Personal Log: TJ Dragonblade

Stolen from attiqah_gensui and amai_kaminari
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You Are a Scholar

You have an extraordinary character - moral, responsible, and disciplined. Your sincerity and honesty shine through in almost every situation. Driven and focused, you rarely let your emotions get the better of you. You're level headed and rational. People count on you to look at things objectively. Your strength: Your unwavering loyalty and ethics Your weakness: Your rock solid stubbornness Your power color: Navy blue Your power symbol: Shield Your power month: April

It's maybe 65 - 70% accurate. I feel very little affinity or resonance toward navy blue, for example. 'Moral' and 'ethics' sort of quirk my brow, but I suppose it's not untrue so long as it's understood to mean my personal morals and ethics rather than in line with standard christian concepts of either. I'm so terribly undisciplined in so many ways, and lacking drive/focus so much of the time, I cringe. And my stubbornness is quite random in its rock-solidness or mutability. ^_^;

- Watched Coraline last night. Charmingly creepy. ^_^
- Still no Online assignment posted for class this week; since it'd be due tomorrow I'm going to assume that the instructor is just skipping this week. Fine by me.
- Naruto Shippuuden English dub is just as good as the Naruto dubs have been until now. Has the same pronunciation issues, too, but I can live with that. Long as I get my online subs fix every now and then. ^_^
- Wii Sports Resort promises more fun of the basic Wii variety. Kiba-Mii is a natural at wakeboarding, but ironically enough he sort of failed at the Dog Frisbee event. ^_^; We'll have to work on that.

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Comment on this post saying you want a letter - I'll give you one, then post to your journal your five favourite songs that begin with that letter - along with downloads if you like. Or music videos...whatever works.

kispexi2 gave me 'D'. And man, was it tough to narrow down the list to a mere five, but (and I chose downloads):

( Five Favorite 'D' Songs )

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Separate of the meme, but coincidentally enough both still keeping with the 'D' thing, a couple songs wherein lyrical themes and overall 'attitude' conveyed remind me of Saiyuki:

( D-Gaiden-Saiyuki )

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Relatedly, in a similar vein, but moving down the alphabet to letter 'E', have at a pair of cross-incarnational 10K/58 tunes:

( E-10K-58 )

I think that leaves just the two instances of that 'Words' meme that I still need to finish and post.

Stolen from kispexi2:

firstly: if you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

secondly: tag eight people. don't refuse to do that. don't tag who tagged you.

( The Get To Know Me Better Meme )


And hey, screw tagging. I don't gotta tag just 'cause some meme tells me to. You wanna do the meme, go for it. ^_^

Gah. I've had this sitting in my drafts for well over a week now. Time is a scarce commodity these days, it seems, and I have so much I need to be getting done. *headdesk*

That character meme making the rounds - Zalia gave me ( Gojyo )

Anyone who wants to play, say so in comments and I'll hit you with a character.

Backlog of school journal entries. In which I ramble about weather and Hans Zimmer and parenting and other bits of miscellany.

( #10 )

( #11 )

( #12 )

( #13 )

( #14 )

Because I couldn't resist slipping in a request on Xpyne's version of the meme:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms) of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.

On the one hand, I'm going 'Crikey, TEN??' *commitment-phobia* On the other, I'm wondering if there's even that many flist-folk who'd have time to jump on this. So whatever. I haven't done drabble in a very long time, I miss fic writing, and this might be a good opportunity to get a little creativity flowing.

A couple stipulations:
1) I make no guarantee how quickly these will get done.
2) Please give me some sort of quick prompt/scenario for your pairing or character so I've got somewhere to start.

I'll assume that most people who'd read this are familiar with what I'm comfortable writing in Saiyuki, and GW is still fair game. Other fandoms:
- Naruto (willing to try paired, gen, or individual with any of the following: LeeGaa, Kakashi, Iruka, Gai, ShikaChou, the Sand sibs and possibly NaruNeji)
- DS9 - Garak and Bashir
- PSoH - Count D and Leon
- Avatar - anyone gen, or canon pairings (have never attempted/considered attempting fic here, but I'm willing to give it a shot. No guarantees on quality/accuracy, however)

Also, for those who collect music:

Have a 12-track sampling of Doa, a Japanese band whose sound often falls just shy of country-western (more western than country) with a healthy dose of 70's rhythms and vocal harmonies for flavor. Good stuff, and fun.

I should gab about my Friday night class at some point. Some other point. ^_^;

To-Do List, elsewise:
- Clean Leon's tank
- Descriptive paragraph homework for Written Communication
- Beta-work on Wish
- Various fic comments
- Dissect/Reassemble ded laptop for familiarity
- Arrange AJ's playdate for next wkd
- Finish half-done pages for haku_ryuu
- Assorted ficwork

Meme. Swiped from Mosh.

(1) List 16 anime characters you would have sex with without even asking questions.
(2) Put all of them in order of your lust for them. (1 is the hottest.)
(3) Supply photos.

So I got a little carried away with the 'supply photos' part of this. Made a project of it for the past month or so. If you're on dial-up, the cut will be taking awhile to load - my apologies, and you can go start here to view all 145 pics one at a time. I like to think it's worth it, either way, in consideration of the eye candy. Artists and sources credited to the best of my ability at the end.

It is to be understood that first and foremost, I'd rather watch them with one another than do anything with them myself. And that, where applicable, they must be allowed to grow up first. And that pondering 'What would lead me to sleep with someone, no questions asked?' has led me to all kinds of qualifications and conundrums and circular TMI reasoning that I do not need to be explaining at this point so I've done my best to muzzle the over-analysis and just answer the question in the light-hearted spirit intended. Also, that listed rankings beneath number one are haphazard at best and would tend to be rather fluid in their order.

Images are mostly worksafe; there is a very suggestive pic under #4, however (it's quite obvious what's going on out-of-frame), and a panty-shot under #10

( Image Heavy )

...And y'know, much as I tried to base them purely on physical appeal, I'm afraid that personality and character still have quite a lot to do with my answers. ^_^

Runners-up, also in no particular order for the most part:

( Runners up - pic links )

( Credits )

Old quizzes re-taken:

( Going to Hell )
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( Sins )

...And y'know, I fully set out to lay out thoughts I've had lately on subjects like politics, sexism, prejudice and equality. Ahaha. I can't resist the draw of the less mentally taxing entertainments, it seems. ^_^;

Perhaps another time for wrangling the thinky thoughts into coherent words.

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ETA:
( Personality Disorders, too )

(Answer each question with a word that starts with the first letter of your name.)

1. What is your name: TJ
2. A four letter word: text
3. A boy's name: Timothy
4. A girl's name: Teyla
5. An occupation: taxidermist
6. A color: tangerine
7. Something you wear: turban
9. A food: tabbouleh
10. Something found in the bathroom: towel
11. A place: Turkey
12. A reason for being late: took my time
13. Something you shout: Ta da!
14. A movie title: Tropic Thunder
15. Something you drink: tea
16. A musical group: Type O Negative
17. An animal: timberwolf
18. A street name: Tudor Rd
19. A type of car: Thunderbird
20. The title of a song: Tainted Love

We have gone from -25F to +45F in the space of about a week and a half. WTF, weather. Harrowing slick-melty daily commutes are harrowing. High winds do not help.

The icon meme. Stolen from zalia first. And dithered over forever because I'm so dreadfully indecisive on the arbitrary judgment calls. T_T

( My Icons )

Also, for fun, because there are many character change-ups since the last time I did it, I'm pulling out that old meme where you alphabetize all the characters in your icons and then pair them off in order:

( Alpha-crack )

zalia, thank you for the lovely holiday card! It got here safe and sound. And Inyx-sama, thanks again for the package you sent and happy bday again too! Hope your holiday's going better. ^_^

More randomness:

( Things that make me sad )

On the other end of the spectrum. There's this meme going around where you're meant to post something that makes you happy each day for 8 days, or somesuch. This is not that meme. But it's not entirely unlike it either.

( Little random things that have made me happy lately )