the good, the bad, and the wtf
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mimeserethe good
01) I have not diedof dysentery in a fire. The air quality is awful, but I'm from So Cal and my lungs have mutated due to smog and whatnot anyway so I'm probably not as badly off as someone who is used to, say, clean air.
02) Suddenly I understand the whole shoe shopping thing. It is, apparently, limited to my endless desire to buy various styles, patterns, and colors of chucks but hey. Most recent shoe purchase of awesome: converse all star mary jane oxfords.
03) Retail therapy remains the best. Today's purchases: [pretend there is an upside down exclamation point here]Viva la Cobra!, Cobra Starship's new album (omg, it is hilariously awesome). A Lick of Frost, Laurell K Hamilton's newestMy Little Sidhe Warriors Mary Sue Merry Gentry book. YES, I PAID FOR THAT IN HARDCOVER. NO I AM NOT ASHAMED (30% off, plus another coupon for 10%, plus $5 off). I should be ashamed of both of these, but you know, at this point, I want fluffy shallow escapism. Possibly with orgies. Or violence. Or orgies and violence.
04) I've never seen an episode of any flavor of L&O (no, really), but I am there with bells on for one P. Stump. (seriously. I think the only full episode of any police/crime procedural I've ever seen may, in fact, be "Crosetti.")
05) The Boondocks is back! Yay! Tom doing Usher's "Burn" -- and man, don't think I'm not considering putting up the TACKIEST mix in the world themed around fire -- is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
06) TV in general is making me very happy. Shows I am loving like burning: Heroes (M5 FTW and damn, Nichelle Nichols is STILL made of win), Pushing Daisies (Chi McBride is geeeeenius), Reaper (Ray Wise and Tyler Labine are brilliant), Chuck (Team Bartowski is awesome), The Boondocks (Regina King is also genius and Thugnificent is the most wonderful fake rapper name in the history of the universe).
07) Bandom continues to make me happy. Concert soon, woo!
08) You know what else is awesome? Music. Personal musical happy places right now: Muse, FOB, Roisin Murphy, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Jill Scott, Poe.
09) Forth Eorlingas! The Rohirrim are STILL my favorite part of LotR.
10) I heart my friends.
the bad
01) my mom's doctor set up an appointment at the cancer center. Intellectually, I understand that they have the best equipment available to figure out what is going on. Emotionally, um. No. I am utterly and completely consumed by my intense dislike for the cancer center. I don't want to go, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and yet I have to because my mom refuses to tell anyone else in my family about this. It is fun times, you guys.
02) Somewhat in keeping with #1 there, while I despise going to the doctor -- when my family goes, we get um. You know. Diagnosed with things that are terrifying -- I will have to because now *I* am scared and my mom is freaking out about the moles I have (which, btw, I've had my whole life) and so I must schlep off to have them removed.
03) Probably I should also get the perpetual cough I've got looked at. Bah.
04) Somewhere between my sister's nasty divorce, my other sister's depression, my brother's possible bigamy, the anniversary of my sister's death, my youngest nephew's desperate clinginess, my oldest nephew being an utter tool, my complete failure to make anything of myself, the whole thing with my mom, and the constant breakouts (jesus, I'm almost 30, body, could we quit with the breaking out?), I find myself wanting to hide in my room and never come out.
05) I miss my dad. I am - was - very much daddy's little girl and I miss him a lot. T'is the season, I guess.
06) The whole fire situation is really very depressing and also there is ash everywhere and it's hard to breathe sometimes.
07) I think my computer is eating itself. *sadhair*
08) Buying pants is really aggravating when you're short. Skinny jeans fit fantastically around my hips/thighs and then taper -- TAPER WTF -- at the bottom and that's just icky and stupid. Bootcut jeans will apparently make me look shorter, but straight leg jeans are just unattractive and don't fit over my shoes the way they should. Also skirts and dresses need to be hemmed so much to make them fit the way they should. And and and knee socks. I want to wear cute knee socks with my awesome maryjanes and yet, that would require having clothing that hits me above the knee and AHAHAHA no. First, they don't fit right and second I have a weird thing about exposing anything above the knee.
09) Being kind of a prude sucks. And yet I blush and cannot get over it.
10) I kind of want to run away from home. This makes me feel like I'm about 10 years old.
the wtf, or things that are just plain pissing me off: v. All Aboard the Fail Boat
Hey fandom, whiskey tango foxtrot? It's been like asshat bingo this whole year and I honest to god don't understand how there have been nine million rounds of How to Fail At Race/Religion/Gender/Sexuality/Not Being an Ignorant Tool. How is this possible? I know we've been having these conversations for YEARS. YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS. HOW DO PEOPLE STILL FAIL? Like, seriously, did no one have to take a diversity class for work? Don't most colleges and/or universities have a diversity/multiculturalism requirement?
And there are other things. I just. I don't know. I don't know how to articulate what is making me SO MAD about the anti-bandom stuff (indifference I don't care about), but it's really, really, really pissing me off and it doesn't actually affect me at all. So, whatever for you, anti-bandom people, I'm mostly just going to go on thinking that you are jealous of my awesome canon and Vicky T's thigh highs.
So, for this section,
Yes. I do really like this picture. I think it pretty accurately conveys how I feel about many people in the world today.
01) I have not died
02) Suddenly I understand the whole shoe shopping thing. It is, apparently, limited to my endless desire to buy various styles, patterns, and colors of chucks but hey. Most recent shoe purchase of awesome: converse all star mary jane oxfords.
03) Retail therapy remains the best. Today's purchases: [pretend there is an upside down exclamation point here]Viva la Cobra!, Cobra Starship's new album (omg, it is hilariously awesome). A Lick of Frost, Laurell K Hamilton's newest
04) I've never seen an episode of any flavor of L&O (no, really), but I am there with bells on for one P. Stump. (seriously. I think the only full episode of any police/crime procedural I've ever seen may, in fact, be "Crosetti.")
05) The Boondocks is back! Yay! Tom doing Usher's "Burn" -- and man, don't think I'm not considering putting up the TACKIEST mix in the world themed around fire -- is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
06) TV in general is making me very happy. Shows I am loving like burning: Heroes (M5 FTW and damn, Nichelle Nichols is STILL made of win), Pushing Daisies (Chi McBride is geeeeenius), Reaper (Ray Wise and Tyler Labine are brilliant), Chuck (Team Bartowski is awesome), The Boondocks (Regina King is also genius and Thugnificent is the most wonderful fake rapper name in the history of the universe).
07) Bandom continues to make me happy. Concert soon, woo!
08) You know what else is awesome? Music. Personal musical happy places right now: Muse, FOB, Roisin Murphy, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Jill Scott, Poe.
09) Forth Eorlingas! The Rohirrim are STILL my favorite part of LotR.
10) I heart my friends.
the bad
01) my mom's doctor set up an appointment at the cancer center. Intellectually, I understand that they have the best equipment available to figure out what is going on. Emotionally, um. No. I am utterly and completely consumed by my intense dislike for the cancer center. I don't want to go, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and yet I have to because my mom refuses to tell anyone else in my family about this. It is fun times, you guys.
02) Somewhat in keeping with #1 there, while I despise going to the doctor -- when my family goes, we get um. You know. Diagnosed with things that are terrifying -- I will have to because now *I* am scared and my mom is freaking out about the moles I have (which, btw, I've had my whole life) and so I must schlep off to have them removed.
03) Probably I should also get the perpetual cough I've got looked at. Bah.
04) Somewhere between my sister's nasty divorce, my other sister's depression, my brother's possible bigamy, the anniversary of my sister's death, my youngest nephew's desperate clinginess, my oldest nephew being an utter tool, my complete failure to make anything of myself, the whole thing with my mom, and the constant breakouts (jesus, I'm almost 30, body, could we quit with the breaking out?), I find myself wanting to hide in my room and never come out.
05) I miss my dad. I am - was - very much daddy's little girl and I miss him a lot. T'is the season, I guess.
06) The whole fire situation is really very depressing and also there is ash everywhere and it's hard to breathe sometimes.
07) I think my computer is eating itself. *sadhair*
08) Buying pants is really aggravating when you're short. Skinny jeans fit fantastically around my hips/thighs and then taper -- TAPER WTF -- at the bottom and that's just icky and stupid. Bootcut jeans will apparently make me look shorter, but straight leg jeans are just unattractive and don't fit over my shoes the way they should. Also skirts and dresses need to be hemmed so much to make them fit the way they should. And and and knee socks. I want to wear cute knee socks with my awesome maryjanes and yet, that would require having clothing that hits me above the knee and AHAHAHA no. First, they don't fit right and second I have a weird thing about exposing anything above the knee.
09) Being kind of a prude sucks. And yet I blush and cannot get over it.
10) I kind of want to run away from home. This makes me feel like I'm about 10 years old.
the wtf, or things that are just plain pissing me off: v. All Aboard the Fail Boat
Hey fandom, whiskey tango foxtrot? It's been like asshat bingo this whole year and I honest to god don't understand how there have been nine million rounds of How to Fail At Race/Religion/Gender/Sexuality/Not Being an Ignorant Tool. How is this possible? I know we've been having these conversations for YEARS. YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS. HOW DO PEOPLE STILL FAIL? Like, seriously, did no one have to take a diversity class for work? Don't most colleges and/or universities have a diversity/multiculturalism requirement?
And there are other things. I just. I don't know. I don't know how to articulate what is making me SO MAD about the anti-bandom stuff (indifference I don't care about), but it's really, really, really pissing me off and it doesn't actually affect me at all. So, whatever for you, anti-bandom people, I'm mostly just going to go on thinking that you are jealous of my awesome canon and Vicky T's thigh highs.
So, for this section,
Yes. I do really like this picture. I think it pretty accurately conveys how I feel about many people in the world today.
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:53 am (UTC)And a cup of tea.
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Date: 2007-10-24 01:32 pm (UTC)*steals all of the failboat's life preservers and laughs*
*hugs you more*
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Date: 2007-10-24 07:57 pm (UTC)And the failboat is just the best thing ever.
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Date: 2007-10-24 01:40 pm (UTC)¡(¿ =¿)Re good things 4. You watched The Evidence and you liked it!
I am sorry that your mom is making you her sole means of emotional and logistical support and that you have to deal with the cancer center. Don't worry about the moles you've had your whole life, though. It's changing and new moles that are usually the problem.
As for why the rash of new failure? I don't think it's new failure, so much as people a) being much more willing to publicly talk about the failure and b) being much more willing to pass on the word about fail and start an imbroglio. It's not that there's Saruman is new. We've just finally got the fire signals going all the way to Rohan. Which, you know, doesn't make you feel better as you watch it happen, but don't think of it as a sign of reversal on something we've been talking about for five years.
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:15 pm (UTC)And I realize that there's an epic amount of fail because people are talking about it more, but there's a part of me that's just sitting here and wondering how people can just...not get it.
and then I get all grar-y and wish that I was a raptor.
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:38 pm (UTC)::hugs you like crazy::
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-24 09:16 pm (UTC)But seriously, I'm not trying to sing you a song about how miserable you should be. Clearly you have a lot of awesome things going on (and damn, those shoes are cute). But there's some scary shit coming down, too.
::kidnaps you to SF where the air is breathable::
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Date: 2007-10-24 09:42 pm (UTC)And the shoes are awesomely wonderful as is Stitch.
*cuddles*
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Date: 2007-10-24 10:31 pm (UTC)good for you with the buying of the hardcovers and the shoes. shoes = love. i don't know when i turned into that girl, but omg for the love of shoes. and those are super cute.
hopefully both will be a little bit of a distraction.
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Date: 2007-10-25 12:11 am (UTC)I find myself buying or wanting to buy all manner of chucks because they are adorable and awesomely comfortable. So it all works out pretty well. I never used to be the shoe shopping girl, but now I totally am.
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Date: 2007-10-25 12:25 am (UTC)If you want to run away Saturday night my MiL is having a Halloween party?
I just wish I could make everything better.
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:44 am (UTC)I do not think I can. the whole thing that prevented me from going to New Orleans will probably mean that I am stuck at home this weekend :(
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Date: 2007-10-25 06:30 pm (UTC)4: L&O. It's love. And for this? I will totally watch Patrick Stump.
5: TIVO betrayed me. I must get this collected.
As for anti-bandom? There is an anti-bandom movement? That is just weird. I mean, I haven't gotten into bandom, but that is because it just doesn't particularily interest me. Not because I'm opposed to the concept or other people liking it.....
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Date: 2007-10-25 11:24 pm (UTC)It's not so much an anti-bandom movement as it is anti-bandom people being incredibly stupid.