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Maaaaaan has it been a long weekend. Don't get me wrong, I loved it, but I am still tired. Wow. XD

Highlights included:
- Hanging out with universejuice 8D
- Hanging out with purapea, lynxgriffin, and ggmoonycrisco
- Convincing Sarah and GG that there really was another drop at the end of Pirates
- DELICIOUS PINEAPPLE
- 100% accuracy on hitchhiking ghost calling
- Getting the ride operator on Space Mountain, who usually ignores the cars, to wave to us two days in a row; The first guy even gave us air fives
- Learning just how far the splash zone of World of Color extends (hint: a hell of a lot farther than you'd think)
- Maleficent's Imagination = Hell
- "I'm on a horse."
- "The fierce jungle duck is attacking that hippo!"
- "I haven't seen a feeding frenzy like that since college."
- Standing in line for half an hour one day to get pictures with Mickey
- Trekking halfway across the park and back to get pictures with Mickey
- "You just want to sit on my lap."
- Finding out that the pipes in the boiler room of the Tower of Terror have voices, which was exceedingly creepy
- "At least it's not the awkward pony."

Downsides included the woman at the front of the line for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride collapsing from overheating (she was fine) and getting sunscreen in my eye, but those were a few small bad things in a weekend of overwhelming good. Fantastic times were had by all, and pictures will be up as soon as I can get them off my camera. :Db

In other tangentially related news, I kind of want to get back into One Piece. I get the feeling this will be an undertaking. 8Da

And because I'm five flipping days behind, have some music!

Day 11: A song from your favorite band

This one actually gave me some issues. I don't usually pick favorites with bands - I listen to just about everything, so saying YES FAVORITE BAND EVER is tough. However, Bob Seger is one of the few artists that I get upset over when people don't know his music, so though he's not OMG The Favorite, he's up there. (Yes, I know this is the second Bob Seger song I've put up. No, I don't care. 8D)


Then again, there is also the band that, as far as I'm concerned, has never done a bad song.

Day 12: A song from a band you hate

Gag me.

Day 13: A song that is a guilty pleasure

They call it a guilty pleasure for a reason. Yes, I still have the entire CD.

Day 14: A song that no one would expect you to love

It can be annoying as hell, but it's such an earworm and I love it. It also goes under the "songs you can dance to" category - I'm pretty sure Shannon has video of that.

Day 15: A song that describes you

|Db
Also, this is the video that introduced me to the song. I'm a tad biased.


( All 30 Days )

I had forgotten that some of my best writing and craziest ideas come sometime after midnight. Sadly, that's when I try to get in bed so I can get up on time for my job, which takes place during my notably unproductive hours of the day. If there were some way for me to work from home after nine or ten p.m., I feel like I'd be much more productive. This is the problem with holding a day job when you're nocturnal.

Having a good time in secondcityrpg, though. Wolf belts turned out to be just as much trauma-inducing goodness as I'd thought. I've also discovered I write ridiculously long narratives when I'm in the mood.

Speaking of Second City, those of you who were with me in chat after one last night this morning already saw this crazy idea, but...I want to app Linkara. Yes, that Linkara. I also promised to email him and ask his permission (what the hell, self) before I wrote an app. I plan on doing that sometime tonight. Watch this space for more updates, I guess.

Also on the calendar for tonight: seeing The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Canon, as soon as he tells me what time we're going. Hopefully not too late or I won't be able to go. Hmm.

...oh man it's at 35% on Rotten Tomatoes. THAT'S BETTER THAN TLA. I CAN HOPE. I THINK.

Enough of that madness. Let's have yet another day of that music meme.

Day 09: A song that you can dance to

Oh jeez, how about half my iPod?

In the interests of narrowing it down, I took the two songs on the mix currently in my car that make me want to dance whenever they come on, even if it's when I'm doing 70 southbound on the 101. Don't worry: I'm a safe drive-dancer.


This video isn't the entire song, but it's well worth it for the choreography and the sequence itself. I absolutely love this show.


IF CHRISTOPHER WALKEN CAN DANCE TO IT, ANYONE CAN DANCE TO IT. HELL YEAH.
Also, the better versions of this video all had embedding disabled. Still, you get the point.

( All 30 Days )

Also, you all knew the Old Spice guy is doing personalized video responses to comments on Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, Yahoo, Reddit, and just about any other social networking website you can think of, right? Go check that stuff out. They're awesome. XDb

This was one of those weekends when everyone wanted some of my time. I went from planning on hanging out with zero people to hanging out with six or seven, some multiple times. I got cheesecake and meals and slurpees out of the deal, though. Good times. |Db

SO YES I am two days behind on that music meme and it's nearly Monday, so I'm doing three days at once. YAY PROCRASTINATION

Day 05: A song that reminds you of someone

This and every other song on this CD will remind me of my dad. He's the one who got me into classic rock to begin with, and this CD would always be in the car when he picked me up from dance class. Ah, nostalgia.

Day 06: A song that reminds you of somewhere

Oh, Cheyenne. First concert, first foray into country, first time I moved back to somewhere I'd left when that particular move was over. Spent two years missing Colorado. |D

Day 07: A song that reminds you of a certain event

THIS IS AN UNANNOUNCED GAMEWIDE EVENT

Six hours until you die

Yeeeeeah I love you guys. XD ♥

( The full meme )

Also, Digimon marathons = awesome. I love nineties dubbing and just how dumb characters can be.

GUESS WHO'S HAD A LONG FLIPPIN' DAY

KIA'S HAD A LONG FLIPPIN' DAY

Despite this having nothing to do with orange soda, I am incredibly tempted to follow that up with I do I do I do I do I do-oo~

The long and short of it is, I woke up today with the same headache I had yesterday. The general decided to visit on top of that, so I spent my entire work shift in head and back pain. I couldn't concentrate for the whole day, my supervisor was out sick so I couldn't chat with her - we could email back and forth, but I didn't want to do too much of that since she's sick - and less than an hour before I was to leave, I got an email with one piece to be completed before tomorrow, two before Thursday, and two before Friday, on top of the two other projects I have due tomorrow and Thursday respectively.

It was a little crazy.

BUT THAT IS ENOUGH OF THAT! I have me es to complete! This one's stolen from pretty much everyone on my flist:

The Fifteen Pictures Meme!
- Post ten to fifteen of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
- NO CAPTIONS! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words.
- They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
- You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like.

( I didn't go for self expressive so much as funny. )

I'm also going to try one of those crazy 30-day memes. I saw bhujerba doing this one and I am quite enjoying it. SO: Thirty days of songs!

01: Your favorite song.

I figure for now "favorite" will be "most played on iTunes."


You expected differently?

( Other days under the cut )

I've worked on that project all weekend and I'm taking a break before I go crash out and get up early for my internship tomorrow. Might as well do something mindless, like a meme that's been going around like the plague, right? 8Db

( Have a gigantic meme )

And with that, my first day of internship is tomorrow. Wish me luck~!

Lesson of the night: a martini that involves creme liquer and vodka will eventually curdle. Drink it before it becomes alcoholic yogurt.

Not quite sure why I'm still drinking the thing. I might need a spoon soon.

I had some epic and rather embarrassing adventures in cooking today. My task was to make cherry bars (which went off without a hitch) and peppermint fudge. For those of you who have had it, peppermint fudge is melted white chocolate and pounded candy canes mixed together, spread out, allowed to set, and then broken into pieces. It is basically the easiest dessert ever. We usually melt the chocolate in the microwave - heat in small increments and stir in between so it doesn't burn.

I don't know why, but for some reason today I just could not melt chocolate. I don't know if it was because the microwave is having issues (Mom called the repairman and he's coming tomorrow) or if it was because we used Ghiradelli chocolate chips instead of Toll House, but I could not make it work. The first batch somehow wound up with the consistency and smell of cheese - I have no idea how that happened - and the second batch had the consistency of Play-Doh.

I had a lot of fun with the second batch. |D

Peppermint fudge never happened for tonight's party, but Oreo truffles and cherry bars did, and they were both well worth it. :3

Also - and this is completely different - I'm not really having problems with my brother's girlfriend anymore. Something's changed in the few weeks I was back at Pepperdine, namely the fact that she doesn't make me want to break walls with my face anymore. I'm going to try to reserve judgment until I see more of her, which I inevitably will. We'll see how this goes.

And now, it's time to catch up on memes. Huzzah~

Comment and I'll give you three fandoms, for which you must answer these:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

deltashade gave me Doctor Who, Disgaea, and Chrno Crusade, while universejuice gave me Discworld, Elite Beat Agents, and Sonic.

( I'm sure you're all so interested in hearing this. )

I also ran across one of these in sandsdream's journal, and since I love this type of meme I had to go for it. |Db

Crack Pairings Romance Meme:

Pick 10 characters from as many fandoms as you wish and assign them each a number. Then answer 16 questions. Let the lulz begin.

1. Rosette (Chrno Crusade)
2. Agent J (Elite Beat Agents)
3. Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
4. Luxord (Kingdom Hearts II)
5. Silver the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
6. DEATH (Discworld)
7. Flonne (Disgaea)
8. Agent Foxx (Elite Beat Agents)
9. The Doctor (Doctor Who)
10. The Genie (Aladdin)

( If all else fails, this should be interesting. )

Well, that was indeed interesting. |Db

Also, my paid account dies in four days. Once it does, would somebody be willing to send me one of those magical certificates so's I can renew it please? :3

I LIIIIIIIIVE

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Yeah, I've been home for about a day. Twenty-seven degrees outside and I am living in my fluffy faux-fur lined hoodie. This thing is fantastic. The other fantastic thing was getting sleep oh my goodness. Slept in until nearly noon. Yaaaaay :Db

I shall probably come off hiatus tonight. I do have some homework to get done over break (yay Lit Theory), but life's stopped attempting to eat me and I feel like I might be able to pull a small canon review for a few characters and really get back into things. Huzzah for actual excitement for my games :Db

I've been doing more tutoring for my brother these past few days than I have these past few weeks for the writing center. He's in the middle of college essay season, so we've been looking over his stuff. This is to say nothing of the essay he had me check for him over the phone. He dictated it to me while I was in the car on the way to New Moon. That was a very interesting night. ._.

I have no idea what's going on with Glee tonight. Things have gotten interesting and what the hell, Kurt. While we're at it, what the hell, Puck. Everyone's gone crazier than they normally are.

...oh screw coherency have a few videos.





Because the Muppets make everything better, obviously.

And finally, that meme that's been going around:

1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favorite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.
4) One Guess Per Fandom

( So it's a few less than 20 )

It never fails. This meme shows up on one of my flisters' journals, and within a span of a day it's utterly taken over my entire flist.

Of course, I have to go propogate the virus. Why not? It's music. :D

( And a lot of it. )

Wow, iTunes, going for obscurity here, huh. Jeez. XD

More of a homework break, actually, but who's counting.

I've gotten some assignments done today, but that Structuralism paper's still hanging over my head. I don't know why I'm having so many issues getting into it. I was kind of hoping to have it done early this afternoon, but considering I didn't wake up until noon (which was lovely) and wasn't really functional until two, that plan went to waste. I'd like to have it done before I leave for my friend's party at nine, but again, odds of that are pretty poor. I might just marathon the sucker Sunday night. My usual MO works, right? |D

That said! Book meme real fast! Then I do dinner and attempt to pound out some words. Grr.

( I really wish I had more books on my shelf, but such is to be expected in college. )

Wow, these all wound up much more obscure than I expected. XD

TO DINNER~

Ganked from virtually my entire flist~

( There's a lot of these, huh |D )

And the secondary meme that seems to have gotten tacked onto this one:

Has my portrayal of a character(s) changed the way you think of them?