some bitching and some ranting

Before I get to the bitching, teletha pointed me to one of her favorite Takamiya x Izumi fics, Lives Living Strange, which is deliciously smutty and funny!

I found out that when yesasia flaked out on me and said they didn't have a brand new novel in stock and their distributors couldn't find any they didn't actually credit me the money back....they gave me store credit. WTF? I used paypal that time, but can't they just credit my paypal account? ARG. in any case, I used that stupid store credit and the $5 coupon I got from the last order to put in my very last order with them. I ordered the sequel to two wonderful novels I read recently, Soshite Koi ga Hajimaru (I didn't know a manga was out for it!! And mochi mochi, the scanlator of the manga, is apparently translating the novel! I hope they do a good job because I really like this one!) and Kao no nai otoko. Those were my main reasons for the order, but I ended up ordering Loveless volume 5 (I don't own volumes 2 - 4! Why am I ordering volume 5??), Sex Pistols volume 2 and 3 (1 was not in stock), and another novel by the author of Soshite Koi ga Hajimaru. ^_^; Now I feel like I have to do an amazon japan order for the rest of Loveless and Sex Pistols...

Speaking of amazon japan, it just ticks me off that they don't carry Tousuisha stuff! No G-Defend, no Komatta toki ni wa hoshi ni kike, nothing!! Does amazon japan have something against Tousuisha? I'm so behind on all the series I follow from that publisher. ;_;

I've been trying to ignore the fact that PoT the anime is ending this month, but...GAH!!!

I realized today that this web seminar that someone in our office has to participate in is at an ungodly hour...it starts at 10 a.m. Central Time. Doesn't sound that bad right? Not unless you realize that we are FOUR hours behind, so whoever participates has to be in the office at SIX in the morning!! Why didn't they set the stupid seminar in the early afternoon instead? Even the West Coast people must not be too happy about having a seminar start right at eight. The only slightly good thing is that it's not Daylight Saving Time right now, because then we'd be FIVE hours behind and that'd really really suck. I hope I'm not the lucky person in our office that gets to participate...

I discovered that Clorox, especially spray Clorox, is your friend in the worst kind of way. >_< Got kind of messed up on the fumes (brilliant me, don't open the windows when using the stuff...), too. Continuing on with the unmentionable, I relearned that food gone bad causes me to retch. Lucky me!

And last but not least, I think I'm relapsing. I really don't want it again..it was a nightmare to shake off, but with a really sick person in the house it's hard to get away from the germs. *sigh* I don't wanna be sick again...