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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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9:04 am
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Holy crap!
ANTS! Dead Ants! EW!
I'm going to spend as little time at home today as possible.
current mood:  scared
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| Sunday, May 13th, 2007
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10:37 am - Friends Only
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| Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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4:47 pm - Changes for the future!
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I've been thinking a lot about what to do with this blog. When I was in high school, I had a ujournal. In college, I started this LJ. Now I'm graduating in a few days (eep!) and I've been thinking. Shouldn't I be doing something to mark the change in my life? For a while I thought, "why not make a new LJ" but then I thought about what a pain in the ass it would be to transfer over all of my communites and friends. Not to mention, some of the communities I'm in are locked so I wouldn't be able to access them anyway. So after much thought, I've decided to keep this blog but make a few changes.
1. Make the entries more personal. Sure you'll still see silly rants and little news clips about movies I'm excited about but honestly, there are people that say that they read my blog to "keep up to date on my life" but I only write about a tiny fraction of it. So expect to see more personalized blog entries. NOT tedious accounts of my day, but just more information about me besides "there was no hot water/this is my to-do list/OMG BUFFY SEASON 8!"
2. As a result, this blog will become friends only as of graduation day. I'm also going to be a bit pickier about people I friend. It used to be "if you ask, okay!" but I think that if I'm going to post personal stuff here, I want to be sure I really know who's reading it.****
3. On top of that I'm going to be doing a bit of cleaning up. You know, take anything off my "user interest" list that no longer interests me. Leave those communites that have died. Also, I'm going to do a friends cut. Chances are if you're reading this, you're NOT going to be cut. It's more for those blogs that haven't been updated in almost six months, Or the people that haven't commented here for even longer than that. I really doubt anyone on there's going to care about the cut- but I'll make a note on my userinfo page JUST in case some of these old blogs get brought back from the dead.
So, I think that's it! I hope that I'm making good decisions here. I'm going to be going through a lot of changes in the next few month, and I know that I'm going to want a place where I can talk about it with people that can give me good advice. Again, DON"T WORRY ABOUT THE FRIENDS CUT if you've put up entries in your own LJ lately or have commented in mine. I'm not trying to pull some snobbish "YOU"RE NOT MY FRIENDS ANYMORE" BS, as much as I just want to clean things up a bit. After all, what's the use of keeping track of journals/communities that don't update anymore?
And if you read all of that, you kick ass!
****(If anyone knows how to make all of my old entries friends only beyond changing each entry individually. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Oh and I want to find one of those pretty banners. I am a dork.....)
current mood:  hungry
current music: Common Rotation- How To Lose & Auctioneer
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| Monday, July 31st, 2006
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11:10 pm - Phew
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I read a LOT this month. Granted, if you take out the abnormally large amount of manga, it's a little less impressive. Anyway, here's the list. If you're interested in learning about these books they're all pretty fresh in my mind.
terms-
pbs= I got this book off of paperback swap
m= manga
rr= re-read
sr- school read
1. Wicked- Gregory Maguire (409 pages)
2. Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle: Vol 2- CLAMP (208 pages)- m
3. Notes from a small Island- Bill Bryson (352 pages)- pbs
4. Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle: Vol 3- CLAMP (208 pages)- m
5. Assassin's Apprentice- Robin Hobb (356 pages)
6. Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle: Vol 4- CLAMP (208 pages- m
7. In her Shoes- Jennifer Weiner (421 pages)
8. Touch the Dark- Karen Chance (307 pages)
9. Tsubasa: Resevoir Chronicle: Vol 5- CLAMP (208 pages)
10. Bitten- Kelley Armstrong (436 pages)- pbs
11. Catalyst- Laurie Halse Anderson (232 pages)-pbs
12. Magic Knights Rayearth- Vol 1- CLAMP (208 pages)- pbs, m
If anyone's curious I'm proud to say that I only paid full price on ONE of these books. 1 was a Christmas gift. 2,4,6, and 9 were bought used on amazon (from 2.99-5.00). 5 was bought for 75 cents at the library book sale. 7 was from the bargin bin at B&N (for about 4 dollars). 3, 10, 11 and 12 are all pbs books.
When you read a lot, you learn to look for bargins.
Touch the Dark was full price. I think I should have waited to buy it used. It wasn't a BAD book. God knows it had a wonderful setting and tons of great ideas but it didn't really live up to it's potential. I'll be reading the sequel but I dunno if I'll pay full price.
current mood: sleepy
current music: watching The Daily Show
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| Sunday, July 30th, 2006
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11:35 pm - Robot Chicken FF parody
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| Saturday, July 29th, 2006
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1:27 am - And all the pre-teen fangirls and creepy old men squeel with pride
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| Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
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8:08 pm
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7:32 pm - paperbackswap bookshelf
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More for myself than anything else.
I've divided them into sections
YA/Children's
Midnight Magic- Avi
Perloo the Bold- Avi
The Ancient One- T. A. Barron
She Said Yes : The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall- Misty Bernall
The China Garden- Liz Berry
A Branch of Thorns- Kyle A. Bladow
Children of the River- Linda Crew
Borrowed Light- Anna Fienberg
The Silent Storm- Sherry Garland
Prowlers- Christopher Golden
The Vampire Hunters- William Hill
The Secret of Platfom 13- Eva Ibbotson
The Woven Path- Robin Jarvis
Violet Eyes- Nicole Luiken
So Much to Tell You- John Marsden
Of Two Minds- Carol Matas, Perry Nodelman
Angels on the roof- Martha Moore
Night Flying- Rita Murphy
Dancing on the Edge- Han Nolan
A School for Sorcery- E. Rose Sabin
Black Mirror- Nancy Werlin
Locked Inside- Nancy Werlin
You Are Here This Is Now: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America
Adult Fantasy/horror/Fiction/whatever
The Dean's December- Saul Bellow
Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad
Again Calls the Owl- Margaret Craven
I heard the Owl call my Name- Margaret Craven
Congo- Michael Crichton
The Odyssey- Homer
Miko- Eric Van Lustbader
The Human Comedy- William Saroyan
A Walk To Remember- Nicholas Sparks
Bless the Child- Cathy Cash Spellman
The Confessions of Nat Turner- William Styron
The Virginian- Owen Wister
These of course, are all for sale (er.... sorta) on paperbackswap (http://ropedancer.paperbackswap.com/profile/index.php)
current mood:  cheerful
current music: Angela Aki- Aisuru Mono
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7:33 am - ANGRY!
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Remember the book I requested from pbs? "Kitty and the Midnight Hour?" Apparently, the person DOES NOT want to give it to me cause it's vanished from my userpage.
This is my sad face :(
current mood: disappointed
current music: watching TV
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| Monday, July 24th, 2006
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10:38 pm
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Does anyone know what can make a car alarm go off besides the obvious?
Because my mom's car alarm keeps on going off. No one's trying to break into it, and it's not the kind that goes off if you lean on it or whatever. It just keeps on going off randomly. I'm sure the neighbors are thrilled. I was wondering, could anything be fucking with the technology of the alarm and causing it to trigger? I think the neighbors are going to KILLLLL us.
Should I even bother going to sleep tonight if this thing is going to friggen go off every hour!?
On a lighter note, I started Kelley Armstrong's "Broken" yesterday. I'm about 170 pages into it so far and I think it's REALLY good. I've found myself being drawn back to the horror genre lately. You'd think I had gotton it out of my system with all the years of watching Buffy and eagarly awaiting or Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's new vamp book to come out each year, but after a few years of not really being drawn towards ANYTHING in horror (save Robin McKinley's "Sunshine" which is the best work of horror I have ever read) all I want to do now is read it.
Look at this. I just finished "Touch the Dark" by Karen Chance (if you're curious: this book started out great and it had a fascinating setting and cast of character. Unfortunatly, I really felt as if it could have done with an extra hundred page or a few less characters as they were all (save the heroine) pretty under-developed). Now I'm reading "Broken" by Kelly Armstrong. I'll be getting "Kitty and the Midnight Hour" in the mail through pbs soon. Check out my paperbackswap wish list, I've gotten quite a few interesting books on there from the horror genre from Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" to books about Tech witches.
Yes, apparently I am also falling back into the "innocent girl falls in love with dark sexy vampire" thing, as can be seen with my wish for "Twilight."
But yes, "Broken" is very good. I think I've only read one really good werewolf novel in my lifetime (everyone loves to write about vamps and witches but werewolves are always secondary characters) and "Broken" is shaping up to be just as good. Now all I have to do is wait in line with the 27 other people for it's sequel "Stolen" (there are 16 people waiting for the hardcover, including myself, but I think the paperback will come in first). I am a bit worried that the book will come in only after I've run out of credits. I have 10 now (and four or five more in transit) but I've been ordered books like mad recently. I have four coming to me and two more requested (damn you Kitty!).
If you're curious the car alarm went off two more times while writing this entry.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Ayumi Hamasaki- YOU "northern breeze"
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| Thursday, July 20th, 2006
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8:38 pm - Stolen from Theresa
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The Book Meme
Post the first sentences from ten of your favorite books and have your friends guess what they are from.
NO CHEATING!
1. "Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so... was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worse afternoon."
2. "It was a hot, steamy summer, and the mosquitoes swarmed everywhere, from their breeding grounds in the rotten, reedy shores of the Red Lake up to the foothills of Mount Abed."
3. "Watch your step."
4. "Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court Proper, for all the good it did me."
5. "They put the behemoths in the hold along with the rhinos, the hippos and the elephants."
6. "It's hard being left behind."
7. "One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away."
8. "I can't beleive I used to do this every day."
9. "How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them."
10. "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national goverment of China."
I was GOING to put two other books in instead but THERESA already had them up.
current mood: calm
current music: watching the Colbert Report
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| Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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11:19 pm
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When I found out about Bush's one and only veto today I nearly cried. Why, WHY the fuck did he veto a bill that could help so many people?
I bet things would be different if he had Parkinson's, or his wife. Maybe he would realize the damange that he has done.
I feel so let down.
current mood:  cranky
current music: watching TV
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| Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
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11:24 pm - Stolen from Cathi!
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| Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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10:37 pm - I just don't get some people
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Growing up, the only time I remember swear words marring my reading expirience are if I found they made the writing seem unrealistic. I just seemed to expect that as I got out of children’s books and into YA books, and later into adult books, that f-bombs might be more prevalent (but not necessary), since the authors didn't have to worry about protecting kids. I also pretty much expected that there would be more violence, gore, and yes, even sex. That's why I don't get why some people get into a tizzy if a certain character tends to favor those forbidden four letter words. I'm going to be reading "Wicked" next and often, before I read a book, I check out some of the reviews on amazon to prepare me. One of the first ones I was hit with had a decent 3-star rating but was filled with complaints. Why? Too much swearing and crudely described sex.
I can understand why this would bother sensitive and younger readers a bit. I really do. I just see limits. The person who wrote this review was pleasant enough in her complaints it but I have seen many readers (especially at Shereos) who whine and moan about the sexual content of a book as if it as scared their pure, virginal mind. I think that if you're going to read books past the children's section, you should expect swearing. If you're venturing into the adult section, expect sex. If it bothers you, return the book. No one's forcing you to read it and would want you to have an unpleasant reading experience. And of course, before someone (whoever's made it this far) brings up the point that "Shouldn't we be able to pick up a book without constantly worrying about sexual content/inappropriate language? Why do I have to be constantly on guard for things that offend me?" all I have to say is it's a pity but yes, you do have to often be on guard BUT there are ways to avoid this. Sometimes it's just as easy to looking at the lovely "Praise for" page in the front of the book and picking out words like "sexy," "steamy," or maybe “controversial.” Or checking out amazon.com cause God knows there will be someone complaining about it, whether it's angry mothers bitching about the implied sex in The Song of the Lioness Quartet or people that have yet to realize that the Anita Blake books are pretty much erotica now and have been so FOR A WHILE. I guess what I am trying to say is that if you know you're sensitive about certain subjects in a book, whether it be sex, swearing, violence, or puppies, perhaps you should research it before spending your hard earned cash. Don’t go on websites or message boards and bash the book as if it’s poorly written because it offended your sensitive nerves.
Not to mention that reading about sex is, believe it or not, probably not going to damage you. Back when I was twelve I picked up some things that were borderline erotica and, as far as I can tell, it did not mess me up. In fact I pretty much learned about sex through books, due to my schools inability to teach sex Ed beyond the infamous "miracle of life" video and diagrams of impregnating sperm.
Back to the review. Got off topic there. What bugged me the most of all about the review is that implication that Mr. Maguire only used the f-bomb and crude sex as a way to try to be "edgy."
Really now. Literature has moved far past the puritanical times when saying fuck of having two characters well... fuck is considered to be shocking (unless Harry does it in the next HP book, seeing as sex typically does not appear in kids lit). I can't help but chuckle when we have novels out there about gay orgies, rape, sex changes, torture, and the truth about Bush Administration and people get all offended by the word "shit." To be a mature reader these days you, have to expect that things have changed since Jane Eyre was considered shocking because Jane talked openly about her love for Mr. Rochester. As you throw yourself out into the big wide world of adult literature, you need to realize that there are things found here that might bother you and if you are a sensitive person. You have to pick and choose your books with caution. And most importantly sex scene of the c-word does not a poorly written novel make (unless the scene is poorly written or the c-word used in a strange context) so stop pretending that just because Jess Darling fucks a bunch of guys that the book is the worst piece of trash ever written, it just means that you cannot get over the more scandalous parts of the books to judge it as a piece of literature.
current mood: calm
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| Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
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7:15 pm - Spiderman 3 trailer
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/spider-man_3/
It's just a teaser but I know I'M excited.
Just wanted to make one quick commnet. Tropher Grace is only in it for a split second but he looks reeeeaaallly different from normal with that new hair style. He's kinda hot actually :)
Now..... off to the gym!
current mood:  bouncy
current music: Koda Kumi- D.D.D. feat. SOULHEAD
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| Friday, June 16th, 2006
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12:18 am
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| Thursday, June 15th, 2006
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10:13 am
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| Saturday, June 10th, 2006
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1:31 am - Yay Cars!
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I just saw Cars tonight and it was a GREAT film. Not as strong as The Incredibles, but still amazing. I'm too sleepy to write a full review but I just wanted to post an except from an interveiw with John Lasseter. I'm happy to see that he beleives in 2-D animation.
Q: You’re now in charge of Disney animation, making the decisions for the studio.
A: Yes, I am.
Q: And is part of that to revive the hand-drawn units?
A: Well, it’s something we’re talking about. I love all animation, whether it’s 2-D (handdrawn), puppets, clay animation, whatever. I think it’s important to match the subject matter to the medium.
It was mystifying to me, the decision of these animation studios that audiences don’t want to watch 2-D animation anymore. It should be about the stories, not the style of animation. Andrew Stanton (the director of Finding Nemo) says, "2-D animation became the scapegoat for bad storytelling."
You go John
current mood: cheerful
current music: Do As Infinity- Kuso Ryodan
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| Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
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9:16 pm - GAH
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I cannot wait to move out. My mother is not a horrible person to live with but she keeps on pushing me and pushing me and one day I'm going to scream.
current mood: aggravated
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| Sunday, June 4th, 2006
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12:05 pm - Massachusetts drivers, not the worst in the countruy
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