With a little more than 24 hours until 2011 blesses us with it’s graces, and hardly an idea of where I’ll find myself at the stroke of midnight, I’m finding it’s far less stressful to devote what would be time spent planning to contemplating where I’d be if fiction existed (and I had some great connections ( Read more... )

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Quoth my ATM receipt from last Sunday (conveniently located in the basement of the 9:30 Club):

"It is far better to have and not need, than to need and not have."

Why, you clever little Automated Teller! If I hadn't desperately needed cash to buy records from touring
bands, no doubt your apt slogan would have convinced me.

Soooo worth the $3

In the year 2000, my family buried a time capsule beneath a tree in our front yard. We dug it up on New Years Day this year, although to some dismay, as a root had grown through the box and most of the contents were ruined. Mom wants to do another one this year, to be buried on Mothers Day ( Read more... )

Months until credit card debit is paid off: Approximately 12

Episodes of Lost remaining: 4

Classes left to complete my degree: 3

Days until completing current class: 7

Movies left in Netflix queue: 419

Cost of ticket to St. Louis: $269.00

Days left until I turn 27: 16

I'm not sure what cosmic forces are at work in my life currently, but I've been having an abnormal amount of good luck, specifically in the realm of money. At the same time, my mental and physical state of being is comparatively low. I've been sick all week and my relationship is hanging by a thread ( Read more... )

* finish my degree. for real. four classes left… no excuse ( Read more... )

I just saw Terminator for the first time. Yes, I know, it's about time. It was the first of the series I've seen even in part. IMHO the best parts of the movie have been taken out and reinvented in better films (The Matrix, 12 Monkeys, Back to the Future Part III... I'm actually quite serious) and the rest of it was just okay. Linda Hamilton's ( Read more... )

There were two movies I remembered distinctly seeing as a child, the images which stayed with me well into adulthood, but which I never learned the name of or saw again. The first of which was solved when I was 19, randomly walking into my parents living room and seeing "Mask" on the television. Immediately I knew it was the movie I'd wondered ( Read more... )