Seems like the universe is determined to keep me off balance.
I'll post a proper update one of these days eventually, I swear. For now, though, I'll just be curling up in my bed to sleep the confusion away. Yeah.

Saw an ad about an oldish cat in need of a home at the uni today.
I ache to give her one. :/

New earrings at Lin's Jewellery, should anyone be interested. :3

Going home this weekend. <3

Right. So The Holiday won't play on the lappy.
Ten seconds into that copyright drivel the program just pauses by itself. Except it's not really on pause, and it doesn't stop, and it's not really frozen either. It just... doesn't play further.
I is not amused. Let's see how the other DVDs do...

I don't know who of you has Blessings of the muse on watch, so.
One story written: Edges

After eating something: Go to bed.
Tomorrow: Write write write WRIIIIIITE. Seriously, I have...
1. two Harry/Draco one-shots
2. a Harry/Severus one-shot
3. Rivers in Egypt
4. assorted poems
5. assorted snippets and vignettes for WritersCo
6. a short story for a competition
... to work on. At least. Some of these need to be done by Monday night.
Oh, and then I need to colour a drawing. But that's not urgent, because who knows when I'll get my hands on a scanner.

Who says I take on too much and then procrastinate to make it even worse? <_<
Oh, yeah, that's actually me. Admitting my laziness. *cough*

Look what I found at the uni xD

I am now officially a resident of Oulu.
How... peculiar.

Flatmate's here. o_o
The one I hadn't met yet, that is. Sini, I think.
Eeeep.

New poem, in the works since the beginning of the month. Written for the next Herald's 'Zodiac' theme, though it might be stretching it a bit.

Scorpio

Does this heart have
whatever valour it takes?
to follow the scorpion's tail
in another end of the universe
chasing some unknown fate

Minds like yours, rife with
such ancient wisdom could
read our fortunes in the stars
in indecipherable shapes--
but their only true offer is
fleeting illusions of clarity

So did those stars ever
reveal our destinies?
with all this misfortune
and endless strife
staining our hands red and black
perhaps we are better to stay lost

This is disturbing. I accidentally signed a piece as 'Calann' instead of 'Linderel' here... and it's been three years since the name change. The heck?
Having three prominent Internet identities is so confusing. :P

Shadow participation?

Found this among the things I downloaded from Hotaru. Fairly old, but as internal dialogue goes, that's always pretty much been the shape of it.

"Raise your head, child, and look at the world."
"No! It's too dark in there. I'll drown."
"What are you afraid of, little one?"
"Myself. And of living. I'm afraid of...being unwanted."

I'm starting to miss people now. :/
These past couple of days I've had things to do, but now most of the unpacking is done and I'm tired and my room is cold and I really, really feel the need for some tangible human contact with my friends.

Such a powerful card.

Sorry 'bout all the changes. There will be plenty more in the next few days before I'm done, I'm afraid. xD

Oh yes. I met one of my flatmates. She came a couple of hours ago with a friend, apparently they're just popping in for the night. No idea when she's actually moving. She seems nice enough. Studies chemistry. Henni is the name.

So.

I'm here at the apartment now. The parents just left to the hotel they're staying at, and won't come back in the morning. We arrived around noon yesterday, and have been driving around town for these two days getting me furniture and other assorted, more or less necessary items. Neither of my flatmates is present yet, though I was told both of them have fetched their keys. I suppose they'll be arriving some time next week at the latest - though if someone with a vacuum cleaner doesn't show up this weekend, I'll have to go borrow one from a neighbour. I can only imagine that conversation.

"Hi, I just moved in, my room got terribly dirty but I don't have any cleaning supplies... I don't suppose you could let me use yours for a while?"

Strangely enough, I can actually see myself doing that, sociophobic or not. When needs must... And I do have to learn eventually. Might as well start now. Somehow, though, I have the sneaking suspicion that this apparent nonchalance is merely a coping mechanism of some sort. I've been so wound up it can't not erupt in some spectacular fashion one of these days. Or then I'll just curl up in my bed and cry my eyes out, either goes.

Ah, well. For now I'm alive, and still have loads to do before I can claim to be settled down...

>>End countdown. Preparing for takeoff...

In just a couple of hours, we'll pack the car and be off. My next update will probably be tomorrow evening or sometime on Friday.
I just hope everything I've gathered fits into our trunk. o_o