The holiday greeting voice post will probably come tomorrow instead, because I'm twelve kinds of tired. But I had an awesome Christmas with the family. I got a bunch of things for my new apartment (shelves, utensils, iced tea maker, decorative odds and ends), and four new board games. The gift highlights, however, were a 90-year-old ouija board ( ( Read more... )

I was not originally supposed to work on Christmas Eve. I agreed to work from 8 AM to 2:30 PM because they desperately needed someone. Then, I got a phone call last night telling me that another mishap had occurred and wanting to know if I could stay until close- 6 PM plus however long it took to clean the store. I accepted, figuring that working a ( Read more... )

Trolling IRL, Lesson 4 (Christmas Trolling):

Go to Wal-Mart two days before Christmas. Grin at everyone you see and hum Christmas carols. If possible, skip.

Success rate: 14 hate glares, 3 WTF? looks, 1 "I'll have what you're having."

This is the new source of joy in my life.

Familiarity with The Rocky Horror Picture Show is necessary to fully enjoy it. But it's probably the best thing I have ever seen. (Also a plus if you know the song- "I Can't Decide" by the Scissor Sisters, made familiar to many nerds when it was sung by the Master on Doctor Who.)

I take back what I said a couple of days ago about nothing rhyming with "penisnipple," as, while intently pondering my elbow this evening, I came up with "wenisripple," which does indeed rhyme.

Finals week is upon me. I'll live, but ugh. I'm pondering taking a semester off after next semester. And yes, only a semester. I refuse to be one of those people who "takes a semester off" and then never goes back. But I'm definitely completely burnt out and can't be made to give a shit about anything, so I think a nice dose of the harsh realities ( Read more... )

Things I Have Learned This Week ( Read more... )

So, there are these guys who often park outside the mall. They all drive pick-up trucks, and they park them together and generally cause a ruckus until mall security comes to run them off. So today, security got a call about a bunch of pick-up trucks parked together behind Dunham's Sports, and, knowing that the group usually disperses as soon as ( Read more... )

Stolen from hagane_no. Proof that I spent too much time in the house in my teens.

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A final parting thought for the night/morning ( Read more... )