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Saturday, December 17, 2005
1:19AM
Ok, just because I feel like bragging:
Finals: Done
Essay: Done
Books: Returned (Except one. Shhh.)
Stories to beta: Beta'd
Christmas Quills letters: Written
Bills: Paid
House: Clean (mostly)
Plus, I got paid today and Stephy is here. Well, not here here, because she had to go to her initiation thing and won't be back until Sunday, but still, she is in the state of Arizona.
What sucks about living in a college town is that everyone else goes "home" for Christmas, and I already am "home." Kevin is gone, RaeAnn is gone, Justin is gone, other Kevin is gone, Carly is gone, Katie is leaving soon, and Stephy leaves on the 20th....sigh.
I had to work for almost 10 hours today. I was supposed to work 4-10:30, which actually means 4 to whenever we're done doing all the close stuff, since the store itself closes at 10. Well, Crystal wasn't feeling well, so she called to ask if I could come early. I said no problem, so I went in at 2:30. Also, this was my first time closing, and the only other person there with me was Brandon. What is the only thing I've heard about Brandon? How bad he is to close with. And gods, he really is. We didn't get out of there until like 12:30, almost.
Things I still have to do:
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) joint_gifts fic
Christmas fic for RaeAnn (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) girl_cameron)
The drabbles I promised people weeks ago, and actually got one written before I had to start concentrating on finals
Friday, December 16, 2005
Gacked from about a zillion different people, including sethkyne_blue and kyasuriin. Because I am bored. I promise there will be a substantial update later today.
I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions. Any 3, no matter how personal, dirty, private, or random. I have to answer them honestly. In turn, you have to post this message in your own journal and you have to answer the questions that are asked to you.
Go nuts, people!
Friday, November 25, 2005
Um, yeah, I know most of this is just going to be an echo of everyone else's GoF posts, most of which I have read already, but, without further ado, or much ado at all, really, here are my thoughts on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Mostly in chronological order, unless I forget something, or my brain starts spazzing out and just thinking things randomly, as it is prone to do.
( Cut for spoilers )
Monday, November 21, 2005
I haven't written a lot lately, and I've been really lax about my flist, too, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone. Since it's Thanksgiving weekend coming up, I'll have lots of time to write. Paper. What paper? I know not this paper of which you speak. So, people, drabbles. Give me a prompt, pairing, rating, anything you think I'll need to write for you, and I shall deliver. Especially new GoF things would be fun.
Note: I don't actually understand the concept of "drabble" so they might end up being fairly long.
Ok, I don't have time to write a decently long post about GoF, so I'll do that tonight and just stick with weekend basics for right now.
Friday night: Went to see GoF again with Stephy, RaeAnn, Kevin, and other Kevin. 'Twas awesome.
Friday night/Saturday morning: Wrote my paper. It was about 7 pages long and fairly crappy, but it was written, which is the important thing.
Saturday morning: Ireland class. You could totally tell no one had slept the night before. Talked about Angela's Ashes, which I actually hadn't read, so I just listened to people talk and managed to read the first 40 pages. Oh, and I did get in a Pink Floyd reference.
Saturday afternoon: Goodbye lunch for Stephy at Island's. Great fun.
Later Saturday afternoon: Take Stephy to airport. Come home. Have long conversation with RaeAnn about animated movies.
Saturday afternoon/evening: Sleep, finally. For like 3 hours.
Saturday night: Party at Jacque's house. Not my best decision ever.
Sunday morning: Come home, have to take Meghan to hospital. Low blood pressure, low blood sugar, fainting, etc. She's ok now, though, so don't worry. She just needs to eat better.
Sunday afternoon: Sleep some more (again, about 3 or 4 hours.)
Sunday afternoon/evening: Homework. Kevin came over. More homework.
Sunday evening: Go over to Kevin's, offer to take some movies back to the store on my way out. See that one of them is Quills. Ooh, Quills. Go over to Kevin's, eat dinner, watch movie. Get it back to store about 10 minutes before midnight. This is another movie that deserves a post, because it was wonderful and creepy and so very sad.
El fin.
Friday, November 18, 2005
Ok, I know I should write about going to see GoF, which I did last night, but I figure I'll write about it after I see it again tonight, to get a better impression of it.
I just feel really weird right now. Like my life = ???????*headdesk*
I have so much to do that I don't really feel like doing anything. Nothing. Except maybe watch movies, because I haven't seen many movies lately. I have a 10 page paper (ok, it's a rough draft, but still) due at 9:00 tomorrow and I haven't started it yet. I have a genetics test on Wednesday. The final paper for my Shakespeare class. Oh, and finals. Yeah, those. But not for a few more weeks. I also have concluded that there is no way I can get honors credit for genetics, now matter how much I think I deserve it because that class is freaking hard. There is just no way I can write a 15-20 page paper on top of everything else.
And work. This has gone beyond "I hate my job" because hey, you all knew that already. I seriously reached the end of my rope yesterday. This weekend, I am jobsearching, and the instant I have a new job, I'm quitting. I was this close to doing it yesterday, but, you know, paying rent is a good thing. Seriously, I have reached the point where I would rather have my teeth pulled without anesthetic than go to work. I get depressed every time I think about it. And it's sad, because although I do occasionally have good days, and I love the people there to death (I always end up loving my co-workers, which makes leaving my jobs hard), the overall experience I cannot stand.
As part of the whole "not wanting to do anything" this includes fan fic. I feel bad about this, but everything that comes up on my flist, I read the summary and am like "yeah, that sounds ok, but I don't have time to read right now." So, um, if there's something really good out there that I've missed over the last few weeks, please let me know. Especially gen. I'm really in the mood for gen right now.
*headdesk*
Monday, November 7, 2005
Here it is, finally, RaeAnn's (girlcameron's) long-lost birthday fic. Only three months late. She wanted Harry/Draco, camping, and s'mores. I've never written H/D before, and probably never will again, so bear with me here.
Title: For Fun
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG, maybe, for implications
Word count: 664
A/N: Beta'd by the wonderful sholmes87. Thanks for the speedy job.
( Read more... )
Friday, November 4, 2005
10:51AM
So, what's happened since my last update? When was my last update? Umm, ok, Meghan and I moved into a new apartment and I have my own room. YAY!!! *loffs on room* Seriously, though, the only time I regret how many books I have is when I have to move them all. Books are heavy. Other than that, I've just been trying to deal with school and things. I've been so busy lately; I don't know when things are ever going to calm down. I think I'm just going to have to suck it up and wait until Christmas break, which is in a bit over a month.
I really, really want a new job. The one I have now pays well, because I'm good at it, but I hate it. I hate telemarketing, I hate only working on school days when I've already been going since 8 in the morning and then have to work until 8 at night, I hate not having flex time. Fortunately, the Biodesign Institute needs more people on their research team and is having an informational meeting on Tuesday. I so so so so want to work there. It would be my dream job. Plus, it's like a 5 minute walk from my apartment. How do I lose? I don't.
I've been in a state of constant tiredness lately. Not like the kind where you just want to pass out wherever you happen to be, just that kind of low-grade lethargy that's always, always there. Even when I first wake up. The only time it's not is when I get these weird periods of super-wakefulness, the kind you get after a really amjor caffeine buzz, the kind where you can't sleep at all even if you want to.
Yeah, that's about it for now.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
RaeAnn and I went railroad camping on Saturday, and much fun was had. We climbed on some abandoned train cars and walked on top of them which is fun. Although I really don't think you could do that when they're moving, no matter what they show you in the movies. We also found one of the head cars, whatever they're called, that had "pickle poke" graffitti'd on the side of it, so it became Castle Pickle Poke, and we got to go inside and see what's inside an engine car (not much.)
We ended up getting trapped in this mucho scary industrial complex thing. It was really spooky because it was running and making all these weird noises, but no one was there. Seriously, we saw nobody. Plus, there didn't seem to be any way to get out; we ended up having to slip through this gap in the fence. We found this really cool little house thing, too, which had a basement but not really, just like a space under the house, and you had to use a latter to get down there. We wanted to explore but it was filled with evil little biting flies and we ended up getting chomped on most horribly.
We decided to be incongruous with the whole railroad thing and go to a restaurant for dinner. We found this Mongolian barbecue place on Elliot which is really, really good. Then we walked some more and ended up getting trapped in this gym/sports complex thing. Then we went to sleep under a hedge. We really wanted to sleep in a tree, but trees were not to be found.
Tonight there is TFB!! Hahahaha.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
11:49AM
Fuck. My house got robbed. Fuck.
Current mood:  pissed off
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Ok, the week from hell is over. I did better than I thought on my chem test, got an 82. But Professor Rose messed up on the points, so everyone gets to add 5 to their score. 87 in o-chem is fantastic. I'm so happy.
My Shakespeare midterm seemed pretty easy, and the prof said on Monday that the ones that had been graded so far were really good. And we've started reading Much Ado About Nothing, which as always is wonderful.
Friday night Kevin made me birthday dinner and we started season 2 of BSG. It was really good. Too bad it has commercials and all that stuff. It'd been so long since I watched TV that I'd forgotten all about that. Stupid commercials.
I stayed up all night on Friday getting ready for the presentation. I think I did fairly well, meaning that I managed to be coherent through the whole thing. After being up for 27 hours in a row, I deserve at least a B just for that. It was supposed to be a 12-15 minute presentation, and Professor Lynch was going to tell us when 12 minutes were up. When she said "Shannon, 3 minutes" I about freaked out. How had I used up 12 minutes already? I still had so much left to talk about! So I had to cut a whole bunch of stuff out. Which was upsetting, because it means I did all that research for nothing. Well, not nothing, knowledge for knowledge's sake and all, but still. Then I came home and slept for 6 hours.
I got my schedule changed at work, so I only work 20 hours a week instead of 30. Which is good, I was too overburdened. I still think I want a different job, though. One closer to home, and that will give me flex time, and that doesn't involve telemarketing. But I do have more free time, and that, combined with my muse beginning to come back from wherever it has been, means I should be able to get started on the huge list of things that need to be written.
You know what's unfair? You know what's really unfair?
The opportunity: Six weeks in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh, staying in the Kensington area, Univsersity College, and Queen Margaret University college. Long weekends to travel around the British Isles or go to the continent. 6 upper division honors credits, which is 1/6 of my graduation requirement.
The cost: $4, 250. Plus tuition. Plus the fact that since my sister is in my custody, I can't really take off out of the country for six weeks.
Fuck.
Monday, October 10, 2005
I overslept on Saturday and was late to class. That's only the second time ever I've done that. Fortunately, it's a three hour class, so being an hour late isn't a hanging offense. I did get some bad news, though. My group presentation, the one that was supposed to be on the 22nd? Got moved to the 15th. Lucky me. That means I have a whole entire week less to get it done. Also, this week I have a chem test (already taken, I think I did mediocre on it) and a midterm for my Shakespeare class on Wednesday. Plus just regular things like reading and weekly assignements and what not. This next week is going to be shitloads of fun.
On Saturday Kevin and I went to go see Corpse Bride, which was really, really fun. I was a bit wary after hearing so many people say that it wasn't as good as they had been expecting. I think I actually liked it better than Nightmare Before Christmas, not that that's saying a lot. I may be forced to turn in my Tim Burton fan license for saying this, but I don't actually like Nightmare Before Christmas that much. But the whole thing was really good and I'd definitely go see it again.
Yesterday I finished watching season one of Battlestar Galactica. Now there's a way to spend five hours of your day when you really should be doing homework or research or something else. But the reruns of season two have already started, so I need to be all caught up.
Anyway, that's about it for now. If I'm not around much the next few days, it's because I died from massive nervous breakdown.
Friday, October 7, 2005
12:01PM
I went to Serenity on Wednesday. It was interesting, because even though people on the f-list have been squeeing about it forever, I really had no desire to see it. I know it's based on some TV show or something, but I don't watch TV, and really had no idea what the movie was about or anything. But Wednesday night, Kevin and I were supposed to be watching Battlestar Gallactica with Emma and Ryan, but Anna wanted to go see the movie instead so we all went, me and Kevin and Emma and Ryan and Anna and Alyssa. And you know what? It was bomb-ass movie. I really, really liked it. I might even see it again, so I could laugh at the funny parts. I really wanted to laugh, but I had such a bad headache from not eating that it would have been a very bad idea. I intended to go home and grab something to eat, but I barely had time to drop my stuff off after work before going to the thater to make it on time, and I would rather die than eat theater food, except for popcorn, which I really didn't want. But I really liked the movie and had a good time and finished the reading for my Ireland class and everything.
Thank gods it's Friday. The next few days should be interesting. I have an o-chem test on Monday and a midterm in my Shakespeare class on Wednesday, and Saturday I'm meeting with my group to discuss the group project for the Ireland class, and I have done almost no research. Blah.
Also, sopdetly? You and sethkyne_blue were talking about JRM picspam on CQ the other day. Linky, please? It would make my day so much better.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
So, I go to my advising appointment yesterday to file my Declaration of Graduation, and there's a sign on the reception desk that says, "Please be patient well waiting for your adviser."
Yep. These are the people who are telling me what to do with the rest of my life. Pity me.
Monday, October 3, 2005
Finally saw the GoF trailers. Well, the ones RaeAnn (girlcameron) had linked to in her LJ. Except one of the links wasn't working, so I think I saw the American version and the British version, but not the international one. All in all, I think it looks pretty decent. I always thought this would translate to the screen the best out of all the books, since it has a lot of action in it, and not so much exposition, or whatever it is. I mean, I was kind of upset with what they did to the Shrieking Shack scene in PoA, since that is my favourite scene from all the books, but really, that's almost all dialogue, and people don't want to just sit there and watch characters on screen talk. Most of the stuff looked really great in the trailers, though, all the stuff with the lake and the dragons and the Quidditch World Cup. The bit with Sirius' head in the fire was a bit off, though. Not at all how I pictured it. Also, people need haricuts. Practically everybody. I wasn't really sure about Moody, either. I mean, Brendan Gleeson is a good guy, I like the stuff I've seen him in. I think it was the eye that really bothered me, though. From the trailers, it looked like it was...strapped on...or something? Is this just me being weird? All in all, though, it looks really good, and the one HP movie so far that I'm not really nervous about.
Also...thank you thank you thank you to IMDB.com. We were talking about Shakespeare in Love in my Shakespeare class today (it comes up at least once a week) and that got me wondering again: Who plays Christopher Marlowe? Because I know I've seen him before, but I couldn't place him for the life of me. He's not in the credits, either. So I pop over to one of the best websites around, and check it out. It's Rupert Everett, in case anyone's curious.
Also, sholmes87, I must reiterate, I got to see Macbeth yesterday while you spent 8 hours in the car. Neener neener. Yes, the Shakespeare theatre in Phoenix was putting on my favourite play, and I can get extra credit for seeing it, so what's not to love? Kevin and I went, and it was great. It was a very interesting interpretation of the play, very hypersexualized. Very interesting costuming choices as well, they had the whole Goth thing going. But it worked, it worked very well. Plus, the guy playing Donalbain was very yummy. A kind of darker, slighty less cheek-boned version of JRM.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Ok, just had the most stupid chem lab ever. You know that experiment you do in like 3rd grade, where you put a little stripe on a piece of paper with a marker, and put it water, and watch the colors spread out as the paper absorbs the water? Yeah. We did that. Only we used food coloring instead of markers, and mix of water and alcohol instead of just water. What the hell does this have to do with organic chemisty!!??? The only good point was that we got out of lab about an hour and a half early. The bad part was that I had to get up at 7:45 to go to lab in the first place, and it was completely pointless.
Anyway, I also talked to my genetics professor, and got my topic for my honors research paper approved. Ethical implications of genetic engeineering. Something I'm highly interested in, plus there's a lot of stuff out there about it. And, I get to watch GATTACA and at least have a slight reason for doing so, not that I really need one.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Umm, yeah, in case people have been wondering, I haven't dropped off the face of the planet or anything. My life has just been insanely hectic, and I haven't had time to do much updating. My little bit of online time is mostly devoted to keeping up with my RPs.
Things have calmed down a bit, though, so I'm trying to catch up with things. I think I'm actually going to cave and watch the GoF trailer (in opposition to almost everyone I know, I am vehemently against trailers and spoilers). But RaeAnn has convinced me that I must see this one, so as soon as I get some time on my home computer and not the school computers, I'll take a look.
Also, interesting anecdote of the day. We're studying bacterial genetics in my general genetics class, just basic stuff. Anyway, sex in bacteria is determined by something called the F-factor, which is this little ring of extra DNA, also called a plasmid. Male bacteria have them, females don't. But during mating, the male bacterium transfers one of the plasmids (they usually have between 10 and 20) to the female bacterium, making it male. So why aren't all the bacteria male, is what I wanted to know. Well, it turns out that a male bacerium is effectively carrying around about 10-20% more DNA than a female bacterium, which is very expensive in terms of energy. So basically, and this is the terminology the professor used, a male bacterium "cures" itself by dividing the cell body but not the DNA several times very rapidly, getting rid of the plasmids. Yes. Maleness in bacteria is a disease. I am highly amused by this, for some reason.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
12:01PM
OMGROGERYAY!!!!
Ok, for those of you who are now really confused: Roger is one of my friends from California whom I haven't seen for over a year. He got accepted to Harvard, and was flying out to Boston today. He had a layover in Phoenix, so I got up early this morning and went to the airport to see him. We only got to spend about half an hour together, but still, it was great to see him again. I really miss him and all my friends from CA, so it was really wonderful to do any catching up at all. Of course, there is always the internet, but meeting in person is always much better.
On another note about friends, Justin and RaeAnn and I went to IHOP last night and the best conversation about books and things. It started off as who has the better writers Britain or Amnerica? Well, basically we agreed that Britain did, and were coming up with American authors who challenged that. Boy, did we have a list, both British and American. All in all, very good; I love being part of such a well-read group. Then it turned into reccing books for each other to read. There was a lot of stuff I expected, but also some stuff I had never heard of. It was just great, great. Night time excursions to IHOP always make my day wonderful.
And further proof that my Ireland class is the most awesome thing ever. When we were doing class introduction, everyone had to say one just kind of random fact about themselves, and of course, I had no idea what to say. Professor Lynch noticed that I was wearing my HP hat, so I said "Oh, yes, I'm obsessed with Harry Potter." Turns out about half the class is, including the Professor. And I don't mean, "Oh, yes, I like to read the books." It was, "Yes, I read the books and have my own theories and questions and would love to discuss them with you." Then someone suggested that there should be an Honors section for HP next semester, since the Professors pretty much get to pick what to teach for special topic classes. Professor Lynch was just like, "Well, I am the department chair..." So there is the possibility of an HP course coming up this next semester, or possibly a bit later, since I think they have to plan it a year in advance, for those of you here with me at ASU. Also, the class has a forum and discussion board set up for it, which is great. We were supposed to all make introductory posts, just to get used to the discussion board and make sure our account was set up correctly and everything. And what's one of the first things someone suggests? "I think it would be a brilliant idea to have an unofficial class dinner at Rula Bula and discuss Harry Potter. Just a thought." Rula Bula is the Irish pub and restaurant near campus. I love these people.
On a final note of happiness, I just found out today that Macbeth will be be at the Shakespeare Theater from Sept 23 - Oct 8. And I can get extra credit for seeing it.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
For those of you who have been waiting breathlessly to hear how my first week at school went:
Physics: Was dropped. First off, it was apparently not the level of the course that I was supposed to be taking. Also, the switched my chem lab from Tuesday to Thursday without telling me, so it conflicted with my physics lab. So I decided to just drop physics and take the correct course next semester.
Chem: All we've done is review so far, so I can't really tell if I'm going to like it. The professor seems competent, if rather prone to going off topic. I'm not talking about slightly off, I'm talking about he'll interrupt himself to tell a story or something. Which is entertaining, but still. The lab seems pretty good too. The two guys in my lab group I'm not sure about yet. They're the kind of people who could either really cool in a quirky kind of way, or be major assholes, and I didn't spend enough time with them to figure it out.
Intro to Shakespeare: Seems great. My prof is crazy, but in a good way, and the TA for my discussion section is great as well. I got to sign up for Much Ado About Nothing as my class presentation, too. Besides, it's Shakespeare. How can I not love it?
Genetics: Is OMGthegreatestevar. Well, perhaps not quite that. But I love, love, love it to death, to the point where I have to remind myself that I have other classes I need to do homework for. It is just wonderful all around and I really can't wait to get more into stuff, because really all we've done is a more in-depth version of the stuff I did in high school. Also, to get honors credit, I have to write a 15-20 page paper, and he said it could be on anything as long as I could relate it to genetics. He also said he likes really out there stuff. So something I want to run by him is this idea I've actually been playing with for awhile, and put some thought into, about whether magic in the Potterverse is related to genes at all, and if so, how?
Inventing Ireland: Also seems really good. I just had the first class today, and we did this reading about theories people have about the animoisity between the Irish and the English, which was really interesting. We don't actually get started on the stuff until next week, though. I really like how it's set up, it's a very small class and mainly discussion, and there's a mesage board to post on and everything.
Oh, end, for right now.
Monday, August 22, 2005
People are finally back, which makes me very happy. RaeAnn was here, and stayed the night before she moved into the dorms. Then I went to hang out with her and we finally met up with Justin, which was fun. It's really great to just have all my friends back (except Stephy, *tear*) so I have people to hang out with and stuff.
Friday morning I went to IHOP for our inaugural breakfast. It was me and RaeAnn and Justin and Justin's mom, and Leigh and Savannah ended up joining us too. It was great, just how normal it seemed and everything. I'm really lookiing forward to this year.
After breakfast, RaeAnn took me grocery shopping, which was nice of her, and I helped her move some of her stuff from the apartment up to her dorm. The entire intersection at Rural and Apache was closed for some reason, which made things a bitch. It took us probably like half an hour to drive from the dorms to my place. I can walk there faster than that.
Friday night I went to Anna's and watched some more of Full Metal Alchemist, which I enjoyed. But there were a whole bunch of people there, and I really don't do that well in large groups, so I spent most of the night just kind of hanging around by myself at the edges, which was not that fun.
Saturday Meghan and Jason and I went to the mall. Meghan needed some new jeans and I got some shirts for work, which is nice, because I won't have to borrow Meghan's which don't really fit that well anyway. We spent most of the day just wandering around the mall, which was fun, since I haven't been there in moneths. And we went to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and got chocolate covered coffee beans, which are, of course, to die for. They now have a bookstore at AZ Mills, woohoo! It's just a little Borders Outlet, but it's still better than nothing.
We finished off the day by going to dinner at Island's, which was great. On the way home, we stopped at Borders and I got my astrology book, finally, and I spent part of last night casting my chart, which was great fun.
I didn't do a whole lot today, Just chilled and slept, and we cleaned the apartment, too. Then Kevin called and we went out to Coffee Plantation and just walked and talked and got some drinks and stuff. Then we went back to his place and ate blueberries. I love blueberries. Very fun time.
Classes start tomorrow. I'm not too worried, since it'll be the first day, but I think it'll be a big change to be going to class and working at the same time. My schedule will be so busy; I'll need some time to get used to it. And for the record, I think physics will be a very bad way to start off the week.
Finally got my femgenficathon fic finished and posted, you can go read it if you so desire. It's only a week late. Which means I still have to do: Two fics for celticmoonstar (so will not be finished on time), birthday fic for RaeAnn, which should be interesting, and the next installment of the Much Ado About Nothing fic. So I should have plenty to keep me busy, when my time is not being swallowed by school and work and communiquills. I should probably get back into FA, too, just so they don't think I've abandoned them.
Really should be going to bed, but probably will not happen any time soon.
Current mood:  excited
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