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First off: Adri, the package came today! Thank you so much! The little bear is really cute!

Next up: People that've played Tales of the Abyss, please lend me your ears. I'd like to confirm my own ego on this question: do I sound like Mieu? I'd like to know because I tried for a fan voice acting thing and ... well, someone else is playing him. Am I just hearing what I want to hear in that I actually sound like Mieu?

Right. Well. That's that.

... Oh heck. Okay.

( Suikoden Destroyer crack teaser. )

Edit: Even more stuff. Whee.

( Image--my newest little stuffed toys )

On one last note... About the icon... Soniere Prison: I played the game 10 years ago and bawled at the scene. I wrote a fanfic about it and bawled at the scene. I played and watched it tonight and still bawled. I was expecting everything and it just happened. Nngh... Gremio... *sighs*

So ... I've got a lot of crap to do this week. Interview to do and paper to finish today, abstract to write for Tuesday, arbitration to do with Alice on Wednesday (maybe??), group presentation to give on designing for foreign countries on Thursday... Add to that homework, work, meetings, and writing articles and transcripts for the newsletter before I start letting people down. (whyamIsomuchmorescaredoftheViceChairthantheDepartmentChair?? ~_~)

Tried Ar Tonelico. Now, I've played Atelier Iris 1 and 2, but ... Ar Tonelico rubbed me wrong in so many ways that I wasn't interested in playing 14 minutes in. Maybe it's because it reminded me so much of Atelier Iris that I wasn't impressed. Or maybe it's because I had ToA on the brain. I'll give it another try somewhere down the line.

Went to dinner with Jen and Rose at the Department Chair's house on Friday. It was lovely; I enjoyed just listening to all of the talk about the department and the field in general. And a three-course homecooked meal after college garbage was wonderful. Never having merlot again, though. Or maybe just wine in general. Bleh.

Joined a Tales forum a little while ago and submitted some clips for a ToA voice theater. Voice acting's always fun when it works out ... so I'm hoping it does.

... I really should write more to this information graphic analysis. But it's so ... boring. Sigh.

Title: Question and Answer
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Rating: 13+ just to be safe. Spoilers about Jade and Dist's relationship and Dist's ... endgame status.
Characters: Jade and Dist
Summary: Dist sits in his cell. Jade visits and interrogates--except not really, because this Jade and Dist we're talking about here.

( Question and Answer )

So my younger brother was one of those people that camped out waiting for the Wii. He stayed out there with his girlfriend for 12 hours. Ugh. They bought three Wiis and promptly sold one on eBay. He's waiting to sell the other one that he's not already playing. Basically, the system and games he bought are gonna pay for themselves. I've watched him play Trauma Center: Second Opinion (very sleek in comparison to the DS Trauma Center), and I played Wii Sports and Twilight Princess myself.

I'm more into my older brother's XBox 360, though. He brought home Call of Duty 3 from CA and I've been playing it rapidly whenever I'm not doing work. I saw him playing DoA Extreme Volleyball 2 last night, so I'll give that a spin when I have a chance, too.

I've also played FF12 and FF3 DS. FF3 is fun and cute... Kinda like Children of Mana, but missing the immersive music. And I'm amused that I was thinking "Balthier =/= Mustadio" when I saw him.

It seems like Yuri Lowenthal is everything I've been playing, though. He VAed Reks (FF12), Luke and Asch (ToA), Kevin Winnicot (Xenosaga III), and Derek Stiles (Trauma Center). Must be pretty popular lately.

School-wise, things are looking to get hectic once Thanksgiving Break is over with. I've got 401 homework due on Monday, Definitions & Descriptions revision due Tuesday, Visio assignment due Wednesday, a professional portfolio website due the following Monday... Bleh.

And what am I doing right now? ... Playing around with Sync and Ion pictures while waiting for a lunch meeting with fellow STC officers.

Priorities straight? Nope.

So ... yeah. No more VP2 for me. TotA has taken over. I'm terribly torn because I don't even have to look for yaoi situations--they pop out and present themselves. ~_~ I'm actually going into the game without spoiling anything for myself, so I'm incredibly happy with the plot so far. My favorite aspect so far has been the character models--since all of the characters (except for the Oracle Knights) don't look stereotypically good or evil, I always have to question motives and wonder if any of the main characters will betray me. I'm still waiting to see what happens with Tear and Jade.

Luke has become one of my favorite main protagonists ever. His personality puts him above Reid and Cress, but I'm still debating over Stahn and Kyle. Kyle was pretty cute. I don't plan to ever touch Legendia or Symphonia, so I can't compare him to Senel or Lloyd.

I hate being sick. I rarely get sick, so I suppose that's a blessing, but I slept most of the afternoon away yesterday. It looks like that's going to happen today, too. Guh. I'm going to skip a meeting that was scheduled for today, but I doubt I can do that for tomorrow.

... And I'm still here waiting for Wai... I'm supposed to look for research documents with him so I can do a request inventory of the eight new participants.

Mm... Journeymen's Survival... Rune listings...

( Cut )