saw anberlin play last night and omg they are AWESOME live. i loved it.

stolen from dhaunea

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
sidara goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as gun toting flapper.
amiko_16 tricks you! You get a wad of paper.
black_widow1417 tricks you! You get a clothespin.
crabsushi gives you 8 white evil-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
deathgod02 gives you 16 tan watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
dhaunea gives you 3 dark blue peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
nightwalker gives you 8 white orange-flavoured gummy bats.
ningengirai tricks you! You lose 5 pieces of candy!
spinfrog tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
stealthghost gives you 7 mottled green grape-flavoured jawbreakers.
sunhawk16 tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
sidara ends up with 37 pieces of candy, a wad of paper, a clothespin, a 3.5-inch floppy disc, and a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

so i meant to post this yesterday, but i've been fighting a horrendous head cold all weekend and i totally forgot after i planted myself on the couch to watch chuck and heroes last night.

anyway, my commute to work yesterday morning was eventful. i take the 38 downtown to the financial district and my bus goes up and down hills, right? this being san francisco, those hills can be pretty damn crazy steep. so we're going down the curves where geary turns into o'farrell and we hit the bus stop at van ness, right? well, next to that bus stop is one of those crazy expensive garages for, like, porsches and british cars and shit. and there was this bright orange, shiny new looking semi off-loading really expensive cars. on a hill. with its engine running. and nothing lodged in front of the wheels.

so my bus, it parks. lets people on. doors close. we're all set to leave when all of a sudden there's this loud BOOM and the bus shakes and shudders and is pushed forward almost into the traffic on van ness. we sardine packed people go stumbling down the middle of the bus, making grabby hands for the hand bars and railings. the doors open and we get off the bus to see that the semi lost its brakes and rammed into the back of the bus to park itself on the sidewalk.

ignore the gawkers. they kept getting in the way. sorry the first one's so big.

( semi vs. bus )

i should totally be getting ready for work, but i'm not, because i found this list and decided to post in its entirety.

it's amazing how much of this list i've eaten >>;

The DC Omnivore’s 100

Below is a list of 100 things that every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

( 100 List )

omg PEOPLE! crabsushi is making me a zuchinni and ham casserole so i can eats it and take it to work and she absolutely HATES zuchinni but SHE'S MAKING IT FOR ME ANYWAY!!!!

how so awesome?

i have FINISHED my six month's worth of discovery in a single case with over a hundred plaintiffs. DONE. FINISHED. COMPLETE.

if i EVER have to see those files again, i will foam at the mouth.

*goes to sit down in front of the dnc reports* i'm such a political nut in election years. i find it funny that on the day that the dnc officially opens, mccain's camp is all, OMG WE NEED A SCENE STEALER! WIFE! GO TO A WAR-TORN COUNTRY AND GET A PHOTO-OP!

i have survived hell and spent time with the dysfunctional family. i deserve points for this. or something.

crabsushi and i have settled into our new apartment. our futon was taken over by my cat, go figure. i now have a 32 inch flatscreen tv and a dvd player to go along with it and hd cable. OMG I HAVE A HUGE TV.

*basks in her moment as a guy*

i have FINALLY found inspiration for book 3 and hope to get a good chunk of it written this month. or at least A chunk.

“Human laws are simply morals that the preternatural world chooses to ignore.” Lucien pointed his gun at me and I couldn’t be sure if he had the safety on or not. “If we didn’t need you alive, I’d kill you.”

i am officially 27 years old today (or i will be at 11:33 p.m. tonight but whatevs) and i have spent my entire birthday weekend doing the following:

-seeing eddie izzard on his stripped tour with my absolute best other half
-seeing the dark knight with my awesome roommate crabsushi
-having brunch/lunch with stealthghost and his girlfriend, black_widow1417, crabsushi, my best friend, my little sister, my other best friend and her husband who i used to live with
-waking up at 5:30 a.m. this morning to my dad singing happy birthday on the phone, pausing to yell at his dogs so they didn't eat the neighbor's new puppy who has a deathwish, then finished the happy birthday song
-got a lunch with my lawyers and an early work day courtesy of my managing partner who was like omg you're a baby go home to your cake
-dinner tonight with CAKE omg a REAL BIRTHDAY CAKE WITH CANDLES and everything made by crabsushi (seriously people, CAKE, you have no idea how AWESOME that is. i haven't had a birthday cake made for me since i was a middling teenager, if that)

my party weekend, how so awesome.

i will be spending some time and some money on seeing the dark knight in imax at least twice in the coming week or so. saw it yesterday with crabsushi and holy fucking shit. that movie has moved up to my favorite top three and i have no words worthy of it, or the joker, except damn.

so i have survived the move out of my old place and into my brand new apartment that i'm sharing with crabsushi. my friends were all awesome this past saturday, because they came into the city to help us move. we got everything in one trip in a ten foot truck bc the majority of what i own is books >>; i know, i know, i'm sad like that.

but! our apartment is AWESOME! it's one block from japantown, we've got safeway right across the street, starbucks right below our apartment, zipcar is in the apartment complex's garage (now i don't have to take two buses to get to the car to visit my mom!), and i can walk to work in good weather. two miles every morning is EASY.

plus? i have a snazzy new coffee pot that MAKES ME COFFEE every morning. i love it.

so i spent my fourth of july at my friend's house in texas. she lives about 45 minutes south of dallas-fort worth. her and her family like space so they live in this little unincorporated town where the yards are huge and they have no sidewalks.

this year there was no burn ban in effect so fireworks were allowed. and man, do they go all out for that, which i was glad since california has FIRE just no fireworks.

but before that, with all the bbq-ing and partying, her neighbors decided to do their second annual deerfield 500. yes people. they raced tractors and sit-down lawnmowers up their street, drank beer, then raced back to the start/finish line. and THEN they took the lawnmowers up to their front yard for an obstacle course and even more beer, conveniently located at the REDNECK BEER BARN, a horse trailer with xmas lights and a sign stating this fact with two-foot letters out in front.

seriously. i've got pictures.

and i move this weekend with crabsushi, who made it in fine. i'm still exhausted from the time change and not sleeping and pressure in my ears. ugh.

okay, i'm so sick of smelling smoke every time i step outside. it makes my nose and throat hurt and everything's been hazy for what feels like weeks and weeks.

so done with the wildfires.

so i am packing at the end of the month, crabsushi flies in on july 5th and will have to navigate herself and maybe a tiny itty bitty kitty with her to my house by her lonesome because i don't fly in until july 6th (am in texas for the 4th). we sign the lease for our apartment july 8th and move in on the 12th and OMG APARTMENT!!!!!!

i love the people i live with, they're like family, but i wanted something new and crabsushi and i have been saying for years we need to be roommates at LEAST once and now is a good as time as any to go for it. so we've got a year's lease on the apartment. after that we either keep it again or move. and if we move, i'll just move back into the place i left. because my friends a freaking AWESOME like that, yeah.

on a side note, i made out with a hot irish boy at a bar and in a taxicab saturday night. which made me totally forget to say happy birthday to nightwalker. so.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY MY AWESOMELY CRAZY BEST FRIEND ON THE EAST COAST!!!! (different as to the one who lives in florida)

braaaaaaaaaaaaaains....

...didn't happen. it was lame and led up to nothing and do you know what would have made it AWESOME?

zombies. shyamalan needs to get with some romero and then just go for broke, is all i'm saying.

so i dragged stealthghost with me to look at an apartment in a complex a stone's throw from japantown and lining the western addition. i think they totally thought we were a couple until i was like, "yeah, so i'm interested in an apartment for me and my friend who's moving from the east coast..." and stealthghost just sat there and quietly smirked at the looks the guy gave us.

it's a NICE apartment. one bedroom, 3rd floor with no washer/dryer but with the laundry facility on the same floor. the higher up you are on a floor and the more things you want like a fireplace and washer/dryer, the higher the rent got. i was all about being cheap, and so was crabsushi, who totally and crazily accepted my judgment on the apartment after being unable to see the one that'll be available at the end of the month bc it's occupied but seeing enough examples to get the gist of it.

stealthghost approved of everything and so did i. the apartment is right above a starbucks (COFFEE OMG COFFEE), half a block from the 38 which is one of the fastest bus lines in the city, so i'm 15 minutes from downtown, right next to japantown with all it's restaurants, kinokuniya (which has a HUGE yaoi section now how did i miss this? inner voice: prolly bc you're not into anime anymore. me: shuddup), movie theatre, bars, grocery store, 24/hr security patrol, zipcars in the garage i can use, gym (which we'd get a discount on if we joined), pet areas, just STUFF.

the selling point? cheaper than what's being offered ANYWHERE else for the location we wanted, the price isn't driving up yet for returning college students, and it accepts pets. bc like hell was i leaving my cat behind. and also, when i say cheap, i mean cheap for here. i know the total rent would have most people going "you call that CHEAP?!?!?!"

but yes. it's been a while since i've moved and i hope we get this apartment *crosses fingers* if we do, move-in date is july 12th.

hey, crabsushi? it's not a closet like you had in japan XD

stolen from toscas_kiss. steampunk name generator! aparently i am prudence pocket, but will go by pru, because diminutives of names are always used where i come from.

steampunk names

omg my carpal tunnel has SOLDIFIED both my hands. i can't move them all that much holy fuck it hurts.

...i can't even REMEMBER if we have filings this week *whimpers* crap if we do i am USELESS.

so i spent memorial day weekend monopolizing nightwalker and living it up on her futon while forcing her to drive me around her city and her state while i took control of her cd player.

i'm such an awesome friend.

no, seriously, i had a blast despite breaking the airplane upon arrival in virgina (omg seriously people? the plane's electrical system DIED for five minutes once we reached our gate and you could hear the flight attendants going 'um...the emergency power isn't working...and we've got no air circulating...i can't get the door open...would someone MAKE THE POWER GO BACK ON!?!?!)

we went horseback riding, we went to dc where i watched gourd dancers perform at the american indian museum, met her brother who sold his soul to the government, mocked traffic for MILES (stupid people leaving for the beach on a SATURDAY during a holiday weekend and you're suprised you got stuck in standstill?), kept looking for hurricane evacuation route signs (IDEK it just amused me. possibly because we have nothing like that in the bay area) and in general having the most awesomest time ever on her home turf.

although, nightwalker? your friend's choice in bars SUCK. i may lose our arm wrestling battle just to get your ass over here so i can show you a PROPER irish pub thankyouverymuch.

mwahs! definitely coming back. i just have no clue when.

dear IRS,

thanks for the cash. sorry, not spending it on shoes.

bills, here i come.

sincerely,
me

so i did something to my back on friday. like, seriously did something because it hurts to sit and my spine is mushy feeling in one little area of my lower back and i don't know if it's related or not but my body thinks it's that time of the month when it is SO NOT that time of the month according to my handy little pill count and that only started after friday.

i dunno. been walking around and carefully bending over and shit but watch me be walking on a broken back or something and if i can see my doctor before i have to take that cross-country flight to visit kelly, she's going to probably give me this look again: O__O?!?!?!?

and just for the record, that excedrin shit for back pain? i took four at one time yesterday and they did NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL. it was like eating candy. one day my system needs to figure out that the meds i eat are not the enemy! at this point, i've reached the level of needing to try vicodin to see if it'll have any effect and even then i'm kind of in disbelief that it will considering all over the counter-drugs, codeine and percocet and valium and their family of drugs do jack shit for me.

my body, it no loves me.