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[07 Sep 2008|10:25pm] |
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So. I kind of collect journals. I don't mean to, but then I'm in the bookstore just browsing, and, oh, that's pretty, and next thing I know... Also, people buy them for me a lot. ♥! JOURNALS!
I actually do write in them. Sometimes they sit around a bit while I try to figure out what to use them for, but they all get used.
I've fairly recently discovered a new, uh, brand, I guess, of journals! Paperblanks! (ooh, look, they have a site!) Aniko bought me one like this (ha! I couldn't get a decent picture with my digital camera, but Amazon has it!) for my birthday/Christmas, and I didn't do much with it until June, but even before then it was very pretty and I liked the texture of the pages, and I liked the weight of it. Aaand I was in Borders on Wednesday (seriously, the second half of my first class was dedicated to browsing in a bookstore. HOW AWESOME IS THAT?). We were supposed to pick up a book relating to the class (which I did), and then grab a journal. I already have a journal for the designated purpose (dream recording), but I followed orders like a good little minion and went rummaging around in the journals section... and I found THIS, and it is so pretty and and and. I had to buy it. I HAD TO.
IT JUMPED OFF THE SHELF AND LATCHED ONTO ME. I COULDN'T PRY IT OFF. WHAT ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO?
And I'm totally going back and picking up this one and this one at some point, too. (I HAS 5 DOLLAR COUPON FROM SPENDING MONIES ON BOOKS, ALSO, SO. SAVINGS! well, no, not really, since I had to spend quite a bit to get said coupon...)
(But, hey, if you like journals, too, see if you can find one for yourself. They're lovely~)
Anyway, I've been using it to record my thoughts on That Thing that's been eating at me, which I keep on mentioning vaguely (see, it's not that I don't trust you guys, it's just that this is a really sensitive subject for me, and I know I'll probably react poorly to almost any reaction - or lack thereof - to it, given time to mull over it, so I'm not going to put it up here. If you really want details, bother me over AIM or through email or something.), and I think it's helping, at least somewhat. I can at least get my thoughts out in a semi-coherent manner and sort them, without leaving it open for just anyone.
...Jecca, just anyone could pick it up and open it. Just because it isn't posted online... Oho, you underestimate me! I'm sure I've mentioned once or twice that I have my own writing... I've been using this. (I happen to think it looks pretty. It makes my handwriting - which, as some of you have seen, is pretty darned awful - look less ridiculous and illegible than it normally does. And it's not something just anyone can read. Unless you can read it, in which case I'm a bit off the mark, there.)
I finally allowed the stupid pop-up to update me to Firefox 3, and I'm not sure I like some of the changes they've made. The address bar, for one, thinks it is being helpful by drawing from the page title. NO, WHEN I TYPE "t" I EXPECT THE TOP OPTION TO BE MY JOURNAL, NOT ... whatever the heck it is this time! STOP IT. grrrr. (Oh, dear, I've just outed myself as an impossibly lazy web surfer, haven't I?)
ALSO: Potentially good news for me, less so for at least half of you scrolling past this. I think my bizarre and sudden NOT TALKING TO YOU bout with the Transformers fandom may be coming to an end. (I don't even know what brought it on. I just woke up one morning too annoyed at it to even consider dealing with any of it.)
Thank goodness. I have missed my giant robots. Also it's been like, what, two months? Surely something interesting has happened in my absence...
ALSO ALSO: crud, Jade and Okame are scratching at my brain. They don't bother me much, but when they do, I pretty much cannot ignore them. Normally this isn't a problem, because normally I can write. Unfortunately, I am not capable of such things at the moment. DAMN YOU, CREATIVITY.
ALSO ALSO ALSO: OH MY GOD I HATE TVTROPES you can tell i love you by my decision to not include a link to it in here MAKE IT STOP
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| Woot! |
[05 Sep 2008|10:15pm] |
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I am officially in the GOING TO MEXICO IN JANUARY class! \o/ (I will gladly buy trinkets for / send postcards to people while there!)
For now, though, I am bored and miserably hot. My mother's run off again, and my wrist hurts but it's way too warm to wear the support for it. Some days I desperately wish we had air conditioning. If it were not so gross out, I'd probably do something. Instead, I am typing on LJ and being boooored. The only thing keeping me from ruining my brain on more Supernatural is the knowledge that if I blast through season 3, then I'll have nothing but schoolwork to entertain me until who-knows-when. (Actually, if I continue at my pace of one episode a day, I'll finish on the day before season 4 starts, but whether or not I'll be watching it as it airs... well... that depends entirely on how many shows my father is recording this time around.)
Oh, hey, right, so, I finally got around to seeing The DRK Dark Knight.
( Spoilers, though everyone's seen it by now, anyway )
Also: FFXI version update is MONDAY. WHY NOT TODAY? I am so excited for it! Though Monday is a bit annoying in that I'll be at classes all afternoon. Jazz dancing and then dissection of sheep eyeballs, and if that isn't a startling and abrupt change of tone then I don't really know what is.
Anyway, mostly this means I can't update until 10 at night and it might take a while. Hopefully it'll finish before midnight so I can go to bed on time. COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH? CHECK.
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| I DON'T TRUST YOU, SE |
[03 Sep 2008|10:06pm] |
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WHY ARE YOU BEING NICE
WHY ARE YOU LISTENING TO THE PLAYERBASE
WHAT IS THIS WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING
I AM ON TO YOU!!!
...Only you, SquareEnix, can so frighten the players by being nice and doing things they've wanted since the dawn of time in Vana'diel.
Now, seriously, what evil or WTF-inducing thing are you about to spring on us? The suspense is killing me.
Edit:
I mentioned my Supernatural DVD set came with a tiny Impala, right? So, I am bored. And talking to Aniko. And have just finished putting stuff back on my desk (had to clear it off to clean a bit). (So now it has TF:A Blackarachnia, Alt Mirage, Cybertron/Primus, some books, my PS2, and a stack of papers.)
And I have a tiny Impala in my hands and no idea what to do with it....
( ADVENTURES OF TEENY IMPALA )
I am not sure why she puts up with me sometimes.
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| ... that's convenient. |
[02 Sep 2008|11:00am] |
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I was about to go off about how it's very, very annoying that I'm out of episodes and Season 3 isn't out yet, but...
It is September 2nd.
And, ha, I already have plans to drive into town to drop some papers off at school. Just waiting on my mother to get back from her meeting. If I take an alternate route, Best Buy is pretty much on the way home from the campus.
Anyway, I'd like to restate Dean's phenomenal stupidity, but considering how he appears to have some ridiculous self-worth issues, I'm not going to, because reassurances of my own idiocy certainly wouldn't help me.
... Later: ALRIGHT, LOOK, COMPUTER-THAT-IS-HOOKED-UP-TO-THE-PRINTER. TURN ON SO I CAN PRINT THAT EXTREMELY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
This is doubly important, because if you won't turn on so I can print, I have no excuse to go to town.
Wheeeeere is my mother? Maybe they did something to it and didn't remember to tell me. Maybe the computer is not actually broken.
Edit again:
According to my brother, neither of my parents have been able to get the thing on. So now I get to play "wedge self into tiny space and try to find where the printer is plugged in so that I can unplug it"! Joy.
Final edit:
Jecca was, indeed, wise enough to NOT uninstall her printer when it was moved downstairs to become the family printer. Laptop = day saver! \o/
Also, the DVDs came with a tiny Impala. I... am not sure why! It surprised me! So now I have a tiny black car I can push across my desk. Maybe I'll have it run over some of the other random stuff on my desk. ... RUN, MIRAGE. YOU'RE THE ONLY NON SCHOOL-RELATED THING ON MY DESK RIGHT NOW. (And considering the other car that moved itself was an evil ghost car... well...) (Also I have finally gone and added Supernatural-related things to my interests section. JECCA, CAN'T YOU LEAVE IT ALONE FOR EVEN JUST TWO DAYS?
CLEARLY NOT.)
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| COR through the 'dooms'! |
[31 Aug 2008|10:32pm] |
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Have I mentioned it? Did you know there was a time you could type "Valkurm" into Google and in the search results, it'd pop up, "Did you mean "HELL"?" Wish I'd saved a screenshot so badly.
Supernatural's 'Houses of the Holy' versus Jecca's memories of Doctor Who's 'Blink' .... FIGHT! I don't care that none of them were weeping. I'm just glad that whole scene in the room with the statues wasn't too long.
Also, I've discovered, entirely by accident, that I am able to take screencaps! Bwaha! I thought FRAPS only snapped from FFXI, but I opened my screenshots folder to sort them to my external hard drive and there were, somehow, Supernatural images in with them. How confusing! I'd seen FRAPS take shots from WinAMP, but that had only happened while I was playing, and I assumed it was because I have WinAMP set to always be on top. I have not been playing FFXI and watching Supernatural at the same time (man, that'd be hard), but I have been talking over IM, and I have, on occasion, used the \ key, which is set to save an image.
(A bit relatedly, and amusingly, my mother made extreme woe-faces at me this evening when I informed her I had decided to stop waiting for her to have time. I assured her I'd be willing to watch it with her, anyway.)
Unrelated, that Ecco is featured on TV Tropes under the video game section of Nightmare Fuel (search the page for Ecco, as it's quite a ways down) amuses me so much. Also is a bit of a relief, because IT'S ALL SO TRUUUEE. I swear I wasn't the one to add it. (Oh, it actually has its own page, too! Cool.)
That Silent Hill isn't really listed on that page also amuses me, though obviously for very different reasons.
Edit:
Re: 'Born Under a Bad Sign' at about the halfway point: Saaaaaam. *weeeeeeeep* Clearly it must not be what they're trying to make us think it is, but I WEEEEEEEEP.
(I mean, I am despairing for both of them, but considering the potential/problem here...)
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| Follow up. |
[27 Aug 2008|09:09pm] |
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Immediate crisis resolved. No one has died. No one has broken down in hysterics. We'll see how it continues to pan out. Hopefully well?
Edit:
Dean Winchester is a phenomenally stupid man.
Just puttin' that out there.
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| Weeding the profile. |
[26 Aug 2008|04:57pm] |
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I've been cleaning out a few of my Interests (mostly generic stuff) and, yes, adding a few more in, and I'm... not sure if these two were always next to each other or if this is the result of me removing something, but the fact that "oh no mitochondria!" and "omigod i'm on fire!" are right next to each other very nearly killed me just now.
Have you played (or read, since it's a book, too) (OR SEEN, AS IT IS ALSO A MOVIE, WHICH I DID NOT KNOW!) Parasite Eve? You probably won't get the joke if you aren't familiar with Parasite Eve...
(That they were entered at different times and completely unrelated to each other makes this all the more amusing.)
Edit:
adsfhgljhk life. If I survive to the end of the week, instead of exploding in a ball of mess, I will be amazed. I just. Cannot. Incoherency now. The problem with asking for advice here is I can't tell half the story, so I can't, really.
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| Oh, wait, I remember this... |
[25 Aug 2008|12:09am] |
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Something about.... something about hemming on black fabric with black thread... something important....
Oh, yes.
THAT I WAS NEVER GOING TO DO IT EVER AGAIN IF I COULD AT ALL AVOID IT.
adwgfehsugeljkh;h *is blind from eyestrain*
Also, I like how I decide to set myself up with busywork to keep my brain occupied and instead find myself stitching mindlessly. Gogo distraction? FAIL. nrg.
I am so sick of all my icons. Maybe I'll go through and purge some and put in some new ones or put in for paid time, I don't know. Tomorrow.
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| GLEE! |
[24 Aug 2008|12:45am] |
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GUESS WHO GOT NINJA TO LEVEL 37 TONIGHT AND NOW NEVER HAS TO LEVEL IT EVER AGAIN!
EEE!
I just need to get the level 30 and the level 37 scrolls and then I never even have to use it as my main ever again!
I'm done! I'M FINALLY DONE WITH NINJA. (Heck, this is the first time I've finished any job.)
IT IS GONE IT IS GONE IT IS GONE I AM SO, SO HAPPY omg
Even though I now owe Aniko 55k - down to 37 now - and need to figure out how I'm going to go about obtaining a scroll of Utsusemi: Ni...
Also now I'm going to go pass out. So tired. @.@
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| I survived ME. |
[23 Aug 2008|02:08pm] |
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Maine is back to being a place where I am not! Exciting day. Except not really? We got off late (of course, of course) and I drove for like four hours (which is a long time to be driving, okay), then my father finished the last leg, and he and my mother got irritable about my directions to Aniko's house. WHAT IS LEFT. WAIT IS SAYS ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE TOWN THERE IS A POST OFFICE, DOES THAT MEAN FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE TOWN OR FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE POST OFFICE (seriously, what? Fifteen minutes after the town means exactly that. 'That' being, after the town).
WAIT YOU SAID IT'S A HOUSE MAKE UP OF THIS SORT OF MATERIAL. DOES THAT MEAN IT'S MADE OF THAT MATERIAL OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE?
My parents are slightly lunatic when they do not have completely exact directions to something (though they refused to use the directions I'd printed out for them, too, so I don't really know what they're really on about. Possibly they are just, you know, completely mad).
AND THEN WE SPENT A FUN TIME ANNOYING ANIKO. And watching her bird do flips and possibly a lot of time mocking and taunting said bird by not even coming quite close enough for it to bite us. (It is carnivorous, apparently.) There was a hilarious bit where my dog (who'd been brought along, I don't know why) approached the cage and he and the bird had kind of a face off. He's come close, the bird'd go for his nose, and he'd back off, but then he'd walk up again. I wish I'd caught it on camera.
Then we got back in the car and drove for the coast to find Mom her lobster. WE HAD LOBSTER. IT WAS... LOBSTERY. And then, since my parents are TOO COOL to find a motel that allows pets beforehand, we started driving with the intention of either finding one or going all the way back home. SO YES. We got back around 2 am this morning. wtfparents.
Here are most of the few photos I did take (since most of the day I was driving, there are none from the trip to ME, and none from hanging around bothering Aniko, and then none from the drive home because we left at like 9 at night and it's, you know, dark at that time). They are all from near where we ate, and are pretty much all of the ocean and/or the rocks leading down to it.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
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| I told me so. |
[21 Aug 2008|10:50pm] |
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If I am wildly distraught over Something at any point between Monday morning and Wednesday extended to Thursday evening, I would like everyone in the world to tell me, "Well, you did think it was a bad idea."
Because I just know this is going to end in blood and tears and pain and general unhappiness on all counts, but I'm going and doing it anyway.
(This has been a bad idea since all of time, but especially so since this last Monday. Oh, god, what am I doing?)
...Possibly I am going over there and being sick all over the place now.
BAD TIME TO BE ILL, JECCA, M'DEAR, YOU HAVE TO RIDE IN A CAR FOR FIVE+ HOURS TOMORROW. It'll be fun! Worry about this later!
Now where are all the funguar? I only need one more Dark Crystal to make a stack, and I'm only 150 experience from level 12. I STOP AT 12. Come on, Ronfaure, I know there are funguar here.
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| FFXI/Pandemonium Warden makes (Y!)news. |
[20 Aug 2008|10:03pm] |
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Whoops.
(Alternately: Squeenix makes new tough monster, players hate.
Not that that's new.)
(I like how Absolute Virtue taking even longer is completely ignored.)
Edit for links: Pandemonium Warden and Absolute Virtue at the FFXI wiki, for the curious.
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| ALL THE FISHIES IN THE DEEP BLUE .... ME. |
[19 Aug 2008|11:31pm] |
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ME, Maine, the state. Not me, the person. Silly coma-induced figments of my imagination! There are not fishes in Jecca! (... or if there are, she doesn't know about them.) Also, Jecca is not deep blue, though she was told once that her aura was blue.
MY MOTHER, SHE WANTS TO EAT THE LOBSTER. The lobster is better in Maine. (Probably on account of Maine having, you know, an ocean coast?) On Friday, we attack at dawn! And we stop in to see ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ineptmagicuser, because we can and it's what all the weird people do. Then we go to Portland or something and eat seafood, spend the night somewhere, and head home again Saturday morning.
Just to eat dinner! I don't know, it seems a bit excessive, but hopefully it will be fun.
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| Scary roads! |
[19 Aug 2008|12:13pm] |
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In the past three days, I have nearly been sideswiped by someone in the other lane crossing over the yellow line no less than five times.
If I randomly stop updating, assume it is because I was finally hit and have been killed or put into a coma and sent back in time or something.
AND SO CONCLUDES TODAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT.
(Also, I woke up this morning at 5 am and promptly freaked out about a multitude of things, still none of which should have qualified as freak-out inducers. FUN. At this point, I'm not entirely convinced I haven't been struck and am, in fact, already in a coma and having a bizarre dream.)
... (ARE YOU ALL JUST FIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION??)
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| Oh, life. |
[18 Aug 2008|05:45pm] |
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So, I've not mentioned, but my parents have been away for the past while. They're getting back in a few hours. Family reunion/birthday party/thingamathing, in Maryland. My brother and I did not go, because we don't know the people who are there, because we have work and I was supposed to have classes for some of it, and because PLEASE JUST I NEED SOME TIME TO NOT BE RUNNING AROUND AAAUGH and because like hell am I spending three days in a car driving all over New England looking at scenery because my father wanted to take the extremely long way. I told Mom that if the police call to tell me one or both of my parents are dead, I'd understand and we wouldn't judge her. She was very grateful.
But it's been exciting while they've been gone! Something new is wrong with the dog, the lawn mower broke (again, we just had the stupid thing fixed), my brother was aggro'd by a wasp and I had to tell him how/help to treat it, then a wasp came into the house (apparently not done with him), there was a daddy-longlegs the size of, I don't know, Africa or something in the bathroom (SERIOUSLY, AT LEAST AS BIG AS MY PALM), but then it migrated to the stairwell (and now it's disappeared), there was a massive spider in the sink in the upstairs bathroom, the moth eggs on the kitchen window hatched, life threw a major curveball at my head, but the only surprising parts about it were the ones you wouldn't think were surprising (ha, the typically surpising bit ... wasn't. Okay, part of it was slightly. Mostly it was awkward and a bit embarrassing, oh, dear) (AND OF COURSE the parts that reasonably could be freaking me out aren't and the ones that really shouldn't are. Self, you are so uselessly inept at everything), and a bunch of other bizarre stuff (like it hasn't rained the entire time they've been gone. This is a record for Days It Has Not Rained This Summer). Also I stole my brother's .dat swap to make Mithra stand in the better position.
I think mostly I was posting because "wasp aggro" sounds funny. SO YES. Today my brother was stung by a wasp while trying to mow the lawn, after the good mower broke. We took broken mower + wasp sting as signs of divine intervention and decided he was not supposed to be mowing. So he stopped.
The wasp that came crawling in (literally) is still trapped under a cup on the floor. Actually, it hasn't been moving. I think it might be dead.
ALSO NABIKI WAS JUST NOW EATEN TO DEATH BY A VERY SCARY NOTORIOUS MONSTER. Then it came and air-swam at me, but then we docked in Nashmau right as it came to murder me and I LIVE! bwaha.
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| Delicious. |
[15 Aug 2008|12:04am] |
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I had plans! But then I spent the evening watching my brother play through the entirety of Portal instead, because who can resist GLaDOS? We have cake downstairs. We ate cake after he played. Because we could.
I'm fairly certain I haven't mentioned it before (didn't talk about Portal much, did I? I don't have a tag for it, so I must not have), but - for those of you who've played both Portal and Silent Hill - I can't be the only one seeing a resemblance. You know. Rusty, broken down... massive fans... no one around, but lots of signs that there had been people there, once... Doom... It's creepy, okay, even my brother thinks so.
I bought him a copy of Hellgate: London the other day because he asked me to. Also, I picked up a used and extremely cheap copy of Drakengard because I have a vague recollection of someone saying something favorable about it, but I can't remember who or what. 5$, I wasn't going to argue.
I'm exhausted. I woke up freakishly early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so then I went downstairs and tried dyeing fabric with tea. It wasn't dark enough, so I tried again later in the afternoon, after it had dried out, and then it was too dark to tell (since the lighting in my house is horrible) properly by the time the fabric had dried out again.
And I either hallucinated a conversation with Aniko or she completely forgot it, honestly not sure which at this point. Tired.
Suspect something else is wrong with dog again, will talk to mother about it if she calls.
Animals. Saw a young robin dead in the grass by a tree this morning. I was very sad. When I walked back after checking the tomatoes and artichoke plants, it had moved, so it apparently wasn't dead, it just did a good job of faking. Then it was hopping around a bit. I took its picture but don't have any uploaded yet, too tired to do it now.
Got my DRK to 30. So happy. Now RDM to 25 and NIN to 37, and then maybe WAR, too, and ugh that list is too long and full of jobs I don't like. I actually enjoyed DRK, and I like WAR, but DRK's as high as I need and I don't need WAR, either, and ergh. Though RDM's not necessary, either, I just decided to, and I can take THF to 67 before I have to actually worry about nin again, and 67's probably not ever happening, ha, so, um. God, I hate leveling ninja. Hisi thf says stabby. Me sleep? Sleep good. I don't remember why I started this entry but I'm going to post it anyway, because if I'm suffering, you have to suffer, too. G'night.
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| Be my mirror, my sword and shield. |
[11 Aug 2008|11:38pm] |
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I swear I don't listen to this song as often as the [music] field would lead you to believe.
I registered for classes this morning! IT WILL BE A FUN SEMESTER. Yaaay! And, at this moment in time, anyway, I will be going to Mexico in January. I speak very little Spanish, but the guy in charge does speak it, so.
( Moments of conversation amusement because I feel like sharing. )
Oh! Otakon was this weekend! I miss anime conventions and cosplaying(/making an idiot of myself). Anyway, I decided to go browsing around and see how the con went, and - me being the link-clicky happy person that I am - I ended up going through some archives of previous Otakons.
AND AAAAUGH WHAT IS THAT. WHAT. WHAT. I found a picture of myself in my Quistis costume! It weirded me out. (The thing is, shortly after that convention, it occurred to me that we hadn't really taken any photos of any of us in our costumes, so I actually went looking for some. I didn't find any and I was sad. BUT THERE IS ONE. I HAVE ONE NOW. YAY!)
It's not the final version, so the belt is hanging a bit funny, and the chains aren't as nice as the current ones, but it really doesn't look awful. But I've always been very proud of it. (And the Yuna one. I found a picture - well, several - of our Yuna, too.) I had someone tell me once I had the best Quistis costume they'd ever seen and for once I actually believed a compliment given to me.
(I don't think I have any of the current version! mysticeden, did you get one at Anime Boston? I don't know/remember.)
I saved the photo but I'm not going to post it unless anyone actually wants to see it, 'cause I'm a wuss.
Possibly I want to get some people together and go to Otakon again next year. IT WOULD BE AWESOME.
... WHO IS WITH ME?
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| Acts of GENIUS. |
[10 Aug 2008|09:46pm] |
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Today I went blueberry picking!
....... in the middle of a thunderstorm.
...ha. Um.
Funny coincidence-thing: it started storming right as we arrived, just opened up and poured. I'm so sick of the rain. I'm so sick of the thunder. We only had an hour before I had to leave for work, and, honestly, was twenty minutes too much to ask for? Was it really too much for it to NOT POUR for twenty minutes?? Please? ... Pretty please?
Of course, I was saying this out loud in the middle of the blueberry bushes. (My mother had run for shelter.)
... but then the rain lightened up and it only lightly drizzled for the next - yes - twenty minutes. Exactly twenty minutes.
Then there was a massive crack of thunder and we left.
So what we learned today is that I CAN CONTROL THE WEATHER!
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| At least it's not too expensive... |
[10 Aug 2008|12:25am] |
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Amazon's mp3 library is probably one of the worst things that has ever happened to my wallet. (Well, uh. THIS ONE WAS FREE, AT LEAST. Don't look at me.) (I think I need to just stop browsing YouTube for music videos, because then the amount of new pretty music I encounter will drop off by at least half...)
TODAY WAS MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY. She made a cake and it failed miserably*, so then she made a second cake, which came out nice until she dumped a lot of icing on it, and then it ... kind of collapsed in on itself. It was hilarious and I'm not entirely sure why. You could literally watch it slowly slump more and more... We ended up scraping it all back off and putting it in a bowl. So now you have to put it back on if you want any.
* While I was at work, my brother and my mother put half of the first cake in the blender and made "cake balls." (The second half followed later that night, and then Mom melted chocolate all over them. STRANGELY DELICIOUS.)
This morning I had a melting-brain moment. Mother was talking about how she likes a radio bit - think it's called World Cafe? - and how they play pretty much anything. They went from a pretty foreign language song to "Love Shack" right then, so I laughed and said, "Yeah, that's quite different."
Except it came out as "that's quite that's quite that's quite that's quite that's quite that's quite - different." It was the strangest thing. I could not stop repeating myself. Then I went around all day feeling extremely off my mental balance.
ALSO JUST ONCE I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A DAY AT WORK WHERE MY CUSTOMERS DO NOT EITHER (a) CONFUSE ME TERRIBLY OR (b) MAKE ME WANT TO MURDER SOMETHING.
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