Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in rudemistress' LiveJournal:

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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
6:45 pm	Uh-oh of the day. Guys, today my dad showed me a picture of Emma Watson exposing her boobies. Where's the wank? (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 26th, 2008
12:09 am	I AM VERY PLEASED WITH MYSELF. I HAS KINDLE. I IZ POSTIN WIT MAH KINDLE RITE NAO. Current Mood: Fan-Fucking-tastic (Comment on this)
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
3:50 pm	*does evil eye in Amazon's general direction* Now that I've finally finished Teh Evol Short(ish) Story, I'm trying to order me a Kindle! I mean, since I'm hemorrhaging money for the next month or so anyway, might as well quit putting it off, AMIRITE? It's my reward for finishing the story, and I've been meaning to get one...pretty much ever since I heard about them in Newsweek last winter. Except now Amazon keeps crashing my browser. I know I shouldn't be shopping online at work, but...come on, how many people work in this building and DON'T goof around on the Internet at work?! I wanna order me a new toy, blast it! ETA: I has did it! Amazon didn't crash my browser at home, amazingly enough. My new toy is on its way! I will be no company at all at the family's annual beach trip this weekend! (Yes, my dad's side of the family gathers at the beach every late September. And we don't even go far south for the trip, either, we go to Delaware. No, I'm not sure what the point of it ever was, but it turned into a tradition. And I have little respect for tradition for its own sake, but I don't see my rellies very often, either.) Current Mood: annoyed (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
8:23 pm	Ah did it! The story I was supposed to finish in August (*hysterical laughter*) is now finished! Not edited, but...finished! Now what the fuck do I DO with the stupid thing?! Current Mood: Happy-Dance (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
5:46 pm	Woo and Hoo! I received my first paycheck in the mail today. (Don't worry, I've requested direct deposit, but it takes a few weeks to kick in.) And...I WROTE PR0N ON THE TRAIN COMING HOME. WITH SOMEONE SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME. Okay, it was only a wee bit of smuttiness. And I tried to keep the text covered up with my hand so she wouldn't see what I was on about. And I certainly don't think she was looking at what I was doing. But she may have seen some anyway. Current Mood: Caffeinated (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
8:45 pm	This is a sign. It's a testament to how much I've moved on that I find out the WB has moved the release date for HBP back to July 2009 and I'm all like, "Huh. Yeah, that's stupid. So, anyway..." Of course I'll go to see it, and I'm sorry I won't get to see it sooner, but it's just not that important to me anymore, you know? Shit, I need some new icons. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
12:24 pm	Ew. I forgot how much of a pain in the ass it is to go into the attic. And there's really no excuse for that, as it can't have been more than a couple weeks since I last went up there. I remembered that it was incredibly hot and cramped up there, but I don't seem to recall having to lean on boxes while ducking under the rafters. Not only can't I stand up straight, I can't even stoop straight, it's so crowded. However, it's worth the insanity, as I now have my older CDs in hand, ready to be iTunes-ified! I also bought another handful of songs last night, including Big Yellow Taxi as performed by Counting Crows and No Rain by Blind Melon, which I'd always enjoyed hearing on the radio but could never identify by title or artist. *iz pleased with self* The search feature on Lyrics A-Z isn't going to compete with Google any time soon, but it does help with that sort of thing. Current Mood: Righteous (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
6:11 pm	Well, look at that. I pulled out the hard copy of my first chapter, started editing...and then I was finished before I knew it. So then I dragged out the notebook, started writing something new...and actually managed to write a little bit of a brand new story. Crazy shit happens when I go to the library. Current Mood: Amazed (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
5:55 pm	*iz sheepish* Oh, I did NOT just drop $40 at iTunes. Except I totally DID. All that and there are still more songs I want. It would help if I knew the artists and/or song titles of the tunes I hear on the radio. I'm still between jobs, of course. I've really got to show some restraint about this. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
9:30 pm	I can has iPod now! After 9 days back in civilization, my life is gradually getting back in order. I'm just starting to make post-service medical appointments, although the medical establishment is still determined to make me hate life. I have regular Internet access, and in fact now, I even have regular Internet access on my own computer--a halfway decent desktop, NOT that ridiculous laptop with its Eternally Retardified Mouse. And today, my iPod arrived! After several hours of cursing at the computer, downloading iTunes, converting songs, cursing some more, converting songs, converting, converting, etc., I am now listening to music on my pretty red Nano. I promised myself while still in Albania that I would get an iPod once I came back, and sure enough, here it is. I still need to sync it through the iTunes installed on my mother's computer, but I HAS IPOD. I've also printed out the prologue of my novel, with the intention of editing some tomorrow. My dad knows a published sci-fi author who's extended an offer to talk to me about publishing (!!!) though I don't know when I'll get a chance to talk to this guy. Still, I can't very well expect to do anything towards publication until I've slapped the manuscript into some shape. So that's why I've printed out the prologue, which is now stored in a sturdy plastic folder and stuffed into my trusty shoulder bag, so that I may work on it while attending to other business tomorrow. Who knows, I just might also haul my ass down to the PC regional office tomorrow and get started on job-hunting. Now THAT's a scary thought. But I'll have my music to keep me company. *pets the Nano* (Comment on this)
Monday, June 16th, 2008
2:56 pm	Why Peter David makes me incredibly happy: Shamelessly transcribed from the recap page in the preview of X-Factor #32: In other news, Peter's sixteen-year-old daughter, Ariel, just went to her junior prom, and looked smashing in a blue gown. She brought as her date a small rubber duck in a tuxedo. And Ariel's sister, Caroline, aged five, has developed an expanding vocabulary. The other day Peter was driving somewhere with Caroline in the backseat, and a guy cut him off. Slamming on the brakes, Peter yelled, "Son of a--!" and then caught himself before completing the sentence. Caroline, in the backseat, happily supplied the missing word. Quickly Peter said, "Caroline, you can't say that word." "I can't?" she said. "No," he said. She replied with disappointment, "Dammit!" Yeah, that Father of the Year Award's slipping away... A rubber duck in a tuxedo, I say. That girl is one righteous, badassed chick, and I say that without the least bit of irony. Current Mood: Amazed (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
4:39 pm	<3333333333333333333 The price of the Kindle has gone down to $359 already. It's looking better all the time. I just may have to spend a chunk of my Readjustment Allowance on an iPod AND a Kindle, not to mention lots of shit to go on 'em. And then I will be no company at all. Current Mood: excited (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
3:42 pm	ZOMG. Guys, I've just finished my first novel. It's not exactly the first novel I ever started, but...it's the FIRST ONE I'VE COMPLETED. Written. Finished. Not edited yet, but...complete. Current Mood: Freakish (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
12:41 pm	New pledge Note to lunalovepotter: Remember how I said I'd make sure to finish my novel before I left Albania? I've come up with a new reward-consequence for the project. Yesterday I took two more novels out of the Peace Corps library, and I really want to read them both; The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory MacGuire. Therefore, I hereby promise not to read either of them until I have sent you a completed original-fic coming-of-age, complete with epilogue! (I might cheat and read The Beet Queen without getting caught, but if I go ahead with Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, you'll probably find out. And I want to read CoaUS first, so, you can punish me if I don't do my job.) Current Mood: Smart (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
4:45 pm	WHERE are my comic-bookish icons?! The newest X-Position contains pages of juiciness from Wolverine and X-Factor. The editors' answers are, as always, made of lame, but the previews of X-Factor make me think: if I were a smoker, I'd need a cigarette right now. Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
3:13 pm	Just thought you'd like to know... Some of my students asked me recently who'd been elected President in the US. They were shocked--I'm telling you, genuinely surprised--to hear we hadn't held the election yet. Not that I blame them. Then discussion of presidential candidates ensued, and the only ones the kids mentioned were: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. They don't seem to be aware of the Republican candidates. Not that they're my students anymore. I've quit going to school. More recently, and even more WTF-worthy, some other kids asked me why the US won't accept Albania into the EU. I was all like, "Um, kids? Europe is over...*here.* The US is over...{marches to other side of room} HERE. The EU doesn't include us!" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, February 25th, 2008
2:09 pm	*fangirls* I got a response from a comic book writer! And it's a good one, too! Peter David recognizes my Madd Reading Skillz! (Scroll down, yes, keep going.) Now, I have to grow a spine and kick myself in the ass, because I vowed to myself over the weekend that I would NOT do any more on my website, no matter how much fun it is to prognosticate on Siryn, until I wrote some more on my novel. BAD aspiring novelist! BAD! (Comment on this)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
5:51 pm	Oh for fuck's sake... I have finally taken custody of X-Factor #28 and X-Force #1, Vol. 3 of both series. And now that I've seen them...damn it, I have to keep paying international postage for these comics as long as I'm here! Give me moar! MOAR, I say! XFO is basically a video game in print form, but the cliffhanger is sufficiently intriguing that I can't risk letting it sell out before I get back to civilization. (How's this for a litmus test: If there are no comic book stores around, it isn't a civilized country?) XFA is brilliant as usual, and I want the next 4 months to disappear all of a sudden so that I'll have the next four issues of both series AND be saved from the spit-and-baling-wire scenario of my teaching post. Seriously, some of these classrooms are totally held together with spit and baling wire, except there's no baling wire. My students are running out of places to sit, which you can imagine isn't making them any better-behaved. I need to get me some comic bookish icons for this account. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
7:23 pm	Mwahahaha! My Siryn Page is updated again! "It is as we feared, Minerva. The Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened." (Comment on this)
Friday, February 1st, 2008
11:38 am	Looking for help of the geek variety! Because the story of my life is to be at least 10 years behind the times, I'm currently learning CSS from various cobbled-together Web sources. I'm fairly sure I read, from one of those sources, that there's an attribute to go with the HR selector that displays the rule as an image, but now I can't find the code. Am I recalling correctly? If so, what's the attribute? I want to display my pretty bar graphic using nothing on the HTML side but an HR tag! Is this possible? Also, how does one set an image class to center-justify? I've tried some attributes to that effect, but nothing works from the CSS side. I keep having to set the center alignment in HTML. (Yeah, I know, poor poor me.) I am not completely beyond hope, however, as last night I had a moment of minor geekitude while adapting parts of my website. "You know, I have a slightly different layout on the main page, and I want to accommodate that with a table-free design. Can I set the extra side margin by creating a separate BODY class?" *adds code in CSS* *tweaks BODY tag in HTML* "Spank my ass, it worked!" I also managed, after another hour of wrestling and tweaking, to make a certain TABLE class my bitch. *roars* Current Mood: geeky (Comment on this)