It's been too long since I've written anything here, and to be able to talk about as many subjects as possible, I'm gonna go one topic at a time.

Books
I've been reading a lot this year, finishing off books I started reading years ago. I'm particularly invested in a sci fi collection called Remnants. It's 14 short books by K.A. Applegate.

This is the best description of the books I've find so far: In the first book nearly everyone dies. Then it gets worse. In a last-ditch effort to save some small remnant of the human race of the impending destruction of Earth by a big rock, a handful of people get shipped off to nowhere land. 500 years later, when they finally *land* somewhere, things start to go horrible wrong. It's one fo those stories that has lots and lots of characters, and every book ends up killing a few, because the stakes are high and that's what happen when you don't know what the hell you're doing and aliens are out to kill you.

The thing is, this was written as a "young adult" series, and as such, the main characters are mostly children and adults are usually useless. That's OK, because Applegate knows very well how to do attractive characters and she gives the limelight to pretty much everyone at one moment or another. And that's what I've always enjoyed best: stories with lots of characters and room for all of them to do something, even if that something is so horrible wrong!

I'm half way done with the books. It only takes me a couple of days to read them, but I'm also reading a lot of Japanese authors lately, because I got myself in a Book Club and that's what we're reading right now. It's been fun, and weird, because not since school I had to worry about understanding a book if I could just enjoyed it, but now I have to because I have to talk seriously about said book with several other people. It makes me focus better, I guess.

TV
Both Offspring and Eureka came back in April. And I'm enjoying both shows LOTS. I wasn't all that interested in the Offspring premiere because I wasn't all that into the finale last year, but in the end I ended up loving it anyway. I guess the Proudman family is just too lovable to not find them compelling and heart-breaking and sweet. Of course, the best parts of the first few episodes were Billie and Jimmy having no brain-to-mouth filters (which is a constant in this show) and the whole sperm debacle involving Billie, Mick, Mick's brother and now his new boyfriend. I'm hoping to laugh and cry and laugh again this season like I did the first two.

Now, Eureka... damn, knowing this is the last season makes me sad. While maybe *too* quirky for average taste (and thus, a bigger fandom), and the sometimes too silly storylines, I loved the big arcs this show has come up, and how the characters and their relationships have grown over the years. It's not something many shows can actually accomplish. And this season started with a bang. Space travel turning into time travel turning into THE MATRIX! I would have liked the whole issue to turn more dramatic and lasting longer (not four years longer! just, a few more months for dramatic effect), but I like that they're still dealing with what happened with the crew and their time apart after the rescue, so I can't complain. I'm glad it seems Zane and Jo are FINALLY hooking up for real (not that the casual sex and the angsty tension wasn't fun also). I'm sad Holly died, but that scene of Zane offering his sholder to Fargo and Parrish being nice totally compensate for it! And while I'm all for Jack/Allison and Zane/Jo, I'm with the fans that think Allison and Zane should have totally hooked up in the matrix!

Talking about quirky shows, I can't help talking about Community, that thankfully is getting a fourth season!! 13 episodes it's nine or ten episodes too short, but it's better than nothing at all. I've specially enjoyed the civil war documentary parody and the Law & Order homage, but there's no episode of that show that I don't find lots of fun. I'm glad I get another season of it!

I've been watching a lot of Shonda Rhimes' shows this past few months. While I've always know that Grey's Anatomy is a guilty pleasure and not all that good television, I wonder now just how BAD it actually is. See, I don't have a clue about medicine, so while I assume most of the super surgeries that come up on the show are not really that possible, for me they do sound probable. Like I just thought the writers did research and used whatever new technique has come up in science journals. Now I'm thinking most of it is just inventive crap.

I tried to stomach Off the Map when it was on, but it was way too offensive to watch after one or two episodes. I think I managed four. I mean, OMG, I know a big part of the US knows squat about how things work in Latin America and those kind of mistakes are made when dealing with pretty much any country that isn't yours, but what a way to go overboard with the stupid and offensive plots!

And now I'm trying to watch Scandal and not cringe at every dialogue and plot twist that comes out every week. It's just so... BAD! So basic and embarrasing! There a handful of good actors in here and they are wasted in an attempt of developing the bastard child of Grey's Anatomy and the West Wing!! I'm pretty sure this show is gonna get cancelled, but I do wonder how the hell did it manage to get on the air in the first place. It's just bad television.

And because I'm a sucker for Sci Fi, I've just downloaded Defying Gravity, which was selled as "Grey's Anatomy in space!!" which sounds horrible, but I'm a masoquist that way. Plus, the show is suppose to based on the BBC's Space Odyssey, which was a wonderful two hours drama filmed as a moslty believable mokumentary. Of course, I just saw that the nerdy Canadian geologist who was in a relationship with the no-nonsense Russian engineer in the original, is now a pretty faced American having the hots for the also hot American hero of the story, who punches his commanding officer and goes to space to save a suicidal crew member instead of following orders. Right. I'm seeing where this is going...

As for Grey's. Well, I was DELIGHTED with the last episode giving Alex all those nice things he totally (and finally!) deserve... except all is gonna be taken away from him by next week, because that's how things work for him. Oh, how I wish Justin Chambers wasn't interested in staying around for the next season. He didn't had anything to DO during this season! I love Alex and I will always enjoy him on my TV, but it was a good ending for him, taking the dream fellowship program with all those wonderful perks (paying his loans! Having enough money to buy a house! Having enough money to help his family! Come on!!), just as the year before it would have been a good ending having him go to Africa. Now I have two head!canons to chose from when things get crappy for him again. I think his boards' storyline was ridiculous because he loves to savotage himself but going back on a whim from SanFran to Seattle was just silly, as was getting angry at his evaluators for not waiting for him and trying to trick him. I'm glad he looked so sure of his answers, though. And that comment Cristina made about the Hopkins' guy knowing Alex is a jerk kind of fixed the issue for me. Of course, the whole interaction between Alex and Cristina was awesome, both the hug and the dialogue about spaguetti being a reason to stay. Loved it. I could totally do without the plane crash, and by know I do hope the death is Lexie because it just depresses me how she was wasted as a character and while I don't want to deal with Mark's angst next year, I prefer it to any more Mark/Lexie debacle and babbleling. We'll see.

I think that's it for now. I'm in the middle of buying an apartment, which is taking way more time than it should but it will happen this month, I hope. Work is crazy busy, but what else is new? I got myself back to school taking a class on Environmental Law, it last until October, so we'll see how crazy it makes me by then. I went to the stadium last week and watched a wonderful soccer match where my favorite team won 6-0 in a fantastic display of what the sport is all about.

NEWS is coming back!! At least they are realising an album, which is good enough for now! Now I'm hoping for my next Pi activity and I'm trying not to watch Ryo's new drama because while it's innocent enough, it still makes light of issues you're not suppose to be so obvious at making light on!

I've also been VERY into comic books lately, and watching the Avengers movie certainly hasn't help in slowing down on the downloading and reading. Same goes for the Avengers animated TV show, who just helped confirm that beside Wanda, Hank Pym and Clint Barton are probably my favorite avengers. I also have a soft spot for Scott Lang, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, so far. I'm also really, really enjoying Wolverine and the X-Men and Bobby and Kitty having "moments". I just wish people wrote about it!! So much fic potential!!

OK, now I do stop.

Gods, I miss them...

I miss having free time as well...

I also think I need to change one of my icons. I still love Tenipuri, but now my sanity is being totally stolen by Community!

Newsflash!

Johnny Storm is alive!! YAY!

I'm a happy comic book geek! Just when I got around to realizing that I actually liked the Human Torch, he got killed off, so I'm happy to see him around again! And having "a moment" with Peter Parker. Aw, I like it when comic book characters come back to life!

In other news, I'm thinking of having a paid account, but I'm not sure. Is it worth it just to have more icons to use?

Life has been busy and the internet got broken in the process, but I won't talk about that. The first post of the year is gonna be about the new drama I'm watching: Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata (Ending Planner).

Why? Because I got myself into a few classes on Japanese culture during the summer time to force me get out of work early and learn something just for the fun of *learning* something, and just when I'm doing that, there's a Japanese drama coming about one of the most relevant issues in the Japanese culture: Death, or more exactly, how to live our lives considering how short it is, and what (and who) we leave behind, when our time comes.

I'll be honest, I don't like the subject of death. It's just too depressing and scary. But I like when stories use death as a method of developing or uncovering deeper issues on how we live our lives, mostly how we choose to live it, in the little amount of time we have for it.

This drama is mainly focuses on rescuing what people that are no longer with us, tried to accomplish while they were alive. It reminded me a bit of Voice, or the premise of it, in any case. It was a bunch of medical students that take a class on forensic pathology and end up resolving the death of the bodies that come to their autopsy table on every episode. The idea was good, but the structure of each episode was too formulated, every episode ended up having the same situations and it was too predictable, not to mention how fantastic and nice all those dead people were, it was eye-roll worthy after the third episode.

I've only watched two episodes so far of Ending Planner, but I'm liking it way better than Voice already. It helps that it has three of my most favorite Japanese actors in the cast, of course. But I like it mostly because it's not just one route of storytelling, we get several plot points being developed at the same time. It's has lots of family issues (daddy just died issue, taking care of the family business issue, brother is MIA issue, sister had an accident issue, siblings get involve with the wrong people issues...), it has the "mystery of the week" storyline to solve (what's the story behind the dead body), it has a developing romantic relationship (our lead character in charge of the funeral service and a detective... and every other girl he happens to meet, it seems), and it has the subject of death, how we live our lives, how we mourn, how we move on.

Of course, it's not perfect. The younger actors are to cringe for sometimes. But I've deal with that before, I can enjoy around it, when the plot it's worth it. Yamazaki Tsutomu alone is so amazing that anything else can fall behind him. The dialogue is very light and friendly, for such a sour subject. The little things are appreciated, like the beautiful family dog and the bonsai trees and how the younger sister seems to be getting liquids thrown at her every time there's a fight in the household...

A good way to start the year. Lots of work, some fun time, learning interesting stuff, reading books (I'm in the fourth one right now!) and good, entertaining and heartfelt TV.

EDIT: Also, new layout!! Nobuta~ <3

Not really up to analisying how things went this ending year (great, not so great, and OK enough, for the most part), but here are a few things to hope for the next year:

-I hope my family stays as healthy as possible. Not more health scares, please.
-I hope I get to seriously work on my damned thesis.
-I hope my friends and their family stay healthy as well.
-I hope the apartment I end up buying is a good choice for me.
-I hope Pi, Ryo and 4-NEWS all get decent career opportunities, concerts, acting jobs, tv shows, all of it! Same goes for V6 and the rest of the johnnys I like.
-I hope the end of Avengers Children's Crusade is as awesome as the idea of it seems to be.
-I hope Bobby gets a more prominent role in what's going on in the X-Men comic books.
-I hope I get to read lots of good books. And lots of great fics as well.
-I hope my trip to Mexico at the end of the year gets to be as amazing as I picture it'll be.
-I hope I manage to decided where else to go for my vacation in time to go there and enjoy myself.
-I hope to continue to grow and learn at work. And please, let some of the pain in the ass projects freakin' END.
-I hope my favorite tv shows stay on, and stay or go back to being fun to watch.
-I hope to continue to make good friends, in real life or the net.

Thank you all for the good things this year gave me, and I hope you all enjoy the New Year celebrations, and of course, the year to come!

So, I need a distraction away from what's happening in Japan with my favorite idol group (which is something I'm gonna be sad about until I'm sure they all will do well in their careers in the future, and even then), so I'm finally commenting about the new season of Grey's Anatomy.

You know, I was expecting pretty much crap. After the mess that was the previous season I really thought there was no hope for this show. But now I remember how I wanted to stop watching after the end of the second season where no one made Izzie responsible for stealing a heart and I had to witness a hospital turn into a prom party AND deal with Meredth and Derek at their worse, but then Alex starts to have these awesome scenes with Addison, and the Jane Doe storyline gave him a bit more attention, and thus, I start to watch again. I continued watching even though the four season was also a mess because Alex's chemistry with Lexie was juicy and while extremely sad, Rebecca going crazy and Izzie trying to help him were nice twists at the end. Season five and six were rollercoasters for Alex, but had awesome storylines for him, both medically and emotionally, and then the seventh season gave us some good stuff, but it could have been, oh, so much better, damn it!

So I wasn't expecting anything this season. If they didn't give me a decent premiere, I was gonna go with my head canon and have Alex take the African job and be happy saving African children and come back a year later to show how awesome and in charge he has become. But the premiere didn't suck. It was pretty decent, actually. Alex got to save a kid (of course!) and Arizona showed she cares for him and wants him to do better and he had some of the most awesomest scenes ever with both Cristina and Meredith! There's nothing to complain about! There's a lot to CHEER for! Awesome!

OK, some stuff still are crappy plot points, but the show has never been perfect, I can deal with those. I loved Meredith talking to Owen about Cristina, I loved that the writers were able to man up and let Cristina have her abortion, I loved Zola being adorable and Sofia being adorable (damn, I love babies), and hey, I even enjoyed Arizona and Mark getting along! I didn't care for Bailey blaming April's mess and Jackson getting kicked around by Mark and Cristina having issues with Owen and Teddy (though I did love how Teddy pointed out the flaws in Cristina's training) as something Meredith was to be blamed for, and the "gunther" idea was a stupid one. I certainly didn't care for Derek (I never do), and as supposedly awesome something like a huge hole in the middle of the city should have been, it was a bit... meh.

Actually, I have to say, the gigantic hole storyline made me think of another medical drama, Code Blue. It was a plot that could have worked perfectly in that show (a lot better than it did in Grey's). I could totally see Aizawa going down without hesitation, taking a chainsaw and cutting the woman's legs without having the husband go through the trauma of doing it himself, and Saejima the nurse would have been right behind him with the rest of the tools needed, because they were THAT COOL! Man, why did season two had to be so conclusive? I wanted more of that show! A movie at least, it was too good! The sad thing is, the only disaster that could top the massive pile up accident in the tunnel, the train derailing and the airplane crashing would be an earthquake, but it's too soon to have a fake one with the real one in Japan is still so fresh in everyone's memory. Still, if any show could give tribute to what happened there, it would be Code Blue!

Anyway, going back to Seattle... I liked that Alex got his moment with Cristina, so, so THEM (even the killing part!), and then the quiet moments with Meredith, so perfect for them too. I would love that some of the awesome fic writers that I know this show has (I'm looking at you!!) could write something about Alex's heart condition, because man, that needs to be written! And the fandom has not worked many decent fics lately (like, in a long time now!).

I don't have much to say that hasn't been said by now about the premiere. I like it when I don't have that much to add to an episode, because it means they were good to me as a fan of the show.

Moving forward, episode three was decent enough. For a moment I thought we were going back to having Alex be a jerk for the sake of developing an easy plot, but in the end it was a decent plot with a sad outcome that wasn't at all Alex fault, which I liked that it was made clear and that April had his back. I don't know how I feel about them if the show decides to make them interact romantically, but she's a lot less annoying when she's around Alex (and Jackson), and all five of them are more on the same level with each other, which is nice. She and Alex are fun together, I'm up for a lot more of that, though of course, Alex with Mer and Cristina is still a lot better! <3

About episode four, it had more things I liked it than thing I didn't. I don't really know why some people got so angry with the cliches, it's not like they weren't there before... it was mostly an uneventful episode, but it had some interesting stuff, like the chief interacting with Jackson and Alex, which I enjoyed. From maybe around season three, the chief has had some interesting scenes with Alex, like the time in the woods when Alex told him about growing up in a bar, and the "underdog" conversation. I was hoping the previous episode would have had some of that as well, considering how in the premiere Alex went to the chief with the idea of lying to save Meredith's job and the chief then implemented it himself, like Alex deciding to do the chief's surgery out of guilt or something, but that didn't happened, and instead I got this, which had a nice outcome. I liked how Alex went and gave the chief the surgery he was looking for, it was sweet of him. I think Arizona is a great mentor for Alex, but it would be nice if he could have the chief in his corner as well, considering I doubt he will ever get along with Derek, Mark and even Owen (now that I finally came to the conclusion that he's bipolar). I liked how Mark went to him for help with Sofia, too. Even if he did it because anyone else would tell Arizona, he has to trust that Alex can do the job to go to him, which is not something Mark really thought before of Alex. One of the many reasons why I wish there had been some follow up on their relationship after the shooting...

Which brings me to something I won't have time to go into right now, but I been wanting to do it since the beginning of the seventh season. I want to re-write it. Not in fic format because that will take forever, but it would be nice to put in writing how things "really" turned out in my head, and with the same result, now that I actually like the beginning of season eight. It's a bit of a challenge. Maybe I'll do it next time.

Man, it almost feels like we are still in September! First Chile gets his ass kicked against Argentina yesterday and today I wake up to this NEWS....

NO NEWS!

At least, no NEWS like they have been since 2007 :(

I don't have much to add to the few comments I have already made:

Last year Pi said he would never leave, and I actually think he believed it that way, at the time. I'm pretty sure Pi wouldn't have ever left the group with Ryo still in it. And this year it wasn't really Pi's circumstances that changed, but Ryo's. He finally got leads in dramas, he did well with his first movie, and Eito is doing great. While he could dealt with two groups at once before, having a more prominent solo career takes time and investment, and he's in his right to go for it. Pi could have continued with both group and solo activities, but it's cleaner and more honest to leave at the same time than Ryo, and stop the eternal scheduling issue he was always blamed for.

Of course, I'm still sad. I like NEWS music and how all the six voices sound together. They can adapt like they have done before, when they were nine, eight, seven and then six. Now they are four. Tego and Massu still sang most of the songs, Shige can take all of Pi's rapping parts (man, I'm gonna miss the six-version of Snow Express and Forever...), and Koyama can take Ryo's with the help of TegoMass when some parts are a bit difficult. It's never gonna be the same though. They didn't always got along, and most of the fun stuff came from the four people that are staying, but there was still a charm that's gonna be lost without all of them lusting after Pi and Ryo being mean to everyone but Tego... Shige will still get bullied, though. I think that gives me some small comfort?

Pi is still my favorite, I will follow him wherever he goes. I love Ryo, but Eito is not my thing. I will listen to his solo songs, hope that now he can have a side solo career as well, and of course, I will watch him act, and hope he stops choosing bad projects (stick with stuff like Joker, please!). And I adore Massu and care for the other three, so of course, I'm still a HUGE NEWS fan, and I wish them the best!

I am kind of glad the end of the year is coming, though, my LJ layout is making me extremely sad :/

Weirdly enough, I can find NEWS songs in youtube now... I will share some of them here... (FUCKING DAMN IT, NO MORE SHARE!!! D:)



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Sigh. I'm gonna be in a funk over this. I knew it was gonna happen, but to think there's only so few concerts of them to watch, and there's not gonna be any more... this is seriously depressing...

As a side story to the amount of different stuff that have been going on in my life lately (my brother is out of trouble for now, I actually played *football* with my coworkers the other day even though I still have an awful cold, half the country went without light for two hours last saturday, students all over the country have been on strike since may, and yeah, work is driving me crazy!), in fandom-life, I've been trying to watch Rookie Blue.

I gave this show a go when it first came out because Gregory Smith is in it. I mean, if I give shows and movies a go just because Chris Pratt is in them, why not do the same for Ephram, right? (sigh, I miss Everwood. More exactly, I miss Bright, and his awesome wisdom when it came to Ephram!). Anyway, I couldn't stand more than one episode of the show. It' was just too... basic. Stereotypical characters in stereotypical situations, it was too much, so even when it was Ephram and a Canandian show, I said NO.

But some friends talked about it in their blogs, so I gave it a go again, during its second season. In the end, it was a big NO once again, because damn the dialogue and the script are too predictable and I have a huge distaste for shows with one main character getting all the attention from the writers, even when the show is suppose to be about him or her. Andy is just too annoying to stand as a lead character in this group of young and eager police probies trying to protect and serve and whatever.

The good thing about trying to stomach that show is that it made me go back to the one police show I feel real respect for, Third Watch. Damn, I miss that show. Only a handful of shows have had a real sense of what to do with an ensemble cast like that show did... not to mention work on giving the characters both storylines AND development, and the seasons had episodic and season-long plots. It's true that the last few seasons were too focused on the police side of things, but the first three seasons? GOLD.

And I came to realize why is it that I have a thing for fictional assholes with big hearts, like Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy. My favorite characters in TW were Bosco and in second place Carlos. One was an insensitive moron and the other an egotistical jerk. But the show explained so well why they both were like that, it was hard not to like them anyway, specially when they were used to go further on serious debates in the most introspective episodes.

Bosco: Nobody thinks I got feelings.
Faith: Bosco. That's not fair. You have feelings, you just have them buried somewhere in a shallow grave in Jersey.

Doc: Everything working out with Carlos?
Alex: Guy's a moron.
Doc: Yeah, well he is definitely an acquired taste.

TW was a lot like ER, but I think ER lasted too long, and TW was too damned short. Plus, ER felt really crowded because all the action happened in one place, while TW made the district the policemen, paramedics and firemen move around in a character in the story as well.

I couldn't find much clips of the show out there, but at least these few vids found their way to youtube:



( Two more of Bosco, one dramatic, the other fun! )

I'm specially enjoying the third season now. It had, I feel, the best tribute to what happened during the US 9/11. It was heart breaking, but well done, and the fallout of it was sad but appropriate. Plus, for all the drama it had, particularly with Bosco's PTSD, it also gave me Carlos and Ty living together, AFTER Carlos thought Ty was gay, and both of them being awfully domestic, with Carlos' baby included in the mix (and Alex, though Carlos didn't know that half the time. Damn, I miss Alex... she got Carlos to act so bitchy sometimes, I loved her for that).

I'm just reccing this show, I guess. Most police/emergency shows right now are so episodic in nature, so focused in one group of people following around one or two carismaric or quirky character. Some of those shows are fun, I'll admit to that, but for someone who enjoys shows for the story itself AND the way the plot and characters are constructed to be able to tell the story, I feel like there are not enough shows like TW anymore. It had characters we could relate with and well constructed situations where the characters acted around and *grew*. I miss it and I love it.

Carlos: So, um, let me get this straight. You thought that you were gonna die from eating too many antacid tablets?
Kathy: That won't kill me?
Carlos: Maybe if you're eating them when you're walking out into traffic -...
Holly: Carlos!
Carlos: - -or something. Um, actually, you shouldn't exceed the recommended dose of any medication unless you first consult your physician.
Kathy: Even if I'm just taking them to get high?
Carlos: Especially then.

Bosco: I'm telling you. If they gave me the power to decide who lives and who dies, the world would be a better place.
Sully: Bosco as God.
Bosco: Morons shouldn't have drivers' licenses.
Faith: Worse... Bosco as the DMV.
Ty: Isn't that a lateral move?

So... september.

You know, september is a pretty nice month. The weather finally starts to warm up, there are flowers everywhere, I am NOT allergic, so I don't have any problem with it, there's more light out, the "anniversary" of the country is around that time, so people are in a festive mood...

But then again, the anniversary of the coup d'etat that sent my country to hell for 17 years and then some is this month.

And both Claudia's birthday (today) and her death day are this month as well.

And because of that, I can't help but hate this month.

It's not like I'm sad the 30 days of the month, but the same way that everything happy that happens in april I take it as a sign of good luck because is my birth month, and that every crappy thing that happens I try not to take to heart because it's my birth month, the complete opposite happens in september, and every crappy thing gets special focus because it's the month from hell!

Like, for example, we had a scary moment the last weeks from august, when my mom started felling like crap and had to be taken to the ER and got an emergency surgery because the doctors found a huge tumor and they couldn't really tell how big of a deal was it and where did it come from but it was better to take it out immediately. In the end, it wasn't one huge tumor, there were three smaller ones. Luckily, they were benign, but we didn't know that until a week after, for between the awfully quick surgery and the week after, it was a mess to deal with.

An a weeks after that, my mom starts feeling like crap again, and she has to go to the ER, AGAIN. As it turns out, the pain she felt wasn't because of the tumors, it was back pain, she's getting old and she has issues with her back and she always will, from now on. Of course, that's not nice but something you can deal with, but first I had to see my mom cry in frustration after the doctors treated her horribly because they couldn't figure out what was the problem and no one wanted to take responsibility for her.

Most of this happened in august, but the sentiment is ALL september. Because damn it, if I can't do nothing about it, I can at least try to feel better blaming a stupid month from everything bad that happens around it. It's a lot more healthy than any other alternative for me.

If I had written this any other day, maybe I wouldn't be so moody. I've been too busy to be sad or angry. Last friday I was actually happy and giddy, when I went to see the X-Japan concert (WE ARE X!!!), but today...

Today is Claudia's non-birthday. It's been eight years. And the biggest thing that bugs me is that, if she were alive today, we probably would have drifted apart and only be facebook friends. Instead, she dies, and ends up being the only person to get her own tag in my LJ because I'm stuck thinking about her every september.

But her birthday also tells me that half of the month is already gone, thankfully. And thanks to the national celebrations, I'll get to drink on her behalf more often than it's probably healthy. Hence, my headache right now.

Gabriel Valdes died today.

Damn.

Have I mention that I fucking HATE september?