The Ice is Thin, Come On Dive In

Title: Confidence
Author: Starzki
Genre: Romance
Rating: T
Prompt: Untied
Word Count: 551
Summary: It was her first time, but definitely not his.
Link: ff.net

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Title: The Things He Carried
Author: Starzki
Fandom: Full Metal Panic
Characters/Pairings: OC, Sousuke, Sousuke/Kaname
Genre: Action
Rating: K+
Word Count: 884
Summary: "The Sickness" universe.  Sousuke comes back to Jindai after scavenging and turns over his goods.
LINK: ff.net

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I've been horrible about writing and keeping up with my WIP fic. As it is, I don't even know if I'll finish luxken27's drabble table I set up for myself. (I think I will, but "The Sickness" table I set up is going to fail.) I decided to just wait until I feel like writing again. I'm sure it will come back; it always does. But I just didn't have it in me this last month.

Instead, scribefigaro and I have been mainlining anime. And that's what I'm here to talk about. The good and the... well... gruesome. Some spoilers ahead:
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Oh, this week.  I have a couple of things to get in to, but let me start with Mad Men.

scribefigaro and I have been about 2 seasons behind since we watch the show on Netflix.  Well, we caught up to only one season behind not too long ago and the new season is out on April 7.  Then, great news happened.  We discovered that Comcast is doing a thing where they're giving away seasons of episodes for free to advertise a particular service this week.  One of the shows of which they were giving away seasons is Mad Men.  scribefigaro and I have been mainlining at least 2 episodes a night to catch up before the promotion is out and before the new season starts.  We'll soon be caught up.

Well, I don't know if it's because I couldn't handle the awesomeness or what, but the last episode we watched tonight, "The Other Woman" (Season 5, episode 11) just wrecked me.  I watched the end completely sobbing.  It helped that my two favorite characters, Joan and Peggy were featured and it showed how Don can be a dick, but still do right by them.  Oh, my girls.  Tonight they both broke my heart.

Joanie is just gorgeous and Christina Hendricks who plays her with such integrity (when she could so easily be played as a dumb cliche).  Her decision in this ep (I won't spoil it) annihilated me.  She did what she had to do, and it may be for the best, but still.  My Joanie.  I love you and you shouldn't have done it.  You deserve so much more.

And Peggy.  I feel like I could have been her in the early 1960s.  Her non-romantic "break up" with Don was far and away the saddest, most touching moment I've seen on this show where numerous marriages and friendships have dissolved.  She was so brave, though.  And I don't think I could have done what she did in spreading her wings.  Like Joanie, she deserves so much more, but she's actually going out and getting it.  Part of my sadness, and Don's I'm sure, is that I don't know when I'll be able to see her again.

This show.  Ugh.  It's a kind of perfection you rarely see on television anymore.  I am looking forward to next season like I cannot even explain.

*collects myself*

In other news, the college I interviewed at last week told me that they'd make a decision this week.  I haven't heard anything.  The chances of me working there are slim (their pay scale is not what I had hoped for), but I was still expecting to at least be able to try and negotiate.  Now I'm wondering if they're going with another candidate.  I was so sure I had this offer.  Again, not that I would take it (it's not quite right, in any case), but I still wanted to be asked.

Now, I think I'll go wreck myself with some more television series pathos.  Maybe I'll watch the commentary on FMA episodes. :)

Don't mind me.  I'm navel-gazing again.

Yesterday, while walking the pups with scribefigaro, I twisted my ankle.  It sucked.  It hurt really bad, I let out a string of hideous expletives, and sat on the ground for a moment.

I used to play soccer.  I've hurt an ankle before.  Hell, I've broken an ankle before.  This time it was my right ankle instead of my left (my weak one), but it's really all the same kind of pain.

I no longer play soccer (at least right now), but my first instinct was to insist it was okay and that I could walk (or run, or kick, or jump) on it no problem.

This is a kind of habit.  Way back when I was a senior in college and had two weeks (and 5 games) left in the season, a teammate of mine broke my ankle in practice.  This was not the way I wanted to end my soccer career.  So I insisted it was fine, taped the shit out of it for practices and games, and played the next two weeks on a broken ankle.  I remember a year to the day later and my ankle still hurt when I woke up in the mornings.

I don't have a lot of perspective on ankle pain.  Everything just seems not-that-bad in comparison to those two weeks.

So yeah.  I twisted my ankle last night and woke up and it was slightly swollen.  It just looked so cute next to my memories of my horribly distorted foot and ankle that turned suck pretty colors way back in college.  But I'm trying to keep some kind of perspective.  I did decide not to run on it today.  I can't promise I'll make the same decision about staying off of it tomorrow.

I'm don't have high tolerance for pain.  But I just never really know what to do with ankle pain when my instinct is to insist it's completely fine and to ignore how much it hurts me.

That's what's up with me right now.

Title: Discovery
Fandom: Full Metal Panic!
Author: starzki
Characters/Pairings: Sousuke
Words: 300
Rating: K+
Summary: In order to transition to civilian life, Sousuke explores the world of music.
Warnings: None
Link:  ff.net

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Just came home from a walk with the dogs.  Got to a certain place where we walk between two apartment buildings and notice a strange looking creature galloping toward us.

It was too awkward to be a cat, too big to be a squirrel.  The dogs definitely noticed its weird gait and were game to play.  As it came closer, I realized out loud, "It's a skunk."

scribefigaro took off at a speed walk in the opposite direction.

I figured we could squeeze by it without an issue, so I poked a little fun at scribe when I caught up to him. "Afraid of a little skunk?

He shot back with, "Even if you win a battle with a skunk, you still lose.  And that thing was charging us."

The logic, he has it.  And I am smell-free tonight. :D

So far in 2012, I've smooched scribefigaro, danced with him, went to sleep, had a terrifying zombie nightmare, slept in, then woke up and Internetted.  Minus the zombie nightmare, things are looking pretty good so far!

And I see an exodus to dreamwidth.  I'm wondering if I should join in.

Thoughts?

Happy New Year!  I wish all my friends an awesome and prosperous 2012!

ETA: Okay, I've set something up.  I think you'll be able to find me at http://starzki.dreamwidth.org/ (some day I'll figure out how to HTML that so that the DW icon comes up.  Today does not look like that day.  :(  ).

scribefigaro has been gone out of town since Wednesday.  I started out his business trip feeling sad and mopey.  Then yesterday I was kind of giddy about the freedom that not having him around gives me.  I could eat whatever I wanted for dinner; watch anything I wanted on television; and when it was bedtime, lights went out.  Not exactly fun, but I did things the way I wanted to for the first time in a while and it was kind of nice.

Well, today, I'm just kind of bored.  The puppies are great company, but not very good at conversations.  And I'm struggling at trying to figure out how to cook dinner for just one person again.  How did I do that for 6 years?  I think I might swing by Chipotle later tonight.  But the boredom does mean that I've done an impressive amount of work for a Friday.  I'm even ready for classes next week!  Maybe I'll even read ahead!

Or maybe I'll take a nap.  Hmm.

This weekend, scribefigaro and I finished up watching Fruits Basket.  It was adorable.  I looked it up and the manga seems even better than the series.  This may be one I check out in the manga.  Probably not (time issues), but it's cute and I really did like most of the characters.  Funny, cute, and interesting series.

Catching up on My Little Ponies.  I'm almost done with season one and I've been recording season two on the DVR, so it will be there when we're ready.  Earlier this summer, I had asked scribefigaro if I should just watch it without him since he was so busy with work and other readings.  He said yes.  So I've been watching the show on my computer and after one episode, he started watching over my shoulder.  Then he just accepted the fact he's a fan of MLP.

In real life news, I really like my class.  My students, while most of them aren't academically gifted, do really try hard.  And they don't seem to be blaming me when they do poorly!  This is very unlike my students I taught before and it's so nice to have them asking me what they can do to do better in class rather than having them bitch me out about their grades.  I'm much more likely to help students with the former than the latter.

Anyways, life is going okayish.  For now.