October 5th, 2008

drdoom77 Subject: Excitement! :-| Time: 10:37 pm Current Mood: blah

Things I did for the first time over the past three days: - Drove a go-kart - Used a batting cage - Pulled a dead adult rabbit out of my house's chain-link fence (it had apparently gotten stuck while trying to squeeze through, and then suffocated or had a heart attack) - Created a fruit fly trap - Installed a few "gutter brushes" in my gutters as an experiment to see if they'll prevent clogging from the zillions of leaves and seeds that drop from the trees around my house - Watched the first two episodes of the TV show "Heroes" - Installed a new refrigerator shelf, replacing the one my brother broke - Watched the University of Illinois football team stomp on the University of Michigan team Things I did over the past three days, but did NOT do for the first time: - Went to Walmart and the mall on a Saturday (never a good idea) to buy groceries, house slippers, a shower curtain, and two pairs of ever-overpriced Dockers for work - Talked to Magda - Beat Magda at "Wordtwist" - Lost to Magda at "Wordtwist" - Lay down with a headache stemming from a throbbing behind one eye (this happened both Saturday & Friday) - Played one NCAA Football video game - Watched the Cubs get swept out of the playoffs for the second year in a row - Made cinnamon rolls (from a can, not from scratch - if I ever make anything from scratch, it will be in the first list above) - Made tuna salad for lunch tomorrow Things I was supposed to do, but didn't: - Start researching what my next car will be, since my current one is fourteen years old and will need its entire braking system replaced in about six months

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October 5th, 2008

kaosangel52 Current Music: ...i'm going crazy...i can't stay here...i've gone completely numb... Subject: randomly interesting couple of weeks Time: 02:03 pm Current Mood: crappy

so bsb announced a new set of tour dates, they're not coming to toronto, but they'll be in london and hamilton, and of course i have to go! they have never ever ever announced a second set of tour dates before after the main tour dates have been done and over with, so i feel like i *have* to be there! i already told my dad that i'm stealing the car to go (i can't believe they're making me drive to see them. they better appreciate it!) and he's like, as long as you know how to get there, i don't care. gps woould be great about now...i wonder if anyone does a gps rental kinda thing...google maps, i suppose...but yeah, definitely excited about this! i bought the tickets last week, so now i'm anxiously waiting to find out what my seats are...same anticipation as last year. i don't have hopes for really good seats since soemthing messed up when i was trying to submit my order, but we'll see. i'm just going to be excited to be there for a second and third concert! last week i met up with my elementry school friends for brunch after forever not having seen mel in like forever, and it was nice. conversations always tend to side with the interesting when it comes to melanie! ha! but it was nice to catch up and just talk and stuff! what else...i took my first quiz ever in like three years, and i was freaking out and crazy stressed, but it was easier than i anticipated it to be, and i ended up with a very very decent mark for that! but next week is my midterm and i'm worried about that...i was too busy studying for my quiz and i stopped writing notes and now i'm behind by a week and that really sucks...i didn't even do my online participation, but i think that i'm foregoing my participation marks, since i never did participate even when i was attending my classes, so yeah...i'll just hope that my quizzes and group activity are enough to pull me through, and of course the final...let's not think about that now though, or i'll start to freak out again... i got a card from pegs from nigeria, it was really nice hearing from her! we've been emailing back and forth, but cards are more personal...and it was nice cause i was having a pretty bad day, so that put a smile on my face! yesterday we went out for nuit blanche, but everyone i went with was sick!!! and so we didn't stay out all night like we planned on doing, we didn't actually see much, except for the pretty glass and light and music thing from the guy who produces david usher's cds...according to reena...but it was really really pretty. probably the best exhibition of everything that we saw. we wanted to go see the sitting ducks exhibition, but when we got there, there was no ducks...so that kinda sucked...we visited a friend at his hotel...and that was fun. yeah, this year's show wasn't so great i think...next year we'll have to make sure that no one is sick. also kinda confused about something right now...i don't think anything's going to result from it, but i'm worried. i don't see it going well, and the message was kind of cryptic...or at least it didn't make any sense in response to my question. we'll see how it goes...it just sucks because now it's going to be plaguing my mind all day until the something happens, or until enough time has run out that i'm positive nothing will happen. picked the perfect thing to say for me to become all restless with thoughts again, and i was doing so well. i just really don't have the time or the patience to deal with that right now and it just picked the worst time ever to mess with my head. freaking ass wipe. everything's happening too fast this year and i keep feeling like i'm trying to catch up, but i never can. this year sucks. i can't wait for it to be over. it's just too bad we can't skip through the cold, dark and miserableness of winter and jump right into spring 2009. but this year's gone by pretty quickly, so i'm hopeful that winter will pass us by soon, but i doubt it. winter always seems to wanna drag on and on and on... ok, back to the never ending school work...sometimes i wished i didn't care so much...

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October 1st, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 06:56 pm Current Mood: tired

Recent messageboard exchange, where I show off my knack for making friends: arct: I wonder if Sarah Palin wants to jail fetuses that abort themselves? Or is spontaneous abortion the mother's fault, and if so, who goes to jail, or gets stoned to death, or whatever? Somewhere in the USA right this minute some pro-lifer is thinking really hard about this. Me: Not really. Comments like this reflect badly only on you. Anax: Not so much. The joke is that pro-lifers rarely put that much thought into their positions.... when they do, I usually have some some respect for them. And you're not in the best position to judge how things reflect on other people. You voluntarily live in Oklahoma, and defend fundamentalists. Your frame of reference is kinda fucked. Me: For one who harbors as much hatred for social conservatives as you do, Anax, you're in a poor position to be criticizing others' frames of reference. Arct's post was an attempt to characterize all pro-lifers as idiots, and his ultimate point (omg! pro-lifers are against abortion even though natural abortion happens all the time!) is pretty insipid as well. I live in Illinois, not Oklahoma. My profile hints at that. I defend conservative Christians when I feel they're getting a bad rap. I know lots of them in my family and at my workplace. They're not evil, they're not (all) stupid, and they're not deserving of the spite and cruel vindictiveness they commonly receive from those who view them as a punchline obstructing society's progress. If I feel they're being unfairly characterized or picked on, then yeah, I'm going to defend them. If I feel they're being criticized fairly and without demonization, then I'll be quiet.

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September 29th, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 08:51 pm Current Mood: okay

And since I'm on a posting roll, here's a creepy short film on youtube, created by film students at an Israeli university: link

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September 29th, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 08:27 pm Current Mood: annoyed

This is the sort of messageboard thread where I'd love nothing more than to kill most of the posters involved. I'm sure some of the stories (scattered throughout the thread) are fake, but I despise people who would use someone for sex and then yuk it up with their pals afterward. The very concept of keeping "score", as if it were all a game...it's the sort of thing that separates those who should live from those who should be beheaded. Not all males are like this, obviously, but I think more of them are than most girls realize. I suppose the girls in those stories aren't entirely innocent themselves, else they wouldn't fall so easily, but still.

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September 29th, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 08:16 pm Current Mood: tired

Memories of the trip to England are extremely hazy (in fact, at this point I suspect a few of them are imaginary fabrications), so I'd best be wrapping up this part of the summer report soon. About halfway through our stay in Carlisle, Magda and I took a train to Edinburgh, capitol of Scotland, where we spent a day wandering about the city. Overall, I think Edinburgh was the nicest looking urban area I saw in the UK, full of mysterious, winding cobblestone streets and historic buildings that had stood for centuries. Unfortunately, it was also one of the more disappointing places I visited because many of those historic buildings had been gutted and turned into cafes and grocery stores. It wasn't like the Polish cities, whose old cathedrals were still in use, their interiors preserved for tourists and looking much as they had for the past few hundred years. Still, it's a pretty city, and I enjoyed the visit. ( Pictures of Edinburgh... ) The rest of the Edinburgh photos are here. Next time: Glasgow

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September 24th, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 09:21 pm Current Mood: okay

At my workplace, we recently filled out our annual employee opinion survey, which is touted by my employer as a great opportunity for employees to make their voice heard. While that promotion is mostly crap (superficial things change, but the substantial changes are generally part of the corporate culture and/or would hurt the bottom line too much to be considered), it IS a good opportunity to vent about things that have displeased me throughout the past year. Because I'm fairly certain my comments will otherwise just disappear into the void, I'll re-post them here, too. They'll still be swallowed up by the internet, but at least this way they'll be on display. ( Read more... )

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September 22nd, 2008

drdoom77 Time: 08:52 pm Current Mood: pleased

Here's a photo I took yesterday, building on an aspect of Magda's summer trip that I've not yet described. It's my new wallpaper: ( Read more... ) Magda was intent on taming one, but maybe I'll beat her to it. :>

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