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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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5:36 pm
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Two years ago at Renn Faire, I almost bought what I described on this blog as "a hat so dashing that Malcolm Reynolds would shoot me in the back for it." This year, I decided that I could no longer live with 'almost.'
( Damn, I rock this hat! )
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| Sunday, December 14th, 2008
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6:29 pm
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Bought a four-pack of Jones Soda last week. One of the things they're known for, aside from the weird labels and even weirder flavors, is having fortune cookie fortunes on the bottoms of the caps. I've downed the entire four-pack since, and the fortunes I got have me a little worried. In order:
"You will soon be crossing great waters."
"The tide of change approaches."
"You will be successful in competitive sports."
"On the first week of the next month, do something just for you."
...Note to self: When January rolls around, take swimming lessons.
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| Friday, November 21st, 2008
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2:46 am - Useless iTunes stats
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Since January of 2007, I've purchased 153 songs off iTunes.
100 were part of full-album downloads, 7 albums total.
2 of those were replacements for albums I owned years ago on cassette.
4 were soundtracks.
1 was a total whim. (Idinia Menzel, "I Stand," totally worth it.)
Of the other 53:
34 I first heard on the traditional radio, most of which predate iTunes by a decade or more.
3 I found on Internet radio stations.
3 I discovered in the POA.
5 I had to buy after someone made an awesome fanvid on YouTube.
2 I first heard on the radio at work.
2 are from TV shows, for which they were written specifically.
3 are preexisting songs that I first heard in a TV show.
1 is from a commercial. Yes, the Liberty Mutual one.
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| Sunday, October 5th, 2008
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5:54 pm - Oh, why not.
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Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) penmage:
Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me. It can only be one word. No more. Then copy & paste this in your journal so that I may leave a word about you.
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| Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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12:50 am - Why my brain hurts.
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Due to scheduling issues, I will probably not see last night's Heroes premiere until tomorrow at the earliest. Due to last season not being the greatest and my head being filled iwht more fanon than canon, I have forgotten most of what happened in Season 2. Due to my being mentally ill, I have just rewatched all of Season 2 to refresh my memory. In two days.
Maya still pointless. Peter still annoying. Claire and Mohinder still playing soccer with the Idiot Ball. Hiro still noble. Bennet still badass. Sylar still weirdly hot. Matt still adorable. Slash possibilities still very much at the forefront of my brain, thank you very much.
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008
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9:50 pm
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Sad days. Last week Edana, my faithful iPod Mini, went to the big Apple Store in the sky due to an unfortunate run-in with a tub of painting water. Her passing left a hole in my heart, and her replacement a hole in my wallet. 80GB iPod Classic in silver, waiting to be loaded up with music, podcasts, and freshly-purchases Middleman donwloads.
All she needs is a name. This is the part where you get to help me. Go for it.
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| Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
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9:50 pm
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Ganked from kjbrasda
Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday.
Events
1773 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
1950 - Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1981 - Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
Births
1791 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American inventor
1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and 18th President of the United States
1963 - Russell T. Davies, Welsh television writer and executive producer of Doctor Who
Deaths
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (picked because it's just a damn cool name)
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist
Holiday
World graphic design day. I am not making this up.
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| Monday, July 21st, 2008
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5:57 pm
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| Monday, June 9th, 2008
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3:50 pm
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Yesterday included the weirdest conversation I have ever had at this job, bar none. I'm ringing up a guy's purchase, having the normal chatter ("Hi, be with you in just a second, do you have your discount card?"), when this ensues:
Him: "Have you had a summer here before?"
Me: (assuming he means at the store) "Sort of. I've been here almost a year. Or did you mean in Tucson?"
"Yes."
"Oh, I've lived here all my life."
"Really? You still have your original accent."
(blink) "Accent."
"You're English, aren't you?"
"...No. Tucson native."
"Well, your family is English, right?"
"Not for the last hundred years or so."
It actually got weirder later, when I mentioned the incident to a coworker:
"Strangest thing: There was a guy who thought I was English."
"Yeah, it's 'cause of the way you talk."
">.>"
I apparently have an accent that's so secret only two people in the world know about it.
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| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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10:50 pm - Original fiction!
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It's long for a teaser snippet (over 5200 words? Jeez, I can ramble!), it's very much half-baked at this point, and it's infodump-y, mostly for my own information. But it's interesting me, even if I don't know where it's going, and I want to see what y'all think of it. Give me feedback, ask me questions, poke at me with sticks, whatever it inspires in you.
( Superhero EMTS! )
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| Friday, April 11th, 2008
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4:18 pm
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Irony: Being in a good enough mood to blog, and thus blogging about all the badness that has transpired since the last time that happened.
Things lost since the last time I posted:
-Eastwood the kitten. Got loose at night about three weeks ago, was found woozy and injured-lookng the next morning, died late that night by what we realized too late was some kind of poisoning. We have no reason to believe it was anything other than a horrible accident.
-Regan. I got caught in a slick spot coming out of a turn and plowed head-on into a bus shelter. I'm completely unhurt, but Regan lost her entire front end. All the damage was to her frame and radiator, though, and her engine was unhurt, so there's still a good possibility she can be fixed.
-Most of my hours at work. There's a new cashier. She's getting more hours than most of the rest of us combined, despite the fact that she's several thousand kinds of incompetent. Also, she's an old friend of the store manager's. No, that doesn't look dodgy at all.
-Money. See above.
-My last shreds of patience regarding my employment. Also see above.
-My health insurance. Well, I've still got a couple weeks to go on that one, but come my birthday I'm no longer covered by my parents' plan. And I won't be able to apply for insurance via work until Novermber.
Things gained since the last time I posted:
-Several finished objects. As of today there are only two late Christmas knits that I have yet to finish, although there are four completed ones that still need to be mailed out.
-A booster shot to my faith in humanity, re: the accident mentioned above. I was on my way to work at the time, and the people who stopped to help me recognized me. They not only stayed until my parents and the police showed up, once they were convinced that I was being taken care of one of them went down to the store to let my boss know what had happened so I wouldn't get counted as AWOL.
-Free time. Now that the knitting is seeming less like a looming, oppressive force of DOOM, I'm sneaking away from it to do pony work again. Nebula, at least, should be finished fairly soon.
-A teensy bit of writing. Fanfic is in the doldrums at the moment (well, postable fic; most of my writing energy is going towards a MASSIVE EPIC that I can't post pieces of until I have a better framework), but I do have a longish little squeeze of original superhero fiction I've managed to do. If there's any interest, I'll post it here for the entertainment of the masses.
-A Youtube account. Only one video finished so far, but more on the way.
As Eddie Izzard would say, "So...yeah."
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| Saturday, March 8th, 2008
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2:19 am
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Letter meme, tagged by talissarocsham. To play, comment and ask for a letter, then list ten things you like that start with that letter. I got D. In no particular order:
1. Dissecting popular media. By which I mean wasting hours and hours at the TV Tropes wiki.
2. David Duchovny. Well, Mulder, but he doesn't start with a D. And I will confess to a fondness for Duchovny's wooden but oddly endearing acting. I fully expect XF2 to suck, but it's still filling me with all kinds of nostalgia.
3. Dr. Drakken. You knew he was gonna be on here.
4. Dogs. Kinda have to, in my line of "work."
5. Discworld. No more needs to be said.
6. Death. See #5.
7. Diane Duane. I so need to reread the entire Young Wizards series, and The Cats of Grand Central, but I keep having other stuff recommended to me.*
8. Dark chocolate. 72%, for preference.
9. Driving. With the exception of to and from work, and the construction hell therein.
10. "Don't Look Back." The second episode of Heroes, and the first to include Matt. Because there had to be a show reference on this list somewhere.
*Not that I mind, penmage! Loved The Wednesday Wars, just started Dreamquake. Will try to have more thorough comments later.
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| Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
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1:34 am
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I don't know if you believe in Christmas
Or if you have presents underneath a Christmas tree
But if you believe in love
That will be more than enough
For you to come and celebrate with me
For I have held the precious gift that love brings
Even though I never saw a Christmas star
I know there is a light
I have felt it burn inside
And I have seen it shining from afar
Christmas is the time to come together
A time to put all differences aside
And I reach out my hand
To the family of man
To share the joy I feel at Christmas time
For the truth that binds us all together
I would like to say a simple prayer
That at this special time
You will have true peace of mind
And joy to last throughout the coming year
And if you believe in love
That will be more than enough
For peace to last throughout the coming year
And peace will last throughout the year.
current music: John Denver and the Muppets, "The Christmas Wish"
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| Thursday, December 20th, 2007
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8:49 pm - Grabbing moments where I can, holding tightly with both hands
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Today sucked. It was a long shift, full of way too many customers and not enough breathing room. I pinched a nerve or something and the blade of my left hand was all pins and needles for a few hours, coupled with an occasional twitch in my index finger. They've been playing Christmas songs exclusively all month, and I'm being completely serious when I say there are maybe 50 songs in the rotation and I've heard that piece of crap by The Waitresses two to three times every day, three today. I didn't sleep well, didn't eat well, and had to take on an extra customer when I should have been packing up and going home because one of the other cashiers is useless. I have no Christmas spirit this year, and have in fact decided that any celebration of the holiday is just a waste of my precious few days off.
But I'm home now. Curled up in front of the computer in warm, fuzzy sweats, and contentedly full of greasy Mexican food. There's chocolate in my desk drawer and tea in the pantry, and I can indulge in both or either as I choose because I have tomorrow off and don't have to worry about sugar or caffiene keeping me awake tonight. I have three fanfic projects to choose between, should I decide to write. I have a fresh new library book in a favorite series, should I decide to read. I have a fun but mindless gift to knit that I will definitely finish by Christmas, and brand new yarn to work on another gift that has no real deadline and will allow me to be just a little creative. And the first part of the Hogfather miniseries is cued up and waiting for me to finish this post and choose a tea.
Everything isn't okay. But for now, everything doesn't have to be.
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| Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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11:24 pm - God, I'm crap at updating.
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New computer. Turns out the motherboard was the only thing fried on the old one, but on a seven-year-old computer it made more sense just to buy a new one than get the old one fixed. Beautiful machine, way more expensive than I can afford (second-priciest model in the store), but it's going to allow me to get rid of my television entirely as soon as I get the converter for the PS2. And oh my God, the storage space. Plus, the data from the old machine was salvageable, so all my writing and downloaded stuff is intact and happy in its new home.
New rats, plural now. Verity and Martha Jones, no pics as of yet.
Same job. Still underpaid, still burning out on and off. I'll probably live.
Long story short, I'm okay for now. Sorry if the silence worried anyone.
Also: Jerm? You mentioned wanting a Dr. Who scarf ages and ages ago, and I meant to get back to you but never did because I was balking at the yarn requirements. I've since heard some interesting things about the pattern that are making me reconsider. If you're still interested, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do after I finish all my Christmas knitting.
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| Sunday, October 28th, 2007
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6:14 pm - On my life, and why it sucks right now.
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Lydia has gone back to the store. She injured her eye somehow and was in a huge amount of pain, to the point where she may have been scratching up other parts of her face trying to get away from it. They're going to see if there's anything they can do fo her, but the answer is "probably not." I've been crying on and off for pretty much the last 24 hours and I'm feeling sick and exhausted and can't even relax on my one day off this weekend.
I hate my job. I'm absolutley burned out on dealing with the public, and the stress is not worth what I'm getting paid. But there's not another damn thing I'm qualified for.
My computer is dead. It's getting power, but won't actually start. I don't know when I'll be able to get someone to look at it because of course this is the week when they finally decide to give me longer hours. I'm on the family computer right now, but I can only stay on it for so long before either someone else needs to use it or the lack of my own stuff on it drives me completely nuts. So on top of everything, I can't even turn to my usual stress relief. No snopeschat, very limited IM access, none of my iTunes library, none of my fic, and no Pushing Daisies, Heroes, or Bones. If it was just going without the internet for a while I could deal, but when you take away my music, my writing, and my saved TV I am well and truly screwed.
It's not like I'm surprised or depressed at the realization of how much I depend on that damn box; I knew about that already. It's how little recourse I have when it fails me that gets me.
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| Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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6:18 pm
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I didn't come home from work alone on Friday. No, I didn't get another dog, although we're still considering it because we don't like leaving Suzie alone all day. Think smaller. Less universally popular. An even worse idea in a house with seven cats. And her name is Lydia.
( Wanna meet her? )
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| Saturday, September 29th, 2007
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3:03 pm
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One of our dogs died today.
Phantom was a shelter dog of undetermined mixed breed, probably with a lot of Labrador and Newfoundland blood, which made it all the weirder that he was afradi of water. He was a good dog if woefully untrained, enthusiastic in his early years and sedate in the later ones, and always lovably stupid. He was fourteen years old and on a long and steady decline; if he hadn't gone naturally over the weekend we were going to call the vet on Monday. I'm sad, but not enough to do more than sniffle a little while I get on with my day. This wasn't a surprise.
It seems like the wrong time to mention that I got a job a couple weeks ago, but it's relevant since I'm working at a pet store now. I might call in sick tomorrow.
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| Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
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1:28 am - No spoilers, I promise.
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Deathly Hallows? Wonderful. Utterly wonderful. Seven solid hours of reading, appropriately enough. I cried, I laughed, I prayed that I would be right about some things and I was, and I cheered all the way through.
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| Friday, July 13th, 2007
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2:41 pm - A new low.
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I was exhausted and insomniatic last night. When I finally did get to sleep, I slept so poorly that I dozed off in the middle of a dream.
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