• 09:17 I hate weekends on the MTA. #

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I wish I had something interesting to say.

Sorry.

• 00:25 @i_am_scifi Yay! Victory will be yours! You gotta let me know where, man. #

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New apartment: awesomeness.

Computer: working again, but I'm still gonna buy a new hard drive.

Work: Okay, but I'm so sore from moving, and the floor is weirdly hard and makes feet hurt worse.

Sleep: Oh-so necessary.

• 01:47 Srsly, worst day ever. But in a hilarious way. #
• 07:36 Oh god, why...? #
• 15:09 Victory is ours! rejoice! #

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[01] -- Go to IMDB.com and look up your 10 favorite movies.
[02] -- Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for these 10 picks.
[03] -- Have your friends guess the movie names.

1- story within the story, famous line, quicksand - The Princess Bride - sniper_fight, peramble
2- writer's block, insanity, narrator Stranger Than Fiction - peramble Meh. Well, I liked it.
3- sadistic warden, poster, bible - The Shawshank Redemptionsniper_fight, hjsnapepm, peramble - Woot!
4- betrayal, wig, rock odyssey Hedwing & The Angry Inch - peramble
5- fugitive, black humor, government cover-up Serenity - paintedpprglass
6- original sin, television repairman, painting - Pleasantville - paintedpprglass
7- love triangle, frozen river, break up - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - paintedpprglass
8- dead dog, Marilyn Monroe, midlife crisis
9- throwing stones, shrimp, feather - Forrest Gump - sniper_fight, peramble
10- paradox, car trouble, manure - Back To The Future - verselus,

Am freaking out a little. So much to pack, not enough boxes... Especially smallish ones that I can put heavy stuff like books and CDs in... and I have a good number of those. Also, had nightmares/weird dreams that have me spooked.

There was gardening in the last dream, and weird, delicious vegetables. Black cherry tomato. Awesome.
The pickup truck with no breaks. That's always fun. I hate the "breaks aren't working" motif I have in so many dreams. Especially since, when conscious, I remember hearing that cars represent the body, houses the mind. So when these don't work in my dreams, I feel weird.

Not as bad as the dream I had over the weekend with the man giving birth to a baby seal. *shudders* So wrong.


Anyway, I should run into the city to the Upper East Side store and grab some moderately sized boxes. Though I've missed the first truck of the day, and probably the second. Third usually arrives around 2 or 3, if there is one... How to time it? I guess I finish getting dressed and go now and trust that stock people won't be done with their aisles yet.

Wish I wasn't so sleepy, still. And crampy. Gah.

I downloaded Defend Your Castle last night. And you know what? It paid for itself in ten minutes, which was surprising.

Having my Wii in my bedroom means I actually play it. I guess that was the solution all the time. 'Cept at the new apartment, it will be in the living room with the larger, better TV we hope to be getting from a work-person of paintedpprglass's.

Yay, Wii!

• 13:12 At new store! Yay! #

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FINALLY GOT TO GO TO NEW STORE TODAY.

Seriously, we were delayed two or three weeks, what with carpenters' unions and whatnot. I've been terribly stressed out and bitchy and crazed for longer than that... And after being downtown for five minutes, my perpetual PMS was cured.

And I'm off for the next four days for moving apartment.

It never rains, but it fuckin' pours. And for once I'm glad. Yay, new store! Yay, new apartment! Yay, new things!

Now, to rangle me a raise and a boyfriend.

• 11:58 You know you're tired when you start apologizing to inanimate objects. #
• 15:36 The saga continues... But at least i have monday off again. #
• 15:38 @waterscribe testing this, but not replying at anything in particular. #
• 19:07 @Lauren_Joy Red Dwarf is wonderful. Yay, Cat! #
• 19:08 @browniebag WASAAAA? #
• 19:09 #horseshit is far too fun to say. #

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Aw, Paul Newman died.

Old, ect. But still. No more Paul Newman.

I'm tempted to watch Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in his honor. And because I love that movie. But don't know if I will. We shall see.

• 21:33 @waterscribe saturday, new store. And if they take it back this time I shall lose my temper. #
• 14:51 Tomorow? we shall see. also stress is making me and roommates fight a little. :-( #

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• 10:59 Saturday or so they say #
• 12:17 Srsly am so sore and migraine-y... kill me? #
• 13:37 He rocks in the treetops all day long, hoppin and a boppin and singin this song... #
• 15:32 So much for my vacation time... Still got 30th and 1st off, though. sigh. #

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paintedpprglass, laurasubby and I shall be moving at the end of the month to a 3 bedroom place in Gravesend Brooklyn. Yay! G'bye Bushwick, we hardly liked ya.

Seriously, this apartment is very nice and less money than we were expecting to pay. So much yay!

So, my computer Pryderi seems to have shuffed the mortal coil. Or at least, his brains are addled. The hard drive is "click click click"ing, which it did last summer (I presumed from the heat) and after three days of believing it to be dead, it returned to life. I rejoiced, backed things up, and went on with my life.

This time, Monday night I tried to wake it from sleep, it did not respond. I forced restart... it failed to restart, and click click clicked.

Just now, tried to restart, and it actually went "BEEEEEEEEEEP" in an annoyed sort of tone. On the gray screen is a folder icon with a "?" flashing in a taunting manner.

Add to all this, the fact that the USB hard drive on which resides all my music and my backups... It won't mount on my roommate's laptop, or my old iMac that we have in the living room. [Edit: USB Hard drive is okay! I was wrong and there aren't any backups on it (boo!) but my music is fine. It took it's sweet time mounting, though.

Now, I hold out hopes that either Pryderi's hard drive will start working again or that I can otherwise shift my documents off of it. I have novel and story info on there, damn it! Not to mention photos and applications and such. *sigh*]


ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

Something I saw in paintedpprglass's journal

From the best of Craigslist. [ link ]

Also. Gravel.

I'ma gonna stop there. *dies*

RIP 'In A World' Guy

Don LaFontaine died.

Dude, just when you find out who someone is, they're dead. Damn.

Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad For Women.

Read it.

More OCD coddling...

6 years in this journal. Damn.

And only one name change.

I got into New York around 9:30 this morning (14 hours later than my original itinerary), actually got into my apartment around 11:15, and fell asleep watching Olympic swimming around noon. I have just now gained enough conscious energy to get up and check my backlog of LJ and e-mail, but not enough to write about my trip. I took many pictures with my camera phone. Let us see if I have the care to post any of them.

At least it felt like a real week, as opposed to most of my weeks, where I am wondering how the hell it's Thursday already/isn't Monday yet. I am sunburned (rather badly in one spot), somewhat relaxed, rather confused, conflicted, definitely still groggy, and have decided that I don't ever want to fly through Dulles International again, if I can possibly help it. Seriously. They don't know how to make people line up properly, which I thought was really sixty percent of the Flying Experience.

Also, have almost finished Making Money, which I'm enjoying very much, though there are slightly fewer "laughing out loud and making people wonder what is wrong with you" moments, it is highly satisfying seeing different Ankh-Morpork sets and characters intersecting.

Of course, now I'm going to have to read all the Watch books again. *sigh*


And, as is so frequent to my life these many months, I am so very, very broke that I am reluctant to buy food or go to Jazz... I miss going to Jazz. Fuck it, I might as well go. I'm exhausted, but I miss my Jazz Babies, and I have many things to discuss (and many things to keep tightly under lid. We'll see how well that plan works.)

Make that my Dad's house in Columbus, Ohio. Not the house I grew up in, thank the gods. I'll probably be going up there on Saturday, though, get my stuff and bring it down here so that Dad can send it to me easier and such. I don't want my childhood stuffed animals to be eaten by raccoons anymore.

Right now, I'm using Laura's (read, Stepmom's) laptop, and I'm watching Blazing Saddles. Yay, cable! And there's a pool outside, if it gets hot enough, I'll do that. I should go look at the garden, too.

Wow, they're bleeping out the racial slurs. And swear words. It's just not the same.

"What in the wide wide world of sports is goin' on here?"

Dude, if they blank out the n-word, a lot of the lines don't make any sense.


I brought a bunch of my notebooks (which if you know me in person, you know that I have a lot of them) so that I can work on various stories. So much to do. So much that I won't do.

But at least I could use this thing to type up if I have to.

Right now, I think I'm just going to watch movies and such.

Yay, vacation!

This song fills me with happy.

The movie also fills me with happy.

Yay, Happy. Yay, Wall-E.