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These are a few of my favourite things

fantasyprone — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:14:13 GMT

In an effort to involve myself more with Livejournal, I'm going with the "just hit post already" philosophy. You may find yourself inundated with poorly-thought-out, rambling posts. Sorry.

I find myself having phases of being unbelievably happy and unaccountably upset lately. It's like I really HAVE regressed into puberty. I'm at home alone, having had a few drinks with my family at dinner tonight (our fortnightly family dinner meetup) and my lighbulb just blew out. I'm not sober enough to fix it, even if I had a replacement, so I'm sitting up by the light of a few candles, my monitor and a lava lamp. I can feel myself getting sad again so I'm going to list things that have made me happy lately.

- A warm Sunday afternoon, lying in the late sunlight slanting through my window (open for the first time in months), curled up on top of Ben and laughing at his terrible puns
- The moment of a cosplay when you try it on and it's not perfect, it's not complete yet, but the silhouette is there, the blocks of colour are in place and you get crazy excited even though there's still so much to do.
- A good old-fashioned dungeon crawl in D&D. We're starting up a new campaign, level 1 characters, 3.5e, I'm rocking a gnome bard and yes, I'm slightly useless in combat but it's pretty good fun. Prestidigitation is the best spell.
- Fandoms that are horrifically embarassing and incredibly entertaining in one fell swoop.
- Manifest. Even though it's not what it used to be, and I'm not what I used to be (I remember the days back at Melbourne Uni, I'd never felt so not alone) it still makes me ridiculously happy.
- Walking down Flinders Street one Friday night, arm-in-arm with Claire, a woman tangentially related to my D&D group, singing Savage Garden songs at the top of our lungs.
- Jasmine plants now peek over fences at no less than three places on my walk to work. I stop at each one to smell them every morning, and sometimes I pick a flower and squeeze the drop of sweet nectar out of the stem. There's a promise of summer in that smell and that taste.

May the Fourth be with you

fantasyprone — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:55:28 GMT

Tonsil status: removed

10AM: I'm sleeping so much, it's awesome. I woke up all of an hour and a half ago, spent an hour eating a small bowl of cereal, and now I'm a little light-headed and kind of want to sleep again.
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12:15PM: slept again. Woke up to phone calls from my dad which is really kind of dumb as while I can speak it does kind of suck.

4:00PM Finally, I am home. Still need to assemble my glorious queen bed but that will wait until I have another pair of hands to help with it.

I'm on some pretty hardcore painkillers.

Anaesthetists are pretty cool. I don't think I'd fully appreciated how quickly a general anaesthetic kicks in. He told me there'd be a cold feeling up my arm and not thirty seconds later I was out. When I woke up my eyes wouldn't focus properly but it didn't matter.
One of the guys in the operating theater looked SO MUCH like a dude I know off IRC. If it hadn't been someone who I know lives in California... man, half the time when I doze off I see people I know at my bedside anyway.

/sleeps again 8D;

brb tonsillectomy

fantasyprone — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:12:50 GMT

I've missed pretty much everything on livejournal for the past two months, give or take.

Getting my tonsils taken out today. I've had chronic tonsillitis for two or three years now. It's about frigging time. I may or may not be on LJ a lot more this next two weeks, then, seeing as I have two weeks off work. I wish I knew if I was going to recover quickly or not. At least it'll be over at last.

I was gonna have a full entry ready but I spent all weekend hanging out with Ben.

FINALLY

fantasyprone — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:47:58 GMT

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

I AM MOVING OUT

OH MY GOD AFTER SO LONG

AND THE PLACE IS MADE OF PURE AWESOME, IN MIDDLE PARK, 500M FROM THE BEACH AND ABOUT THE SAME FROM ALBERT PARK, AND 3KM FROM WORK, AND ON THE SAME BLOCK AS A SUPERMARKET, AND OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.

*DIES*

ETA: Sometime very soon I shall make a big and complicated post about DRAMASPLOSION. Don't let me forget about that, it's a hell of a story. I should sell it to Hollywood.

A character sheet for the New Year

fantasyprone — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:49:29 GMT

I don't make new year's resolutions. Partly because I don't think I'll keep them, partly because it seems silly to pick one arbitrary day to start being a good person. Every day. Because days add up.

So I suppose it's in the spirit of a resolution (and in that of an absolute D&D-playing nerd) that I write up a character sheet for 2011.

<DING>
Level Up!
You are now level: 2011
XP to next level: 0/365

Race: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5'8"
Age: 21
Class: lots ;o

Stats:
DEX: 12
STR: 9 Exercise more (weights)
CON: 8 Exercise longer (running)
INT: 13 Read more
WIS: 7 Listen more
CHA: lol. Get a haircut

Initiative: Currently in a quantum superstate, it must be observed to be measured :| try taking some for once.

Equipment: You are Encumbered!
Current Encumberment Status: Pack Rat. To resolve this status: clean room; throw out rubbish; give away or sell all that shit you don't need.

Notes:
Every day I will go to bed knowing that I have done something useful.
I spend too much time on the internet and not much of it actually accomplishing anything. This rings a little too true for someone who doesn't play MMORPGs. Cut down on IRC. For the things you consume, create something. Actually finish and post a fanfic, rather than half-starting and then abandoning it. Stop being afraid.

Partially inspired by this

Irrelevant, but I've been meaning to add this link for ages: My recipe for choc chip cookies

I am lame and boring and never update

fantasyprone — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:27:47 GMT

I'm kind of permanently tired at the moment. I'm what, six or seven weeks into this job and I feel so old and boring D:

Still working at Hoyts. Not entirely sure why. I mean it's an extra ~$90/wk and that's gonna come in handy sooner or later, but it's also kind of killing me to do 9-5 at Potentiality then 6-10:30 at Hoyts then go home and get up by 6 again.

Gotta move out. Can't keep losing three hours/day to public transport. Anyone know of someone in melbourne cbd/south melb looking for a roommate?

/shuffles off to bed IT'S SO DEPRESSINGLY EARLY

victory!

fantasyprone — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:51:01 GMT

Hey guys

I got a job

like an actual 9-5 salary working-in-a-company sort of job!

I went for the interview this morning, they called me back a couple hours later, I start on Wednesday. Client Support at a company that does alumni portals and stuff. The people seem really cool, it's only a very small company.

so tired, so very tired

I don't know how I will survive getting up pre-7AM from now on

fantasyprone — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:12:44 GMT

My work is closing down for renovations next Sunday. I found out tonight, and I was there yesterday afternoon. THIS IS THE WARNING THEY GIVE US.
I'm very sad. This is the shitty little cinema that has employed a member of my family for ten or eleven years now. I've been there myself for six years and five months.

I heard there was a "we're closed" party being planned. We're gonna get together after the place closes down and get Kayne so drunk he vomits over the balcony and generally fuck the place up because finally, it's not gonna be us cleaning up.

I know it's gonna reopen, and it's gonna be shiny and new. But it's not going to be my Hoyts any more.

lol domestic

fantasyprone — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:11:09 GMT

It's weird the things that are changing and staying the same while Dad's away in England.
Last night, I invited my mum over for dinner (meg was out at tap-dancing) and we went over her reports together. We cooked a roast chicken dinner and drank some wine... but you have no IDEA how much fun I had just going grocery shopping for it this afternoon. Without Dad checking on my list, it's like - I see a thingy of pasta that's on special and I know we'll eat it at some point, so I get it. I think, "we could really do with some fruit around the house," so I look around and I pick something that looks good and I don't have to justify it to anyone!
Maybe that sounds kind of pathetic, but that's just something I've never done. It's so liberating |D

I don't know how I'll manage when dad comes back home. I mean, it's been less than a week so far, and I never want to go back. I'm applying for jobs, hoping I'll have one by the time he gets back and I can move out quickly. Don't suppose anyone knows of someone looking for an IT graduate? D:

GUYS, TEAM FORTRESS 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE MAC AND THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN PLAY FOR ~*FREE*~ and until I think monday-ish you can buy it half-price ($10USD). So you lot who were considering it at Linc's farewell thing, GET ON IT D<
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fantasyprone — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:10:13 GMT

SO TIRED. didn't sleep enough last night and donated blood today so you get dot points. (I keep half-writing posts then thinking "no I should sleep on it" and then deleting it :|)

- Saw Prince of Persia tonight and really quite enjoyed it :3 ~~I mean the very buff Prince helped but it was also good in other respects and I am shallow D:~~
- Saw Robin Hood and I don't see why it got crappy reviews. It made my inner history-nerd happy (THAT IS A FRENCH SOLDIER! I CAN TELL BY HIS HELMET, SEE?!)
- My dad's going to England in ONE week. woo!
- I should really finish my assignment so I don't slack off and fail <<;;
- bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurhg SLEEP YOU IDIOT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU :| GET OFF THE INTERNET FREAK

fantasyprone — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:10:28 GMT

Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper on their LiveJournal.
Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

I've never actually SEEN Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas... I should get around to that. I have this as my desktop because a) TF2 w00t; b) there's an awesome artist in the TF2 fandom who calls herself Cat Bountry. It took me an AWFUL long time to stop pronouncing it "bown-tree" because I never realised it was supposed to be "bat country" but "cat bountry" and augh.

Geneaoldodfaysodufhodkfj ANCESTORS

fantasyprone — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:11:37 GMT

Cool shit I (mostly) did not know about my family until the other day:

-I had an ancestor at the Eureka Stockade. He was on the wrong side.

-My grandfather's father (or grandfather, I forget) was one of a pair of Portuguese brothers. They were sailors who came into Melbourne during the gold rush, and they were forcibly kept on the boat so they didn't just run off to make their fortunes. Anyway, the ship came out of Melbourne and by the time they got out near Warrnambool they relaxed a bit. The brothers literally jumped ship and swam to shore.

-A convict ancestor on my mother's side was transported to Australia for stealing a man's watch. (My oldest sister, on a recent trip to England, stole her friend's watch in Hyde Park for old times' sake :3)

-One cruel, cruel ancestor, William Williams, named his son William.

I know I have a family history written down somewhere, but I have to dig it up. This stuff is cool!

fantasyprone — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:54:48 GMT

Some of my ribs hurt every time I take a deep breath. This is not fun and it has been going on for two days D: I didn't even do anything to them, I took mum to see How To Train Your Dragon (in 3D, decent movie, not mind-blowing but OMG CUTE DRAGONS ♥) and when I went into the cinema I did not hurt and when I came out I did. Another day of this and I'll have to go to a doctor, even though I'm sure it'll be "stop slouching so much you lazy sod, your posture fucked up your ribs".

auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

Supanova 2010!

fantasyprone — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:40:40 GMT

So I guess I forgot to upload these <<;; Also I guess I suck at taking photos because I really don't have many... Kath, my pictures of Karl Urban turned out horribly blurry :( I can still send you a copy if you like but they're really shitty quality.

...shit, I have to be up early in the morning >_<;; sorry, I'd post a commentary but it's easier to just hand you the link, right?

>>>PHOTOS HERE<<<

/suchalazytosser

fantasyprone — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:58:36 GMT

Applied for a job on Monday
Got a phone call on Tuesday
Had the interview on Wednesday
Got rejected on Thursday

At least they're awfully efficient. I'm not so cut about missing out on this one, at least they called me back and they were nice and said I presented well but I just didn't have enough experience. I'm okay with being short on experience given I'm not finished uni yet and it was a degree-relevant position (even if it WAS mostly tech support <<)

Oh well. At least I got an interview.

fantasyprone — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:33:25 GMT

Oh god so very ill

upgraded to windows 7 now I don't know where all my shit is

brb dying

here have a meme I started responding to like two weeks ago

1. Reply to this meme by yelling "FO' SHIZZLE MY NIZZLE", and I will give you five words that remind me of you.
2. Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
3. Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of odd or weird. Also, I am really crap at thinking up words sometimes.

1. pirates
~~pooooorn~~ I have a pirate flag and a pirate bandanna (free from Hoyts when Pirates of the Caribbean 2 was showing =D) and every 19th of September is Talk Like A Pirate day :3 I should start stocking up on rum...

2. frodo
Lord of the Rings was one of my very first fandoms. Man, that thing was like my religion back in year 8 or so. I remember being so jealous of the year 9 girl who had a poster of Elijah Wood which I can't find, it was all in shades of blue and he was wearing the Ring and a cross on a necklace and probably not much shirt if I recall correctly.

3. ~~ed/envy~~ [edited because I whined, I haven't been in FMA fandom for like six years] baileys
Just like a chocolate milkshake, only alcoholic 8D I love Baileys so much I named a character in my NaNoWriMo after it :3 even though these days I drink red wine or rum-and-whatever-there-is-to-mix-with-it, Baileys is still my favourite dessert/nightcap drink.

4. cosplay
The best thing I have ever done, bar none. I love you guys ♥

5. ~~mercutio~~ Benvolio the pole
YEAR NINE ENGLISH CLASSES ♥♥♥ We were studying Romeo and Juliet and had to perform snippets of the play for the class. Hannah and I did a scene that's basically Romeo and Mercutio talking shit and making dirty jokes, and Benvolio was there in theory but didn't have any lines. We practised on the rooftop garden and ended up with a pole supporting some shade/plastic-keep-rain-off stuff standing in for Benvolio in Mercutio's one line "Come between us, good Benvolio, my wit faints!"

Aw man, I miss Benvolio ♥

update!

fantasyprone — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:29:59 GMT

Thanks everyone for the awesome birthday :3

What am I doing these days? I don't seem to be accomplishing much but time's still slipping by. I was considering doing February Album Writing Month, I even had a band name and everything but honestly, I haven't done music in that long... and I'm very very lazy =(

Watched a season of Metalocalypse with Mark and it's really good in a retarded way 8D I can't take metal bands very seriously but this show doesn't either and it's so funny and Skwisgaar looks like Legolas in his Elves-In-Black-Leather phase, I'm not even kidding.

STUFF I DID TODAY:
- Wiki crawl (Dethklok -> murder-suicide -> Freudian psychology -> human sacrifice -> wicker man -> Teutates, also known as Toutatis -> Asterix)
- ate
- slept
- DID NOTHING AUGH

wow disjointed post woo

fantasyprone — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:17:35 GMT

So. Uh.

I had my first car accident (everything is okay, it was literally a little bump, no injuries, tiny tiny damage)

I helped kalixis move house

I got sunburned (first one this summer)

I am so incredibly tired

Vaguely trying to edit/revise NaNo into a readable form
Christmas is gonna be interesting this year, seeing as how I don't think mum and dad want to see each other at all

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNEEEEE'S SLICK AS GASTON NO ONE'S QUICK AS GASTON

NANOWRIMO VICTORY GET

fantasyprone — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:29:55 GMT

~*♥I AM ALWAYS WINNAR♥*~

lol 50,000 words and I have no idea what I've written

YESSSSSSSSSS

fantasyprone — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:14:57 GMT

TWENTY THOUSAND WORDS

BITCHESSSSS

fantasyprone — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:29:49 GMT

Write Or Die <- best thing for NaNoWriMo EVER. On a related note, I just passed 12,000 words =D

pimping, sorta

fantasyprone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:19 GMT

I promised an old school friend I'd ask around, so here it is:

~~COSPLAYERS~~

My friend is a photography student and she's looking for some people with really elaborate costumes to do a photo shoot with her in the next week or two. Anyone interested?

NANOWRIMO GO GO GO

fantasyprone — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:22:59 GMT

Me in respectable Monash-vision

Me and sarahofcroydon in cosplay-vision :3 The rest of the photos are here if anyone's interested~

I am currently failing at NaNoWriMo =/ I have ~~3622~~ 4025 words and need more like 7000 (6668 to be exact) by the end of tonight to be on target.

ETA: Scratch that, it's now after midnight and I'm only on 4509 words =/ I'd stay up and catch up but I have an exhibition at uni tomorrow. Maybe I can catch up in the morning if I'm early enough?

ETA MARK 2: WOO I BEAT 5000 WORDS =D now I'm only one day behind...

procrastination

fantasyprone — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:17:37 GMT

I have finished classes for this semester! Still have things to hand in tomorrow and an exam, though =/ so instead of finishing them off, I'm on LJ.

Astro Boy is like five hundred kinds of love. I saw the new movie this week and it was SO cute ♥~

Hey Kath, did you see this?

Someone who owns a wig: do I need to get wig shampoo or something to wash my wig? It kind of needs it before egames, the gel in it is weighing it down so much it can't hold its shape. I'm tempted to just use water or regular shampoo, but will water be effective? I hear normal shampoo can damage it.. augh, anyone got advice?

*pretends to work more*

LJ fail

fantasyprone — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:19:24 GMT

I am not recieving email comment notifications D: if I haven't been responding, sorry - let me know here, I'll make sure to check back >_<;