I forgot the best part about our trip to Hurricane Harbor on Monday! THE MAGIC LOCKERS.

Instead of renting a locker with an old fashioned KEY like in OLD TIMEY TIMES, they have these magic bracelets that you wave in front of the lockers, AND THE DOOR OPENS! Your door! The one to your locker! Every time!

It was CRAZY. And AWESOME. Oh man. I wore the magic bracelet on my wrist. I hope the magic rubbed off on me.

Oh, magic locker 27-10. All the lockers were magic, but I like to think that ours was EXTRA magic.

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Oh, and also? Someone stole my flip-flops. I left them at the bottom of a waterslide and when I came back, they were gone! It was tragic. Well, slightly tragic. Well, they were about six years old and there was a hole in them, but still! Now I'll have to wear one of my three other pair of $2 Old Navy flip flops!

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UNRELATED TO THE REST OF THE POST, is anyone on my flist going to ComicCon? And maybe they love me a lot? And want to do me a big favor? LET ME KNOW.

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I should go to bed. I have to work in the AM. Ugh. On the bright side, in nine days I'll be in Florida, on the beach, with someone I actually enjoy spending time with.

"Wolverine's psychotic bisexual son was using his pheromones--"
"Please don't say things like that while I have a mouthful of soda."



"'Jesus for Life.'"
"It's very hardcore."
"Actually, I don't think it's clear. Has he accepted Jesus into his life? Does he think he's Jesus and he will be Jesus for life? Maybe his name is Jesus and he doesn't plan on changing it."
"Maybe his boyfriend's name is Jesus and they're together for life."
"And in a hard rock band."


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Today harmonyangel and I went to Hurricane Harbor, the separate water park part of Six Flags here in Jersey. It was AWESOME. The weather was perfect, the crowds weren't bad, and we had a spectacular time riding all manner of water slides, the lazy river, and finding the best possible spot in the wave pool. Lots of talk about fandom and life and, surprisingly, the consumption of fruity alcoholic drinks! Who knew?

Anyway, eventually the day wound down and we drove to Sonic for dinner, because I have never been and there aren't any in my part of the state. It was a cool experience! Afterwards, we went to this cool music and comic store nearby.

I got home around eleven and I really need to take a shower and go to sleep. But man, today was awesome!

Tomorrow I have to work, so that will probably be less awesome.

Rewriting my resume at 10:30 at night is a GREAT idea! I'm so glad I decided to do this! It's not like I could use this time for OTHER things, like sleeping or packing a lunch for tomorrow!

D: D: D:

Today I saw Coraline (the musical) with priscellie! It was awesome! Creepy and adorable and sweet and ridiculous. The songs were awesome and the actors were all top notch. The set was fantastic, too, and I'm bummed we waited so long to see it, because I would have loved to see it again. I'm sure there are all sorts of things that I missed.

Now I am home and procrastinating from writing cover letters. SURPRISE. I am usually so eager to write them. Here is a meme I've been tagged for.

(I am getting to the "five words" meme one day, guys. PROMISE.)

Firstly: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question. [Note: I didn't replace any of the questions, because I don't care that much]
Secondly: Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you. Do it if you want to!

( questions and shit )

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Really? Jon and Kate Plus Eight are going to be on Ace of Cakes? WHY? Why must they invade my fun cake show? I have been successful in avoiding them so far! D:

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Back to cover letters. Tomorrow I'm going to Six Flags with harmonyangel! Yay!

Huh. July happened.

There are about a million posts I want to make, but I'm just not feeling it right now. I AM TIRED, INTERNET. Even though all I did today was sleep. I really need to work on, you know, not being crazy. Sigh.

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Um, anyway. I have a million things to do. I want to talk about internet friends vs. real life friends and why my job sucks and what I've been up to and my SGA and Who renaissance and the books I've read recently and my summer plans and the shows I've seen and stuff coming up and all that, but right now I just want some ice cream and to watch mindless teevee.

I will say, though, that today I had a waffle that was the best waffle ever. quatredeathlady and I tried to go to the Today show to see Rob Thomas, but the combination of holiday weekend + summer + Friday + whatever was INSANE. The line wrapped all the way around the block and then halfway around the block again and the first two sets of barriers were already filled with people! I've been to the Today show twice before and it's never been that crazy.

Anyway, we went for breakfast again and it was awesome. Oh man, waffle. Now I want another waffle. I think I really just need to eat dinner and all of this food craving will go away. IT IS TEN PM, KAITLYN.

I'll see you around, internet!

Hello, internet. How are you? I am tired.

Not that that's news.

Anyway, it is raining, I am wearing a new dress, and also I have a meme, stolen from everyone:

Reply to this meme by yelling - or typing - "Words!" and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you. Or explain in the comments. Or not at all.

Please play!

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Today I bought another book. I KNOW. I KNOW. I HAVE TO STOP DOING THAT. But the book is called Geektastic and in reading the summary, my immediate response was, "MY PEOPLE!"

So, you know. Bought it. I've loved the stories I've read so far. Full review later.

I'm going out momentarily. I didn't sleep very well last night. I slept, but I kept waking up and having weird dreams. In one of them, I was going to visit krabapple, but halfway through it turned to the two of us going to visit someone else. The someone else had a baby and was a really bad driver. In the other, I was watching (but also sometimes participating in) a sequel to what the people in my dreams kept saying was Let the Right One In but it was really nothing like that at all. It was more like 30 Days of Night now that I think about it.

Anyway. I finally gave in and accepted I wasn't going to be getting any more sleep, and got up to start running errands. I have a lot to do before I leave. Like, maybe I should eat something.

I'm sure I'll give a blow-by-blow once I get home, if only because I promised krabapple XD Also, since I've taken tomorrow off, maybe I'll actually get through some of the nine million tabs I have open for comments to leave and respond to.

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So, I'm the last person on the planet to hear about IMeem (but thankfully it was the day before, not the day after!) and I spent last night frantically going through my delicious to DL and/or relink the vids that I had bookmarked on Delicious. I got all of them except one, and the one had been updated by the vidder, but the link is expired and it appears she's currently on vacation, so I'm not concerned about that. But this isn't about how shitty Imeem is being. It's about how AWESOME vids are.

Guys! Vids are awesome!

I watched about nine million SGA vids that reminded me that I adore this team above all else. I LOVE THEM. GUYS. SO MUCH.

Then I watched a bunch of Who vids, including What About Everything II by calapine and my heart swelled with the love that I still feel for Doctor Who when I can force myself to forget about the last twenty minutes of S4. So I immediately hooked up my external harddrive and watched "Rose." I love Rose! And Nine! And Mickey! So much! :D

I would probably have dedicated this entire day to re-watching Who and/or SGA, but I have to finish up around here, get dressed, get my clothes, and head into the city. But my heart is watching my shows. Or, well, that sounds creepy. Something like that.

After work yesterday I grabbed my friend Lauren and we headed into the city to see Katy Pfaffl's CD preview show at The Living Room.

I think most of you know how much love and affection I have for Katy, her husband Scott, and their music (both together and separately) XD

Anyway, Lauren and I met up with quatredeathlady and moonsheen for dinner before the four of us headed down to The Living Room. We had to wait outside for a little bit, since the show had a cover charge, but I caught up with Katy and Scott while we were waiting ("I always thought when Katy and I got married, we would be grown ups. ....why are you laughing?").

And we finally got inside! And ordered drinks! And the waitress told me her name and said she recognized me from being at so many of Katy's shows! I think that makes me a loser!

But, whatever, you guys don't care about that. What you care about is how awesome the gig is.

(I am pretty much deluding myself into believing you even care about that, but this is my blog, and I'll embrace my delusions.)

The gig was AWESOME. Katy is always great. Nicole and I were talking at her last gig about how every successive gig/album is nine million times better than the one before. All of her gigs and albums are great, but she just keeps getting better. Last night was no exception. She had a whole new incarnation of her band and they add all these new layers to the songs I've been loving for the past couple of years. I cannot wait for the actual album to come out, guys, and as soon as she announces the date for her CD release party, you can bet that I will be peer-pressuring the locals into coming with me!

Here is the set list, with minimum commentary:
( set list! )

But it was a great show. High energy, a great time, and I think that Lauren really enjoyed herself. Yay!

I'm so glad I went. Getting into the city is always such a hassle and a half at rush hour, and since I hadn't slept in like, three days, I was cranky on top of it, but it made me smile for the rest of the night. I went to sleep with 200 Stories in my head and actually slept for the whole night and everything! It was amazing! I feel like a totally different person now that I've had some sleep!

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Today I am going to try and write and also maybe bake and try and catch up with friends I haven't talked to (er, texted or emailed. Actual talking is for lame-os.) in a few days.

Yo, internet. What's up?

I have not been sleeping. Also, I am itchy and today I had to start to move the entire teen section again. Yes, the section I have moved like, three times is moving again! I am going to stab someone :D

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I usually try not to stick my head in the lion's mouth, vis-à-vis wank, but I am just so FLUMMOXED by the warning wank that I can't help but just, you know, stare blankly with a little question mark over my head. This is human decency, guys. I'm not going to get into it in depth, but I will quote eleveninches, who summed up my exact feelings:

No one's fanfic is so special that a warning for non-con is going to spoil it. Not unless the surprise ending of your fic is, "And then s/he got raped. The end," in which case, your story is a badfic and you should be ashamed.

Seriously, dudes. Seriously.

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I am simultaneously re-reading the Nine and Chris books by Bruce Coville and Sandman. I don't know why I have decided to mix these two together. I'm having a great time revisiting what I used to love about the Bruce Coville books, and it's kind of hilarious, looking back on them now, how much these books totally shaped the type of stories I wrote as a kid and the type of entertainment I enjoyed. Sixteen years later, I still feel like these books were written specifically for me. I still want to be Nine. Awww. Good times.

Sandman remains fucked up and awesome.

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I am trying to write tonight. Watch me go.

My internet was tragically out when I got home :(

It finally came back around 8pm. I was going out of my head. I beat all my previous high scores on WiiFit while waiting for it to come back.

It's back now. Obvs.

The rest of the day is pretty much a blur. I had trouble falling and staying asleep and had really weird dreams when I was asleep. I hope I sleep better tonight, because this week is CRAZY. I am seeing Fountains of Wayne on Wednesday night immediately after work, then Shit, I just realized that I'm working Wednesday night. :\ I'm going to have to tell my mom and see if she can find someone to take my ticket :\

Um, anyway, I'm closing Wednesday, opening Thursday, then going to see Katy with quatredeathlady and my friend Lauren from work. Tragically, there's a Queer YA panel at the Borders at Columbus Circle at almost the exact same time that I'm going to miss. Two authors I really like (okay, one author I really like, one author I IDOLIZE) will be there and I'm pretty bummed.

I think I made plans for Friday which I don't remember now, and Saturday Amber Benson is going to be at Midtown Comics. Sunday I think I agreed to let quatredeathlady get me drunk and laid.

So. Busy week.

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I stole this meme from krabapple.

List 10 (or however many) platonic male/female relationships in fiction that you enjoy. My attempt at rules:

1. They interact in canon, preferably in a significant (apply your own interpretation of such) way.
2. They are not related. They can, however, view each other as surrogate family.
3. Neither has confessed or implied romantic love for the other in canon.
4. They have not dated, been married, had sex, or made out in canon, on purpose, and over their own free will.
5. A popular fanon ship is ok (though preferably not your ship) but a canon pairing you wish were just friends is out.
6. Try to avoid using the same character or series twice.
7. They don’t have to be friends.

1) CJ Cregg and Josh Lyman - Oh, CJ and Josh! They are total BFF. Like three other people have said so far, Josh really needed that older sister that he lost and CJ fills in nicely for Joanie. They just compliment each other very well ♥

2) Teyla + Team Sheppard - Um, without Teyla, all three of those boys would be dead. For serious. They NEED her, and I think she needs them to keep her priorities in order and to remember to have some fun once in awhile. Especially if that fun is beating the crap out of John or Ronon.

3) Mary Shannon and Marshall Mann - Okay, to be honest, like krabapple said, I think there might be some pining on Marshall's part this season, but that aside, they work best when they're working as a team. I can't remember the exact quote, but sometime in the first season, Marshall says something about how he's the only person on the planet who Mary trusts to get her, and she begrudgingly agrees. He understands her. Few other people do. A lot of people (Stan, Raph, Bobby D) put up with her, but Marshall understands her.

4) Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant - I love the mentor/student relationship with Valkyrie and Skulduggery. He doesn't treat her like a kid and trusts her to have his back, but also understands that this is her childhood and she should try and participate in it, to some extent. Their rapport is fantastic, and their banter is what raises the series above the rest of the random generic fantasy series out there.

5) The Doctor and Donna - No stupid pining, no romance, and not an overlot of angst until the end. I don't think The Doctor ever quite knew what he was getting into with Donna, and I like that he could never quite get a handle on her. She wasn't in awe of him--of what he could do and where he could go, yes, but never of him. It was great.

6) Harry Potter and Hermione Granger - If it weren't for Hermione, Harry would be dead. For serious. He'd have walked cluelessly into danger right from the start. Hermione kept Harry's head on straight.

7) Abby and Gibbs - Abby and Gibbs have the most awesome faux-father/daughter relationship ever. I know there are people who ship them, but in my head, Abby is the daughter that Gibbs lost and Gibbs is the mentor that let Abby spread her wings and develop into the kickass scientist she is now.

8) Jonny Quest and Jessie Bannon - Some people used to ship Jonny and Jessie. I think they'd kill themselves before they were romantic with each other. Jessie is the perfect foil for Jonny. She has just enough book smarts and self-preservation to keep Jonny from doing the TRULY stupid things, but enough of a sense of adventure to go along with his more exciting schemes. Add Hadji into this mix and they end up with enough sense not to get themselves killed all the time.

9) Veronica and Wallace - Awwww. Veronica and Wallace's friendship is something that was really lacking from the show as it went on, and it broke my heart. Wallace would do anything for Veronica and I think Veronica would do anything for Wallace, if it came down to it. Yes, she tended to use him a little, but she used everyone around her. I don't think she quite knew how to trust people and relearning took a lot of time. But in the end, their ridic BFF-ness was one of my favorite parts of the show.

10) Jack Carter and Jo Lupo - Jo was skeptical when Jack came to town, but they've grown to make an awesome team. Jo still ribs Jack most of the time and Jack still gives Jo crappy duties when he's irritated, but Jack trusts Jo, probably more than he trusts anyone in town except Henry, and Jo's opened up a lot more since Jack has been around.

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Okay, done memeing. Going to watching teevee, eat some ice cream, and go to bed.

Today was meeting two of my writing critique group! It went really well, even though there were only three of us (quatredeathlady, ruecian and me) and only two submissions. We didn't get any actual writing done because I really wanted a cupcake and we were a quarter of the way to the cupcake place, but we sat around for a long time and talked about writing and the two pieces submitted. I feel a lot better about chapter one, though I still don't love it (I have a thing with not liking my own writing) and I'm really excited to see where Chris' story is going to go. GOOD TIMES WERE HAD.

That is pretty much what I spent the whole day doing. I took a nap after Nicole and Chris left, but it was brief and actually made me feel worse. Well, that capped with my dad yelling at the Yankees and chewing gum with his mouth open. Now I have headphones in and the world is a much lovelier place.

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OH MY GOD, INTERNET, THE RAIN. I mean, seriously. I'm getting sick of it. I have a perfectly good pool outside that I still haven't been in and it's almost July! I fear it's going to overflow soon. The creek is already pushing its boundaries. I do not want a repeat of fall 1999, when the bridge was lifted off its base and carried into our neighbors' yard.

I drove through a lot of it and it varied between torrential downpour and foggy drizzle. Driving through fog is always awesome, but I could do without the torrential downpour parts of the afternoon. Also, I am now prejudiced against people who drive red minivans.

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Now I'm watching one of the three NEVER BEFORE SEEN episodes of NCIS from last week. We saw two of them but missed the first because we were on an epic trip to pick up a playhouse for my aunt's former foster kids. My dad has gone to bed and the world is a much quieter, easier to handle place.

(I should clarify that when my dad shouts, it's not really in anger as much as it is that he's frigging deaf and turns the teevee up super loud, so needs to shout to be heard over it. It's infuriating.)

I think I'm going to bake some cupcakes tonight. Or read a book.

Speaking of, I randomly found my copy of I Like You by Sandol Stoddard. I frigging love this little tiny book, guys. It's super cute. I swear, the best ever, totally fool-proof way to get me to go out with you is to give me this book. I mean, I already have it, but still. It just makes me smile.

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I can already tell this episode of NCIS is going to be the best. episode. ever. ABANDONED SHIP! WITH OUR TEAM STUCK ON IT! DiNozzo is cracking me up already. I want this episode to live on my DVR forever ♥

Hey there, internet. It's been odd around here, lately.

Let's see. Yesterday didn't really feel like a Thursday. I'm not sure why, but the whole day at The Bookstore was off and this crazy belligerent customer who was insanely rude and insulting to myself and another employee didn't help matters. My favorite part was, after her calvacade of "This has NEVER happened before!" and "You'd better call the school RIGHT NOW to fix this!" and various other insulting things that don't make sense out of context, I responded to her very politely with an offer to get a manager. She huffed and then said, "Well, I'm not trying to be SNOTTY or anything, but this is just wrong."

You are doing a bad job of not trying to be snotty, lady. Also, your fifteen year old son is possibly a bigger snotty douchebag than you are, believe it or not!

(In the end, it turns out that she was wrong and we were right, but of course she'll never admit that.)

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Anyway, I got home to an e-mail from bessiemaemucho informing me that Megan (clumsygoddess, though she hasn't used LJ in a few years) died on Tuesday night. It was... very surreal. I haven't talked to Megan for real for a few years now. We've exchanged a few Facebook greetings and links in the past few years, but we used to talk pretty regularly when I was in high school and I've met her a couple of times. I remember I used to read about all of the stupid shit (said fondly) that she and Renata would get up to while rushing for various Rent stops together and think they were SO cool. Over time, I got a lot closer to them (Renata especially) and realized that while they were cool, it was only because they were as incredibly nerdy as I am, and that was cool to me.

It's just... sad. Which is probably one of the stupidest things I've said lately, but, yeah, it's sad. She was only a year older than I am.

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So, yeah. That happened too. That was all yesterday. Not much else has happened since. Today I read a book and didn't go shopping like I was going to. Tomorrow my critique group meets for the second time. I'm "hosting," as it were, and my piece is, right now, the only thing being discussed. This is incredibly nerve-wracking.

Tonight I might actually go out to the mall (maybe) or just stay in and work on writing. Or watch teevee. Or bake something. I really want cupcakes.

Hi, internet. I am still sick. I'm sorry. I know that is boring.


Today I was thinking about how John and Rodney secretly snuck away from the rest of Atlantis to play a special video game together for years. Sometimes I forget that these things actually happened.

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I made a list of cupcakerys around my vacation spot. Clearly I have a problem. Still, there are three or four within driving distance! I'm excited! A little too excited, perhaps, given that my vacation is still a month away. I am trying to space out my preparations so that I'm not sitting around tapping my foot for a month, but the closer I get, the more I want to do. I want to go clothes shopping! I want to make playlists! And buy new sandals! And get recommendations of places to go and things to do! And not have to go to work anymore!

I think that last part may be key.

It doesn't help that my work buddy, who basically makes my days bearable, is on vacation for two weeks starting tomorrow. TWO WEEKS. I mean, I like the other guy who works in recieving with him, and there are other people who I tolerate or even like, but work!buddy is my only consistent dose of daily sanity. I do not know what I am going to do.

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Speaking of work! Sort of!

When semirose was in town last week, we went to The Strand and I found Oddest of All by Bruce Coville! I am a huge fan of Oddly Enough and Odder Than Ever and did not know that there was a third book! It was released last year! I don't think The Bookstore ever got a copy, and that is a TRAVESTY.

Anyway, I bought a review copy (50% off!) and I'm making my way through it right now. It has one of my favorite of Coville's short stories, "The Ghost Let Go," which is a Nine and Chris story! I love Nine and Chris!

It led me to looking up everything written by Bruce Coville on BookMaster. Tragically, many of my childhood favorites are out of print! While most people fixated on the Magic Shop Books (Jeremy Thatcher, et cetera), my favorites were always the alien books and the ghost books. As I said before, my favorites were the ones about Nine and Chris, and I can't find my copies anywhere! Only one of them is available new and I am tempted to buy the other two used, just so I can have them. I DO NOT KNOW WHY I WOULD GET RID OF THESE.

Anyway. I ordered all of his books that were still in print that I remembered/wanted. My other favorites, aside from the aliens and ghosts, where the collections of short stories he edited. (You remember them. Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers, Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters, et cetera.) There were only three :( (I mean, the alien books are still in print, but I still have my copies of those, and the Magic Shop books are still in print, but the short story collections and a bunch of others are no longer available.)

So, now I have three Bruce Coville books! I may have two more, if I decide to order new copies of The Ghost Wore Gray and The Ghost in the Third Row.

I am slightly crazy.

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I posted the first chapter (revised) of my kids' novel to my critique group! Hopefully we will talk about it on Saturday! I'm reworking the second chapter now, but it's becoming more about Danny than Keerthi, so I have to work on that. It's nice backstory about why Danny is the way he is in this universe, but this is supposed to be a story about Keerthi.

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I am going to drink some more water (one day I will make good on my threat to measure how much water I drink in a day. It is A LOT.) and then go to bed.

Hi, internet.

Today, my mom and I went to NJ Books 2009 in Paramus. I haven't been feeling well, so we didn't stay long, but I got to see Susan Beth Pfeffer speak and had her sign my copy of Life as We Knew It. I was the oldest person there who wasn't a parent, so I felt a little creepy, but overall it was nice to listen to her talk. She was very funny.

Afterwards, mom drove us home because I was feeling crappy again. I took a three hour nap. I'm still tired and crappy feeling. I don't know if I'm going to work tomorrow.

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Aside from being sick, here's a meme that krabapple gave me. It's that one where you talk about your icons. I love that meme!

( icons below the cut! )

Okay, now I am tired and overheated and sickly and going to bed.

I am dying of plague, internet. I thought it was allergies at first, but it feels like, twenty times worse than usual. To the point where I actually called a doctor to make an appointment. You know how much I hate wasting money on doctors!

Anyway, if I die, quatredeathlady is doling out my estate.

(But if I do die, double check to make sure she didn't kill me to get her hands on my stuff.)

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I have never seen everyone at The Bookstore so fed up and unhappy. Some of the managers have been saying that the store never looked better than it does now, and that may be true, but, seriously, everyone is fucking miserable. It's like a store-wide fog of gloom. I need a new job. And also to take my vacation. Less than 35 days!

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So, I normally don't give a shit about who celebrities are dating or anything like that, but I can't help my find myself totally gleeful and eager to hear all the details about Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman that they are willing to share. I guess they're not actually "celebrities," but still. I don't really know them, so I shouldn't care, but oh my god, I totally do. Could they be more adorable?

The whole obsession, however, makes me feel slightly creepy.

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I need to finish revising chapter one of my kids' novel if I want my critique group to, you know, critique it this month. Or if I want the group to meet at all. Because so far no one else has submitted anything and the deadline, she approaches. I will have to summon the energy to e-mail them after I finish posting this.

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I am bored. And whiny. Send entertainment!

Just finished Catching Fire aka The Hunger Games: Book 2.

My heart. It is squished and flattened and in pieces.

And oh my god.

I mean seriously.

In all of that rushing around, I nearly forgot I saw this meme in a couple of places.


01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal. (Psst: you don't really have to!)

02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.

03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

( Cut! )

Oh man, internet, I just finished The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan and it was frigging awesome! It's a vampire book, but it puts kind of an interesting spin on the mythology. Believe me, no one is more burnt out on vampire crap than I am, but this was fresh and cool and incredibly creepy. Like, "Man, I might actually have to sleep with the lights on!" creepy.

I also read all the new American Girl books. Rebecca Rubin gets my full approval.

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Here is something else about books, provided by the lovely, talented, and wonderful shaeberry:

Books Good Enough to Eat - It's a series of photographs of cakes based on kids' books! I thought the Fancy Nancy and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ones were particularly cool, but there is also Olivia and Pigeon and tons of other awesome ones!

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Also, 30 Rock is a ripoff of The Muppet Show.

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Okay, but yeah. I guess I should talk about my life. I mostly have just been reading books and going to work. I will one day make a big locked post about why I stopped liking my job these past few months, but just THINKING about reliving all of this is exhausting. A lot of it is a terrible mixture of being on the bottom rung of the store ladder, being the whipping boy FOR that bottom rung, and having all of the rest of the store hyper-sensitive all the time. Anyway, long story short, I am just stressed out and counting down to my vacation every day. I actually installed a dashboard widget that counts down to my vacation. Once it hits -7, I'm going to reset it for DragonCon. After DragonCon, I am resetting it for my trip to see Dar with inocidduous or my trip to visit my friends Emily and Robert in New Mexico, whichever ends up coming first. (I'm still working out the logistics of the second one. And when I'm going. And, you know, even telling Emily and Rob I am going.)

But, anyway, I've been tired and depressed! Thus, not doing much worth writing about.

I spent last weekend with semirose and her friends Alex and Liz. I think I briefly wrote about that. They're on an epic roadtrip and spend a few days in NY/NJ. On Saturday, we bummed around NJ and saw Up and played minigolf. On Sunday, we briefly went to the Met (and even more briefly saw moonsheen) and then just wandered around town. I showed Maia my favorite places to eat and walk and eventually wandered home, blearily, to watch the Tonys.

The Tonys weren't at all surprising, save for the AWESOME musical number at the end.

Boy child visited for a week and went back on Saturday night. We were supposed to get a picture taken for my mom, but we never got around to it, mostly because I spent most of his visit at work.

I am tired and looking forward to a weekend of doing nothing. Except for the part where I have to work on Saturday.

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Ahahahaha! Oh man, I love those Emerald Nuts commercials about the 3pm slump, and I just saw a new one where a shrink was slumping and told his patient to commit arson. At the bottom of the screen, in tiny letters, it said, "Don't commit arson. Not even once."

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Anyway! That's about it for today, I think. I actually started this entry because I was having some computer problems and wanted to reset Firefox. Closing that PBS tab actually stopped the crazyhigh CPU issues and made the whole thing calm down some, so I am not resetting, but I'm glad I caught up with LJ anyway.

Ugh, I am so over this job, guys. Tragically, I am stuck here until I find something better, which will be never.

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In other news, my computer is running really slowly today! I'm not sure why! It's very laggy. I just downloaded a Safari and iTunes update and maybe that has something to do with it? But I shut it down for a while and started it up again and it was okay for about an hour, but now it's laggy again. Hm. It's only 69 degrees in my house. I have it on a lapdesk that's not too hot. I'm not sure what's wrong.

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In more exciting other news, I booked a flight for inocciduous and myself. We are going to DragonCon :D (Or, at least Atlanta. We haven't bought our con tickets yet. Neither has krabapple as far as I know. But we will all be in the same place at the same time again!)

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Okay, I was going to say more, but the fan on my computer is going crazy now. I think I'm going to shut down for the night. Hopefully this will be better tomorrow!

I didn't watch any of the web telecast because a) my internet wasn't working and b) my parents were watching a movie and complained when I tried to make noise come from my computer.

( Spoilers )

Um, the absolute best part of the Tonys happened at 11:02. Just so you all know. XD