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Friday, May 16th, 2008
noirrosaleen
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12:24p
-_-
So I realized today the next time June 21st, Midsummer's Day, will be on a Saturday is in 2014.
This means if we have the renewal of vows then, it'll be our 11th year married. Kind of a cockeyed year to renew vows...
Plus, that's a good 6 years away. At that point I'm not sure I'll still care about having a decent ceremony. Actually at that point it'll be old enough news that I doubt I *should*.
Dammit, I wanted it this year...5-year anniversary, Midsummer on a Saturday, it would've been GREAT...if we'd had the money. *sighs*
Murphy thinks he's funny, obviously.
current mood:  depressed
current music: "Calendar Girl," Neil Sedaka
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(1 comment | comment on this) Thursday, May 15th, 2008
noirrosaleen
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7:40p
Mom's Birthday
General invitation:
Anybody who can get to the Bay Area on Saturday, June 14th, is formally invited to go in a LARGE group to Gaskell's, in Oakland, for my mother's birthday party.
I'm specifically eyeing ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) musique174 (if life lightens up for you!), blackrose900, anybody who has been known to go in the past and those who have said they'd like to "someday"...that day would be the 14th of June.
Please?
current mood:  okay
current music: "The Wingmen," Dos Gringos
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(2 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
elhatcho
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7:15p
I Dream of Zombie
Ok, so a couple nights ago I had a dream where I was re-enacting a zombie movie, and I think it is an actual zombie movie but I forget which one. I was holed up in a house with some people and there were zombies everywhere (god hatch you are summarizing every zombie movie ever be more specific) and at some point, for some reason, I had to go outside, and I was walking across the street when a little girl, one of my students IRL, who had been walking next to me saw her mom on the other side of the street. So she runs across the street and as she is running a car comes over the hill and splatters her. Like, gore everywhere, with the majority of her body doing a large flip in the air. And then the body comes down and I start screaming "Oh god Oh god" like they are the only words I know and the mom comes running and then everybody else comes running from down the street, and then the little girl's body gets up and starts walking towards me and there are suddenly zombies everywhere and I wake up and my heart is pounding in my chest.
Everything was similar in the movie as in the dream, except for the identity of the little girl and myself, and the fact that the little girl still had her head after being hit by the car in the movie, but not in my dream. You might not have seen the actual car/girl collision in the movie. Is that a real movie or did I just dream that my dream seemed like a movie that I thought I had seen before, but might not exist.
So, yeah. I'm crazy.
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(10 comments | comment on this) Monday, May 12th, 2008
noirrosaleen
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1:16p
OW.
I woke up this morning feeling ok...until I got out of bed.
Everything between my diaphragm and my pelvic bowl is in AGONY. Muscles, guts, everything.
Walking to the bathroom and back almost made me cry. I am only up right now through sheer willpower; that and knowing I have to go to work today.
On the plus side, it seems I can eat again.
I'm going to go lie down again now...
current mood:  sore
current music: "Dance Dance," Fallout Boy
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noirrosaleen
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12:35a
*growls*
I very rarely feel the urge - or the right - to fight for something.
When I do, it gets rather explosive.
There's the sand. There's the line.
Just TRY to cross it, bitch. I have lots of friend-money, and I'm not letting what's mine get thieved.
(Oh yea, and I can be very petty. As a matter of fact, the more petty the issue, the more likely I feel safe getting pissed off, because in the end the problem will be forgotten. But till then...BOOM!)
current mood:  predatory
current music: "Collide," Howie Day
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(2 comments | comment on this) Sunday, May 11th, 2008
noirrosaleen
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5:06p
Greeeat.
So last night just before bed I started feeling nauseated. I got to sleep, hoping it would be gone in the morning. Around 5AM I'm woken up by a really bad wave of nausea. I go camp out in the bathroom for about an hour, hoping I'm wrong...and eventually bring up my dinner (and possibly lunch) from yesterday.
Unsurprisingly my first act afterward is to find mouthwash. My second act is to call in sick for work, hoping that I actually am sick and it wasn't a one-time fluke because DAMN I'd be pissed if it was.
My second time waking up was around 3PM, feeling a little stomach-bruised but otherwise ok. I risked some chicken soup and went back to rereading Girl Genius.
My stomach is bothering me again. Guess it was a good thing to call in sick after all...I'm going to go lie down for awhile.
So much for making Mom dinner for Mother's Day....
current mood:  sick
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(1 comment | comment on this) Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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(1 comment | comment on this) Friday, May 9th, 2008
elhatcho
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11:40p
Intoxication
So I have had a couple of Jack and Cokes by this point of the evening, the first about 80% jack, the second about 80% pepsi (not coke, I am failure...) and have reduced myself to the point about worrying about random things such as...
-unintentionally offending roommate to the point of her moving out due to combination of cruel humor and intoxication... (note to self: people are very sensitive about pets)
- bald spot (it is really bad now... :_( )
- I have just watched an entire episode of Dr. Who and haven't actually listened to 5 consecutive seconds, yet know exactly what is going on.
-Watching commercials on said Dr. Who episode despite said episode being recorded via DVR
-I just logged onto facebook in response to gmail notification... facebook depresses me and facebook chat is creepy, or it would be, if anybody was interested in chatting with me ever.
-wasted the humorous part of this drunken friday night watching bad movies (strange wilderness... roommate Matt is reviewing DVD for website and had to watch it... we followed it up with old school, which isn't as bad as it is completely unappealing to me...) and then committed worry number one.
-oil apocalypse: If our fuel based economy collapsed tomorrow I would be f@*ked, and wouldn't be able to walk or bike to work, or eat or really do anything. That would suck.
-Asteroids: These don't really worry me, as I don't have much to lose in case life on earth is randomly wiped out by a passing celestial rock.
My week didn't necessarily suck. I spent half of it subbing for other teachers (which pays pretty well), and got several more hours for my summer teaching schedule than I had previously anticipated. And I spent most of my free time reading Star Wars Expanded Universe Novels (Legacy of the Force is pretty good... appealing in an "I would have LOVED this ten years ago" sort of way...)
Haven't been doing much to complete my playthrough of various games... played a small sample of GTA IV and wasn't very impressed after the 10/10 BEST GAEM EVAR reviews... a moderate graphic overhaul, same basic gameplay, a lot of attention to detail, but nothing extraordinary, especially considering this is the fourth 3d game in the series, and it doesn't feel like it has really improved much beyond graphics and multiplayer (which I haven't actually played, and thus am not certain that it is an improvement) especially given that 95% of the appeal is based upon a players ability to abandon all respect for common human decency and go on a random driving-/killing-/killing via driving-spree, and appreciating rockstar's eighth grade level dialog writing skillz.
Iron Man was good, and I really had to search for aspects of the film that I might criticize after my initial viewing. I think the best flaw I could find for the movie is that it is a typical superhero origin story and thus spends a lot of time developing the character from Tony Stark to Iron Man that everyone knows will happen before they see it. Which has to be done because they are introducing a superhero, and yet... we've seen it four thousand times before as of this summer. Otherwise.... the chemistry between Gweneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. was kind of meh... but really these are nit picks and the movie was excellent. But I was watching on opening night with a crowd of fans, so this isn't necessarily an unbiased opinion.
I have finished Dr. Who and moved on to Battlestar Galactica... which I haven't really been following for a while... but I am still slightly drunk. Woo! Liver Damage! Goodbye brain cells! I wouldn't have used you anyway.
Bah. Lonely Friday again.
current mood: Intoxicated
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(comment on this) Thursday, May 8th, 2008
noirrosaleen
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10:46p
On Laughter and Pain
This is something I want to put down partially for others to read, so maybe they'll understand, and partially for me to figure out what the hell this phenomenon is (or at least the symptoms and causes, perhaps). If you're uninterested in it, move along.
( 'But you're laughing!' )
current mood:  hurt
current music: Neverwinter Nights 2 theme in the other room
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gharbad
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9:40a
Life at work
Well, it was brought to my attention that I haven't written anything about work recently. So, I felt I could rant a bit today, and probably give you some indication of how things are going.
So, first thing that's probably on everyone's mind (ok, that's a bit of a stretch, many of you have asked me directly already, and others probably don't care.) is how's work going now that I've transitioned. Oh yeah, I transitioned at work last week on Monday. So, it's going well. Much better than I thought it would, actually. Then again, when I was thinking about it, I was sure there would be pitchforks and torches...
Really, most people just don't care. They generally call me by my name (Jessica) instead of my old name (Chris) and while they have some pronoun issues sometimes, it's ok. A few people ignore me a little more poignantly than they did before, but really, people didn't talk to me all that much before hand. I mean, at least from the people who don't talk to me now. The people who did talk to me before still do. So, it's like nothing changed. Except I'm a girl now.
Of course, the place still isn't great. In fact, soul crushing is a good description of it. I have a second interview at OpenTEXT... though it is for another support position, the position is not a phone tech support position. It's more projects. People give me big ass problems and I have to solve them. So, we're hoping for a second interview.
Lets see. How is my life going other than that. Pretty well, I guess. Nothing horrible to report. I'm taking a fiction writing course through continuing education, which is a little bit of a joke, but it's still interesting. Want to see Iron man. Hear it's good. Meh, stuff.
Yeah, that's it. Thought I'd post about it, in case someone still cares. I should get ready for work now.
Oh, right. I forgot one thing. Because I found out this month, despite a tax return of $900 (and getting payed for work), I had in fact not saved a penny, and may have in fact lost a little bit of money, I'm going to try out some sort of budget. First step: Drinking - Each month I get $200 for drinking money. If I run out, I'm out of drinking money for the month. If I don't run out, the money goes back in the bank as savings. Hopefully. At least that's the plan. Another part of my budget is to reduce the amount I eat out. I was thinking about doing a similar thing (take out $200 in cash, and use that to eat food) but I think as long as I pack lunches at least 4 out of 5 days a week, my food budget will decrease drastically. We'll see how this all goes over.
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(5 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
byrongo
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9:49p
This was a draft I think I might have written two years ago.
Nah.
Not really.
But lately I think my life has either felt too big or too small for Livejournal. Like not worth mentioning, or mentioning it would somehow diminish it.
And so the slate goes blank and lies dormant, until that next burst of connective explosion intertwines with my life, and the writing flows like tentacles over the underwater sand, like an octopus flows through the water. It will reach without motion, and move without particular action, and it will just be.
and then.
For now, I'm in Albuquerque, for the next six hours, at least. Two weeks going on six hours, a fun time, a movie (or two) made, and a couple of friends added to the dossier.
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(comment on this) Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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tempted
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