Chaos, Panic Disorder . . .

teh_kittykat:

Can't resist the (ahem) holiday icon.

I hate having all-day headaches from hormones. Added work drama does not help matters (none of it is particularly poised to suck me in, but I ended up staying late to deal with it because teenagers are stupid, stupid creatures sometimes). And I have meetings all tomorrow morning so heaven knows how all that's going to play out. I also need to do chores around the apartment and start packing (yay for book boxes!). And all my instincts want me to be a slug all weekend since it's my first weekend without class.

I pretty much aced the grad class, btw. I'm beginning to think that the insane writing program I was involved in during undergrad has given me an unfair advantage in grad school. And then I cackle because I rock so hard.

Downside is that grades won't be available on transcripts until December when the regular semester ends, which means reimbursement paperwork will have to wait 'til then. Nuts.

teh_kittykat:

I can say that I am definitely liking the 2003 Astro Boy series. Picked it up on Sunday when I was out with The Girl as a bit of a YAY CLASS IS OVER present to myself. It doesn't come in subtitles, but the voice-acting is about regular American cartoon normal, which means it's not Oscar-winning but the actors didn't phone in their lines in one take like some anime dubs. They picked a really weird one for Dr. Tenma... he reminds me a little of a phone sex operator. XD I've noticed some of the romanizations of the names are different, and the 2003 series lacks some of the really depressing moments of the 1980's version.

Miso has been dubbed adorable by one of The Girl's coworkers.

I am envious of the NaNo participants, but realistically there's no way I can participate this year with moving and packing to do on top of my usual insane workload. I might still get off my butt and write something, though. It's been an age since I actually sat down and wrote stories, and doing a little comment flashfic for glitterbats makes me want to do something cool again. Maybe when this all-day headache goes away.

I'm having fun being a paladin. I'm going to spec her holy and take healing for a spin, since I enjoy being DPS and tanking definitely drives me up a wall. I haven't healed in years, though, and my last healie character was a shadow-specced priest, so this will be interesting. Moose even quit Demon Soul in disgust and rolled on my server on Alliance side and is considering bringing his badass prot warrior over and faction-changing to play with the rest of us gaiz. Hey, his tank will have a healer if I can settle down and play for a while.

teh_kittykat:



( The coffe's not the only thing that's hot! )

Title Ref, since it's too good not to drag out occasionally.

epitaph_skeith:

...I did not know it was possible for an 8-bit sprite to look thoroughly embarrassed.

Read: I stumbled across the dancing girls in Troia. XD Poor, poor Cecil. I think the only way he could have gotten even more embarrassed was if any of the girls had jumped right into his lap, like I kept expecting them to do. Oh, my my my...

Next up, I shall find the Magazine and humiliate him again! I'm such an evil woman. ♥

(If you're wondering why I'm only like six seven hours into the game and it's been six DAYS, the controls make me go arg so I haven't been playing much. Just enough to sate my appetite till I get the DS version.)

teh_kittykat:

I think I can add Astro Boy to my official list of fandoms (TM).

We did end up seeing the latest movie incarnation last night. It was actually a nice round of fun. I do agree with the other criticisms that Donald Sutherland's performance fell pretty flat, in that adult-trying-too-hard-to-be-relevant-to-kids sort of way, but the other guys were pretty fine, even if that made Dr. Elefun outrageously British. (And I'm sorry, he'll always been Ochanimizu-hakase to me.) When I heard some of the voice acting crit I went in expecting something along the lines of the Escaflowne dub, though, so my expectations might have been lowered.

In all, it did a competent job of following what I have managed to figure out is the basic Astro Boy sort of mythology. (My only other reference is the 1980's Astro Boy, though. I'm actually considering getting the 2003 animated series now too.) It did have an overlay of pretty stock Hollywood Kid Movie Hero's Journey Plot in there, but it still managed to capture that undertone of alienation and trying to fit in that runs through the anime. Parts are, in fact, about as dark as the series itself got, which is kind of a feat in a US kid's movie. (Though between this and Where the Wild Thing Are I'm kind of seeing a revival of unflinching storytelling reminiscent of the kid's movies of the 1980's-1990's before everything suddenly got sanitized.) Heck, they even managed to do the entire backstory on screen which if you know Astro Boy's origin story might raise your eyebrows.

I was even happy since it did manage to feature one of my two favorite characters after all-- Daddy Mustache got about a zillion minor cameos (they decided to translate him as Mustacio-- or however you spell that). Uran wasn't in it, but I didn't expect her to be as she was a later addition to the anime's cast, at least in the 80's Astro Boy.

It is sad, though, that of most of the stuff out right now or that I want to see in the near future, more of it is PG-G level than not. (Though I totes want to see Avatar now.)

teh_kittykat:

Tomorrow I may or may not be seeing the new Astro Boy movie with The Girl. We know going in that it's going to be hella Americanized, and a lot depends on how bushwhacked we both are by the end of the day. It does, however, make a good excuse to show off Uran-chan. Alas, she is not in the new movie. Which is a double-alas since they'd be obligated to give her superpowers too in the Girls Can So Kick Butt Law of the mid-90's

I have also learned today that Miso is a nut for tuna fish, to the point of repeatedly trying to climb into the sink in order to lick the dishes for the PRECIOUS PRECIOUS REMAINS OF TUNA OM NOM NOM.

And holycrap the new layout is full of ALLCAPS.

teh_kittykat:

Materials

3 5oz cans of tuna (15 oz total)
1 12 oz package noodles, cooked
1 can cream of mushroom soup
a bit less than a pint of cream, to moisten
brick of frozen corn
brick of frozen green beans
brick of frozen peas
crapton of grated Parmesan that's been sitting in the fridge
convenient breadcrumbs or panko to coat the top

Process

Combine all ingredients but breadcrumbs in a 9 x 13 pan. Or in a bowl if you're smart, which you will then pour into the pan.

Cover the top with breadcrumbs.

Bake at 325 for 25 min or until happy. (you want the veggies to still have a bit of crunch)

Eat and congratulate yourself. And fight the cat for it.

teh_kittykat:

• 20:40 Nooooo I am stuck playing Cafe World!
• 20:56 I miss photoshop. Making icons is harder in GIMP.
• 21:05 zzzzzzzzzzzz

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teh_kittykat:

I am going to make tuna noodle casserole this week.

I couldn't find any recipes that had the stuff I have on hand, so I'm going to riff off the ones I did find and see where it gets me. Wish me luck.

teh_kittykat:

• 20:43 I has a friendbar. Maybe it will give me an edge in Farmville. Yes I am that addicted.

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epitaph_skeith:

Got cracking on FF4 finally; the PSX version is odd and riddled with weird controls, but hey, it's entertaining and kinda old-school and I approve of that. (Took me a while to figure out how to save, though, but that's neither here nor there.) I've just gotten to where I have to leave Kaipo and go find the Sand Ruby (...dammit, Pearl! *flails*), and well...

...Kain? D-did you seriously have a tsundere moment?? Oh. Oh dear. Ohhhh my.

(I mean, srsly. "Don't think I'm doing this for you." WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO THINK OF THAT. Oh, my my my...)

Tsundere dragoon? In MY FF4? It's more likely than you think.

And next up, a spoony bard! At least, if I'm remembering correctly.