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also...i'm sort of oblivious lately and don't get to watch much news anymore. i noticed a lot of flags at half-staff this weekend...who died? i'll probably be really embarrassed when someone tells me. i tried reading various news sources online but didn't see anything.

I'm getting out of the habit of posting when I don't have anything to say...I'm into having content at the moment.

Had a good, lazy weekend. it was exactly what I wanted for my last weekend before school. yesterday afternoon i met up with paper_wings, sryder, and a bunch of other people at the moan and dove for beer. i had a great time hanging out and tried a couple of good beers. heather gave me some belated birthday presents, including an awesome Lambic glass, and the DVD of Persuasion. last night's twilight was really, really beautiful. also, i saw a flock of turkeys on the side of the road.

school tomorrow, but not really. meetings and coffee, lunch with a former classmate, and braving the madness of the bookstore. then errands, mailing some stuff and picking up a silly card for a coworker who just had surgery. tonight i made the yummy trader joe's brownie mix for the coffee thing tomorrow, and am now watching Supernatural. yesterday, i finished knitting the swap hat i was making, so now i am deciding what other unfinished craft project to get to first...once i get a few little things done, i have a couple bags i want to make for myself.


to end, here's a couple of memes:





And, from lordavon, a list of 10 of my favorite things that start with the letter S. Comment and I'll give you a letter.

1. Sex (this was sort of a gimme with this letter, really)
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Sleep
4. Singing in the car
5. Socks
6. Sewing
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Snacks
9. Sandman
10. "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down"

I think I've figured out the perfect way to do homework...I am going to listen to my online lecture/powerpoint and knit at the same time :)

tonight is cool and it almost smells like autumn. it's only september first. the trees are confused and already starting to do their thing. i'm ready, but i also want it to last a little longer. i need to find some autumn icons.

this labor day weekend isn't going to be nearly as awesome as last year's, but i do have the next three days off. i've got a bunch of stuff planned, including some school on tuesday, but it doesn't count.

at work we got this life-size motion activated witch figurine that lets out bloodcurdling screams. you can hear it pretty much anywhere in the store except in the back office. it sucks.

this afternoon i did my best to help hippygoth with some packing and cleaning. she gave me a pink cardigan. i actually intend to wear it as i like it a lot. perhaps i'll take pictures when the day comes. went to work this evening, which thankfully went by fast but i would have rather been off eating pizza with people instead.

still awake...going to knit more for a bit, then get some sleep. this morning i made myself go back to sleep after waking up early, figured i'd better do it while i can :)

omg, have i mentioned how much i hate retail? it's just as ridiculous as stuff that happens in Office Space, only different. meetings about how to fold things and size them(they go from small to large, who knew?) and whatnot. it's so stupid. i hate it and it makes my head explode from the stupidity. i am also looking for other crappy retail opportunities, as my current one keeps aggravating me. honestly, it's not that i don't take it seriously and try to be a good employee, but i fold clothes. it's not saving the world. and yay for having to work retail during the upcoming holiday season, while also trying to get through the hardest semester of my program. awesome. has anyone ever heard of an office job that is available on weekends? that's really what i need.

on another note...i found this helpful list of dates of fall tv show premieres. I am looking forward to the shows coming back. It doesn't list everything, like the tim gunn show, but that's already programmed into my tivo. It starts next week, btw.

last night-got out of work, went to rao's. sat in the sun, got hot, tried to do homework. went to bueno. played two hours of Wii sports. my elbow hurts today.

anyway. was going to post an entry about various introspective things, but i'm not into posting that on lj right now. some of you have gotten some of it via email and that will suffice for the moment. y'all don't need to listen to me whine anymore. i'm just thinking a lot lately. i seem to be doing something wrong, and i don't know what.

anyway. enough emo. last real day at the doctor's office was today, which makes me happy. i've been back there enough to remember now why i left. i'm considering quitting, as i'll only be there 4 hours a week now, but we'll see how it goes. i may need the time for school anyway.

went to target after work tonight, and bought a copy of Office Space for $10 but once i got home i realized it was full screen...i should probably return it, but i'm not going near target for a week or two until the students go away. i might just keep it. i also bought a chococat notebook for my pharmacology class. i need to step it up a notch from last year's jack sparrow folder...

so...working tomorrow and saturday night, and have schoolwork to do this weekend, but i also have sunday and monday off, which is exciting. i have no idea what i am doing yet, i'll be happy either doing stuff or not. i might see if there's another movie i want to see. i sort of want to see Superbad. Ooh, and Halloween comes out this weekend...I should call Cathy.

anyway...anyone have anything fun planned for labor day weekend?

because i still need to tweak things to get pictures to phone post, and i'm too tired, here's my ghetto version. this was my first, "oh yay, i have a camera phone!" moment. this was on the bathroom wall in rao's tonight:



i have a new layout. it's kind of sad but i like it. had a weird night and am very pensive. tomorrow night will bring a very introspective post. i have been thinking about some stuff lately and tonight it got brought to a head. i've determined i have some sort of character flaw. a year ago, i was looking at the same giant yellow late august moon and things were so, so different then.

i need to do sleep things now. last full day of job #2 tomorrow. yay.

amanda palmer was right...there is something strangely addicting about "umbrella".

umbrella umbrella ella ella eh eh

serously, wtf is that about?


i am actually getting a lot of work done, despite my listening to the popular musics. go me.

whee! stupid database broke again, so i came home. i'd planned to take thursday afternoon off anyway, so this works out ok. i just switched my days. it's really nice out, i am planning to take my paper stuff out on the deck this afternoon and get started on that.

that's all...i'm just excited to be home. yay!

no matter what the calendar says, i am decreeing that it is autumn. still very early autumn, where it is warm and deceptive during the day, but it's sneaking in there. i find i want chai every morning, although there's too much sugar in it for me right now. Also, the BPAL halloween/autumn scent update came out today, and i am able to get a few little things for myself right now, yay. this is my favorite update, naturally. there's one called "October" this year. i am hoping that they get it right. i want it to be right.

school starts one week from tomorrow :( plus, this semester is all clinical, all the time. i intend to keep the whining to a bare minimum and will likely just post pictures of myself crying instead. i already have like 4 assignments to start on.

my to-do list for tonight looks like this:

-call for prescription refill
-finish Twilight
-finish Him, Her...
(i only have about 15 pages left in each of those)
-print out all syllabi and other info and organize
-start beginnings of paper. i really should have chosen a topic that comes up later in the semester.
- make list of things i need to do, with due dates, until i get a planner to put them in(clio214, i decided that i am going to get one. i think it's necessary.)
-work on a hat i am making someone for a personal swap
-watch some of the tivo

so work ended up not being that bad today...it was kind of busy and loud, but busy enough that it went by fast. however, i am thinking of applying at the new lowe's they're building in town. i'm sick of driving back and forth, and i bet they pay better. and, less stuff i can buy with my discount, which isn't necessarily a bad thing :) speaking of, i did manage to get a sweater, a shirt, and a necklace for $24 today after a gift card we got for some sales contest thingy, and my discount.

tonight i finally finished up my swap package, and it is packed up and ready to be mailed tomorrow. yay...i'm happy to finally have it done. i still have a few little things for other people to be finished up, and then i am going to get working on that decemberists bag i've been planning for so long. i have a need for it now, hee :) i didn't get anything else done tonight besides watching some buffy and other tivo while crafting, but it's a start. tomorrow i start reading stuff for my paper.

i need to find out when all the fall shows start so i can get the tivo programmed. apparently there's a tim gunn show started on sept. 6th. not sure what the deal is, but tim gunn is good.

final reminder-jewelry show is closing in two days. last chance. and that's the end of that.

i think i want to re-read Stardust again now, but i'll wait a bit before i do. oh..and i totally forgot to mention the trailer for Beowulf and how much ass it kicked.

and now, to bed.

so...after my morning of cleaning, i went to see Stardust with clio214 this afternoon. i really, really liked it, much more than i expected, with two minor exceptions. the ending was changed, and that was ok, but i felt like it dragged. and the robert deniro bit? not really necessary. otherwise, quite good, and it didn't hurt than the guy playing Tristan was very very pretty.

after the movie, we went to the mall to get something to eat, and then spent a ridiculous amount of time in newbury comics, but i picked up a couple of small christmas presents and the new Dresden Dolls DVD-the one I got from netflix and liked so much. it was cheap.

and now, i am more stupidly exhausted than i have any right to be at 10pm on a saturday night. it doesn't make sense. and it's hot in here...it's actually pretty nice outside right now. i think i'm just going to bed. i'm *really* not looking forward to working tomorrow. having a day off was so novel, and i have a ton of stuff to do tomorrow night too. i suspect work will be ridiculous, with the back to school shopping. shoot me.

i totally forgot to mention the dead bird at work yesterday. we have one of those break rooms that has a movable wall in the center, so you can cut the room in half or open it up for big meetings. we kept it block off, and worked in the back half of the room. yesterday there was a monthly lunch meeting, so we started cleaning up and moving tables, etc. and then noticed that there was a dead bird over by the windows. the windows don't open. at all. ever. there's an AC vent in the ceiling, but it's got pretty small openings. the bird hadn't been there that long, was definitely dead, and had definitely not been there flying around as we would have noticed it. very, very weird.

at some point i might post about some health stuff, what appears to possibly be some blood sugar issues, but i'm not sure if i have anything to say about it yet. i am keeping an eye on things though, and making mental notes.

and now i'm really going to stop posting, i have to de-stickify myself and get ready to leave the house, so i can get sticky again. sigh.

finally crashed around 10:45 last night. woke up around 7, but read and laid around for a while. it's ok, i've been trying to get on a regular schedule anyway.

i think i want a button maker..because i need more crafting supplies, right? maybe after i finally clean out all the junk i have now...which is going to happen one of these days soon.

speaking of cleaning, although it wasn't my original plan for this morning, i cleaned my closet, put a ton of clothes in the donation pile, and picked up my shoes. i also put my new sheets and comforter on the bed, and am looking around for new blinds and a cd/dvd storage unit of some sort. i actually got really motivated while cleaning, and if it wasn't so effing hot and i wasn't going out later, i'd probably keep going. i have to pick up a lot of stuff in prep for ripping up the carpet and putting in a new floor in a few weeks anyway. it's going to be sort of a nightmare.

there's some fun knitting girl-scout type badges online. i am amused that i immediately get a level II medical attention badge, skipping right by level 1. hee.

so..i am going to try to get a little more done around here before heading out to meet clio214. we are going to see Stardust this afternoon, yay! (hence the neil icon)

So. Where did i leave off? Right...books.

Yesterday was free book day at work again, someone had left a nice selection on the table, so I picked up a couple of things. One was a Jodi Picoult book I thought my mom might like. I also got The Shadow of the Wind, which I think paper_wings read recently, and a book about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane that might be interesting.

Then, after work I went to the library. I returned the crochet book as I had bought my own, and the new Marjane Satrapi graphic novel/story, Chicken With Plums, that was short but moving. While there, I picked up Him Her Him Again The End of Him, which was a recent selection of roxy_fondue. I was sold since the first chapter has the heroine talking about Sylvia Plath and studying in Cambridge. I'm about halfway through already, due to a long lunch break today. I also finally got my hands on something by Haruki Murakami(Sputnik Sweetheart)...I suspect someone was writing a thesis on him or something as the books have been out for months. I also grabbed a new book by Mark Haddon, , A Spot of Bother who wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. This is longer and will take me more than an afternoon to read, but it looks promising.

So...that's six books right there. I had three knitting books and a magazine in my bag for hippygoth to look at when i got to her house later on, but we never got to that. however, she did give me back three books i had lent her, so on my way home last night, i had 12 books in my car :)

anyway. after the library, i wandered around town for a while, trying to decide where to eat. i took a walk around one block, looking at the little houses and apartments and imagining myself riding around town on a bicycle, perhaps with a basket, and imagined i could be very blissfully happy there. i realized that despite all the crap, school will be over in 9 months and although perhaps i could be miserable with my job as that's always a possibility, the end is very much in sight and those things like bicycles and apartments are so much closer now. so close. i really need to start making concrete plans and lists and budgets.

so i wandered for a bit, and then i stopped for a bowl of soup for dinner and finished reading A Walk in the Woods, and then drove to Holyoke and saw hot air balloons on my way. i visited with hippygoth and murphyzlaw and tried to do helpful packing things.

today was sort of chaotic, we moved to a different part of the office and there was a lunch meeting which we just stole food from. i knocked off a little early and have sort of done a few things since being home, namely laundry. yesterday, as mentioned, i was tech girl and did software upgrades on a bunch of computers and will likely get to do more on monday. it was a nice change and it got me out of the back and over to the clinic where i could visit.

tonight i learned that you can't get dog hair out of the dryer. you may wonder why one would ever encounter such a problem, but these sorts of things happen around here when my dad is not busy being bob vila and installing a hardwood floor.

anyway.

i really, really have to pull something out of my ass and finish off two swap items that are almost done so i can mail the whole thing out tomorrow(it's later now, and i haven't finished those or this entry. it'll get mailed monday). it's already 3 days late. it also appears that clio214 and i are going to have some sort of adventure tomorrow.

watched doctor who but i missed the intro and am sort of confused, so i'll have to rewatch later anyway.

my decemberists shirt came, and it's wearable but almost borderline. we'll see. perhaps i'll save it for when it's not hot and humid.

finally...martha stewart has these awesome invitation kits for halloween that look like specimen slides. there's a whole "mad scientist" line that really makes me want to have a party. damn.

and off i go...to see if my sheets have dog hair all over them...(they didn't).

So...I am waaaaay too tired for a proper entry tonight, and way behind on reading the LJ, but i'll get to all that tomorrow, including stories about my car being full of books and me being tech grrl today, and soup, and hot air balloons(god, that sounds way better than it will really turn out to be, sorry) but that will come tomorrow night. i'll actually be home tomorrow night, which right now sounds like the most perfect way to spend a friday night. i am lame and sad.

however....

NEW DECEMBERISTS TOUR!!! THE BOSTON DATE IS NOVEMBER 3RD WHICH IS A SATURDAY!!!

I really sort of want to go, especially since I am missing Tori, and probably Enter the Haggis, and btw Interpol is playing in Boston sometime next month, and there was that Maximo Park thing, but at least I am getting to see amanda palmer, which btw i bought an extra ticket for...

anyway...any of the usual suspects in for Decemberists? No word on ticket prices or anything just yet, and i'd probably have to come home that night, since i don't want to take an entire weekend off... but still. i should also really check to make sure i don't have a massive project for school due the following week or something...will double check tomorrow.

decemberists, eee!!!

worked both jobs today. realized, due to asshattery on the part of job #2, and some ambition of my own, i am working 7 days in a row next week. d'oh. at least i'll be able to afford to live into at least october. that's promising.

still intermittently sick, between allergies, i think, and the remnants of the cold. my eyes feel like they've been rubbed with sandpaper. blech.

i am determined to do *something* this weekend. i have no idea what, but i am going to start working on making something, anything, happen this weekend, even though i really have things that need to get done. i don't care. i've been isolated for like two weeks. seriously. i really should go to bed, but i am going to get some emails started right. now.

I am trying to stay awake a little longer...I have to work tomorrow night and don't want to get up too early, which is what would have happened if i went to bed at 9 like i wanted to. urgh.

anyway...i am doing this music meme thingy from clio214 and watching the baseball.

Comment on this post and I'll give you a letter of the alphabet. Then post your top 10 songs that begin with that letter. I got C this time. They're not in a particular top 10 order though, just 10 of my favorites.

1. "Carbon" - Tori Amos
2. "Cat People(Putting out Fire)" - David Bowie
3. "California Dreamin'" - The Mamas and the Papas
4. "Cells" - The Servant
5. "Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol
6. "China" - Tori Amos
7. "Cities in Dust" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
8. "Coin-Operated Boy" - The Dresden Dolls
9. "The Crane Wife 2" - The Decemberists
10. "Congress" - Enter the Haggis

maybe i'll just go to bed now. yawn.

Ok, now it's a little too cold for me. I'm wearing sweatpants, my cruxshadows hoodie(which is heavy), and slippers. it's like i forgot that it's summer. brr.

i'm still feeling kind of crappy, it's really frustrating. i did work today and it went by fast, but another day being lazy would have helped. oh well.

i really need to get my swap stuff finished up and get going on all those things i said i was going to do during this break. i think i just want to sleep though :) i am going to make some tea in a little bit, hopefully that will help warm me up.

i need to see if i can budget a little bit of yarn in the next few weeks. i want to make bunny slippers and a few other little things, and perhaps get a head start on christmas.

holy crap, that was boring. sorry. i'm going back to debating which ringtone to purchase. also, this episode of futurama is hilarious.

eta-becuse someone might care, i ended up choosing three ringtones. i suck when it comes to narrowing down choices about music. I ended up with "Slow Hands" by Interpol-not my favorite interpol, but they had something by them so i sort of had to. I also got "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys as it fills my instrumental ringtone need. The third was an impulse buy- the Felix da Housecat remix of Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", which is essentially the original with a beat thrown in.