So, it's been a while since I've done a real entry here. Life's been very meh.

Saw The Dark Knight last weekend. It was, as many have said, awesome.

But is time for Batman to tone it down a bit? :O

I don't recall Batman being a knife-user in any incarnation I've ever heard of, so idk where that part of the vid came from. Somewhere Dark Knight Joker is complaining about his bit getting stolen. Or LOLing over it.

In not so awesome news, I got a ticket the other day. This is... not good.

See, I've got a bunch of points on my license. One might be inclined to suggest I have something of a speeding problem, though I would argue that I do not drive fast unless road/traffic conditions actually allow for it. If you are composing a lecture for me while reading this, I ask that you save your time, please. Trust me, I've heard it all before multiple times from EVERYONE, okay? >.<

Anyway, because of the many points on the license, I'm worried I might end up with a suspended license for several months to year, and since public transportation in my area is virtually nonexistent and I must drive in order to work anywhere, I'm sort of freaking out. And I can't take a class to get out the points because I already did that earlier for another citation earlier this year. Because of this I'm thinking of hiring a traffic lawyer this time, because, yeah, I am that desperate. I'll report back on how that works out.

Has anyone ever tried this? How'd it go?

Also, that cop was a jerk. But then again, they usually are. Honestly now. We had pulled into a parking lot and weren't on the road, so there was not enough road noise to justify YELLING at me as soon as he cop-walks up to the rolled down window. "IS EVERYTHING OKAY, MA'AM? ARE YOU ALRIGHT?" Thank you for the sarcastic melodrama, Officer. I kind of wish I'd been composed enough to respond: "Quite frankly, no, sir. I'm running a bit late to work and have severe menstrual pains. Think Carrie. That was probably more than you really cared to hear, but I've always been told it's best to be truthful with officers of the law and you DID ask."

As some of you may know, I'm currently employed as a customer service advisor at a call center. As such, I'm obliged to speak with many more people over the phone (and in general) than I would care to be doing each day. In the course of this, I hear a lot of the same things over and over again, and certain verbal tics start to really grate on my nerves.

Therefore, here's a brief list of a few things I request you all not do the next time you have to contact those folks who spend their days dealing with other people's problems.

( Or, How To Not Be An Asshole )

More added as I think of them.

Because it's going around something fierce these days:

rp_burnout

Commiserate, rant, whine, share tips for getting over it, whatever floats your boat.

I have no idea if anyone would actually want to use this, but there you go.

So I was sitting there kind of grumping and stewing over the RP and the Plot That Is Made of DO NOT WANT (My DO NOT WANT levels are in the stratosphere. Past the stratosphere. Orbiting somewhere in the Oort cloud right about now.), and I go to my regular f-list and see this linked by rosehiptea.

And die laughing five thousand times over.

Caution: Link NWS and may cause anyone within earshot to ask you what's so funny, like someone asked me earlier.

Among SO MANY other things... did anyone else that one of the pictures of the ruby red perfection they keep trumping has a blue stone? AND WTF why was there a bid? :O


ALSO - I'm making some mixes for fst and am looking for song suggestions for:

Alucard x Anderson
Pip x Seras
... America's Next Top Model

I really will make an entry with an actual life update soon, I swear. There's even good news and stuff.

1. Put your music player on "random." Skip songs with not-very interesting titles (such as "Concerto #4 in E minor")
2. List the titles of the first 25 songs to come up.
3. Put "in my pants" after each title.
4. Bold the ones that actually made you laugh.

1) Special Cases in my pants
2) Journey to Transylvania in my pants
3) Cuzco in my pants
4) Jingle of a Dog's Collar in my pants
5) Thorns in my pants
6) 9 Crimes in my pants
7) Candy Perfume Girl in my pants
8) When I am Queen in my pants
9) Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) in my pants
10) It's My Life in my pants
11) Thrown Down in my pants
12) Plantation Pyre in my pants
13) Send the Pain Below in my pants
14) Everybody Hurts in my pants
15) All is Full of Love in my pants
16) All The Things She Said in my pants
17) Who Wants to Live Forever in my pants
18) Shocking in my pants
19) Goodnight, Goodnight in my pants
20) Flourescein in my pants
21) She's Madonna in my pants
22) I Feel You in my pants
23) Liquid Diamonds in my pants
24) All of this Past in my pants
25) The Badge in my pants

...I'm easily amused.

Entry with more substantial content coming soon. I actually have stuff to talk about. ^^

From various people:

Let's start the new year off right; The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!

And from queen_quing:

1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag some lucky people to spread the disease. --

( Questions & Answers this way. )

And because VH1 and MTV play the hell out of America's Next Top Model Cycle 6:
( It's too much for them to withhandle )

Just in case you hadn't heard it?

Greatestjournal is going down. Problems will not be fixed. Tells people to go elsewhere. And the macros pour in.

Insert "Not so great, huh?" joke here. Or perhaps I just did.

To those affected by this, my condolences.

( Have some dancing birds as a pickup? )

And I do it because online traffic is so dull and I'm goofing off.

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play IN A BLOG ENTRY, no matter how embarrassing. (I used the first two or so when it seemed like the line ended in the middle of a statement)
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4 Addenum: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

( Stop. It's meme time. )

I know this song is like five years old but whatever. WATCH THIS.

( How did I get mixed up with this fucking monkey anyhow? )

Also, I've read some of Bleach, and I... truly have no idea what to think. Now, NOTHING can beat Angel Sanctuary's cloud whales for sheer WTFery, but still. WTF.

Oh, and hi. Been a while since I put anything here.

Yeah, so, that trip I was kavetching about? Backed out entirely. It just wasn't working. Don't plan trips with family, people. Just don't do it. *headdesk*
(ETA: I've just spoken on the phone with one of said famials who are currently on the trip in question and I am SO GLAD I am not there. Just beyond the telling of it. It sounds truly miserable.)

On a more pleasant note: new community pimpage! While I didn't create it, I must lend full support to:

faceinabox !

Supplying icons of the textless, expressive variety, ideal for use in journal-site RPGs, or even just general icon usage. It's just getting started, but feel free to join if you forsee yourself as needing such icons, or would like to share any icons you've made or will make. :D

Oi, I'll end up doing color sets of the entire Hellsing cast now.

And speaking of making icons, here's a meme found on discolore. I know I'm bad with memes, but since I've been in a graphics mood, it should get done:

Reply to this post with an image (any image at all, fandom or not) and I will do my level best to make an icon out of it.

Caveats:
+the image should be something I can work with (nothing excessively grainy, blurry, etc.).
+the image can be nothing that will get me TOSed from LJ (please keep it work-safe).
+if the image has multiple subjects, please specify the ones you'd like. So, say your image has John, Rodney, and a cephalopod, tell me if you want just one, two, or all three.
+I will do what I will with each image. I'm no mindreader, so I honestly can't tell if my version of "John and cephalopod on a blue background with hearts" is the same as yours.

So, request away!

Or is spectacularly inconsiderate if the people you're intending to go a road trip with will not commit to the number of days the trip is meant to be?

"It might be seven to ten days" is not an acceptable answer, particularly when a prior asking of that question had yielded a response of, "Oh, probably five to seven days."

Further, when I bring up that one of the reasons I require a trip length and itinery is so I know what and how much to pack, it is supremely unacceptable to reply, "We're going to be stopping at the big Ross in Spartanburg" as an excuse for your noncommitment. I'm picky about what clothing I buy these days. I have a hard time finding clothing that fits right. The people I've been attempting to communicate with KNOW this. Further, I really can't afford to randomly buy new clothing right now. I own an adequeate amount of clothing, but I don't want to bring more than I really have to if I'll be living out of a car for multiple days and would rather not cramp the space unnecessarily.

Also, they're planning on bringing their dogs, and they're aware I'm not as much of a dog person as they are. So is it really that rude of me to tell them, "I'm sorry, but ten days is really too long"?

Man, it's been forever since I've put anything here, isn't it?

Anyways, I've realized I have many, many icons piling up, so I figured I'd put them out there where they might be of use to someone instead of just metaphorically collecting dust on my harddrive. Most of these are old, and there will be another post with newer icons ahead, but really, this post had gotten quite long enough.

77 Hellsing and Crossfire icons. Some silly, most not. Lots of Yumie, Yumiko, Zorin, and Captain, but several other characters and some ships as well. Several are variations on the same icon, because I'm indecisive. X-posted everywhere.

Preview:


( Stop. It's icon time. )

Someone else decide, I keep going back and forth.

Poll #998646 You pick.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

If someone were to play Renfield in an RP, he would be better played:

Also, I recently had a ( LOLarious nightmare )

( And a meme )

Because my real life is generally dull, here's the random dream post.

( So, last night I had a dream where I was wandering around a post-WW3 city with Alexander Anderson. )

Icon requested by sir_hellsing and ironical_kai:


( And of course I had to make a few variations of my own. )

...Bwha?

DUDE.

Translations and explanations PLZ.



Now all we need is Coffin.

...Hirano, you know you want to.

'Cause bored.

The first person to respond to this entry with a prompt gets a little off-the-cuff porn. The rest of you writers out there post the same call in your journals, and we make a lot of porn for before-the-holiday. It's what they call a win-win scenario.

I can't guarantee it will get done, but I'll totally try.

Zorin Blitz sharpening and polishing the hooves of a Pierson's Puppeteer: oh Poly, breaking the brain just a little more, one day at a time.

(WRY? Because of the Master/Servant curse, and they were randomly put together by a mod.)

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Knicked from vampirehunter85

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Noble Lady Rachel the Incontrovertible of Pigotts Sty Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

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Swiped from noblesseoblige

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In March I got in line at the supermarket at the same time as someone else and I didn't yield (-8 points). In September I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). Last Friday on a flight to LA, I stole the emergency flight information card (-40 points). Last week I helped 2stepssideways hide a body (-173 points). Last Monday I donated bone marrow to coccinellidae in a life-saving procedure (300 points). Overall, I've been nice (405 points). For Christmas I deserve a new dolly! Sincerely, raykat

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