Flowing Thoughtlessly

Art Update

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:37:59 GMT

Well, I managed to get some stuff scanned yesterday, some old, some new, and put up on my side7 site. Here's the link to my gallery for anyone interested.

Can't seem to manage to post a preview so I guess you'll just have to go look if you are! ^_^

I Do Not Know

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:05:11 GMT

Sometimes I have no idea what to title an entry. I save the thinking for my writing... this is just... sort of a word-vomit of random thoughts. Well, today it is.

My Dad was home sick a couple days ago and I think he passed it off to me. It's sort of this half-assed sort of illness. Like I don't feel okay, but I don't really feel sick enough to justify calling into work. I feel weary and achy and sort of nauseous half the time. It's kind of bizarre. But I have no fever and I have a mild occassional cough but I don't feel clogged up at all. Mostly I would just like for it to go away.

The nights have been getting colder here too. The other night I woke up positively shivering with just the comforter. So I got out one of my fleece blankets for some extra warmth.

Anyone else watch the Bones premiere last night? I enjoyed it. Thursday is my busy TV night now. I have Bones, then Supernatural, then Project Runway. All are currently off to a good start it seems. We'll see.

Ugh I don't have anything to say that amounts to more than a sentence or two. This is going to be a weird looking entry. LOL. My friend's wedding is coming up soon... two weeks from tomorrow. It feels like it came up really quickly actually.

PS... watching the food network really makes you hungry. I saved a recipe for lemon panna cotta that I want to try as soon as I'm feeling less... blah.

Just a Quick FF13 Note

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:51:09 GMT

I was looking up info on Mass Effect 2 and noted there is a special review of the game and new info in the Sept 09 issue of XBox Magazine. While perusing I saw it also has an article on FF13! So I'm gonna grab that issue next month. We'll see what it says! ^_^

I'm Kind of Jazzed...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:13:45 GMT

Well I'm actually in a good mood despite the random crap that has occurred today. First off I got woken up this morning by my coworker telling me that my payroll form had been sent back from HR because I had failed to fill in my summer work permit. Turns out my boss forgot to tell me and well, I forgot to ask. So I had to come into work about an hour early to fill out the paperwork and bring it and my payroll form over to HR. I hope that my paycheck still arrives on time. Heh.

Now please note at this point that I was scheduled to work from 4 to 9 this evening, that's a 5 hour shift. So I ate right before I left the house at around 2:45 since with a 5 hour shift you don't get a break. Now... I get back from HR and my coworker Billy tells me that our other coworker barfed all over the front desk... Joy. So, she went home, and she was scheduled to close today at 10. More joy, none of the other full time employees can stay till 10, so can I close? I say, sure but I have no food, so our boss tells me to go now and pick something up, then I can take my dinner break whenever I like and just eat in the back. So I popped over to McDs and got some Chicken Selects which are now... cooling in the back. Oh well. LOL At least I'll have food.

So right now I'm at the back desk in the front because well... I am wary of sitting at the front desk, now known as barf desk, even though someone came over and cleaned it very well- poor man. It smells of bleach.

But yet, I'm still jazzed because this morning both of my fics got favorited, and so did TWoW even though it has been a while since it was posted so someone must have hunted around the FF8 fics and found it. So I'm in happy land. Also, I'm making some progress with both of my fics, and I am anticipating updating them both some time this week. In fact I hope to work on them this evening.

Also, I spent some time this weekend catching up with Sanctuary, since starlight83 sort of got me interested in seeing the eps I've missed since she started watching this season. It started off shakey, but now it's getting up to speed. I really rather enjoyed the last two eps I saw, Kush and Nubbins (though I really disliked Sophie- I think it was because she was so... blank as a character. Blah. I hope she doesn't show up again).

Saw Transformers 2 this weekend. It was action packed and the robots, especially Optimus Prime were pretty kick ass, but honestly the first one was better. I'm just waiting for Public Enemies this weekend. Mmm Johnny Depp in 20s style clothing. Win!

Ramblings

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:46:11 GMT

Well another Friday has rolled around. I don't really think of Friday as Friday much recently since I've been working weekends. I work tomorrow too but I do have Sunday off. I have plans to go see Transformers at some point that day.

Right now I'm so tired I can't really sum up the energy to do very much. At home I have piles of laundry waiting to be done and dishes in the sink I need to wash. Perhaps by 3 when I'm out of here I'll have drummed up enough caffeine-fueled energy to handle it.

I've been spending the last few days looking for a new laptop. My current one is just ready to go, plus I've been itching to play The Sims 3- I did a trial on my brother's laptop when he visited, and neither my laptop or our PC downstairs can handle the graphics. I get the blue screen of death if I even try it, so I gave up on that and was just playing X-Box games. I beat pretty much all of Fallout 3 at this point so I'm just waiting for the new add on to come out. I have 4 more levels till 30 but I don't see the point in trying to grind them out just randomly killing stuff when I can wait for some new quests.

I also played Sacred 2 a bit with my brother the other night. It's kind of like Baldur's Gate or other such games, but with better graphics. The map is huge though and there are hundreds of quests. I'm sure it could keep us busy for a long time, however the connection on Live was just complete shit. He was getting lag that lasted forever.

My writing is going well and I'm at the desk for another hour and fifteen minutes so I'm hoping to get some more hashed out. I've been pretty pleased with it lately. I wish I could sit down at home and actually work on it but there are so many distractions that I never end up doing much of anything outside of work other than editing what I've already typed up.

Well, I'm too tired to think of something else to say...

I Almost Can't Remember...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:28:17 GMT

What day it is...

No, really I know, since I have to know my work schedule. But with working every day it's almost like days have no meaning. Saturdays and Sundays are the same as Mondays and Wednesdays!! Ahhh!

Moving on...

Been absolutely devouring books lately. I bought 6 Nora Roberts reprints- which each contain two books (so technically 12 books) and I read them all within the space of two weeks. I ordered another off Amazon and I'm going through a list of all her books to see which ones I have and don't have so that I can figure out what other ones I should look for. I've been reading her over the other authors I read because her stuff is really light and just sweet and all. It really is so easy to read.

Watched Eat, Drink , Man, Woman from Netflix the other night. It's a Chinese film about a man and his three grown daughter and their various lives. He's a chef and always cooks up an absolutely elaborate Sunday meal. I have to admit I was really impressed by his cooking skills. I sort of love watching that stuff. Anyway, it was a nice movie, and I had a moment, where the father and his best friend are closing the restaurant and they're both a bit drunk and they're teasing one another... and I just thought to myself, way down deep we're all the same. No matter what country you're from, what your politics are, your race, your culture. Basically we're all the same. I always knew it, but it was a sobering thought.

Today I'm at work again and this morning I took Dad and my Uncle (Who spent the night last night) out to breakfast. It was really crowded. But breakfast was good. I was quite tired when we got home but I'm pretty much awake by now. I spent the first hour working on my writing a bit. I have a nice chunk of PiB and for my other fic I think I have a new chapter done. I have been posting really short chapters for it, and sort of dragging it out a bit (I tend to build really slowly to a climax in my writing) but I did get an action scene hammered out. It's a little rough so I might tweak it a bit. I also have more and more action to write for PiB but I think I'm going to introduce my plot twist in this chapter or at the beginning of the next one so that there will be a break from that. Heh. Woooo

Well, I just wanted to update a bit. Off to read some more and maybe write some more. Toodles!

I Really Want to Claw Someone...

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:13:13 GMT

Well today I experienced the JOY of our legal system. Up at 7am, out the door at 7:30am, arrive at the courthouse at 8am, find parking and go inside by 8:15am, find a suitable seat and make small talk by 8:30am (the time we were told to show up by).... watch stupid video hosted by 60 minutes host, hear a judge talk about jury duty over a microphone, have the desire to shoot oneself between 8:30am and 10am. Listen to names start to get called, make more small talk, dread ones own name being called, learn how to crochet (yes I'm not kidding), listen to iPod, almost fall asleep, start getting annoyed when ones ass falls asleep, make two restroom trips, by noon.... When it seems as if one will escape scott free, hear ones name called, congregate in a small room with 20 other people, name tags, and fill out questionnaires by 12:30pm. Take a lunch break, walk three blocks for a slice of pizza and a small soda, this is the highlight of your day, walk back to the courthouse and sit on the steps chatting with another citizen who turns out to live on the same block (small world!) Back in the small room by 1:45pm, on a small bus by 2pm, bumpy uncomfortable ride with the AC blasting, followed by spending 20 minutes sitting in the same stupid small bus because the officers at the other courthouse won't come down to escort us inside by 2:30pm. Get shuffled into another room, this one with a TV, stuck on CNN... with the message (you're logged off please click okay) stuck over the front of the screen, turn iPod on loudly to drown out idiot Republican Senator on CNN, doodle on old receipts found in purse, make another trip to the restroom, have a piece of gum, cry inside by 3:45pm. Get escorted up to the third floor in a cramped elevator that bounces before finally letting it's doors open, provoking nervousness and the slightly morbid thought that getting stuck might be better than jury duty, get ushered into a small courtroom, it doesn't look like the ones on TV, sit down and get sworn in by 4pm. Get name randomly called, answer truthfully, get stuck serving on case for the rest of the week, bumpy bus ride back to the other courthouse, dropped off on the wrong side, desperate search for car, phone call to tell Dad he has to make dinner by 5:10pm. Drive to work, realize the slice of pizza was hours ago...

Seriously... that was my day. I have a killer headache. I can't talk about the case or anything so I sort of glossed over the end of the process, but all in all it was a shit ton of wasted time! I could have slept in! I didn't even have to see a judge or a lawyer till almost 4pm. Ugh.

Meh

Fri, 15 May 2009 19:34:02 GMT

Well today is Friday and I was supposed to be at work but I was really exhausted when I woke up this morning so I just called in. Finals week really got to me. I was so stressed. At this point I'm just glad it's over. I have the weekend free and I'm just going to use it to catch up on all the housework that's fallen to the wayside since I've been working every weekend.

Last night I was really looking forward to Bones,

and as the episode progressed I realized that I'd been right in assuming that none of it was real. It was cute, and I didn't really mind, I even thought that it was clever to have Hodgins the "fake writer" voice over the story that was essentially written by Brennan. Then the ruined it. She deleted the WHOLE thing. Honestly that bothered me. It would have been a lot more powerful if she hadn't. And then they poured even more cold water on it by doing the whole cliche "who are you?" after Booth wakes up from his coma thing! I mean, can't the writers be more inventive! I don't know what's up with this week's finales but it seems a lot of them have frustrated viewers. Well there was ONE satisfying finale... Ruby the bitch is DEAD!!!! Woooooooo!

I was also happy because yesterday after I did my last final I was able to write! I wrote two pages of PiB. It's another action scene as most of them are right now because you know, it's a war and all. I've been trying to keep it interesting by hopping characters and PoVs and keeping it moving. I actually kind of enjoy making the GFs do battle that is not just them casting one spell and then disappearing.

Today I'm going to take things easy. I'm making myself a little snack platter and I'm going to watch TV and maybe write a bit. I'm sure it will be nice to just have a day all to myself. ^_^

Coffee Break

Wed, 06 May 2009 15:05:39 GMT

Well I kind of am on one. I just went to get coffee and it's sitting next to me smelling delicious. ^_^ But I haven't drank any yet. I have a few things to do at work but I'm sure the day won't be swamped so I figured I'd grab a couple of minutes to update here. I'm really tired today. I didn't really go to sleep as early as I should have last night. I was watching TV. First I watched Lost, which was an episode right around the time when I stopped watching, so I think if I watch it now at this time (1am on SciFi) then I'll eventually catch myself up. We'll see if I like it. It's just at the part where Michael delivered Kate, Jack and Sawyer to the Others. Too bad they had gags on so they couldn't bitch him out.

I also saw there's a new Halo game coming out in Fall. ODST. I'm pretty happy about that cause I don't really have anything new to play. I really prefer Co-op cause frankly in one player games I just get my ass kicked. LOL I'm excited about FFXIII whenever that finally comes out, which I wish would be soon. Finally a masculine looking main male character. Sorry Squall...

I had like three hours between classes yesterday so I did actually get to write for both of my current stories, which was good. But after I did that I was incredibly bored. I think I just re-read a book I had with me for class. It's a Japanese story called "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto. It's sad, but still cute. I really enjoyed it. I mean, I did read it twice. LOL

Well, I ought to get myself back to work. I think I might be looking a little lazy sitting here. Actually I'm typing like a madman. No one at work can figure out how I type so quickly. I told them its because I don't chicken peck. I honestly don't understand how people can get through a work day with a computer doing that. It's not like learning the proper way to type is really that hard. Oh well.

OMFG Sunday

Sun, 03 May 2009 18:07:19 GMT

Okay so I had big plans for today. Well, sort of. We were going to go see the new Wolverine movie this morning. I work today 2 to 7 so we thought a morning show would be best. I looked up the showtimes over a week ago and found one at 11am at our favorite theater. So around 10:15 we left the house... get down and see that the parkway is coned off. Okay... great. So we have to take another route which is all on main roads and hitting lights and it takes way longer... and then we get to the street where the theater is... and that is blocked by the cops! So I'm thinking WTF... really. We pull over and ask the cops, hey can we get there another way? No, the whole street is closed off for a MARATHON. Did I mention it was pouring out? Uhm... hello? Okay so we pull into a parking lot where I double check the showtimes. Wait a second... NOW there's NO show before 1pm!! I was annoyed. So I went home and made myself eggs and watched two episodes of Farscape. They were good but... not what I wanted. So we're going to the 8pm show tonight when I get off work because honestly there is no other time I can go. Next weekened is reserved for Star Trek. -.- Yes, my inner geek is breaking free.

So now here I am at work. Also, there is this lame thing going on at school today known at the Dutch Festival. See my school was founded by the Dutch, which isn't odd since it's in NY which was originally a Dutch Colony. So we have tulips all over campus and buildings with Dutch names and etc. Well it couldn't have been a crappier day. It's been raining since I woke up at around 9 and it's really grey. It's cool out too. Not cold but not comfortable. They have everything going on inside but it's just sort of lame. Not that I'd go even if it was sunny.

And of course this place is packed. Full of future lawyers studying their asses off for their final examines. I just really would like to be at home in bed right now. If I had known that my movie plans would be ruined I would have slept in! I have a killer headache but I just took some meds. I also am going to work on my paper a little more today so I guess I might get something accomplished. And then Tuesday is my last day of classes except for finals. So I have Thursday off to myself and I have SO much housework and shit to catch up. I really just want to spend a day doing nothing.

Gloomy Day Blues

Sat, 02 May 2009 16:48:50 GMT

Another weekend at work rolls around. I spent the morning here highlighting important passages in one of the books I'm using for my final paper. I still have a lot of thinking to do before I dig into it. Usually I spend hours sitting and just thinking before I actually start writing a paper, then once I get going it moves pretty fast.

Right now I'm reading some stuff in the paper and working on my current chapter of PiB. I'm pretty happy because I'm almost done, so I will probably have something to send off to my Beta reader tonight. That means I should post it by tomorrow. I'm also up to page 20 or so of another fic I'm working on. It started out as a personal project and it's the first live action movie I've ever written for, but I was really compelled and I had such a complete idea jingling about in my head that I just had to write it. I'm thinking I'll post the prologue for that this weekend too after I give it another read-through. I'll see if it gets some interest and keep working at it on my own pace. I have a lot written already so I'm not terribly worried about keeping up with it like I am with PiB.

Speaking of it, I think this current chapter does a good job of introducing my plot twist. Right now the war has been my big story. And that will continue for a while, but I have some surprises in store. I think it's going to be pretty good.

I'll probably go to lunch soon, well that means go to the staff room with my bag lunch and heat up my cup of soup. LOL But that's okay cause I didn't eat breakfast. I had a granola bar on my way out the door. And a coffee of course. Gotta have that caffiene.

Well I'm going to wrap this up because I want to write a little bit more on my Zell scene before I head off to the break room! ^_^

Bones!

Fri, 01 May 2009 12:36:16 GMT

Just a very brief post to say that starlight83 you were right! I totally loved last night's episode! It was a cute episode and the ending made me happy. Also, the promo made me do an internal girly noise of glee. I can't wait for next week's episode! WHY must it be an entire week away!? >.<

Presently I'm at work trying to waste time. Hopefully the day passes quickly.

Finals Week

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:52:08 GMT

Okay well not quite actually. But it's our last full week of classes, so of course everyone's here every day, so of course parking is impossible. Only time it's ever this bad is the first couple of weeks of class, you know when people are actually trying and caring about school... or maybe they're just bored of doing nothing all summer. Of course, there hasn't been a summer in years where I've experienced that. LOL

It's nice today, probably in the 60's but nice and sunny, so no need for a jacket. I'm pleased. Right now I'm covering a couple hours at work between classes because they're having a retirement party for one of the librarian's secretaries. So I'm here at the desk and it's pretty busy. Lots of kids in here studying. Law exams start next week, undergrads are the week after. I saw a secretary putting together law exams earlier in the week. 30 page tests. I'm so glad I'm not a law student!

On another note, I found out that through our Fios TV service we get the Funimation channel which is like, all anime, all the time. I found a few new shows on there that I'm actually enjoying. Some of them are stupid to be sure, but others are cool, and on nights when nothing but House reruns and American Idol is on, it gives me something to watch. Tonight though is a new Bones. I'm kind of getting really excited about the finale and I can't wait to see each new ep. They've gone back to just one episode a week though. I was watching the reruns every night at 6 but they went back to Season 1 when Booth has that annoying blonde girlfriend Tessa. It was funny... I found out right away why my hate reaction was triggered immediately with her. It's the same actress that plays Amber, CTB on House, and I actually saw her there first. A more unlikeable character there never was. I mean, House is a grouch but it's expected and you sort of ignore it. With her it would be surprising to me if anyone cared that she died. Now her ghost is back to haunt and solve cases with House? Give me a break please. Couldn't we have Kutner's ghost instead?

But, House does give an awesome bachelor party.

On that note...

It's Hot in Here

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:02:20 GMT

And I'm not raising the roof. It's warm in my room. Just a string of nice beautiful warm spring days. But no AC yet. It would be a waste of money and yadda yadda and well, the temperature is looking to drop by the end of the week when we get some rain. Anyway so I'm just lounging in bed in a tank top and shorts and my iPhone is going crazy with e-mail messages ah wtf! No I don't care about Broadway.com! Sheesh.

Anyway I got my Netflix DVD today, this anime series called Mushi Shi that was actually recommended to me by Netflix. And honestly, I really liked it. The main character has this sort of soft way about him. He's very likeable. And the music is so serene and calming. It's about these ghost like things called Mushi which he investigates and helps people with all over. It sort of is like a cross between Spirited Away and something like... Samurai Champloo as far as travelling around the countryside... and the time period, but well, not terribly humorous. Anyway, I think I might get another of the DVDs in the series.

I've been sitting around in the heat, writing a bit. Not getting much of anywhere to be honest. It could be the heat, also I just feel really very drained and I have finals coming up... I'll get to it eventually.

Aside from that well... life is boring. Well, I'm getting involved in some summer productions at school to learn more about set design. Maybe that will be fun. ^_^ We'll see. I'm just looking forward to a break from school and opening up the pool and sunning all day with my girl and swimming and barbequing.... yeah. Summer summer....

Saturday at the Mines

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:59:00 GMT

Okay so it's not really a mine, and I'm not being worked all that hard, but today I'm at work. Right now if I wasn't here I'd still totally be asleep. LOL I'm still feeling a bit drowsy- too drowsy to be fetching reserve items for law students who don't know the actual title of whatever it is they're looking for. We've been open for 45 minutes and there's already about 40 or 50 people here I think. Exam time, you know...

Anyway it's totally beautiful outside today and warm, supposed to get up into the high 70's. So I actually wore a dress- I was just tired of jeans every day. It's a pretty sundress my mom sent me.

I meant to bring my Lit books to get started on my essay today but after piling everything together on my bed... I forgot them, so sadly it looks like the only writing I do today will be here and if I manage to get any fic bits written. Right now my brain is kind of muddled and not much is coming to mind. I went off to ff.net to read some fics there... just to keep busy. I'm basically here at this desk for six hours today. I think I might get a break whenever my coworker Jim shows up but I brought a really snack-like lunch so I can eat at the desk if need be. I've heard he isn't always on time.

I'm also working tomorrow, and hopefully I remember my books then cause I swear, without something to do my mind sort of drifts away. I was thinking of calling some people to bother them but it's like way too early. LOL I might call Mom this afternoon though, maybe try and see if I can get that shitty browser AIM to work. Might post again today if I get really bored... Ha. Wooo..... Laters

Good Morning Sunshine!

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:27:45 GMT

Well despite the fact that I may have managed to get possibly three hours of sleep total last night I'm in a pretty decent mood. My laptop suffered a death again last weekend.... which kept me from the computer for the early part of the week and in a moment of panic I copied nearly every document I could ever want to my portable hard drive. I have no idea how long it will last this time. Dad fixed it up again, so there was a briefly scary moment when I plugged it in and my surge protector went dead (o.o! panic) but after I ran through the set up everything seemed peachy.

I am working both Saturday and Sunday for the next month or so because the girl that usually works weekends is a law student and is taking off to concentrate on final exams. We have those too but I'm sure they won't be as bad as law exams. I have a ten-page take home essay for Lit class though that I'm not overly thrilled about. I think that my long hours this weekend will give me time to get a nice start on it though, as well as work on my writing.

Speaking of writing I did about a page more of my current chapter of PiB. The death of my laptop kind of foiled it a bit unfortunately. I'm delving into more and more action scenes and I'm hoping to break it up with some romance. We'll see how it goes. But I have a definite, definite idea for the ending. It's kind of evil, yet also probably the only way I could end it. Anything else would be too weak at this point.

Also speaking of fanfiction I was kind of bummed cause I keep thinking back on really old awesome fics I once read that are now gone. Like there was this terrific Spike/Faye Cowboy Bebop fic called Bloodlines several years back. It was simply amazing and well written. It used to be on ff.net but it's gone now. Either the author took it down or took herself down or something of the like. I never understood the reason behind that. Like a lot of my old fic is kind of crap but I keep it up anyway cause maybe someone wants to look back at it. Hell I like to look back at it myself now and again. I found like two old fics I saved on my old laptop and reread them. I found one of the authors and she's still on ff.net but she took down that one fic for some reason. I don't know why cause it's really well written. It makes me think back on old Seiftis writers, some of whose stories initiated me into the ship, who took down everything. I'm worried if I should start saving all my favorite fics to my computer otherwise one day some of the best stuff will be deleted and lost! Just a rant I guess.

On another note (this is a long entry cause I haven't posted in a while) the two Bones episodes a week make me totally happy. I was laughing hillariously all throughout "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed" and simultaneously cringing and laughing at Booth's rendition of Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Then the episode "The Girl in the Mask" was good, but sad and I'm sorry Angela but Dr Tanaka was a girl. Feminine face. At the end of that episode, where Bones and Booth were talking about love and if it's really worth all the pain you might go through... that spoke volumes to me. It made me think that Bones is the one who has feelings but has trouble accepting them. She's scared.

Well, I'm gonna sign out for now. ^_^

Where's My Weekend?

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:43:24 GMT

Well its almost here but I feel like lately weekend are these weirdly brief spatial anomolies that come and go in the space of a minute. I'm always left wondering what happened to it and what exactly I did. I have to devote a day of this coming weekend to studying for my Italian Exam next week. I'm really confused by the stuff we're currently learning. Future and complex future, and probabilities. God, it sounds like physics or something insane. I just can't wait till I finish this class and am done with my language requirement. I'll never master anything other than English. I really think you have to start as a kid to do so.

I've been working on my pet project lately with writing but I actually had a super awesome idea for my FF8 fic the other day which made me happy cause it gives me a really cool way to end the story. At least I know where I'm going 100% now which will make it easier to hammer some writing out when I get back to it. I haven't gotten many reviews so I don't know if anyone is even reading the damn thing, but I think a lot of it is due to the fact that its just an old game at this point. There's not as much interest as there once was. Its understandable.

I've sort of been overly exhausted all the time lately and for no reason. Well last night and the night before I've had a really rough time sleeping through the night but not before that, and I just have no drive to do anything. I come to school or work and do what I have to do, but when I get home I don't want to do anything. I have tons of laundry to catch up and this weekend I have to go to the grocery store. The house badly needs to be straightened up but I just can't bring myself to care. I guess I'm in sort of a funk.

The weather is finally getting nice here and we're due for temperatures in the high seventies tomorrow. I can't wait. Maybe I'll get outside and study there or so some yard work. I think some fresh air will really help. I'm stuck inside all the time lately and yesterday was the first day in a couple weeks we didn't have a gloomy rainy day.

Well, I guess that's all for now. -.-

Another Monday

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:33:36 GMT

Well it's another week. Sadly Spring Break is over (not that I made much use of it as I was working every day) so back to school this week. I have a paper due but it's just a basic essay and I went to the museum yesterday to go sketch and pick out my artworks for it so it's just a matter of hammering something out. Typical Art History paper is "Artwork B looks like this, it shows good use of technique, is made out of this, and made during this time. Blah blah blah" Really not terribly exciting.

Aside from the essay I've been working on a personal story. It's coming along okay but I kind of wish I had a beta reader for it. I don't really want to post it till it's totally done though so I'll probably just spell check it and do a whole read-through revision at the end. It's going to be pretty decently sized. I'm on the desk for a couple hours today so I've been writing a little and now posting this. I don't know if anyone even reads this but it's just nice to get it written down. Even if I'm only talking to myself :P

The Law School is busy. Kids came right back from Spring Break to start studying for finals in a couple of weeks. The Undergrads are usually about a week behind so a lot of them are still on vacation. I kind of hope it means it's easier to find a parking space tomorrow. I hate having to walk almost clear across campus.

Well to be honest I don't have much else to say. I could babble on about how my weekend was or whatnot but nothing terribly exciting happened and I just want to get back to the more exciting type of writing. I'm sure I'll post again soon.

Freaking Tired

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:50:52 GMT

Well it's Thursday, which may as well be Friday cause work is closed tomorrow for the holidays. I'm here now though and totally beat. My boss had an appointment so I'm here covering the desk. It's so quiet and no one much is here. I guess anyone who is at this point is really dedicated. Spring Break's been in swing since Friday of last week and most students fled campus immediately.

Speaking of last weekend. Went to the movies to see Fast and Furious. Still unsure how I feel about it. I've got some kind of curse where if you're a supporting character and I like you you end up dead. Seriously though, that's probably the only reason I didn't like the film. Everything else was pretty good. I kind of can't wait for the 20 minute short pre-film that will come out with the DVD though.

Anyway it's been distracting me a bit from my current fic cause I'm writing sort of an AU, or trying to. My brain is a bit dead today. I've got a chapter of PiB finished so I plan to post it this weekend so people don't have to wait too much longer. I'm only about 3 pages into the next chapter and though I know what I want to write I just can't get the urge to actually sit down and write. I've been reading fic like crazy and every time I go on one of these binges it just reminds me that most fanfic is awful. I've gotten to the point on a few stories where I'm a chapter in or so and just going "This is stupid". Sometimes I feel like the conflicts in people's stories is so... ridiculous. Like making people fight over stupid stuff, or making characters do mean things on purpose that are just out of character. I dunno. Just ranting I guess.

I've also been on kind of a Bones withdrawal. Fox scooted it around a bunch because of crap like American Idol which I really couldn't give two craps about. I've heard spoilers about some B/B luvin and I have mixed feelings cause I like the tension between them, but the shipper in me just kind of squeaks in happiness. Same about Cameron coming back to the team on House now that Kutner is dead. I liked him, so I feel bad, but I'm psyched she's coming back. I'm totally not thrilled about Cuddy/House sleeping together rumors though. She's really annoyed me all season since she had her kid. But then again I never really liked her all that much... sorry.

Well, I'm off to possibly try and write a little of something, but I may just daydream or something. >.>

Just a Note

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:28:55 GMT

Bought Halo Wars today. Gonna try out the online co-op with bro later today.

Also, X-Files had each season on sale for 20 bucks at Best Buy today so I picked up Season 1! Hooray.

Well, off to work on my essay.

Saturday Work

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:19:57 GMT

Well today I'm working the closing shift at the library because someone is out sick. Woo. I've actually never done it before so hopefully I don't forget anything I'm supposed to do before taking off. It's pretty quiet here today. Law students do come in on the weekend to study and we also get some attorneys in here but not as many as during the week. I've been spending my time working on my paper that is due next week. I have to compare two female characters from Ian McEwan's Atonement. I chose Briony and Cecilia since they both have large parts in the novel and there's plenty to work with. I've spent the last hour and change highlighting relevant conversations and sections and I still have about a third of the book to go through. I guess it's good because I'll have plenty to write when I actually dig into the paper itself, but I hope that the paper doesn't end up taking me the whole weekend. In any case I had to put it aside for the moment and come write this. Just get some thoughts out.

I slept in today because I barely got any sleep the night before but I still feel a bit tired. It's a really nice day here. I didn't even need to put my jacket on when I walked from my car in to work. Dad bought a new TV today, a lcd I think I really don't know. I didn't go with him. He said that there were some fridges on sale there too so I should go with him next time to pick one out. We desperately need a new one. The whole kitchen could stand to be redone eventually but I think we're going to have to log a few more years in the house before that happens.

As far as my personal writing is going, or my fic, I've been working on that bit. Not today yet but I was hoping to get some time to work on it here. Since I've made enough progress with finding relevant scenes for my paper I might put that aside for the rest of the hour and work on my fic instead. I'm trying to work on a scene with two of the GFs who have very complex personalities so its going a little slowly and I've got to work my way into another battle scene. I had one at the beginning of the chapter though so I'm sure I could wait till the next one to get to it but it depends on how much I have without it. I'm actually averaging chapters about twice the size of my last fic this time and I'm pleased with that.

Well, off to write. Something. :P

The Long Road

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:19:10 GMT

So I'm at work today and my boss is out all week on vacation to Ireland (she's so lucky, I want to go!). And of course today this girl who ALWAYS calls in sick called in sick again so I'm stuck at the desk for four hours in a row. No one else in the department even gets into work today till 1pm. Joy! One thing at least is that it gives me plenty of time to write. I often work on my fic when I'm at the desk. It's really a good time cause there's no distractions other than people occasionally coming by to ask a question or check out a book.

On another note, the new Resident Evil game is out now. I'm kind of intrigued because it has a two player co-op mode, which I love. I was hoping that X-Box live offered a trial though because I don't really have 60 bucks to dump but if it's good maybe I can convince Dad to buy it. We're also waiting for Halo Wars to come out. I got the trial of that and it's surprisingly fun! The movie scenes are just as good as in 3 but the game play is kind of like a super user friendly Starcraft idea, just a little simpler.

It got really cold here again today. We had that crazy snow storm at the beginning of March, then last weekend it was like in the mid to high 60s, and now it's below freezing again. I'm really ready for it just to be warm already. I'd like to put my winter clothes away. ^_^

Well, gonna go work on my writing!

Dead Laptop

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:33:27 GMT

Well, the power on my laptop has been really finicky for the last couple of months. I was able to fiddle with it a bit and if the cord was a certain way it would work for a while, but now it isn't happening no matter what. So the battery is dead and it can't recharge. Thankfully I have the PC downstairs, which I'm on at the moment. I'm going through and cleaning it up and such so it will run a little smoother, but it's an older machine than my laptop was so it's slower.

What I really need is a new laptop, but with the car payments and insurance payments every month I can't afford even a cheap one. So I'm stuck with this until basically the end of the year, when I might be able to get something for Christmas. Hoorah. -.-

Luckily for my writing I managed to send my last chapter off to my beta-reader and I also have the first couple of pages of the next chapter in my e-mail so I can piece everything together and keep working on that. Sadly, I do not have the comfort of my room any longer. I suppose on the plus side that will make me go to bed earlier... :-/

I briefly considered trying to find my really old laptop from like... 2001 but I remembered that when I got this one it was because that one was starting to have hard drive failure. So I think I'm best off working on the PC which is actually really doing pretty well, despite being just as old. I want to install iTunes on this, but I want to make sure it's not going to wipe all the songs I already have on my iPod.... -.-

I would really love a nice fat tax return this year but 10 bucks says that doesn't happen. Blah.

Keeping Up

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:17:32 GMT

Well I haven't posted here in forever! Since last year. I pretty much fell off the wagon when I switched jobs to one that doesn't offer much computer access... but I'll have to pop by here now and again to check up on things and delete those news feed things from my inbox. LOL

I'm writing still, and I've gotten about 7 or 8 pages into my newest work, a sequel to my last one. I was thinking of working on something for another fandom, but honestly this story just needed to be finished. I have a lot of plans and I'm thinking it may be a little darker than my previous fic. But I don't plan to make it completely depressing. I read a fic like that the other day, ending with character deaths and it was kind of like... meh. It was good but I don't want to leave a story feeling all depressed.

I have an essay due tomorrow and I'm mostly done with it. We're reading a lot of stories for my Lit class that are not books I'd have picked up on my own. But I'm enjoying the class. My Professor is Russian and he speaks it fluently. He read us this poem in Russian and it sounds kind of beautiful actually. I always wished I was better at foreign languages. I can't learn them too well.

My friend is coming this Thursday to visit for a long weekend and I'm excited. It should be fun. It's been snowing for the past two days though so I'm sure it will still be on the ground when she lands. I'm sure we have over a foot now. I can't open the door without snow spilling into the house. LOL

Well, just an update. ^_^

Keeping up with Politics

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:41:22 GMT

So I've been reading a lot lately. Whenever I'm on the circ desk at work I got to the NY Times site and I read anything that looks interesting. It's mostly through this that I keep up with what's going on in the election news and all. Recently I've been reading about McCain's VP pick, a gun-toting former beauty queen with 5 kids and less experience than Obama. Oh yeah and she's a woman.

McCain and his party seem to think that because she is, all the former Hillary supporters will run over and vote for him. First off, if they do- shame shame on them. This woman is in no way a democrat, not even a little. And honestly, as much as Hillary irritated me in the primaries, she accomplished way more than this woman who is in charge of some little podunk town in Alaska- a state which is a country away from the rest of us.

Everything I read tells me that Obama is so obviously the better choice. When 95% of the country is people making 180k or less a year- 20% of it very poor, and 40% of it lower middle class, it seems to me that they should vote democrat just for the fact that they'll actually get a real tax break. Historically middle and lower class families have done better under dems. The people that make money under the republicans are the very wealthy. But yet we know common sense doesn't seem to matter when picking a President. They paint their opponent as un-patriotic and we all go "OMG how could you!" Meanwhile don't we all have nasty thoughts about this country and our government now and again? They attacked Kerry because he was a former Vietnam vet- made up stories about him running off which while completely false, people still believe to this day. They attacked him cause he was married to a wealthy young heiress (sound familiar McCain?) and they constantly harp on dem candidates for being "too smart". Clearly we want a moron to run the nation. Explains Bush.

I can't blame that for everything though. Sometimes people will vote for a candidate for one stupid reason. I recently read an article by an evangelical. He preferred Obama on everything except at the end of his article he said he wouldn't vote for him, because he's pro-choice. So that one thing, the chance that a president will overthrow Roe vs Wade and take away one freedom for women in this country, is the reason to vote for someone. Clearly. Nevermind that making it illegal will never stop it. Instead we'll just have more dead women.

The last Presidential debate is going to be held on my school campus. It's going to be near impossible to get a ticket. But I'm submitting my name for the lottery. I watched the debates 4 years ago on television. Bush avoided nearly every question he got. *sigh* I still don't get it. Maybe this year, the outcome will make sense.