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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
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10:57 am - No. Just...no.
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Guy I ranted about last post is now insisting that we're all picking on him because his "lifeview"...'cause that's one word...is too "dark" and "cynical" and if we knew what he really thought about humanity we'd blah blah OH MY GOD SO SHOCKING AND EDGY LET ME DO YOU RIGHT NOW, THAT GUY.
Wait. No.
As I mentioned in the former post, we're all adults, we've done a fair amount of reading, and I think we've allll been exposed to the pseudo-Nietzschean "blah blah people suck blah blah life is dark and meaningless and meaningless and dark" bullshit. Nasty, brutish, and short. Yes. That's...not gonna shock anyone who's been through college, Spanky. As a theory, I think it's pretentious and made of pure elemental FAIL, but it's nothing I haven't encountered before. About a million times. In high school.
Yeah, you think humanity sucks and the Great Old Ones should take over ASAP. Whatever. That's not why everyone hates you, dude: everyone hates you because you're making dumbass generalizations about men and women, and trying to pretend that it's somehow "feminist" of you, and...also because you're a pretentious asshat.
And seriously? In what fucked-up universe does "men are from Mars" qualify as dark and/or edgy? I don't have much experience with this crap--I recoil from it like a vampire from a cross, really--but I'm given to understand that the books with these theories largely come in many shades of pastel.
current mood:  annoyed
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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6:03 pm - Oh, You, The Muscles And the Long Hair...
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From conversations elseblog:
You know, waxing rhapsodic about how wonderful women are and how much men suck is one of the quicker ways to get me to hate you.
I mean, really, guy. First of all, way to stereotype six billion people. Second, I am a girl, I've been a girl for twenty-six years, I've been in the company of both women and men frequently, and the ratio of suck to non-suck is about the same. So...you're trying too hard, and it's skeezy, or you're actually a crazy person, and it's creepy, and either way I want to set you on fire with my mind.
Also, this sort of bullshit always, *always* either states or implies that men are horrible and violent and lust-driven...and thus women are supposed to be peaceful, gentle, and chaste? "If you knew what we were thinking..." like I don't know that most men want to have sex with women, some of them in pretty kinky ways? Like I don't know a lot of women who think the same way about men? Because, y'know, having the plumbing automatically reduces your life to lavender perfume and crying at Lifetime movies and "making love" instead of screwing?
Fuck *that* noise.
current mood: annoyed
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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10:17 pm - In Which I Am Kind of a Girl
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Trashy Diva . Seriously. I made some comment on Facebook about being in a thirties musical, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cointeach linked me to the site, and...I think I have some kind of crush now. Because not only did I spend an hour ogling the merchandise (and, um, ordered the one dress that cost less than $50, because I'm getting paid for that story I sold and I am not made of stone), but I keep going back to the site to look, like a sixth grader with a picture of Lance Bass.
I mean, it's totally unattainable love. At least until I get a job.
But...they're so dreamy . Siiiiigh.
Also, I have successfully sewed on a button, ironed my interview suit so that the damn lapels--hopefully--stay where they should be, ironed a bunch of other stuff, and am working on mending a skirt. I feel so...domestic. Should perhaps change name to Meg March, or perhaps Laura Ingalls. On second thought, maybe not.
Have finished Shadow Hearts: From the New World. Was rather disappointed with the end romance plot--seriously, guys? That couple? Seriously?--but otherwise liked. Now will see if I can get boy's copy of Neverwinter Nights to install on this computer.
Will post character soundtracks soon. Also kind of want to have a character whose backstory song is "Sunday Morning After"--yes, I kind of maybe sold my soul to dark powers when I was drunk, and I kind of ended up with this wacky sigil, but...there was tequila! Surely something can be done?
Huh. On further thought, that's kind of the Giles backstory song. And thus funny.
current mood:  amused
current music: "Sunday Morning After"
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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10:51 pm - Music!
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iTunes: sorted.
So now I ask for more music.
Is there a song that reminds you of me? Of a character of mine? A song you think I should have and aren't sure that I do?
I will be forever grateful. And reciprocate, if possible.
current mood:  calm
current music: "Moonlight Shadow"
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8:05 am - iTunes
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Sorting iTunes music. Have been sorting iTunes music for quite a while now, since I dumped the contents of my old laptop--but not my old computer, must get a power supply installed and grab everything off there--my iPod pre-screen-burnout, and six CDs on there.
Going down the list is a bit like moving, with the discovery of mysterious long-lost objects and so forth. This is particularly true since I have about seven or eight nameless songs ("Track 6") for each number from 1 to 20. I keep going through and blinking: what song is this? Where did I get it? Why do I have it?
And why, dear God, do I apparently have twenty-three copies of Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts"?
It's like a glimpse into my soul or something.
Additionally, the song I'm listening to seems to have the following chorus:
"She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah,
She reaches in and she grabs right hold of your heart.
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah,
She takes control and slowly tears you apart."
Which...way to fall for the Temple of Doom villain, guy. (The song does seem to be about horrible Eva-style woman, but, in true eighties style, is incredibly peppy and upbeat. Heh.)
current mood: amused
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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7:35 pm - Bored
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Noodling around the apartment. Have given up on the Shadow Hearts: Covenant sidequests after finding myself totally unable to beat the sushi house.
If there's anything you can think of to ask/tell me, please do: feel free to email if it's private (or it's "your character could be re-specced in this totally awesome way").
Alternatively, if anyone can recommend books on modern Hispanic culture (both East Coast and California), on SoCal architecture and history in the late 1800s, or on wacky legends of West Coast America, I'd appreciate.
current mood:  bored
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| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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3:39 pm - That'll Put Marzipan in Your Pie Plate
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Morning started at 4:50, when I accompanied boy to airport; got two and a half more hours of sleep after he got to security and I returned; then went in to try and do a dancing session. Did pretty well, but need to get better tango music, and also was having one of those uber-tired "Jesus, why do I *talk*" days, which turned into "guuuuh, braaaains" by the time I hit Porter. Slumped into apartment, turned on computer...
...my story? Accepted? For spring 2010?
Coffee can bite me.
current mood:  cheerful
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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5:18 pm - Notes
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So, on the advice I had at the time, I watched Satisfaction .
And I took notes.
The plot, for the record, is quasi-John-Hughes: poor city kids come out to hang out with the wealthy snots in the country, zany antics and romantic tension ensue. Also, there is Liam Neeson as the Scruffy Slightly Older Love Interest. According to IMDB, Mr. Neeson has never actually seen this movie. He signed up because he'd get paid to hang out in the sun around pretty girls.
My respect for the man has just gone through the roof.
So--notes:
( Here be eighties. )
current mood: amused
current music: "Let's Hear it For the Boy"
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12:25 pm - Taking Advantage of Unemployment...
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...to watch all the Netflix movies nobody else would ever watch with me, because cheese is my friend, some of these things are hilarious, and occasionally there's a good moment or two in the midst of WTF.
So I submit to you, my friends:
1) Classic kids' movie based on kind of schmaltzy book. With horses.
2) Eighties movie about all-girl band spending the summer on a beach. Cover features prominent Eighties Hair, summary features phrase "motley crew of musicians".
3) 1970s teen rom-com where they're both nerds and then he slugs her mother's boyfriend and they're not allowed to date any more.
Which of these should I watch with lunch today?
current mood: amused
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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12:33 pm - Ow.
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Does anyone out there have ideas for softening up a pair of leatherish flats? At the moment, the edge of the back digs into my heel, and unpleasantness results. I'm thinking that a washer-and-dryer cycle might help...
current mood: bored
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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2:38 pm - I Am A Bad Person; I Do Bad Things
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Should be writing.
Should not be shopping on etsy for LARP clothing seventeen months in advance.
Should definitely not be trying to figure out a character concept entirely so I could wear this. Should keep in mind that none of my current characters would wear it, and I'm not playing four LARPs.
Should have more willpower, in general.
current mood: hopeful
current music: Walk On
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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10:50 pm - You know...
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...it possibly says something about me that I had this line in a recent conversation:
"Well, Red Dress #1 is too short to dance in, and Red Dress #2 is too fancy...ooh, but Red Dress #3!"
current mood: amused
current music: "Ghostbusters"
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| Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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11:08 am - This and That
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Gray, drizzly days, long coats, and iPods with Poe songs are the ideal combination for pretending that your boring walk home is a Striding Somewhere Meaningful montage from an action movie. Or the opening credits of a TV series.
Trying to do the opening *narration* for those credits, however, will totally spoil the mood unless you have a way more eventful life than I do: "She is Izzy, a jobless English major in a world she never made. Forsaking the company of her fellow man, she undertakes the journey...to the Seven-Eleven...to buy some Rice Krispie treats."
I realized two things this morning. First, fanfic seems like the only form of fiction where people don't just bitch about bad writing or plots they don't like, but rather about the comparative rarity of stuff they *do* like. Extended, meaningful whining. "Why don't you write this pairing, canon supports it so much more than the one you write about?" "Why don't you write more non-romance fic? Romance isn't all there is to life?" "Why don't more people write downer endings?" "Why isn't there more realistic sex in fiction?" It's kind of too bad that this *does* seem to be primarily a fanfic thing: I'd love to pout at the world and accuse people of being immature and vapid because there aren't more stories with Mecha-Hitler battling Winston Churchill, ATOMIC LICH LORD.
Second: yeah, I basically do just read ffrants to get annoyed at people.
Have been spending my unemployment writing--submitted Time After Time to Elora's on Monday, am crossing my fingers and editing the last of ACKoG--playing video games, and using Netflix to watch awful movies that nobody else would ever watch with me. Or want to be in the same room as me when I'm watching. You guys can expect some notes on the "Parent Trap" remake sometime in the future. Fear.
current mood: chipper
current music: "Walk the Walk"--BADASS LAUNDRY
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| Saturday, June 13th, 2009
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4:38 pm - Good Lord
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| Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
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10:26 pm - Twitchy McHomebound Says...
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...is anything going on this weekend? If not, does anyone want to get together and plot to overthrow medium-sized governments? Or, you know, watch some movies or something?
current mood: bored
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| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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3:21 pm - Things That Are Surprisingly Hard About Being Mature, #11
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Passing a F.Y.I. Records with its doors open and resisting the urge to air guitar along with "Kyrie".
current mood: amused
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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12:47 pm - Alas
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The problem with weekend of awesome partying is that Monday, by comparison, is both anticlimactic and boring. Other than waiting to hear back on resumes--and thus jumping at every uptick in my inbox like a teenage girl waiting for a call from the QB, dammit--I've mostly been reading TvTropes, which I recommend to everyone with too much time on their hands, and playing video games.
Shadow Hearts: From The New World is reasonably cool. The cast is a touch wackier than I'd prefer, but the plot is neat, and they've done a good job translating the wackiness from the first two games to between-wars America. I also like that the female character is competent, badass, and the one who knows about the weirdness--I could live without her being inexplicably both Native American and blonde with blue eyes, and without her voice actress, who sounds stoned about half the time--and I also like all the weird little side quests.
EXCEPT THE MATH CHALLENGES. Holy shit. I spent more time on those than on any of the boss battles to date. (And your bodyguard is apparently the one setting them. marcus_sez_vote, I like you and all, but if you start making me solve random timed math problems in A2, I will hurt you.) I kind of understand Sudoku, but what sort of twisted person thinks straight-up math quizzes are fun?
Other than my dad, I mean. And that guy talks to the dog in German.
Writing progresses. I'm gradually realizing that, unless I sell A Certain Kind of Girl, I'm fated to drag it out and totally revise it every couple years, while wondering just what the hell I was on last time. Which I'm okay with, since it gives me a break to plot other novels. And D&D games. And whatever else I'm poking at. I get twitchy, it seems, if I'm not working on some random plotty thing.
I will be playing Seven Virtues: if I get a job by fall 2010, I can afford three LARPs a year, and if I don't get a job by fall 2010, I'll have to sell my internal organs anyhow, so...you know, budgeting doesn't really help there. I have a proto-concept that I'm pretty excited about.
And organizing music continues. In addition to the lists I mentioned last time, I have:
Like, Trippy, Man
Mystic, Creepy, Whatever
Training Montage: Action!
Training Montage: Makeover!
Energetic Modern Stuff
Epic! No, Seriously, Epic!
and
Power Brooding!
What's going on with you guys?
current mood: cheerful
current music: "Prince of Darkness"--Indigo Girls
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| Friday, June 5th, 2009
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7:57 am - Again, Slacktivist
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"Oh, well, I clearly can't convince you bizarro people of my good-sense-backed argument, and clearly nobody wants me around here, so I'll just go away and never comment again!" is...not a convincing argument. It's passive-aggressive wankery of the highest--or perhaps lowest--order.
It's a tribute to the compassion of the other people on the site, as well as (I feel) a slight sign that their compassion overwhelms their sense at times, that they haven't, en masse, told you to just go away already, Those Two Guys. Seeing as how you've both pulled this shit a total of fifty-seven times. It's also why I've stopped commenting on threads when you're involved.
Yes. You're right. Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. Go eat some goddamn worms already.
current mood: annoyed
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| Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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9:01 am - QC: Love
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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7:06 pm - Organizing Music
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And I thought: why not be totally honest about what I'm using these playlists for?
So far I have the following, in addition to character playlists:
Stuff I Like Singing Along To
Drama! Of the Interpersonal Variety!
Debauchery
In Case I Ever Need Nightclub Music, And Why Wouldn't I, Really?
In Which Heartstrings Are Tugged
Music To Ponce By
Once I get further down the list, I plan to add:
Mystical Chanting and Creepy Rites
Now I Smoke, Drink, And Angst About Dames
Suddenly, Tentacles Burst Out of the Wall and Everyone Starts Shooting Lasers, Possibly Including the Tentacles
current mood: amused
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