This has been a long time coming. I mean...I haven't updated in a month. Here, anyway. I've gotten pretty good at keeping my greatestjournal updated. So, uh. I made the decision to move over there for awhile. More icons, and I'm usually on GJ more anyway because of my games.
here you go
I can't promise it'll be chock full of 'all about my life' but really. I live it, it's not that exciting. I may come back to this journal eventually. I dunno.
Feel free to friend if you've got a journal over there. I don't mind! And, yeah, go ahead and defriend this one if you want to, since I won't be updating, just logging in to read.
Friday, March 31, 2006 : 9:59 AM
Friday, February 17, 2006 : 10:21 AM
I love bandwagons! johari window and nohari window.
I really wish I could have skipped class last night, if only because we just sat there for two hours watching a movie with Kenneth Branagh in it. Which, actually, was better than sitting there for two hours taking notes, but still. Kenneth Branagh. Who still makes me think 'Gilderoy Lockhart' whenever I see him, and I'm pretty sure that's not the mood Conspiracy was going for.
Granted, because I did go to class, I got the questions for the test we have next week to study with, so there was a bright side. Downside being, there's a test next week, and a book review due in two weeks. On a book I really need to at least start, so I'm not doing it all the night before. The paper can be written the night before, but I'm think that the book on the SS and the Holocaust needs to be read a little bit in advance. Maybe.
But! My grant came through, meaning I do in fact get to go to France/Germany over Spring Break to finish thesis research. I get to spend two days in France touring WWI battle sites, then three days in Berlin at the war museums. :D! That makes me happy. Because I'm a big dork. Yes. Right.
For the record, I hate Arkansas weather. It was eighty degrees outside, yesterday. Today? It's barely above freezing, and we're looking at an ice storm this weekend. No wonder I've been sick so much this winter. The weather can't decide if it's summer or winter.
And now, because I'm hideously indecisive, and I want to go ahead and be able to save pictures this weekend and work on icons. A poll. Help me. ( note, I wouldn't actually use some of these because they just don't work for Emma but I was listing all the blonde actresses I could think of off the top of my head that were old enough )
Poll #674994
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
I really wish I could have skipped class last night, if only because we just sat there for two hours watching a movie with Kenneth Branagh in it. Which, actually, was better than sitting there for two hours taking notes, but still. Kenneth Branagh. Who still makes me think 'Gilderoy Lockhart' whenever I see him, and I'm pretty sure that's not the mood Conspiracy was going for.
Granted, because I did go to class, I got the questions for the test we have next week to study with, so there was a bright side. Downside being, there's a test next week, and a book review due in two weeks. On a book I really need to at least start, so I'm not doing it all the night before. The paper can be written the night before, but I'm think that the book on the SS and the Holocaust needs to be read a little bit in advance. Maybe.
But! My grant came through, meaning I do in fact get to go to France/Germany over Spring Break to finish thesis research. I get to spend two days in France touring WWI battle sites, then three days in Berlin at the war museums. :D! That makes me happy. Because I'm a big dork. Yes. Right.
For the record, I hate Arkansas weather. It was eighty degrees outside, yesterday. Today? It's barely above freezing, and we're looking at an ice storm this weekend. No wonder I've been sick so much this winter. The weather can't decide if it's summer or winter.
And now, because I'm hideously indecisive, and I want to go ahead and be able to save pictures this weekend and work on icons. A poll. Help me. ( note, I wouldn't actually use some of these because they just don't work for Emma but I was listing all the blonde actresses I could think of off the top of my head that were old enough )
Poll #674994
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
Who makes a good Emma Frost? (yes. pick more than one.)
Naomi Watts
4 (36.4%)
Charlize Theron 4 (36.4%)
Natasha Henstridge 1 (9.1%)
Nicole Kidman 1 (9.1%)
Uma Thurman 1 (9.1%)
Maria Bello 0 (0.0%)
Peta Wilson 3 (27.3%)
Patricia Arquette 0 (0.0%)
Hudson Leick 0 (0.0%)
Portia De Rossi 6 (54.5%)
Rebecca Romijn 3 (27.3%)
Gwyneth Paltrow 0 (0.0%)
someone else ( see box below ) 1 (9.1%)
Who else would work? ( and please do not suggest Julie Benz. I have issues with her as a PB )
Mood: 
happy
Music: the fax machine beeping.
happy Music: the fax machine beeping.
[1] | weather the storm
Monday, February 6, 2006 : 12:36 AM
Well. That's kind of a relief, actually.
It's just one of those days when you realize that if you keep putting something off for a week or more with no excuse, that maybe it's time.
I think I had a much better Superbowl evening than most. Why? Because I didn't watch the game. Instead, I spent a highly productive evening seeing Brokeback Mountain again. (Yeah. I still cried at the end.) Of course, half the fun was getting witnessed to by some girl in line and then seeing the look on her face when she realized what movie we were there to see.
Otherwise, my weekend has been unproductive.
I still need to order a book for class so I can do my book review on time. Meh.
Right now, though, I need sleep since I actually do have to go to work tomorrow and no one's replaced the half-caff with regular coffee yet. Not on, man. Not on.
(Randomly, I've become horribly addicted to House. I think I need to follow Hugh Laurie around or something.)
It's just one of those days when you realize that if you keep putting something off for a week or more with no excuse, that maybe it's time.
I think I had a much better Superbowl evening than most. Why? Because I didn't watch the game. Instead, I spent a highly productive evening seeing Brokeback Mountain again. (Yeah. I still cried at the end.) Of course, half the fun was getting witnessed to by some girl in line and then seeing the look on her face when she realized what movie we were there to see.
Otherwise, my weekend has been unproductive.
I still need to order a book for class so I can do my book review on time. Meh.
Right now, though, I need sleep since I actually do have to go to work tomorrow and no one's replaced the half-caff with regular coffee yet. Not on, man. Not on.
(Randomly, I've become horribly addicted to House. I think I need to follow Hugh Laurie around or something.)
Mood: 
sleepy
Music: Ben Harper - Please Bleed
sleepy Music: Ben Harper - Please Bleed
[1] | weather the storm
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 : 4:00 PM
The poll is now here because the coding messed up and LJ sucks, kthnx.
It's been a very weird couple of days.
At least I'm all better, after two days of walking pneumonia, a bad allergic reaction to the medication that ended in an emergency room visit (because the doctor obviously missed the big red letters on my chart that say 'deathly allergic to sulfa drugs'), and a thesis presentation that actually went pretty well despite being half-unconscious.
Downside, they replaced my coffee with half-caf at work. Which really means that in order to get a full dose of caffeine, I have to make two pots of coffee. People, I don't drink coffee for the taste!
It's been a very weird couple of days.
At least I'm all better, after two days of walking pneumonia, a bad allergic reaction to the medication that ended in an emergency room visit (because the doctor obviously missed the big red letters on my chart that say 'deathly allergic to sulfa drugs'), and a thesis presentation that actually went pretty well despite being half-unconscious.
Downside, they replaced my coffee with half-caf at work. Which really means that in order to get a full dose of caffeine, I have to make two pots of coffee. People, I don't drink coffee for the taste!
Mood: 
listless
Music: Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
listless Music: Rufus Wainwright - Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk
[7] | weather the storm
Thursday, January 26, 2006 : 10:47 PM
My parents managed to give me the flu. Or I have pneumonia from the girl at work. >< Either way, I'm achey and I feel like falling over and sleeping for a week. That might just be the insomnia talking, but whatever. I'll crash and burn this weekend. After I defend my thesis first draft. o.O It's a good thing I know my shit about Weimar Germany, or I'd be in trouble. I'm probably going to be in trouble in anyway, but at least this is just the one where they tell me what to change, then I have a year to chage and add stuff. Then it's for a degree.
This is all assuming that I haven't died from leprosy or something.
XP Right. Medicine and sleep. Maybe I'll better in the morning.
(Tomorrow? I might actually have a real journal entry, depending on my level of consciousness.)
This is all assuming that I haven't died from leprosy or something.
XP Right. Medicine and sleep. Maybe I'll better in the morning.
(Tomorrow? I might actually have a real journal entry, depending on my level of consciousness.)
Mood: 
sick
sick [4] | weather the storm
Thursday, January 12, 2006 : 11:09 PM
I suppose it's a good thing that the tornado sirens even went off this time, though I really wish they'd do it when there's actually a tornado in the area and not one two counties away already. I really should unplug the computer, though, since it is still storming, but eh. I'll do that before I go to bed. And tomorrow, I get to check my car for hail damage. I love winter in Arkansas. At least it's not ice storms.
Still calling in sick tomorrow, but I'm not getting to see Brokeback Mountain until Saturday when Blaire and I drive to Little Rock. But whatever. I survived freshman registration without strangling the people who wake Monday morning and decide they're going to college and darn it they're going that day.
I need sleep.
Still calling in sick tomorrow, but I'm not getting to see Brokeback Mountain until Saturday when Blaire and I drive to Little Rock. But whatever. I survived freshman registration without strangling the people who wake Monday morning and decide they're going to college and darn it they're going that day.
I need sleep.
Mood: 
apathetic
Music: David Letterman.
apathetic Music: David Letterman.
Saturday, January 7, 2006 : 6:42 PM
Brokeback Mountain is playing in Little Rock at the Rave starting on Friday, January 13. Guess who's calling in sick on Friday?
I have no morals when it comes to calling in sick, but really, I worked overtime all week. I deserve a legitimate day off.
I have no morals when it comes to calling in sick, but really, I worked overtime all week. I deserve a legitimate day off.
Mood: 
giddy
giddy [2] | weather the storm
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 : 3:08 PM
Modding is hard, y'all, and I've been doing it for three years.
( in which i blow off steam and save your friends pages! )
First day back at work after having a week off, too. Bleh. And registration for the spring semester starts tomorrow. And I have to work late the rest of the week. And I think I'll take up smoking again just to keep from strangling someone. It would probably help matters if I wasn't going through another bout of insomnia or would just take the medication the doctor gave me for said insomnia.
But I've managed to finish three books in the past few days, and tonight I kinda need to order my books for class. That was totally random. I think I need a little more caffeine. I've got another chapter on my thesis due, too. At least I've got the research done on it this time. I've just got to throw it all together and hope it makes sense.
Now I need to shuffle papers on my desk and look busy for another hour.
( in which i blow off steam and save your friends pages! )
First day back at work after having a week off, too. Bleh. And registration for the spring semester starts tomorrow. And I have to work late the rest of the week. And I think I'll take up smoking again just to keep from strangling someone. It would probably help matters if I wasn't going through another bout of insomnia or would just take the medication the doctor gave me for said insomnia.
But I've managed to finish three books in the past few days, and tonight I kinda need to order my books for class. That was totally random. I think I need a little more caffeine. I've got another chapter on my thesis due, too. At least I've got the research done on it this time. I've just got to throw it all together and hope it makes sense.
Now I need to shuffle papers on my desk and look busy for another hour.
Mood: 
lethargic
lethargic [4] | weather the storm
Thursday, December 29, 2005 : 4:33 AM
There's nothing quite like starting an RPG that on the first day has over seventy characters and counting. Of which I only play five, kthnx, and not Remy. But a Logan instead, who is rapidly becoming my signature character to play. Hell, I've only done journal comments and I'm already having fun. The staying up until five a.m. in chat had a lot to deal with that too, even if I didn't participate much. I've missed this. Stupid job. Stupid responsibility.
Stupid thesis that I haven't looked at it a week.I don't want to think about World War I. It's depressing
Christmas was good this year, in that I got a new laptop and finally, finally have my own computer again. I also bought myself X-Men Legends II because I need something else to distract me. Hey, I don't have to go back to work until the second, so yeah. I need distractions.
But now, I actually need sleep. I might post more tomorrow, since I'm aware that I need to update more often now.
Stupid thesis that I haven't looked at it a week.
Christmas was good this year, in that I got a new laptop and finally, finally have my own computer again. I also bought myself X-Men Legends II because I need something else to distract me. Hey, I don't have to go back to work until the second, so yeah. I need distractions.
But now, I actually need sleep. I might post more tomorrow, since I'm aware that I need to update more often now.
Mood: 
cheerful
Music: Jerry Springer. No, I don't know why either.
cheerful Music: Jerry Springer. No, I don't know why either.
[1] | weather the storm
Monday, December 19, 2005 : 11:12 PM
It's the little things that make me really happy.
That's really all I've got to say, but yeah. I'm giddy, and it's great.
Although. Grades come out on Wednesday. I'm nervous. I probably shouldn't be, but I can't help it.
That's really all I've got to say, but yeah. I'm giddy, and it's great.
Although. Grades come out on Wednesday. I'm nervous. I probably shouldn't be, but I can't help it.
Mood: 
touched
touched Monday, December 5, 2005 : 3:42 PM
It was nearly sixty on Saturday. They're now predicting three inches of snow for Wednesday. These are the moments that I hate Arkansas weather. I want it to pick a temperature and stay there for more than five minutes. Otherwise, when I come down with pneumonia, I'm going to pout. Like, lots.
Apparently my icons have all become studies of the myriad and bizarre facial expressions of Jake Gyllenhaal.
I have the random urge to redo all of Julien's icons.because it's not procrastination, really, to completely overhaul 900+ icons. honest. I'm just not sure if I'm going to remake them entirely or just re-keyword. Decisions, decisions.
I can already tell what my finals week is going to be like.
I'm so lazy.
Apparently my icons have all become studies of the myriad and bizarre facial expressions of Jake Gyllenhaal.
I have the random urge to redo all of Julien's icons.
I can already tell what my finals week is going to be like.
I'm so lazy.
Mood: 
lazy
lazy Thursday, December 1, 2005 : 9:15 PM
The Brokeback Mountain soundtrack is going to kill me. It's probably not the best music to be listening to right now. I don't think I've ever been emotionally drained by playing before, but damn, if it wasn't awesome. though my Storm and my Hank probably sucked
I really should finish the other two backstories for potterisdead. And icons. Those are this weekend. I need to make a few new ones for the people in Orbus, too, who've asked.
And I've got to read for a presentation on Monday.
My weekend's going to be booked, but whatever.
I'm dreading work tomorrow, though. The database is going down at noon, and that means...I'll be sitting and doing nothing. But more than usual for four and half hours. Maybe they'll let me go home early. It's not like I can do more than answer the phone and say "I'm sorry. I can't tell you that because my computer isn't working."
I really should finish the other two backstories for potterisdead. And icons. Those are this weekend. I need to make a few new ones for the people in Orbus, too, who've asked.
And I've got to read for a presentation on Monday.
My weekend's going to be booked, but whatever.
I'm dreading work tomorrow, though. The database is going down at noon, and that means...I'll be sitting and doing nothing. But more than usual for four and half hours. Maybe they'll let me go home early. It's not like I can do more than answer the phone and say "I'm sorry. I can't tell you that because my computer isn't working."
Mood: 
drained
Music: Deedra on the phone.
drained Music: Deedra on the phone.
Monday, November 28, 2005 : 10:51 PM
random role-playing stuff.
So. Yeah.
( Harry Potter pimping. )
Next up, post X2 game. AU. Magneto won in the end, humanity's dead. S'gonna be cool.
Oh. And everyone should join Orbus. We promise not to bite. Well. I promise not to bite. I can't speak for everyone else.
( Harry Potter pimping. )
Next up, post X2 game. AU. Magneto won in the end, humanity's dead. S'gonna be cool.
Oh. And everyone should join Orbus. We promise not to bite. Well. I promise not to bite. I can't speak for everyone else.
[13] | weather the storm
Saturday, November 26, 2005 : 10:10 PM
Geez. I promised myself that I would try and keep this thing updated at least once a week, and you know, I'd really like to say that it's because I've been horribly busy, but really, it's the laziness and lack of anything to say. Class doesn't suck too hard (I've got a B. Honestly, I was expecting something much lower considering I keep turning in papers I wrote the day they were due.), though I need to register for next semester before the class I want is full, but again. I work eight hour days, and I'd have to take a day off to get to campus to see my advisor to register. I'll talk to my boss about that Monday. I should be able to take one day off and still have enough vacation left to take the week after Christmas off from work.
I'm slowly getting sucked back in to HP fandom. Not that I ever really left, but I totally blame Goblet of Fire. No real spoilers for the movie, but damnit. I know how it ends. It's not supposed to make me cry, but Cedric's my second favorite Hufflepuff (Nothing tops Zacharias.) and Robert and Dan both did a wonderful job with that.
But, yeah. I've got an HP post-Hogwarts thing in the works.Mostly because I miss playing Marcus. A lot.
First, though, massive Orbus plot this week. And (note to self) I need to send out the Weapon Plus email this week to get that going soon.
I'd post about my holidays, but most of it was spent watching movies and spending time with family and spending too much money on books and comics. That has been my life for the past four days, and I love it. Even if I am stuck on dial-up until whenever tomorrow.
(And I just startled myself because I forgot I changed my mood theme from Lindsey to Romeo and Juliet. I'm a spaz, and I think I need to switch to decaf.)
I'm slowly getting sucked back in to HP fandom. Not that I ever really left, but I totally blame Goblet of Fire. No real spoilers for the movie, but damnit. I know how it ends. It's not supposed to make me cry, but Cedric's my second favorite Hufflepuff (Nothing tops Zacharias.) and Robert and Dan both did a wonderful job with that.
But, yeah. I've got an HP post-Hogwarts thing in the works.
First, though, massive Orbus plot this week. And (note to self) I need to send out the Weapon Plus email this week to get that going soon.
I'd post about my holidays, but most of it was spent watching movies and spending time with family and spending too much money on books and comics. That has been my life for the past four days, and I love it. Even if I am stuck on dial-up until whenever tomorrow.
(And I just startled myself because I forgot I changed my mood theme from Lindsey to Romeo and Juliet. I'm a spaz, and I think I need to switch to decaf.)
Mood: 
complacent
Music: Tethur - Sleeping with the Lights On.
complacent Music: Tethur - Sleeping with the Lights On.
Friday, November 11, 2005 : 2:14 PM
So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb, for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an Angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not they hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him, thy son.
Behold! Caught in a thicket by its horns,
A Ram. Offer the Ram of Pride instead.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
(Wilfred Owen, "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young")
Armistice Day always puts me in a weird mood. And sometimes, I really just want to go back home either to Romania or Europe in general around this time of year.
More later when I'm less strange, and I've had time to redesign my journal. Again. Because I'm lame.
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb, for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an Angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not they hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him, thy son.
Behold! Caught in a thicket by its horns,
A Ram. Offer the Ram of Pride instead.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
(Wilfred Owen, "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young")
Armistice Day always puts me in a weird mood. And sometimes, I really just want to go back home either to Romania or Europe in general around this time of year.
More later when I'm less strange, and I've had time to redesign my journal. Again. Because I'm lame.
Mood: 
pensive
pensive Friday, November 4, 2005 : 10:50 PM
I just got back from seeing Jarhead, and I'll have more coherent thoughts tomorrow. I'm too exhausted tonight to do anything that remotely makes sense. Two things, though, that aren't really spoilery. 1.) I will never look at Santa hats the same way again. 2.) Jake is an amazing actor, but so is Pete Sarsgaard. The both of them? Utterly awe-inspiring.
I managed to get the journal redesigned. I'm not sure how long this one will last, so we'll see. It's more of a placeholder than anything.![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
apillarofsalt
That's all I got for now. Research tomorrow. That'll be all kinds of not really fun.
I managed to get the journal redesigned. I'm not sure how long this one will last, so we'll see. It's more of a placeholder than anything.
apillarofsaltThat's all I got for now. Research tomorrow. That'll be all kinds of not really fun.
Mood: sleepy
sleepy [1] | weather the storm
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 : 10:24 AM
I blame a lack of updates on failed attempts to translate French Revolution documents. Because my French is far too rust, and far, far too Cajun to actually be able to sit and translate for hours anymore, plus my brain has to translate the English into Romanian then into French, because I learned French before I learned English. And hell if I can actually remember anything I learned in college-level French.
So that's the long version of why I haven't updated, and at some point this week, I've got to write another eight page paper on mob violence during the Revolution, and yay, there's a lot of sources, but all the 'and then his head was chopped off' stuff starts looking the same after awhile. And it makes my eyes cross.
I need a new layout. I love Ced, but my attention span's been somewhere around 'hyperactive five year old' lately. I blame Halloween for that. I need to make a new mood theme too. I'll save that for this weekend in an attempt to not do my homework. I just need to decide on subject matter.
Now, back to pretending that I actually do my job.
So that's the long version of why I haven't updated, and at some point this week, I've got to write another eight page paper on mob violence during the Revolution, and yay, there's a lot of sources, but all the 'and then his head was chopped off' stuff starts looking the same after awhile. And it makes my eyes cross.
I need a new layout. I love Ced, but my attention span's been somewhere around 'hyperactive five year old' lately. I blame Halloween for that. I need to make a new mood theme too. I'll save that for this weekend in an attempt to not do my homework. I just need to decide on subject matter.
Now, back to pretending that I actually do my job.
Mood: 
bored
Music: Kane - Seven Days
bored Music: Kane - Seven Days
Saturday, October 22, 2005 : 8:21 PM
Right. So. I apparently shouldn't be allowed near a computer ever again. I keep breaking them. First mine, now my parents'. Not that I'm going to tell them that. I'll let them blame themselves, because at least I got it to start up again. It just took two hours and a lot of throwing things across the room. I blame the stress of having a paper due Monday, and only being halfway through the book I need to read to write it.
I also blame the facts that German religious revolts in the 1400s are less than exciting, and if I have to read one more description of a pilgrimage, I think I might bash my head against the wall. But, eh, eight page papers are nothing, so I just may not be around much tomorrow night.
Wimbledon is really the only movie I can stand Kirsten Dunst in. Mostly because Paul Bettany is distracting. That's my deep thought of the moment.
I also blame the facts that German religious revolts in the 1400s are less than exciting, and if I have to read one more description of a pilgrimage, I think I might bash my head against the wall. But, eh, eight page papers are nothing, so I just may not be around much tomorrow night.
Wimbledon is really the only movie I can stand Kirsten Dunst in. Mostly because Paul Bettany is distracting. That's my deep thought of the moment.
Mood: 
quixotic
Music: Wimbledon.
quixotic Music: Wimbledon.
[2] | weather the storm
Friday, October 14, 2005 : 12:09 PM
I called in sick this morning, despite the fact that I'm not really all that sick. Of course, that means that karma will turn up and smack me in the head for it on Monday, and I'll be really sick, but whatever. If I am, I'll just claim it's the flu or something. And that will only make matters worse, I realize that.
Upside, got midterm grades in, and I've got a B in the one class I'm taking, and that's without even trying. Imagine what I could do if I actually had a work-ethic, and the urge to read hundreds or pages a night. I could end up ruling the world or close to.
I redid the layout again. My attention span is notoriously short, I know this. And I don't really care if someone complains because it spoils the GoF movie. I mean. Really. *cough* Anyway,apillarofsalt.
And now....I need to pack.
Upside, got midterm grades in, and I've got a B in the one class I'm taking, and that's without even trying. Imagine what I could do if I actually had a work-ethic, and the urge to read hundreds or pages a night. I could end up ruling the world or close to.
I redid the layout again. My attention span is notoriously short, I know this. And I don't really care if someone complains because it spoils the GoF movie. I mean. Really. *cough* Anyway,
apillarofsalt.And now....I need to pack.
Mood: complacent
complacent [3] | weather the storm
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 : 10:23 AM
If one more person tells me to smile because "it can't be that bad", I'm likely to start removing limbs with a letter opener. Insomnia isn't fun, people, and I've reached the cranky stage of it, so that's why I look focused and unhappy. Because I am. So, nyeh. (and, you know, a smarter person would just take the valium the doctor prescribes to calm down enough to sleep, rather than staying up all night redesigning journals for role-playing characters, but whatever. I'm aware it's my own fault.)
The song "Jesus Walks"? Is getting on my nerves. If only because it's catchy and easily stuck in my head and just when I've managed to get it out of my head, the Jarhead trailer comes on, and it's back again.
I've signed up for![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
fanfic100 and crossovers100. I figure, eh, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, so I might as well have something to do. I'll be doing Wolverine and Marcus Flint for the noncrossovers, and Lindsey for the crossovers (because really. Lindsey McDonald/Remy LeBeau? It needs to be written, really it does.)
I have the sudden urge to do a Harry Potter/X-Men game. There's already been the 'the mutants are wizards' AU, so there really needs to be the 'the wizards are mutants' one. ( spoilers for HBP )
Right. Pretending to work. Honest.
The song "Jesus Walks"? Is getting on my nerves. If only because it's catchy and easily stuck in my head and just when I've managed to get it out of my head, the Jarhead trailer comes on, and it's back again.
I've signed up for
fanfic100 and crossovers100. I figure, eh, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, so I might as well have something to do. I'll be doing Wolverine and Marcus Flint for the noncrossovers, and Lindsey for the crossovers (because really. Lindsey McDonald/Remy LeBeau? It needs to be written, really it does.)I have the sudden urge to do a Harry Potter/X-Men game. There's already been the 'the mutants are wizards' AU, so there really needs to be the 'the wizards are mutants' one. ( spoilers for HBP )
Right. Pretending to work. Honest.
Mood: 
cynical
Music: Nickelback - Rockstar
cynical Music: Nickelback - Rockstar
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Friday, October 7, 2005 : 3:41 PM
I'm having a very introspective day. If only because I went back and read some stuff, and just when I was starting to feel badly about how some things went down a little over three years ago, I read something just made me go: 'Ah. Yes. There's the asshole I remember.' Nice to see I wasn't delusional. I was starting to get worried for a second there.
In other news the people at work are going to look up my full name on google this weekend. Why is this news worthy? I made the mistake of writing a whole bunch of truly-awful-no-good-very-bad Buffy fanfic, back during, like, season two, under my real name. And I'm talking smut. Stuff that's still out there on other people's sites so it's not like I can take it down. oO I take small comfort in the fact that they'll only find one slash story, if that since it was horrid enough that I'm pretty sure no one archived it, so at least I don't have to freak out the children's pastor and the preacher's daughter that work with me too badly.
No. I'm just going to have to deal with the odd looks on Monday.
*goes back to writing Cable/Deadpool smut*
*is tempted to use real name on that too just for extra terror*
*and illustrate it*
In other news the people at work are going to look up my full name on google this weekend. Why is this news worthy? I made the mistake of writing a whole bunch of truly-awful-no-good-very-bad Buffy fanfic, back during, like, season two, under my real name. And I'm talking smut. Stuff that's still out there on other people's sites so it's not like I can take it down. oO I take small comfort in the fact that they'll only find one slash story, if that since it was horrid enough that I'm pretty sure no one archived it, so at least I don't have to freak out the children's pastor and the preacher's daughter that work with me too badly.
No. I'm just going to have to deal with the odd looks on Monday.
*goes back to writing Cable/Deadpool smut*
*is tempted to use real name on that too just for extra terror*
*and illustrate it*
Mood: thoughtful
Music: work noises. omgonlythirtymoreminutes!
thoughtful Music: work noises. omgonlythirtymoreminutes!
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 : 12:51 AM
You know, I've discovered that I hate actually talking myself into going to class, but once I'm there, I love it. I mean, it is more interesting that just research methods, thankfully, but it's just a matter of getting over my own laziness and getting to class. Ah. Just like old times. Only this time, there's only seven of us in the class, and the prof. actually knows my name. Damnit. So there's no easy way to skip.
My cat just dropped a dead squirrel at my feet as a present. That's....oi. I'm going to have to seal up the doggy door tonight or run the risk of waking up next to some other dead mammal like some bizarre parody of The Godfather.
I saw Serenity. Everyone else needs to go see it now. I'm going again on Saturday, and I'll have more in-depth thoughts then.
Note to self: Christian Kane on Close to Home tonight at 9pm. Don't forget.
My cat just dropped a dead squirrel at my feet as a present. That's....oi. I'm going to have to seal up the doggy door tonight or run the risk of waking up next to some other dead mammal like some bizarre parody of The Godfather.
I saw Serenity. Everyone else needs to go see it now. I'm going again on Saturday, and I'll have more in-depth thoughts then.
Note to self: Christian Kane on Close to Home tonight at 9pm. Don't forget.
Mood: sleepy
Music: Er. Something on Lifetime?
sleepy Music: Er. Something on Lifetime?
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 : 12:06 PM
So. I've actually been back from vacation for a couple of days. I've just been horribly lazy this entire time and have done nothing. Well. Work, but that really doesn't count, and I threw together a fifteen minute presentation for class two hours before and actually got an 'A' so, hey, lazy is working well for me at the moment.
Florida was wonderful, even if we did hit what was left of Hurricane Rita as we got back to Arkansas. Yay tornadoes at midnight when crossing the Mississippi. Smarter people would have, you know, stopped the car, but whatever. I spent too much money, walked too much, but I needed the vacation.
And now I'm back at work, having finished last week's work in a day, and I'm left with nothing to do. Nothing at all, except sit here and refresh internet pages. Life is so very exciting.
But! Serenity this weekend, and unlike half my friends list, I haven't already seen it, so it'll be new and specialeven if I am already spoiled.
I also managed to finish reading Half-Blood Price for the second time, and I realized something. I really, really dislike the entire Weasley family. Well. Just the twins and Ginny. Why? Because they're bullies and not even especially creative ones. And their same behavior that I'm supposed to find really, really funny? Is the same stuff I'm supposed to hate the Slytherins for. (Namely, Ginny flying into Zacharias on the podium with the excuse 'the brakes didn't work' is really no different from Marcus Flint flying in front of Harry with the excuse 'I didn't see him' in, I think, PoA?)
Anyway. No more of that.
I finally redesigned my journal.apillarofsalt I think this one might stick around for awhile.
And finally:
When you see this on your flist, quote Firefly. (Oh, come on. I have to.)
Mal: I know it's a difficult mission... but you and I... have to get it on.
Zoe: I understand. We have no choice. Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Jayne: Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettling.
-War Stories
Florida was wonderful, even if we did hit what was left of Hurricane Rita as we got back to Arkansas. Yay tornadoes at midnight when crossing the Mississippi. Smarter people would have, you know, stopped the car, but whatever. I spent too much money, walked too much, but I needed the vacation.
And now I'm back at work, having finished last week's work in a day, and I'm left with nothing to do. Nothing at all, except sit here and refresh internet pages. Life is so very exciting.
But! Serenity this weekend, and unlike half my friends list, I haven't already seen it, so it'll be new and special
I also managed to finish reading Half-Blood Price for the second time, and I realized something. I really, really dislike the entire Weasley family. Well. Just the twins and Ginny. Why? Because they're bullies and not even especially creative ones. And their same behavior that I'm supposed to find really, really funny? Is the same stuff I'm supposed to hate the Slytherins for. (Namely, Ginny flying into Zacharias on the podium with the excuse 'the brakes didn't work' is really no different from Marcus Flint flying in front of Harry with the excuse 'I didn't see him' in, I think, PoA?)
Anyway. No more of that.
I finally redesigned my journal.
apillarofsalt I think this one might stick around for awhile.And finally:
When you see this on your flist, quote Firefly. (Oh, come on. I have to.)
Mal: I know it's a difficult mission... but you and I... have to get it on.
Zoe: I understand. We have no choice. Take me, sir. Take me hard.
Jayne: Now somethin' about that is just downright unsettling.
-War Stories
Mood: 
amused
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Friday, September 16, 2005 : 4:20 PM
Mood: sick
sick Thursday, September 15, 2005 : 11:11 AM
Curse my computer's inability to recognize the sound card, which makes me the only person on my friends list who hasn't seen the new Goblet of Fire trailer. Woe.
In other news, two days before I go on vacation, I'm coming down with a cold. I'll just be over here swigging Dayquil.
In other news, two days before I go on vacation, I'm coming down with a cold. I'll just be over here swigging Dayquil.
Mood: sick
Music: Brooks & Dunn - Red Dirt Road
sick Music: Brooks & Dunn - Red Dirt Road
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005 : 3:36 PM
There are days here at work where it's so busy that I don't ever want to come back again, and then there's days where nothing happens for hours, and I sit, refreshing webpages in the hopes that something interesting pops up, and there's only so many times I can read Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire before it just gets to be repetitive. Add that to the fact that, technically, I'm not supposed to be surfing the internet at work.
That would be why I rarely update anymore.
Even class isn't interesting enough to talk about. We discussed German philosophy. Hegel is obnoxious. That is all.
I'll have much, much more interesting stuff to post about after vacation next week, hopefully. Speaking of which, if you want postcards from Disney World, leave your address in the poll below. You know you want to.Because you love me.
Poll #570592
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
Oh! I finally finished Half-Blood Prince, two months later. I'm going to reread it on the eighteen hour drive to Florida, so I'll have something about that to post after as well.
I think I'll redesign my journal tonight.
Right. This ended up just being a 'hey! Sam's still breathing!' post.
That would be why I rarely update anymore.
Even class isn't interesting enough to talk about. We discussed German philosophy. Hegel is obnoxious. That is all.
I'll have much, much more interesting stuff to post about after vacation next week, hopefully. Speaking of which, if you want postcards from Disney World, leave your address in the poll below. You know you want to.
Poll #570592
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None
If you want a postcard from me, leave your address.
Oh! I finally finished Half-Blood Prince, two months later. I'm going to reread it on the eighteen hour drive to Florida, so I'll have something about that to post after as well.
I think I'll redesign my journal tonight.
Right. This ended up just being a 'hey! Sam's still breathing!' post.
Mood: bored
Music: Other people working.
bored Music: Other people working.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2005 : 2:28 PM
This pretty much sums up my displeasure with Bush over the Katrina aftermath. I haven't really talked about the Hurricane because I've got family down in Louisiana that we're still waiting to hear from. We know they're okay, but we haven't had personal contact with them yet, so it's still a little too close to home, and as far as I know, they evacuated, but still.
Here at the college where I work, and in all the colleges in Arkansas, I think, we're allowing kids from the colleges in the disaster area to attend for a semester free of charge. This means we have to let them register now so they can start attending classes. If one more student who is not one of these special cases comes and complains because they can't change their class while so-and-so can register and how I'm being unfair to them because, damnit, their class needs to be earlier/later/another day all together, I'm going to snap and tell them to come back and talk to me when they lose everything in a natural disaster. Then I'll let them change their Basic Algebra class to another time. (To clarify, we haven't let anyone add classes since August 19.)
Other than that, today's been so very, very slow. Bah.
Here at the college where I work, and in all the colleges in Arkansas, I think, we're allowing kids from the colleges in the disaster area to attend for a semester free of charge. This means we have to let them register now so they can start attending classes. If one more student who is not one of these special cases comes and complains because they can't change their class while so-and-so can register and how I'm being unfair to them because, damnit, their class needs to be earlier/later/another day all together, I'm going to snap and tell them to come back and talk to me when they lose everything in a natural disaster. Then I'll let them change their Basic Algebra class to another time. (To clarify, we haven't let anyone add classes since August 19.)
Other than that, today's been so very, very slow. Bah.
Mood: 
annoyed
Music: People talking. My life is so exciting.
annoyed Music: People talking. My life is so exciting.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2005 : 11:23 PM
I should be sadder than this. I mean, it should be a sad occasion, realizing that you've lost a friend, but I'm mostly filled with that vague sense of relief that's very similar to when my ex-fiance and I broke up. It's probably just the realization that with everything going on in the world, that stupid little stuff like that? Meaningless in the long-run, especially when it's over something so small.
Other than that little bump in the road, things are actually pretty good. Class is going to be boring, but what did I expect? It's research methods. But I get to go to DisneyWorld in, like, a week and a half, I get to wear jeans to work this week, I've got a roof over my head, and I got paid a really good compliment about my RP-ing the other day (at a point when my RP-related self-esteem was pretty damn low. See the above paragraph), so yeah. Life is good.
Well. Except my computer is still broken. We think it's some kind of virus that won't even let me start in safe mode anymore.
And my (male and redneck-esque) cousin saw me in the Gay/Lesbian section of Barnes & Noble this weekend. I give him points for not freaking to my face, which he loses a couple of for freaking out at all. So. Either family Christmas this year is going to be awkward, or he's going to think we have something in common with my occasionally liking girls thing.
I really want to see Proof. I have a thing for geeky!Jake Gyllenhaal.
I should probably go to bed. Or at least get off the computer.
My life? Is lame. But I have Lost on DVD, so it's lame, but with good TV.
Other than that little bump in the road, things are actually pretty good. Class is going to be boring, but what did I expect? It's research methods. But I get to go to DisneyWorld in, like, a week and a half, I get to wear jeans to work this week, I've got a roof over my head, and I got paid a really good compliment about my RP-ing the other day (at a point when my RP-related self-esteem was pretty damn low. See the above paragraph), so yeah. Life is good.
Well. Except my computer is still broken. We think it's some kind of virus that won't even let me start in safe mode anymore.
And my (male and redneck-esque) cousin saw me in the Gay/Lesbian section of Barnes & Noble this weekend. I give him points for not freaking to my face, which he loses a couple of for freaking out at all. So. Either family Christmas this year is going to be awkward, or he's going to think we have something in common with my occasionally liking girls thing.
I really want to see Proof. I have a thing for geeky!Jake Gyllenhaal.
I should probably go to bed. Or at least get off the computer.
My life? Is lame. But I have Lost on DVD, so it's lame, but with good TV.
Mood: sleepy
Music: The Nanny on TV.
sleepy Music: The Nanny on TV.
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Monday, August 29, 2005 : 7:58 AM
I have class tonight. I am dorky enough that, yes, I'm excited about going to class. I've missed getting homework. I will, of course, be regretting my decision to go to grad school come two weeks from now when I really start my homework, but eh. It meets one night a week for three hours, it's a research class (and I need to brush up on my Turabian style citations because it's been a year since I've had to write a paper) so most of the class times will be spent in the library, and omg I get to write a paper on whatever I want. See? Big. Dork.
The only downside is that I've got to chose my specialization in either American History or European History, no Ancient since they don't have anyone that teaches that exclusively, so I'll be focusing on European (American would be easier, but I grew up with Civil War Reenactors, and I kinda got sick of American history somewhere around the eighth grade), especially early twentieth century and World War I.
Now, I just need to get my computer fixed before it comes time to really type anything up. I think I can use grad school as an excuse to get my parents to finance a laptop with me. I think it was just time for my old computer to die. I'd had it for a year, it was kinda crappy anyway, I just wish it would let me get everything off there. There's some stuff I needed to keep. Like the 3 gig worth of music. *cough*
Other than that, it was actually a pretty good weekend, and I spent way too much money on random stuff, but I've fallen in love with Ex Machina, so I was getting trades. I considered it my birthday present to myself.
And work is really damn slow right now.
The only downside is that I've got to chose my specialization in either American History or European History, no Ancient since they don't have anyone that teaches that exclusively, so I'll be focusing on European (American would be easier, but I grew up with Civil War Reenactors, and I kinda got sick of American history somewhere around the eighth grade), especially early twentieth century and World War I.
Now, I just need to get my computer fixed before it comes time to really type anything up. I think I can use grad school as an excuse to get my parents to finance a laptop with me. I think it was just time for my old computer to die. I'd had it for a year, it was kinda crappy anyway, I just wish it would let me get everything off there. There's some stuff I needed to keep. Like the 3 gig worth of music. *cough*
Other than that, it was actually a pretty good weekend, and I spent way too much money on random stuff, but I've fallen in love with Ex Machina, so I was getting trades. I considered it my birthday present to myself.
And work is really damn slow right now.
Sunday, August 21, 2005 : 10:30 PM
Wow. I didn't mean to be gone for two weeks, but I need a break from all the drama that comes with LJ, and I took an unofficial sort of hiatus, got rid of some negative energy, and have actually been having a pretty good life recently. Of course, work sucks, people are stupid, but the money's nice and I only have to deal with the stupid people for eight hours a day, so yay for me.
I finally saw The Island this weekend, and I loved it. More than I thought I would, since it's probably a good idea to always go into a movie with lowered expectations. That means you're very rarely disappointed. (It even worked for Revenge of the Sith.) More importantly, though, I got to spend the weekend in Little Rock, avoiding most people, buying comics, and watching DVDs. It turns out that if you lower your expectations for sequels to kinda-mediocre horror films, they turn out to be surprisingly decent.
I also spent way too much money and bought the Phoenix: Endsong hardback, just so I could have decent copies of Emma-with-the-Phoenix.
My birthday's Tuesday. I have no idea if I'm actually doing anything special for it since this weekend was kinda my birthday stuff. And I get to dog-sit next weekend while my grandmother and aunts go to New Orleans. My life is still a crazy whirlygig of fun.
Imagine the hijinks once school starts a week from now.
(I changed my journal layout and finally started taking advantage of that hundred icons thingie.apillarofsalt Stroke my ego some more)
I finally saw The Island this weekend, and I loved it. More than I thought I would, since it's probably a good idea to always go into a movie with lowered expectations. That means you're very rarely disappointed. (It even worked for Revenge of the Sith.) More importantly, though, I got to spend the weekend in Little Rock, avoiding most people, buying comics, and watching DVDs. It turns out that if you lower your expectations for sequels to kinda-mediocre horror films, they turn out to be surprisingly decent.
I also spent way too much money and bought the Phoenix: Endsong hardback, just so I could have decent copies of Emma-with-the-Phoenix.
My birthday's Tuesday. I have no idea if I'm actually doing anything special for it since this weekend was kinda my birthday stuff. And I get to dog-sit next weekend while my grandmother and aunts go to New Orleans. My life is still a crazy whirlygig of fun.
Imagine the hijinks once school starts a week from now.
(I changed my journal layout and finally started taking advantage of that hundred icons thingie.
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