So just live for the moment

I may regret this tomorrow

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:56:50 GMT

I was going to go to bed, and then I went, hey, I should update my LJ! Surely people want to know how my day went at half past two in the morning. Who needs the extra sleep? Certainly not someone who intends to marathon half a paper the next day!

That's the part I'm going to regret, I think.

That said, I think today went alright. The interview at SodaHead went down pretty well, I think - we might have issues with hours since they seem to want someone who can come in at around the same time every day and my schedule is set up with two and a half class days and two and a half free days, so we'll see how that works out. Demonstrating online proficiency, especially proficiency with the site, and being an English major helped me out, I think. Yay writing!

So yes. We'll see how that one goes.

The Gamma Phi Christmas party tonight was fun. Real casual affair up at the G Phi house - I spent half the night on a large pink beanbag, half asleep. I was bushed. I also saw Elf for the first time, which was...definitely interesting. Also, we did a Secret Santa! ...and mine wasn't there, so I'll have to track her down on campus sometime and get her her gift. Either way, the party was fun.

I swear, my littles coordinated on Christmas gifts. One of them gave me a silver bracelet with blue beads and hearts and such on it, and the other gave me one of those glass pendants that's on a few ribbons and cords - kind of like this, but a blue and white heart and blue cords. They collaborated, and now I have to figure out the secret to wearing pendants like that.

OH YES. LYNX. We should meet on Saturday to exchange stuffs, yes?

AND. COLIN. IM me sometime and we'll chat about musical shoutouts and such other things.

Why are the Woot shirts so awesome nowadays, seriously. I can't go buying two in a row - that would not be smart. That does not make it any less waaaaaant.

Look at me and my doubleposting self

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:24:45 GMT

Choir concert was a success! I am pleased. :3 Hopefully we can pick up a recording for it sometime next semester, because I'd love to have one.

I was very pleased with myself today! Monologue coaching went well, concert went well, no other classes aside from that, and the Christmas tree lighting was beautimous. Very very good day. Tomorrow is an interview with Sodahead.com, which is for an internets internship, which would be awesome. There is also a G Phi Christmas party, huzzah. Good times. :Db

And today's Woot shirt is awesome. Do want.

Oh hey um. Those who have read my EBA fic, I'm debating linking it on agentsarego. Y/N/M/WTF?

I suppose tonight's goal is to finish the post-structuralist paper and get sleep enough to be coherent tomorrow. Good times, good times.

I leave you with a bucketload of memes, because memes are fun:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, yamikonumber7 sent to me...

Twelve snakesonasoras drumming

Eleven viewtiful_jeffs writing

Ten drunkkitsunes a-reading

Nine heroes laughing

Eight scrubs a-singing

Seven books a-waitressing

Six prinnies a-roleplaying

Five do-o-o-onna andrews

Four tv shows

Three dresden files

Two kingdom hearts

...and a theatre in a kingdom hearts ii.

...is that the sporking theater, there?

In 2009, yamikonumber7 resolves to...

Stop roleplaying with eleventh_end.
Spend less time on shakespeare.
Give up waitressing.
Backup my bleach regularly.
Buy new heroes.
Drink four glasses of whedonverse every day.

B-but I love eleventh_end ;~; AND WHY WOULD I GIVE UP MY SUMMER JOB ~~unless I got a permanent or higher-paying job over the summer~~ These are some strange resolutions. So very bizarre.

Rules:
- Bold all of the following TV shows which you've ever seen 3 or more episodes of in your lifetime.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode of it.

24
7th Heaven
ALF
Alias
American Gothic
America's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Batman: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Brothers And Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Californication
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Chuck
Clarissa Explains it All
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
ER
Even Stevens
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Fringe
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Glee
Gossip Girl
Grey's Anatomy
Grange Hill
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Happy Days
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys
Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
Knight Rider
Knight Rider: 2008
Kung Fu
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order: SVU
Leverage
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
MASH
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
McLeods Daughters
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
Mystery Science Theater 3000
My Life As A Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Power Rangers
Press Gang
Prison Break
Private Practice
Privileged
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Pushing Daisies
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Sanctuary
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seaquest DSV
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South of Nowhere
South Park
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Starsky & Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Amazing Race
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Office (US)
The Office (UK)
The Powerpuff Girls
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Unfabulous
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Weeds
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Xena: Warrior Princess
The L Word

Kind of an eclectic mix there, huh. A lot of these are shows I watched with my family - we have a habit of discussing thing while they're airing. Yay family time. |Db

OH YEAH, ROCKAPELLA CONCERT ON SUNDAY! SOOOOOO STOKED *A*

One important thing and one not so important thing

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:13:29 GMT

I take these surveys for a company called NPDOR, and at the end they let you enter sweepstakes to win prizes. A few days ago, I won the "$250 gift to charity" prize. I thought they'd let me choose what charity I wanted, but evidently there's a set choice list. Seeing as neither Campfire USA nor Camp Laurel are on the list, I thought I'd leave it up to you all.

View Poll: Charity Gift!

I figure I'll leave the poll open for a few days and then reply to the prize company with the charity with the highest votes. Good times. |Db

Also, there is new fic at en_ecrivant. Someone was derp enough to write an EBA/Glee crossover. Yeah. |Db

RANDOMIZER: EPISODE 20

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:36:42 GMT

I'm so glad to be doing this again after missing a week for Thanksgiving. |D The episode is here, and per usual:

PLEASE LISTEN~! ♥

SO GUESS WHO WAS ILL AGAIN LAST NIGHT

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:52:39 GMT

Same thing again: bit of nausea, massive bout of chills, inability to sleep because of the former two items. I've been having a great past couple of days, let me tell you. I made an appointment with the Student Health Center this morning. Two hours and $120 later, they told me I'm slightly dehydrated and stressed the hell out and that's what's causing everything. Yee-friggin-haw. I skipped out on Lit Theory today, and hopefully I'll be well enough to get to choir, especially since our concert is on Thursday and it would reall suck to work on music all semester and then miss that. On top of that, working-on-paper-tiems were precluded by sick-tiems and going-to-see-the-doctor-tiems, so that still needs to happen. At some point. Yay.

I think I need another vacation. One where I'll actually be able to sleep and not worry about things.

I WAS FROZEN TODAY

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:50:22 GMT

Actually, I wound up with a bad case of the chills. Turns out not sleeping well for a week plus jet lag plus missing a meal plus venting one's spleen at one's sibling's romantic interests is really bad for your health. DO NOT WORRY, CITIZENS: I recovered enough to fly and I am now back at Pepperdine, putting off seven pages of rough draft due at two pm tomorrow.

Nobody ever said I was smart. |D

That said, it looks like a lot of my flist has come down with something disagreeable, whether it be a bad cold, a bad case of stress, or some homicidal mixture of the two. I intend to fix this!

Or. You know. Provide a distraction. I'm good at that.

D'AWWWW LOOK AT THE CUTE DISTRACTION ♥

And now I trundle off to stare at seven pages of rough draft and urge them to write themselves. Feel better, all ♥

Hey! You! I DON'T LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:08:00 GMT

I feel as though I need to preface this, so here's the preface:

I love coming home, even if I get less sleep here than I do at Pepperdine - a result of me being a night owl and my parents being early birds. I love my family, and spending time with them. I love my parents. I love my brothers.

I cannot stand my brother's girlfriend.

Her name's Rachel and she's been dating him for two years, not counting the "intermission" when we thought they'd broken up for good. She's younger than I am by about a year, which weirds the hell out of me. She dropped out of college and quit her job at Red Lobster, where she makes more in a shift than I make at On the Border in a week, because she "didn't like it." In this economy. Yeah. She can be standoffish and immature and she brings out the absolute worst in Ryan, my older brother who is unfortunately dating her.

I mean, this is the girl who will come over for dinner and not say a word that's not whispered/giggled/tittered to Ryan, then complain to him later that we "never tried to talk to her." If any of you have met my mother, you know she is incredibly social with whoever her kids bring home. She treats them like family and includes them in conversation as best she can. Rachel saying she's not included is just damn stupid. I think part of the reason I don't like her is because I don't know her. Neither do any of the rest of my family. Ryan, of course, always takes her side. He's kind of blind when he's dating someone, even if they're flat crazy. It's why he dated Anna for so long, although she got so bad that by the end even he recognized that she was batshit. We were all calling her Crazy Anna by the end, and we still do.

It says something that, whenever I think of Rachel, my mind immediately goes "Anna- wait no different name." I've nearly typed Anna three times already when I meant Rachel. Gigantic repeated Freudian slip what. Every time I accidentally type Anna instead of Rachel, I'm striking it out. Let's see how many times I do this.

I suppose I should lay some of this out in a coherent manner, yes? Let's just chat about ~~Anna~~ Rachel's goings-on since I've been home.

She's gotten angry that we didn't invite her to Patrick's birthday dinner last night. Patrick is my little brother. It was kind of a family affair.

She's gotten angry that we didn't invite her on our family vacation to Hawaii over Christmas break. What.

Supposedly, Ryan hasn't been hanging out with her as much as of late, which made us happy...until ~~Anna~~ Rachel called him last night at 1:30 a.m., saying she'd been at a party and was drunk and could not get home because her ride had left and could he please come get her. After most everyone in the house is asleep. He goes to Mom and Dad, wakes them up, tells them where he's going, and leaves. He stays with her and doesn't come back until 7:30 in the morning. In the meantime, Mom and Dad, who are light sleepers and have trouble crashing out once woken up, never go back to sleep. Today was nap day, it seems.

Tonight, we went to the Air Force basketball game (We won! Despite terrible referees, but what do you expect from the Mountain West conference, really). ~~Anna~~ Rachel got a ticket with Ryan, so she could come with. When she came over to the house beforehand, Mom invited her to come sit with everyone in the family room. She refused. A few minutes later, Mom tried again. Another refusal. This, unfortunately, was when Mom called her Christal - Ryan's pre-~~Anna~~Rachel girlfriend whom we all liked and who was good for him. Mom didn't even realize she'd done it until Dad looked at her, and then it was repeated apologies and Rachel retreating. Not a good thing for Mom to do by any means, though I will admit I laughed my ass off upstairs and admitted to Mom that I keep mentally referring to her as Anna.

Rachel woes at Ryan and doesn't want to come to the game. Ryan decides not to come. Now, they have tickets that one of the players got for them, and if those tickets go unused, the player who reserved them gets in trouble, so here Rachel's indirectly getting Mike in trouble, and dammit all I like Mike a hell of a lot more than I like her. Finally, they decide to come, though they don't stay for the entire game. When we get back home after the game, Ryan's not there. When he comes in - which I missed - he evidently told Mom and Dad he was going to go to church with us tomorrow and then leave right afterwards to go stay at Rachel's house for three days.

I don't leave until afternoon. Mass is over at nine. Chopped liver, much?

Obviously my parents disagreed with this plan, so there was lovely fallout and grumping at one another and my last night here, which I wanted to spend Brawling with my brothers, instead has Ryan pouting in his room, Patrick downstairs with a few friends over (which I don't mind - I like his friends), and me up here ranting in my LJ and packing in solitude. Not really how I wanted to do things.

So yes. I do love my older brother, but ninety percent of the time his choice in women sucks.

On a somewhat related note, I'll be back in Malibu tomorrow. YAY PAPER MARATHONS |Db

What is this I don't even

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:27:35 GMT

I should probably write about Thanksgiving and Black Friday and stuff, huh. Instead, I'm back on a fic kick while on too few hours of sleep. Hoo-ah. |D

~~*~~

"Hey, Rookie." J leaned against the doorframe of the practice studio and hid a grin at the sudden surprise in the newest Agent's tune. It had been a long time since he'd been able to sneak up on someone, even if he hadn't been intending to. "Y'know, if you'd jumped any higher I think you'd've hit the ceiling there," he commented easily.

"Don't scare me like that, man!" Spin finally turned to face him, with a grin that wasn't quite all there and a laugh that wasn't quite sincere. Sounded like the kid was still trying to figure out where he stood.

Good thing J was here to help with that. "Well quit makin' it so easy." He couldn't resist that final jibe, accompanied with what a grin should really look like. "Hey," time for a subject change, "movie night tonight. You comin'?" He nodded his head towards the door. "'Course, it's Missy's turn to pick, so we'll probably wind up with some sorta chick flick, but it's better'n nothing." He watched Spin look towards the door, then the studio's mirror. He could practically hear the wheels in the rookie's head turning, and he heard the tone of the answer before Spin spoke the words.

"Sorry, man. Sounds like fun, but..." Cue a pause that was big enough to drive a truck through. "I gotta practice."

The problem with that reply was, J was not in the habit of taking no for an answer from anybody but the Commander and Chieftain. "Oh come on," he wheedled, wearing that enticing grin that usually worked so well in these situations, "takin' a little time to get outta the suit and relax ain't gonna kill you."

Wait. Why was Spin practicing in his suit? They didn't usually do that - it put a lot of wear and tear on the suits that didn't need to be there, and why was he wearing it in the first place? Had he had a mission?

Yeah, three hours ago.

The pieces clicked into place and J slowly raised an eyebrow. "How long've you been up here anyway?"

"A while," Spin admitted after a long pause. Looked like he'd picked up on J's suspicion.

"Yeah? How long's 'a while?'"

The silence was all the answer J needed. "You've been up here since your mission, huh."

A hesitant nod from the rookie, and was that guilt creeping into his tune? Man, this stuff was not supposed to get this complicated. J shook his head. "All work and no play, man. Can't be good for you. C'mon, take a breather."

He could hear the kid wavering, and- "I missed a couple steps," Spin explained hesitantly. "Trying to get them right before I do anything else."

It was a legitimate answer, sure, but J was having problems getting past the fact that someone would practice that long for "a couple steps." Plus, he'd heard the mission had gone pretty well, considering how new Spin was to this whole thing. "Oh, yeah." He rolled his eyes, easily flipping from wheedling to light sarcasm. "God knows we can't keep you if you aren't perfect."

The shock of sheer, overwhelming terror that blasted through the Music stopped him short. What was- How had- He turned slowly to look at Spin and was met with an expression that dropped his stomach to his shoes. The kid looked for all the world like his worst nightmare had just come true. What was worse was the knowledge that he'd somehow managed to cause it.

For a few seconds J was lost for words, watching in silence as Spin tried to piece his shattered tune back together in light of a revelation that had not been true. "Hey," he finally tried. "Rookie, I- I was kiddin'."

No response.

"Rookie. Hey- c'mon."

Still nothing.

"Rookie-" J shook his head again, this time in frustration at himself, and crossed the studio in several long strides, taking the younger Agent roughly by the shoulders. "Spin. Look at me."

Well, that worked, at least, even if seeing that pang of fear dancing in Spin's eyes suddenly made all of this that much more difficult. It took him a second to find words again. "We're not gettin' rid of you," he finally said, eye contact holding strong and words grounded in the knowledge that he was speaking the truth. "Not now, not ever. Not for any reason. You're part of the family now. You got me?"

A pause, and then a nod from Spin - too quick, too hurried, too easy to please. "Y-Yeah. I got you."

"Don't give me that." J shook his head just a bit, eyes still locked with the rookie's. "Don't tell me what you think I wanna hear - tell me the truth."

The pause was much longer this time, and Spin finally looked away. "I got you, man." It was a quiet admission, and his tune was still limping along after the blow it had received, but J could hear enough to know that that, at least, was the truth. He was going to need to do a lot of damage control, and he knew he'd be spending a lot of time helping Spin out and trying to get him to calm down some, but hey, didn't he do that already? That was what family was supposed to be for, after all.

"So." He put his arm around Spin's shoulders and led him to the door. It wasn't a perfect fix - the kid was still pretty shell-shocked, after all - but it was a start. "How 'bout that movie?"

~~*~~

I'm not too sure how I feel about this one, tbh. About halfway through, I started thinking the whole thing would've been better from first-person Spin's perspective, but it was a bit late to change it then. I'm also not sure I like the ending. This whole thing might wind up rewritten at some point.

WHY DO I DO THIS WHEN I'M TIRED I DON'T EVEN KNOW \O_o/

...it also needs a title. Any suggestions? |D

Yaaaaay real life |D

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:50:41 GMT

I LIIIIIIIIVE

[/Mushu]

Yeah, I've been home for about a day. Twenty-seven degrees outside and I am living in my fluffy faux-fur lined hoodie. This thing is fantastic. The other fantastic thing was getting sleep oh my goodness. Slept in until nearly noon. Yaaaaay :Db

I shall probably come off hiatus tonight. I do have some homework to get done over break (yay Lit Theory), but life's stopped attempting to eat me and I feel like I might be able to pull a small canon review for a few characters and really get back into things. Huzzah for actual excitement for my games :Db

I've been doing more tutoring for my brother these past few days than I have these past few weeks for the writing center. He's in the middle of college essay season, so we've been looking over his stuff. This is to say nothing of the essay he had me check for him over the phone. He dictated it to me while I was in the car on the way to New Moon. That was a very interesting night. ._.

I have no idea what's going on with Glee tonight. Things have gotten interesting and what the hell, Kurt. While we're at it, what the hell, Puck. Everyone's gone crazier than they normally are.

...oh screw coherency have a few videos.

Because the Muppets make everything better, obviously.

And finally, that meme that's been going around:

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.
4) One Guess Per Fandom

1. ~~Chrno Crusade~~ Rosette, guessed by nalina
2. ~~Elite Beat Agents~~ J, guessed by guessed by aviekokyre
3. ~~Discworld~~ DEATH, guessed by nalina
4. ~~Sonic~~ Silver, guessed by nalina
5. Doctor Who
6. Disgaea
7. Mahou Sensei Negima
8. The Dresden Files
9. The Big Bang Theory
10. ~~How I Met Your Mother~~ Barney Stinson, guessed by nalina
11. Glee
12. ~~Trigun~~ Vash the Stampede, guessed by aviekokyre

Yaaaay

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:43:44 GMT

WELL I have arrived home safe back in CO, yay~

Traveling was pretty uneventful. Life is good. And I have an AIM convo of sorts:

LeSeptieme 2:16 am
Things I will never get over, in order of WTFery:
1. John Kahn
2. Spin playing the race card
3. Lessons in picking up floozies
4. The Divas not knowing each other
Just about everything else ties at 5.
universejuice 2:17 am
That's a pretty good lineup

Ah, the wonders of 3 a.m. badfic. It's a great excuse for the icon, if nothing else. |Db

TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:54:23 GMT

FIRST! To everyone who commented on my previous post: what do you say to a sporking party tonight? Everyone get on AIM at the least, we'll coordinate going on Skype, I'll bring the footage, and a good and hilarious time shall be had by all. I'm thinking around 8 pm Pacific time, possibly earlier if need be. Let me know if you're in. :D

SECOND! I come with proof that Gamma Phi has the best formals ever:

I rest my case.

Twilight By Numbers

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:35 GMT

So I just got back from seeing New Moon with my friends.

Yes, you read that correctly. I was that desperate to get out of the apartment. It was crazy.

To start, I truly did enjoy the movie. I was in need of a good laugh, and the movie definitely provided one. Best comedy of the year, right there. It also made me feel 110% better about my life, so that was definitely something.

So let's follow the title of the ~~song~~ entry and do this by numbers.

New Moon - Number of:

Times I laughed when a scene wasn't supposed to be funny: Somewhere in the double digits
Audible facepalms: Four
Minutes I was on Team Jacob: About 45
That's What She Said jokes: One, but it was too epic to follow up
Times I nearly burst into song: Four
Muses set off during the movie: Two - J and DEATH
Fursplosions: Three
Dead vampires: One (sadly)
Nostalgia Critic references: One, ongoing
Times Bella tried to commit suicide: Three
Times Bella succeeded: Zero ~~dammit~~
Therapists in Forks, WA: Zero
Hospitals in Forks, WA: Zero
Dollars I spent on this movie: Eleven and a half, not including popcorn
Minutes I thought the movie was actually cool: About fifteen

And because I'm out of numbers, have a plot summary!

HOKAY SO

HERE'S THE WORLD

...yeah I can't do the entire summary in that voice. It's too late and I'm too tired.

So we start with Bella's birthday! Which is boring and has a lot of her woe-ing about how she'll age and Edward won't and he won't want her when she looks like her grandma, oh noes. Then there's a SUPRAIZ!EXCEPTNOTREALLY!party at the Cullens' house, and she gets a papercut that BLEEDS LIKE WHOA (Bella, hemophiliac extraordinaire) and to keep Jasper from eating her Edward throws her into a table full of vases and picture frames and other assorted glass things that shatter and cut her arm up. A lot. I guess thinking is difficult when your brain hasn't gotten blood flow for a century, huh.

So then we have this awesome scene with Carlisle or however the hell you spell his name pulling glass out of her cuts and stitching her up with a needle and thread and her just standing there talking to him, calm as anything. As somebody who's had stitches and topical anesthetic, THAT SHIT HURTS. Funny that in a movie about sparklepires and fursplody, the thing that breaks my suspension of disbelief is a scene about stitches.

But wait! Let's timeskip a few days, ladies and gentlemen, because we're not done angsting yet. Cue the world's smallest violin.

BASICALLY. People have noticed that the vampires aren't aging and so they have to leave Forks, ohnoes. Edward tells Bella they must go and cannot take her. She woes.

This is actually where the epic "that's what she said" joke comes in. Bella argues with Edward - she wants to go with him.

Bella: I'm coming!
Me: That's what she said.
Edward: I don't want you to come.

...Yeah, I couldn't top that.

So Edward moves away, and Bella is sad. In a montage in which nothing happens, we get a rotating shot of her sitting in a chair and staring out the window as seasons change and four months pass holy shit what kind of parent leaves their daughter comatose for four months. I mean, I get that Charlie's not the greatest parent ever, but four months? Seriously? Did nobody think to get her a therapist? Some drugs? A straitjacket?

You know. Something like that. Yeah.

So she just wooooooooes and refuses to go back to live with her mom and instead goes out with one of her human friends (holy shit she has those? They don't show up very much, do they) and looks over at a couple of bikers hitting on them and starts hallucinating Edward is there.

Let me type that again: she sees a dangerous situation and hallucinates Edward telling her not to do stupid things.

She, of course, proceeds to do said stupid things, and then purposefully goes out of her way to find stupid things to do so she can hallucinate Edward playing Jiminy Cricket and telling her not to do stupid shit. Remember, ladies and gentlemen: Give a little whistle and always let your vampire be your guide.

So she takes these broken-down motorcycles to Jacob and goes LOL LET'S FIX 'EM. Needless to say, she spends a lot of time with him, and the hole in her heart feels fixed, yay! What a great repairman. He's also really hot. Good times.

In case you can't tell, that's the point where I joined Team Jacob. Yeayuh. I like my eye candy alive. :Db

Somewhere in here, the dreadlocks vampire from the previous movie shows up and threatens her a bit and tells her Victoria *BUM BUM BUUUUUUUUM* is here to try to kill her. This is when a pack of werewolves hunts him down and rips his head off and it's really, really cool. Kind of sad that the most epic part of the movie was only about forty minutes in, huh.

And then THINGS CHANGE and Jacob can no longer hang out with Bella, oh noes. He also can't tell her why. So she, like a dipshit, goes and tracks him down and slaps one of the guys in this little gang-thing he's joined. Slapped guy then fursplodes and attempts to kill her. Oops. Jacob then fursplodes and has a wolfly beatdown with slapped guy-wolf, and other wolves take Bella to the fiancee of the wolfgang leader, who is all scarred up and a living lesson as to what happens when you date a guy prone to sudden fursplosions and snaps of temper. The makeup on her is better than Edward's makeup.

SO THERE ARE FURSPLOSIONS AND VAMPIRE POLITICS and Bella jumps off a cliff. And nearly dies. While indie rock plays and she hallucinates her sparklepire in the water with her. Cue slow applause.

And then Alice shows up and goes HOLY SHIT I SAW YOU JUMP OFF A CLIFF WHAT IS YOUR ISSUE GIRL JESUS. That's about when I decide I like Alice. She's cool. Of course, Jacob has to show up and go FE FI FO FUM I SMELL BLOODSUCKER and make her leave so he and Bella can talk.

And make out. Alriiiiiiight.

Only to be interrupted by the phone. Caller on the other end asks for Charlie. Jacob's answer: "He's not here. He's arranging a funeral."

Cut to poor woeful Edward, crushing his cell phone in SPARKLY GRIEF.

That's the point where I disaffiliated with any Twilight team and returned to my original opinion of THEY'RE ALL MORONS.

This, of course, is the point where Edward decides to go sparkle himself to death, because that's a brilliant plan and then the Volturi (read: flamboyantly gay vampire royalty) will have to kill him! It's brilliant! Brilliant! Genius, I tell you!

Or, to save on plane fare, I could just poison him with this.

Of course, the movie spent the money on plane fares and had to use cheap MAH SPARKELS ARE PASTEDE ON YAY effects as a result. Worst. Suicide. Ever. This includes Bella's cliff diving, mind you, and that's tough to beat.

Bella prevents him from doing it at the last possible minute for maximum drama! And then they give him a crimson velvet robe - you know, instead of picking up his shirt up from where it's lying on the floor at his feet - and take them all to see the Volturi again.

Now, for those of you who watch the Nostalgia Critic, do you remember the Warriors of Virtue review? The one with the kangaroo martial artists and the crazy-ass villain who should have his own Saturday morning cartoon? Well, guess who plays the head of the Volturi.

Hint: It ain't a kangaroo.

I loved the scenes with the Volturi, personally. The fighting was dumb, but the head guy acted like a perpetually confounded snake. He'd stare and make funny hand gestures and say things like "well isn't that interesting" and "someone with your gifts would make an interesting immortal" and cock his head to the side and just generally be hilariously creepy. I loved it.

That's about when they decided that Bella would be a vampire. Okay. Then she decided that she'd wait until after graduation "to make it easier on Charlie." Yeah, because she's been so concerned about Charlie this whole movie. Nevermind that she ran off to Italy without telling him. GJ there, girl.

Of course, we have a lovely scene with her waking up and Edward being next to her in her room. Evidently this is a normal and comforting occurrence. He then tells her to go back to sleep and not to worry because he'll "still be here when you wake up." I don't know, that would just make me worry more, especially coupled with, "Don't worry, I'm technically not breaking any of [Charlie's] rules. He said I can't step foot in the door. I came in through the window." OH MY GOD IN WHAT WORLD IS THIS OKAY.

Twilight world, evidently. Why do I even ask those questions anymore.

We end with Edward ~~asking~~ telling Bella to marry him AND THE SCREEN GOES DARK OMG WHAT A CLIFFHANGER WHATEVER SHALL WE DO.

Pay eleven and a half bucks a pop for the next movie, evidently. They've already got advertisements for it up.

The most interesting part of this is, everyone had chemistry with each other except Edward and Bella. They had none whatsoever. I got bored when they were together. Funny how that works, huh.

I'll admit I had a great time at the movie. I'll proudly add on that it was mostly because I was shamelessly laughing my ass off for most of said movie. I'm waiting for it to hit the dollar theater and/or YouTube and then sitting down and really sporking it with a friend. Anybody up for it? :Db

Why do I post when it's late and I'm exhausted? Seriously.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:07:37 GMT

Whoever planned this week needs to never do that again. Don't get me wrong, I love my sisters to death. Thing is, I'm not sure I want to see them for mandatory events every day for eight days.

Well, okay, tonight's formal wasn't mandatory - was an absolute blast, actually - but the point still stands. That is just waaaaaaay too much stuff back to back. Fortunately, all we've got left is the Gamma Games meeting Saturday and Gamma Games itself, as well as formal chapter, on Sunday. Hopefully I'll have some energy before then.

The rest of this post will probably be about RP, so those of you who don't care about that aspect of my internet life can skip the cut. |D

I don't know why I join big games. Seriously, the process is always the same:

STEP ONE: I join because oh, hey, it looks cool, there's people I know, nice premise, sounds like fun, what have you.

STEP TWO: I pay a hell of a lot attention to said RP for about a week, sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. The game, at this point, is my new shiny, and you all know how I am when I get a new shiny.

STEP THREE: Real Life crops up and reminds me I have other commitments. I stop checking my IC flist so frequently and instead poke at IRL things.

STEP FOUR: I come back a few days later and find that life is going on without me and my character. This is normal. It also makes me feel like I have completely and utterly missed the boat. My character should know that character! They have a journal post up! I should interact- but that paper's not going to write itself before tomorrow, and I sadly turn back to IRL duties.

STEP FIVE: A few days to a week to sometimes two weeks later, I come back to the game, find more life has gone by without me and my character, utterly woe at my chances of ever catching up, and seriously start contemplating dropping.

Step five is a bitch. Guess where I am right now.

Thing is, the only large game I've ever stayed at after this process is Daisychain. Yeah, during the first summer - June or so - I was honestly debating dropping DC for good. Glad I did not, but nonetheless - the possibility was there. Every other large game I've axed. Econtra was too fast and too hard to break into social groups (though it also had other massive problems that made me more than glad I'd hightailed it outta there). Template was also too fast and in the utterly wrong time zone for me - I was in London at the time and couldn't keep up with the 1 day IC = 1 day OOC pace.

Now XI's on the chopping block, and I have no idea what I'm doing. Do I want to lose the CR I've got? No, especially not with so much potential for development. Problem is, my inactivity has me waving at that potential as it passes me by. There have already been a few things that I thought would be so cool that, because of faster-moving developments elsewhere or a lack of development on my part, will likely not happen. I wind up with the general feeling that I can't keep up, and goodness knows I get that feeling enough from school. I sure as hell don't need it in my hobbies.

So yeah, that's where I am right now, at least in that aspect.

...oh dammit that's not the entire issue.

Remember last Wednesday? It started with angry sparkles and ended with my life going flat out nuts? I've been telling people my life fell apart Wednesday and I still haven't recovered. I've been saying it with half a smile and a light tone - haha, isn't that funny, the college student's playing pick-up sticks with her life, just like every other college student out there.

Thing is, it's abso-frigging-lutely true. I still haven't recovered from having the rug pulled from under my feet so suddenly and completely. Hell, I'm not even sure where the hell the rug went at this point.

My schedule is concrete, at least. Now all I need to do is find an internship and do research on grad schools even though I don't really want to go to grad school but I need to have something to show my parents when I get home or things are going to be gorram we're-disappointed awkward and there's also those papers for Lit Theory to do - it's not like I'm behind one paper and needing an outline - hell, an idea - for the final one, as well as needing to find those articles again since all my bookmarks got erased somehow - and that monologue stuff for theater to do and I still have to freaking pick a script for that one and if interlibrary loan falls through I'm screwed, nevermind all the stuff that I'm supposed to be doing for RP and sure as hell am not doing at the moment, which I will never be allowed to forget-

I can get seven hours of sleep and still wake up exhausted.

The cherry on this freaking death cake is that I just found out my friend's birthday dinner is tomorrow night. I found that out today from someone who's actually invited. Probably not a big deal. My brain refuses to let it go.

So yeah. That's where I am right now.

I've been telling people I've been marking time until Thanksgiving break, and while that's true, I don't think it's the whole truth. I think I'm just marking time until this semester is over. I thought it was going to be a lot easier than it actually was, and that certainly came back to bite me in the ass.

SO I'M EARLY |D

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:51:09 GMT

First of all, today's Woot shirt is awesome. I already bought one. |D YAY COLLEGE STUDENT ANTHEM

All this crazy Gamma Phi activity over the week culminated in Initiation tonight. Can't say too much about the ceremony, but I do love my littles. Jen's package arrived just in time (read: this morning), so everyone got everything they were supposed to, and I somehow got a package from Canada faster than I got a package from Amazon. Will wonders never cease. THANK YOU JEN THEY LOVED EVERYTHING ♥

Of course, "culminated" might not be the right word, seeing as Formal is Friday night, Gamma Games meeting is Saturday, and Gamma Games itself is Sunday.

SPEAKING OF WHICH. If you're on Pepperdine campus, come to Gamma Games! We're raising money for Camp Laurel, and you get to come watch fraternity guys compete in athletic events, including sack races. Have you ever seen guys do sack races? It's hilarious. Plus, we have some pretty awesome raffle prizes, and it's all for a good cause. 11:30-2 at Alumni Park this Sunday! BE THERE. YAY. :Db

On a completely different note, I somehow wound up with only one class on Monday. Theater is individual monologue coachings, and mine isn't until after Thanksgiving. Lit Theory is individual appointments to talk about final papers, and mine's at 3, which does not require me to get up early, and then there's Choir. Stage dance is the next day, and then I'm heading home, huzzah~ YAY TURKEY AND BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING

Speaking of shopping, y'all need to tell me what you want for Christmas. I will be doing shopping then.

And I also have my wish list up - I just posted it to holiday_wishes (which is an awesome community that you should totally go check out), so I figured I'd throw it up here as well:

1. INTERNSHIP/JOB HELP/RECOMMENDATIONS/ADVICE ;~; Internship/Job help/recommendations/advice. I'm a graduating senior - I'll be getting my BA in Writing and Rhetoric in April - and I'm trying to find an internship in the LA/Santa Monica area for this coming semester and a job, preferably something pertaining to my degree (writing...somewhere), in California once I graduate. If you know of any places that are hiring, or if you can give me some advice on netting an internship or a job in this job market, I'd be incredibly grateful.

2. Gift cards: Ralph's because groceries are expensive in my neck of the woods, iTunes because I am a total music addict, and/or for Amazon.com because my lack of transportation means I don't get off campus a lot and therefore do a lot of my shopping online. Even a couple of bucks either way would help.

3. One of these! Timepieces+necklaces+shiny things make me a happy camper. I'd love style A.

4. Paid LJ time. Mine runs out the day after Christmas. Self-explanatory, I think.

5. A rename token. I'm a bit tired of the long, unwieldly pseudo-Japanese name - it's a phase in my life I'd rather leave behind (read: high school).

6. Games for my Nintendo DS. I have one game - Elite Beat Agents - and while I love it to death, I think I need to branch out a bit. If you have any games you don't play anymore, I'd love it if you could send them my way.

7. Salt and pepper shakers. Any color, style, and shape - I collect them. They are awesome.

8. Along those same lines, the Rubik's Cube salt mill at ThinkGeek.com. It is cute and geeky and fantastic and I'd love to have it on my table for next semester.

9. Donate to or volunteer at Camp Laurel. I'm a Gamma Phi Beta, and Camp Laurel is our local philanthropy. It's an organization that allows kids who have or are affected by HIV/AIDS to have a normal summer camp experience. We do our best to support them, but they need all the help they can get. If you're in the area and can volunteer for either their summer or winter session, that would be fantastic. If not, any way you can help and anything you can give would make a huge difference.

You can totally tell this was written with a wider, not personally known audience in mind, huh. KNOW THY AUDIENCE. HELL YEAH I'M A WRITING MAJOR.

But seriously, guys. Donate to those kids with AIDS. They're so cute and you all know summer camp is awesome~

On yet another random note, I got a great recipe yesterday. If someone's willing to take me to Ralph's real quick to pick up ingredients, I can definitely promise you a share of the Pumpkin Cheesecake this weekend. :Db

RANDOMIZER: EPISODE 19

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:14:35 GMT

It's a day late but still here! As always:

PLEASE LISTEN~! ♥

OH MY GOD MY LIFE WHAT IS THIS

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:16:50 GMT

First of all WATERS OF MARS WHAT THE EVERLOVING HELL WAS THAT AAAAAAAAUGH

...I refuse to be spoilery so that's all you're getting. Heeyup.

So yeah, my life has been absolutely bat-flip crazy as of late. I got my insurance and such all figured out, so now I'm officially a part-time student next semester. That much is figured out, at least. Now I just need to get an internship. DEX isn't going to contact me until mid-December, so I need a backup juuuuuuust in case. I don't have one. Does anybody know of any good internships in Calabasas/Thousand Oaks/Santa Monica/LA/someplace in CA that's not too far from Malibu? I think I need all the help I can get over here |D

That said, I'm also supposed to be looking at grad schools, but I can't figure out what the hell I'm doing, and I keep trying to set up a meeting with my mentor, but I have classes during all his office hours and things are not working out on that front. FREAKING GRAD SCHOOL. No clue what I'm doing on that front either.

Aaaaaaaand I have to meet with the professor in charge of the Writing Center tomorrow, because evidently one of the students I tutored last Wednesday sent her an email. She said not to worry too much, but we do still need to talk about it. Ten to one odds it's the texting chick. ._.

Post-structuralist/deconstructionist paper is due tomorrow. I still have no ideas. I emailed Dr. Goodman at about noon today, telling her I was throwing in the ~~bucket~~ towel and could I come in tomorrow for some healp? She said yes, so I'm going.

Choerographer paper is due Friday. Can't forget that. Mrrrrr.

Got sorority stuff every night this week. Don't get me wrong, I love my sisters and I love my littles and I love spoiling them rotten. Problem is, having an event every night and then initiation and then formal and then Gamma Games and aaaaaaaagh no idea how I'm going to do this.

I HAVE. TO LAST. UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY. And then I go home for Thanksgiving break and hopefully life is better.

And my dad came down tonight and he took my apartment out to Duke's for dinner, so that was awesome. So yay there. :D

And finally (and very importantly):

HAPPY BIRTHDAY orelle_peredhil! ♥

A VALID QUESTION INDEED

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:19:19 GMT

HEY FLIST

I NEEDS YOUR ADVICE

Is it too early to start shopping for Christmas?

More to the point, is it utterly tactess to email the link to this 24-hour sale to my mom and tell her in no uncertain terms that I want Season 4?

Because these usually sell for. You know. Seventy bucks. And they're going for less than 35 until midnight tonight.

WHAT DO I DO, FLIST

EDIT: I emailed her the link and told her I wanted Season 4. We'll see what comes of this, if anything. |D

Requires No Explanation

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:13:35 GMT

It started a few hours ago:

LeSeptieme (8:49:13 PM): "Today at my job in the emergency room, a person walked in with a large scarf hiding her nose and was holding lots of bloody Kleenex. Why? She had stuck a pair of iPod headphones up her nose so far that they became lodged into her nasal passageway. She was voted funniest injury of the night. MLIA"
universejuice (8:49:30 PM): oh dear god
LeSeptieme (8:50:15 PM): I laughed my ass off
universejuice (8:50:39 PM): why would you even
LeSeptieme (8:51:42 PM): some people's children

And then:

LeSeptieme (9:31:51 PM): ...okay, there has to be something to this headphones-up-the-nose thing
LeSeptieme (9:31:54 PM): it keeps popping up.
universejuice (9:31:57 PM): ...really
LeSeptieme (9:32:01 PM): yep
universejuice (9:32:19 PM): hmm
LeSeptieme (9:34:14 PM): "Today I found out my dad reads MLIA. How did I find out? Well, he was in his room shoving his iPod earphones up his nose trying to be a human speaker. MLIA"
LeSeptieme (9:34:18 PM): AHA
universejuice (9:34:29 PM): pfff I am so baffled by this |D
LeSeptieme (9:34:47 PM): I don't get it XD

And finally:

LeSeptieme (10:03:51 PM): "Today, I read a story on MLIA that if you put your headphones in your nose and play your ipod really loud, you can hear the music through your mouth. I decided to try this myself. My mom walked into my room when I had my headphones in both nostrils while Sexyback was playing out of my mouth. She took one look at me and backed out slowly. MLIA"
universejuice (10:04:21 PM): whaaaat
LeSeptieme (10:04:46 PM): I really want to try this now XD
universejuice (10:04:51 PM): m-me too
LeSeptieme (10:04:56 PM): I promise I won't get them stuck in my nasal cavity
universejuice (10:05:45 PM): ...OH SHIT IT WORKS
LeSeptieme (10:05:57 PM): -I THOUGHT YOU DIDN'T HAVE EARBUDS
universejuice (10:06:07 PM): I HAVE A PAIR I FORGOT ABOUT
universejuice (10:06:10 PM): THIS IS HILARIOUS
LeSeptieme (10:06:16 PM): OH GAD
LeSeptieme (10:06:19 PM): DON'T GET THEM STUCK
universejuice (10:06:29 PM): I WON'T I PROMISE
LeSeptieme (10:06:33 PM): OKAY GOOD
LeSeptieme (10:06:39 PM): ...does it really work
universejuice (10:06:42 PM): totally
LeSeptieme (10:06:47 PM): Well.
LeSeptieme (10:06:52 PM): Learn something new every day.
universejuice (10:06:53 PM): also when I swallow there's one point where it's louder
LeSeptieme (10:07:03 PM): ...*dead*
universejuice (10:07:08 PM): I know right
universejuice (10:07:17 PM): I feel so stupid but it's too amazing
LeSeptieme (10:07:26 PM): I am just dying over here
LeSeptieme (10:07:31 PM): so glad nobody else is working right now
universejuice (10:07:36 PM): <3

My life is average and my friends are awesome.

ETA: Found the original post!

"Today, my friends and I discovered that if you put your headphones in your nose and play your ipod really loudly, you can hear the music through your mouth when it's open, and can't hear it when it's closed. MLIA"

...the hell were they doing when they figured that out? More importantly, do we want to know? o_o

Holy shift! Look at the asymptote on that mother function!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:34:16 GMT

Title courtesy of MLIA. That website. So accursedly addicting.

Scheduling actually worked out okay. I have all the classes I need to take next semester (all...one of them), can keep my health insurance so long as I stay at nine units (which I have), and can also keep my housing and my scholarship. This means that I will be a part-time student with nine units next semester. Awesome, awesome, and awesome. Now all I need to do is find an internship and I'm set.

...part-time students don't have to do convo, do they?

Anyways. Meme. Stolen from and tagged by sandsdream:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!

She chose:

Mind the Gap
This is actually a picture I took at Westminster Station in London. (Hell yeah District Line :Db) cruvis had a "upload your pictures and I'll icon them" post, and I uploaded that one. Love it.

Bother
Potter Puppet Pals. 'Nuff said.

Human Metronome
I don't remember which show this is or where I got this icon. All I know is it's David Tennant and it's mesmerizing. So awesome. XD

Go Go Gadget Prinny
Awwwww, lookit the little Laharl abuse the prinny. Isn't that cute. ♥

J Kitty
ormery draws awesome kitties and I am an EBA nerd. This requires no further explanation. :Db

Angry Sparkles

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:59:30 GMT

So. In case anyone was curious about the post earlier today.

Because, y'know, I'm sure you all were.

Registration did not go as planned, to put it nicely.

For one, I crashed out at two and got up at 7:15 in order to be logged on for my 7:30 registration time, so that's already. Y'know. Awesome.

The way things have worked out for me over these past four years, the only class I'm required to take is my Senior Seminar - basically, my thesis class. I'd been working on buinding a 12-unit schedule around that, leaving Tuesdays and Fridays free for an internship and trying to leave some afternoons so I could still work the writing center and campus operator. I'd gotten a schedule worked out so I could do all that.

This morning, when I tried to register for classes, I couldn't get into my thesis class. The system said I hadn't "fulfilled all prerequisites," namely because I'm still taking Lit Theory and my transcript was counting it as in progress, not complete. That was a lovely sleep-deprived call to OneStop, only to be told to email OneStop instead. Okay. Sure. Time for a runaround.

It was only when I got the email back from OneStop saying my thesis class conflicted with one of the classes I'd already registered for that I realized they'd changed the date and time of my thesis class.

Okay, no problem. Instead of doing a one-unit class on Monday, I'll find one on Thursday night. No big deal.

According to the class schedule, there aren't any. Okay. Maybe I can fall back on that other class I registered for-

Except the time of that class has also changed, so it clashes with another class I'd already wanted to take. My carefully crafted class schedule has just become a giant clusterfuck.

So on five hours of sleep, I spent the entire day either working at the writing center (and getting snapped at by a girl when I told her to quit texting while I was helping her with her paper) or scouring the class catalog trying to find classes that would actually mesh with the schedule I was trying to build. The former worked alright. The latter was utterly unsuccessful.

So basically, after a fantastic lack of sleep and goodness knows how much frustration, I finally called off tutoring early and headed to One Stop. I gave the counselor the abbreviated version of my woes, he pulled up my schedule, looked at me, and said, "You know you can be a part-time student, right?"

...what.

Evidently my scholarship will still be intact (it'll still pay for half of tuition, even if it's by unit instead of a flat rate). I'm not sure if part-time students can keep housing or how many credit hours I need to stay on my insurance policy, but going part time means no more schedule woes and more time to focus on jobs, graduate schools, and internships. It's an entire realm of possibility that I'd never considered - I thought I had to be a full-time student all four years to keep my scholarship.

I made it five steps out of the registrar's office before I started crying.

I made it to the fountain before I stopped and called my mom. I think this was possibly the biggest I have no idea what the hell I'm doing moment I have ever had.

I'm waiting for a reply from the housing office and I need to call my insurance provider tomorrow, but I think I might go part-time next semester. It'd sure make life a lot easier.

In the meantime, I have four more hours of work to get through and a whole lot of sleep to catch up on after that.

Any time you want to make things easy on me, Life, I'd sure appreciate it. |Db

I got up two hours early for this?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:07:35 GMT

I FREAKING HATE REGISTRATION~~~~~~~

Now back to your regularly scheduled LJ.

Jeebus the memes

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:37:46 GMT

It never fails. This meme shows up on one of my flisters' journals, and within a span of a day it's utterly taken over my entire flist.

Of course, I have to go propogate the virus. Why not? It's music. :D

Ganked from umi_mikazuki:

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever music player you have on random.
Step 2: Post a line/stanza from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (No Cheating ~~Colin~~)

1. But my breath fogged up the glass/So I drew in a face and I laughed - I'm Yours by Jason Mraz - guessed by universejuice

2. Never to return again/But always in my heart - This Love by Maroon 5 - guessed by deltashade

3. Working on the highways and byways and wearing, wearing a frown

4. Hunted by the evil ones/And I'm chased by my enemies/Like refugees and castaways/In an aslant environment

5. I was tall and true, all of 6 foot 2/But they broke me across the back/By a name I'm known and it's not my own

6. media nox obscura nox/crudelitas animarum/campana sonat duo decies

7. The Puerto Ricans grumble "fair fight"/But if they start a rumble, we'll rumble 'em right - Quintet from West Side Story - guessed by universejuice

8. But I should have known that I would be/Another victim of your sexuality/But now we're done and over with - Don't Want You Back by Backstreet Boys - guessed by deltashade

9. Born like sisters to this world/In a town where blood ties are only blood/If you never say your name out loud to anyone/They can never ever call you by it - Better by Regina Spektor - guessed by orelle_peredhil

10. Cheep cheep cheep/Talk a lot pick a little more

11. Now I see that if I were truly to be myself/I would break my family's heart - Reflection from Mulan - guessed by umi_mikazuki

12. I don't know/Can you repeat the question? - Boss of Me by They Might Be Giants - guessed by universejuice

13. "If you're goin' to Winnemucca, Mack, with me you can ride."/And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside

14. No more darkness, no more night/Now I'm so happy, no sorrow in sight/Praise the Lord, [song title]

15. People cry all the time/Cry like me/We got all the time in the world

16. You don't know me/And I'll never be what you want me to be - I'm Still Here by Johnny Rzeznik - guessed by tricia868

17. And you grabbed it by the hand/And he pulled and pulled 'til someone pushed and then he fell/On the front page of America

18. If those cats could've dug me/And my gangster ways/They would've hung up their guns/And dug into their graves

19. I rock a law suit when I'm going to court/A white suit when I'm getting divorced/A black suit at the funeral home/And my birthday suit when I'm home alone - I Just Wanna Live by Good Charlotte - guessed by deltashade

20. Good times and riches and son of a bitches/I've seen more than I can recall

Wow, iTunes, going for obscurity here, huh. Jeez. XD

RANDOMIZER: EPISODE 18

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:59:45 GMT

We got the recording tech working again! :D So here's the new episode, and as always:

PLEASE LISTEN~! ♥

Because why not?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:59:02 GMT

ANON MEME

Yes, this is what I do with my homework breaks. Good times, huh.

DANCE BREAK

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:15:17 GMT

More of a homework break, actually, but who's counting.

I've gotten some assignments done today, but that Structuralism paper's still hanging over my head. I don't know why I'm having so many issues getting into it. I was kind of hoping to have it done early this afternoon, but considering I didn't wake up until noon (which was lovely) and wasn't really functional until two, that plan went to waste. I'd like to have it done before I leave for my friend's party at nine, but again, odds of that are pretty poor. I might just marathon the sucker Sunday night. My usual MO works, right? |D

That said! Book meme real fast! Then I do dinner and attempt to pound out some words. Grr.

Ganked from atrypical:

- Take four books off your bookshelf.
- Write the first sentence
- Write the last sentence on page fifty
- Write the second sentence on page one hundred
- Write the next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
- Write the final sentence of the book
- Let your friends guess what book it is.

BOOK ONE: His Majesty's Dragon, guessed by ormery

1) The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood, heaving in the choppy sea; a stroke might as easily bring down the man making it as the intended target.
2) "There are not so many fine frigates out there."
3) Having made this coarse remark, McKinnon belatedly recalled his company; he glanced over his shoulder in some embarrassment to see if any of the ladies had overheard, and dropped the subject.
4) "Are you not feeling well?" Laurence asked, inspecting his jaws, but Temeraire was bloodstained and messy from his meal, and looked to have eaten well.
5) In his heard he shared the simplicity of Temeraire's view of the matter, and he fell asleep almost at once in the security of the slow, deep rushing of Temeraire's heartbeat, so very much like the endless sound of the sea.

BOOK TWO: The Handmaid's Tale, guessed by ormery

1) We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
2) I would always get there first, check in.
3) You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound.
4) I was sitting in the chair.
5) Are there any questions?

BOOK THREE

1) "Mutant Wizards," I said.
2) August isn't a month when you want to spend much time outdoors in Virginia.
3) Unless, of course, you wanted to cause Mutant Wizards the kind of problems that would result from a missed deadline on the new game.
4) Did she think I was so unbalanced that she'd need to make a run for it?
5) "We have a plane to catch."

BOOK FOUR: Reaper Man, guessed by ormery

1) The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.
2) "Could have killed me," he muttered, tossing it away.
3) This is important.
4) And yet they did, and even seemed to find enjoyment in it, when surely the only sensible course would be to despair.
5) And at the end of all stories Azrael, who knew the secret, thought: I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.

Wow, these all wound up much more obscure than I expected. XD

TO DINNER~