I Call This Place My Own

So, I have a Dreamwidth account! Anyone on my LJ flist, FRIEND ME PLZ. &hearts (username is the same for both~) I do have one invite code that I haven't used yet but I sort of promised it to someone--if she decides she doesn't want it, it's up for grabs, but right now she's got dibs.

Haven't been very active lately and I apologize for that. Real life's been kicking my ass. No longer working at fall job: spent two months unemployed, in fact. But I'd rather not dwell on that. I start a new job tomorrow, and I'm not really sure how I feel about it--on the one hand, YAY FOR HAVING WORK, and it's a temp-to-hire position so if they like me I could be employed for awhile. On the other hand, they're not paying me very much, the office is an hour away (more with Chicago traffic), the hours aren't great AND I'm not particularly interested in the work.

So we'll see how that goes.

More importantly, canofstag and I have been replaying FF7 and it is TREMENDOUS GOOD FUN. I won't say I forgot how much I loved that game, because I've pretty much been married to it since junior high, but I think I have a deeper appreciation for it this time around, coming at it after having all this new-canon thrown at us. Also, we're doing a tag-team sort of marathon thing with it, which is cool, even though FOR SOME REASON I keep getting stuck doing ALL THE PARTS I HATE AHEM AHEM. (It does say something about the level of geek that I am, though: I insisted on playing the Temple of the Ancients because I could do it in my sleep, and I'm always the one to go through and buy materia and equip it and shit, because I AM A CONTROL FREAK.)

( I still have just enough dignity to put the rest of my squee under a cut. )

...OH ALSO canofstag GRADUATED!!!!!! (Hence why I was home. I do not in fact visit home solely to play FF7. ...Usually.) SO CONGRATULATE HER FOR HER AWESOMENESS.

So, as I sit here with my shoulders sunburned and my stomach hurting, waiting for volwrath and sherpa_sherpa to return from Best Buy, I figure maybe it's about time I make that entry I've been procrastinating on for the last week or so!

( LOTS OF STUFF, cut for length. )

So yeah, uh, I've been sitting around a lot, doing less writing than I should, watching more Family Guy and Futurama than is probably healthy, and walking a LOT more than I usually do (I take long walks at least once a day). volwrath mostly makes sure I don't forget to eat. And surprisingly our apartment is still mostly clean.

I miss StL people, particularly my roomieface (I AM USED TO LIVING WITH YOU WHERE ARE YOU WTF :(( ), but I'm having a lot of fun here so far. It's very geeky and busy and pretty and new.

And I think I'm rambling more than I meant to, sooooo I'm going to like, cut this off now. Perhaps I'll try for something more coherent later. XD