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[Dec. 18th, 2009|11:40 am] |
I'd post these to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) wtf_burando if I was sure they hadn't been posted already. Seriously, Meta, these are OOGLY jsks! I know you were going for a Christmas theme, but I wouldn't even buy wrapping paper that looks like this.   |
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[Dec. 18th, 2009|11:23 am] |
I think I proved my devotion to the art of RiffTrax last night. Went to the encore presentation for RiffTrax Live in absolute ass weather. That alone was awful. Having to walk through three feet of water to get to my car afterwards was even worse. Much of South Florida is flooded at the moment and it's still raining now. I've got nothing else, so enjoy Gaylord the dog. He comes with a bone of his own.
EDIT: Holy shit, LJ's new search is WEIRD. |
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| What time is it? |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|08:02 pm] |
In other news, got another article published. I'm always paranoid every time I get something published though. I'm so paranoid of making a mistake. I usually can't bring myself to read my own articles, which I guess can be likened to how a lot of authors don't read their own books or a lot of actors don't see their own movies. I know if I do I'll start to knitpick and freak out. |
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| That's right folks, it's another post from the angst bucket |
[Dec. 12th, 2009|11:47 am] |
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Anime Club picnic tomorrow. Not honestly sure if I'm going to go.
I doubt I'm very well liked around the group due to having been friends with the former officers, who are pretty much seen by the rest of the club as having been totally evil, soul-smashing totalitarians. Probably even more looked down upon for being the annoying voice of skepticism during the regime change. But even before the former vice-president, treasurer and secretary were declared to be villainous rapscallions I was never quite fully accepted. I've never been invited to the parties outside of club or to join along on convention trips. I wasn't even invited to the former president's wedding.
It probably says a lot that even among a group of people who've been labeled nerds and outcasts that I still manage to be an outcast. That's like being the stinkiest turd in the toilet or something.
It probably doesn't help that I'm still skeptical about whether or not the final outcome will be the best thing in the end. I guess we won't know until we start planning for our convention, but there's no denying that everything that's happened has put us at something of a disadvantage. A lot of the people who were most active in planning for it are gone now and we're left with a group of people who are going to be feeling around in the dark. And if they think other people who've been involved in planning in the past are going to step in and show them the ropes, well, I think they might be mistaken. Even if that does happen, it might just explode into diverging opinions on how the event should be run. But only time will tell, and I do think it's possible to overcome. After all, it had to have started at some point with people who had little to no experience with running a convention before.
I agree with the sentiments that maybe we've grown too big for the university, being that the majority of the most active members aren't students, but the sad truth is that without the club probably wouldn't exist and the convention wouldn't even be a possibility without any other source of funding. |
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[Dec. 8th, 2009|01:02 am] |
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I finished my last class towards my BA yesterday. Today I'm no longer a student and officially an unemployed bum.
Today is also mine and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vxo's 4-year anniversary.
Yay!
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| Denny's is SO classy |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|10:29 pm] |
HAHAHA - The members of AGA meet at Denny's after almost every meeting. There's usually about 20 of us here, but much of the staff knows us and is happy to serve our obscenely large table. But tonight, there was some lady with like six or seven kids around here sitting at a table near ours. When they finish their meal, she forces herself into our group and spouts this gem:
"I brought these kids here tonight to teach them about fine dining, and you ruined it. You've taken over this whole restaurant. I'm so embarrassed for you."
And I'm thinking, "Bitch, you're at Denny's. This is far from 'fine dining.'"
Maybe next time spend the extra $10 and go to Olive Garden.
So the lesson here is: don't try to teach your kids about "fine dining" at what is essentially a sit-down fast food restaurant. It's one step above trying to give your kids an etiquette lesson at McDonalds. |
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| Leggo my Eggo |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|01:03 pm] |
I don't understand why the media's been so focused on the Eggo waffles shortage when we apparently have a shortage of pumpkins. Wouldn't that have made a better story, especially with it being Thanksgiving?
Not knowing this to be true, I waited until the last minute to bake a pumpkin pie and went out last night to get pumpkin. One Publix and two Wal-Marts later I still had no luck. I finally managed to find some at Whole Foods just as they were closing.
(I'm not kidding about there being an actual shortage of pumpkins btw, they had a sign up at both Wal-Marts saying so).
Here's that scene in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving where Snoopy prepares thanksgiving dinner. The Brown family owns an obscene amount of toasters.
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| The Thanksgiving that almost wasn't |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|09:31 pm] |
My refrigerator had randomly started making noises like it was leaking, despite that it wasn't leaving any puddles anywhere. My dorm takes care or such problems, so I filed a maintenance request and went on my marry way. I take some classes at a different campus, so I left about 8 am that morning and didn't come back until about 3 pm.
Whatever was wrong with my fridge, it was apparently important enough that it needed to be replaced entirely. A brand new fridge was standing where the ol' leaky one was.
That's when I saw it.
That's when I saw that the maintenance worker had taken my 27 pound turkey out of the fridge, and, instead of putting it back, left it in a grocery bag on the floor.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
It turned out not to be that big of a deal. I called them and found out that he'd left less than an hour ago and the beast was still very much frozen. I was just concerned because I didn't know what time he left and for all I know that turkey could have been sitting on the floor defrosting for hours, in which case I would have lost $18 worth of meat.
To end this tale that goes nowhere, here's An Arbuckle Thanksgiving, largely inspired off the Garfield Minus Garfield franchise. I've posted it on here before, but it's my favorite of the two Arbuckle holiday specials, so damn it, I'm posting it again.
Oh, also, I'm back in Broward for the rest of the week for anyone who cares.
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:51 pm] |
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I was going to do a long-winded rant about the ugliness that's happened over the past two weeks. Instead, I want to leave this message to the people who are involved:
Good friends are the people who tell you what you need to know rather than what you want to know. Though I do think that the consequences were too severe, there were faults all around, and I think that should be acknowledged. I also think that you're all being too hard on her. God forbid you ever end up in a situation where telling the truth to police means losing your friends. And as much as I know a lot of people thought they were standing up for him and were trying to save the group, the truth is the backlash probably did more damage to him and everyone else involved than the mishap itself. We really dug ourselves into a hole. And whatever the resolution may be at this point, there's a good chance it won't satisfy everyone. We could lose a lot and we could lose everything. But what we've done over the past decade is amazing, and there's no reason we couldn't do it again. However, nothing positive comes from hatred. If we ever hope to rebuild, we need to all make ammends. It's a lack of communication and the inability to believe many of the people involved didn't have alterior motives that made things a lot worse. If this trend continues, then we're as good as dead.
I don't know how many of those involve read my LJ. I only know one or two people for sure who are friended. But hopefully those one or two people could help spread that message. I'm sure everyone else is sick of hearing from me by now. |
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| Well, this is shaping up to be a stellar week... NOT... |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
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Someone approached me earlier today about an article I wrote. Here's largely how the conversation went:
SS: Squeaky_Spooky
IG: Idiot Guy
IG: You're *Squeaky_Spooky,* right?
SS: Yeah
IG: I read your article on volunteering for the *insert large sporting event here*, but forgot the link to the site. I'm in a club that's interested in getting involved in volunteer activities and wanted to know if you could give it to me.
SS: Oh sure it's *link here.*
IG: No, not that one. The one for volunteering in the county.
SS: Oh... uh... I didn't write that article.
IG: I know, but it ran next to your article so I figured you'd know it.
SS: ....
Yeah...
Anyways, Thursday's looking to be quite the show. Not naming names, but a club I'm involved with is going through some serious drama to the likes of which it's yet to have seen. We've had drama issues before, but nothing that's led to anyone getting arrested until now. I wasn't there at the time so I don't know the details, but honestly, the epic power struggles and attempts from certain members to turn the club into their personal army against certain other members has gotten way the fuck out of hand to the point where I'm thinking of leaving all together. If I were still the Vice President (I didn't bother running again because I graduate in December), I probably would have dropped out already. Thursday will likely be the deciding factor as to whether I stay. This really stopped being fun after the convention debacle of '08, and it's only gotten worse and worse. At it's core, the club was for people on campus and in the community involved in a specific fandom to get together and socialize. What it's become is childish and retarded. And I really don't know if I want to be a part of it anymore.
And no, I will not sign your stupid fucking petition that's not even valid because you're no longer a student.
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[Nov. 7th, 2009|08:11 pm] |
Me after 4 hours of trying to make a video in Final Cut for the first time
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| Holy Shit! A Post! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:14 am] |
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Once again, I apologize for the utter lack of attention I've been paying to LJ as of late.
I started reading Push by Sapphire. It's the novel the movie Precious is based on. I'm loving it so far. All the people who complain that it's too hard to read because Precious's inner monologue is in ebonics must be way whiter than me because I'm having no problem understanding it.
Admittedly, I knew little about the book until I saw the trailer for the movie Thursday. Then there just happened to be a teaser for a review of it on the front page of Friday's New York Times.
And for anyone really that curious as to where I've been all this time, it's been a mix of stories I'm working on about pit bulls, the Miami International Book Fair, antiquarians, comic book pioneers and working on my own front page design.
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| A brief explanation of lack of posts |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|02:47 pm] |
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These are crap excuses I'm sure, but it all comes down to this:
I'm a full-time journalism student two months shy of graduating who also writes for her university newspaper, commissions work for the three major South Florida publications (the Sun-Sentinel, Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post), writes for a legal news blog, edits audio for a local radio show, runs two online businesses and is desperately looking for permanent work.
In short, I just do not have the fucking time.
It's not all ass though. vxo's birthday is next week and then it's halloween! Wooo! We're going to a party as the Joker and Harley Quinn.
I've also made a habit to visit this local hell house every year. Before moving to Miami I'd never been in a real hell house, and I must say it's a laugh riot. It's amazing they haven't thrown us out yet.
Here's their trailer for this year's show.
In other news, I may be deleting this LJ soon. It hasn't last anywhere near as long as my previous LJ of four years, but my every changing interests are drawing me closer and closer to another account that I find myself doing more with. Nothing final yet, but if I decide to make the full switch, you'll be damn sure I'll write about it.
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| Le Sigh |
[Oct. 11th, 2009|09:19 am] |
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Good News: One of my articles was published in a major newspaper.
Bad News: They printed the wrong photo with the wrong caption.
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| I hate it when I go this long without writing |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|01:51 pm] |
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I haven't updated in a long time, mostly due to school and work, but today I'm writing because I just had something of an epiphany.
We were discussing ideas for future stories in my Feature Writing class on topics that concern people our age (early-mid 20s).
One girl brings up how there are students in other majors who seem to really be able to enjoy their college experience while students like her are doing two internships and working full time for a paper and taking a full course load of classes and don't have so much as time to in the student union center and drink a cup of coffee.
And I started thinking to myself: "Why do you feel like you need to work 19 hours a day and be miserable?"
I have to wonder just how competitive the job market in this field is. I've seen people who've done little more than occasionally write for the school newspaper get the same jobs as the students who do a new internship for each semester.
How competitive is it really compared to how competitive people fear it is?
For a while now I think I've forgotten that life is meant to be enjoyed. I'm constantly comparing my work (or lack thereof) to others. I think it took listening to the people who do nothing but work and still fear that they're not doing enough to realize just how ridiculous that is.
I'm not saying not to work your hardest when you know you can, but is there any point to doing so if it's just going to drive you crazy? What do you feel you need to get out of it? Who benefits from this invisible quota you're trying to fill? Are employers really going to look down on you that much more if you don't take that third internship?
If you want to be the best and change the world, then by all means, go for it. But never, ever forget to be happy first. |
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| Stuuuuuuff |
[Aug. 24th, 2009|02:05 pm] |
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(1) Computer is fixed. I gave in and backed up my files and set it back to factory settings. Incidentally, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to restore from an fbw file, don't use your computer's manufacturer's restore program. Emergency Recovery Tool did in 15 minutes what HP restore couldn't do in eight hours.
(2) I moved back to Miami and started my last round of classes today. Feeling less and less apprehensive about choosing an Editing class over a Management class. I've had the Editing professor before and she can be a huge pain, but from what I've heard the Managing professor is worse and I don't have the convenience of being able to wait until next semester to take Management with someone else. Plus, overall, the Editing subject sounds more like something I'd like, being a big ol' grammar nazi and all.
(3) I spent seven hours yesterday slow cooking a whole Turkey and it came out sooooo gooooood (Publix is having a mad sale on them for anyone near a Publix). So glad my mom let me steal her crock pot.
(4) I somehow misread the time on my Feature Writing class as being from 1:20 - 2:00. It turned out to be 12:00 - 1:20. You can be dropped and replaced by a student waiting for an override if you're absent the first day, so I hauled ass over there almost an hour late and made an ass out of myself banging loudly on the locked door. Later I holed up into one of the bathrooms and cried like a bitch. Big whoop, want to fight about?
Incidentally, I have been a huge bitch to everyone this weekend. Moving is an incredibly stressful process for me, less from the actual physical act and more from just thinking about everything that needs to be done. I apologize to everyone who had to put up with me. |
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| No updates? Here's why |
[Aug. 17th, 2009|09:07 pm] |
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Last week I really didn't do anything of importance. Had an amazing weekend and was initially going to write about it today until this happened:
MY COMPUTER FUCKING SHAT ITSELF!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
A windows update that I left running last night as I went to bed somehow resulted in me waking up to find my laptop on a Startup Repair screen. Running Startup Repair multiple times wouldn't allow me to start it normally and when I tried starting in safe mode it immediately blue screened. I have no disc for Vista so repairing from disc wasn't an option. The disc costs over $200. I tried borrowing my neighbor's disc but apparently Vista discs made for Dells don't like anything that's not a Dell (my laptop is an HP). Running System Restore from the Recovery menu also didn't help. One chat with Microsoft support proved futile. We did literally everything that could possibly be done without having a disc. At least being able to access the Recovery menu meant I was able to back up my files and a manager at Microsoft called me later and said that since this apparently happened from a bad update they're sending me a free Vista disc. But I have no guarantee it'll get here before I leave for school on Saturday and not having a computer right at the start of the semester will be a pretty big inconvenience.
Balls. |
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| Post Office Suck |
[Aug. 4th, 2009|10:46 am] |
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It seems like 1 out of every 10 packages I send out either never makes it to its destination or arrives well past its ETA (I never ship anything more than 3 days after receiving sale confirmation).
Another friend of mine who always using Delivery Confirmation (I admit, I rarely use it myself) says he never has this problem and he thinks people are just trying to scam me. I really don't think the majority of these people are trying to scam me mostly because:
(A) When I given them the option of either sending a second copy or a refund, almost all of them pick the second copy, and
(B) That doesn't provide any explanation for the people who are getting their packages 1 or 2 weeks after ETA
I'm going to start using DC regardless just because I want to be able to have an answer for the sudden influx of people who are asking me where their stuff's at. I don't know why things are suddenly arriving up to 2 weeks beyond ETA, if at all, but if I had to guess it has to do a lot with the recent severe cutbacks in the postal service and threats of closures (something like 16 post offices will be closing in Florida alone). |
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| Knock off the shit |
[Aug. 2nd, 2009|09:37 pm] |
I don't know what it is about people I meet on anime forums, particularly local ones, but they all eventually reveal themselves to be socially maladjusted individuals who get all emo over EVEYTHING.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I can't get through this game! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I have to do math homework! WAAAAAAAAAAAH! Life is fucking hard! I'm totally going to go kill myself, why aren't you paying attention to meeeeeeeeeee!?!?!
Listen, if the worst things going on in your life are your characters keep getting killed off in MMOs and you can't find a boyfriend/girlfriend, you're still doing pretty fucking well, so knock off the shit.
That being said, here's this weekend.
FRIDAY: I doubt many people who read my LJ listen to Michael Savage often, but I sometimes listen to him on the way to work and have no choice but to listen to the last hour of his show once there (he's syndicated on our station if you couldn't guess), but I don't think I have ever heard anyone talk about themselves so often. Here's a summary of his show throughout this past week:
(1) My profile is in the New Yorker
(2) I was banned from Britain (long story short, he was put on a list of people considered radicals. I may not agree with most of his viewpoints, but I do agree this was unwarranted. No matter how you look at it, he was put on the list for doing no more than speaking his mind.)
(3) I want to make a documentary about myself.
Ugh.
SATURDAY: Volunteered at the humane society again. It was less emotional this time, though I did still tear up a bit.
vxo and I watched Gregory Horror Show. It was one of a couple of anime I bought that were on sale for $4 each for the sole purpose that they're supposed to be awful. It was... interesting. It was made by the same people who made Pecola, so as expected it was largely made up of cube-shaped CGI characters. The frame rate was horrible making the animation look more like a PS1 game (which, in fact, it later became). As for the story, well... I can see what they were going for, but I think it definitely fell short.
SUNDAY: Went to Dollar Tree to buy more energy shots. They're already putting Halloween stuff out and I couldn't resist NOT buying something. In this case it was an awesome wreath of skeletons hanging from nooses.
My room has started to grow a quite accidental skull motif. It started with a Day of the Dead candle I received from an aunt in Arizona. It's a sugar skull surrounded by little pink hearts and I absolutely love it. I also have a skull candy dish (whom I named Rebecca) that I use to store my keys so I don't lose them and a string of skulls hanging from my wall.
Speaking of early holiday decorations, was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago about how a lot of stores are starting to do Christmas sales now in an attempt to improve business and help improve the economy (75% off last years toys at Target if anyone's interested). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Christmas in July wasn't a particularly new concept. True it may be the first time it was practiced for this specific reason, but stores have been starting to sell Christmas items in July for well over a decade. Whatever.
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