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12 September 2009 @ 12:48 pm
Did everybody have their crazyflakes today?  
I've made it through the second week of school in one piece. Been kept extremely busy with stuff lately, though. It seems every spare second I ever have is taken up with something for class or Res Life or RP... I've barely had time to even do my reading this week. Though I have gone to the gym nearly every day for the past week and a half, which is probably the thing I'm most proud of this week. =D

The one productive thing I managed to do was write my first poem for poetry class, though even that turned out to be based on RP events, which have been consuming my brain this week, even more so than usual.

( Poem! )

Some day, I need to write something more substantial than a poem or a drabble or a blog entry. About anything, not necessarily this scenario.

Anyway, ( fandoms! (Including mild spoilers for ep2 of Glee and season 7 of Buffy) )

That's it for me for now. My goal today: to actually get work done.
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Phoenix
04 August 2009 @ 09:45 am
I'm a winner?!  
The awesome voters at [info]himym_awards have seen fit to give my fanfic prizes? Say what??

( Pretty banners! )

Let's see, what else. Oh! My mom finally hired someone to take my old supervisor's place! He's not going to start until three days before I leave, though. Oh well.

And 11 more days to Elon!!!!!!! &hearts
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Phoenix
08 November 2008 @ 02:02 pm
RPattz and KStew have taken over my E-Dub.  

I really don't care if you don't understand that heading. It all amounts to "I hate Twilight", anyway. Overhyped piece of crap.

I didn't do an Office redux this week because I realized I don't care enough to talk about its plot. I mean, I'm still going to watch. The Office won't go the way of Grey's for me, at least not for a while (I hope). I just won't redux/grade the eps anymore. (For those of you who wondered how I liked this last one... B. Mostly because of the stupid Mad Man screwing up my Jim/Pam. Never fear, though: I'll still do HIMYM, and Lost when it comes back (Jan. 21!!). Possibly, depending on how much I like it, Dollhouse (Feb 13... my birthday! And Desperation Day.) will get reduxed as well, once it comes out.

OK, so I just got into Pushing Daisies a few weeks ago, and it's already practically past the brink of cancellation!! That's why Chuck (see icon!) is hiding her face in fear. Like me. Freakin' ABC. This and the Grey's thing has made me mad at it. I mean, I'd never give up on the network entirely. (It's still got Lost.) I don't think I'd ever give up on one network because I didn't like one (or two) decisions it made. Because really, they've all made some really crappy decisions. 12 procedural dramas, CBS? Really? NBC, you renewed Knight Rider? Fox, you... still run American Idol when the past three years have sucked? And CW, you... exist. Oh, and cancelled Gilmore Girls AND Veronica Mars. But they've all had one show I've enjoyed too. I don't always watch the shows I once enjoyed (hello, Smallville! Still on the air, I see?), but I won't quit a network entirely. That's just ridiculous nonsense. Much like the past 3 seasons of Grey's Anatomy.

In conclusion, I might be down to only 2 shows soon. Oh wait, Top Chef's coming back! So three. And back up to 5 by this February. Phew.

I registered for classes yesterday, but I couldn't get into the WT comedy class since it was already full. =( Luckily, I got everything else I wanted/needed to take! Which is good. My 2.5 year schedule is too carefully planned to let a registration matter screw it all up.

My cinema paper got pushed back to Thursday! Meaning I get 2 extra days to write it (yay!) and I might not have to pull a 72-hour writing extravaganza, like I was afraid I'd have to. My goal is to have 5 pages written by Sunday. So far, I haven't read all the source material yet. This'll go AWESOME.

Other things to do this weekend:
-Chorale concert tonight! This, too, will go AWESOME. =P
-Not touch my short story. I got good feedback but realized it has tons of plotholes (luckily, my head has the solutions to all the plotholes). But I can't write it because of my cinema paper.
-Stay away from LJ and the TWoP forums.
-Astronomy Second Life project? I hope not.
-Make the bulletin board that was due YESTERDAY!!!!!! Crap.
-More CW short stories. As always.
-Buy PD DVDs? Because I kind of want to see the first season now. But I have no time to watch it. Hmm. Dilemma.
-Finish watching Buffy season 4 NO! Bad Phoenix! *shocky collar*
-Watch "The Pineapple Incident"? ...Only if you're having a bad day. Oh, I will be. Well, okay then.
-Duty on Sunday!
-Church.
-Burn Twilight in effigy. Possibly while at church.
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Phoenix
03 November 2008 @ 09:11 pm
HIMYM redux: A Halloween hauntin'!  

Though in a completely different sense, of course.

 

( Stella vs. Jan: Who wins in Da Phoenix's cage match o' hatred? )


I wore my Robin Sparkles shirt today. Two people asked me what the shirt meant, and one person actually knew what the shirt was talking about!!!!!!! And she called it "awesome"!!!!! I was super excited. (Clearly.) I'd post pics, but my camera's dead. =( But I will describe it for you who are dying to know more: it's gray, and on the front there's a red maple leaf with the words "Let's Go to the Mall" on it in 80's style graphic letters, and then it's surrounded by random yellow, pink, and blue shapes that remind me of something someone on "Full House" would wear. And then, on the back, it says "Sparkles Mall Tour 1993", followed by a list of Canadian malls and dates. In other words, my shirt totally rocks the house. (Thank you, Glarkware!)

Ooh! Also, I got to do my Dr. Horrible evil laugh today. It's been coming along. Of course, none of my friends got it. Whatever. It was totally in context and everything. I was so proud of myself.

The short story still sucks. My problem is that it has too much dialogue. But it kind of needs a lot of it. Not much I can do about it.

I actually started outlining my cinema paper today!!! Be excited. The paper's due in a week. Kill me now.

1 more day to the election! And then we can leave this mess behind us. (Well, not really, because half of the country will be PISSED. I'm so glad I don't really care who wins!)
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Phoenix
29 October 2008 @ 10:08 pm
More drabbley goodness!  

Y'all, I swear, this thread is the most addictive thing. IN. THE. WORLD. I've now written like... seven or eight drabbles in total? But anyway, I think these are the best, so I'm posting them here.

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( Prompt: Barney and Robin tell Ted. )
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( Ted's 31st birthday: the goat incident! )
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( Barney is Dr. Horrible, which is why no one knows what he does for a living. )
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Last one. (Angst ahoy!)

( Prompt: He felt as if someone was watching him. )
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So, that's that. Because of this, I haven't gotten a whole lot of work done. I've got less than 2 weeks left to write a 20-page paper on Birth of a Nation, and I still don't have everything read. Oh, and did I mention the blank document that is my short story, due a mere week from today? And my drugs presentation due in a mere... 16 hours? Life's good. NOT.

Halloween is in 2 days, and I can't bring myself to care. It's been a while since I was really into Halloween anyway, but now I feel like I'm such a downer since everyone's got these elaborate plans for Halloween, and the most exciting thing I'll probably be doing is staring at the aforementioned blank document, trying to get over my writer's block. (OK, it's not so much writer's block as not wanting it to suck. But then, I read one in my class today that hurt my eyes, so there's a good chance that it'll be better than that one.)
 
My absentee ballot still hasn't come in the mail. I'm starting to think I sent the application in too late. If I don't vote, that'll just be one more reason to hate myself, since everyone from my mom to Neil Patrick Harris is all "Vote, dammit!!" and the election is 6 days from now and I STILL can't bring myself to care about who's running my own country since I've been burned out on election talk since like November 2006. (Though the "Don't Vote" video I found actually did make me want to vote for... someone. It was surprisingly moving... especially NPH's line. "I vote because I fell in love and I want it to matter." That dude's just made of awesome, and he made me cry once more, this time by being himself. Why do they have to say my vote counts, though? That's just too much pressure, because what if it all comes down to your vote, and you didn't know what you were talking about so you voted for the wrong person? Then you've become responsible for the decline of the free world, since the person you ignorantly voted for was secretly a militant dictator!)

Overthinking? Yes. Vote Nader!

In other news, I'm approaching levels of morbid obesity, and I still won't get off my fat ass to go to the gym.

Oh, almost forgot: today I used the phrase "true story" and made my friend laugh. But I don't think she watches HIMYM. It just made me happy, and I needed some happy news to end this post on.

Sweeney tomorrow!!!!! =D (Okay, more happy news.)
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Phoenix
15 October 2008 @ 03:59 pm
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So... I don't know if you've noticed this, but I'm kind of addicted to How I Met Your Mother. "What?!" screams the invisible audience. "We had no idea! That's a shocking turn of events we're just finding out about right now!"

Oh shut up, voices in my head.

(You missed the schizophrenia, didn't you?)

The point is, I wrote a poem for creative writing class. Based on HIMYM. And it's awesome. So I'm going to post it on here and gaze at its awesomeness and forget all the other things I have to do today. Like, for instance, detox on HIMYM. I'd say that not watching any eps today is a step in the right direction, though, right? Right.

Background: This is set during season 3's "How I Met Everyone Else," which is an awesome episode. Specifically, I was trying to capture Barney's state of mind in the 16 no's scene: I did this by watching NPH VERY closely about 30 or 40 times in a row, and by trying to think like Barney. It was a sobering experience. And I think this is a tiny bit too angsty. But here 'tis...enjoy!


 

( Robin )

 


Oh, Barney. *sniff* He's awesome, but somehow his character also makes me very sad.

Cinema midterm was a surprising success. But now I have an annotated bib. to do. Bollocks.

Went to the gym yesterday and took one of their classes, and today I can't walk. I like complaining about things.

We had the WEIRDEST midterm in creative writing today... we were told to give ourselves a new name, draw a picture and give it a title, write an equation for love, and then ask our teacher any question we wanted. I was the last one in the class to finish. So I might have failed. At being creative, in creative writing class. Yeah.

2 days to fall break, and -1 day to my nervous breakdown!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

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Phoenix
13 October 2008 @ 12:23 am
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Oh, how I've missed you (all).

I've just spent the entire weekend in hibernation attempting to get work done, but really just watching and rewatching my HIMYM DVDs. I finished season 3 in like, 2 days. And then I went back and rewatched 2/3 of season 2, plus the commentaries, when I had like 11 poems to revise, a X page paper on drugs to write, another Galileo paper to write, and several thousand pages of research on cocaine and D.W. Griffith (not together) to read. And a good time was had by all me.

This week! Is midterm week! Gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not going to even attempt to write a to-do list for this week. I'll just want to kill myself looking at all that. I'll just do tomorrow instead:

-Finish reading drugs research.
-NOT skip Chorale again.
-Go to the gym!
-Type up that stupid word list poem and any other ones I might have forgotten to do.
-Look up sources for that drugs debate.
-Study for cinema midterm!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Watch HIMYM. =)
-Go on duty!
-Post HIMYM redux. I know the world wide web is just clamoring for my opinion on these works of genius!
-Remember that Hum&Love is OVER, and there will be no opportunity to psychoanalyze Barney Stinson. Oh, if I could turn back time...

...Yeah, this list is still long enough to warrant suicide.

I still haven't gone a day without watching this show since maybe August. It's bad, guy(s). I've even written poetry based on this show. Damn. I'm going to make Tuesday my first drought day: no eps, no transcript reading, no TWoP! I'm totally serious. It's even started to affect the way I talk. So, I swear: no HIMYM on Tuesday, or may I be struck by-- *thunder* --...A flying ice cream truck. And live!

5 days to home!!!!!! Yay!
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Phoenix
09 October 2008 @ 11:30 am
Doing drugs is boring.  

Which is why I'm posting on here. Again. Nothing's happened since Tuesday. Still an insomniac.

I hate drugs. So, so much.

(And by "drugs", I hope you know I mean my honors class. Though I hate actual drugs, too.)

HIMYM is both my drug and my anti-drug. Good lord, I need to go at least one day without watching an episode of this show.

Is it sad that I've seen "Slap Bet" about 10 times, and it still cracks me up?


4 days to HIMYM.

and 8 days to HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Phoenix
18 September 2008 @ 10:55 pm
I'm a poet, and I didn't even... think it was possible!  
Yeah, that's right. I happen to rock the house at poem writing. I just spent the last week tweaking this one poem (based on - guess what?), and it's already awesome without any outside eyes! At least I think it is. Also, the one I was bitching about writing in the last entry kind of turned out awesome. I'd post it, but it's not good enough yet. Or, I'd at least like someone else to look at it before I do the posting thing. As for the one that's due tomorrow but's been written since Monday... I'm thinking that'll get posted somewhere else. You know. Yeah.

I'm really, really tired. I don't think I'll ever catch up on sleep. Though I'm going to try tonight. We'll see how that goes.

I have too much to do tomorrow. Start a mural, go to an LC syllabus meeting, host an area-wide cookout, AND go on duty?!? I just might die.

I eat too much. Any spare seconds I have tomorrow just might be spent at the gym. Or, you know, on Saturday. That might make more sense.

4 DAYS TO HIMYM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(And 7 to The Office. Slash, Grey's. I'm no longer excited by that show though. I'm probably going to miss it every week.)

But really, HIMYM is my fave thing right now. I even preordered season 3 on DVD! And it's kind of ridiculous how excited I am for the season premiere... as you can probably tell.

Um... that's it.
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Phoenix
10 September 2008 @ 10:09 pm
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Well, I went and did it. I posted my Twilight story on ffnet. So far, I've gotten surprisingly few flames. Just like one from someone who didn't read the story, and then another one that went on for so long I forgot to read it. But whatever. Some actual fans appreciated it, which makes me oddly happy.

Still not much new stuff to report. I've started watching Buffy as part of the good Doctor's influence on my life (the Doctor being Horrible, not Who or House or... McDreamy?). Apparently the first season is really bad, but I keep watching it, waiting for it to get good. Alyson Hannigan is actually kind of the best part of the show as I'm watching it. Her and Giles, whoever plays him.  Xander makes me giggle too. I also like looking at Angel, though so far he's not nearly as good as he was in the two episodes of Bones I've seen. And I'm STILL in the process of watching S2 of HIMYM, which I'm impressed with... didn't think I'd draw it out this long!

That's all that's new, really. My shows on DVD have become my new best friends.

In other news, no one ever tells me anything. Like apparently tomorrow is the LC challenge, only I didn't hear about it until I was talking to some of the other LC RAs. What the HELL? I try plan for everything --that's what I have the 5 calendars for -- but if they don't TELL ME what I'm supposed to do, I can't plan for it! ...When did I become Kate Gosselin minus the eight kids? Shudder shudder. So I think that's thrown a wrench into my plans for tomorrow, which included actually working out instead of just thinking about it. Except I totally did it yesterday!

Other random thoughts:

- I hate rain. It's just so... wet.
- I'm starting to like Chorale a lot more than I thought I would... I'm actually not thinking of dropping it anymore! Hooray!
- 12 days to HIMYM!
-15 days to the Office!
- I am a huge fan of peanut butter toast. I honestly don't think I can live without it.
- Note to self: buy more peanut butter.
- My Sweeney Todd story has 100 reviews!!!
- Surprisingly little homework today! But then again, I feel like that means I should be doing a lot of RA stuff to make up for when I have no time. ...Or maybe I should do my creative writing homework...? (Bleargh for poetry.) I feel rushed, but there's nothing rushing me. It's the strangest feeling.
- I can't find inspiration for my stupid poem. I wish we would move on to prose already.
- I miss Lost. (Hence the icon I'm using. Also, I needed some pretty to look at.)
- I also miss human interaction.

Oh, goodness, look at my wrist. I've got to go!
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Phoenix
06 September 2008 @ 03:03 pm
Dreams DO come true!!!!  
Because the Dr. Horrible soundtrack FINALLY came out!!!!! Life is good. Or, at least it was, until classes started, approximately 1/2 an hour after I got the Dr. Horrible soundtrack. Ugh. But hey, those little tracks were all I needed to make my entire week! (And I do mean little. The songs aren't very long. But they don't need to be, imo!) For the (possible 3 of you?) that read this and haven't yet seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog... um, what's wrong with you?!? Come see me after class! =)

In other news, I made a collage of awesome. It took me like six hours I didn't have and all my color ink is now gone. But it's AMAZING! And I realized after the fact that NPH is in it the most, since I have like 5 from HIMYM and 2 or 3 Dr. Horribles. But I can't help it! He's just that amazing, and that deserving of a big swath of my collage of awesome.

In other other news, it's getting harder and harder to find enough time to sleep. I honestly can't remember the last time I got as much sleep as I wanted to. Oh wait, yes I can. Because last night I was really good! But before that I was working practically right up until I went to bed, an hour or two after I had meant to. And I was doing so well with this RA job before school actually started! =P

Um... that's all I've got. Not much time to write anything else, to be honest. No big pop culture news that's making me squee inappropriately. But I think I'll just say that this season of Project Runway makes me sad, because of how boring it is and how untalented the contestants are. So I guess I'll just say... 16 days to HIMYM, 19 to The Office, and... too many to Lost! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch Singin' in the Rain! =)
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