Shadows of Fire

As it was my privilege to make the first post on this livejournal nearly 11 months ago, so it is my honor to make the last.

It's been a wonderful year. We've made so many incredible friends and shared so many wonderful memories; neither of us shall ever forget our time as the Shadows of Fire. But all good times come to an end, and every fire burns out--only so that a phoenix can rise from the ashes. From now on, Fi shall sing her phoenix_melody, and I shall be flying high over at kilerkki. Please visit us and friend us and set new fires burning!

Thanks for the memories.

Love,

-Ki

Come spring, Ki and I will have been journaling together for a year. And it's been great fun, but we realize that we can't, and probably shouldn't, continue to share an account for the rest of our lives.

No, there hasn't been a fight or anything like that. We've talked about it before once or twice, but tonight (during our two-minute conversation) we decided that we will be splitting up to separate accounts come the end of April, when our current paid-account status expires. sometime this week 'cuz what's the point in waiting?

I'm sure that when the time comes closer, we will have many Eloquent and Awe-Inspiring Things To Wax Poetic About, but for the moment I can't think of anything to say.

We'll keep this account up simply as an archive for us to link back to. I will be moving to phoenix_melody and Ki will be moving to kilerkki. (Aren't we just original in our name choices? :D)

When it gets closer to The Big Move, we'll remind you, so that those of you on the f-list who would like to friend us (or one or the other or neither) can do so.

*wanders back to Grammar*

-Fi


Promise, guys, there hasn't been a fight.

Just thought we'd make that clear.

Until Friday evening, Fi will be operating in ninja!mode. Meaning that she will be invisible on AIM and unlikely to be responsive to those who actually do catch her online or be on permanant "away" status. Why?

Because Fi has a Grammar test on Wednesday, a New Testament exam on Thursday, and a Spanish chapter text on Friday.

She will be studying her little heart out.

Until the weekend--


-Fi

Guess what we have~

Guessing? Guessing? Guessing?

'Tis a brand spanking-new dishwasher!

Our old one has been on its last legs forever; we've had the repair guy over 7 times to fix the flooding and the not-cleaning, and finally I arrived home from school today to discover the repair guy's 8-month-old daughter sitting in the living room while he hooked up our new dishwasher. I talked with him and played with her and had a very pleasant 10 minutes while rejoicing inwardly over the dishwasher! Clean dishes! YAY!

And then the manager came by with a plate of pink-frosted cinnamon rolls, and Mi and Gi brought home a bag of Reeses Peanut Butter cups (for us lonely un-engaged peeps) and I finished all the papers I was supposed to grade and gave them back to the students and conducted a good discussion and got an A- on my world religions test (which, considering that I missed the questions I totally guessed on and got right all the ones I knew, makes sense) and wrote half a page of Kinsha and didn't fall asleep at all!

And I'm not terribly fond of roses, but I love lilies, so here's a Valentine's Day bouquet for you all:



Happy Cheap Candy Day, as 5essence so eloquently put it!

(In honor of which I am off to write an angsty Ryuu!post...)

-Ki ♥

How do you get an 83% on a New Testament exam?

The answer is quite simple: You don't read the questions closely enough. You mistake Capernaum for Cana and reading "healing water" as "living water," because that's what you're expecting to see.

*kicks self*

Well, I've learned my lesson. From now on I read each question aloud, and I don't trust any question to actually say what I think it says.

And now I go make caramel popcorn and grade.

-Ki

I'm such a geek.

Was sitting in the CB (Engineering Building) grading papers and listening to "Lullabye for a Stormy Night" before class when my attention was diverted from a disaster of sentence structure to a woman around the corner speaking on her cell phone.

I caught "arigatou" and "ja ne" before she hung up. And immediately felt so immensely proud of myself that I had to pull out my steno notebook (the writing one) and record this for your reading pleasure.

(Also on my way to take my editing exam I was walking in front of two girls talking, in Japanese, about their Japanese class--and I could identify it as Japanese without any of the English markers. Boo-yah for learning language by [incomplete] immersion.)

Maybe I'm just so bored by papers on metaphysical gardens that I'm extremely easily amused.

24 papers left. I can grade 6 an hour with no distractions. That's either 4 hours tonight, or 3 tonight and time snatched between classes tomorrow. I have 2 hours and 10 minutes of free time before I have to meet Dr. Keele and turn the papers over tomorrow, so I think I'll survive (if the metaphysical gardens don't slay me first.) I still have to take my New Testament exam online, but studying for and taking that exam shouldn't take any longer than an hour ('cause I study while I'm going along and I do my homework every day!) so maybe I can even go to FHE tonight. And get to bed at a decent hour. And even get online and give the lot of you a big hug!

Also, iamzuul: Love. And hugs. And I'm praying for you.

-Ki

Woke up an hour and a half later than I meant to, but this is why I try to give myself three hours on Monday mornings. It wasn't even record time for getting ready.

However, I still have a lot of papers to grade before tomorrow, and two exams to take, so I'm gonna be doing that tonight. Don't expect to see me online. *hugs to all*

Despite all this, I'm in an amazingly good mood.

*skips off singing "Last Man on the Moon"*

-Ki

So, the banner you've all been waiting for can be found here. DROOLING OVER IT IS EXPECTED. *loves cieloan muchly for the Beautiful Banner of Doom* *and nuklear_firefly for putting it up and for iamzuul for the old banner*


In other news, tiarna_bronach and I went to BYU's Folk Dance Ensemble preformance. The troupe performed Celtic, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Israeli, American, Romanian, Hungarian, Indian (Asia), Russian, and Ukrainian dances. I love watching people dance, and I enjoy dancing (even though I'm far from good) and there was live music for some of the pieces and between the dances and they played/sang a song that was so good for Oracle!muse and now I'm babbling so I'll stop. :D

:D


I was skipping on the way back from the performance. I kid you not. Ask Ti. There's just something so . . . enlivening about seeing people put their talents to good use so spectacularly.



Cleaning checks tomorrow morning.



Ti and Ci and Ki and I signed contracts for next fall/winter semesters. We'll be in this same apartment (well, 'cept for Ti 'cuz she'll be moving down here with us) and it'll be awesome and hopefully beloved_baka will be able to get in with us.


*love to everyone on the f-list who needs it*

-Fi

I have four exams and an oral defense to study for, as well as reading to do and papers to grade.

So why do I end up reading obscure sci-fi novels and baking bread?

It was a good book, at any rate.

-Ki

Just read Naruto 293.

I'm kind of sorry we killed off the Shodai, now that we're learning so much about him (and all his techniques!). But we've made the arbitrary Executive Decision not to try to incorporate any of this new information into Shades canon, because that'll screw things up six ways to Kyrgyzstan and back.

Also, I'm waiting with amusement to see if a Yamato/Sakura ship ever springs up. I may have to start the Yamato fanclub on my own, though.

Isn't he the first character to break the 2-3 major jutsu per character rule?

-Ki

I have the same Modern American Usage teacher as Ki did last semester.

( Which means I get to do this assignment )


School can be entertaining on occasion.

-Fi

I'm going to forget about the awful Spanish test I took and ignore the homework that's due tomorrow, because


THE INTERNET HAS RETURNED~~~~



That is all.

-Fi

Internet in our entire complex died Saturday evening, sometime between 7:30 and 10:30.

It has taken me over half an hour to stay connected long enough to the weak wireless networks to type this post.

We won't be on for any length of time until our connection's back.

-Fi

Somehow I seem to write better--or at least get the ideas flowing more smoothly--in the update field than anywhere else, even a blank Word document. I wonder why this is?

( An exercise in dialogue. Tane and Ayivva. )

...Comments? Criticism? Death-threats?

-Ki

Ice-covered Sidewalk: 1
Fi: 0

Lemon Bars: 1
Fi: 0

Oracle, Chapter Four: 38471603874610
Fi: 0


TOTAL
Everything: 38471603874612
Fi: 0


-Fi

I really have no point in updating, other than to say that I really, really need to do laundry today, that I have no class from 11:00 to 2:30 because of Gospel and World Religions being cancelled, that I should use said time to study for my Editing exam and prep for my Greek Grammar of the Bible project, and that I'm sorry I was such a brat last night. Huge thanks to everyone who put up with me...

Also, we are starting Parzival in The Pen and the Sword today. And will have another lot of papers due this week or next. Grrr.

Finallly--and here for some good news!--Howl's Moving Castle is showing at the International Cinema this week. Except we can't work out a time when all of us can go. (I want to see the Iraqi movie too, but that's neither here nor there.) beloved_baka, cieloan, tiarna_bronach, when can you go?

Gotta run and finish getting ready for school~

-Ki

In case you've missed it, Fi is fond of Wikipedia.

Very very fond.

Thus, I present to you The Largest Prime Number Currently Known To Mankind.

I kid you not. That sucker takes a good five minutes to finish loading.

. . .

*wanders back to Wikipedia*

-Fi

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Continuing from where duelist left off, because she tagged me and I wanted to. *grins*

Tag, Loren!

-Ki

Busy day today.

I'm gonna spend an hour grading before I go to school, and then I have class from 10:00 to 11:00, and then another hour of grading. And then class from 12:00 to 1:00, and another hour of grading. And then class from 2:00 to 3:00, and then blood donation. (Must remember my donor card...) I'll turn in the papers after that, if I haven't done so already (I honestly don't think they'll take more than two hours, which means I might get lunch...) and then come home and work on homework and make dinner. Gonna try meatloaf tonight, I think, and salad. Bread would be nice too but I'm not sure if I'll manage to get that done. What do you eat with meatloaf? Mashed potatoes? I could try do those... Especially if I get to make garlic mashed potatoes!

Anyway, we have FHE at 7:30 I believe, but after that I should be able to swing online. I only have two classes tomorrow, 'cause Gospel and World Religions is cancelled. Professor Choi's wife is undergoing surgery for very severe cancer, and he wants to be with her... From what he says, it sounds like she has only a few months left, if that. You could tell it was hard for him to tell the class about it, but he was very quiet and calm. We just sort of sat there stunned...what do you say to your professor when he tells you his wife is dying? "Thanks for the day off, sir? Hope she gets better?" Man...maybe I can get a card Thursday and pass it around class before he comes, or something.

I got another page on Hayate!fic yesterday...still not quite sure where I'm going with it. Or how to reconcile Kishimoto's timeline with the premise of the story, which is that he's 14 and already very sickly (sicklier than we see him at 23). Honestly I think he just had a bad cold the month of the Chuunin exams, but... giving him TB would work for this fic, if I didn't have to figure out how he'd pass the chuunin exams with it!

I need to write Hana fic, too. And Kankurou. And all the Christmas drabbles I didn't finish. And write concussed-and-hallucinating!Raidou... Last night I was congratulated on my use of gory details. Um...thanks? (Is that something to be proud of?)

Off to grade now; wish me luck!

-Ki

Oracle Chapter Four Word Count and Scene Count

4:58 PM
Words: 780
Scenes: 1/4

-Fi