| I now have a place which I may call my own |
[Sep. 3rd, 2007|12:28 am] |
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I thought long and hard about the subject for this post, but in the end I couldn't think of anything better, as I haven't really named it yet. When I was in seventh grade, we lived in a house that had a finished basement that became our game/play room. My parents referred to it as "the dungeon" since we would disappear into it for long stretches of time and also there was very little light down there. I've been thinking of this as my own personal dungeon (it's basement-level), but I don't know if that will stick or not. The windows are considerably larger than I remembered them being, so it's not really the same. I suppose we'll see.
Of course, the first thing I did once I got everything inside was to set up my computer. This remains the only thing that's really done in terms of being set up. Next on my list was going to be hooking up all my game consoles to the TV so that I could put on a DVD or something while setting up, but unfortunately my parents didn't bring the remote, and the universal remote I have doesn't work to change the video mode. The only controls on the TV itself are power, channel, and volume, so I can't switch to anything plugged into it until I get the remote, which won't be for a few days since tomorrow is a postal holiday. It's frustrating, to say the least, especially considering the fact that it WAS on Video 1 when I got it, but I changed the channel to make sure the cable worked. Oh, you can use channel up/down to leave video mode, but you can't get back to it that way. I'm going to be particularly pissed if something cool is released for Virtual Console tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, I need to go out to the grocery store to get food. I've got some stuff for the time being, but there's no nutritional balance, and the only thing in my fridge is a mostly-empty bottle of strawberry vodka which I tried (unsuccessfully) to finish off tonight. I used to be able to drink, but it's just no good anymore. Oh well.
One last note before I go to bed (I am spectacularly tired, despite doing very little physical work today): I'm going to be posting pictures of my place in the near future, but I don't want to share my exact location with the internet at large. As such, I'll probably be posting them as "friends only," so if you read this and aren't currently on my list of friends but would like to see them, let me know and I will add you. Like I said, I just don't want to release that information to all of the internet. I'm mostly thinking of Paige's friends, but if anyone else is reading this, leave me a comment or send me an email or something.
I go now to the great beyond - which is to say, the other side of the room, where my bed is. Also, goddamnit, do I need some new icons. |
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| It is so hot |
[Aug. 25th, 2007|08:46 pm] |
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Well, I'm in Pennsylvania now, where as of 8:50PM it's 80 degrees and 69% humidity. Of course, it's actually hotter here at my uncle's house as there's no AC, and the house seems to take longer to cool down than the outside. As a result, I've been moving around the house as each room warms up. The basement is nice (comparatively), but I get no cell phone signal down there and apparently keeping time on its own is just too much for my phone to do. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was not 3:45 as I thought, but actually almost 6 earlier today. Remind me never to use my cell phone as an alarm in areas with spotty coverage.
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| Shhh! I'm not actually packing. |
[Aug. 21st, 2007|05:28 pm] |
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| | Incubus - Take Me to Your Leader | ] |
I'm leaving for Pittsburgh (Greensburg, technically) tomorrow, and of course I'm not yet fully packed yet. In fact, I'm posting this from my desktop, which is probably one of the first things I should've started packing, but it's got all my stuff on it, so I probably won't do it until tonight. I've been kind of putting stuff together off and on all day. So far I've got my office supplies, games, DVDs, some of my electronics, and most of my books in rubbermaid buckets, ready to go. I've even been keeping the contents of boxes on index cards so I know where everything is and whether or not it's been packed.
I'm not ready to leave. :( |
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| 20 (-15) Questions |
[Aug. 18th, 2007|04:04 pm] |
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| | Dream Theater - Home | ] |
As there are only 3 people on my LJ friends list, seeing everyone's updates is not difficult. As a result, I saw the following on Devon's LiveJournal, and felt compelled to participate:
( Five Questions )
( The Soundtrack of My Life ) |
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| I just bathed (most of) a dog |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|12:40 pm] |
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| | Federation feat. E-40 - I Wear My Stunna Glasses At Night | ] |
So this morning, my mom asked if I wanted to go run a bunch of mostly boring errands with her. Of course, I didn't, and I hadn't showered, and I had other things to try to get done, so I told her no. She tried to guilt me into going to the library for her, but I dodged that one as well. So when she asked if I would give the dog a bath, I agreed. He's only the size of a puppy (he's a Yorkie), how hard could it be?
I'm going to get in the shower and then roll around on the carpet. It appears to have worked well for Max. |
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[Aug. 9th, 2007|08:33 pm] |
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| | Infected Mushroom - Horus the Chorus | ] |
So I finished Harry Potter 5 a few days ago and started on the sixth. Unfortunately, I've already had all the major events of the books spoiled, but I suppose that's what I get for taking so long to read them (or, in the case of 7, frequenting the internet).
Tomorrow is my last day of working at Hungate's. Today I was there from 10 to 7, and it was dead, so it was terribly boring. On the positive side, I ended up writing a good 7 or 8 pages of The Hungate's Chronicles, which provided a decent morale boost with regards to that project. I'll have to put a pretty liberal amount of editing on it to be pleased with it, but the manuscript itself is growing past a few pages and gathering steam. I've still got a lot of good material to cover, and it'll be easier to write when I'm not getting interrupted every ten minutes, and I don't have to stand the entire time. Now if I can only feel better about skipping pages so that I don't have to finish up one topic before working on another, I'll be in good shape.
I can assure you that there will be more varied vocabulary than in this post, but my brain is fried at the moment, so I'm not putting in much effort here. I need to go get something to eat.
Fake edit: Oh look, mood and music - it really is a livejournal now |
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| Let's try this again... |
[Aug. 7th, 2007|12:19 am] |
I've been meaning to start posting on my LiveJournal again, now that I've got all the particularly heinous previous posts out of the view of the public eye (but of course not deleted!). I'm not sure that anyone will read it or care, but it provides a different form of self-recordkeeping from my physical journal (which has also fallen into disuse lately, although I've written a few entries that must be copied into it from other notebooks). Perhaps the tone will be different, and I imagine the contents as well. I just need to get the ball rolling and see where it goes.
I think it's fitting that the first thing I talk about in breaking my 2 year LJ silence is Harry Potter. I'm not quite high-brow enough to discuss political views, not artsy enough to share new works, and not interesting enough to talk about my own life. Harry Potter is "internet" enough, while talking about the fifth book, which I am currently finishing, is far enough removed from the latest to not be creepy.
I should probably preface this by mentioning that I'm waiting for the effects of ambien to kick in, so my literary flow may be a bit "off the chain" as it were.
Anyway, I had a doctors appointment earlier today, for which I was kept waiting an extra half hour beyond my appointed time, as they thought I was a no-show, despite sitting in the waiting room the whole time, having verified my insurance information when I checked in. I was mostly content with this, as it gave me an opportunity to read a fair bit of Harry Potter and the Book Numbered Five. I started the day about 300 or so pages in, having only recently begun to see Harry lightening up from being such a dick early on. There's definitely not enough Tonks in this book, like I was led to believe, but I suppose it's spiced well with Luna Lovegood bits here and there. I'm not sure what to think about Harry's dad being such a dick, but like apple like tree I suppose they say.
One thing that I did want to mention, the one thing that perhaps most prompted me to make this entry, is the twins. I'm sorry I doubted them before, and I still don't find weasley twincest appealing (not unless Ginny gets cloned), but those guys know how to keep it real. I think that's about all I can say without repeating myself - Fred and George are the maitre'd's of keepin it real. A recent topic in #vtgoons was:
<DoctorJones> i bet wizard weed is better than muggle weed
I think the two of them with a fat sack of wizard weed and some bertie's every-flavor dutchmasters could keep it real with the realest of them, Snoop Dogg himself. I look forward to these events transpiring in future Harry Potter media. |
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