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When The Gas Runs Out Just Wreck It

redbrunja: (Bitch! (Katara/Jet))
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 12:17 am
And so, 12 days after I return home from Paris, I have finally finished unpacking and organizing my room. (I didn't downsize my makeup, but fuck it, everything fits in my travel/college makeup bag, and I'm calling it good.)

I would be much happier about this if I had finished my thank-you notes as well, and didn't have to pack tomorrow.

Also, Avatar: download faster! Faster, faster, faster!
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*glows* (with weariness and joy)

redbrunja: (Going To Call This Home (Tramps Like Us))
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 11:54 pm
I am home.

Words cannot express my happiness.

^_^

(by the by, at this point, I've been up for oh, about 28 hours.)
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T-Minus 38 Hours....

redbrunja: (Going To Call This Home (Tramps Like Us))
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 05:52 pm
Do you know what I'm doing tomorrow morning?

Packing.

*grins*

Stolen from everyone on my flist:

If you had me under your command and could make me write anything, what would you love to see me write? I'm not actually going to write any of these (unless something strikes me), but I am curious. (Not required, obviously, but "why" would be nice.)
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That Was My Last French Class, Thank You Sweet Jesus

redbrunja: (Ty Lee Does Not Approve Of Your Fuckery)
Monday, December 17th, 2007 05:15 pm

*points to icon*

Ty Lee speaks for me regarding the brats in my french class.

5 more days, and I'll never have to see them ever again.

*snoopy dance*

ETA: Sorry to spam my flist with such negative posts today.

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I Think It's A Bad Sign...

redbrunja: (Pain (Cordelia & Wesley))
Monday, December 17th, 2007 10:33 am
When you go into the bathroom to put chlorhexidine on your ears, look in the mirror, wince while thinking "oh my god look at those bags under my eyes." Mentally stop yourself, go, "no, wait, you just smeared your mascara," wipe below your eyes with a wet towel, and nothing changes.

Seriously, I look like a got punched twice in the face.

On the plus side, first final down, three more to go.

And I watched Avatar 3x12 last night. More thoughts later. 
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Fire Nation = Mad Cow Disease

redbrunja: (That's All Any Tea Is (Zuko + Iroh))
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 11:04 am
Dear Art Teacher,

When I don't recognize 3/4 of the information on your review sheet, yet have been to every class and done all the readings...

I don't think you understand the connection between what you're teaching us and what you expect us to know.

No Love,
me

Dear That Boy,

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Glaciers Have Frozen Your Feet

redbrunja: (Wishful Thinker (Gojyo))
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 05:08 pm
Can someone explain to me why when I want stand under soothing, heated water, mulling over meta and getting my hair clean and legs nicely shaven, there is no hot water, ever. Never have I taken so many cold showers as in Paris. (What's really galling is CEA made a big deal about how his apartment complex has 4 huge water heaters - you'll never not have hot water!)

Yet when I have five minutes before I rush out the door, there's enough hot water that when I accidentally lean against the pipes, I get a 1st degree burn?

gacked from [personal profile] musesfool:

Comment here and ask me ANYTHING about any fandom I'm involved in/have been involved in. Controversial or innocent (what do I REALLY think about the missing Miss Kitty Fantastico), silly or serious, ask and you'll get my honest opinion on the subject (to the best of my knowledge/ability).
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Screw you, Sandman, & The Horse You Failed To Ride In On

redbrunja: (Suffer For My Sins (Faith))
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 03:20 pm
You know, I really don't need new issues with sleep.

 

So the thing where I wake up an hour and a half after I go to bed rarin' to go?

  

Needs to stop.

 

And by 'rarin' to go' I mean, 'rarin' to lie in bed brooding about how I'm going to manage to have a car at Western next quarter, the remaining people I need to get presents for, and mentally repeat over and over my schedule for the next couple of days and everything I still need to see before I leave.'

  

Fun times.

 

Also, a couple days ago there was a conversation running around CEA, which was, what is the first thing you're going to eat when you get home? Originally, my answer to that was 'whatever I feel like eating at whatever resturant that my mother and I end up going to,' but then I realized that answer was incorrect.

 

 Nacho doritos and root beer.

 

I may end up buying them in New Jersey during my layover, depending on whether I actually have an hour and a half, or if I'm just going to be running for my next flight.
  • Current Location: land of tired
  • Current Music: other people chatting
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When That Foghorn Blows, You Know I Will Be Coming Home...

redbrunja: (Going To Call This Home (Tramps Like Us))
Saturday, December 1st, 2007 08:31 pm
22 days and counting.

*giggles*

(am I the most ungrateful study abroad student on the planet or what?)
  • Current Location: pomidou center
  • Current Music: annoying people laughing
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*clears throat*

redbrunja: (Golden Girl (Jaye))
Sunday, October 14th, 2007 12:23 pm
So, I posted this weekend, and then accidentally put my post under private. It's now friends-locked here.

And after all that happened, I went to Cassis on Friday, which was fabulous - Cassis looks like every little Mediterranean town you see in the movies, and I spent the day lying on the beach reading.

It was beyond heavenly.
  • Current Location: library (with wifi!)
  • Current Music: shuffling of papers
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Forgive Me, Technology Goddess, For I Have Sinned

redbrunja: (Suffer For My Sins (Faith))
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 05:15 pm

I realized on Saturday that in the single month I've been in France, I have (unwillingly) given my computer, the poor ill-used Angelina, the same amount of scratches that I had in the two YEARS since I first got her, as well as dented her wi-fi terminal (luckily unused, since I have built in wi-fi) and dropped her on the hardwood floor. (Which was one of those horrible accidents that happen when you take care putting your computer in you backpack, but fail to put backpack in the exact center of the bed, and are forced to watch from across the room when it flipped off. Goddamn water bottle.)  

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. 

God, I wish I know of some kind of computer spa to reward her with when I get back, and/or a way to take scratches off of the casing.

Also, meme, gacked from

 

 

[profile] carrielh:

Comment with any ship from a fandom you know I like or am familiar with. I will then go on about said ship for at least one hundred words. Perhaps more! Feel free to comment with ships I like, ships I hate, or ships where my opinion is neutral or unknown. I'll be honest and relatively diplomatic about all of them, with a bit of added flail for the OTPs.
  • Current Location: computer lab
  • Current Music: just me clicking by my lonesome
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Drive-By Post Before I Vanish To Do Laundry

redbrunja: (No Fate But What We Make (Heroes))
Friday, October 5th, 2007 02:43 pm
Someone online mentioned a Beauty & The Beast Castle that I need to go see while I'm in France. Is this ringing anyone's bells?

Also...


Also, I went to Giverny today, which is where Monet painted and it was utterly gorgeous and so, so peaceful, I just wanted to stay there listening to music and looking at the flowers, in this lovely, hazy misty morning, with a truly lovely dove-gray sky and the birds chirping.

What was less fun was that while I was walking to Monet's house I had my head turned and walked straight into the lamp post that was for some unfathomable reason in the middle of the sidewalk. Seriously, it was a total slap-stick moment; I expected to see Charlie Chaplan hanging around. Almost as painful as it was embarrassing.
  • Current Location: remember when I didn't hit q for a or vica versa?
  • Current Music: jolene - ray lamontagne
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Just Say 'Meta'

redbrunja: (Doesn't Shake At All (Fray))
Thursday, September 27th, 2007 02:59 pm
I'm posting a meme, because I really would like to talk about fun, fandom-y things, and I'm two inches away from writing a CAPLSOCK OF DOOM post about how frustrated I am with being sick, the internets, not being able to dowload the latest Bones or Heroes, and the fact that I have a presentation/essay in a week, and my 'partner' for said presentation has said nothing to me about it. (And yes, I could bring it up first, but I am not this boy's mother, and if I'm going to wind up doing everything myself - which you know I would be, not matter what - I'm going to spare myself the annoyence of having to breath the same air he does.)

Meta Meme: Comment here with a fannish topic or question, and I will talk about it.
  • Current Location: still nowhere interesting
  • Current Music: click of time draining away
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"I Teach Restriant." "Your Seamstress Must Be An A-Plus Student."

redbrunja: (Pain (Cordelia & Wesley))
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 01:59 pm
So, yesterday, my film presentation went great, especially considering how little time I had to do in. Now it's on to stressing about the next paper that's due in a week. Hopefully, the internet will be up in my apartment tonight - have I mentioned that it went out yesterday? Which would be really nice. I'd love to be able to do research in bed. (Especially if 'research' is code for... okay, sorry got sidetracked).

Am between classes right now and so, so tired. All I want to do is take a nap, and the sugar from the hot chocolate I had earlier utterly failed to kick in, and there are no bakeries less than five blocks away, and this school has no vending machines.

So, the main reason I'm posting. 

I have a fic flopping around in my head (totally the fault of [personal profile] smillaraaqalthough all she really did was feed the spark that had been lurking for a while) and it needs some structure. So does anyone have any good prompt/challenge coms with just 4-8 prompts in a set? Like [profile] 4purposes, only not. 
 
  • Current Mood: exanimate
  • Current Location: computer lab
  • Current Music: gravedigger - dave mathews
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*takes a deep breath*

redbrunja: (Our Witty & Half-Suicidal Heroine)
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 11:28 am

Hello, all. Just popping in to let you know that I arrived safely.

So far, Paris is gorgeous, my room is insanely tiny, and (touch wood) I may be over the worse of the jet-lag. Still quite freaked about being away from home for 4 FRACKING MONTHS WAS I InSANE?!?! but that should wear off by December 21st.

Also, renegadekitsune: I see your vacation spiral stairway and raise you another three flights. That I had to carry all my (current) worldly possessions up, as well as my groceries.

The room I'm staying in doesn't have wi-fi yet, so it might be a bit before I'm even haunting lj again, however, the school I'm at has a computer lab, which is how I'm here.

Also I'm using an international keyboard, so if ,y typing stqrts looking zeird knoz thqt itùs not totqlly ,y fqult:

  • Current Location: PARIS!!!!!!
  • Current Music: erratic keyboard tapping
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Would You Like A Christmas Fic?

redbrunja: (She Burns From Within (Starbuck))
Friday, August 24th, 2007 10:28 pm
And by Christmas, I mean January. Or possibly later.

On Monday I fly out, (I think I'm a little in denial) and will have about 24 hours in airports and planes during which I have to amuse myself.

So, I'd love some prompts of things to write while I'm waiting. However, be warned, you will most likely not see any results from this until January, when I once again have free time. (Not to say I wouldn't be on lj and writing fic for three months, because I'm addicted and will undoubtedly be popping in and out, but just that I doubt I'll have much time to transfer things from longhand to typed up and postable.)

And with that list of addendums and codicilsout of the way:

Give me a fandom/character/prompt, please, and I'll write fic.
  • Current Location: desk
  • Current Music: tea kettle heating up
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T-Minus Four Days

redbrunja: (They're Only Fairy Tales (Me))
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 10:43 am
So, Sunday I'm heading out to my aunt's house, and on Monday I will be flying away towards Paris.

Still doesn't seem real.

However, I spent yesterday making sure my debit card was working correctly, and picking up 250 euros (European money? way, way prettier than ours. They have glittery bits and it's all colored.)

I know where I'm going to be living, I know how they want to conduct airport pickup, I know what I should pack.....

Nothing left to do put balance my checkbook, pain my nails, and wait.

Still can't believe I'm going to be in France this time next week.

Oh, also I realized I don't have enough icons of kick-ass women doing bad ass things, so if you have any icon recs, let me know. Or kick ass women with the text 'bitch, please.'
  • Current Mood: undefined
  • Current Location: bed (which is basically my desk)
  • Current Music: feel like makin' love - melissa ferrick
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And So It Begins

redbrunja: (Default)
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 05:44 pm
In exactly 27 days I leave for Paris.

*meep*

(Also, there has been a layout change. It just seemed apropos, although I wish it came in another color besides peach. Thoughts?)
  • Current Mood: limp
  • Current Location: making dinner
  • Current Music: some unholy war - amy winehouse
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Things You Don't Quite Realize....

redbrunja: (Sacrific (Belle & Her Beast))
Friday, June 15th, 2007 07:23 am
Last night, as I turned out the light, I realized that this will be my last night in the dorm room I've spent 2 years in. I have so many memories of this room, plus it's the total winner of the dorm room lottery, as it is actually conceivable for two people to live in it.

It just really hit me that my sophomore year of college is over, and I'm going to be going to Paris in two months, and that I'm likely not going to see some people I really like for six months.

*nostalgic sigh*

Okay, now for some happier subjects- memage!

Respond to this post with a pairing (or character), and I will reply with a song that reminds me of them.

My fandoms are Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars, Harry Potter, Global Frequency, The 10th Kingdom, Fullmetal Alchemist, Girl Genius, Ghost in the Shell, Saiyuki, Read Or Die, Chrono Crusade, Alias, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bones, Wonderfalls and Labyrinth.
  • Current Location: dorm bed (for the last time)
  • Current Music: bloodletting - concrete blonde
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