Musings of an Evil Genius

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:49:45 GMT

Love you guys like, THIS MUCH. Happy Holidays!

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:59:06 GMT

GOD, MY FAMILY.

*great frantic stabbing motions*

Irregardless,

Happy Thanksgiving!

♥

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:15:42 GMT

Happy Halloween, vatos.

If any of youse guys dresses up as something cool for the occasion, I want pics. Savvy? Until then, enjoy the holidays and have fun. ♥ C

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:29:29 GMT

20. I honestly believe there is no higher nor more solemn oath than a pinkie swear.

19. I had pet lobsters as a kid. Not, like, full-size. Babies. They weren't the most cuddly varmits but they were easy to get attached to. I'll never eat lobster. To me, you might as well eat Lassie or Flipper. And I always have a maniacal urge to free the lobsters from the tank at the grocery store.

18. My father has been married 6 times. I've had more step-siblings than I can count. Ironically, I'm a biological only child and have never actually lived with any of my step-siblings (save one sister for a few weeks, recently), so I really have no idea what it's like to have siblings. Huh. Irony.

17. I like my JTHM Over the Stars icon, although I seem to be the only one. It is a little... severe. Sorry. (And I was gonna use it here but when you end an LJ post like this one, and you use an icon like that one, it can sometimes create more general chaos than it's worth. Do not be alarmed.)

16. I believe you can tell everything there is to know about a person by the way they treat any lesser being, especially animals. Examples:

-- A person who would give away his daughter's dog without even telling her because it was "giving him allergies" (all the way from its home in the backyard! wow!) then try to subdue the resulting fire and brimstone by offering to buy her a new puppy (because he didn't even get the name of the people he gave her dog to) is the same type of person who will marry 6 times in 10 years, sometimes divorcing wives for things like opening a bottle of champagne he was saving for New Years or refusing to change her religion (something it's best to think about before getting married).
-- A person who will go out of their way to move a turtle to the side of the road or who raises baby birds that have fallen out of their nests can usually be trusted - and not just with the little things in life either. These are, generally, the people who are in your corner whether you're wrong or right and God help anyone who tries to stop them.
-- Me? Sometimes I don't feed the dog until noon. Not all the time, mind you, or even usually. Just occasionally. I'll walk by the window in the morning and see him sitting by his bowl, looking loyal and trusting like a dog does, and yet I can't always be arsed to go feed him until I'm done with sitting around with my thumb in my ass or whatever it is I do. I'm also the type of person who will turn in assignments a week late or promise my mother to do a chore but take all day to get around to it.

15. I am a perfectionist. ... Just not in the traditional way. Like, I don't mind fucking around with housework and you probably shouldn't examine the numbering of this list too carefully but I still have this slight urge to murder people when they pick up a book or whatever from a shelf in my room and put it back in the wrong place or when someone says they'll call and they don't. It's like a little itch in my brain. AN ITCH IN MY BRAIN. ...... Okay. Ignore all of this. No, really. Moving right along.

15. I am a perfectionist.

14. I've always had a thing for blood. This was way before I knew of crazy Anne Rice and way before the trendy kindergoths took over MTV. I love the taste, smell, sight, and texture of it. Especially the taste. I love the various ways there are to, uh... acquire it. When I have to have blood drawn at the doctor's, I can't even look away; I just stare and admire. Some people find this attractive or mysterious or something until they find out I'm serious.

13. I've taken off my watch maybe 5 times in the last two years (it's waterproof).

42. I loathe most rules and regulations on principle.

15. Sometimes, I can see exactly how pissed my family is that, ~~because of~~ despite their best efforts, I still turned out, well, like me. They usually do a good job of hiding it coz it's part of their overall thing where they like to appear icy and superior to everyone around them. I could take forever to describe it but just think Family Malfoy and you'll have a good idea. I went along with it for a while, before I knew better. Although...

I can still take one look at a person and immediately see all their flaws, weaknesses, and insecurities. I quit playing that fucked up game a long time ago, but it's still kind of a good feeling to know that, should the need ever arise, I could verbally eviscerate someone with just a few words. That's why I just smile and nod when someone tries to use my geekery and/or fondness for Harry Pottery/etc against me. I silently pray they step over the line so I can have some fun. That's probably not healthy.

14. My life is haunted by strange encounters with birds. Example: When I was four, I was at a family picnic and had the random thought that maybe people turn into crows when they die. I started explaining my theory because, hey, what are family gatherings for if not a child's random thoughts on death? It got really quiet for a few seconds when I finished. Then, a huge crow flew over us, landed an arm's length away from me and proceeded to stare at me, like crows do, all head tilty and thoughtful-looking. It got even quieter. Cue end of picnic.

13. The veins in my right hand form a tiny anarchy symbol. This pleases me.

12. I wear guy shoes (except for shoes that don't come in male varieties, like heels, natch). But I wear trainers most of the time, so. Guys shoes will almost always be better made. They actually have helpful features; stuff like arch and sole support, quality stitching (not just cheap glue), and durable materials. Guys shoes are made for actual physical activities and use; they have traction and useful little snaps and ties and stuff. Girls shoes are made to look pretty. Except they usually don't even do that. As an added bonus, guys shoes come in colors other than Hello Kitty Pink.

11. It took me 2 weeks to write this list. There's about 20 more things I didn't include coz they're too personal/stupid/weird.

10. I have run out of room on my bookshelves. There's stacks of about 50 hardcover books and 150 paperbacks on my floor that I have no idea what to do with. Help. Please.

09. I've known seven people who have died way before their time. Of them, five were good friends. Of these, four were suicides (All gunshot wounds to the head, interestingly). One was a friend who owed someone $6,000 for cocaine. This weighs on me a lot sometimes. $6,000 is a large amount of money but it's not -that- much. Something could have been done. // The one that stays with me the most, though, was an ex-boyfriend. I saw him earlier that day in the halls at school. We had an odd little bittersweet moment and he smiled. Those few seconds haunt me. During the funeral, a girl I'd hated for years made the most horrible heartbreaking sound. I wouldn't wish that type of pain on anyone, not even her. I still can't believe he'll be 16 forever while everyone who knew him will keep aging. It doesn't seem logical.

08. I hate the feeling of my bare feet on anything smooth - like tile, hardwood floors, concrete, etc..

07. I can make a pizza crust by throwing it around in the air like they do in the cartoons. Just the throwing and spinning technique though. Not the twirling. I still refuse to believe anyone can actually do that.

06. I taught a Baptist Sunday School class of 25 kindergarteners with my former best friend, Scarlet, six hours every Sunday, for two years. I really loved some of those kids (like the "feisty" little girl who was actually closer to downright mean sometimes. She made really good alligators and spiders out of clay and refused to wear a dress for church). Too cool. But alas.

About one and a half years ago, I quit teaching Sunday school when I realized three things:

-- I couldn't face myself for teaching those kids a religion I no longer believed in and had come to resent.
-- A cup of coffee before church is an acceptable way to prepare to face the day. A few lines of white? Not so much. (If you need motivation of that magnitude to do any 'voluntary' activity, something is wrong.)
-- Scarlet and I were in love. Awww. [Ms. Scarlet and Ms. Charlotte. That would have gone over reeeaaally well with the parents, I'm sure.]

05. You know when the dentist is poking around in your mouth and you can feel their latex glove against your teeth and gums? I like that. Probably too much. And I always have to resist the urge to bite down, coz I think that would probably feel good too. For me, at least.

04. My elbows are double-jointed. Hyper-extendable is the correct term, actually. If you're not expecting it, it looks like my elbows are broken or dislocated when my arms are straight. Boo.

03. I've had over 35 jobs since I was 15. That's not counting periods of self-employment, like when I used to sell cigarettes to the other kids in high school. $.75 per cigarette or an even $10.00 for a pack. A pack! And business was booming. People are insane. Aside from that, I've worked in lots o' video rental shops, telemarketing, waitressing, pet sitting, religious instruction, tutoring, doctors' and medical offices, selling cosmetics, and so on...

02. I like the taste of burnt matches.

01. I recently realized that I'd been using LiveJournal to avoid thinking about some things that I really needed to. Posting and commenting and replying and making silly polls and trying to find the perfect icon and layout is so much easier than RL sometimes. It turns out that skeletons in one's closet will eventually find their way out anyway, no matter how hard one pushes against the door. My moment of clarity and salvation happened upon reading the last page of JTHM #7, interestingly enough. You gotta take these things where you can get 'em.

So I'm leaving LJ. Not completely and not forever, but yeah. I'll still slink over to see how you lot are doing from time to time and to make the occasional update.

Friend, defriend, whatever. I'll manage. Lemme know if anything incredibly awesome/shite happens. Take care and stay out of trouble. ♥ - C

Sun, 02 Oct 2005 16:52:44 GMT

Blarg. My paid account expired. ... I kinda like the icons they left me though. For once.

I tried this vitamin energy drink thingy today. Normally, I scoff at that type o' thing, as part of my general scoffing regimen, but I gave it a shot today with minimal whining coz my friend is about to start a cult based upon it and, um, WOOOOOOOO. Yes, WOOOOOOOO. I feel like a hummingbird on amphetamines. But in a totally good way. Like Popeye. But without the fugly/creepy arm muscles. And, man, Olive Oil. What was up with her arms, yo? They were all waaaaaaaavyyyyyy.

*blinks* Moving right along.. Look at the stats. No effing wonder. *rudely hotlinks*

Vitamin B. Can't get too much of that fun stuff. Remember kiddos, I used to work in a health food store. This makes me an expert on just about everything ever. Vitamin B (Niacin, 6, 12, and Folic acid) are our friends. Do not question my real ultimate power. And it comes in much higher doses than 8,000% RDA. I've seen it up to 33,333% RDA. Dude. / Now I'm rambling. Check that out. It's coz I don't want to go do laundry.

Anyhoo, if you like the feeling associated with crack but want to avoid the unpleasant side effects, like burnt lips, jailarity, death, and smelling funny, look these guys up in the Yellow Pages. Chaser 5-Hour Energy Something Something Blah Blah. I used to call the Yellow Pages the "Lello Pages" when I was a wee thing. Awww! So cute. Why a wee thing is using the phrase "Yellow Pages" to begin with is another question.

Okay, okay. Laundry. Cheerio.

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:20:45 GMT

There. It's official. Dark Forces do conspire to keep me out of school. I woke up early today, had coffee, got ready, was all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, had all my homework and stuff ready to go - everything was running smoothly like a very nice smoothly running precise thing. Except my keys. They're gone. No idea where. I spent the extra 20 minutes that I had squirreled away looking for them before giving up and calling my Mommy. That's always good for the ego.

[Last Night]

MOTHER: Did you remember to go by the Post Office and feed the dog?
ME [whinin']: GOD, Mother! I'm not five! Honestly! You treat me like a blah, blah, rar, blah, etc..
MOTHER: *rolls eyes* Sorree...

[This Morning]

ME (on phone): Hi. Um. Can you, um, give-me-a-ride-to-school-coz-I-can't-find-my-keys.
MOTHER: Yes.
ME: YAY! Er, I mean, cool. Thanks.

So that's not cool. And now I've been home for an hour and been looking for them. Still no luck.

* * *

But today is the first cold day of Autumn around here, and that is cool. I don't do summer well. It tends to be very hot, as you might have noticed. The heat makes me feel like taffy. Or some other wilty lazy dead thing. But cold weather. Ahhhhhhhhh. It's about 55 degrees and foggy. I got to wear my coat. And my Batman shirt! You can't ask for much more in life than days like this. *bliss* Pure bliss. Wait, I even have an illustration. Hold on.

[Please don't sue me, Jhonen Vasquez. Coz you kick ass. And I think I love you.]

See? It's like that. Except, if you know where that drawing is from, without the preceeding, er, festivities. Same concept though.

* * *

Lastly, despite the forces of evil, I did make it to school where the following occurred.

ME: *gets to class about 2 seconds before it starts*
HOT GUY, THE MISSING BEATLE: *wanders over to my desk/chairy-deskish thing* You're Charlotte?
MY BRAIN: OH GOD. He's talking to you! What did he say?? It doesn't matter! Just say something. Anything.
ME: *nods, iz so cool*
HGTMB: Cool. We're lab partners. *points to lab partner assignment sheet* Hi.
ME: Hi.
MY BRAIN: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee *finally catches up with reality*
ME: Here's my number and e-mail address. We'll work out a time when we can meet to work, K?
HGTMB: *smiles, iz so pretty* Great. *writes down his info too*

Which is why I now officially love my Geology teacher, Professor Sean Connery. That dear, dear man. Bless him.

And Hot Guy. And his phone number. And email. And IM name. It's, like, right here in my backpack. I could call him and.. then what? Hump his leg over the phone? Yeah. But we'll figure out some sort of schedule tonite and then there shall be studying. Oh yes. Studying the likes of which the world has never seen before. And labs! Hot dirty labs! MUAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

K. So that's all for now. Sorry for not using an lj-cut. Well, not sorry, really. I'm not fond of them. Sorry if you had to scroll a lot. That must suck. // Soon, there shall be meme. The one I've been meaning to do for a few weeks now. Geesh. Then, after that? Who knows.

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:58:13 GMT

Throat is feeling sore. [And what organ lives in the lower right of your back? Coz it hurts. A lot. Especially when I, well, move. Or breathe. And even when I don't.] Dunno if the two are related, but if I get sick, I will kill every man, woman, and child on the planet. I shit you not.

Have Never-Ending Geology Lab From Heck tonite. We're doing our mineral test. Wanna see my study guide? We had to memorize 60 total but I only listed the ones I was having issues with. Galena is my favorite. So pretty. So shiny. Sorry my pictures suck. Damn flourescent lights. [Yeah, blame the lights. That'll work.]

Halite (table salt)
# Color is clear or white but can be found blue, purple, pink, yellow and gray.
# Luster is vitreous.
# Cleavage is perfect in three directions forming cubes.
# Fracture is conchoidal.
# Hardness is 2
# Specific Gravity is 2.1+ (light)
# Streak is white.
# Best Field Indicators are taste, cleavage and crystal habit.

Gypsum (Selenite)
# "Selenite" is the colorless and transparent variety that shows a pearl like luster and has been described as having a moon like glow. The word selenite comes from the greek for Moon and means moon rock.
# Color is usually white, colorless or gray, but can also be shades of red, brown and yellow.
# Luster is vitreous to pearly especially on cleavage surfaces.
# Cleavage is good in one direction and distinct in two others..
# Fracture is uneven but rarely seen.
# Hardness is 2 and can be scratched by a fingernail.
# Specific Gravity is approximately 2.3+ (light)
# Streak is white.
# Other Characteristics: thin crystals are flexible but not elastic, meaning they can be bent but will not bend back on their own. Also some samples are fluorescent. Gypsum has a very low thermal conductivity (hence it's use in drywall as an insulating filler). A crystal of Gypsum will feel noticeably warmer than a like crystal of quartz.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, flexible crystals, cleavage and hardness.

Sulfur
# Color is a strong yellow color in thick crystals and duller yellow in small crystals to pale yellow in massive or powdery forms. Can also be reddish or greenish yellow with impurities.
# Luster is vitreous to more often resinous or earthy in massive forms.
# Cleavage is very poor in two directions.
# Fracture is conchoidal.
# Streak is yellow.
# Hardness is 2.
# Specific Gravity is 2.0 - 2.1 (well below average)
# Other Characteristics: odor (see above), poor heat conductivity makes it brittle when heated and can actually crack if held tightly in a person's hand.
# Best Field Indicators are color, odor, heat sensitivity, lack of good cleavage and crystal habit.

Calcite
-Color is extremely variable but generally white or colorless or with light shades of yellow, orange, blue, pink, red, brown, green, black and gray. Occasionally iridescent.
-Luster is vitreous to resinous to dull in massive forms.
-Cleavage is perfect in three directions, forming rhombohedrons.
-Fracture is conchoidal.
-Hardness is 3 (only on the basal pinacoidal faces, calcite has a hardness of less than 2.5 and can be scratched by a fingernail).
-Specific Gravity is approximately 2.7 (average)
-Streak is white.
-Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, reaction to acid, abundance, hardness, double refraction and especially cleavage.

Milky Quartz

Azurite & Malachite
# Color is azure, deep blue or pale blue if found in small crystals or crusts.
# Luster is vitreous to dull depending on habit.
# Cleavage is good in one direction and fair in another.
# Fracture is conchoidal and brittle.
# Hardness is 3.5-4.
# Specific Gravity is 3.7+ (heavier than average).
# Streak is blue.
# Best Field Indicators are color, softness, crystal habits and associations.

Bornite
# Color is brown to black with a typical purplish-bluish tarnish, a reddish bronze color on freshly broken surfaces.
# Luster is metallic.
# Cleavage is very poor, octahedral.
# Fracture is conchoidal.
# Hardness is 3
# Specific Gravity is approximately 4.9 - 5.3 (average for metallic minerals)
# Streak is a gray black.
# Other Characteristics: The tarnish that occurs on fresh surfaces can form in only hours and will become black over time.
# Best Field Indicators are lack of good crystals, tarnish, streak, color of fresh surfaces and associations.

Fluorite
# Color is extremely variable and many times can be an intense purple, blue, green or yellow; also colorless, reddish orange, pink, white and brown. A single crystal can be multi-colored.
# Luster is vitreous.
# Cleavage is perfect in 4 directions forming octahedrons.
# Fracture is irregular and brittle.
# Hardness is 4
# Specific Gravity is 3.1+ (average)
# Streak is white.
# Other Characteristics: Often fluorescent blue or more rarely green, white, red or violet and may be thermoluminescent, phosphorescent and triboluminescent.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color zoning, hardness (harder than calcite, but softer than quartz or apatite), fluorescence and especially the octahedral cleavage.

Gypsum (Alabastor)
-A fine grained massive material is called "alabaster" and is an ornamental stone used in fine carvings for centuries, even eons.
-Color is usually white, colorless or gray, but can also be shades of red, brown and yellow.
-Luster is vitreous to pearly especially on cleavage surfaces.
-Cleavage is good in one direction and distinct in two others..
-Fracture is uneven but rarely seen.
-Hardness is 2 and can be scratched by a fingernail.
-Specific Gravity is approximately 2.3+ (light)
-Streak is white.
-Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, flexible crystals, cleavage and hardness.

Chalcopyrite
# Color is brassy yellow, tarnishes to irredescent blues, greens, yellows and purples.
# Luster is metallic.
# Transparency: Crystals are opaque.
# Cleavage is rather poor in one direction.
# Fracture is conchoidal and brittle.
# Hardness is 3.5-4
# Specific Gravity is approximately 4.2 (average for metallic minerals)
# Streak is dark green.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, tarnish, softness and brittleness.

Apatite
# Color is typically green but also yellow, blue, reddish brown and purple.
# Luster is vitreous to greasy and gumdrop.
# Transparency: Crystals are transparent to translucent.
# Cleavage is indistinct in one basal direction.
# Fracture is conchoidal.
# Hardness is 5.
# Specific Gravity is approximately 3.1 - 3.2 (average for translucent minerals)
# Streak is white.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color, hardness and look.

Hematite
# Color is steel or silver gray to black in some forms and red to brown in earthy forms. Sometimes tarnished with irredescent colors when in a hydrated form (called Turgite).
# Luster is metallic or dull in earthy and oolitic forms.
# Cleavage is absent however there is a parting on two planes.
# Fracture is uneven.
# Hardness is 5 - 6
# Specific Gravity is 5.3 (slightly above average for metallic minerals)
# Streak is blood red to brownish red for earthy forms.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, streak and hardness.

Barite
# Color is variable but is commonly found colorless or white, also blue, green, yellow and red shades.
# Luster is vitreous.
# Cleavage is perfect in one direction, less so in another direction.
# Fracture is conchoidal.
# Hardness is 3 - 3.5
# Specific Gravity is approximately 4.5 (heavy for translucent minerals)
# Streak is white.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, flame test and density.

Hematite (red ochre)

- Oolitic Hematite is a sedimentary formation that has a reddish brown color and an earthy luster and is composed of small rounded grains.
- Hematite is an important ore of iron and it's blood red color (in the powdered form) lends itself well in use as a pigment.

Biotite (black Mica)
# Color is black to brown and yellow with weathering.
# Luster is vitreous to pearly.
# Cleavage is perfect in one direction producing thin sheets or flakes.
# Fracture is not readily observed due to cleavage but is uneven.
# Hardness is 2.5.
# Specific Gravity is approximately 2.9 - 3.4+ (slightly above average)
# Streak is white.
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, color, cleavage, elastic sheets and associations.

Sphalerite
# Color is typically black but can be brown, yellow, reddish, green, and less commonly white or colorless.
# Luster is adamantine or resinous or submetallic to earthy in massive forms.
# Cleavage is perfect in six directions forming dodecahedrons.
# Fracture is conchoidal, but rarely seen because of frequent cleavage.
# Hardness is 3.5-4
# Specific Gravity is approximately 4.0 (heavier than average, but light when compared to most metallic minerals)
# Streak is yellow to light brown (unusually light colored for a normally dark mineral).
# Best Field Indicators are crystal habits, streak, cleavage, high luster, softness and twinning.

Talc
# Color is green, gray and white to almost silver.
# Luster is dull to pearly or greasy.
# Cleavage is perfect in one direction, basal.
# Fracture is uneven to lamellar.
# Hardness is 1 (can leave mark on paper)
# Specific Gravity is 2.7 - 2.8 (average)
# Streak is white.
# Other Characteristics: cleavage flakes are slightly flexible but not elastic and talc has a soapy feel to the touch.
# Best Field Indicators softness, color, soapy feel, luster and cleavage.

Pyrite (Fool's Gold)
- Color is brassy yellow.
- Luster is metallic.
- Cleavage is very indistinct.
- Fracture is conchoidal.
- Hardness is 6 - 6.5
- Specific Gravity is approximately 5.1+ (heavier than average for metallic minerals)
- Streak is greenish black.
- Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, hardness, streak, luster and brittleness.

Galena
- Color is lead to silver gray sometimes with a bluish tint.
- Luster is metallic to dull in weathered faces.
- Crystal Habits include the cube, octahedron and combinations of the two. Spinel twinning is possible forming flattened crystals. Also massive and granular.
- Cleavage is perfect in four direction forming cubes.
- Fracture is uneven and rarely seen because of the perfect cleavage.
- Hardness is 2.5+
- Specific Gravity is approximately 7.5+ (heavy even for metallic minerals)
- Streak is lead gray
- Other Characteristics: brighter metallic luster on cleavage surfaces than on crystal faces.
- Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, cleavage and, perhaps most importantly, density.

Gypsum (satin spar)
- Another variety is a compact fiberous aggregate called "satin spar" . This variety has a very satin like look that gives a play of light up and down the fiberous crystals.
- Color is usually white, colorless or gray, but can also be shades of red, brown and yellow.
- Luster is vitreous to pearly.
- Cleavage is good in one direction and distinct in two others..
- Fracture is uneven but rarely seen.
- Hardness is 2 and can be scratched by a fingernail.
- Specific Gravity is approximately 2.3+ (light)
- Streak is white.
- Other Characteristics: thin crystals are flexible but not elastic, meaning they can be bent but will not bend back on their own. -Also some samples are fluorescent. Gypsum has a very low thermal conductivity (hence it's use in drywall as an insulating filler). A crystal of Gypsum will feel noticeably warmer than a like crystal of quartz.
- Best Field Indicators are crystal habit, flexible crystals, cleavage and hardness.

P.S. If you live in the south, especially Texas, the cost of gasoline is supposed to reach over $3 a gallon after midnight. So tonite would be a good time to fill up, methinks.

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:39:17 GMT

*AHEM*

charlotte charlotte bo barlette
bonana fanna fo farlette
mee my mo marlette
charlotte

Thank you. That is all.

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:37:59 GMT

I CAN'T FIND MY GREY BATMAN SHIRT I EVEN WENT THROUGH THE PERMANENT PILE OF CLOTHES AT THE BOTTOM OF MY CLOSET THAT SHIRT IS THE BEST SHIRT EVER SOMEONE IS GOING TO PAY AND BY PAY I MEAN SUFFER AND BY SUFFER I MEAN THEIR HEAD WILL ASPLODE AND THEY WILL HAVE TO PASTE IT ON YAY.

* * *

Dear Assorted Parental Figures,

Plz adopt a rough-exteriored broody yet lovable juvenile delinquent. I will be your quirky self-absorbed comic book & vidya game kid. Or the other way around. I do brood very well and I like to punch people. So I'm flexible. Irregardless, there will be snark and drama and beautiful people that should be in Calvin Klein ads and adventures kthnxyay.

* * *

Spent the weekend at Penny's. Ate chinese food. Talked about boys. Let her paint my toenails 10 different colors. Saw Sin City. Three times. So pretty. I like it a lot. A LOT. Even though there are flaws, like the fact that the only careers women have in Sin City are:

1. weak-minded, annoying bartender
2. hot Jessica Alba in a cowgirl outfit and.. poles and... sparkly. Something. ... Huh? What?
3. lesbian parole officer
4. one of the hundreds of scantily clad, heavily armed prostitutes

Also, the part with Benecio Del Toro didn't make sense, logically speaking. And no one ever shivers even though everyone's always standing around half-naked in the snow. Also, Benecio Del Toro is really scary sometimes.

* * *

Am now cleaning room, downloading episodes of The O.C. (and I'm not ashamed to admit it) and wondering what I did to make my ankle hurt so much. Is that a symptom of something? Random ankle splodey? Coz, hi, ouch.

And, yes, today is the anniversary of a tragedy. Just got done reading scornful 4589234 page memorial article blaming Bush/Iraq/God/lesbians/Poland/Frito-Lay/etc in newspaper. Pay respects, but dwell not, says I.

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Dear N00b eBay Seller,

While it's nice that you are such a trusting soul, in the future, please wait until you have recieved payment to mail items. Not everyone is as honest and noble as myself.

Also, it would have given you a chance to read the note included with payment asking that you not send my Johnny The Homicidal Maniac comics to the default address, aka: my father's house. He has no appreciation for fine art.

5:18 AM. Pwned by Wellbutrin.

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:33:51 GMT

I started taking Wellbutrin about six months ago after noticing a general feeling of ennui.

It formulates a different plan of attack than Prozac and Zoloft, which for the most part, just left me feeling stoned and gave me a vague impression of living underwater, if that makes sense. Prozac, Zoloft, and their immediate family work by fucking around with your serotonin, supposedly making you happier but really just costing a lot. Wellbutrin, on the other hand, once swallowed, doesn't dissolve, but the entire pill actually travels from your stomach to your ear, via telekinesis, where it creeps up to your eardrum and shouts: GET THE FUCK OUT OF BED AND DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE WITH YOUR DAY, YOU LAZY BITCH, OR I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO BE EMO ABOUT, which is sometimes exactly what you need.

So I'm pleased. General sense of apathy has lifted, basic day-to-day activities like driving to the bank or folding laundry do not seem unbearable, no longer consider flinging self off cliff over things like chapped lips or dropped cell phone calls, stopped smoking, and already healthy sex drive is now incredibly frighteningly alarmingly healthy (whether this one is a blessing or curse remains to be seen).

BUT. As is the case with anything good, there is a price. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. Insomnia. It convinces your body that you really only need about 6 hours of sleep a night. The weird thing is, your body will totally agree. You won't feel tired during the day, you won't have dark circles under your eyes, you won't need any more coffee than usual to start the day, but it's still a very odd feeling to wake up at the exact same ungodly early hour every morning and know that you couldn't go back to sleep even if you ran headfirst into the wall.

So yeah, pwnd by Wellbutrin.

[BUT. Better pwned and alive than unpwned and walking around like the living dead. And the first person that says 'I could never take antidepressants. // They're all just chemicals. // I don't trust them. // I tried Prozac/Zoloft/etc and that didn't work so this won't either. // You don't really need them. // It's all in your head. // It's just a clever plan by the pharmaceutical companies to make money. // The real cure for depression is to stay busy/pray/get more sunlight. // Blah Blah Blah.' is going to suffer a terrible fate. Oh yes. Coz this invariably happens every time I mention the subject IRL ~~and you'll see me on the evening news someday soon when I get tired of it and finally flip my shit~~. Maybe they've already figured out the secret to life or maybe the damp vacuous spaces in their heads are just incapable of any real emotions at all. Either way, anyone that feels the need to invalidate me with their asshat geometry is a wretched diseased whore and I hope they choke on the self-righteous words spewing from their filthy mouth. /wrath]

K. Just thought I should share in case any of you lot are feeling the ennui too. Sometimes the answer to depression isn't somehow becoming 'happier' - a rather polite approach, IMO - but the thing to do is bludgeon it to death with a hammer, piss on the corpse, and set the remains on fire, which is much more effective. You see? Or maybe none of this applies to you and it's not my fucking place to tell you what's up. Either way. S'aight.

That is all. Kthnxbye.

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:15:22 GMT

Milwaukee's Best = Worst. Beer. Ever. I cry.

I could go to the store and find beer not made of doom, but that would require that I get out of my pajamas and, at 3:00, I think if I haven't bothered to do it yet, there's really no point.

Also: bleh.

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I've wanted to use this icon forever, because it's JTHM and has a certain aesthetic appeal, to me, at least, but it's distinctly not the type of icon you can use without having to hear about it at some point. You got any like that? If so, comment and use them. Or make it a meme and post it in your own journal. Or don't do either. Hell.
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-Some links I wanted to remember, arranged in a semi-coherent format for your pleasure

Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:18:23 GMT

Have spent a large portion of the day browsing Fark, LJ and Encyclopedia Dramatica articles about relief efforts, New Orleans¹, batshit crazy raving fundies, Kanye West, and W². Conclusion: Everyone is a fucking moron³ - each in their own special way. Am thoroughly depressed now.

May the Flying Spaghetti Monster† have mercy on us all.

¹Link not recommended for the extremely stupid. May contain punditry, parody and unfocused wrath.
²Pshw. It would have been too easy to link to this or this or this.
³Including me, no doubt.
†No, really. How sad/excellent is it that this is the most reasonable thing I've seen all day? Or ever, perhaps.
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Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:42:02 GMT

Continuing with the ranting/taking up space on your flist: another thought, seperated from prior rant as I cling desperately to that dead horse we call 'taste'.

This situation in Louisiana and the rest of the area in Hurricane Katrina's path, what the hell is going on? The so-called 'assistance' and 'aid' the government has been providing is turning out to be more disasterous than the Hurricane itself.

Five days later and there's still people without safe drinking water, food, clothes, etc. There's people still trapped in their crumbling homes and a whole stadium full of people with nowhere to go. The area has almost no communications set up, so some people don't even know if their loved ones are okay.

They had to turn the damn airport into a makeshift hospital because the real ones are filled way past capacity with no relief in sight. There's people laid out on the conveyer belt that your luggage travels down. And there's only so many doctors and nurses, so the most critical cases are being dealt with first, which is understandable, but in the meantime, people with 'less immediate' diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, and the like are being forced to try and stay alive without proper medical attention.

They're shooting looters for stealing TVs and shoes while there's dead bodies floating past them and whole city blocks are total losses. People are being herded from place to place by armed soldiers without any explanation for why they're being moved or when they'll be able to leave. The photos and footage coming out of the area look like scenes from a third world country.

I'm thinking it may be time to refocus their priorties and/or put someone else in charge - someone who knows what they're doing. Hell, I'm a total asshat and I could have organized that mess far better than it is now. We had a more efficient and productive response to a tsunami halfway around the world during the holidays than to something in our own country. WTF?

There's not much the average person can do to help, other than go down there, which isn't a possibility for most people, or donate some cash, which is a little more feasible. So yeah, maybe if you've got some extra green, send it their way. I don't like the Red Cross for reasons too complicated to explain here, but there's several other organizations that could use all the help they can get.

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:47:01 GMT

Can anyone recommend a good wireless keyboard and mouse?

A rechargeable mouse would be nice, but isn't necessary. / Quiet, but not soft, keys are highly preferred. You know what I mean? They should make that clean clicking sound, not CLACK CLACK CLACK and not pffffttttt pfffftttt pffffttttt. I'm probably weird, but I feel strongly about my keyboard sounds.

So.. anyone? Plz advise.

Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:50:37 GMT

Happy Birthday kadewire!

Aside from being a fearsome ninja librarian, which means you automatically win at life, you're also one of the most clever, funny and kind people I've ever met. The world is a far brighter place because of you.

Have a great day! ♥

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:33:14 GMT

Cleaned up the flist a bit. If you didn't make the cut, it's because your LJ has been abandoned, we have nothing in common, I have no idea who you are and why we're friends, or I just don't like you. But it's probably not the last one. There there.

Likewise, if you're tired of me or have no effing idea who I am, don't stick around just to be polite.

Aaaaaand, if I accidently defriended you but you're actually brilliant and plan on posting awesome things in the future, my bad. Speak up, vato.

Aaaaaand, if you got cut and you wanna bitch about it, that would be just peachy. Go for it. ♥

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:17:34 GMT

Congrats to Green Day for winning, like, every MTV VMA award ever. It's about damn time.

Even if they do wear eyeliner and sing schmoopy emo teenage songs nowadays. It's all good.

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:22:11 GMT

So they're doing a segment about "girl crushes" on Today on NBC. I can almost guarantee that I'm about to be totally pissed off because the whole concept is going to be that a girl can have a crush on another girl and still maintain her precious blessed heterosexuality, as if it would just be the worst possible th... Gah. Blah! *spazzity*

You'll see. They'll say every crush a female has ever had on another female is actually mistaken feelings of admiration or respect or being lonely or thinking they're too fat or a reverse Oedipus Complex or whatever other half-baked explanation they can rationalize and not to worry if you think you might like another woman because you're actually just totally screwed up and you secretly still LOVE the cock and plz not to panic.

And God help a guy who thinks he might like guys coz apparently there's just no hope for that. Oh hell no. No cute stories on morning TV, no New York Times articles, no comforting message that, of course, they DO NOT LOVE the cock, they're just insane too, because being a gay man is soooooo much more wrong than girls in the same situation.

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And yet, I'm still going to watch because being pissed off in the morning is still better than being half asleep. I have a fucking basic grammar and punctuation test in English today. Bitch, please. I may. WRITE. ¿liek. this!online but I can string together a decent sentence when it's really necessary.

So anyway, in summary: RAR.

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:20:53 GMT

Mmmmmm... Having pizza for lunch yay. This calls for a poll!

View Poll: Pizza Dei Vostri Sogni

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:07:02 GMT

I know you've been anxiously awaiting my clever thoughts about HBP. Coz, clearly, the 792874979 posts already out there just aren't enough.

For the most part, my thoughts on the subject are the same as everyone elses. So, ditto. Except...

1. When accio_draco starts noticing problems with commas and sentence structure, something is terribly, terribly wrong. Fiction Alley would have sent the manuscript back to JKR. The irony, it burns.

2. Other than that, OMG SO PRETTY.

3. A good rule to follow: If someone agrees to teach DADA without at least some resistance, and especially if they volunteer for the job, KILL THEM.

4. Luna Lovegood is not nearly as horrible as I thought. Also, she should provide running commentary on everything. Wouldn't that be great?

5. Voldemort, you smelly bitch, if you make my poor wee baby Draco cry EVER AGAIN, I'll save Potter the trouble and kill you myself.

5¼. That scene got me worse than the ending even. Gah.

6. DUMBLEDORE! *sobs*

7. *ahem* It seems... OH GOD, WHY?? I disliked him for most of the series but he had kinda grown on me in Books 5 and 6 and now... *flings self off cliff*

8. Ginny Weasley should go away. Like, 3 books ago.

9. The book could have been called Draco Malfoy and Dumbledore and Snape and the Half-Baked Plan and How Things Went Horribly Wrong And That Kid With The Scar Was There Too, I Think.

10. Not that I mind.

11. No, really. If you haven't figured this thing out with Snape and what team he's really playing on, blarg. Look:
- A. Snape made an Unbreakable Vow (duh)
- B. He obviously truly cares for Narcissa and Draco. Lucius is on Voldy's shitlist, so Snape has no obligation to actually be nice to Narcissa. But he does. JKR throws in Bellatrix for some contrast.
- C. Dumbledore trusted Snape. And D's always right (except when he's making one of his hugeass mistakes, but this wasn't one).
- D. Snape was a complicated spy. He probably told Voldy important-sounding, but ultimately useless, stuff about D and Hogwarts ("Dumbledore had soup for lunch today!"). Then he came back to D and told him useful info about Voldy ("Um. The Dark Lord is gonna hex your soup tomorrow.") Then he had to pretend that he was actually accomplishing some sekkrit Ebil ("Dumbledore totally ate the soup. He had to take a Tums. It was awesome.")
- E. Which explains why Dumbledore and Snape didn't take out classified ads explaining the whole situation, as per Voldemort can read minds and shit.
- F. Snape sees himself in Draco and is trying to stop Draco from following in his path. OMGSOSADANDTRAGIC.
- G. Dumbledore and Snape probably had a conversation like this at some point in time: "K, so you may have to kill me if the Death Eaters are watching and you don't wanna look a fool." "Sux0rz. But yeah."

12. Harry is pretty hot when he's all confident and not shouting at people. Like with the Felix potion and, well, hell, all through the book, actually. Gah.

13. And he has nice eyebrows, too, apparently.

14. Harry spends 97% of the book staring at and obsessing over Malfoy. I am pleased. Infinitely pleased. (Remember that time he got hit in the head by Goyle on the train coz he'd been watching Malfoy put on his robes? Ahahaha! That was great.)

15. About Ron: That boy ain't right. But he was still more likable in this book than the other 5 combined. Yay.

16. Remus + Tonks. Bwuh? Wotta? Wibba jibba?

17. No, really. If Harry says something's up, fucking listen to him. The boy ain't dumb.

18. EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE IN THE BOOK WOULD MAKE A GREAT DRAWING/PAINTING/ETC. HINT HINT WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.

19. Voldy's crazy inbred family. Nice. Very Anne Rice-ish, but nice.

20. That is all. For now, at least.

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:25:34 GMT

Reason #502475927 why I am not a Christian.

Thanks to spiralled for the link.

Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:40:33 GMT

The Gamers' Manifesto. Bloody brilliant.

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:03:54 GMT

What's up with the inside cover art for HBP? Is it like.. magic arm wrestling?

//EDIT: It's sort of reminding me of those crazy 80's cartoons. Like, I can almost hear a voice go "With your powers combined, I am CAPTAIN PLANET." Which is alarming.

Mon, 23 May 2005 13:10:17 GMT

MindMap

[Dude. These things are amazing. I've been reading about them for the last half hour. It's fascinating to see how they work. There's a lot of big words. But it's the type of thing I'd like to understand. Like, alot. So have made coffee and am reading again now.]

mcfnord, I don't want to alarm you with the fangirling, so if you see this, you are insanely brilliant and a totally awesome ninja. \m/ And color! Teehee. Thank you muchly.

Sun, 08 May 2005 06:55:38 GMT

i think that
people
who post
nothing
but vague
and cryptic
whiny ass emo
poetry
should be
beaten
with
sticks