Fail? Win? Not sure which is.

[railenthe]

Whoops.

You’d think I’d know my luck by now.

In a feat of “really really epically bad,” my phone’s OS crashed in the night and thus my alarm never activated.  I woke this morning at 8:01 AM, much later than my usual smash the snooze touch-screen section wake up time of 6:05.   Normally I would have been awake  by that time anyway, but I went to bed last night on a drowsiness-inducing beta blocker and a drowsiness-inducing migraine pill—nothing short of an earthquake underneath our feet or the four horsemen themselves or the realization that that dream I was having where Kain Highwind was making me scrambled eggs and toast was actually reality would have brought me out of slumber.

I power on my phone, wait for it to reboot, and call my work.

“Thank you for calling our hotel! My name is Jenny, how can I help you? =)”*
*Note:  We’re trained to answer the phone as brightly as possible.  If you ever call our desk you can actually hear the smile we put into the greeting.

“Uh, yeah, it’s Rai.  Yeah, listen—I got a problem here.  My phone crashed and I slept through the alarm that never went off.”  This was true: checking the notification zone on the top of Tatl’s screen, it was clear the alarm never went off, even though it was clearly set: 6:05 AM, Thursday, with the most annoying alarm tone I’ve got.  “So do you need me?”

“Hang on.  I gotta check.

*five minutes on hold later*

“I don’t know where she is, I need a minute!”

“Eh, it’s OK,” I say, somehow managing to get into my uniform without dislodging my phone or glasses—a neat trick with a pullover shirt.  Where the hell are my socks?

The boring hold music stops suddenly and I got the verdict:
I’d been called off, but because of my phone’s crash, the call never went through.

This worked out just fine for me: I was having a terrible dizzy spell that had been attacking me since I woke up—Imitrex side effect.  I climbed back into my PJs and went back to sleep.  I woke up again a few minutes ago.

 

The Plan:

 

1.       Cook breakfast.

2.       Straighten up the apartment.

3.       Find heavy woolen coat.

4.       Word Sprint of 800 words.

5.       Pray that the wind has died down before 4 PM.

6.       Grocery Run!

 

Why do I have to wait for the wind to die down?  Funny story.

The wind’s been howling outside my window for four days now—sustained at about 14, gusting to perhaps twice that—and I would be going out there with bulky broad bags and a gigantic coat.  I only weigh 141 lbs—and all these things catch the wind like a sail.

I ride the bus to the store.  That means a lot of standing around on the edge of the street hanging onto a sign for dear life as the wind attempts to give me a solid kick in the ass into the street.  It can’t wait much longer.   The fridge is starting to get on the empty side.

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[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

My alarm not going off is one of my biggest fears since I'm one of those unpredictable sleepers who can get 4 hours on sleep one day and 12 hours the next if given the opportunity. Problem is that my plan of locating the shrill and annoying thing somewhere away from the bed doesn't work on account of my first instinct when I've eradicated the disruption is to head straight back to bed. (Especially during this time of year where my brain goes "COLD. NEED WARMTH. DUVET.") Is there any permanant damage to the phone?

At least you're not in trouble with work though.

(I should be working on the rest of my DDFF storyline meme but...Type-0...grinding...Gruff Tomboy with a Scyth...)

Yay! I guess. At least I was toasty.

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

You know, you’d think that I’d know better by now: I’m supposed to have at least two clocks in this place. I got a little lazy when there was OMG SHINY PHONE to think about, and I forgot that the latest build of Android was buggy—and prone to randomly crashing the phone and rebooting the hardware.

Of course this usually happens while the phone is in use. I hadn’t expected it to happen during the night as I was sleeping.

The phone itself is just fine, it’s just that the latest build of Android OS is kind of unstable. I’ll make sure to reboot it from start every couple of days from here on out, until the next patch comes in.

I hate waking up when it’s cold. The apartment’s spent the last few days being HOT, and so this moring was a jarring experience. When I found out that they didn’t need me in, I burrowed my little tootsies back under those three layers of blanket and GIANT DOWN-ALTERNATIVE DUVET/COMFORTER/THING and just sorta hibernated until close to noon. It was delicious. Best way to beat a migraine. XD

Take your time, you could do what I did: outline and take care of details later on. *currently behind on SO MANY THINGS thanks to an adorable free MMO*

Oh you were just asking for this icon!

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Bed caverns made of duvets or blankets are the best things ever. My room got too cold by the late afternoon so I just curled up in bed and got to work grinding on Type-0. Problem is that then Mont comes and tries to butt in and steal my warmth. Or do my hair. Either way it makes trying to stay alive in a game that has a ridiculous pause system somewhat difficult when there's a furry bastard right in front of your PSP.

I think I will cause I want to go into a bit more info about the quests; I have about 5 favourites and even though I'm only going to summarise why I like them I've still got to explain them since they're entirely alien to everyone else. That and I've just found out that letting your heroes get hit on by your teacher's former classmates is the best minigame ever. Especially when you send 'em to Ishida's character because he is essentially a depraved fangirl in the body of a bishonen male scientist with an endless supply of knockout drugs and a secret lab to harass students in. Or what would happen if Mukki and Hojo somehow had a bishonen lovechild. I don't think SE has made a character this blatantly homosexual for quite a while... (The female classmate (voiced by Chi from Chobits) has yet to actually assault any of the students yet but she is hinting VERRRRRRRY heavily and pressing her chest VERRRRRRRRY close to their faces.)

Chii? Chii! Somehow, this is both adorable and HILARIOUS.

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

They are so good. I'm thinking about adding a second one to my bed, as I am cursed with Feet That Do Not Stay Warm. FOR ANY REASON. It could be 100 out and my feet will be cold. The phone!derp came at a nice day, then: cold, windy, blustery (it never did calm down enough to grocery shop) and all around BLARGHLE.

Even if he is a butt sometimes right about now would be a good time to be at the BF's house. He's got three adorable kitties who like to sit on top of my feet and keep them warm. They make me sneeze but...warm feet!

Even if my commenting's behind *stupid migraines!* I've been reading your meme posts and may I just say *flail-swoon* I wish you'd've been handy when I was on the high school debate team. Such--such delicious articulate arguments and points and *squee* *HP = O*

Phoenix down plox. XD

Chigau! Chii! Dame!

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I have cold feet too (INSERT FEAR OF COMMITMENT JOKE HERE) so I know exactly where you're coming from. The odd thing is that part of my house has tiled floors and so this could be due to spending 16 years walking barefoot on them. (And during my childhood I ran on gravel paths and woodchips barefoot too. No wonder my soles are so hard!)

Awwww! I've got a lap-warmer right now (washing her right hind paw as I type) but she never goes for my feet. Lap? Yes. Chest? Yes. Stomach? Yes. Face? Yes. Feet? No.

...T-that is one of the best compliments I have ever received - in FF geekery and in general. For that I can only bow deeply and say "I am not worthy". (I wish I were better when it came to essays because I did enjoy making all these points when I took English Literature for A-level but I just can't seem to be able to do the source material justice.)

=^_^=

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we got kindred footsies. Gravel in 90-degree weather? SIGN ME UP. I desperately need a pedicure. My feet are so bad that I've stepped on broken glass before, and the skin was so fricken hard that I DID NOT NOTICE.

KITTEH. I got a chibi-Vincent plushie. He's moe and adorable. Not quite as warm as a kitteh but that's why the heating pad.

Take it from a nerd who ought to be majoring in English but is too damn broke to even take classes right now: You've done things right when I see a subject line and literally say "YAY! ANALYSIS!"

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Broken glass? YEOWCH. I still tend to notice when I tread on glass, nails or pins so I guess my feet still need to build up more resistance.

I don't have any fandom plushies other than a Pikachu than unzips and doubles as a cartridge holder. But at least I have my FFIX dakimakura. *gloms*

I just love analysing FF... especially anything FFIX related. On my last playthrough I had a huge geek out over that statue of Cid Fabool VIII (the current Regent Cid's father) in the Industrial District of Lindblum since it's his creation of the airship and bringing peace to the Mist Continent that Garland had to create an angel of death to spread war on Gaia. Also currently putting the 'anal' into analysis with all this rambling for the favourite voice entry - gonna skip the rest of the storyline entry for now because I'm just too gosh darn excited to get a chance to be a voice actor dork. (Speaking of which I'm watching some early Naruto Shippuden at the moment and I keep on going "WTF!?" at some of the seiyuus because I'm so used to their FF performances. Toshihiko Seki being cheerful!? WHAT THE HELL!? Takahiro Sakurai being a magnificent bastard!? WHAT THE HELL!? Romi Paku being feminine!? WHAT THE HELL!? Akira Ishida NOT being feminine!? WHAT THE HELL!?)

[railenthe.livejournal.com]

To utterly butcher some David Bowie lyrics: You gave us this and made the rules, so feel free to break the rules!
...yep. BUTCHERED.

You DON'T want more resistance. You know how I finally noticed that little bit of glass? Loss of traction! —I've gotten better about taking care of the things in recent years, but they're still about as delicate as a Jecht Punch to the face.

I ADORE fandom plushies. I've got a Turtwig, a Pikachu, Vinnie, a moogle, a chocobo--plus other stuff that I have just because it's cute. I used to have more, but at some point an asshat of a cousin burned a box of my things. That's in the past but I've never really looked at him the same since. Rat bastard burned plushies I got from my DEAD MOTHER WHUT. I'd've stabbed him but at the time he was nowhere to be found, alas.

I'm seriously considering throwing on the geek glasses to take apart a favorite piece of music from FFXI.
...oh gawd. Sounds like we can kinda blame Cid for everything in this one. Or at least we can watch him robble around on dem oglop legs *gwok*

(I have never watched any Naruto at all, but I'm "PFFT"-ing enough at your reactions to be incredibly tempted to see what's going on. XD)

EDIT: Make that two chocobos. How could I have forgotten about tiny!chocobo? Or, as I may attempt to pull off sometime soon: Frocobo

[toffeethesnob.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe, I'm going to have that up as soon as my next Type-0 entry is done (got to just play a bit more for it to be a proper update; right now it's just a vocab list of Kanji for me to remember...) though I am tempted to make some FF/Type-0 seiyuu jokes since we have half of 012 Japanese Team Chaos (Ultimecia, CoD, Garland, Kefka, Kuja and Cloud) all working for the school the game is set in so we pretty much have Dissidia Academy... (We also have Squall/Auron/Cait-Sith, Seymour/Tseng, Prishe, Onion Knight, Yuna, Zack, Shantotto and Kadaj in this game too! Recycle your voice actors much?)

*blink* WHAT? FLAT WHAT? That's just... I don't think I can say anything that appropriately voices my disgust at that. (My own asshat aunt and uncle are trying to diddle me out of a good chunk of my grandmother's inheritance but I think I'd draw the line at sentimental possessions being destroyed.)

Cid's DAD. Cid himself did nothing wrong other than build an airship Kujie-coo decided to swipe because---errr.... THE PLAN!? (That was for plot convenience more than anything but I'm guessing he's not allowed to actually pilot the Invincible himself in case it attracts attention so...) But thanks to Lindblum's airship fleet we have Kuja, Zidane and Mikoto as well as Vivi (since Kuja created him and all) and Garland got kicked off his perch and Gaia was ultimately saved from being dominated by Terra.

(I'm not really a Naruto fan because it takes 5 episodes for about 1 manga chapter's worth of plot to be carried out but I can't stop being amused by the seiyuu allusions. Sephiroth is the dead father of the hero, WoL is the hero's first teacher and mentor, Kuja and Zidane are siblings from another village with Kuja being a kindred spirit/friend of the hero (to make this funnier, Bartz is their uncle), Emperor is one of the current arc's villains ('cept he repented) with Ultimecia being his childhood friend, Cloud is another of the current arc's villains, Squall is a current arc villain and older brother of the hero's best friend/rival, Kadaj is one of the hero's friends who has a love/hate relationship with Zidane... I'm sure I'm missing a few but yeah... hearing them sound completely different from their FF roles is WEIRD!)