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-well hi, I'm in Boston again. This took 3 miserable days on the road and I am so not inclined to now put the effort into my life that, unfortunately, I really really have to. M, C and Nakki are going to Pax this weekend (because Nakki is fucking magical); I am really not invested enough for it to be worth my hogging a ticket, wish I could go to Eastercon and stalk Tricia Sullivan instead, but if any of you guys have come over for Pax and want to do coffee or something you should let me know. Spending April 6-8th hiding somewhere and writing is kind of a good idea anyway.
-I've played most of FFXIII-2; sadly unsatisfying. It's much more like a Kingdom Hearts game than a Final Fantasy game, and what I mean by that is that you visit places briefly, do a couple of small quests/kill something, get some halfhearted cameos from familiar characters, and are occasionally treated to 30 seconds of plot. Continuity and character-building are hard to find, the time travel element is just used as a KH mini-worlds mcguffin, the base game characters are missing all the fuckedup that made them interesting, and Noel is a boring, grating Manpain Sue. Why did I sink a week of my life into it? a) because I could, b) I am easily hooked on exploration/side-areas, c) ALYSSA. SHE IS REALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I MEAN, ADORABLE-LOOKING MAD SCIENTIST WITH TIME-DISTORTION TRAUMA WHO IS CLEARLY USING HOPE TO GET AT SERAH? YES. I AM NOT SURE HOW SHE CAME FROM THE SAME DESIGN PROCESS AS ALL THE GODAWFUL NEW CHARACTERS LIKE NOEL, CAIUS AND YUEL.
Sucks that (due to being up here) I'm not going to get through it before the FFEX prompts window closes, so I shall have to prompt something kind of vague in the knowledge that I'll have it done long before the June 1st reveal. I can only think up two prompts atm, this sucks :(
-I haven't mentioned this in a while, but, my I-751 is amazingly late right now. Going by the stated processing times I should have got a decision over a month ago. While this isn't particularly worrying, it has occurred to me that I have no idea what happens if an extension letter runs out before USCIS do your fucking paperwork that you only need an extension letter on because they do it so slow in the first place. lol, I paid $590 to this racket.
-I've played most of FFXIII-2; sadly unsatisfying. It's much more like a Kingdom Hearts game than a Final Fantasy game, and what I mean by that is that you visit places briefly, do a couple of small quests/kill something, get some halfhearted cameos from familiar characters, and are occasionally treated to 30 seconds of plot. Continuity and character-building are hard to find, the time travel element is just used as a KH mini-worlds mcguffin, the base game characters are missing all the fuckedup that made them interesting, and Noel is a boring, grating Manpain Sue. Why did I sink a week of my life into it? a) because I could, b) I am easily hooked on exploration/side-areas, c) ALYSSA. SHE IS REALLY KIND OF AMAZING. I MEAN, ADORABLE-LOOKING MAD SCIENTIST WITH TIME-DISTORTION TRAUMA WHO IS CLEARLY USING HOPE TO GET AT SERAH? YES. I AM NOT SURE HOW SHE CAME FROM THE SAME DESIGN PROCESS AS ALL THE GODAWFUL NEW CHARACTERS LIKE NOEL, CAIUS AND YUEL.
Sucks that (due to being up here) I'm not going to get through it before the FFEX prompts window closes, so I shall have to prompt something kind of vague in the knowledge that I'll have it done long before the June 1st reveal. I can only think up two prompts atm, this sucks :(
-I haven't mentioned this in a while, but, my I-751 is amazingly late right now. Going by the stated processing times I should have got a decision over a month ago. While this isn't particularly worrying, it has occurred to me that I have no idea what happens if an extension letter runs out before USCIS do your fucking paperwork that you only need an extension letter on because they do it so slow in the first place. lol, I paid $590 to this racket.
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(Anonymous) 2012-04-04 10:55 am (UTC)(link)~yoey.
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An Ohio city I lived in is still, to the best of my knowledge, mulling over whether I figured my (piddling) city taxes correctly for 2009. I assume they'll eventually let me know if they want another dollar.
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Seriously OH is weird. If you don't fill in a certain form when you move away, they keep pestering you for years, and it seems like they never bother to tell anyone this. One of my Boston friends was still getting prodded by them a year ago about his 2009 taxes; he left Ohio during 2008. Most state revenue departments are bad at keeping track of who owes them money, and OH is this weird crablike thing that won't ever let you go, bb. I think my friend settled on ignoring them until they went away (which worked, I guess?), but I'd suggested sending them copies of his federal 1040 and MA state taxes for 2009 along with an OH form with a zero on every. damn. line.
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I just asked my friend C (who I am conveniently staying with right now!) and he says it was the city of Forest Park, OH, that kept bugging him forever even when they had his Massachusetts address and were mailing him at it. What.
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Seriously, it never would have even occurred to me that there'd be a form for this. I have lived in many states, none of which have ever had trouble letting me go. WHY, OHIO. WHY.
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i need to write so bad.
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I know, me tooooooooo augh. I started a new original thing, fucking why. And I need to read the Bible for research. lol
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So I was watching Youtube clips of Patton Oswalt, and he has one joke where he talks about the Bible and how it's a great story book, and I thought you know, it really kind of is; it's too bad that all the novelizations of Old Testament stories I've come across are written by people with an Evangelist agenda and marketed as ~Christian inspiration~ or ~Christian romance~, instead of by people who have actual knowledge of anceint Hebrew culture. AND THEN MY BRAIN GOT IDEAS, I'M SORRY OKAY. Pretty sure I've settled on The Book of Esther, but it was a close call between that and David/Jonathon, which that whole story is FULL of slashy subtext, if you ask me. I think I will srsly go to hell if I slash the Bible, though. fuckin lol.
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I just want to troll the fundies, tbh. I have about two decades until I reach the average age of publication, I can make this happen, y/y.
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troll always <3 I have just got so dry of words in the last couple of months and I need to pick snowblind & stuffs back up again. FFEX prompts go out late this month, so hopefully I'll be prodding words around by then (it helped a lot last year).
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The whole 'washed in the blood' symbolism really is hella disturbing now that I'm on the outside. o.O At least the denomination I was in didn't believe we actually ate the body of Christ during communion.
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I am really, really not looking forward to Easter, because I know the family is going to expect me to go to church with them, and there really are not enough words to describe how much I do not want to go. They're part of a nu wave of radical evangelicalism, that believes the only way to fix America's problems is to revert to the good old days of back alley abortions; when police raided gay bars; when women fucking knew their place. If you want to see something really scary, go on Youtube and search ''Carmen 'We Need God in America Again'''. It's been a while since I've seen the video, but it pretty much sums up everything they stand for.
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I hope you're okay & can use your sick to dodge out of that. I got nothing except that line from ILLUMINATUS!: "The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences."
At my sister's perfectly sweet Episcopalian wedding blessing I kept stopping halfway through sentences in the liturgy because I realised the words we were saying were things I do not believe and didn't want to say, and it seemed so weird to be on the other side of the glass - yeah I actually don't have to just 'go with' the bits of Christianity that aren't right with me.
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if it wasn't my parents and I didn't know that they meant well and did their best by me, I'd probably be filled with trollish glee and anticipating their shock and horror, but yeah :/ can't help feeling guilty about bursting their bubble, dammit.
Everyone else in my family/town though, idgaf. I imagine it will be quite titillating to be the subject of small town gossip. :O
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I am just hoping it goes well for you rather than devolving into protracted drama. ;_; No guilt, the bubble sounds completely toxic anyway :(
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Ths drama is inevitable, I'm afraid. I just know they're going to blame themselves. As long as they don't try to drag me to counseling, I think I can take it.
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:( well, good luck? It sounds like you need to do this, whatever happens.
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I am enough of a weenie that if they don't bring it up, I sure won't. :( I'm not financially dependent on them, but emotionally?
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