February 2012
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Trying to teach myself a bit of ASL, starting with numbers (0-20)
Most of them are easy enough to remember. 11 and 14 keep throwing me off though. 12, 13 and 15 shift from fingers-up to closed fist, whereas 11 and 14 go from closed fist to fingers-up. I keep getting them wrong.
Lay down for a half hour nap
Wake up two and a half hours later
Oops <3
Random conclusion of the day:
If I were to go blind, I’d almost certainly marry a poet.
Might marry one anyway, if I’m lucky, but I think being blind would make it an actual priority.
charleswallace replied to your post: Eh, what the hell. I’ll just answer em all. 1)…
GROUND BEEF, I GUESS haahahha oh Karen
Well, I don’t figure I’ll get sick of it as quickly as other foods =P
Also, I like that THAT’S the one you comment on XD
Eh, what the hell. I’ll just answer em all.
1) What are your three favourite movies? Serenity… uhmm… Mulan… aaaand The Holiday.
2) Do you like drugs? Favourites? Most definitely not. Never tried ‘em, never going to.
3) Name a sexual fantasy you have I don’t have anything I’d really call a fantasy… I’ve a mild interest/curiosity in the idea...
That awkward moment when you realize - after tasting it - that the pizza sauce you bought is of the spicy variety which you did not expect.
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32 daaaaaayyyys <3 <3 <3 <3
(Also, 32 days x_________________X)
Okay I really need to go to bed.
*post more poems to DeviantART*
No seriously, I should go to bed now.
*post more poems to DeviantART*
I have already turned off the light and my laptop is starting to hurt my eyes - I need to go to bed.
*post more poems to DeviantART*
Dangit!
Good grief, my roommate is adorable.
So I guess there’s some sort of big holiday-type thing today? Something involving a lot of red and white?
*shrugs*
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Tried something new this morning - Took four slices (flat and round) of Gala apple, put them in the frying pan, cracked an egg on top. Flipped, sprinkled with brown sugar.
Result: Delicious!
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Using only song names from one artist, cleverly...
Pick your artist: Pink
Are you male or female? Split Personality Describe yourself: Sober How do you feel? F***in’ Perfect Describe where you currently live: Humble Neighbourhoods If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Gone To California Your favourite form of transportation? Walk Away Your best friends? Funhouse You and your friends are: M!ssundaztood What’s the weather like?...
Ooohh, well played, Collins… Well played indeed.
charleswallace replied to your post: Dangit, please call her ‘Catnip’ soon, please let…
KAREN SHHH SHHHSHSHHHSHSHSHHH
I’m sorry! But I have to talk about this SOMEWHERE and I can’t babble to you about it and I thought you were still mostly-on-hiatus so you might miss it.
Besides, there’s nothing specifically spoiler-y about it. Just identifying a subtle undertone of a...
Dangit, please call her ‘Catnip’ soon, please let everything be okay…
… dangit, I just know he’s going to wind up dead by the end of this. He’s going to die and I’m going to wind up crying on account of a book. I’d bet on it if I ever gambled.
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“He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he...”
– Finnick Odair in Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Today is going to be a very good day <3
Hmmm…
Bed at a reasonable hour?
Or Mockingjay?
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I finished writing my first (and possibly only) draft of Ball Of Yarn today.
It is not long - Less than 5500 words in total, not including the Author’s Note, which is half a page in itself. It is also not exactly a masterpiece. In fact, I am quite certain that some parts of it are just downright bad. But I wasn’t going to let myself edit the thing to death or make it any more...
Aaaand suddenly I go hurtling from the seemingly-unending plains of hunger into the dark chasm of tummyache >_<
I am well on my way to eating half a jar of peanut butter, straight, in a single day.
I’m not even sad or anything, I am just PERPETUALLY HUNGRY and LOVE PEANUT BUTTER
Made the mistake brilliant decision of actually stopping at the Campus Disks table in the student center today. Decided that if they had a Daughtry CD, and if that CD contained ‘Feels Like Tonight’, I’d buy it.
And they did. <3 I now have this man’s delicious voice at my fingertips.
(Of course, I can’t actually listen to it at the moment, as I no longer own a...
Also, I don’t know if this is strange, but I hate dust covers. Any time I’m reading a book with a dust cover, it’ll maybe stay on for the first chapter, while it still makes a convenient bookmark. But I get very tired of it sliding in my hands very quickly, and it usually winds up in a drawer somewhere.
Not only do I get tired of it sliding, but I just like how hardcovers look...
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Pick up Catching Fire, debating reading a chapter before starting in on chores.
Read the back.
See that John Green reviewed it in the New York Times Book Review.
AWESOME.
charleswallace replied to your photo: [Image; Karen, a pale brunette, with her bangs…
Your forehead looks fine, silly. this is cute! WOW you hair is so long!
That’s because the light from the window is washing it out =P Anyway, it’s a moot point - As soon as I started moving around more, the earlier strands started falling out. They’re too short to be held in properly.
...
peanutbutterandjamzee replied to your post: Sorry Homestuck, no room for you in my…
:C You are not going to read Homestuck anymore?!
Well, yeah, I’ll probably still read it. But not as energetically.
thoughtsforpennies replied to your post: 61% on my midterm from Monday. ****.
[huuuugs]
Thanks dear <3
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Sorry Homestuck, no room for you in my fandom-space anymore. Too much Hunger Games goin’ on in there.
Wanted to play a little Call To Power II before bed. Realized I’d uninstalled it from my big laptop. Started re-installing.
Oh right. It loads to 93.1% and then stops doing anything clearly useful. Forgot about that.
One more reason why you should always choose books over video games.
(Hunger Games, here I come!)
Midterm freakin’ ROOOOOOOCKED
(I think I hope oh gosh please let it be as good as I thought)
And now I have to sit through an hour and a half of lecture. Bleh.
Ibuprofen!
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Okay. Freaking out less now.
My Plan A is in serious jeopardy, yes. This is especially scary because, up until about a year ago, I hadn’t even considered the necessity of a plan B. Now it’s looking like a plan C is a good idea, if I can even think of one.
BUT…
This is not the end of the world. No matter what, I will still walk across that stage within a year, and receive a...
61% on my midterm from Monday.
****.
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Oops I wrote another scene.
(Tomorrow’s midterm is going to suuuuuuuuuuuck)
Ugh. 76% on my Women And Work In Canada assignment. Feedback said I needed to include more ‘reflective thought’
I don’t even know what that means. Do I just need to use “I think” more often, instead of stating my opinions in the straight-forward you-already-know-this-is-an-opinion-piece way that I did?
Guuhhhhhh
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
“We who mourn continue the heat of our own lives”. Damn.
(via lonelyheartsdeathmetal)
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Thoughts on a Ball of Yarn
I’ve been thinking about this latest story idea I had (which should not remotely be a mental priority right now, but I can’t entirely help it).
The novel idea that I had before this - which I worked on for years and years, chipping away here and there - is pretty much gone. Most importantly because, in a novel that was supposed to center almost entirely around the emotional...
January 2012
81 posts
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1 hour of potential sleep lost.
1 scene for potential short-ish story written.
Not the best timing, but not the worst exchange.
Yeeees! Done all my notes, and feeling relatively good about my midterm tomorrow. Gonna wake up a bit early, go over my notes again, and hopefully do an awesome job at 10:30. Then go work my butt off in the lab as late as I can tolerate ‘cause I’ll likely be skimping the rest of the week to study for my Thursday midterm.
Kinda want to go for a short walk to get some fresh air, but I...
Taco-rice conclusion:
It’s not really something I would serve to guests… It’s kinda blah. But at the same time I still want more.