STEVE BLUM IS GOING TO BE AT MECHACON THIS YEAR.  Vincent from Cowboy Bebop the Movie and Vato Falmon from Fullmetal Alchemist will also be there.  AND STEVE BLUM WILL BE THERE.  zomgwtfbbq.  i /love/ him.  omg he is going to open his mouth to say something.  anything.  and i am going to lose my shit.

Once upon a time, of an evening with puddles watery sunlight and air crowded with a thousand pleasant and unpleasant odors, I stood in a crowded tube car and saw the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.  She was black with a long neck and high cheek bones.  Braids wrapped up in gausy olive.  Loose olive fabric hung from her bare, sculpted ( Read more... )

I've never written down resolutions before.  In fact, I've been staunchly against the tradition, because, fuck, getting by is all I can do sometimes.  But alas, I HAVE MANNED UP!

For 2011 I shall:

>     Maintain my 4.0 GPA through the next 3 semesters of grad school
>     Lose 70 pounds
>     Raise my credit score by 20 points (my Equifax and ( Read more... )

This past weekend, Mr. Akahoshi and I went to New Orleans to visit his parents for Christmas.  While in town, we made our usual trek to the Quarter.  Our first stop was the Roosevelt Hotel (Waldorf Astoria) on Canal.  I'd never been, but I had seen it over and over in documentaries about the history of the city.


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I've been with this firm for 2 years now and while I enjoy the day-to-day work that I do for my supervising attorney, the firm organization as a whole kind of sucks.  No raise in the last two years, even though I have been promised one by two senior partners and I have brought in the most money out of all the staff ( Read more... )

Facebook not sucking ( Read more... )

Project for class:



It is teh lame, but whatever. I'm tired of this class!

http://www.screencast.com/t/g8l9lQKFOV

Federal Subpoena Tutorial

This is my first semester of grad school.  It has been going very well.  I am getting a Masters in Instructional Technology.  Wednesday, my university sent out its 2012 budget.  The university has to cut 15 million dollars from its budget.  25 Programs were have been cut.  MY DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN CUT.  All of my professors (6) just got pink slips.  ( Read more... )

I am officially the last person in America to get a Facebook account.  Do I get a medal or a free car wash or something?  Alas, I only opened it for a case where I am investigating another investigator.  I only have his name and a city he used to live in (well, and that he used to be an investogator for a company my company really wants to sue the ( Read more... )