My thoughts on the whole health care issue. Summed up by delicious copypasta:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issued by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.

Then, after spending the day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, I drive back to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and the fire marshall's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.


I'm sure a lot of you have read that already but good copypasta deserves a repost or too. Or maybe this says it pretty good too.

This is your non-fandomy, non-self-pitying post for the month.

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From trinfortune - Death Note, Megaman, and Tales of the Abyss

( Death Note )

( Megaman ( All ) )

( Tales of Abyss )

From taichara - Phoenix Wright, Oh! My Goddess, and Loveless

( Phoenix Wright )

( Oh! My Goddess )

( Loveless )

From chee_san - Gundam 00 and Megaman Classic: ( Fake Cut )

Well, folks, normalcy left the scene for good. Why do I say that? *long sigh* Let me tell you.

Seven weeks ago, Mom came down with the most awful ragged case of coughs I've seen. At that time, Mom had 12 weeks + 1 day working before she retired. She's de facto retired now -- sick leave until well. She was on vacation one week, trying to sleep it off, and tried to work the next. No good. She set up an appointment with our dr. the next monday, and he diagnosed with Pneumonia, and told her to come back wednesday for some scan. All was OK, we thought. Between the visits, Mom's right leg swelled up. Not good. The dr. found blood clots in the leg and rushed her to the hospital he was affliated with.

She was in there 10 days, but without problems. First night, the nurse was a bitch -- she was good as gold after that, and Mom's man hating side popped out. Male nurse? gtfo. *wry laugh* During the visit, they was trying to figure out if it was cancer and clots, or just clots. At that time, they were treating the clots heavy, since they can be automatic death, however... *hangs head and sighs* However, That made me question their competency. Good: Blood thinner Heparin and the other one, a C, for home use. Bad: Tried to switch Mom's heart meda -- she went afib, switched her back w/ the switch still in her -- afib, injected her with a strange steroid -- she was allergic to it and had stroke-like reaction, thinking reaction was stroke.

She survived that and well enough to go home .. with oxygen tanks. She was home a week. Yes, a week. Mom's been the type to go-go-go! when she can, so she was pushing herself to get better. Wrong move.

Normalcy left when she went back to the hospital. Not only had she gotten more blood clots in both legs, they found spots in her lungs. I won't sugarcoat it. She has Small Cell Cancer. Thankfully, they caught it early enough that they're going gung ho. Before she started radiation, the hospital's competency was questioned again. they made every vein in her arms fubar so she has/had a hole in her chest for stuff -- a pic line, or something. And she was almost upside down for a while. This was her..
|
_/

Hopefully she'll be home soon and has the sense to not push herself. We like her.

What was the hospital that made me question them? Grandview Medical Center

How am I doing? Surviving. Things change, and I gotta adapt. Though, the week before Halloween, the stress about Mom, the chaos over everyone coming and going everyday and cleaning the house almost everyday, and the chaos with my "The Maw" partner (entry upon request) and job messed me up enough that I had a case of the shakes I'm not going to lie. I may be a procrastinator, but I love me some Order. a little chaos, like a chaotic ex-gf, or a thankless retail job, is just fine. I deal with some chaos. Overload me, and I break.



Come home soon, mama.

Title: William Shatner
Characters: Iceman, Angel, and Beast
Author's note: Inspired by this. It might be better to watch that after you read the ficlet.


( Warren made a scoffing noise into his ice cream. )

Sorry to spam your FLists. But I got an email at work with some lolCats I hadn't seen before and two just make me laugh for realz and had to share with you all.

( Down the Rabbit Hole )

This morning got off to a shaky start. I was being lazy, completely forgetting I need to go to battle with my hair. I think it was about 15 minutes before I had to leave that it hit me and I still hadn't gotten dressed. ( I'm such a slacker. ) I really don't like my hair in it's natural state and while I don't always need to straighten it. . .today was a must. I got it done, threw on my jacket, packed my bag, and ran. Forgot my phone, but, oh well. At least my hair is straight. Ish. It's presentable. That's all that matters.

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taichara gave me Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Starsky & Hutch, and King of Fighters.

THESE WERE KINDA HARD ONES. :O

And also, ( I seem to have gotten rid of a lot of my icons. D: )

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anibunny gave me RG Veda, Final Fantasy IV, and Sailor Moon ~


( RG Veda )


( Final Fantasy IV )


( Sailormoon )

There's an AntiHomestar* in the line-up, it's neither me nor Jenny.

I just don't even know. I'm a strange mix of flattered and desperately curious as to who it is and whether or not TBC were told that it was a fancharacter costume, who the character was, his origin, etc.

this was a good thing to wake up to.

_{*- AntiHomestar, or just AHR, is me and chakramchucker's murderous, badass, dictator AU version of human!Homestar. Like, for the record. He's a fancharacter-- ours, and someone ELSE cosplayed him.}

[Pops up from readings -- why, hello procrastination distraction!]

So FList...

Regene or Tieria?


Fanart's not mine -- still looking for the artist's link.
But if any of you guys have it, holler my way so I can credit!

:3c

Either way: X3 ♥♥♥♥♥

*is biased towards Regene~*



ETA : HOLY SH*T A SAINT SEIYA THREAD ON /cm/ *0*!
 

Things have been going better recently. As of Saturday, I moved into my new dorm. My room is nice and big. It's also nice to have more freedom. I think I'm going to enjoy living in the dorm.

Yesterday, I went with meepalicious and her friend Kate to Nakano, which is apparently the new Akihabara. All the real otaku are apparently moving to Nakano. Shopping in Nakano Broadway was fun, yet bizarre. It was an odd mix of normal clothing stores and resturants, old school Japanese toys and collectibles, as well as anime stores. There had to have been more than half a dozen different Mandarake stores in this place. It was kind of crazy. You could easily lose track of time and reality in there, going around in the maze of all the different floors, as there are no windows in most of Nakano Broadway. I bought some doujinshi in one of the Mandarake stores. One awesome Reno-centric FFVII doujinshi, and four Gundam 00 doujinshi. One of the Gundam 00 doujinshi is crossed over with Kuroshitsuji, in that all the 00 characters take the place of Kuroshitsuji characters. It's pretty much everything I didn't know I was missing in my life~. We also happened to walk across the pretty awesome (and random) sight of a Jack Sparrow cosplayer and a Michael Jackson cosplayer drummming up some business for a noodle resturant. I took a picture and the Michael Jackson impersonator even said domo arigatou to me in Michael Jackson's voice, lol.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch a video of one the Saiyuki musicals with meepalicious (who is so generously letting me leech off of her internet until my own is set up). I can't wait to see how awesomely cheesy this is going to be!

It's obvious who my favorite Gundam Meister is when on a mission to make 60 icons ( 20 of each Meister ), after two episodes I have 1 screencap each of Setsuna and Tieria, 4 of Lockon, and 5 of Allelujah.

I do love you, Tieria. *Wibbles* I do.

And yeah yeah, ain't it amazing? I am making an effort to do something other than Graham. I actually have an idea that I think would be cool. Maybe. ♥

Hell will freeze over when I willingly start making Patrick icons. Well. Other than when he makes cute faces on his wedding day. Because how could I not icon that for myself?

Things are going all right.

Addicted to Apollo Justice. It just seems to move at a good pace. I know with the previous three games, sometimes at some points I was just tired and wanting to get to the next part. It wasn't like that with every case. . .I think one case per game. I'm on the 3rd case with Justice and I feel like we got to court pretty past.

Talked with someone in twitter a little bit about Investigations. I went to the site to grab her the link and got distracted and watched the trailer. I don't think I will be able to play the game like a sane normal person if I can't sit quietly through a trailer.

Thanksgiving coming up, bargh. Mom wants me to stay through Friday ( to do shopping. ) but I have no vacation left. So that won't happen. I will probably go home Wednesday night to stay through dinner Thursday and come back. Thankfully, Thanksgiving dinner is always earlier than normal. So I can chill a little before bed before work Friday.

Speaking of shopping, I need to make a list for Christmas. Seems I have a few new people to shop for this year so I actually go to do some planning.

Jumping back to Holidays, mom mentioned the idea of "not doing Christmas" this year. Instead, she wants to go to Las Vegas. Which is all fine and dandy, but. . .again. I don't have vacation time. So for me, that would mean taking a plane on Christmas Eve ( how much will THAT cost me?! ) Spend Friday and Saturday there and then take a plane home Sunday. It really doesn't sound worth it to me as much as I love Las Vegas.

So. I might get to be home alone this Christmas.

Title: A Matter of Time
Fandom: Jak and Daxter
Rating: PG13
Summary: When Jak first landed in Haven City, Erol wasn't the one to find him. Now he must face a future he is ill prepared for, and even with help from Sig and Damas, there's no guarantee that he'll survive.
Main characters: Jak, Sig, Damas
Ships: Genfic
Spoilers: Jak 1, Jak 2, and Jak 3

First chapter.
Previous chapter.

As always, comments/suggestions/criticism welcome.

( Epilogue. )

People disgust me so I got away from people. You fucking know who you are and it's really arrogant of you to pretend otherwise.



Thursday I adopted an old laptop from my mom's workplace. It was more like a surprise my mom brought home that I claimed for myself as an impromptu gift.

Friday I did shit in town. Got into a fail!argument with my mom because I am an embarassing fail!tranny. Had a controlling HATE attack, i.e. I have never been this angry since high school i.e. physically destroying things and heaving for air and not!crying while not!laughing etc etc truth is I'm a scary person when you upset me. :| Later I went to a family dinner/gathering thing.

Saturday I don't remember shit. I slept too much, I finally had the disgusting rug cleaned, uhh.

Sunday (today) I'm still staying the fuck away from the Internets but a few stray people wonder about me so I decided to make this entry. I spent a total of ~10 hours or so updating that laptop (I'm on it now). This was after the hours spent cleaning it up and getting things to work that the office had shut off. I'm still working under my mom's work username since I don't have the Admin password, but this has the Admin rights, so ...

Honestly I'm surprised Microsfot even had XP updates for me and didn't tell me to get the fuck out and buy a new computer. (This was built in '02.) It certainly runs better now. I named it Evon. I didn't name my first computer, but since then I've had Falcon, Kurt, my current computer Tesla, and now Evon. That may look like a short list, until you realize I make a computer last ten years or so. All of these computers are still in commission! Only Tesla and Evon are in my ownership, though. I'm sure the first one broke down since it was made in like '91, Falcon sits around in a shitty house out of town since it's technically broken but old people don't know/care, Kurt belongs to rainwizard, and Tesla is my baby. But now I have an adopted portable baby, Evon. It almost went to my mom's dad who currently has Falcon, but I would have been forced to fix and update this either way and like hell I was going to give up the chance to have my own laptop. It was a bit weird until last night when I finally got the balls to save my own files to the hard drive and consider it truly mine. Welcome, Evon. ♥

I just spent most of this post talking about my computers that's how fucking shitty I view people as being right now. Wow. Just... wow.

I HAVE A POKEMON DESKTOP LET ME SHOW YOU IT (YES THIS IS AN OLD STANDARD SCREEN LAPPY HAHA).

• 15:54 Ho hum. #

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eliyes gave me Sailor Moon, Final Fantasy, and RENT.

( Sailor Moon )

( Final Fantasy )

( RENT )

Having dreams about the Ronin Warriors. =( Those were great. Especially the funny ones. And my music video one! Dude, that one is my favorite! ♥

I suppose this means I need to watch the series again (not that I mind).

Also, just because I can...( Ronin pics, yay! )

So, yeah, totally need to watch Ronins again. =3

dear brothers,

if you ever argue outside my room again about whose turn it is to feed, the cats, I will feed BOTH OF YOU to the cats. I have WORK in the morning, dammit. this waking me up at 4am nonsense needs to STOP.

not love,
your sister