First of all, flist, are you interested in Fitz but know nothing about him? I'm gauging interest in an EDA read-along, so if you're interested, head over to act_three and put in a word!

As for me-

I've spent today figuring out what classes I'll be taking next semester, and I think I'll be able to fit them all in to graduate with my AA in English (emphasis in creative writing!) after the semester. ...and I have to figure out how to file for graduation since there's no information on the website.

Those classes will (hopefully) be:
Intro to Physics (with a lab) - fills the sciences requirement and doesn't require higher mathematics or protective eyewear. Physicsphysicsphysicsphysicsphysicsphysics phyyyyyysics physics.

Mythology - I e-mailed the professor when I was thinking of taking this class a couple semesters ago and expressed my worries about her textbook, which I've heard is largely inaccurate. She never responded to me...so I hope that she doesn't remember my name.

British Literature II - with the same teacher I took before, who is actually English and a good teacher...even though he called me Susan once (I am not called Susan).

Interpersonal Communication - a requirement which I have to re-take because I missed a major assignment while I had a fever of 103 and was coughing up a lung a couple weeks ago. (And he wouldn't give me an extension on the dang thing either.)

Self-Defense for Women - (not sure why just women. Can't guys learn to kick guys in the balls too?) with the same teacher I'm taking T'ai Chi from this semester, and is actually practical as well as filling the fitness requirement.

I also need to figure out if 1) I can get into a four year institution and 2) if I can afford it without taking out massive loans. The answer to both of these questions is most likely no, given that California colleges are currently restricting admissions, I'm not a particularly desirable candidate, and I have no money. :|

Rules:
Reply to this meme by yelling 'WORDS!', and I will give you five words that remind me of you.
Then post them in your journal and explain what they mean to you.
Keep in mind that if I don't know you that well, your words might end up kind of esoteric/oblique.

You'll only get five words if you do include 'WORDS!' in a reply to this post, meaning you can safely comment (should you wish to do so) without having to play.

I got words from both dragonessa24 and nix_101, so here's nine words. Not ten, as they both gave me California to talk about.

( With Pictures! )

Couldn't find any icons for my Maxil account, so I made some! Have at them, if you like:



Usual restrictions apply: Credit is good, hot-linking bad yadda yadda.

ETA: I put up a Maxil post over at dear_multiverse, so feel free to go annoy him.

Ugh. Okay. I'm officially sick. Mom's had some bad bronchitis this past week and it seems like I've caught it. Whoo. At least it's not the pig sniffles.

I turned in my midterm for World History a couple days late...which I reaaaaallly hope he'll take. One thing about online classes is it's harder to fudge with the deadlines.

Now, I think I'll go...pass out or...Oh, right, I've got to write that paper about how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern fail at communicating yadda yadda.

~ list 10-20 of your favourite old and new fandoms
~ have your f-list guess your favourite ship from each fandom
~ strike out the fandom when someone guesses correctly and and put the name of the first person to get it right

I am not very shippy...and sometimes I ship strange pairings. So, um, guess away!

1. Doctor Who (there are two...okay, three) - Eight/Fitz amare_est_esse , Six/Rani bonamoz
2. Torchwood -
3. Firefly (two, because I can't choose) - Simon/Kaylee amare_est_esse, Wash/Zoe urchinmoppet
4. Blakes 7 -
5. Red Dwarf - Rimmer/Lister bonamoz
6. Invader Zim -
7. Harry Potter -
8. SGA - Rodney/Radek dragonessa24
9. Dead Like Me - George/Mason bonamoz
10. Mirrormask - &hearts &hearts &hearts Valentine (Helena/Valentine) bonamoz
11. Wonderfalls -

I fucked around with that me-as-Fitz picture I took a while back, so have it here:

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I made a depressing mix (EP? It's about a half hour long) for the last bit of Charley's storyline. No fancy cover or anything. And single tracks because I am lazy. DEAL WITH IT, PEOPLE. &hearts


1. Symphony 9 & the Sunshine - Emily Wells

Tell em that you love em 'till the end of your days.
Tell em that you need em in a bad way.
Oh how happy is the look on your face,
When you know somebody and you want em to stay.
Memory is an old highway.
If you drive too long you might lose your way.

2. Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap

Spin me around again and rub my eyes
This can't be happening
When busy streets a mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first

3. Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler

(instrumental)

4. Cataracts - Andrew Bird

When our mouths are filled with uninvited tongues of others
And the strays are pining for their unrequited mothers
Milk that sours is promptly spat
Light will fill our eyes like cats
Light will fill our eyes like cats
Cataracts

5. Warm Air - Vanessa Mae

(instrumental)

6. Great Big Old World - Holidays on Ice

It's a great big old world
and it doesn't stop for anyone

Here is the thing what I stole from bonamoz

1. Who are you to me?
2. How long have we known each other?
3. When and how did we meet?
4. Do you know who I have a secret crush on?
5. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it?
6. Describe me in one word.
7. What was your first impression of me?
8. Do you still think that way of me now?
9. What reminds you of me?
10. If you could give me anything what would it be?
11. How well do you know me?
12. When is the last time you saw me?
13. What's the most fun we've had together?
14. What's the last thing you remember us talking about?
15. Are you gonna re-post this so I can say some random things about you?

I'd been thinking about how I'm going to get to Gallifrey One without a job or money this year, then it hit me: I've got a bond! One that my godmother bought for me when I was born. I don't know exactly how much it's worth, since I can't find any information online, but since I'm twenty-one now, it's worth as much as it ever will be...and that could be up to a thousand bucks. If it is, then I'm going to Gallifrey this year! I'll have to fill out the paperwork and turn it in.

IMO, it's a perfect use for a bond I've been hanging onto my entire life.

...and yes, I am aware of how incredibly geeky that makes me.

No word back on the casino job, so I guess they aren't interested. I'm thinking maybe I'd be better off if I had some sort of marketable skill, but the only ones I think of that'd also be fun to learn are lock picking and bar tending. ...and bar tending doesn't sound like very much fun. ...and I might get arrested practicing lock picking.

Last week I bought some black and white pillow ticking and some yellow dye, so I'm on my way to the girl!six costume I've been working on off and on for a while now. The actual sewing machine's broken, but mom's promised she'll take it in to get fixed. I just don't know when she's going to get around to it.

Also, got a neat shirt!


Like I said before, I've been re-reading Good Omens, and I got around to drawing a Hugh Laurie inspired Crowley:
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I drew Aziraphale too, but he looked too much like Stephen Fry and I drew the eyes a bit too high, so you don't get to see that one.

"Breaking reports via Bloody Disgusting website indicate that director John Landis announced at this weekend's Spooky Empire convention in Orlando that departing Doctor Who star David Tennant has been cast alongside English actor Simon Pegg in Landis's upcoming film Burke and Hare. If the film's IMDB article is accurate, Pegg will play the role of William Burke while Tennant fills the role of William Hare."

Funny, seeing that Tennant has already been in a story involving Burke and Hare with the Big Finish audios.

And it's supposed to be a dark comedy. Sounds awesome.

Anyone seen the original that this is a remake of?

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Not much to report on from the daily life of. I've been having a lovely time of hermiting myself away, especially since the weather's cooled off a bit and fall is coming on. Earlier this week I got a flu shot (for the regular flu, not the swine flu) so hopefully I won't end up getting sick this winter.

And I've organized the bookshelves in my room! They are now loosely categorized and not piled on top of piles. Though I seem to have mislaid my copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (I suspect it's under my bed), and I have two different paperback editions of Good Omens.

Speaking of...am I the only person who imagines Aziraphale and Crowley as early Fry and Laurie? I think someone suggested it to me a while ago and now it's stuck in my head.

The only other book I've got two of is because I've got it in German and in English. It's titled Die Blendung and Auto-da-fe, respectively. I'd say that the author (Elias Canetti) is one of my favorites, but I still haven't gotten through either of them. I have read through a book of his journals, which are absolutely wonderful.

I've got so much to read and here I find myself reading through Good Omens again. Well, it is a very good book.

( Pictures of my bookcases, because I am that sort of person: )

Shallow thoughts on Blakes 7 while I'm thinking about it:

-Up to Season 3 now.
-Apparently, bras cease to exist some time in the future. Better stock up.
-I liked the original Travis better. The second guy reminds me of Nicolas Cage and is often dressed up in what looks like leather wicker.
-Speaking of leather: Full leather outfits are nice, but probably not the best choice for stealth operations. Creak creak.

Edit because oh I forgot to mention! I made a twitter for Fitz. Follow him if that's your bag.

Stolen from...EVERYBODY.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
cosmic_celery goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Amy Pond dressed up as a slutty cop.
4you_blue_jway tricks you! You get a rock.
amare_est_esse gives you 4 light green cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
bonamoz tricks you! You lose 2 pieces of candy!
darthsemicolon gives you 13 brown root beer-flavoured gummy bats.
dragonessa24 gives you 2 dark blue peach-flavoured wafers.
mertondingle tricks you! You lose 14 pieces of candy!
notusachan gives you 16 light green passionfruit-flavoured nuggets.
pimpmytardis gives you 19 white watermelon-flavoured wafers.
solidfoamsoul tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
cosmic_celery ends up with 38 pieces of candy, a rock, and a scratched CD.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Excerpt from an EDA, The Deadstone Memorial by Trevor Baxendale, which I finished today:

( (No spoilers for plot, but cut anyway) )

Thanks to those who replied to my last post. I'm feeling a bit better, I think. Possibly. The first Hermits United meeting will be held in two years' time at my cave. You are all invited.

I found the disk for my Microsoft Office suite, so I think that's one crisis averted. Now I just need to find my California ID so that I can get the good booze get in the door at the concert I'm going to later this month...and to confirm my citizenship and age should I actually get called in for one of those jobs.

Also, I'm slightly panicky about being called for an interview. GDI I HATE TALKING ON THE PHONE.
...Oh, you say the job involves talking on the phone constantly every day? Oops.

Re-watched The Road to El Dorado this morning. I love that movie. Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh voice the main roles and it's absolutely lovely. They are the cheerier, animated, less inclined to endless puns version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, I swear. So, new mood theme courtesy of poisonedwriter! Despite the hilarity of having a Vulcan mood theme, I was getting a bit tired of it.

Oh, and I didn't sleep last night.

*zonk*

I've been sort of...horribly depressed this past week, and as a result I haven't been around much. So, sorry for that.

The Japanophile guy in my T'ai Chi class talked to me yesterday, despite my attempts at shooing him away with my mind. He started out with talking about how he visited his Grandfather the other day who's declining rapidly and will very probably die soon. Then he talked about how he helps at the x-box booth during Comic-Con and how he has some-or-other position online. And all of this conversation interspersed with declarations about how meeting people is hard for him and a large dose of self deprecation. I shook his cold hand and introduced myself. I do not remember his name.

Am I a total bitch to have no interest in talking to this guy? Some people might consider him less of a loser than I am, but I really have no interest in him or in any of his problems. Really, I find it difficult to like most people. I don't want to hang out with people who bore me and share none of my interests. I've done that before and I get very little out of it. This is also why I have no friends outside of the internet.

This week, I skipped a lot of my homework because I simply didn't feel up to doing much of anything, but I'll have to get around to doing at least some of it. I did, however, ask my mom about jobs at the casino and she talked to the guy who runs the restaurants and things...and I've submitted my application for both the hostess and busser positions. So maybe if he doesn't deem me worthy to stand around and make reservations, I can go around and clean up tables. Still haven't gotten a call for either of them, but we'll see.

Since my computer reformatting experience, I've run into one problem: I have no idea where the case for my Microsoft Office suite is, and it wants the key code. The last time I saw any of that was in the computer box...which is now inexplicably filled with my mother's papers. The customer service thing basically says "you're screwed" on the subject, so I'll have to tear my room apart and see if it somehow ended up here. I have no idea.

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

Also, from dragonessa24:


Leave me a comment telling me your all time favourite word, in any language.
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
Update your journal with the answers to the questions
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

1. Would you rather live in another time period, and if so which one?
I would like to live in the future. Not sure exactly when because it hasn't happened yet.

2. If a Genie was granting you three wishes, what would they be?
Smart-ass answer: A genie.

Real answer:
1. Unlimited travel without cost for me and anyone I choose to bring with me.
2. Comfortable living for all of my relatives and friends.
3. The ability to travel time.

3. Do you prefer prose or poetry?
Um, well..I guess it depends on how much I like the author.

4. Where would you love to go to for a vacation, but can't?
It might sounds cheesy, but I'd love to go see London. I imagine it's infinitely more interesting than New York City.

5. Uh... What's your favorite animal?
Cats! ...but I'm not a cat lady, I swear.