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Final Fantasy VII Compilation
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There is a Daisou 100 yen shop in the Seattle downtown, easily accessible by buses! This means I will never have to do without cheap, adorable non-grocery consumables again! \o/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7656064.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7656064.stm

Asian stocks open down sharply amid investor panic that global governments may not be able to stem the financial crisis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7656073.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7656073.stm

Police in Thailand fire tear gas to disperse a demonstration by thousands of anti-government protesters in Bangkok.

Newsletter volume #349


Fanfiction
One-shots:
A Tomato and a Punch in the Face by kantayra [NaruSasu; NC-17]
It's Not Nice to Stare by frosteeflakes [KakaIru; Semi-NWS]
Young Killers and Old by angie_white [Deidara, Itachi; PG]
Enough by passivesky [NejiTen, T]
Cold Comfort by sowell [KakaSaku; R]

Multi-chaptered:
Kyuubi at the Top, Chapter 3 by akiko88 [NaruSasu; PG-13]
Blood for Blood, Chapter 4 by kita_the_spaz [KakaIru; R]
Perfect Stranger, Chapter 1 by just_naturally [SasuHina; PG-13/T]
Marital life with a Vampire, Chapter 2 by ednama [GaaNaru; NC-17]
January 1 by d_willims [NaruSasu; PG-13]
Through her Eyes, Chapter 1 by brooke_sasusaku [SasuSaku; T]

( Everything else under cut )

Where'd everybody go this week? Are you waiting for Friday when it's Naruto's birthday!? It's lonely for the rest of us editors D:

The drill is the same. Let me if know if I screwed up somewhere!!

Aim, Yahoo and MSN messenger have all been blocked - for some reason my computer refuses to acknowledge them. The message says something about checking firewalls - I turn off my firewall and it still says my firewall is preventing a connection. And that it can't connect to the internet. Only firefox and I.E connect to the net - google Chrome and Opera tell me I have no internet. It's weird.

Anyway, ICQ seems to be working just fine. My name is - naturally - stormy1x2, and my ICQ number is 367892661. I'm on mornings and evenings here. ^^

Busy, busy, BUSY, gotta go again. ^^

I probably should of posted this sooner, but

A while ago I made a TWEWY forum, but at the moment it's not very active so right now I guess I'm trying to change that.

Link: Shibuya Streets

And to make it worse, I asked Cassie if it was okay for me to pick up her Wii at Jon's house and she replied that she wanted to play some Dance Dance tonight (like she is actually going to fucking do it). I replied back with, "...And you can't do it at the apartment?"

I told her that for the next two weeks that I would probably hog the Wii because of my new game and she said that was fine.

Is she punishing me for not telling her why I was crying last night?

I know it's her Wii but...fucking A. I'm half tempted to just go buy my own. If I had the flipping money.

I hate everything and I just want to go to bed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7656050.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7656050.stm

China cancels some military and diplomatic exchanges with the US over Washington's $6.5bn deal to supply Taiwan with arms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7654513.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7654513.stm

Clown-king in court over lucrative rights to wonderland

I think someone made a post a few days ago about Fable 2. They were pretty upset that a whole bunch of material was cut from the Collectors Edition. At least I think it was here. In any case, some good news for you.

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=32372

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7656022.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7656022.stm

An editor sentenced to jail for publishing an article questioning the Egyptian president's health is pardoned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7656000.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7656000.stm

Croatia's prime minister sacks two ministers and the police chief following the "mafia killing" of a lawyer's daughter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7655914.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7655914.stm

In a first address of its kind, a Jewish cleric addresses the Synod of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7655981.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7655981.stm

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would rather not have streets named after him, his spokesman says.

So I DIDN'T go see anyone, actually.  But I have made an appointment with my lady doctor Myann for Monday.  I am supposed to jot down everything that happens; what's bothering me, what triggers my emotions, how I physically and mentally feel like.  Which shouldn't be too hard, since I have this journal anyhow.

I know when it started though.  At least when I began to notice it.  It was when my sister and mother left two weeks ago after visiting.  I just was so down afterwards that I wanted to cry, but couldn't.

The times I find that I am deliriously happy is when I was playing Harvest Moon and I was alone in my head with it, when I have a quiet moment to myself at the apartment, and when I was starting my teaching.  I mean, especially the last one.  I remember I called my mother and I was just dizzy from how great it was to be partnered with such an amazing teacher.  I was practically singing.  Work makes me happy most of the time too...I remember the next week after my family left (Sunday) that I was joyously making plans with my coworkers for next weekend to do something with them.  Except that I crashed somehow this Sunday and I couldn't even attempt to smile.

Things that make me sad...Breanna sometimes.  When I just want to be with her, but she wants to sit with marching band or if she's down, then I am. But I can't really figure out the trigger yet that is making me so sad. I know I was crying so much yesterday was because I was so goddamn upset with myself and I would just ball thinking about telling someone else about it.  Every time.  Everytime I thought about telling Breanna, Cassie, Casey, my coworkers, my family, the stranger pychistrist, the receptionist when I would walk in for the appointment...I would just cry and cry and cry.

Maybe it's because I don't want anyone to know why I'm sad, so I attempt to be happy, but it just makes me so exhausted in the end...

Triggers for anger - Easy.  I am frustrated with all my friends.  Is it because I'm hanging out with them too much?  Am I expecting too much from them?  I have no idea.  But I get inexpliciently angry seeing dishes in the sink that aren't mine, seeing the bathroom I cleaned a mess two hours later, when I ask for vacuuming to be done and it doesn't...When Casey lets the bathroom door swing open and it slams against my wall, waking me up from a dead sleep; when the front door is left to swing itself close and it quakes the entire side of the apartment complex when it slams shut.  When the lights are left on, when my TV is left on, when I find the garbage still not taken out...

Am I not pulling my own weight as well?  Or am I just a demanding bitch?

My mom thinks that's where a lot of this is coming from...That I'm unhappy living with other people and if she said that if this is where it stems from, then of COURSE we'll find a way for me to have my own place.  That...makes me happy.  Because what if I'm just a demanding bitch?  What if those ARE all my dishes in the sink?  I don't want to be angry at Breanna if we live together.  I can't do it.

Another thing is that it might be my birth control.  I've been on the same pills for years, but I notice I get a little more crazy when my period gets closer.  Do my hormones need fixing?

God, so much has happened today, but I need to get other things done.

The DSi loses more of its appeal to me thanks to this recent news:

While a number of statements by various Nintendo spokespeople might have lent themselves to the opposite conclusion, Nintendo today confirmed in a statement to CVG that the DSi will indeed be region locked in some form.

“DSi is region locked because DSi embeds net communication functionality within itself and we are intending to provide net services specifically tailored for each region,” the statement said. The region locking also extends to future DSi-only games, a strange reversal of Nintendo’s approach to the DS and DS Lite. Fortunately, there won’t be any similar prohibitions enforced on regular DS titles, though it is still unknown how many of these DSi-only titles are currently in production.

I don't like region locking. All my DS games are legit; I like to own the box, booklet, etc. I also like to trade, loan, or gift games to my friends across the globe.

Reasons for region locking that I've read vary, but I'm not sure what the "official" reasons are, and in the end who is it benefiting and who is it hurting? Does anyone support region locking for one format (movies) but not another (games)?

Disclaimer: clearly i don't own any boys... not intended to hurt or harm, just for fun.
Rating: G
Genre: fluff
People: DBSK - all five boys
Pairing: OT5
Warnings: none

Notes: this is really ridiculous... i know... ^^;;;;;

( [drabble][complete] Ownership )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/football/7655976.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7655976.stm

Fifa president Sepp Blatter calls for tighter controls on wealthy foreign owners in football.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7655977.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7655977.stm

Two Tour de France stage winners - Italy's Leonardo Piepoli and Germany's Stefan Schumacher - test positive for an advanced blood doping product.