As of 9/20/08, this journal is 50% friends locked. Everything fandom related (meta, fic, etc) will be public. I'm only locking my other entries because I recently have a some RL people finding me here, and frankly, I don't want to be found.

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Banner by the lovely astalie.

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[EDIT: THIS is how I feel now.



"I just have a lot of ~feelings."]

Just want to say...

( Spoiler(ish) for Torchwood: COE Part 4. ASH REMAINS HOPEFUL! )

Everyone just needs to go get themselves an ice cream cone and put "Stayin' Alive" on repeat. It's all gonna be okay. I even uploaded scorned!Matty's version for you to enjoy. Here!

It's alright; it's okay. I get to see another day.

I'm on a very strange cleaning spree lately. Yesterday I tackled my bathroom. It took me three hours to clean. I forgot to take a before short until I was 30 minutes into my cleaning regimen, but you can sort of see the mess that it was beforehand.


:( I wish this image did it justice...
( Three Hours Later. )

THE ENDDDDD! Join us tomorrow when I tackle (dum dum dum) my dresser.

On an unrelated note, I kind of want to be the cellcaster for the Idol concert in Indy. However, I don't really want to buttrape my iPhone, and I'm afraid that people wouldn't be able to hear anything. I would hate to let anyone down if it didn't work. I mean, tonight was a complete disappointment. You couldn't hear anything apart from Gokey's sermon. I'd be super worried that it wouldn't work. Idk. I'm tired and rambling.

OMFG


I JUST SPENT THE LAST TWO (THREE?) HOURS OF MY LIFE LISTENING TO THE AMERICAN IDOL CONCERT IN PORTLAND VIA CELLCAST.


(This is becoming my new iPhone wallpaper asap.)
I can't wait until I see this irl. I updated my twitter 200+ times during the cellcast. My entire twitter homepage was flooded with caps lock and tons of people squeeing. I was legit shaking because I was so excited. Really, if this was how I reacted listening to a crappy, low quality stream...?

I'll probably shit myself real life. Lol.

Sorry to all of my non AI friends who follow me. I feel pretty bad about it. You have to realize though I couldn't contain my excitement. <3

Someone sent me a link to this article earlier. It's from April, but I had never seen it before.

"There was other drama, but it took place off-camera before the show: Ryan Seacrest was so sick that he almost didn’t go on. Had he taken the night off, he would have been replaced by So You Think You Can Dance’s Cat Deeley. Before the live results show, stage manager Debbie told Entertainment Weekly, “Our little Ry-Ry is sick. … We’ve got … Cat Deeley standing by.” Obviously, someone gave Ry-Ry a sucker and he felt better, as he showed up and turned in a flawless performance as usual."

I want to beat whoever gave him a sucker. D:<<<<< IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST RESULTS SHOW EVER. UGH.

Now I really wish Cat would have been on last season because I think I would have died from joy overload if I saw David Cook and Cat Deeley standing side by side. O__O

David Cook and Cat Deeley are my two biggest celebrity crushes ever. I think if they were next to each other the universe would fold in on itself because they're just that awesome. Also, I now ship David Cook/Cat Deeley.

I need a hug. :(
I feel like my childhood has been ripped from me.

Note: PICTURE messaging.

I generally wait a few days after there's a big update for something just incase there's a huge problem. I view it as the smart thing to do: let everyone else stick their heads out to be chopped off while I stand safely away and observe. Today I decided to do the big iPhone update, and gee, it was fun.

I turn on my phone to find that the messaging button has changed. When I went into my messages, it looked the same. There was no cute little camera button to allow me to add pictures to my texts like I had seen in the videos and read about in the blogs. I had the idea that maybe I needed to enable something in the settings area, so I checked the messaging section. Nothing.

Alright then, fine. Off to google. After reading through a few blogs, I found out that AT&T has decided to continue ruling as the supreme asshole of phone companies by hiding the MMS feature from us. Why? They're a bunch of douche bags. They plan to turn it on "late summer" which means we'll hopefully have some news about it by Christmas.

I really don't understand. Why would you decide not to turn on one of the biggest upgrades to the iPhone unless you want to anger millions of users? It turns out that we also can't use the tethering feature to hook up our phones to our laptops and surf the web using our phones' connections. All other carriers overseas are allowing the features. Why is only AT&T blocking it?

I could send picture messages from my old crappy razor. I really can't figure out why AT&T would want to shut it off for us unless they are just trying to squeeze even more money out of us.

Sigh. On the positive side, at least we now have landscape keyboards.

You know, out of everything in the world that bothers me, the thing that angers me the most is incompetence.
It's not that hard to do a job right, just saying.

I was really bummed about not being able to get a ticket to go to Asylum 4 for the past couple of days. Then I realized it was the weekend before finals again, so I wouldn't have been able to go anyway. Sigh. School ruins my life.

6,100 words into my new novel, and I've already begun to notice similarities between this one and my last. I never seem to write anything with a large cast; there's always two main characters, a male and a female. I've developed a bad habit of using too many pronouns when I write. The names of my characters really get lost in the work. Everything just becomes "he said that" and "she did this." I suppose because there's only two characters it's not a big deal. Still, it's strange. When I purposely try to use their names, I feel like it breaks the flow.

What I'm working on now is so out of my comfort zone it's not even funny. Everything I've ever written has been scifi. Now I'm venturing into the murder mystery/romance genres. It's exciting but scary at the same time. I feel like I'm exploring new terrain, but I don't want to screw anything up too badly. Ha.

( True Blood 2x01 )
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So, icon making friends... Does anyone want to make me a Cat Deeley icon? :) Pretty pretty pwease?
I'd love you forever and ever!

This isn't very serious at all. I just don't have time to write my big serious post about the weekend and my friend. Hopefully Saturday I can. For now, fill out this meme that I stole from timecake, mmmkay?

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song or Album:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:
9. Do we know each other outside of LJ?
10. What's your philosophy on life?
11. Is the bottle half-full or half-empty?
12. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
13. What is your favorite memory of us?
14. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
15. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
16. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace etc' malarky) - what are they?
17. Can we get together and make a cake?
18. Which country is your spiritual home?
19. What is your big weakness?
20. Do you think I'm a good person?
21. What was your best/favorite subject at school?
22. Describe your accent:
23. If you could change anything about me, would you?
24. What do you wear to sleep?
25. Trousers or skirts?
26. Cigarettes or alcohol?
27. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together? (If you have no idea, just say something crazy, it'll entertain me!)
28. Will you repost this so i can fill it out for you?

Yayy, I remembered to repost it.
I know I owe a million memes to people. I'm too busy trying not to get myself killed on the roads. My town is populated by angry old people who don't know how to drive. They scare me.

I HATE DRIVING.
I HATE CARS.
I HATE THE ROADS.
I HATE HATE HATE HATE DRIVING.

(Needed to get that out of my system. More serious post coming soon.)

First and foremost, thanks for all of the banners, entries, twitter updates, and birthday wishes. You guys rock. It was definitely the best birthday I've had in a long time.

Second, school is out for summer! I'm so excited. The summer is going to be full of concerts and cons and water parks. It will be great.

After taking my last final on Thursday afternoon, I realized that my cell phone wasn't working. It kept saying something about an invalid SIM card. I assumed I killed it, considering I kill all electronics. Later that evening my parents surprised me with an iPhone. They had to deactivate my old phone in order to get that one to work. It's definitely amazing, but I'm really afraid that I'm going to break it. It'll probably end up being one of those things I'm too scared to touch and just leave on a shelf somewhere.

Speaking of murdering electronic devices, Thursday night I was on my computer as always when it froze up. I couldn't get anything to work so I had to do a hard shut down. I rebooted it and went off to take a shower. 45 minutes later, I came back and found that my computer was on the same start up screen that I left it on. After another hour, it was still on the same screen. I turned it off and back on a few times and still couldn't get it to move. That's when I started to freak out. I assumed I had killed it unintentionally and went to bed a nervous wreck. The next morning my dad had somehow managed to get it to work. I still don't know what he did. I asked him, but he said if he told me, I wouldn't need him anymore. So I suppose it will remain a mystery.

One my best friends left on Friday morning to fly back home to Korea. All of these articles have got me worried about her. Her phone doesn't work while she's out of the country, so all I can do is sit around on Skype and hope she goes online at some point. Sigh.

Oh, and I think this is a little too ridiculous.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY herecomeskrys!
I think it's so cool that our birthdays almost fall on the same day. Fated to be friends if you ask me. Have a great 16th birthday!

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Had my math and Spanish exams today! They both went really well! I only had trouble conjugating a few verbs on my Spanish final; the reading comprehension and essays were a breeze. My math final was incredibly long (I worked until they kicked me out of the building, lol), but I feel like I did pretty well. I have English and history exams tomorrow, but then I'm done! I'm so excited. I can't wait to catch up with all of you.

...And to take a nap.

Spent the wholeeee day studying. ( Ash complains a lot. )

I WANT MY BED BACKKKKKK. T_T

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Don't even get me started on the Jon&Kate Plus 8 premiere.
I'm really into that Cake Boss show though. I never knew cakes were so complicated. I mean seriously, smoke machines, water vapor, QUILT PATTERNS? You need an ELEVATOR to get the cake downstairs? Crazy. Mr. Cake Boss, please make me a birthday cake! :D