still alive! kind of!

this morning at 6 am i finally finished the story i've been working on for, i think, three weeks now. -.- this story was meant to be short silly crack and turned out instead to be 11,000 words of tezuka angsting. while working on it i've had to take breaks for exams and essay-writing and also more pleasant ones for long bouts of family togetherness, and time for writing has been so scarce that we've fallen behind in every show we watch except veronica mars and doctor who.

i feel like i've been pushing really hard against a door and it finally swung open and dropped me on my face.

now today anglepoiselamp is coming over for some doctor-who watching and consumption of my double-layered Deadly Chocolate Cake, left over from wax's birthday. there will be more posts forthcoming sometime soon, no doubt, about the family togetherness, the cats looking silly, the music i promised pixxers, and all the tv we're going to be watching. also, the next couple of stories i need to write.

meanwhile, part of wax_jism's birthday present from her family was a sweet giant widescreen lcd and part of it was a package that lets us get tv on it (though not cable, sadly), and yesterday we watched both one episode of iron chef (aöklsdföaklsfdjökla why do they dub everyone except that sparkly ringmaster atobe-dude?) and the end of the eurovision contest. people probably noticed that the finnish entry, lordi, won - finland's first win in forty years, and they also broke the record for the single greatest number of votes ever received in the contest. finland's never made it to the semifinals before. we could hear roars of cheering ringing through the house and the streets outside, similar to what happened when finland's events came up in the olympics. even i got quite into cheering by the end and um, accidentally hit my funny bone on the chair. i think it's bruising. o.O