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Tristan
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BAMF logs
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Meaghan
Henry
Veronica
Grayston


Finish Baby Meme: http://splott.insanejournal.com/47424.html

DREADNAUGHT ideas. just writing them out. but i need to read people's ideas.
prelim ideas: someone VIP's son! and rolf-esque nerd. and maybe a female omg.

FINISH STUDYING FOR TAX.

That request layout. Hmm.

first "official" day of work.

44 doors knocked, averaging at 2-4 repeat knocks. bloody double income families.
36 doors answered spoken to.
33 opening pitches.
6 presentations. does it count if two of those were people humouring the emotionally exhausted pommy?
0 sales.

11 hour day. $0 made. or a -$10 if transport is factored in. fab. just fab.

and my emotional crisis milkshake brings it down to -$13. i went to work and i lost money. huh.

on the plus side my boss's partner is poaching my face painting skills this weekend (idek) and paying me $120 for five hours.



love meme will get answers when i'm not staggering in the door at 10pm and crashing out as soon as i've eaten. but ily all and i'll get to it. likewise any threads that i need to tag in / people need to start for me ;)

just. yeah. i'm dead off my feet right now. don't expect much until i've gotten used to the shit that is my working day ♥

If this semester doesn't kill me, it means that I am an invincible sparklepire who forgot how to sparkle.

Right now, I am stubbornly procrastinating on a reflective piece that's due tomorrow night because somehow, in the midst of getting sick, I didn't manage to get the handout describing what, exactly, we're supposed to do with this assignment, and how and so on. I fully intend to half-ass something at some point tomorrow, since my professor is amazing and lets us rewrite anything that we don't get an A on (yay!), but I really hate half-assing, but I don't know what choice I have at this point.

Once that is done (and by "once that is done" I mean "tomorrow night") I have to sit down and make the edits on my ESL editing project and e-mail them over to my client. Then I have to find a time to sit down and chat with that client and talk about the suggested edits, and once we've done that (if we can even do that in the week before this project is due), I have to write another reflective piece (I hate reflective pieces) about my experience here. I suspect it will largely consist of "Anyone who would do this for a living is out of their ever-loving minds."

Once that is done, I will be holing myself up in UNT's library and finishing off my final project for my Principles of Technical Communication class (a 13-15 page thesis paper that will be my attempt to marry Plato's ideas of Absolute Truth with the Sophists' ideas of subjective language). This is simultaneously my biggest and smallest worry...biggest because I did the research for it all the way back in the beginning of the semester, and it was only half the research...so I'm basically doing this all very last minute, and living up to the Oxonian motto of "Procrastination is merely the realization that true genius is forged in the white hot flames of crisis." On the other hand, though, this is exactly what I did for 100 days in Oxford, and even though I only managed a B-minus there, I survived, and that was on zero prior knowledge and in Oxford.

Now I know a little bit more about my subject than I did and it's just a question of getting it to do tricks for me. I know that once I get my ass into gear, it's going to probably be one of the best academic pieces I've ever written and I'll be damn proud of it, but until then...YEEEEEEE PANIC!!

Anyway.

Once that is done, it's on to my final editing project. I'm editing a "sensitive" article of my dad's (read: I can't tell you what it's about or I'd have to kill you) that's 15 pages long and will hopefully be enough work for my professor to be like "Sweet deal, here's an A for you." I'm half-worried about that, but I'm trying to leave that worry behind.

And then I'm done for the semester and going home for a month. Woot!

So here are my dates...

November 24 - Collaborative Exercise Reflection
December 1 - ESL Editing Project
December 8 - Final project for Principles
December 10 - Final project for Editing

I'm debating whether or not to take a hiatus between December 1 and December 10. I kind of don't want to because RPing is such a nice vent for me when I'm bashing my head on the keyboard thinking "WHAT DO I WRITE NOW????" but I think I probably should and will, save for BAMF stuff. And applying for someone at BW, whenever holds open, of course.

Sigh. Graduate school. I am so very very glad that BL ended before you began.

Twiiiilight.

So, I went to see New Moon today. My thoughts on it were... mostly, "LOLOLOLOL, SO BAD."

BUT I did have an awesome t-shirt.

( Cut for badly-taken photos of my Team Jacob shirt )

Well, look at that! :D It was amazingly easy once Crystal and I got our groove back.

Well, look at that! :D It was amazingly easy once Crystal and I got our groove back.

miss everybody <3

I've been thinking about my writing habits and the types of characters I write, and I've come to a couple of realizations.

1. I kind of really stink at characters that are complete asses. Ask me to play a douchebag guy and he'll end up baking cookies for his friends eventually. I feel like a lot of mine have this inherent need to be nice. Even my Slytherin girls, who were supposed to be kind of snotty end up on the nice side.
2. I don't think I'm good at uppercrust society people, unless I'm playing them as a sort of parody character. Like Persephone and her whole marriage and everything with Prior at BL. Or Prince Charles at Fair, who I should probably try to write something for at some point.
3. I really like ships. This isn't to say that I'm automatically going to have my characters jumping into somebody's trousers at the first sign of attention, but it's pretty likely that mine will end up in some sort of relationship at some point.

I suppose I kind of feel like a lot of my characters follow the same sort of archetypes and that all of my characters are exactly the same. Or that I write in such a way that it's painfully obvious that I'm the writer behind every single one of my characters.

But then again, maybe I am just too critical.

Please don't expect essays underneath this cut - ideas are only just beginning to coalesce! More will come, but these sketches will do for now.

( Dreadnaught concepts )

More will follow, I'm sure.

I'm too tired to give a coherent summary, so I'm just going to copy/paste my AIM conversation.

bilo: on one hand, school still sucks
bilo: on the other hand, i had a detailed dream in which benjy was a character on doctor who instead of dollhouse
texmas: Hahahaha
bilo: and i think i was in the episode for reasons unknown. and i think caradoc was also a character.
texmas: that's awesome
bilo: and i GOT TO USE THE SCREWDRIVER
texmas: AWESOME
texmas: AAAAH YOU ARE SO LUCKY
bilo: and then i was staying alone and there was something to do with space and i wanted to see a scary movie about an evil faerie queen but i decided not to
bilo: and then i bent down at the road randomly and picked up glowy flowers
bilo: and i could hear the police wanting something [translation: There might have been a warrant for my arrest. Or for capturing Alice Longbottom or something.]
texmas: haha
bilo: ...and it was present-ish day but ALICE LONGBOTTOM may have mysteriously turned up
texmas: XD
bilo: and I think there was a pumpkin on the road that was very large and partly used up and some frat boys took it
bilo: ...the end.
texmas: hahaha
bilo: BUT I GOT TO USE THE SCREWDRIVER AND CARADOC WAS THERE, YO
texmas: That is awesome.
texmas: Whatever you're smoking must be good.
bilo: Seriously. I just wish I remembered smoking it.

I stole icemice's idea and am doing the 100 Questions. First up is Josh, because he's my loudest muse at the moment (for obvious reasons!)

ETA: Apparently it's actually the 99 Questions, ftf. Also, I'll get to the ily!meme soon. Promise ♥

( you know I won't say sorry, you know I won't say sorry, the pain has a bad reaction, a blend of fear and passion. you know what it's like to believe, it makes me wanna scream )

Well, hey! I won't be around as much this next week, for I am flying home after work tomorrow (er, today, er, maybe I shouldn't stay up until one when I have work in the morning). However, I am taking my laptop with me this time, so I will be rather more present than when I went home for the funeral.

I mean, when I'm not helping bake rolls and monopolizing my awesome ickle niecey's time and making my mom read manga (wish me luck there, kids!).

And the Salt Lake airport has wireless again. <3 forever!

PS - Yes, Alter, I will reply to the thread! I'm just... not... sure when. Errrrsorry, twas a highly busy day today.

I have a morose in my heart place.



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Although you should still comment to the love letter meme! :D

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sherlock: shroedy is like "... i can calculate the exact trajectory needed to get a fwooper in beery's office from the quidditch pitch"
sherlock: *RUBS HANDS EXCITEDLY*
theblev: lmaoooo i want a beery to make his life hell in a handbasket
theblev: Kettles says "...okay cool. I'll get the Fwooper, and you do whatever you just said"
sherlock: LOL

rpwrimo update! 30,207 as of 7:30 cst 11/22

Breakdown!

Logs: 25,191
Narratives: 5,016

by player:
roue: 7,412
electrichearts: 7,229
miralph: ~ 3,050
turkishdelight: 3,021
parisian: 1,844
sassylime: 1,190
wowthatslovely: 2,593

by game:
ashbury: 10,250
PSLs: 8,097
buggerallrpg: 3,981
valesco: 3,050
redemption_rpg: 1,847
bravenew_rpg: 1,792
91: 1,190

lol, i've still got 3 narratives, 1 big log and BAMF to finish too lol.

rpwrimo update! Since splott told me to update it :D

I currently have 29,713 words, but I'm too lazy to break them down specifically, so here we go.

Callum & Jean-Luc: 3,859
Zachary & Adam: 3,045
Gunnar & Adam: 167
Tony & Maxxie: 2,385
Atticus & Shae: 2,896
Westly & Sage:1,153
Chance & LA: 5,521
Brady & Milian: 955
Pete & Bryce: 3,088
Clayton & Tristan: 3,407
Justin & Casey: 3,237

Okay guys. So. So I just did the calculations. And in total, I have about 30 assignments and tests in the next 21 days. I love you all, but flunking out of university isn't on my to-do list, and that's not even counting studying for finals and doing regular readings. So I'm on semi-hiatus until the 10th of December; I'll try to comment on things that need my characters' attention, and I'll be doing mod and ghostmod stuff as faithfully as I can, but just in general? Yeah, fuck this, I need to cover my ass or it's going to be ritualistic suicide with my mother's pills and a bottle of Jameson.

EEK?

Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal. Yeah idc. I'll do it for you even if you don't repost this.

Okay, so I did http://www.anaface.com for my characters and...

( lmao this website is on crack )


Also...

Comment below and I will tell you which of your characters that I've played against are my favorites and why I love them. Then repost this in your own journal.

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disclaimer: when I am taking my breaks from oral freak-outage

Question! Because my mom had me thinking about it today, and I'm curious. What is your favorite Christmas (or Winter/holiday!) song? And is there any particular reason why it's your favorite?

Personally, I have to admit that mine is probably Fairytale of New York by The Pogues. I think for me it's because when I was in London two years ago, it was literally the week before Christmas and I heard that song on the radio all the time and it just reminds me of the holidays in Europe- it was a lot of fun for me and I just love all of the Christmas fairs and the holiday spirit and all of that- I wish we had more of that sort of thing down here (or at least near my house!).

Please, help reduce my school-related stress!

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rpwrimo
28,482 / 30,000 words. 94.9% done!
20,265 / 30,000 words. 67.6% done!
Key
	- THY
	- Fair
	- Brave New World
	- Isolation
	- Incanto
	- Ninety One
	- Other PSLs

Not too shabby! Today I've made steak and potatoes and corn for lunch and it turned out pretty delicious! I made up a garlic marinade using a little lemon juice and some of the Salt Grass steakhouse seasoning- it's a nice different flavor from the steaks we've had in a while.

Everything else has been okay. Yesterday was kinda strange, but ended on a pretty good note. And I had a chocolate banana milkshake with Bailey's and it was sooooooo good. I might make me another one tonight. Thanksgiving is coming up- I only have class on Monday and on Tuesday I'll make my signature pecan pie (my family claims it's the best they've ever had but idk. But hey- if they like it, then awesome!) and Wednesday I have a dentist appointment. Whoop de doo!

And yes! I'm going to finish my lunch and then study for tomorrow's Italian test. :)

IN ALL MY RP YEARS I'VE NEVER CHALLENGED A HOLD SOMEONE MADE BEFORE ME. Actually, I don't think I've ever been challenged after making the primary hold, but if I was, it must not have panned out. It's really nerve wracking, I don't know how people do it regularly.

So, PB suggestions? I need a PB for Neville Longbottom, age 21. He's an alternate timeline Neville, so there is another Neville already in play, PB'd by Daniel Cudmore. Originally I was aiming for a blonder PB, but with Daniel being dark-haired it won't work to have a dark-haired Neville and a blonde-haired Neville, at least to me. I'd like my Neville to look different, not just because even the dopple characters need different PBs, but because his life was very distinctly different. Someone thinner, serious and nervous looking, but with the potential to not be either in some icons, would be good.

Also, Megan. NOW YOU REALLY NEED TO DO GINNY.

meme time!

TO DO: make a meme icon.

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Back in Tampa, which is about 5 hours too far from the BFF. Just worked a 10 hour shift (what, so I fail at leaving ON TIME apparently) after driving for 5 hours to get home and am so very exhausted.

I really need to get on that whole moving closer thing. I don't get nearly enough BFF time.

Also, poor Narcissa misses her Ronald and all the people, I think.

Meme! Because I am too lazy to write my tl;dr on my characters for tonight :)

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i am ridiculously out of energy. probably need to get my blood tested but i kind of hope it's just something stupid like sinuses. anyway. FATIGUE IS RIDICULOUS. (so is being so tired that spelling is difficult, wot)

but having my laptop back is not ludicrous. also not ludicrous is having all of my data saved since they just replaced the motherboard instead of the harddrive.

stable internet, i c u. and i owe a plethora of tags but, gasp, it must wait until morning ...

There were only two that people didn't guess:

Polly and Angelica.

The end!

RL News:
1. Secured wireless connection. Required tech support to do this, and was on the phone for over an hour (because nothing is ever simple in the antiship of me/electronics), but I did not break down and cry. I consider this a victory.
2. Had a date. Very short, italian sodas and talking. Nice enough guy, no real clicking but it was short and casual and I got an italian soda (albeit not a very good one, more lime syrup please).
3. Trading emails with Fellow. I think I'm over him, and this is good. Still think he's adorable, funny, generally awesome and fun to talk to, but he's emotionally unavailable and it's not worth staying attached. Good job, heart. You can be taught. :)
4. The "e" on my keyboard is acting up, so if I leave an e out of a word, that's why.

( RPstuff, including rambles about Corrie (of course) )

We are starting this years InsaneJournal holiday sale. From now until the end of the day Friday, November 27 we are going to be holding a sale on Self-Committed[paid] accounts and Extra Userpics.

The prices are be as follows

Self-Committed[paid]
1 Month -> $5
6 Month -> $15 $10
12 Month -> $25 $18

Extra Userpicx
6 Month -> $10 $5
12 Month -> $20 $15

Then on Friday November 27th from 8am until 4pm (Eastern US time) we will be running a very special sale on Permanently Insane accounts.

meme time!

1. What, if anything, has impressed you in the last week?
2. Would you consider yourself a person who is easily impressed?
3. Do you worry about impressing others?

( BNW )

( 91 )

I swear, if I don't get a tan this summer, sitting in the sun for a while every day with my rabbit, I never will.

When I think objectively, I also find it strange that I consider lying on the lawn reading while my rabbit flops in his cage to be spending quality time with him. But.. you know... I scratch him a bit and we look at each other and he tooth-purrs.

Also: went to meeting with the psych unit. Diagnosed with social phobia. Was told I'd probably feel better if I got volunteer work or something. THINGS I ALREADY KNEW FOR $500.

I GOT THE JOB!!

I did great on my interview today and I go in Monday for my orientation. It will be from 9am to 6pm. NINE LONG HOURS! 

But at least I get paid!!!

YIPEE!

Oh and tomorrow is my boyfriend and mine's 1 year anniversary, so I won't be online at all tomorrow. But for a VERY GOOD REASON!! heeee

Boyfriend/Girlfriend time. hehehe