My blind_go fic is finished and submitted and everything!  WOOHOO!

BUT OMG IT IS DEFINITELY TOTAL CRAP.  AUGH.

I still not-so-secretly love it though...

ANYWAYS.  YES.  DONE.  WILL BE POSTED AT inkntendinitis AFTER GUESSING IS DONE.  BUT YOU CAN TRY READING ALL THE FICS TO TRY AND GUESS WHICH ONE IT IS IF YOU WANT.  XDDD

But, sadness, I will not get to read fic today.  ;-;

DAMN YOU, INTERNET GUYS, FOR NOT COMING UNTIL FRIDAY.  DAMN YOU, LIBRARY, FOR CLOSING AT FOUR THIRTY IN THE AFTERNOON DURING SPRING SESSION.  DAMN YOU, SELF, FOR HAVING THINGS TO RUN OFF AND DO NOW SO YOU CAN'T WAIT AROUND FOR FICS TO BE UPLOADED.


MORE OF AN ACTUAL POST TO COME WHEN I DON'T HAVE TO RUN OFF QUICK-LIKE AND HAVE MY OWN INTERNET AGAIN.

Going up to Halifax this weekend to look at cars, woohoo!!  The second portion of my student loan is coming in soon (yes, AFTER the main two semesters are done; I'm not going to get into it, haha) so I can afford to go this weekend - if I find one I can put it on my credit card, and then pretty much entirely pay it off before I get any interest on the higher balance.

Sadly, there aren't many options - the cap of my budget is around $2200 because I'll have to make my insurance down payment and register the car and stuff.  I looked on the AutoTrader site (country-wide site for used vehicles and stuff) and got these results - some of them are in the wrong spot, but any within my budget in Halifax, Dartmouth, Eastern Passage, and Upper/Middle/Lower Sackville are ones I can think about, and maybe also Truro.

That green '96 Jetta for $1495 was looking really good (I've wanted a Jetta for years, haha), but when I called to ask a couple questions about it the guy said it was sold - but it's still listed, so I'm hoping (probaby futiley) that he was mistaken.  XDD  Now there's another one of the same year and colour listed too, but it's nearly 3k, and unless I get a lot more money selling back textbooks than I expect, it's definitely too expensive.  Sigh.  Also, it's diesel, which requires more maintenance and is currently more expensive than gas.  You can run them on cooking oil in the summer according to beautydreaming , but I'd have to do some of my own research into if it increases maintenance costs and stuff before I went in for that.  Though there's no duty on cooking oil like I think there is on diesel so it, uh, may be illegal?  XD

Oh well, I'll figure things out.  XD


I may get to see fantasyecho  on Saturday while I'm in the city, but if I don't I'll probably hang around long enough when I go back up to pick up my car (I can't drive it home Saturday if I get one because my insurance broker isn't open Saturday, so I can't start my insurance, and driving without insurance is bad and illegal, haha) to pick her up from work and show it off.  XD


Whatever I get, I promise to post pictures and details, assuming anyone wants to hear.  Read.  Whatever.  XD


Had my first exam on Tuesday, Earth Science.  It went all right.  Not wonderfully, but good enough.  I have Spanish in ... six hours at nine AM, and my Tolkien exam tomorrow (Friday) and nine AM.  My take-home for my Mysticism class is due by the end of the day today (Thursday), too, but it's only 750 words, so it shouldn't take me long.


I actually have an idea for blind_go  now, even though it's totally random and I have no idea if I can make it work.  I'll start working on it after this week when things settle down, but won't be sharing anything here or on inkntendinitis  until the guessing is done, in case anyone checks my LJ for hints, haha.  XDD


she_universe  and I have big ambitious plans for getting lots of proverse  work done this summer.  We'll see how that goes.  XDD


Talked to Lloyd at the 5c to $1 on Tuesday - I worked there first year, and since I'm going to be around for the summer, I thought I'd ask if he would have any work for me.  He thought he might have 15 to 25 hours a week for me since Danielle (their main part-timer) left, but he's not sure right now because things are kind of eight kinds of insane.  He figured next week he'd be able to let me know more solidly.  Woo, job!


I get to go to beautydreaming 's convocation because she has an extra ticket, so I'm really excited about that, and she has, unsurprisingly, asked me to help her pack her stuff into her dad's car for the drive back to Ontario.  Ever since I fit her entire dorm room/life (except the two suitcases she was taking back to Ontario with her) into my parents' Hyundai Accent in her first year, I have been known as the resident packing queen.  Even if I can't get my own shit UNpacked.  XDD


Also, here's the song I'm currently listening to: Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know


Blarg, should go back to studying now.  Boooooooo.

Ah well.  Cheers, all!!

Uh, hey guys, it's been a while.

...Over two months, I know.  Bad Caitlin, no biscuit.  Please don't hurt me?

Scruffy hair was really, really scruffy until I got it cut.  Slightly different than when I cut it last summer.  And yes, that was the last time I cut my hair.  It was such a mop.

LOTR class is win and awesome.  And yeah, I know I don't have the lectures posted, but I will.  And I will have written notes for the days I missed (more than I wanted to because I've been having these weird, killer headaches that make Caitlin a very not happy camper, but they seem to be gone now).

Other classes aren't bad, but I'm bollocksing Spanish up.  Mrrr.  Too much L2 interference.  Ugh.

Actually joined an LJ RP, which sounds funny since I haven't been posting here, but the activity requirement is very small - twenty comments/posts for a two-month period.  Which I filled with only my intro post, so it's okay that I don't have much time for it.  And it's FUN!  (Is dramadramaduck  in case you're wondering.)

EDIT: Oh! And I met Denise's totally awesome fiancée! She's crazy awesome! Did I mention she's awesome? Awesome.

Have not written more than random, couple hundred word-long bits and pieces of unrelated fics since... uh, I can't remember.  Sad.  : (  I miss having time for writing fic.

I signed up for Round 007 of blind_go  anyway.  I think I'm just a sucker for punishment, especially since the minimum word requirement is 3500, and fics are due May fourth.  I finished exams April 17th and start my spring classes April 27th.  *headdesks*

Haven't played any video games since Christmas break, and even then I didn't play much.

Am taking two classes in spring session, History: Victorian Britain and Sociology: Irish Society for a total of six credits.  Which is the max numbers of credits one is allowed to take during spring session.  Actually pretty excited!  Nothing for me to take in the summer session, though, unless I feel like taking three creds on Shakespeare's tragedies over a two month period via distance with Marquis.  Which I don't, as he's the primary reason I ended up dropping the full-year Shakespeare course.  :/

Need a job for the summer break, especially as I am staying in Antigonish.  I'm taking spring classes, and I'm sick of living at home and sick of my mother treating me like I'm incompetant or that it is ANY of her business how many hours I work, how my classes are going, when I'm going to graduate (later than she wants), or how much I owe on my credit card.  I make my payments on our co-signed student LOC on time, so that's ALL the business she has with my financial situation.  My mother needs to learn to mind her own sodding business.  Thank god Dad can.

(Speaking of my dad, he was in Vegas for a Kodak conference and when I asked him what Vegas was like he used "strange" about eight times in two minutes.  Also, "noisy".  Oh, Dad; you are not so articulate when you're brainfried and jetlagged. <3 )

At work right now, and at the end of this shift I will have worked 35 hours since five to twelve on Sunday night, along with going to class, having a job interview, making time to eat, showering, studying, doing class readings (some of which were fun LOTR class readings, some of which were not), not sleeping (damn insomnia)....  *dead tired*

That's all I can think of right now, really.

I promise I'll try and update more.  I swear.  I missed you guys.  <3<3<3<3

I figured I should make an actual, real post, haha, as opposed to spastic, joyous, or not-so-joyous flailing, fandom or otherwise.

One exam left, tomorrow morning at nine: Sociology 100.  Not too worried about it, going to start studying in a bit.  Wrote Computer Science today, and am almost guaranteed to fail it, due to my prof being a total fucking dickwad.    Long story very, very short, among other things, he decided to do shit with us that mostly only gets don eby third year CompSci majors, and is not supposed to be covered in the 100 class at ALL.  Bastard.

Wrote my Celtic Civ final yesterday, and it went pretty good - I also got back the paper I'd been practically tearing my soul out and bleeding over and loathing and suchlike.  If you're on my AIM, you may have seen my username being something about That Damn Paper.  Another long story short, it was my term paper worth 30 points on my final grade, and it shouldn't have been hard, but it was completely killing me.  It gave me more trouble than any other paper I've ever written for university - including the 19 pages I wrote for my Creative Writing final - and I spent more time on it, too.  It was supposed to be eight to ten pages.  I ended up handing in five pages of, IMO, total shit, three days after the extension the prof had given me ended.  Considering this, I'm not actually displeased with the 19/30 I got.

Friday is moving day.  Well, moving-my-shit-day, since I'm not actually going home until Saturday night or Sunday morning, depending on how late the staff banquet on Saturday night runs.  We'll see, anyway.

Jessica will be back in Pictou county on Sunday, too, as you may have figured out from my last post.  I start work on Monday, babysitting the same seven kids I did last year for May and June.  I'm looking forward to it, sinc eI haven't seen them since Christmas and rather miss them!  <3

proverse.  God.  proverse has taken over my brain.  Thanks, she_universe. :P

...But really, thanks. :DDDDD  I'm getting SO stoked and so excited for all these ideas we have!  And the fact that there's ACTUAL STUFF on the profile page and main page of the comm now!  Okay, fine, it's just little wee profiles for Sam and Derek, and an itty bitty, incomplete intro post.  BUT!  Soon we will have PRETTY GRAPHICS! And ICONS! And ACTUAL CONTENT!  And STUFF!  And MINIONS FANS!

Well, ideally.  XDD The fans will likely be a long time coming, sadly, lol, but we'll have to see.  Maybe we'll get lucky and internet-famous, haha.  XD


Residence is kinda depressing lately, not in the least because my beloved Gilmora (where I live this year and lived last year) isn't going to be residences next year.  On Friday at 12.01 PM, the construction guys are showing up to remove furniture and walls and start renovations to make it the Music Department and offices. ;-;  I have to go around Gil either tonight or tomorrow and take pictures before Gil is no longer "my" Gil.

Also, it's starting to get rather empty and quiet.  I haven't even noticed the nun around lately.  I wonder what she's going to do next year when she doesn't have her residents around to mother by making the lights do weird things when you should be going to bed?  (Among other things, lol. XD)

I've worked rather a lot this week, and will be working more, lol.  Sunday I was 4PM-8PM, Monday I was the same shift, I work 8PM-152AM last night, am working a double shift from 4PM-12AM today (right now), and am working another double shift from 4PM to 12AM tomorrow, and Joan's lunch hour on Friday, either 12.30-1.30 or 1.2, depending on when I finish packing my crap into the car.  Which technically has to be by 12.00 because of the aforementioned furniture-and-wall-removing construction dudes, but I plan to have something to eat before working.

I was trying to figure out what the hell I was going to DO all day Friday, since I can't hang out in my room and Sam-my-computer will be packed up and sent back to Pictou County with my mum, seeing as he's a desktop and I can't cart him around with me, lol.  Then someone reminded me that the campus computers labs will still be open, probably, and the library definitely will be.  : DDDDD  Something tells me I'll be spending all day Friday and probably most of the day Saturday holed up in the labs.

I'm going to miss the blind_gochat, though, partly, because the library and the labs both close at midnight. ;-;  Sadness!  Maybe I can convince someone to mail me the log...

Speaking of blind_go, I have, uh, yet to write anything for it.  <_<  The same goes for my  naruto_flashfic assignment this month.  The flashfic is supposed to be done for the 30th, and the BG fic for the fourth of May.  And I have proverse stuff to write and graphic-ify.  According to our schedule, by May 12th.  Meeeeep.  XDDD


ALSO: I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED PACKING YET.  AND I HAVE EIGHT HOURS OF WORK AND ABOUT TWO HOURS OF EXAM AND HAVE TO BE OUT BY NOON FRIDAY.  BECAUSE.  AS I SAID BEFORE.  DUDES.  WALL-SMASHING.  ETC.  HI, HELLO, DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT, HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU WITH HELP TODAY?

MY BRAIN, IT IS FRIED.  *FACEDESK*

*FLAILS LIEK WOAH*


ALSO ALSO: My roommate just walked by and stopped to chat with me for a minute, and when she turned to walk away she very nearly walked into the edge of the doorway.  I THINK MY KLUTZ IS CONTAGIOUS.  I DUNNO IF SHE'S GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH NEXT YEAR ALIVE, WHAT WITH HER LIVING WITH ME AGAIN AND POSSIBLY CATCHING MORE OF MY KLUTZ.


ALSO ALSO ALSO: I LIKE CAPS WAY TOO MUCH.  AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF  she_universe AND  lady_assassin AND cephiedvariable.  I BLAME YOU THREE FOR THIS.  MY NAME IS CAITLIN AND I HAVE A PROBLEM.

BUT I NOT-SO-SECRETLY LOVE IT.

So I just received a FF.net private message from someone I don't know if I have ever communicated with (the username isn't familiar, but they may have changed it, or I may know them under a different username, I don't know).

Now, I was a little wary at first because, well, last time I got a PM from someone I hadn't initiated contact with it was... much less than polite.  So I admit I opened it in my e-mail with a little bit of trepidation...

...which was entirely unnecessary.  OMG.  I've never received a PM/e-mail from someone I didn't already know like this before, not as long as I can remember.  Holy crap.  This person really likes my writing.  I seriously have no words for how happy this made me - I mean, I have friends tell me that they like something I wrote, and it makes me happy, but this person I don't think I even know took all this time to write me this big PM!

Check it out (name removed for privacy):

Hello there.

Thought I should just let you know - I've been a fan of your friendship, gen fanworks since...since the skies know when, a very, very long time ago. Your fics have always been one of those rare gems be it in the Naruto or Kingdom Hearts fandom because they've always centered on the intricate relationships and ties between characters, exploring carefully the dynamics and the could-have-beens and filling in the holes of which the canonverse probably missed on covering. I can go on and on and rant about why I've been a fan of your works since...since I shipped all those gen, friendship pairings andcharacters you write about (thinks Gaara, thinks Sora and Riku, thinks sandsibs), but that'd be asking too much in this brief message that I'm doing my best not to annoy you with too much lengthy words. GAH. I'm not good with personal messages and words, so I'm sorry if this comes across as awkward.

Returning to  after a very long hiatus, and chancing upon your profile again and stumbling across old fics you've written..well, those moments were sure as hell nostalgic, and reminded me again the times where I practically worshipped your writings and would read and read your fics over and over again. I  still DO love your writings, your fics, and even though you seem to be less active around [fanfiction.net] these days, I'll still put you on author alert just in case you post on of those awesome fanworks that always ALWAYS tickle my fancies and fits into my facets of moods anytime, anyplace.

Sorry for the ficcator-fan rant, or if I sound anything bordering close to a stalker. But hopefully you get the message in a nutshell: I'd really look forward to anything you'll write again. So...WRITE ON! ^_^


*squees and flails*

EDIT: NOVEMBER 19, 2007, 11:40 PM

I will not delete this post unless asked, because then I would be acting like I never posted this BS.  The below text should be completely disregarded and is in no way a reflection of my actual feelings towards the person in question.  I let my anger and own feelings or worthlessness influence me into taking out my disappointment with myself on someone else for no real reason.  The comment below was made with the intent to be helpful, not to tell me what I should or should not be writing.  It was made with the intent to encourage me to explore different subject matter than that which I am familiar with.

I hereby retract all statements made in the below post and subsequent comments that insult this individual in any way.  The original text will remain unchanged should the person in question wish it to, as an example of just how mean and petty I can be sometimes.  I was wholly in the wrong here and I regret my vicious comments regarding this person.

I ask forgiveness from those I insulted and demeaned in this post and the following comments, though I may not deserve to receive it, and vow to never make such a post again.

Thank you.

END OF EDIT


"As well, on a side note, I'd really like to see some future poems of yours moving away from the 'Asian' theme.  I am probably more interested in Asian Studies then the next guy, but I'd like to see something different."

How about you fuck off and don't tell me what to write?  You can just go and piss up a tree, because that's about as useful as you telling me what you want me to write.

Because, seriously, I write for myself, not anyone else.  I will write what I want, when I want to, and nothing you can say will change that, so you may as well not waste your breath or you words.  You have no idea how some of this stuff I've written about has affected me or made me who I am, so you can just toddle off and leave my subject matter the hell alone.

Die now, kthx.


EDIT: I don't expect everyone on my f-list to agree with me, and I knew some wouldn't when I posted this, but I just needed to rant.  Said rant is based on how the comment came across to me, and you can go ahead and disagree with me, but this is how I felt about it at the time I made the original entry and I can't really change that, since it's, y'know, in the past.


Also, inkntendinitishas been updated with one of my favourite Creative Writing assignments so far.

Regarding NaNo:

Total word count: 22306
Goal for November 13th: 21671
Ahead/behind by: + 635 (and I haven't written a word today)

You bow to ME, novel. :D

Except for that part where you won't let me title you.  XD

 Total word count: 15042
Goal for November 9th: 15000

Oh yeah. :D  I am owning this bitch.

Now if only I could own this pantoum/pantun I have to write as well. :\

Also, atom0001: I hope you had a great time at your Blue October concert.  :D

Also also, tonko_ni: how are things coming?  I haven't been able to really talk to you except in LJ comments, as we haven't been online together in ages.  ^^;;

Look, proof that I actually AM working on the giftfics like I've said I've been!  I finished one!

atom0001, this one is for you.  ^__^  Happy late Christmas!  XD

Title: Toryanse
Warnings: Spoilers for Rescue Gaara arc (up to ch. 280)
Rating: G
Words: 2357
Summary: Gaara's never really slept before, and he's not sure he knows how, but Temari is sure he'll manage.
Disclaimer:  The Sandsibs and Naruto aren't mine.  Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

So, ganked this movie meme from rostand.  According to her, if you've seen over 85 of the following 239 movies you have no life.

...Is it sad that I beat her score by two?



TOTAL: 113

Also: I have a name for my Sandsibs fanmix, thanks to iamatwerp's lovely, nerdy hubby.  "Scirocco"!  ^_^ It's perfect.  And because my psych paper is done, I can mess around in Photoshop to make the mix art GUILT FREE.  *jubilates*

Still working on Christmas giftfics because I'm still horribly writer's blocked, though I've been able to write a few sentences this week past, as opposed to nothing at all.  So that's good.

Just a note to all you guys that I promised fics to for Christmas - I AM working on them, but if you've been reading my LJ lately, you'll see that I have kinda had other thing on my mind.

The're coming, though.  I think I'm getting back into my writing groove.  It may have something to do with rostandcoming back to NS, even though I won't see her till tonight when I pick her up from her nan's and we go get guitarpulsationfrom the airport and they both come back here unil Sunday.  She's closer, I can feel it.  *shifty eyes*  She might have had the more creative half of our brain over the Christmas hols. XD

So, since I haven't bought gifts or whatever for my online friends (alana, atom, slightbuddhist, tonko, pixiemarie, inomuiro, this is you guys! If I forgot anyone, OMG!SORRY!), partly because I have no money and partly because I have no addresses, I have come up with something that is free and will (hopefully) make you happy.

If you want, I'll give you guys fanfiction! Your OWN fic, not the same one for all of you. ;P

So, if you want one, then e-mail me or comment here! Fandom, pairing (if wanted), or specific characters that you want in it should be included. If I don't know the fandom, I'll say so, but considering that I know most of you through Naruto comm/fic/etc, then it'll probably be a fandom I know. ^_^

I hope this makes you guys happy. ^^;;