Prepare for Cream Cheese! (And Sailor Moon)

Whoo! Sometimes a nap after being stressed out is a VERY good thing.

(1) Before I was about to call it an afternoon and nap, Armando from Suncoast called me back! I've got the job~ I'm going to be RICH this summer *does happy dance* ... which means my idiotic problems with my bank are going to be OVER with (eventually).

(2) It was a very nice nap, thanks for asking. Sleep helps clear up confusion, you know- your brain processes everything out and then when you wake up, sometimes you get epiphanies. My "awakenings" (har har) had to do with "Circle of Seven" and icons.

Re: Circle of Seven, I wanted it to be 7 chapters. That turned out to be impossible pretty quick, so I opted for factors of 9-- namely 18 chapters. That wasn't going to work, because CO7 has two "acts," both distinctly separate from one another. So now I'm leaning toward the inevitable-- CO7 will be AT LEAST 27 chapters, with a strong possibility of being 36, just like WDKY. But on the bright side, I'm writing bits and pieces of it now, so when I finally finish with WDKY, all CO7 will need is a good edit over at betasquad.

Re: icons -- I want to make more Sailor Moon icons. baine will be happy about this. I decided to check one of my older haunts-- alt.binaries.sailor-moon, in the hopes of finding some good flood images. But I have the same problem that I did before-- for some reason, my news server (news.la.sbcglobal.net) never gets a lot of messages. All the other free servers I use do, but they don't get the images, because they're so huge. So does anyone know where I can access alt.binaries.sailor-moon with little to no cost, and get the images I need?

( A heated Sailor Moon debate? You decide! )

By the way:
ygo_mst
I know, I know, the last thing I need is to be in charge of ANOTHER community. So I'm going to start taking volunteers to help me mod the others (30kisses, ygo_lyricwheel, and betasquad). By the way, mklutz, I made you a mod of smrff, because you should have been from the get-go. ^^; If anyone else wants mod access (not like we post a whole lot on the comm. anyway-- I'd love to give it a nice layout, if anyone wants to help...) let me know!

Yu-Gi-Oh! MST is just what it sounds like-- a place where people who find those truly atrocious ygo_badfics can take those badfics and riff (read: make fun of) them into space! There's plenty of ways to do it, and all of them are funny! But since MSTs aren't allowed on FFnet, why not have a community dedicated to them here on LiveJournal?

If you want some fabulous examples of MSTs (and like Harry Potter), then head over to Mistress Lizzie's domain. She's fabulous-- but you're forewarned, the stories she riffs are NC-17/smut fics.

ygo_extend
Oh damn, she did it again. Yeah, and you know what, I BLAME IT ALL ON MAMONO!!!! This is a community where people can go to finish those insanely delicious oneshots that the original author either doesn't know how/doesn't want to finish. I suppose this applies a great deal to Mamono and I, but I know other authors are out there with oneshots that have driven the rest of us insane.

So go check it out, submit fics, and we'll get started!

Oh, and I can't wait until this fall! If you thought summer was going to be packed full of blockbusters, wait till Thanksgiving! OMG!!!!! THE LEGEND OF ZORRO!! *joyhappyjoy!* Antonio Banderas!! Catherine Zeta-Jones!! *squeals* (Speaking of Zorro, does anyone know what the name of the big action song they use in the trailer is? It's the same one they used for The Mask of Zorro, but despite checking the soundtrack listing on Amazon.com, I can't come up with a title for it. Anyone have any ideas? The "Zorro Theme" is just an instrumental version of "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You," by Marc Anthony.)

Ever had one of those Ranma moments?

Maybe I should revise my subject line. Maybe it should be an "Akane" moment, where you just want to go "bakabakabakabakabakabakabaka" over and over again, repeatedly bashing some object (or person) against a hard surface until it gives.

I felt like that this morning... after my shower, I poked my head into Scott's room-- he was working on a short essay on "What makes a good teacher" for this job in the photo lab that he wants. From the start of our relationship, I wanted to be more helpful to him-- help with his English and grammar and all, and he's been letting me. But to my surprise, when I was helping him today, he reeled back and said I was *yelling* at him.

Mind you, I don't even have a voice to yell with-- seriously, my sore throat has been so bad, I don't even think I sound like myself. I'm not going to strain it by talking loudly, much less yelling. So I was pretty hurt and shocked; but I was well aware of plenty of incidences where *he* thought he wasn't doing or saying anything hurtful, when in fact, he was. I just had to tell him flat out because, well, sometimes people NEED to be told. They can't see what they're not looking for, right?

I didn't realize something so simple was stressing him out so much. I was trying to be gentle in how I explained everything-- "think of teachers you liked and the qualities that made them good," or "think of teachers you didn't like, and what traits they could have had to make them better." He came up with four good subjects, but I wanted him to flesh out his answers a bit more-- I said the first trait, knowledge (a teacher should be knowledgable in the area they are teaching), prompts the question "Why?" Why should a teacher know about the subject they're teaching?

For some, this is an obvious answer (especially me; many of my substitutes for high school chemistry knew less about science than they did about voodoo, while the longest-running Journalism teacher was actually an English teacher who didn't give a rat's ass about the paper), but I guess for Scott, it took much more time to think about. I tried to give him a reassuring hug, and that failed, too-- the zipper on my jacket nearly pierced his arm. -_-

...I skedaddled out of there before I could get more upset, or before I could screw things up further. I wasn't that far from grabbing a pillow and screaming (or trying, anyway) into it. I felt like such a complete fuck-up for something so innane and silly. Worse, those dreams I still demi-harbor, about one day teaching the things I love (Journalism, English, writing, any and/or all of them)-- suddenly I got the impression that I'd be a really LOUSY teacher.

*sigh* I didn't want to make Scott take me to school on top of that, so I asked Grandpa, and right as I was getting ready to leave, Scott came downstairs. I apologized (and I kind of wanted one, myself) and he said it was okay... but I knew he'd already started his whole thing over again. It felt like my fault too, like I wasn't helping, just stressing him out more. -_- I think I do that a lot.

Well, I guess it's never good to dwell on things like that. So let me start raving! I'm so glad I scored a super-cheap subscription to TIME magazine; the newest feature article is about the new XBox 360 coming out this fall, and like "The Legend of Zorro," it looks like it'll give me a lot to look forward to. Me, Sony's l'il bitch, might convert back to Micro$oft... well, if the price for the new console is within reason.

( It entered your house as a game machine, but it just ATE your CD and DVD players. )

Coming soon:
-more WDKY review replies (I can't wait to give 16 some more time; I've already gotten a great review from DSF that I'm hyper-eager to respond to!)
-first official posts on all my new comms.
-more 30kisses stuff for my pairing...

Today:
-I got the job at Suncoast, and I've got "orientation" tonight from 3-8pm!
-Tonight, get in line for Star Wars and wait for the blast (read: inspiration to finally start writing fics for a live-action fandom)
-Study for sociology final (while in line for Star Wars, of course)
-Figure out how the hell to access binary Usenet groups, since SBC Yahoo is being stupid and not letting me
-FIND A DAMN COPY OF 'TANGO DE REVE' and practice for my ballet final-- Friday. Also bring a cassette to copy the song from the teacher, just in case
-I've jot loads of Jamba hours this weekend-- sure to be a learning experience
-WDKY17!!! (I'm writing, I'm writing! I just wish Dartz and Bakura would leave me ALONE already!!)
-more icons. There's always time for more icons.