joudama scribbling

OK, this is my fic master list to end all master lists. Everything as I post it will be linked to from this post. So, yeah. The Almighty Master List. Some things aren't linked yet, because I haven't uploaded them to this journal yet. Meh, I'll get to it one of these days. XD

( FF7 )

( FF12 )

( CLAMP )

( Yami no Matsuei )

( Fullmetal Alchemist )

( Metal Gear Solid )

( Grab bag! )

...ye gods. This is where all my time went, isn't it?

Time spent: 0:53
Calories burned: 267
BMI: 29.34
Feeling: vaguely guilty because I didn't hit at least 275 calories burned. ^^;;

Yeah, I know I only need to shoot for 263ish (it told me and I forgot) but 275 is a nice, easy number to remember.

( I have a bronze piggy! )

I'm going out clubbing with M-chan tomorrow (I swear, I'm going to be so sad when she goes back to Korea) so doubtless unless I do my workout crazy early, I'll miss it and the game will chew me out. To which I say "Bite me!" because I'm going out dancing. >XD D recommended a good club to us, so we're going to check it out. :D

*DED*



( And in case you were wondering, it's a parody of this. )

This is so cute, y'all.

Time: 0:52
Calories: 316
BMI: 29.41 (same as yesterday)

I was playing the new FF: Gaiden game on the way home, and when I got home, I kept on playing--I had a boss I was trying to beat (oh, god, I died so many times before I figured it out) and then I looked up and went, "...when did it get to be 9:30?! And when did I get to be hungry?!"

I went, "I have to exercise now or I won't," and so put in my almost hour. I did yoga for the first time in a while, after seeing my balance go to shit, and yeah, I can't skip that any more. ^^;;

And now to get some writing in, eat a bagel, take my meds (I am so done with being sick) then call Mom's credit union to get some info so I can send her money.

Peel away the layers...

Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.

BMI: 29.41
Calories burned: 384
Exercise time: 1:02

So my BMI went up and I was all >:( at it because it just seemed stupid. It asked why and I said I had no idea, and it chewed me out not to eat red meat, and I was all, "Fuck you, I had chicken and fish today."

( Screw you, I deserved chocolate today. )

And now it's shower time and then FF:Gaiden time, because OMFG this game is cute! :DDD

Dear doctors,

Please stop shoving cameras up my nostrils. It hurts. A lot. The tears that were coming out were not decorative. ;_;

Also, you gave me medicine that worked; why did you stop giving it to me?! My health is now dropping back into the "crap" place. ;____;

No love,
jou

BMI: 29.27
exercise Time: 36 min
Calories Burned: 236
Balance Age: 28

Today was a national holiday, so I had the day off. I had planned to spend today writing and gaming, but around 11 I got an e-mail from a friend, inviting me to go out to Osaka with her. So, yeah, duh, after I did some necessary stuff around the house (I needed to air out my futon--I'd planned to last Sunday, but it rained argh) so once I got my futon beaten and aired out, off I went.

( Albert Wesker?! )

So apparently there was a bat flying around a pro basketball game, making a nuisance of himself and messing up the game. They tried to catch the bat, but it just wasn't happening.

One of the players decided enough was enough and decided to take matters into his own hands.

So, the trailer for the new Prince of Persia movie, starring a white guy playing a Persian prince and a white British chick playing an Indian woman and PoC as extras, side characters (ie, an Indian woman is the white BRITISH woman-playing-an-Indian woman's servant) and the bad guy (the Vizier).



Yeah, so, this trailer made me want to run right out and see something else--it looks like a bland, generic action movie with "witty" dialogue, and if I want explosions and bullet time, I'll just rewatch the Matrix. I now have zero regrets about my decision to not see this movie.

Exercise Time: 1:01
Calories burned: 275
BMI: 29.34
Balance age: 27, then it bumped to 28 and I gave the Wii the finger for taunting me. XD
Feels like: I'm huuuuungry~

I missed dinner because I'm stupid and ate some cake instead because it was there. I was going to make real dinner--I bought ramen because it is BLOODY ASS COLD all of a sudden and I wanted something warm, but I was so hungry when I got home I just ate the itty bitty piece of roll cake I picked up while I was shopping, and then was like "...I'm full. Um." By the time I started to feel even a little hungry again, it was 9 o'clock and exercise time.

I very nearly stopped after I did about thirty minutes of yoga because I was tired and cold. I was about to quit the game, whinging, "I'n tiiiireeeeed~" when the Evil Voice--the voice that hates me, went, "You're lazy. And that's why you're a fatass, fatass." So I went, "...*cry*," and kept going. I did more of the running game, this time doing the long run around the island I had unlocked, and when it was done, I was sweaty, not cold, and full of energy. Yeah, I don't know how it works, either. ^^;;

( Today I raced Otacon and saw a Koopa! )

I'm not sure if it's a good sign or a bad sign when, in the middle of writing something, I go >:D and cackle maniacally.

Also, I think Part 2 of HC is going to be well over 50 pages. I can usually crank about about a thousand words an hour when I'm on a roll, so with any luck, I can have it ready for final editing by the end of the month, barring my health going to shit...which it is, because the docs, for some INSANE reason, STOPPED giving me the medicine that was helping and sent me, once again, to an ears-nose-throat doctor who has, once again, PUT ME ON ANTIBIOTICS. My throat is now going back to shit. *headdesk* BLECH.

I go back to the ears-nose-throat doctor (not the idjit from before, but one at the hospital) armed with my booklet of all the drugs I've been on to date, and telling her I don't think the source of the problem is my throat and to send me back to an internal medicine doc so I can have the GOOD DRUGS again. *headdesk*

In the interim, I'm distracting myself with fic writing and video games. *thumbs up* Tomorrow is a day off from work, and I full intend to spend it writing or being deliciously scared by Fragile (demon hands came out of the wall and attacked me yesterday; it freaked me out and I yelled, "OH SHIT! WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?? RUN AWAY!!! BACK TO THE SAVE POINT! HEEEEEEEAL!!") or being cuted-out by FF:Gaiden.

Exercise time: 1 hr
Calories burned: 293
BMI: 29.44
Feels like: shooooooooooower~

Is it bad that my reaction to the trainer is often, "Fuck you!"? She said, "Mou sukoshi gambarimashou!" ("Try just a little bit harder!") to an exercise that made my calves want to die, and I immediately went, "Yeah, fuck you! :D"

And a lot of "...NO," too. Like when she says, "Koe wo dashite!" (Use your voice[to count]!" I go, "...NO!" and keep concentrating on not falling on my face. XD

( Today was mainly fat-burning exercise. )

Yeah, I know. ^^;; But I'm getting back in the swing of things.

FF7:
Harrow Children: Part the Second
Biological Warfare

I have other stuff in the hopper, but I'm easing myself back in.

Also, the current word count from the next section of HC: 17,133 words 18,927

Also, I'm back to writing again. I spent a bit of time on "Biological Warfare" (the Seph and a kitten fic) and am now feeling the comfortable "falling into the hole in the paper" while working on HC again. I'm adding in more scenes, since it was way too Cloud and Zack centric--Tifa is a major character, too, but there's been a whole one scene, one that was her POV, and that's a major oversight on my side. So I'm fixing that now. :D

I started playing Fragile--yeah, yeah, I know, nearly everyone was "Kingdom Hearts!" or "Shadow of the Colossus!", but I started watching some trailers of Fragile, and that, coupled with the fact that, as slow as I play (and the time off that WILL happen for FF13), by the time I finish, "Fragile" should be coming out in the US (the release date is sometime in February next year), and an idea of if it's good or not will help y'all decide if it's something you want to get. And I should take advantage of the fact that I get games before y'all do. :D

I've been playing for an hour now, and DDDDD: Not because the game is bad--god, no--but because it's so sad. It opens sad--the main character, Seto, talking about him having to bury the man he called "grandpa" who had taken care of him, but whose real name he didn't know, and just kept on with the stomping on your heart. The things killing me the most are the little things Seto just doesn't know--he saw a broken TV, and his reaction was, "What's this weird box? And it looks like a mirror, but it's broken" and him not understanding the katakana English loanwords the little personal GPS system he found was using...and him not knowing what a shinai was--he was like, "It looks like a stick, but is made of bamboo!" and the GPS/companion thing had to tell him what it was called.

The game takes place after the end of the world as we know it. And seeing it--all the collapsed and destroyed buildings that long ago had been taken over by wilderness, the flooded streets with lily pads and rusted cars--is just so sad.

So so far, this game is very good and very immersive. And very, very sad. I kept going "...DDDD: Waaah~! DDDD: " at it. In the good way. There are ghosts and supernatural things, so it's got horror/survival horror elements, but it's more psychological than anything. It's survival horror lite, but in the good, introspective way. It seems like a good introduction to the genre for me.

Oh, and I also started FF:Gaiden, and thank god because it is bouncy and light and happy and cute. I'm going to need it after playing Fragile for a while.

And after I finish Fragile (and FF13), I'm going to play Shadow of the Colossus. :D

ETA - OH MY GOD, HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT AN ORIGAMI CRANE WAS. He was so surprised by it and the word for it the GPS companion told him.

This game is gonna make me cry at this rate, it's that sad. ;_;

Time: 32 min
calories: 112
BMI: 29.48
Balance Age: 30

So, notice how the "balance age" is back? That's because it's no longer humiliating me. It's no longer in the mid-50s. And honestly, my balance has changed a lot--my weight per leg, to my shock, was almost perfect, and the "almost" was so piddling I wanted to stick my tongue out at the stupid machine--49.8 and 50.2 is close e-frickin'-nuff, considering it had been a lot closer to a 60-40 split when I started, and also nowhere near the center but really far back. It was almost dead center. So yeah, that's one big difference the Wii has made, and I can feel the difference when I stand and walk, and how different muscles are getting a workout. So, if your balance sucks, I can not recommend Wii Fit Plus enough, I really can't.

( It's the little touches that are so damned cute. )

I FINALLY finished playing Okami *death*. That was the game that never ended, I swear. I played a good 40 hours less than I did with FF12, but damn if this didn't feel longer. x_X

Anyway! I'm going to play the new DS FF gaiden, definitely, but I'm already looking towards my next console game.

Poll #4529 Next console game?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What should jou's next console game be?

I'll be honest, I'm kinda leaning towards Fragile, just because it was done by Tri-Crescendo, and they did Eternal Sonata, and I frickin' loved Eternal Sonata. ^^;;;