[ endless dream ]

[ Sunday, October 17, 2004 ]

Just checking to see if this thing still works...

Apparently it does.

Hooray.


[ Maleficia 4:27 PM [+] ]
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Yeah, so I'm on livejournal now. Doesn't mean I'm abandoning this fort!

[ Maleficia 10:46 PM [+] ]
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Okay, you win. You win! I'm going to be a sheep and follow the rest of the herd over to livejournal because it seems like the "cool" thing to do. Everyone else is doing it, so right now, everyone else is cooler than I am. Everybody else is raving about their friends lists and leaving comments to each other, while I'm like that nerd in the front row of class trying to listen to the teacher while other people in the back pass notes around and try to figure out what time they should all stand up to collectively sharpen their pencils.

"If everyone else suddenly decided to jump off a bridge into a vat of sulfuric acid, would you jump too?"

Well, yeah. I mean, if everyone jumped into that acid, they'd probably die, leaving me all alone. So while the switch over to livejournal isn't anything like mass suicide, I still might do it. I've had an account there for a while already, so I figure I should make use of it.

Or I could be like one of those stubborn, dumbass army guys and make my last stand here.

Remember the Blogamo!

Bastards.

[ Maleficia 1:19 PM [+] ]
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For lack of anything better to do, you can all go to Hell!

Scientologists
Circle I Limbo

Hipsters
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Creationists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

General asshats
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Rednecks
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Bill Gates
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Republicans
Circle VII Burning Sands

People who talk at the theater, Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

George Bush
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

[ Maleficia 4:05 PM [+] ]
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Okay, so that whole Amy-and-I-are-cousins-through-marriage thing was an April Fools joke we came up with at something like 2:00 am, and I really don't have a great uncle Nathaniel that married into her family or anything.

Ha!

...please don't hurt us.

[ Maleficia 11:19 AM [+] ]
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I don't have much time since I have to get ready for work pretty soon, but I thought it was important to mention something I discovered last night while I was looking through some old geneology information. As it turns out, my great uncle Nathaniel married into Amy's family at some point way back when. I think this makes us like third cousins or something, but I'm not entirely sure. All I know is that we're actually related through marriage.

I sent her an email this morning with a link to the website where I found this out, but she's at work, so I'll have to wait for a little while before we can talk about this.

My day just got really weird.

[ Maleficia 2:04 PM [+] ]
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--- BEGIN TRANSMISSION ---

Status as follows:

Date: Wednesday March 17th, 2004 CE.
Time: 8:16 post-meridian
Place: Milky Way galaxy, Western Spiral Arm, Earth, North America, Canada, Ottawa, the office, in front of a computer that doesn't belong to me...
Mood: Bored out of my skull... which probably explains why I'm filling this thing out.
Music: Silence, punctuated by the sound of people on the phone.
Books: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Last Movie I saw: I think it was Return of the King.
Thought: Why did I opt not to sit up front tonight? I really don't want to be listening to these calls.
Time: 8:21 post-meridian.
Thought: Didn't I already answer this question?
Music: The sound of my own boredom and my fingers hitting the keys on this keyboard that doesn't belong to me.

--- TRANSMISSION ENDS ---

[ Maleficia 8:29 PM [+] ]
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I did a really horrible edit of myself in my bathrobe holding my lightsaber.

But it sucks a lot, so I won't be showing it to anyone else... but if you bribe Murmur, perhaps she'll be willing to share it with you. Or you could go right ahead and bribe me, because I accept bribes in exchange for badly edited pictures of myself posing as a Jedi in a bathrobe.

I'm like that.

Maybe tomorrow I'll do a horrible edit of myself posing as a Peacekeeper with my half-finished pulse pistol that needs yet another coat of filler and some sanding so I can start painting it.

We'll see how it goes.

[ Maleficia 12:24 AM [+] ]
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I only have a few minutes before I need to start getting ready for work and, consequently, another bloody training session. I've been promised that this insane hiring spree is nearly done, so I'll just tought it out and train the heck out of those kids tonight even if I'm sick and ornery. I'm almost half-tempted to show up in my bathrobe with a mug of steaming Neo-Citrin or some kind of really strong herbal tea, preferably peppermint or rosemarry, although those two aren'ts really very strong. I'd rather stay in bed for the rest of the afternoon, but I would get lynched if I didn't show up for work tonight.

I have lots and lots of fun little things to do tomorrow. I'm actually going to get out of bed before 11:00 so I can go buy a new digital camera before I have to head out and meet Nat downtown to go fabric shopping. The actual sewing of the fabric I'm going to buy will have to wait until Sunday since no one in this house knows how to thread the machine, and I have no idea where the manual is for it. So when I get home, I intend to test out said new digital camera and possibly do some work on my pulse pistol... and maybe even combine the two and take pictures of myself working on my pulse pistol. I'm a genius, but no one believes me when I say so.

Anyway, time for me to get ready to face another batch of fresh new faces.

Only a little while now before my week off.

Where's my mug?

[ Maleficia 2:29 PM [+] ]
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Bright, irritating orange!


Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
"I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't
a poem."
You are a type A personality. You like bright
things, you don't call in sick to work, and you
have devastating opinions about art.


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[ Maleficia 9:15 PM [+] ]
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I'm supposed to be digging through old photos to bring to work tomorrow night, but I think I'll save that for tomorrow afternoon after I give my pulse pistol kit the fine bath it needs before I can start sanding and painting it. Nat promised to bring her pictures of the Christmas party on the sole condition that I bring a stack of ones from what she termed 'the apartment days', when all of us would walk down to our friend's apartment after -- or sometimes even during class to sit around and be generally social with each other. It's been too long since we've all done that, and Nat's sense of nostalgia has brought on a little bit of the same on my part. Going through pictures always does that to me, so I'll be doing some of that tomorrow.

There's talk of going out on Friday night, and I think I could use that after my upcoming training session. If it's anything like the second half of training that I did last night, then I know I'll definately be in the need of some group therapy come the end of Friday night's shift. I don't mind training... well, I do mind it, but it's even more annoying when I don't have a decent group. I like things to flow smoothly. I like it when people understand what it is I'm trying to tell them, when they don't get hung up on trivial details that no one really cares about one way or the other.

But I guess things don't always go according to plan.

Sometimes it's better not to have a plan at all...

[ Maleficia 11:23 PM [+] ]
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Not much to say right now... I finished putting my new lightsaber together this afternoon, and it looks awesome. I might consider posting some pics, if I end up taking better ones, 'cause my digital camera kinda sucks. If I don't, well then the crappy ones I have will go up sometime in the near future.

Hoorah!

[ Maleficia 6:37 PM [+] ]
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So I was coming out of this fast food place when the president of the US goes floating by in a seemingly-out-of-nowhere flash flood, and I think to myself, "Self, this would be a really cool story to post in my blog since I haven't updated the thing in such a long time." But just then, I realize that the person struggling to take a picture of the floating Bush -- as opposed to the Burning Bush -- is in fact Amy, and I'm left to wonder where she was giving Mat a ride to.

I guess some questions are better left unanswered.

I've also started wondering how that banner at the top of the page comes up with those "related searches", because as of right now, it looks like searches that are related to my blog are REM and Cold(?) lyrics. That'll probably change over time, making this post completely topical, so please disregard it at the appropriate time. That also means this question will go forever unanswered.

Blast!

[ Maleficia 6:02 PM [+] ]
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The State of My Blog Address will be forthcoming. But for now, I give you this!


Your wings are DRAGON wings. Massive and
covered in scales, they shimmer with strength
and magic. They are the most obvious display of
your power - though it runs equally throughout
your heart and mind. You are uncompromising and
grave, with a profound sense of justice. You
have firm ideas about what is right and what is
wrong and set out to fix what problems you can.
You realize that you are more capable of
dealing with life and evil than most, and as
such you see it as your responsibility to
protect those who cannot defend themselves. You
have existed since antiquity and as such you
are wise far beyond your years in this
lifetime. While you strive for fairness and
peace, if someone should steal from your cave
of treasure (though not all that glitters is
gold) or compromise the happiness of you or one
who is close to you - they have signed their
death warrant. You have a mighty vengeance and
will unleash it upon such people immediately
and mercilessly. Arguing with you is
useless...you rarely back down and are known
for holding firm in your beliefs. Sometimes you
feel intensely burdened with the troubles of
others...acting as a Guardian can get so
wearisome. But you never give up...you see it
as your life's mission. Often very introverted,
you can be so smart...it's scary. Such a
combination of intelligence, creativity, power,
beauty, and magic is often intimidating to
those around you - who are also unlikely to
understand you. Arrogant, proud, overserious,
and sometimes a bit greedy or obsessed with
whatever treasure you choose to pursue...you
have enchanted people for centuries, and will
continue to do so.


*~*~*Claim Your Wings - Pics and Long Answers*~*~*
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[ Maleficia 7:41 PM [+] ]
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