usullusa | Entries tagged with randoms

RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species.

So heart breaking! And yet so adorable! Guaranteed to move you at least a little bit.

I miss finding toads in my parents' garden. D:

The Cat Piano, a short animated film. Via rosalarian.
It's so perfectly creepy! The animation is spot on and the narrator has a dry delivery that's very well suited for the story. Am I the only person who thinks the whole thing is very Gaiman-esque?
As a certified flair addict on Facebook, I just ran across this. HOLY SHIT. JUST. One of the many reasons Twilight and its influence terrifies me.
I had a paper due today. Did I write it? No. I did however stay up until 7am, not write a single word, end up asking for an extension, going to bed and skipping all of my classes. Also I am officially sick. It could have been that I spent several hours yesterday sloshing around in the snow/sleet/hail in shoes full of freezing slush. Just a hunch.
It's just one of those days.
I swear I am way more responsible than this normally. Really!
Today's incentive for Khaos Komix made me double over laughing. Immature? Yes. Hilarious? Yes.

Current Music: Paparazzi - Lady Gaga

Remember that wildly offensive Dockers Ad? (I can't find it on their website anymore. Looks like they got enough complaints for them to take it down.) But other ads along the same line are still up on their website. And they're all over NYC too. I took some pictures here, here, and here. (Sorry for crappy quality. Cell phone pictures.)
There seems to be a lot of this stuff going around lately. From the Superbowl ads (Especially the Dodge one. It was filled with so much cold fury it made me recoil.) to this: Butch Baker. "We make manly cupcakes. For manly-men." This one is way less offensive than say Dockers, but it's still indicative of an alarming trend.
Have a picture of my cat while I'm uploading photos from my phone. This, my friends, is the infamous bitch-kitty. Guaranteed to claw your face off in under five seconds. Isn't she fluffy? Well it's a trap.
So that guy who was arrested for possessing comics depicting underage sex has been sentenced to six months in jail. I find this really alarming. Are we really this paranoid? Regardless of whether or not we're comfortable with what's in those comics, it's not our business to punish people for it. What he does alone in the privacy of his home is not our business. I don't buy that it's going to encourage him to go and touch little girls and boys. That's like the argument that video games make kids kill people.
Drama going down with my parents. Ugh.

"Can V-Day Survive Shifting Roles?" This article pisses me the hell off. You can't have real romance when women are in the work place, or god forbid earning more than their spouses. And those big scary queers are fucking with gender roles too! Oh no! In order to have some romance we have to step back into the past and put everybody in their place. Ugh.
For anybody who wasn't watching television last night an Olympic athlete died last night, hours before the opening of the Olympics. This really hit me on a personal level for whatever reason. Athelete from a small country in the Caucasus, fucked over by history, lots of racism against them in Russia, esp during the Soviet Union era... one can see the connection.
I get annoyed when people blatantly stare at me for way too long. It's fine to look at people! But don't oogle for a zillion years because it makes them uncomfortable! The other day this guy ahead of me in line spent twenty minutes staring at me in utter confusion. I can only assume he had no idea what the fuck gender I was. This happens often enough but seriously take a hint when I make eye contact with you. And just because I happen to looking somewhere a few few feet away from you, doesn't meant I don't know you're staring at me like I'm a circus freak.
Last night I was playing Uno (Yes, I was playing Uno on a Friday night. DON'T FUCKING JUDGE ME.) and Steph was systematically fucking everybody over. Then she won, more or less because of me at which point Nikki leaped up and screamed: "HAVE THAT ON YOUR CONSCIENCE! YOU HAD A SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT CHANCE AND YOU FUCKED IT UP!". We take our children's card games very seriously around here.
Does anybody understand what the hell Google Buzz is supposed to do anyway? So it basically ships in your twitters and various activity on Google products?

Okay, upon exploring some more (I've been more or less ignoring it for now, besides blocking a whole bunch of people I don't want knowing shit about me) I've discovered that it looks for your other sites. It actually found my LJ all on its own and has an option for me to connect it to my feed on Buzz. THIS IS REALLY CREEPY AND I DON'T LIKE IT.
I second everybody's concerns about the automatic contacts. Fail Google! I've found an option to turn off other peoples' ability to see your contacts at least... I don't know if there's an option to turn off Buzz entirely, but despite my problems with it I'm curious to see whether or not it will take off and how that will work, so I'm keeping it for now.

Things that are on my mind:

Running out of money fuckfuckfuck. Where does it all go? I spent 50 bucks since Friday on: a new travel mug (Most of the week I don't have time to go home and cook so I need to bring food. I wanted a new travel mug that was really small so I could fit it in my bag with all of my schoolbooks and lunch and so on); new notepads for my classes (extra light cuse I have to carry all of them at once, all day); recharged my laundry card; bought an album online. Only one of these purchases was frivolous! And it was the least expensive one of them all! I should be proud but instead I'm sitting here going SHIT WHY IS LIVING SO EXPENSIVE?
Job Interview on Monday. Babysitting! Augh, small children.
Yay I'm going to a reading at Gallatin (my branch of NYU) on Thursday!

LISE FRIEDMAN will read from her fictionalized riff on the true story of a
young boy who, in early 1800s America, ran away to join the circus.

CRIS BEAM will read from her young adult novel, titled I Am J, about a
transgender runaway.

excitement!
Teen Author Reading Night on Wednesday woohoo! This is why I love New York. *glee*
The line at Trader Joe's goes OUTSIDE ONTO THE STREET. I didn't get up early enough to beat the line so now I have to wait until it gets better... hopefully... at some point today...
I had a serious talk with a friend the other night and we DIDN'T FIGHT. We just talked about things and it was a bit tense but it was okay. I thought we were never going to speak to each other again. So hooray for being mature about stuff.
If I find gainful employment in the next week or two I think I'm going to DC with my flatmates over our three-day weekend. Two words: Spy. Museum.
Stephanie told me I'm bad at conflict resolution. ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT I WAS REALLY GOOD AT IT. I USED TO PRIDE MYSELF ON IT. Damnit.
Fuck. Homework. Forever.

Current Music: Голубой Вагон - Чебурашка

Things I did today:

Go to America Reads orientation
Find out NYU took away my federal work study without telling me
Go to financial aid office. Argue. Accomplish nothing.
Panic about paying for my [fairly un-extravangant] lifestyle. (I would like to take the time now to say fuck you to how expensive course books are.)
Go home and call brother. Re-come out to him. (Remind him?) Get told I am confused. (Last time he told me it was impossible to be attracted to more than one gender. So I guess it's a step up.) Get told I am rejecting my femininity because of male privilege. I think this is a good moment to point out that I said nothing regarding my gender, just my sexual orientation. WHAT DOES WHO I LIKE HAVE TO DO WITH MY GENDER? No wait, this is the entire problem, isn't it?
Talk to xturncoatxiii on the phone. ... Talk to him on LJ. ...Talk to him on IM. ... Fuck it, I think if we could we would string tin cans between our windows.
Do about 1/20 of my homework (Holy shit you guys my classes are SO reading intensive this semester. Just for kicks I'll tell you what I have to read for Monday below)
Watch LOTR bloopers in the kitchen
Give the day up as lost, eat an entire bar of chocolate, wash it down with hot chocolate, and go to bed.

A day in the life. Good times.

Right so, Monday is my second day of classes (Thursday doesn't count; it was just sections), and I have SO MUCH READING. I have to read:
A packet about The Arabian Nights, 63 pages in The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin, Billy Budd by Herman Melville, the introduction to The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, (Keep a journal on Melville and Norton readings), lines 1-178 of Beowulf, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, William Caxton's prologue to Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, an article on the sex/gender binary, an article on grammatical gender and sexism (the kinds of dense academic articles that can take ten minutes per paragraph)

YEA! And the first homework assignment is always light!

Oh god.

EDIT: P.S. Did I mention that I'm officially interning at a new literary agency? Their children's agent did Carrie Jones' Need! Yay excitement! I remember visiting Bloomsbury last spring and seeing the next book, Captivate, when it was still in the works and they couldn't figure out what part of the chick's face to make golden on the cover.

Current Music: Yes - Coldplay

Randoms thoughts of the day-

Today when I got on the train there was a woman obstructing more than half the door, making it awkward to get through (and only in single file). She continued to lean against the door the entire trip and would not move even when the train stopped. Even when we pulled up to big stops and 20+ people were rushing to get in/out she still didn't move. I was extremely vexed.
Jesus people. Please learn to be courteous on public transportation. Or just, you know, in general. Why do people think the world revolves around them?
I walked 50+ blocks in one go today! That on top of the usual daily errands and the long walk I took with Nancy probably comes out to just a little less than a 100 blocks! Holy shit my feet hurt.
Tomorrow my teacher is having a professional come and teach us the dances that were popular in the court of Louis XIV. I think this is really super awesome and I would LOVE to go, but he said that woman should wear long skirts and heels and men should wear nice pants and jackets. The problem? 1. I don't even have a long skirt here with me 2. I have no desire to wear a skirt anyway 3. I don't own dressy men's clothing
I would've asked a friend if I could borrow some clothes from them, but I don't know any small guys here in New York. Maybe I'll think of something by tomorrow...
Is anybody else already seeing people in costume? Wtf people. Halloween is on Saturday.
I found At the Bottom of the Garden by Diane Purkiss at the Strand today! So excited! I can't wait to read it! Sometimes The Strand pisses me off, but my best book finds are usually in some dusty corner of that store. I also found The Two Princesses of Bamarre, which I loved as a little kid, at some random little used bookstore the other day. I guess it's a good week for books.
(Ask me about my first encounter with the Strand sometime and you'll hear a funny story. And by funny I mean one that makes me look stupid. Same thing, right? XD )

Current Music: Iron Man - Black Sabbath

xxturncoatxiii has done a terrible thing and gotten me into a new fandom. The nice thing about getting into Marvel is that this fandom is full of art. It's a nice change from being in book fandoms or talking about my own characters. What really sold me on the fandom was those moments of deep emotion that pop up amidst the fighting, or the small gestures that suddenly explain so much about a character.
Oh Tony Stark, you break my heart.
I had a stress freak-out last night and then didn't go to class in the morning. Feeling insanely guilty about it. I'm about to skip my next class too. God I feel so bad about it. But I can't deal with school right now. I have this mental illness called "judging my entire worth as a human being by my academic success". Thank you parents and private school.
I'm going to write a paper about Perrault! I am so excited. I have so many yummy books to read. My favorite part of going to my university's library is the other, unrelated books I find while trying to locate my research materials. I got a book on 18th century popular culture. Come on.
My friend at Johns Hopkins has the swine flu. This is the first time that somebody I know has gotten it. I'm not worried; I'm certain he'll be fine in a week or so. The whole trend is a bit worrisome though. For whatever reason my age group is very prone to severe respiratory complications. I don't feel good about getting a vaccine which has been tested for so little time and has only been on the market for a few weeks, but I think it'll be better off if I do...
While I'm taking the whole media terror with a grain of salt, sythia has spoke with an epidemiologist who says there's cause to very concerned. Guess we'll see.
Finally got bus tickets to Providence for this weekend. Going to spend the weekend at Brown visiting Clara.
My dad is coming tomorrow! That means he'll take me out to eat somewhere good! And also that he's bringing me some warmer clothes. And probably a whole crapload of other things my mom is going to dump on him last minute.

Current Music: Incomplete - Backstreet Boys (Tony/Steve FMV)

HAHAHAHA

Bill Gates' Facebook Page

Current Music: Paparazzi - Lady Gaga

Profile

missivesfromghosts

My Website

April 2011

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

Style Credit

Base style: Blanket by sforzinda
Theme: Kings & Runaways by sarken

Syndicate

Page generated Jul. 15th, 2025 11:36 pm

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page Summary

Armadillo! Baby turtle! TOAD!
Randoms
Randoms
More Randoms!
Randoms
This is me shamelessly showing off my new icons
More randoms!
Randoms
Epic lulz

He was a beautiful fiction

I invented to keep out the cold

Entries tagged with randoms

Armadillo! Baby turtle! TOAD!

Randoms

Randoms

More Randoms!

Randoms

This is me shamelessly showing off my new icons

More randoms!

Randoms

Epic lulz

Profile

April 2011

Style Credit

Syndicate

Expand Cut Tags

Page Summary