* I had an opportunity to get a really well paying short-term translation project but I thought i'd have like 7 days to apply and instead it turned out they only had the opportunity open for like 2 days. I totally could have gotten it, too. :(

* I have about 25 scenes left to write for That Thing I'm writing. that's not a lot (less than I expected, which is good) but the main point is - I know how much is left how which is awesome. Seriously, beyond awesome.

* Vanilla flavored rice milk makes me happy. I really dislike all cow-milk products (I'm not intolerant, I just really dislike the taste, always have since I was 3 years old), including cheese and all its variants, but anything-else-milk (like soy, rice) is omgjoy! It's cold and thick and awesome. I don't get to have rice milk very often, is why I'm saying.

* I need to go shopping for food. Our house is... not strong with the food this week. MY dad left for China the other night (I drove him to the airport!) and my mom's suddenly not feeling well, something wrong with her back, so I am Zee Provider it seems.

* ...OH GOD SWEET LORD I MAY ACTUALLY FINISH WRITING THIS THING SOME TIME THIS CENTURY JESUS CHRIST.

* It's possible, that I will not start my new academic year on its planned date as the Uni Presidents' Association has announced that they have yet another conflict over dubgets with the government and they can not comitt to opening the year on time right now. I have nothing to say about this except that is it information and I am writing it down.

* I need to clean my house. Again, for the same reasons as I need to shop. Blah.

* I need to start sleeping 8 hours again because I am SO SO not good with sleep deprivation OMG. The army fucked me up, ok? I was perfectly healthy before then but something in my brain just snapped after one too many adrenaline fueled 11-straight-days-of-sleeping-4-hours-a-night and now I am like 500 times more sensetive to lack of sleep. Seriously, 30 minutes less than 8 hours and I get headaches and general tiredness and ew. This is both WTF and Blah.

* Psst, rohaa I'm sorry I never came back to our convo last night - my mom needed stuff after I got off the phone and then I got distracted on the laptop. Sorry!

so i am so terribly late on hopping on this bandwagon, but i finally made time to watch this movie, because i mean i didn't hate the show, but i also didn't make time to watch every single episode, but with that said i thought the movie was very heartfelt, going through a recent terrible breakup i seriously was sobbing tears when Carrie was hitting Big with her flowers and Charlotte's face made it even easier to cry harder when she was screaming, "NO", but other than that scene the movie altogether was really good i liked it a lot and now on Erna's Christmas list is a membership to bagborrowsteal.com lol and the entire dvd collection of Sex and the city. I'm behind but that's the beauty of the 21st century: DVD. =]

Yesterday I discovered that my maternal great great great grandfather left over £56,000 in his will. In 1866. I'm no good at monetary equivalents, but that's got to be several million in today's money.

Today I'm wondering where it all went, and why we never saw any of it.

random wallpapers ive made and have been uselessly sitting on my computer... some are more recent and some are pretty damn old! i either made them for me, for friends, or just for the hell of it! maybe you'll like something :)

39 wallpapers under the cut...
[10] David Boreanaz
[7] Sarah Michelle Gellar
[5] Eliza Dushku
[2] Alexis Bledel
[2] Fight Club
[2] Shane West
[1] Milo Ventimiglia
[1] Jared Padalecki
[1] Matt Dallas
[1] Alexis Bledel & Lauren Graham
[1] Jason Behr
[1] Michelle Branch
[1] Brad Pitt
[1] Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
[3] miscellaneous

PREVIEW:


( TV is a good thing. Bright colors. Music. Tiny little people. )

 "Sarah Palin may be a lady, but she ain't no woman. I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, "D*mn, a hyperconservative, f*ckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it." -- Cintra Wilson, Salon

"It's like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, 'oh, I'm just a hockey mom'... and she's facing down President Putin... It's totally absurd... it's a really terrifying possibility... I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she's gonna have the nuclear codes." -- Matt Damon

"A few years ago, CBS gave serious consideration to a reality series called The Real Beverly Hillbillies. The idea was to "transplant genuine Appalachian natives into the world of Los Angeles glitz and glamour." It never happened. But now it has, with a twist - Alaskan hillbillies have been transplanted into the world of Washington politics." -- John Doyle at the Globe and Mail



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Is this really a picture of her?  For real?  Or was it photoshopped?

Monty Python’s Dead Parrot is back!

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- The lower back pain I mentioned the other day more or less subsided without any action on my part. This is why I can't take preventative medicine seriously.

- Spent tonight writing vocal harmonies for the musical instead of attending an SCL film screening or playing D&D with scottsch and his crew. Wasn't as fun as the options eschewed, but it was a good idea to get this work done.

- I'm a tad concerned that Apple isn't going to continue to develop Logic any more. This is kind of like learning the company that makes your artificial heart just went out of business.

- Speaking of Apple, the iPod Touch continues to be an all-around awesome gadget. Next to the obvious music functionality and email, the thing I'm finding most handy is the mobile version of Things(tm).

- Finished Stephen Hicks' Explaining Postmodernism. If you're curious what I thought, stalk me on Facebook or Goodreads. I enjoyed this. Perhaps I should read additional books.

- Yawn.

• 08:21 @nickopotamus What is a pot noodle anyway? I always pictured them as a Cup O Soup. #
• 11:26 @nickopotamus Ah. I tried something like that to see what it was like. While it would be okay if I was *really* hungry, it was pretty bad #
• 11:29 @nickopotamus Budget Gourmet frozen meals are worse though. #

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Hope to see you there.

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Not the worse of list, but a clear list that truly shows where she stands... or something.

http://sarahpalinquotes.info/

For example:

On global warming:
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

If you are seriously considering voting this woman in office, could you please enlighten me and explain to me why?

1. "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip)

7. "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

8. "That's exactly what we're going to do in a Palin and McCain administration." --Sarah Palin, elevating herself to the top of the ticket, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008 (Watch video clip)

9. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council

More quotes:

"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women." --Sarah Palin, misquoting former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who said women should "help" other women," Carson, Caliif., Oct. 4, 2008

"I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also." --Sarah Palin, on not answering the questions in the vice presidential debate, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 2, 2008

Katie Couric: "What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?"
Sarah Palin: "Well, let's see. There's --of course --in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings, there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are -- those issues, again, like Roe v Wade where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know -- going through the history of America, there would be others but--"
Couric: "Can you think of any?"
Palin: "Well, I could think of -- of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a Vice President, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today." --unable to name any Supreme Court decisions other than Roe v. Wade, CBS News interview, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

Katie Couric: "And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious: what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?"
Sarah Palin: "I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media."
Couric: "But, like, what ones specifically? I'm curious."
Palin: "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years."
Couric: Can you name a few?
Palin: "I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too." --CBS News interview, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

"Well, it certainly does because our -- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And they're in Russia ... We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric how Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

"I watched with the volume all the way down. I thought it was hilarious. I thought she was spot on. ... It was hilarious. Again, didn't hear a word she said, but the visual, spot on." --Sarah Palin, on Tina Fey's "SNL" skit interview on FOX News's "Hannity & Colmes," Sept. 17, 2008

"Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first." --Sarah Palin, billed by John McCain as the nation's foremost expert on energy, clumsily answering a question while speaking off the cuff at a town hall meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Sept. 17, 2008

"The fact is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." --Sarah Palin, on the two companies which are in fact private entities, Colorado Springs, CO, Sept. 13, 2008

"They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." --Sarah Palin, on her foreign policy insights into Russia, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

"Nucular." --Sarah Palin, mispronouncing the word "nuclear" twice, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

"Perhaps so." --Sarah Palin, when asked if we may need to go to war with Russia because of the Georgia crisis, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

"I have not, and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you." --Sarah Palin, after being asked if she had never met a foreign head of state, despite the fact that every vice president in the last 32 years had met a foreign head of state prior to taking office, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008

"In what respect, Charlie?" --Sarah Palin, after being asked if she agreed with the Bush Doctrine, ABC News interview, Sept. 11, 2008 (Watch the raw, unedited video)