My mom has been texting me updates all day on the flooding currently happening at their house. It's minimal, according to her (though how minimal can it really be when there's water coming into your house?), but she did text me a picture of her neighbors kayaking down their street. Exciting times in eastern Florida.

In between text updates I have not been writing, so I've been trying to make myself useful by going back through and tagging old fic posts.* I'm still barely halfway through 2003, you guys. Me=LAME.

You know what else I've noticed in going through old posts? Besides my penchant for completely useless subjects, that is. Fandom used to be so much fun. I miss that. I miss having a fandom to have fun in, really. I miss caring about something other people cared about.

In other news, my head hurts. That's three days in a row of sinus headaches. I am really starting to wish I'd never moved to Knoxville.

ETA: Found in this post:

I want someone to write a 50K fic in which Nick and Greg do nothing but kiss the entire time. I want someone on Miami I can slash with Tim Speedle.

I still want the first part. I got the second part, though. See? Wishes really do come true! ♥ (And hilariously, the keywords for this icon are 'patience is a virtue'.) I should probably not be reliving the process of falling in love with Tim Speedle via old posts. It's not going to lead anywhere good. Though it is making me nostalgic for Nick and Greg.

Son of ETA: Found in the comments to the post mentioned in the ETA:

I like the Speed/A/V guy potential, but I have no clue what that guy's name is.

Aww! ♥ x infinity

...it's probably a good thing I'm leaving work in five minutes.

*Every time I get mad at myself for taking down my website and causing myself all this trouble, I remind myself that I really couldn't afford the expense anymore. But that doesn't stop me from thinking about putting it all back up again. Because...really.

Tropical Storm Fay hasn't hit the area yet but you can already see the affects. Its been raining on and of all day long. At times the rain has been pretty bad but I am sure it will get worse. I really have no desire to sit at home all day and wait for it to get worse although I know I should. Oh well.

I guess its back to studying. There is nothing else to do besides that.

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I have been in Jacksonville, Florida for about 2 weeks now and I am already dealing with a tropical storm. I got a text from the law school today with an alert that classes were canceled for the next two days due to the storm that is about to hit the area. I don't think the school would close down unless it was something serious. Anyway, now I am all worried. I am not use to things like tropical storms. In LA all we have earthquakes and you don't have to worry about them until they have already hit.

My roommate and I made a dash to Target tonight to get supplies for the next couple of days. Hopefully it won't be to bad. I just hope we don't lose power. Anyway, the two of raided Target and bought all the essentials like food, water, flashlights, candles, and so on. I think I might have bought to much but I think its better to be safe then sorry. Hopefully everything will work out and all I will spend the next 2 days studying for class.

I honestly don't know what to expect from this story which is causing my nervous to be on edge. That and I am about ready to kill my new creative zen mpr3 player. It starting to really piss me of. But that's besides the point. I just hope this all passes without a hitch.

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So, today was my "short" day, so after work I decided to go see a movie. Saw "Mirrors", the new Keifer Southerland horror flick. Not half bad. Not great either, but worth the price of admission I guess. There was just something missing that would have made it awesome. Not sure what that something would have been, but I knew it wasn't there. Still, if you're looking for a movie to go see and you like horror films then I wouldn't not reccommend it. Does that make any sense?

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Okay, as many of you know, I watch a huge amount of UK based TV, which normally isn't a big deal, but there is one major problem. With British TV, by the time the show airs in America, they've almost always shown at least two seasons in Britain. Meaning, when a new fan that has just seen the first airing of the show on BBC America goes to look it up, they can find quite a few spoilers...including character deaths.

*le sigh*

Yes, I know all a person has to do is avoid spoilers, but that's like waving a ciggy in front of someone that's trying to quit, they're hard to turn down. Unfortunately, it's also very hard to continue and watch a show when you know two of your favorite characters are going to die by the end of season 2.

And seriously, what's up with the character deaths?? I won't name who dies since I can't keep up with what I've seen online versus what has aired, but Robin Hood, Torchwood and Primeval all have fairly major character deaths in them. While it probably isn't that big a deal in the UK since shows don't generally go on and on like they do over here, it is a bit annoying. Then again, at least when they say someone will die in a trailer, it's a real character versus so many American shows that kill off someone that was basically brought in to be killed. For example...anyone remember Third Watch?? Every week was "someone will tragically be killed," or some such nonsense, and 99% of the time it was some character that you had never seen or heard of before, but really, they were friends with everyone. Honest.

Blah.

Anyway, for those that can't guess, I'm ranting about Primeval. While the show may not even have kept my attention long enough to get through the second season, now that I know two of my favorites are going to go bye-bye...I may not even stick around for episode three. Unless of course they magically reappear since the entire fucking plot revolves around time travel.

Grr.

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So I should probably start about how things are going in Florida. What can I say about Florida besides the fact that it’s hot and humid. It’s supposed to rain all week next week and yet it’s hot as hell. On top of that, I feel like I am suddenly leaving in the suburbs. Seriously, this town has about 800,000 people and when you compare that to leaving in LA, yeah, suburbs. I miss city life. Everything is far away around here. Although, I should complain too much considering I have to huge shopping centers a block from the apartment complex I am leaving in. It’s just not the say as living in LA. I like the crazy city life and here it’s calm and quite. I am telling you, I live the suburbs.

My apartment is pretty nice. I took the master bedroom which means I get the walk in closet which is a god sends considering how much stuff I have. Plus I need a place to save the box's from some of the stuff I brought so that when it comes time to move in two and a half years all I will have to do is buy everything into there box's. Anyway, the apartment is nice and so is the complex. You don't find places like this in LA and least none that I have seen. Its a huge rental community mostly populated my collage students and it has 3 pools, a gym, 3 tennis courts, and a million and one other things which are included in the complex. My only complaint is that I have to pay for the water in the apartment which is apparently a standard practice here. I am pretty sure that between the electric bill and water bill, those are going to be the two biggest bills that I have to pay. God, just thinking about bills reminds me how much money I am going to own after I finish all of this.

In terms of the Law School, it’s pretty nice. Apparently the entire school just moved to a new location last year, which means that the building is brand new. The place just doesn't seem very large when you think about how large the campus was when I was doing my undergrad. Here, everything fits into one 5 story building and you don't have to leave it to go to any class room. I guess that's a nice thing when you take into account how hot it is outside.

The orientation that I went through kind of scared the shit out of me for the most part. The first day was pretty boring, just the standard stuff but the second day was not that great. We had all these people telling us how hard this was going to be that you really have to want this. You have to maintain a certain GPA just to stay in and how hard it is. You really have to work really hard. So it went on like that all day. They just kept talking about how difficult it is and not to slack of and take advantage of all the resources they are providing. Anyway, you get the point. After I walked out of orientation, I was really worried but now I have calmed down some what. It’s just going to be a very long and hard semester. I have wanted this for so long and I am determined to make it work.

Back to life in Florida. I know I am all over the place today but I have so much to right and my thoughts about everything are all mixed up. I all ready feel home sick. My parents and sister just left this morning back to LA and of course I broke down crying in the airport. If anyone saw me walking back to my car, they would have just seen tears pouring down my face. I am still emotional every time I think about it. Here I go again, back to the crying. I know I should feel this way. I have been saying for years that I wanted to move away from and in fact I even said I needed to put a country between me and my mother. I regret those words now. They have been gone what a couple of hours and I already miss them. I can't help it. The entire time there were here, I was feeling sick and my stomach was just in knots the entire time. Wow, I feel like a big baby. I just hope that when I start class and all the studying I need to do that I won't notice how home sick I am. Hopefully I will have so much to do that I will forget about everything else. On the bright, because I am so nervous, my apatite has gone away which is a good thing. I need to lose some wait anyway and this just helps a little. I should just stop worry about all of this. I have 4 month here before I get to go home in December for about 4 weeks, its nice having a long vacation. My only complaint is that I won't be able to go back home for thanksgiving. My finals start just days after Thanksgiving and if I leave, I know I won't study. It’s going to be said but in the end I am sure it will work out for the better.

Anyway, enough with the ranting and complaining. Here is to the next two and a half years. I am going to take all the classes I an in the summer so that I can follow the 2 1/2 competition schedule. If I am going to paying for my apartment in the summer, I might as well take full advantage of it and stay to take extra classes so that I can finish faster. I am sure before I know it; I will be back in LA. Now all I have to do is find my self a hot guy to keep me company during the lonely nights. I know how cheesy sounding but seriously I would like a relationship while I am here. I sick of the complicated things and I am sick of being single. I want a relationship.

Oh well, I am off to finally studying. Can you believe it, class hasn't even started and I already have a shit load of homework.

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