Je Suis - Vous Êtes

Just Out of Reach

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:24:23 GMT

So my mother managed to actually get the modification to the mortgage, which would drop the monthly payment from 3000 to 2000 a month and prevent the impending foreclosure. However, in order to complete the transaction, she has to somehow wrangle together 5000 to pay for all of the assorted paperwork and fees before the end of the day.

Yeah, we'll see how this goes.

I finally post, which means you know it is bad news.

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:18:03 GMT

Phone company didn't register my phone-bill payment even though it was deducted from my account by *some* entity which bears their name, so my phone has been cut off. Best to reach me by e-mail/facebook/AIM/the internets for the moment.

Got two tickets from one of those pathetically transparent money-grab check-points done by the county when their quotas are coming up, one for my window tint and one for my past-due plates.

Finally, my car was broken into tonight, I think they only took my radio, but I've been too angry to go through the remainder of my posessions in the car.

Damn Musicians

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:55:05 GMT

Of course, the one weekend The Wet Spots play in DC is the weekend on which I'm going to the beach, boo.

And yes, this is a largely irrelevant update, but I just realized I haven't posted anything in three months, and my last post was a bit of a downer. I haven't progressed forward, but atl east I'm not feeling bad about it.

Not sure if that's a good thing.

Low

Fri, 02 May 2008 02:55:54 GMT

I never thought my household would be poor to the point where we were actually unsure as to whether or not we would be able to eat the next day.

Sigh...

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:07:57 GMT

I am feeling violent. I wish to lash out and inflict meaningless destruction on things around me, as I feel completely powerless to make progress on that which does have meaning.

That rational part of my brain says this is irrational, and I do not care.

The downside to being coldly rational for the greater part of one's existence? When your emotions do show up, you really have few functional ways of dealing with them.

Audition

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:33:25 GMT

So, I'm thinking about auditioning for the community theater's production of Bare, but I have no idea what I should do for a monologue and "up tempo rock song" to perform.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Things are looking up!

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:00:19 GMT

Yay, I am now employed at Navy Federal Credit Union, making 15% more than I did at Chevy Chase, rawk on.

Squee!

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:28:44 GMT

For those of you who know me, you know I have a love/hate relationship with pop cultuer/music. Specifically, I love it, and I love to make fun of it, which is why I love Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Video on Trial.

And, joygasm, I just discovered Video on Trial did 1980s-themed episodes! *dance*

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:30:23 GMT

GWShenlong05 and the Foreclosure Crisis (with help from Fortune and Reuters)

That's pretty much it, in a (somewhat large) nutshell.

Heard on NPR...

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:05:42 GMT

Martha Raditz: Two-thirds of Americans say [the Iraq war] is not worth fighting.
Dick Cheney: Abraham Lincoln didn't listen to polls during the civil war.

Well, yeah, but by the time the fifth anniversary of that war was marked, it had been over for a year...

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:19 GMT

Josh (a vegan): I'm still on the fence about honey.

Tommy: Well, yeah, but there are other very necessary agricultural uses for the domestication of bees. Without them, there wouldn't be the means to maintain the infrastructure to maintain the vegan lifestyle. I mean, it's either bees or hire mexicans to hand pollinate everything.

Greg Scarnici

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:54:48 GMT

Although I do dearly adore Miss Amy Winehouse, I just thought this was hilarious

Greg Scarnici vs. Amy Winehouse

If you haven't heard of Mr. Scarnici, he's also known for the following parodies:

Ring the Alarm
Fergalicious

the following original musical compositions:

Curious
I Wanna Do Ya

And comedy sketches such as:
Home for the Holidays

A Prairie Home Companion

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:26:53 GMT

I know atleast a few of you out there must be big NPR nerds, so who wants to go see A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap on Saturday, May 24th?

RAGE!

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:29:30 GMT

People can't fucking drive around here. You don't have to fucking brake in the middle of a turn, you don't have to wait for a full car-length of space in front of you after the light changes to move, and you don't fucking have to drive at half-speed because of a little ice!

All that, plus the fact that I missed out on being able to to vote today by *exactly* nine seconds is making me incomparably frustrated at the moment.

Uh, I guess it is the thought that counts?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:19:18 GMT

Okay, so someone has anonymously sent me a fleshlight (NSFW), and I'm very puzzled as to why...

Fucking "Wintery Mix"

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:47:25 GMT

So, I had the most frustrating, most thwarted-feeling day ever.

Left the house around nine for a ten thirty class, didn't arrive until about 12:10 (class was over at 11:50). This was a combination of me never having been to the Alexandria campus, people being unable to drive properly, and the fact that I need new windshield wipers because mine leave everything streaky, and thus signs unreadable.

Considering I had also missed the Tuesday session of this class, I decided to track down my professor and get any handouts and apologize for missing te first two sessions. I get to the Applied Sciences office, and these two moronic girls are blathering on with the receptionist about classes *which aren't actually in the college of applied sciences*! Worse, for some reason the receptionist is humoring them, so I stand behind them for a good twenty minutes until they finally get it that they have to head downstairs to the humanities department to discuss sociology, and across the city for any hospital technology courses.

Had a pleasant little chat my Botany professor, then proceeded to get lost (again) en route to a branch of the bank where I'm helping out. Left Alexandria campus around 13:30, arrived at work at 14:45. Ended up going down King St all the way to the waterfront because somehow I missed the turn onto US 1 south.

After work, I drive merrily along towards the Annandale campus for my calculus class... only to find that all the classes have been cancelled, and I could have just driven directly home.

Gbargle, blah, *passout*

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:30:46 GMT

Spent today spinning in my own head, which isn't good for when I need to accomplish tasks like driving, but I managed to avoid any accidents that could be linked back to a 94 Integra, so I think I'm okay.

For a while I've been marking my cold, detached, analytical side as something of a hinderance, a negative quality, but more and more I think it is soemthing I'm fundamentally stuck with, and really isn't the fatal character flaw that I've been making it out to be. I may also have been using it as a scapegoat for any number of other problems I have in my life and relationships.

Nothing more conclusive than that after a day of navel-gazing.

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:28:26 GMT

So I'm single again, a combination of grievous timing calculations on my part plus what I suppose would have become irreconcilable differences in demeanor.

C'est tout.

Sweeney Todd

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:44:08 GMT

Pretty good movie-musical, the over-all art direction was amazing, and I really enjoyed the casting. Although the voices aren't show stopping, they certainly fit the scenes very well.

It was, however, a bit odd to actually see up-close the gore I usually only got to see from the nose-bleed seats in the theater. Furthermore, I was slightly disturbed at how young the actor was that played the part of Tobias, considering all the trauma he goes through later in the show. It made "Not While I'm Around" especially poignant.

Whoever was playing Anthony Hope really sucked, though.

Something for the Broadway Buffs...

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:45:14 GMT

Carol Channeling, Caroling! 12 Days Of Christmas

In case I haven't yet told you...

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:27:00 GMT

I'm pretty sure I managed pretty good coverage assaulting everyone with this news on AIM, over Facebook, Myspace, or in person, but just to be sure I think I'll cover this front as well.

I have a boyfriend now, his name is Luis, he's twenty-two, lives in Woodbridge, adorable, El Salvadoran, huge video game geek and plays Yu-Gi-Oh.

C'est tout. =)

Frustration

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:03:26 GMT

Today's Tommy factoid: I am an incredibly deliberate, somewhat inflexible person. When plans I make are thwarted or changed, I become frustrated to the point where it almost overwhelms me.

The event that highlighted this particular aspect of my psyche today was my attempt to register for classes to finally be done with NVCC once and for all. I'd planning this for weeks, for on this date I would actually have the fundage to pull it off.

When I clicked "submit", however, red X-marks appeared next to all of my selections, and I was informed that there was a hold on my records and I would not be able to register for classes at this time.

A reasonable person would simply make an appointment to meet a counselor the next day. I, however, became nauseous, my throat tightened up, and my temperature rose. At work all I could think of was being trapped in my job, and I wanted with every fiber of my being to run out the door and to the college to get whatever mess there was fixed.

On a smaller scale, I tried to post a comment to someone's journal today, but was informed that I had been banned from posting. That annoyed me more than it really should have, and actually prompted to make a journal entry about my various frustrations today.

Lately I tend to verbalize a lot of posts to the air around me, but then get bogged down in the particulars of translating speech into logical, clear text. This happens a lot with comments to friends' journals, which is why I tend to comment as rarely as I post sometimes.

Downside to NPR?

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:54:13 GMT

I think I've been listening to "Prairie Home Companion" a bit too much lately, as I just referred to a casserole as a hot dish.

In More Relevant News

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:50:57 GMT

The NOVAM Concert for Hope was awesome. I'd never been to a gospel performance before, so getting to see the Howard Gospel Choir in action was a special treat. I was really impressed with the amount of personal investment and energy the members of the choir posessed, and the truly marvelous, almost acrobatic and inspiring conduction by the director.

And of course, who could forget the headliners, gay pop christian duo Jason and DeMarco. They're a little glurge-tastically saccharine in their music video, but I think this crappy cell phone camera clip better captures their vocal essence. They're very, very good live and really very sweet and to boot :)

Jason even complimented me on my bow tie, yay.

Luis also enjoyed the show quite a lot as well, which was something I was afraid wouldn't necessarily happen.

Falls Church Class of 2001

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:30:20 GMT

To all, uh, two of you who went to Falls Church with me and graduated in 2001, remember Jason Nguyen? Apparently he's now gay, a model, and Mr. June in a calendar I got the other day.

Weirdness, no?