Talking Soup

I need to read more gay novels.

It sounds weird, yeah. If I was writing a novel where my characters are doctors I'd say, "I need to read more medical journals." If I had astronauts, I'd say, "I need to find Buzz Aldrin's autobiography." It's the same thing. Research.

Cause really, much as I love E and Kail, I don't want them to come off as, you know, fake. There are certain details, some of them the gory kind, that I need to know.

You know, it's almost weird that I don't really know any gay people. I know some lesbians and some bisexuals (<--labeling! *hate!*), but no gay guys. I fricking go to Ithaca College and I don't know anyone who's gay.

It's kind of weird that I'm saying this at all.

Hm.

Why do I always fall in love with the tragic pairings? Sirius/Remus? Come on. The time will come when Shoebox will stab us all in the heart, and I know that and love it all the same. Like I'm an emotional masochist or something. AkuRoku? Sweet Baby Jesus. Masochist. Ennis/Jack? I even saw that one coming and I still love those cowboys to death. Hisoka/Tsuzuki? No one's died--yet--but holy fuck dark, tortured past, and there's never any respite for them! Hiei/Kurama? ....Okay, not "stab-you-in-the-fugging-heart," but the whole demons-with-the-dark-past thing...yeah.

Freaking Romeo/Romeo complex or something (wait, that doesn't work, that's like mas-*mfff!!* Whatever, you get the idea.). Doomed lovers and all that.

Everyone I love dies. I ship the ships that hit the reefs and sink.

I'm reading this beautiful AkuRoku fic right now, and you can just tell that tragedy is coming, but it's so darn wonderful I can't let it go.

Masochist.

Can we tell I'm depressed?

Aw. I stayed up really late trying to finish KH2. At least I think so. I'm fighting Xemnas, in any case. But anyway, you get to this part where you can't save your game at all and you have five bosses to fight, or something, and I was fighting Xemnas for the final time. But it was four AM and I kept losing and I was tired, so I decided to just leave the PS2 on and finish things tomorrow. No luck, though. Ben turned it off and started playing his own game. Ah well. I figure I need to level up some anyway.

Today is most definitely a writing day. I had some interesting dreams last night and woke up planning out this fight between Boone, Taenailo and some bad guys who came to break up Morgan's spirit path-thingy and kidnappify Taenailo. Plus I haven't been writing enough lately, and though I figure I do my best writing at night I'm getting sick of writing from two or three AM onward. That's too late, and my writing gets shoddy from tiredness. Bad, bad, bad. So I'm going to start writing earlier in the day. Like now.

After a sammich.

My feet hurt. Not because of my shoes, just because I spent about ten hours just...standing. Sitting down never felt so good. At least it wasn't as chaotic as I thought it would be, and I've kinda gotten the hang of everything. I even know what to do with alterations and holds now.

Not that it matters. Since, you know. I'm fucking leaving at the end of Sunday. Merrrrr...

I also bought an iPod player during my break. It's also a radio, which is just fricking sweet, and it has a connect port to a CD player, which I'll never use but oh well. Woot! And I'm pretty sure I hooked it up right. So all is right again, I muzak.

Can I just say that, Anti-Sora is teh awesome (Master Form pwns pretty hard too)? And Atlantica is teh suck? And where are the Organization guys? I haven't seen them in awhile.

In Mot--Piffwing has made her appearance, yaaahooo!! Which is the reason for the title. Christina's probably the only one who will understand that. Except that this time around Piffwing is a crazed, energetic spirit of wind, and not a pink furball who spouts random prophecies. Though the new Piffwing still yells sa-pwang all the time and speaks in rhyme when she wants to. Which confuses Morgan to no end.

And there is action again! I realized a little while ago that there is a general lack of fight scenes in Mot--it's mostly drama, which is fun but doesn't involve magic and deadly metal pointy things.

Liz finally made it to Minnesota. She flies standby because her aunt works for the airline, so she didn't make the first one, then made the late one to Ohio and I guess didn't make the second one, though somehow she's now in MN, safe and sound, apparently.

You know who Organization XIII reminds me of? The FMA homunculii. Not quite as sadistic (*koff* so far...), but the homunculii just wanted to be human, too. Awww....Man, you know a game is good when good and bad aren't clear cut. Who's side am I supposed to be on?

So yes, KH2 still owns my soul. The plot hath thickened! This is probably the best game I've ever played, Disney-ness notwithstanding. <3 for Axel and Demyx. Demyx who pwned me several times before I beat him, dammit. Waterboy.

Jobbage, neh? I have to work all three days of the sale, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 8-5, 9-6, 9-6, respectively. Which is all kinds of suck. But oh well, it's money. And hopefully they'll keep me after the sale ends, though I'm not sure. Suppose it depends on how often I fuck up this time. Also have to come in at 5 on Thursday, I guess to go over some stuff.

I got writing done!! It's a Tagrang scene and he has met *drumroll* Kara, another secondary character who is turning out to be pretty interesting. And connections have been made! It's all very awesome. Tagrang's going to learn some things he doesn't want to learn, which will affect his relationship with his best-enemies E and Kail later on.

And J won't be long in coming now. Cannnnnn't wait!!

France lost! Augh! Good game, though, up until the French player headbutted the Italian guy, RANDOMLY, getting himself red-carded out of the game in the SECOND overtime, dammit. Pissed me off. The game went into penalty kicks, which also kind of sucked, but it was a sweet game in that they were tied for so long and everyone played well. Missed the first half though.

Oh man! Work! I actually had to do real work yesterday. First half of the day was more training for the registers, then after lunch we were supposed to shadow (me and the other new girl) but we ended up behind the registers. It got pretty busy on and off too. I made a lot of mistakes, and one pretty big one, but I was sorta getting the hang of it by the end of the shift. Still don't really know how to do transfers, DTCs or alterations type stuff, but I can do returns and regular transactions. Can open gift cards, too. The guy's gonna call us tomorrow with our schedules.

I don't think I mentioned this. Thursday night, I think, Liz called me up and was like, "Come get me!" Apparently she was in the middle of a game called Border Patrol, which is like...you have a group of people who try to run from one house to another one that's like a mile away or so. Then there's people driving around in cars, so if they spot you you're out of the game, so you have to be all stealthy about it. Supposed to mimic crossing the border, or something.

Anyway, Liz wanted different shoes, so I drove her back to her house and then we sort of cheated and followed some of the other players (who Liz didn't know at all--she was hanging with Steve). Eventually we made it to the house, and Liz asked if I wanted to play the next game, so I said sure, alright. Thing was, I had my sandals on, so I eventually just took them off and was running around, in the dark, at night, barefoot. On streets and through bushes and stuff. Baaad, idea, though it definitely toughened up my feet some. We got caught eventually, but it was pretty fun. After that Liz went with Steven and the others and I went home. I found out later I had like a little metal shard embedded in my foot. Haha, didn't even know it was there. Tweezers didn't get all of it out, either, so now my foot hurts. Yay, tetnus!

Dwah!!! Kingdom Hearts! I finally beat the first one! Geeezus, those final bosses were hard. And the ending was sad, too. But after I beat it I decided I couldn't wait so I ran out to Blockbusters (at 8 pm last night) and got the second one and played that for HOURS. The second one kicks ass! Better graphics, better gameplay, better music, and I like the storyline a lot better, so far. And Roxas and the Organization dealio are awesome! Axel especially--I love pyromaniacs with crazy hair. I miss Roxas and Axel already. The whole thing was so sad and emotional, which is why I like the storyline so much. Though it seems more like a movie than a game--there's a lot of cinematics, which I'm not really complaining about, though it kind of cuts down on gametime. Though if I remember there were a lot of cinematics in the beginning of the first one too. Still...*sigh* Poor Roxas! Poor Axel!

Haha, I can already see why those two are the subject of much, much slashing out in the fan world, though I haven't played the game enough to derive my own opinion of that.

Kingdom Hearts might very well own my soul now. Both games are so fun. I played until about two-thirty last night. Totally forgot I had a computer.

Ahhh...work is so tiring. I slept for an hour on my lunchbreak. Naps are lovely things. Don't know when I'll be working next, though I'm sure both me and the other new girl--her name is Megan, I believe--will be working all three days of the sale next weekend. Gah, that's gonna suck.

I got a card from Raya today that said "twee!" on the front. It was supposed to be a birthday card (a very late b-day card) but she mostly sent it to me because it said "twee!" Which I say on occasion. I love Raya.

Kingdom Hearts is officially miiiiine. For an extra nine bucks, it's miiine. Woot! And I'm almost done with it. So much love for that game--it's so fun and hella cute.

I'm still not sure about what to do with the next scene of Mot, so until the muse and I can come to an agreement I'm working on timelines and character bios. I fixed up E and Kail's from the ones before, when they were part of the old Mot (the one with Naioh and flying people). Also did Boone's and Hex's, and found out some things about them I hadn't realized before. Bios can come in so handy. I'm gonna finish up the Mot bios and probably do a few for Fox, North, and Gecko. Gecko in particular needs herself a bio.