So they sent me out here...

... a telescoping metal pole, on plastic wheels, with loops at the top and no frilly fancy stuff attached, costs at least $180?!

Oh, man. -_- What the hell. No WONDER medical care is so expensive.

[/research on IV stands]

Also, some awesome person asked for Captain*ZEX over on Damned's anonyfic meme. And has had their request filled out. By someone else who is VERY ANONYMOUS. VERY. ANONYMOUS AS A VUX IN UTWIG CLOTHING. *Shifty look*

*Is on third case, talking to Larry Butz*

Nick: *Presents Godot's profile to Larry*

Larry: I'm really sorry, Nick! I swear I want to change my ways.
But the thing it... I just don't have any interest in men.

Nick: (This guy really needs to get his mind out of the gutter...)

Maya: Larry's your stereotypical guy, alright.

...

... you know what? Now I want to write Larry*Godot. 8D Or Larry*Ron DeLight, or Larry*Atmey, since investigation shows that he has the same reaction to them, too. XD (God, if Larry and Ron hooked up, the concentrated spaz would implode and make an adorable hole in the fabric of the universe. I SAY THAT THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.)

*Goes back to being distracted from everything*

So I was at the mall today, and to waste time before my dad got off work, I picked up a one-volume manga, Not Enough Time.

The book is a collection of one-off stories, of everyday sorts of love affairs. I almost put it back down again three pages in; I'm glad I didn't.

It wasn't a stunning piece of sublime artistry or anything like that, but after the first couple stories, the mangaka hit her stride; in particular, "Left or Right" was very good, in an odd way.

While the first story is pretty much par for the course (highschool students, it takes two seconds to figure out who's seme/uke, Only the Ring Finger Knows did it cuter and better), most of the later stories deal with adults-- a teacher and an designer, an art student and a coffee shop clerk, the only two men in a department at a corporation... and, personally, I like the focus on older characters, as well as the touch of realism the mangaka brushed over the stories (several of the characters are worried about their social status and/or jobs if word gets out), and the very evident emotional complexity of the characters-- while most of the stories wrap up into a Pretty Happy Ending by the end, there's a couple where it's left ambiguous.

Once again, "Left or Right" was particularly striking in this respect-- at the end of the story, the main character is left standing at a counter and thinking about his two choices. The story ends without telling the reader which he chooses.

The art is fairly pretty; the sex isn't graphic (you don't actually see anything), but there's one or two sexual encounters per story, and the sex isn't exactly innocent, either. Generally, I think it's worth a browse, especially the chapter "Left or Right"; not a BUY NAO, but not a KILL IT WITH FIRE, either.

In conclusion:

3.5/5
Check it out; you may like it.

Title: Coffee
Fandom: YuGiOh!
Pairing: Seto*Mokuba
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1443
Warnings: See pairing, pretty much. XD;;
Notes: Un-beta'd, unedited, and written in about *checks* two or three hours that took me from "last night" to "this morning". Probably in dire need of being de-un'd before I post it on devART, FicWad, or the Pit.

( Seto didn't like mornings-- he could bring himself out of bed and down to breakfast and to go to work, but he never enjoyed it, and he always felt sluggish for hours if he hadn't had coffee. )

Air Gear owns all.

Like, my soul and heart.

Wanna know why?

( Pics ahead, oh noes. (Img heavy) )

Thus, Air Gear wins.
Go register and read it.

Fifty-two icons (O_O):

One Fruits Basket
One Weiß Kreuz (Look, I learned how to make an esset! Purely by accident while trying to accent an e, but still! [/irrelivant])
One Yu Yu Hakusho
Four Advent Children
Four Gravitation (from Remix manga-doujinshi-what-have-you)
Six Japanese/pattern/generic
Six Yakitate!!! Japan
Nine Kingdom Hearts II
Twenty Gackt (Artist's Choice for celeb100 )

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3 Yakitate!!! Japan icons
5 Kingdom Hearts II icons (from opening cutscene)
15 Gackt (Artist's Choice for celeb100)

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You know you're a fangirl when...

The class is talking about asking dead musicians questions, and all you can think of is asking Kami if he and Gackt had something going on.

^^;;