swim through the fires to stay in this world

Comment on this post and I will choose seven interests from your profile. You will then explain what they mean/why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.
I got this from ryanitenebrae, who asked about....

elaborate lives

This is a reference to pzb's Hakkai x Yaone fic "Elaborate Lives", and sums up both that OTP, and most of my other OTPs. (I don't go for simple relationships.)

dani reese

The fabulous Detective Dani Reese is the female lead on the tv show life. What's great about her, besides the fact that she's the no-nonsense, tough, bad cop in the Dani Reese/Charlie Crewes partnership. Also, she is not just there to give information or reflect the male protagonist; she has her own history and damage.

labyrinth

Awesome movie. David Bowie being the seductive Goblin King we all want to want us. That last scene with them ("love me, fear me, and I will be your slave.") is incredibly hot, even on multiple rewatch.

 paris is overrated

I did a study abroad program for three months last year, and unlike everyone else on the planet who had a fabulous, life-changing experience, my time was pretty evenly split between awesome and awful. Also, the single most awesome day I had was across the country from Paris.

 sakura/kakashi

My current OTP. The final boot to get me to read Naruto was that I wanted to write fanfic and needed to get speech patterns down so I sounded in character. (I am not even joking.) Kakashi is the single most awesome character in Naruto, and despite Kishimoto's cockblocking tendencies with his female characters, Sakura has grown from a superficial young woman into a strong, compassionate, slightly less young woman. Kakashi was her teacher and sucked at it, but as a couple, I think they would work brilliantly. They are both ninja for the same reasons (to protect their village) and both of them are survivors - they are going to stay behind and protect Konoha while their friends die or leave. Also, Kakashi would treat Sakura right while being a bad enough boyfriend that she wouldn't take him for granted, and Sakura would knock Kakashi out of his self-imposed emotional shell and get him living again.

tremaine valiarde

Tremaine is the awesome main character of The Wizard Hunters. It a world of warriors and mages, she isn't trained to use a sword or magic, nor is she the nominal leader, yet, as the author herself described Tremiane: "she makes decisions and other people have to deal."

women with realistic bodies

I cannot tell you how much I enjoy having characters like Rose of Doctor Who or Tsunade of Naruto who actually look like real women, instead of woman after woman who have the perfect, flat, toned tummy that I desperately want and have yet to get. (And you don't even want to know how many crunches and ab work I do. The fact that I'm still a bit poofy on my belly and no where else, really, is just torturous.)

I am home.

Words cannot express my happiness.

^_^

(by the by, at this point, I've been up for oh, about 28 hours.)

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,

Versailles was lovely.

The illness that hit coming back to my apartment was less so.

Have stuffed nose, headache, and feel about as strong as a wet kitten.

Today will involve grocery shopping so I don't die of starvation, getting supplies to hopefully help kick this sickness as close to immediately as possible (i.e. not very) and then lying on my bed observing my sinus headache.

Chances I'll be even more scare for a couple days than I have been already.

Okay, Sunday night I planned to get to bed early. (People who know me well will already know where this is going.)

So I get working on some fanfic before bed, and end up staying up just a bit too late because I'm tantalizingly close to finishing a piece I started in April.

Then, as I try to go to sleep, it turns out there are some stupid french punks out in the street rapping. No, I'm totally serious. They were recording themselves and everything. And did I mention loud? I had earplugs in and headphones on and I could still hear them. Needless to say, I didn't get to sleep.

Then, I decide to make hay while the sun shines, or it's midnight, and watch Alias, thereby both killing time until the dumbasses outside shut up, and thinking that if I get significantly less sleep than I need, it will be easier to get up in the morning. (Usually this works - I can tell home much sleep I didn't get based on how easy it is to wake up in the morning.) This morning, however, it didn't work and I ended up turning off my alarm clock with waking up at all.

If my roommate hadn't asked me when I was planning on getting up, I would have been late to class.

Her: "What time are you planning on getting up?"

Me: "Seven?"

Clock: 8:10 am 

Then my hair refused to co-operate and I was utterly unable to put it up in a ponytail, because that's the kind of morning I was having.

Then I had the smallest peice of bread and a bit of milk for breakfast. And then as I'm rushing out the door, my roommate opens up the fridge and is getting out these little pastry rolls she got.

"Do you want one? They're fattening, and I know if I have them here I'll eat them. Here, have two!"

Me: "...Thanks..."

And then I spent the morning denuding my nails, because I don't bite them like a normal person when I'm bored, I pick at them with my other nails. 

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.

I've returned and I have a visa! I'll be able to go to Paris in 21 days!

Hail!

Also, I've ordered a very expensive electronic piece of equipment that I've been wanting for a long time, snagged a really good price on 7 volumes of Tramps Like Us, and should have nothing more to do but work, practice French and wait for packages to arrive for a couple weeks.

That means that *gasp* hometown friends, I may actually be able to see you in person! I know! Shocking! (I'm usually free in the afternoons, so drop me a line if you want to hang out. Or I'll see you at Writer's Group, were I will actually be for the first time in about a month.)