I'm so sick of getting the highest scores in my English classes, having professors read my papers as examples, hearing what a good writer I am, and still feeling like I'm a hack that can't take a story anywhere. So you know what? I'm going to write something epic. And I'm going to think through its plot, and revise the hell out of it, and actually finish it. And I'm not going to post about anything else until it's done.

Title: New Suit
Fandom: FFVII
Characters: Reno, Tseng, Rufus, Elena, Vincent, Lucrecia, Rude, Hojo
Genre: Crack
Length: ~1,500 words
Summary: Tseng is sick of Reno showing up to work looking like he was dragged there by a street sweeper. Originally inspired by a comic which I have worked hard to find again, yet I haven't come up with it... I'd really love to credit the artist for inspiring this story, and I'm sure if you've seen it you'll know which one I'm talking about once you've read this. Any help tracking it down is appreciated.
( The clock’s ticking, Tseng. One Turk without a job. Two Turks without a job. Three Turks-- )

Title: Duck Hunt
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Vincent, Chaos, Marlene, Tifa, Cloud, Cid, Denzel
Rating: Nothing exciting, folks.
Summary: Vincent waits at Tifa's for Cloud to return and uses the spare time to examine how domestically challenged he is.
( Good lord, the boredom was getting to him )

D8

As loathe as I am to say it, I like Vincent much better after the whole Chaos thing. Because otherwise he'd still be Pete Wentz. ohgod the nerdy turksuit <3

do you know how awkward it is to do a google image search for 'pete wentz' in public? or how smuch raunchy material there is to wade through? jeez

For the last... I don't know, two weeks? I've felt like I've had absolutely nothing to say, and I'm sick of that, so I'm going to say some stuff even if it's just load of disconnected babbling. LJWP, bb<3

This summer I wanted to take Chinese, but the only Chinese 1 course being offered is online >[ So I'm taking Japanese instead C: This is actually better (even though a ton of my friends speak Chinese) because my friend Tasha is moving in with a Japanese family and has promised me that her Nihongo is gonna get better than mine. Well you had better watch your gaijin ass now, Tash, because it's on like Donkey Kong and my grammar is impeccable. Well, was impeccable while I was taking Japanese. But that doesn't sound as hardcore.

I had a few hours with the house to myself last night, which I'm sure those of you who live with humans can understand is really nice sometimes. Those of you who live with uberChristian, pseudo-intellectual, right-wing conservative, old-fashioned, stetson-wearing, O'Reilly-watching, self-important humans understand precisely what I mean. So I took the time to drink my weight in coffee and watch FFVII. I forgot how much I loved these characters :] Not that I thought the movie really did them justice. It would have been great to see some interaction between Cid and Vincent (although Marlene and Vincent are adorable - her hiding in his cape seemed so practiced it must have been an old habit. B'awwww, uncle Vinnie.) or Zack and Sephiroth (because I'm sure he must have called him Sephy just to piss him off, and I'm sure Sephiroth secretly found it refreshing) or Chaos and Vincent (okay, now everyone knows how thoroughly I love the phoneless angstzombie. That aside, Chaos lives in his head, right? And they must talk, right? No, they're not friends, but if you had to deal with someone living in your head without going insane... Well, it would be sort of like having to share a room with an annoying younger brother, I think. It's tough to explain but I think this has the potential to be hilarious *attempts to kill plotbunnie*). Oh, and Rufus is such a badass. The only other person I can think of who would jump out of a wheelchair off a building while shooting at a psycho in a leather bodysuit is- um- well, case in point there. There definitely should have been at least two Your Mom jokes in there. Sadly I don't think they have those in Japan.

I had fun taking my laptop apart.

In other news: ( Hey, look! Ginko has a little brother! )
BIG SECRET: D-sama, this is baaaaaaait to get you to get ol and talk to me again! =3 *misses you*

Is anyone by chance up for helping me salvage an ancient laptop? ⁰_U⁰

I'm out of ideas. It won't even turn on at this point - pressing the power button makes the battery light flicker off for a second, but that's all (it's fully charged. and plugged in. don't you DARE say 'try plugging it in,' motherfucker). I think the next step is to take it apart and stare at the parts, put it all back together, and give up. Possibly with some weeping in there somewhere. And then take it all apart again.

[Edit] it's an IMB Thinkpad T22, probably around 6 or 7 years old

Google's April Fool's joke this year is incredible. Definitely read that. CADIE's homepage and the specs are the best parts.

I spilled my coffee in english comp today. Brilliant way to start the class. After that we introduced ourselves- mine went like this: "Hi, I'm Erica, and this early in the morning I have the coordination of a four year old as you can see from the coffee on the floor." Public speaking's next.

This can only be compared to The Headache of finals week last winter quarter. Seriously.... the nerves in my head are running on a near-perfect annual schedule.

I just walked through a crowd of drunks smoking outside a dive and nearly sold my sister's skateboard for $150.

I remember having something I meant to post about, which was the original reason for this entry, but at this point I have no idea what that was going to be.

[Comments and all are getting replied to tomorrow. I can't really see straight right now, so I'm not sure I should trust myself with conversation.]

IT'S OVARRR! Which means it's SPRING BREAK! I'm beside myself with glee. And my review yesterday was AWESOME, and I got a raise. And tomorrow's payday. And Minato and Naruto are so cute. And Orihime finally quit KUROSAKI-KUNKUROSAKI-KUNing. The weather warmed up, too. Granted our car broke down (beyond the point of reasonable repairs) on the way to school, but I hate that car and now that it's dead we'll have to get a new one! :)