kaciagemini

Peter Jennings died.

Queer As Folk ended.

Guess which one I'm more upset about.

;.;

(...guess the icon gives it away, huh?)

I think Sharon Gless said it best: "It sucks that it's over."


ETA: Oh yeah, and I liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ...except for the part where Christopher Lee and Johnny Depp hugged because my brain kept trying to tell me that it was Sarumon and Jack Sparrow...

( ETA2: QAF finale spoilers )

ETA3: The new Showtime series "Weeds" about the suburbanite pot-selling mom? Fucking hilarious. I am in love with it.

ETA4: (well, it's better than spamming my lj with a billion different posts, right?) Anyway, the second Harry Potter movie is randomly on Disney and it occurred to me that I haven't actually watched this one... possibly since it came out in theatres. Crazy. I was like... I don't remember watching *any* of this! o.O;;; (/random)

I need to read webcomic updates from like... the last 2 weeks. For some reason lately I am only able to read webcomics in spurts rather than regularly. I do not have this problem during the school year. Probably because I have nothing else to do at work.

I need to watch last Sunday's ep of QAF.

I need to look over the driver's manual to make sure there is nothign drastic I am forgetting that I will need to be aware of for the test tomorrow. And I need to make sure we have the current insurance card for the Kia actually present in the vehicle. Cuz, yeah, that would be good.
Oh and I need to remember to get a new copy of the Kia's registration while we are at the courthouse tomorrow, so that we will be able to pick up Francisco on post Friday.

And also. I am broke. Well, I'm not actually broke yet, but damn near every dime I have is already allocated toward things that I will need prior to the next time I will get money. (My hopeful estimate is about two weeks into the semester - if it takes longer than that, I will be broker than broke. ;_; )
The good news is that almost everything money-wise that needs to be taken care of in the next 5 or so weeks (including but not limited to concerts, birthdays, anniversaries, and outfitting the dorm bed) has already been taken care of or is allocated for in my self-accounting. So unless anything crazy and random comes up, I will have *enough* money, I will just not have *spare* money. So I'm not *dire*, just sad because I only have about $40 splurge money for the next 5 weeks. It makes my shopping muscle cry. Budgets suck. The new semester needs to be here now. Next summer I am totally getting a job. This sucks.

Am back. Two weeks in a hot tent selling fireworks and no internet is much longer than a regular two weeks. But on the bright side, I bought much pretty fireworks that I'll prolly set off either this week or Sat. night. It's a good thing you can't hear me talking because I've become infected by a deep TN accent which is very different and much worse than regular KY accent and much harder to resist apparently. I maintain that I slipped into it to appease the customers so they would buy more fireworks. Though apparently they can all easily distinguish between *real* TN and KY trying to be TN. *I* can't. Anyway, two weeks of being driven slowly (or actually rather quickly) insane by Rebecca. I like her. Really. I do. In *small* doses. Like about 20 minutes.

Got an A in my Eng 200 class. Despite the fact that I was 10 minutes late for the final. Damn traffic. And I bullshat my way through the majority of the test.

My phone is chirping at me. I should probably plug it in.

Two weeks listening to naught but country music may have permanently warped my brain. Anyhow I have rediscovered a long-lost liking for country. (Except for old Garth Brooks stuff, which I always liked.) So now I'm trying to download like every country song I've heard in the last two weeks. Which is easier than it sounds. For some reason, country stations seem to have exceptionally small playlists. They just play the same stuff over and over and over and over...

I still haven't mailed my dad his father's day present. Crap. If I wait long enough, I guess I can just send it to him at home instead of on the ship...

I've been awake for about... 43 hours straight. Spent vast portions of it re-reading HP & the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for the next book coming out in 10 days (*squee!*). We kept the tent open all night on the 4th. (not that we got much business. it was actually pretty pitiful) then had to stay open today and pack everything up and stuff. Didn't leave to go home until after 8. Got home a little after 10 and Bruce made me dinner (yay!) and I hung out with Zoe a bit. I'll see mom and aileen and luke tomorrow I guess. I keep oscillating (sp? too lazy to check) between being so tired I can't keep my eyes open and being wide awake. Hmm. I really am going to go to bed soon. I feel mostly human now that I'm clean and fed. Well-rested should fill my life meter the rest of the way up with little red hearts. (what? don't you live in an old-school rpg world?)

Helen was supposed to come by tonight after work, wasn't she? What time does she get off work anyway? I don't remember. I'm sure if she gets in after I'm asleep she'll wake me up. Or attempt to. I think, once I fall out, I might stay out for an exceptionally long time.

I've checked my e-mails from the last two weeks. I'm still working on catching up on my f-list. *sigh* I love you guys, really I do! I'll try to catch up tomorrow night depending on how long I sleep. And somewhere in there I need to watch Crossing Jordan and Queer as Folk (which apparently Zoe *didn't* tape the first weekend I was gone, though she did *watch* it).

One of the things I ordered right before I left still hasn't arrived and I don't know why. *grr*

Final thought: I've been giving it a lot of thought while trapped in a tent with not much else to do and I think I want to get a tattoo. Of an infinity symbol (looks like a sideways 8 if you don't know) on my right outside ankle. I was thinking a little ways up, just above the bony bit, because I've heard it hurts more if you get it across the ankle bone.
So my question for you guys (I'm too lazy to actually go make a poll) is
1.) Do you think I should get a tatoo?
2.) And if so, do you think that location is good?
3.) And if so, what, if anything, do you think I should write below it?
I kinda want it to say INFINITY stretching the length of the symbol right below it, but Jen seems to think that's dumb, so I'm looking for further input.
If I do decide to definitely do it, I think I'm gonna wait until I get my paycheck from fireworks which will be a few weeks, and go get it done with some of that money. Shouldn't cost too much cuz it's just gonna be plain black and pretty small.

Oh, the one thing that I meant to say! Apparently, sunshine and fresh air do not agree with me. I am totally breaking out, like, worse than I ever have in a long damn time. It's kind of ridiculous.

That is all. I should probably re-read this for typos made because of sleepiness... but I'm prolly too sleep to notice them.

Gonna go pass out now as it's after 4 AM. -- Or not. Helen just got here. Yay! Oz season 2!

My day, as told to Jen:

kaciagemini1013: guess what i've been doing? ^.^
Alluring Discord: what?
kaciagemini1013: driiiiiiiiiiving
Alluring Discord: wow
Alluring Discord: and you didn't kill yourself?
Alluring Discord: or anyone else?
kaciagemini1013: nope
Alluring Discord: yay!
Alluring Discord: =P
kaciagemini1013: not even bruce
Alluring Discord: that's amazing
kaciagemini1013: i drove part of the way home after the 8th grade grad this morning
kaciagemini1013: then around lunch time, i drove back to elkton so zoe could pick up her report card
kaciagemini1013: then to pop's video to get some movies
kaciagemini1013: then we decided to go to russelville so i could get printer paper
kaciagemini1013: then, after wal-mart, i drove across russelville to the liquor store to get some wine coolers
kaciagemini1013: then we went to library to get some books
kaciagemini1013: i only drove half the way home from russelville though because mom called in a panic about the weather and forbid bruce to let me drive
kaciagemini1013: then helen called in a panic because the power was out in elkton and she couldn't get gas
kaciagemini1013: so we found a gas can and i drove to sharon grove and we got some gas and then we went to elkton, where helen was, and brought her the gas
kaciagemini1013: then we followed her home and back to sharon grove to make sure she made it ok
kaciagemini1013: then i drove home
kaciagemini1013: the end.
Alluring Discord: jesus.
kaciagemini1013: hey, when i decide to drive, i do it right ^.^

For those who do not already possess this knowledge, I do not drive. I have had my permit for... three and a half years. I can count on my fingers the number of times I've actually driven. And almost every time was with someone different in a different vehicle. So, yeah, I've never actually been *taught* to drive. But apparently I've mostly picked up on it anyway as there weren't too many glaring errors in all that driving today. Yay for me! I may actually learn to drive this summer, after all!

In other news, the QAF final season premiere is Sunday. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This pleases me greatly. ^.^

Also, I found adorable black sandals at Wal-Mart today. This also pleases me greatly, but I'm sure you don't need another page full of exclamation points to emphasize it. I was actually looking for black sandals similar to my brown ones that I dearly love, but couldn't find any and couldn't find any, then I found some in the right design but they were purple! And also in lime green! I liked them so much, I was almost ready to buy the purple ones even though I have nothing to wear them with. I had just talked myself into giving up when I spotted the exact same sandals, in black, in my size! I put them on, hopped around in them and squeed slightly in excitement, then put them in the cart. I love shoes. :-)

Oh, and I bought Hotel Rwanda on DVD today so I can finally watch all of it. (Damn you, friends, for making me skip class and miss it! *pouts* Okay, so I'm not really mad. But now I can see the hour in the middle that I missed.) And I rented Kinsey so I can see if it's any good. Hooray for sex! (Apparently today is a good day for sociology classes related movies. o.O; Who knew?)

I have currently read books 1, 2, 3, and 5 of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" series. I'm in the middle of the 4th one. (I had to read 5 first so Zoe could give it back to her friend.) Zoe has actually read about 5 or 6 chapters of this one to me out loud. My little sister takes such good care of me. ^.^

Anyway, I think that's all the updating I have to do for now. I need to go check my e-mail, read my f-list, and apparently I have to go over to Aileen's and keep Luke and Zoe company while Aileen unpacks stuff and cleans. Gotta run!

I just got finished watching the original Stepford Wives. It is uber-creepy. Plus the actress who plays the main chick is named Katharine and she spells it like me, which is way cool. So now I want to see the new one even though it will probably be exactly the same.
Oh, and I saw King Arthur today with Brad, Helen and Dougie. We missed the first few minutes cuz we came in late, but the movie kicked ass. It was *funny*! Some of what we were laughing at probably wasn't *supposed* to be funny, but we were practically rolling on the floor.
My fave new quote from the movie:
Lancelot: Are you worried? There are a lot of lonely men out there. (talking about the approaching army)
Guinevere: Don't worry. I won't let them rape you.
I don't normally want to see a movie again as soon as I've finished it, but I want to go see King Arthur again in case I missed anything the first time.
What am I doing? If I'm talking about my day, I should have started at the beginning, shouldn't I? This morning, I couldn't sleep, so I was up in Mom's room with the baby, too, at about 6:40 AM, when we heard this loud pop kinda noise. It sorta sounded like a gunshot, except louder. Well we went downstairs to investigate. Mom goes to the window, then starts yelling at Aileen to call 911 because there's a wreck in our front yard. So I go outside to check it out. Turns out a car full of drunken Mexicans were driving down the highway when they went off the road, took out are mailbox, destroyed a (very persistent) bush, and *demolished* two parked cars (no one was currently using either of them, but they did both work, till now anyway) easily a few hundred yards from where they first went off the road. It's a good thing they didn't hit the house; they probably would've kept going right into the living room. One of the cars they hit was an *extremely* heavy car and it managed to get pushed a few car lengths back plus half-way out into the road. The other one got smushed pretty good and pushed several feet back and several feet closer to the pond. I, for one, would have been greatly amused if it had been pushed *into* the pond. The best part may have been when they cuffed the driver and hauled him away in the state trooper's car. It was easily two hours after the accident before the state trooper showed up to give the breathalyzer and he apparently still blew way over the legal driving limit. From what we know, the car at least did have insurance so we shouldn't be completely screwed.
Oh and for some reason I haven't quite figured out yet, my mom decided to take most of the next two weeks off work to work on the house. She and Aileen and Tamie took out the partial wall separating the hallway across from Helen's room and Michael's old room while I was taking a nap this morning. Then this evening when I we got back from the movies they were painting the ceiling and a base coat on the walls. It was after dark by this point, so they couldn't really keep the door open that much because they didn't want to draw bugs. So most of the late evening was spent in a paint-fumes fugue state. I'm surprised no one passed out. The fumes have cleared off now, for the most part.
I'm not even going to start on the Queer as Folk season finale that was on tonight... I'm quite pissed off at Showtime for a number of things, not least among them naming Mel's baby Jenny Rebecca! What kind of a name is Jenny Rebecca? (This rant may be continued later today after I've slept, or maybe not.) Don't get me started on the previews for Season 5 coming next *spring!* *SPRING!*
*sigh* And now I'm being kicked off my computer so Aileen can use her lovely new webcam (which apparently won't work with *her* computer) and talk to boys. Hopefully I can manage to kick Zoe off of Super Mario Kart so I can get some sleep or read a book or something... Shouldn't I be sleepy since I've only had about 3 hours sleep in the last day and a half? Then again, in the day and a half before that, I was only *awake* for 7 hours, total. It's either a drought or a flood, I guess.
Did I mention that I bought all five HP books in paper back? I ordered them straight from the UK, so they're complete with all the original spellings and words and stuff. Cool, doncha think? Well, those of you who could give a flying fuck about Harry Potter, that is. Really gotta get off now. My coffee is getting cold anyway. Talk to you all later. One last thing, any word from Laura yet?
(I didn't have time to read this over for glaring typos before posting it, so if there's any that are overly embarassing, please let me know so I can fix them.)

Welcome to my brand-spanking new LJ! I'm happy I finally have somewhere to put my insomnia-induced ramblings so that I don't scare away friends and family by sending them numerous crazy emails at four o'clock in the morning. Hopefully, they are all equally pleased. I suppose I should do a bit of an intro of sorts, so here goes. I'm an eighteen (nineteen on Saturday, though) year old college student. I have an unhealthy obsession with fanfiction, especially slash (i love gay boys, don't you?), Queer As Folk (well, what else am I supposed to watch since they cancelled Buffy *and* Angel?), and ktprincesswitch! Well, I guess that's it for now. Ya know, it's surprisingly satisfying to be able to send my thoughts out into empty space without people telling me I'm crazy. ^_^