nathalia

 Comic books are changing a little, aren't they?
MArvel and Disney a few weeks ago (I'm waiting to see what happens) and now Paul Levitz stepping down and the whole restructuring of DC Comics which might have consequences before the Marvel/Disney thing. I don't know all that much because I'm too lazy to look it up right now (listening to Legion of Substitute Podcasters) and this might change things.
Do I like change? I don't know.

YOUNG GUNS (set before and during the Misfits)

childhood pieces
dream: In her dreams, Kendra hasn't lost her mother.
big top: Kendra disappears while on a school trip to the circus.
busticate: Jamie and Kendra meet for the first time.
off the wagon: Kendra's last night in Rosemont.
the last time: Kendra leaves home for good.

the beginnings
salute: Hobbie meets the first recruit to the Young Guns project, Kendra Norwin.
neighbors / curiosity: Hobbie wonders about what the neighbors think.
laugh: Jamie encounters the girl with the addictive smile for a second time in his life.
ambisinister: Hobbie wants Kendra to perform first aid on him.
kitchen: The kitchen is Karl's domain.
bestow / dab: Cammie and Karl handle cooking duties much to Kendra's annoyance.
saturated: Karl is a good cook.
play: There are mixed feelings about playing Risk on game night.
ullage: Allen brings forest champions back to the house.
dash: The kids gang up on Hobbie's girlfriend.
festoon: Allen decorates for the soccer world cup.
spin: a game of spin the bottle.
a watched pot: Dennis, Hobbie and Stella bitch about Joseph.

family
hypnotism: A psychologist makes a suggestion regarding one of Hobbie’s wards that he doesn’t take to lightly.
you love her: Stella and Hobbie discuss his relationship with Kendra.
youth: Why Hobbie loves Kendra.
family / integrity: Kendra goes back home but has to call help when things escalate.
shame: Hobbie and Kendra talk about what happened and how things will change from now on.
smile: Nobody understands it, but Kendra has never been happier in her life.
stultify: Hobbie deals with important paperwork to protect Kendra from her father.

the breakfast table: Allen, Hobbie and Kendra banter at the breakfast table.
home cooking / hunger: Kendra and Jamie meet in the kitchen in the middle of the night.
catch / on the floor: Jamie and Kendra play catch.
leitmotif: Hobbie figures out why Jamie and Kendra are always fighting.
dulcet: Hobbie is criticized for sending Kendra on a diplomatic mission.
holy place: Hobbie accompanies Kendra to church.

first kill
rock, paper scissors or drawing straws: Hobbie has the kids draw straws to decide who will take the mission.
comfort / need: After her first kill, Kendra needs consolation.
bedroom: Hobbie stands by Jamie's bedroom door and thinks about the consequences of his actions.
protean: Hobbie and Kendra bitch at each other when they meet in the kitchen.
redemption: Kendra goes to confession.

hysteria: Hobbie tries to calm down Cammie after Tim's death.
disbelief: Allen's thoughts on Tim's suicide.
hide: Kendra's conscience catches up to her.
push / undulation: Kendra and Jamie at the beach.
insouciant: Allen, Cammie, Jamie, Kendra.
louche: The Misfits wonder about Hobbie's relationship with Kendra // crossover with Misfits
solid gold: Jamie hangs out with Shania and Face // crossover with Misfits
aplomb: Kendra flirts with Wes. // crossover with Misfits
sui generis: Kendra confesses to the stupid move she made on Wes in aplomb.
loose: Kendra is a loose cannon. Always has been, always will be.

everything changes
zeal / cynosure: Kendra makes a military decision not allowing her feelings for Anders to get in the way.
wait & hold: After the mission, Anders and Kendra say goodbye.
caveat: Jamie gets to know Anders the morning after he arrives. He doesn't like him.
slip: With Anders' arrival, everything has changed between Kendra and Jamie.
dizzy: Jamie's feelings for Kendra take him on a constant roller coaster ride.
a garden: Kendra and Anders discuss Christmas decoration.

skulk / pinch: Jamie eavesdrops as Anders asks Kendra about her feelings for Jamie and him.
final answer: Anders gets his answer to a question he's always wanted to know.
hebetude: Kendra's thoughts before answering Anders' question (above).


sorrow: Cammie and Kev discuss Tim.
personal space / discretion: Anders knows Kendra won't ever tell him everything about her past but he can make assumptions.

Jamie, Karl and Allen in Germany
chimera / a meeting place: Allen shows Jamie the town's fountain.
mountain, rock, ledge: Allen was born in Singen.
hilltop: Allen and Jamie walk up to the top of the mountain Allen grew up under.

front porch / amity: Kendra confides in Jamie about relationship issues.
apocryphal: Sometimes, people don't believe Kendra.
ineluctable: Kendra acts hostile when she meets Jamie's girlfriend.
sapid: Kendra licks people.
strike: Kendra encourages Jamie to make a move when she isn't sure about her feelings.


changes that can't be undone
a misunderstanding / hotel, inn: Anders and Cammie wake up to find their lives irreparably damaged.
desultory: Kendra comes to Boston in hope that Hobbie will help.
climb: Jamie is offered a new job.
savory: Karl moves on.

back to a different beginning
settle: Is Jamie going to settle for the next best thing?

There is some weirdness about those last two sections because Hobbie only comes back to Chicago in Year Six, yet Cammie and Anders get married at the end of Year Four and there's a time discrepancy somewhere. I need to work that out.

throughout
Rum Raisin Binge: Kendra and her family.
forever young: Kendra and Jamie through the ages.


The Commune
ignorance and error: Jamie tries to make amends to his new girlfriend Tanya.
here and now: Jamie remembers a girl he cared about and how he's been living without her.
above and beyond: Bram gets in trouble and the police officers are angry because he won't talk.
twists and turns: Jamie is worried about Bram and turns to Tanya.
crash and burn: Kendra muses about how everything has been going wrong since she and Jamie reunited.
two birds, one stone: Tanya gives Kendra some advice.
brainwashing: Kendra tells Hobbie about her recent move to the commune.

AU
drop in the bucket: Hobbie and Jamie talk about Jamie's feelings.
dream: Jamie and Kendra had a fallout and haven't seen each other in ages.
call: Jamie and Kendra reconcile.



last update: February 19, 2012

I have the official email. I have to show my dad because I don't get the whole insurance thing but he'll figure it out. I'm planning on apartment hunting next week if I can get the insurance thing taken care of till then since I don't want to go there, look at apartments and then have to drive down there another day for the official enrollement process. I'll call Lyana tomorrow. She probably also knows quite a bit about the insurance thing.

I'm still waiting for Mannheim and Tübingen even though I've known that my heart and soul belong to the University of Konstanz since about an hour after the online application. 

I got an acceptance letter from Bayreuth today. I'm not going to accept it because it is choice #6 of 6 on my list, but it is really good to know that they would take me if I wanted to. It is kinda cool. I like the idea of it. It looks nice there from what I've heard. I'd probably like it.  But I want to go to Konstanz and that's most likely where I'll end up. I liked the letter though. It made me happy. 

 I was sleeping when I heard a loud thump followed by loud meowing. After some thinking, I made out that the cat had been climbing around on the windowsill and fell out the open window onto the porch roof. stupid kitten. had to go on a rescue mission. 

 I applied to Bayreuth, Erlangen, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Mannheim and Tübingen.

As of now, I got prematurely accepted into Konstanz which is like ... whoa, how the hell did that happen? And while I'll only get the official acceptance in August, I have an email that says that it's binding and that they can't just take it back if they find people who are more awesome than me. This is not a usual thing but I sure as hell won't complain. I was having this mopy "they're not going to accept me anywhere anyway and I'll be lucky if any of those schools takes me" attitude and then, boom, about an hour after I applied for Konstanz on Sunday I get that mail. I was .... I have no idea how to describe it but it was the best confidence boost ever.

Now I'm done with my applications and it's basically wait and hope. My dad is pretty confident that they'll all take me although he is a bit disappointed that I ended up not applying to Freiburg, another really good school that my uncle happens to teach at. I was going to but dropped it from my list because there was nothing remotely interesting for me to apply to.

Also, we've been joking about what I need to do in my first week of university once I get there: find a male student who is good at math and preferably bad at languages and latch on to him. I was telling a friend about  this yesterday and he immediately asked why it had to be a guy. Obvious answer: The likelihood of a guy being bad at languages and good at math is a lot higher than with a girl.

I still haven't seen Transformers 2. I tried on Sunday but I was too tired. Nevermind that Luke then kept me awake for ages. i have however watched Torchwood: Children of Earth Day One last night and it's interesting. There's the whole conspiracy angle to it with this, the notion that they will recruit new members and Jack, Ianto and Gwen work really well together even without Tosh and Owen but it's not like they pretend they were never there. Also, there is this really interesting concept of Jack and Ianto being a couple now and there's something really interesting about it because there are pairings that I feel get stale once they get together but at this point, it's not all lovey dovey (yet), so it's cool to watch that. Let's see if it lasts.

I need to catch up on my smut challenge really badly. I still have to write affection (Tim/gf), doubt (Zach/Janna), anguish (Wes/Hobbie), ambition (?), enthusiasm (Kev/Lara) and suspicion (?). And I have to catch up on JulNo. I don't know what my current WC is but with applications and such I'm probably behind by now. But I want to get some writing for both the smut challenge and JulNo done today along with my other prompts I still have.

happy hour + evening + pint
too much information + it's about time + tablespoon / teaspoon
solid gold
primordial
historic
bedtime
dab
pinch
dash
scoop

That's basically my to-do list for this month. I just want to finish those, hit 50k on JulNo and post as much as possible.

I'm working on college applications. Don't tell me that I'm getting close to the deadline. I know. I wanted to do it instead of research but my dad needs to bring paper for the printer for me to do it, so I'll just be researching a bit more till he gets home. Which might mean a little bit of procrastination. Making a list of schools maybe. I don't know. I fail at organization.

I picked a full bowl of raspberries today. The first time this year that I get to pick more than a handful, so I got out this morning hoping to fill a small bowl. I got a full cereal bowl full of raspberries that I'm slowly eating now while I pretend to be cleaning up my room. I'm writing smut instead. Well, not really.

Macademia Nut
#02 - pound
#11 - dash
#12 - scoop


Green Tea
#11 - autumn
#13 - primordial
#14 - historic
#16 - deadline


Cherry Chocolate Chip
#01 - curiosity
#02 - greed
#04 - hunger
#05 - victory
#06 - defeat
#07 - sorrow
#08 - pain
#09 - discretion
#10 - concern
#11 - approval
#12 - patience
#13 - wonder
#14 - cheer
#15 - favor
#16 - shame
#17 - repute
#18 - integrity
#19 - responsibility
#20 - flattery
#21 - pleasure
#22 - zeal
#23 - dread
#24 - disgust
#25 - hysteria
#26 - stress
#27 - disbelief
#28 - need
#29 - amity
#30 - fulfilment


Rum Raisin
#04 - brother
#13 - victim