homework and have to get up to go to school the next day... yeah.

So that's that. The Associated Students people did look at my application for the bookstore--it sent me an automated email to tell me someone looked at it. But I haven't heard from them, so I dunno. The bookstore would be really nice. But who knows. At this point I really just want to be done with school and then worry about a job.

It's so cold here. Like abnormally cold. It's 25 right now which is.. really, really cold for us. It was supposed to snow Sunday night and didn't. It snowed everywhere but here, which is pretty typical, except we had the perfect conditions and everything, just no snow. Everywhere but here. *sigh* I was pretty disappointed, I mean I really should know better than to get my hopes up. It's only snowed twice in my lifetime and the first time I don't even remember. The second time in high school, it didn't even stick, it just melted when it touched the ground.

It's been cold since, like today I don't think it got much above 40. I had so many clothes on and was still cold... And the worst thing is my jaw is so bound up now because of the cold that it's about the same that it was when I was in high school. It hurts off and on, and if I'm physically out in the cold, the side of my face aches and my neck, and inside my ear which is the worst. But my jaw in general is pretty bad, it hurts to talk, and definitely hurts to eat. I had a hard time with a bagel tonight... Not fun. I put heat on it for a little while, but the relief didn't last very long.

Almost done with the semester... *sigh* I'm so tired.

Okay, so having a lot of angst and ugh lately, and that school is almost over (with is SO happy news), I have good news to post, finally.

After going every day to sign the application sheet since... early October, I finally have a job interview at Safeway!

I'm not ready to say goodbye.

Hi Flist.

I was going to do this later, but I had a brilliant idea today and wanted to do it sooner rather than later. I'll post one or two more times to catch anyone that doesn't get it this time.

If you'd like a Christmas (or Holiday) card, please leave your address in the screened comments.

:D

I probably should have been homeworking, but.. this wouldn't leave me alone. I have no idea if I'll have time to continue it. I hope so. This is just the prologue because it's so short. More plot-y stuff later if I continue it.

This was inspired by this video. Also spoilery.

Title: When the Devil Takes Hold
Fandom: Heroes
Spoilers: Yes. BIG ones. And some AU-y-ness

When the Devil Takes Hold

When God is gone and the Devil takes hold,
Who will have mercy on your soul?
“Oh Death” – Jen Titus

Prelude: Paradise Lost

( Peter had the eeriest feeling he didn't want to turn his back on him... )

Happy Star Trek day! I haven't had a chance to watch it, I'll have to do that tomorrow.

I finally got my schedule worked out for next semester, which will be my last (WHOO). I needed to take two writing classes and a final GE class for my upper division theme (which I'm still weirded out that no one seems to know or have told me about prior to getting to the State University from the jr college), and I thought I had another English elective, but I don't think I do. So just those three. I'm trying to find a fun class, but.. that's tough. The budget is hitting the college hard, lots of classes have been cut. The English department is offering the bare minimum necessary. So one of the writing classes conflicted with the GE theme class, but when I finally got to talk to the theme advisor (weeks later), I found out that there's a substitute. So I'll be going from Noon to 10 pm on Mondays. Yay..... But at least it's fixed.

Still no job.

Went to my dad's concert band concert tonight. They played the English Folk Song Suite, which we played in high school, and I really like it a lot. It brings back a lot of really good memories.

But then they played this other modern band piece that was a memoriam to the bombing of Dresden, Germany during WWII, and the conductor gave a small introduction explaining that there was no military presence in the town, and the bombing caused a fire-storm on the city. I should have taken the hint and gone out to hide in the bathroom right then. Um. I guess the composer was successful in what he was trying to accomplish, but it was by no means pleasant. The discordant, jarring and ominous music was bad enough. But the whispering voices were awful. And then toward the end, they had three bass drums around the audience and they were getting louder and faster and more chaotic, and the voices were yelling and screaming. About this point I lost it and broke down crying. It was way too much for me. Apparently I have a sore on the inside of my lip from biting it during that song.

Then they played some gypsy dances. Now that we've traumatized you... have some gypsies!

By explanation of my absence, I've sort of been consumed by LJ rping... *sigh* why do fake people have to be so fun?

Also, Heroes makes me so sad now. :(