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I fail at productivity. I basically just spent my entire free afternoon playing Sudoku. *facepalm*

But hey, yesterday I made the epically well-timed decision to post a new vid while everyone was off watching the Lost finale! So, yeah, if you missed it, have an Amy Pond vid. AMY IS MADE OF ALL THINGS AWESOME, OKAY.

Someone force me to work on my tardis_bigbang, seriously. (I really hate draft deadlines. They don't mesh with my writing process at all. I constantly edit and revise as I go along, so the idea of sending in a complete "draft" makes no sense to me. If it's done, it's DONE. If not -- why the hell are you taunting me with that entire month between the draft and final deadlines?)

(Which isn't to say I will abuse the rules of this ficathon, because I am not a special snowflake requiring special treatment, and I'm good at abiding by rules as given. But I can still whinge about it!)

CHRIST I'M BORED.

I really, really, really, REALLY need a job. Because bad things happen to my brain chemistry when I sit around with nothing to do all day every day. Except look for a job. And fail to find anything. And wait for the temp agency to maybe get back to me.

For the first couple of weeks of this, I was at least using the time to write, but the more bored I am, the less creative I feel, so that spark's dying out. And until this week, I at least spent a couple of hours every day just wandering around the city and taking looong walks, but Chicago seems to have decided to bypass autumn entirely and plow straight on into winter, and it's a bit too chilly for the aimless wandering now. Well, it's not THAT cold yet, but the temperatures plummeted a bit too abruptly and I haven't adjusted back to chilliness yet. I suppose I'll get over it -- lord knows it's going to get a hell of a lot colder when winter actually hits.

Anyway. BORED. I've read all the BSG fic on crack_van and all the other fics all those writers have written or recced, I've long since done the same for any decent House fics out there, and my attention span is too sporadic for any other fandoms at the moment. Also, said crack van apparently has no new recs in any fandom for the month of October. Anyone know what's up with that? And I've played more games of solitaire than I can even conceive of counting. BORED. BORED BORED BORED.

I hate having nothing to do ever.

God, my LJ is boring. My RL is perfectly satisfying but quite uninteresting these days, so I rarely feel compelled to make personal posts, but while I'm still flitting around reading fics, my fandoms of choice seem oddly inactive these days, and I'm not interested in SPN or BSG or SGA or any of the other acronym fandoms that seem to be eating my flist of late (my complete lack of interest in watching TV may have something to do with this). So my LJ winds up being...really, really dull. Sorry, guys. Some people are really brilliant diarists, and their posts are great reads even when they're just talking about cheese or something, and I wish I knew the trick to it but, alas, it is not for me to be a brilliant writer of journal entries. But I'm here, and I'm still reading everything on my flist every day, and...yeah. Hi.

The heat in my room does not go on. This is not a happy thing. I mean, obviously my room is warmer than, say, outside, but that doesn't make it warm. And it's bloody freezing outside. Here I was, very grateful to be bypassing a Chicago winter for the more temperate climes of Ireland, and apparently the Irish are expecting the coldest winter in several decades. Thanks, Ireland, for making me feel right at home. *shivers*

In other news, I know this is heretical (as several of the other American students here have told me), but I'm quite glad to have missed Thanksgiving. It's my least favorite holiday. My family stresses me out, and I don't particularly like any of the traditional Thanksgiving foods -- turkey and mashed potatoes are very eh, and I detest cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. So while I wouldn't have minded the two days off from classes, it's nice to be in a country that doesn't celebrate a holiday based around a rather bullshit and racist historical occurrence that was the First Thanksgiving we learned about in grade school, second only in trumped-up WTFness to Columbus Day (oh, don't get me started). But anyway. I know that a lot of people in the US genuinely love Thanksgiving, so for those of you who did celebrate it, I hope it was suitably splendiferous.

On the other hand, last year I spent Thanksgiving with the boyfriend's family, and I rather enjoyed that. Other people's family tensions and oddities are amusing to observe, whereas my own family just makes me want to scream. So it goes.

Damn, I wish the Rent movie was out in Ireland. I'll have to wait for winter break to see it.

Meme, stolen from everyone.

Take a look at my icons. Comment with the following:

1. One that makes you automatically think of me.
2. One that you think I should TOTALLY use more often.
3. One that you don't get/needs more explanation/you have no idea why the hell I have it.

Comment using an icon of yours that you LOVE, and tell me why you picked THAT one too.

I really need to learn patience.

Boredom breeds sheep, apparently. Therefore, meme. That top five meme, where you ask me for my top five of anything and I tell you. And, heck, if you'd like to tell me your top five, too, go right ahead. It's all cool.

Or, y'know, just comment with something interesting. I'm easy.

Happy birthday, juweldom! Hope it's splendiferous and sparkly!

Wow, the last few weeks have been boring for me. I hope you all have me filtered off your daily flist, because there's absolutely nothing of interest in this here LJ. My apologies.

I want spring break to come already, dammit.

So the roomie started shooting me those it's-1:30am-OMG-I'm-supposed-to-have-a-single-now looks. I guess that was my cue to stop making sim!Sirius chat up sim!Lily (what? he hasn't met sim!Remus yet and whenever sim!Lily and sim!James interact, all these red minus signs appear over their heads. Which I guess is canon, since they're still preteens. But I digress) and go to the boyfriend's room.

So where's the boyfriend?

...

*eats boyfriend's Wheat Thins*

But seriously, while I would go to the boyfriend's room every night anyway, since his single is about twice the size of my double, I'm really getting sick of feeling like an intruder in my own room. I AM paying housing to live there. I should be able to hang out there for as long as I like.

...OMG the people in the room next door are having loud sex again. *cringes*

*crunches Wheat Thins AS LOUDLY AS POSSIBLE*

Hi.

kohaku1977, I got your card! Yay! I love getting cards from other countries. *beams*

Er, should probably wrap my parents' Christmas pressies, or sommat.

Not sure when I'll actually write my self-imposed "slasha" fic, but it will come. Eventually. (The nice thing about creating a challenge fic for yourself? No deadline.)

Just finished watching "Cameras in Middle Earth" and "The End of an Age" on the RotK:EE. HEART. SO MUCH LURVE.

That is all.

I really want to be creative or something, but I really just feel like going to sleep. Alas.

Yeah, there was really no point to this entry.

It's raining! A lot! And I had work today! And I also have work tomorrow! And it's 7pm! And I'm in my pajamas already! And maybe if I use more exclamation points, my life will sound exciting!!!!!

*headdesk*

Zinefic: 2 scenes down, 4 to go. IthinkIcanIthinkIcanIthinkIcan...

Happy [slightly belated] Birthday, pervinca!

I still have no free time.

Insert witty and amusing entry here.