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I don't remember the last time this happened.

/posts like a fiend before someone comments on something!

So! I'm on my way to Boston in the morning (soooo early in the morning ;_;) for Jennie's graduation! :D Apparently we're staying at, like, the most haunted hotel in New England. Uh. I NEED ME SOME WINCHESTERS. D: (Except I read up on it and it's... not really all that haunted. Ahaha. Uh, is that the best you have to offer, New England? That's kind of sad... Er. Not that I'm going to complain, I think. XD)

IN ANY CASE. Work today was much less worky than I'd meant, but still productive somehow. I made color plots! Which is much easier when you've done it before. And then I think I figured out what I was doing re: those radial plots, which is good. Even though I don't want to deal with them. But at least now I get a couple days off before I have to rack my brain on how to find the area of the arc of a circle and account for it depending where on my frame you are. Ugh, ACS frames, why are you square? XD WE NEED ROUND CCDS, YO.

And then I totally forgot to call Diana back tonight (I'm sorry! D: I meant to!) but hopefully I will hook up with her in the near future!

Anyway, I shall be scarce for the next few days though still eagerly awaiting an answer on my app D:. And huh. It's a good thing I'm randomly tired. Let's see if it translates to actually falling asleep. I have to get up at five ;_;

I hope I'm not forgetting anything! ::zooms::

... I just got a chain mail letter in a private message from fanfiction.net. ::headdesk:: I... don't even know what to do with that.

Anyway. Though speaking of fanfiction, I haven't done any real writing in soooo long and I feel like a loser. I don't know, maybe it's that I get it all out with RP or something, or maybe it's that I have less time when I'm hardcore into RP, but. I remember I think it was last year I tried to make a New Years resolution to write a little every week, and I actually did pretty well with that. This year, though, I have failed miserably (again, unless logs count...). There are a number of writing contests I could/should enter, and I really should get on that. I could use the extra cash, especially since funding next fall is still up in the air. And besides, I'd just really like to be writing. I did work on my PJO story a bit today (almost 1000 words!) and I've been rereading a story that started out as (admittedly obscure) fanfiction that I'd really just like to turn into a real story. I promised myself I'd work on that when the PJO fic was done, but that was way back when I was going to be done with that PJO fic by, like, February. I suppose I really should get back on the writing train, though. I've been hitting up Starbucks for about 1-1.5 hours every weekend for the past few weeks, and with the exception of working on Leckie's app, I think it's been helping, at least. There's just something about Starbucks that actually facilitates writing. Maybe it's the big windows. :D;

... Wow, that was totally tl;dr or something. Sorry guys. In other news, yesterday was filled with D&D fun, during which I made it to fourth level (yay!) and managed to make an orc stab himself in the stomach with his own sword just before I killed him. >D That was kind of fun. And now I have some Greek Fire in my backpack to use, should our Fire Mage ever fall in battle. We also discovered that our Bard is, in fact, evil. Well, okay, maybe not evil. But certainly not good. I think we spent at least half an hour explaining to him why cutting off a wolfwere's foot as collateral was not okay, and giving it back to her later was not going to do her any good. |D; Nathan insisted that he change his alignment from chaotic good to chaotic neutral for that one.

Ahh, nerds~ And now I am off to pick up a couple things before heading home and hanging up those posters that I've been meaning to put up for weeks now!

Mostly babbling to myself. I'm not sure if I'm trying to talk myself into or out of this.

( Cut because no one wants to hear me rambling about how I uselessly spent my evening looking up the details of Robert Leckie's life. XD )

Anyway, speaking of Amat. Kind of. In a roundabout way. AVATAR ON THE 22ND~ Though I imagine I won't get my copy for a few days past that, thanks Amazon. Ah well. Then I can screencap for more Jake icons! :D

ZOMG WHY IS DISNEY MANIA 7 NOT OUT YET. Mitchel Musso doing Stand Out? Drew Seeley doing Her Voice? OMG OMG OMG OMG OMGGGGGG~

... Okay, March 9. I can live that long. That's soon. Eek.

So anyway~ Went to see Avatar again today; it's no longer in 3D, but hey, at least I located my free movie ticket so I didn't have to pay for it. And it's not like I haven't seen it three times in 3D already. I think I should stop going to see that movie now. XD (I mean, that's... twelve hours of my life, James Cameron. But oh, Jake Sully, you make it so worth it, ILU~) Though can I just point out, it's kind of... amazing, to me, how some things I make Jake say at Amat actually end up being stuff he does say in the movie (e.g., he uses "Doc" instead of "Doctor", I swear I didn't remember that, I just thought it sounded like something he would use!). It's kind of like how Percy in my fic ended up thinking things that I didn't mean him to think and then re-reading some of the books and realizing that hey, that was exactly right! Either I am awesome at characters or I have a memory that doesn't know it's remembering things. I think my vote is more likely on the latter... XD; Speaking of, I should go see Percy Jackson again - I've got to drag violet_lane, anyway.

Anyway, I spent most of the rest of the day sewing - Claire is mostly done and I just have to tailor Trudy's tank top and make her necklaces, though I might still take in the flight suit if I have time. The makeup for that is ordered, though I still am not sure what the whole face looks like, since I only ever get half of it in the promo pix. I tried to study it during the movie, but you only see her whole face with the warpaint for, like, two seconds, so I'll just have to make it up. Ah well - I also realized there's feathers in her hair, so while I may just cannibalize a cat toy for some (Sashi doesn't like the ones with feathers anyway - at least, not as much as she likes catnip), I might break down and go look for more accurate-looking feathers if I have time. We'll see. It's just a tiny pheasant feather - I have something close, but not exact. It's still a bit of a ghetto costume anyway, so we'll see. Though I might rewear it to FX Show - we'll see~

In the meantime, since I'm pretty much caught up on Big Bang Theory, I've started re-watching Forever Knight, which is so nineties-tastic it's painful and hilarious all at once. XD Also, all the extras are so Canadian. XD Not that I mean any offense to Canadians at all! It's just they have accents that the main cast don't. :D; (Well, Geraint Wyn-Davies kind of has one, but not as thick as the extras'.) Anyway, I still think it's kind of random how the only reason I knew about the show in the first place was because Dad does Jon Kapelos' taxes. XD


Oh, hello, Avatar theme. I did not even pick you to play. >>;

Look! Look at me! I'm updating OMG! (This is for you, pergamond~)

Okay, so. I am lame. Exhibit A: I took my Christmas tree down. Yesterday. :D; (Maybe the day before? I think it was yesterday, though.) Exhibit B: I am seriously considering going to see Avatar. Again. For a fourth time. (And for the record? Is it horrible that I laughed when the packaging for the Jake Sully action figure claimed it was "highly articulated"? XD Because poor Jake is, uh. Not. XD ILU JAKE.) Actually, let's make that Exhibit C: I totally bought a Jake Sully action figure. And, you know. Percy Jackson. XD Maybe that's not so lame, though. It's unclear.

So, I have fallen off the face of the earth, for which I apologize. Been relatively busy at work (read: staring at the same IDL program for a day and a half before realizing ahahaha I AM DUMB) and then Amat seems to eat up most of my free time when I'm at home, though actually that hasn't been that much because I've been OUT~! Let's see...

( WHAT I HAVE BEEN UP TO. )

Hm... well, I also have many fun stories about spinach leaking all over my lunchbag and my computer locking me out (triiiip), but I am actually pretty tired and think I will head to bed. So I shall save the tales of woe for a later date, I suppose. BUT just know the stories are there, lurking around the corner, ready to jump! (Or something.)

Also, NEED MORE ICON SLOTS. D: Nothing new, move along now~

Oh, great - this is what I get for watching Twister last night. We're under a tornado watch today. ::fails:: Butbutbut, I was at Target the other night and they had it on DVD for $5 and how could I not buy it? (I was previously still using the VHS. |D) And, of course, buying it subsequently meant I had to watch it again. It's actually kind of funny - now that I know how academia works, it's so much more obvious to me that they're on grant money and I can tell who's the grad student and it's just... kinda hilarious. XD Ah, Twister~ You bring back so many memories.

For the record, when I FALL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH (or just start using CAPS ALL THE TIME XD) I will henceforth blame Amat for being awesome. Among other things. XD I swear, I got nothing done yesterday. I was supposed to do stuff! (Well, okay, by "do stuff" I really mean read Holmes/Watson fic and resize pictures, buuuut...) In the meantime, I will just say that Ratchet is a ho and he is going to sleep entirely through Friday, whether he wants to or not. The end~

Okay. Off to FIGURE OUT SPHERICAL COORDINATES AND WHY THEY HATE ME. D: Because I'm pretty sure I can't have distances between objects on my frame be larger than my frame size on the sky. Somehow... I think things just don't work that way.

Oh, but! Before I forget~ pergamond, thank you for the card! :D (This is what I get for never checking my mailbox at work. XDD)