Random Raccoon Rambling

five @ 2008-09-17T11:41:00

2008-09-17T16:49:10Z

My loan application got denied really late, and nobody else will give me a loan on my mother's credit either. My GPA is shit. Long story made incredibly short 'cause I'm tired of rehashing it? I'm fucking screwed.

I'm meeting with my advisor sometime this week, but I'm pretty much going to have to drop out of at least this semester. I haven't had textbooks so I'm way behind on the homework, and there's no way I'm going to get enough money to actually pay the university. Argh.

...Is it bad that right now I'm most upset about losing my Korean classmates?

And in unrelated news, "Music like Cobra Starship" is disappointingly not that much like Cobra Starship and more "Music like Fall Out Boy." Though I suppose I can forgive last.fm because there really isn't anything like CS. <3

five @ 2008-09-09T08:25:00

2008-09-09T13:30:42Z

Yeah, it's been awhile. I haven't been updating my LJ either (in longer than this) so I only feel kind of bad.

Uh, school's started again. I'm taking Quechua, Korean, Syntax, and Shakespeare. It's been great so far. Though this morning I feel incredibly ill and I'm wondering if I'll even make it through Quechua, let alone my other two classes today. Blech.

I also feel bad that I was so against AU!Katara as a headmate earlier. Her character really developed and I absolutely love her now. So this is an apology from the head you're living in: I LOVE YOU BB, DON'T LEAVE ME. But I could do without you talking about sex all through Syntax.

Uhh I thought I had something else to say, but I can't think of it. My head's all spinny and my stomach is rebelling against the water I had. This isn't going to end well.

five @ 2008-08-04T15:22:00

2008-08-04T20:32:27Z

Nothing much new over here, I'm just bored. My mom just moved into town, and my sister has to stay at home while she's at work, so I'm going to be chilling here during the day this week until she gets used to it or whatever. I'm on a dodgy gacked wireless connection until my mom's internet gets set up, but at least it's something.

No luck whatsoever on the job search, which is pissing me off. It's almost the school year again. Argh.

Crack!Katara is now like... fully integrated. She talks more than anyone but Mar at this point. She also talks to Mar sometimes, which is the weirdest interaction ever. I mean, she asked her for dating advice. Which I will only ever admit to here and now. XD Her character has at least leveled out now, and in some respects she is very sweet. And she's absolutely adorkable and awkward in love while still wanting to sleep with everybody. She's like... a morbid cross between I CARES 4 U and Cutthroat Bitch, but with hair loopies and a clique. >> I have no idea why my brain feels the need to make that comparison, but it does.

five @ 2008-07-23T21:05:00

2008-07-24T02:14:59Z

So I've been on an RP kick. Mostly with preexisting characters.

Now, I've had plenty of headmates before. But they were all my own characters, not other people's. But this RP kick has gotten them just stuck in my head.

My first group is more or less in character: Mohinder Suresh, Claire Bennet, Smellerbee, Koushiro Izumi, and Ty Lee. From there Mohinder and Ty Lee got stuck in my head. Fine, whatever, they're pretty cool so it's okay.

But now I've started this crack CAPSLOCK high school AU where everyone is, well, on crack. I play the school bicycle, Katara. She's done or would like to do nearly everyone in the school. She's discovering all sorts of drugs with Mai, the pothead drum major. AND SHE IS OF COURSE STUCK IN MY HEAD. WTF, crack!Katara. You bring me lulz, but you are slutting up my head. GTFO please.

five @ 2008-07-22T08:58:00

2008-07-22T14:01:08Z

The Avatar finale was fucking amazing. I was going to write a review but... just go watch it. I don't care if you don't know what's going on, the fight scenes themselves are worth it.

five @ 2008-07-17T11:22:00

2008-07-17T16:23:59Z

I ALMOST FORGOT.

You all need to go watch DR. HORRIBLE'S SING-ALONG BLOG.

Neil Patrick Harris. Nathan Fillion. Felicia Day. BY JOSS WHEDON. Yes, bitches, it's epic.

five @ 2008-07-17T09:25:00

2008-07-17T14:32:03Z

THE SOUTHERN RAIDERS airs tonight! It's been awhile since Avatar has actually been new to me, and it better not disappoint. I'm a little sad there was a commercial for it last night, I wanted to go in more or less blind. Oh well, I could tell what it was about from the title anyway. We better learn her name! Is it bad that that's what I want the most, her name? I just think it's weird that we don't know it.

Umm... yeah. My life isn't that exciting. I've been RPing a lot this summer, and at the moment Mohinder and Ty Lee are stuck in my head. It's a party.

five @ 2008-07-13T12:48:00

2008-07-13T17:50:18Z

This summer, grow a pair and go see Blue Spirit II: Return of the Revenge With a Vengeance!

This film rated B: for BALLS.

five @ 2008-07-08T15:16:00

2008-07-08T20:21:36Z

What does your album look like?
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
"Cantabrian Wars"

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
"rejection and reject acceptance."

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoparadiso/2630633329/

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. Also, pass it along in your own journal because it's more amusing that way.

five @ 2008-07-07T13:19:00

2008-07-07T18:24:05Z

I got to campus way too early, so I'm chilling in the Gen-Biotech building until it's closer to my appointment time. I saw my old advisor, but I don't think he recognized me. Oh well. It reminded me that I need to get to Ag Hall and officially drop my genetics major. And while I'm at it I need to check up on my loan status. Hrm.

Hopefully something will get figured out at this appointment. When I'm walking around in humidity, I itch horribly everywhere my clothing can rub against my skin. It's driving me insane. And my wrist is still being bitchy, but there's nothing that can really be done about that besides being careful about it. I also need to remember to make that farking appointment with my psychiatrist, which I am going to go do right now before I forget.

This was the most necessary post ever.

five @ 2008-07-05T10:38:00

2008-07-05T15:49:29Z

I didn't realize how starved I was for not noodles until we went to the farmer's market this morning.

My roommate got back from Italy last night (and after three weeks of speaking Italian and 30 hours without sleep, her English was hilarious). She really wanted to go to the market this morning, so we got up around 7 and went with her boyfriend. I have no money, and since she's been gone I've lived on noodles and waffles. Everything looked so tasty.

We ended up getting basil, garlic scapes, garlic, and FRESH PEAS. I just had a little bowl of fresh peas for breakfast. So fucking tasty. My body is starved for green foods. We also got a bottle of apple cider which was tasty, and her boyfriend got spicy cheese bread which was also very tasty. The stuff is like a farmer's market legend, and I'd never had any before. It's good, but basically just challah with cheese and spices so I think I could make it at home.

Later we're going to go grocery shopping and then have Chinese at a friend's house because her family is gone and we want to see her puppy. Yes, that's right, her family is gone so we're going to go hang out there to eat takeout and play with a dog. Because we're the coolest 20-year-olds ever.

five @ 2008-06-27T15:51:00

2008-06-27T22:25:12Z

I found a cord for the desktop, but it turns out the thing won't turn on anyway. The universe is apparently really against me playing the Sims. Oh well.

This afternoon I finally watched the unaired Heroes pilot. I must say, I'm glad Issac never ended up cutting off his own hand. But I did kind of like Amid. More than Ted Sprague, who never really did it for me.

I think I'm going to rewatch the first season before the third airs.

Also, this commercial just talked about the "Epic Wisconsin Vacation." I lol'd for real.

I haven't really eaten anything yet today, so I think I'm going to do that. I feel in a writing mood, maybe I can finally get that RP entry done that Deej has been nagging at me about. :)

five @ 2008-06-26T19:09:00

2008-06-27T00:14:29Z

My roommate being in Italy has left me really, really bored.

I went home today, to celebrate my mom's new job. While I was there, I grabbed my old desktop computer (complete with huge-ass monitor). All the cords and stuff were in boxes here, so I brought it home happy. I could finally play the Sims 2!

No such luck. I found everything but ONE CORD. Sadly, this leaves me with either the monitor or the CPU without power. It's pretty hard to play a game where either nothing is running or you can't see what's running. Argh.

I'd imagine it's around here somewhere, but my wrist hurts like a motherfucker from moving boxes around to find the other stuff, so I'm not even going to bother tonight. I'm just going to emo that I still can't play my game of being a god.

five @ 2008-06-19T15:41:00

2008-06-19T21:03:42Z

AfterEllen.com's 2008 Hot 100 apparently came out this month and I WAS UNAWARE. There is nobody I trust judgment of ladies more from than other lesbians.

Anyway, I am here to note who is on their list that is also on MY list.

1. TINA FUCKING FEY. Their number one is also MY number one. Thank you, ladies.
5. Leisha Hailey. She's hot AND she plays the guitar.
11. Angelina Jolie. Come on, who doesn't think she's hot? I mean, honestly.
12. Jodie Foster. She always kicks ass.
17. Ellen Degeneres. Come on, she's 50 and still smoking hot, not to mention she's hilarious. Who can't admire that?
27. Natalie Portman. I don't even need to explain.
28. Eliza Dushku. My first TV love.
30. Olivia Wilde. Gorgeous, gorgeous eyes. See my icon.
44. Salma Hayak. Sexy even when she's got a unibrow.
53. JORJA FOX. I think she'd actually be my number two. Yes, please.
59. Alyson Hannigan. Adorable.
64. Alicia Keys. I totally bought her album in middle school just because I thought she was pretty.
65. Amber Benson. I always want to give her a hug whenever I see her.
67. Tegan and Sara. C'mon, guys. Twins.
69. Emily Deschanel. I think she'd be my number three. She's so oddly beautiful.
71. Kristin Bell. She's hot. Not to mention she's basically live-action Azula on Heroes.
72. Cat Cora. She can be my Iron Chef whenever she wants. ;D
95. Idina Menzel. There are too many levels of hot to describe here.

At some point, I will compile my own personal Hot 100. But today is not that day.

five @ 2008-06-16T09:53:00

2008-06-16T15:04:21Z

Yesterday, while at my cousin's high school graduation, I had a revelation: I don't think college is for me. I don't feel like I'm achieving anything, and I'd much rather be out in the world doing something. I really want to join the Peace Corps or something similar, but I also really need to finish college first. They want it, and my family would be disappointed if I didn't. Plus I'd be fucked once I came back if I didn't have an education to lean back on. I'm just so sick of formal education. Fifteen years is a really long time, especially since that's 3/4 of my entire life. I can't even remember my first five years when I wasn't being schooled. I just... I hate it. It feels useless and I feel trapped by it. I want to do something real.

...On a lighter note, I've been testing the waters of fanfiction again; I joined a few weekly challenge communities and have written some ficlets for them. I'm certainly enjoying it, but I find myself just kind of writing and not trying to make it good. It's certainly not bad, and people keep commenting all "Oh, it's written so nicely!" but I know I'm not trying very hard. I joined one community where the challenge is to write a fic in 10-20 fandoms centering around the one word of your choice. It's intrigued me the most of everything, but the maintainer seems to not be maintaining at the moment. I think I'll start on them anyway, and just not post them to the community, because it's the one thing that's sparking something at the moment.

Hopefully this will help with my original writing. That was the point, anyway. Even if doesn't, though, I'm enjoying it.

five @ 2008-06-10T09:26:00

2008-06-10T14:36:14Z

I'm trying to get back into writing again. Working on my Setka universe has been failing, so I'm almost tempted to dip into fanfiction again.

The thing is, I read bad fanfiction for fun. I love it when people have everyone out of character and write horribly otherwise. I'm always afraid that that's what my writing looks like, so I never want to post it. But then I feel like I wrote it for no reason, so I have no drive to write it at all.

Yes, I'm odd.

I think I'll just have to suck it up and deal, though, because I really want to get working on Setka again. I want to finish the main story at some point, but fo realz. I'm just too intimate with the characters to let them die like that. It starts out with three different storylines, only two of them obviously related, and it's the tying them together part that's being difficult. I know what I want to accomplish once I do, it's just the explaining how they all suddenly know each other that I'm having issues with. Hrm. I'm also not sure how to treat the passage of time, because from the beginning to the end (or at least the beginning to the climax) I want there to be approximately 10-15 years. I'm not sure if I want it to be gradual or if I want to be like, "AND THEN TEN YEARS LATER LOL."

I guess I'll figure it out whenever I start working on it again.

five @ 2008-06-09T15:13:00

2008-06-09T20:25:17Z

You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffee shops and morning streets
In the blue and silent sunrise
But night is the cathedral
Where we recognized the sign
We strangers know each other now
As part of the whole design

Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

You are the jester of this courtyard
With a smile like a girl's
Distracted by the women
With the dimples and the curls
By the pretty and the mischievous
By the timid and the blessed
By the blowing skirts of ladies
Who promise to gather you to their breast

Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

You have hands of raining water
And that earring in your ear
The wisdom on your face
Denies the number of your years
With the fingers of the potter
And the laughing tale of the fool
The arranger of disorder
With your strange and simple rules
Yes now I've met me another spinner
Of strange and gauzy threads
With a long and slender body
And a bump upon the head

Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

With a long and slender body
And the sweetest softest hands
And we'll blow away forever soon
And go on to different lands
And please do not ever look for me
But with me you will stay
And you will hear yourself in song
Blowing by one day

But now hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

five @ 2008-06-07T10:23:00

2008-06-07T15:33:51Z

It's been awhile. It's been a very very long while.

I still haven't been able to find a job. Which was frustrating but okay, as my mom was going to help me with rent over the summer.

Two weeks ago today, I fell backwards teaching my mom how to rollerskate and fucked up my wrist. I'm supposed to be wearing a brace right now, but I'm not. It makes it hard to type and it's way too hot and humid to have something strapped around my wrist. I'm aware this is making the healing process go more slowly.

Earlier this week, my mom calls. She recently started a new job, and had been bemoaning the fact that they weren't really training her at all. They decided that because she couldn't do the job up to their standards (that they didn't inform her of or teach her to achieve) that they were going to fire her.

So now I have no job and my mom has no job and my wrist is messed up. YAY.

five @ 2008-05-20T21:01:00

2008-05-21T02:14:23Z

Instead of finishing up a game or book that I've been working on, I've started two new ones.

Yesterday I started to read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. It's been a quick read, unsurprisingly. I'm about 2/3 done. I really do like it; I'm not sure why I never read it when I was younger, but I think I'm getting more out of it now than I would have then.

This morning I was bored and started to play Dark Cloud and worked some on the first Avatar game. I'm not very far in either of them; I'm stuck in Dark Cloud because I have no money and my dagger is about to break. To get money to fix it I have to fight monsters, but if I fight monsters with it it will break. I'll ask my roommate what she thinks I should do whenever she gets home. And then in the Avatar game I'd already gotten the first chapter and a half done but then lost my data, so I pretty much just got myself back to where I'd been before and stopped right before a boss battle. I also have my eye on Prince of Persia; my roommate brought a bunch of games back with her from when she went to her sister's graduation. Their PS2 broke and they just gave us their games. So I'm basically being tortured, you see?

Luckily my huge fine at the library is keeping me from checking out anything, or I'd probably be working on five more books that I'd never finish. I want to finish rereading Rakkety Tam, and possibly reread House of the Scorpion. I thought I owned the latter, but I didn't see it at all while we were moving. I must have sold it. And I also need to find and finish Abhorsen, which I forgot to put on my list (I think).

Oh, and I didn't get the job, so I have been sending in more applications. Why won't anyone hire me? I honestly don't get it.

I was going to make a list, but I don't even remember what about anymore. So, no list for you.

five @ 2008-05-15T16:30:00

2008-05-15T21:39:55Z

What is this, a post without a list? I think I may die!

Well, it was bound to happen sometime.

I'm at "home," meaning my mother's apartment. I'm watching my sister while she's at work. Why isn't my sister at school? She has pink eye. I'm realizing now that agreeing to this was probably a bad idea, as my eyes have been swollen and angry anyway from my allergies. Oh well, I get $50 from it. I still need to talk to my mom about how we're going to do my rent for the summer.

Today I'm supposed to hear back from the place I interviewed at. Hopefully I got it, but I fear that I didn't because of my lack of fancy attire. I suppose we'll see.

I've also been on quite the House kick. I've been trying to catch up; I've seen quite a bit of the current season, and am through the middle of the second. So I have like... a season and a half to go. And I'm anxious to see the end of the season of Bones. Next Monday night should be full of excitement. Woot!

I'm very happy I have a follow-up appointment with my doctor in a week and a half. I want to know if there's anything I can do about the rash I always get on the inside of my elbows during the summer. I also need to remember to ask about the little red dots all over my arms. And also the four-week period. And... yeah. And I need to remember to make an appointment with my psychiatrist. Yeah.

five @ 2008-05-11T10:45:00

2008-05-11T16:20:59Z

So, we're in our summer apartment. Which means this is a LIST OF CRAP WE NEED.

-Trash cans
-Dishes
-Silverware
-Cookware
-Toilet paper
-Breakfast stuff
-Shelves
-Broom
-Vacuum
-Table
-Chairs
-Sponges and stuff
-Cleaning stuff
-Storage comtainers

five @ 2008-05-09T11:53:00

2008-05-09T17:00:10Z

So, I have a rather impromptu interview today. I misjudged the amount of time it would take to get here, so I could have gone home to change. But at this point it's too late, and going home would take too much time. Hopefully she won't disregard me because I'm nowhere near fancy or anything right now.

Things I am lacking that I really should have for an interview:

-A nice shirt and pants (I'm wearing a plain brown t-shirt and jeans; not TOO bad)
-A printed copy of my resume
-Retainers in my piercings
-A morning shower
-Not my heavy backpack

And it's one of the jobs I really want; pretty much the department's organizational bitch. I *love* being someone's organizational bitch. <3

Well, cross your fingers for me!

five @ 2008-05-07T13:28:00

2008-05-07T18:39:02Z

Well, one of my secret favorite hobbies is making fanmixes. Because I'm cool. I also really like listening to them, so if any of you know where I could find some good ones let me know. =D

These are fanmixes I'd like to do:

-Bones (Brennan/Booth)
-Bones (Zach)
-Heroes (Hiro)
-Heroes (Mohinder)
-Heroes (Sylar)
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Anya)
-Angel (Fred)
-Firefly (Wash)
-Firefly (Book)
-Avatar: The Last Airbender (General)
-Avatar: The Last Airbender (Toph)
-His Dark Materials (Lyra)
-His Dark Materials (Dr. Mary Malone)
-Wicked (Elphaba/Glinda)

I'm also planning a list of people's brains I would like to pick (metaphorically, not like... lobotomize), so look for that soon.

five @ 2008-05-05T10:43:00

2008-05-05T15:51:11Z

One of these days, procrastinating is going to be the end of me.

Stuff I need to get done this week:

~~-Ling Problem Set #9~~
-The Reindeer People paper
-한글 PowerPoint (presenting Friday)
-Go to the library to get resources for 한글 PowerPoint
-Study for Anthro final on Thursday
-Study for Ling final next Tuesday
-Ask mom for money to give to library
-Pay public library for my extremely late books
-Start packing up my crap
-Redo my resume
~~-Check back with people about my sent job applications~~
-Reschedule OB-GYN appointment
-Pick up Errin prescription
-Schedule with psychiatrist
~~-Die in a fire~~

five @ 2008-05-04T11:25:00

2008-05-04T17:19:55Z

To start us off, I'm going to make a couple lists. I keep meaning to make them, and this seems as good a place as any. These are videogames I want to own/play, and books I want to read. Hopefully it will prove useful, once the awful of summer kicks in and I'm bored as all hell. I don't want this to be my LiveJournal; that's for ranting about and telling about my life, the parts I don't really care about sharing with anyone. I want this to be for whatever random stuff I want to talk about, including stuff I *don't* talk about. Yeah, how's that for crazy?

Anyway, some lists. Stuff to start:

Wii
-Okami
-Carnival Games
-Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
-Mario Party 8
-Wild Earth: African Safari
-Sonic and the Secret Rings
-Pokemon Battle Revolution
-Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
-Trauma Center: Second Opinion
-Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Released 11/30/08)
-Avatar: The Burning Earth
-The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night

DS
-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time
-The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
-Crossword DS
-Rondo of Swords
-Rune Factory
-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates
-Pokemon Ranger
-River King: Mystic Valley
-Lost in Blue 3
-Digimon World: Dusk
-Etrian Odyssey
-Eco Creatures: Save the Forest
-Harvest Moon DS: Island of Happiness (Released 7/30/08)
-Heroes of Mana

Stuff to finish:

Books
-Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
-A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
-La ciudad de las bestias (Isabel Allende)

Games
-Super Mario Galaxy
-Elebits
-Final Fantasy IX
-Pokemon Pearl
-Magical Starsign
-Final Fantasy: Chocobo Tales

More interesting entries to come, I assume.