urn:lj:journalfen.net:atom1:b_jellybean though I am not a cowgirl Bonanza Jellybean 2008-02-18T01:27:55Z urn:lj:journalfen.net:atom1:b_jellybean:997 2008-02-18T01:27:55Z 2008-02-18T01:27:55Z Gamefly sent me a 14-day trial of World of Warcraft and I just had to try it. I played around with character creation-- played with a human for awhile and had a horrible experience, tried a Night Elf and a Gnome and just wasn't digging it, and then all of a sudden my Undead Priest came along and I could actually level up! And the quests didn't involve me trying to find needles in haystacks! And I was having FUN!<br /><br />Some really irritating person badgered me into a group, and there was a level 15 guy in there and he invited me to his guild and helped me do the quest with the pumpkins, by which I mean he shot down guys with one blast and let me get the pumpkins. And now three times I've just randomly have someone cast a good spell on me, and some random dude super blasted a creature who was beating the shit out of me, let me kill it, said "good job!" and ran off. It's really kinda a little bit confusing, because of all the places on the internet I'd expect people to be randomly nice to me, WoW would be one of the last. <br /><br />Anyway, I'm all the way at level seven now, and I'm thinking about getting the game for real. The only problem is that it would only run on my parents' computer, and they aren't really down with the hours-cut-off-from-email-and-stocks thing. urn:lj:journalfen.net:atom1:b_jellybean:703 2007-09-07T01:52:52Z 2007-09-07T01:52:52Z I have this journal, so I thought maybe I'd start using it to chronicle some of my fannish thinkings, as I occasionally feel like my flist does not always care about some of the things I talk about. <br /><br /><br />So, <a name="cutid1"></a> I'm 24 and have been lurking in fandom for about ten years now. I was an avid Trekkie and X-Files fan, which introduced me to a) online communities (in a Star Wars chat room, which was a brief obsession of my best friend) and b) fanfic. I read all the M/S I could find and then, fresh out of fic, decided to start reading the slash. From there I moved through a lot more lurking until I joined the WWE fandom, where I did not lurk so much and wrote a lot of cheesy fics. From there, I moved into hockey rps, where I wrote slightly less cheesy fics, popped in and out of Tamora Pierce fandom, and then I started lurking in other fandoms again :)<br /><br />Currently I watch House, Boston Legal, NCIS, SGA, CSI:LV, BSG, and I spent the summer watched two seasons of SPN so I guess I watch that too. On Saturday, I'm going to give Torchwood a shot. <br /><br /><br />In my personal life, I have a degree in English and psychology, which I promptly proved as fairly worthless when I immediately entered a program to get my masters in education along with my teaching certificate. I loved teaching, found it fun and engaging, realized I'd even grown as a person. Then I showed the world just how much all that counts for by not finding a teaching job due to my unwillingness to leave Michigan. So, I'm subbing now. Yay. I am also on a slight mission to lose some of my stress and sloth weight, because pants are becoming a problem and also my hips are protesting. <br /><br /><br />I consider myself a serial monogamist, which is a fancy way of saying that I get really really REALLY into something, and then that obsession calms down a bit as I pick up a new one. My current obsessions <a name="cutid2"></a><br /><br />1. Fantasy-- I always said I was a fan of specific authors (Pierce, Wein, McKinley) and not of the genre; I realize now I was wrong. It started with a friend giving me a copy of Jaqueline Carey's <i>Kushiel's Dart</i> (and me devouring the series) and now in the past two months I have blasted through Sherwood Smith's <i>Inda</i>, Sarah Monette's <i>Melusine</i> and <i>Virtu</i>, and Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. It's really quite sad how much they've completely dominated my reading habits. I'm really sad that there's apparently only one piece of fic for Monette's novels, but considering that the books themselves read like slash fic (complete with incest!) I guess there's no read need. <br /><br />1a. My love for Temeraire is a special shame for me, because the reason I always have for not being a fantasy as a genre fan is that I don't like mystical magical dragons, but I love Novik's dragons. I really missed Max and Lilly in the second and third books, though I do love Izkierka and, in sort of a bizarre way, ship her with Max (is it really sick to ship dragons? Is this just one stop on the slippery slope (PUN NOT INTENDED) to tentacle porn?)<br /><br />2. Due South- As soon as I saw Netflix had the show on dvd (for a long while they did not) I rented it. I'm on the last disc of the first season now, and am loving the show muchly, despite a few quibbles like the frequency of chase scenes, the length of the show (those extra five minutes push my frazzled attention span to the limit), and how much I really hate the theme song played over the end credits. <br /><br />3. Discworld- Specifically the Watch novels (thanks fandom_lounge) which I've been reading more or less concurrently with my steady diet of fantasy. The books have caused a bit of confusion though, as I get Carrot confused with Fraser at times and sometimes wonder what happened to the pirate invasion or some other crossing of the fictional streams. <br /><br />4. Kingdom of Loathing- I just beat the Bonderdagon! This is an overwhelming accomplishment for me, because I seriously suck at games. I like that it doesn't require too much more strategy than "hit the button. die. go fight other things until you stop dying."<br /><br /><br />Wow, it appears I have a shutting up problem. LJ-cut for your protection. urn:lj:journalfen.net:atom1:b_jellybean:362 2007-08-18T13:11:31Z 2007-08-18T14:36:00Z This is me using my personal journal for the very first time because I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE.<br /><br /><b>I love Diet Pepsi Max</b>. I have been a Diet Coke addict for almost ten years, but Pepsi Max has displaced it. I am addicted. I have a nice stash of Diet Coke but I still keep buying the fucking Pepsi every time I go to Kroger. <br /><br />So while I think the sponsored v-gifts are silly, a larger part of me says ZOMG IF ONLY IT WERE REAL.