Character piece - Relaxing in the Lounge

Third in a series of however many I decide to do. Based on the random "emotion" provided by Deep Vermillion, "Tentative happiness marred by the sneaking suspicion that you might be attacked by a revenge-seeking Buddhist Shaolin monk you've somehow wronged".

Yeah. XD

The characters didn't want me to keep it short, however long I tried. Reilly in particular was being such a bitch. So this is twice as long as I meant to write, but I'm pretty happy with it.

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( Relaxing in the Lounge. 366 words. )

The weekend recap.

I feel old again.

Well, no, not old. But different...it's strange.

Okay. Explanation. Saturday, I went to Rochelle (just past DeKalb) to attend a wedding. A wedding, in fact, for a friend of mine from high school. And sure, while I've been to weddings before, and I have friends that either were married when I met them or got married shortly thereafter, this is the first time I've attended the wedding that I knew from school.

People I grew up with are getting married.

And sure, I only met Jessica in high school, but that doesn't matter. I've known her for about five years. We were teenagers when we knew each other.

Sometime between then and now, we became adults.

I'm not certain exactly when this change took place, or how. But it did. And it makes me reflect. I am different from the me of five years ago. And the me of five years ago is different from the me of ten years ago.

I've changed. I've matured.

I grew up.

Sure, I expected it to happen - even looked forward to it - but it was never the sort of thing that I thought I'd be surprised by. I never thought it was the kind of thing that you never notice until someone points it out to you.

It's weird.

The wedding itself was absolutely beautiful. I got there early, didn't know anyone there (since Jessica and Kim, one of her bridesmaids and another person I knew from school, were in the back until the ceremony started, and Polly was late, and Erin didn't show up at all), and sat in the wrong section. Afterwards, at the reception, I sat at a table with Polly, Kim's mom, and Kim's (I believe) boyfriend or fiancé.

There was plenty of awesome music, and I got up on the dance floor to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition". I stayed up there for some Creedence. Interesting note, when "Joy to the World" started, someone cheered along with me, and the ENTIRE ROOM shouted "Jeremiah was a bullfrog!" at the beginning. It was pretty awesome. Then there was an older couple - probably the parents of Jason - who started cutting a rug to "Rockin' Robin", and that was pretty damn cool. All the young people (20s-ish) formed a circle around them and were clapping and cheering them on.

Another note; Jess and Jason's song is a Lifehouse song. I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised; Jess was always as big of a Lifehouse fangirl as Polly was (and is) a Green Day fangirl.


Sunday, I stayed home and finished Starcraft. Ends on such a cliffhanger, man. I mean, the end of the first part (Episode III, Protoss Campaign) resolved everything but the Kerrigan issue. Tassadar sacrificed himself to kill the Overmind (which only had 5,000 hit points, and I had a small fleet of Carriers and Battle Cruisers pounding away at it, including Raynor's and Tassadar's flagships), Raynor stuck with the Protoss Fleet, Mengsk united the Terran colonies in an ends-justify-the-means kind of way, and everyone was happy.

Brood Wars ends on a downer. Kerrigan betrays everyone and sets herself up as the most powerful person in the Quadrant. (Queen Bitch of the Universe, anyone?) She murders Fenix, forces Zeratul to kill the Matriarch, kills General Duke although I was kinda gunning for him myself anyway, and destroys all hope that Raynor had of getting her back.

Also. Anyone else notice that he was totally in love with her? Even after she became the Zerg Queen? Up until she murdered Fenix, of course. I think he gave up whatever he had at that point; the only remnant of his feelings was his vow to be the one to kill her. Personally.

Raynor/Kerrigan is totally my new OTP.

But the story is so unresolbed, man. I find myself once again cursing the indefinite suspension of Starcraft: Ghost. I really hope they decide to start it up again; I know that the team behind Starcraft is no longer with the company, but come on! Bring them back, Blizzard! You're making a crapload of money on the Warcraft franchise at this point; I know you can offer whatever salary they ask.


Today is my mother's 49th birthday. We're going to go out somewhere for dinner; she hasn't decided where yet. I got her a DVD. Fever Pitch, because she asked for it.


That's about it for now. Back to writing.

OH. Also.

Just now, in the mail, I got the m15m book. I'll be indisposed for an unspecified amount of time.

Character piece - Superhuman

Fourth in an ever-growing list. Theme of "Superhero", given by Ichigo.

Definitely a darker turn, but it works well for what I needed it for. And it fits into canon.

Enjoy.

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( Superhuman. 257 words. )