Oh I just can't wait to get home from school
So I can get online and talk with my boyfriend

Here I am online again
Stay up and wait for your IM
A cyber-date boy, here I am
I'm waiting just for you

E-cards, chats and mail direct (That's right)
Just a click and we'll connect (Oh yeah)
You're so funny, here we go! (Here we go!)
R-O-F-L-M-A-O

Less than three, you love me
Typing out my fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L
Less than three, O-M-G
Love computer fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L

Comic sans and Arial
Forward jokes; hysterical
Blinking .gifs that bounce and glow
Your web page is so cute

E-cards, chats and mail direct (That's right)
Just a click and we'll connect (Oh yeah)
You're so funny, here we go! (Here we go!)
R-O-F-L-M-A-O

Less than three, you love me
Typing out my fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L
Less than three, O-M-G
Love computer fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L

Oh I just can't wait to get home from school
So I can get online and talk with my boyfriend

Less than three, you love me
Typing out my fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L
Less than three, O-M-G
Love computer fantasy
Meet me here on IRC
L-O-L-O-L

Gas prices are high. Much too high. It is time we solved this crisis. We must all ride dinosaurs.

Things that irritate or flat-out piss me off. See if you can guess which ones apply to my life right now.

-People who drive all over the fucking parking lot looking for a spot close to the store. Just take a spot and walk. No need to hold up traffic waiting for someone to back out when you could already be in the store if you were willing to use your legs.

-Going to the pharmacy to pick up your prescriptions and then finding out that your insurance change has gone into effect and the rather rude, unhelpful pharmacist apparently isn't fucking willing to call your old provider and get the new information and you haven't gotten it yet and you'd really be happy to do that for her except that you don't have your cell phone on you at the moment because you forgot it on the charger and you only have this hour free because you have another class and after that another with only a short break in between and there's a test in that class that you have to study for before you go which means that you're going to get back after the insurance company is no longer taking calls which means you have to do this tomorrow and you're going to be sick tomorrow because this is Effexor and if you don't get it, it really makes you violently ill and the worst part is that this is really all your fault because you should have gotten a refill right before the insurance change and also you shouldn't wait till the last minute for reasons exactly like this, so instead of taking responsibility for your being a dumbass and accepting it gracefully you go home and write in your stupid little journal thing online even though it's doing you no good and then you expect sympathy.

-Forgetting to go to Trader Joe's on the way home, which you just realized you forgot to do and you need to go now so you're going to have to make this quick.

-Taking a test that you thought was going to be absurdly easy because all the problems you'd been doing in the chapter were absurdly easy and when people didn't understand them in class you were practically rolling your eyes, but then, as you review for the test shortly before you're supposed to take it, you realize that while these things were easy to do when the instructions were readily apparent because you were using the different techniques to solve the problems independent of one another, it was all so simple, but when you have a whole bunch of problems in front you, each using the various techniques you learned, it's suddenly much harder because the rules are starting to jumble around in your head. You realize you could have easily avoided this problem by studying immediately after and before each class, but that apparently is beneath you because everyone else in the class was having such a difficult time and you'd been sitting in the back feeling the sort of smug self-satisfaction that you now realize is unbelievably arrogant. This is, once again, your own fault, but the irritation sends you on a giant mental rant about all the things in your life that you are even slightly less-than-satisfied with because you're just all pissed off at that point.

-That dun-dun-dun-dun dun-dun-dun-dun sound that most alarms seem to make these days.

-RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!

-The fact that The Benchwarmers apparently made 17 million over the weekend. Not that box office should be any of my concern, but Jesus, what the fuck?

-People who constantly bitch sincerely. Okay, so I'm bitching now, but, at least in real life, I'm either optimistic or try to put on a good attitude. Every once in a while (read: now) it slips, but mostly I'm someone people go to when they want a bit of recognition. I really am getting frustrated with being surrounded by people who constantly are working themselves up over shit that really doesn't fucking matter. So someone apparently skipped out of class early, possibly consequence-free today. Yeah, people do that. You want to do it too? There's the fucking door. Believe it or not, you actually have options available to you.

-There was supposed to be a bunch of random stuff on this list, but I really do have to go now and don't have time to think about it. Maybe later.

Okay, back. I'm not as irritated now, so here are some things that are good:

-Blackberry Raspberry Apple Juice from Trader Joe's.

-BBC nature documentaries, particularly if David Attenborough is in some way involved in them. I speak specifically right now of Planet Earth, which has some of the most amazing footage I've seen. I'm glad someone goes out of their way to put such wonderful programming on television.

-Imported beer and microbreweries. Yeah, I know, I'm a snob, but Jesus, it's the difference between tasting good and not tasting good. In this case, I'm trying some sort of Irish beer that the checkout guy said was good.

I really don't do surveys at all, but I didn't want to leave the birthday thing out. Plus I am apparently supposed to do one since other people decide these things, something I did not know.

Whatever.

Seven things I want to do before I die:

1) Write a book that is published.
2) Travel too many portions of Europe to list here (other areas too, but the places I really want to go are Europe)
3) Find a paying job that I not only don't hate, but that I actually enjoy, if only certain parts.
4) Graduate from college. I'm late starting, so this will take a while.
5) Own a nice house, not an apartment.
6) Have enough money that I don't really have to worry about it. (Note: this will never happen no matter how much I make, and don't think I'm not aware of it)
7) Get married, I guess. But in a while.

Seven things I can not do:

1) Sing very well at all, not that I care all that much.
2) Draw. Seriously, my brain has no concept of perspective or depth. It's really pathetic.
3) evr get used 2 ppl riting lyke dis. not dat i wanna lol roflmao
4) Finish a goddamn survey. I mean, what the fuck, these questions are boring and inane and I'm supposed to come up with seven answers? It's not fun and it's not interesting to write at all. What is the point of these things? You're no closer to knowing who I am and what makes me tick than if I wrote the mind-numbingly dull events of my day. I suppose it doesn't help that I have a very difficult time answering questions like this on the spot for some reason. Nevertheless, I can't see writing anything really personal and eye-opening in one of these. Can you imagine?

Yeah. I don't see that happening. Not that I'm really mad, you understand, I just thought this would be at least sorta fun to fill out, but damn is it tedious. I'm sitting here, still trying to think of things I can't do, and it's not that I think I'm so fucking capable, but at the same time, I'd like to not fill it with boring shit like stuff in gym class I wasn't good at. Let's skip down and see if this survey gets more interesting.



Seven things that attract me to Arizona:

Nope, boring. I go to school there. No other thing.

Seven things I say most often:

1) Fuck
2) The thing is
3) This shit is boring also. You don't care. I sure as fuck don't care. The thing is, you have to know a person before shit like this is meaningful. And even then, it's just something to tease people about when you're both drunk and hanging out, so that's not very interesting either.

Seven books (or series) that I love:

Better. These are ranked in the order I thought of them, not in order of how much I liked them. Ask me any other time and you might get seven different books.

1) Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2) Sandman by Neil Gaiman
3) The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
4) "The Death of Doctor Island" also by Gene Wolfe (it's a novella, but I reread it recently and it's better than 99% of all books you're going to read, so it counts)
5) Roots by Alex Haley
6) Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
7) The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Seven movies I watch over and over again:

Also okay. Same deal on the ranking thing.

1) Seven Samurai
2) The Lady Vanishes (Flightplan was a shitty semi-remake of this)
3) His Girl Friday
4) Out of Sight
5) Iron Giant
6) Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
7) Badlands

Oh, and the only other part was the people who by my decree also have to take the survey, but under the circumstances I don't think that part is advisable, so I'm done now.

Here, we'll just have a separate birthday thread. HEY EVERYONE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY SAY NICE THINGS TO ME OKAY??

I'm in California, so my profile now is only half lying. All is well.

Image comics is releasing a compilation of stories based on Belle and Sebastian songs. This seems quite odd to me, but it's true. Look here. I'm trying to figure out if it's a brilliant idea or if it's going to be fanboy shit. Probably the latter, but they actually do have the types of songs that could make it not bad.

Someone take the plunge for me.

I'm awake for some stupid reason and decided I'd update because the old entry was a Thanksgiving one. God, I don't have anything interesting to say, though. I went to a bar last night with SG people which was kinda neat, except I don't talk much in groups of people I don't know very well. But hey, it was fun staring at you people, we should do it again some time. (Actually, everyone I talked to for any length of time at all was very nice. Forgive me if I don't name names, but I'm awful at remembering those and didn't want to leave people out.)

Thing was, I got back at, what, 1:30, 2:00, something like that, and woke up before eight. I don't know why. I'm exhausted.

Just so this entry isn't a complete waste of your time, I copy/pasted something from McSweeney's.

Okay, so here's the thing. There are all these movies wherein there's some geeky guy and he lusts after a hot woman. And he never has the courage to talk to her or something. And then at the end of the story, he gets the hot woman, who turns out to be really nice.

Is this not inherent sexism? The really nerdy guys should get the really hot women, and the really hot women should have to look beyond physical appearance? What the fuck? He always has some geeky friend he's not interested in, too. And yet somehow this has become an accepted formula for date movies. What bullshit.

Anyway, happy Thanksgiving.

I'm officially back online and about half my friends list is grey or zotted or just gone. Can't you people stay out of drama for like a month? Sheesh.

Bye everybody. I'll see you all soon, I think. Depends on when I get my internet connection.