1. Because my beloved Canadian beauty is coming home tonight and I have a bunch of ficlets I should type up before I completely forget.
Title from "invasion" by Eisley
There's a quiet after the question like none they'd ever encountered before - as if this petite, smiling little marionette doll has just sucked the storm straight out of Arashi.
Jun is, predictably, the first to recover and just quick enough that the pause doesn't look odd on the monitors and wasn't long enough for (starting from the second they leave the stage) the staff, their managers, the shows managers and Johnny himself to reprimand them for not being trained well enough after 9 years to answer or answer around a question. Thank God for Jun
"Ah...are our songs about anyone?"
...
Okay it's not the best response he could have mustered....As a matter of fact it's one of the oldest and most over-used methods of stalling for time and the fractional quirk that twists the interviewer's lips practically caws and screeches her success.
"Our fans, of course!" Aiba chirps, smiling blithely even as his inner Jun-Is-Trying-Not-To-Beat-Me senses buzz wildly. The name needs some work....Imminent Violence Sense? Super Painful Examples of DoS!Jun? Aiba's eyes cloud slightly as he bends and reforms the names.
Sho catches the distraction in Aiba's eyes and agrees easily, "ah, how true - our fans are very important to us."
"Of course they are. If they weren't, we wouldn't be here now, right?" Nino cuts in, scratching his stomach idly and positively beams under the glower Sho and Jun fix him with, brighter than any studio lighting. The interviewer laughs, a shrill tinkling thing that bears more than a passing resemblance to shattered glasses ground under stiletto heels and preens, talon-like fingernails calculatingly brushing perfectly tousled and teased locks away from her ridiculously long lashes. Aiba wonders what animal she would be.
"Ah, how very lovely! However, forgive me, I meant the importance of a loved one or a partner - that kind of importance."
It's one of the ultimate PR nightmare. Their managers squawk quietly and flail their limbs out at the edge of the cameras but can't take the question back. There is no 'correct' way to answer such a question without unleashing a media storm. Sho tries to wipe the sweat from his hands in the most discreet manner possible. Jun attempts to distract her with his ridiculously long lashes as Nino notices this - assembles, destroys, rebuilds and tweaks 30 quips about Jun wearing make-up as deftly as fighting a boss battle. Aiba clears his throat and rubs his chest before opening his mouth - she seems like a lemur or maybe a pekingese - Sho and Jun hide their internal grimaces as the rumble of speech begins in Aiba's throat when Ohno talks.
He has this expression covering his face as if realisation is just blossoming in his mind that they are being interviewed on national television and he speaks as easily and as truthfully as if he's just woken up.
"I sing about Arashi for Arashi. Each song has no life until we sing it and then has it's own special memories attached it after we perform it and more memories melt into the first ones every time after so when I sing I try to remember them all and remind the others of that. As well as creating new memories to be joined afterwards. That makes every note of ever song special, right? Because it's all our memories and all of us together and it's me singing to Arashi and Jun and Aiba and Sho and Nino and it's me singing about them. That's what you mean, mmh?"
Ohno looks so utterly pleased with himself and so soul-baringly happy that no one argues - even breathes for a moment. Which Aiba shatters in spectacular fashion by throwing himself across the sofa over Nino to tackle Ohno and crying out
"Leader is like a dolphin!"
I was going to throw my 'getting kidnapped by strange Japanese boybands' thing up but it's awful and so. No.
And the first bit of what was supposed to be a little tiny drabble for
crazychickencow to persuade her to write more into the Sho/Nino/Jun angst triangle. Except it's not a drabble and now more than looks like an accompaniment to the main fics. Dammit!
"Leader is many oceans away, huh?"
"It's 'miles away', idiot," Nino gripes around his mouthful of ramen - not even looking up. It's just the three of them tonight. Sho had a Very Important Meeting about the Olympics 5 minutes before filming was supposed to end and Jun excused himself, grumbling about learning scripts. "What he actually means is "I am going to paint my nails, reorganise my entire wardrobe first by colour and then by season and then freak out about midnight when I look at the scripts," Nino had smirked knowingly at Jun's retreating back. That had stopped Aiba right in the middle of pulling his shirt over his head, wondering when Nino suddenly knew as much about Jun's routine as he did.
"Are you stuck, Aiba-chan?" Ohno askes and Aiba feels the new heat and solid pressure of his hands wandering across his shoulders and the back of his head as if Ohno had discovered a pattern of colours and loops and some strange language written in Aiba's posture and the way the fabric clung, draped, swirled around Aiba's muscles and skin that Ohno had to trace less it be lost after this brief fragile moment. It makes him feel naked and bare and on display when Leader touches him but not uncomfortably so because Leader doesn't judge, just appreciates and studies and stores for future reference. Aiba feels like a work of art, a finished piece under Ohno's steady, thoughtful gaze and touch and he hopes secretly that Ohno never stops touching him.
He rolls his shoulders forward, easily and smoothly and steps out of the shirt as Ohno pulls it from him and stands awkwardly under Nino's confused stare (although really, he is used to the guys looking at like that) when his mouth saves him without consulting his brain.
"I think there should be ramen tonight. We haven't gone in a while and they make good drinks there and just us three haven't been on our own in even longer and it's good weather for ramen."
Why does my brain not stop me? Aiba wonders
"Aiba - does your brain have any input in your words?"
"Only when I'm talking to people who think in the same way as me," he retorts, canting his head up proudly.
"Oh, so just children then."
"--No!"
"Oh, and Chinen, I suppose."
"Nino," Ohno signs, having returned from hanging Aiba's shirt in Wardrobe. Nino holds his hands up innocently and shrugs, pretending to ignore Aiba sticking his tongue at him.
"Did you say ramen? Ramen sounds good."
"Well, let's go then! C'mon." Aiba bounces on his toes and bounds towards the door.
"Um...Aiba?"
He turns back, shaking his hair out of his face. Nino is grinning at him with his eyebrows raised and Ohno stares at him like he's one of those Surrealist-Dali paintings they went to see in Shinagawa that he didn't understand. He doesn't get why they're looking at him like that now - unless his watch is melting off his arm but it doesn't feel like it.
"You planning on wearing a shirt tonight?" Nino laughs so he glances down and oh hey look, I'm not wearing a top. There's my chest.
"That is, unless you plan on taking us to a host bar after the ramen?" Nino continues, clutching his sides as he laughs. Aiba uses his very best pout and flounces into a pretty accurate Host Boy pose before hastily pulling his shirt on.
And there's more at ramen with Ohno and Aiba realising something's going on and messing up by trying to help the wierd Nino/Sho/Jun tension they notice and aslkfdlfjks I'LL GET THERE!
2. I SORTED MY FLIGHT HOME TONIGHT AND I DEFINITELY KNOW WHEN I'M GOING HOME AND IT'S, LIKE, 18 DAYS AND OH MY GOD AND MUM SENT MONEY TELLING ME TO TREAT MYSELF. :O
3. ....HOME!
4. I went to Salem today with Fran and got myself Ankh earrings that are beautiful and that I have been desiring since I lost my only cheap and nasty pair just after I started working at McDonalds. ANKH EARRING YAY
5. Will get around to doing that awesome writing meme that
waxrose tagged me for. But first! A little meme.
we all have our reasons for our icons but do you ever wonder what someone means when they use a particular icon in their post/response? Well, now's your chance to ask!
6. (I completely forgot about this until 2 minutes ago) My dreams are getting awesome! On Wednesday night I had this awesome gothic inspired dream where Sho and Kei (yes, as in Sho and Kei from "Moonchild" - Gackt and Hyde) and someone else were travelling with me around these church/house grounds and I mocked them a lot, calling Kei dad and sitting on his shoulders a lot.
Last night my dreams had: me and Gerard Way in gothy dress (and Gerard at one point wearing this Victorian dress I wore in LA with a pair of socks I owe) and walking about this club. He also took my hand and twined my fingers with his when I was leaning against his knees. There was also The Master leaning over my friend Andy who was wearing his Frank N Furter costume and mocking/ fucking with my mind. Um....what else. Oh! Pete Wentz, Gee Way and I all sitting at a table in this diner and Pete gave me his stuff to look after and I didn't look at it or try to pry and this made him really happy. Plus some other stuff that was AMAZINGLY AWESOME regarding travel (and this station that looked a little like the one in Washington) but...\o/
Dreams involving Pete Wentz, Gerard Way and the Master one night and Gackt and Hyde the night before? A++ brain, good work.
Alright. Food. And journal writing and maybe some art. Oh yeah!
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ADDING A MOTHERFUCKING 7.
WHO REFRESHED MY PAID ACCOUNT? STEP FORWARD SO I CAN HUG AND SQUISH YOU AND OFFER ART OR FIC OR S;JSDFLKJSDLFKJAZLDS ANYTHING OH MY GOD
Title from "invasion" by Eisley
There's a quiet after the question like none they'd ever encountered before - as if this petite, smiling little marionette doll has just sucked the storm straight out of Arashi.
Jun is, predictably, the first to recover and just quick enough that the pause doesn't look odd on the monitors and wasn't long enough for (starting from the second they leave the stage) the staff, their managers, the shows managers and Johnny himself to reprimand them for not being trained well enough after 9 years to answer or answer around a question. Thank God for Jun
"Ah...are our songs about anyone?"
...
Okay it's not the best response he could have mustered....As a matter of fact it's one of the oldest and most over-used methods of stalling for time and the fractional quirk that twists the interviewer's lips practically caws and screeches her success.
"Our fans, of course!" Aiba chirps, smiling blithely even as his inner Jun-Is-Trying-Not-To-Beat-Me senses buzz wildly. The name needs some work....Imminent Violence Sense? Super Painful Examples of DoS!Jun? Aiba's eyes cloud slightly as he bends and reforms the names.
Sho catches the distraction in Aiba's eyes and agrees easily, "ah, how true - our fans are very important to us."
"Of course they are. If they weren't, we wouldn't be here now, right?" Nino cuts in, scratching his stomach idly and positively beams under the glower Sho and Jun fix him with, brighter than any studio lighting. The interviewer laughs, a shrill tinkling thing that bears more than a passing resemblance to shattered glasses ground under stiletto heels and preens, talon-like fingernails calculatingly brushing perfectly tousled and teased locks away from her ridiculously long lashes. Aiba wonders what animal she would be.
"Ah, how very lovely! However, forgive me, I meant the importance of a loved one or a partner - that kind of importance."
It's one of the ultimate PR nightmare. Their managers squawk quietly and flail their limbs out at the edge of the cameras but can't take the question back. There is no 'correct' way to answer such a question without unleashing a media storm. Sho tries to wipe the sweat from his hands in the most discreet manner possible. Jun attempts to distract her with his ridiculously long lashes as Nino notices this - assembles, destroys, rebuilds and tweaks 30 quips about Jun wearing make-up as deftly as fighting a boss battle. Aiba clears his throat and rubs his chest before opening his mouth - she seems like a lemur or maybe a pekingese - Sho and Jun hide their internal grimaces as the rumble of speech begins in Aiba's throat when Ohno talks.
He has this expression covering his face as if realisation is just blossoming in his mind that they are being interviewed on national television and he speaks as easily and as truthfully as if he's just woken up.
"I sing about Arashi for Arashi. Each song has no life until we sing it and then has it's own special memories attached it after we perform it and more memories melt into the first ones every time after so when I sing I try to remember them all and remind the others of that. As well as creating new memories to be joined afterwards. That makes every note of ever song special, right? Because it's all our memories and all of us together and it's me singing to Arashi and Jun and Aiba and Sho and Nino and it's me singing about them. That's what you mean, mmh?"
Ohno looks so utterly pleased with himself and so soul-baringly happy that no one argues - even breathes for a moment. Which Aiba shatters in spectacular fashion by throwing himself across the sofa over Nino to tackle Ohno and crying out
"Leader is like a dolphin!"
I was going to throw my 'getting kidnapped by strange Japanese boybands' thing up but it's awful and so. No.
And the first bit of what was supposed to be a little tiny drabble for
"Leader is many oceans away, huh?"
"It's 'miles away', idiot," Nino gripes around his mouthful of ramen - not even looking up. It's just the three of them tonight. Sho had a Very Important Meeting about the Olympics 5 minutes before filming was supposed to end and Jun excused himself, grumbling about learning scripts. "What he actually means is "I am going to paint my nails, reorganise my entire wardrobe first by colour and then by season and then freak out about midnight when I look at the scripts," Nino had smirked knowingly at Jun's retreating back. That had stopped Aiba right in the middle of pulling his shirt over his head, wondering when Nino suddenly knew as much about Jun's routine as he did.
"Are you stuck, Aiba-chan?" Ohno askes and Aiba feels the new heat and solid pressure of his hands wandering across his shoulders and the back of his head as if Ohno had discovered a pattern of colours and loops and some strange language written in Aiba's posture and the way the fabric clung, draped, swirled around Aiba's muscles and skin that Ohno had to trace less it be lost after this brief fragile moment. It makes him feel naked and bare and on display when Leader touches him but not uncomfortably so because Leader doesn't judge, just appreciates and studies and stores for future reference. Aiba feels like a work of art, a finished piece under Ohno's steady, thoughtful gaze and touch and he hopes secretly that Ohno never stops touching him.
He rolls his shoulders forward, easily and smoothly and steps out of the shirt as Ohno pulls it from him and stands awkwardly under Nino's confused stare (although really, he is used to the guys looking at like that) when his mouth saves him without consulting his brain.
"I think there should be ramen tonight. We haven't gone in a while and they make good drinks there and just us three haven't been on our own in even longer and it's good weather for ramen."
Why does my brain not stop me? Aiba wonders
"Aiba - does your brain have any input in your words?"
"Only when I'm talking to people who think in the same way as me," he retorts, canting his head up proudly.
"Oh, so just children then."
"--No!"
"Oh, and Chinen, I suppose."
"Nino," Ohno signs, having returned from hanging Aiba's shirt in Wardrobe. Nino holds his hands up innocently and shrugs, pretending to ignore Aiba sticking his tongue at him.
"Did you say ramen? Ramen sounds good."
"Well, let's go then! C'mon." Aiba bounces on his toes and bounds towards the door.
"Um...Aiba?"
He turns back, shaking his hair out of his face. Nino is grinning at him with his eyebrows raised and Ohno stares at him like he's one of those Surrealist-Dali paintings they went to see in Shinagawa that he didn't understand. He doesn't get why they're looking at him like that now - unless his watch is melting off his arm but it doesn't feel like it.
"You planning on wearing a shirt tonight?" Nino laughs so he glances down and oh hey look, I'm not wearing a top. There's my chest.
"That is, unless you plan on taking us to a host bar after the ramen?" Nino continues, clutching his sides as he laughs. Aiba uses his very best pout and flounces into a pretty accurate Host Boy pose before hastily pulling his shirt on.
And there's more at ramen with Ohno and Aiba realising something's going on and messing up by trying to help the wierd Nino/Sho/Jun tension they notice and aslkfdlfjks I'LL GET THERE!
2. I SORTED MY FLIGHT HOME TONIGHT AND I DEFINITELY KNOW WHEN I'M GOING HOME AND IT'S, LIKE, 18 DAYS AND OH MY GOD AND MUM SENT MONEY TELLING ME TO TREAT MYSELF. :O
3. ....HOME!
4. I went to Salem today with Fran and got myself Ankh earrings that are beautiful and that I have been desiring since I lost my only cheap and nasty pair just after I started working at McDonalds. ANKH EARRING YAY
5. Will get around to doing that awesome writing meme that
we all have our reasons for our icons but do you ever wonder what someone means when they use a particular icon in their post/response? Well, now's your chance to ask!
6. (I completely forgot about this until 2 minutes ago) My dreams are getting awesome! On Wednesday night I had this awesome gothic inspired dream where Sho and Kei (yes, as in Sho and Kei from "Moonchild" - Gackt and Hyde) and someone else were travelling with me around these church/house grounds and I mocked them a lot, calling Kei dad and sitting on his shoulders a lot.
Last night my dreams had: me and Gerard Way in gothy dress (and Gerard at one point wearing this Victorian dress I wore in LA with a pair of socks I owe) and walking about this club. He also took my hand and twined my fingers with his when I was leaning against his knees. There was also The Master leaning over my friend Andy who was wearing his Frank N Furter costume and mocking/ fucking with my mind. Um....what else. Oh! Pete Wentz, Gee Way and I all sitting at a table in this diner and Pete gave me his stuff to look after and I didn't look at it or try to pry and this made him really happy. Plus some other stuff that was AMAZINGLY AWESOME regarding travel (and this station that looked a little like the one in Washington) but...\o/
Dreams involving Pete Wentz, Gerard Way and the Master one night and Gackt and Hyde the night before? A++ brain, good work.
Alright. Food. And journal writing and maybe some art. Oh yeah!
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ADDING A MOTHERFUCKING 7.
WHO REFRESHED MY PAID ACCOUNT? STEP FORWARD SO I CAN HUG AND SQUISH YOU AND OFFER ART OR FIC OR S;JSDFLKJSDLFKJAZLDS ANYTHING OH MY GOD
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Date: 2008-04-25 11:58 pm (UTC)ALSO: Since you have burning-money, do you still want to do things like buy Hot Topic stuffs, or anything I can buy for you that's local/online-and-requires-a-credit-card and send to you, or to NI for you?
And Moon Child dreams? Glen will be happy to know he corrupted you to his hot Gacktian idol. XD (Me, I'm all about =both= Gackt and hyde re: hotness factor.)
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Date: 2008-04-27 12:30 am (UTC)ALSO! Susan and I are going to go to Topic in the next few days so I'm gonna see if the one's nearby have my stuff and if not I will get back to you about ordering those boots. Because the boots are far too fucking sexy for me to pass up I thinks. :O
Moon Child dreams! Daddy!Kei and Daddy!Sho! these dreams make me very happy. >D Thank Korean!Panda!Dad for corrupting me!
♥
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Date: 2008-04-28 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-26 12:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-26 01:37 am (UTC)Highly recommending the Satoshi Kon film Paprika!
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Date: 2008-04-26 11:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-27 12:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-27 12:31 am (UTC)Damn right! There should be dream-recording machines. That would be awesome!
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Date: 2008-04-26 01:53 am (UTC)I-- I managed to write a bit for our little border-hopper. (Plus some other crap I was already working on.) It's kind of fail, but it's the thought that counts? .__.
WHY DO YOU GET COOL DREAMS? D: I had a dream that I had a Very Serious talk with my boss, and I couldn't figure out if it had actually happened or not until I checked the schedule and saw that I hadn't worked with her this week.
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Date: 2008-04-27 12:43 am (UTC)I want to read this! Please? I do not even slightly believe that there is fail! ♥
I HAVE NEVER HAD AS AWESOME DREAMS AS THOSE. That was awesome. I hate dreams that make you wonder if they've actually been your life! That's just unfair!
(My Ohno!icon is watching your ShoandNino!icon >D )
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Date: 2008-04-27 01:30 am (UTC)Um. I've. I've never posted fic in my current journal. And. I'm afraiiiiid~ D-do you have MSN or AIM or something? .___. I'm nervous to post or anything. Meeeeep.
I DREAMT ABOUT WORK AGAIN. D: It was all "no, I asked for diet coke, but this is coke zero, and can I have a hot dog, please?" STFU, WORK. STOP RUINING MY MINI-VACATION.
(Ohno and Aiba are both on the [rather confused] look-out!)
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Date: 2008-04-27 11:20 pm (UTC)Okay! I'm not so much on MSN at the minute with my travels and stuff but email it to me!
niobes_violets@hotmail.com
And do not be afraid! ♥ ♥ Is Arashi so is allllll good!
THAT IS NOT FAIR! Although it is quite funny :D
(Jun is also on the look-out but watches for the rain
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Date: 2008-04-28 09:09 am (UTC)I AM DETERMINED TO HAVE A JE DREAM BEFORE I GO BACK TO WORK. You shall not thwart my plans, work bitches!
(Nino would like to know what Matsujun's up to.)
[...I want a clear umbrella SO BAD.]
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Date: 2008-04-29 05:25 pm (UTC)I AM ALSO DETERMINED THAT YOU HAVE A JE DREAM TOO!
(this is what Matsujun is up to. Or what he's looking up to)
[I have friends in Japan at the minute. If it's possible, want me to see if they can bring me back one???]
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Date: 2008-04-29 11:34 pm (UTC)SURELY, TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT. (OR ELSE, BRAIN, OR ELSE.)
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This is what Matsujun will be up to:D ♥)[sakd;lak, That would be amazing. I cannot find one for the life of me. Unless I get a time machine and go to the 60s, it's looking impossible.]
I'M TOO RETARDED FOR HTML RIGHT NOW OKAY. AND COLOURS. DAMN THEM ALL.
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Date: 2008-04-30 12:08 am (UTC)(...
i am running out of Arashi icons to fight back with!And this is what will ensue after bandmates see Matsujun like that ♥)[They're really big back home at the minute but sorta expensive actually. Whereas in Japanda, they're, like, 200 yen or something]
I APPRECIATE THE BEAUTY OF THE SPARKLES AND HEARTS AND ♥
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Date: 2008-04-30 12:16 am (UTC)(THIS OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO BE FIXED, HMM.)
[This just proves that Japan = AMAZING AND SPARKLY.]
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Date: 2008-04-30 12:53 am (UTC)(I-I do want more beautiful Arashi icons. They are so shiny)
[Japan definitely fun and sparkly. I loved it. <3]
I HAVE AN ICON THAT GOES WITH THIS!!
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Date: 2008-04-30 04:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-26 03:21 am (UTC)*sniff*
You write some amazing stuff, dear. I don't know if you've had a chance to check it out, but I got brought on as a regular columnist for an online magazine a couple of weeks ago. So far, I've put up 3 articles.
You can check them out here: http://www.spwug.com/category/donnie-sturges/
I hope you are enjoying the rest of your time in the states. Miss you!
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Date: 2008-04-27 12:37 am (UTC):(
It's not amazing - it needs tweaking is what it needs. I haven't! I haven't really had a good long chance to sit down at a computer for a while and also my godmother's computer is pretty slow but I will read them! I am saving them for my return home! :D Can't wait though!
Miss you too ♥
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Date: 2008-04-26 09:44 pm (UTC)You need to email meeeeeeeeeee. Like ASAP. So that there can be plans for the 10th. Otherwise there wont be any.
PLZ REPLY OR NOTHING WILL HAPPEN ON THE 10TH.
KTHXBYE.
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Date: 2008-04-27 12:39 am (UTC)Emailing now!
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Date: 2008-04-27 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-28 01:08 am (UTC)KAT DARLING YOU ARE SO VERY MARVELOUS. *beams* THIS WAS THE BEST THING TO COME HOME TO.
Our Nino/Jun/Sho is becoming so epic! :D
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Date: 2008-04-29 05:45 pm (UTC)THIS IS HOW SPECIAL YOU ARE TO ME, MY CANADIAN LOVE! I think I should move over there and just sit all day writing for you, watching Arashi/JE/J-dramas and making us tea. Doesn't that sound like a wonderful life??
Damn right it is! I am very pleased with it :D
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Date: 2008-04-29 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-30 12:05 am (UTC)Ello
Date: 2008-04-28 05:12 pm (UTC)Missing u loads pickle, glad about ur ear rings and the fact that ur heading back to the emerald isle. anyway, if i dont get to speak soon, make sure u let me know u get home in one piece.
P.S nice to know i can still fuck with ur mind
Slán abhaile
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Date: 2008-04-29 06:18 pm (UTC)Re: Ello
Date: 2008-05-08 11:34 am (UTC)(hehe) ok well i missed speaking to you b4 u went off for a number ofreasons, all of which are far to drole to be detailed here, HOWEVER, u will be happy to hear that i have now registered for the most pretentious philosophy modules i could find (include introducti to epistemology, the theory of knowledge) hehe. other than that all is good. miss u as ever, will send stuff off this weekend and, yeah, thats all. Love and all that jazz go with u.
Spea to you when u get home. (your phone is still buggered, and i did try)
Andy xXx
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Date: 2008-04-29 05:56 pm (UTC)