Jeez, where to start? Its been a tumultuous couple of weeks. I still haven't written anything or paid for my RO account, but from the looks of this DDoS thing, it probably isn't the best time for RO anyway. Fortunately I'm in a good mood, so I’ll separate this entry into fun stuff and less fun stuff so that you can be in a good mood too!  Yaaaay!

Fun Stuff:

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Touching on that whole gender issue, it was actually srs bizness when I first started playing RO in open beta. Pretty much everyone thought that crossdressing was equated with falsifying account information and potentially a bannable offense.  My original reason for going male was because I didn't feel like the female sprites really represented me.  I wasn't sure what class I'd end up playing and I was afraid people would think I was a different kind of lady than I actually was if they saw that my sprite was providing gratuitous panty shots and bouncing boobies.  I am NOT a girly girl. Besides, I liked the male sprites better. 

I ended up quite enjoying my boy sprites, because people would actually take me at face value. Nobody tried to impress me or flirt with me (well, except for that chick who hit on my Monk, but we won't go there.)  Actually, I got ignored, which is how I liked it. I didn't tell anyone what my real gender was until I'd known them for weeks/months, and by then they liked me for reasons other than my gender.

Of course gender really isn't an issue anymore, since everyone knows everyone and has characters on accounts of both genders. Just the same, I wouldn't trade my boys for girls, ever. Except maybe for my Stalker. The female Stalker sprite is sexy, but the male one looks fatter and more awkward the longer I stare at it.  Oh, and my Sader too.  Female Sader = best girl sprite on RO, imo. I LOVE well-armored women dfgqwrqerh.  Anyway, yeah, female slave account it is!  Maybe it'll be liberating and I'll end up actually having fun with playing the characters on it the way you all have.

I'm still scratching my head over the shapeshifter issue. Having the clothes transform with the character seems sort of forced and inorganic, but so do nude confrontations between shapeshifting pre-pubescent boys and their shapeshifting adult female mentors.  Arrrrrrgh. (its all part of my fanfic, if you aren't keeping up with it, feel free to disregard this sentence. Unless you already read it, which you just did... Suckers!)

In other news, oh god, Castlevania:SoTN.  I always bought Joseph's cloak ASAP when I played that game. Then my brother and I would have contests for who could make the ugliest bat form with it.  We tied with my aqua/yellow "List-Urine Cocktail" and his pink/purple "Big Gay Alucard." 8D

One of my friends (a male friend, surprisingly enough) linked me to this Princess Tutu AMV, and I can't stop watching the damn thing. Which almost completely invalidates my earlier points about not being a girly girl.  Well stuff my bra and peel my tampons! Is it bad that I want to watch this series now despite the fact that I haven‘t watched ANY anime for years?  I never even wanted to be a ballerina, not even when I was little… I wanted to be a dolphin trainer, I swear.

Less Fun Stuff:

I stayed home sick from work today. This marks the first sick day I've taken since starting the job, and the first time Ive been sick -period- since May '08.  I'm sort of upset that my hot streak is broken now.  I've always taken pride in the fact that I never seem to get sick, despite having a crappy diet and an aversion to exercise.  I blame Michael.  He's just now getting over a throat infection, and I woke up this morning extremely dizzy and sounding like the illegitimate child of Gilbert Gottfried and Fran Drescher. But because I felt okay from the neck down, I started putting on my work clothes... but Michael practically shoved me back in bed.  I'm sort of wishing I'd gone to work, but I probably would have blown out my voice and made myself feel a lot sicker than I do now.

One of my cats (Cricket) has been chewing on the base of her tail, resulting in a bald spot the size of an egg.  I finally decided to take her to the shelter vet to get it looked at, and the treatment prescribed was two injections; steroids and antibiotics. Neither of which the shelter had at the time.  So, the vet ordered some; and I had to shoot Cricket up myself to avoid taking her back to the shelter, which was traumatic to say the least.  I had to stick the poor girl 3 times to get it all into her. But hell, I guess I can take comfort in the fact that the vet thought I was competent enough to give them myself, and that I actually did prove competent enough.

I recently have had some problems communicating with an old friend that... Ugh; How do you support someone who is constantly sad? How about when you're completely powerless to do anything for them? How about when everything you say makes you sound like a hideous self-centered bitch? Lrn2friend, Tris.

I've been with the same man for 6 years, and I still think Valentine's Day sucks.  It makes couples feel pressured to spend money on ultimately meaningless gestures of pre-fabricated romance (sappy cards, overpriced flowers, generic candy, ugly jewelry) and makes singles feel lonely and unwanted.  I say if you need a specific holiday to remind you to be romantic and loving, then you're lazy and unimaginative. Err, happy V-Day anyway? : D

More Fun Stuff:

In that spirit, our anniversary is coming up in April, and I'm going to buy an art commission from Remi for him.  The thing that brought us together was a tabletop RPG (yes, nerd love) so I thought it'd be sweet if I got him a print-quality CG portrait of our two characters... Of course those characters were both male, not romantically involved, covered in scars, and not really all that good-looking. *snrk* I hope Remi can work her magic. Michael already loves her art style too. She said she'd love to do a commission for me, but I haven't told her much about the subject matter yet.  Poor unsuspecting pretty art lady! At least this time I can promise her real money instead of zeny.

Oh, and I may dislike V-Day, but its made more special by the fact that its Adeat's birthday! Everyone make sure to express your love for him in a cute and gushy fashion that will embarrass him! :B

Holy crap, long entry.  I'm gonna go drink some honey and lemon filled rooibos now!