When was the last time I updated anyway?

So... I've been preoccupied, by more things than one. Work takes up a small amount of my day, about a hour or two each day but it gets me so depressed that it seems like it's so much longer.

This week however, Diana is back! She came home Friday and will be back through Sunday which is awesome! I love having my sister back -- it's wonderful in that it's like she's never left. We click so well and it's like she never left.

However, even though Diana is back, Kent had left. T_T He's gone to Boys' State for the week. Ironically, I get one sibling back but I lose another. :( We had Saturday together and we'll have another Saturday as well but it won't be the same. Especially since Diana's boyfriend is making an appearance so... :\

Anyway, what have I been doing? I was lost for a few days last week, completely LOST in Angel/Spike fanfics. I used to play in the Buffy fandom back in high school, years ago and from my love of Spike, I got into Spike/Buffy fanfics and from that to Angel/Spike. As much as I like a possible, established canon pairing with lots of fireworks, I like slash ones more and at that time, I had already been reading slash for a good number of years.

I hadn't played in the fandom in a while now, years in fact, and since I left, it seems as though the pairing didn't die off! Amazing! And there were lots of new and yummy, oh so wonderful fanfics for me to gorge myself on. For a few days there, I was literally reading fanfics continuous for hours, breaking for working and for food and then more fanfics until my body couldn't take it anymore and I would somehow stumble my way to my room and onto my bed so I could sleep. And then I would wake up and start the cycle over again.

Now, it's less extreme since I've kinda exhausted all the fanfics that I could find. But there are still daily updates on the spangel_ community page that I go there first before even hitting up my own flist.

So, yeah, haven't been reading my own flist very much. I think I must have missed so many fanfics from all the other neglected fandoms... I haven't even been really watching all that much stuff really... I'm currently following a few animes but they've been put on hold for now. I'm following Top Chef season 3 which has totally started with a bang. I totally love Hung. And Tre. And I hope that Tre is right about how it's going to be the two of them through challenge and challenge because that would be awesome.

It's currently the summer so there's really just slim pickings on TV... Traveler is turning up nicely and I'm always excited to watch another episode of it. Aside from that? Doctor Who? The Captain and the Tenth Doctor are so amazing together. It was a laugh from the very beginning, despite the seriousness of the latest episode with the Master and all... I didn't really see much slashability between Ninth and Jack but Tenth has a sort of charisma to him that seems to draw everybody in. God, I love Doctor Who?

What else is new? My brother bough Big Brain Academy for the Wii and it is possibly one of the most addictive, frustrating game I have ever played. You think it's easy but it's so much harder than it looks because you have to be fast as well. Plus, you also have to use all those horrible skills that you had already stopped using like basic math skills (I can't add or multiply if my life depended on it) or your short term memory skills... *sigh* I'm trying to get an A but now I'm at the point where I can't even match my previous high score of a B+. But still, I'm trying every day and there's still tomorrow...

What else? Oh, the one bad thing that happened to me this week was that I did ruin the carpet... :( I spilled a Maruchan and it stained the previously pristine beige carpet a very noticeable yellow. I'm currently hiding it from my mother because she is sure to kill me. All attempts to get rid of the stain have failed miserably but have at least made it a bit lighter. Still, it's VERY noticeable and I'm most likely going to have my head cut off. :\ I'm not looking forward to it at all... He's to it hopefully not being noticed until I'm back in NYC. That's a bit of a stretch but I have hope... Kinda at least.

That's really all I have to update with. I'm a bit sad that I haven't had the time or really the urge to post anything lately or really even savor being on LJ. In previous years, this has always happened and I always feel as though I miss so much of what happens online during the summers... I can't help but wonder if summers are more right though, despite being sad... I really shouldn't spend as much time online as I do while I'm at school but I always feel as though I need more of an anchor during those times and LJ has always served me well in that respect... Maybe it's because I'm more me at home? Who knows. It doesn't matter. At the moment I feel okay so I guess that's the important part. After all, if I were miserable, then it would be very clear which situation is more correct. Anyway, I'm off to reread a good Angel/Spike fic. God, I do love myself a possessive Angel. ^^