3 of my prompts claimed at slashfest!

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My euphoria dims a bit when I suspect one may be art (because I'm picky about that stuff) instead of fic, but still--THREE of them!

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I want to glomp my claimers until they turn a lovely bluish-purple color. <3

Again from notalwaysright.com:

Fighting Fire With Fire

Argh! Argh! Why do ignorant fanfic writers persist in shortening the names of Japanese characters? Do they now know that names like Sakura and Haruka are romanji of kanji? You pick the one of the kanji, not chop off syllables wherever your westernized ear thinks sounds "cute"! For the informed, it is TORTURE. You are murdering a beautiful and symbolic language and there should be guides for this. Examples? Byakuya from Bleach becoming "'Kuya". Worst? He's a noble character and of a senior rank. The one calling him that atrocity is his underling, and lower class and not even that familiar with him! The most prevalent one, however, is Kakashi. Would someone of Iruka's character start calling a genius, eccentric jounin "Kashi" or, dear God, "Kaka"? And it just sounds WRONG!


If anyone's Japanese that reads this, from what I know of Japanese culture, only parents might call their children, close-close friends, siblings, and children would ever use shortened names like this. True, or false? My impression that formality, etiquette, and respect is much more important than "cutesy" and when they do, it's just the first name with a -chan suffix.

Hey, darkestnight12, you're taking Japanese right now--what of it? Did I totally get this all wrong?

-------------------------- Another note
Nevermind the Merlin prompt. slashfest is only holding a half round, so aren't accepting new requests at this time. *pouts*

Today was NOT a fun day. Due to project deadlines and nerves left over from the hectic-ness of the entire week, I ended up getting two hours of sleep last night, if even that.

I dragged myself out of bed early to continue working on aforementioned projects and somehow, my sleep-deprived brain thought that the 7:40 bus that I usually took would arrive at 7:50. Needless to say, I was half an hour late to photo and missed the beginning of a critique. Not so late that I actually missed anything else or that I couldn't put up my own prints, but late enough to make my usually punctual self cringe.

This has been the first week I succumbed to buying over-priced coffee at the Silo for the fact that it contains caffeine. I spent the rest of the day suffering nausea, an inconsistent headache, and slightly unbalanced. I vow to get my full ten hours tonight. I was doing so poorly today that not only did I misremember the schedule of a bus I've been taking pretty much the entire summer, I couldn't do basic arithmetic, took a whole HOUR AND A HALF to measure out a mat and then wasted all that by cutting RIGHT THROUGH THOSE LINES. I swear I was nearly going to cry at that point. That makes twice in one week I've wanted to just drop everything, crawl into bed and have a good cry. Previously being when I ended up crossing campus twice just to print three color copies of a document for that group project. And in the morning, I completely forgot to sign the "Thank you" card Professor Molloy had gotten for us to send to the sacbee. *cringes in absolute shame*

On the up-side however, the euphoria from my almost perfect grade has not faded! There was another group presentation today, but when I asked the professor what she thought after everyone else had left, she said our's was still the best. >.< This was during the hour-long conversation I had with Professor Wood, centered almost entirely on design and college. It was INCREDIBLE. This is the first time I've felt so comfortable around another professor to babble so much. I learned loads from her and it was very, very cool. I usually can't get over my awe of my professors to talk to them so freely.

Continuation of the downside? TWO HUGE FINAL PROJECTS DUE FRIDAY NEXT WEEK. *runs around like headless chicken* It's a COMPLETELY HANDMADE POP-UP BOOK and FOUR SILVER PRINTS.

Than again, in the typical see-saw of moods today has put me through, I have happily submitted three prompts to slashfest! I only hope I don't scare authors away with the extensiveness of them. I got in the Harry Potter characters in James Bond 'verse prompt I was a minute too late to submit in the last fest and two more.

( The requests, should anyone be interested. )

Yay! Technician van outside the apartment complex when I got off the bus today!

Besides this momentous news, today was also the first day of winter quarter. I had three classes today and I think I can handle my workload this quarter.

First was Spanish 1 at nine in the morning, meaning that I'll have to catch the 8:30 bus every morning for the next three months. The professor had lots of energy so despite the early hour, I think I'll stay awake throughout class. I was, however, expecting an actual professor and the woman who showed up was a grad student. I'm a little disappointed because the name on the register had great reviews on ratemyprofessor.com. Then I found out that since I already have two years of high school Spanish under my belt, I can only take this class pass/no pass. Terrible, as my GPA could definitely use the A I could get. Since there's no letter grade, I'm going to concentrate more on my other classes and just make sure I don't get below a B here.

Next was English 137N with a professor who had just a hint of an Irish accent. He spoke rather fast though, and combined with the dim, warm room, I know that if I don't watch myself, I'll nod off. Today however, we watched a pretty cool music video the professor said illustrates Yeats' "Stolen Child" nicely. It was Sigur Ros's Glosoli. Haunting foreign music with spectacular scenery and some eerie, but gorgeous children.

Last, after a three hour wait, was English 46A where the professor read the entire syllabus aloud and gave us a twenty-minute briefing on the English language and the history of Great Britain. It appears that Anh, one of my high school friends is also taking this class, but since I was never really more than acquaintances with her, we didn't speak.

I'll have Spanish again tomorrow, then my first day in English 45. After that will be discussion sections for my lower division English classes and I'll be home free!

I'm currently doing my Spanish homework and before I sleep, get a head start on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I hope you're working your butt off too, darkestnight12, you with your piddling AP English and multitude of ART classes! Grrrr...

Edit: Nooooo! I was too late! By four minutes! Now I won't ever get my Harry Potter as James Bond fic! Nooooooo~~~! Curse the time zones! Curse theeeeeeemmmmm!

Copy+Paste my next chance at slashfest...
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Summary: Harry Potter as James Bond! Draco Malfoy the mysterious femme fatale! Hermione or Ron as M or Q(the guy with the cool gadgets if I got the name wrong)! Harry's top, please and bonus points if Ginny's the villain.

Well, there's always next year... T_T Then, I will also request PotC with Norrington and Gillete. LMGriffin's spoiled me.