Duel in the hallway

And so begins the exciting day of no water in my building at work. This will continue until Thursday, but I think I'll come in then instead of Wednesday so the water will be back on. Depends on how annoying I find trekking to the building across the street to use the restrooms.

I came in this morning (survived the wretched sewer smell outside... dunno what that's all about) and saw that somebody must've been having a duel in the front hallway. Miki was one of them, by the looks of it, and he must have lost, because there were light blue rose petals all over the floor.

What IS it with finding random roses on the floor when I enter a place?*

Anyway, I was playing FFX yesterday, and got so frustrated with how long it was going to take me to get Hastega (which probably wouldn't have helped me beat Seymour Fucking Flux anyway) that I decided to play FFIX instead. OMFG, the nostalgia. This is the game that caitirin and I played during the majority of our figuring-out-feelings-for-one-another, so I associate it with being deliriously happy that I was able to hang out with her. We'd play into the middle of the night sometimes. It was also my first Final Fantasy game, so the way everything (battle system, skills, equipping) works is kind of imprinted on my brain as the "right" way. I feel like it's a much simpler system, too, and because the graphics are less advanced, I can easily navigate the menus and stuff without being distracted by how shiny and cluttered the menus/battle screens are in later games. And it took me a long time with other games to stop calling Limit Break "Trance" *laughs* Though I guess "Limit Break" is FFVII? In FFX, it's Overdrive. I don't remember what it is in XIII, but I really like the concept of Trance. I just wish it were like Overdrive in that you could save it for whenever you wanted it. Eh.

At any rate, it gave me great joy to play FFIX. I think I beat Kuja the first time I played, though I'm not sure if I just saw caitirin do it (HA, I just automatically wrote RC, getting back into that mindset of a few years ago). The game I had saved was on a memory card that we sold, though, because we thought that they wouldn't work with PS2. I'm glad to start it over, anyway, because I wouldn't have been able to remember what was going on or where I was headed.

I still need to finish FFX. We spoiled ourselves on what happens so that caitirin could start FFX-2 and sort of know what was going on, and we found the end video sequence on YouTube, but I still need to know what happens before that. I'm never gonna beat Seymour T_T



*The same thing happened in high school. I walk into the French room, turn around, and there are a purple rose and a pink rose (fabric with pins) lying on the floor behind me. Not there when I walked in. I think I still have mine somewhere; the other one I dutifully pinned on x_pyewacket_x in case she had to duel *nods*

Foooood

I'm not even particularly hungry.

But the fact that this building was once a dining hall and is still used for catering is killing me.

About an hour ago, it smelled like charcoal-grilled hamburgers.

Now, it smells like brownies. Very pungent brownies.

T_T