one day we'll drink to this and say, remember when we died?

silchi @ 2010-06-12T12:53:00

2010-06-12T16:53:36Z

O HAY GUYZ. guess who's in TOKYO.

in other news, i am just terrible at keeping up on lj. hope you all still remember who i am.

silchi @ 2009-10-15T00:56:00

2009-10-15T04:59:31Z

for the first time in years, I didn't renew my paid account. I'm not too upset about it; it's not like I really took advantage of many of the options anyway.

that's what I thought - until I attempted to leave a comment and realized I don't have a million icons anymore. hasn't LJ offered us the option of just buying extra icons yet, instead of the whole paid account package?

in other news, this semester is kicking my ass in so many awful ways. I have NO FREE TIME EVER.

also, I WILL BE IN SICILY FOR FIVE MONTHS COME JANUARY.

silchi @ 2009-08-27T22:04:00

2009-08-28T02:07:37Z

just watched episode one of fma: brotherhood. can't say i'm all that impressed. it was actually pretty disappointing. i'll give it another episode or two to try and win me over.

i know some of y'all are watching it. tell me some good things!

silchi @ 2009-08-26T21:54:00

2009-08-27T02:08:01Z

i have been tearing through the FMA manga. SO GOOD. SO FREAKIN' GOOD. ♥

ok so. i will admit to becoming an embarrassing level of gleeful at "when we're alone, the colonel always calls me 'riza'"

and then she just had to add that little 'just kidding' and i immediately sobered up. :(

and while i'm on the subject of team mustang - holy shit, i LOVE THOSE GUYS. the clandestine information sharing! the badass shit they get up to! after bradley split them up, i found myself analyzing so many conversations for the messages behind them - roy and riza's cafeteria chat, their phone conversation while riza calmly sniped from an abandoned building YES ♥

in other news, we're moving house on monday, so this past month has been nothing but going to work, packing, and catching what little sleep i can. sorry for not getting back to some people in any semblance of a timely fashion! (EREE! i've had an IM from you sitting open for like, a week now I'M SORRY I DON'T DESERVE YOUR LOVE)

silchi @ 2009-07-29T21:36:00

2009-07-30T01:43:03Z

stolen from explicate:

name (a) character(s) and I'll tell you three (or more) facts about them from my own personal headcanon.

such a perfect meme for me. I make up so much shit for almost everything I read/watch/what have you.

in other news, we are officially moving out of our condo and into a real, honest-to-goodness house come the end of august. while I am excited to have my own yard (finally! no more crazy neighbors and dog poop and screaming children right in my face I HAVE ONLY BEEN WAITING TEN YEARS FOR THIS), I hate packing with such a vengeful passion and am tired of there being half full boxes everywhere.

silchi @ 2009-06-26T23:57:00

2009-06-27T04:03:02Z

after like, two years of unnecessary and unexplainable stalling (i have no excuse), i finally signed up for netflix!

REC ME SOME MOVIES PEOPLE.

in other news, this job has completely turned me into an old lady. it's only midnight, and i'm so ready to hit the sack already. dammit, first they take my option of sleeping late, now they've taken my ability to keep my eyes open past twelve am. :(

silchi @ 2009-06-24T21:04:00

2009-06-25T01:09:33Z

so it would appear that the new kitten was not properly weaned at all, which means he goes right for my face when we're cuddling and does his damndest to suckle.

i'm tired of waking up at five in the morning with a cat attached to my eyelid.

silchi @ 2009-06-12T21:35:00

2009-06-13T01:49:49Z

my dog died today. we knew he probably wasn't going to make it through this summer - he was nearly thirteen, old for a small dog, and he had cancer - and the weirdest thing about it was that in the shower this afternoon, i thought that the reason my mother had called me earlier might have been she wanted me to pick something up on my way home from work or... that Louie had died. go figure.

i just. i didn't get to say goodbye. my grandfather went alone to the vet this morning, when Lou took a turn for the worst, and i didn't get to be there for him at all. that dog was his best friend. hell, according to every report i ever wrote in elementary school, that dog was my best friend, too.

bye, bud. love you.

Louie
August 1, 1996 - June 12, 2009

silchi @ 2009-06-07T00:12:00

2009-06-07T04:20:06Z

Um. We may have gone out today with the intention of just looking at kittens, and we might have brought one home with us.

BUT HOW COULD WE RESIST THIS FACE?

MAY I PRESENT, ERNIE STEMPLEBERG

This raises our household feline population to Obscene.

silchi @ 2009-06-04T11:59:00

2009-06-04T16:08:00Z

Stolen from a bunch of people on the flist, because I like talking about myself!

The problem with LiveJournal is that we think we're close, but really, we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Ask away.

I think I can safely say I'll answer mostly anything.

silchi @ 2009-06-02T13:16:00

2009-06-02T17:21:36Z

eree linked me to an article about new douchefaggery concerning the avatar movie.

the white dude they cast for sokka said "I think it’s one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan. It’s one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.”

also, i am not pleased with how zuko turned out.

WTF, THEY'RE RUINING EVERYTHING.

silchi @ 2009-05-30T02:14:00

2009-05-30T06:19:37Z

Out of the blue, I decided to watch The Legend again. I figured I spent a buttload of money on the DVDs, I might as well get more than one run out of them.

HOLY CRAP, I STILL LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH. ♥

Also, I have fallen hardcore for Jumuchi this time. He is a sexyfine mercenary man (and at the same time, such a huge lovable idiot!) I want to have his babies.

silchi @ 2009-05-19T02:45:00

2009-05-19T06:51:44Z

Why is it that every time I manage to get a job interview, it always ends up not being at all what was advertised, and is instead some sort of scam in which I get screwed out of money and have to sell shit like cutlery or toilet water to unsuspecting housewives?

But what I'd really like to know is, WHO THE HELL UP THERE HATES ME? D':

silchi @ 2009-05-14T20:45:00

2009-05-15T00:57:48Z

melisaku was doing drabble requests, and I'm nothing if not a willing sheep.

So! I won't limit this to the first ten people, because I will never say no to writing a drabble. Give me something - series, pairing, character - and, oh, say a word or a phrase or something for me to go on when I sit down to write. My only request is that you try to keep it to stuff I've seen/read/etc.

silchi @ 2009-05-10T01:30:00

2009-05-10T05:35:34Z

So, uh.

It's been a while. I MISS YOU ALL DEARLY. I am going to make a wholehearted effort to drop the role of absent baby-daddy that I somehow unintentionally picked up like a nasty and persistent STD.

What's new and exciting in everyone's lives?

silchi @ 2008-12-01T20:53:00

2008-12-02T02:11:13Z

it's that time again - the great book list venture, part 3!

I'm determined to finish this year's quota; I was three books shy of 50 in the round that just finished. Guess it was a bit much to dream about doing it in half a year.

Completed Reading:
01. The Official High Times Smoker's Handbook | David Bienenstock
02. The Box Man | Kobo Abe
03. Pot Planet | Brian Preston
04. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami
05. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo
06. ,said the shotgun to the head | Saul Williams
07. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick
08. Botchan | Nastume Soseki
09. Not Quite What I Was Planning, Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure | Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith
10. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Ntozake Shange
11. In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash | Jean Shepherd
12. The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho
13. Watchmen | Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
14. The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 1) | C.S. Lewis
15. Kiss of a Demon King | Kresley Cole
16. The Hunting Gun | Yasushi Inoue
17. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2) | C.S. Lewis
18. The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 3) | C.S. Lewis
19. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto | Chuck Klosterman
20. Confessions of a Yakuza | Junichi Saga
20. The Rum Diary | Hunter S. Thompson
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde
23. Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4) | C.S. Lewis
24. Voyage of the Dawn Treader (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 5) | C.S. Lewis
25. The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) | C.S. Lewis
26. The Last Battle (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7) | C.S. Lewis
27. Madeleine is Sleeping | Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
28. Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell
29. Looking for Alaska | John Green
30. Emma | Jane Austen
31. Welcome to the Monkey House | Kurt Vonnegut
32. Women with Big Eyes (Mujeres de Ojos Grandes) | Angeles Mastretta
33. Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Wynn Jones
34. Bagombo Snuff Box | Kurt Vonnegut

Currently Reading:
Bathwater Wine | Wanda Coleman

Planned Reading:
The Vampire Chronicles (Books 2 & 3) | Anne Rice
The Tale of Genji | Murasaki Shikibu
The World is Flat | Thomas L. Friedman
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle | Vladimir Nabokov
The War of the Worlds | H.G. Wells
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells

silchi @ 2008-09-11T02:02:00

2008-09-11T06:39:28Z

I'm finally catching up on Bleach. I expect to be completely up to date sometime tonight.

My immediate reaction to the Turn Back the Pendulum chapters? Allow me to quote Eree: I came. Everywhere. (Oh baby.)

silchi @ 2008-08-27T23:06:00

2008-08-28T03:08:21Z

I just found out that Lee Un (Hwang Min Yeop from Coffee Prince) passed away last week. Poor guy. He was so young, and had such a great career ahead of him. :(

silchi @ 2008-07-24T01:30:00

2008-07-24T05:34:44Z

YES. They are using the Kings of Convenience as background music for episode 9 of Coffee Prince.

I KNEW I LOVED THIS SHOW FOR A REASON.

PS when the hell am I going to see some of those obscenely hot looking makeout scenes? I am stoked, because all kdramas ever seem to offer are chaste little pecks on the mouth.

silchi @ 2008-07-19T22:30:00

2008-07-20T02:54:22Z

Holy shit. HOLY SHIT.

I can't believe it's actually, officially over. I think I'm most concerned about that fact over anything else. I mean, it just felt like it was going to last forever (that "good" kind of forever, where you never ever get sick of it). Thinking about The End makes me miss the freakin' good old days, when all Sokka had to worry about was his snow-watch tower falling apart (and meat), Toph made blind jokes (and, by extension, made everyone feel guilty for about five seconds afterwards), and Zuko had hair that slowly engaged in a hostile takeover of his face.

I was pretty happy for most of it, but then the last forty five minutes had me curled up in a ball on the floor about two inches from the screen. I was incoherent during the Agni Kai. Azula cracking. The sad music. Zuko just confidently going in there, never faltering, even though he knows his sister is hopelessly losing it because she's scared and sad and unable to handle the pressure, knowing that he's got to take down a creature that was so beautiful and deadly and poised in better days. IT BROKE MY HEART. And unf yes I WAS WAITING FOR KATARA TO PULL OFF SOME SORT OF BADASSERY.

My most prominent complaint at the moment: MAIKO UGH. I could have most definitely lived without that, and I say that without any influence from my major Zutara bias. Though, I think the only reason that that was in there at the end was due to the fact that they'd been throwing a shitload of Zutara at us the past few episodes. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the final Maiko moment was just a little "ha-ha" at anyone the recent Zutara had made hopeful.

I was surprisingly OK with the Kataang, probably because we all knew that it was definitely endgame. And it was sorta sweet, I'll admit.

And I love how there was way more kickass shit that happened, but all I'm managing to blabber about is ships. GREAT.

ANYONE UP FOR BABBLING/DISCUSSION/WHATEVERTHEHELL?

silchi @ 2008-07-14T02:28:00

2008-07-14T06:37:17Z

So, I've been shopping for a bento and accessories for some time now, but nothing had really caught my eye.

And then I discovered Shinzi Katoh.

Holy shit ♥!!

His bento designs are absolutely adorable. I seriously want ALL OF THEM. And his onigiri cases, too. I really, really want his Gibbon design bento (I even have matching chopsticks and kinchaku all picked out!), but it's even out of stock on his own website. I might buy another one to hold me over until a restock happens. Not that I would mind, really. Like I said, I want them all. I hope I immerse myself enough in bento that it's worth it to have more than one.

silchi @ 2008-07-07T12:54:00

2008-07-07T17:06:55Z

NEW KITTEN! And to finish filling the larger large void the recent death of Twigs left (for she was, in her better days, a rather large cat), we're bringing home ANOTHER ONE in a week.

Um. We're not crazy?

silchi @ 2008-07-03T19:02:00

2008-07-03T23:10:13Z

Took my oldest cat to the vet this morning. We walked in with her, but she didn't come back out with us. Needless to say, today sucked.

We knew it was time, though. She was something like 18 years old, and she'd been having problems with her hips. Last week, she had a lot of trouble walking. This week she stopped eating, and we had to carry her from place to place because she couldn't get there on her own. It was hard to watch her; she was that miserable looking. She wouldn't even eat kitty treats this morning, and she's a fiend for those.

She had a good run. At least I managed to give her that.

silchi @ 2008-06-26T01:03:00

2008-06-26T05:11:27Z

So I'm finding that I absolutely hate the second season of Hanadan. I mean, I know dramas thrive on angst and misunderstandings and eavesdropping on all the wrong parts of conversations, but seriously. I am about to throttle Makino.

Every single time Tsukasa tries to explain himself, she cuts him off. He tries and tries, and eventually gets mad, then she gets mad, then it's a whole new can of worms that's broken open. It's quite boring, after three straight episodes of exactly the same scenario.

AND YOU, Tsukasa. STOP LETTING HER WALK ALL OVER YOU AND RIGHT OUT THE DOOR.

I'm waiting for him to clamp a hand over her mouth and make her listen.

If things are going to be like this all season long, I may just skip to the last episode. Cut out all the crap and just get to the (hopefully) happy ending. (I really didn't even see a point for season two in the first place. So what if it didn't cover all the stuff in the manga? I liked things they way they were.)

And honestly, if Rui falls in love with her again like I have a horrid feeling he's going to, I'm going to punch a baby in the face. WHY. WHY. He didn't fall back in love with her in the manga, right?! STOP IMPEDING MY OTP.

Someone please tell me its worth it to keep watching.

IN HAPPIER NEWS, I bought my Philly Folk Fest tickets today. I'm stoked!

EDIT: OK SO episode four's "fig scene" gives me vast amounts of hope (which will probably be dashed to little pieces in the next episode BUT STILL AT LEAST IN THIS MOMENT THERE'S HOPE).

silchi @ 2008-06-23T21:55:00

2008-06-24T01:57:11Z

Post Hanadan's episode three "Humingyay" moment-

Conclusion:

Tsukasa is a moron.

But an adorable one.