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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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12:45 am - Writer's Block: All-Nighter
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Last night, actually. Had to catch a 4am taxi to the airport, so we could fly to Columbus, OH for Origins. :D
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| Monday, June 8th, 2009
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2:40 pm
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Weird dream last night. I had this dream that I used to take a bunch of art and craft classes at the community center (which was a poorly-lighted place that resembled a high-school built several decades ago---you know the type, tan brick, white-on-black room number signs...) and that I used to have a job as a security guard at this really gorgeous old building (that looked like the old train station we had a few games in at Gencon last summer), and also at this beautiful outdoor corridor that lead up to a wrought-iron gate. I don't remember if there was a gate or not, I just know it was sunny and it may have been leading to a school, I'm not sure. In any case, the whole point was that I had completely forgotten about all these things because at the time they happened, my OCD or whatever was flaring up and I was depressed.
Spent the whole dream alternately shocked that I could have forgotten a whole nearly year's-worth of my life, and chasing after the little bits of memory that were still there. Because as hazy as it was, I knew there were friends out there that I hadn't seen in who knows how long, and I missed them. I went back to the art classes, and I found out that I could get my guard job back, so I did, even though it didn't really pay that much. I just liked the place, with the sun and the trees and the scenery.
Weirdest damn thing, I woke up and it took me a minute to realize "no, none of that actually ever happened". ^^;
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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3:35 pm - Attack of the sucky day.
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Well, today was pretty interesting. Got up at 10:30 to go to the big-and-tall store with Oni, who is interviewing for a couple actual network admin positions that have opened up in the company, rather than what he's doing now, which is essentially just being a phone monkey in the network operations center. He's really hoping he gets one of those jobs, so he was like "I need some shirts that actually fit around the neck for this interview". I tagged along because, well, I'm a girlfriend, and girlfriends tag along and make picky comments about clothes. Also, I was hoping to find him another nice plum shirt like the one Mom bought him for Christmas.
( Eventful day is eventful. )
Okay, now I am going to my parents', where there will be delicious heart-healthy beef stir fry. Mom bought the American Heart Association cookbook, and today she's making something out of it, so I decided to come back over and mooch some of it. I'm a bad person. X3 Laters!
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| Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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6:06 pm - I'm fairly certain I've taken this test before...
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Also, "seductiveshorts" sounds more like an underwear company than a website. IMHO. Don't ask me, I don't like boyshorts. XD
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| Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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10:33 pm - It is a meme.
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Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...
The Librarian (QTBF)Quirky Traditional Beta Female 
You know the story--The quiet, smart girl who emerges from her shell to become the new queen bee. Nothing wrong with nerdy girls, in fact there aren't enough of you. Your best match is The Late Bloomer, as he once was the male version of you. You are more QUIRKY than NORMAL. You are more TRADITIONAL than LIBERAL. You are more PASSIVE than DOMINANT. When picking a date, consider: The Late Bloomer (QTAM), The Lord of the Misfits (QLAM), The Snowball's Chance in Hell (QTBM), The Suit (NTAM), or The Altar Boy (NTBM). Avoid: The Frat Boy (NLAM) (Image from theblackspiderman.com)
Take The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?) at HelloQuizzy
Rue told me to. :3
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| Saturday, April 25th, 2009
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1:48 am - Memey meme.
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Fill out the below in a comment, then post the template (with your own name, obviously) to your own journal so I can fill it out for you:
I ____ Mory.
Mory is ____.
If I were alone in a room with Mory, I would _______.
I think Mory should _____.
Mory needs ______.
I want to ____________ Mory.
Someday Mory will _____.
Mory reminds me of _____.
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| Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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2:57 pm - Today on We Don't Care Theatre...
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I GOT A NEW DOLLY!!!
( Warning, giant disembodied head underneath the cut! )
Her name is going to be Madeline. I didn't actually name her after the children's book character, I named her after a different doll that I liked the name of but not the doll itself...but the more I thought about it, the more I thought "Mory, you used to watch the HECK out of Madeline on Disney channel when you were like seven. You were already planning to give the doll red hair, so you better sew that dolly a little yellow hat." I'm surprised at how many clothing patterns are out there that will probably fit her. She's roughly 10" tall, so that pattern I bought thinking it might fit my other doll will probably be much better suited to this one. I'll have to go get it from Mom's, if I haven't already brought it to the new place and forgot about it. I even found a pattern that looks exactly like Madeline's coat from the books! It's for a 12" baby doll so I'll have to scale it down some, but...cosplay!
Enough rambling! I gotta go back to the lab!
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2:44 pm - What? Where'd this post thing come from?
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Hallo, all! It's been a while since I posted, and it's been a pretty good day so far, so I think I'll make a post. :3
The weather lately has been killing me. KILLING ME. All this pretty sunshine and the grass is back and the trees are blooming...and I have to study for finals. AUGH. At least it isn't like it was a couple weeks ago, when I had gotten so far behind that just looking at my homework made me so depressed that it was keeping me from actually doing that homework well. As for now, I might still be pretty far behind, but I think I've seen the light at the end of the tunnel. There's only two, three more weeks of the semester left, I really don't have -that- many assignments left to do, and then it'll all be over and we'll see what happens. Today I'm pretty excited because the paper that was due today has been pushed back to next week. I have a rough draft, I just have to make a final draft and send that in...but I'd really rather be doing my spectrometry homework tonight, and maybe some of that physics lab stuff I need to catch up on.
Went to see my department chair today about next semester registration. Turns out I was about right when it comes to which classes I needed. I'll be taking Advanced Organic Mechanisms (self-explanatory, it's advanced o-chem), Instrumental Methods (a lab course), Biochemistry and Biochem Lab (yaaaay I <3 biochem), and whatever social science I can pick up to fill my last fluff requirement. Maybe psychology, so I can stop ragging on Katane and Kia. Surprisingly, there was very little drama about getting into any of the classes I need. I guess it's because there are much fewer chemistry seniors than freshman. (Somewhere after Organic I, I'm sure many of them go "F this, I'm majoring in something else".) I even got to dodge a particularly difficult physical chemistry prerequisite for that Advanced Organic, because I'm about to graduate and the department chair wanted butts in seats for that class so they wouldn't be forced to cancel it. Budget cuts, recession, etc. Also, I'm extra excited because my schedule doesn't conflict with choir! Yaaaay, I can keep singing! Which reminds me, I need to pay for my uniform dress, ehehe...
So right now I'm in the computer lab drinking a truly massive cup of Tazo Passion tea. I've realized that if my cafeteria charges by the teabag and not the cup size, I can grab one of the big 32oz styrofoam things from by the soda fountain, fill that up with hot water and a teabag, and nobody cares. :3 Afterwards, I'm going to go see if someone can let me into the chemistry lab. I have a sample I need to get one last test on before Thursday.
Ooh, one more cool thing, which will be in a following post...
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| Monday, March 23rd, 2009
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2:52 am - Random 3am rambling GO!
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Just a short little thing, since it's one of those early morning random thoughts, but seemed too long for a twitter...
I was looking at the Wiki page on eye color, and it reminded me how much it annoys me that all my official records say I have brown eyes, when in fact they are mostly olive green with only a small ring of brown around the pupils. That should be hazel, right? Mom's are super hazel, like straight-up khaki green, but hazel's sort of the catch-all color and mine are greenish too. So they must be hazel? Not that it matters at all what the records say---it's not like a piece of paper determines what color my eyes actually are---but looking at various reference pictures just made me go "no, my eyes are not that root beer brown color, they're closer to the pictures for amber and hazel". And I don't think they've changed color as I aged, as I remember one time in grade school a friend told me my eyes were not brown, they were 'army green', and I thought they were nuts because well, I was told my eyes were brown, so they must be. I considered changing it from BRN to HAZ on my driver's license once, but the last time I got it renewed, I wrote down that I was 5'7" on the form, forgetting that my previous license said 5'8" (I fudged my height a bit). And they asked about it. If they're going to get puzzled because I shrunk an inch, they'd -really- get confused at my eyes changing color. Not really worth the effort to appease a minor bit of anal-retentiveness.
But still. GREEN, bitches. Even if it takes a magnifying glass. *does the private-eye magnifying glass pose*
*cough* We now return you to your regularly scheduled overnight LJ silence.
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| Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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9:40 pm - Mory's Tuesday.
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Since I've been told I don't LJ enough... ;D
Today was alright. Slept in entirely too late again. I'm going to have to set the coffee alarm tonight, so I will have a reason to not laze in bed all day. Starting to think that sleeping too much is just as bad for the Mory-emo as sleeping too little. Wastes half the day, you know. Also, coffee.
( In which Mory judges a science fair at Ouran Private Academy... )
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( In which Mory celebrates a holiday she has no ethnic ties to... )
In any case, I'm going to go back to drinking and reading stuff on OneManga. (My first cut text made me want to read more Ouran Host Club ^^; ) Hopefully next time my post won't be so damn rambly. I blame the Guinness. Catch y'all around the interwebs!
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| Monday, February 23rd, 2009
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11:52 pm - The queen of all harebrained Mory schemes.
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So I'm going to do it.
I'm going to go into the corner violin shop.
You see, there's this violinmakers' on the corner of the shopping center where Mom goes to buy yarn sometimes. And for me, walking past there has always been like...well, the best way I can describe it is like in the old Christmas movies. You know, how all the kids would walk by and stare longingly at the Macy's Christmas display, full of all kinds of toys that they wish they could have? Like that.
But then...I finally figured it out. All this time I've been singing or dancing or toying at playing the guitar when it was never really the guitar I wanted to play. Everything (well, other than choir, I love singing too) has been "This is fun, but it would be really great if I could play cello, or violin, or..." And then it hit me. Mory, you moron, you've been spending money on dance class and doll stuff and gadgets, money you could have been spending on music lessons this WHOLE TIME. So now I have a new scheme, one I'm gonna give up on all my other harebrained schemes to do. For example, anyone I talked to about getting a parrot, well, forget about that plan. Parrots are terribly expensive and need food and care. A stringed instrument, unlike a parrot, will only screech and annoy my neighbors when I'm practicing (memo to self, buy a mute...)
I googled the shop, and they have a website and a blog, and seem like a good place. You have to support your local businesses and all. The most important piece of information that I found is that they rent instruments. Huzzah! But then I have to find a teacher and I haven't the foggiest idea who teaches or what lessons will run me. I suppose that's something they would know, but it's going in and asking that's the hard part. I'm going to have a heart attack from shy!
BUT I GOTTA DO IT.
Watch out! Starting now is Operation: Mory Is A Cello! (LOL, ask my Gaia friends about that one, it's an old in-joke...)
Eeeeee~
This post has been brought to you by excited caffeinated midnight-thirty Mory. We are not responsible for any lapses in logic contained in this post. Do not read this post while operating heavy machinery. If you find yourself reading this post for more than four hours, turn off your browser and get medical attention (because you read really slow...)
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| Friday, February 20th, 2009
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12:18 am - Yo dawg, we heard you liked memes, so we put a meme in yo post...
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- Describe me in one word: just one single word. Positive or negative.
- Leave your word in a comment, before looking at what words others have used.
- Copy and paste the meme to your journal to find out how people describe you when limited to one word.
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| Friday, February 13th, 2009
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11:11 am - They cancelled class for the good of all of us. (Except the ones who are dead.)
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As I said on Twitter just now, it's snowing so hard they cancelled COLLEGE.
In my opinion it really isn't any worse than the snows that came earlier in the season. If you stay off the surface roads and stick to the highway, it's just fine. Sure, I almost fishtailed and died a few times on the way there, but that's because I tried to take 13th St. to avoid waiting at the train tracks for the 9:45 to go by. Surface roads? Utter crap. Highways? Well, still crap, but that's not because of the snow. Why do people forget how to drive as soon as they see a snowflake?
In any case, I'm not nearly as frightened of the snow as I am of the message they played over the emergency intercom in the science building. For one, I had no idea we even had an intercom system. From the shape of the speakers (the squarish bullhorn type) and the sound quality, I would assume they are not exactly of recent vintage. Between that and the horn alert noise, it all seems more appropriate as a way to announce impending nuclear war than a little snowstorm. And the RECORDING! Oh god, they have one of those god-awful calming female computer voices, the kind that are never really programmed right. "Attention, please. Due to iiinclement wea~ather, the University will be closed and staff dismissed at twe~elve PM." With a warble like it's not in very good repair. I know where I've heard that voice before.
GLaDOS runs my school's inclement weather system.
Why do you think they cancelled now instead of before anyone made the trek out for morning classes? I mean, even the most slackery slacker has at least an 11am class. No, it's GLaDOS and she's trying to kill us all.
If someone could airlift us some portal guns? That would be great. D:
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| Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
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12:12 pm - Priorities
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WHOOOO REPO COMES OUT TODAY~ :D :D :D
oh yes also a president
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| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
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7:42 pm - Graverobber...Graverobber...sometimes I wonder why I need you at all...
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| Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
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6:10 pm - SHIT YEAH
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GUESS WHO TOTALLY PASSED PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY YOU GUYS~
Got a C. THAT'S TOTALLY PASSING BITCHES
SHIT YEAH
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| Friday, December 12th, 2008
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11:45 am - More mixed messages.
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I am seriously freaking out about my physical chemistry grade. I spent so long working on my vapor pressure lab report for it last night that I didn't get around to studying kinetics for today's mini-test...and I completely blanked. Like, the rest of the class was going "wow, that was so easy" and while I could recognize that they should be easy problems for this chapter, I simply couldn't remember how to do them. I hope I get at least some points, but....you know that nightmare a lot of people get where they're back in school and have to pass a test for things they've never seen before? Yeah. That.
On the positive side, I get to audition for the advanced choir! ^o^ I was pretty bummed that I couldn't sign up for the non-audition choir again next semester, but then I checked and it turned out that the auditioned choir meets at a time I have open in my schedule still. So I zipped off an email to the director of vocal music, and he was like "yeah, that's awesome, here's what's involved and I can see you Saturday after the big rehearsal if that works". Saturday. At noon. THAT'S LIKE TOMORROW @_@ omg augh whoa. But at least it's after the big rehearsal, so I'll be all warmed up, and from what he said in his email the audition sounds like what I had to do in high school to get into the after-school choirs. And in high school I thought I did awful but ended up getting tapped for the a capella group, which was like really small so I must have been good. So I'm hopeful, if nervous.
Damnit, why can't I be a shitty singer and a good chemist? XD
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| Thursday, December 11th, 2008
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11:52 pm - Money sucks.
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So today me and Oni went to the mall to the Sleep Number store to find out which one of their beds we'd like, since his chiropractor highly recommended them for his back issues. Very nice, very comfy, we decided on their middle-of-the-line model...and then their financing rejects us. No big deal, we weren't gonna buy tonight anyway, we can just save up the rest and write them a check. It's just kind of frustrating because this is the second time in a couple months where our credit has been a problem.
Seriously, it annoys the crap outta me! I know Oni makes a decent amount of money and is very responsible with it. He keeps his credit card paid down and he pays all his bills on time. But since he had his identity stolen a couple times and did some dumb financial things while in the service like 7 years ago, his credit is abysmal. I can think of maybe ONE contract he's flaked on since I've known him, but that shouldn't explain why we can't get approved for freaking anything. He didn't owe those people any money, he just forgot to call to cancel a cell phone. I mean, that's pretty bad, but this bad?
As for me, I can't help because I have -no- credit. I only buy things I have the money for. I know, I know, I need to get off my ass and get a credit card to build up some credit, but I don't trust myself with one. I just know I'd put a doll on the thing and start digging myself into the hole. There's always a secured card, but still. Why should I have to jump through their hoops? IT'S MONEY. TAKE IT.
I'm starting to think that credit ratings are an institutionalized way of fucking you over forever for being broke at any point in your past.
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1:15 pm - And then it hits you.
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The bells are ringing, the snow is falling, and everything's gonna be okay.
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| Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
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3:58 pm - Follow-up!
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This just in: Mory gets ridiculously emotional when she hasn't gotten any sleep. Film at 11.
Anyway, it turned out Mr. Professor Dude just wanted to know how in the world I got similar results to what he got, when my calculations were pretty much incomprehensible. (How'd I do it? Shit, I don't know. The trans-cinnamic acid fairies came to me and told me what their heat of combustion was. And they also told me to stop sniffing the chemicals already.)
I had my lab final today. It was good, in that it was basically plugging in test data to the Excel sheets we had already made up through the year. It was also bad 'cause I got snarked at a little (not like evil snark, just like facepalm snark) by the professor during the practical part of the lab final. It was an instrument I know how to work...but I'm not used to having to set the thing up and plug it in because it's always already set up when I get to lab. And I was trying to plug in the cold water pump and he was like "no, why don't you plug it in the one that says "COLD"? >_<;;; " and I felt dumb 'cause I thought I was, it was just hard to see from my angle. And then I felt dumb later because I had followed the whole procedure just to realize I had forgotten to plug a few important coefficients for my thermistor into the control program, and I was measuring a degree lower than was accurate. Luckily, once I fixed it I was in the swing of things and finished that section right away.
Still to do: one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer one worksheet, one report, and one Powerpoint. :D
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