I'm back. I could bitch about a lot, but I'll spare ya until I can at least figure out how to make my rantings amusing. Very glad to be back home again... even though I think another mouse moved in while I was away.

*avoids talking about parents and aunts and uncles and stuff* >.<

Went to see LotR yesterday with my brother and his wife. He really hated it and griped the whole way back to the hotel about how many things were different from the book. His wife has never read it. I managed to more or less slog through The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring before deciding that I didn't have a boredom tolerance high enough to read the rest. >.> I remember my brother rereading it several times.

I didn't think he would be impressed with my argument for the movie: "Yes, there were some inaccuracies, but who cares? Look at that elf boy!" H__H I must say that the picture of Legolas I saw in miz's blog did nothing for me, but now that I've seen the movie... ... H______H

BTW, hase, should I feel slighted that you didn't poke me?

~inky 05:04 p.m. Friday, December 28, 2001

O.O

John got married.

Yes, answering-gay-personal-ads-with-my-email-addie John got married this weekend to the woman he had broken up with. ^^ They now live upstairs and one apartment over from me. ^^;;

O.O

*wanders away in shock*

~inky 09:35 a.m. Monday, December 24, 2001

I watched Bridget Jone's Diary today. (Yes, I am way behind in my movie watching and in my ficcing >.> ) Colin Firth reminds me of my college advisor.

I am not in the mood for Christmas with my family, but it looks like I'll have to leave tomorrow afternoon. Hope my truck makes it. I won't be getting back till Friday, I have no idea how I will kill time without a computer available.

I could fic, but my family is the sort to want to know what I'm writing in the mystery notebook. I wonder if I could write the lemon I am working on with enough missing words that they wouldn't realize what it was... it's either that or my other secret weapon: messy handwriting. Only problem with that is that I probably wouldn't be able to read it when it was time to type. Fu... I really need to get this lemon done too... hase has waited for her birthday present long enough...

~inky 11:55 p.m. Sunday, December 23, 2001

Woo-hoo!

My Christmas present to myself arrived today. 3 ini-D djs--and what a change from the few others I have! My initial reactions: o.O;; Wow... this dj-ka is one sick puppy... oh, this is cute *^^* ... o.O? wow... whatever this dj-ka is smoking, I want some!

Okay, I'll be making some scans to share with ppl on my buddy list, but here are some descriptions (in my I-can't-actually-read-this way) for everyone.

1. A Lauren Lee dj, "Dancing with the Moonlight"

Strangely enough, hase was telling me sometime this past week about one really disturbed Lauren Lee dj--and this one is the one hase told me about. ^^;;

The cover is beautiful. *^^* Ryousuke, with purple hair and very blue eyes, wearing a blue turtle-neck sweater (and we know I love Ryousuke in sweaters, right?) and no pants... Keisuke, also with very blue eyes, jeans and a blue sweatshirt, with his head in Ryou's lap... very, very lovely. There's a bunch of English text at the bottom of the front cover. You can tell it was taken from a Life magazine. The headline is "As a Medical Examiner, I take Suicide Attempts very Seriously. Impulses can Kill." ^^;; It would be interesting to see the whole article this came from... "'You are disappearing,' Loxterkamp tells one woman, who has lost 19 pounds but still weighs 312. He looks at her chart. 'What medical problems run in your family?' No major problems, she says, except that her father had his legs amputated" It ends right there and I am kinda curious about the rest. ^^;;

Inside there's a text story with a couple illustrations. I notice right away that I like Kei in that style, but Ryou is a little more disturbing. Perhaps because Ryou isn't a very manly character to begin with... so it's harder to ignore those incredible eyelashes that I am sure drag queens everywhere would be quite jealous of.

The main story begins in a way that reminds me of WK, there's a black cross with "sterben" written in white in a Germanic font. Under that it says, "Hit me, baby, one more time." The cross is at the bottom of a page filled with Kei in a hospital bed, all hooked up to life-support, looking--I must add--much sexier than Aya-chan ever looked in WK. The sheets are also quite messy with wrinkles considering that someone in a coma doesn't usually thrash about a lot... ...but there's a possible explanation for this later. ^^;;

Now, when hase mentioned a disturbing dj, she said Kei was dead. I can't tell without reading this whether he is dead or comatose... but either way... it's pretty amazing that he still manages to be seme. o.O;;

Do I need to describe this in anymore detail? When hase told me about it, I asked, "How the hell is that possible?" Having seen it, I still have the same question.

It's very disturbing both because of the thought and how Ryou looks, but it's a keeper for the cover and that first picture of Kei in the hospital bed. ...wonder what that says about my sanity?

2. A dj titled "Sweet Junk," I have no idea about the circle

I'll have to scan the back cover because I am sure Ryou must have picked out those pants for Kei. ^^ For that matter, the screentone used for Ryou's pants in the story is perfect. Big ol' houndstooth pattern... I can only imagine that it's purple and white. ^o^ Another scene has Kei wearing a striped shirt that had to be borrowed from Ryou. This is just really cute, no idea what is going on because it's mostly talking.

This is most notable for the o.O Kei in short shorts picture. Not only are those cut-offs really insanely short, the belt is undone and his shirt sleeves have been torn off too. ^^ The style is too cute to be very H___H-inducing, but it does lead to some interesting thoughts.

3. "Netuai Soldier 86 x 7" by Pepper Vio.

If this had been Ryou/Taku, I would have passed it up... but Taku/Ryou was a little tempting... and then hase told me this person also does poke-D. This is hilarious and I really would like to know what Pepper Vio is smoking. ^^

Let's see...we have Ryou offering a bowl of fish to chibi sea-otter? Takumi. Sea-otter Taku goes straight for Ryou's crotch instead. >.> Kei is outside the door and comes storming in with a baseball bat to beat the sea-otter off his aniki. Kei then stuffs the otter down the toilet. Kei starts getting it on with aniki--I guess sea-otters are really sexy. Kei freaks out when there's a tattoo?? of sea-otter Taku on the inside of Ryou's thigh. ^^;; I believe then that the tattoo? starts talking and bites a very sensitive part of Kei's anatomy after the shock wears off and Kei wants to continue things.(Um... yeah... I really need someone to read this for me.)

Another story: A poke-D short with Taku as Mew? and Kei as pikachu (naturally).

Another: Something with Kei and Ryou getting married? Ryou's wedding dress is really pretty. As they drive away, along with the streamers and cans tied to the bumper is... sea-otter Taku?

Another: Taku and Ryou have a baby. (Yes, Ryou is the mommy.) The baby is a little panda Taku.

Another: Taku-mew does some really wrong things with his tail. <.<;;

~inky 02:13 p.m. Friday, December 21, 2001

Oh, I keep meaning to update the scary girl story.

I don't mention her often, but there is another scary girl as well... we'll call her scary suicidal, scary girl, shall we? Or ssscary girl for short? ^^;;;

Ssscary girl is the one that keeps trying to hint that I should move in with her. Doesn't seem to want a "relationship" with me per se... but she has admitted to feeling desperate for someone and not wanting to be... how did she put this? a "virtual virgin" anymore? *SHUDDER* And I get this feeling sometimes that all that it will take to make her super scary is smiling at her kindly. ;>.>

And all this is so strange because, I mean, good grief, I'm me. ^^ I am not good-looking enough to make up for the fact that my sweetness only thinly covers the wealth of sarcasm and bitchiness inside.

Sadly enough, I'm supposed to be catsitting for her for most of January... she said that I should make myself at home and even sleep in her bed... is it weird of me to find that scary? I've cat and dog sat for lots of ppl before and I do stay over if it's a dog, or if it is a good friend's cat and they have cable... but this time, it's bothering me. I just want to say, "They're cats! I'll clean their box and feed them, but no... I am not going to bond with your cats." From what I heard from another friend, ssscary girl's cats are quite neurotic... must take after their mother. ^^

Hmm... seem to have gotten off-topic...

Oh, yes, I missed the perfect chance to tell scary girl and ssscary girl that I've been scared straight by scary women. ^^ On Monday, I had to go downstairs to run the report on our evil new postage meter... and I was whining about it, because right now, the meter isn't working properly and it takes about an hour and I'd have to be down there with the boys. (The two bi guys that I thought would be bickering the whole time... but as it turned out... I swear... something else is going on there...)

So, I'm whining, "I don't want to go down there with the boys!"

Scary girl: "Oh, really? I don't blame you... *significant smirk* I wouldn't want to go down--"

inky: "I said "with" not "on", so just shut up."

Ssscary girl (who just happened to be standing there ^^;; ): "Really? Are you sure there's something you don't want to tell me? You haven't switched sides have you?"

inky: "whatever" >.<

Given where I work and how loudly they were talking... I couldn't exactly just say my mind... "Leave me alone already! I'm bi, I'm into yaoi... and I'd much rather go down on those boys--or watch them do it to each other--than do anything with either of you because you're SCARY!"

If I had been less disturbed, I would have said, "Yes, I've switched sides. Actually, I've gotten in touch with the gay man inside of me and I'll be going FTM." So there! XP

Instead I went down with the boys and watched them be suspiciously buddy-buddy and got amused by how many of Ed's stupid mailroom-sex innuendos went right over John's head. The two I remember now are: "My, my, John, and how much can you cram into someone's box?" *winkwink* and "Yes, yes, you do have a package." Awfully dumb jokes but John's utter cluelessness was very amusing.

Okay... um... end of that ramble... ^^;;

~inky 09:34 a.m. Thursday, December 20, 2001

*yawns* hmmm... coming down off a chocolate and caffeine high...

Let's see... bunnies people should poke me about:

(in the early stages):
+ "Three Mornings"--a sexy, WAFF-ish, probably lime-ish, Kei/Take thing (this will be a gift for hase, so you know I'll be poked a lot for it)

(on the back burner):
+ the Princess fic--looks like it is shaping up to be a Shin/Take and Kei/Take fic, though some people are trying to encourage it to be a Takeshi-sandwich...
+ "The Yellow Sweater Fic"--in all its epic, lemony grandeur, Kyo/Ryou, Kei/Take, Take/Kei, and more.. ^^

(in the still-batting-the-bunnies-away stage):
+ the Kenta fic--a Kenta-Kei, Kenta/Take, PG farce
+ the Home Ec. fic--Kei/Take-sensei, ?/Ryou
+ the grope Take-sensei fic--Kyo-sensei/Take-sensei
+ the Ryou-needs-to-get-laid fic--Kei/Take, Take/Ryou ^^

Also on my agenda:
+ dangle the Pepsi Twist bunny in front of sami
+ feed the BBD bunny steriods
+ offer a reward to anyone who can write a Takumi fic which is in character--revealing him to be just as dumb as he is in the manga, without being annoying--and does not include any descriptions along the lines of "delicious butt," "shell-like ear," "blushing lips," or "porcelain skin" (the first description just bothers me because he isn't a rump roast, the others just sound too much like a fangirl describing him and not an appreciative and appropriately lustful male)

~inky 06:52 p.m. Wednesday, December 19, 2001

O.O;;; I can't stop drinking Pepsi Twist. What's in this stuff? *needs another case*

~inky 07:02 a.m. Tuesday, December 18, 2001

Inspired by something mizu said about fics that looked like they'd been translated from Swahili by AltaVista's online translator, I thought I would give it a try. I ran a block of text from the sweater fic through. *smirks* The results amused me.

~inky 06:38 p.m. Monday, December 17, 2001

I'm a terrible person. I hid from scary girl on Saturday after she wouldn't accept that I told her "no" twice. ^^; When she asked me today about where I was, I lied about when I smashed my face into the wall, made it be Saturday afternoon instead of yesterday. (I'm still all nicely bruised.)

She said it was too bad I missed it because I would have made out better than her. Seems they were all older women that have made it a rule that anyone under 26 is a puppy and off limits. (Scary girl is 24, I am 29.) ^^;; Gods, she had sworn ahead of time that it would not be a bunch of scary ladies hitting on each other. I am very glad that I hid. Someone suggested that I just tell her that my last gf made me "kinda not into women." It may be worth a try...

Got some fic ideas that I am hoping to have time this week to at least explore and see which might be worth doing. I'm also slowly working away at the sweater fic, a new chunk has been beta'd, but I don't think I'm posting it until at least the entire first 3 or 4 chapter part is done. That would be up till the point of Ryou's first race with Kyo. Then I can finally move on to the anime timeline--and Kei/Take and Takumi. ^^;

~inky 08:53 a.m. Monday, December 17, 2001

for those of you that know me best, I think I have discovered the source of the split personality ^^;

Inky:
The first name of Inky gives you a dynamic and highly strung nature. You have a humanitarian and principled side to your character and will go out of your way to help someone if you feel there is injustice or unfairness. You often become involved in situations without any thought of the consequences. You are basically seeking truth in life and have a very analytical and questioning mind. Being perceptive and intuitive, you often respond to your hunches, which can lead you into bitter experiences. You love change, travel, and new opportunities and dislike monotonous detail. Though you show enthusiasm over a new-found interest, you seldom finish the things you start. If you are repressed or restricted in any way, you become frustrated, moody, and depressed. You often speak directly and can be cutting and sarcastic. You experience many disappointments with people, for you trust others and take them at their word, only to be let down. In time, you could become cynical and extremely critical towards people. Your driving, seeking nature and intensity of feelings could cause you to experience nervous breakdowns, nervous problems, fits, goitre, or a weak and sensitive solar plexus. An impulsiveness could cause you to be accident prone.

*twitch*

nervous disorder? what nervous disorder?

Cristin:
Your name of Cristin creates a passive, friendly, easy-going nature, but your desire for sociability and the pleasant things in life makes you too easily influenced through your associations. You are too generous and if appealed to will give all you have because you find it difficult to say "no" and mean it. You do not like to create tension or friction and will try various means to avoid such situations. You are very idealistic. You have imagination and many ideas but lack the ambition and drive necessary to accomplish your undertakings. Many times you dream about the things you desire in life, but when it comes down to putting forth the necessary effort and accomplishing your goals, you do not have the strength and initiative. This name does not allow you the system and order your life requires to run in a smooth, efficient way, and if possible you will avoid having to make decisions because you feel much more secure when you can lean on others. Many times you make promises you do not keep, although your intentions are always good. Any weakness in your health would cause you to suffer through either kidney trouble, female problems, or varicose veins. Due to a sensitivity in your nervous system, you could experience nervous disorders.

*twitch*

Again, I ask you, what nervous disorders? *twitch*

~inky 10:37 a.m. Saturday, December 15, 2001

Take the What Cat Are You? test by webkin!

~inky 11:29 p.m. Friday, December 14, 2001

>.< Would hot water be so much to ask for?

*eyes the maintenance guys with suspicion*

When I called last night and you assured me there would be hot water by morning, why didn't you think, "Hey, she works where we do, we know what time she's at work every morning, we better get our acts together...oh... say... before she already had to be at work?" >.<

*shivers*

I feel like Cloud in that bizarre Sno-cone experience that I read about at ficbitches last night.

*grabs the disc with her fic on it* Maybe I can get Kyo and Ryou to warm me up...

~inky 08:39 a.m. Tuesday, December 11, 2001

hase~
Hmm... the dog one was so not a match with me... >.< , but the cat one is pretty close. Wonder why it's a breed I don't really care for: Persian.

The Persian is a relaxed observer. She quietly takes in the details of her surroundings and is happiest in her role as a spectator. The Persian will gladly accept affection, but does not often seek it out. Her loving and patient nature makes her an ideal housemate while her stress-free nature will allow her to make friends with whoever stops by. The Persian’s greatest past time is grooming her thick, tangle-prone fur, but it’s worth the effort, because she always looks fabulous!

The grooming bit is way off though. ^o^

(What kind of cat would you be?)

Apparently I'm also a banana. ^^ Is it just me or does it seem wrong that lemons are the enemy of bananas? Lemons are good...

^_~

~inky 09:10 a.m. Sunday, December 9, 2001

I am a Chieftan Carved out of Cheese.

My raspberry motivation slides transparently beyond the elongated prune. I dig widely upon the bus of my leather mangroves. Hygienic cameras pardon my curly white atmosphere.

Grant the wise barnacle, forsooth? The Utterly Surreal Test

I keep falling asleep when I don't mean to.

I couldn't find John's profile. Fu...

Another Takeshi-sensei asset haiku:

eyes keep carressing
his cheeks hidden in khaki
sensei fails me

~inky 01:18 a.m. Saturday, December 8, 2001

o.O;
O.<;

I really should check my "sent" mail more often...

On Monday this week, I learned that the wedding (to a girl) of one of the 2 says-they're-bi-but-I-think-they're-a-bit-gayer-than-bi guys that work for me had been cancelled while I was on vacation. A surprise, but not much of one. After all, I had once seen an e-mail he had forgotten to close the window to on my comp after he'd been covering my lunch shift. He had a SN that screamed flaming queen. ^^;

Also, I knew someone was visting OutinColumbus on my comp, but since I only have one straight person working for me, I wasn't entirely sure who it was.

The mystery's solved.

Apparently my work e-mail (with my real name right there on it O.o;;) has been answering gay men's personal ads since mid-October. o.O;;

Poor John... how can he get any responses when he's apparently not bright enough to realize that this computer's default e-mail account is mine?

Oh, I am so glad I haven't received any of those responses though. ^^; ... ...I do think I'm going to go there now and see if I can check out John's profile. ^o^

~inky 03:33 p.m. Friday, December 7, 2001

Take-sensei asset haiku:

the evidence is
my dusty chalk palmprint on
take-sensei's ass

^^;

~inky 10:43 a.m. Friday, December 7, 2001

Hmm... my computer seems to have stopped growling. O.o;; That worries me more than the terrible grinding noise did. Horrible grinding noises aren't supposed to just disappear, are they?

I cropped and uploaded a few more screencaps last night--haven't updated the site to include them yet--and made a discovery. Those screencaps were the last of the caps that I took way back in September. ^^ I downloaded a different screencap program to start making more (I told you I was screencap insane...).

Here's some numbers to outline my insanity: As of last night, the screencaps folder on my harddrive contained 11.2 MB, 702 files in 28 folders. That's an average of 25 caps per episode that I capped. That's really not too insane... here's the bit thats a bit more O.o;; I'm lazy when watching the episodes, so I set the program to take a cap every second. I did episode 7 last night. I started after the opening credits and stopped before the ending credits and had to redo one scene when mediaplayer freaked out: 1230 caps. In 40 minutes, I managed to go through 500 of those before finally being smart and sleeping. I kept 6 of those caps (though one is a composite of 4). ^^;;

Embrace the insanity, inky.

I'm still trying to figure out something quick to write for Takeshi-sensei... still pretty much clueless. I have the beginning of a fic that stalled that I am wondering if I can poke some life into it. I also had a stupid thought about passing notes in class and sensei's assets. ^^;

I've been pondering keeping a fic bunny corral. Just a list and short description of fic bunnies that are begging to be written that I'm hoping will infect someone else, so I don't have to write them. ^^

~inky 08:14 a.m. Friday, December 7, 2001

Still no sign of the mousie. I'm thinking that if he's still around, I would have seen him last night when I was awake between 3:00-6:00. (That was not a good idea, I'm wearing jeans to work today ^^;; because I couldn't drag myself out of bed in time to find clean work clothes. *hopes the big boss doesn't notice*)

I am still entertaining thoughts of doing a Kenta/Takeshi fic. Yes, I know it sounds terrible, but given Kenta's obsessive nature and the comedy-of-errors plot in my head, it could work and not be scary.

Don't know if I'm going to try to do a fic for the contest. Considering that I've yet to complete a fic, it seems unlikely that I could complete one by a deadline. (I'm terrible with deadlines... and I was going to be a pastor. ^^;; I would have ended up doing each Sunday's sermon on the Thursday after. ^o^; (And sermon writing was the only part of the job I actually liked when I did my internship.)) Deadline aside, I don't think my fics have that mysterious essence that makes them wildly popular regardless of quality. (*points to the new link to the Slap to the Head site*)

O_o; Man, it must be a bad day, all the phone calls this morning have been wackos.

Now I am going to type up the tiny bit of Shingo fic that I wrote last night before falling asleep with pen in hand. Hope I can decipher it. ^^

~inky 08:36 a.m. Thursday, December 6, 2001

I'm back. ^_^

I'm back and the mousies did not completely take over in my absence. ^___^v

Oklahoma was... ...hmm... well, I had fun, but I understand a bit more what it means for a place to be in the Bible Belt. ^^;; And I understand why some people, after hearing that I have friends in OK that want me to move out there, have just laughed and said, "You can't live there."

If I wanted to straighten up and go anti-yaoi (not just non-yaoi, mind you, but anti) and if I wanted to go to church two or three times every week (*rolls eyes* I'm a pastor's daughter and I trained to be a pastor... and I want to go to church about once every two years... ^^;), I could probably move out there and be happy.

I want to ramble more, but now I have to pretend I'm working.

~inky 11:11 a.m. Monday, December 3, 2001