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GIP.

Because it had to be done.

Image and text from here.

(Yoinkable with creds)

I really want to do a game on the Dark Heaven's Trilogy by Kylie Chan

Anyone know of them and would be interested?

So, my mom has pneumonia (I convinced her to go to the doctor because that's what I thought she had).

The cold that we've shared has escalated in her and I'm trying to avoid her fate. My cold is gone, it's my sinuses that are proving to be difficult in light of the recent snowfall.

I've gotten little sleep because of her snoring because the poor thing can't breathe at night. I've also been having f*cked up dreams because of it.

I've been dreaming in novels.

As in I'm READING entire novels that I've never read before in my sleep. After reading the passages in the book, the scene in my head turns into a movie that I watch. The one last night involved a male Cop who was chasing after a female killer and when she lured him to her home, she kept trying to seduce him, then sets him up to kill someone, causing him to shoot out of cold instinct. It's in that moment that DUN DUN DUN he realizes that the case he was following was of another serial killer that the female was a copycat and that killer was....him. He had lost his memories and in that cold blooded moment, he realized just who he was...then he shot himself. 0_____0!

Suspense-filled, but f*cked up.

There was another one that involved the Demon Librarian of Hell's Library at a conference talking about difficult patrons with the Angel Librarian of Heaven's Library. They proceeded to then discuss an interlibrary loan service with the Limbo Librarian by conference "phone" (it was a conch shell). 0_o;

Speaking of the library not in my dreams, things are going well in Library Land. I'll be taking charge of the Civil Service Test books in January at the downtown library. ^__^ I've also successfully ordered some books for my subject class and wrote my first monthly report.

I also got my first "nut". If someone asks you to look up the word 'commandment' in the dictionary, then proceeds to disagree with you about the dictionary meaning, then goes into a suitcase to pull out their bible, then have you find a passage, then proceed to read you that passage, then proceed to give you their interpretation....back away very slowly when another librarian rescues you, then run away while the patron's back is turned. (If you get me in person, ask me to tell the story. It's much better in person. Those who have heard some of my 'library stories' can attest to that, LOL)

For WSE, it seems that I may be teaching some beginner computer classes. I have to draft a class plan and figure out days to do such. Now that WSE has a projector and laptops, we can host some computer classes. I just want to test drive hooking up a laptop to the projector.

I've also been preparing holiday cards & gifts to mail out. My goal is to have most packages in the mail by the end of the week for international folks, with a few domestics as well. I just need time to personalize items. I've got everything is labeled. ^___^

1. My username is ______ because ______: My username is pansexual because I was looking for a journal name to replace mjslsbs and this one was offered to me from someone at tradingspaces and cause I have a dirty mind... I fell in love with it

2. My name is _____ because ______: Immortal Aussie because that is currently my online handle. I'm Australian and I thought it sounded cool when I was half asleep and stuck for idea.s

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____: The Den of Immortal Aussie- because a Den is a place where people live and this is where I 'live' on IJ

4. My default userpic is ____ because ____: Red/Orange ocean with 'I threw Bitter Tearts at the Ocean but all that came back were the tides' well along with most of my icons it was made by a friend, the quote sounds awesome too.

Nabbed from a few people. ^__^





What type of Fae are you?

I hate family holidays. It's not as bad as it used to be. There isn't a mind numbing soul obliterating anxiety about them anymore as there used to be. There's just a dull ache of worry and some slight stomach tremors. Really the worst bit was that I thought I'd probably never have to go to a shin dig like this again. I would go one day, I just would never have to.

I didn't want to talk about where I'd been what I'd been doing and how I was. I'm better but not so well that I can always talk about Zac or Wyoming or what was a fairy tale life that while childish and unsustainable was also beautiful. I just can't talk about it especially with people who don't get it and no one in my family gets it.

Instead I gave short answers and listened to long unending diatribes of how awesome everyone else is. I was glad they were well but I could have done without the jabs at where they were compared to me. I sincerely hope I never did that to them or anyone else, though my successes are so few and far between, I'm sure I've had little opportunity to knock some else further down that way.

In particular my cousin, who works at Fenway went on and on about how boring but glamorous her job was, how much she hated living at home (though she does nothing there but sleep and hang out), and how wonderful her parties and nights out were. I wanted her to be successful. I was prepared to hear about her success and joy so it didn't even sting that much when she kept slighting me and where I was or discarding some of the work I have to do like chores and house upkeep and whatnot.

What did sting was to find out later that her job at Fenway pays $9/hr she works no more than 30hrs a week and she doesn't get benefits. She'd sat there and scorned my retail work as less and demeaning when we make the same hourly rate, I work full time and my job gives me benefits. I don't have an hours commute by public transportation to pay for or anything.

In other more pleasant news my bro got a letter from Mass Maritime and we think it might be his acceptance *hopefully*. I've got to wait for him to come home and open it but I'm super hopeful for him. It's very exciting.

Also, they've finally corrected the comp and literacy portions of the mtels, I should finally have results and hopefully a license on the 9th. Maybe I've be able to pick up some second term work or start vigorously looking for the fall. I'm apprehensive and excited. I don't know what I'll do if this doesn't work and my parents feel strongly I'll need several other back up plans that I'm not sure how to approach but I'll have to figure something out soon I guess.

Hopefully the insomnia will end soon. Hopefully.

I haven't been able to sleep normally since I got my temporary crown. It came complete with the insertion of a post and that's undoubtedly where the bulk of the pain is coming from. A fiberglass rod was shoved up into my upper jawbone, after all... my body is adjusting to this but it involves lots of pain and headaches.

Vicodin + caffeine = a very sick Ardath.

I may call the dentist's office today and see if they can get me a non-hydrocodone-based prescription (oh hay I've never tried oxycontin is it good?) or I may fall asleep the second I get home and be worthless.

Finals are coming up, wheeeeeee!

So here's the rest of my semester, which is this week and next:

Two papers due on Friday. One just needs revisions, the other I'm behind on.
Another paper due Monday, along with an oral presentation of its information, and then that class is done.
Finals next Thursday and Friday, both of them obscenely early in the morning.

And that would be that. So once I do the papers and presentation I'll have most of a week to study, and it's material I've been enjoying so it's sticking nicely in my head anyway.

This at least makes it easier to deal with the fact that, at the moment, I have no brain power to speak of and only had three hours of sleep, maximum, last night. I just want to crash... at least once this little class is over I finally can (once I get home).

Onward.

OMG THERE'S ONE IN BATAVIA 40 MINUTES AWAY!!!! IT'S PAIRED WITH A KFC.

OMG, LONG JOHN SILVER'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg, Omg, OMG!!

/hyperventilating

My grandparents saw it!!!

A Pirate Pilgrimage must be made.

I must have their chicken....yesss...preciousss...I musssttt.....

o apparently something happened to thanksgiving leftovers because my grandparents, my mom, and myself have been running to the bathroom. We're not entirely sure what caused it. No one else in the family has anything happen to them, so maybe our immune systems were down or something. I know my mom and I have been battling colds, so that's not helping things.

3am rolled around and some serious cramping in my stomach caused me to dash downstairs to the bathroom (seriously, having to navigate stairs to reach a bathroom when you're sick...not cool), whereupon I sat upon the regal throne for a good half hour. I went back to bed and not 10 minutes later, my mom dashes downstairs. 2 hours later I'm back up, then 2 hours later after that. I was so warm and comfortable, I didn't want to get up. Thank the gods I don't have to work this weekend!

I found out later my grandparents seem to be the same way, but on a lesser scale than my mom and myself. I think I got hit the hardest, but that's because my lovely infected sinuses have been draining too. But hey, I guess it's the quickest way to expel the toxins, not necessarily the prettiest. I'm thankful it's not anything worse.

Now, to curl up in bed with a book.

EDIT: Kaopectate tastes REALLY nasty. >.

Or something like that. Watching an old episode of "Stingray..." it's an episode in which he checks himself into a mental institution to investigate reports that it's being used as some kind of espionage base. After throwing a deliberate freak-out at one of the other patients to establish his crazy creds, the other patient tells him:

"Yeah, you came to the right place. You're a bona fide fruit salad."

My instant reaction:

"Mmmmm... fruit salad..."

There's some downstairs.

It probably wouldn't be nearly as funny to me if I weren't so sleepy/insomnia-laden at this moment in time.

But now I'm hungry. And snickering.

Mmmmm... snickers...

I caught a cold. -_-;

Howa 30-06 with a 22" barrel, a 3x9 x 42 30mm NikkoStirling Diamond illuminated scope.



It was a bit longer than I thought... ;)

The scope has a crystal in the center, which is illuminated by a laser. I'll make a movie of it soon.
I just hope it tracks repeatably for over a year.

I see no flaws, it feels nice and solid, love the grip and the way the rubber coated stock grips my hands, (hope it lasts,) and the recoil pad looks pretty nice!

$449

I made cartridges for ladder testing tonight with 180gr Sierra Pro-Hunters and IMR4064 starting at 45gr then going up in 1/5 of a grain intervals.

I hope it shoots!