ASdfjIOFJADUFIHAOFUAWR90w YES, PLZ. I NEED MORE. But I suppose I can live with a release date. That's better than nothing, right? dfjasjfjfdo trailer trailer trailer trailer trailer~


I want to go home and EAT but my mosaic is still interpolating and my Post-BCD data is still queued for staging. (In English: computers are slow and they need to hurry up!) Plus I might try to go running tonight; it's not like I have to be anywhere until 11pm. XD And I got rained on yesterday so I didn't do quite the full five miles. Hopefully I will not get rained on today. (BTW, Florida, please have nice weather tomorrow. The space shuttle needs to launch! This is what, their fifth try? D:)

Also, uh. This looked neat, so let's give this a try?

☢ THE SELF-INSERT MEME

Last, but certainly not least!

For kashewmoo:

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Prompt: Momo/Ryoma, popsicles on a warm day
Notes: 250 words; it somehow didn't want to be longer. I tried!
Title: ( Cherry-Flavored )

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I was going to post pictures of my almost-finished Gwen, but none of them came out well. ::dies:: Alas; I'll just wait until it's completely done. All I have left to do are take in the skirt a bit and hem it, and find something for the tie closure on the red thing~ The lace on the font actually came out pretty well, at least! (Okay, you can have a picture of that.)

And speaking of pictures, I'd meant to post this forever ago. But I just wanted to share the particularly entertaining scene that greeted me on my desk when I got home from Europe last month:



The culprit knows who she is. ;D

Firstly, a very happy birthday to lavenderlilly! :D

I kept having dreams about astronauts last night. XD All I can really remember every time I woke up was all the radio chitchat and guys wearing spacesuits on the moon and I think this is entirely due to a certain HBO miniseries that I'm over halfway through with by now. (Aw, but last night was Apollo 11 and 12! All I could think was, "Man, Apollo 12 was a party! Al Bean is adorable!") Eesh, I remember learning all this stuff from books in junior high, but this is so much better than books. Sometimes I think I must be living my life backwards, fangirling astronauts in junior high and the Jonas Brothers in grad school...

Costume-wise, Gwen is almost done! Hoping to finish her tonight so I can start working on Ahsoka in earnest (Wonderflex ordered, $50 later...), and I still need to find fabric for the Trek!Reboot uniform. Plus I need to see if I really will be able to convince people to do Venture Bros cosplay or if this will just be a bust, because I can't walk around by myself as Dean Venture. That will not work. XD (Maybe I could be Triana? With a Dean plushie? XD) And someone needs to tell me that making Penny for AFO is probably a bad idea... even though I think I might do it. >>; NTS: take a look at her stuff tonight to see if this is even possible.

Okay, back to alternately watching MOPEX chug along and trying to get these flux maps made. Cutting the images down to just the area viewed by the ACS makes it much faster!

Firstly, a happy birthday to pergamond! :D Because we're still on the same day~

Next, one more drabble down, one to go! I probably could've waited until they were both done, but that would've made too much sense, clearly. I swear I haven't forgotten the last one! I might even give it a go tomorrow. :D;

For asphodel:

Fandom: The Last Herald-Mage
Prompt: Vanyel/Stefen/Lendel
Notes: Somehow, if I had to make an FST for TLHM, "I Believe in You" by Evanescence would top the list. This is kind of based on that? Only short. :D; (Seriously, I could wax eloquent on it for chapters, if I dared.) 301 words.
Title: ( Taking Over Me )

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In other words, I realized that I might actually have a life if I didn't spend so much stupid time re-writing the entirety of PJO, starring Percy and Nico. XD Dear God, make it stooooooop. (Actually, don't, as I seem to be perfectly happy in my insanity. ::dies::)

Brazil tourist visa, get! :D (Which is why I got to work at 11:15 - stupid downtown, being under construction and making me go the long way around to the already weirdly inconvenient post office. D:) But yep, there it was, taking up a whole page of my passport. Whew, one more thing to check off the list! (And to find the receipt for. I want reimbursement!)

Anyway, I think today is going to be a work until 6 o'clock day, but that's not unreasonable since I got in late (due to aforementioned picking up of passports at the post office). At least since it's summer, I can totally stay 'till six and have no problem with daylight for running afterwards. But! My advisor got an email from someone whose papers I have totally been using, so that's kind of exciting. Now I get to fangirl him in a totally non-fangirly way and tell him just how useful and awesome his work is!

Sooo I was browsing Amazon yesterday, and I realized that From the Earth to the Moon is $12. That's right - twelve dollars. For the whole thing - twelve or thirteen or whatever one-hour episodes of astronaut-y goodness~ So I might have bought that. I might also have bought the first season of Venture Bros because I needed to add something else to get the free shipping. I should perhaps not have bought these things, but this documentary is really quite amazing (and TWELVE DOLLARS!) and, well. Venture Bros. (They had the yard sale one on last night. XD I love the yard sale one~) This weekend I'm eBaying for Ahsoka's boots, and I have to order that Wonderflex for her headtails (why must it be expensive? D:) I'm going to check Center Stage for the makeup before I go about ordering and paying to ship it, though. I really wonder if I can't get this done for an AFO test run... That might be nice!

Also, Up? Was fantastic. I realize everyone knows this already, but. XD; Figured I'd add my two cents' worth of redundancy on that one~

Anyway, I... think that's all I have to report. This weekend will be made of writing PJO epic-ness, hopefully writing some original stuff to make some monies, and even more hopefully finishing the clothing aspects of Gwen and Ahsoka. We shall see~

Oh, but also? I discovered that they moved The Secret Saturdays to... well, Saturday. Secretly. Gee, Cartoon Network, thanks for NOT TELLING ME. D: Now I'm two or three episodes behind, and there are no torrents. Grar. This isn't a show in which I can miss episodes! Each one pretty much follows the last, by this point.

Okay, time to tape Exia to the plug again. I really need to look into fixing this. XD

EDIT: I just saw the headline "Canadian tornado kills 2 Oklahomans" on weather.com. Wait... what? XD; Well, okay, people dying sucks. But still.

In what is quite possibly the worst idea of the century, I have had to resort to taping Exia's AC adaptor to the extension cord into which I am plugging it. ::dies:: I think it's time to look into getting a new adaptor... I hope they're not too expensive. I mean, I still have the second three-pronged one, but the little one is so much more transportable...

But anyway~ I continue with my X-ray flux map-making, as I have finally figured it out but in order to make the images the size I want, it takes forever. (I was binning them before and that was just no good; I need the resolution of unbinned images.) BUT I have also just downloaded and installed MOPEX, which claims it will help me reduce Spitzer data. I hope this is not a lie. XD We shall see~ I have a tutuorial and sample data, so we'll give that a go while I finish downloading and organizing the real data. Here's hoping!

Writing-wise, I got a good chunk of the setup for the giant battle in my PJO fic done, but there's still a bit more to go. Now that I think I know how I'm going to end it, I'm worried I may be dragging it out by trying to get another giant fic out of it, but, uh. Trilogies are good, right? :D; (I just hope I can get everyone out of this alive. I hate killing people.) In the meantime, one of the prompts over at the fic battle has inspired me again and I'm probably going to write a really horribly wrong fic later. (It's not that I don't love Nico and Bianca, but... I don't really ship them. And yet I can totally see how this fic is going to work.) In other news, I need more PJO icons. XD And I'm working on an FST. People need to read these books. ;_;

Aaaaand I should probably be eating lunch. Extragalactic-ph in an hour. :O

For cecilegrey:

Fandom: Merlin
Prompt: Merlin/Will, fire
Notes: This was actually my second idea, but the first idea didn't actually involve Will being present and I figured you might like something like this more. :D;; I think it might still feel a bit awkward, but. Here it is! 714 words.
Title: ( Amazing To Me )

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For hikariblue:

Fandom: Star Trek: Enterprise
Prompt: A malicious (or just tricksy) alien entity tampers with all the pie on Archer's Enterprise. Hilarity ensues~
Notes: I have no idea. XD But I hope you like it~ 500 words (check that out!).
Title: ( Sweet Spot )

I've (finally) started watching From the Earth to the Moon; Scott lent it to me ages ago, but it's sat on my table for quite some time. I actually started it on Saturday, but then I realized episode 2 was about Apollo 1 and it took me a couple days to work myself up to watching people die horribly in a fire. D: But now I am past that! It was sad, though. I mean, I really liked the way the episode dealt with it - from the contractor's point of view, which was really unique and interesting. It also just solidified my love for Frank Borman, but I already thought he was pretty damn cool before all of this. XD (Also? I don't think I knew that SOMEBODY LEFT A WRENCH LODGED IN THE SPACECRAFT SIDE. OOPS, GUYS. DON'T DO THAT. D:) Anyway, Scott says their take on Apollo 13 is really interesting too, so I'm looking forward to waching more of this as the week progresses. Probably not tomorrow, though; provided he's up for it, Jesse and I are going to see Up because I am horribly lame and haven't seen it yet.

But I did head home today right around 5, which is earlier than it's been the past few workdays, so I got to go running and eat dinner at a semi-reasonable hour while I watched TV (as mentioned above). It was rather nice. Note to self, though - Venture Bros appears to be on daily at 1AM on CN. WATCH IT. Because you can never, ever have too much Venture Bros. Next time I have forty bucks free I am so buying those DVDs.

I also put most of Gwen's under-dress together, so at least I was kind of productive? And I did lots of research for the next bit of PJO fic, so it will actually be accurate and whatnot. It may or may not involve zombies. Not zombie zombies, of course. But, well. When you've got the son of Hades, you need to make him use his awesome death powers. I'm sorry, that's just how it goes. XD Percy got to show off last, now it's so Nico's turn~ >D Regardless, I love Google Maps. :D

And speaking of writing, I have two more meme drabbles almost done. Maybe I'll finish them in a bit!

... Okay, you know, Transformers 2 might have been a terrible movie, but it sure does have a good soundtrack and score.

I bring you three more drabble-ish things in the struggle to complete ten prompts. XD

For torasetsuna:

Fandom: Firefly
Prompt: Mal/Wash, the Cowboy Bebop episode Toys in the Attic
Notes: Watch me fail at Whedon-esque witty banter! Jayne saves the day~ 426 words.
Title: ( It )

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For pergamond:

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Prompt: Atobe/Eiji, a romantic date sorting through Atobe's wardrobe
Notes: Totally not as awesome as your not-a-drabble, but I hope it amuses! 439 words.
Title: ( Lilac and Lace )

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For link621:

Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Prompt: Pillar Pair/Ryoma fail
Notes: I think this is everyone fail, but that includes Ryoma, right? 676 words.
Title: ( Just Passing By )

Aaaaaaalmost... time to leave! Please do not thunderstorm on me when I want to run! (Actually, it looks sunny out there now. Win!)

So I was all set to go to bed yesterday at a reasonable hour (2am is totally reasonable) but then I got suddenly inspired for the scene I was working on in my PJO fic and then it was 3:30. Oops. D: (This is what happens when you get Percy and Nico alone on the bottom of a river, I suppose... XD;) Ah well; it was actually okay since I'd been going to bed at 4 or so ever since Friday, and then since I managed to drag myself up reasonably on time this morning, I will hopefully be tired tonight. We'll see. I still wish it didn't take so absolutely little to throw off my sleep schedule. Anyway, I think I actually know (for real) how this story is going to end, and it still leaves room for a third (this is perhaps not a good thing, but XD). And it looks like the current thing at pjo_fic_battle is going to continue through the end of the month, so I will attempt to pick up more prompts there, as well. Oh, and there was a new Merlin prompt community I wanted to take a look at...

Speaking of, I was totally excited - one of my short little Gwen fics I wrote for the Gwen Winter Battle thing got nominated at excalibur_award! :D Whee~ Well, I mean, voting hasn't even started yet, but I was excited nonetheless. :D;

Anyway, I cut out the fabric for Gwen's under-dress (while watching Merlin, thank you NBC XD). I think I got fabric that was a little too off-white for it, but the white was just so see-through and I didn't want to double it. So, uh. Too bad. No one will care, I'm sure. I plan to at least cut out Ahsoka today. I also hope that the headpiece I'm using as a base will arrive in the mail today, otherwise I'll probably just call and pick it up at the UPS place tomorrow, even if it is alllll the way across town. :x

Anyway, other than that, it's just trying to finish up those exposure maps today so I can actually start some Spitzer analysis before Vicki talks to me next. Woo, mosaicking, here I come!

...Ahaha. If you pick the ninja theme in Gmail, there are little shuriken instead of stars! That is fantastic. XD

Okay, for serious, brain. I am not still in high school. And I definitely don't (nor did I ever) go to school with the Jonas Brothers. And yet you keep making me dream about this. It makes me feel kind of weird every time. XD In fact, it's almost weird to watch Jonas now because I have had so many dreams involving the Jonas Brothers that I feel like I actually know them when this is not at all the case. I fear I may have a problem. D: (Even weirder: in the dream, Nick burned all of TOS for me, and was totally nerding about Star Trek with me. XD Trippy. At least I appear to have moved from dream!dating Joe to dream!dating Kevin, which I consider an improvement.)

Anyway. Yesterday Scott, Nathan, and I went down to the Tampa Pitcher Show for dinner and Transformers 2, which was... well, maybe not great, but at the very least it was vaguely entertaining and spawned many interesting conversations in the car on the way back, some of which I probably should never ever repeat. XD (This seems to happen a lot, I've noticed. ::dies::) Today we met for a few episodes of TNG and then went to Sticky Fingers in Jacksonville for dinner (barbecue, yum!) before driving down to the riverfront and hiking over to plop into some lawn chairs for the fireworks. We did something right, because they shot them off right in front of us and it was a really nice show~ Then we drove home and had more interesting conversations involving South Park and why astronomers are crazy, which is a practically inexhaustible subject, let me tell you.

I am so seriously trying to convince them they want to do Venture Bros cosplay for Dragon*Con. I don't care if I don't have time. Nathan could be Brock and Scott could be Rusty and we'd build him a H.E.L.P.eR. and connect them at the kidneys. XD It would be fabulous, I tell you. Fabulous. And I'd so be Dean! It could happen, I tell you! It could! (Of course, Ahsoka will not happen unless I start sewing, so I swear I am going to cut out fabric and sew it together tomorow. I AM. D:)

Yeah, that was a good ending. :D

( Only somewhat spoilery comments on the ending of TLO. )

Seriously, guys. I want to take all of my friends who haven't read these books and just... shove the story into their heads. XD You should all go out and read Percy Jackson!

And it's just about bedtime; we actually did have NGN tonight (yay, seventh season! It's almost like watching new episodes; I've only seen most of these once except for the one I have never seen yay I finally get to see it!) and there was a spontaneous decision to go to the Tampa Pitcher Show on Friday for Transformers 2 (apparently it's okay that I haven't seen the first XD) and there will be barbecue and Star Trek on the 4th. Sounds good to me! Which means tomorrow is getting my car title transferred for reals and actually sewing something.

Woo. :D

You know, I think the more mortal peril Percy is in, the funnier he is. XD Just saying. I'm, like, terrified to keep turning pages, but every time I do I just keep cracking up out loud. XD Well, I mean, it's sad too, because people are dying. But Percy is still pretty hilarious. I also heard the Lightning Thief trailer might be showing before the Half-Blood Prince? That would be made of WIN. :DDD Though then I read that they might be scrapping one of my favorite scenes... I hope not, that would make me sad!

Brazil visa mailed, yay. $160 later, ugh. D: (Plus the $7 for the passport photos in which I look rather tired and unhappy because you are not allowed to smile.) Man, I wish I could get reimbursed before the conference. I didn't get my title transferred yet, but in my defense that's because I didn't fall asleep until at least 5:30 this morning. That was sad. I kept watching Adult Swim hoping Venture Bros would be on, but alas, no. Maybe it's only on on the weekends. In any case, I was tired but just couldn't sleep, so naturally I was not willing to get up at 7 this morning and opted for 9:40 instead. I'll aim for title-transferring tomorrow.

In the meantime, today is X-ray flux map day. :D And no NGN, so there will be running and writing and possibly Ahsoka-starting. I need to get working on costumes! I also need to go fabric-shopping, but I feel poor after dumping $1400 into Brazil that I won't get back until probably after D*C. Ah well.

I woke up a bit late this morning (well, let me rephrase: I woke up at 6:45 because there was Very Loud Thunder, and made the mistake of going back to sleep and assuming I'd wake up when the alarm went off at 8:30). But it was okay, because it was storming outside pretty much the whole morning so I decided getting some work done from home was the way to go. Plus, I had a couple of things to take care of - I need to get the title of the new car transferred, but when I went to the tax collector's it was really crowded so I decided I'd just come back at 8 tomorrow (incentive to get up early!). At least I got my passport photo taken at CVS, since I need to send one in with my travel visa. The goal is to get that out tomorrow! (Along with the notification about the AAS grant, I forgot to do that today, oops.)

Really, though, I need to figure out what's going on. Every other day or so it's just impossible for me to get up. I assumed it was connected with running, but I really don't think that extra quarter mile translates into two more hours of sleep required. XD Maybe I just need to change alarm clocks. The Stitch one seems to work fairly well.

In the meantime, Zazzle is offering free shipping and I really want a Camp Half-Blood shirt, but I don't know which house to put on the back. XD I was thinking either Poseidon or Hades, but I could always just get the one without a house name on the back. I don't really identify with any of the greek gods. D: Not even really Athena. ::fail:: Ah well, I've been trying to make this decision forever; even if I don't decide by tonight, I should actually get a shirt one of these days. They're cool!

Um... really, that's about it. Back to looking at Spitzer stuff, and then I'm going to try to get that PJO fic battle thing started. I... think I know what's going to happen. Maybe. >>; Plus I owe people drabbles, and I just did a meme that means I ought to post up that I will do more drabbles. XD Aha~

Wow, I didn't know that was Chris Pine in The Princess Diaries 2. Or Callum Blue. I sporfled~ XD

There are not enough hours in the day. D:

( Much rambling on the writing of fics that I shall cut for flist sanity purposes~ )

akdjlafd, where did the day go? No wonder I'm tired. D: I had issues falling asleep last night (probably prompted by getting up late yesterday.) I really had better try to get to bed soon, though.

Other things I need to do include actually starting my slew of Dragon*Con costumes (Ahsoka! NTS: Try out Model Magic for the outer part of the headtails? And look into makeup!). I also need to finish cleaning my house (it's half-clean? :D;) and finish getting ready for the teacher workshop on Monday that I'm kind of running-ish. (Well, Vicki and Anthony are usually in charge but they're both out of town, and while it really doesn't require much organization, I think I'm it.) At least I've got most of the stuff for it done today, though. I plopped myself down in the student center with a venti iced green tea and my laptop for about two hours and got the links list and talk done.

I also need to get my Brazil ticket so I can apply for my travel visa. I think I'm going to have to take an overnight flight, whee. -_-; I hope the AAS is okay with me flying out of Orlando rather than Gainesville, though I suppose I should probably look into the latter even if I hate taking small planes. :x I don't think I'm really going to stay more than a day or two at most after the conference, though; I think I'd be paying out of pocket for that, and I honestly don't really know of a whole lot I want to do in Rio. If anyone knows of anything I should do while I'm there, though...?

Aaand maybe if I hadn't been writing this, I could've gotten more fic written. Alas. I think it's almost bedtime.

Yes, I'm sure you're all sick of my many entries already. :D; I shall conveniently cut this because it's mostly just thoughts on The Last Olympian, as I am now up to page 100-ish after my lunch break.

( Thoughts thus far. )

Muahaha. I think I have just convinced Peter to get The Lightning Thief for his son. :D

So I finally got off my butt (or, rather, on it XD) and started getting those drabbles done from that drabble meme I advertised way back when. I'm really sorry it's taken me this long. D: And of course I think I'm going to do this in chunks, so here are the first three (not exactly in the order I was given prompts) out of ten that I was given.

As a note, these generally fail as drabbles in the strictest sense - I really seem incapable of writing anything incredibly short, so they're all a couple hundred words at least. No novels though, I promise!

For noctaval (whose format for posting these I have also stolen :D;):

Fandom: Star Wars
Prompt: Obi/Ani, unresolved sexual tension
Notes: I think I may have failed at this, in both making it short and in making it actually UST-y... Buuut I suppose I could always just write you more and try again. XD 391 words.
Title: ( Midnight )

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For auroraprimavera:

Fandom: Merlin
Prompt: Merin/Arthur
Notes: Not very shippy, I suppose, but it’s oh-so-heavily implied. :D; 363 words.
Title: ( Ticklish )

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For alibi2014:

Fandom: Percy Jackson & the Olympians
Prompt: Percy/Annabeth
Notes: ... I don't know. XD This was supposed to be totally different, but then this happened. ::fail:: 611 words.
Title: ( The Simple Solution )


More to come later this week!

First off, a very Happy Birthday to link621! :D I am sure it will be awesome~

Second I would like to highlight the awesome photoshopping skillz of noctaval, who edited some lighsabers into one of our pictures from last weekend. XD ( Under here! )

Welcome to the first day of summer, which is hot enough to melt just about anything out there. ._.;; Oh, and also, watch Merlin tonight! NBC, 8pm Eastern~ YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

Yesterday's trip to Borders was slightly made of fail: I found the book I wanted, but then I realized I'd totally left my gift card at home. But I'd already gone all the way there, so I bought it anyway. XD Geez, though - when did books get so expensive? I mean, there was no book I looked at there that was under $12. That is ridiculous. D: The hardcover I was looking at was, like, two dollars more than the paperback books! Ugh. (My mom says it's my own fault for buying books instead of going to the library, but I just... I like owning books! I like having them around to pull out whenever I want and I know I'm going to read them two or three times anyway, so buying them is worth it in my mind. I think she'll never get it.)

But then, to top it all off, I went to check out, right? So I go to the end of the registers to wait because there's one girl checking people out. And then not one, but two separate people walk right in front of me and cut me off and check out before I can even get to the register either time, even though I was clearly waiting (ready with my book and coupon and wallet out and everything!). Seriously, who does that? D: Ugh.

So I've been catching up on the Secret Saturdays, which I taped while I was gone on my trip and stuff. I think Doyle is winning me over. I mean, sure, I know he's supposed to be the cute, off-the-wall, bad-guy-good-guy mercenary uncle, and I usually like that, but I guess I just wasn't impressed with him at first (or, at least, not the way Zak was). Buuuut I think he's growing on me. Though I suppose he's even growing on Doc, so that's kind of a major accomplishment in the first place. XD My God, this show needs more viewers! (Seriously... no one else here watches it, do you? D:) I wonder if there's a LJ comm...

I almost don't know what to do with myself today. I mean, I want to be lazy. XD (Though I was up by 11:20, go me!) But I suppose even that still involves doing something, like watching more Secret Saturdays or reading or writing or something~ Actually, I think my plan is to finish The Demigod Files before I need to head out to watch Scott's cat, and then on the way home I'll stop into Starbucks and use my free mocha coupon and start The Last Olympian. So maybe I should start reading... I also have some icons I want to switch out (haha, that's nothing new XD) and I want to get some writing done because I owe pergamond some tags and I really want to get cracking on those meme drabbles, too. (I think my brain just doesn't think in drabble format, so I keep thinking I have to write a lot, when really I don't.)