So my laptop gave up the ghost... the power cord caught fire in my hand, so I decided it'd be beneficial to throw that part away. I don't know when it'll be back, so I'm not sure when I'll be back. I still have access to computers, thank god, through the school. I'm at home right now, came back to LS yesterday for the Twilight midnight premiere and decided it wasn't worth it to go back to warrensburg for two classes.

The movie was good. It was packed in there. I was really impressed, though, but they left a lot out. I understand why they did, but some of it... I was actually looking forward to. We made tshirts (Team Edward, Team Emmett, Team Jasper) and they were pretty much the coolest shirts there. :) There were a lot of shirts, too. There was like this 55 year old woman wearing an I ♥ Edward shirt, which was funny. We cracked up.

There were a lot of teenyboppers.

We slept for 4 hours here at home before the girls had to get up and go back to class. They both live in an easterly direction. :)

HOLY CRAP there is this SLU page that lets you view your application status online and they mailed me something today, but they won't say what it is. I'm so scared that finally it all boiled over and I literally started crying on the phone with my mom. How lame. I'm terrified... what am I going to do if this goes badly? I can't not go to law school. It's my life now, and I don't have many options.

If I get a letter from either of them, I'll log on and write it up. Until then... really sorry I'm not gonna be around as regularly as I'd like.

Worried to fucking hell and back.
Roz had a fall this morning, huge back pain, can't stand. On the phone to doctor now, no bloody idea what we're going to do. Packing her an over night bag just in case.

Heard back from the job-hiring-person again. Her boss has asked her to wait until the first week of December to make an offer. She says she hopes they have good news for me...grah, the waiting is killing me!!!

On the upside, it appears I won't be hurting too much for money waiting to hear about this job. Here's my schedule for next week:

Sunday: Off (thank goodness)
Monday: 12:30 pm-9:30 pm (aw, missing Heroes :-( )
Tuesday: 6:30 pm-11 pm
Wednesday: 9:45 am-3:45 pm (goddammit, it's not cool to make me stay that late and then ask me to come in again less than 12 hours later. NOT COOL)
Thursday: Off (yay Thanksgiving)
Friday: 6 pm-12 am (boo, hiss)
Saturday: 2:15-8:15 (I can handle that. I knew the Saturdays-off thing would have to end sometime)

My Supernatural thoughts:

WRONG ANGEL, DEAN.

Also, IT'S SNOWING. WHEE! And I may or may not be thinking of starting a PB comm based around Fangtasia.

Naruto Movie #2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel

There was a battle going on by the coast between a zombie army and a ninja clan. A puppet manipulated by a ninja fought along side the ninja troops and retreated. Gaara activated his desert burial as he joined his elder brother with the ninja clan. The zombie troops departed by the sea. Gaara ordered his men to fire into the sky and they saw a ship shooting canons at them. He used his sand to protect his people from the canons.

It was a new day in the forest. Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru were following a small animal and finally trapped it. It attacked Naruto for insulting it and ran off. Naruto was caught in their own trap. Shikamaru and Sakura could only blame Naruto's stupidity. They managed to find the animal as their mission to send it back to its owner. Shikamaru found something wrong with their client's village. They went on separate ways to investigate. The animal on Naruto's back became uneasy. Shikamaru was shocked to hear enemies attacking Sakura and Naruto. Meanwhile, Naruto and Sakura were fighting strong armor enemies. A blond man in armor showed up and hit Naruto. They fought. Naruto was distracked by Sakura's scream. Her opponent armor had caught her in the air. Shikamaru came along and saved her so that Naruto could strike the enemies properly with his shadow replication and resengan techniques. Naruto fell down the cliff with his enemies as the cliffs collapsed with the reappearance of a stone structure.

Naruto woke to find himself lying in a tent. Nearby, people were relaxing. Naruto got up to find himself with bandages. Next to him laid another youth who had fought him earlier. He was also hurt. Kahiko-the leader of the carvan went to check Naruto's wound. Naruto looked at the youth's armor and recognised him as enemy. The youth woke and glared Naruto with red eyes. Kahiko told them not to fight. The animal sneaked out to see Naruto. Moment later, Naruto was surprised to see the youth's recovery rate as fast as his. There was a mark on the youth. Kahiko recognised the animal-Neguiru as he was the one who asked Konoha to take it back to him. Other place, Sakura and Shikamaru were looking for Naruto while investigating something. Elsewhere, a group of people were searching something while someone was hiding and shivering. The people approached the hiding person who was the youth who fought Naruto earlier. The youth found himself floating before an eldery man. The elderly man held his hand and the youth woke to see moon above him. He called the elderly man-Hido. Next day, Naruto was asking the people of the wandering clan while they were travelling and one of them told them that their country was destroyed by natural disaster years ago. Kahiko insisted that Neguriru was older than he was. Neguiru ran to the youth. Naruto questioned the youth for his reason to attack them and he asked Naruto about resengan. He realised it was not a gelel attack. He told Naruto to think it over and to go with him. While resting, the youth managed to rescue a falling boy in nick of time and hurt his old wound. Naruto wanted to help him up, but was rejected. In a dark place, Shikamaru was monitoring the strange armors. He saw a number of unconsious children within glass sphere like containers. Two people were controlling the equipments. Shikamaru's whereout was detected and he flee. Other place, the youth had left the tent without a word. Kahiko told Naruto that Neguiru had disappeared too and he started wailing, regretting hiring Konoha ninjas instead of sand ninja. Aggravated, Naruto promised he would bring Neguiru back. Meanwhile, Sakura was still tracking Naruto. Other place, Naruto managed to follow the youth and Neguiru to a strange place. The youth told Naruto that his name was Temujin. Inside, Naruto saw a number of moving armors as he followed Temujin up the lift. Temujin greeted an elderly man who was awared of Naruto's strange ability. He told Temujin not to fight Naruto as he showed the world outside the machine. The man-Haido was interested in a world without wars. Temujin was one of the child left behind in a war. He wanted to borrow Naruto's power but he rejected as he was planning to become a Hokage. Neguiru climed on Temujin's shoulder and growled at Haido. Just then, there was a report that the wind clan had went towards their direction. Naruto and Temujin entered a ruin. There were dead children hanging from their broken glass sphere containers. Gaara's elder brother's puppet attacked Temujin and told Naruto that their people had been attacking thier wind clan. Naruto was angered for what they were doing was completely an opposite of what they were inspiring. More people came to attack them and Gaara appeared to help his brother. Naruto demanded Temujin for truth and he told Naruto that sacrifices were necessary for greater good. Gaara's elder brother was sent into torturous illusion. Sametime, Gaara was fighting with other girl who summoned lightning. Same time, Gaara's elder brother managed to break out of the illusion. The girl begun to evolve for more power as she fought Gaara who sent sand over her. Her robot like form was finally defeated by Gaara's sand storm. Other place, Naruto and Temujin were fighting. Same time, Gaara's elder brother was pursuing the other girl who took Temujin away. Naruto and Gaara's elder brother fell into the shallow sea.

Meanwhile, Kahiko and his tribe were attacked by the girl from Temujin's clan. Kahiko was saved by Shikamaru and Sakura. She evolved wolf-like and howled before escaping. Shikamaru asked Kahiko about stone of gelel. Sakura was surprised that Kahiko knew Naruto. At dusk, Temujin was reflecting Naruto's words as he recalled his past when he and other boy with Haido were the only survivors of a war. Haido showed them a stone of gelel. There were many such stones and Haido had gotten the two children to use the stones within the glass sphere. Meanwhile, Temujin was informed that Kahiko's clan had information on stone of gelel. He rushed to the ruin tent. Meanwhile, a shadow struck him. Shikamaru confronted him. In capture, Naruto was yelling at Temujin (since when did he join Shikamaru and Sakura while he was with Gaara??), Temujin showed them the stone of gelel within his body which was the cause of his fast body recovery. Kahiko's main branch clan had been the ones that could control the stone in the past. Temujin was originally from Kahiko's clan but he did not know it. They used to have great empire from it but the great power brought disaster as it resulted in wars, leading to the destruction of the empire. Only people from the main branch could destroy the stone. Temujin insisted continuing using the stone as it could realise Haido's dream for world without wars. With that, he broke the ropes and held Kahiko hostage. Taking the chance, he escaped. They saw Neguiru scraping the wall and followed it after Temujin.

At the cliff, Temujin activated the light from his sword as signal to others as he escorted Kahiko to his headquarter. Haido ordered for moving. Meanwhile, Naruto and the rest followed Neguiru into a stony city. They saw Kahiko and Temujin from the top. Some machine like thing appeared before Naruto as Haido and the rest met Temujin who pointed out the vein of gelel to them. Shikamaru and the rest confronted them. Naruto glared Haido, questioning him what he was trying to do and what he meant by necessary sacrifices. To Naruto, comrades were supposed to be ones to cherish. Therefore, his wish was to protect people he cherished and he was determined to destroy Haido's selfish dream. Naruto tried to save Kahiko who was taken down by a stone trap. Haido broke a ground and chased after Kahiko. Shikamaru made to follow by an enemy blocked him. So was Sakura. Naruto chased after Haido, Temujin and Kahiko into the sealing room that depicted horrors for stones of gelel. Kahiko decided to assassinate Temujin who refused to realise the truth of horrors. Above the ground, Sakura and Shikamaru were fighting Haido's two followers who had evolved creature-like. Gaara's elder brother helped Shikamaru. In the bottom, Temujin kicked Kahiko who showed him the old style of summoning planning to die together. Just then, Haido and his armor soldiers broke into the room. Haido had a stone of gelel on his hand, allowing him to blast things easily. Kahiko knew Haido was the one who destroyed Temujin's village for the stone of gelel. Haido tried to locate the vein and saw the key to open it. Neguiru came to stop him but was killed instead. Haido retrieved the vein and intended to kill Kahiko. Temujin finally recognised Haido as the real invader in his village years ago. Naruto came to save Kahiko in nick of time. Haido called Temujin's parents low class and he remembered Haido as the attacker in his village years ago. Haido admitted his crimes happily. He had been making use of Temujin for the vein and he sought to kill him. Naruto screamed as Haido dug and destroyed the stone of gelel within Temujin's body before tossing him aside. Kahiko begged Naruto to destroy the evolved Haido. Naruto faced off Haido. Temujin started pondering his purpose of life as Naruto and Haido fought. Naruto was beaten up badly and he activated resengan to blast Haido to the wall. Haido was not affected at all for he was exposed to the vein of gelel. Naruto sought Temujin's help in order to defeat Haido. Haido attacked Temujin but the armors shielded Temujin from the attack. Souls of the children faded from the armors. Haido was not concerned with their deaths at all. Temujin got to his feet and joined forces with Naruto against Haido. This time, Naruto's resengan penetrated Haido, defeating him completely. Just then, the building started to collapse, revealing the vein of gelel that was getting out of control. Outside, Gaara's elder brother, Sakura and Shikamaru were saving the children within the glass sphere. In the underground, Kahiko told Temujin that the world would be destroyed. Only a special summon technique-black hole could destroy the vein. But the activator would not be able to go back. Temujin hit Naruto unconscious as he made to activate the black hole summon technique.

In his mind eye, Naruto saw Sasuke and walked past him. Naruto woke. Outside, the building was enveloped by the bright and dark as Sakura and the rest watched from the top. As Temujin fell, he recalled Haido's face as Naruto suddenly held onto his hand using shadow replication. (Finally can hear my favourite background music-'ultimately secret technique' at this point eventhough it lasts only 1-2 seconds, sigh...) Sakura ran after Naruto screaming for his name, followed by Shikamaru. The ground shook. They found Kahiko who moved out of a rock. Neguiru was also revived by the vein-the source of life. Gaara and his elder brother watched on as the people from the glass sphere woke. Temujin woke to see the sky above him. He saw Naruto's hand still holding his as Naruto laid unconscious. A piece of wall broke off to show a happy picture of two people holding hands for effect of vein of gelel. Later, Temujin planned to rebuild his country. He was determined to create a state truly without wars. Sakura and the rest saw Temujin and the others off. Naruto watched from a high point, grinned and waved at Temujin.

COMMENT: So much better than movie 3 as it keeps me to the edge. The beginning and subsequent events are so unpredictable and I have to keep guessing what is going on. Poor Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru whose low rank mission of animal retrieval turned into an S-rank to stop Haido's evil plot. Also better background music.

Naruto Movie #3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom

Naruto, Rock Lee and Sakura, under the lead of Kakashi were going on a B-rank mission when a row of carriages passed them. They belonged to a wealthy man-a prince of Moon country. They met as their mission was to escort the prince. The fat prince started trying to get intimate with Sakura whose grip was too much for him. The prince's son-Hikaku shot a toy arrow on Naruto's forehead. Kakashi held Naruto back before he quarrelled with Hikaku. Throughout the journey, robbers and thieves attacked and were subdued by Naruto, Sakura, Lee and Kakashi. At night, Naruto and Kakashi kept watch in the cold. Next day, Naruto asked Hikaru about the hand game he was playing and the latter ignored him. They went to a circus along the journey. Hikaru easily shot an apple on a monkey's hand in a program and he was offered more challenge to shoot the apple on the moving monkey. Again, he succeeded. He demanded for the Siberian tiger and his father bought over the entire circus. Naruto, Sakura and Rock Lee were speechless. Later, Hikaru approached the Siberian tiger and offered it an apple but it attacked him and Naruto pulled him off in time. At a distance, the tiger ate the apple and Hikaru ran off without thanking Naruto. They continued with the journey. The prince took Hikaru to see his mother-Amayo who ran to Hikaru and hugged him. She did not recognise her husband-Michiru who had grown fat since their parting. He asked her to return to him. While they were at it, Hikaru sat alone watching the field. In the house, Amayo insisted she did not want anything and was unhappy that he did not know what was truly important. Other place, Sakura went to check the boat while Naruto enjoyed his ramen. Hikaru asked Naruto to be his servant. Naruto rejected and told him not to treat others like his plaything. Hikaru shot him with toy arrow again and Naruto hit him on his head. Hikaru started to wail. Sakura hit Naruto into the sea. On the ship at night, Sakura punished Naruto by tying him up and ate in front of him. On the ship, Hikaru tried to tempt the circus monkey with another apple and followed it to the Serbian tiger in its cage. He offered it an apple and it growled at him. Angered, Hikaru threw the apple at it. Meanwhile, Kakashi watched on as storm arrived. Michiru told his people to protect the luggages in the storm. Naruto, Sakura and Lee followed Kakashi to carry out the task. Hikaru told Naruto that he was sick of the animals his father had bought alone and Naruto angrily told him off and walked off after calling Hikaru trash. Hikaru went out into the storm and saw the circus monkey-Kiki. With it, he went to find the Serbian tiger and released it from its cage. A large wave washed him off the deck and Naruto rushed over to save him in time. Next day when the weather was fair, Kiki and the tiger-Cham became closer to Hikaru who had saved their lives during the storm. Naruto was also happier with Hikaru and apologised for hitting and calling him trash earlier. Naruto praised Hikaru amazing. Hikaru also apologised for being nasty to Naruto earlier. Hikaru also told them that he had wanted to be friends with them and Naruto agreed heartily. So were Lee, Sakura, Cham and Kiki.

In the meantime, they reached the Moon country. The street was quiet and isolated. After some travelling, they finally reached the palace. Shabadaba reported that Michiru's father had died and soldiers surrounded them as Shadabada had seized the throne. Naruto, Lee, Sakura and Kakashi attacked the soldiers to protect Michiru and Hikaru. A back up troop came to help Michiru as he did not recognise Shadabada as the ruler. Kakashi's raised ground managed to send Michiru and the rest to safety. They entered a cave where the king was resting. During Michiru's journey, the king had been advised to send Michiru out with excuse of tour as he forsaw the intention of his minister so that he could get rid of him while they were safe. Unfortunately, Shabadaba-the minister had acted before him. Sakura saw that a stone technique had caused him in the condition. She used her healing technique to help him but still, he had little time to live. The king woke and had his final moments with Hikaru and Michiru. The king agreed with Amayo's words and told Michiru that he would be the next king as his will. He told Kakashi to protect Michiru and Hikaru. With that, he died. Later at night, Hikaru told Naruto how his grandfather had doted on him. Naruto also told Hikaru about the important people in Konoha and encouraged that Hikaru could also protect his people as a king in future. Hikaru promised Naruto to be friends forever. Meanwhile, the others planned to get Hikaru and Michiru out to meet allied force and strengthen their position before fighting back Shadabada. Michiru had difficulty running and was attacked by ninjas who worked for Shabadaba. Kakashi, Naruto, Lee and Sakura faced off them. One of the older enemy ninja appeared behind Naruto and hit him. Lee attacked the ninja for hitting Naruto while Sakura fought with the other one. All of them had strange feeling of time distortion as they fought. They had activated a bomb scent that confused Kakashi and the rest's five senses causing them to mix up time flow. The back up soldier troop captain went to help Kakashi but was turned into stone. The ninja jumped onto Hikaru's boat. Other place, Michiru was surrounded. Meanwhile, Sakura and Lee were not in good position. Just then, Naruto's red Chakra emerged and he fought with massive strength and speed. The ninja tried to use time distortion to slash Naruto but with little effect. Kakashi took the chance to attack with Chidori. The ninjas flee with Michiru as hostage. Sakura and Lee went to help Kakashi. On the boat, Hikaru wept, worrying for his father. In the palace, Michiru was tossed before Shadabada who did not care more about Michiru's father's ideal world. In the woods, Kakashi returned to the rest reporting about the tight security in the palace. Hikaru still wailed over the loss of his father. Naruto decided to go and save Michiru, but Hikaru had no faith as he was confident that his father was going to be killed. Naruto pulled Hikaru up and questioned if he was going to give up and told him to summon his precious courage. Hikaru agreed and Naruto and the rest followed to protect him. Kiki and Cham came along to meet them. The other people from circus met them to tell them about their confusion. Kakashi had a suggestion for them. At the palace, Michiru was pulled to the execution ground to be hung. Michiru noticed the beautiful sunset as he stood over the wooden platform, thinking of his father's wish to create a peaceful world. It was late at night, the circus approached the palace. On the top, Michiru was still standing on the platform watching the sky. Out at the gate, Kakashi showed the guards his Sharingan eye. All the circus was allowed in. Shadabada who was bored of Michiru, went to watch the circus performance. Meanwhile, the back up soldiers, Naruto, Hikaru, Sakura and Lee sneaked into the palace to look for Michiru while Kakashi kept watch of situation outside with the rest. He showed the others Sharingan eye and sent illusion of water phoenix at the soldiers. The circus people (and animals) helped Kakashi by fighting the soldiers. In the palace, Naruto promised Hikaru that he would protect the latter no matter what. So were Sakura and Lee. Lee held back one ninja while the others proceeded on. Sakura detected another ninja by her perfume and held her back so that the others continued on their way. Hikaru finally reached the door towards Michiru but they were hindered by troops and the third ninja. Cham came along and helped Hikaru. Cham carried Hikaru to a tower that allowed him to communicate with Michiru. The third ninja confronted him. Naruto came along to fight him. At first, Naruto, Sakura and Lee were having a losing battle against their opponents. But the three genins did not give up as they had promised Hikaru that they would protect him as friends. Hikaru was touched. Just then, the wood plank which Michiru stood started to crack. Michiru thought of Hikaru. He fell, his neck over the rope. Hikaru wept. Naruto told him not to give up. Naruto ran down to support while Hikaru told Cham to help him. Cham took Hikaru on its back towards where Michiru was hung. He shot the rope with his arrow. Michiru watched as the arrow broke the rope. As Michiru fell, Naruto's replicate softened the impact of the fall and saved Hikaru and Michiru. Other place, Lee and Sakura were on the winning level. Hikaru ran to his father to see him safe on the ground. He hugged him in tears and he embraced him back. Hikaru ran to meet Kiki and Cham and hugged them, thanking them. Shadabada ran out to be chased by Michiru. The stone ninja who was not dead yet, attacked Naruto who tried to use resengan but with limited power as his leg was turned to stone. The ninja ignored Shadabada's demand to kill Michiru and went for Naruto instead. Michiru ran to pick Naruto up. The irritated ninja turned Shadabada into stone and turned to see Michiru running at him with Naruto on his back. Hikaru ran to help. Cham and Kiki attacked the ninja before he could hurt them with his stone eye on his hand. With renewed courage, Michiru and Hikaru pushed Naruto forward as his resengan increased in size to hit the stone ninja. In the palace, Lee won as what he had promised. Sakura who had already won went to chat with Kakashi who had overused his Sharingan and was now lying on the ground, exhausted. Meanwhile, Michiru was telling the others about his dream and Hikaru promised to help. All of them laughed. Hikaru told them that he would never forget how others had worked and helped one another as friends. Michiru became the new king of the Moon Country. Naruto and the others bidded them farewell and left on cruise back to Konoha. Michiru decided to pick Amayo back and he knew what she had meant by the most important thing and Hikaru was delighted.

COMMENT: VERY VERY BORING MOVIE!!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ............... Err, alright, to be fair, it's meaningful for kids to identity that money is not everything in the world. It also reminds me of one episode filler in the series about a rich kid who was trying to get everything by tossing cash in the air. Uh.. notice that Naruto had a lot of limbs and facial movements than in series. Guess that is the difference between series and movies. There seems to be a lot of making promises with fingers, huh? This movie certainly bores me to death.

I crawled off to bed around 1 am with 40mg of Valium and a few drinks under my belt and I woke up before 5 am WHAT THE FUCK.

Put my Monsterbait: Underpants up on eBay. Wondering if I should put the Chanukkiyah spare bottle up there as well.

Thankfully nothing from the BPTP update is tempting me. I am still wibbling over Candy Phoenix, though.

I have butterscotch/vanilla shots I got at Spec's... maybe I should have one... I'm in no mood to be clearheaded.

But I'm doing not so bad. Maintenance is supposed to come today to fix my lack of hot water in the kitchen (totally his fault), broken heater, and stiff backdoor lock (get your mind out of the gutter). My wrenched knee still hurts but it's not swollen or anything. I am looking grotesquely forward to getting an Eee. Falernum is tasty and makes me want to mix Tiki drinks. Cream of coconut, falernum, and a little spiced rum, what could go wrong?

Not having a blender, cream of coconut, or rum puts a cramp in that.

God, this entry makes me sound like a lush.

Hey- thanks, comic store #1,000,000 that I purchase from! I don't know if you intended to do it, or it was an accident; but thanks for sending me a 'free' variant!special edition version of Cacophony #1, that's worth $25, instead of the one I actually purchased from you, the regular $5.50 one. Too bad that Cacophony and it's writer should be set fire to and buried somewhere in an abyss somewhere, but still :D It's great when things like this happen.

Still pissed that I had to leave IAB RPG because of the Reign of Stix that's beginning in about a week or so. I was looking forward to reprising my role as Red, and continue as Kuja. :| The Deck and my 1x1 PSLs are only paused, but since IAB is a public game, it would've been rule-breakage and whatnot if I had stayed.

Even though; what the fuck happened to profiles over at El Jay? I've gotten around to deleting all of my old RP accounts and shit from there, I don't want to keep touching LJ, but damn. Whoever coded and designed the profile page should be taken out back and fucking shot.

Chaos, I miss thee! I've added more things to Arcanum! >:D Praise Al. How was your 21st? Did you get drunk? If not, The Al Mighty shuns you!

I need to go quickly make the fake!temp asylum for thee, Aeris! Whenever you get back from life/school. My fake!journal is iumentum!

Finished cleaning up Kef's comp some more, confident that all important things have been moved to discs/whatever to be stored at my place. Good news, at the very least; she's staying at her friends' place for two weeks, not too sure when; so huzzah!

Bought another PS3 game to play whilst we wait for Arkham to come out; Elder Scrolls, the platinum full-featured version with the expansions and that. God, I miss playing MU*'s. Rangers and assassins rock my world; but I won't touch WoW with a 60ft pole because: I love role-play/friends/Photoshop a hundred times more than any MU*, and... well, like any MU*: the drama llamas! I just love hearing about it from Kai's time using it :D

Not bothering to go see Baz's Oz movie anymore, FFS. He's fucking stuck Krudd's bloody stupid APOLOGY in the end, like it means anything in the film OR today's society. That, and there's typos in it. Like one fucking air raid. Good one, Baz.

Billy found out today that he was accepted to the New York Film Academy's master's program for Screen Acting.

Now, I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it's great for him. He really wanted to get in, it'll get him out of the apartment (he doesn't go far unless I'm dragging him with me), and hopefully he'll qualify for student loans that will help defray a lot of our living costs.

On the other hand, as part of the program he's required to spend his second year taking classes in California. He's super excited about this, because who wouldn't want to be studying at Universal Studios? But this will mean either I have to pick up and follow him out to California (DO NOT WANT, for multiple reasons, some superficial [I <3 NY] and some practical [I've already made one cross-country move; I don't want to make another]), or I live on my own for a year.

I really, really don't want to be away from my husband ('cause that's what he will be in THREE MONTHS OMFG) on our first wedding anniversary :-(

Also? I've honestly never lived completely on my own. I know, it's kind of ridiculous, but it's true. I went from my parents', to the dorm (even when I had a room of my own, I spent the majority of my time - awake and asleep - at Billy's dorm or apartment), to an apartment with Billy. I don't know if I know how to function on my own!

In completely unrelated news: my dad called me today to say he's sending my mom to visit me for a few days after Thanksgiving, lol. She's been pretty depressed lately, so as a combined birthday/Christmas gift, he's shipping her off to New York, with the request that I take her to Rockefeller Center, I'm assuming so she can see the Christmas tree, since that keeps coming up in conversations with my dad. Considering I work at Rockefeller Center, and am thus becoming far too acquainted with it, I told him it wouldn't be a problem.

Still waiting to hear back on whether or not I'm getting my real job. The e-mail from last Tuesday said the hiring woman would know "by next week" and tomorrow is the end of that week. It'd be awesome to know tomorrow so I can a) change my schedule at Banana Republic/give my two weeks' notice and b) arrange my start date so it wouldn't interfere with Mom's visit.

And now I'm really hungry. Time to rustle up some food.

Because I'm a library dork...

So, got to hang with doombuggie this afternoon. Had an awesome time! We had a yummy meal at Jason's, some iced coffee at Epoch, hit Home Depot so he could get a watering can, went to Spec's (a big liquor/fancy foods store) for some goodies, HEB for some normal groceries, Walgreens for my Valium, and Earthbound for some crabs.

Wonderfully fun time, except in HEB, I saw my ex-husband... we walked right by him in the soda aisle. No words were exchanged, but I could tell he recognized me. Oh god oh god I am so glad I was not alone, or dressed schlumpily (I was rockin' a HolyClothing minidress and black leggings, which is my new favorite look). But oh god oh god oh god. I hadn't seen him since the divorce. I had thought that I would never see him again.

Well, after that we went to Walgreens and I downed two Valium right off. And when we were at Earthbound doombuggie got me a crab to cheer me up. The crab in question is now named Dib.

The Valium is kicking in nicely, I feel comfortably blurred around the edges. If I still feel upset I have Amarula to mix with hot chocolate, or Keke Beach Key Lime Cream to mix with milk. I also have lots of good chocolate.

Happy birthday, mathteacher!!!!!

Author: Bitterfig
Title: Some Indignities Have Their Rewards
Fandom: Kamikaze Girls
Pairing: Momoko/Ichigo
Beta Reader: Fedink
Word Count: 182
Rating: PG
Author’s Note: Written for femslash100 Prompt #166: Queen.
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any illegal acts taking place within that fiction are NOT condoned by the author. Depictions of any questionable, illegal, or potentially illegal activity in said fiction does not mean that I condone, promote, support, participate in, or approve of said activity. I grasp the distinction between fiction and reality and trust that readers will do the same. I do not profit from the fan fiction I write, and all rights to the characters remain firmly in the hands of their creator.

( Some Indignities Have Their Rewards )

God help me.

I am going shopping on Amazon.

What am I buying? Well, I am buying all the A-ha CDs I am missing. Why am I doing that? Because I don't own them all on CD (I have about half of them on tape, a couple of repeats on CD, and the first three albums on vinyl as well as several singles on vinyl and CD. I am inordinately proud of my tiny vinyl collection).

Also: FUCK. Why is Memorial Beach the only one Amazon don't have in stock?! (I can get it secondhand, which I don't mind. But all the other CDs I bought new ¬_¬).

And why is the second greatest hits not available on DVD? Clearly, the universe hates me (some days I do not blame it).

Anyway. Point is, I am buying more CDs and obviously the first greatest hits on DVD (I do have it on video, but I can't screen-cap video, and it's annoying to fast-forward/rewind when I only want to watch the video for one song).

Talking of which, I watched the video for Analogue (All I Want) for the first time last night, and I almost burst into tears. I have no idea why. The only time I can remember ever doing that before was when I saw the video for Take on Me for the first time in a long time and it was exactly how I remembered *happy sigh*

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Started on the custom mood theme but: I have a problem.

See, I started off with a template at 400x200 pixels, but that looked too big to me. So I cut it in half (200x100), but that still looked too big, and now I've got it at 100x50, which looked the right size, but on a lot of the pictures I've used, you can't really see them well.

So I guess, o flist of mine, what I am asking is, is there a set size for custom mood theme pics? I've looked on LJ, and it says they can be any size, although obviously the bigger it is, the longer it will take to load. I don't want massive pics, just ones big enough that you can see what's going on (also because a couple are not facial expressions, but Magne's hands *g*).

That aside, I am having fun with it. It's like making icons, but kind of more fun in a way, if that makes any sense? *shrugs*

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Still writing dreximgirl's story. All is well with it, so I will probably chop and change between writing and making ze mood theme tomorrow, I think (good job I don't have to be anywhere. I mean, I've been so busy the last few weeks, it's been kind of ridiculous. Hopefully it will all calm down after next week *crosses fingers*)

(cross-posted to holiday_wishes)

When I still did penpalships, I made my own envelopes from all kinds of papers I found interesting - magazine ads, fashion shoots, b/w copies from artbooks, anything that caught my eye. Advantages, obviously: 1. it's fun, 2. it's giving letters or cards a more personal note, 3. paper gets reused. And it's really easy.

( Tutorial under cut. )

Yay! More hatchlings! Click to make them grow (yeah, got nuthing goin' on...)







A new one (jeez, this is addicting :) - I'm all happy over a little graphic, LOL)

I'm still sick. Though today feels worse. I'm having painful stomach cramps and I feel too weak to do anything. I'm glad that I got yesterday and today off from school, at least I won't have to attempt to write anything until later. In fact, this entire week has been one big failure.

I stayed up until midnight Monday night to see the Bills blow it to the Browns. And it wasn't Lindell's fault. They stupidly tried a bunch of running plays instead of letting Edwards get his confidence back by throwing a couple times. We desperately need a change in our coaching staff, soon.

Tuesday wasn't much better. I'm pretty sure I bombed that damn test. I don't know what came over me, I just panicked and kept looking at the keys. And I kept noticing all the errors I had no time to fix fly by me. I have class today, where we're starting advanced theory. Of course, I'd rather stay home and die, but there's no way I'm missing that lesson. Ugh, this horrible week is never going to end.

It was been snowing all freaking week! Granted, some of it hasn't been sticking, but it makes everything colder. God, it's even snowing now. I know it's November and all, but it doesn't make it any more pleasant.

Mom came over yesterday afternoon and we watched A Christmas Carol. I know that it's not really the season yet, but mom told me she's had it out since last Christmas so I wasn't going to say no. It wasn't that bad, it was the 1950s black and white version where you could barely understand some of the things they were saying. XD Though Scrooge acting all psycho at the end totally made the movie worth it.

Now I'm going to go and lay down.

ETA: Fever of 100.8. Ugh.

Yep, took a peace-of-mind piss test to make sure W. hadn't knocked me up, got a nice soothing negative.

More inspection bullshit today. A bit of googling found me a local advocacy group. This may prove necessary.

I want this calendar for 20089 very badly. We'll see how my finances stand at the end of the month. They have a nifty LED menorah too.

Stolen from hand_of_paper :


* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
* Don't dig for your favourite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

The jurors would hardly have accepted from him a protestation that his only object was to rescue modest and virtuous boys from the lust of 'wild men'; frighting over eromenoi(1), or women, or both, had familiar enough associations for everyone, as as are indicated by a passage of Xenophon (Anab. v 8.4), in which Xenophon addresses some soldiers who have complained for his rough handling:

"Did I ask you for something hand hit you when you wouldn't give it to me? Did I demand anything back from you? Fighting over paidika(2)? Did I get drunk and beat you up?"


(1) Young boys who were the passive partners in pederastic relationships.
(2) Another term, this time derogatory, for what we would term under age boys.

K.J. Dover's ground breaking work entitled "Greek Homosexuality", published 1978, New York. This sentence from Chapter 2, "The Prosecution of Timarkhos"