I just saw an ad for an RPG taking place for "those who wish they had grown up in the midwest in the early nineties."

...Is like a 5-year-old running that game, or am I so old that the nineties has become a time of legend? I mean...I did grow up in the midwest in the nineties!

I double-checked the dates, thinking there was a typo and the poster meant the early nineteenth century or nineteen hundreds or something. No. They meant like 1990.

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.


I'm cheating. The nearest book to me is actually the phonebook, but I've decided that that would be boring. So, instead, I'm grabbing the second nearest, Crime and Punishment.

"A woman takes him by the hand and tries to lead him off, but he tears himself away and runs back to the horse."

Q: Narcissistic or histrionic? Discuss.

God, I hate role-playing with my boyfriend. It's like he *knows* what I want to play and decides to make his character the exact. same. fucking. thing.

So now I'm super pissy and not wanting to game, but John came all the way down and actually fucking showed up for once so I feel sort of obligated.

Goddamnit.

I feel like there was something else I was going to write about in my journal entry, but I don't remember what it was anymore because I'm just so incredibly pissed. This is my way of walking away for a minute in order to cool off and not kill Chad or tear up my character sheet.

I was hoping I'd have something to reply to, but everyone knows I'm supposed to be gaming so nobody is responding quickly to my posts. Damn it all. At least I like my online characters and no one else is freaking stealing my ideas.

It's recently come to my attention that Savannah won't survive Oblivion. This makes me incredibly sad, as I adore the character and I've even won an award for people loving to hate her. The problem is I made her as part of a threesome -- she's a twin, and there was also an older brother. Both of the other players flaked, leaving poor Savannah all alone... She's anorexic, has one friend is an epic asshole, and generally will probably either commit suicide or starve herself to death. Things aren't looking good at this point, which has inspired me to write something up for her. If things go the way I think they're going to go, I'll have this done and just be able to copy and paste it over. If things turn out differently, well, hooray for creative outlets?

( Blip! )

I've gone a little overboard.  Again.  Perhaps it's because d00m has been so slow, but for the past week I've been occupying myself with new RPGs.  At this point, I'm a little afraid for myself.

OCs:
d00m: Moderator Responsibilities plus like a bazillion characters.  Thanks, Purple!  (Yahoo Groups)
Colony: The bane of my existence.  This is the single most elite game I've ever joined.  Two characters here.  Fortunately, things are quiet.  (Yahoo Groups)
ISS Tyranny: Ah, my fascination with the alternate universe of Star Trek.  Only one character aboard the Tyranny...and he likes to torture people.  (Yahoo Groups)
Oblivion: Your typical horror-aboard-the-cruise-ship routine.  I'm playing a total slut.  Oh, Savannah.  (IJ: savannahjames)
Metamorphose: Added this one on a whim.  I like to play big kitties, and I'm curious to see how it will turn out. (IJ: white_growl)
Daingerfield: This one is very Deadlands...  The mods are being weirdly picky about the Mormon thing.  Ah, well.  Missa is playing my character's sister-wife, bless her.  It's going to be a fantastic time!  (LJ: wife_one)

Canons:
Harmony: Shawn Spencer (IJ: i_eat_pineapples) and Dax (IJ: host_eight).  Unfortunately, Dax's husband just left the game.  Sigh.  This game has a really great premise...  Characters are kidnapped and brainwashed into having Pleasantville lives.  Very cool.
Urbiphage: This seems to have a very cool steampunky setting.  I am *so* reading these books sometime soon.  I get to play Bigby~  So awesome!  (LJ: artic_wolfman)

Discounting d00m, in which I have far too many active characters to count, I have 9 characters in almost as many RPGs.  I think I'm going to start running around like a chicken with my head cut off when these things all start up...  Somebody stop me from looking into more?

I keep forgetting to check/post on LJ ever since I left Paixao.  And, as usual, how-many-months-down-the-road, I'm kicking myself for leaving.  Erg, I'm so washy!  I was delighting in Glitch last night and reliving my dreams for Weyoun.

Anyway, here's the yearly meme -- maybe the last one, if I don't start posting regularly again...

Year in Review Meme

January: I have a glowing Christmas penguin in my room.  I don't know why.

February: Yesterday, I was required to dress up for a tour of Watlow in Winona for my management class, including the ever-terrible heels.

March: It's been a very long time since I've posted a blip on my LJ.

April: I hate April Fools Day.

May: I R GROWED UP AND GRADUATED.

June: It slightly annoys me that I spent most of the night last night trying to find a save point in KHII rather than sleeping.

July: How dare they license their products so that I can't watch them on Crunchyroll!

August: Excuse the language.

September: I HATE CHILDREN.

October: I would so die.

November: I have been a very bad, offline monkey as of late.

December: Swiped from fireflypenance 

So that's the year in review!  Whoo.

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Put your MP3 player thingy on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the 21st is your title.

I Need Your Arms Around Me

Hey, man, please don't make a sound
I don't wanna talk
Well, I remember every little thing
I heard there was a secret chord

Drew looks at me
They're gonna clean up your looks
God made the mountains
This is what it's like when worlds collide

Don't lie to yourself
November of '63
Here you come knockin' on my door
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind

Is it worth it?
Head under water
I'm tearing away
One more time and you'll be dead

Thursday night, everything's fine
Last December I met a girl
Penetrate, penetrate all the simple minds
You've all seen a man at the liquor store begging for some change

"Meh" is now in the dictionary.

That is all.

Spud wearing his chicken costume that I bought him for Halloween.  He doesn't look real happy -- but he left it on for about 20 minutes before taking it off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTXJSyTjo

This is one of those movies I would refuse to see but secretly watch when it came to late night TV for free... I also have embedding issues.

In other news, this helpful guide to Palin's debate style from my dear, dear friend, mustbemissa !

It's about time I jumped on board, isn't it? I held off as long as I could.

I've been stressed lately.  Combined with being ill and getting no sleep, the end result has been a real bummed Ivory.  Call me crazy, but I just had the oddest sensation...  I've written it down to the best of my ability from a third-person format (also as a guy's POV -- don't know why) -- unfortunately, I waited an entire day to do so.  Ah, well...

 

( Cut to save your F-Page <3 )

 

Yoinked from fireflypenance 

Rules of the game:

- Choose a singer/band/group
- Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group

My Artist: Bob Dylan (in honor of his upcoming tour stop in my town, eee!)

( Meme 1 )
And from maiiau

( Meme 2 )

Went to school in a wet shirt this morning because we couldn't get the laundromat to dry out clothes yesterday. My brilliant plan of draping things over the balcony railing and letting them dry in the breeze was ruined when it poured -- all over my clothes and soaking my laundry basket. I am presently sitting in a room draped with drying laundry on clothes hangers. Such is the life.

The last couple of nights, I have been unable to finish drinking the cans of soda I opened expressly to take my meds before bed. So, rather than waste them and potentially knock them over in the middle of the night, I decided to dump them off the balcony. I heard the liquid hit something, so I moved over, thinking it was our grill. But, the sound continued, and I could not think of what the hell would be down there that I'd be dumping soda onto! ...Apparently, the neighbors downstairs have begun keeping a bicycle there. Oops?

The spiders have upped their invasion tactics, despite my best efforts at warding them away with rotting hedgeapples and gobs of poison spray. Presently, they are concentrating on invading the bathroom; only a very teensy one appeared in our bedroom, which I readily smashed to bits. A brown and a black spider had taken up residence in almost the exact same spot in our bathroom, while a strangely-colored one that reminds me of a crab is now living above the door. Chad has dispatched of the Twins and has yet to see the Crab. Why do I feel like I'm describing constellations?

Anyway, I believe the latest batch of Star Trek has finished downloading, so I will enjoy that. New Weyoun icons -- all done with a free version of PS. I think they turned out marvelous.
( Weyoun )

Why am I putting so much work into icons for a character I may never play?

...Because I'm addicted, that's why.

I'm so ashamed.

RULES:
1. Put Your iTunes, windows media player etc on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. Write the song title as the answer...don't lie!

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Snagged from fireflypenance 

Was in a somewhat good mood.  This followed by a bad mood.  Upswing to happy and pretending to be interested in Chad's new toy.  But he went out to eat with Mike and didn't think to bring me any.  It's war.

So, I keep adding to this entry -- because I don't want to clutter up your f-lists with my rambling nonsense.  I'm tired and cranky, and I'm upset because I put a lot of work into character and journal generation, only to be pretty much told (implicitly) not to bother.  Because no matter *how* many characters I play and no matter *how* often I hang out in the chat and do the other things people have suggested I do, I somehow always wind up on the losing end of everything.  My characters are overlooked and uninvolved; every thread I get in either dies or is summarized somewhere.  It's like the cosmic fucking joke that, no matter how hard I try and no matter how adorable or competent or damned cool my characters are, I will never be able to get involved.  Or it could be that I'm doing something wrong -- but I can't see what.  And it especially stings when complete newbs are immediately thrown into major plotlines...  So, the point of all that, is I'm seriously considering throwing in the towel -- again -- and just forbidding myself from ever returning.  Yes, every month or so, I do have a great time.  But what's the point of apping another character and just sitting on him, bored to death?  What's the point of being a part of something when all you have to say about it is complaints?

And what the hell is wrong with my ear that it keeps buzzing??

So, I thought I had *finally* accomplished one of my goals in P -- only to be thwarted.  And I'm not even sure *how* my plans were thwarted, except that they were.  If I could dignify the thwarting with some sort of logic, I would feel a little better -- but, as it is, there is no justification for it...  So now I'm all pissy and feeling left out and useless...

Anyway, nothing else new on the homefront.  We're installing our hedgeapple balls tonight, so that will hopefully kill all spiders.  I noticed this morning that there was a squished spider in the door frame of the bathroom door.  This amused me greatly, while simultaneously freaking me out -- because even squished spiders are creepy.

Logging off and going to bed in hopes I will wake up happier when Chad calls.

They're back.

They're freaking back!

Two Three Six in two days, all moderately-sized.  Chad had to rescue me from two of them, because they were between me and the spider killer...  Why do they hate me?  ;_;

All windows and doors have been sprayed.  WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM??  *cries*