I went to the doctor on friday to check on allergies. You see, I don't really -suffer- the usual allergy symptoms, but since I've learned both my father and sister are wildly allergic to a bunch of stuff we'd have never guessed, and since I'm always getting annoying headaches I never found the cause of, I decided to give it a try. I mean, my sister suffered from several pains that stopped after she quit grapes, so...

Turns out I, too, am allergic to stuff I always took for granted, and some of them may cause headaches. Behold the list of doom:

- Gluten - ....but I've always eaten bread! Though it would explain a lot
- Cacao - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Pineaple - this I've suspected since I was 12 - I avoid it like the plague anyway. The doctor underlined it - looks like I'm very allergic to it
- Shrimp - same as pineapple.
- Tomatoes - ...another thing I've always eaten. Funny because I used to not like tomatoes, but my mother would insist I ate them, so they're kind of an acquired taste...
- Egg yolk - According to the doctor, I can eat it, but only when it's cooked.
- Milk - only allowed if it's boiled or light.
- Bananas - only cooked. Wait, what?
- Spring greens, cauliflowers, cabbages - the test spot for this one got a HUGE, swollen rash. And these, too, are things my mother keeps trying to push into me! But I still hate them, so... yeah.
- Strawberries - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Cucumber, melon, watermelon - also gave me a huge, horrible rash. And I never liked them either. Oh, well!
- Grapes - never been a fan of them either. Also gave me a big rash.
- Pepper of any kind - and here I was starting to develop a taste for them. *sigh*

Apart from gluten, cacao and strawberries, I can avoid the things in this list without much mourning. But really, chocolate and strawberries are two of my favorite things! And it's almost impossible to avoid gluten in this house!!

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I wish I could buy one of these :( and not just because she's my friend.

Aww, I just heard news from the TV downstairs talking about a 12 year old boy who died protecting a six year old little friend from some nutsos who were walking down their street shooting at random to menace some guy they had nothing to do with.

I'm posting about it because I believe this is the kind of thing that deserves to be remembered.

ETA: When the guys showed up shooting, the 12 year old boy actualy ran and hugged the smaller boy, to whom he wasn't actually related in any way.

My week so far:

Helping sister with end of term paper for her Masters degree in geology. This help mainly consists of translating crazy geology texts so she can edit, clean up and make something coherent out of them. Sample: "These techniques have been developed andrefined during the past few decades. Among the most important areseveral means of radiometric dating based on carbon-14, argon-argon,chlorine-36, beryllium-10, and uranium-thorium (Hall 1995).Non-radiometric dating techniques employ paleomagnetism, amino acids,tree rings, weathering rinds, lichens, and other materials." Obviously, it's kind of complicated. Doesn't help that it's a 27 page long word file (though I've mucked through 20 so far). At least she promised to pay me for it.

Also, one of my littler cousins came by yesterday, and I was volunteered to baby sit her while my mom and uncle went off to the doctor and shopping or whatever. On my sister's suggestion I went to the movie rental place and finally got to watch Nightmare before Christmas and Stardust :DDD though I had to watch the dub since my cousin can't grock anything out of english. It wasn't a problem with Stardust, but I feel NbC suffered a little, what with all the singing that had to both rhyme and fit the current scene! Made for very awkward verses. I'll have to sit and watch it again, and also the Sleeping Beauty, which I rented but didn't get to watch before cousin went home with her dad.

Meanwhie I'm just trying to procrastinate on translating this stuff. It's money, but it's also mind-numbingly BORING.

*sigh* I didn't actually bother to write about it when it happened, thanks to a bunch of other things happening around the same time, but my sister broke up with her boyfriend last weekend. I don't know if it's permanent or not (whenever I think it is it never turns out to be), but it's been a whole week and they haven't made up, so at least it's deserving of note.

I do believe my sister is in the right, however. He objected to her travelling along with her class for a master degree in geology/geophysics, where they visit funny mountain ranges and pick up interesting rocks. I did notice that, whenever she'd go in these excursions, he'd be cold and kind of a jerk when she returned.

But then he went and told her - in the middle of a conversation about an eventual marriage, no less - and I quote, "I'm gonna tolerate that while you're studying, but I hope you don't get a job that requires this kind of travelling around. It's not right for a married woman to travel without her husband." So apparently he believed that my sister spent those excursions boinking her classmated and rolling down the mountains in a forniball - either that, or he thought everybody else would think that, and didn't want to be thought of as an idiot husband. And because there's no greater proof of love than making it clear that you do not trust your partner, he also said he'd want total separation of goods and money, in case they ever got divorced and my sister decided to take anything that wasn't hers along. Not to prevent infighting, but to prevent being cheated of his stuff by her.

A couple days later he was chasing after her saying that okay, he would "tolerate" her traveling without him for a job if that was the case!! And totally not getting the point when she tried to explain why the whole stupid thing had crushed her feelings and their relationship. Just now my sister was on the phone with him, and had to spell it out to him that, when she talked about "having a talk", she did not mean jumping into his arms with a sparkly pastel background and resuming where they left off, but just talking. And to think they'd been going four years strong. Makes me wonder how they managed to stick together this far when he suddenly turned out to be such a sexist.

*sigh* He used to be a pretty cool guy, to boot.

I just finished reading the Graveyard Book. I had stopped at the witch's headstone when university ate me, then finally picked back up today.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaawl

Postinating from my NEW COMPUTER

I'm so glad because my old HD was 40GB big and this one is 320. Nothing like having a C drive twice as big as all the space you had available for close to 8 years.

Also, a damn relief to not have to rely on that old thing. I'm pretty sure I wasn't even into VoH when that HD (and the case) was bought. XD;; We're talking 2001/2002 here.

And now I'm downloading a bunch of stuff while basking in the free disk space. Internet connection is still the same, unfortunately, which means it's kind of laggy what with 3 torrents running at the same time...

I think I'm going to sleep and let things downloading.

From the Department of Good News: I just need to fill in this paper here and turn it in to officially graduate.

From the Department of Pretty Damn Awesome News: My father finally, finally, finally agreed to buy me a new computer. With its parts chosen by ME and not my cousin Mr. Overpricing (in whom he's lost all trust).

From the Department of Not So Good but Not That Bad News: It took me signing into a test for a position in a government job for it. But at least it's not a position I utterly loathe like the law stuff he used to cut out of newspapers for me to see; it's in my university, and it actually deals with image editing and webdesign. From the description I think I'd just be making posters for internal events and tinkering with the university's website. I can deal with that.

VACATION

I've spent the last two weeks in a zombified stupor. HERE'S FOR THE END OF IT

My back hurts a lot ;___________;

TAKE THAT AESTHETICS ESSAY

I AM SO TOTALLY DONE WITH YOU AND I WON'T EVEN HAVE TO THINK ABOUT YOU AGAIN UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY

\m/=o=\m/     \m/=o=\m/

Cool fact I just learned: brazilian emperor Peter the II saw a daguerreotype being made at 14 years old, totally fell in love with the process, imported the first brazilian camera and became the first brazilian photographer. At 14 years old.

He was just such a cool guy. XD

It's getting somewhere. I'm just not quite sure where - and I have to hand it in on wednesday. :(

Not helped by strong urges to start writing a sci-fantasy novel to publish online. In a journal. Because I have this extra dreamwidth code, see, and it'd be really cool, you know, uploading chapters when I felt like it, adding illustrations when I wanted, the occasional comic pages, and not having to figure out a huge timeline like I'm compelled to with most of my other projects, since this one is entirely based on CMOAs and Rule of Cool. And when I say "urge to start", I mean right now, as in "make journal and start coding its layout regardless of current lack of written material" now. In fact, the only reason why I haven't done that already is because I can't think of a name for the setting. Or for half the characters. Most of which already have faces and backstory and ranks and one of which has mutated into a memetic badass in my mind.

Obviously, two webcomics aren't siphoning out enough of my creative urges.

Yah, well, now I know why I've been feeling like an unmotivated piece of crap all week, yesterday most of all.

TMI time came today. Yay.

Why can't I seem to make any headway in this goddamn thing?

Also I'm really damn hungry

So i've been mostly dead and unsociable and out of touch BUT SOME THINGS I JUST HAVE TO SQUEE ABOUT

My sister is getting a master's degree on geology. It means she must go camping to wet faraway places and hike in the wilds and do all sorts of awesome stuff apart from researching extremely obscure mountain range formations in dusty half-forgotten thesises and staying up for several nights putting presentations together and so that means she needs a sturdy waterproof boot.

So she bought one.

Today.

She actually walked into our room with the hugeass box of it about 10 minutes ago.



She thinks it's bruttish and meh. I LOVE IT COMPLETELY AND TO PIECES.

Whyyyyy is it that she gets to buy stuff that I appreciate when she doesn't? ;______;

There's even another very very very cool one on the site I found that pic on:



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Anyway she says I get to use it if she's not out camping. Awwwwwwwwwww shucks ;_;♥

Immanuel Kant, I kan't take any more of you.

There was a meme popping around in my dw reading list last week asking you to list your 10 ultimate, die-hard OTPs that you wouldn't want to see separated in any fic ever, and then people would comment and say what that said about your type of OTPs. I immediately perked up and went "Oh! Sounds fun and easy. Also I'd be able to pimp my favorite manga ever!" So I sat back and started to mentally list my OTPs.

1) Hamel and Flute (Violinist of Hameln)
2) Raiel and Sizer (Violinist of Hameln)
3) ....Syaoran and Sakura? (CCS, Tsubasa)
4) ..........................................

Uh. Well, that was surprisingly short.

Of course, that set me to thinking about my pairing preferences and the way I look at coupling in storytelling media and fanon. (This post itself is an attempt at organizing these thoughts; they might still end up jumbled anyway. Apologies in advance.)

Some conclusions in bullet list form because they make it easier for me:

( Bullllllllets )

You know, ending these posts is always the hardest part. Writing etiquette says I should wrap this up with a conclusion but I only conclude that I'm complicated and picky. Just comment if you feel like it? I feel I have a lot more to say about this topic, but I can't think of what. I've written so much essay shit for university since March that it feels like all my writing juices have been wringed off me.

And I mean really quick.

( I’m going to hit the rock floor and splat )

I woke up at roughly 11am and have been doing nothing but watching The Final Countdown video clips on youtube.

I wonder if something epic will happen today...