[14 Feb 2006|11:27am] should you need us [ mood | bored ] [ music | "Venus In Furs" - The Velvet Underground ] Things are going much better than last time I posted, thank God. Work isn't so bad anymore (in fact it's downright easy), since the vast majority of the pain-in-the-ass residents have either moved out or moved..uh, on. To the big Bingo match in the sky. I have, like.. nothing to do in the morning, and it is great. For now. At some point the leasing people are going to decide it's not so cool to have 1/4th of the building empty, and will thus accept anyone with money and a moving van, be they 345Ibs. or on death's door or whatever, but for now, it's goodstuff. I even worked a double (11pm to 3:30pm next day) and I wasn't dying by the end of it. So far as school goes, things aren't too bad either. Taking Microbiology, which is kind of hard, but I'm figuring if I actually study a bit I just may pass. Aaand I'm taking American Government, which is just naturally boring, but the teacher is cool, and there is some nice eye candy in there so hurray for that. All that's really bugging me right now is wisdom tooth issues (OWOWOW) and the fact that I REALLY need to get cracking on applying for financial aid, because I meant to do it a month ago, and I also need to apply to OU so that I can't start taking classes there and hopefully get an on-campus apartment and get out of this house already. I'm slacking. Bleh. And that's about it. Boooring. But uneventful is better than the drama I'd likely otherwise get, so I'm not complaining. Johari Window time! The negative traits one -- http://kevan.org/nohari?name=interscient The positive traits one -- http://kevan.org/johari?name=interscient Feeling kinda artsy, so I may just get around to making a newish layout sometime today. That, or I really need to clean my room.

How to Disappear Completely [04 Nov 2005|06:24pm] should you need us [ mood | hopeful ] In case anyone is feeling particularly masochistic, I decided I might as well put the prologue to my NaNoWriMo novel up ( under the cut. ) Diclaimer: Just keep in mind that I wrote all that in one day, and.. you know, the whole point of NaNoWriMo is to write the most godawful crap you can, as fast as you can. So.. yeah. It's not great. It not even all that good. But I'm rather fond it, myself. ;)

[17 Oct 2005|02:56pm] 4 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | exhausted ] [ music | "Safe and Sound" - Sheryl Crow ] ( Puppy Fashion Show! ) ..That is all. :D

NaNoWriMo and puppy torture [05 Oct 2005|02:26pm] 1 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | amused ] Stolen from queenstrata, even though technically I'm not writing in the fantasy genre per se, buuut I figured it'd be good to start planning a little bit more. Follow the cut ( here. ) Also? Kota's first outfit came in the mail today yaaaay! Cute as HELL. I kid you not. Kinda too small, though. It'll work if he needs it, as it doesn't strangle him or anything, but damn is it a bitch to get on. And he hatesss it, he does. Mwahaha. Pictures forthcoming. ;)

[04 Oct 2005|09:54pm] 3 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | chipper ] Not a real entry, haven't done much besides school and work, but who wants to read about me anyway when they can look at ( puppy pictures! )

Doesn't it just figure? [26 Aug 2005|08:11pm] 5 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | excited ] [ music | "Club Foot" - Kasabian ] I never learn. Had a good post going in which I complain about my adorable pain in the ass puppy, discuss my upcoming class schedule, and ponder the point of having hand-recognition technology at the dump that is my job, but I lost it all by once again assuming that if I clicked elsewhere on LJ, I could just click the back button and all would be well. I really should know better by now. Ah well. Kota will still be a cute pain in the ass tomorrow, so I can go into THAT whole story later. What I can't wait for tomorrow to write about is that I am SO EXCITED about NaNoWriMo 2005! Yeah, okay, it's still quite a while away, but all of a sudden I'm on this huge creative kick. Big with the enthusiasm, way determined.. Last year failed in part because I didn't feel like I could convincibly pull off the whole attitude and feel of my main character, rather disheartening for me, but this year I really feel like I've got a character I can work with. Moody english gentleman types are more my speed. Though technically, he's not at all english. Eeee! So excited! :D I'm such a dork! Wanna know what my idea is? ... Can you handle it? ... Think Drop Dead Fred meets Lasher (of the Anne Rice novels). Paranormal lit-fic. I amaze myself sometimes.

Surprise! [18 Aug 2005|06:11am] 1 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | tired but happy! ] [ music | 'Closing In' - Imogen Heap ] Didn't realize it's been literally months since the last time I updated. Will try to do so more often, but nothing has really been going on except work, sleep, eat.. aaand a little bit of school. Guess we can start with school. Boring stuff first, as there's a surprise coming up at the end of the entry. ;) Finally got child development over with during the summer. Ended up with a B+ in the class! Happy about that. Brought up my GPA a whole lot as it replaced the shit grade from last time. Going to be continuing at the community college for now. It's cheaper, more convenient, and if I have to take classes there anyway, might as well go for the small (associate'? bachelor's?) degree. In social work. I figure that can segue into psychology well enough later on. Think I mentioned this last time. Anyhoo. Unfortunately, as of now, I only have one class scheduled for fall, so it's slow going. Apparently nobody drops classes around here. I need mcirobiology to get out of having to go to a lab, but nooooo. Damn nursing students snatch it up. Wanted my english class online, but couldn't get into that either, so I'm going to campus for that. Gotta get some political science class, and a gym credit, then I take the social work once those are done. Moving on. Work! I'm officially full time now since otherwise I'd have no insurance. Been working four on, three off for like the past two months and it suuuuucks. Going in at 7pm with my mom and having to sit around until 11pm to actually punch in sucks even worse. Used to just work 7pm-7am, but they cut me down before the new boss came as only supervisors can work 12 hour shifts. But found out the new boss is offering new employees 12 hours, so I asked the other day if I could go back to that, and she didn't say no! So we'll see on the next schedule. That could get me down to only 3 days a week, plus a couple hours extra, so yay! If only I wasn't feeling the need for a restraining order against one of the pervy old men that live there, I'd be almost happy with my job. ( Okay, suprise time! ) So thats it for now! But I'll probably be posting an obscene amount of pictures for awhile, so no more three month absenses from my end. :)

The world is against me today. [07 Apr 2005|05:26pm] 2 up for a game of scrabble| should you need us [ mood | Damn youuu, ebay! ] So I was in the midst of writing a really long update, not to mention LOSING A BEAUTIFUL SKIRT TO SOME WHOREBITCH TRAMPSLUT, aand then my computer went crash. So here's the semi-condensed version (I'm long-winded today). Will be going to school in the summer. Had to pick one of OCC's majors, so I went with Mental Health/Social Work. But I could have went with a criminal investigative major, with such classes as Firearms & Ballistics(!) and Crime Scene Photography(!!). But that had one too many chemisty requirements, and really.. it's pretty much only for people planning to go right to work at a police station. Eh. As for the whole skirt thing. Sigh. I'm feeling a little bitter right now. Have been wanting a really nice peasant skirt, found some in this persons shop on ebay. SO PRETTY OMG. Some of them tie-dyed, some of them flowery, the one I reeeeally wanted was mostly black with grayish blue in the middle as well as some swirls of a light reddish shade. I can't describe it all that well. It was SO PRETTY. Anyway, was writing the entry, and as I was writing, the bidding was getting down to the wire. Like, five minutes. Then two. At about two, I'm figuring the skirt is allllll miiiiine (at like $35, though, so I wasn't entirely thrilled with that), and then I went to check, it it was at LESS THAT A MINUTE, and then I just barely noticed that SOMEONE OUTBID ME NOOOO! Rushed to offer up more cash, but alas, I was too late. I am SO getting a different one, but sigh. That black one was the best. I luff it. And it is lost to me forever. Unplugged the laptop to go take it upstairs to show my mom what I'd lost, and crash goes my computer. LJ entry lowered at the bottom, not saved. Son. Of. A. Bitch. So that just about catches us up. Moving on. Provided you still read my LJ, Cory, you'll likely find this hilarious. My sister, after a small hiatus in which she just used self-tanner instead of going to some salon, is back to tanning now since there's a place right up the street. Guess who she's talked into going with her? Oh, me, naturally. So now I'm tanning. And I suppose I rather like it. It gets me out walking, anyway, so that's always good. And my sister is PISSED because she thinks I'm getting darker than her, hehe. My teeth KILL. I keep saying that I need my wisdom teeth out, and then I put it off, buuut I definitely made a dentist's appointment today. For a month from now, hooray. Guh. The left side of my mouth is sooo swollen. And then genius me got a blizzard today. And not just any blizzard. Oh no. A Snickers blizzard. With FROZEN PEANUTS and HARD CARAMEL and my tooth may have cracked in two, because OW. So, all in all not the best day, but I'm not too messed up about it. 'Til next time!

[19 Feb 2005|11:23am] should you need us [ mood | uncomfortable ] I'm starting to think a low-grade (99-101) fever that sticks with you for going on over a week now isn't the most healthy thing in the world, even if it's not a whopping 103-something like my brother had. I feel all oogy. :( Got to call in to work (miracle!), so that was good.. but I didn't get much recovering done. Fell asleep for maybe all of two hours last night, and that was closer to morning than not. The rest of the time was spent trying to figure out how to breath with 1.) an alternating stuffy/runny nose, and 2.) a sore throat due to (I think) the cold air in my room. Plus a headache, plus my eyes where and are still burning, plus a multitude of other symptoms that probably aren't so much with the seriousness, but still. I'm exhausted. I could go to the doctor's, but as chances are that this is nothing to really worry about and they'd just give me some horse pill to take and call it a day anyway, that would just cut into precious possible sleep time. Because if whatever I've got is anything short of hospital-worthy, I definitely have to go to work tonight. But I don't know if I'd even be able to sleep anyway, so ugh. I think what I'll do is stop reading medical websites like the total hypochondriac I am (it's SARS!), quit whining into my LJ, and try to sleep for the next couple hours til my mom gets up, then she can decide what to do with me. My brain hurts.

*coughhackcough* Damn computers. [18 Feb 2005|12:18am] should you need us [ mood | sick ] So this past weekend I was supposed to go on a mass fun shopping spree with like.. $300, but instead, I sat at home with my sister watching movies and ordering delivery. Because my brother was in the hospital all weekend with dehydration/bronchitis/flu. So that rather sucked (moreso for him than for me, obviously, but still.. I was stuck with my sister). Ugh. Went to work Tuesday afternoon feeling none too healthy, by 11pm, I definitely had a 102 degree fever, killer headache, and a bad case of dizziness. Worked anyway, naturally, because I work with my mom. Went to the car at about 7:45-8:00am, proceeded to try sleeping in the car until the mater moosied out oh.. about an hour later, because having a sick daughter outside waiting for you is no reason to actually leave on time, of course, when there's overtime to be earned by wiling away the morning talking. Got meds on the way home, slept, woke up in time for Lost, which rather cheered me up, for I love Sayid. Today I pretty much just stayed in bed and only got up for medicine, so that was nice, except now I'm really starting to cough up phlemy ickiness. What I'm really upset about now is that I downloaded LimeWire a couple hours ago, got all of two songs, and then my internet broke. :( Works upstairs though, which I think is odd, because we're on the same comcast cable internet thing, so both computers usually lose access together. Soo I need some help. Searched for viruses, found none. Deleted all adware. Restarted computer. Deleted Limewire. Restarted computer again.. and still, no dice. That pretty much concludes my reportoire of computer-fixing tricks. I'd be freaking out if I had the energy to do so. Any ideas on what could be wrong/how to fix it? It is like.. a bandwidth thing? Do I even have a bandwidth limit for cable internet to be worrying about? If so, how does one check these things? Would deleting the two songs I DLed fix this? Helphelphelp! EDIT: Fixed! Another crisis averted.