Below are the 17 most recent journal entries recorded in Kyp's LiveJournal:

Sunday, September 24th, 2006
3:21 am	insomnia i have insomnia, for the third time this week. so, for lack of anything better to do at 4 in the morning, i am going to blog. if, that is, i can find anything of value to talk about. and that is a big "if", because at four in the morning i'm not exactly my happy, lucid self. i have to be up and at work by 10, so i have about five more hours to attempt to slip into that blissful unconciousness. and last night i got about three hours of sleep total, and tomorrow i was planning on staying up late as well, so this entire weekend i'll probably get a good 8 hours of sleep. not quite what the doctor ordered, but still slightly better than zero hours of sleep. slightly. in the news of me, my car is still broken, which is bad, because i was hoping to take a short road trip on tuesday. as it is, i won't be able to get my car even looked at until monday (i guess that's tomorrow, isn't it. crap), so if they have to order any parts or if it'll take more than a day to fix, all my plans are off, and that would suck monkey balls. i suppose i could make the trip on wednesday, instead, but that would get me home thursday, which is brandon's day off, and i sortof promised him we'd go and do something together that day. my friend brooke is going to take me to the kangaroo farm in the next few weeks. that ought to be interesting... i suppose i should try to sleep again. we'll see how well that works. Current Mood: tired Current Music: kraftwerk: elektro kardiogramm (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
11:33 pm	just briefly got to actually see my friend david from way back when. we hung out all night and talked. it was a great time. i may be going up to visit him sometime next week for a day or so. it's so much fun; he still likes snakes and fishing and the stuff we did when we were kids. and he likes dressing up in stupid clothes and taking pictures and posting them online, which i also enjoy, and so on and so forth. we just have a really fun time together. in other news, my car is broken and i don't know what's wrong with it. all i know is it makes a clunk clunk sort of sound when i make left turns. i guess it's not supposed to do that. which really sucks, because today i was going to drive up to pennsylvania to visit a friend and that ended up totally not happening at all. on the upside, it means i can spend the next two days i have off with brandon, who also has the next two days off. we'll be going to the aquarium in atlanta on thursday for sure and maybe doing something tomorrow, as well. i don't spend nearly as much time with him as i ought to. that's all for now, i'm going to bed. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
7:11 pm	some random things so, let's see what we have for today. today is my small brother's birthday; he's turning 13, if i recall correctly. for his birthday i gave him a green mohawk, and my parents were surprisingly ok with that. of course, he's had the mohawk since his eleventh birthday, so they've had some time to get used to it. he is now the coolest thirteen-year-old in the world, thanks to me. i'm looking for a new place to hang out on late nights. in wisconsin i had the inferno, which was great for dressing up and going out, and a myriad downtown bars for just plain going out. but here in *cough* cumming, GA, all i've seen so far are little hick bars full of, well, hicks. so no luck in this town. i'll probably have to go somewhere in atlanta, but seeing as that's an hour drive away, it appears unlikely that i'll be looking any time soon. i turn now to the wonders of the internet to find me someplace to go. we'll see how succesful that is. the last three weeks or so have been hectic and filled with work; i mean, i started my job the day after i moved in, and have only had a handful of days off since. the job itself is borderline tolerable, but the managers are infuriating (or at least one of them is, but he's my immediate supervisor, so it's not a manager i can avoid, unfortunately). i work in toys, now, and i have twelve aisles to maintain by myself, in the most shopped-in area of the store. at least i stay busy. two days ago i was found by a friend who i've been looking for for the last twelve years or so, on myspace, no less. anyway, me and david are back in touch and hope to be meeting up soon, and i'm giddy as hell about it all. words cannot descibe how utterly delighted i am with this turn of events. it'll be hard to wait three weeks to see him. that's long enough for now. more soon. Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Friday, August 4th, 2006
1:04 pm	i shall endeavor ...to actually start updating my livejournal again. i've been away for a very long time, and now that i am moving away, i will need to keep in touch with people and this seems like a good way to do it. we'll see how much i actually post, though. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
3:46 pm	a thousand words would not be enough what to say here? Things have happened, many Things. my sick grandfather died a month after my mom's mom did, she of cancer and he of strokes. both times my younger sister and i had sung the song "it is well with my soul" for them a short time before. with my grandmother, we sang it hours before she died; with my grandfather, a few days. that was before christmas. i broke up with lodding for brandorf, that's news. no longer engaged, obviously. very confused and lost regarding my decision, with a lot of second guessing of myself. going to georgia for the third time this weekend to visit brandorf, which will be fun, i hope. right before valentine's day, but he better not try to do anything mushy for me or i'll beat him. i'm happy, though, when i'm around him, although still living in the same house as my ex is awkward, to say the least. he keeps trying to seduce me away from brandon. we visited georgia for the second time, me and my sister maggot and karun, a bit over a month ago. we mall-ratted and played laser tag and so forth. it was after that trip that i made my final decision regarding brandorf, who i've had a thing for for years now. the agonizing and wondering and trying to decide cast a bit of a pall over the trip but a good time was still had by all. i am in my second semester of my junior year at UW Madison. school is kicking my ass. as such, i will not write further because my art project calls to me for completion. perhaps i will update again someday. (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
7:56 pm	nothing at all just to say eventually i will post a little "here's how my trip to georgia was" thing, for those maybe 2 people who read this who weren't in georgia with me in the first place. but not today. today is for sleeping and taking dayquil and asprin and rubbing vick's on my chest and sniveling in a terribly annoying way. Current Mood: sick (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
11:07 pm	trip to kentucky (author's note: the text of this was stolen whole cloth from an email i sent yesterday. i didn't feel like re-typing it because i was tired, and i think adam will not mind.) the visit to kentucky was fun, for the most part. i have, in the louisville area, my dad's entire family; his parents, sisters, and brother-in-law. maggot, lodding and i stayed at our aunt and uncle's house, while my dad stayed at his parents' place and did housework and things. we ate out most days and we offered red beans and rice and banana splits at my grandmother's house in the evenings, so there we did not go hungry. we went to see the falls of the ohio and the fossils therein, and although i was using an umbrella to keep the sun off i still nearly passed out from heatstroke. i did get to admire the brachiopods before the heat overcame us. alas, for i saw no trilobites! visiting my grandpa in the nursing home was a bit of a nasty shock. i saw him last 6 months ago; ravaged by strokes, he was unable to speak with ease or swallow his food or walk without assistance. but he was lucid. his mind was still there. and we joked and bantered about many things and everything. when i had gone to hug him goodbye i was afraid i would break the man, but at least i could console myself with the thought that although his body was nearly gone at least he still had a sound mind. no more. we went to see him, sandra, my grandma and i, and he was tiny; a 6 foot tall man now as tall as me and thinner. he looked even smaller under the sheets of his bed, rattling the siderail or petulantly kicking the wall, turned away from us. he called for my grandmother but didn't even recognize me or sandra. we attempted to make conversation but quickly abandoned the excercise and left. the mood of the trip and the return home was subdued. i had never thought that by the time i saw him next, the man who was my grandfather would already be gone. my grandpa was a very proud man and a very distinguished man, and i think if he knew the condition he was in he would be ashamed that we saw him that way. this is the ultimate insult to him, this slow and miserable death that excises first the dignity and then the strong mind of a proud man. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 15th, 2005
11:37 am	on the subject of ginger altoids: good. very ginger-y. an update on my trip to kentucky shall come shortly; perhaps even tonight after work if i feel so motivated. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 1st, 2005
11:55 am	A Pirate Raider You scored 5 Honor, 1 Justice, 7 Adventure, and 10 Individuality! More than just the usual swabbie, you demand not only the life at sea, free from landlubbers and their rules, but also you require adventure and excitement. You're happiest when the guns are blazing, the risk high, the outcome uncertain, but the chance for reward substansial. Your kind are welcomed as allies and feared as enemies. Put on your wooden leg and hook. You'll do just fine! My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 14% on Ninjinuity You scored higher than 0% on Knightlyness You scored higher than 58% on Cowboiosity You scored higher than 93% on Piratical Bent Link: The Cowboy-Ninja-Pirate-Knight Test written by fluffy71 on OkCupid Free Online Dating (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 14th, 2005
12:40 am	less "steel trap" and more "sieve" seems i forgot to give an anime north update from way back when i got back from anime north, which was a good month and a half ago. but, in my defense, it was a very busy month and a half. opera, birthday, work. people moving away, moving in, setting up the new computer. well, and the occasional sleeping in really late, dicking around on fark and commissioned when i ought to be sleeping, writing email epics, staying out partying, playing the odd game of D&D friday nights, etc. no excuse, really. or, i should say, many excuses. so to those of you really hoping for an update (being, none: the only people who care were there, anyway), i have a message for you: too bad. you're not getting one. although i will link to some pictures, eventually. then you can figure out the chronology according to the photos. you could even come up with some clever dialogue, if you wanted. go ahead. MST3K my pictures. when i post them. Current Mood: forgetful (Comment on this)
Monday, July 11th, 2005
4:10 pm	piratical nonsense pirates of penzance opened friday, and i think i can say i with some honesty that i haven't had so much fun in months. it's odd that i should ejoy it this much, too. i mean, my role as daughter #17 is the antithesis of the kyp. daughter #17 giggles, titters, dances, frolics, screams, and flirts. ok, i flirt, and frolic, but on a much more intense level than d17. i never bat eyelashes, never squeal for any reason, and certainly don't giggle. d17 wears a godawful blue dress, the color blue that least compliments my skin and hair, and the cut and style that least compliments my body. of course, most of the daughters have pretty awful dresses; costumes aren't supposed to look good. but still, as a person who finds "wearing a dress" synonymous with "going to a wedding" it was a big step for me and not a comfortable one. the girls are, simply put, stupid. we daughters are supposed to be vapid, shallow, gossipy wenches. we make eyes at every creature that wanders past and have little catfights over the cute boys. we sing about bloody weather, for pete's sake. and yet i'm having the time of my life. the set is great. lovely. set on mardi gras floats instead on the typical rocky mountains in the first act and an old new orleans graveyard in the second, the colors are vibrant and the sets more interesting to look at than the traditional ones i've seen in any other production. the actors are great, especially jeremy as the major general and julia as mabel. great sense of comedic timing, those two. and jeremy's over the top goofiness os perfect without being, well, over the top. really, all the leads are great. some just have more memorable roles, but they all fill them perfectly. and i love it. i don't really care that, in my perfect world, i'd be a pirate. because, to be in this show, i have to be a girl, so i'll be a girl and be happy because hey, i'm in the show! plus, if i was a pirate i couldn't have come in as a ninja that one time. so, anyway, now that i'm done vomiting compliments onto my show, one or two more tidbits of news. old news: i turned 21 june 20 and had a great night at the nitty gritty with a few friends. 7 shots and no drunkeness, let alone ill effects. of course, that's because all night my bottomless mug was filled with cherry coke. the bartenders looked at me oddly but filled the mug. i couldn't be drunk in what i was wearing; it would have been bad. go go boots, fishnets (which ripped from butt to inside of knee as soon as i got out of the car), a "skirt" which used to be a knee length christian school skirt of danielle's but was cannibalized into two very small pieces of cloth held together with safety pins, and a lacy pseudo corset top thing. considering that when i drink i keep all my cognitive functions but lose my coordination it seemed wisest not to drink too much. the phrase "wardrobe malfunction" was bandied about in the obligatory fashion. my gaming group's old friend rob was on leave from the army, and hung out with us (me, karun, and the rest of our little gaming group) for a few days. went out a few times and stayed here one night playing gamecube till late. we had a grand old time; it sucked to see him leave. i didn't know him very well (read: at all) back in the day; we'd met maybe 3 times. but we got along well while he was here. took my first trip out to the inferno the other night. had a good time. got to see another side of my altoid popping pirates director. stopped using pronouns at the beginning of phrases. don't miss it. i still don't know how to drive doorstop. the new apartment feel like home for sure, now. when she's in a nice mood magg comes over and washes my dishes. we game over here every friday, now, exccept when we either take trips elsewhere for the day or i have a show. andy's new campaign is great fun; we get to play ourselves, so our poor, useless DnD characters have great skills like "knowledge: star wars trivia" or "video game lore." not helpful for dragon slaying. lucky for me my bluff skills transfer nicely. otherwise, my time has been spent working or rehearsing, and now performing. the show's been selling incredibly well; we're doing an extra show thursday since all the other shows are sold out already. i don't know where all the people come from. so that's about it for the time being. there's more news but as of right now i can't think of it. the mind is a sadly limited place, and mine more so than most. if i think of something, i'll post it. Current Mood: melodic (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005
3:32 pm	pirates and things since the last update, i turned 21, blew up lots of fireworks, but not at the same time, wrote 4 haikus about the picture maker at work and got fitted for a horrid foofy blue dress for pirates of penzance that ended up not fitting. other things happened but i don't recall anything else offhand. and since i have practice almost nightly for pirates and work when i don't have practice (opening night is this friday) i shant be updating for a bit, again. if anyone besides karun and brandorf read this, go to karn's page for ticket info. if not, no loss. karn is showing me appleseed on his PSP. i'm in love. Current Mood: rushed (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 11th, 2005
6:04 pm	because karun says i have to... so our buddy karn here says i have to list my top 6 favorite songs. i've always found lists like that to be silly and arbitrary; i like thousands of songs and i can't pick between them. some days i'm just in a disturbed mood, while other days call for some serious queen, or the occasional peer gint by grieg. but, for my brother's sake, i will delve deep into my realms of music and select 6 pieces pretty much at random and pretend that they can be ranked against each other. 1) borodin's "in the steppes of central asia" 2) queen's "bohemian rhapsody" 3) five iron frenzy's "when i go out" 4) cradle of filth's "nymphetamine" (link for the music video at bottom of post) 5) skillet's "the one" 6) daft punk's "harder, better, faster, stronger" there're my six songs, karun. happy? linky for cradle of filth! http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/shared/downloads/CradleOfFilth/cof_nymphetamine_240x135-lo.mov (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
3:26 pm	long time coming finally, it seems, the world will slow down long enough for me to write again. school is over, i'm semi-moved into my new apartment, i'm back from anime north, one of my closest friends just moved very far away, and savoyards practice is about to launch itself full swing into my schedule. but with a high speed internet connection i might actually now be able to spend my time online doing everything i want, as opposed to waiting 15 minutes for my comics to download. the summer looks to be busy. along with savoyards, a music group doing "the pirates of penzance" this summer, and practice 5 days a week, i still am going to have to work at least one full time job to keep my head above water. in here i have tenitively planned a camping trip and a road trip to visit my newly moved friend brandorf. i hope i have time for them. we (me, karn, brandorf, my fiance, my roomate, and 2 other friends) just got back from anime north in toronto. i was totally clueless as to the majority of the costumes/movies/books around me, since i've only just started watching anime in anticipation for the trip, with only a bit here and there prior to it. a little backwards, i know. i even cosplayed, dressing as mizuho kazami from "onegai, teacher". that's one of the few anime series i've actually seen in its entirety. nevertheless, i managed to enjoy myself quite handily, eating pocky and sushi and duty-free store lindor balls. perhaps later i'll do a full report on the trip. but not today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ i am right now a) writing to brandorf b) reading "commissioned" archives for the weeks i've missed c) attempting to upadte my livejournal for the first time in God only knows how long d) googling myself to see if any pics of me in costume have turned up online yet and e) eating a rather melty lindor ball. actually, now "e) eating a rather melty lindor ball" has evolved into "e) cleaning the melted chocolate out of the keyboard". uff da. until later. for now i have to scrape chocolate off of the letter "b." Current Mood: oscillating (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 30th, 2005
7:56 pm	no time to think life has gotten terribly hectic, i'm afraid, and is unlikely to calm itself before the end of may. coming up, i have: exams, moving out, planning the anime north trip and trying up loose ends, going to a wedding, planning a wedding, anime north (i'm the driver), helping all my friends move, looking for another job, and possibly starting the summer of practices for the savoyards, assuming i actually made it into the group. and my regular job, of course. the mundanity of life has crept in on me without my notice. i will seek to eliminate it as soon as finals are over. Current Mood: busy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 27th, 2005
10:29 pm	beginning spring break was shorter than i would have liked. the time i partitioned for work, study, and posting was spent for the most part hanging out with brandorf or reading the entirety of the "queen of wands" archives. but it is tuesday, and tuesday will be the day of posting. because on glorious tuesday i have no class between 9:40 and 1:00, and my dad has a spare computer and broadband. so i post. but what to say? my mind is blank, filled only with tidbits of latin grammer from my 8:50 class. however, if desired i could expound on the passive periphrastic use of the gerundive. but no one really cares, so i doubt i'll have to do so. life goes, in the usual manner. i work, go to school, and slack of as much as physically possible. i work at wal-mart sun prairie, in the electronics department as of yesterday but at the service desk today. i have school 5 days a week, work 5 days a week, gaming on fridays and sleep whenever i'm not doing the other stuff. it's tedious, but i try to spice things up a bit with the help of my bizarre sense of humor. right now i'm going to go goof around online and read some "the noob" archives. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 20th, 2005
11:28 pm	bright new day i post, therefore i am..... as i begin my spring break, i will slowly begin to unravel the mysterious world of livejournal and this page will grow from a few lines of misty text into a live, complex being; trancending mere text and image and giving enlightenment and some subtle understanding of the creature that is kyp. evolution takes some time. please be patient. Current Mood: trancendental (3 Comments |Comment on this)