So I went to the movies tonight and did the double-feature thing; I went and saw the 8:50 Hancock and the 11:00 Wanted. I have . . . thoughts on them, in some cases rather extensive thoughts, so here they are. Spoilery, of course.

( This is the last movie I ever expected to say this about, but I want Hancock fic. )

( I didn't have to go watch a movie with a guy pretending to be Edward Norton when I could've gone down the hall and seen actual Edward Norton with the same dramatically amplified heartbeat. )

And in conclusion, the trailer for Quantum of Solace pretty much made me wet my pants, and I am too tired and cheerful to care about the TMI. Damn you, Daniel Craig, I didn't even like Bond movies until you started playing him. >:|

There is stuff to be said about my own life and fandom/RP/creative things-- a lot of stuff, actually, much of it important-- but that is coming tomorrow when I can think again. I might sleep, or I might watch Doctor Who; I'm not sure if I'm burned out on Watching Things for the night, and the spoilers I've heard aren't exactly making me eager to check it out.

From karra and nai_is_not!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ.


( wheeeeee. )

Things that are awesome:

1) I made my own breakfast and nothing caught on fire! I screwed up an egg, but I got that cleaned up okay >.>
2) Sci-Fi is showing Dark Angel from 7-3 Central today, and USA is showing NCIS from noon Central until . . . sometime, I dunno. A WHOLE DAY OF MICHAEL WEATHERLY ON TV, GUYS.
3) There is a large orange catloaf on the kitchen table watching TV with me :D
4) Apparently we have a CPU and a keyboard hooked up to the TV, so that I can actually browse the Internet on the TV and watch stuff from Sidereel and Watch-Movies on the TV. Also, we have an Atari for some reason.
4) Homework is getting done.

Things that are not awesome:

1) The orange catloaf is inexplicably permanently angry :( she keeps trying to stalk my hands and pounce on them when I type.
4) Homework exists.

Someday I will make a post in actual paragraph form. SOMEDAY.

Wow, there's really nothing better to brighten my morning than an article link from my mom about how my dream job is becoming obsolete.

OH GOD, MY CHILDHOOD.

extremely nsfw lyrics.

[cp_studying] and I've decided I'm pretty much doing no homework the rest of the day
[cp_studying] I /should/ because I have this heap of paper-writing left
[cp_studying] but I'm gonna do some cleaning-and-packing stuff and just do a little paper-writing work, and then go to bed early and write the hell out of everything tomorrow
[cp_studying] and whatever bits I don't finish I can do Saturday evening
[cp_studying] I will be exhausted and hate myself by then but I'll need to be awake and online for RP plotz anyway, so.
* cp_studying HAS A PLAN though, everyone be in awe now pls

It's official, I'm the most useless person on the planet.

I owned my econ final this afternoon, and then went and got almost fifty unexpected dollars reselling the textbook. I got home, I got my Detective Fiction paper started-- only five days late!-- and I had a good topic idea about Auguste Dupin and I felt productive and I was gonna just write the hell out of that paper.

And then I pulled up the prompt and discovered that Dupin wasn't one of the detectives I can write about, because he's Victorian and not Golden Age. Because, you know, this was a class about Golden Age Detectives.

So there goes all my momentum for the day. Lovely.

Somehow, all this stuff is going to get done, but I can't imagine how right now. Someday I will actually manage to tag people for RP; someday I will even manage to tag that damn lyrics meme, if anyone still remembers or cares about that. (And emglyph is getting a new response, because the one I wrote her was crap.)

Meanwhile I ordered some food I don't deserve, and I'm gonna take a crack at writing an outline for a totally new term paper, and then maybe I will take a nap that I also don't deserve and can't actually afford.

. . .

The string line-- I think it's viola?-- at the beginning of this track sounds the same as in the Pirates of the Carribean theme. Just saying.

No matter how many plain white socks I own, I can never seem to find two at a time that match. Discuss the economics of all this. (3 points)

So tired. Cooler weather and lower humidity not helping. Sleep and caffeine, alternately, not helping. Cutting self off from Internet did not help.

I have infinity papers (makeup work woo) and two exams to get through by Friday evening and I cannot focus to save my life, no matter what I do. (I do have a huge sack of library books, though, in case I do ever figure out how to write easy research papers on subjects I like.) I'm not even getting RP tags done (and massive apologies to those of you I owe).

advice encouragement motivation. or just do my hw for me. pls.


PS: some advice for you guys: I don't care what anyone says, Fatal Equilibrium is a horrible fucking mystery novel.

A thing somebody said on fandomsecrets:

I don't think anyone fails out of college because of fandom. I think they fail out because they don't want to be there and fandom is fastest way to distract themselves from that. If it's not fandom, it's parties and if it's not parties it's something else. If you don't want to be in college, don't go. There's lots of people out there who are active in fandom and do very well in college.

Story of my life, in a nutshell.

( Cut to spare my also-job-seeking friends. )

Goals for summer: draw more, paint my nails more often, watch lots of TV, maybe teach myself some Welsh. The hell with deadlines; I count myself lucky at this point if stuff gets done at all.

Hey.

Hey, flist.

My school has finally gotten wise and blocked .torrent files from downloading over its network.

I'm moving out in a week anyway, but in the meantime: would anyone happen to have the soundtracks from Brazil or Collateral and be able to upload them for me? I'll owe you a cookie or a favor or something.

♥

( In which I am bitchy. )

( In which I am not bitchy. )

( And in the meantime. )

PS: I will still be online tomorrow, because if I totally broke off contact with the world I would explode. I might even be tagging. But I will get stuff done, dammit.

HELLO CHILDREN. It is storytime. Or something. Because I want to tell the minor yet epic-- definitely epically annoying-- tale of how I didn't actually get a job.

I have been answering job listings on Craigslist like mad, and was pleasantly surprised to actually hear back from a guy. His name was D*****, and he claimed to be a high-volume payroll accountant working out of NYC. He was going to pay me $1500 a month, plus expenses, to work from home printing off checks and envelopes and mailing them out; not a bad gig. I thought it was a bit high, but I figured a) for someone doing the kind and amount of work he said he was it could easily be pocket change and b) he wasn't making me pay for anything, which is usually the biggest tipoff that a job is a scam. And I need work pretty badly.

So I email the guy back accepting the job, give him my cell number-- which was admittedly a bit dumb of me, but I figured and figure there's only so much shit someone can pull over the phone-- and my current mailing address, which i relatively safe since it's campus housing and I'm moving out in two weeks. He says his "business associate" is going to send me $4500 and I should buy the equipment needed and let the rest of it sit till I get further instructions, which is where I start to get honestly suspicious. I email him back for details regarding what those instructions will be, and he doesn't answer for a while. So I figure I'm not going to hear from him again.

Except! Last week I got a check in the mail from a guy named P*** in Texas, drawn for some reason on the Bank of New York, and for not $4500 but $5000. By now I am mightily confused and very suspicious, and I email the guy saying I'm very sorry but I can't take the job after all. He answers in a panic ("DO NOT SHERD THE CHECK"), telling me to take $300 for my trouble and send the rest Western Union-- now there's a warning sign-- to his poor auntie's oncologist J****. (There was no Dr. in front of his name. Nice going. And is there even a Newark in Delaware?)

So there goes that job, and also $5000. And I've been getting phone calls all day from an "unavailable" number, and got hung up on the one time I picked up this morning. So I'm pissed as hell and really freaked out, and taking all my emails with him and the check (which I have cut in half to resist temptation) to the police in the hopes it's some use to somebody.

The End.

I fail at memes lately, but.

Leave a comment and I will:
1) tell you why I friended you,
2) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
3) tell you something I like about you,
4) tell you a memory I have of you,
5) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
6) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
7) in return, you must post this in your LJ

Good things:

> Finding a good place to live.
> Finding spare money and a good cheap delivery place on the same night :9
> Invisible Man series two.
> stjudehigh
> Fresh flowers in the window to go with the nice weather
> Ultimate Fantastic Four

Bad things:

> Getting the days of the week mixed up and realizing something I thought I had to do tonight was actually due twelve hours ago.
> Actually, everything in the two whole weeks of school left.
> Actually, school, period.
> Unemployment.

Incomplete things:

> A paper now late. As always.
> This meme. No, I haven't forgotten about it.
> Iconmaking for emglyph.
> My app for buggedboy, still. Also theycant_getcha and oldest_one, but those aren't as urgent.

Things to buy despite unemployment:

> A folding screen, since the closet doors are gone from the room I'm moving into.
> Fishing with John.
> A haircut.

All in all, I'm far more cheerful than I really deserve to be. There's a post to be made more specifically about the summer and beyond, and my vague excuses for plans, but. Later.

TOTALLY IRRELEVANT EDIT: This is a great article about how Powerpoint presentations affect the way people think and communicate.

Round Two is now closed! You can all has a round 3.

( Cinematic Supervillain Showdown, Round 3 )

Round One of this is now closed! With no ties, thank God, because I have yet to figure out a tiebreaker system. Thank you guys for playing along with my madness so far >:D

Somehow in making this poll I put bracket 2 in first, but the brackets didn't actually get mixed up, so I don't feel like changing it. I promise all the options that should be here are, and are matched up properly.

These are some epic battles already, you guys. Holy crap.

( GO VOTE. AGAIN. :D :D )


In totally unrelated news, I love you all for putting up with me.

There is good news and there is bad news.

The good news is: I have found a nice place to live for the summer. Depending which room I get it'll be $425 or $550 a month-- I'm hoping for the smaller one-- including all utilities, plus there's a cat. And it's in a condo, rather than an apartment, so . . yeah. Should be pretty nice. In theory.

The bad news is: I'm broke and unemployed. Consequently I need to get hold of a steady income, or at least five hundred dollars, by June 14 or I won't have a way to pay for this room. Which would be, y'know. Bad.

MTurk won't make me that kind of money; neither will the amount of stuff I have around that I can sell, which isn't much. I'm applying to jobs like mad, but I can't exactly force people to answer, let alone hire me.

So. Do I give up and just go back to PA for the summer or indefinitely? Because going back to PA guarantees me a place to live, and I can probably work out a long-distance arrangement for the work I need to make up to a professor over the summer, and I will get to see people. But it also makes me feel like sort of a failure, and it's even harder to find a job in Bethlehem than it is in Chicago.

Alternatively, I could stay here and keep job-hunting like mad, not flunk out of college, and work on the assumption I will find a job successfully; this actually worked for me when I got fired last May. And I could probably get living expenses out of my college fund (through my parents) for a month or two if necessary; I'd need to, y'know, talk to them.

So, uh. Advice on money and/or general life management? D:

EDIT: My mother is glorious, except when I am living with her, so she is extra-glorious in permitting me not to have to.

. . . did that make sense?

Take apartment, we will help if necessary- since, well, school.......

xomom

So I was poking around the Internet, like you do, and found pretty much the best chart ever. And nai_is_not and I think that, clearly, we need to all vote on this and figure out the ultimate winner.

So here's a first-round poll for you all to vote in. I'll put up the second round in a couple of days, I think. Because this is just way more fun than actually studying for finals. What.

( I had to split it into two polls, technically, but I sort of like it better that way anyway. )

GO ON. VOTE. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE. BECAUSE YOU LOVE ME.

What sort of character would you like to see me play? It can be a stereotype, it can be a general description, OR you can choose a specific name (I'd like to see you play _____). Then, tell me why!