My mp3 player is broken. Okei, not really broken, the confounded thing just refuses to turn on.
…Okei, I’m lying about that, too. It turns on, but it takes half forever to do so. And by then, I’m halfway to my destination. ~annoyed~
I almost bought a new one at Digitallife. But the thought of my no-money status stopped me. Just barely. Do you know it’s like to be surounded by technology you can’t buy? OTL
Like most some people, I went for the freebies. xDD–~gets bricked~
Learning from the last time I went to Digitallife (where I wore heels), I wore sneakers this time. But by the end of the day, my feet still hurt because I’d stayed there nearly five hours (~11~4). >_>;;
Most of the places scanned your badge before giving you your freebie, and I’d assumed it was to keep people from getting back on line to get more stuff. But I went twice to the DellLounge and got two of the USB bracelet thingys, which are the most useful of the freebies. Maybe they had a cap of four; one for each day? In any case, I have three of those things now, 2 yesterday and 1 today. They’re 245MB USBs, not a whole lot but can hold a lot of text files, at least, and you can wear them on your wrist! (Course that’s no really useful for me considering I use Roxas to store .psd’s.)
I also got a newegg cap, a newegg/Windows Vista shirt (I actually gave this to imoto-kun ’cause he didn’t have badge, but the shirt was XL so he gave it back to me), a newegg rain poncho (…whut?), an ooma bag (for a while there, I kept thinking of this company as “emo”), a Digitaltips bag, Digitaltips paper mouse pads, a Magic:the Gathering REAL mouse pad, and, um, stuff. Including lots and lots of papers. Please don’t even ask why I bother taking those.
I bought a Xtatix USB hub ($9.99), since one of my USB slots doesn’t work and I got tired of having to move everything from a flash to my desktop and then back into a flash. Now I can move from Roxas to Zack, and vice versa! And now that I have USB bracelet thingys, I can move things to those, too! Problem solved! w00t! Why yes, I am being way too excited for something like that.
That was the second day, though. The first day I didn’t buy anything at Digitallife, but spent that lack on stuff from Gamestop & Radioshack. =_=;; Well, I had time to kill (I had to be somewhere at 6:00 but it was already ~5 so there was no way I’d make it home before then, so I decided to just head straight there, but it only takes ~10 minutes to get there so yea), and I was using the train station at Manhatten Mall so I figured I may as well look around. Plus I really wanted a PSP case. I ended up also buying screen guards (waste of $10.00. My fault, really, because I didn’t do it properly and dust got all over the guard, but that just…irritates me), and a FFVII:AC UMD because it was used and (relatively) cheap(er). Walked into Radioshack to get a second Memory card so me and imoto-kun could play on my PSPs at the same time.
And I have no idea why I just wrote all that detailed sh1t that has nothing to do with Digitallife. Must be blog withdrawal. Or lack of sleep. Or maybe I just really like my USB hub. ._.
Oh yeah, and there was a NY Times panel. It was empty. I laughed.
I cannot put any fucking HTML in my posts or WP rapes it with sandpaper. Gods, and people wonder why I prefer Diaryland. ~leaves cursing~
EDIT: I guess it isn’t so bad as long as I don’t post my fictions, which was really the problem. Because I type them on a word processor, and I sometimes stick in the HTML for functions the word processor doesn’t have, like a strikethrough. The problem is that when I paste the word doc into the WP window it tends to fuck up. From now on, I guess I’ll just upload it and then link to it. Less hassle, plus no painfully long posts taken up with fiction.
I like writing emo Riku, apparently. I began this fic with the intention of setting after KH2, where they’re all home and safe…but then it turned into a blindfolded Riku thing. With some Namiku begging to be put in. ~sigh~ Aside from the angst and kinkiness factor, I don’t even know why I like writing blindfold Riku. Maybe I just like writing fillers, things that could’ve happened in the course of canon timeline. I certainly haven’t written anything with a unique plot, so far. =_=;;
Note that I sometimes do neglect commas in places, but those are intentional, and not because I don’t know any better. But feel free to correct me if you think they shouldn’t be omitted.
Title: Simple and Clean
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts 2
Summary: The effort to feel clean is not as simple as King Mickey made it sound.
Warning(s): Emo Angsty Riku again. You have been warned.
Word Count: 562
“Believe in yourself! Then make sure you take a good, long soak in the tub…until you feel clean! Fight the darkness inside you!”
Riku turned the tap. A thin sprinkle of hot water rained down from the shower faucet above. Riku turned his head up to it and turned the water up. The spray increased.
Riku just stood for a moment, letting the hot water ravage his body, before finally moving his hands to his face and viciously rubbing. He ran a hand through his hair as well, tugging with unnecessary force.
The rubbing continued, all through his body, sometimes accidentally scratching himself in his vehemence.
The hot water continued to pond his skin, sweat formed and mixed with the steam and the spray. He paid it no heed, until finally he felt he’d rubbed his skin raw and reached out to lean against the wall, gripping it as if it would keep him up, gasping and breathing heavily.
Keeping his eyes carefully closed, he groped for the handle of the shower door and slid it open, stepping carefully out of the shower.
His hands felt for the surface of the sink, leaning with his hands against it, head bowed, as to avoid looking into the mirror.
Just in case he opened his eyes.
His right hand slowly ran across the sink until he felt something soft—a long strip of cloth, that he’d taken off carelessly. He’d wondered, briefly, if it had fallen to the floor.
Wordlessly, he picked up the cloth and tied it around his eyes. That didn’t feel any better, not really, but now that it was on he felt a bit relieved.
It was relief to be unable to see what he’d become.
He reached for his clothes—his disguise.
The first time he’d taken a “cleansing shower,” as he called them now, it had worked, a little. He’d felt a little better, then. But it was beginning to wear off. The more the organization coat plastered itself to his skin, the more unclean he felt. As the days went on, the clothes felt more like the trappings of darkness and he a Nobody.
A Heartless in the heart of a Nobody, he thought, hands fumbling to zip the coat.
After a fashion, he thought to laugh. There was no humor in the gesture, and the sound rang hollow.
He managed to zip the coat, and for a moment just stood there, arms by his sides, fingers twitching, as if they wanted to juts reach up and tear out his troublesome heart.
A soft knock sounded at the door. “Riku?”
Naminé.
He reached out and gripped the doorknob, without any hesitation or fumbling.
He didn’t really need to go by touch to get his clothes on, even with the blindfold. He just indulged in the fantasy.
He opened the door, and mutely stood in the doorway.
“Riku….” Fingers brushed across his face, touching the blindfold.
He reached up and caught her hand, absently—almost subconsciously—wrapping his gloved fingers around her bare ones.
“I need to go,” he said softly, almost inaudibly. He dropped her hand and moved past her.
He felt a light pressure whisper past his sleeve, almost as if Naminé had reached out to catch him, to stop him from going.
He didn’t look back, and continued to walk away.
Watching Kamen Rider Den-O (especially in an episode where Ryuuta gets beat up) after Crisis Core is a little…um…yea. TT^TT
When Ryuuta said “I’m aliiive~~ x_x” I was just…just…yea.
Library Oblivion is hideous with a 800px wide iframe when looking at it from a 1024px screen. ~wince~ What do I do? Those with 800px screen likely aren’t going to look at LO at all if they have to use a horizontal scroller, but the way my bg is now, it doesn’t look very good with an 800px iframe. Oh, bother.
Worse thing is, I don’t really want to bother with it right now. =_=;; I know, I should’ve done this ages ago….but I really don’t want to do it right now.
I haven’t written (fiction) at all lately. :/ I actually have a couple of fics waiting for my attention; and I think “For You” still needs a looking-over. For some reason, I have simply stopped reviewing/proofreading my fictions. Like, WTF. I used to look them over like crazy before. I think I’ve gotten lazy.
My current system of organizing my fics is confusing too, so I might just make a folder labeled “Unfinished” and dump all my attention-needing fics in there. Yea. I think that’s a good idea.
Welcome to my new…blog. Journal. Whatever. I hesitate to say “diary” because, well, my diaryland diary was a diary. And much as it pained me to leave my beloved diaryland, Sarah-baby wanted to be able to comment, so here we are. In a few days, my diaryland diary will cease to update, and will simply become an archive to my old life. Although I’ve used diaryland since fifth grade, I prefer to think of this as journeying into a new frontier.
…Or whatever.
