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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
1:26 pm	44 weeks since a post. Fluff! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
5:50 pm	A little Google Lively sample... plugin download required... Second Life killer? I'm pretty impressed, at least. http://www.lively.com/dr?rid=-2600576498263355060 Edit: Embed doesn't seem to work. Try link? :] (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
8:23 pm	Harumph! Things are looking a bit better, kinda? :] I've had interviews at various schools, some which have looked to be promising, some maybe not, but none of which have panned out. I guess that all of the hiring parties at the schools, according to said parties, took early vacations. In other news, the new doctor who I went to is a douchebag. I loathe it when as a way of saying "hello," a doctor signs you up for 4500 dollars in procedures. Can't I find a low-maintenance doc who will just give me medicine for my pain and stop trying to analyze the things that have been checked a dozen times before to heavy cost and no usefulness? Argh! Anyway, despite that outburst, I'm feeling optimistic and very musical right now. Yay! I've been having a ton of fun looking up cover music lately. It's become something of a major hobby of mine, to be honest. Finding covers in one genre which were originally utterly different. It also is probably why I'm the only person in the whole wide world who liked "Across the Universe." :D Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
8:35 pm	Random acts of inspiration... Oh, my... how long has it been since I've posted? Well, either way, here I am. Life has been a bit frustrating but not, at the same time, altogether unpleasant. I find myself, with everything that's been going on, very often missing my friends from back in UCSC and other parts of the bay area and often wondering what they're doing. That is, to say, that I miss them. I've had random inspirations a lot, lately, with all that's been happening. Songs have flown in and out of my head, as has poetry, as have stories. I noodle around on my shakuhachi a lot, at least, but my chances to really drum (and I mean -really- drum) or just sit down and scribble out a poem or story have been remote as of late. I've been on some heavy medication as of late. Some has been good. Some... not so much. On the good side of things, I'm on this wonderful little headache medication called "Ultram." It's a 24-hour time release thing and it's wonderfully effective, getting rid of all but my worst headaches. On the down side, I'm on my third consecutive round of antibiotics (which I've been on for the last month now). They're kicking me to the curb rather soundly. I take them at 9-11PM, before work, and by the time I get halfway through my shift at work my voice is utterly gone and the whites of my eyes are completely red. It looks and sounds kinda creepy. I got an iPhone as a half Christmas gift (I paid for half) from my family. It's a pretty darn amazing piece of technology, I have to say, and when it comes to the tedium of work it's a total lifesaver. I basically spend all of my idle time on shift watching random stuff (Anime that I need to catch up on, TV shows like BSG, Bones, and other stuff that I want to catch up on), my paperwork times listening to music (which helps me, as a very rhythm concentrated person, to actually speed up and make my work much more efficient, turning a six-hour job into a three-hour one), and the rest of the time with my nose halfway in a book. Now, this may beg the question of "how do you work?" To me, it feels for some reason as if I have a much easier time doing one task if I'm actually doing two simultaneously. I'm not quite sure why that is but it actually got me through most of my big papers in college (many of which were done in the space of a particularly fun broadcast set for Shoutcast or something similar). I can only really offer my apologies for not posting here more often. Life has been really too stressful in some areas for me to want to put it into words. I'd much rather internalize it, for the most part, because that's what I do. Perhaps if things get better and/or people remind me that I have this thing here I'll actually post more often. :] Until next time... Current Mood: restless Current Music: Colony 5 - Hate (Single Edit) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
7:25 pm	Random post-con musings and a little bit about the goings-on in my life... Life has been moving ridiculously quickly for me lately, I'll say. Ridiculously, to be honest, doesn't even begin to describe it. First, there's the ARL program. It's fast. It's uber-fast. This is very good! I can say with great likelihood and without exaggeration that I'll be stepping into my own classroom in the last week in January. To me, that's actually fairly insane, though I gain obvious benefit from it. I may actually be taking  a small pay-drop as I start teaching (which quite worries me. I barely make enough to live and pay my bills as-is), but it will be made up for with a nice big bonus in March and a de facto big pay-raise in late August, when class begins, as well as the perk of having weekends off. Yay weekends! Secondly, there's work. You know things are not-quite spiffy when the new CEO of the company takes the time to point out that every employee should be looking out more for the best interest of the company than themselves. That, in not so many words, is a big fat "Fark you people. We can always hire people at minimum wage to replace you. High turnovers are good for business." It's doubly worse when they demote the only truly experienced person on your shift and forecast replacing her with somebody who spends his entire shift talking about how much he lost on sports-bets and reading Maxim. Things seem to be going downhill in that call-center and fast. I can only hope that they make a turn for the better and/or the girlfriend finds a better place to work in January. Thirdly, there's Yaoi-con. Luckily, this has not been a major point of stress for me inasmuch as interest, a bit of randomness, hectic times, and fun. Even now, less than two weeks after the previous Y-con, Andie (short for Andromache, the aforementioned girlfriend, for the new readers. I don't use given names if I know them, if I remember to avoid it. Anonymity is a very good thing) and I are actually discussing the possibility of me wearing a suit for my next proposed auction skit. I'm actually not totally sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I'm somewhat expected to be... girly for auction. It's my MO. On the other, next year is basically definitely my last auction (though I intend to keep doing what I'm doing in other respects of the con) and it might be fun to change things up. I've also been seriously considering that it might be cool to poke Lestat and see if he wants to team up for a skit next year, as he's quite the superior showperson. It's really too early to be thinking about that, though, in other form than the mental meanderings that I tend to already have. Ah, well. Ciao for now, journal/readers/whoever. Addendum: Argh! Stupid movie theaters! More and more movies that I want to see are coming out in 3D, now. This means that I can't watch them, as those stupid 3D glasses don't work for me. Dammit! Current Mood: awake Current Music: Dresden Dolls - Good Day (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
1:42 am	Yaoi-con! Oy! This is my mini-Yaoi-Con report. Woot. First: The con as a whole was what I would consider to be a huge success. Each event which I was part of (and those which I was a major part of) seemed to go off relatively well, save one, which was still successful, and I got to meet new and interesting people and hang out with lots of old friends. Thusly, the point of the con for me was more or less achieved. Now, in order: Arrival: The drive was long, the companionship was scary, in parts, and good in others. Hitchhiking friend #1 had attention problems and couldn't focus on the road. This made for much scaredness by me and I was therefore unable to sleep, as I had intended, which had consequences later. Hitchhiking friend number 2 was much better. She drives well and can even talk and drive at the same time. Woo! Lastly came my own driving shift. It's been a long time since I've had a chance to drive in the bay area and, honestly, it felt nostalgic and fun to me. Woo again! When we got to the con, we were told that we'd not be able to check into our room until 2. This made me a little sad but I was cheered up by the fact that my auction dress arrived, Anneke allowed us to hang out in her room for a bit, and the dress looked fabulous! :D Cafe was the first bishie event of the evening and, aside from one major kink/cascade of kinks, I think it went quite well. The big kink was timing. Sadly, it seemed that our early estimates of crowd control were off and that, compiled with some supply issues, forced the timing nearly two hours late by the end of the first time-slot. Each of the following took between 45-50 minutes to complete and frustrated many of the people who we were trying to serve. Lots of people got yelled at in line by a staffer or volunteer, it seems. Oy again. I didn't find out about this until later but I hope that it can be remedied. We're there to serve them, not berate them. The cafe was followed by Bingo. Sadly, I was just too out of it, by then, with the combination of nearly 40 hours of wakefulness and strain of cafe, and basically passed out and was sent to my room by the other bishies. ^^; Saturday was fun. I ran around the con in my pajamas all day, helped with the bishounen boot camp (which had been canceled the night before due to the cafe complications) auditioned for auction, was picked, and poked my nose into the dealers' room. Auction was most definitely, as usual, the highlight of the con for me. My skit, in which I played a sort of giant bondagey gothic lolita doll to the tune of "missed me" seemed to get a good crowd reaction. Three fun girls (who seemed to be 4chan people) bought me and we hung out. It was all good fun. I even danced a little, which I'm sure was suitably frightening. The lineup of total skits, while it was smaller than previous years, I think, was superb. Each and every skit brought something original and either sexy, hilarious, or both to the table. Hpm (Mr. Swedish Boy!)'s skit went especially well. I'd like to take credit for the idea, but what made the skit was his delivery and timing. Kudos, Hpm. Sunday was much lower key. I wandered the con basically all day, recruited a bunch of the boys who were still there for closing ceremonies, danced a little (shake my booty? Me? I guess... >_>) for the crowd, and then ran away to have dinner with the family, my nail-polish still intact. Now? I'm just waiting for con pics. I need reference stuff to plan next year. I've shown up in an auction review or two, so far, and the reactions seemed to be good too. That's good. I'm wondering if my time for good crossplay has passed, though. If it hasn't, then what the heck am I to do with all of these dresses in my closet? ^^;;; Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: The Dresden Dolls - Missed Me (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 4th, 2007
4:43 pm	Oh, my... About six months ago (I don't recall whether I mentioned it in the oft-neglected LJ) I put in my application for entry into a program with the school district out here in Las Vegas known as ARL (Alternative Routes to Licensure). It is a path for the working person first into professional teaching, with support, and then, following that, into work on a Master of the Arts degree in Education (in my case, in Secondary Education). About a month ago, I got notice that I had been accepted into said program! Yay! Last week, I had my first meeting at the District Offices of Professional & Staff Development and found out the details. In a word: Yay! So yeah. Life stepping-stone, meet me. Me: Meet life stepping stone! I can't describe how excited I am, now. This super-awesome and spiffy and everything! Yay! :D Errr... not much else to say. Yaoi-con preparations are going smashingly. :D Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Tim Curry - Sweet Transvestite (RHPS) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
1:03 pm	Clark County School District... here I come? Well, I can hope. If all goes as planned I will, in a year's time, be teaching students in my own classroom, having a few months off in the wonderful summer to do what I like, and going to my home cons again (like Fanime, oh how I've pined for ye). Not much other news here, really. I've been buying more manga lately and futzing around with Photoshop CS and Fruity Loops for fun. They both remind me unsurprisingly and pleasantly of their predecessors. Anyway! Yeah! I'm alive and stuff. If you IM and tell me to I promise to actually post and update my LJ and stuff. -_- Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
9:34 pm	Whew Soooo friday I start work. Yay! Finally! Money has been really, really scarce and will be up until basically right after Yaoi-con. I guess things just go that way but it's really frustrating. :/ Cars, especially. We've been waiting for a mechanic for TWO WEEKS just to get the part we need and they've been remarkably unhelpful. *rant rant* Anyway, yeah. I'm super happy about Y-con. My auction outfit, minus a couple props, is done. I have my decision made for Bingo. I have my decision made for Friday afternoon. I'm pretty sure that's everything... o_O Wah. (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 16th, 2006
5:12 pm	Vegas + 1 Month. Well... things are going a bit rockily so far, mostly through virtue of bad luck, but they are improving, though it looks like funds may be a bit sparse, come Y-con time. The weather here is still in the 80's on the cold days and I LOVE that and I love Heather and that totally makes everything better. I've been tutoring to pad the impact of not working for a month (my first day at work will be Sept. 25th) and have had to borrow some money from my dad due to bad luck with the car that is preventing registration due to smog check badness. Ugh. I'm happy, though. I'm a little stressed but I'm really, really happy here. Does that mean I'll post in my journal more? Uhhhh... *hides* Current Mood: happy Current Music: Richard Cheese - Closer (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, August 21st, 2006
8:10 pm	Hah! Weirdness! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
4:48 pm	My last few nights... in California as any sort of resident. My move to the great state of Nevada is nigh. I have filled out the change of address form. I have looked at car insurance quotes (ouch, ouch, OUCH!), and I have set-up an interview for what seems to be a hell of a job, if I can land it. :D What's left? A LOT of driving. Ow. x.x I'm going to miss California, but I think I'd be lying if I said I was going to miss it a lot. What I am going to miss are my friends, the people who I love. I'm going to miss being able to drive over a hill to see the few who I've known for so long that they're practically family to me and I'm going to miss those who ARE family to me. What's next? Well, I can't say I wholly know but there are two things I believe in right now. One is myself, and the other is 'Deadbang' (that's her LJ name. I'm just on my laptop so Semagic linky tools are absent). I think that the two of us can do whatever we wish (within mostly legal limits) if we put our minds together. As of tomorrow at about 11AM, my degree will be complete and I'll be ready to begin my new life. I'll need lots of luck but I have a weird feeling that it'll be okay. Imagine that. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Gorrilaz - Clint Eastwood (Ed Case yadda yadda refix) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
7:34 pm	My most sincere apologies... I'll try and make this post longer, but no garuntees. I have been totally remiss in the act of livejournal updating due partially to my life becoming more in the moment and more and more busy but I promise that you, my friends on LJ, have definitely been in my thoughts. So off we go: Revalations from Fanime (Better than a con report, because I can never remember enough of cons): 1: Pink is not my color. 2: While pink isn't, I really want a purple/burgundy and black version of that pink outfit. ^_^ 3: Gau is the sexay! :D 4: This goes half as much when I am cosplaying him. 5: I love Yaoi-con. 6: My Fanime roommates are full of spiff, as are the Fanime board-members <3 7: Teh sleep is teh best. ^_~ As I write this journal entry I am recovering from the Spring Quarter (Straight A's. Woooot), going through the summer quarter (woot again. Spanish class o_O), making plans for Yaoi-Con (<3), thinking of going to Anime Overdose, and, the big one, preparing to move. I've shipped... err... 12 boxes to Heather, at this point, I think. Tons of stuff (or, rather, about 500 pounds of stuff) have made it away from the Family's home and are on their way to Las Vegas, where I will begin to burn my own path with the help of Heather, with whom I am greatly in love. :] Honestly, that's probably old news, eh? My last day in California looms ever nearer, though, keeping the event at the front of my mind (and my wallet) and my spirits high. Hopefully, after that degree is in my hands, I'll be possessed of the time to update my journal (and my Myspace, for I have joined that dubiously honorable practice as well) and people can stop chastising me for not doing so. :p So yeah, that's all for now. It's super hot here and I have to write a 300 word essay in Spanish. Wish me luck. o_O Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Mechanical Moth - Prophecy of the Moth (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
12:24 am	Gwaaaaahhhh! Fanime! It's so close! So here's my final list of cosplays (and how complete they are): 1: Goth Kitti does Black Mage: Hat incomplete. Rest complete. 2: Ed of Fullmetal Alchemist: Complete except for symbol on jacket. 3: Krad of D.N. Angel: Complete, I think? 4: Pink Gothic Lolita (WAS Princess Peach, but no crown) 5: Gau of Final Fantasy 6: Almost done. Belt and pants need completion. 6: Rosette of Chrno Crusade: Complete 7: Random slutty PVC outfit: Complete 8: Seifuku. Complete. Yeah. I'm gonna be busy :p (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 7th, 2006
5:25 pm	A broad taste in music is much akin to a broad taste in life. Or maybe it's the other way around... My birthday party was flat-out amazing. ALMOST everybody I wanted to be there was there. There was much of all of the things which are not to be talked about on livejournals... So yeah. Anyway. I'm having a graduation in June. Did I mention that I'm having a graduation in June? Yeah. 'Cause I am. Funny thing is I have one class after the graduation but I'm still doing all of the fun stuff in June. It looks as if it will become something of a Family reunion as well. Hmmm... :p Today? Well today I have a hell of a nasty headache. x.x There was a show here at Porter last night but it seems that all of the people to whom they gave microphones didn't have the intelligence not to press their freaking lips right up to a microphone!!! Now, here's a short education on microphones: You keep your mouth approximately six inches away from it because if you don't it has a danger of breaking A: The mic, B: The speakers, and C: The eardrums of your probably already tortured audience if you don't have the half-a-whit it takes to realize this, Jerk. *cough* Anyway. Fanime's sooner and sooner and I still need to officially complete three of the outfits (four if you count Krad, but I'm really just working on the wings for that) so I'm working on all of that stuff... Err... That's about it. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Voltaire - Feathery Wings (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
1:50 am	Information that somehow neglected to come up... d'oh... So yeah, hehe. It's sorta my 23rd birthday tomorrow. x.X ... Why, may you ask, did I not mention this until today? Honestly, it slipped my mind! *ducks* Really! :o Anyway, my hair's temorarily black for the me-influenced party themed 'Cowboy Gothic Queens.' Should be spiffy, if anything. ^_^ In other news. I need to go to work early today. D'oh x.X Current Mood: awake Current Music: Weird Al - Happy Birthday (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
12:10 am	Things tend towards chaos, which has remarkably similar effects to that which we call 'order.' Oh... my.... GOSH! What an amazing week! As was mentioned in recent posts, I spent a smashingly great 5 days in Vegas with Andie, both being a silly little tourist and being a silly lovey-dovey person. I also spent time poking around the neighborhood. All was great fun. Andie and I spent the whoooole time together and it was wonderful. We have lots in common but not quite everything so there's lots which we can share to the improvement of both of ourselves and the enrichment of both minds. Yay! :D Let's see if I can remember what I did... :p Day 1: Arrive late on a plane. Interestingly, there's an area of vegas for which the lights look like the outline of a racehorse from the sky. Pretty nifty but intentional? Who knows? Some fun city planners. :3 Andie picks me up at airport and we go home. Yay! :D Much rest and introduction to cute kitty ensues. I note quickly that I must be on Claritin at all times. I can live with this. Kitty is cute and spastic. Sometime in there we ate dinner. Day 2: Big money day. I think we ate breafkast, not sure. Either way, we go traipsing around the red light district like a kid in a very slutty candy shop. Yay! :D I buy a couple treats for the two of us, as does Andie. Thus begins the rough technique of trading off paying for things. Not entirely successful but fun anyway. We wander up and down the strip, Andie pointing out fun things to me and checking out the ubermalls which abound. lots of interesting stuffs around, for sure. The evening draws to a close as we go to see Avenue Q, me noting that the headliner from one of my Middle School musicals is actually a cast member (OMG!). We're both pooped after the show so a taxi driver takes us home. Cuddling then sleep ensues. Day 3: Lazy day! Yay! :o We lounge around pretty much all day, watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose (pretty good.), and, uh, lounge around. Andie makes Stroganoff. TASTY! (One of my fave dishes ever.) Day 4: I make a breakfast omelette. Yay! :D It's another lazy day, for the most part. We watch lots of Saiyuki (quite fun) and snuggle and cuddle and play with teh kitty. We do a LONG walk to the stores to check out furniture and stuff and then come back pooped. There's ice cream somewhere in there too :3. We watch 'A Tale of Two Sisters,' (Pretty good. I predicted the plot within 2 minutes of the start but that's okay. :p) Day 5: Yay! More strippy action! This time, we're armed with a camera. We go to an aquarium, to a pyramid, to the 'Tournament of Kings,' (with lots of silly comments by me) and we try to climb a very, very, very tall rock. Rock poops us out so we take a cab home and watch stuff and snuggle and cuddle. Day 6: Awww... time for this kitty to go home. We hightail it to the airport and then invade souvineer shops, finally settling on a vegas shirt large enough for me to use as pajamas. Plane flight has turbulence and I rush to work, arriving a bit late but having a good day, otherwise. Soooo yeah. I can't wait to move there :3 Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus (Rude Photo Motor Remix) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 27th, 2006
7:48 pm	The lights of a city are the brightest when you cannot see them. Wowie! Hi everybody! I made it to Las Vegas just fine and am currently posting from nowhere other than the home of the woooonderful Andie. :D The city itself is beautiful. Unimaginably so, at points. It reminds me in many ways of San Jose and Reno but in many ways is much better for me (OMG! 70 degrees in the middle of March! <3) One of my grades of the two that matter has come in. C. Yay -_- I have a sneaking worry that the TA for the other that matters did something stupid, like losing my homework (which he'd already done once this quarter) Either way. I'm SO over school drama. I've been having such an amazing time (and spending an amazing amount of moneys. D'oh) and have been hopped up on Claritin for the whole time. Totally worth it. :D Cute kitty ^_^ Errrr... That's pretty much all. Still working on Yaoi-con outfits. Yay! :D Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Lords of Acid - Gimme Gimme (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
10:12 pm	OMG! Finals done! OMG OMG OMG!!! Errr... Yeah! I'm like... totally posting!!! How many exclamation points can one use before it gets old!!? Yeah. Probably that many. News: Finals done. Ugh. Yay! Ugh. New crossplay pic. Smexy: Lin wears a hat, for once. So that is, for all of you lucky enough to see my LJ (hehe. Moment of self aggrandization permitted, ne?) a preview of the costume that I intend to use at the auction, next Yaoi-con, if they'll have me. (Big if, as always. I made a couple mistakes this year for which I hope they've forgiven me ^^;) Questions? Comments? Interesting factoids? Oh yeah, and to the person who hates Yaoi and Goth but had the time to post a rather nasty response to my previous post... well... it must be nice to be so easily entertained. Have you considered a career in politics? Current Mood: busy Current Music: Men Without Hats - Pop Goes the World (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
12:37 am	My love for you is as boundless as a kangaroo with no legs... I totally can't decide whether I'm confused, happy, unhappy, aggravated, driven, or just weird. Maybe I'm all of those in small amounts. Either way. Things have officially solidified. Next quarter will be my final at UCSC, though my credits will not be complete (those will be completed at a C.C. in L.V. with my S.O. with an N.R.P. so I'll still get my B.A. ^_~) Anyway, yeah! I've been thinking looooots about Yaoi-con, in my general neglect of my LJ (sorry to the person who had such rightious fury at me neglecting it. I'm an uber busy person.) I have been forming a deliciously kinky PVC outfit of sorts which should make good for the auction (If they'll take me, of course. I don't like to count my chickens...) and have been searching for a good song to 'dance' (meaning: Molest another bishie. Any volunteers?) to. So far, the favorites (mine and suggested) are... 1: Korn's cover of 'The Wall.' 2: 'Pussy' by Lords of Acid. 3: The Stray Cat Strut, by the Stray Cats. Errr... that's all I have so far. Anybody? :p Current Mood: confused Current Music: Korn - The Wall (Cover) (7 Comments |Comment on this)