In Virginia.
Still alive.
No internet. (Panera hates me.)
Free wifi at laundromat as of today!
Mom's following me on twitter. /o\
2 degrees of separation from Adam Lambert and Kris Allen.

Working 6 days a week.
Bands drive me (fondly) nuts.
Park rules drive me batshit.
Weather makes me sweat a lot.

Craving Farscape.
Computer somewhat fixed.
External hard drive lost all movies, TV, and music.

Missing Ray like mad.
Today's my day off.

Adios for now!

damn i fail

I am working on my stupid outline for stupid class, and just so happen to check my LJ email. Lo and behold, I have an email from Jon Walker informing me that he is a good little housewife! It made me go "d'awww... I bet you are the bestest housewife, mr "ilvktns". :) :)

AND THEN THERE WAS THE ONE FROM BC BRYAR THAT MADE MY LIFE COMPLEEEETE.

SUB: Look, they write about us
BODY: http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/HfuFeJTmBkBaXK7e

I AM IN LOVE. ALTHOUGH SPENCER IS JUDGING ME FOR SAYING THAT. HE IS JUDGING ME HARD. :DD
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Today I completely erased all data from my Toshiba's hard drive. :(( Next step is getting her back to out-of-the-box data, and then not being a fucking idiot and getting another virus.

On the plus side, she's got a name! Amnesia. Amnesia the Toshiba. Here's hoping she pulls through this mess okay. Ray is itching to take her computer into school with her, and I doubt I will stay awake in Andrew's class without Facebook to distract me.

So that huge bandsmush of random banging on instruments at the end, that went on for about 15 minutes. Daniel, the lead singer of This Providence, is filming for actual concert parts. I saw Amy in one of the crowd clips! And in the pit, we were standing right behind the girls who gave Convy pterodactyl cookies.

The most important part of this video, of course, are Sickboy from Sing It Loud and their roadie, who cuddle on the floor with Andrew's guitar for a good 5 minutes and almost get an amp dropped on them because they are too wrapped up in cuddles. \m/

Rather than work on my huge-ass take home test for my department chair, like a reasonable human being would do, I have spent much of the past 2 days reading the entire archive of Questionable Content. (Well technically not the WHOLE archive. I kinda remember the basic beginning, so I jumped in again at 142. Why 142? I have no idea.)

Next up, Girls With Slingshots! My friends Rooommate Mary and Danie-D are huge fans of this one, but I haven't felt like checking it out until now.

Well, really, next is working on this #$*&#**%#*&$# test. UGH I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MELODRAMA IN THE 19TH CENTURY, NOR DO I WISH TO COMPARE IT TO ROMANTICISM OR REALISM, KTHXBAI~. The fact that I'm on my 2nd Corona has NOTHING to do with my lack of caring, I'm sure. Alky-hol + cake = YUM!

I randomly cut my bangs today and do not know if I wish to leave it alone or chop everything off!
( not that you care, i'm sure )

Is scragglepuss a word?

One big positive to working on a paper in the library is that I feel guilty even THINKING of reading pr0n on the Dacus wireless. So my distractions are limited to Facebook (boring) and Twitter (when no one else is on).

Thesis: This paper will examine sexually non-traditional ways in which women gain fame or notoriety on the American stage in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, with a special focus on Vaudeville, Burlesque, and male impersonators in both.

I can't tell if I hate it or love it. Oh well, it's just the annotated bibliography due.

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I just had a brainwave! I've been tearing apart the living room looking for the cord to connect my phone to the computer, but DUH! Just take out the stinkin' card and insert that into the computer! Okay, Ludo etc pix coming soon. *toddles off*

Two days late, but concert recap thingy!

So Tuesday afternoon, I spent some time looking up the pre-Ludo bands on MySpace. The only ones who made a huge impression were Sing It Loud, and that's because 3 of them look like Hanson c. 1999, and the other two look like they're 14. MySpace is very misleading.

Also! NONE OF US HAD CAMERAS. WOEFACE. I took a lot of pix and 3 videos on my phone, but can't find the damn cable to connect to the computer. This is very upsetting to me. For now, there's MySpace links. Hopefully later I'll find the damn cable. There were maybe 50 people for the first opener, maybe 80 by the time Ludo took the stage, and since we were down in front of SR all night (leaning on a bass speaker, as it turns out) I got some most excellent shots.

( The Morning Light )

( Sing It Loud )

( This Providence )

( Ludo )

So that was my first experience with a non-school setting (Vienna Teng), non-arena (Hootie, Don Henley, FOB's HCT) concert! IT WAS PRETTY AMAZING, I'M NOT GONNA LIE. And either Convy or Andrew told Caitlyn that they are hopefully going to tour Broken Bride in the fall, so between that and Sing It Loud on April 26, I am hoping to see some of these bands again!

Also, here's hoping I can upload some photos soon. *TEETHGNASH*

HI HI HI GUESS WHAT I JUST FOUND OUT THAT LUDO IS GOING TO BE HERE NEXT TUESDAY AND I THINK CC AND I ARE GOING TO TRY TO GO BECAUSE WE WON'T HAVE ANYTHING GOES THAT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE CLASS ON WEDNESDAY OMG LUDOOOOO. :D :D :D I love having CC around to go to for band-squealing and such. Ray would not understand. But I told CC "Ludo" and "time-travel" and "dinosaurs" and she was like "OMG I can has?" AND ALSO WE HAVE PIT TICKETS FOR THE FALL OUT BOYZ, DID I MENTION THAT?

My fish keeps swimming to the side of his tank, eyeing me suspiciously (GIVING ME THE FISH EYE IF YOU WILL ok you won't) and then swimming away quickly when I look at him. Creeper. He might be trying to tell me that the snail died though -- she hasn't moved in like a day. idk

So even though I keep hearing Cole Porter songs every. single. day., "Dear Claudia" keeps getting stuck in my head. It is quite random. Haven't listened to that song in ages.

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Now I must away, for I have procrastinated on my damn history and lit quiz for long enough. Picked up cap and gown today and it's just made me all the more ready to graduate and be done with it all. Ray has job interviews this weekend and next, so here's hoping she'll be hired somewhere in-state.

I have a (not so) terrible secret: I kinda ADORE the movie While You Were Sleeping. It's just so cheesy romance! And Bill Pullman! And SANDRA BULLOCK.

So, the point is, this story just absolutely made my day:
Lying Next to Me by elucreh
Summary: Christmas is hard for Brendon the lonely busker, but when the commuter he's had a crush on for months gets pushed from the El platform onto the tracks, his life is changed forever.

While You Were Sleeping AU! Ryan as the mysterious Hat Guy! Jon being the godfather (kinda)! Subtle MCR cameos! And of course, Gabe the skeezy landlord.


♥__♥

So! I moved. It was exciting. And now Ray and I have a stoner roommate Adam, who has a rockin' JoeTrohFro. He's planning to move to Alaska soon, so it's not a permanent roommate thing. We also still have the two hamster bbs, Dub-Dub and Fanny Pak, and now we have four fish; Richard, Dick, W, and CP (short for Colin Powell). We had an HW, that W followed everywhere, but he didn't survive the move from PetSmart.

We still don't have internet, and now we don't have any neighbors we can steal from. So I'm online right now at the Mac lab on campus, working on transferring cassettes to CDs for my department chair. It's kind of weird music -- his specialty is in medieval and renaissance dances. Not really my style.

What I HAVE been doing at home is watching the L Word. I'm almost to the end of season 3 -- DANA -- but Ray's seen through the end of season 5 and she's waiting on me to catch up. (We both agree I'm totally an Alice, and the two of us together are season 1 Bette and Tina: boring old ladies. :D)

So I want to just mention for a moment the huge crush I have on Moira/Max, and Daniela Sea in general. ( mild spoilers for season 3 )


Daniela as Calvin in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee


Spencer Smith

No, I totally DON'T have a type! Hahaha. Also, whenever someone says baby!Spencer looks like a lesbian, they are actually trufax totally right.

I should be in playwrighting class right now, but instead I am making mini brownie cupcakes for my witchcraft class and watching MSNBC on mute and going on Facebook for the first time in quite a while! And probably the last time for a while as well, because tomorrow Ray and I get to start moving into the new place (YAY!) although my dad can't get up here to help us with the big stuff until Sunday. It's actually a good thing, because we are not packed at ALL. Haha, whoops.

And then, next Wednesday is my BIRFDAY! Ray and I are going to do a private dinner or something, and then half of the theater department is invited to meet up at Chili's at 9pm for drinks and stuff. Idk, but I'm going to get my first margarita! Even in India, where I could legally drink, I didn't get one of those. So, excitement!

I finally deleted some of my inactive userpics, but then I switched from a basic to a plus account, so my icons are all out of whack and none of the ones I want to upload are on this computer. My life, so hard!

Related to my earlier entry:

As kindly pointed out by Kala, the Keith Olbermann segment is already on YouTube.

And this is a transcription of the trial conclusion that he quotes at the end.

"So I be written in the Book of Love
I do not care about that Book above.
Erase my name or write it as you will,
So I be written in the book of Love."

My apologies for the length of this post. I cannot bring myself to cut this -- it is too important to me.

This is in response to a friend of a friend, whose journal I do not feel comfortable commenting on. This person, a young Mormon lady, read of the protests in California and Utah at temples this week, and felt hurt, shocked, and angered by the violence and ferocity of the protests. (Although, I wish to note, the "violence" she spoke of was from hearsay -- the CNN article she (and I) linked to makes no mention of car-pounding or rock-throwing, and specifically states that no arrests were made at any protests.) She spoke of the equal rights to religion, free speech. She said:

"Marriage now a days seems to have certainly lost it's gleam with people getting married left and right for the wrong reasons, money, power, whatever. Then getting divorced like it's just a break up. How special is marriage now a days when the world says it's okay to have sex outside of marriage. Then so what? If you are already having sex now, what does it matter if you have that certificate declaring you are married? It seems pointless to me, but then again I'm not married, so I don't know what it all involves there besides joining of one into a "family". I have sisters, but I am a biologically an only child. My father is not a polygamist, I have one mother. But I have always had someone there for me to call my sisters. Couldn't it be the same? To me, if you're living together, you're already having sex, you might as well be married anyway right? Same sex or no, doesn't matter."

That's a long quote, but there are several issues throughout that I wish to address.

First, and most important to me, the idea that living together and fucking is equal to marriage. I'm sorry to use such a vulgarity, but that's what it boils down to. And yes, there are common law marriages -- for straights. And to be quite frank about it, not too long ago I felt much the same. But there is so much more in a marriage that straight people often take for granted.

Ray and I live together. We love each other, we consider each other family. We are engaged. We wear rings that the other has bought. But when she goes to work as a high school teacher next semester, next year, next job, I will be relegated to roommate status because she can be fired for a gay fiancee. If she gets in a terrible car wreck, it will be at the determination of her parents if I can visit her in the hospital. If she goes to grad school, she will not be able to apply for housing for herself and her finacee because I will not be recognized as such. Down the line, when we adopt, it is very likely that only one of us will be able to legally adopt -- if she is the legal adoption mother, and she is killed, OUR child will be taken from me and I will be completely powerless to stop it (which is not to say I would not bankrupt myself trying to stop it).

When we buy a car, we won't be able to take joint responsibility. If I am in a coma and go brain dead, Ray will not be able to follow my wishes and have me taken off life support. As my nieces grow up and see up together, my homophobic brother will be able to claim that Ray and I are merely roommates and we will have no legal marriage to refute him.

Are these wrong reasons for wanting marriage? By whose measure are they wrong?


Secondly, to address her first part of that quote. In her eyes, marriage has devalued in recent years. She asks why people would even want to fight for the right. I would counter with the claim that religion has moved so far off its initial teachings in recent years, why would anyone want to fight for the right to practice their religion of choice?

The point being, it's not my right to deny others rights simply because I don't see why they want them. If there is an inequality, it should be righted.


Thirdly, the idea of family. I am a firm and ardent believer that friends can become family, much as she believes. But my 'adopted' family of friends, the sisters and brothers I've found here, are not the same as my legal family. My blood family.

Here's an example: I came out to my friends-family, people I am still close to, when I was in high school. It took nearly six years for my to come out to my parents, and I still have not done so to my brothers, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my grandparents. My mother could not understand why: in her eyes, blood family will always have to be there for you, while friends might ridicule or scorn. In my eyes, blood family will always be there, either for you or against you, but friends and even friends-family can leave and lose touch and I can still go on.

I don't know if that made sense outside my own head, I'm sorry. I tried.


Fourth and finally, elsewhere in her post, she had this to say:

"[...]but when people act as such? So much destruction and war already going on with the world? Do we really need our own contention in the nation?"

I agree wholeheartedly, and equally agree that violence at protests is to be abhorred. But I also approach this statement from the other side: with so much destruction and war, so much hate and death, WHY do you deny ANYONE the right to openly declare their love and commitment? Keith Olbermann's closing segment tonight argued this so much more eloquently than I ever could, and I will not even attempt it. I will link to his clip when it inevitably appears online, and may even summon the courage to comment to this young lady's post with that clip. I am honestly in tears right now: tears of frustration, tears of anger, tears of hopelessness. I have lost any clear articulation, so I leave you with a quote from earlier in Olbermann's Countdown:

"Why would anyone want to oppose happiness in a lonely and unhappy world?" - Keith Olbermann

My roommates are kicking me and Ray out. They bought a dog, and feel that their want to have a dog is more important than my need to breathe. They've even started bringing it into the house already, and want to know why we can't "compromise" on this. I'm sorry, I'm not risking my health on a goddamn compromise for a house I don't like when I don't even have a real fucking bedroom in this house!

Ray and I are kinda freaking, just because we aren't sure where we're going just yet. We're also both pissed off, but we'll be okay. Both our parents have offered monetary support if we need it (it's hard to find one bedroom apartments around here, but also hard to find a third roommate mid-semester). We'll figure it out.

I'm also upset because roommate a., who is really the only one causing the problem, used this as an excuse to tell me I'm a horrible person who treats her like shit, even though all the problems she mentioned were things where if she'd just SAID SOMETHING, problem would have been solved. Like, "hey it's your turn to clean the bathroom" or "hey, I don't appreciate leaving notes, please talk to me face to face instead."

Whatever.

On a more positive note, Step On A Crack opened last night and I am SO GLAD I'm done with it! I might change one or two things on the set this evening, but really I'm done. Ray's glad too, because now I get a life again. :D

Also, leave me your address! I seriously love giving presents, so let me send you something! <33

I wish to give you presents!


Seriously! Everyone on my flist, WoWLers (\w/), people just randomly surfing by . . . I like giving presents!

Leave me one with your address and a name I can address something to, PLEASE! All comments screened.







♥ x infinity

So the weather finally changed to fall! However, for some reason, our heat is not working. At all. So it is colder in our house than it is outside, and Jen and I keep cooking and baking so the kitchen, at least, will be warm.

But! I have a break in my abruptly-crazy school and theater schedule, so I am bumming with the computer and watching iCarly Saves Television. I can't help it! It's an adorable show! And Sam reminds me of my cousin Laura! And Carly has a big brother Spencer who bakes and builds robots and likes light-up socks!

Um, yeah. So I don't have a lot to say. But I just had a chance to breathe so I decided to update.

ALSO! I found a concert buddy at school! I saw her in a Cobra t-shirt and flailed, and then she saw me in a TAI t-shirt and flailed, and we bonded even further over Hannah Montana. Her name is CC, and she's Aimee's gf, and she is made of so much adorable and win. And she got to chill with the Cobras after a concert once apparently? LUCKY.

Yes, I can has! *GLEE*

I am in LURVE.

I also got Hold On Tight while at Best Buy, because you can't order anything Hey Monday through the FBR website yet, wtf.

On a sadder note, Y So Srs Bandom? is ending soon. :(( \w/

My first order from BPAL arrived today, eee! But, uh, there's two extra imps, with names that I don't remember ordering, so. I'll have to double check my order, maybe I accidentally did something wrong.

Antiways! I now have one imp each of the following:
- The Hanging Gardens
- Tamora
- Cheshire Cat (!!!)
- Siren
- Kali
- Eos
- Le Serpent Qui Danse
- House of Night
- Sudha Segara

Those last two are the ones that I don't remember. But I think Sudha Segara was the one Nadia was talking about, so maybe I went to that to check it out and accidentally ordered it? Idk. [ETA] I went back and looked at the descriptions for those two, and they sound like something I'd want to try, so maybe I did order them.[/ETA]

Between those 9 and the 4 samples I got at work of Auric Blends (Lavender Dreams, Chinese Rain, Lovers Moon, and Patchouly), plus the fact that I bought my first ever bottle of perfume over the summer (this one, it smells really good and was on closeout sale, WIN) . . . I will not need to buy perfume again until I'm thirty. Especially seeing as how most days I can't even remember to put any on.

Also, I am going to take this one moment to say how FRUSTRATED I am with this whole gas thing. People have been running the stations dry, and now most of them in the area don't have any gas, and Ray might be stuck at work because we were thinking this madness would have ended by yesterday, and now we are nearly out of gas.

Yes, I'm in a gang.

I'm in need of some stress relief that doesn't require over-involvement, but I can choose my own time to put in. This looks like it could be it for me.

Sign-up here if you're interested -- plz put my name under "anything else?". More info to be found here.