Most days, I hate my latin lessons. I freely admit I'm only doing it because you need a CRAPLOAD of latin if you want to get a teaching job (trufax: one of the girls in my class applied to Cambridge to get onto a teaching course and got told she had to do A-Level latin in addition to what latin she's doing now to get onto it.) and I don't but would like to keep my options open.

But somedays we find out AWESOME things. Like the lecture we had that was half translating Catullus and half a lecture on Roman attitudes to homosexuality. Today it was just little things, like latin has an actual tense you use when you're telling the truth. It's called the ignomus perfect I think, and it's used instead of the present tense when you're telling the truth and just its existence makes me laugh. And it turns out that Virgil nicked adapted his characterisation of Dido from Catullus' depiction of Ariadne in Catullus 64. I'm still pissed off about what he did with her, but it makes much more sense when I realise that she wasn't intended to be an intelligent, brave queen who led all of her people to a new land and founded her own city and is instead based off an angry, lovelorn, abandoned child.

(Also, Lex is trying to convince me to watch the second series of Code Geass. I am refusing on the grounds that ( Spoilerish? ) but he is taunting me with Cornelia being badass. I've tried to compromise by offering to just find the inevitable version on Youtube where all the scenes with Lelouch have been cut out, but he's not having it. Why does he want me to throw my laptop around the room a lot? Why? :( )

Jill and Leon are perfect for playing the good-cop/bad-cop thing, because they're not playing. THIS IS CANON and yet I want fic where Leon throws a hissy fit at someone and Jill gives them coffee and smiles a lot and possibly is badass and shoots someone later.

(Dude, some days I really want genderswitch art of these guys. I don't think their personalities would change very much, but Leon would be a hot ass tomboy and Jill would be the sort of guy in an anime who has permanent lens-flare of evil.)

GUYS.

GUYS.

My latin coursework involves translating a poem by Catullus so I can answer grammar questions. I've been trying to find the section we have in poem 64, because that's what's on the sheet and nowhere in my book or on the internet does the section I have appear.

THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY THE ENTIRITY OF POEM 42 AND MY LECTURERS COCKED UP DKSHGNLASJFKNHSALHDFHS.

Still, once I figured that out everything has been going AWESOMELY and I've been able to figure out the questions and Lex has proved himself to be the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER because he bought me CAKE with CHOCOLATE on it and gave me LOTS OF HUGS and I heart him lots. Except when he's quoting Mr Happyface because AUGH and slightly less when he's singing creepy songs and stroking my hair because DUDES THAT IS CREEPY. Apart from that I love him lots!

And now I shall go back to my coursework!

The +5 as we worked it out equals +2 competence bonus from coursework, +1 from equipping cake, +1 morale bonus from HUGS and a +1 miscellaneous modifier from hanging around Lex. THIS IS CLEARLY THE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.

Dear internets, am not dead! According to LJ it's been over six weeks since Ilast posted, but that's just because I've been kinda busy and um. Not online. Stuff has happened! Me and Lex are still me-and-Lex although he's shaved his beard off and it's the ODDEST THING EVER I want him to grow it back and he only shaved it off yesterday. ._. We went to London Expo with Dan and Laura last week and it was AWESOME, I went to J-con in Derby the week before, and tonight is the Scifi halloween party! I've also had SO MUCH COURSEWORK and oh god I hate it. All my latin deadlines clash like hell with everything else! And and we've got an AWESOME D&D game going run by our mate Joe and I'm playing a psychic librarian and looking into the courses that qualify you as a librarian for when I'm done with Ancient History. HOW IS EVERYONE ELSE?

Guys, I'm trying to get things sorted right now - currently writing review of Old Man's War for the Scifi soc's newsletter :D - and part of this is "Huh, there's a huge halloween party at scifi in October and I need a costume!"

Unfortunately, I have no ideas. And all the ones people are suggesting to me are for fandoms I don't actually know. O_o (Such as random characters from Naruto, and Matsumoto from Bleach who I've actually seen random clips of.) Except for the fact that Jen wants to dress everyone up as Organisation 13 WHICH IS A BLOODY STUPID IDEA AND I CANNOT VOICE THIS, but still.

BASICALLY, please offer suggestions? I can't think of anything.

It took me three months of wondering why Lex kept nagging me to eat and sleep and making sure I didn't die or anything to figure that he did all that because he liked me.

It took exactly six months and him TELLING me for me to realise that he's going out with me because he thinks I'm awesome.

I love my boyfriend. ._.

One day, someone's going to write the "FANTASY CHARACTERS GET INTO THIS WORLD!" story, only set LONG AFTER they got into this world, stopped trying to get back to their own, and learnt how to live in this one.

(In my head, there's at least a female beserker who works in a factory and has a very nice flat with pictures of Hello Kitty and kittens and flowers on the wall and sleeps with a broadsword next to her in the bed because some habits are impossible to kill. There's also a wizard who keeps bouncing in and out of therapy for the whole "Yes, I'm reasonably convinced I came to this world from another one and I can also blow shit up with my brain. Occasionally I doubt this is true. That is the problem I would like you all to fix please," and this confuses people utterly.)

I have a feeling this exists somewhere! Failing that, I know what I'm going to be scribbling in my notebook.

WHAT THIS FANDOM NEEDS IS AN AWESOME AWESOME STEAMPUNK/CYBERPUNK AU WHERE SKULDUGGERY IS A ROBOT AND STEPHANIE IS AWESOME.

... The usual routine when I say something like this is "That's a terrible idea! You should write it!" so let's skip the pretense and skip straight to the I HAVE NO IDEA HOW STEPHANIE WOULD BE AWESOME IN THIS BEYOND BEING STEPHANIE AND TAKING NO SHIT, BUT TANITH WOULD BE A FUCKING CYBORG.

• 10:42 JILL GOT 4 A*S, 6 AS, 1 B AND A MERIT IN HER GCSES. MY SISTER IS FUCKING *AWESOME!* #
• 15:15 @hardlyaverage Did all your minions move out for the weekend? D: D: D: DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO COME HOME AND YELL AT YOU ALL. #
• 15:16 @splend and @jamibu Thank you both! I've passed them along. And Sam - congrats to YOUR sister getting into law school! :D :D :D #
• 15:17 Scifi Sims update: Dan gets on scarily well with other people's children. Emily thinks Tonks' son is hers. Everyone wants to be a werewolf. #
• 15:18 Continued: (Seriously, one per house wants to be a werewolf WTF.) Sam writes in his diary about male firemen and hides this from his family. #
• 15:47 Also, @ecoombs, your youngest sim-daughter may end up a crossdresser at this rate. She looks awesome though? #
• 22:05 @ecoombs Two? I can't remember if you're likely to spawn again though. #
• 22:06 @fkth From what I remember of your ex, that doesn't really mean it's not him... #
• 22:09 @jamibu Oh hey, if you're switching over entirely to digital, can I have your hardcopies? #
• 22:09 It's practically impossible to find good ftm sims clothing... Also I have screencaps, just need to find somewhere to put them. #
• 22:11 Jill just deemed Lex attractive when he doesn't have a beard. I. Just. Buzzuh? #
• 23:02 @swasher and @holyjezebel AND YOU WONDER WHY I WAS CONVINCED YOU TWO WERE GOING OUT. #

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• 10:42 JILL GOT 4 A*S, 6 AS, 1 B AND A MERIT IN HER GCSES. MY SISTER IS FUCKING *AWESOME!* #
• 15:15 @hardlyaverage Did all your minions move out for the weekend? D: D: D: DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO COME HOME AND YELL AT YOU ALL. #
• 15:16 @splend and @jamibu Thank you both! I've passed them along. And Sam - congrats to YOUR sister getting into law school! :D :D :D #
• 15:17 Scifi Sims update: Dan gets on scarily well with other people's children. Emily thinks Tonks' son is hers. Everyone wants to be a werewolf. #
• 15:18 Continued: (Seriously, one per house wants to be a werewolf WTF.) Sam writes in his diary about male firemen and hides this from his family. #
• 15:47 Also, @ecoombs, your youngest sim-daughter may end up a crossdresser at this rate. She looks awesome though? #
• 22:05 @ecoombs Two? I can't remember if you're likely to spawn again though. #
• 22:06 @fkth From what I remember of your ex, that doesn't really mean it's not him... #
• 22:09 @jamibu Oh hey, if you're switching over entirely to digital, can I have your hardcopies? #
• 22:09 It's practically impossible to find good ftm sims clothing... Also I have screencaps, just need to find somewhere to put them. #
• 22:11 Jill just deemed Lex attractive when he doesn't have a beard. I. Just. Buzzuh? #

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So, FOREVER ago squeemu did a music meme and gave me the letter T! I managed to NOT use "The" for any of these (except one, but that's FOLLOWED by a T, so it's fine!). If anyone wants a letter, just leave a comment!

( LOTS OF MUSIC OH GOD HOW LONG DID THIS TAKE. )

BONUS: The World is Darker ~ Neverending White Lights
Watch your back if your heart is weeping.
Watch your heart if you back is bleeding.
(This song actually reminds me of this poem for NO REASON. GO READ THE POEM ANYWAY, IT'S PRETTY.)

I was noodling at my superheroes story last night (it's one where I have all the backstory and worldbuilding sorted but no actual plot, so I'm not sure where I'm going with it), and FINALLY figured out why the hell my badass cyborg lady exists, how they got the info they needed to make my badass cyborg lady, and how in god's name she and the disgraced doctor fit into any of this.

BACO I KNOW I OWE YOU AN EMAIL FROM THREE MONTHS AGO, I SHALL EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU SOON!

(Also, still think there needs to be a Sherlock Holmes game using the Phoenix Wright style. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.)

• 23:08 @holyjezebel @swasher I HOPE YOU TWO ARE HAVING AN AWESOME TIME. RECIEVE HUGS AND SMOOCHES, BOTH OF YOU! #
• 23:08 @splend Get on MSN! Dan is online but he's useless and can't multitask internets and RPGing. D: #
• 00:27 Just had an argument about housework with Dan via MSN. OUR GUESTS have done the washing up more often than you, DON'T COMPLAIN! #
• 00:29 dfslhd;lfg I'm sorry, he's done it ONCE in the whole time we've lived there, it offends me that he complains we didn't do it before we left. #
• 13:30 RIHANNA CAN SAY DOGGY! SO CUTE! Especially because Jill and Amina keeps making dogs on the Sims so she's always saying it. :D #
• 15:34 Am slowly acquiring a copy of Planescape: Torment! The game that people keep telling me is the BEST THING EVER will soon be mine! :D #
• 16:50 Rihanna is alternating between woofing doing a jigsaw and giving my mum hugs. SO CUTE. #
• 16:52 Also I'm trying to resist the urge to ring Lex and flail at him about The Risen Empire. THIS MAY END BADLY? #
• 17:33 @swasher But you love it really, bb, right? #
• 19:59 @natto_robbo Oh thanks, I love you too! #
• 19:59 @splend Remember: Ben's plan working last time was a FLUKE. It won't happen a second time! #
• 20:01 @splend And I'm very sorry, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong! #
• 20:07 @splend ALSO as Mike's there ask him if he got my text about the terrible Chinese films. #
• 20:09 @splend There're summaries like A man and a midget enter a fighting competition, lose a comrade, and must recover the start code for nukes! #
• 20:11 @splend I haven't had a reply from him at all, but I shall download it anyway. :D #
• 21:09 @splend And that's just in real life, what's happening in the game! :P #
• 22:01 GUYS SOMEONE FIND ME THE CLIP OF SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY AND GREG GRUNBERG MAKING OUT AT COMICON, I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT IS. #

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OH HAI GUYZ I promised you the recipe to edible diabetes and by god you shall recieve it! Edible Diabetes is what I call the cookies I make from a recipe that has, in total, almost a kilogram of sugar in it. RANDOM NOTES BEFORE I START:

• It tastes delicious, but DO NOT EAT MORE THAN A LITTLE AT A TIME. It tastes really good raw (we made DIY cookie dough ice cream out of this stuff by putting it in bowls and adding chocolate ice cream), but when you bake it we've concluded some of the water must be baked out of it or something and the sugar is suddenly MUCH MORE CONDENSED.
  
• No matter how much you grease the baking tray, this stuff will stick. And also spread. I started with nine cookies spaced out on a baking tray and ended up with one UBERCOOKIE that had to be prised off the tray in pieces. We're going to try lining the tray with rice paper so that if it does stick, we can just cut off the rice paper and eat it like that, but I don't know if it'll work.
  
• The recipe calls for 450g of chocolate chips, GUYS I HAVE NEVER USED THAT MANY FOR IT IN MY LIFE. 300g of chocolate, yes. 450g is excessive!
  
• FOR ULTIMATE DIABETES: Replace the chocolate drops with 300g in chocolate STUFF, like oreos, M&Ms, chunks of toffee crisp, or Malteasers. (I reccomend crushed oreos, M&Ms, and crushed Malteasers. Surprisingly delicious!) It works well, but it does depend entirely on how badly you want diabetes.

RECIPE:

Ingredients:
225g butter
375g caster sugar
3tbs light brown sugar
2 eggs
¾tbs vanilla extract
300g self raising flour
A pinch of salt
300g dark/milk chocolate chips
150g white chocolate chips
(Optionally, rice paper to line the baking tray with.)

Instructions:

• Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas Mark 4.
  
• Cream together the butter, caster sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl.
  
• Mix in the eggs and vanilla extract.
  
• When fully mixed seive in the flour and salt gradually, then mix again and place in the fridge for fifteen minutes.
  
• Remove from the fridge and stir in all of the chocolate chips.
  
• If just making cookie dough, put back in fridge for another fifteen minutes and serve. If baking, use a dessert spoon to place the dough on the baking tray, leaving a LOT of room for spreading.
  
• Bake for 10-15 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the tray for five minutes before transfering to a cooling rack.

• 23:23 @captainraz I have to have done something specific? I'm not awesome enough by existing? D: (Also, Lex has twitter too. NOT TELLING.) #
• 23:58 @branewurms Are you burning the bad incense again? #
• 15:40 @splend I'm not at home, but you have my permission to use the shower. :) #
• 15:41 @captainraz Who, me? *looks suitably innocent and not-at-all spoilsportish* #
• 15:44 @LexGarrett Could you update the chart o'doom for me? Ben's in (reciprocated!) love with the robot and has no virginity. Joe <3s random NPC. #
• 15:46 @LexGarrett Also should we add in all Dan's enemies? For the lolz and to prove that Ben's the only one who likes him and isn't shagging him? #

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• 17:39 I don't like the new interface my 360 updated too. Anyone know how to change it back? #
• 17:39 Today was pretty good! Introduced Jen&Laura to Canal Street and was an awesome girlfriend in absentia. >D >D >D #
• 18:57 @branewurms Admittedly, it has to go through 18 eps first but there are AWESOME FIGHTSCENES so it may be worth it? #

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• 18:32 Dude, I forgot how much of a dick-who's-been-raised-by-wolves Kouga is. *headdesks* #
• 18:57 @holyjezebel Kouga from Garo - he makes me want to shake him! #
• 19:16 @branewurms YOU NEED TO WATCH GARO. IT HAS A HOT GOTHIC PRIESTESS VERSUS A BUTLER WHO NEVER SPEAKS. ALSO CRAZY GUY WITH SWORDS! #
• 19:25 Augh, augh, watchdog children so creepy! Kaoru's sensei-friend equally creepy! Rei and Jabi are suspiciously similar! Rei look after Kaoru! #

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Okay, have applied for a job at Waterstones. I don't expect to actually GET it, but effort has been made! Wish me luck?

I meant to get back to playing Persona 4 because Mike (who isn't actually one of my housemates but is living here till mid-September because the lease on his old place ran out and the lease on his new place hasn't started yet) invoked the chinese zookeeper on Drakengard's fifth ending (all the endings are supposed to be really depressing. Apparently the last one is just CRACK) and started playing Persona. APPARENTLY YOU GET TO TAKE CONTROL OF IT AT SOME POINT. I REALLY HOPE YOU GOD WE DO. dshfslkjghsndkjlfns. Anyway, I can't because I got distracted by Waterstones application and Dan ninja-ed the PS2.

(Thought process was along the lines of "Mike and Lex are going into town -> I wish I'd gone with them, although none of us have money and so they're probably only going to the bank -> WATERSTONES! -> I should've asked them to pick me up an application -> INTERNETS MWAHAHAHAHA!" Yes I've gone slightly mad in my absence, why do you ask?)

SO, GUYS, HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?

I like how my definition of Lex moving into a house with me and the others isn't him spending all his time here, or him bringing clothes over so he doesn't have to keep going home to change - it's that he's brought his laptop over and left it. :D