Found kinda second-hand via nunuu, but...

WHY DIDN'T I HEAR ABOUT THISSSSS

OH MY GODDD I WANT ONE

(If only preorders came with a Naoki plush too, sigh :})

Work's still hammering me, holy crap. Maybe I'll catch a break tomorrow.

I've never heard that phrase as many times as I did tonight. XD

( Gym blather )

Sorry the pic requests have slowed down, work has been completely crushing me this week! Heck, I get to do a few hours of work on my day off tomorrow YAY. I should be back on the arts later this week, plus one of my favouritest artists on y!Gallery has asked if we can do an art trade. I feel loved ;_;

Those were carrot sticks before he got to them. Dork bird.

Wander's ~*favourite new food*~ is parsley. He seriously cannot get enough of it; this arrangement works perfectly as 1) he loves it so much he will dance into the cage for it whenever we want and 2) we never use the entire bunch of parsley when we buy one anyway. We give him a stalk at a time and he dismantles and chews the heck out of every part of it (leaving behind a gigantic mess, but that's a given when you feed birds anything).

Skip this bit if you hate it when your flist talks about fitness. ( Gym talk )

( Here be some art! )

Perhaps you've been linked to the Copyright Alliance's letter to the US President and Vice President recently! Let's think a little about what you're signing, shall we?

1. If you've ever pirated anything, ever, you have no business signing this letter. You don't really support what the letter says.

2. All this letter really stands for is that copyright law is an antiquated US-centric method of allowing middle men (record labels and Hollywood, we're looking at you) to protect their outdated business models. Which is what "our vibrant digital age" seems to be necessitating, if anything.

From their "about us" page (bolding is mine):

The Copyright Alliance believes that copyright law promotes creativity and job creation and strengthens the U.S. economy. Those who create, render, and publish copyrighted works rely on the copyright law and its enforcement, for their creative and financial success. Without it, these creators would likely cease to exist, or at the very least, cease to produce these important works that are enjoyed by billions of people around the world.

They are not talking about you, they are talking about Britney Spears and teen movies. Stop helping the RIAA and MPAA to continue this farce.

Good thing evilhayama's playing Borderlands, I'm pretty damn hooked on SO4!

12 hours in now, these posts have been spoiler free so far if that's what you're fearing.

( Cut to spare the uninterested )

Blah blah blah you probably need to have played at least one SO game to understand a thing I'm saying here.

( Blah blah blah )

Also, next-gen JRPGs are all about the bromance. Every - single - one (except maybe Blue Dragon). I'm just sayin'.

I finished Tales of Vesperia after 96 or so hours and the final dungeon and ending were wonderful! ;_; Would play again A+++++.

Even though I'm still chipping away at Star Ocean 2 on the PSP, I decided to start playing Star Ocean 4 as well. At eight hours in, I'm happy to report that it makes up for many past transgressions (barring any truly ridiculous plot twists later on).

But so far, PICKPOCKETING TEE HEE.

More detailed thoughts tomorrow!

I'm back in Sydney, aww... I forgot what arseholes we all are, the customer service I was getting on the Gold Coast was so amazingly good! Even the security guard at Coolangatta airport scanning me for explosives (YES AGAIN) was so cheerful I couldn't summon any animosity towards him.

The ball is pretty much rolling on my master's degree, so exciting. :DDD

I now have an active PSN ID so frieeeend meeee if you have one! I'm "bocconcini".

Before I start, thanks to everyone who came to the Like Mum Used To Make launch yesterday. You rock!! I'll update the site a bit more this weekend.



I are on the Gold Coast! In a very nice hotel room indeed, probably one of the best I've ever stayed in. I'm here for a work-related event but the downtime has been really great - I've had time to read and play games and I'm getting a massage tomorrow morning after breakfast!

evilhayama kinda sorta accidentally bought a PS3 last week so I'll have a PSN ID for yez by the end of this week, probably.

I kinda sorta accidentally preordered an International Kindle and it just shipped, so that may also be here by the end of this week... Wooowooo!

( But only one person is reading mirite )

ETA: I'm glad more than one person's reading! ♥ And Ashton and Welch seem to have multiple hilarious PA scenes together ohlawd.

Basically evilhayama takes the PSP to work during the day to play on his commute, brings it home in the evening and then I run down the battery playing SO2. \o/

I charge it overnight, I'm not that mean! I'm finally through the Hoffman Ruins. I'm a bit worried that my memories of specific dungeons and events are so fuzzy... oh, right, the Oracle skill tells me the game first came out in 1999 (I paid something exorbitant like $100 for the PAL version). >_>; Signs of old age?

Anyway, next I get to recruit Dias and then call me a bunny and haul everyone all the way back as far as I can so we can do nothing but PRIVATE ACTIONS for a week! PARTY! *gets thrown out of house*

VANISHING SWORDS O_O

I caught a cold at TINA so I played the PSP all day yesterday. Holy shit, I love Star Ocean 2 so much! How did I ever forget this fact?! ILU FOREVERRR TRI-AAAACE

( Cut for observations so far, mild spoilers for the overall series and griping about the retcon, THE RETCONNN )

Ohhh, I am still so bitter that the retcon ever happened though. DON'T POKE ME LIKE THAT WELCH.

I blame tsukikoushi for all this fangirly flailing and eeeee but she probably blames me!

If you haven't seen that twelve times in a night, life ain't worth living. Or not.

I think we printed, stapled and folded something like 150 books tonight... go us! I'm glad evilhayama is my stapling and folding BFF, I think I'd go insane if I still did all of this by myself *_*;

See you at Newcastle tomorrow if you're going! (oh god daylight savings whyyy)

Joystiq interviews Trent Reznor about music... and Decibel interviews Tim Schafer about video games!

If the next issue of Decibel has a Brütal Legend cover, renewing my subscription will be the best thing I've done all year. :3

Aiiieeee it is zine fair seasonnn! (Also allergy season... good lord I am so sick)

Noble Rot submissions are due this Thursday US time/Friday Australian time because I figure I have nothing better to do than flail on Friday and Saturday :D

Like Mum Used To Make art, photography and food zine submissions are due on the 12th of October!

ETA: NEW DIZZEE RASCAL ALBUM, FINALLY

Last night I started feeling ill halfway through dinner but put it down to jet lag. This morning I woke up feeling even worse and wondering why the sky was orange.

I called in sick to work, but once I found out what was going on everything made sense. A Flickr group has popped up already!

The cars parked on the street here are caked in a thick layer of orange dust. I want to go out there and take a photo but I no want to go to hospital. D:

It would be so awesome if it didn't make me feel so awful! evilhayama said he could smell dust but I can't smell anything; when I cough I can taste dust though. Bleaughghgh. (Fellow ass-mar sufferers in Sydney, the AQI website is your friend.)

We are back in Sydney! I admit that I hit the windscreen wipers once instead of the indicator when driving back to our place, but otherwise my brain seems to have readjusted to driving on the left side of the road just fine. Wander is as cute/naughty as ever and has definitely not forgotten who we are.

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who spent time with us and let us crash with them on the way - I'll try to post a writeup during the coming week, because we did far too much cool stuff in the past three weeks to let it go by without comment!

I'm feeling a little ill... I think it's mostly the aftereffects of the 14-hour flight home. A quick nap and some decent food and coffee should fix me up though. :D

We've had an incredibly relaxing week at jokersama's place, mostly involving food, the cuddling of birds and a playthrough of MGS4! But tonight we are flying home :(

The good news is that we'll be back just in time for this month's Hayase on Sunday - see some of you then!

We flew out of Edmonton this morning and now we're back in the US at jokersama's place, surrounded by birdies! Thanks tammylee and C for letting us crash with you and eat your food and read your comics. :DDD

We've both pretty much recovered from the flu but now my allergies are totally kicking my arse. *sigh* Note to anyone else who uses Telfast 180: YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW GOOD WE HAVE IT. Non-drowsy antihistamines are incredibly weak and/or prescription only everywhere else in the world except Australia, and next time I travel overseas I am taking boxes of Telfast 180 with me without a second thought.