Well, well, well.
I haven't posted in the last three weeks simply because I haven't had a lot of time. My life has been pretty hectic, but wonderful overall.

I guess the saga stars three weeks ago. Jessica and I had a mini road trip to Sarasota to visit Aaron and Amanda, at New College and Ringling respectively, and that was a ton of fun. I think the most fun we actually had was in the car. We listened to Girl Talk the whole way there and stopped at Dino World on the way back. It was overall a wonderful time.

I love and am very thankful for everyone, by the way, since I totally missed Thanksgiving due to being... well... incapacitated. Um. Most of you probably already know the story on that one. After a long day of throwing up and napping fitfully I ate pizza and mozzarella sticks for Thanksgiving dinner, but it was an okay day.

I have a job now! I work at Toys R Us - which has been pretty crazy now that it's the holiday season. I worked from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, and it was CRAZY. Absolutely insane. We were pretty much completely sold out of all of our deals by the time I got to work since we opened at midnight, so in essence my job was to keep people from ripping out each other's and our throats over Leapsters and Zhu Zhu pets. On a related note: WTF IS UP WITH THE ZHU ZHU PETS? People are flipping out like mad over them this year. I was instructed to hide one in my register and if someone asked for it, I could sell it to them. That seemed pretty crazy to me, but I did it, and someone did ask for it in a frantic gurgle (I'm not even sure it was English. All I heard was "ZHU ZHUUUUU!"), and... I don't know. Does anyone know what those are about?

I've done a ton of other stuff in the past few weeks but none of it is really that exciting - I went to see my mom in New Smyrna, discovered the Christmas spirit, saw The Men Who Stare at Goats, and today I'm hopefully gonna go run around with Amie, Rini and Jen, and also start my Christmas shopping. Happy happy funtiem yay. Also, I am finally picking up my illustration projects again!! I have hardly worked on ANYTHING in these past three weeks, so it's time to get that ball rolling again. And I will. Believe you me, I will.

So much news I have! But first, a meme:

YOU'RE THE __________ TO MY __________

Click the link and leave me a comment (anonymous if you want)! Go on, stroke my ego some.

Aaand all the news a little later, after my head is screwed on straight.

I was tagged by blowdry

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do that like a pansy.

No. I'm not tagging anyone. But here are my answers. They're moody and immature. Just so you know.
( heeere we go )

Here are the rules:

• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

centerspire asked me these questions:
( LEMME GIVES YA SOME ANSWERS )

Yep. Real update later. I have a lot to say.

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOOD HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN MY LIFE LATELY SO I HAVEN'T BEEN POSTING THAT MUCH, SORRY.


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THAT IS ALL, GOOD DAY

1. If you're on my friends list, I want to know 35 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine.
2. Comment here with your answers and repost the questionnaire on your own journal.

( dooo iiiiit. )

Today had all kinds of potential to be crappy, what with the fact that my mom blew me off YET AGAIN, but I can't bring myself to care that much. Why?

BOOKS!

Today I went to the bookstore to finally check out Ulysses, but the 'brary was closed. So I left my bike locked up there and went to Maya instead.

( welcome to maya books, my second home. )
She didn't have Ulysses, which was kind of disappointing, but Yvette went on a hunt for more James Joyce and came up with this little beauty:
( VERY AWESOMESAUCE )

And I was super-duper happy about that. Because some James Joyce is better than none at all! Plus, these two works are shorter, and I can become accustomed to his style before I tackle Ulysses. After she found that beauty for me, I also found a beautiful edition of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems, and I picked up Middlesex, a novel by the guy who wrote The Virgin Suicides.

( WOOOOOOOO )

Such happy tiems!

Also I totally freaked myself out last night by doing a whole bunch of Slender Man research, and then watching the Slender Man ARG videos. I was sufficiently freaked, and then had a lot of trouble getting to sleep (at one point, it was probably 5 in the morning. Aaron coughed just a little bit in his sleep and I literally jumped and audibly squeaked. I'm so dumb), but then when I woke up this morning and kept looking at stuff, I decided I was going to do a little writing myself. I love getting inspired.. so look out for an as-of-yet unused tag on this LJ: storytime! I haven't written anything in a while, and this is an entirely new genre for me, so this should be pretty exciting.

For those who missed it or ignored it, I am still doing this meme:
THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

You can holla at me from the warm, cozy safety that is being anonymous. Doooo it.
ANYWAYS. My birthday is on Monday. Stoked on it. :)

Also I've noticed that a lot of the time for my mood I write "pretty good, considering." I wonder what this says about my life.

I can't stop listening to this song right now.



It's SO PRETTY.

Also, I am doing this:

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

Click above to tell me anonymously what you really think, f-list. :)

I've been doodling a lot lately, so here. Have some.

Some of the stuff under here is a little NSFW, just so you knowwww.
( YAAAY! )

Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

Why do we have to double up today, you ask? BECAUSE YESTERDAY I PARTIED TOO HARD AND FORGOT TO DO A YOUTUBE CLIP.

So here you go.



As for the quote... uh. Hmm.
We're gonna go with another Mighty Boosh gem from the same scene, because I FEEL LIKE IT:
"This is the number 2, okay? He runs a coffee shop. This is the number 9. 9 is a customer, right? One day, 9 goes in and 2 goes 'I don't have a coffee house no more. I have a knife fighting academy. And number 9 goes, 'I want coffee!' And number 2 goes, 'No! I'm gonna slice you! And learn how to slice others! And 9 goes 'I can't! I gotta get out of here!' And 2 goes 'I'VE LOCKED THE DOOR!'"

"What does that mean?"

"It means I can't put you on the bill."

You can watch that scene here.

ENJOY, TASTY SKILLETS. ENJOY.

Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy


The site I'm gonna recommend might not tickle everyone's fancy, but I'd like to get her out there - my friend Jessica's poetry blog: voirdire. She's a really incredible writer - check out her poems.

The most inspiring teacher I ever had was my eleveth grade AP Lang teacher, Mr. Hernandez. He taught me so much, including everything I know about writing. He was just all around the shit. We're still friends, even.

Thanks, Nanners!

Ready for more fun?

Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

Well, I'm guessing when it says a book/ebook/fanfic, it means one of the above. But because I am an overachiever and get a little crazy when I can recommend books, we're gonna do two books and a fanfic. Sound good?

The first book is A New World by Amit Chaudhuri.



This book is SO BEAUTIFUL. It doesn't... well, it doesn't go much of anywhere plot-wise, to be honest. But it is a really breathtaking look at human desolation, and what it means to be a citizen of two places: in this case, of India and of the US. It's not a long book - only 208 pages - but it is so rich with beautiful prose and real emotion. And I am a sucker for beautiful prose. :0 Also this book is really hard to find but if you can find it, pick it up and READ IT! :D

The second book is The Awakening by Kate Chopin.



This one's a classic piece of literature. It's a beautiful novella about a woman's emerging self-awareness and sexual awakening. It's powerful and once again - amazing prose. There's not much else I can say about this one. But READ IT.

Aaand the fanfic I'm going to recommend is one I think most people on my f-list have read at this point but NONE THE LESS: Denouement by screamlet. A bit of nu!Kirk/Spock fun that is both surprisingly articulate and incredibly hilarious. READ IT. :D

Alright, it's time to ride this pony all over again.

Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

Today, I must sear your retinas with a picture. A visual delight, if you will. This was another toughie, but I think I have chosen well.

( it makes me laugh, anyways )

Yyyep. Enjoy!

So, I'ma do that Seven Days meme. This time, yoinked from blowdry. :Db
For one week, recommend / share:
Day 1: a song
Day 2: a picture
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day 4: a site
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy


HMM, I do say! This is a toughie for me, because right now I'm so abuzz with both The Mountain Goats and Why?, especially because I just listened to Why?'s new album and it was incredible. I don't want to recommend them, just because I know I talk about them all the time! But at the same time, I'm pretty sure my f-list needs them in their lives. So I'm gonna do two - one by The Mountain Goats and one by Why?. :D

The first is Magpie by The Mountain Goats. I just find John Darnielle's voice really compelling in this song:



If you likey, you can download Magpie here.

The second song I want to share is these few presidents by Why?. This band is incredible, and this song is just epic. I love it.



Download these few presidents here.

Enjoy, lovelies!

WHY? IS GOING TO BE HERE ON NOVEMBER SECOND.

SAY ANYTHING IS GOING TO BE HERE ON NOVEMBER ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ARE GOING TO BE HERE ON NOVEMBER TWENTY THIRD.

NOVEMBER IS GOING TO BE THE BEST MONTH OF MY LIFE.


Only, on as far as the Mountain Goats are concerned, it's a legitimate fear of mine that they will play Broom People or Dilaudid or Magpie or any song from The Sunset Tree and I will just CRY. And I'm not exaggerating, those two tracks are enough to send me into a weepy fit on a good day. It would be embarrassing, but I take comfort in the fact that I would probably not be the only one.

OH MY GOD, WHY?!! THE MOUNTAIN GOATS!! Words cannot even begin to express how excited I am. SGKJSKFAJS I AM OVER EXCITED AND I KNOW IT BUT I CAN'T HELP IT SORRY.

ALALALA OH MY GOD. THIS IS ME RIGHT NOW.

( LOOK EXCITEMENT IN THE FACE!!! )

Yep.

Sooo I guess this story stars on.. Monday night? Amie and Rini came to get Jen and I for some ~Port Orange Fun Tiem~. It was good. We went to Denny's, where I proceeded to harass both my friend Ben and poor taconaco (I am so sorry) via AIM at 2 AM eastern... I had maybe a little too much caffeine in my system and there MAY HAVE BEEN TALK of what would happen if Amie, Rini, Jen and I were like the Gamma shift on the Enterprise or whatever. Since Jen is helmsman, we decided that Sulu would come to work in the morning to find everything just... covered in something sticky, drooly, chewed on, and covered in sprinkles. Also to find that the Enterprise has gone nary more than a klick towards its destination... it was too busy doing donuts around some moon. Oops. Also Amie would hide her data report SOMEWHERE ON HER PERSON... and it would be up to Spock to find it. YEP. Denny's. WE THEN WENT TO WALMART.

Okay, break real quick - has anyone else noticed that ALL OF MY LATE NIGHT ADVENTURES take me first to Denny's and then to Walmart? I have noticed.

Anyways, we went to Walmart, retrieved pita chips and green tea, and then went home and THEN THE MOST GLORIOUS THING HAPPENED! We ended up going through Amie's old sketchbooks, and we definitely found an old drawing of Paul McCartney as a CAT BOY. OH MY GOD, I probably laughed for a good 4-5 minutes straight, without relief. It just.. I saw it, and it broke me. So that happened, and then I was really sleepy, so while Jen and Amie watched Star Trek VI and Rini disappeared into sleep, I crashed, all curled up at the foot of Amie's bed like some kind of strange cat. But then I woke up, and had to pee RAH BAD, and when I came back both Jen and Rini were STREEEETTTTCHED out on the bed, and there was no more room for me, so I had to relocate to Amie's floor. Her hardwood floor. Granted, she was sleeping there too, but all I had to comfort me was a little Darth Vader pillow and a fleecy throw blanket. Despite these conditions, I slept like an absolute baby.

Okay, so this got really wangsty and whiny and LONG, so I'm gonna put it behind a cut.
( TEENAGED WANK AHOY! )

Ffuck this entry got perty serious perty fast, didn't it? I'll put it behind a cut if you pretty f-list people can't handle it.

In any case there are still good things. Like how Jen and her family are here for me. Like you, like the moments when I'm riding my bike and it's warm out and everything is okay. Like my new shirt. Which I almost did not buy, and probably could have lived without. But it is cute.
LIKE HOW I AM EXCITED. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS! WHY?! YESSS!

AHHHH! :D

Dear Today,

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xxoo Kita

Life has been pretty uneventful lately. I'm pretty much just up to my normal tricks.
I have my fingers crossed for a job at Target, but it wouldn't kill me to go apply at the Bruster's Megan works at. I seriously need to have income. My poor skills are good, but I can't skate on them forever.

I saw Jessica Wednesday night. She and I talked about going out for karaoke on my birthday. Country karaoke (at the Post Time lounge, probably), no less. It has been slated that she and I will sing "When Will I Be Loved" by Linda Ronstadt, no questions asked. I am excited. It sounds promising. We also talked about the possibility of living together. She is moving out in a few months, and I need, to move out in a few months (I can't rely on the hospitality of the Bryants forever) and since she and I are both staying local and going to SCC, it would behoove both of us to try to work something out together instead of going it alone. I should have a decent job by then. I don't know how good this plan is, but it seems legit, and it's worth a try. We shall seee.

Jen and Aaron and I went to Denny's yet again last night. Our waitress lady messed up Jen's food, and so this awesome waiter decided to give her ice cream, and then decided to give all of us ice cream because he felt bad or something? I don't know. It was awesome. I still seem to be the only person on planet earth who likes strawberry ice cream. Whatever, it's cool. Aaron went on a tirade about being a dictator after we told him about Papa Ngemba (did I ever write about that here? I can't remember), but there are a few key elements he seems to be missing - an understanding of linear time, a basic understanding of why we need the moon, and people skills. He'll never make it in the wide world of dictators.

Also, I yoinked this meme/survey from taconaco.
( someday i will stop doing these. someday. )

Aaand off to lunch. ♥

COLLEGE.



And, um, the Dooney & Bourke yellow leather letter carrier style purse I've been coveting? Even though I don't know how that would improve my future. Besides being really cute. Hmm.
( the purse )

@ u @b Ahaha. My real answer is college though.