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Oct. 20th, 2009
10:30 pm - Interview!
So yesterday I had my interview at the library. I also pounced on an Opportunity which amused the heck out of me.
See, I arrived about ten minutes early for my interview, and my interviewers were in a meeting (probably another interview), so the woman at the information desk told me to go sit down and she'd get me when they were out. I wandered over in the direction she gestured and lo and behold, it was in the "World Languages" section. Said section contained some books in Japanese, one of them being Ranma 1/2. So I picked that up and started paging through it, seeing how much Japanese I could remember (...as it turns out, not much. Oh dear). So when one of my interviewers comes out to bring me in, I'm standing there all redheaded and blue-eyed and (sorta kinda) reading Japanese. I was rather pleased with it, since I was super nervous about interviewing to begin with, and it sort of gave me a hook to start with.
I think the went pretty well, over all. I didn't gibber hysterically, and I made the interviewers laugh a couple times. I also convinced one of them to look into Discworld, due to raving about PTerry's writing when they asked me who my heroes were (I also said that I had wanted to grow up to be Pippi Longstocking when I was little. That was one of the times they laughed). I should hear back from them around Wednesday-Thursday next week. I hope I get the job.
Then I got home, and the internet refused to connect on my computer. It got repaired this morning, though. New router and suddenly, I'm no longer being booted off the internet randomly. This pleases me.
Now I just need to figure out what I want to dress up as for Halloween.
Also: This is awesome and you should watch it. And anyone have any idea why some combination of Firefox and LJ won't let me embed images in comments? I keep getting an annoying "missing parameter" error message.
Sep. 29th, 2009
01:41 am - Stuff and more stuff
Still in the process of slowly transferring over between computers. Because I'm lazy. I finally got Microsoft Office though, YAY for word processing!
Also, I handed in an application last week to work at a nearby library as a page. They have four part-time positions open. I really, really hope I get one of them, since it's basically EXACTLY what I'm looking for when it comes to "finding out about how libraries actually work". And they have set schedules, so I'd be able to work another part-time job in too. Fingers crossed!
Also, I got linked to this, and thought I'd share. It's an article about the death of a man named Norman Borlaug and how completely awesome he was (his work produced "a new disease-resistant dwarf strain of wheat that transformed agriculture, especially in the third world"), and how he is pretty much completely unknown by the wider population. It's a pretty interesting read.
The chickens have started jumping the fence. Stupid chickens. They are going to get mauled or eaten by the neighbors' dogs if they keep that up. Rosemary and Arabella are the worst offenders, although I've seen Luna and Dot up on the fence. And apparently they're now refusing to be tricked into going into their pen with offerings of chicken scratch. They're learning the wrong things, dang it!
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calmJun. 29th, 2009
02:04 pm - Update!
Go click on this link and sign the letter here. Because Don't Ask Don't Tell is goddamned stupid.
...Okay, yeah, utterly failed and updating this. Whoops.
Fish camp was fun, except for the mosquitoes completely devouring my feet and ankles. Fortunately, allergy meds take the infuriating itchy away, yay! I also got to do some hammering and sawing, which was fun. The cabin on the property has apparently hit the point where they can't really do anything new to it because they're replacing all of the old boards and such that are slowly rotting. I kind of wonder how they're going to take care of the support beams, because those are definitely going to need it soon. Also, freshly gathered clams and oysters continue to be absolutely delicious; and the dog was unconvinced that my ear did not require her tongue. And I read a trashy romance novel.
A couple days later, Dana came home to visit. She's here until the fifth. We went to get her a new phone and the salesman for SOME unknown reason turned to me and started trying to sell me a new phone, which ultimately ended up in me having to run outside so that I wouldn't have my emotional freak out in front of various customers and sales people. Kind of dumb of me, but I wasn't expecting to have to deal with that, and I forgot that it's sales people's job to keep pushing after you've said "no thanks".
Saturday I played Princess Leia in Gavin's Star Wars game, which was fun. I have a slightly better idea of what I'm supposed to do now, yay!
Also, in the process of trying to come up with a journal name for Sensor from Legion of Superheroes. Why didn't someone tell me that there was a warrior-princess giant snake with the ability to hijack people's senses in comics sooner? I would have been READING those! Unfortunately, they turned her into a weird naga-thing in one of the last arcs. She continued to be badass, but isn't a giant snake anymore.
I will have to fix this in the game. Yessssss...
Jun. 14th, 2009
03:07 pm - *wibble*
GivesMeHope.com
Real Life Crowning Moment of Heartwarming concentrate!
'scuse me, I need tissues and something cuddly to hug.
May. 19th, 2009
05:09 pm - link and trash cinema
Click here to DECLINE TO SIGN REFERENDUM 71 PETITIONS because y'all are awesome people who want to give domestic partners the same rights as married partners while we finish getting gay people the right to marry.
My group in Trash Cinema today spent about forty minutes attempting to come up with ideas for the Most Offensive Trash Film Ever. It was pretty spectacular. I giggled all the way through.
Apr. 3rd, 2009
01:07 pm - Yay, Friday!
Man, I'm going to LOVE Fridays. All done at 11.20AM, on top of the usual "Fridays are awesome"? Winzor.
My Gothic Lit. professor now has the first trade of Runaways. And she apparently has a kid at home who is devours graphic novels/comic books. Mwahahahahaha, mine is an evil laugh!
Also, I think Susan Sto Helit in the Discworld books might have an allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The BirthMark", sorta-kinda. Granted, the titular birthmark disappears when Georgiana blushes, and Susan's appears when she blushes, but the blushing and appearing-and-disappearing makes me wonder. Or maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about. That is always an option.
In other news, let's hear it for Iowa legalizing gay marriage. It's officially time to get with the program, everyone!
Dan Savage is doing a talk on campus tomorrow about Prop 8. I am SO looking forward to it.
happyApr. 1st, 2009
11:20 am - And I'm back!
So, I haven't written anything for three weeks. Oops.
Between now and then, I passed all my classes (yaaaaaaaaaaaay!) and went to Hawaii (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!) and started my last quarter at college (augh. Augh! OMG AUGH!)
( Cut for general biggery )
And now off to make copies of things and get some graduation stuff. Also, geez, I've been writing this for about an hour at this point.
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geekyFeb. 28th, 2009
01:12 pm - Update in the life
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scans_daily's been suspended. More information about it here.
Dammit, that site is what got me into comics in the first place! I would not be buying comics, nor would I know a lot of my friends right now if not for that site!
In other news, my apartment is FREEZING. The people downstairs flooded their apartment or something, all we know is that there's construction going on that somehow requires the workers to run an air-sucking thing 24/7. And it's sucking all the warm out of our apartment and replacing it with COLD. Right now, I'm wearing fleecy pajamas, a thick bathrobe, a blanket, thick socks, my slippers, and a hat. And I'm STILL COLD.
ETA: SON OF A BITCH, BRYAN*, you are in a SENIOR SEMINAR CREATIVE WRITING CLASS. Why am I sitting here correcting your punctuation? LEARN TO USE THE APOSTROPHE. And the spell check. And the grammar check. What the HELL, dude.
* Name changed. Because I'm nice like that.
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irritatedOct. 21st, 2008
11:18 pm - Today!
OMFG SQUEE!
Sneak Peek at "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" Episode 1: Rise of the Blue Beetle
OMFG. OMFG. JAIME! THEY CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF JAIME! I LESS-THAN-THREE THEM SO HARD! CAPSLOCK CANNOT CAPTURE THE EXTENT OF MY FANGIRLY GLEE!
I retook the philosophy midterm. I still couldn't get the tautology. It makes perfect sense when I ask the teacher about it, but when ever I come across the "if and only if"/"triple bar" thing in a proof, I can't get it to work. Well, maybe I can, I'm not sure if I'm just doing that particular homework problem wrong or what. Haaaaaaaate.
Angela and I went to a "Sexploration" thing on campus. It was a lot of fun. We sat around with a bunch of other young women and talked about sex-taboo and sociology of sex and relationships and so on. I talked a lot, and I actually brought out my Sharkie at one point. One of the other women carried rocks in her purse. I'm probably going back again. I had a good time.
Runaways comes out tomorrow, as does Blue Beetle. Squee and excitement! I'm still not sold on Moore yet, especially his Karolina, buuuuuuut it's still enjoyable.
And in conclusion: I mailed my ballot today! WHEEEEEEEEE, VOTING!
contentOct. 4th, 2008
05:47 pm - Lookie look look look!
Look! Archeological linguistics!
Neanderthals speak after 30,000 years.
...Man, it is so easy to get distracted from doing my homework...
calmOct. 2nd, 2008
03:31 pm
First geology lab today! I think the boys in my group now think I'm a dork. They kept asking me to explain stuff about plate tectonics for the lab, and then they would STOP PAYING ATTENTION while I did so, thus causing me to make sound-effects to try and regain their attention so that I could answer their damn question. At least geology has taught me that if I am going to hit someone with a rock, it should be a rock from the oceanic crust, because the oceanic crust is denser than the continental crust. Our lab T.A. also kept INTERRUPTING us while we were working to show us new things. It drove me crazy, and I didn't actually manage to finish filling out the huge lab pamphlet, so now I have extra homework. Boohat.
Today was vagina day in Prose Poetry. Seriously, we workshopped eight pieces of writing and three of them involved vaginas in some way. Or at least sounded like they did -- one involved an elephant's trunk and a crocodile's orifice. And the word 'pussy', although the author MEANT "pus-y". It was a fun poem. The other two involved vagina dentata and one man's incestuous love for cameltoe. Our professor actually face-palmed a couple times. I think I love that class.
Yesterday I befriended some of the boys in my scriptwriting class, and my two-page scene went well. One of the other fun things about that class is that the professor actually has us act out the scenes -- the author doesn't get to act, but they do get to cast it. Thus far, I've been an elderly woman named Gertrude who was unimpressed with her husband springing Viagra on her, and a woman annoyed with her husband for waking her up while tearing the house apart looking for his new socks.
Also, I got the second of the two logic problems from the other night wrong, but I did get the first one right. The stuff that's due tomorrow was way easy though, so I think my brain's finally remembering what I learned in intro to logic a couple of years ago.
And now, a quiz:
( The Classic Dames Test )
chipperJun. 28th, 2008
07:54 pm - I am a lazy updater
So, when did I last post? *checks*
Ooh, okay.
So, I hung around the house for a week and occasionally hung out with people. I wrapped up that week by going to eastern Washington with my dad to see my Aunt Jill (Dad's younger sister) be instated as the first female head of Washington state in the Elks Club, and the second female state head ever (I think). That was neat, and it was good seeing Aunt Jill and Uncle Mark. Aunt Jill introduced Dad to a bunch of people and I tagged along. I got to chatting with this one woman, who followed up my answer to "where do you go to college?" with "do you smoke pot?"
Yeah. I went O.o
She did give me her nephew's myspace and the title of the book he'd just gotten published, though. But that was still a weird response.
The next Monday I started taking my children's lit class at UW. It's been interesting so far -- no midterms, no finals, nothing. Just "read the assigned bits of the text book each night, think about the questions, and be prepared to potentially write a 30-minute in-class essay on at least one of the question. We read a bunch of fairy tales, and now we're reading Treasure Island.
Wednesday, I got four comic books and a haircut. Not at the same place. JOSS WHEDON'S RUN ON RUNAWAYS IS FINALLY OVER! WOOOOOOOOO! As much as I love the guy, I am so glad he's not writing it any more. It should not take 15 months to churn out six issues. I also got the Secret Invasion Young Avengers/Runaways crossover, the last issue of Marvel Presents: Young Avengers, and the Marvel Fairy Tales issue with the Young Avengers. ( Spoilers go here )
Thursday, the cat got a haircut. He sulked, but he's less matted and likely a lot more comfortable now. He's also still wearing his neck-kercheif that they put on him. I'm surprised.
Yesterday I hung out with Gavin and Michelle and Jeff and Gavin's niece and nephew. We watched Star Wars: Episode 1 and played a really, really awesome board game: Betrayal at House on the Hill. I hit a madman with a spear, and Gavin and his nephew spent a good handful of turns pummeling a zombie that would just not. Fall. Down. The game is awesome.
Today Mom and Dad and I went out and saw WALL-E, which was adorable and squee-worthy. My inner linguist noted with amusement that WALL-E and EVE both had labial sounds in their names, but neither of them had lips. I still need to see Iron Man and that new Indiana Jones movie.
contentMay. 15th, 2008
May. 8th, 2008
09:32 pm - this week
So yeah, I suck with updating.
The obnoxious G.A.P. asshats showed up again. But they were only here for two days this time, yay.
This is made of awesome. Video games for curing diseases! Harnessing the free time of the internet for SCIENCE!
I had my phonology midterm on Tuesday. I think I did okay, but then, I also thought I did okay on the previous homework. We got that back today, and I got 65 out of 100. Gahh. Fortunately, we can redo it for up to half the points back. We will also be able to do the same thing with the midterm. And the professor promised to try not to go into labor while she was teaching.
We've been getting a lot of applications for trans_9, the multi-fandom RPG that I'm helping run. The game itself isn't kicking off until June 16th or so, which means I still have time to decide the point of the timeline I'm yoinking Ax(imili-Esgarrouth-Isthill) from. Yes, I know, I stopped reading Animorphs years ago. I just suddenly wanted to play him. I'm also playing Paco, from Blue Beetle. We have exciting plot! :D
I'm doing a skit of The Paper Bag Princess in Japanese tomorrow. I'm playing the princess, and I have the most amount of lines. I think I have about half the lines. Fortunately, the most complex is "Anata ga kyuujo suru tsumori desu!", which hopefully means "(I will) rescue you!"
My roommates and I had to go and sign a new lease, since our building is now owned by a different company. Or something, we're not quite sure what the story is there. Either way, this new company actually sends people out to fix crap in a reasonable amount of time. It's very exciting. Anyway, we worked out a few more rules -- mainly "clean up after yourself in the kitchen". Yes, this was a bit of a problem, sadly.
Also, some of our spoons have gone missing. It's utterly bizarre.
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busyApr. 2nd, 2008
02:20 pm - The froobling greebies
So, turns out that Structure of English has more than five people. A lot more. Still, it seems like it's going to be fun. See the subject of this post for further information ;)
Also, picked up my comics today. I finally got my copy of Blue Beetle #23, yaaaay. And we've got a spiffy twist over in the Buffy comics.
Finally, I leave you with this link:
The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught in History Class
I especially liked the ones about George Washington and Ben Franklin.
contentMar. 25th, 2008
01:39 pm - This post is cut for aracnophobes.
( So my friends who don't like spiders won't kill me )
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D:Feb. 12th, 2008
08:55 am - Just one thing to say, really:
ilu, internetz.
I'd forgotten that there was one of these "churches" in Bellingham. They tried to recruit me at the intro fair my freshman year. According to their little deedly-wap machine thinger, driving, taking tests, and being shouted at don't cause me any stress. However, fluffy puppies do. Go figure.
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gigglyJan. 23rd, 2008
09:13 pm - busy day
Comic book release day today! I got last week's Booster Gold and this week's Young Avengers Presents: Patriot. Apparently the latest Blue Beetle came out today too, but I didn't know to ask for it. Phoo.
Anyway, YOUNG AVENGERS SQUEE OMGOMGOMG ♥!
( Spoilers go here )
As for Booster Gold... well, this is pretty much amazing. All together now: "Awwwww, Booster~"
In other comics news, I lent the first trade paperback of the new Blue Beetle to my Graphic Novel professor. *spreads the love for Jaime all over the place*
In non-comics news, I made a chicken dish in the crock-pot from a recipe that came with said crock-pot. It's actually pretty good. I may try some of the others as well. It's not that much longer until I can buy cooking wine and whatnot. Amendment: Dad has informed me that cooking wine is a sin against food.
We keep working on the "argument" thing in Creative Writing. I am so sick of it. I explained that to the prof and also explained why, but she just told me to muddle through it. Understandably, I guess, but I know I'm not alone in the "are we done with this yet?" Also, I need to edit my focused scene. Argh.
contentJan. 18th, 2008
06:08 pm - TGIF
Ahh, the lovely feeling of an impending three-day weekend. *contented sigh*
Of course, there's the "boo, laundry" part. And the "boo, homework" part. But those are part of life. And brand new this weekend, there's "boo, I need more ink for the printer and neither of the nearby stores-that-sell-printer-ink sell the kind my printer uses".
Also, I have to cook again, since I finished off the stew. I'm really not that in to cooking. It's sort of fun, yeah, but there other more fun stuff I would rather be doing. Plus cooking means washing dishes, and if I don't wash them right away, no one else can wash their dishes either, so it just piles up and then I have to do all the dishes.
And inevitably, someone leaves a wooden spoon soaking in the water. Gross.
So, what's happened since my last post? ( Cut for space )
cheerfulJan. 11th, 2008
03:11 pm - lost: nail clippers
Dammit, where the hell are my nail clippers?
In other news, class was class today. I'm slightly concerned by my teacher for Graphic Novels. She doesn't lecture so much as she babbles. Hopefully she was serious about the class being more student-discussion after this because otherwise, we're screwed.
Japanese was mostly kanji today, but we also learned informal negative adjectives (the "i" on the end replaced with "ku + nai"), informal negative nouns ("desu" replaced by "dewanai"), and how to say "I think (something)" ("blahblahblah-short form to omoimasu").
And seriously, where are my nail clippers? I want them.
Finally, for your viewing pleasure, The Best of Engrish. *giggles*
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