OH GOD PROVERSE.  MY BRAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIN.

ELLIE: I AM COMPILING OUR LOADS OF LJ COMMENTS AND CHAT LOGS AND SUCH INTO WORD DOCS AND MAKING BIG LISTS OF THINGS WE HAVE DECIDED ON FOR SURE AND OTHER STUFF LIKE THAT.  I HAVEN'T MADE ICONS YET BECAUSE I AM FAIL BUT I'M WORKING ON IT.  KINDA.  *fails*


Also, I am listening to Hanson.  Yes, THAT Hanson.  Of MMMBop fame.  I like Hanson again, and it's all your fault, mmmdraco.  *sings along to Great Divide*

... I miss having my friends around. ;-;

(Yes, Andre, I know you're around, but it's not the same as being ten seconds away from people.)

Edit: Thanks, you guys.  You rock. <3  Sorry I'm so whiny.  ^^;

Had an awful, awful dream last night--more of a nightmare, really--and woke up crying this morning.  rostand died.  If it wasn't for the fact that I was talking to her via LJ comments right before I went to bed last night, I would have ended up calling her to make sure she was okay.

I nearly did anyway, then realised how foolish I was being.

I've got to go get ready for work now, and I'm... really not feeling up to dealing with the kids, but I haven't got a choice.

See y'all later.

Itty bitty post before I go downstairs to the Res Staff banquet.

OH MY GOD AVATAR SEASON THREE TRAILER WITHI BITS FROM AS-YET-UNAIED EPISODES.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG START AIRING AGAIN SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

LOOK AT HOW FUCKING AWESOME THIS LOOKS!!!!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOK!!

DONE MY  EXAMS AS OF FIVE TO ELEVEN THIS MORNING.

BOOYAH.

SOC CAN KISS THE FEET I USED TO KICK ITS ASS.

...At work again.  Four until midnight.

Still haven't started packing.

Parental unit showing up at, as my brother put it, "stupid AM tomorrow" to move me out.

Methinks NO SLEEP AGAIN TONIGHT.  LOL.

(Though I did sleep this afternoon.  While Vivi was moving her stuff out. ;-;  Yes, I slept through her moving her stuff out, lol.  *was dead to the world*)

I figured I should make an actual, real post, haha, as opposed to spastic, joyous, or not-so-joyous flailing, fandom or otherwise.

One exam left, tomorrow morning at nine: Sociology 100.  Not too worried about it, going to start studying in a bit.  Wrote Computer Science today, and am almost guaranteed to fail it, due to my prof being a total fucking dickwad.    Long story very, very short, among other things, he decided to do shit with us that mostly only gets don eby third year CompSci majors, and is not supposed to be covered in the 100 class at ALL.  Bastard.

Wrote my Celtic Civ final yesterday, and it went pretty good - I also got back the paper I'd been practically tearing my soul out and bleeding over and loathing and suchlike.  If you're on my AIM, you may have seen my username being something about That Damn Paper.  Another long story short, it was my term paper worth 30 points on my final grade, and it shouldn't have been hard, but it was completely killing me.  It gave me more trouble than any other paper I've ever written for university - including the 19 pages I wrote for my Creative Writing final - and I spent more time on it, too.  It was supposed to be eight to ten pages.  I ended up handing in five pages of, IMO, total shit, three days after the extension the prof had given me ended.  Considering this, I'm not actually displeased with the 19/30 I got.

Friday is moving day.  Well, moving-my-shit-day, since I'm not actually going home until Saturday night or Sunday morning, depending on how late the staff banquet on Saturday night runs.  We'll see, anyway.

Jessica will be back in Pictou county on Sunday, too, as you may have figured out from my last post.  I start work on Monday, babysitting the same seven kids I did last year for May and June.  I'm looking forward to it, sinc eI haven't seen them since Christmas and rather miss them!  <3

proverse.  God.  proverse has taken over my brain.  Thanks, she_universe. :P

...But really, thanks. :DDDDD  I'm getting SO stoked and so excited for all these ideas we have!  And the fact that there's ACTUAL STUFF on the profile page and main page of the comm now!  Okay, fine, it's just little wee profiles for Sam and Derek, and an itty bitty, incomplete intro post.  BUT!  Soon we will have PRETTY GRAPHICS! And ICONS! And ACTUAL CONTENT!  And STUFF!  And MINIONS FANS!

Well, ideally.  XDD The fans will likely be a long time coming, sadly, lol, but we'll have to see.  Maybe we'll get lucky and internet-famous, haha.  XD


Residence is kinda depressing lately, not in the least because my beloved Gilmora (where I live this year and lived last year) isn't going to be residences next year.  On Friday at 12.01 PM, the construction guys are showing up to remove furniture and walls and start renovations to make it the Music Department and offices. ;-;  I have to go around Gil either tonight or tomorrow and take pictures before Gil is no longer "my" Gil.

Also, it's starting to get rather empty and quiet.  I haven't even noticed the nun around lately.  I wonder what she's going to do next year when she doesn't have her residents around to mother by making the lights do weird things when you should be going to bed?  (Among other things, lol. XD)

I've worked rather a lot this week, and will be working more, lol.  Sunday I was 4PM-8PM, Monday I was the same shift, I work 8PM-152AM last night, am working a double shift from 4PM-12AM today (right now), and am working another double shift from 4PM to 12AM tomorrow, and Joan's lunch hour on Friday, either 12.30-1.30 or 1.2, depending on when I finish packing my crap into the car.  Which technically has to be by 12.00 because of the aforementioned furniture-and-wall-removing construction dudes, but I plan to have something to eat before working.

I was trying to figure out what the hell I was going to DO all day Friday, since I can't hang out in my room and Sam-my-computer will be packed up and sent back to Pictou County with my mum, seeing as he's a desktop and I can't cart him around with me, lol.  Then someone reminded me that the campus computers labs will still be open, probably, and the library definitely will be.  : DDDDD  Something tells me I'll be spending all day Friday and probably most of the day Saturday holed up in the labs.

I'm going to miss the blind_gochat, though, partly, because the library and the labs both close at midnight. ;-;  Sadness!  Maybe I can convince someone to mail me the log...

Speaking of blind_go, I have, uh, yet to write anything for it.  <_<  The same goes for my  naruto_flashfic assignment this month.  The flashfic is supposed to be done for the 30th, and the BG fic for the fourth of May.  And I have proverse stuff to write and graphic-ify.  According to our schedule, by May 12th.  Meeeeep.  XDDD


ALSO: I HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED PACKING YET.  AND I HAVE EIGHT HOURS OF WORK AND ABOUT TWO HOURS OF EXAM AND HAVE TO BE OUT BY NOON FRIDAY.  BECAUSE.  AS I SAID BEFORE.  DUDES.  WALL-SMASHING.  ETC.  HI, HELLO, DEPARTMENT OF REDUNDANCY DEPARTMENT, HOW MAY I ASSIST YOU WITH HELP TODAY?

MY BRAIN, IT IS FRIED.  *FACEDESK*

*FLAILS LIEK WOAH*


ALSO ALSO: My roommate just walked by and stopped to chat with me for a minute, and when she turned to walk away she very nearly walked into the edge of the doorway.  I THINK MY KLUTZ IS CONTAGIOUS.  I DUNNO IF SHE'S GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH NEXT YEAR ALIVE, WHAT WITH HER LIVING WITH ME AGAIN AND POSSIBLY CATCHING MORE OF MY KLUTZ.


ALSO ALSO ALSO: I LIKE CAPS WAY TOO MUCH.  AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF  she_universe AND  lady_assassin AND cephiedvariable.  I BLAME YOU THREE FOR THIS.  MY NAME IS CAITLIN AND I HAVE A PROBLEM.

BUT I NOT-SO-SECRETLY LOVE IT.

AJSHGFLHSDJHGIHDSFGd.

TALKING TO JESS (elysiumstudent) ON MSN.

SHE GETS HOME NEXT SUNDAY.

OSAJFHSLKHGLDHFG IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE I'VE SEEN HER. I'M SO HAPPY!!!

*bounces away*

Totally ganked from rostand!

Age: 21 (22 in August~!)

Where did you grow up: Trenton, Nova Scotia, Canada; Canadian father, British mother.

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Stream or brook.

2. What is the thing you push around the grocery store called.
Shopping cart.

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunch box or lunch can

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying pan.

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Chesterfield, mostly, or couch sometimes

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof.
Gutter.

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening.
Deck or porch, it depends on the size and if the house has a entryway-thing separated from the kitchen or whatever by a door where one would leave one's coat and shoes (this is a porch, too, where I'm from, so in this case the outside thing would be a deck). XDDD

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages.
Pop.

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancake.

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Sub, pretty much regardless of ingredients.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
The shorts-style are swim trunks or just trunks, the Speedo kind are always Speedos (Speedoes?), even if they're a different make.

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers.

13. Putting a room in order.
Puttering/puttering about, tidying.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly.

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
If it's this, then it's a pillbug, a sowbug, or a woodbug. XD

16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down.
Teeter-totter.

17. How do you eat your pizza?
Point to crust, preferably with donair sauce.

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Yard sale or garage sale.

19. What's the evening meal?
Supper.

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Water fountain or drinking fountain.

If there's anything else you from-away friends of mine are wondering about (that is, what I call said item), feel free to comment and ask. :DDDDDDD

Just not by me.  Behold, taken about 24 hours later, the same courtyard as yesterday's pic:



ALSO:

Dear she_universe,
I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'll join the monastery.
I think I realized it when I saw the shrunken head outside of Chicago, and I saw you knock out and pull the toupee off my best friend.
I'm sure you're ashamed enough to understand how awful I've felt.
I'm returning your memories from the military service to you, but I'll keep the oil stocks as a memory.
You should also know that I never liked eggplant-fetishism.
Go burn,
caitlin_chan

Really.

April first, and my campus

So Matthew's wife, Amy, was pregnant.  (Matthew of the wedding from October.)  We were all kinda excited about it, and my aunt especially, since it'd be her first grandkid.

The baby was born either Thursday night or Friday morning (I'm not sure) at approximately 26 weeks but she didn't survive.

I went looking for a sympathy card to send to Matt and Amy, but... ugh.  They all seemed so trite and impersonal, I couldn't bring myself to buy one.  I'm going to just write them instead.

So I just made a Winamp playlist of every single music file on my computer.  All of them.

There are 3590, totalling over 220 hours.  That's over nine solid days (the full twenty four hours) of music.

That's a hell of a lot of music, and it doesn't even include most of my CDs (I have perhaps five CDs that I own copied to my computer) or music that I don't have a music file for, but a video file (that is, I have the music video downloaded but not the song itself).

I've even listened to, uh, pretty much every song there at least once, though there's some new stuff I haven't had a chance to listen to yet.

 I think?  I guess, anyways.  It's th return of hte anonymous comments on posts having to do with Jamie Lynn, specifically the 02/16 post about the asshole who basically told me I should excuse Anderson for killing her because he has issues.  Though I am less pissed off and more amused this time, honestly.

So.  Yesterday, I received three comment notifications, all minutes after each other.  What did I get?

 

EDIT: THIS IS FANTASTIC!

"OKLAHOMA CITY  —  A man accused of using a camera to take pictures under the skirt of an unsuspecting 16-year-old girl at a Tulsa store did not commit a crime, a state appeals court has ruled."

Apparently, Oklahoma privacy laws are A-okay with pervs using cameras to look up women's skirts in public, because they are not "in a place where there is a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy."

Even better: the girl that spawned this case is sixteen.  Age of consent in Oklahoma?  Sixteen.  This girl is barely old enough to (legally) consent to sex, and she has some pervert take a picture of her under her skirt in public, and the court throws the case out because in public apparently isn't a place where one can expect privacy.

What the fuck.

This disgusts me.

My uni newspaper has an article about slash fiction in its Culture section this week.  With a dirty great manip of Harry and Draco snogging at the top.  XDD

I am amused.  XDD


Also, LJ is attempting to cover its butt re: the stripping of the Basic account option, and sorta failing (which is clear if one reads the comments).

Pretty much the entire LJ community is feeling pretty butthurt, LJ Inc, so maybe you should be trying to fix that in a non-chastising news post?

LiveJournal has eliminated the basic account (absolute minimum stuff, ad-free) option for new users, which also includes existing users creating new journals (like, say, for RP, etc.).  Now the only two options are Plus (ads) and Paid (obvious).

They completely neglected to mention this fact in their recent news post and in fact have only mentioned it in the comments since people have brought it up.

I haven't got my knickers in a particular twist, because I can live with ads on any new journals I make, since they'd be for RP or something similar, but I certainly think that not telling us straight up was definitely bad form.  Bad form, LJ.  Very bad form.