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Vacation! / July 6th / 12:41 PM / Feeling / Hearing ecstatic / Share

queelez Okay.  So.  If somebody ever asks you to take a cruise to Alaska, the answer is yes.  No matter when it is—the answer is Yes. No.  Stop.  I don’t care if Barack Obama is rocking out with Bruce Springsteen, giving out gold-plated Wiis, and all of this is a fundraiser for a Back to the Future musical.  Alaska is better. I’m too manically-happy to have a long, detailed synopsis, so you’ll have to settle for a list of awesome things I did.  No, I don’t care if this is arrogant at all.  In chronological order, as best as I can remember it: Saturday:  Boarded a Cruise Ship the size of Idaho. Sunday:  Mulled around all day.  With style. Monday:  Walked around Ketchikan, the most gorgeous town I’ve ever seen. Tuesday:  Saw a Glacier, hiked around a bit, did some semi-rock climbing to manage to stand underneath a waterfall, and get a billion times closer to the glacier. Wednesday:  Biked down a mountain at about twenty miles an hour. Thursday:  Walked around in a Rainforest. Friday:  Took lots of naps. Saturday:  Went home.   And then, after coming home, I learned that there’s going to be a DS Remake of Chrono Trigger. Hell Yes.

This hole you put me in wasn't deep enough / July 6th / 1:38 PM / Feeling / Hearing accomplished / Share

exsequar The Black Parade is awesome. But, in my humble opinion, Three Cheers is slightly awesomer, which is why I wanted rips of the stuff from Maxwell's off TBPID! When the internet was unforthcoming, I took it upon myself to rip audio and video of the Three Cheers songs performed at Maxwell's (along with the new song, Untitled, which is fantastic). I would have done more of the Black Parade stuff but this process takes forever on my computer, sorry! Below I have links to: a zip file of the mp3s, a zip of the large videos (.mp4, suitable for iPod but also good for computer viewing), a zip of small videos (also .mp4 and mostly good for iPod), and individual uploads of the large videos. The video zips both contain all of the videos listed before, and the audio zip contains them all except House of Wolves because I never got around to it. If anyone wants something else uploaded individually, let me know! I hope you enjoy them! Individual large videos: Untitled (24 MB) It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish (25 MB) Helena (58 MB) You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison (37 MB) I'm Not Okay (22 MB) Thank You For The Venom (27 MB) Give Em Hell, Kid (33 MB) House Of Wolves (44 MB) AUDIO (23 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace VIDEO (Large, 265 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace VIDEO (Small, 148 MB): Megaupload//Sendspace Enjoy!!

I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me / July 6th / 11:33 AM / Feeling / Hearing amused / 3 thoughts / Share

exsequar Eeeee, this MCR interview is PRECIOUS. A couple snippets of it were on the LOTMS DVD, but not very interesting parts. The interviewer has just posted the whole thing and I LOVE it. Some of the best bits: MIKEY: Bob would be played by Lou Ferrigno. GERARD: Bob knows a lot of celebrities. He’s just knowledgeable, you know a lot of celebrities. You spit out names I don’t even know. Come on man, cast the movie, it’s your job. BOB: Gerard…Brad Pitt. Obviously. GERARD: Obviously. BOB: Mikey. What was the dude we saw the other day? Caddie Shack 2 guy? GERARD: Oh! Jackie Mason. I think Christina Ricci would play me, Brad Pitt would play Mikey. BOB: Ray would be…that’s a rough question. GERARD: How about Ashley Simpson. BOB: No, Ashley Simpson would be Frank. GERARD: Okay, Ashley Simpson will be Frank. BOB: Definitely. Ray would be that American Idol dude. After some discussion over which American Idol dude he was talking about… MIKEY: OH! Clay Aiken! GERARD: Okay that works. We’ve gotten it all. YOU GUYS, PETE KNOCKED FRANK UP. AHAHAHAH. Also, hilariously, Christina Ricci is the most accurate choice of that whole group! Geraaaaaard. And he thinks Mikey would be Brad Pitt! Ugh, WAYS. <333333 With so much talk of death in their lyrics I wondered what is happening right now that they would like to be dead, or something that is dead that they’d like to bring back. So I wondered and wondered, and then I asked them. Their response? GERARD: Hair crimping needs to go. You know what I’m saying? BOB: Hair straightening. GERARD: Hair straightening? MIKEY AND RAY: OH! GERARD: No way dog! You’d ruin every band out there! Um, hair crimping has to go. I don’t see it very often but when I do it burns my ass. BOB: Slippers. GERARD: Yeah, slippers. We’re gonna bring back slippers from the dead. MIKEY: I think Hula-Hoops need to come back. There’s less violence in the world when people are using Hula-Hoops. AHAHAHAHAHAHA. No way dog! Gee is so street! Heeeee. What is Bob's obsession with slippers?? And oh, MIKEYWAY. Bringing about world peace one Hula Hoop at a time. <333333 Anyone who read the latest issue of Alternative Press that has read the latest interview with The Used knows about what Bert had said about his appearance on the album, and his story about himself and Gerard making out for a long period of time. I wondered about this, so I asked him. GERARD: I don’t really comment on that. Um. Yeah. Okay, okay. No comment. But at least is it a true story? GERARD: Uhhh, yeah. Kind of. Me and Bob make out all the time so it’s not a big deal. *flailyhands* There's lots of other really great stuff, both serious and silly. They all talk about their favorite songs to play live (Mikey's is Helena because it's fun... oh MikeyWAY) and favorites off the album. Gerard says Vampires is the best song off the first record, which I found really interesting. And just, lots of things, go read! :D Thanks to chemicalromance for the link.

i'll hand out pamphlets titled: I KNOW IT'S HARD HAVING A VAGINA, BUT IT'S OKAY! / July 6th / 1:13 PM / Feeling / Hearing so angry i can't even / 6 thoughts / Share

lady_stargazer god so help me, if i have to become a one-woman streetteam, i WILL. hello there, fandom! here are some important life lessons for you: 1. It is NOT EVER OKAY to call a woman a "cunt" or a "slut" simply because she is dating a man you'd like to date/you wish was dating someone else. 2. It is NOT EVER OKAY to call a woman a "cunt" or a "slut". Under ANY circumstances. 3. If you yourself are a woman and you are guilty of this? You should be doubly fucking ashamed. It's absolutely disgusting, and I'm not about to keep my mouth shut about it anymore. Women have enough fucking establishments discriminating against them without their fellow women turning on them. 4. Does disliking Keltie or Kimberly Caldwell or Audrey or hell, even someone as obviously certifiably awesome as Lyn-Z (though why WOULD you?) make you a bad feminist or a bad woman? Of course it doesn't. But dislike Ashlee because you (give me a second! i will think of something to dislike about her even though she's obviously made of puppies and kittens and sunshine and fairytales!) ...think her singing voice is really whiny? I DUNNO. (her nasally little voice is obviously PRECIOUS, though) Dislike Audrey because you think she's unpleasant and changes her friends like she changes her socks. (...this one's true but it's not a reason to DISlike her but I digress) Dislike Caldwell because... Well I dunno because I know jack shit about Kim (except wow pretty!) But the POINT is. Stop with the gendered, sexualised insults. It makes you look like a misogynistic waste of space, and it's the fastest way to turn me off to your argument - because it makes your opinion immediately irrelevant. You would NEVER say "well, I don't like that David Cook guy because he's such a slut, look at the way he is with Kim, EURGH!" You'd say "I don't like that David Cook guy because I think his facial hair is goofy/I hate his music." (in which case I'd be WOW very sorry for you because you're missing out, but.) You wouldn't do it to the men. Don't fucking think you can get away with doing it to the women. ...in case you haven't worked it out yet, yes, American Idol fandom. I AM MOSTLY LOOKING AT YOU.

Doctor Who Finale / July 6th / 4:20 PM / Feeling / Hearing confusedFeeling / Hearing Doomsday - Murray Gold / 1 thought / Share

impish_nymph ( Read more... ) More thoughts when I can watch the episode fully again. Oh, question: is there a soundtrack for season 4 yet?

(subject) / July 5th / 10:04 PM / Feeling / Hearing decent / Share

green_griffin1 Fourth was fun, got to hang out with the friends from New Ulm. My buddy Pete is spending the night and I've got him hooked to brawl now. I totally pwn his ass when it comes to fighting each other, but that's expected, he's an Xbox fan and thinks that Marth (aka "Pretty Boy") is cool. Still, we've having a bit of fun. Around two am on the fourth I finished writing chapter 16 of OA, so I met my goal. Now I've got a little more than 1/8 of the chapter typed up. Hoping to finish typing it up by the end of Sunday (which may or may not be possible). We shall see what the future holds. Cut down a lotta trees today. They were mostly in the still green stem stage, but there are way too many of them popping up all around our house. We didn't have any biodegradable bags lying around, so there are four large plies of the plant matter sitting outside. Before I cut down all the trees I ended up planting some of dad's flowers on the patio in the area I cleaned out a week or two ago. They look okay right now, but the dog will probably destroy them when she goes leaping onto the patio. green_griffin1

i don't think this is going to end well for anyone / July 5th / 4:39 PM / / 6 thoughts / Share

lady_stargazer ugh the english ouran cast is horribleeee. all i wanted was for burgmeier to play kyouya =[ or at least to be on the cast SOMEWHERE. also, eric vale! i really wanted him to have a bigger role. i think he really suits the bishonen archetype, which we um have plenty of in ouran. the only \o/! point is greg ayres as one of the twins. (ayres = ♥) mignogna got tamaki - FROWNNNN, you guys. i knew he'd get it but DO NOT WANT. i wanted bailey to play haruhi, as well. glass? bit unsure, but she shouldn't be a disaster. (mostly i'm suspicious of the director giving herself and one of her friends the main roles. i know she's supposed to be a fan, but that smacks of I WANT THIS ROLE SO I'M HAVING IT.) WHO'S PLAYING RANKA, IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW. ...i-if burgmeier plays ranka i actually might even forgive the mignogna ridiculousness everyone knows i'll watch the dub anyway, right. I WANT TO STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU, FUNIMATION. i'm not familiar with half the cast, so. i could be pleasantly surprised! apparently kyouya's VA plays doumeki in the xxxholic dub? so i reckon i'll go try to rustle up some youtube links. ( also, fun wedding singer au is fun )

Leprechaun AU? / July 5th / 9:22 AM / / 3 thoughts / Share

thnksfrthjzz ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

(subject) / July 5th / 3:22 PM / / 1 thought / Share

aileane47 You. Can. Only. Type. One. Word. No. Explanations. ( meme )

Tempting, but no. / July 5th / 9:36 PM / Feeling / Hearing bored / 1 thought / Share

impish_nymph It is 9.30pm on a Saturday night. I am at home and struggling to find something to do (I refuse to update my resume until tomorrow, at the absolute last minute). This is not right. Saturday night. Nowhere to go. Nothing to do - not even online (no activity there). You know, I am almost tempted to say I miss the hectic cramming and studying of exam period. Almost. And then I remember results are coming out next week and I am glad I have no exams for the next eighteen months. And now my internet is completely dead. Brilliant.

now what am I gonna do? / July 5th / 1:04 PM / Feeling / Hearing melancholy / 4 thoughts / Share

aileane47 Just finished reading The Black Rose Season. *Sniff, sniff* Shit, I'm gonna miss that fic! But I really should stop reading WIPs (or fics that are finished, but are posted in parts), cause who knows what could happen in the end! And I just can't read deathfics, or unhappy endings. I have enough trouble as it is with "we're not together but there's hope for us" endings!! (can someone explain to me why I never, ever cry with movies, but I get so invested in fics?) I think I'll re-read TBRS and of course, Iron, Neon Lights and Weed which was also absolutely awesome. Can't wait to see what arctic_grey comes up with now. And I guess I can use that time to try and break from my absolute Panic OTPs (I can only read Jon/Spencer, Ryan/Brendon or GSF, and I don't know why, since I love them all, and I believe the first Panic fic I read was Spencer/Brendon, and I liked it, but now it seems wrong *shruggs*. I'm crazy)

(subject) / July 5th / 12:32 PM / / Share

aileane47 I want to wish a ver Happy Birthday to my friend bunniesbunnies ! Have lost of fun, my dear! We'll talk after your mini-hiatus!

it's not wishful thinking. it's not make-believe, or a phantom. / July 5th / 2:08 AM / Feeling / Hearing drainedFeeling / Hearing the twilight zone | tv / 38 thoughts / Share

leucocrystal Good God, some people.  Why do I even bother, with the responses I get?  Answer: I am no longer going to! In less cryptic news, I updated my 12 XF fanfic faves list -- complete with totally unnecessary photos! -- to a nice, big, silly 26 titles.  I would've reposted it here, but I felt silly about it, so it's at my test layout LJ instead, in two parts.  I'm sure you veterans have read them all, but I got inspired last night (it's all your fault, Wendy! *grumble"ThisHouseIsBurning"grumble*), so there you have it. I barely survived today.  The Del Mar Fair, on July 4th, in this heat with this much humidity, is mild torture.  I usually love it, but Zellie + heat = angry collapse.  At least I was able to escape into the photography exhibit halls for a few hours.  Downside: I ran into a very sweet photo of a beautiful cat smooching her mistress, and it made me miss my cat (and just having a pet to love in general) something terrible.  I'm not used to feeling this way, and I want it to stop.  It's been months now, when do I get a break? 10 days and counting until the Malibu trip!  This means my pre-travel (or large plans of any kind) anxiety is setting in, right on schedule.  I just hope I survive this month at this point, and manage to have fun somewhere along the way. Oh, and I still have no clue how to go about "raffling off" my X-Files DVDs.  Fail! I feel funky today.  I'm not sure why; maybe because of everything here, or more.  I never thought I'd say so, but thank goodness I have a shift tonight.  I need to be someplace for a while where I'm not left to my own devices; I need to spend a few hours logging magazine returns, daily sales records and updating inventory and purchase orders.  I need to zone out for a while and stop worrying. A bit of fun: my mother is finally watching Californication (she refuses to watch anything on a computer screen, and we don't have Showtime, so).  She said something very funnily insightful about Hank last night, while watching "Fear and Loathing at the Fundraiser": "I love how he gets complimented by insults and insulted by compliments."  True dat, mom. I'm taking Charles' headshots before work on Thursday next week.  Naturally, my tripod picks this particular week to go missing on me.  Welcome to my life of late. I think the funk is writing-related.  I'm sitting here, wallowing in so much great XF commentary (I'm looking at you, sarahbeth12!) and writing; those pieces on that recs list of mine, and more, and it's sent me into a funk.  I keep thinking I want to finish that monster fic (30,000 words and counting, now), but I can't find it in me right now.  I want to. Oh, and my server is down.  Again.  If it were possible for me to set the goddamn fucking thing on fire, now would be the time.

I wanna go where everyone goes, I wanna know what everyone knows / July 5th / 2:06 AM / Feeling / Hearing drunk / 4 thoughts / Share

exsequar Lalaala ZOMG DRUNK POST TIME!!! I know it's been aaaages. Ever since I got to this side of the ocean. But i has a niall! From Dublin! And he brought me genuine Paddy whiskey omg! Om nom nom nom. So I am feeling pleasantly whoaaaaa this evening and it is most lovely. We sat and chattted for a few hours which was really ncie. Today we went to a Fourth of July barbecue on campus, and I met some really awesome people, and we played WHIFFLE BALL, and I was wearing a white skirt and accidentally slid onto my ass on the wet grass (it was cloudy and drizzly today, wtf? Niall brought the irish weather with him!) so i have grass stains on it but itwas OMG SO MUCH FUN nad yay. And then tonight we walked downtown and watched a band play that a friends' friend is in, and it was kind of hippy-ish, laid back music which was quite fun, and we went to an art gallery, and then Niall and i went to a Thai/Chinese place for dinner. It was a good Fourth of July. And we even saw some fireworks from afar on the walk home. I drunk emailed Dara and told him I miss him, hahaha whoops. I doubt he'll even check his mail though. And i also drunk voicemailed Kate. FUN. I also played Niall some MCR stuff and he was kind of like, whoa, they're heavier than i expected, i expected really emo poppy stuff and I was like ZOMG NO THEY"RE INFLUENCED BY IRON MAIDEN AND METALLICA AND QUEEN AND LISTEN TO THOSE GUITAR SOLOS ZOMG. I don't think he was exactly converted but he certainly has a better understanding now so I am at least pleased by that :P Happy fourth, loves! <3333

Being Pete Wentz / July 5th / 1:28 AM / / 1 thought / Share

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(subject) / July 5th / 1:48 AM / Feeling / Hearing cheerful / Share

aileane47 I was surfing flists (you know me, one of my favourite hobbies is browsing through memberlists of patd, fbr, spn or mcr communities) and I came accross this quote by motardranger. "When Spencer Smith smiles, you walk into a wall, even if you weren't walking and there wasn't a wall nearby." TRUFAX Don't you get that way, when they do something adorable/hot/professional/dorky/peferctly normal, that it's just ok-ok-ok-o-BAM!!! And maybe you don't even know why, because that mushroom haircut shouldn't be cute, and acting like an hyperactive five-year old shouldn't be that funny especially since you don't even like kids.

Gabe, you're gonna get yourself in so much trouble one day... / July 5th / 12:05 AM / / Share

aileane47 Gabe gets asked "who ould you have a threesome with in FBR?". His answer, paraphrasing "Ryan and Brendon, cause they already have a thing going on". HAHAHAHAHA I'd sleep with one eye open, Gabe.

(subject) / July 4th / 8:27 PM / / Share

aileane47 How didn't I know there's a Ryan Ross doll at Star Dolls???? Also, theres BOB BRYAR, too! HAHAHA Last time I went, there was only Gerard and Frank! Now, they need to make the rest of Panic, pleaaase!

(subject) / July 4th / 12:01 PM / / 2 thoughts / Share

catsmeat this is the win! I really, really love posters like that. What can I say, nice solid colours turn me on. This is equally cool, for obvious reasons. Not sure on the inclusion of chricton at all, AND THERE'S NO E.E 'doc' SMITH. Heathens. I've never heard of Lewis Shiner, but this deserves a mention purely because it's free. buh, i'm cold and hungry. to tesco with me!

(subject) / July 3rd / 11:35 PM / Feeling / Hearing soreFeeling / Hearing the twilight zone | tv / 48 thoughts / Share

leucocrystal More lists from Zellie, because she has cramps and is tired! :D (1)  David is taping for Leno on the 15th, which is the day I'll be coming up to Malibu.  If you think I wouldn't adjust my departing time from San Diego in order to make that taping, you don't know me.  I am so doing it if I can get tickets (which I am in the process of attempting to do).  WIN. (2)  I got paid today!  And a nice, big check too, which I sorely needed.  I could already afford most of my trip expenses as it was, but the padding is always nice.  I hate to travel without having at least a few hundred bucks as a safety net.  Call me crazy. (3)  My collectors edition XF series box is still SUPER SHINY and I'm still totally in love with it. (4)  I am going to the Del Mar Fair with my mother tomorrow.  Probably crazy to do it on the holiday, but it's the last day we can both make it out.  I am going to get some of the infamous mini donuts (made hot and fresh and doused in cinnamon sugar) because they are the tastiest things in the WORLD.  I was really hoping to finish one of the art pieces I've been working on (a Mulder piece, a Mulder/Scully piece, and a Hank Moody piece) in time to exhibit this year, but that never does happen.  I fail when it comes to producing artwork on a deadline, which is why I am not (and never will be) a professional artist. (5)  It's getting down to the wire now!  I just reserved tickets for the 24th midnight showing at the Arclight for Matt and I, HEE.  It feels like just yesterday it was Halloween morning, and I'd stayed up all night online, squeeing with everyone over the official XF2 announcement.  And now, we're just over 20 days away from ground zero.  I can hardly believe it. (6)  Still working on the Film Fest photos.  I know, I know, don't even start with me. (7A)  I'm doing my July 4th tradition and watching the Sci-Fi Twilight Zone marathon.  Yay!  I really love that classic show, I do.  (Yes, I do this every year; call me a dork if you must.) (7B)  ...And they just showed the new XF2 TV spot.  First time seeing it on my TV, EEEEE. :D (8)  Okay, now I need your help, my peeps.  My host is back (but it's sputtering a bit), and it's still on my nerves.  I don't have the option to ditch Dreamhost (I just made my annual payment last week, of course, and it's the host for XF Caps), but I need a new place to host my LJ's CSS template.  Where do you guys do that?  I need a reliable host.  Please?  Thanks in advance for any suggestions, y'all. I think that about covers it for tonight.  I'm off to stare at David Duchovny continue working on my Film Fest photos and take some Ibuprofen.  Oh, and there's a three-hour block of XF on TNT at midnight.  SWEET. P.S.  I've pretty much decided to "raffle off" my old XF DVDs to you guys, 'cause I love you so much -- I have slim sets of all nine seasons.  The question is, how do I do so?  I know there are several of you out there who are interested, but I'm currently at a loss as to good, fair ideas for how to go about it.  Shoot me ideas for that, too, if you have any! ETA!  I still love my old desktop (it was one of my color MSR wallpapers), but I had to have some DD today.  My new desktop is now made of 150% tall, leggy, delicious SEX. ;D  I love my new widgets, too!  The XF2 countdown one is hidden most of the time (it's too big for my taste), but the one in the bottom right shuffles through the photos in my Flickr account every minute (how cute is the one right when I took the screencap?), and the weather one is handy.

(subject) / July 3rd / 11:51 PM / / Share

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I'm just the way that the doctor made me / July 3rd / 11:43 PM / Feeling / Hearing thoughtful / 25 thoughts / Share

exsequar I have been questioning, for some time, my current path on the way to acquiring a PhD in biochemistry or some related field. That has always seemed to be the ultimate goal, and a very easy one to say, as people will nod and smile and think that's perfectly reasonable and logical and impressive. However, it's never something I've particularly desired, in any kind of heartfelt way. I have now done two summers of research and am underway on my third (the first was very biologically oriented, the second and third pure organic chemistry), and while I find the overall ideas of both of the projects I have worked on quite fascinating, the actual day-to-day work I find rather stultifying and frustrating. The prospect of spending five years on one project terrifies me, and is rather distasteful to boot. I doubt my own abilities quite severely to be anything more than an average chemist. I learn very quickly when I am taught specific things, but general application and synthesis of everything I've learned I find much more difficult, and I constantly disappoint myself with my inability to bring things I already learned to the table and apply them to a new situation. So that is all a long way of saying that I have been reconsidering, in a very vague and general way, my future course. I keep mentioning to my dad sort of semi-seriously that I don't know if chemistry is for me, and he says well, then, you need to think about your options. Tonight I was sort of whining halfheartedly at unamaga about how I don't really want to do grad school in chemistry, and instead of just patting me on the head, she started suggesting alternatives and got my brain a-whirring. This brought to the front of my mind something I've thought about fleetingly a lot before - science writing. I am a very good writer, not to toot my own horn or anything, but professors in every class that I have ever had in which essay writing was involved (english, philosophy, sociology, even a class on mathematics and art) have expressed astonishment and great praise for my level of writing skill. It's something I've always prided myself on, but I didn't know how to use it. Every time I start thinking along these lines, I then veer off onto "But I don't want to leave science behind!" Because science is AWESOME. I understand it very well, and I am frequently fascinated and enthralled by the things I learn. So how do I combine those? Well, I write about science! And I wasn't sure what kind of field there was for that, so I went Googling. What I found kind of made me flail my hands in the air: the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT. It's a one year masters program. That whole website just made me want to jump out of my chair and go do it RIGHT NOW. This is a complete contrast to when I picked up a book on chemistry graduate programs the other day - that made me wince and was rather terrifying. This website... I kept going YES. YES THAT'S IT EXACTLY. They described science writers as "humanists, one foot in the sciences, the other in the arts, as apt to be seduced by a shapely sentence as by an elegant scientific idea." They also proposed that people who might like to study science writing are "working scientists and engineers perhaps more drawn to the intellectual excitement of science and technology than to its day-to-day practice." *flaps hands* THAT'S ME, YOU GUYS. ME. I love WORDS but I also love SCIENCE, and to get to squish them together.... ack. The intensive seminar they described sounded SO fascinating, and you get to do any sort of elective you want! Someone took "Writing Science Fiction"!! I just... I can't even. This sounds incredible. The thesis excerpts are fascinating, and read more like a good book than a boring old science paper. I HATE reading chemistry journal articles, but I love news articles ABOUT chemistry, or TV programs, or books. Now obviously there's a very slim chance that I'd get into MIT's program. And after poking around the internet a little more, it's obvious that it's not all sunshine and rainbows like the website made it out to be. However, it is far far FAR more appealing to me than spending the rest of my life in labs. There's also the practical fact that.. well, you get PAID to go to graduate school in chemistry. This is because they know it is brutal and impossible and you cannot possibly have a job at the same time, so basically that's the only way they'll ever get anybody to do it. It was a significant motivating factor in keeping that as my goal. However, a writing science masters is only a year long, and while expensive I'm sure I could get grants and scholarships, and also since I'm pretty much definitely taking at least a year off before I do any grad school, I could get a job and save up to put myself through the program. Does anyone have any thoughts? Advice? Am I being completely batty? It's kind of... novel, and exciting, and scary to have a different possible path in front of me. Meep!

(subject) / July 3rd / 11:51 PM / / 5 thoughts / Share

atorable ARGH. I promise I'll actually save it this time, but could someone give me a link to the video where Brendon sticks the mic in his mouth?

On this day... / July 3rd / 8:30 PM / / 7 thoughts / Share

fairestcat There's this meme going around my friendslist and I have no idea where it came from but it's rather fun so I thought I'd join in. On this day in 2007 I was avoiding spoilers for the Dr. Who Season 3 finale and being frustrated by unhelpful spoiler cuts. Also, I see, being a complete failure at replying to comments, which is distressingly common for me. On this day in 2006 I didn't post anything, but on July 1st I was flailing about the completely unexpected level of response to my post on the Slash Closet (hands down the most comments I've ever received on an lj post and I still get occasional comments on it) and when next I posted on June 5th I was still flailing about it. The 5th was a busy day. I also posted two posts worth of SGA kink recs and talked about how much I love commodorified in general and her fabulous post about het and slash and reading for subtext in particular. On this day in 2005 I didn't post anything, but back on the 1st I was sharing music. Specifically, versions of Richard Shindell's "The Ballad of Mary Magdalen". On this day in 2004 I was complaining about work and getting ready to watch Stiff Upper Lips for the first time. Actually, that was June 3, apparently I couldn't read a calendar last night. On July 3 in 2004 I was posting pictures from the FolkLife Festival and wearing almost the exact same outfit I am right now. On this day in 2003 I didn't post, but on the 7th I made three posts about work, which is probably what I would have done if I had posted on the 3rd. And on this day in 2002 I was a little over 4 months away from creating this journal.

Poll of Great Importance! / July 3rd / 9:16 PM / / 33 thoughts / Share

fiddleyoumust Poll #1217448 Wretch Romance Fic! Open to: All, results viewable to: All I want to write a wretch fic where Spencer is a pirate and Brendon is a stowaway. Am I insane? View Answers Yes. 2 (5.0%) No. 34 (85.0%) What the actual fuck? 2 (5.0%) I'd read it, but I'd be ashamed. 2 (5.0%) That being said! If I were to host a Harlequin Romance challenge for bandom, would you be interested in writing a story for it? View Answers Yes 5 (16.1%) No 10 (32.3%) It would depend on the due date. 16 (51.6%) If you're an artist, would you be interested in creating art for someone's story? View Answers Yes 2 (15.4%) No 8 (61.5%) It would depend on the due date. 3 (23.1%)

(subject) / July 3rd / 8:05 PM / / 11 thoughts / Share

rhombal Happy birthday, quidditchkiss! ♥ ♥ Becky, I hope your birthday is amazing because you're an awesome person and I adore getting to know you. If you have any sort of birthday request, let me know and I'll try to make it happen! ♥ So basically, I have decided that I'm a failbot. I had to break into my own apartment even though I wasn't locked out in the first place, I left a notebook in the mansion where I work - and the first page of the notebook was bandom fic planning. A park ranger AU bandom fic, where I had written the names of my co-workers so I could figure out which characters to match with which roles. There were other things as well, including the internet failing for a few days, and when I tried to phonepost about everything? The post didn't go through. FAIL. In any case, it was also lessthangreat's birthday yesterday! I already posted two things including a picspam/fic thing for Jeri, but I feel like I should mention it again. Also, unfortunately, I can't be online that much because of how difficult it is to get down to the lobby where the internet is. I'm only online right now because April and I are watching So You Think You Can Dance, so sadly, the next time I'm online I may have to do another defriending. I'm feeling so disconnected from everything that I need to defriend enough people so that I'll be able to keep up with my f-list and actually comment to posts. - OOH, FIREWORKS--! Now I have Under the Bright Lights stuck in my head! - Anyway, last night I looked at my f-list and realized that out of the 175 separate LJs I have friended, I know the real life names of 93 people. 115 if you count online pseudonyms. I mean, I adore pretty much everyone, so I'm going to be sad to do this defriending, but I feel like a couple people probably aren't even keeping up with my journal, and I don't want to spend all of my time online checking my f-list, you know? One time it was at 800 and it was insane. (P.S.: If you're missing my fandom talk, it'll be back at full blast in two months! Right now it's mainly RL + conservation babble.) I probably won't be online tomorrow evening because Becky Sue's boyfriend is having a cookout for the Fourth, but I will try to be on the day after that to reply to comments and such. [/tl;dr] In conclusion, I'm off to the apartment and I love you all! ♥ ♥ ♥

(subject) / July 3rd / 7:30 PM / Feeling / Hearing okay / Share

green_griffin1 Nothing really exciting going on lately. Tomorrow is the 4th of July, which should be fun since we've got friends from New Ulm coming up (isn't interesting how up equals north and down equals south in conversation?). I'm excited to see them. Been working hard on writing chapter 16. I think I'm getting to the end of the chapter now, probably won't be quite as long as some of the other chapters, but it still should be a good story. I've got six and a half double sided pages written now. Maybe I'll type the chapter up this weekend. Dad's about to take three weeks off. We are probably going to spend most of that time cleaning. Mom wants us to clean out one of our storage units while he's off. That's going to be a lot of "fun," especially when I think most of the crap in our two storage units (which is a much better number than we used to have) could probably be tossed. My opinion will be completely useless. We also have a lot of crap that could be tossed here at home. I think all of the newspapers could easily be tossed, but mom has to go through all of them and make certain that she's read them before we can throw them. When is she going to have time to read through several years worth of papers? That's part of the reason why I've been doing most of my work outdoors. Cut down a few trees that have been wildly growing. Speaking of cutting, I just got a call from my mom saying that she has to go to the emergency room. A very good family friend just cut off the tip of her finger. green_griffin1

I love my canon / July 3rd / 7:23 PM / / 4 thoughts / Share

fairestcat Dear Out Magazine, Thank you for reminding me how awesome my fandom is twice in one week. Please to remain the All Bandom All the Time Channel?? fannishly yours, Cat Dear Gabe Saporta, OMG ILU and you should be all serious and thinky more often. ♥ x infinity. flailingly yours, Cat In non-letter format (and what's up with that, I never do that??), thing I keep meaning to mention in case people don't know about it: Out.com has an awesome blog, Popnography which is full of bandom-y goodness pretty much all the time. They're sort of in love with just about all the FBR bands and I totally recommend adding the syndicated feed to your friendslist.

On this date in the history of my eljay... / July 3rd / 5:56 PM / / Share

exsequar Let's take a journey through time and space! The mighty booooooosh... oops, sorry, got sidetracked :D Now let's see here... On July 3, 2008, I went to work at the lab. Work went... okay. And then I came home and watched TBPID! YAY! On July 3, 2007, I squealed about the existence of a NASA space shuttle named Atlantis, and then ranted about America in response to watching the movie Syriana. On July 3, 2006, I was in the midst of flailing about Germany in the World Cup, only to have my hopes dashed by their loss to Italy the next day :( On July 3, 2005, I made a kind of hilariously "academic" assessment of the culture of icon making, and I also squealed about receiving my first award for vid-making! Oh how I miss vidding. I wish I had the time still. On July 3, 2004, I did not yet have an LJ, but I will bet you anything I was doing nothing. That summer I didn't have a job, as I was so fried from my senior year of high school, so I sat around doing... nothing. Heh. I am about to go pick up Niall from the train station! Yay!

this week on typos are still funny... / July 3rd / 9:46 PM / / 9 thoughts / Share

lady_stargazer AHAHAHA right so I'm making up the OST for my wedding singers AU, and it's full of happy sappy lovesongs and i might actually be kind of tearing up as i listen because I'm a woob? whatever. POINT IS, i googled a list of "popular first dance songs" to check in case I was missing an obvious one, and this is one of the funnier typos I've ever read: PAOLO NUTINI: LAST RESORT ....ahahaha okay the song's actually last REQUEST? but that just puts it in a whole other light, doesn't it. on that note, what would you have as first dance at your wedding? i'm still trying to make sure i haven't missed any of the best love songs here - I ALMOST FORGOT "YOUR SONG", ALRIGHT, THAT IS HOW TIRED I AM

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