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1) Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2) Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3) Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4) List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection, being sure not to direct-link!

( Treats )

I've been feeling good, overall lately. I mean I'm kind of nervous and worried since so much has been happening in terms of my family moving and all these plans to study abroad and getting my citizenship, but it's a good sort of nervous. I feel, at the very least ecstatic that I have at least a general knowledge of where my life is headed now, and it's not a bad place.

This weekend was Homecoming weekend which I again didn't go to (Elizabeth, my roomie, didn't either). I feel I should go to it at least once but the way things are looking that won't be till senior year. That's okay tho. Just as long as I do. Since so many alumnae come I figure it would be a good way to do some networking.

Other than that not much has been happening.

THE "i've always wanted to tell you"

To all my friends (which I've come to realize, is a lot) in the Phillipines, please stay safe :< you are all in my thoughts

First a big welcome to everyone that I friended through Fandom Secrets! Nice to meet you all :> Look forward to getting to know you more.

Naturalization

Things are ok on my end. I'm still have some trouble with the UCIS getting some stuff rescheduled, I'm going to have to call again since they sent me an email saying that I needed a reason for the rescheduling...which is confusing since I told them I moved because of school but /sigh what can you do? Hopefully they won't force me to go all the way to Philly.

School

School has been going well. I got most of my books and the ones I don't a classmate right across the hall has and she lets me use them when she's done. I'm been talking a lot with Tiffany Cummings who is the head of the Study Abroad program and we've been looking at different places in Asia (mostly Japan, China, and India) where I can do some studies. She also told me about this one year long program where I can study Urdu in India for one year, all paid, which despite not being something I ever considered before sounds interesting none the less. Do that, then remain in India for my intended studies, and return. Which means I will be studying for five years, but if it is free of cost I don't mind. As always it is finances that are my biggest concern.

It'll still be difficult getting everything I need done, so I might do some summer classes at HACC if at all possible. I'm still waffling between Gov/International Relations and History or Gov/International Relations and Religion. And I still have no idea what I actually want to DO with that or what sort of job I might want to be able to take up afterwards but at least it promises a lot, and stable jobs too.

Family

Unfortunately I can't say the same for my family. That notice we got a while ago from the bank was legit, as I had thought, and I know for a fact that my parents are keeping stuff from me as always. Blad told me a little about it. They are moving, and doing so under his name, but I'm pretty sure we're being evicted or something like that. They have a place to stay if that happens before Blad buys a house but just knowing that it came down to that worries and saddens me. I feel bad about being here and having everything I need while they are back home and struggling. Especially since it's so hard for me to get in touch with them.

But that's all the more reason why I need to buck down and make sure I stay on top of my grades.

Roleplay

I've been a little worried about soul_campaign . I know a lot of roleplays have gotten pretty slow recently, and it's probably related to school and whatnot but I know it's more there. A lot of the applications we had were withdrawn. Thankfully mods gave modding rights over to Jami and Alley so I'm sure it'll pick up. I've been helping with some of the minor tasks as well. I'd hate for this place to go. I've been having a lot of fun in it, and there's still a lot I've been wanting to do.

I was particularly sad to see the Naoto (from P4) app withdrawn since I was so looking forward to interacting with a Naoto with my Rise. I get the feeling the Yosuke apper won't be coming back either, but here is hoping. At least we still have Armstrong and Shang coming along, that should be fun <3

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Sorry for the double-post guys. Just a few small things I wanted to let y'all know.

First I've gotten back into Plurk again since Twitter just isn't my thing. If any of you have it, feel free to friend me: http://www.plurk.com/CalledVertigo

Second: I and bialleyhooes have started media_corner. Basically it'll be sort of like a book club, only not just for books--for movies, games, animes, etc. If anyone would be interested in joing, we're pretty small right now and most likely will be starting with the Harry Potter series.

Third: Does anyone know where I can download a VLC format of the Mulan movies? I want to take screenshots so I can get more icons, particularly of Ping. Or if any icon makers out there could make me some, I'd really appreciate it

Back in school. It's going pretty well so far. This year I'm taking Intro to Creative Writing, Intro to International Politics, Intro to American Gov, and Multicultural Religious America. I got a lot of my gen eds done the first year, and because of my AP tests I'm done with my English reqs, and because of my Spanish I only need to take on course in that to complete my language req which I plan to do next year. Things are looking pretty good.

I still don't know what I wanna major in tho and we have to declare next semester. So far I'm really, really loving my Gov classes though. I'm probably going to do more International classes next semester, and maybe something in Comparative Politics as well. Religion is still fun, and I'm thinking of maybe doing Buddhist studies in Japan next year so maybe a double major in Religion and Government? I'd like to do some History too but I don't know if I'll have the time for that.

While on the subject of Government, I'm sure I've mentioned before that I'm working to get my citizenship. I sent in the application in June and got finger-printed a little bit before I returned to school. A while ago I had a bit of an episode because the address change I filled out online didn't go through, I screwed up something, so they sent the information for my interview to my address back in PA. Which means the place it was set up to be was closer to there--Philly--which is an 8 hour drive from here. Haha, to make it even worse I thought it was for the actual date so I was all "SDFIJOJISER OMG 8 HOUR DRIVE, LESS THAN ONE MONTH TO STUDY!"

I called the UCIS though and got things fixed. I'll get a new appointment within 45 days that'll be closer to school, and it'll just be an interview. It's still really nerve-racking though. I mean what kind of things are they going to ask me? Why do I want to be a citizen, I suppose, which wow. Talk about a loaded question. I'm not even sure if I entirely know the answer to that.

( Long personal rant )

Which is why I have been thinking about something very hard as of late. It's only a thought, and I still need to do a lot more reading about it, but I think once I am done with school I am going to join the Peace Corps. It's a decision I'm sure my parents won't be thrilled about, and hell I'm still kind of scared about the idea myself, but a part of me just keeps going yes, yes, yes.

And man. There were a lot of other things I meant to talk about but after all that I think I'll leave it for another entry.

Ciao flist. Love you all~

Ho boy.

Hard to believe it's almost August. I go back the 22nd which I have mixed feelings about. I dread feeling the same way I did my first semester, but it'd also be nice to have something to actually do. Wal-mart never got back to me which was a huge slap in the face because...well it's Wal-mart. Seriously, when AREN'T they hiring? What can you do though? I've been spending time at least helping my dad out with his work which isn't exactly my ideal kind of job but it's something. I've basically been his translator and I help him out with shipping every now and then.

Still, it'd be bad of me to assume that going back will be awful. I did start getting to know a couple people near the end of the second semester, and one of them is a girl I'll be rooming with so I won't have to go through all that crap again. Can't say I know her too well but she seems very nice, and we share similar interests so here hoping we become good friends.

I haven't been up to much of anything. Met up with a couple of friends earlier in the summer but most of them seem to be on vacation somewhere. I might meet up with David sometimes soon though and I'm looking forward to that. OH. I did start the process to get my citizenship though. Got fingerprinted last Wednesday so now it's time to study, study, study. From what my brother told me though the test is really easy--and I'm going to try and take my permit test this Friday so keeping my fingers crossed for that too.

Things are still a little tough, but they've been getting better bit by bit and I'm sure we'll see relatively smooth road soon.

RP wise I dropped out of Dollsy, TST, and going to drop Adstring too. I've been having a lot of fun at Soul Campaign though, even if I do worry about my Rise more than I'm use to worrying about a muse but it's been getting easier.

/flops

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other.

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

Also, taking muse suggestions over at the muse box.

Life.

Sent a lot more applications to Park City. When I went back to the places that had I had already sent apps to most of them said that they would be looking over them the following week (that is this week). Wet Seal, however, was hiring and I had a group interview yesterday. It went pretty well I think, and I'll know by the end of this Friday if I am in or not. I'm still hoping to get a call from some of the other places since I'm not exactly what I would call a fashion diva and it's a pretty high end clothing store. They did talk about having a fashion sense and I was just like "duuhr eerr 8[". I think I got some points from having dealt with thieves at Walmart a lot, though.

It'll be a long week waiting to hear something. I talk to dad to know about what exactly the situation is and the run down is pretty much this: As I talked about before dad's business isn't going all that well. He borrowed money from a lot of people to get it started, and thankfully they are all friends that trust him but that pretty much means that at this point most of his profit is going to simply paying them off. Which means he can't help mom with any of the bills. Bladi is helping, by since Circuit City closed down and Neta hasn't gotten a job that's all we have to help. We're about three months behind on the house payment and who knows what else.

Hence my desperation to land a job.

Roleplay

Dropped Aeris and Fumie at theskytides . Applied for Rise at soul_campaign . Inching back into TST is hard, I guess that's one downfall of a plot-based game, if you are out for a long time you miss a lot. Still with a less serious game event (or so it seems, I suppose you can never be sure with TST) around the corner I won't have to concentrate of that as much and just focus on catching up. Winry is in the midst of srs biznizz so it's a good time to get this story on the roll. I need to find things to do with Matilda though--I've been meaning to have her ship hop to the Fierta for a long time and I guess this upcoming event would be a good time but I didn't really get to do all the things I wanted her to (mostly just building up CR). Oh well, maybe I can have one open log with her.

Speaking of which tho--kiyuu do you still have Coraline there? If so we should totally have them meet.

In celebration of TST's anniversary, we are having a fourth wall event. It's a little different from other fourth wall events though. Given the nature of TST (that people aren't brought from their respective worlds) none of it is happening canonly. All posts go to an entry on the crack comm.

For anyone interested Matilda's thread is here: http://community.livejournal.com/theskytits/75694.html?thread=11426478#t11426478

Winry's is here: http://community.livejournal.com/theskytits/75694.html?thread=11431854#t11431854

Job-wise things are still a little iffy. I went to see what the camp was about and I might be able to get a job there but not for the first session and it's only about two weeks. They didn't have any of my work info and that might take at least two weeks to process. I also have to take a training course on line regarding youth protection.

In the meantime I went with Fior to the outlets and we picked up a couple applications there. Tomorrow we're going to Park City and I can bug some of the places I already applied to and maybe pick up more. I'd really love to work at Spencers. Or some place downtown, that way I can just walk.

At this point though I'm getting really desperate so I might even go back to Walmart, even though I was really miserable there; but part of the reason that is, is because I had to work a lot of hours one time since at that point I was the only one in my family with a job. It was back when dad was still in Santo Domingo. My grades plummeted then and I had just gotten fed up with a lot of people at work. Ugh. Still, not all my memories are bad. There were a lot of awesome people there who helped me a lot--like Dara, Millie, Yao, and Nicole. I know Dara and Nicole still work there. It'd be nice to see them again, and since things aren't that bad it'll be less stressful. No school either.

Besides the endless search for a job I've been walking around Lancaster alot. It's great to be back. I started watching Heroes which I've been enjoying a lot so far.

Today is theskytides anniversary. Hard to believe. Happy birthday TST. I love you all.

I haven't posted since I've come home. In fact I haven't been online much period since I've been home. It's been a bit difficult to be honest. It's not like I've been particularly busy or anything, but I just haven't really been able to pick myself up. Don't get me wrong, I love being home but being here as long as I have has told me what I was afraid of. Mom and Dad have in fact been lying to me about our financial situation, and it just seems everytime it is brought up it is so much worse. I've been desperately trying to find a job, and I think I might have one babysitting for two weeks that'll give me about 400. I'm not sure, I'll be going to the church tomorrow to figure out the details.

Besides that Tia Mercedes had just gotten worse in her condition and I just haven't really been able to bring myself to get on and talk to people. I guess that's a big part of it. I'll be honest. I've been avoidant of pretty much everyone and not because anyone has made me upset or anything but just because I've been in such a bad mood since finding this all out. This isn't the first time something like this has happened, its an awful habit of mine. Then I start being avoidant because I'm afraid of having to explain that I really don't have a good reason for avoiding everyone to begin with.

Hopefully I'll get this job though. Even if it's just for a little while it'll take at least that off my shoulders, and in the meantime I can continue to look for something more permanent.

Again sorry guys, I'll try and be on tonight but now my mom just told me that we're doing a prayer session at 7 so I don't know exactly when.

The rules are simple: there are ten prompts. Answer each prompt with ten words or less (articles like "a", "the", etc don't need to be counted).

The prompts are:

1. Angst
2. AU
3. Crack!fic
4. Crossover
5. First Time
6. Fluff
7. Humour
8. Hurt/Comfort
9. Smut
10. UST

Prompted by darklightshades, with Winry/Isako/Naoto, TST-verse. Like her I'll accept request but then I get to ask some of you as well <3

( So I failed on the 'under ten words' on some. Sue me 8| )

Oh it's been a not so good week for various reasons. Getting better now, thankfully. This Friday I'm hopefully headed home so I can see my parents renew their vows on Saturday. Will have to be back to school on Monday, so it's going to be a rough weekend but I really want to be there.