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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
puipui
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4:47p
STAR-STUDDED!
Prop 8 - The Musical!
NPH is brilliant, as usual, but I think Jack Black as Jesus is the real breakout surprise entertainment here. Also, OMG, Margaret Cho! Andy Richter! Sara Chalke! Maya Rudolph! That chick who keeps saying "Obama-nation!" whose name I can't remember! They are all awesome and I love them. *loves*
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slackeremeritus
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4:04p
Since I already have my two front teeth…
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In June I punched ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) cactuar_tamer in the arm (-10 points). Last Tuesday I bought porn for hanncoll (10 points). Last Sunday I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). Last Wednesday I helped ravynfyre hide a body (-173 points). In September I signed my organ donor card (28 points).
Overall, I've been naughty (-144 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!
Sincerely,
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I guess the chest freezer was full, eh, Ravyn? Tsk tsk. Well, I have the paddle on hand. Any volunteers? ;)
I got a different result that says I deserve a Playstation 3, but this one amuses me more.
current mood: amused
current music: Nat "King" Cole — The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire)
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shadowkitty
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10:02p
\o/
I won nano!
I'm only halfway through the damn plot :(
My mother has decided she wants linux on her laptop but isn't patient enough to let it install. I've had to tell her to get out of the room.
I've started reading Howl's Moving Castle for the millionth time :D:
current mood:  tired
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atalantapendrag
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3:05p
I don't need this shit
The frickin' apartment complex manager put me on probation for failing my housekeeping inspection; basically meaning she can evict me when she pleases. So I spent the past half hour talking to the intake guy at Advocacy, Inc, and leaving messages with my caseworker at MHMR and my contact at HAND. Also tried reaching the HACA Family Self-Sufficiency Specialist, but I don't have much faith in her.
I might wind up having to spend the money I've saved toward an Eee to get a maid service to go over my place, but I have the suspicion that even that wouldn't satisfy this bitch. She has the letter from my caseworker documenting my disability, she knows HAND is looking for an aide for me, and she doesn't give a shit.
It was a very good thing I was going in to touch up my cutting today. It helped keep me from doing some dumbass shit like cutting myself. Took some Valium, hopefully that'll put me out for a while.
current mood:  anxious
current music: comments@geektress.com - Episode 32: I Forget What Eight Is For
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iwanttobeasleep
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2:08p
God, landlordpeople, why do you suck so hard? And why do I suck so hard on the phone?
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10:02a
Mini-sized BSG wank
Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds.
Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm.
However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance.
This goes over about as well as you'd expect.
Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow.
Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined.
Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved.
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atalantapendrag
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5:38a
I can has awake?
Going downtown to get my cutting touched up today, so I can't sleep until 7 pm again. Caffiene should happen soon. Go downtown, get protein-rich lunch (I'm thinkin' a gyro at Cozzoli's), go to the post office, walk down to Industrial Primitives and get sliced, and if I feel up to it, go to the grocery store for a few things after.
A few words on the book I just read, because I got it from simon_saysuk! First, I really suck at reviews of any sort. Really, really suck at it. But the matter at hand: Generation Dead, by Daniel Waters. It can be neatly summed up as an afterschool special with zombies. Basically, for no reason that is ever explained, American teenagers are coming back from the dead, and they're the newest oppressed minority. This comes off a little heavy-handed at times, thus the whole 'afterschool special' vibe. But it's an enjoyable book, with characters that ring true (both the alive and the 'differently biotic'). There's a dead boy who goes out for the football team, the gothy (living) girl who goes out with him, and the story kind of spirals outward from them. It's not life-changing and I don't expect it to have a fandom, but I was pleased to see that a sequel is due to be released in May. It's an engaging read, and Circe is currently informing me that it makes an excellent cat pillow.
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(comment on this) Thursday, December 4th, 2008
gun
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6:21p
once again, THEWLOL >:(
Thewlol, WE NEED TO TALK.
Presumably Lil' Joanie is now out of work, due to the unfortunate canning of "Pushing Daisies". This does not mean that YOU GET TO LOOK LIKE YOU'RE OUT OF WORK TOO >:(. The financial crisis is bad, yes. But while you seemingly have no standards for the projects you take on and are pretty much one step away from ATM porn anyway, you will never be short of work.
I hear they want to make Alone in the Dark 3. This sounds right up your alley. Get thee to a barber and prepare yourself mentally for making out with whoever it is that they hire when a casting director cannot afford Tara Reid.
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(6 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
mmanurere
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11:29p
A day of progress!
Parts for my comp showed up today; got started on assembly, only missing one part, but more on that later.
The most significant-feeling moment of the day was helping with one of the tutorials at work. The question involved the differences between Japan and China WRT European influence and trade/development/etc., and (as is the standard policy for this form of tutorial) I mostly let the students provide the ideas, analysis, etc. My job is to keep the discussion moving with little questions here and there; today, I got a very satisfying reaction when one point being made involved describing the actions of a country as not being collectively taken by all residents/citizens ("China did X" or "Japan did Y" or "Japan's goal was Z") but as the actions of specific people or groups of people within countries whose interests may be something other than "the national interest". It seems like a pretty basic concept, but it's disappointing how many adults -- even highly-educated adults -- just don't get it. The closest you get to a country taking an action is when a popular movement and/or the state takes some action; but even those cases involve groups of individual people with individual motives acting in ways which really don't add up to "actions by the country". I'll consider it a job well done if this group of students is just a little bit less vulnerable to propaganda and bullshit in the future.
I also talked to one of the other tutors -- it turned out that she'd done one of the NASA internships that I'm trying to land. She loved it -- even though she's not staying in the AV (I can easily understand why anyone who grew up here would want to leave ASAP), she's sticking with NASA and hoping to work at either Ames or the Jet Propulsion Lab when she finishes her B.S. And the bit I hadn't known -- a student who gets a co-op position (paid by NASA, alternating coursework and on-the-job training with enough grunt work to quasi-justify the salary) is gaining seniority and building up a retirement fund before even finishing college.
Finally, on the new-comp front. After a few hours before work and a few hours after classes fiddling around with parts, triple-checking all the manuals and slowly developing a mark from the anti-static wrist band, I have the thing in "just add CPU" form.
Unfortunately, the missing part that I mentioned earlier?
The CPU.
So, the motherboard is in, the RAM is in, the power supply is in, the parts from the old comp (hard drive, DVD drive, wireless card, graphics card) are in, all the cords are connected and double- and triple-checked, and all eight chassis fans are installed and wired. When the CPU shows up, I just need to throw that in, add the much-bigger-than-it-looked-in-the-picture CPU cooler and make sure it's powered (and try not to get thermal compound all over everything), and then take it to the roomie who actually knows how not to screw things up on the software side of the fence. If I'm lucky, I'll have a fully-functioning, not-complete-garbage and highly upgradeable (this was more of a priority than power right now) desktop on which I won't have to wait for the comp to catch up after every command in my AutoCAD homework.
current mood: accomplished
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(comment on this) Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
ruaki
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12:03a
Since someone mentioned it, uh...
I probably should note that I am alive. Hahahahaha. Returned safely from both trips to Houston. I've just been gaming mostly, trying to just avoid doing anything particularly brain-breaking during the Three Wild Weeks that any person who works for retail knows about.
Sha was awesome and I wanted to keep her. Yet another reason to despise other america Canada. D: They took my Sha away!
Picked up Chrono Trigger. Nostalgia doesn't really work for me, so we'll see how well the game has aged. It was pretty much my first console RPG and my first jRPG.
That's about it.
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(1 comment | comment on this) Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
mek
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9:50p
Today was better.
I didn't managed to call HR today about the medical deductions, but mostly because I am like the world's greatest chicken, but a little because I had some work to finish that I was in a rush to get done. Tomorrow, I will not have that excuse. Also, I told Jalaine to remind me. I'll probably remember myself and use her phone.
MJ swears he's gonna bring a tree in for the area of the warehouse where our unti is located. I finally brought my Christmas decorations in, and my desk now looks a lot more cheerful. It is good! I am pleased. Was double pleased when we got even less boxes in to sort in the afternoon. We were actually done with new arrivals by 4, which gave me time to actually do a little damage on the log. Fun times!
My desk seems to have become a gossip refuge in the afternoons now. I keep a guest chair next to it, and because I am in the middle of the warehouse, I tend to be isolated, and everyone else can pretend they were looking for a file and gossip with me instead. They don't stay too long, though. I wish they would stay longer; I keep more logging done when I'm chatting with someone. Stops me from letting it mesmerize me.
I noticed that the new sign up for Imaginary Beasts was posted today, and because it is the final issue of the year, they are allowing everyone to submit a story based on any of the other themes they've had for the year. So I'm going to give the fic I started for the July issue, I believe, another shot. *crosses fingers*
current mood: Wiped
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(comment on this) Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
fandom_lounge
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12:37a
Caprica series greenlit
Will start airing in 2010. Link
Also, break open your wallets. The catalog for the BSG auction is up.
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contemplative
