More to do with LJ's recent feed thing than anything else, but we're going friends only here in Muzyland.

Here are the friending guidelines, such as they are:

• comment to be added


• but if I don't know you and I don't think we have all that much in common, I'm not going to add you


• my fic can all be found at pr0nmonkey

After some considering, I've set up a fanfic community for my fics. pr0nmonkey is now open for all your Muzy fic needs.

Except there's only one fic up now. I may put the older ones up when I feel so inclined. But then again, I may not - there's a lot of fic on this journal.

Anyway - join pr0nmonkey if you're just here for the fanfic. :)

In another case of the most awesome ideas come while at work, tonight I will be writing IRON CHEF BATTLE MUSHROOM: Sakai vs. Chitose.

As with many of my wacky fic ideas, blame should be addressed to gekidasa, who is currently reading Kitchen Confidential. :D

Unrelated, my keyboard is set as a UK keyboard at work and it's driving me nuts. But I can use £ signs!

And I'm leaving tomorrow, which is fine, because I miss my cat and also a bed that is larger than a twin. My hotel room is smaller than the dorm rooms I had in college.

Besides the whole work/training thing, I've mostly been eating while here. My adventures in dining started off with a Malaysian bistro attached to the hotel across the street from me and ended (so far) with a Greek diner in Notting Hill last night. In between I've had Italian, Lebanese, American diner stuff, pizza, and Mexican, and have also eaten many hummus wraps at Eat for lunch during the week (it's close enough to the office that I don't get lost).

Went shopping on Oxford Street on Sunday and didn't make it past Uniqlo where I spent £75 (£50 coral swing jacket, £20 short-sleeve fuschia cashmere sweater, £5 blue and green tee)

Tonight I have to pack and tomorrow we get the fun adventure of getting on the tube during rush hour with a suitcase. A fun time should be had by all.

My new year didn't come in with a bang this year, but rather a crash. As in the delightful sound of a minivan crashing into me at the Palisades Mall today when I was on a quest for more cranberry lip balm. Didn't get any lip balm, but instead spent half an hour standing outside shivering while telling my side of the story to the cops and then waiting for the tow truck. The good news is I had right of way (though the other guy is trying to say he was in the intersection and thus that doesn't count). The bad news is that, well, I have no car.

But I'm staying positive. Next week at this time I will be wildly making sure I have everything for my first ever business trip. And enough room in my suitcase for at least one pair of Doc Martens.

The writer's block LJ question of the day is "What are your New Year's resolutions?" As questions go, that's an obvious one for today, but here goes. My resolutions this year are simple: have a better year than 2007, which did not go particularly well, and be healthier. I may join a gym. We'll see.

And I checked it YESTERDAY, people.

So far the break from life has been nice. I've been playing a lot of Wii (my father pulled a hamstring while playing Wii Bowling, and my spazzy swing in Wii Tennis gives me an acrobatic tennis style), wrapping some last minute gifts, and going to bed early. Yesterday, my sister and I watched Pan's Labyrinth, which was quite good, but creepy.

In conclusion, today's Questionable Content kills me.

I'm at home for Christmas now, but will be returning for the Last. Three. Days. at my old job at the beginning of the year, and then I'm being sent to London for my new job on January 8th. I'm staying in Lancaster Gate, which apparently is two tube stops from Oxford Circus, where the office is, but is there anything else near there that's extremely awesome?

So far my shopping plans include buying Doc Martens to replace the ones I bought the last time I was in London, seven years ago.

Today I quit. \:D/

Then the day headed straight into chaos. I had an unexpectedly complex research request, a staff meeting, I had to send information about storage of online newsletters to my soon to be former boss, had to call my soon to be boss back - and there, I learned that I will be starting in the New York office on January 7th...and flying to the London office on January 8th.

So much for settling in.

Then I had training, and cataloging, and the project of hate to work on, and finally: the office Christmas party where I stayed for an hour (free food) before heading home to pack. Because I'm on a 6:45 am flight to O'Hare tomorrow.

I'm tired, but there will be no sleeping tonight.

( Finally, I can post about the work situation )

I am absurdly happy right now. I may have to get a less cynical work icon.

Latest entry in Muraweek, really late because of combined illness and laziness \:D/

Title: After Practice
Author: Muzy
Series: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: ShishiAto
Rating: NC17
Note: Spoilers for 1st Hyoutei Arc

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Day 2 of Muraweek! Posted late because I was tired last night and sick today.

Title: Rush
Author: Muzy
Series: Prince of Tennis AU
Pairing: Shishido Ryoh/Atobe Keiko
Length: 1109 words
Rating: NC17

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Day 3: ShishiAto of the male persuasion :D

Title: Limits
Author: Muzy
Series: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: Kenya/Zaizen
Rating: PG
Note: Not a part of Muraweek

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY gekidasa! In celebration of a VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY, we're going to have an entire week of Mura!!

Also known as "Muzy is easily manipulated and Mura is good at it"

Day 1 is ChitoKura \:D/

Title: Munchies
Author: Muzy
Series: Prince of Tennis
Pairing: ChitoKura
Rating: NC17. Here be pr0n.

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Day 2: Shishido/Keiko.

1. List up to 20 some of the characters that you like to write. (Original characters are welcome)
2. Ask your friends to comment to this post with questions directed to the listed characters.
3. Reply to your friends' questions in character inside your own "head canon."

1. Yanagi Renji
2. Oshitari Kenya
3. Marui Bunta
4. Shishido Ryoh
5. Kirihara Akaya
6. Chitose Miyuki
7. Tezuka Kunimitsu
8. Chitose Senri
9. Zaizen Hikaru
10. Julian Sark
11. Rachel Gibson
12. Jack Bristow
13. Irina Derevko
14. Hiyoshi Wakashi
15. Tezuka Shinobu

Randomly, I love this icon \:D/

No pic, because my camera is ded like doornail. PLEASE SANTA GIMME A NEW ONE FOR CHRISTMAS.

wallet in bronze woven leather
red faux croc checkbook wallet
bottle of water
lint roller (I HAVE A CAT)
30 GB Black iPod named Zaruba
Headphones
Cell phone
Sunglasses
Body Shop Coconut lip butter
Assorted business cards from conferences and interviews
Orange Mint gum

After two hours of painstakingly going through chapters of Genius, I have discovered that finding manga pictures of Zaizen Hikaru? Is kind of like playing Where's Waldo.

From inarticulate:

Six Pairings I Like:

1. Shishido Ryoh/Atobe Keigo (Prince of Tennis)
2. Julian Sark/Rachel Gibson (Alias)
3. Mohinder Suresh/Sylar (Heroes)
4. Tezuka Shinobu/Ikeda Mitsuru (Koko wa Greenwood)
5. Yanagi Renji/Kirihara Akaya (Prince of Tennis)
6. Tezuka Kunimitsu/Chitose Miyuki (Prince of Tennis)

Three Ships I've Abandoned:

7. Sanada Genichirou/Atobe Keigo (Prince of Tennis)
8. Greg House/James Wilson (House, MD)
9. Veronica Mars/Logan Echolls (Veronica Mars)

Three Ships I've Never Liked:

10. Jack Bristow/Nadia Santos (Alias)
11. Tezuka Kunimitsu/Fuji Syuusuke (Prince of Tennis)
12. Sylar/Maya (Heroes)

Two Ships That Have Piqued My Interest:

13. Inui Sadaharu/Yanagi Renji (Prince of Tennis)
14. Chuck Bartowski/Bryce Larkin (Chuck)

( And here comes the long part )

Good lord. That was long.

Sark would probably be pretentious and name them Sebastian and Viola.

I was on the phone with my mother having the same conversation I have with her every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas; namely, that my brother and sister are impossible to buy for and we never know what the hell to get them.  It went thus:

Mom of Muzy: I have no idea what to get your sister.
Muzy: You could get her the series boxset of Six Feet Under.  It's out of my budget.
Mom of Muzy: How much is it?
Muzy: $150
Mom of Muzy: Yeah, I guess so.  I never really liked that show.
Muzy: I liked the first couple of seasons, but not as much after that.
Mom of Muzy: TV shows are less amusing when you know families who are actually like that.

And yeah, it's true: I won't say which side, but one of the sides of my family could have actually served as the blueprint for the Fishers.  And yes, it's as fun as it sounds.

We talked about Friday Night Lights too, and talked about how neither of us can really enjoy it because, well, we lived it. Anyone who's grown up in a small town in the Midwest or the South has lived Friday Night Lights.  The town religion isn't necessarily football in the upper Midwest (it was a combination of basketball/girls' volleyball/wrestling in my lhometown) but it works the same way.  High school was not fun, partly due to that dynamic, and part of the reason that I was bound and determined to get out was because of the whole sports are king thing there.  So when I watch Friday Night Lights, a show clearly helmed by someone who knows what he's talking about, I'm not watching a well-acting tv drama; I'm watching my high school life, and dude, I do NOT want to go there.  All in all, I'd rather watch Chuck.

We hypothesized that a lot of the fans of the show grew up in places where school sports weren't the predominating religion (larger towns, urban areas? Other parts of the country?).  I think that's part of the fandom, and the other part is probably those people who had a spectacular time in high school and have colored those years as their golden years. 

Hey, somebody had to love high school out there.

Written for alias500's crossover challenge.  Come on, you knew it had to be done.


Will crosspost it to the comm later, should probably actually work at some point here.