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June 30th, 2009
06:56 pm

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I keep not updating. This is a flaw.

SO

Since I am overwhelmed, I will restart updating as follows: Ask me any question, and I'll answer! (WITHIN REASON, CREEPERS) After this, I will assume you have all satisfied your curiosity with my entire life up until this point, and can start fresh.

Bonus: ( HAIRCUT )

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01:08 am - Writer's Block: Childhood Firsts

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What was your first word?


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Sears.

(6 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

June 12th, 2009
04:39 pm

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Regarding my last "entry", any f-list cutting is cancelled because basically everyone I wasn't sure about said they DID read my journal after all. Even if there might be a few who didn't answer, I was wrong enough in my assumptions that I'll happily give them the benefit of the doubt ;]

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June 11th, 2009
11:55 pm

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( Entry Within )

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June 9th, 2009
01:20 pm - Writer's Block: Talking Ducks

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Happy birthday, Donald Duck! Which cartoon character do you think is the most disturbing?


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...I share my birthday with Donald Duck.

Amazing.

Oh well, I also have Johnny Depp. Suck it, Donald.

(Yes, I B OLD now ;] 25, gah!)

(17 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

June 5th, 2009
11:53 pm

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Home.

Exhausted.

But visit was excellent, more useful content to follow.

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(5 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

June 1st, 2009
04:56 pm - Texas Update! Sponsored by "awesome"

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I just realized I haven't posted since I arrived.

This is not going to be a run-down post, because I suck and am currently lazy.

HOWEVER

A-kon was awesome, [info]shinga has awesome friends, having an awesome time, got awesome art, awesome awesome awesome.

Awesome.

Current Mood: [mood icon] awesome

(18 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 26th, 2009
01:20 pm

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I am alive in Texas!

Went straight from airport to the house of one of [info]shinga's friends for a Memorial Day party thingy, got back laaate and her home interz0r seems to hate me. I am online on my comp now only through juryrigging and fairy dust.

Diana, her cat? Made of cuteness and evil. I approve.

Already having fun, had a convo with one of her friends over which Enterprise was the better design. I love this place.

(58 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 25th, 2009
12:19 am - OMG IT'S ALMOST GO TIME

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I AM GOING TO FLYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I am all packed, and ready to go! Flight leaves tomorrow at 2pm my time, arrives 4pm Texas time. Gone until June 5th, and all is awesome!

I have everything I need (or so I goddamned hope), have a total rundown of the airports, and all possible "what to do" scenarios. I am so mentally over-prepared, but it helps keep me calm ;]

OMG I need to sleep, but OMG.

(Random aside: Super Punch Out for the Wii is awesome and fun. And kept me sane.)

Next time I post, I will be in TEXAS.

...who the fuck would have thought my first flight would be to Texas? I love how my life never goes as expected; it keeps me interested in it ;]

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(60 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 22nd, 2009
02:39 pm

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Haven't forgotten, won't forget.

Think I've finally started to live by the lessons you taught me, though.

 

May 21st, 2009
12:38 am - Tea-d Off

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Solid day, met up with [info]terminus8, walked around Square One to talk and catch up.

Along the way, met up with a mutual friend, working at a tea place called Teaopia. I'm a regular there, and most staff know me by my constant order of an iced Wild Cherry tea. This one friend, we also know her from my university; every time I am in there, and she is working, she tries to get me to try a different tea. But most times, I just want my Wild Cherry, because it's damn good! I try new ones sometimes, but she's never working then.

She tried, once again, but failed. [info]terminus8 got something new however, and there was a small confusion by another staff as to who ordered what. I automatically recognized my Wild Cherry, offhandedly remarking that "I could recognize my Wild Cherry a mile away by this point." Our mutual friend raised an eyebrow: "You think you could always identify Wild Cherry from a distance?"

She works at a tea wonderland. She knows a crazy amount about tea. If I was half-sane, I'd have picked up on the challenge, and wisely stepped down.

Apparently my ego outweighed my wisdom this night, so I gave a cocky "Yeah!"

She proposed a challenge. We'd come back later, and I'd have to visually ID the Wild Cherry from across the store. If I was right, I got the Wild Cherry and she'd drink a "nasty tea". If I failed, SHE got the Wild Cherry, and I got the evil tea. [info]terminus8 got the decoy tea no matter what, so he won by simply being there ;]

I promptly forgot about this, and later had a coke AND a coffee. As I was finishing the coffee, we walked past her store again, and she waved us in. They were getting ready to close, but she had been waiting for me.

She's brewed both Wild Cherry and an "other", and had me stand on the other end of the store to try and pick which was which. My ace in the hole was not simply the colour of the tea, but how transparent it was.

...both were red to the point of BLACK. One glance, and I knew I was fucked. I tried to make a judgment as best I could, and picked one.

...Strawberry Kiwi.

As promised, she then prepared me my Humble Tea. And... wow. I now know the taste of defeat, and it is Tarry Lapsang Souchong. From the website description, emphasis mine:

"This distinctive Black Tea is known for its naturally created deep, pungent, smoky aroma. Black Tea leaves are fired over smoking pine needles, which produce its overwhelming scent and flavour. This unique tea experience is a must try for Black Tea lovers."

..."unique" is right. It smelled like a campfire, and tasted like burnt cardboard. VILE. And to top it off, it was caffeinated, which mixed amazingly with my coffee I'd just finished. It was the most horrible thing I'd ever drank. Choice quotes include "it offends taste buds I didn't know I had", "it tastes like my mouth wants me to stop drinking it", and when I made [info]terminus8 try a sip, "the taste is haunting me". I had to stick a lid on it so I could block the smell enough to get it close to my face, and ended up mixing in 6 sugars and a bunch of milk to make it POSSIBLE to drink.

But I drank the whole fucking thing, because me and my fat mouth brought it upon myself. The whole time, I felt the tea shop's Buddha was watching and laughing at me. Afterwards, I ripped off the part of the drink insulating sleeve that said "Your Journey to Wellness, the balance of Mind, Body and Soul", and wrote on the back "The taste of defeat is Tarry Lapsang Souchong". I plan to keep it in my pocket for a while, as a charm against being an egotistical ass and getting myself in over my head ;]

Current Mood: [mood icon] humbled

(18 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 19th, 2009
09:25 pm - LOL

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Random memory, came up while chatting with [info]kennapea:

Back in high school, I was waiting in the office for some reason to talk to someone or such, and was rifling through the pamphlets they had available there out of boredom. One of them was "How to cope with the loss of a child". I found this hilariously morbid to be available there, so I took one to read later and stuffed it in a coat pocket.

Days later, some kid I barely knew kept talking at me and being generally annoying. So I turned to him and calmly interrupted him, "Hey, could you give this to your parents before tomorrow?" and pulled the pamphlet out and handed it to him.

The look on his face was priceless: You could see him wondering why the HELL I had one of those just sitting ready in my pocket. He just stopped talking, and walked away.

He never came back ;]

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May 10th, 2009
09:44 pm

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May 8th, 2009
02:03 am

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STAR TREK OMG

OMG STAR TREK

AMAZING

(Comments set to screen by default, so spoilers can be discussed without ruining it for people who haven't seen it.)

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(30 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 6th, 2009
03:44 am

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So, I got the job recently doing telephone research. People keep asking, "WTF is that? What do you do?"

I have also, recently, been feeling sad about not doing anything really, really nerdy. This post will address BOTH those concerns.

At work, I call people and ask them to complete surveys over the phone. 80% of the time, I get a busy signal, answering machines, it rings out, etc. 19% of the time, someone picks up and either can't do it then, or tell me to fuck off in some variety of language. I then mark the survey ended on the computer, and enter the flag for the reason it ended (busy, refused, etc.) OCCASIONALLY, I get someone to complete a survey... if they don't get most of the way through and bail on me because it took too long.

This is MORE boring than it sounds. Sooo... I invented a game to pass the time ;]

On a notepad, I mark down two columns for my two "characters". They are marked "even" and "odd". Both start with 50 hit points.

When I start a new call, I first check the case number assigned to them. If the last digit is even (including 0), then it is "even"s turn. Odd, vice versa. I then check the last digit of the phone number, and save it for later (0 = 10). I will call it X.

What happens next depends on how the call ends. If nobody answers, not even a machine, the turn is skipped.

If I get an answering machine, a busy signal, or a refusal, that character inflicts X damage on the opposing character. If I complete a survey, they do 4x that amount of damage to the opposing character.

If I get a language problem, a "number not in service", or make an appointment for later, then the characters recovers X damage instead. If I start a survey, but they bail for any reason partway, then they instead heal 4x that amount.

If I get a fax/modem line or I call a business, then that character takes X damage to themselves. If I get someone who asks to be put on our Do Not Call list, they take 4x damage to themselves.

...I ended up playing this as I called for 5 hours. For the curious, Even won, with 71 HP to spare when Odd dropped beneath 0. It was close, and Odd was in the lead for a long time, but Even recovered 40 when some asshole bailed on my survey partway, with their phone number ending in 0. It was tense.

So yeah, this is what I do ;]

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(12 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

May 3rd, 2009
11:33 pm - WHOO

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So, I have mentioned before that I wanted to travel and meet TQCers etc. But I hadn't really gotten anywhere with that, mostly because I suck and didn't even have a passport or money or anything ever.

Well, I decided "fuck that".

So I got my passport, finagled around some Aeromiles points with the family, and will be visiting [info]shinga in Texas from May 25th to June 5th ;]

I was originally going to bus it because I am cheap and insane, but family laughed at me and offered me Aeromiles points from work trips to fly instead. Approved!

This marks my longest non-family vacation, the longest on-my-own vacation as well, my first flight, my first real international travel, and some other firsts I don't remember at the moment.

I've done some traveling for my "grand tour" so far, but all short trips that made me feel like I really wasn't trying. So, since everything else I do these days feels too boring to note in LJ, I figure it's about time I do something I feel is worth mentioning, let alone worth doing ;]

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(60 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

April 25th, 2009
12:42 am

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I handed out one resume, had one interview, and now have one job.

I have way too much luck in this kinda thing.

...BUT WHOO!

(I get to use my work tag again! Whee!)

(59 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

April 22nd, 2009
04:31 am - tickticktickticktickticktickticktickticktickticktick

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( Ode to a pocketwatch )

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March 9th, 2009
01:20 pm - MY EYES

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BRIGHT SUN IS BRIGHT



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(17 Voices | Sing with the Choir)

March 4th, 2009
03:03 pm - The List

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One day, I will learn to fence. I don't know when or how, but I will. I've always wanted to, so it's on THE LIST.

So far the List contains, in order of importance:
  1. Visit all Internet People/The Grand Tour
  2. Learn to fence
  3. Learn to play violin
  4. Hang-glide

(29 Voices | Sing with the Choir)