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(subject) / November 22nd / 9:20 PM / Feeling / Hearing tired / Share

green_griffin1 Turkey Day is just around the corner. I can't wait to go home on Wednesday. Still have to go to almost all of my classes between Monday and Wednesday, but Anthro discussion and Bio Lab are canceled. There won't be a new chapter in Latin this week, which means I get more time to learn about 4th and 5th declension nouns from last week. Nothing real exciting has happened lately. Finally got to do a little gaming Friday night, first time in weeks. I'm hoping to spend most of Tuesday evening playing, since there won't be much going on Wednesday. That always translates to fun time. Ended up writing a short story with Cloud as a serial killer. It's pretty crappy, but hey, most of what I've written this month isn't that great. Hopefully some of it will be salvageable in December though. Up to 38,613 words as of last night. After I get my homework done today I hope to get a little green_giffin1

Black Dagger Brotherhood AU / November 22nd / 7:43 PM / / Share

wolfshirts Ever since MCR came out with "Black Dragon Fighting Society" I've thought that a Black Dagger Brotherhood AU would be awesome only the women would have to be much more kickass than in the books. Black Dragon Fighting Society because they aren't going to be going the old monarchy structure anymore. Gerard is going to modernize things. Of course I can't forget the extra Hs so I give you: Ghehrad Rhay Bhob Mhikey Fhrahnk

boring announcement: / November 22nd / 7:09 PM / /

buffyaddict13 okay, band of brothers fic is complete and posted at buffyaddict_fic and aldbournewhores. w00t.

[fic] jonas brothers } girl!au snippet [kevin/zac, joe/nick, pg. 1536 words.] / November 22nd / 11:46 PM / Feeling / Hearing Jonas Brothers - Sorry | Powered by Last.fm / 8 thoughts / Share

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i wanna do bad things to you (but the censors won't let me) / November 22nd / 10:13 PM / / 22 thoughts / Share

heartscientist I went to see New Moon. ( If you're a fan, don't click this, because even though we don't agree, I'd like us still to be friends. ) Mostly I realise that despite the fact I'm only nineteen, I'm totally the wrong demographic for this movie. You know how I know? I'm not Team Edward. I'm not Team Jacob, either. I'm Team Charlie Swaaaaaan. Yep, me and the sister agreed that we'd far rather have Bella's father than either of the two leading boys. Give me stability and plaid shirts over melodrama and "it's for your own good" any day. I bet he's a hotass under that moustache, too.

one step at a time / November 22nd / 12:28 PM / Feeling / Hearing hopefulFeeling / Hearing money | michael jackson / 35 thoughts / Share

leucocrystal One thing I can say about myself: I'm a great interviewee.  I always seem to have the right answer for every question (without spouting total BS), and have yet to be shocked more than once by something an interviewer has asked me.  (The only time I was shocked: when a former boss, during my initial interview, walked over to his desk, picked up a pen, shoved it in my face and said "SELL ME THIS PEN."  I was a little taken aback.  Of course, I would later discover he was an asshole and a bad manager.  File under: things I really should have seen coming.) In short, the first interview went well.  I sat in the back room with manager!Steve - the one I initially handed my application and resume in to on Friday night - for about 40 minutes discussing my application, my former jobs (especially at Book Works, considering), expectations of former jobs, what I would expect from working at B&N, where I think I would fit in best, what hours I'd prefer, etc.  I spent most of the time giving good answers (he was easy to talk to) and trying, internally, not to let my expectations get ahead of me.  I'm too tired right now to allow for that (and also too much of a natural pessimist).  I'm tired of constantly sending out resumes and hearing nothing back, tired of browsing for jobs every day with less and less hope, tired of the overall constant disappointment.  Of course, I didn't reflect any of this outwardly (I'm very good at not betraying emotions that are best kept in), but it was in the back of my mind the entire time: "Don't fuck this up.  Also, don't expect to get a job out of this, that never ends well."  (Also, I wanted to do my best to keep in mind that this isn't ideal, even if I do get the job.  It's seasonal hiring, and there's no guarantee I'll be kept on past January.) Still, I'd like to think there were a lot of good signs.  Steve seemed engaged and wanted to keep talking to me, but never grilled me.  He was very interested in my work experience, and seemed impressed with all the crap I'd had to handle at Book Works.  I scheduled a second interview for tomorrow afternoon with another manager, who Steve tells me has the final say.  He asked me whether their pay (less than I was making before) would be acceptable, and of course I said yes.  I'm unemployed and broke and really in no position to say otherwise.  I think these are all good signs, right?  Still, trying to avoid outright optimism; it has a nasty tendency of immediately coming back and biting me in the ass. So if y'all could continue crossing your fingers (and perhaps toes) on my behalf, I'd really appreciate it.  I've made it this far, so whatever you're doing for me seems to be working! :) In other news, BFF Matt will be here for Tuesday and Wednesday!  SQUEE.  Not nearly long enough of course, but I'll take what I can get.  Also, I got an e-mail from awesome script manager Helen (who I spent much of my time on the Breaking Bad set hanging out with), and she's going to send me the Season Three crew hoodie for Christmas!  I LOVE ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE SFM, IT IS RIDICULOUS HOW AWESOME THEY ARE.  As for tonight, I shall be watching Janet Jackson be her usual fierce self at the AMAs, methinks. ETA:  Wow, I can't believe I actually got through that (and with over half of it on mute at least).  That was essentially three hours of mass musical homicide, apart from Janet's opening and Mike breaking records like the boss he is.  In response to Adam whoever's horrendous trainwreck of a closing number, I simply say: oooookay.  And in response to the Artist of the Year award?  Well, I'll just say this and leave it at that.  Three hours of my life I won't be getting back either, thanks AMAs.

TWEET, TWEET / November 22nd / 1:01 AM / / Share

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band of brothers fanfic / November 21st / 11:45 PM / Feeling / Hearing depressed /

buffyaddict13 in case anyone is interested, i have part 1 of my bobfic up here. i'll try to post the second half tomorrow. once both parts are up i'll link to aldbournewhores. if you haven't watched band of brothers it won't make sense. if you HAVE watched bob, i still can't guarantee it will make sense. it's dorky and lame, and it's basically just a big love letter to bob. and to hiyacynth for all her help. that is all.

Admin: Healing challenge over / November 22nd / 12:20 AM / / 1 thought / Share

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Today Is My Productive Day / November 21st / 3:55 PM / Feeling / Hearing complacent / 5 thoughts / Share

clex_monkie89 So far I have: Hung up my Supernatural posters; Cleaned the table next to my bed; Facepalmed my way through two and a half three eps of My Super Sweet 16; Organized and shelved my DVDs; Watched last week's Criminal Minds; Put up my ComiCon bag; Cleaned my room, and; Taunted Twitter!Sam Winchester about his great big gayness and inadvertently told him about manips. I have not made words or started coding yet, and I haven't really eaten today. Those things should probably happen. Later.

of all the hilarious things in the world. / November 21st / 4:15 PM / / 3 thoughts / Share

elterriblefizzy Like the loser that I am, I have seen New Moon twice. Heather and I went to the 2:30 AM showing in Athens and then came back home to Cambridge to catch the 7 PM show. But one of my favorite things happened when we were leaving. The people in front of us had their teeny bopper daughter and a little boy and the mom was coughing up a swine-flu like storm but my favorite had to be the dad. Here's why, when we were leaving I swear to God he said, "The books were so much better." WHAT. So when we were not right next to him, like in the hallway, I told Heather and we laughed all the way out the door. AHAHHAHA. But in general, I liked New Moon a lot more than Twatlight. The direction was pretty much awesome but I'm still confused on how they're going to make the fourth book into a movie. Also, just for the sake of reiteration: REALLY MICHAEL SHEEN? REALLY? JUST REALLY? REALLY? Now I'm sitting all alone at Frank and Alison's because they went out to a B-Day party and took the baby! Which is sweet, I can sit on the interwebs the whooolllle time. :) Oh also: go check out Lucas Grabeel in I Kissed A Vampire on Youtube, it won't disappoint. :)

I am loaded down with so much homework that I think I'm about to collapse / November 21st / 2:37 PM / / 1 thought / Share

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time in a bottle / November 21st / 4:33 AM / Feeling / Hearing nostalgicFeeling / Hearing earth song | michael jackson / 44 thoughts / Share

leucocrystal Imagine that you have a time machine. Which deceased musician would you most want to travel back in time to watch perform live? Submitted By crazyprotein View 1332 Answers ...Are you kidding me? Michael goddamn Jackson. (I'm sorry, but SHAMONE NOW.) I pretty much never answer these things, but today I couldn't possibly resist, obviously.  At any point in his career, too, I'm not picky.  Any time, any place, I'd have killed to see this man do his thing.  (This is not to imply there aren't a ton of other gifted musicians - or groups with now missing members - whom I've often lusted after a time machine for.  Queen, The Who, Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, I could go on and on...  I often feel I was born in the wrong generation, musically.)  However, right now?  There is only one possible answer that dominates my brain.  And I honestly do think even before his death, I would have answered the same.  I always wanted to see him perform live, just once, and I never had the opportunity.  What I'd do for one chance to see him command a stage in person... (Random silly little fan moment: when I had dinner with Roz in Burbank the other night, after the Conan taping, we walked into Roscoe's, and what was the first thing I saw, hanging on the wall?  A beautifully framed copy of this photo of Michael, which is one of my favorites from that tour.  We ended up sitting right across from it, which made me stupidly happy.  Look at that smile!  How can that not cheer someone up?) So this post isn't pointless to all the non-MJ stans on the flist, heh: I have a job interview!  As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to bite the bullet, chuck any lingering loyalty to my former place of work, and hand in my resume at my nearby Barnes & Noble.  I did that early yesterday evening, and actually ended up handing my resume and application to the manager who I'll be interviewing with on Sunday morning.  He seemed interested in me and pleased with my work history, so hopefully this means I have any kind of a shot at a damn job.  I'm really, really starting to get stressed out about the hunt too, because it's been over five months now since I first started looking, and this is only the second potential job I've heard anything about, if you can believe it.  This market is fucking awful. Anyway, cross all your fingers for me!  My luck has been pretty terrible this year (and it's just been yet another bad year overall), so I could badly use some kind of a turnaround, especially now.  It's gotten to that point where I don't even really care anymore where I end up, I just need something, anything to pay my damn bills.  This would be an ideal option though, since I am at least well versed in the bookselling business, after the last nearly two years as a member of it.  Wish me luck, BBs!  As soon as I know anything one way or the other, I'll let y'all know.

TWEET, TWEET / November 21st / 1:01 AM / / Share

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Posted using TxtLJ / November 20th / 4:42 PM / / 1 thought / Share

justhush Also lancelot might be ugly? He was looking at himself in a helmet sooo. ...God, I hope he isn't ugly. Everyone, I am really shallow.

Posted using TxtLJ / November 20th / 4:32 PM / / Share

justhush ONCE AND FUTURE KING IS BETTER THAN MERLIN BBC, OKAY.LANCELOT IS IN LOVE WITH ARTHUR MINDGARLIO. Also the writing is much better. Lol t9 jewsmashes...keysmashes

In other good news / November 20th / 3:39 PM / /

fairestcat The Federal Court says the refugee board must reconsider the case of a lesbian who deserted from the U.S. army and fled to Canada. Bethany (who now goes by the name Skyler) lived with Marna and Ian when she first came to Ottawa and is a walking example of the damage caused by Don't Ask Don't Tell. Skyler deserted the US Army and fled to Canada after repeated harassment and threats of physical harm because of her sexuality. When in response to the harassment and threats she outed herself and asked for a discharge under Don't Ask Don't Tell she was told that the army would look into the paperwork and discharge only after she returned from deployment to Afghanistan. This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. Please comment there using OpenID. reply to post. view comments</

Billy Bragg / November 20th / 2:48 PM / /

fairestcat We went to see Billy Bragg in concert last night at the Bronson Centre, which is an easy walk from our house. The Bronson Centre is mostly a collection of office and meeting space for a wide range of non-profit and community organizations, but it also sometimes moonlights as a concert venue. a It was great to be able to walk to the concert venue, but as a live music venue it left a lot to be desired. The Bronson Centre used to be a Catholic high school, and the concert venue still has that high school auditorium feel and seemed to put a real damper on audience enthusiasm. There was a lot of clapping and cheering, but no one stood up for the show, and if many people were singing along, the acoustics of the room were such that I wouldn't have known it. I could see that Ian was singing along in places, but I was sitting right next to him and couldn't hear it. Even with the kind of staid audience, the concert itself was fabulous. No band, just Billy Bragg and a couple guitars singing a lot of songs I knew, just as many that I didn't and treating us to long rambling intros and interjections that were often longer than the songs they preceded. A lot of labor stuff. A lot of lefty political stuff. Some assorted Woody Guthrie songs, most but not all from the Mermaid Avenue project, as well as a rather lengthy and hilarious detour into talking about Woody Guthrie and sex. I think all three of us were laughing and covering our faces at least once during that. Ian called it his "pentacostal lefty revival meeting for the year", which is a pretty good summation, I think. Altogether a good time, although I do wish it had been at a better venue. Then this morning, based on last-minute word that Bragg would be making an appearance, we went down to show are support for the Museum of Civilization workers who, along with the workers from the Canadian War Museum, have now been on strike for 60 days for a variety of grievances, including wage disparity compared to workers at other federal museums and an increasing number of jobs being contracted out to private companies. We walked with the picketers in the rain for a while, cheered for and sang "The Internationale" along with Billy Bragg, and otherwise had a remarkably good time for a rather grey and dreary morning. This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. Please comment there using OpenID. reply to post. view comments</

[merlin] CHILDREN IN NEED 2009 OMG / November 20th / 7:49 PM / / 93 thoughts / Share

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History 303; US in WWII / November 20th / 11:33 AM / / 12 thoughts / Share

elterriblefizzy I got this email yesterday from my prof: I did a preliminary curve, based on the quizzes as well as the first and second mid-terms. This is sort of a guess and does not take into account improvement.... A range 47 to 52 B range 41 to 46 C range 34 to 40 D range 26 to 33 Average=38 Yeah. I have a 37 so I'm just under that average. WITH A C. WHY EVEN MAKE A CLASS THIS HARD? Actually, it's not even that hard, he just wants things SO SPECIFIC. Like, idk what some random ass solider traded another guy for two packs of smokes...blowjobs? WHAT. I DON'T REMEMBER SOMETHING THAT SPECIFIC.

I'm a killing machine! / November 20th / 3:27 AM / Feeling / Hearing sillyFeeling / Hearing i just can't stop loving you | michael jackson / 76 thoughts / Share

leucocrystal David Duchovny, marry me.  (The inclusion of Wavey is optional.) So yeah, that happened the other night, and Craig Ferguson petted/sort of felt up David's jacket, and verily, t'was awesome. And then last night, I drove up to Burbank to visit afrocurl and we went to watch Conan tape (with VIP tickets from a friend of hers, holla!), and it also was most awesome.  Ever since Conan moved out to The Tonight Show in L.A., I've been really wanting to see him tape, because Coco is fantabulous.  (And seeing him do it live?  Even better!  He's so bouncy during breaks!)  Nicole Kidman was pretty and surprisingly demure and humble, but she was rail thin, which always worries me with actresses.  Anderson Cooper was also pretty damn cool.  I knew nothing about Leona Lewis before the show, and I don't know anything more, but she had a nice voice, so... Anyway, I honestly probably shouldn't have made a second drive up to L.A. within the span of a week, considering current gas prices, and the fact that I am still unemployed with no prospects, and am pretty much broke, but... I needed something fun to do to take my mind of the currently sucktastic state of my life, so there you go.  (Honestly, one of the only things about the holiday season I'm looking forward to is that I will be getting a copy of the Opus, which looks so amazing I can't even handle it.  shangri__la, please reassure me that this isn't quite as pathetic as it sounds.)  I mean seriously, holy shit, Thanksgiving is next week, how the hell did that happen? How are y'all doing?  Hopefully somewhat less whine-tastically than I am, I sincerely hope that.  Roz, thanks for a very fun day, I needed that. ♥  Tomorrow: I am off to hand in my resume at Barnes & Noble!  Not so much out of passive aggression toward my former job, but more out of sheer desperation.  Awesome. Also, the news about Chuck?  Pretty damn sweet!  The S3 promo looks rather epic.

his game is called survivin' / November 20th / 8:17 AM / / 1 thought / Share

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TWEET, TWEET / November 20th / 1:03 AM / / Share

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SPN 5x10 / November 20th / 1:33 AM / Feeling / Hearing Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity | Powered by Last.fm / 13 thoughts / Share

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(subject) / November 19th / 10:55 PM / Feeling / Hearing bouncy / 2 thoughts / Share

exsequar Oh my god you guys THIS IS KILLING ME. *obsessively refreshes MiniNova and download comms* I have RESORTED TO DRINKING IN ORDER TO COPE. You are all like !!!!! and I'm like !!?!?!?!?!?!!???? *GIMMEHAAAANDS* ETA: I CAN HAS A LINK! Wow, I'm gonna have this watched by midnight! Impressive, internets! :D

(subject) / November 19th / 6:22 PM / Feeling / Hearing calmFeeling / Hearing Kris Allen - Red Guitar | Powered by Last.fm / 7 thoughts / Share

exsequar If you're a Buffy fan, I highly recommend you follow dailybtvs. The comm runner is currently on a S2 kick and it's just a marvelous burst of nostalgia every day. They were so YOUNG and DARLING. <3333 I've got the songs from last night's Glee, if anyone wants them! (Well, the ones I wanted to purchase - aka, not Finn's songs, sorry). I'm a little bummed that the show didn't exploit the concept a little more (say, by having Puck and Mercedes sing together, UM DEAD BY AWESOME UNFFF) but there's lots of Lea and Matthew showing off their pipes. There's also the last song from Wheels in there. Ballads! I popped by the Fox website for Glee by accident (trying to get to the IMDB page) and I spotted a blurb on the side that said "Lea, Cory, and Mercedes talk about Glee..." and I was like UM WHAT?! DO YOU MEAN AMBER????? JFC! Metric fuckton of fail there, Fox! *facepalm* I hear there's a show about, idk, demon hunting on tonight, or something? (I'M SO EXCITED!!!!) I've been slowly working my way through Freaks & Geeks, and I saw the episode Looks and Books last night. IT WAS SO GOOD!!! Probably my favorite one so far. I love the crises of confidence that both Lindsay and Sam go through, and I love their mini-journeys to find who they really should be - which is exactly who they were at the beginning of the episode, just confident and content with it. Lindsay's reunion with the burnouts was so sweet. While Nick is an adorable bumbler and I heart him, I think Daniel is my favorite - he just has these moments of exquisite vulnerability, and you can really see the genius of James Franco percolating within that rebellious, devil-may-care exterior. He's amazing. I really like Kris Allen's album! It's charming, easy listening, and I'm fond. But I CAN'T WAIT to have my hands on Adam's album so I can listen to it over and over. IT'S SO SPARKLY. I AM DAZZLED. But do you know what I'm REALLY stoked for?! THOSE CHEMICAL ROMANTICS! OMGGGGG. The AP cover is hilarious - they all look like they've got Merlin eyes, or something, it's super creepy. But THEY'RE ON A MAGAZINE COVER! OUR BOYS ARE BAAAAAACK! *flails and wriggles* Yaaaaaaay. :DDDD

(subject) / November 19th / 1:48 PM / Feeling / Hearing lethargic / 4 thoughts / Share

gaiamyles A real post is following in a bit, I swear, but it hit me that if I didn't get this up soon, I might miss out on Christmas cards! So. If you'd like a Christmas card, feel free to leave your address! I'm up for sending anywhere in the world - I typically have cards going to Europe anyhow. The poll is only viewable by myself, but if you'd rather email me instead at gaiamyles @ gmail, then feel free! Poll #1487666 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 5 What's your address for me to send a card to?

Beta List / November 19th / 9:15 AM / / 13 thoughts / Share

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I don't even know what happened to my life tonight / November 19th / 3:17 AM / / Share

elterriblefizzy I think. I think that I might have a want to give David Archuleta a chance to win my heart? It's just...I guess they all did songs from Phantom when they were on American Idol, David Leavealighton included. I just. I. I love Phantom. So. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. THIS COULD ALL CHANGE IN THE MORNING. I'M JUST REALLY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW. All I know is that I will probably watch Phantom tomorrow, possibly in French. IDK. Also, I'm failing my WWII class epically. It induces sadness. I just can't wait to finally be fucking HOME. I want to spend time with people I love and in a place that's familiar and doesn't feel sort of like a prison a lot of the time. I miss my mom too much. TUESDAY and it's all overrr. :)

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