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Today I:

- went to work at 5am
- muddled through Chaucer
- uploaded this Alec icon (the lack of really good Dark Angel icons is upsetting, you guys)
- had the bipolar cat attack me AGAIN >:(
- talked to my adviser
- applied for Fall 2009 graduation



:D


(Also also Dorothy, I'm 50 pages in! Omg I love it! I keep forgetting that I'm, you know, trying to help you edit it! ;D)

Omg omgggg THIS, THIS SPN/NCIS CROSSOVER. If I could tell you how many times I physically flailed with SHEER GLEE, WELL, I CANNOT. I need a grin-ectomy. WHEN DID I FALL SO IN LOVE WITH NCIS??! Oh man. And yeah, fuck you Tony DiNozzo Michael Weatherly for being such a douchebag, but being so adorable at it.


Also also also, does anyone have a copy of One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer by George Thorogood they'd be willing to upload for me? I would super duper appreciate it! <3

Hey, I haven't obnoxiously spammed you guys to death with pics in a while, haven't I!

( The fourth of July is the one day I'm good with face-melting summer heat. )

Another early morning tomorrow. Delightful.

IF ONE COULD SEE ME NOW ONE WOULD BE THINKING I WOULD BE HAVING AN EPILEPTIC FIT. THIS IS ONLY SLIGHTLY THE CASE.

ALSO THIS OMFG AND THIS AND THIS.

HOW DO I FUNCTION WITH SOMEONE LIKE HIM EVEN EXISTING, GOD.

I WISH I COULD TELL YOU HOW MUCH JENSEN'S HAIR UTTERLY DELIGHTS ME BUT I'M AFRAID I DON'T HAVE THE WORDS. It's all, !!!! Soft and spikey and BLOND-LIKE AND KLJG;EORIGAJSKD Y U DO DIS TO ME. And, of course, the vid HEE HEE OMG. UGH, ALDIS, DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO START WATCHING LEVERAGE FOR YOUR HOT ASS TOO, OKAY. (From here and here!)

22 days until roadtrip! And I'm going home this weekend for the 4th of July. HOORAY BBQ RIBS AND FIREWORKS.

ETA: Holy crap, this is beautiful and AMAZING. FULL SCREEN. :O

Oh man, you guys, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. I'm not as familiar with the latter, but I was listening to Thriller earlier and it reminds me so much of listening to it when I was a kid. :(((

Apparently Jared and Jensen aren't gonna be at Comic Con. :((( Okay, yes, I was super bummed when I saw that, BUT I get to see MIIIISHA for the first time! EEEE! And, you know, I'm actually GOING to Comic Con (the epic nerdiness of which no one can fathom unless you've seen it with your own eyes) and this whole roadtrip too, so I REFUSE to be bummed! Guess I'll just have to wait until next time for Jensen and I to have that makeout session, SIGH.

Today was my last class and final exam for Spanish I. Piece of cake, thank God. I'm glad I already took 3 years in high school. Now I only have 17 more credits before I can graduate! ASLDKFJASLJK I'M SO CLOSE. I think next month I can apply for graduation! SO MUCH YAY I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU.

Yellow Fever was DELIGHTFUL. Now to bed. I can't tell you how excited I am to sleep in tomorrow until 6am. MAN.

( Don't even think about singing that damn Beach Boys song. )

So our local library does this REALLY CRAZY THING where it'll ship you books if you're on the waiting list! So I did that! And they arrived today! All three of them! Oh man, so excited. I think I'm gonna read The Graveyard Book by Gaiman first.

Also, Virgil is still really really cute. He's taken to sneak-attack licking Percy, with Percy going, "WHAT?! WHAT. WHAT ARE YOU... okay, that's kind of nice... NO NO, GET AWAY." I will have to get pictures omg.

Auughaglsda;k DO NOT WANT opening the next two days. AUGH.

ORLANDO, FL. - Tomorrow
100° F
Precip: 20%
Intervals of clouds and sunshine. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. Heat index near 110F. High around 100F. Winds W at 10 to 20 mph.

Uhhhhhhhwhat.

Well! Thank goodness we're leaving for Key Largo early tomorrow morning. Where it will be a few degrees cooler. Um.

SO OMFG YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT ( WE GOT ANOTHER CAT. )

Also, estei posted this a while back, and I keep rewatching it and AUUUUGH CANNOT STOP LAUGHING:



I need friends like that.

I'M HOOOOME and I saw ( Up! )

So yeah, I wouldn't actually BE home if my dad hadn't have checked my engine of my car this past Saturday when we were together and my aunt and uncle's house. Apparently when they fixed the power steering they didn't align the damn thing correctly, so the cable is getting all frayed. So I had to bring it back, SIGH. But, you know, HOME. I like home.

And then Saturday my parents are gonna come visit ME, hang out for Father's Day and also drop off my sister. Then Sunday my sister and I are driving down to Key Largo eeee! I'm so excited to actually BE TAN omg. And snorkeling! And staying at a cutesy beach cottage! And not being at work! So yeah. Pretty excited.

SO MUCH FIC OUT THERE TO READ RIGHT NOW OMG. This simultaneously delights me to no end and TERRIFIES ME.

Just look at this GQ-freckled-everywhere-MF. Sit down before you click to full-size, I'm srs.

Before I succumb to INCOHERENT RAAAAAAGE for the tiniest of reasons thanks to just being a girl, I bought a tub of Reese's peanut butter ice cream. I really shouldn't have. But holy crap I need it. I NEED IT.

Going to eat pizza and said ice cream while watching the premiere of last night's Top Chef (!!!!!) now, I think!

Today has been exactly one year since I moved out of my home. It's been... a learning experience. I can't even reread the entries I made around this time last year because I get this overwhelming phantom homesickness that makes me feel like I'm doing it all over again because apparently I've got eidetic memory when it comes to some things. I'm so glad I never have to go through the first move away from home again. So glad.

My dad informed me today that he has the official word that he'll be laid off from his job in October. And that's just... awesome. The pros to this situation is that he's already retired, 55 and already done his 30 years, and this job is really just a way to earn more money. But it's a long drive and he kind of hates it, so. But still. Money. Economy. Just awesome.

I had my first undertow at work a few days ago and now I think I'm addicted. I'd seen them made before, but never had one. Basically mine was a half a pump of caramel, an inch of cold soy milk, and then you pull two shots of espresso into the cup. Instead of letting it fall right in, you hold a spoon under the espresso so when it falls into the cup, the espresso actually sits on top of the milk, forming a perfect double layer in the cup. The layering actually stays intact when you drink it and it's pretty much extremely awesome. This is yet another example of Starbucks = Stockholm Syndrome. :(

This Saturday my family who currently lives in Hong Kong is coming to town, so we're all getting together for a chili cookoff (and maybe my dad's peach cobbler to boot) so I'm really looking forward to that. The weekend after that my sister and I are driving down to Key Largo to spend the weekend and I absolutely cannot wait. Mostly I'm excited so I can stop feeling so freaking miserable.

ETA: Okay, maybe not SO miserable:



HOW MUCH OF A DORK IS HE IN HIS LITTLE SWEATER. Thank God for golf charities, apparently.

LOL

But anyway! On to more important matters. Like real life.

Being an English major I've had to read a lot of books and analyze the shit out of them until I was cross-eyed. And I like thinky books! I do! But my brain needs a recharge before I read any more. Currently I'm trying to read A Hundred Years of Solitude and it's lovely but I think to myself, "I should sit down and try to read more of this book!" but then I go, LOL FALSE, so I haven't picked it up in... a long time.

SO MY REQUEST IS: please recommend to me REALLY GOOD BOOKS (or series! I WOULD LOVE SERIES), the kind you absolutely must finish and end up staying awake until 4am to do so. Because when I was younger I sped through at least five or six books before I'd beg my mom to take me back to the library. I want to do this again. :(

Also, I'm very much considering submitting myself to a staffing agency. But I'm a little terrified. Has anyone ever done this? Good experience? Bad experience? I just can't do Starbucks anymore. I can't I can't I can't.

Speaking of which, this is fucking ridiculous. Blah blah saving water, but SURE, OKAY, I'm glad that the general public will be receiving drinks that will have come into contact with nasty-ass, bacteria-ridden utensils while making it because LET ME TELL YOU HOW MANY STORES WILL SANITIZE THEIR PITCHERS EVERY TWO HOURS. Unless it's extremely, breathing-down-your-neck enforced, hardly anyone. People who have never worked as on-the-floor baristas can kindly stfu.

UNF UNFFFFF GOD SHUT UP.

( Omg cannot help myself )

Discussing Epic Road Trip '09 plans last night (less that 50 days wtf!) and the idea was brought up of camping in a tent instead of staying in a hotel at the Grand Canyon! OF WHICH I WHOLLY APPROVE. North Rim, Chrissy! NORTH RIM.

I've recently sent my resume to a legal assistant position and an admin position at a local Hershey's Ice Cream company hahaha. The latter offered two dollars more an hour than what I make now, SO YEAH. Please God, someone call me back. Why am I STILL WORKING stupidly early shifts with hardly ANY hours a week. I really really don't know.

( LET'S DISCUSS. )

My little sister is all graduated! I can't believe it! She had a speech to give and did awesome! And yesterday and today was PANIC CITY as we got ready for her open house. My parents have been COMPLETELY rearranging everything with today as their deadline, painted nearly every wall and put up new wainscoat in the dining room, got bunches of new furniture and knickknacks and everything. But everything is just BEAUTIFUL now after the remodel. And today we probably had about 50 people over for the party, so it was nice.

I really really don't want to go back to my apartment tomorrow night, sigh. God I hate my job. I need a new one. Please please let me find a new one.

SO, my parents are watching True Lies, pretty much I need to go join them now. <3

Well! I'm glad you all enjoyed that. So much so, in fact, that I'll be printing those out and sending them as birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc. I KNOW RIGHT? I think this is the best idea ever.

OKAY FINE. Have some more palatable pictures instead:



MY FAT KITTY IN A TINY BOX.



MY FAT KITTY YAWNING IN A TINY BOX. He is currently out in the kitchen playing with paper bag and whining like a bitch. WHAT, PERCY. WHAAAAT.

My boss informed me today that she's moving to Seattle next week! !!!! WHAT. Aw, man. I'm really gonna miss her. Despite crappy schedules/work, she's really nice. We're even friends on facebook, heh. She's looking for an apartment in Queen Anne. UGHHH SO JEALOUS.

Yesterday I almost had a major panic attack when I realized all my pictures from July roadtrip and this past March roadtrip were not on my external harddrive. I absolutely could have SWORN I moved them off my old, now-crispy harddrive before that whole mess. I guess not. I called my mom almost in TEARS and she said to hang on a sec, and actually found that I had put July's roadtrip pics on the family computer back home. No dice with the March pictures though, sigh. Only what I had uploaded to the internet. Everything else is lost. :( Still, I think I'd rather have July's pictures than this past March's. There wasn't anything TOO new/exciting like there was in July, but man. It's still a major blow. :(((

Tomorrow I get up at 4am, go to work, get off, go to class at 12pm, get out, come home and pack, and drive two hours back home. GROSS. But UGH, I'M SO EXCITED TO GO HOME. My sister is graduating high school! WHAT. WHAT WHAT. Utter ridiculousness. I can't wait to see all my friends again.

Also, pretty much I just reserved a room at the MGM Grand in Vegas for Epic Roadtrip '09. :D

Along the same vein as Woll Smoth and Fronds (and even more other foces), I present to you

( Wonchosters and fronds )

( Finally, FINALLY I have seen My Bloody Valentine )

Heeey, so, with my harddrive meltdown I lost all my anti-spyware/virus stuff. I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a really good free download of one? Thank youuu! <3