time and relative dimension in space

I continue to be terrible at being present on LJ, and I continue to be sorry. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.

Some stuff:

♦ I've started using HabitRPG in an attempt to get better at doing things more regularly - writing, reading books, eating at appropriate points in the day, that sort of thing - and so far it's helping. ('So far', I say, on day four. We'll see how well it sticks...) Does anyone else use it? Tips of any sort would be appreciated.

♦ Karen Olivo is raising money for a solo album, which is something the world clearly needs, so if you have disposable income and want to support awesome music, the link's there. ;)

♦ The final episode of Psych is tonight, and I'm more upset about it than I was expecting to be. I know it's had a good, long run, and people are ready to move on, but I'm not really ready to let go.

♦ And then HIMYM is ending on Monday, and while my attachment to that show is a much more recent development, it's also pretty upsetting.

♦ I swear I had other things in mind that I was thinking, "hey, I should include that", but I'm both cold and hungry and have thus forgotten them all. Sorry. :/

So I've kind of failed at LJ lately, haven't I? I'M SORRY. D: I blame work. Between being too tired to post, having no time to post, and having nothing but work to talk about in a post, I've sort of let journaling fall by the wayside. BECAUSE I SUCK.

Anyway, here's what's going on with teh Chica outside of work:

- Most notably, I just spent wayyy too much money ordering a Sony VAIO laptop + accessories. On the "well, this is a reasonable expense" side, it was all money I'd been setting aside all summer for the express purpose of eventually buying a nice computer, and while Sally is still good to me and I have no intention of permanently retiring her just yet, I do really want a new laptop. One that's actually portable; it is sort of a ridiculous production trying to take Sally anywhere.
On the other side, SHIT $1,600 ON ONE PURCHASE and I'm going to be unemployed two weeks from now and oh God I finalized the purchase less than twenty minutes ago and shopper's remorse is already setting in. Fail, self.

- Currently airing shows I am watching:

Merlin - technically caught up on; not actually paying terribly much attention to what's going on this season. IDK, it's not holding me anymore. This may be because of the hack job the writers did to ALL OF THEIR CHARACTERS (but especially Morgana dammit).

Psych - Woo, Psych is back! The heavy-handed Shawn/Juliet isn't making me enthuse but EVERYTHING ELSE IS. I can even excuse the awful polygraph "I love her" scene where everyone looks SHOCKED AND STUNNED BECAUSE OMG SHAWN LOVES JULES, because the whole plot was kicked off by Shawn and Gus trying to get a kid's Darth Vader action figure back. Oh yes.

Sarah Jane Adventures - I can't believe it's almost over. :/ I keep getting caught up in plots and character-glee and then all of a sudden Sarah will say something and my brain will stop dead and go "LIS :( :( :(". Yes, just like that.
In actual story-related reactions, I have no strong feelings about Sky except that her intro story is entirely too much like Luke's -- it's awkward and weird to do it that way. But CLYDE. Clyde, you are lovely and you should be the next Doctor Who Companion Doctor anything you want to be, Clyde my boy.

...is that all the currently-airing stuff I'm watching right now? That's kind of depressing.

- I have recently and unexpectedly fallen in love with the movie Ondine. There may be some form of pimp post in the future. Probably picspam because it is such a ridiculously pretty movie. So keep an eye out for that.

- NaNoWriMo is coming up! And because I have no willpower and teh Niki is an enabler, I'm evidently going to be trying to do two novels simultaneously this year. WHAT THE HELL, ME. One's a time-travel story about a guy who loses his memory, the other's a mythpunk story about a selkie and the half-evil sorcerer who steals her skin. Yeah. I don't know either.

What have I missed while I was away, LJ? I PROMISE TO LOVE YOU BETTER NOW.

Hiii! I haven't posted in a while, have I? No, I haven't. Almost forty-eight hours, that's a while for me...yeah, I'm pathetic.

I spent today running antivirus and antispyware programs on my laptop. *sigh* Which meant I couldn't really do anything else on my laptop, but at least now I know that it's relatively clean. For the moment.

Also accomplished: my mom and I got the Christmas tree up and decorated with absolutely no help from my dad or kid brother, because boys are useless. And talked Teh Niki out of setting me up on a blind date.

...at least, I hope I talked Teh Niki out of it. 'Cause baby girl, it's not happening.


I am, however, ridiculously inexplicably behind in everything else, so, yeah, I suck.

I'm going to be rooting through my friendslist in a few minutes to start commenting on posts, so...yeah, that.

*is moderately incoherent*

You Are 18% Vain

You don't have a vain bone in your body - almost as a matter of principal. You demand to be judged on who you are, not what you look like.

Yes, yes, I are a sheep.

ANYWAY.

Another unsuccessful day of job hunting. :/ They won't even take me if I volunteer! WTF, North Carolina employers? I'm qualified! Ish!

Ugh.

Um.

I have a question, flist. I have a camera. I have a very nice, non-digital, Nikon SLR camera. It cost me about $200. I bought it because I was taking a photography class and I need a non-digital SLR camera for it.

Now, that class is over. I don't use the camera. I'm not a photographer and I can't afford film. I want to sell the thing. My aunt (actually my dad's cousin but I have always referred to her as my aunt, so WTF-ever) suggested selling on eBay through i-soldit, but there's not really one near us so it'd be a pain and is officially a last resort. Any of you have any ideas? Sold things through the Internet before? Know the best way to do it?

Alternatively, anyone wanna buy a camera? No? Oh, well.


On a much pathetically brighter note, lookit! I have a Ghostwriter icon! *bounces* I made up a bunch and will probably post the whole lot of 'em to fandomfrom3 sometime soon. When I get up the energy. Probably. I'm just happy to have it, it makes me smile. ♥

[[NOTE: This was written at 1AM. It could not be posted at 1AM because my wireless Internet spontaneously decided to hate me. But there you go.]]

( click meeeee )

...it's one in the morning, and instead of going to bed, or writing, or vidding, I'm browsing webcomics. Yes.

( another one! )

I watched Blood Diamond today (er, yesterday) and enjoyed it more than I expected I would. *blink* In unsurprising news, Leonardo DiCaprio is very, very talented. Truth.

Tomorrow (...later today...) I'm going to watch Happy Feet.

Yes, I am horribly, horribly behind on popular movies. STFU.

( yet more webcomic )

I remain unemployed.

( sick of these yet? )
In fandom news: smallfandomfest has opened for prompt claiming! I am contemplating claiming one. Except they require a minimum of 1000 words, which I know really isn't all that much, relatively speaking, but I fear it nonetheless. I write small fics! And often don't even finish those!

Also I have to finish that fics-I'll-never-write-meme, which I swear will be done soon.

Also I need to finish my ship_manifesto essay.

Also, well, The Trial of Brendan Lahey, obv. And the Hamlet modernization.

Also I suck.

( maybe I should just stop putting in cutesy lj-cuts )

The explanation for why I suck: Instead of actually writing any of that--or finishing my Sweet Charity vids, one of which is Very Nearly Done and the other of which just needs me to sit down and start beating it out--I am surfing around LJ and XKCD and pondering making posts to heard_of_it and writemoreplease. Which probably won't get done either. 'Cause I suck.

( shut up )

Also I'm terribly annoyed by LJ's current habit of not sending out my e-mail notifications except sporadically and very, very late. Is annoying. Ys.

Um. Think that's it.