colin greening is my new favorite

[acchikocchi]

There's so much I've been meaning to post about, argh, and I just can't seem to find the time or energy. A fraction of that is that:

1. This year's round of jentfic_remix is open for sign-ups, and if you were one of the people who were dissatisfied with the original system of match-ups last year, this year the moderator has said she'll be checking everyone's fic journals to see what there is to work with plus there's the option to state preferences in the sign-up form. Am I going to sign up? Oh, probably. (Cue disbelieving laughter from everyone on the flist at this time last year.) Besides being what you might call a glutton for punishment, it's a surefire way to make sure I actually write something, and challenge fic generally turns out better than my average. XD;

2. So, um, I triumphed over the spring fare sales and seem to be going to Japan for two weeks next month. Aha. :D The plan is to head up into the central mountains, specifically around Takayama, where forecasts tell me there will still be cherry blossoms (I have never seen a cherry blossom in my life) and then down to Kansai, to see gnine and xparrot in Kyoto and do some hiking. :) (And then spend a couple days in Tokyo at the end not for any particular reason nothing to do with that concert nope not me. >_>) So if anyone wants to meet up and lounge around the Shima Hanto peninsula or hike one of the Kumano Kodo trails or, well, anything else, let me know. :)

3. Keep meaning to post about Vienna Teng's new album, keep changing my mind on what I think. A couple tracks in the meantime:

Antebellum (edit: link fixed)
Kansas
St. Stephen's Cross

4. I understand that most of my flist does not quite appreciate that hockey is in fact the most perfect sport ever created and that Cornell hockey in particular is the pinnacle of it all but -- coming back with twenty-four seconds left in regulation to tie the conference semifinal and drive it into double overtime with the ultimate win yessssssssss yes yes yes regardless of what happens tomorrow we are going to the NCAAs. It has been TOO LONG. Happy. So happy.

5. BSG finale: ....................*whimper*

Comments

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

Ahaha I was going to avoid the remix thing like the plague but it looks like there is a new mod? OTL I totally signed up even though I...just signed up for newsbigbang too. I have been so fail lately with fic tho. -_-;;

Congrats to your team! Ahaha I am dying over basketball right now myself oh god March Madness C'mon UCLA.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I haven't been writing at all except for challenges lately, and the excruciating process was for me made worth it by the results, so. If I can just convince more people to sign up so I can remix them. :D

Ahhh, yes, the rest of my family has pretty much been watching basketball all day. ;) Good luck to your team!

[peroxidepest17.livejournal.com]

I am sure your pimping will bear fruit. XD


LOL My team always chokes in the big games, so it's kind of a painful process. Yet I can't help but HOPE. -_-;;

[impynymph.livejournal.com]

2. OOOooo that sounds shiny! I'm sure you'll have lots of fun and I'm sure the cherry blossoms will be gorgeous. :D

5.....Aahhh I haven't watched but there seems to be a collection reaction of either sldfklsfdalk ugh or T______T or a combination of the two with throwing things.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

sjdka;djs ARGH both from me, definitely. I mean, there were some good things! But, um, it probably depends on which characters you're most invested in. I. I can't say anymore.

(*CRIES; THROWS THINGS*)

[impynymph.livejournal.com]

...*dies* your icon is hilariously appropriate.

Aawww <333333333333

[thawrecka]

I think last year I said I would sign up for it this year? But I've been out of the fannish loop for so long I would be completely lost, I think, so I shall give it a miss.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

♥ You did the j-drama remix, right, so that's plenty good enough. :)

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

2. Cherry blossoms are beautiful. :D

4. Ahaha, I live with someone who would agree with you on the hockey front -- the whoops of joy as she was reading the article about their victory were quite loud. Go Big Red!

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

*BEAMS* That's right, I almost forgot your sister goes to Cornell! YAY. :D :D :D For some mysterious reason in March I always find myself thinking "why did I transfer again?" I miss my season tickets and driving over to Albany for the playoffs and everything. But then hockey season is over and my higher thought processes come back. XD

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Tokyo YAY. :D :D

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Tokyo! :D I find it faintly amusing that I'll be leaving about ten days before KAT-TUN's big seven day Tokyo Dome thing but, like, nature. And Spitz. 's good enough for me. ;)

[dotintheshark.livejournal.com]

Yay for going to Japan! Of course I'm really envious and would like to squeeze into your hand baggage to tag along, but I'm sure you couldn't carry it then. XD Have lots of fun and pretty sakura! Hiking sounds interesting - will you take lots of photos? Please? :)

While downloading the songs (I've never heard of Vienna Teng, but I usually like your recs), I couldn't access the first file, I'm always transferred to the MediaFire main page. But thanks a lot for sharing, I'm always looking for new music!

As for hockey, I can't boast much knowledge except what I gathered during "Pride" and the sadistic episodes of Honjani where Kanjani8 were forced to fight against a professional team (the sports reporter's most used word when he commented the game was "nantoka" - you can imagine why!). But I'd like to see a game someday. Woah, that was a lame comment...

Anyway, glad to hear from you, feel hugged and squished! ♥

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

I will definitely take lots of photos! :D Alas, I wish you could come, too... ♥

Oops, you're right, the link's wrong -- fixed now (http://www.mediafire.com/?ym4qm43mtzm)! Vienna Teng's one of my favorite singer songwriters. :) I have a few more songs uploaded here (http://acchikocchi.livejournal.com/32103.html) (check both post and comments).

[dotintheshark.livejournal.com]

Wai, thanks for the new link! *goes downloading*

I'm looking forward to reading about your adventures then. ♥ And I still have this dream that someday there'll be this big LJ meetup in Tokyo... A girl can dream, right?

[padfoot]

Ohhh, I so should not sign up for jentfic_remix given that I can barely update LJ anymore, but damn, I haven't written fic since November. :(

grtswrt oh man I WISH I COULD GO AND DO JAPAN TRAILS WITH YOU!! Ah well, it is not to be. :)) Take loads of pictures? ♥

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

DO IT DO IT DO IT WITH ME. I haven't written fic since around the same time! (I mean, technically December, but that's because I pushed my deadlines a lot more than you did. *cough*) So this should be a good encouragement.

Aw man, me too! I will take tons of pictures, though, and think of you. :)

[fluttering.livejournal.com]

I'm going to snag these links. I've been meaning to listen to Vienna Teng...

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

The first link was garbled but it should be fixed now, and there's more here (http://acchikocchi.livejournal.com/32103.html), in post and comments. :)

[fluttering.livejournal.com]

thanks

[pithetaphish]

Yay for more jentfic_remix pimpage! You're not alone on the 'I need challenges to make me write' path of reasoning.

And speaking of paths, it will depend on dates and such, but if you have any free time at all, I could certainly make the trip down to Kyoto next month ^_~

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, I have a great idea -- I'll post a one-line fic that goes, "This is the fourth part of 'Stages'" and you can remix that! y/y? *ducks* ;) edit: please take that as praise and not nagging, I just realized how grabby that sounds. XD TAKE YOUR TIME NO PRESSURE I SWEAR.

*squeaks* Yes! yes! yes! Let me kind of hammer out my hopeful itinerary a bit more and get back to you -- are there any days/dates that would be particularly bad for you? I'll be in Japan from the 16th to the 4th of May. :) (You're... somewhere in Ishikawa, right?)

[pithetaphish]

*laughs* Part of the reason I actually signed up for this was to try and kickstart 'Stages: IV' in the same way that je_holiday spurred 'Stages: III' ^_^;;;;;;;.

please take that as praise and not nagging, I just realized how grabby that sounds

Hehehe worry not, I laughed out loud when I read it. Excellent suggestion (provided I could do the same for your JE Bodysnatchers fic ^_~)!

are there any days/dates that would be particularly bad for you? I'll be in Japan from the 16th to the 4th of May. :) (You're... somewhere in Ishikawa, right?)

None that I can think of at the moment but I'll need to check the calendar at work. Any of the weekends or GW should be good ^_^. (Yep, in Kanazawa)

[spurious.livejournal.com]

1. I am tempted to sign up, but. I already signed up for je_fqf and I really really shouldn't. And yet. So tempting.

2. *_*!!! Japan!! That is so exciting, I hope you have an awesome time and take lots and lots of pictures.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up are my telepathic waves working yet sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up

[spurious.livejournal.com]

aggggggggggghhhhhh temptation ihu

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

sign up sign up sign up sign up sign up (http://community.livejournal.com/jentfic_remix/9919.html?thread=81855#t81855)

[spurious.livejournal.com]

kjsghuoaes;djksfaslkdjfsdlfkj really feel as though April is not a good month for this T_T

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

...you know, I didn't really put together the deadlines with the part where I'm going on vacation. Well. Guess I'll have to do it all in the first two weeks of April. .____. Who is smooth? I AM SMOOTH. Oh yes. o/

You're right, it's kind of a problematic time with the end of the school year approaching for many people and all. Alas!

[spurious.livejournal.com]

lolol oh Mer. ♥ I wish I could just get someone to remix my fic and not have to actually write one /o\

[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

...the fact that you've never seen a cherry blossom depresses me D: There is a cherry blossom tree in my front yard! ;; And they are everywhere!

Vienna Teng's new album is so pretty :D I likes it!

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

I - I've seen apple blossoms! Uh. T_T I too feel that my cherry blossom-less existence is missing something. So hopefully this will cure it!

Same! The subject of many of the songs is more meaty, in terms of political consciousness and such (omg I love No Gringo, it's like reading a Margaret Atwood novel), but still so PRETTY. *g*

[matchynishi.livejournal.com]

1. excited for fic. *_*
2. SCREAM take lots and lots of pics!!!
ps: i was about to email you to make sure you were alive when you updated. so psychic. :x

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Alive indeed. :) I will take many pics, though they will be Jinless, and hopefully the fic will not disappoint, whenever it comes. ♥

[darkgloom.livejournal.com]

Japan. So exciting. *___*

lol, I am also looking forward to fic. How predictable of me :D

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Very exciting! Though I will miss KAT-TUN, sigh. But you can't have everything. :D And maybe it will be inspiring for fic purposes.

[gingifere.livejournal.com]

kamjsjd so many people are going to Japan! I am still hammering out my plans to go in July. I'm just sorry I'm missing out on meeting up with so many people in May :(

Ooh, good luck with the remix! I will be avoiding that exchange like the plague :P

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too! I'm going to miss a good friend by just about ten days or so, alas! But I don't regret it too much -- I've always wanted to be there in spring. :)

Thank you v. much! And why is that? *g*

[gingifere.livejournal.com]

Laughing, I am not surprised! I am sort of dreading heading over there in summer again, but I guess at least this time I will be more prepared!

Mainly because I have a dissertation to write, and doing a fic exchange would be a very stupid thing to do!