sit down son

OMFG SAVE ME SOMEONE AHHH

At work. Normal day. Doing normal things. Walk in the office to grab some more envelopes and stamps. See movement. Notice it's a DYING BAT crawling around on the ground.

Run away. Finish with the invoice stuffing. Leave to mail them. FIND TWO MORE IN FRONT OF THE COUNTER.

Run away OUT OF THE SHOP. Mail invoices. Come back. FIND ANOTHER ONE THAT DEFINITELY WASN'T THERE BEFORE.

Freak out. Call boss. Call the people who've been trying to kill these fuckers. Spot ANOTHER ONE crawling up the display in the front window.

Hang up phone. Want to die.

kjhkashfaksjhaksghakjghasg PLS SEND HELP. WTF DO I DO WITH DEAD AND DYING BATS.



In other news the weather is amazing. It's 84 degrees and before the BATS OMFG all I wanted to do was relax and maybe run around outside. DAMN YOU BATS, MY DAY WAS BEING AMAZING UNTIL YOU FUCKED IT UP.

I think they're falling from the ceiling as they die. THIS IS NOT COMFORTING AHHHH.

Edit: My bats have been REMOVED and I've been on a hunt to see if there are anymore hiding places. Which means I've been chasing them around as the still-lively ones FLY AROUND. aksjhfasg

I never can come up with decent subjects for anything these days. Because everything is basically some sort of weird hodge-podge of whatever or fic or who-knows-what.

Yeah I have no idea where I was going with that either.

Life's pretty good. Financial Aid checks came today and I got a lift up to the bank between classes from Steph so i could go ahead and take care of it. Oh my god you ALWAYS know when checks go out because EVERYONE AND THEIR BROTHER IS AT WACHOVIA. This would be because it's basically the only big-chain bank in Statesboro. Most of them are very, very regional. Hell, there isn't even a BANK OF AMERICA. Which drove me crazy for three years before I caved to the lure of a physical building to bank at instead of the single BoA ATM in the student union. Great job, Statesboro.

So today while driving/riding around town it really struck me that in a few months, I won't be living here anymore. I really want to go around town with my camera and just take pictures of all the places I go a lot, where I walk, what I drive past. All the things that people usually just take for granted, you know? Like the place I go to buy my alcohol, as terrible as that sounds. It's this run-down Fast & Easy with a PAINTED sign with bad cartoon-like drawings and the paint's peeling and just getting in and out of the parking lot can be an adventure. Almost as much of an adventure as finding stuff in there. They've got a bunch of different wines and probably more types of beer than anywhere else in town. Plus, they sell Strongbow. I don't think there's anywhere else around here that does. It's a unique little place, you know? And somehow I wonder how much longer it will last like it is before someone decides to tear it down and make it look even remotely modern. Hell, I'll miss it and my aging apartment complex and all the other stuff that just is so....Statesboro.

So yeah. Would anybody be interested in seeing those if I do it?

In other news, if you hadn't caught on yet- I quit bnf_brawl a few weeks ago. It's been sort of a relief. I hadn't been on there nearly as much as I should have been in ages and I'd just become completely jaded to it. Last semester when I just couldn't manage an internet life, a real life and a school/work life I just got out of the habit, yanno? Never really got the spark for it back. Now I feel like I can really be a PART of fandom again because I'm not forced to produce something half-assed at the end of each month for characters I barely play. Weird sort of freedom. I thought I'd miss it more but I think I did the majority of "moving on" back in October/November. Hey. that's life.

Oh my god this entry is depressing. It's like all these different parts of my life are just...wrapping up. Coming to a conclusion. Ending. This is definitely not what I had in mind when I started typing.

SO TO LEAVE IT ON A HAPPY NOTE. As soon as my check clears the bank, this is so going to be mine.

So I need to eat more during the day so I stop raiding the fridge at like, 1 am. I just KNOW I won't be able to sleep HUNGRY and I'll then wake up HUNGRY and I almost never eat breakfast which means I'd have to last until lunch STILL HUNGRY. And that's not on. But really, I EAT HEALTHY. Just at weird times when no one's actually cooking dinner. But we still have a ton of leftovers from Sunday so IT WORKS. [though all the cookies we gone THAT NIGHT. Woe. And joy because people love my cookies?]

I guess I'll follow the herd a LITTLE and mention Heath Ledger. Yeah, it's incredibly sad he died, it's weird to think of people dying young and tends to be a bit of a sore topic for me but I can't help the occasional flitting thought that the wrong gay cowboy died. Ahah? Bad taste, I know. Leave me alone.

That aside, I'm making real efforts this semester to actually READ the stuff that's assigned to me. I'm only taking ONE Lit class. I should totally be able to manage it if the procrastination bug doesn't bite me in the ass like it is so prone to do. This doesn't mean I'm not planning to wake up at 9 again tomorrow and just read before class, but it's better than never getting around to it.

And part the fourth of this rather eclectic update is that One Piece is the first fandom I've really wanted to write for in a long time. Like, REALLY write. I wrote shortfic and stuff for Bleach, Ouran and PoT, but I haven't written anything over 1000 words in like. Years. Since HP fandom. But I really, really want to write something worthwhile again. Something worth noticing. I mean, I got great responses for some of my farting about but nothing I'm really all that proud of. Nothing I spent more than really an hour on. It's sort of exciting, you know?

And finally: Caught up on Project Runway. It will always be ♥. Christian is my bitchy hero.

So my apartment is finally my own again. Mostly. Joe's crashed on the couch cause he wasn't fit to drive home and I think there might still be someone in Carie's room but I'm not asking and it doesn't affect me so it's all good.

Basically the first coherent conversation I had today was about how we were hosting a cookout and needed supplies. That was the first I heard about it. At 3 this afternoon. I got confirmation on that a few hours later, went for ingredients just before 6, people started showing up at 6:30 and I was in the kitchen until like, 8. One crowd left, another showed up. The second crowd was pretty lame, actually, so most of that time was spent in my room with the computer, Joe and One Piece. We watched Zoro at Whiskey Peak, Zoro and Mihawk, Luffy's past with Shanks and the Sanji vs Mr. 2 Bon Clay while discussing how people need to LEAVE.

;___;

Though this also means every time I popped up in chat, he was looking over and laughing hysterically.

Especially at the idea of Mihawk with no pants. People not used to chat can't realize there are multiple conversations going on and meshing. XD It proves for a lot of HILARIOUSNESS.

Tonight was fun but lasted FAR TOO LONG. I'mma sleep now. ♥

HEY LOOKIT ME UPDATE! :D

So once again I'm plopped on my butt at work doing all of Approximately Nothing. An excellent time to update, I always say!

First week of class is officially OVER and we already have a holiday WOO WOO for MLK Day. I love random 3-day weekends. *_*

Cast lists went up! I am ENSEMBLE in On Dragon Fly Wings. Which means....something. Supposedly there are a lot of little roles through there not assigned because we don't even have the fully edited script yet (they should be getting it today/tomorrow) but our first read-through is next week so I presume I'll figure out just what's going on then. SHOULD BE FUN. Bailey's in the Ensemble with me so yay. We'll have fun.

We were talking today about how our theatre department is unabashedly cliquey. It's life, no one cares. Everyone always talks about cliques like they're such a horrible thing but really it's just like. Separated big groups into little tighter-knit groups and I can't see TOO MUCH wrong with that. We're trying to predict the cliques. Kinda funny. :D

German's gonna be...interesting this semester. We haven't got a proper text book. O.o

The carpool system is working out PERFECTLY. We all get to class and it WORKS. Even if it's been STUPIDLY COLD AGAIN. Warmed up this afternoon but holy fucking shit has it been chilly. We ALMOST got snow and then the world went "BITCH, PLEASE. STATESBORO HASNT HAD REAL SNOW SINCE 1989 YOU GET LITTLE ALMOST-FLURRIES" Even though like, practically everywhere ELSE in Georgia at least got a LITTLE snow. ;_; The weather hates us. Maybe next week? Supposed to be a cold front coming through from what I hear.

Still treking through the OP anime. It's still rocking my socks off every other second.

And SPEAKING OF ONE PIECE [which, really, how often am I not?] YOU PEOPLE ARE EVIL ABUSING ME FOR MY FANGASMS I CAN'T HELP THAT SHANKS IS THE COOLEST ONE-ARMED PIRATE IN THE WORLD.

And he sings the blues so well. *___*

[LOOK I AM LISTENING TO MUSIC FALL OVER IN SHOCK.]

My life lately has gone completely retarded.

I've always been fairly busy, right? But I honestly can't say that I've ever had quite this much blindside me at once. I am SO TIRED and I don't really see an end in sight until like. Thanksgiving.

First of all, classes. CLEARLY I am taking too many of the rather-difficult sort. But I can handle that. Sort of. And the schedule they're on is complete CRAP because they're all spaced out and it makes like I'm spending three times as much time in class as I actually am. ARG.

Second, the play. I love it dearly, I do. But when you have rehearsal MOST nights until, oh, 10:30/11 on top of everything else? asjfklasjflf want to die.

Third, Equestrian Team. A twice-a-week crack-of-dawn commitment in and of itself, this weekend is out home show. Long time members of my flist may recall what this entails, but let me recap:
1. I wake up at 5:30 Saturday AND Sunday in order to be at the barn by 6 [and this is pushing for time]
2. I work. all. day. long. Both days. Usually in crap weather because the weather is NEVER good when you have to be out in it for hours on end.
3. We have workdays LEADING UP TO IT with required numbers if hours.
4. One of those workdays is ALWAYS friday so we don't even get a day to rest up and get ready for Hell.
5. I work on Fridays and thus can't do my hours until I get off.

So here I am, sitting at work, absolutely exhausted because life has been a completely and utter bitch lately, knowing that when I clock out at 6, the first thing I get to do is drive out to the barn and WORK. For like, three more hours. HOPEFULLY we will run out of things to do and someone will take pity on my poor wilting soul and SEND ME HOME. I'm not holding my breath though.

And you know, on top of all this I have a social life. Steph is supposed to come over and watch old disney movies with me tonight while JD and Bailey strike the set of Waiting for Godot and tomorrow night is the cast party for said lay, which consists of, h, the VAST MAJORITY of my social circle and I never miss a cast party if I can help it.

So I'll be there. Tired and unable to stay out too late, but I wouldn't miss it. (And the important people know I am not allowed to drink myself to excess, no matter how much I might want to after whatever the hell goes down tomorrow)


Now don't get me wrong-- I know this post makes it seem like I hate riding, hate the equestrian team and wish it would just bugger off and leave me the hell alone. NOT TRUE. Well, mostly not. I love riding. I love a good number of the people on the team, but I'm really starting to wish I hadn't done it this semester because of what a time drain it is right now. There are just so many requirements-- the work days, the strict time thing for the shows, the need to work the shows all day long, the structured times at which I can be at the barn for lessons (which really are NOT convenient for me and my schedule at ALL). I miss the days when I would ride more at better times and without the whole team business. Yes, they're fun people. Yes, I love them dearly. Yes, I also love the much reduced COST of riding like this. But oh my fucking god if people don't stop planning badly and throwing hissy fits about things not going smoothly I am going to have to chokeabitch and I have no idea who yet. I know we have some people on the team who really have no life OUTSIDE of the team. And you know what? I am so not one of them.

Next semester should be better. It had BETTER be better, because I don't think I could survive another one like this.




AND SOME DAY I WILL FINISH ALL MY POSTS FOR BRAWL. alksjflkashjfajshgklasjghlkjaskjghga

EDIT: And our toilet is leaking again. DAMNIT.

Ugh, okay, so earlier? My layout just DIED and it eventually pissed me off enough that I put up one of the lame default ones [I only check my flist every oh, TEN MINUTES OR SO, so this was a big problem. >|] I'll put it back when it seems like it MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK AGAIN. So lame.

IN OTHER NEWS.

Feeling better, yay! Finals are next week, not yay! But this means that the dorm is giving us free food like crazy, yay! And school is out soon, yay!

BUT. The funny thing. For no apparant reason I have developed a theory today. And it's yet to be unproven to me so I am offering it up to the superior knowledge of PoT on my flist.

My theory: Every red-head in PoT seems inexplicably obssesed with their hair.

Explantion:

Eiji- Hello the hair flip? AND YOU SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN HE WAKES UP. All frizzy. Thus, EFFORT.
Davide- ahahahaha, duh. The ponytail. LOVE.
Wakato- .....another duh. LOOK AT HIM. HE IS A MAN OBSESSED
Gakuto- That can't be natural. It goes in like. A perfect V. And the color? Also not natural.
Sengoku- HOW DOES HE MAKE IT FLIP LIKE THAT I AM JEALOUS. It's like. Fwoosh!
Marui- It's, well. Pink. So I dunno if he even counts. But it's pink. And there are definitely no roots to be seen.

So am I missing anyone? And am I just crazy or am I onto something here?

Done with tests for THIS week, have two essays and another test next week.

You know that rough draft? The one I wrote the morning it was due while not-feeling-my best? Yeah. The prof has totally told me like, 3 times now how great she thinks it is and how she liked it even better on a second-read through. sdakjshdajsdajhsdak WTF. XD I WIN AT LIFE, OBVIOUSLY.

In life-goals news, I keep imagining myself teaching classes and what my profs do that I would emulate and what they do that I would avoid. Hahahahahaha. I really think it's my calling in life. I just have to GET THERE. Whee.

Rode today for the first time in weeks on account of the OMG SICK AS HELL thing and now feel like rubber because lsakjdlkjasdlksdadsalkjdslk I am out of shape. Not on.

FUNNY STORY.

I'm an understudy for the play "I Hate Hamlet" this semester, so on occasion I have to go to rehearsals. Today was one of those days. And one of the actresses is apparently ADD and her meds are low so she kept stacking things from her purse in front of me like gifts, which was pretty hilarious, but the best part by far was towards the end.

She wrote me a check. Signed and everything.

For Monkey Sex and 22 cent. [memo: fur]

I laughed for over an hour and it's now on my wall.

IN OTHER NEWS. The AMAZING SNUZZ AND RIAH have been working their little fannies off for the past....oh, 48 hours or so and that Bleach AU RP I mentioned yesterday in the throws of excitement? Is totally open and ready to go and shit and we've been having some fun times already and HOI YOU LOT. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO CHECK IT OUT. I'm playing Renji and Gin. ;)

ALLOW ME A MOMENT TO SPAM YOU:

( OKay. Because I know it's up on other journals I'll be nice and cut this. BUT LOOK AT IT. IT'S PRETTY. )

YOU BETTER HAVE CLICKED THAT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET. IT'S ACE.

Moving on. I love every single tennis boy in brawl. Nuff said. I think you're all entirely brilliant and want to hug/love/molest/stalk you all. ♥ Or just make really bad puns about names. >.>