In which Sky is en route to California, baby!

[cerulean_sky]

• I am at the airport! (I think this is the second entry I've ever typed while at the Albuquerque airport? Probably this is the only airport I regularly fly in or out of that has free wifi.) I am on my way to Los Angeles to visit my grandparents for the last 4 days before school starts. They bought me a plane ticket ,as I am the only grandchild allowed to visit without parental supervision, who was I to say no? I am looking forward to the ocean and the beach and the sun and In-n-Out. Priorities. I have them straight. I brought my bikini and I am determined to wear it even if I am not quite the weight I would like to be when I wear it.

• As I mentioned above, school starts on Monday. I am a little nervous. Mostly because (ack, shit) I haven't got all my books yet. (Fuck, shit.) Normally thing would happen in the time between "orientation" and classes starting. I will be in California for this period of time. I will email my mom and see if I can use her card to order the big ones and get them there with free 2-day shipping from Amazon. (Thank god I signed up for Amazon Student.) I am sort of excited though. I mean, school. Writing. Getting my goddamned degree.

• So, I finished the X:Men: First Class fic that was due mid August. (It has not been posted yet, as it will be done anonymously, so I'll say more about that when I can.) But then I signed up to pitch hit for that exchange, so I'm writing another one. On top of my xmenbigbang fic (which I am so behind on) and the Star Trek fic I still need to finish. Anyway, it's sort of exciting that I actually finished a fic. chezvous beta'd it last minute, and she really liked it, so that was encouraging. Hopefully the second one will be good too.

• The footage from the strip club in X-Men: First Class hit the internet yesterday, featuring, yes, Erik in drag. It's fabulous. Plus, fans were given yet another reason to ship them: "You've never looked more beautiful, darling." (/happy sigh) I am super excited to be getting my hands on the DVD with all the special features and all that. Desperately need it. Unfortunately, I don't think it comes out before my rough draft for xmenbigbang is due, so if I want to watch the movie again while writing, I will have to watch the version I downloaded. Which is missing scenes and various lines in scenes. It's a little bit vexing.

ETA: If you haven't seen the deleted strip club scene, here it is minus all the fancy music. It's fucking fantastic. Watch it.

• eraofhogwarts reopened recently, and school will be starting for our characters too. If you ever thought of possibly applying for a character, definitely do it now. We especially need a Sirius and a James--though I will warn you, you would be stepping into the shoes of other players who sort of fucked up those characters' relationships with everyone, so you would have a lot of work to do, but hopefully it wouldn't be too tedious. Pretty much everything you need to know about the RP can be found in the community's profile, so. Come join the fun!

• New contacts arrived! Sometimes I don't realize just how badly I need new contacts until I change them out and everything gets just a little bit clearer. Also, I am glad they arrived before I had to fly off to L.A. It would have sucked to have to do this trip without being able to see well.

• My car has been sort of intermittently turning on the "check engine" light. My dad has looked it over though, and he thinks it's a fuel injector issue, that there's grit in the tank that is getting into the injector system. So I have this stuff that I put in with the gas and it does usually seem to get better after that. It came on when I was only a few miles from the airport this morning, and it freaked me out. I have a bottle of the stuff to put in when I get back, though, so here's hoping it won't be a problem. My dad assures me that the car is not likely to immediately explode whenever the light comes on (thank god), so I am working on changing my assumptions. I really really need it to not be a big problem though, as I don't think I have the funds to solve a big problem at the moment. (/fingers crossed)

I don't think I have anything else to update about. Hopefully I will update more often once life starts happening again.

[This icon is ironic because I can't actually drink caffeine even when I am tired. That's what over-dosing will do to you.]

Comments

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

players who sort of fucked up those characters' relationships with everyone

Yeah, no shit. That was one of the reasons I dropped Peter. :/ I know he's known as the "dumb" one of the bunch, but they didn't bother reading his profile. To me, he may be dumb, but he was trusted. I constantly felt belittled (well, it was Peter, but I took it personally because I felt that's how they felt as players and characters, so I stopped before I got too irritated) by it all.

I do hope that we get a better James and Sirius. I'd totally bring back Peter.

Also -- auto parts store check why the light is on for free. :)

[cerulean-sky.livejournal.com]

I do too. Ugh. I wish they had just allowed themselves to drop the characters before they screwed things up too badly. But alas. I mean, maybe we could retcon some things, to help? Idk.

Fingers crossed for some better players.

I dunno if all of them do! But my grandfather used to be a mechanic (and has a degree in engineering) and my dad used to work for him so he knows cars. If it gets worse I'll have someone else take a look at it.

[masteroftrouble.livejournal.com]

Crossing me toes too! :)

Lucky. I wish I had family like that, lol. My car is always breaking.