{ you must be sick or something, I can't take another day }

[delga]

So, I cleaned today. Boy did I ever clean. All that's left to do is pack non-essential clothes, stationary (which includes DVDs; don't ask) and the wash stuff in the cupboard beneath the sink. I'll pack kitchen stuff on Thursday. I'm going to have to repack the suitcase with the books because it'll be too heavy to take downstairs else. The room still looks a mess but the insides of the cupboards are clean so that's all that matters.

But I have showered now and I am clean. It may just be cooler tonight. The Flatmate and I are going to watch Eternal Sunshine tonight, and drink red wine. Tomorrow is a picnic which basically translates to sitting outside in the sun, huzzah.

I think natushka and muldy (at least) are both bouncing off the wall - awesome footie win for Australia today, so yay to them. The Flatmate tells me the Czech Rep. kicked American ass, meep. I'm so not fussed but it's amusing to hear The Flatmate talk about it.

I'm going to run a Numb3rs ficathon over the Summer; I just need to work out the details now. So now I have two questions for the flist:

(a) Do you prefer ficathons with prompts or ones where you're writing for someone and someone is writing for you?

(b) How can I move The Talented Injured Mr Riger without him going poof! and dying on me? Mr Duck is so much less of an issue but I am afeared for Mr Riger ohnoes.

Ha, loads of people finished exams today so everyone is going out. J is already drunk. She's at the other end of the corridor with a shut door and I can still hear her, hee. OK, off to check emails and then watch the movie.

Comments

[asesinos.livejournal.com]

a) Prompts are easier for me to work with, generally speaking, and I never want someone to have to write for my twisted mind. So.

b) Lots and lots of bubblewrap. A bubblewrap orgy, if you will (honestly? idk).

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

a) Thanks. I think I know how I can wing it via prompts. Still working these things out in my head.

[muldy.livejournal.com]

OMG I can't believe WE WON!! I wish I'd seen it...but *thinks she was sleeping at the time*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Ohnoes, you missed it! But I guess it must have been on a bit early for you. Nat was going barmy, hee!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

I hope you had fun last night! And yay for Eternal Sunshine. I cannot stop re-watching that one over and over again. You would think that I'd grow tired of it, but no.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh, we did! It's only the second time I've rewatched it but it was interesting to watch it with The Flatmate who's never seen it before. It's so much funnier in company.

Repeat viewings just make make marvel at the direction even more because I don't have to pay as much attention to the dialogue. It's such a beautiful movie.

(Added to the fun: frozen red wine, giggles, a viewing of Have I Got News For You and a discussion about rumps).

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

I love how visual that movie is. Even if I could no longer (hypothetically speaking because I still can) find anything interesting in the story itself to examine, there's always the visual side that keeps bringing something new of itself to the surface for me to munch.

(Frozen red wine? Heh.)

*FACEPALM* THE PENGUIN OF DEATH!! God, I cannot believe I forgot to squee about it. This is proof of how bad it is to say 'I'll do it tomorrow'. Yes, I got it. It was sitting on my desk when I got home Thursday night, and I squeed and giggled and jumped and there is no way I am erasing you! It's currently sitting next to the other cards on my shelf. :) Thank you!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

My next viewing will be avec commentary because I, apparently, am a Commentary Ho (,yo).

(Yes! I know. The firdge wasn't making the wine cool enough so we put in it in the freezer and forgot about it. Heh).

Oh thank heyzeus; I thought maybe the Evil Mail System had eaten it! But yay, isn't it just fabulicious?! The phrase "enigmatic smile" has me cracking up every time.

there is no way I am erasing you!
Honestly? Took me five long minutes to work out what you were on about.

And The Mother tells me you sent me another card! (She also tells me that The Dad found it hilarious as per always. Seriously, she said my Dad was all "Who is this crazy girl?! Bwhahahaha!")

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Hoyo? Is that like a... ho on a string, like a whore yoyo?

...Whu'?

It is fabulous! The way it stares at you! Heh. And it's in a place from where I can see it every morning when I wake up, which is a good way to start a day.

*LOL* Yay! Your parents still think I'm a nutter! Hurraah! I just knew your Dad would like it. :) Though, I chose to send that one because it so obviously painted the picture of my mood that day. You'll see. (I've been sitting here giggling for five minutes, by the way. Thank goodness no one else is present. You're dad thinks I'm crazy!! HEE!)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee, hoyo yoyo. I have no clue but I think we should start using the phrase AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. It will be part of our regime to take over the world. Because we rule.

No, no, no, fabulicious! And yes, it's totes cute. But ohnoes! I had to take the hell's granny off the wall - and all my postcards :( Packing away is good for the obsessive soul yet depressing visually.

Yes. My rents think you're off one but then my mum thinks the same about me, anyway. And by the sounds of things, my dad was mondo amused.

I think I get points for using so many made-up words in one comment. Yayz!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. Then we could confuse people with out randomness even more. We so rule the world.

Fabulicious! Yes. llliiisssscious. I love that.

I guess we're in the same boat then because I think my rents have also long since started to expect craziness from moi. I think they'd be more surprised if I was behaving normal.

You do get points and a big, shiny glittering star sticker!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Ok, so, yeah. There will be icons proclaiming our awesomness in a while because I am all Ego. (Or Id, you know, whatever. yay for intellectual not-humour).

Hee. Three L's? Go for it.

Heh, yeah, sounds about right. But at least my rents think you're nutsoharmless. Your rents think I'm out to Exploit you. With a capital E!

Ooh, SHINY! Is it gold? *waves mini flags*

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

ICONS! Do, do, do. (Har har har.)

L is a lovely letter. I like prolonging it because it's so smoooooooth.

My Dad thinks so. Or at least thought so. I think he's let that thought go already. At least he's not said anything again. But he did finally give into his curiosity a couple of weeks ago and asked me what Mod Boss means! Ha haa! I knew he was wondering.

Of COURSE it is golden! Wouldn't give you anything less.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee! We are adolescent boys.

L? Ok. Sure. :)

Ha! What did you tell him?!

Yayz! *polishes*

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

We are? Well, that explains the sudden hairiness, then.

I went on about what 'moderator' means and how 'mod boss' refers to me being a control freak and tried not to mention the community because then he'd get curious about that and frankly? My hormonal squeeing is not something I wish to discuss with my dad.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Well, no. Thank god I can just blow my rents off with, "Oh, it's an editing thing". Because to an extent they get fandom but they don't really get fandom. If that makes sense.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone who isn't in fandom could really understand it. But then again, it's like that with just about everything, so meh.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Meh indeed.

Omg, ok. So. I'm totally leaving tomorrow. And totally freaking out. So. What I'm saying is that I'm glad you're back. It's calming when you're available. Just saying.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

:) Glad to hear I'm a help. Also, since we're on the subject, am I completely pulling things out of my hat or did the thing go so that you're now going back to your parents' for the summer and then you'll be living in that house with some... people? And did you get that job you were looking for? At the bank?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

...

I'll be home for the summer (in our house! Our house that is now bigger and foreign to me, which is so weird. I know everyone has to leave home eventually but most people have their home to go back to and it IS my house, just different), then when I come back for my second year I'll be living in a house with Some People who are friends. And I didn't get the bank job but I will be applying to other places and other jobs because the money woes are intense.

How about you, actually? Because you went to Turku to do exam-like things, and I'm fairly certain your Open Uni course had exams. When do you finalise and get grades and the such?

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

I was trying not to say 'home' because... well, I've had too many conversations and confusions about this with my friends. It's starting to do my head in. :) Ah, my poor brain cannot handle such complicacy! (Maybe the problem is just that we say 'our place' even when one is living alone and referring to that flat, which is why when J, for example, asks me to pick her up from 'their place', I have to always double check if she means her flat or her parents place. And why am I talking about this?)

Oh, yes, that's what I thought. I was just checking because I get these things wrong way too often.

Currently, school is done for now. Well, I'm done, at least. I didn't get all my literature courses finished because of all the general stress and too much to do all at once, but it's not a big deal. I was thinking that I'll have to re-do at least some of them anyway once I get to uni because the courses at open uni were a bit... I don't know. Airy. Compared to actual uni courses, I mean. And it wouldn't have been any use to me if I'd just thrown something together to pass the courses, because then I wouldn't have learnt anything. We'll see what I'll do. It all depends on whether or not I get in. Anyway, the due dates have long since gone, so now I'm school free and all I have is work. Three days a week for now because apparently we have too many workers at the moment. :)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yes, "home" is a complicated thing, especially because I use it to mean wherever the hell I'm staying at any given time. I think Home, Halls and House cover the three options right now. We are teh random. It's kosher.

That's a shame re: your lit courses but Open Uni is a bit like that from what I've heard (SK is currently taking any and every open uni course he's ever liked the look of, starting with fossils); I'm impressed by your focus, not because I didn't think you had it in you but because it's a lovely thing to say. I was just saying to tigertrapped that I'm bizarrely vicarious and so other people's states-of-calmness (sense?) are damn reassuring en sur moment(e).

But that's great; I'm super pleased :)

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Precisely. I think it's a general thing, this wtf-is-home thing for people our age.

Open uni was frustrating, but then again, I don't think I'm necessarily the kind of person for whom it's designed. And as for focus... I'm a bit meh about everything in general, I think, but I also think that last year has taught me to be a lot more zen about these things. Or maybe it's the Other thing I've learnt from Dad. I've learnt two things (that I can name precisely as his influence) from him: 1) Always have a plan B. Even if you don't create it until after plan A fails. 2) When travelling, if you have your wallet and your toothbrush with you, you'll get by just fine.

...Speaking of random info, eh?

But yay for calmness!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes-yes.

The zen is awesome so yay! And plan Bs are good. (Note to self: figure out plan A). I guess you just have to deal with what you get at the end of things. I half learned that and then half didn't. I guess I'm here, though, right? That's enough for now. And Open Uni was enough for you at the time in which you were doing it. Not in the sense that it was all you wanted and/or needed but it was what you could get at that time. *warning: sap ahead* Totally proud of you for that, you have no idea. Especially just getting up and moving on. I would never have been able to do that. You're mondo inspirational. *ending sap now*

Yay for toothbrushes and wallets, though, because that is truth, too.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*wide grin* Aaaawww. That is all.

Tootbrushes and wallets is very true. I'm glad I picked up his packing policy instead of my mother's because Mum has this thing about preparing for absolutely everything.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Right, like packing the house for a maybe-overnight-stay? MY MOTHER DOES THAT. I get so nutso at her. I'm like, yo, going for maybe one night - youdon'tneedyourhairdryer! Or the kitchen sink! I'll take a t-shirt, a towel and underwear. My mother packs for the Serengeti.

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Precisely! And then we can no longer fit into the car. Is this some universal mother thing, then? Interesting.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

God, I hope I don't like metamorphose into a Daft Packer if/when I reproduce.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE KILLING ME HERE! *hugs icons*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

OHNOES DON'T DIE!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*keels over*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

*KISS OF LIFE! KISS OF LIFE!*

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*resurrects* Phew. Close call.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

*phew* I was worried for a moment!

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Not to, like, you know, re-kill you but... all of them so far:

  
  
  
 

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*rolls on the floor in delight, well not really on the floor but you know what I mean*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

More later in the week. I'm going out at 7-something local time and then I'm leaving tomorrow. No doubt I'll be online late tonight, early tomorrow and late tomorrow because I am obsessive but I will be going through our "archives" and picking. Because I love in-jokes and because we are teh funny, (ho)yo!

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

*loves you*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

*loves you aussi*

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Wonderful! And yeah, talk to you soon! Now, I think I'll start watching those Green Wing eps. (You've been too amusing this evening - I've had no need for comedy after all!)

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

(Pst. Should we extend the current challenge at ICAW with another week or something? Because no one's responded again and I at least can't be bothered to come up with another one. *G*)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

(Psht. Sure. Actually, I need to do something for one of the challenges. I don't really have an excuse not to, I'm up-to-date).

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

(Me too. It's a bit embarrassing first complaining about how no one responds and then realising that I haven't done so, either, in weeks and weeks.)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to - and wanting to - but it always falls through. And we had no Monday reminder, hee, on Monday OR Tuesday. (It's the funniest thing for me to tag our late reminders as Monday Reminders. I like the nonsensical-ness of it).

[wliberation.livejournal.com]

It'll get better now that we have time. Really. *nodnod*

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Of course. Nod-nod, indeed.