a turquoise flower

My brother seriously needs to learn anger management. Someone kept calling very early this morning and my brother, in a fit of ANGER and RAGE, ripped out the telephone and the Internet cords to stop the phone from ringing (since the Internet cords are in his room, and his own telephone extension), efffectively making us lose our Internet connection. (Why he didn't just pick up the phone, I'll never know. I mean, the ringing woke me up after I had trouble falling asleep last night too and I eventually picked up.)

Not to stereotype, but lemme tell ya, Serbian boys have the worst anger there is to be found on earth, and that is speaking from experience.

The one good thing is, I did manage to write a lot since I was disconnected and couldn't goof off. And I finally figured out how to start my romcomorama story! (And am about a thousand words into it as of a half hour ago.) yay! I mean it's due in June and I had about three months to work on it and finish it by now, but ya know *shrug*...The plot of the story, I knew beforehand, but, man, it was just hard starting that first sentence, you know. I'm also rather undecided on how close I should keep to the movie version and how much I want to make my own and how to fit that into Psych's universe and characters. I think it's easier to make these choices once you're in that moment of writing, instead of deciding beforehand or making any kind of outlines. (And I've also found that the things I'm NOT keeping the same as in the movie/prompt Ella Enchanted are things I disliked the movie. I mean, there isn't much that I don't like about the movie, it's one of my favorite movies of all time, but I can't help wondering how things might've been different if they'd decided to go a different route in the movie.)

So there was that bright side.

And I finally brought Abandon by Meg Cabot yesterday, after being in town to pick up my new glasses (which have an awesome dark brown plastic frame now, whereas all my other old glasses before were very thin and had no plastic frames). I'm not very far into it, but man, it's making me realize why I love Meg Cabot so freaking much (and am enjoying it even if the reading is very easy).

But, still, arrghhh! my brother. I love him but sometimes, man, you just get this strong urge to grab him by the shoulders and knock some sense into him.

(Here's hoping that with age, he'll mellow out some...)

Shawn/Lassiter fics recced by category and alphabetized by title - also some gen and het snuck in here too.

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Notes:
1. Most of these stories can fit into more than one category - like they can fit both into the multi-part romance and smut category, but because I'm lazy, will just put it into one category.

2. Multi-part romance fics only list completed long fics as I don't read WIPs until they're finished. Probably missing a lot of fantastic fics, but this way I can be assured the story's finished.

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Please feel free to comment with your own recs; this is still a major work in progress as there's new fic popping up all the time (and some I haven't gotten around to reading yet).

Geometry has got to be the most vapid subject on this planet. I'm really starting to dread it now because it's not that exciting. And it just happens to be my luck that I'm good at it. Geometry is a pretty easy subject for me, but, oh, so dull! I seriously just want to sleep when I have to learn about it, which never happens to me. I still dread algebra because it makes me want to shoot myself. 

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I started reading Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet today. The book was just kind of there in my room, and I had no idea how it got there. (I found out later from Dad that one of Mom's patients gave it to her, and she tends to dump literature she gets my way). It's interesting. But I feel like it's a bit too religious for me since it does talk about God, and religion just makes me feel uneasy. It's not that I necessarily don't believe in God, it's just that it makes me so confused and so I've just decided to avoid it all together (and by that, I mean that I'm just going to take my time figuring out my beliefs here, and not have it be a big deal than it alread is).

I love his language though, and how he writes very fundamental ideas, at least for me, and makes them seem so complicated. I have to tread through it a bit to understand it. It all seems very interpretive and well, I just don't seem to do well with interpretive things. Declarative information, on the other hand, I store mindlessly. And it's a story that reads like a poem, and I always like those.

I've also checked out the first volumes of MARS and Paradise Kiss, and the three volumes of Rebound. I've really gotten into MARS, but Paradise Kiss and Rebound are just not holding my interest that much. I don't know if the library has any other volumes of MARS though. I've only seen the first volume, and I so desperately want to read the others. SOMEDAY, I am going to be able to buy my own manga and not complain about reading it through the astrocious system that is the public library. Someday, I swear. Then we'll see if I ever emerge from my obsession and actually have a life.