What do you mean I always postpone everything till the last possible minute? D:

A week back I sent 10½ pages worth of course work to my teacher. On Monday, I uploaded my 6 page analysis. That means, I only have one school unfinished, the 6 page essay! The deadline of which, btw, is today. Yay. Truthfully, I haven't even started writing it before last night... ^^; So I stayed up a bit (meaning that I worked on writing the damn thing and taking notes on the source material for most of the night). In the end I only got 3 hours of sleep, from 6 AM to 9 AM. o/

Currently though, I have almost 5 pages written down, and I have a clear picture of what I will include on the final page. :3 My plan is to (hopefully) get this done by around 3 PM (currently it's 1:30 PM) after which I plan to prepare something to eat (I'm STARVING DDD:) and just relax by watching anime or something, for some hours, before I'll return to the essay to read it through as a whole and possibly edit and improve it, before sending it away.

It would be awesome if I could attain my freedom before 8 o'clock, so I'd have good time to drop in the local supermarket. There's hardly any food in this house, save for some macaroni and bread. (Not that I'd actually cook anyway.) Student life. <3

Please, be responsible students and DO NOT FOLLOW my example.

The current Shippuuden opening finally came out as a full version, so I'm playing it on loop. x3 I'm tired enough to try to sing along. I actually like singing, think that my voice is okay, and I used to be in a choir - but I don't really know the lyrics quite yet, and the pitch is at times too low for me. :D

But yeah, no more school work (that is, for NOW >_>) means that I can once again concentrate on writing my fanfics! ^__^

- Chie

It's been quite a week.

I still haven't progressed much in my school work. I just asked more time for my essay (sent an e-mail to my teacher where I admitted to be a bad and lazy student... xD) and got a reply today. The teacher grants me two more weeks but warns that if I keep on slacking off he just might have to come and give me a slap. (No, I'm not kidding you, he really did say that. With a winking smiley included!)

Both my on-going fics have been nominated for Dokuga Quarter Three 2009 Awards! TT has been nominated for Best AU, Chain for Best Romance! I don't think there is much chance for my fics to actually place, there are so many better known stories nominated that are written by so much better known authors. Still, it's an honour to be nominated. :3 I guess that means that my stories at least stand out!

I have had some very pleasant encounters with my readers this week. First on Dokuga there was a reader who actually bothered to leave a review on every chapter of Chain! Such readers are very rare, but I appreciate very much how they take time and bother to leave a comment on each chapter! Really remarkable and admirable. :3

You know, I'm a bit of a bitch myself. xD I only start to want to leave a comment if I find a mistake or such in the work. Or something to criticise.

Second pleasant surprise was that I actually got a PM over here at LJ from one of my Finnish readers. <3 It was the first time anyone had ever left a thank you - note regarding my stories in my native language, so it really made me feel accomplished! I've suspected for quite a while that there may be Finns among my readers as well, but so far every review has been in English so it's hard to tell. Though, I'm that kind of a person myself that I reply to English with English, even if I would know the other person to actually be a Finn. ^^;

Third, I got a long review on TT on FF.net, by a reader who had been following the story over at AFF before I pulled my fics out of the site. She found it on Dokuga too, but even asked her friend to help her find it, since the Dokuga posting is not up to date (because usually for me, it takes MONTHS to write a single chapter to TT, so it's better to post bit by bit than mass post all I've written till now and them make them wait ages for an update, don't you think? So she found it on FF.net, didn't seem to be too pleased about the cliffie. But she proceeded to compliment my writing, and well, it was one of those reviews that you get every once in a while that just make you feel so warm and fluffy inside. <3

I have amazing readers. :3

Happy Halloween everyone! I don't celebrate it myself, since it's not the custom of our culture, but you people might, so enjoy your holiday! :3


- Chie

I have too much school work to do. Guess have I been doing them? No. So I'm a bad student, don't follow my example.
I have 6 page essay due next Friday, 6 page comparative analysis on academic text AND a 5 page research, 5 page study journal and 1 pahe summary due the Friday after that (6th Nov.). I don't want to do those. DDDD: Especially the two first tasks. Major pain in the ass!

But my rant does not end here. Oh no. Today, I received possibly the weirdest review I've ever got.

I should be sleeping, but what the hell. (I've been having a head ache since yesterday evening, so I should really have gone to bed earlier.) But I wanted to share this with you now.

I've discovered something. Actually, I discovered this in essence already months ago, but I didn't care to find out more until recently, and now I love it.

I've discovered Kokia. ♥

I first encoountered her in the opening theme of Requiem for Phantom (which, by the way, is a good anime, or at least it was till the plot twist that threw the storyline onto a path I don't much care for.. :/). The opening song, Karma, is, well, unlike any anime opening theme song I've ever heard. Really. At first I wasn't sure if I even liked it, but now, I'm loving it.

So I've been downloading more Kokia's songs and briefly listened to some, and now I have just one thing to say.

I want her voice. Honestly. If not her voice, then at least the range of her voice, 'cause that's amazing. And it's the number one thing I dislike about my own singing voice, my range is painfully narrow. :/ I'd pretty much kill to have a voice like hers is. It's so unfair!

- Chie

So. It's the first of September. That date, to me, means two things: One, today is the first day of autumn. Two, today, I've turned 21. I don't feel much difference, to be honest. :D I've been consideruing myself as 21 years old already for a few months. I guess that's not uncommon for people born later in the year.

(Also on a side note, 21 is no significant age here in Finland. I've been allowed to drink alcohol since I turned 18.)

So. School started this week. For the first half of the semester, I'll be having 20 hours a week. The crappy thing of that is that half of those hours have piled up on Thursday. >_>
On Mondays I'll have one lecture from 2 pm to 4 pm. On Tuesday I'll have two lectures from 10 am to 2 pm, then I have two free periods till my Japanese course will start at 6 pm. (Honestly, try to be attentive when your class is from 6 pm to 7.30. >_>) On Wednesdays I have one lecture, from 10 am to noon. On Thursdays <3, I'll be having three lectures from 8 am to 2 pm, then on free period and two lectures from 4 pm to 7.30 pm. Pain.

Now when I once again have stuff to do (i.e. School <3 (Yes, I call the university a school.)) I might not write my fanfics as frequently as I did over summer (when I had nothing to do). Still, Chain's next chapter is 3/4 done, and I've made something as unbelievable as progress in TT yesterday. I only got like half a page written or so, but it was still progress, no? I'm havin trouble with TT again, 'cause I know how I want Kags to be found, but I don't want her to be found till next chapter, so for the time being, I'll have to stall. And stalling is the part giving me trouble and causing a block. It's annoying, when you know what you want to do soon, but don't want to do it quite yet in the story.

So yeah. That's all I had to rant this time. :D

Happy Autumn, everyone!

- Chie

Where did my summer go? How come it is already August? In a little more than a week I'll be going back to school! D;

I have few more pics of my animecon costume to bore you with, these my friend took for me in a post-con photoshoot on my parents' backyard. x3 Pic 1 , Pic 2 , Pic 3.

On the fanfiction front there is not much new. I finished the 7th chapter of Chain yesterday, and it's currently in the care of my beta for a spell-check. TT, I'm embarrassed to admit, has not progressed at all. I blame it onto the holiday. Well, to be honest, I'm just having a bit of a trouble with TT, I have few scenes visualised for this chapter, but I don't want to use them yet, so early on in the chapter, so I need to find a way to stall.
I don't know about other writers, probably the better ones are much better organised than I am, but this is a really common problem to me. I know some scenes I want to use, or what twist to throw into the plot next, but I don't want to do it quite yet and have to come up with some way to stall it all. And this stalling is the difficult part.

I've also patched up two new AMV's, other celebrating Kakashi Gaiden,and it is my first Naruto AMV ever, other, typically, Bleach, depicting the awesomeness of Shirayuki's real form in the zanpakutou mutiny fillers.

Animecon was one week ago. I enjoyed myself and for the first time I felt like I stood out, not because of the group I was in but because of my own costume. I was photographed quite a few times. :D (See? Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3)

I even got paparazzed! See? O_o! And that one ended to the official con pictures. >,>; (click the pic for full size...)

Here's a pic taken by the friend with whom I hung out with for most of the con: Dark!Rukia cosplay. <3

Also, I ended up in a Bleach group photoshoot! That was interesting, since I think not all Bleach cosplayers even recognised me. xD Well, maybe that's no wonder since the movie's not even out yet. Still, there's been pics of the Dark!Rukia costume and fanart and whatnot, I think a person who actively stalks around the fandom should have been able to recognise me. :x Oh wells, group piccies: Group 1, Group 2!

Animecon aside now...

I'm starting to get annoyed at my uninspired state. :/ It's not really a writer's block, not like the huge one I was having last year at least, since I can actually get something written, even if a few lines takes ages. It's just that I really am not in the mood, and while I CAN get stuff written, it sort of feels like I'd be forcing myself to it. It doesn't flow naturally to me. I last updated like two weeks back, when before July I was putting up one chapter weekly.

Guhhhh. I guess I'm just a lazy bastard?

- Chie

PS. I made this AMV a while back....

We're finally getting into the hawt action, to the long awaited Ichigo VS Ulq! <3
And what do the asshole executives do? They'll put the FILLERS rollin'. >____________<;;;

Pisses me off, big time. Bleach was the only anime I've been regularly watching anyway, since I haven't been following Naruto at all since they started rolling fillers months back. Guahh. >_<

The epi had some good stuff in in too. Seeing Ryuujinjakka in action is always awesome, Stark was even cooler than usual, they showed Rukia <3 and the beginnings of the above mentioned hawt action.

I managed to get myself an appointment for the hair dresser for a week from now, so I'll be able to get my hair in order for the con... It's so soon! :o

I should be writig both Chain and TT, but I don't feel like iiiitttt~ :x

- Chie

My animecon costume is by this declaration finished!

Pic 1,Pic 2,Pic 3,Pic 4!

I can find many faults in the costume though, since I become quite the perfectionist when cosplaying. The sleeves aren't wide enough, the red tatters lining the yukata are too thick and the hem of the costume is too short.

And I feel like I'm showing too much of my legs. xD You can even see the leg of my shorts if I'm not careful! And the shorts are very, very short indeed. >.> I bought them just for the purpose of wearing them under this costume to prevent myself from flashing my panties. xD

All in all, I'm still happy to say that I've finally made a cosplay all by myself from a scratch, and it looks good. :3

The convention is in a few weeks, 11th-12th of July. I already asked my friend to take some pics of me with his fancy camera. ;D

I also might have a Kon keeping me company on Sunday. :p

- Chie

My costume's coming along slowly but surely. At present I only have left the cloak and then I need to sew the sleeves and hem to look like it's torn. Choosing satin for the lining was good idea since it feels nice against my skin, adds a feeling of luxury and most importantly - it was cheap, but it'll fray like hell so I need to be careful when sewing the hem to look tattered...

This is how the costume looks so far: Pic!

I wore it for a few minutes and I can already tell I won't be enjoying too much having it on. xD It's rather hot, the white canvas is surprisingly heavy, the collar is awkward and disturbs me... And once the sash was on, it became rather obvious that I was at least one and half cup bigger than Rukia. I still won't bind my boobies though, even if someone would again come to ask me if I had stuffed my bra. The costume will be uncomofortable enough with the scythe, walking around barefoot, trying not to sweat like a pig despite feeling hot and the heaviness of the costume, not to add an extra layer beneath it all to make my boobies flat and to make myself feel even more uncomfortable.

Tomorrow I'll be leaving to the middle of the forest. xD On Saturday it's the Midsummer, which is largely celebrated here in Scandinavia. (Scandinavia meaning the cultural area, since Finland isn't actually part of the geographical area...)

I think that's all for now then.

- Chie