August 21, 2006
A meme I stole from my Kat!
A. Pick 16 of your favorite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is.
E. Strike out the quote once it has been correctly identified and place the guesser’s username directly after the quote.
1) Then, I was inspired. Now I’m sad, and tired. After all I’ve tried for three years, seems like ninety. Why then am I scared to finish what I started? What you started, I didn’t start it. Hunter
2) Perhaps Margaret is right: Piracy is our only option.
3) Now I know I have a heart…cause it’s breaking. Beth
4) You think you have won! What is light without dark? Katie
5) Magic is the bloodstream of the universe. Forget all you know, or think you know. All that you need is your intuition. AND: Went away? ‘I dwell in darkness without you’ and it went away?
6) I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more than I can tell. Beth!
7) They may not adore my person, but I assure you: they dote on my purse.
8) You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it. Rachel
9) You’re a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother. Katie
10) If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? Matt
11) I’m setting booty traps. Jessie
12) And I often think: why did I let her in? Didn’t I know she was bad? Yes I did. Of course I did. But I also knew that I couldn’t keep the door closed my whole life, just because it was dangerous, just because I might get hurt.
13) The irony of all is that good is totally impotent without the contrast of evil. Hunter
14) How can you look where you’re going if you don’t know where you’re going?!
15) How you’d have loved the North Cape, and the fjords in the midnight sun…to sail across the reef at Barbados where the blue water turns to green. To the Falklands, where a southerly gale whips the whole sea white! What we’ve missed, Lucia…what we’ve both missed.
16) This woman is yours now - I’ve paid my whore. Jocey
August 16, 2006
if I should dye before I wake
So, last night, as I'm winding down conversation with a friend on AIM so I can go to bed, my roommate walks in. Her head is red along either side, and slick - hair dye. Fuschia.
"So," she says. "Are you feeling spontaneous tonight?"
"Uh." I look at her with some apprehension, wondering if there's a last minute art opening she wants to go to. "How so?"
"I've got some hair dye left over."
It's Fuschia hair dye, meant to be used on dark hair. I've always wanted to get highlights/streaks in some outlandish color, but I've never been brave enough. With no time to overthink it, though, my response is: "What the hell? Sure!"
So now it looks rather like a bright pinky-red painball exploded over the top of my head. I like it, I think - though I'm having slight dyers remorse.
There will be pictures - along with my room (OMG IT'S CLEAN!) when I get new batteries for my camera.
August 14, 2006
Memeness. Whee!
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
02a. Swam with sharks and manta rays
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
06a. Held a monkey
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it To clarify, Bryce - not to a significant other, only friends and family. Dork.
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game meh
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby's diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can It really made my throat hurt.
32. Held a lamb Well, sort of. I've touched and petted them. And goats. And cows.
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day In third grade, I read Robin Hood at home, and went to school speaking faux old-english.
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer It was nice, until the second time I turned it on and it suicided, taking the computer with it.
40. Visited all 10 provinces
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk Over the phone. It was kind of scary.
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip Does when Rachel and Carrie and I drove from Chicago to Boston count?
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach Sapelo island is the most beautiful place. At midnight, clouds of ghost-crabs scatter before you on black-and-white striped sands.
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your cds
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Posed nude in front of strangers
61. Gone scuba diving gone snorkeling...horrible sunburn.
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater No, but I've been to a big screen in a field where we sat in lounge chairs.
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites Oh! Yes! I forgot.
70. Taken a martial arts class Exactly one. Unless you count taking it in gym at school.
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Had a one-night stand
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Created and named your own constellation of stars
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery Well, had things removed by plastic surgeons
104. Survived an illness that you shouldn't have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Petted a stingray It may have been a manta ray. And I also think there were baby sharks in the tank.
110. Broken someone's heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild Omg morels MMMM
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours I'm pretty sure - but I was way sick.
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
125a. Taken a kayak trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat I...think so. It was a while ago, but I'm pretty sure it was...
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper And was on the news. Hee.
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school Hah, I've never been away from it. God, the real world's gonna eat me.
131. Parasailed
132. Petted a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad
135. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating A fish. Most of the stuff.
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language HAH!
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146: Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone's life
Wow. That's actually...a lot.
August 13, 2006
What'd I do?
I just had my requests to join feminist and feminist_rage declined.
...wtf?
August 01, 2006
Brains belong in your head!
So, it seems that everyone and their mother is moving out this week, in a terrible hurry. The trash is reaching out from the dumpsters as though it would like to take over.
WHEE! TRASH!
The dumpster gods have provided me with incredible bounty, and a window into Amazing Human Stupidity.
Now, for those who may not be aware, it is a bad idea to:
*throw away your keychain, with car and apartment keys (2)
*throw away one-use cameras with only a few pictuers on them, and rolls of film you may want later
*forget to take the digital camera out of your file cabinet before tossing it
*throw away your windows XP disk
*throw away records of your college career.
But what takes the absolute cake is Mr. Steal-My-Identity-Guy. He threw away two matching file cabinets that contained: filed, ordered bank statements from both his banks. Utility bills with his address on them (you know, like you can use as 'proof of address') his graduation application that lists every class and grade, and BOTH OF HIS ATM CARDS. If I was an identity thief, I would be well on my way to ruining his credit score. Because he is lucky, I will shred these documents the way he should have done, and throw them away myself.
Dumpster Diving Booty:
4 dressmaker dummy torsos
a rakish hat for one of them
a digital camera (don't know if it works yet)
a bag of clothespins
some fun novelty shirts
an old-navy purse
a mini dictionary/thesaurus,
batteries
a copy of windows XP
a fun door-curtain-thingy
a stack of letter stickers
a nasa baseball cap (up for grabs)
some cds
a keychain
a mardi-gras mask somewhat reminiscent of a purple Cthulu,
a bracelet,
three nice binders,
a bottle-opener keychain,
two unopened packets of printable transparencies,
scotch tape,
two file-cabinets (only keeping one though)
batteries of various sizes (still in the package, no less)
three pool balls, (Two thirteens and a five, go figure)
a one-use camera with 20 pictures left open on it,
a beaded key-chain,
unopened package of smudge tools for working with charcoal,
an apron for Lisa
a devil-horned mineature rubber ducky (you're the onnneeee!)
really, really sore arms