...what's so amazing about really deep thoughts...

ohmygoodnesswow

2008-05-03T04:48:26Z

Woot!

I'm graduating today! (Give or take 12 hours or so :p)

I am still very, very excited. :D

oh my...

2008-02-27T01:36:30Z

I just read an essay about slash. For my sociology class. From my sociology book. And it was rated R for, like, graphic descriptions of m/m lovin'. For. Class.

It was really weird to read, because even though I am a slasher, it's just one of those things you don't expect to find popping up in "real life", not to mention a 300 level sociology class.

fatamorrigain @ 2008-02-10T20:54:00

2008-02-11T01:57:19Z

I tried out a shampoo bar yesterday and I don't think that it worked particularly well. Granted, it was Baby Bee and very mild (my mom had bunch of Bert's Bees sampler packs and I raided them), but I think I prefer my shampoo as a liquid rather than in solid form.

Mmmm...

2008-02-09T05:56:18Z

I went to Bath & Body Works today for the first time in a few years, and I forgot how much I used to love them. So much smelly goodness. :) I guess I had perfect timing too, because I was looking for their aromatherapy headache relief, and the lady that worked there told me it had been discontinued and just recently brought back. I forgot how much I love their headache relief because it works so, so much better than any other blend I've tried. It even works better for me on sinus headaches than tylenol sometimes, which I've been getting a lot recently.

I was also sniffing the rest of their testers for their rollon aromatherapy (there were like five blends) and I realized that their calming sleep blend smells almost exactly the same as the perfume I've been wearing lately. And since this stuff really works, that could account for why I've been so darn tired this week. Well, that or the Ulysses I've had to read for class... but that's exhausting in a this-dude-is-crazy-wtf-is-going-on-in-this-novel sort of way, and the tiredness from that mostly goes away shortly after I stop reading it and my brain stops trying to process that crazy that is James Joyce.

Have I mentioned that I hate Joyce? And wouldn't you know it, I've read just about every single one of his works now for one class or another. Thankfully all that's left is Finnagin's Wake, which I believe is even more crazily written than Ulysses, and I graduate in three months, so there will be no more required reading ~~ever!~~ until graduate school.... (though that, at least, will not be for some time).

fatamorrigain @ 2008-01-25T14:55:00

2008-01-25T19:57:46Z

There's a new episode of Psych today, and the new season of Torchwood starts tomorrow! *is a happy girl* :D

too much homework!

2008-01-22T23:21:02Z

I have so much to do! Last week I was sick and all I really did was go through boxes and boxes of tissues and sleep, so now I am super behind in all of my classes. I have to read, like, another 200 pages in Ulysses before Thursday to get caught up, and I think that's probably not going to happen. Ulysses is hard, slow (insane) reading. I also have no idea what's going on in French, but that's mostly how I feel every class period, so I guess that isn't exactly special. Yeah, this semester is kinda starting out sucky, but it's my VERY LAST ONE!

Also, I cannot decide if I like my sociology class or not. The reading assignments in the book suck, the additional readings are full of grammatical & typographical errors that, as an English major and grammar-nut, really, really annoy me (like, please learn the difference between there, their and they, among other things)... but then again, my professor is a technophobe who admitted that he uses a twelve-year-old in his office to do all his computer work, so that explains that... I think he could at least proof-read it though. On the other hand, we only have one class period a week and the other is online, and we've been assigned to go see Juno instead of coming to class on Valentine's Day, which I wanted to see anyway, and I always like cancled classes. So... whatever... it's my VERY LAST SEMESTER, that's what I'm trying to concentrate on. >

fatamorrigain @ 2008-01-08T01:11:00

2008-01-08T06:15:21Z

Heheee... I got a syllabus today for a class that starts at 12:40 that says "The relatively early hour of our class is no excuse for tardiness."

happy new year!

2008-01-02T23:02:30Z

I made a new years resolution, and I think it should be pretty easy to accomplish. It is to graduate from college and get some job, somewhere, doing something. Yeah, I think I should be able to do that. ^_^

I got a Chocolate phone for Christmas, and I wanted to download Snow Patrol's song "Chocolate" as my ringtone (because I'm easily amused by that sort of thing :p), but was bummered they didn't have it available. Oh well... maybe later?

fatamorrigain @ 2007-12-13T00:54:00

2007-12-13T05:56:07Z

Writing papers is pure torture... especially when it's about poetry. :(

Gah. 3 pages down - 7 more to go.

art homework, you say? we'll just ignore that for now...

2007-12-03T05:20:16Z

I got a new layout. It's very pink and green, and it actually has tags. Or, one tag. So I decided that the best way to procrastinate my homework would be to make use of the pictures tag and the six month backlog of random photos on my camera. ^_^ Just a couple here, mostly of Tory being silly, but they did serve their purpose of distracting me from homework.

With his favorite fishy, my big ol' buttikoferi...

With his second favorite betta fish...

(the one in that tank is a female, and she smaller than the my other betta... he lives in a tank on my table, and I can't put anything else on it anymore, because Tory likes to knock it all down while rolling all over the table trying to get at him)

A snooze on top of a bookcase...

Hanging out on the shower... do not ask me why he likes it here so much, he jumps up there a lot when I'm at home...

And peeking down from above... he likes this to do this a lot too. ^_^

And, finally, one of Chloe, because I loves her so too, but she does much fewer silly things than the kitty.

That's all for now. :)

ramblin about ze fishies

2007-12-03T03:42:28Z

I got bored with my user icons, so I had fun changing them around again. It kinda puts me in the mood to make some of my own icons, but I just don't have the time until after finals. Maybe then. :)

I got a new angelfish yesterday for my 30 hex tank downstairs. He's doing very well, but I hadn't noticed when I got him that he was missing a gill cover on one side. Not a big deal, I don't think, just a genetic defect that means he has a good side and a bad side, and he seems otherwise healthy. Other than that he's pretty and strippy, and he likes to hang out in the bubbles. ^_^ He's going to get angelfish friends from my tank upstairs next week (so then I can take that tank down), though they're a bit bigger than him, so he might get picked on a little. They're pretty docile though, so it probably won't be too much of a problem. I do like my angels though. Once the pearl gouramies are matured, the tank is going to be full of the pretty. ^_^

fatamorrigain @ 2007-12-01T21:28:00

2007-12-02T02:36:30Z

Well, I really haven't updated here for some time. So let's correct that. ^_^

I have three things to say:
-Gap Long and Lean jeans are heaven... they're pretty expensive, but they fit so perfectly that I had to cave and buy two more pairs.

-My t key isn't working well and it's bugging me. A lot. :(

-This semester is kicking my butt all over the place, but I only have a week and a half left! Yay. :) And then my family is going on vacation.
This is all I have left to do:
-write two small 1 page extra credit papers for art
-finish my big 22" x 30" charcoal drawing
-take my last test in sociology
-take my french listening exam
-take my science final
-take my french final
-meet with my adviser to check all my credits are good for graduation next may (yay!)
-write a 10-12 page english paper
-fill out sirs forms (really looking forward to reviewing my french TA... I think the whole class is, actually)
-sell back books

And then I'm done! And I get to go on vacation the next day. :)

yay!!

2007-10-26T00:25:52Z

Scrubs is back on tonight! Yay! I'm very excited. :D

ETA: Evil!Lana on tonight's Smallville? So cool. I might just get interested in that show again if they make her even more evil and conniving.

fatamorrigain @ 2007-10-18T20:05:00

2007-10-19T00:06:54Z

Aw, gesh. There's another tornado going through my area again. Not cool. :( The sirens just went off about five minutes ago, so I think it ought to be okay...

fatamorrigain @ 2007-10-18T18:45:00

2007-10-18T22:46:10Z

I bought Heroes season 1 today! Yay. I'm going to go watch it now. :)

I also bought some more fishes. Apparently, the guppies in my tank weren't doing well because they're guppies and they just like to die and there's nothing wrong with my tank. So I bought some gouramies and an albino rainbow shark. They're all so pretty!

fatamorrigain @ 2007-10-11T16:55:00

2007-10-11T20:59:33Z

I saw a fox on campus today. It was on the corner of Mt. Hope and Hagadorn, which is right around the experimental farms, so that explains why it was braving all the people and traffic around. It was still pretty cool though. I've never seen a fox out and about before... just at the zoo, and that's not quite the same.

I think I hate my French class, just a little.

2007-10-11T03:25:11Z

I am so very tired. But my paper is done! Which means I don't have to write any more papers until finals! In English, at least... not so sure about what's going on in my French class... that could be because I'm not so sure my TA has any idea what's going on in the class either, and he's the one who's supposed to be in charge...

...I had more to say, but I think I forgot. My brain is (more than) slightly sleep deprived. I think it's time for me to go to bed. At least tomorrow is pretty easy. I like Tuesday and Thursday so, so much better than Mondays and Wednesdays. If I could only get rid of the French, that'd make them perfect! Or, perhaps trade for a new French TA? This one is too scatterbrained for me (yesterday he tried to lecture us for not preparing for a video by reading some assigned pages that he sent us in email... except it turned out that he had sent the email, but not the assignment, and the entire class had to tell him that, no, really, he forgot the to tell us the assigned pages before he beleived we weren't making things up).

zzzzoommmmbbbiiieeeessss eat your brains

2007-10-08T18:06:29Z

I have a huge paper due on Wednesday and I'm so not wanting to write it at all... The only good point is it's about Wordsworth and Coleridge's poems, which include "The Rime of the Ancyient Marinere", which means that I get to, in all seriousness, write about zombies. Really, it's great. ^_^

28 Weeks Later comes out on DVD tomorrow and I am totally going to have to rent it to get me through this paper. More zombiessess, yay! I do so like zombies.

plant-sies!

2007-10-07T01:09:45Z

I got lots of new plants today!
New plants now living in my appartment are an orchid, an itty-bitty minature rose, three new cacti, and a pot of mums for my balcony. I've also got 55 tulip bulbs to plant at home for next spring, and an aloe vera plant I got from Trader Joe's the last time I went home last month. Oh and some itty-bitty little air plants that I adore. They are so darn cute! ^_^

So far, I haven't killed any of my plants for quite some time, and these are all easy to take care of -- with the exception of the minature rose. (But it was so darn cute, I couldn't resist it.)
There is a reason most of my plants are suculants (lol, I typed succubuses first... that would be more than a little weird) or live in water.

this was my news page today, and it sucked...

2007-10-03T18:08:02Z

America is so backwards sometimes. The president doesn't want to help sick kids because, oh no, some sick teenagers or sick adults might sneak their way in there, and man, we do not want to help more people than we have to (it's such a waste of money, but millions in plane tickets? Nope, that's totally necessary...) and if the blind want to get online with exploiting people in sweatshops in distant countries just like everybody else, why, the legislation is all for that one.

Ah, capatalism... never change. (Except, really, please, please do.)

bpal wishlist

2007-09-30T23:58:08Z

flist, please ignore. :)

GC
A Pinic in Arkham
...

Ars Draconis
Dragon's Eye
Dragon's Milk

Bewitching Brews
Intrigue
Jack
Kubla Khan
Masquerade
Phantasm
Ozymandias
Swank
Ulalume
Umbra
Velvet

Diabolus
Marquise de Merteuil
Serpent's Kiss

Excolo
Centzon Totochtin
Elegba
Eve
Shango
Thaleia
Zorya

Ars Moriendi
Darkness
Sheol
Zombi

Illyria
The Apothecary
Caliban
Helena
Hermia
Iago
Jester
Katharina
Lady Macbeth
Lear
Lysander
Othello
Rosalind
Titus Andronicus
Viola

Love Potions
Carnal
Delight
Hunger
La Belle Au Bois Dormant
Libertine
Lilium Inter Spinas
Muse
Perversion
Severin
The Temptation
Vicomte De Valmont

Mad Tea Party
Croquet
Frumious Bandersnatch
Jabberwocky
King of Hearts
Lion, The
Mock Turtle's Lessons, The
Mouse's Long and Sad Tale
Pool of Tears, The
Tiger Lily
Tweedledee
Tweedledum
White Rabbit

Panacea
Elixir II: Succor
Elixir III: Lustration
Elixir IV: Quietude
Elixir V: Moxie

Rappaccini's Garden
Black Lily
Destroying Angel
Dian's Bud
Hemlock

Sin & Salvation
Anathema
Cathedral
Dorian
Oblivion
Pride
Wrath

Wanderlust
51
Baghdad
Bayou
Hollywood Babylon
Kathmandu
Madrid
Morocco
Pontarlier
Prague
Rome
Sri Lanka
Tombstone
Whitechapel

Salons
Exhibit I
Fox-Woman Kuzunoha Leaving Her Child, The

Exhibit II
Cupid Complaining to Venus
Melancholia
The Arrival at the Sabbath and Homage to the Devil
The Cup of Death
The Ectasy of St. Theresa

Exhibit III
Fox Fires on New Year's Eve at the Garment Nettle Tree at Oji
Kiyohime Changes From a Serpent
Philosopher in Meditation
Schlafende Baigneuse
Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree

LE
Fairy Wine
Lady Una
Mr. Ibis
Sagittarius '07
The Haunted Palace
Spirits of the Dead
Flower Moon
Carnaval Diabolique
Xanthe, the Weeping Clown
Smut
The Pit & the Pendulum
Et Lux Fuit
All Saints'
Cancer 07
Dolce Stil Nuovo]
Sugar Skull '07
The Perilous Parlor
Aeaea
Angeronalia
Archangel Winter
Midwinter's Eve '07
Mistletoe '07
November
The Shivering Boy
The Snow Storm

Rares
Original Milk Moon
Honey Moon
Honey SN
Pink Moon 05
La Fee Verte
Mitzvah
Storyville
MB: Closet
Mabon
Spooky
Crumpet Rebellion

& finally, scents I'm always on the lookout for more of (imps or partial bottles);
Pirate Moon
Lydia
All Souls (bottle only, please - any level, any year)
Fazia, The Black Mamba
Vipraladba (decants only, please)
Leanan Sidhe

Also would swap for bars of Villianess Bathory soap and BPTP Cauldron Gunk soap.

Bold means I'd really, really like it.
Current as of 1/6/08 (I think).

because you all wanted to know my eating preferences, right? ....right.

2007-09-30T19:38:14Z

Is it weird that I'm a vegetarian, but I find other vegetarians incredibly crazy and strange? Probably. It's just that I was reading this article about vegans and vegetarians having a tough time dating - even each other - because their values are so different, and didn't you know, not eating piggies and chickens, etc, but still drinking milk and eating (unfertilized) eggs is still MURDER! And, I have to think that, just maybe, these people can't find dates not because they're different but because they're crazy.
But then, I'm not a vegetarian because of values. I find the 'meat is murder' slogan absurd, and really, the only reason that I still don't eat meat is because, after 8 and 1/2 years it's become a habit and because of health reasons. Hormones and dyes are just icky and, for me, at least when it comes to red meat, pretty dangerous because of those pesky allergies to red dyes. I'd probably go back to eating organic meat, but you know, that's even more hasslesome than just not eating it at all, so I haven't bothered yet. Plus, do you know how expensive all natural meat can be? It's (also) crazy high.
But yeah, I mostly just hope that I never end up dating one of those crazy incompatible vegan/vegetarians. Because, seriously, that article was just too weird for me to read...

In other news, I am a bad speller. :(

fatamorrigain @ 2007-09-26T15:56:00

2007-09-26T20:03:59Z

I have a grand total of eight baby guppies. They're neat little guys and they seem to be doing okay today. Hopefully they'll stay that way. ^_^

And, amazingly, French isn't my most hated class this semester. I kinda wish my TA wasn't so out of it most of time, but oh well. No, the spot for most-hated class is now filled by my English class. And it's totally because of the professor (the same one that didn't even show up for the first day of class...). He's got an ego the size of the classroom and he wants us all to be sheep and say bah and agree with everything he says. And I don't like that. He seems to want us to believe that there can only be one meaning to gain from any piece of work, and that meaning is, of course, the one he came up with. Ugh. Whatever... it just makes me annoyed having to listen to him.

fatamorrigain @ 2007-09-25T20:47:00

2007-09-26T00:50:23Z

Holy crap, I have ~~four~~, no, make that five little baby guppies. That was certainly a surprise, considering I just bought the females today... they either gave birth just now, or the babies got transfered in from the water at the petstore. Okay then. We'll just have to see how this goes, since I've never had baby fishies before.

Also... new House in ten minutes!! Yay. :D

fatamorrigain @ 2007-09-18T19:43:00

2007-09-18T23:48:50Z

EEEEWWWWWW!!! There was a dead mouse waiting for me when I came back home yesterday. Mantience had to come dispose of it for me. It was really stinky, but at least there's no more mouse. Tory is sad about this, but I don't mind. Mices are fine, as long as their out in the big wild outdoors, but inside is very, very bbbbaaaddd.