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| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | | 6:37 pm |
Hi, flist! It has been some time!
Updates! Update the first: I have the plague. Awesome! Except for that part where it is not, which is all the parts. I am probably going to go to bed in like, half an hour! It is 6:30 PM here! Fun! Update the second: Books are awesome! I have been reading some! I really enjoyed Alan Bradley's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie! Update the third: Teaching has gotten better. I have had to lay down the law for a few (particularly the one that THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY TO SHUSH ME EVERY TIME I TRIED TO TALK TODAY AND HEY LITTLE GIRL JUST BECAUSE I TELL YOU TO BE QUIET EVERY TIME YOU START TO INTERRUPT MY CLASS FOR THE FORTIETH TIME THAT DAY, IT IS DOES MAKE IT OKAY FOR YOU TO DO THAT TO ME!) but I feel like I am starting to build rapport with most of them at long last. Update the fourth: I still like bandom a lot. BUT! Where is the Jon/Brendon love? Where is the Christmas/holiday/winter fic? Hmm, flist? Hmmmmm? *raises accusing eyebrow* Update the fifth: I am trying to take every opportunity given to educate children on why it is NOT okay to insult someone by calling them gay. Oy vey. I wish I did not have to fight this battle. Of course, I am having to fight a similar battle in my church, which is also very Not Fun. Update the sixth: I am going to go lie down! And probably take cough syrup! And probably wake up again to that ridic Girls Gone Wild commercial again like the last two nights that I accidentally left the TV on Comedy Central! | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 8:51 pm |
A la Holloway Roberts, I'll take a shot in the dark.
Kudos to whomever gets that reference. Um, so, yeah. You know what drives me crazy about some singers/bands, Jewel in particular? When the single/radio edit is not the same as the album version, and I like the single/radio edit but CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHERE OH MY GOD HOW HA RD IS IT TO MAKE THE RADIO EDIT OF "FOOL ISH GAMES" AVAILABLE, ITUNES? No, seriously, does anyone have the radio edit of "Foolish Games" they'd be willing to upload for me? I will tell you what I like best about you if you can help me out! :D? :D? | | Sunday, October 4th, 2009 | | 12:48 am |
| | Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | | 9:58 pm |
I HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM. | | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | | 6:52 pm |
Why don't you admit that you don't have the balls to be a queer?
Sometimes I feel guilty for giving up on library books in favor of books I own but have not yet read. It's a weird thing to feel guilt about. I have a real thing about disappointing people and anthropomorphizing inanimate objects. Put those together, and you have shame over not reading library books. I have an OC named Owen, so most of the time when I type the word "own," I type "Owen" first. Sometimes I wish my OCs were real people so I could be friends with them. That's not weird, right? They are pretty awesome. I am glad my feather boa got some use today at school. I also got caught up on grading, which always makes me weirdly nervous, like I am not doing enough. I never did quite shed the high school/college overachiever thing. It's pretty much my modus operandi. No, really, I think I want to read Cloud Atlas. I have heard too many good things about it not to now. This headache might eat my face. From the right upper corner in, it feels like. I AM SO GLAD SYTYCD IS ON TONIGHT. No, really, guys, sometimes this is the only thing that gets me through a day. The last two days have been pretty great, though. I cannot complain. Brendon and Spencer, please continue with the adorable routine. So the song "I Wanna Be a Homosexual" by Screeching Weasel is pretty LULZy, but also kind of...empowering. Like that last verse-line in my title, "Why don't you admit that you don't have the balls to be a queer?" is always kind of spectacularly awesome to me. I feel the same way about Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Pea." Little known gay anthems, kids. Let's start a trend, or at least build an awesome mix. | | Monday, September 14th, 2009 | | 7:47 pm |
Pluses and Minuses
Pluses and minuses time. Minuses first. - crazy children in my classes - this cold that is maybe going away but maybe also just moving into my chest - I have been reading the same book for a month. I hate that feeling. There are so many books I want to be reading right now, so I am trying to get back into that groove. Sigh. - also not having time for like anything else ever. + the book I am reading is amazing! The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Read it, fools. + good kids in my classes + other nice people that I work with + I have a really well-paying job for the first time EVER! HUZZAH! + my friends are cramazing and make me watch awesome movies like Count Yorga, Vampire+ said friends (okay, my gay boyfrond K.) also think it is fun to cruise down the highway suckin' down milkshakes and singing (and signing!) along to FOB's Folie a Deux. + texting! OMG, guys, I love it. I love texting! There, I said it. I have to buy more minutes for my pay-as-you-go phone so I can do it some more. + BANDOM! YOU NEVER FAIL TO AMUSE! | | Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 | | 7:30 pm |
AHAHAHAHA!
Zack Hall, you are my very favorite for posting this on your Twitter:  | | Monday, August 24th, 2009 | | 9:12 pm |
BRENDON!
BRENDON, PLEASE ALWAYS TO BE QUOTING RUFUS WAINWRIGHT ON YOUR TWITTER. OBSERVE: brendonuriesays: "a thousand surfers, whiffs of freon..."
And his new grandma Bea Arthur! California!
...I am perhaps too invested in my love for Rufus. | | Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | | 9:39 pm |
Wellll...
I didn't get the job I interviewed for, but it could be a blessing in disguise. School starts TOMORROW for teachers here, and I would have had to do some lightning-speed planning. I think it would have been really stressful my first time out, so it might be a good thing. Anyway, I am going to go get on the substitute list tomorrow. Thanks to you guys who left me encouraging messages. I am really proud of how I did and for going for it in the first place, and I appreciate your kind words! I have nothing to regret. | | 7:59 am |
Yikes!
Baby's first big job interview today for a high school teaching position! Wish me luck! I really might barf... Hmm... | | Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 | | 1:05 pm |
TOP 5! AKA, emmereffing meme times.
Okay, I really want to do this meme. I hope people ask me questions, haha. Okay, Top 5s! Ask me my fannish Top Five [Whatevers]. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post. Also, you can ask me something that is not necessarily fannish, like my top 5 books or favorite desserts or instances where a saxophone ruined an otherwise great pop song or whatever. My apologies to any sax players out there. I am not sure I can come up with 5 anyway, but I would try if someone asked. Fandoms have included Hanson, silverchair, and bandom, and I am down with like Harry Potter, House, SYTYCD, Merlin, etc., even though I don't necessarily post about them on here. Mostly, I like books, music, movies, and food. Ask me things, flist! You know you want to! | | Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | | 9:46 pm |
Um, Brendon, is there something you want to tell us?
I think Brendon is sending us not-so-coded messages on Twitter about his romance with...well, someone, but probably Spencer. Observe: brendonuriesays: "you must remember this: a kiss is still a kiss. a sigh is just a sigh." falling asleep to family guy. goodnight!brendonuriesays: had an amazing day yesterday, to say the least. and today... well, it's a whole new thing.
brendonuriesays: some really cool guys once said "kiss me once, shame on you. kiss me twice, let's party."
Thoughts, flist?
P.S. Can someone link me to some good Merlin fic? Preferably Merlin/Arthur. ETA: Annnnd apparently Brendon is posting not-so-secret messages about how much he loves his girlfriend! Awww, Brendon, please never stop being so gd charming! | | Friday, August 14th, 2009 | | 2:32 pm |
Uggghhh
I still feel shitty, and now I am waiting on the insurance dude to call so I can probably cry into the phone. Fun! 'Cause I haven't spent most of the last 18 hours or so crying my face off. Someone slap me. Or make me smile, that would be nice. In less depressing news, I started reading the novel Let the Right One In. I saw the movie in maybe February, and then I forgot it was a book until I went to use a gift card and saw it on the shelf. Has anyone else read it? Is it good? I liked the first couple bits I read. ETA: I talked to insurance guy. He was pretty nice, and the questions were easy. I didn't even cry at all! Yay! So now I am going back to The Vicar of Dibley. | | Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | | 8:04 pm |
I hate my liiiiiiiife.
Oh, flist. I was just in a minor car accident. Basically what happened was that I had to make a left-hand turn across two lanes of traffic, and when I got to the left-hand lane on my side, this other car was coming (I had seen it beforehand but it was far away, so I assumed I had time to turn), but I guess maybe I wasn't quite centered in the lane when she got up next to me, and basically what happened was that the backside of her car caught my bumper and pulled it down and under my car. Fun. So there was pulling over and inspecting vehicles and me crying upon seeing my bumper UNDERNEATH MY FUCKING CAR OH MY GOD and a nice-ish police officer who still had to blame me because I was pulling out into traffic even though she was coming too fast and caught MY bumper with HER car and I have to pay a ticket and get my car fixed and on and on and I have pretty much cried my face off. I need to cuddle something, probably. Or do things that don't really involve my hands because they are still shaking. Evenings with friends and good dinner and ice cream should NOT end this way, oy. | | Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | | 12:44 am |
Yay, shopping.
Went shopping with two of my BFFs tonight. The one knows about my crazytimes obsession with Panic and the various fictions people write about them, and the other night, we jokingly decided to make it into a documentary. I drew her some headshots of the dudes (just Brendon, Spencer, Ryan, and Jon at this point) with relevant facts, like how Ryan Ross loves hobbit scarves or Brendon Urie is a former Mormon/musical genius/haver of acid jizz. The last fact was a big hit with both fronds, so we spent the rest of the evening cracking wise on many a jism joke. I think our documentary is tentatively titled Slash? And there will be an intervention scene led by Spencer Smith in which Ryan Ross is confronted re: his latest craziness involving drugs. We decided that all "intervention" type statements from the other dudes should be followed by Ryan's statement from the hilarious "You Smell Slutty" clip: "I said, it makes me feel less lonely." Perhaps this is only amusing to us, though. The important thing is, I got new shoes. ( There's SHOES in them thar hills! ) | | Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 | | 9:44 am |
Ahahaha
Oh, Ryro. I do so love your hipster jokes. Um, flist, why are there not more hipster jokes? Someone please give punchlines to the following: "How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb?" "Why did the hipster cross the road?" (hint: Today's answer is "to fake-hipster-marry Ryan Ross at Disney Land.") | | Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | | 8:09 pm |
Oh, the usual.
First, I sincerely hope Jon Walker got his dog to stop hiccuping. The best way I know is to pick them up under their front legs and let their bottom halves dangle. That seems to stretch everything out and stop the hiccups, in case anyone with Twitter wants to pass that along. I have watched almost all of Lars and the Real Girl, and I really like it. I hope the last 15 minutes are as good as the rest of it. Can someone point me in the direction of a good, detailed MCR primer? I should like to know more about them. I know some basics, but. Well. I am making most excellent progress on Infinite Jest. I like it, but I would really like to be finished with it within the next week or so. After last week's SYTYCD, voters better have learned their lessons. I am predicting a Brandon/Ade/Jeanine/Kayla finale. What I would really like to have happen is that Evan goes home, Ade sustains like a really mild injury that prevents him from performing in the finale but will still allow him to go on tour, and then Jason will have a cold or something, so they have to call Kupono back for the finale. That is what I really want. Feel free to disagree in the comments! I like talkin' 'bout dancin'. Um...that is all. Seacrest out. | | Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 | | 1:15 pm |
New singles, P!ATD, The Young Veins, and weird SYTYCD analogies.
Having now listened to the new P!ATD single, I can say that I like it. I don't feel like it's earth-shattering, but it makes me excited to hear what else will be on the record. Have a listen here: www.myspace.com/panicatthediscoI also listened to the new single from Ryan and Jon's band, The Young Veins. I...am left feeling a little underwhelmed? I like it. I think. But I guess I didn't expect it to be THAT blatantly derivative of The Who/The Beatles. Also, seriously, the chorus-y bit is from "Desire" by U2. (Thanks, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) doll_revolution !) www.myspace.com/theyoungveinsTo me, listening to either single is like watching 2 dances on SYTYCD. The first one is like that cha-cha or rumba or even hip-hop or contemporary routine (I am just using stuff I am usually "meh" about vs. stuff I usually like here) or whatever that you expect to be bored by, but then they throw in a couple of really neat tricks, and they dance it well, and the music is great, and you are pleased and surprised by how much you like it. That is "New Perspective" for me (NOT that I expected to be bored, you understand. I didn't know quite *what* to expect, is all). "Changes" is that dance you expected to like right from the beginning, but afterwards the audience is going nuts and the judges loved it, and you are all, "...Meh. It was okay?" and left feeling kind of cold. I think it will grow on me, but I am not sure I want a whole album of more blatant Beatles ripoffs. Or Who ripoffs. No ripoffs, RyRo, okay? | | Friday, July 24th, 2009 | | 9:56 pm |
YAY!
TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY! THIS IS MY FACE RIGHT NOW:
WOOHOO!
| | 12:53 am |
Attention!
FRIENDS LIST! I need one million words of Brendon/Jon + their babies fic STAT. Also, my birthday is on Saturday. Just sayin'. |
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