I've published in a new fandom on FanFiction.net: Cal Leandros.

The story is M-rated slash.
Pairing: Robin/Cal

FINLAND WON ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!!

2011 IIHF World Championship
Slovakia, Bratislava

GOLD MATCH:

Sweden - Finland 1 - 6!!

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I was banking on Canada to make SPAM out of Russia, but eventually, the Czech Republic took care of that. Congrats on the third place!

Link to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMB4xtnFlvo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMB4xtnFlvo.

The shock is similar to seeing Jack Sparrow pounce in a country music video, as noted in a post on June 30, 2006.

Cool!

current mood: excited

Hello, hello!

It's done. I graduated from university with a Master's on June 11, 2008, and my mail account at university closed down on September . If anyone's ever had it: now's the time to scrape the thing. It's an end of an era, but I don't mind.

The other thing is not a source of pleasure, but it must be must cross to bear. On Monday, when I was at work, someone smashed the rear window of my car. It was parked in the company garage, and the glass was literally shattered to pieces. So, on Monday I filed a report to the police and on Tuesday papers to my insurance company. Insurance should cover for the damages except for the deductible, though it's still a hefty sum of money.

There are few repair shops that can deal with the damage (repairs are different to regular servicing, and must be carried out with specific shops), and after a round of phone calls to them on Wednesday, I got an estimate: one month(!) until I get a replacement window. The car is useless and sitting until then, and my hands are tied. The rear window is essential....

Vandals. The police weren't too interested in the damages or looking into it, so I guess it's just damage control on my own for now. Got to find a repair shop that takes less than a month even if it means expanding the search beyond the 30 mile radius....

Not doing too bad otherwise, but this was just stupid, unnecessary crap.

current mood: good

I have published a new story.

Fandom: Tekken
Title: Bedded Rivals
Summary: Jin wakes up in bed with Hwoarang. He has little recollection of what has happened. Unfortunately, everyone else seems to know well enough. Humor, slash Hwoarang/Jin.

Available at http://www.fanfiction.net/secure/live_preview.php?storyid=4171854

Completely unrelated: Happy Birthday,

charnah

current mood: working

For what it's worth, I am extremely sorry to hear about of the resignation of Ilkka Kanerva, Secretary of State (Minister of Foreign Affairs) of Finland. He is the best thing that has happened to Finnish foreign politics in years and years. I, for one, did not see that coming when he started. This one is not an April Fool, either, although I hoped it was when I first heard the news.

(The background to this is that the Secretary sent flirtatous text messages to a woman who sought attention and sold the messages to a magazine. Before this, the press had a field day for about two weeks, making Salem's witch hunt seem like a walk in the park. I can't recall a similar determined manhunt from any recent time. The way the Prime Minister's ex-girlfriend went public with a billion magazine interviews after the breakup was almost tasteful by comparison.)

current mood: sorry

I've published a new fanfiction story, the first since 2004. I do not want to believe it has been that long.

This time the fandom is Tekken, and the story is light slash. 
Pairing: Jin/Hwoarang.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4113197/1/Unforgivable_Crime

Who would have known?

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My Internet modem at home broke yesterday, so I have virtually no access to the Internet after finishing this. I feel like my hands are tied and I've been thrown at the deep end. But, I'll manage without, if without I must manage. Just to give you a heads-up that I will be hard to reach for the next few days.

3/7/08:  New modem arrived today. It was such a relief.

current mood: calm

The trailer for "The Dark Knight" with Heath Ledger as Joker and Christian Bale as Batman looks really good. I was out of the loop with there being a new Batman movie made until the recent events brought it up. Val Kilmer had already killed it for me, just like Pierce Brosnan slaughtered James Bond. Now, while I see "3:10 to Yuma" all over Bale and there is a definite sadness about Ledger, the movie looks appealing. The Joker laughter is fantastic. No other word will do to describe it.

Fingers crossed that they make Gotham City a murky place without extravagant digital effects. I'm not too keen on the huge explosives shot, which comes some 0:35 down the trailer. Also, why Michael Caine? He just doesn't know when to quit *coughJohnGleesecough*. At least I see no Jack Nicholson in there.

See the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkT1wdRePco.

current mood: impressed

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, A Knight's Tale, The Brothers Grimm) is dead. Freaking hell.

current mood: shocked

I came across a gem and thought I'd share. It is an alternative epilogue to HP 7: The Deathly Hallows.

Beware: slash, parody. Very unabashed slash parody. At your own discretion.

1. In a Tokyo hotel: It is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing please not read notis.

2. In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that a time we regret that you will be unbearable. 

3. In a Belgrade hotel elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

4. In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk. 

5. In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 to 11 A.M. daily.

6. In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid. 

7. In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

8. On a menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for. 

9. Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies have fits on second.

10. In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation. 

11. In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.

12. A sign posted in Germany's Black forest: It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for that purpose. 

13. In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

14. Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ass. 

15. On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.

16. In a Bangkok temple: It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man. 

17. In a Vienna hotel: In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.

18. In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

19. In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday. 

20. In a Bangkok dry cleaner's: Drop your trousers here for best results.

21. In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by latest Methodist.

22. In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today - no ice cream. 

23. In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.

24. In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar. 

25. In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases.

From Schriver, Dynamics in Document Design (1995), p. 371 and
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-funny-signs.htm

current mood: amused