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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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So, yesterday I got my period and the cramps were, like, ten times worse than usual, because actually I was having stomach cramps on top of my period cramps. Cue puking through the night. Seriously, worst time ever for it--I was so fucking tired and all I wanted to do was sleep, so I went to bed at 6, woke up at 9 and ran to the bathroom, and then woke up again at 1:30 to throw up mostly water. Then I woke up early this morning feeling absolutely awful, called in to work to let them know I wouldn't be in, felt like I would never sleep again because my entire body was in a distracting amount of pain--and then slept until 4 pm.
Now I'm feeling better, just sore and achey and fucking tired and weak. I didn't eat for about 24 hours and barely drank anything, which didn't help, but at the moment I'm kind of scared of food so I just had a cup of soup and have been sipping water. Hopefully I'll be good to go in to work tomorrow, because as it is I missed a day last week when my thyroid pill was hitting me really bad. Body, why so broken?
Oh, and I also had a dentist appointment this morning that, of course, had to be canceled, so my temporary crowns are going to have to last me until whenever I can make another appointment. D:
So basically, blaaaah. Everything sucks.
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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Guess whose nephew came to visit?! Guess whose nephew is now a 17-year-old giant?! Guess who feels really old?! /o\
So yeah, Chris was here for a night and a day to celebrate his birthday. We ended up going to see The Fourth Kind, which was awful awful awful. ( Click to read a long rant about how awful it was, with highlight-able spoilers )
Chris inexplicably enjoyed it, though, so I guess if you have a credulous teenager or grandma who likes those "true tales of alien abductions" reenactment shows, you can recommend it to them. And now my nephew has gone home and I am sad. :(
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Hey there, LJ! Long time, no post! This is mostly because the last time I was tempted to post it would have been a several-page-long rant that would mostly have been "IF A GAY MAN WHO YOU ARE FANNISH ABOUT POSES WITH A NAKED LADY, UM, YES, IT IS STILL FUCKING MISOGYNISTIC (and if you really think it's not misogynistic because your fantasy actually is to be an unengaged sexual prop to a disinterested man, I kind of feel bad for you, AND YET ALSO STILL ANGRY)", and for the sake of my blood pressure I decided to keep that to myself.
Let's see, what do I have going on? I'm for some reason going through a sort of Rocky Horror renaissance--I spent last weekend watching RHPS and Shock Treatment (which, if you didn't know, is "not a prequel, not a sequel, but an equal" to Rocky itself--basically it's like an AU story about an older Brad and Janet having a different adventure, and it is awesome), downloading the only two podcasts for Rocky that exist, uploading the soundtracks so I can listen to them over and over again during work, and watching a bunch of clips of various casts on youtube. (Observation about official productions of the Rocky Horror Show--Riff-Raff is almost always cast as someone with a horrible, grating voice. Why would anyone do that to the Time Warp? D:) My nostalgic longing for the theater experience and subsequent whining to Telis about it, though, resulted in me possibly having plans to do Rocky for my birthday! Maybe I'll get my theater totals up to ten before I'm thirty, even. :D
In other news, apparently my thyroid is lazy and doesn't like doing stuff, which might explain why I'm so fucking tired all the time. (Other symptoms I have that may or may not be a result of my hypothyroidism: weakness, cold intolerance, depression, irritability. The cold thing especially makes a fuck of a lot of sense since I usually wear a hoody in my office even without the air conditioning on.) Now I have pills to take every day! Or, you know, for as long as I have insurance. We'll see what happens on that score.
And that's about it for now, I think--it was a long workday and I still have to shower, load up my ipod, pack lunch for tomorrow, and then sleeeep.
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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-No jury service this week \o/
-I have to call back next Monday to see if I go in Tuesday, which is the day of my dentist appointment. /o\
-I'm definitely sick, though I still don't know if it was something I ate or some sort of stomach flu. :(
-I'm feeling okay enough to go in tomorrow though, I think. Thank god I have a desk job, so I can just curl up in my chair with a blanket and do stuff on my computer, which is pretty much the same thing I'd be doing at home anyway. :/
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( complain complain complain )
In other news, Disneyland was fun. I went with my friend Amber since I wasn't able to go on her birthday, and we were there from noon til midnight (well, 11:30, but it took til midnight to get out of the parking lot and onto the freeway). The day started off on a hilariously bad omen--we went to Denny's, ordered, waited for our food, waited more, still waiting, and then our waiter came up and asked if we'd gotten our check yet. Apparently he went on break and gave our order to another server to take care of, and she didn't. He offered us an entire pie (which, no, dude, we're going into Disneyland) and then knocked one of our orders off and gave us free water to take into the park. It was the first day or Gay Day, so besides seeing huge groups of people in red shirts and doing a little happy dance at being in a place filled with queers that wasn't a gay club, the lines were shorter than any other time I've been at Disneyland and we did a good amount of rides.
And then on Sunday I did some chores but mostly laid flat on my back with a heating pad on my calves because, again, SORE AND EXHAUSTED.
And now I'm back to complaining so I'm off to lay here and be miserable again.
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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So, you know my broken tooth from way back when? It's finally (almost) fixed! \o/ After we switched from the crap dentist who just wanted to yank it with no warning, my awesome new dentist sent me to an awesome endodontist who performed a root canal on the broken tooth and the one next to it in an hour, and it barely even hurt. (I'm still incredibly, incredibly numb so we'll see how sore I am in a few hours, but he still did an awesome job, especially considering he was working with a tooth broken off below the gum line.) I really hope that when my parents' insurance runs out I'll be able to keep this dentist--I might just pay out of pocket if possible/needed. That's how much I appreciate him, dude.
In other news, LOLOLOLOLOL. Seem familiar? Bonus points for semi-decent reassignment of character (because Shawn and Pete? Both giant black holes of need, at least during certain points in their lives, and both totes in love with their hetero life partners, Corey and Patrick), points for plagiarizing my fic after I'd already moved out of that fandom, points for doing it anon so I don't know who plagiarized me, BUT: mega-points taken away for posting in a fandom I still have old friends in (that is, friends who read that fic when I originally posted it), and for reappropriating my fic from one fandom into a fic for a fandom that I also used to write in! Also, omg, dudes, I have a lot of affection for that fic because it's pretty much a perfect storm of my character kinks (big gay teenage murderers! insane codependency! characters coming together over a terrible secret! Rider Strong covered in blood!), but I freely recognize that it's pretty awful, so I have no idea why someone would want to steal the awful masturbatory fic I wrote when I was 18 to appeal to myself and two other people who share my kinks, especially when they were pretty much guaranteed to be called out on it. The only possible response is LOLOLOLOL.
ANYWAY. I'm really tired (as if you couldn't tell) and I just spent an hour on my back with my mouth open (not in the fun way) so I'm off to read Torchwood porn and then sleep, since I had the foresight to realize that work was just not going to happen today. \o/
ETA: Are straight women really accusing queers of "whining about discrimination" (here and here), comparing not being eligible for a queer literary award to the general discrimination faced by lgbt people in the world, and then expecting people to be on their side? (That first link wins bonus points for comparing the queer lit award in question to a fundamentalist religious group that pickets and harasses queers. Classy.) What the actual fuck, people.
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
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I'm home again! Which is awesome, because a) as adorable and cuddly and awesome as Telis' kittens are, I missed my own stand-offish little kitty Zucchini, who stalks me and lies a foot away on the bed and stares at me and gets up on my lap for two minutes before jumping down and stays in my arms approximately 30 seconds if I pick her up, and b) my ac adapter crapped out so as soon as I got home I made a run to Best Buy with my dad so I could buy a new one. Sweet, sweet internet!
I also decided to spoil myself, sort of--the AC adapter I bought was about ten bucks over what I got for house-sitting, and I did most of my book shopping at the used book store that's going out of business (so everything is half off) where I have store credit, and at the bargain tables of Barnes and Noble, so I didn't end up spending a lot, but I came home with bags of books hanging off my arms. I haven't been book shopping in fucking forever, and it seriously felt like I got high on it. :D Also now I get to rearrange my shelves and add ten or eleven books (ETA: fifteen books /o\) to my sweet book collection spreadsheet, which I compiled because I am a nerd.
Not that I'll probably be reading any of my new books for a while, because while internetless I read Anne of Green Gables and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, so I might go through those series before I get started on anything else. (I also seriously need to tackle Infinite Jest, which I started and never finished, at some point, as well as read the few books in my collection that I've never read before.) Also, dude, I had totally forgotten that Matthew dies at the end of the first Anne book! I thought he stayed around at least until the second, but no. So there I was crying all by myself in an empty house, hugging Telis' cat Gunter while he gave me a WTF look and tried to bite at my fingers. Oh, self.
In other 'making me cry' news, dudes, Wall-E is not a movie to watch by yourself, especially if you're completely isolated. Just not a good idea, even if the ending made up for it.
And now I'm off to read all the fanfic I haven't been able to read in the past few days--I started watching Torchwood pretty much entirely to a) see some canon gay and b) have a new fandom to read, and I was in the middle of a bunch of porn when my adapter started chirping like a cricket and refusing to charge my laptop, and I was also getting into Fringe (the show, not the fandom), so I have an entire season of TV to watch before the new season. Possibly I'll be back later to tell you more about Telis' turtle Rex, including his terrifying peeing powers.
ETA: Ooh, ooh, ooh, I forgot to mention my favorite used book find! For some reason I had a sudden craving to re-read The Turn of the Screw (which is fine, because I have about three different versions of it since it's included in every Henry James collection, and I buy pretty much every Henry James collection I find) and it's been kind of following me around--for instance, In a Dark Place, the updated movie version with Leelee Sobieski came on tv, and I think I've seen it referenced in some articles I read as well.
So imagine my surprise when I found, in the children's section of the used bookstore, a Pocket Classics edition of The Turn of the Screw! Pocket Classics are like this: very small and thin comic book editions of classic works. So it's not only a children's version of The Turn of the Screw, it's a children's truncated 1980's comic book edition of The Turn of the Screw! It was too fucking weird and awesome not to buy, especially for the fifty cents or so it cost, and I'm sure it will be hilarious and point-missing and totally lacking in the ambiguity of the actual story. I can't wait to read it.
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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So I just saw Inglourious Basterds AND IT WAS AWESOME! It didn't really help curb my desire to bone Eli Roth, but oh, well, I'll live.
Non-spoilery Observations:
-Brad Pitt is so much more awesome when he's playing obnoxious in an ensemble than when he's playing charming leading man. I've observed this before, but damn, is it nice to be reminded.
-Weirdly, the nazis were really the only "Tarintino-esque" characters (although there were shades of The Bride in Shoshanna, who btw was fucking awesome. I love me some movies with awesome ladies).
-Oh, Tarintino. I love you and your big draggy balls, and damn do you make some good-looking films.
-Do me, Eli Roth. You too, German guy from SLC Punk.
In other news, I'm spending a week and a half cat-sitting for Telis and her parents. I just gave away my second (and favorite) kitten Lando/Pumpkin last Friday--we still have Zucchini and it looks like we're keeping her, which I'm grateful for, but I still miss my babies--so spending some time out of my house with two baby kitties is a nice distraction (not awesome for my work productivity, but balanced out since I don't have to take a break to smoke). Right now Gunter is sprawled across my lap with his head halfway buried under my laptop, purring like crazy, while Phred, since she discovered she doesn't fit up here, has decided to curl up on the couch in a blanket. Sooooo cute. Earlier they were both on the floor, each playing with the draggy part of my jeans, and dude, I wish I'd brought my camera.
I also fed her turtle today, and dude, motherfucker is scary. He's got that big lumbering body and spiky arms and that little reptilian head, and he just snaps up lettuce out of my hands like he's going for fingers. Gaaah.
Also, I just remembered that I left a crepe in the fridge! Om nom nom past-midnight snack. \o/
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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( complaining about stuff )
Besides that, stuff I've been doing lately:
-Working
-Compiling an Excel spreadsheet of all of my books (645 in total, unless I skipped some) because I am a gigantic fucking nerd and apparently do not get enough data entry at work--I did this in one day and afterward my hands were numb /o\
-Not sleeping (although that's pretty usual)
-Not keeping up with LJ (which is also sadly fairly usual)
-Playing Virtual Villagers 3
-Listening to lots of Janis Joplin and Lou Reed
-Reading a bunch of fic in all my old fandoms
-Working on my Dawn of the Dead fic which still refuses to either a) progress or b) leave me alone, and thinking of ten thousand other Dawn of the Dead fics I would like to write
-Writing up a post about Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge because it is just so fucking ridiculous that I need to share, and also I apparently miss writing analytical stuff about media (apparently horror movies are my fandom now? I mean, they always sort of have been, but now I'm like, meta! And fic! Both of which I've written for horror movies before, but it's a slow time for me, fandom-wise--I'm reading everything, but my writing is solely--and slowly--about horror movies.)
Since I haven't actually finished anything that I could share with the group (I might start doing that 'posting parts of my wips' thing again, but I don't feel like digging through files right now) I decided to post something else I said I was going to do awhile ago, which is upload all the '___ Says' songs that I have in my iTunes. Because I figure, I have a fair amount of Amanda Palmer fans on my flist who have probably heard her song Blake Says, but maybe not a lot of people who have heard the Lou Reed songs that inspired it. ( So here! )
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
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Because I thought about doing this, and then I uploaded some songs, and then Telis was like, "hey, maybe you should actually post the songs so other people can listen to them." And I obey her in all things, so here you go--not necessarily my favorite songs or the ones most indicative of said ladies' awesomeness, but songs I've been listening to a lot lately and adore a lot.
( awesome ladies who sing awesome songs )
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So, it seems like we hopefully-possibly-maybe have homes for all the kitties! At least enough to keep my mom off my back about it. The people who want Zucchini are still undecided as to whether they want a cat or a dog, but Kelly's friend definitely wants Lando, one of Tyler's friends wants a cat, and this girl who called me today was really excited about the poor nameless black kitty who nobody else has wanted so far. I told her I would send her pics, but unfortunately Zucchini and Lando keep taking pictures ( like this )
While the black one keeps taking pictures ( like this )
But she's definitely coming to pick one up this Thursday, so that will hopefully go well. \o/
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Went to Drums Inside Your Chest (III) with Amber and Dave last night. Really awesome show again, although it was half concert, half poetry reading this time. (Emily Wells--check that shit out, although she's actually even more impressive live. She plays like five seperate instruments and does her own vocal mixes live onstage. Holy shit.) Unfortunately we took the train so we didn't have enough time to stick around to buy merch or hit the afterparty, but it was still good times.
Last year I was especially impressed by Roger Bonair-Agard. I kept meaning to post a few poems from his spoken word album and never got around to it, but now it's a year since I saw him so I should probably get off my ass. Here are two tracks from his album, Light In a Valley of Bone.
safe (with Marty McConnell)
burial instructions for the lovely death
ETA: Man, it's like the kitties know they have to leave. Zucchini hasn't slept with me in forever, Pumpkin rarely did in the first place, and Blackie never did, but now they all want to follow me around and sleep cuddled up next to me (which btw makes it hard to type). How much am I going to cry when they go? SO FUCKING MUCH, jesus. They are making it so damn hard on me. :(
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
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Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) provetheworst
Here's a way to glimpse into friends' musical tastes. Lost gems, embarrassing things - who knows. But don't cheat.
Once you've been tagged (1) Turn on your MP3 player. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 25 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating.
( 25 songs )
Nothing I'm really embarassed of is on here, though. Come to think of it, I can't really say I'm embarrassed of anything I listen to--I mean, fuck, I freely admit to still having NSYNC on my ipod, dudes. (Fuck you, nothing puts me in a groovy work mood better than Do Your Thing. Gotta hump, gotta bump, never sit on a stump! Truer words, dude.) Nothing on here is really rare (except the MST3k musical compilation, which is out of print) but this weekend I'll upload anything here if requested.
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The "You Should Write..." Meme!
my thread here
In other news, a friend of Shaunna's just emailed me about adopting a kitten, and a friend of Tyler's asked for pics. Not gonna lie, I'm gonna cry like crazy wherever they go to, but at least if they end up with friends of friends I can rest assured they'll be happy and well-treated. Just hope they adjust well to a new place with no kitty friends to play with since everyone who's expressed interest has only wanted one. I kinda worry about that cause cats, especially young ones, left on their own can get destructive.
In other other news, sleeeeepy.
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If you live in SoCal and want a kitten (or know anyone in SoCal who wants a kitten), please leave a comment and I'll send you an email. If I can't get them adopted in two weeks, they're going to the local Humane Society, and I really don't want to see that happen.
( kittens: pics and facts )
The crap thing is, we know a few people who actually want kittens, but circumstances just suck for them--my friend Amber is waiting on buying a condo, since she lives at home with her parents who own a dog, and my friend Kelly's friend Julietta was planning to adopt two but is apparently having a fight with her mom now so introducing kittens into the equation isn't possible. I'd really like to see these kittens end up in a good home instead of stuck in a cage in a shelter, so if you know someone, please, let me know.
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SO, ON FRIDAY I SAW TORI AMOS AND IT WAS AWESOME, THE END. :DDD
( setlist with downloads )
In other news,
a) I had not heard of that Millionaires band until Pete posted about them, but wow. It's like an entire band made up of my little sister's friend Bianca during her drunky stage.
b) I'm re-reading House of Leaves and oh my god, do I need a new copy. Not only is it literally falling apart, but it also has all my embarrassing teenaged marginalia. I'd really like to read a fresh, clean copy, so I guess I need to get my ass to a bookstore. I'm just hoping a physical store will have a copy of the full-color paperback, as all I can find online is uber-expensive copies of the hardcover.
c) I'm also re-reading Tori Amos' autobiography, because guys, did I mention that I LOVE TORI AMOS REALLY REALLY A LOT? :DDDD
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Meme taken from ruedifference
• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
• NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
• They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
• You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.
( pics )
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Grabbed from deepsix and dine.
1. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack?
Not any more than I usually do, really.
2. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you?
It used to horrify me (seriously, my first AP English class where I realized I'd have to mark up my book to keep track of stuff--traumatizing) but years of being an English major specifically and a student generally have made it much less so. I don't tend to mark books for pleasure reading, though, unless it's something I'm having a hard time getting a handle on, though.
3. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open?
I do all of these--I leave it flat if I'm just leaving it for a minute, bookmark it if I'm leaving it for a while, and dog-ear pages if I'm throwing it in my purse and I know the bookmark will fall out.
4. Fiction, non-fiction, or both?
Both, but fiction a lot more frequently.
5. Hard copy or audiobooks?
Hard copy. I'm thinking about downloading some audio books now that I'm working a job where I can listen to my Ipod, since talking tends to keep me interested but not distracted, where as music sometimes kind of zones me out.
6. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point?
I can generally stop anywhere, but I tend to re-read to find my place a lot.
7. If you come across an unfamiliar word, do you stop to look it up right away? Write it down to look it up later? Just try to infer what it means from the rest of the sentence, and keep going?
I always mean to write it down and look it up later, but I usually end up too wrapped up to actually do it. I'm pretty good at figuring it out from context, though.
8. What are you currently reading?
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, although only in very short bursts; JD Salinger's Seymour: An Introduction (I tried and failed to convince Telis that no, really, Salinger's other work is totally about how people totally missed the point of Catcher in the Rye, which was don't be like this, and it got me interested in re-reading the Glass family stories); and I just finished re-reading David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed in Flames. I also have The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II next to my bed with a bookmark in the middle of "The Valley of Fear", but who knows when I'll get back to that. Same with Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, which I'm trying to re-read because damn, it was a nice idea to study it in a women's lit class, but a week is really not enough time to have any clue wtf Foucault is going on about.
9. What is the last book you bought?
I have no idea.
10. Are you the type of person that only reads one book at a time or can read more than one at a time?
I'm pretty much always reading more than one.
11. Do you like re-reading books?
Yes! There are some books that I can only read once I can no longer remember every single thing that happens (I have a pretty good memory for books), but for the most part books, like movies, are better the second (and third and fourth and fifth) time, so you can catch what you missed the last time.
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