time and relative dimension in space

On Saturday I will officially be a quarter of a century old. How did that happen? I'm not okay with this.

My parents and the little brother will be coming up to see me for my birthday, so that's nice. We're planning to do a day trip to Busch Gardens since none of them have had a chance to hit the park this summer and I have comp tickets for them. Hopefully I'll be able to divorce my brain from "this is where I work" and have fun. Hit up some rides, wooo. It'll be good to spend time with my family.



Quick fandom updates:

- This week's Alphas was AMAZING. Eventually I might get sick of gushing about this show but right now I'm riding the new-fandom buzz. I want Bill and Gary to be awkward and terrible partners for ALWAYS. I'm less enthused about the Nina/Cameron hookup, but it has potential to not be mind-numbingly dull.
I want Alphas icons. :(

- I finally got hold of the new Dresden Files and am 18 chapters in. And seriously WHAT ON EARTH. Everything's gone to hell and I feel like Harry, floundering around trying to figure out what's going on. MOLLY, WHAT THE HELL? most of all. Although ( small spoiler ). Anyway, there's still a good chunk of book left so maybe things will start ... making sense. Or not. I don't know!

- I am now 14 episodes into The Pretender! And getting more and more addicted. Jarod is strangely lovable. I do feel like the writers don't actually know what's going on with the Center and Jarod's past, but whatever, I was an X-Files fan and a Lost fan; I can cope with writers making up mythology as they go along.

- My Swamp Thing reading is still ongoing, by the way. I'm buried in Vol. 2. I am now being slowed down largely by the fact that I am increasingly creeped out by the whole Alec/Abby romance. I realize this makes no sense as I happily shipped Matt/Abby which is creepy as hell, but arrrgh. I think it's made worse by the fact that none of the writers seem to realize how creepy it is that they're writing Abby as increasingly dependent on and even (literally?) addicted to Alec. And the hallucinogenic aspect of the relationship doesn't help. Although I kind of lol'd over the fact that in Abby's fantasy of a perfect future with Alec, Matt showed up all healthy and happy and "I signed the divorce papers! You clearly belong with him, not me! Let's be BFF! :D" Oh, Abby. Go seek therapy.




Oh, hey, other real life news: I will be moving to a proper apartment in the middle of September, for the rest of the duration of my job contract. YAY for no longer living in a cheap hotel room. *counts down days*

It's my birthday.

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Anyway. Links Of Awesome spam!

This may be my new favorite website, although that might just be because I've spent the past forty-eight hours or so binging on the archives. Favorite Urban Pranks include The Future Shock (here told by the victim), Mark Jenkins' entire body of street installations but particularly The Last Graffiti Artist, Improv Everywhere's Welcome Back project, and the Boston Society Of Spontaneity's Riding the T is a beach. But basically I love most if not all of the posted pranks and art installations.

What's your age on other worlds?

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism but were afraid to ask

Altered Books

So You've Decided To Be Evil

Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art Gallery

You Are Beautiful's cupfence.

911 Writer's Block

Went to the eye doctors. Blew a ridiculous amount of money. Why is medical stuff so expensive? And why does everybody act so shocked when they find out I don't have insurance? I DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. COPE WITH IT. I AM.

Anyway, they didn't have to dilate my eyes (YAY) although they did dye them yellow which is annoying and I got a new prescription and should have new glasses in three days. Ish. It'll be nice to have new glasses.

And then we went to the coffeeshop and I had a strawberry smoothie and we failed to solve the crossword puzzle in today's newspaper, which was fun.

Spent much of today browsing through BackstageJobs looking for leads. Found three listings that I might possibly conceivably be qualified for, so now the plan is to polish up my resume and start sending it out.

I need a job. :( One that will let me take off the weekend of March 21st.


Also! I wanted to a meme 'cause I'm a loser like that but I couldn't find one. :( Isn't there anything interesting going around people's flists right now?

At my parents' house for the week. (Also, off work for the week. Next workday: Sunday, 4PM-12AM.)

Teh Niki's wedding is on Saturday.

When did we get grown up?

I turn twenty-two tomorrow.

Oh God. How did this happen?

HAI GUYZ.

This is mostly just a quick note that, yes, I'm still alive! *bounces* I have an apartment. It's small and kinda banged-up but it's cute and it's mine. Well, mine and Brian's. But still!

And it's in walking distance to work -- although you have to cross three or four sets of railroad tracks, a moderately busy street, and a highway -- but anyway, the point is, I've made the walk twice and survived and this kind of solves to a certain extent the problem of no cars.

I've also had work sign-in and orientation -- orientation consisted mostly of sitting in a room for four hours with a couple dozen other people while smiling people told us how awesome it is to work at Busch Gardens -- and my first rehearsal is tomorrow at noon. I have to swing by earlier, though, to get my uniform and ID.

After I work 100 hours or 60 days I get six comp tickets! And my employee ID will also get me into the park for free when I'm not working. ♥

My Internet connection here sucks. I'm averaging about five minutes online per two days because, seriously, I'm hacked into the only unsecured wireless I could find and it...it sucks. And I can't perform my Illicit Online Activities. :( So I'm behind on Torchwood and will probably miss out on Doctor Who for a while once that starts back up. But I did see last night's LOST! And missed Desmond but thought Claire's too-brief appearance was great because she was being proactive. <3

I had other things to say, but my connection could very well cut out any moment and I want to get this posted for you guys.

Love you all, will try to answer comments as my connection allows --

All right, kids, I'm goin' off-line. Next time I talk to y'all it will In All Likelihood be from my new apartment and a hacked Internet connection.

Think good thoughts for me! I'll be thinking good thoughts for all of you.

So I now own, among other things, a microwave oven, a tiny little workstation/desk thing for my computer, a 7-piece cookware set, storage bowls, silverware, stoneware, drinking glasses, and a dustpan. o.0 I can't believe I'm moving on Monday and it's almost Sunday now. *hides*


I can't write. I have ideas in my head and then I sit down in front of a piece of paper or a blank Word document and nothing comes out. NOTHING. It's awful. And I have no new fic to read. *pout* Rec me stuff, guys! If you can rec me post-"Constant" Desmond/Penny stuff I'll love you forever?

No, I already love you guys forever, you know that. But I'll, er, be very grateful? I dunno, insert reaction of your choice here.


Or some decent meta. Yeah, actually, take this as a formal request: I want a meta-ish conversation with somebody, anybody, about any of my fandoms/pairings/preferred characters. So if you're at all interested, the link to comment is right down there. Or you can just link me to one already in progress and I'll join in. I just want to think about fannish stuff 'cause I don't wanna think about RL stuff.

...I move into my new apartment on Monday, start work on Tuesday, rehearsals officially start on the next Saturday and oh my LORD what am I doing I can't be an adult *hides*

No, seriously! I told my mom that there's a 50/50 chance of me surviving this or drowning completely, and she told me there's no chance of me drowning, and fifteen seconds later is talking about all the ways I'm like to fail, like my extreme difficulty motivating myself to do things I don't want to do, and how hard it is for me to talk to people, and how standing up for myself is something that happens erratically, and all that and you know I'm going to drown trying to do this.




Snagged from super_kc:
Reply to this post, and I will tell you my favorite icon(s) of yours. Then post this to your own journal using your own favorite icon. Repost it if you want, if not just let me have fun looking through your icons to tell you my favorite(s).

I have a lot of trouble picking my one favorite icon, and it varies from hour to hour, but right now this is it because a) Once love and b) I really like the way the coloring turned out.