Aug. 17th, 2004

gnutmeg: (innocent)
Can we say new Speena single? Yayness! (check it out in the news section of the official site) Now if only I could get my craptastic crackwhore of a computer to play it.

They've done so many singles... there better be another album soon. That'd make me super happy. Between them and Hyde and Bowie ...and school, I shall never have any large amount of money again.
gnutmeg: (celestial delinquent)
Because I'm somewhat required to do this every once in a while, these are all the games I'm currently active in and that I'd encourage any of you to join:

The Forsaken - I promised I'd advertise, as it's the mod's birthday. ^_~ Anyway, this game is pretty cool. It's based in a supernatural world of vampires, demons, dragons, faeries and elfs. A great place if you have a character but no game to put them in. I play Lai, plus I have another character I'm going to be starting soon.

JRock RP - Despite how quite this game looks, it's actually quite active. Most of the playing is done over AIM, though, and no one bothers to post any logs. >.> *halo* I play Gackt and Tetsu in the game. We'd love to have the rest of Laruku. (Ken's missing... I can't remember if we filled Yukki again or not.)

The Elite JRock RPG - This is kind of a cool game run by Ruby and Ka. It takes place in 1997 and is not AU, so we have to follow the history of what really happened, and just add in our own behind the scenes things, our own explanations as to why things happened, sort of. It's fun. ^_~ I play Tetsu, again.

Heaven or Hell - This game, although largely JRock, welcomes characters of any variety. You take on a real person as a character... but then you have to play them as an angel, devil or lost soul and show how they would react to the others around them. Will you fall to temptation? Fight for redemption? Will love conquer all? The game has some pretty convoluted storylines going on right now, but we've lost a few characters and would really like to get more people back in. In this game, I play Gackt(/Bonnie Pink, but it's a long story), Ai, Kyo (for adoption - Neko-chan said she wanted him, but hasn't taken him yet), Xenia, and Ayumi (also up for adoption) Oh yeah, I mod this one. ^_~
gnutmeg: (singing in the rain)
I am being domestic again. *just made a big batch of banana chocolate chip muffins* You know, I'd make a great housewife... except for the whole being ambitious and independent and hating men thing. >.> Yeah.

And, you know? I still need to drop by [livejournal.com profile] nejypoo's house sometime and get my keys back and stuff. ^^;; I keep forgetting. I'm horrible that way.

I need to shower. And finish cleaning. If anyone wants to know why it takes me so long to clean anything, it's because I'm extremely easy to distract. I start cleaning and someone messages me, or a good song comes on and I go to turn it up and never return or I get sucked into rping.... lots of things. All thanks to my two minute memory span.

Ah well. C'est la vie.


Must go clean now. Must put off making more graphics from the Cape of Storms PV until later. No matter how badly I want to do them now. >.o Right. Going. Love.
gnutmeg: (self love)
Sometimes my mind wanders to interesing places. Like, just now I was wondering just where the word "okay" originated from as I had typed it into a chat after Kia had, and sort of tilted my head as she had spelled it that way, while I had spelled it "Ok" yet both are technically correct spellings.

So I looked it up.
OK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages. Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct. Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans. That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: “frightful letters... significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, ‘all correct’.... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions... to make all things O.K.”

(from http://www.dictionary.com)


Cool, huh?