…that is all.

So, official word from the doctor this morning?  Bronchitis.  I have antibiotics now, though, so hopefully some of this will have cleared up before I go back to work on Tuesday.

I’ve blabbed to the housemates about this far too much already, but I’m still angry that it hits me during my time off.  Just… argh.

To top this all off, I’m again reminded why reading comments on certain pages (YouTube, 1up.com, and the like), is a bad idea.  E3 just gave them all a new reason to rear their ugly heads, and unfortunately I glanced down and witnessed the recent spate of vitriol.  My current conclusion is that most present day gamers, at least the vocal ones, will just never be satisfied.

Gamer: I want Nintendo to make more games that aren’t the same old Mario/Zelda game all over again!
Nintendo: *creates all kinds of nifty Wii simulation games that are, hey, actually kinda cool!*
Gamer: But where’s my Mario/Zelda game?! *whiiiiiiiiiines*

Seriously, that’s what it seems like.  And everyone’s moaning the fact that Nintendo isn’t making their franchise games anymore, and that they’ve “forgotten” the “hardcore gamer.”  There was a discussion in which Nintendo actually mentioned their various teams working on the franchises, but they’re trying to work in what they’ve learned developing these more accessible games into the format of their franchise games, and immediately the boys started griping about how their beloved franchise games are going to be turned into other games.

Wait, isn’t that what you “critics” have been asking for this whole time?  And honestly, Nintendo put out an awesome game with Metroid Prime 3 (not so great in some of the storytelling, what with the abundance of other characters and being told where to go and what to do constantly), but I feel as though, for the most part, it got brushed to the side.  Which had to have been a real downer for Nintendo, because it’s obvious that they tried to focus a lot of energy on it.  So what do you expect them to do?  …but make stuff that they know works?

In any case, I give Nintendo a short time before they start leaking stuff for major first party games again that aren’t Mii-related.  They worked very hard on that franchise stuff for several years now, trying to prove to everyone that their little console was worth the criticism, and they made it.  So give them at least a few months, and we’ll see what’s happening once they get more vocal about the next Pikmin.

But I won’t even touch the Square Enix rantings I’ve seen.

In a sense, I’m kinda happy because hey, a good-looking, cute Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon game is out for the Wii right now, and Final Fantasy IV is being released soon for the DS and the trailers made it look and sound good enough that I think I even forgive the English voice acting.  (Actually, the English VAs, while not spot-on, sound pretty good, just going by the short trailers…)  And let’s not forget Chrono Trigger!  Both of the remakes sound as though they were made with a lot of love, so I’m actually okay with them.  So while I was bouncing around the possibility of having to get another console in the future, I’ve realized with some happiness that said console will likely be a DS.  That’s right, not an Xbox, not a Playstation 3, but a DS Lite.

Not only is it cheaper, but it’s got plenty of games out (good ones amidst all of the Pet Palz 5000 games) and let’s not forget, complete backwards compatabillity.  Shazam.  I’m just slightly embarrassed I don’t have one already.

I was telling Sher toward the end of this week that I felt as thought I had been subject to a lot of negativity, not necessarily directed at me, but it was just one of those weeks - where no one was happy, everyone was griping about stuff, and nothing seemed to be going exactly as planned, which made even happier things somewhat disappointing.  Add on top of that the fact that two of the other Mewses came down with some nasty sinus bug, and all that was positive was that the remaining two of us had yet to be infected.  To go with understatement, it was something of a downer.

Well, last night I was waking up at odd hours and dealing with uncomfortable amounts of phlegm in my respiratory system, not to mention odd dreams of which I can’t remember but were nonetheless unsettling, and I woke up this morning with a fever.  Well, crap.  So I’m on Advil Cold and Sinus, plan on taking Nyquil at night, and am hoping desperately for this all to go away, because there are three major things happening this week.

On Monday, we launch a new service at the library, of which I’m supposed to be the little cog in the great gearworks of my particular post to keep it going.  On Tuesday, I have a meeting with my gradschool advisor.  Wednesday I’m planning on actually registering for classes and getting in the paperwork for tuition benefits.

Thursday and Friday I’m taking off, but this will not be as nice if I spend the long weekend stuck in bed.  Blargh.  I’m supposed to be trying to write like a little mad thing during that time!

And guess who received notification of jury summons?  Of course, on a day when I will hopefully be taking class!  :D  …the mind boggles.

So anyway.  Ouch.  I think karma came back and bit me hard.

Right!  Try to keep a positive outlook on things or else bad juju will come back to bite you, even if it wasn’t necessarily yours.

…from yesterday, anyway, I moved up to Pittsburgh from GA.  In that time, I have managed:

1) To get a permanent position at a library, after keeping myself afloat with a temp position doing administrivia type work I never thought I would ever find myself doing.

2) Submitted Blue’s Alice for publication, been rejected, and submitted it again to a wonderful editor, who has since returned it to me and given me some instruction on how to proceed.

3) Get accepted into the MLIS program up here.

4) Figured out my financial aid and education benefits so as to afford same MLIS program education…

Next week from today, I have a meeting with my advisor to briefly discuss my upcoming coursework and discover more about the process of registering, at which time I can really go about finishing up securing my education benefits.  It shouldn’t be difficult.

I am currently planning to graduate from the MLIS program at the end of Summer ‘10, if everything goes well, at which point, I am likely to go jobhunting for a library position that will actually feed and clothe me and keep me above the poverty line.  And pay back higher level educational debt.  Obviously, that’s one of my big goals, but that’s not the only thing ahead of me, I think.

1) Rewrite Blue’s Alice.  Any other stories would be nice, written or rewritten or what have you, but I definitely want to get to work on that.

2) Write like mad.  I’m thankfully doing a DPS type activity again, thanks to renewed contact with that Tall Elf Person.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep this up, and that’ll mean a poem-a-week, guaranteed.  Now, it’s the other writing to take care of, but that ties in more closely with Big Goal #1.

3)  Publish.  Or rather, get published again.  More than once in this lifetime would be great, thanks.

There’s also another more personal goal in there, but we’ll see how that one goes.  I… I kinda laugh at myself for having it, but whatever.  You need some of those crazy-but-important goals to help keep yourself going, too…

About this time last year is when I officially moved from GA to PA.  Oddly enough, the year before that was the first time I flew up from GA to PA, to visit the House of Mews.  For some reason, these days always seemed to revolve around one certain day in particular… this one!

Which is pretty cool, because the day automatically gets coolness points by the mere fact that it is… Rissicat’s birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RISSICAT!

May your day be full of lovely things, enjoy your time away from work today, and just have fun!  Also, tell Reno that yes, those flowers were real, darn it.  If he’s not careful, he’ll get weird mail in his Gyroid.

Skydrops - To catch a drop of the sky in your hand, taste the sweetness of clouds on your tongue, feel the fullness of life and swallow it whole; to became enveloped and weightless and sated all at once, to float upwards and allow oneself to drift.

I’ve had this off and on type of idea that I told myself I would only allow once I’d gotten more settled, and that I would work on much more during the summer.  Of course, it’s practically July, and I’ve hardly gotten a single thing done, even now that I have Coda.  So I sat down today and fiddled with a few of my old HTML pages.  Dreamweaver spoiled me.

I don’t plan on working full scale on fanfiction anymore.  I decided that a long time ago and I’m sticking with that.

However, I don’t think I should hide some of what I consider to be good work anymore, and honestly, I could use the occasional pat on the back from someone who appreciates the good work just as much as anyone.  So.

I’ve gotta sit down and iron out some new graphics.  I can’t draw very well but I’m not going to go nab someone else’s work and use it as my own unless I get permission to use it freely.  To that end, when I head back over to the apartment, it’ll be time to pull out the paper and see how well I can sketch out some ideas.  I’ve also got to sit down and work on little things, but for the most part, I’m planning on keeping the site scarce in terms of graphics.  I really don’t have a reason to get silly and go beyond what’s necessary.

I’m going to attach my real name to the stuff that I present there.  I should stop being afraid of certain things so much.  Still have to devise how to copy protect some of it, though.  Hmm.

What I’m looking at posting thus far: Shards of Glass (FFVII), Country Roads (FFVII), and Cycles (LoZ).  Not a whole lot, but it’s stuff I keep coming back to myself, and I can’t see the harm in that.  I might want to work on the rewrite of Cycles before posting any of it, though.  Maybe some of my other shorter fics, too, that I wrote for Utena or some such.

Somehow, amidst all of this, I’ve gotta keep working on my original stuff, too.  I’m not going to let Blue’s Alice languish.  I’m going to keep working on it.  This is going to happen.  I’m also going to see if I can’t get back into writing at least one poem a week.

I can’t help it.  If I feel like I’m running out of time, then what choice do I have but to take what I want, before the opportunity slips by completely?

Also, I saw WALL-E and Iron Man both this weekend.  Both good movies, though WALL-E beats out Iron Man.  Talking about the movies isn’t the point of this post, though, so I’ll save that for later.

Have you hugged your Changeling today?

Because today is a very important day for hugging Changelings!  Hugging Changelings can lead to better luck and love in life, as well as wonderful adventures across the world to find exciting new places and friends.  Hugging a Changeling can even help inspire one’s artistic endeavors, and renew a better sense of purpose and self-made goals for a person.  Best yet, hugging a Changeling can make her smile, which can brighten even the most cloudy of days.

If you haven’t hugged a Changeling today, go do it right now!  Go!  You have two links now to do so, so go to it.  <3

Chaaaaaaaaangeling, I hope you have a lovely birthday today.

So it’s late but stuff has happened and I’m not quite mentally tired enough to go to bed right now.  So there’s this, instead.  Expect some stuff about the Cat Genie, the Wii Fit, my purse and an unintentional interdimensional cubbyhole, and possibly some grumbling about work, though that last might be reduced to a simple growl of frustration.  Definitely cutting it for length, and apologies in advance for said length. Read the rest of this entry »

…but there’s probably far worse things to want to do in this world than just dance. <3

(Also, it’s worth watching this at YouTube and cliking on the high def option.)

Epic WIN: Wii Fit Get!

Epic FAIL: Actually ranting and breaking down immediately afterward while AT WORK.

Current plans: Get into a little regimen each day on the Wii Fit to augment the walks I already take during the day at lunch.  (Honestly I can’t wait to try the yoga.)  Also, figure out when to take off three days of vacation for myself, so I can maybe finally do the relaxing that is very obviously necessary for me now.  Right before gradschool starts, or ASAP?