sit down son

So it's been a few days since I updated, and I've finally come to the conclusion that I was, in fact, still drunk when I did so as less than two hours later I was attacked by the worst hangover of my life. I didn't empty my stomach again, but I felt like I should for the next two days. Trust me. Not an experience I intend to repeat. And I have a nice reminder of it on my wrist too as I discovered that I apparently burned myself with a cigarette at some point. It took some asking for me to find someone who remembered me doing it, because I sure as hell don't. But it's there clear as day--burn mark just to the hand-side of my wrist bone. Whoops!

So I stayed in Statesboro until Friday and drove home after it got dark. Let me tell you, I cannot even DESCRIBE how much more bearable that was. You all heard my whining about how I was going to die on the way down. People are not meant to be in shiny metal cars with no AC when the temperature is a solid 100+ degrees out. I don't want to know the heat index. *shudder* Driving home was in the 80's. SO MUCH BETTER. And the hangover was gone. Which also made life better.

But then, oh then! I woke up on Saturday morning to the CRAMPS from hell! Woe is me, the world hates my abdominal muscles this week! And that part wasn't even my fault! It's just the joy of being utterly female. So I am finally entirely UN-queasy and UN-cramped today for the first time since, oh. A week ago. Huzzah.

So I went out job hunting! Right now I'll be content with JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. I even tried for the liquor store. Which wasn't hiring but hey, I tried. I think I've got a good shot at some restaurant work though, which would be fun. I bet I could get good tips! I am very bright and cheerful. Usually. As long as I don't actually KNOW you. If I know you I feel that I have free reign to make fun of you for weeks.

One good thing that came of Saturday and the Cramps of Death, however, is that while having a girly chocolate movie night with my mom, she brought down this blanket that was MEANT to be mine months ago but was stolen by my sister who now decided she doesn't want it.

It is huge. It is fluffy. It is like a million teddy bears have been sacrificed and skinned to provide me with the most comfortable blanket in the world. Really, not a wise thing to give me if ou want me to get out of bed ever. O! how it is comfortable. It's like a series of teddy bears puked up all that is good and right in the world just for my immense comfort. And O! how I love it. And O! how jealous you all should be.

And on a final note which still embarrasses me a bit: I read and enjoyed all the Twilight books last week. They're strangely addictive and yes, I am horrified at myself that I put down m Joyce to read those instead. And yet, I cannot be unhappy about it because it was fun. And everyone I hold dear IRL has simultaneously decided to become obsessed with them so it's like, my life is full of Twilight and I don't even NEED fandom. Which is fun.

Oh wait! That is not my final note! I have been reading Harry Potter fanfiction like it's going out of style for OVER A MONTH NOW and I simply MUST give you ALL my opinion on the final Big Bang.

It is huge. It is fantastic. And nothing can ever, EVER measure up to Creevey at Large. It is the best thing ever. Ever ever ever. Dennis Creevey is my new homeboy. He is amazing. And MOON! CLOWNS. MOON. OH GOD! If you even have a passing interesting in Harry/Draco fanfic and love really big really creative really FUNNY fanfictions, READ IT NOW. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!!!

Okay. I'm done now.

I should do this more often to SAVE YOU FROM THE HUGEEEE.

Or I'm not. NEED MORE ONE PIECE. NEED MORE FAIRY TAIL. COME ON. GAAAAAAAAAAAH! *panic circles!*

DONE. SERIOUSLY. SHUTTING THE HELL UP....

NOW!

[sorry]

Hot damn, I'm alive! Well. Mostly at least. I GOT A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEP FOR THE FIRST TIME ALL WEEK THOUGH!!


God that's sad. My nap yesterday completely failed as about an hour after I conked out to the dulcet tones of MEAGAN IN MY LIVING ROOM! Seeing as she moved to SC a week and a half ago...This was unexpected. She's staying through graduation and we had to hit the bar last night. Good times, yo. And a nice way to unwind after Hell Incarnate.

Speaking of which. I have one day of class and 2 days of finals and I'll never do anything for undergrad again except for walk across the stage in just about a week.

All I have to say to that is HOLY SHIT!


PS- drinking too much Rockstar makes you piss neon yellow. Eventually. Or it did me yesterday. Or at least I'm pretty sure it did. I hadn't exactly slept so I might have been delusional.

Still am, really. Gonna take a good bit more sleep to fix THAT hot mess.

PPS- Pieces of Flair is the most awesome app on facebook. You should all add it so I can send you stuff. *_*

PPPS- I AM STILL SADDENED AT THE LACK OF OP AND FT THIS WEEK. ;_;

PPPPS- Ha HAA! PILLAGE PILLAGE PILLAGE RAPE AND PLUNDER! Ha HAA!

So some crap went down on Sunday that has completely destroyed my typically LONG FUSE for annoyances. I think I've gotten more pissed off in the past two days than I have all semester. Which isn't cool.

See, I take massive issue with people forgetting I exist while I'm sitting right in front of them in my own living room. Suffice it to say that I sat there and yelled at the lot of them, even the ones who didn't deserve it (Jesse is the best person in the world for just sitting there and then hugging me. He's like an awesome giant teddy-bear. And I mean giant, the boy's ridiculously tall.). Buuuut yeah. If it didn't sin into their heads I might have to make heads roll.

Hi. I have a temper. And a loud voice.

But since then things that are generally minor annoyances have really set me off and it's at once frustrating and embarrassing because I take PRIDE in being relatively level-headed, for being comic relief, for not getting involved in icky wangsty stuff unless it's completely unavoidable. I don't LIKE confrontation, but I'm not afraid of it, yanno? Cause I always have surprise on my side but if I don't get this temper flare to GO THE HELL AWAY....shock will no longer be my friend in bending idiots to my way of thinking.

Parts of Sunday evening were hilarious though. Mostly when Bailey did this blue air-pink air relaxation exercise thinger (which was hilarious in its own right because I was just listening to her and it sounded like a mixture of a fucked up version of Mr. Bubbles and a sex dream) and halfway through she spots a cockroach on the wall, shakes my foot, points it out, and keeps on going until the end when she said in the SAME CALM VOICE "Now when you're ready, open your eyes...And someone please kill the cockroach." Seeing EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM LEAP in the air was one of the funniest things of my life. Just. Amazing. Plus The Professor (aka Ryan) actually was INTERESTED in the concept of online RPGs. So I got to talk about that for a while. *_*

But yeah, not going into details of why I got angry because it will make me angry again and I'm trying to NOT be pissy, seeing as I have to spend several hours a day with the lot of them until like, Sunday when the show closes.

People are retarded. And piss me off more than getting bumped into in the parking lot an hour ago. That just made me laugh.

HOWEVER!! I did acquire the Chipmunk Adventure soundtrack from RL!Steph yesterday and have every intention of torturing them alllll with it tonight before the show. >D I'm a winnar.

Also, I need to stop RPing until way-later-than-my-bedtime-this-week and write my jump exchange fic which is due, oh, IN A FEW HOURS. I also need to write a research paper proposal which was technically due like, a week ago. Agchk. Not enough time in the day, folks. Not nearly enough.

But Bones last night was amazing. *__* And I need more OP and FT like, now. Come on week, pass faster. Without destroying my brain, preferably. I only just got that back.

So my matching bag for my laptop came yesterday. *_* IT'S SO NICE! I was digging through it going OO! POCKETS! And the spot where the laptop goes is so sooooft. I want a bed made out of that stuff. No fair, lappy. No fair at all.

Actually I'm just tired and want ANY sort of bed. ;_; I NEED A NAP. MAYBE I'LL GET ONE TODAY. *_* there's nothing left to come to my door and interrupt perfectly good napping time, SO WE SHALL SEEEE~!

Last night was our first dress rehearsal for On Dragonfly Wings. Oh. My. God. You GUYS. You WISH you had costumes as cool as these. I'm a GUPPY and a BUMBLE BEE. It's amazing. Not as amazing as Vince's CRANE COSTUME WITH THE 3 FOOT TALL BIG HEAD THAT HE CAN BARELY SEE THROUGH THE NECK OF, but still pretty amazing. I hauled my laptop there in it's shiny newness with its shiny new bag and made people plonk down in front of the camera. SMILE AT THE FLASHING BLUE LIGHT, GUYS! It was pretty spiffy. I'm really failing at typing on this keyboard in the language lab. My brain is shot to hell and back. This is freaking fantastic.

( PICTURES!!! )

Enough of that. I found last night that even WITH the whole 1 mbps issue on Shanks [which would be my laptop's name, stfu, it's RED, okay?!?!] I can still RP on it loads faster just because stuff LOADS AS IT SHOULD!!! No clicking a tab or window and waiting forever for it to pull up. *_* A delay on internet response, but not on the COMPUTER ITSELF. *___* It made my life amazing. Life was generally amazing last night except for the point at which I forgot I was actually really tired and forgot to sleep.

Oops.

So Jaz took screenshots.

Some of which were Shanks.

And now I have a new layout.

themegaloo.

I'm sure you see the connection between those statements. ;)

JAZ ILUUU. ♥ Your screencaps are gorgeous.

Now that I've occupied myself with making that damn text follow his shoulder for like, an HOUR, I'm off to sleeeeeeep. *___*

I think I finally understand why I stay up late for no reason. Well, beyond the obvious of my internet addiction and enjoying the peacefulness of the night-time.

Because, really, night-time isn't so peaceful here half the time. Unless everyone's gone. XD

I stay awake and take care of people when weird shit happens. And I always leave my light on and bedroom door open when I AM awake so they can come find me. Unless I'm feeling seriously anti-social and that doesn't usually deter people anyhow.

Tonight's rundown:
1. [early in the evening] JD was being an idiot and pissed off Steph. Got her out of the house, cracked jokes, commiserated, problem somewhat solved. Also acquired much needed toilet paper in the process.
2. Warned Kevin about a project due in the morning.
3. Tried to see what was wrong with Drew.
4. Went to talk to Carie upon Drew's request as he left.
5. Talked to Carie. Found out they broke up. Offered alcohol.
6. Talked to Bailey and kept her company when she woke up.
7. Gave Bailey allergy meds in hopes that she could sleep.
8. Startled by thumping noises from the bathroom. No guys here, deemed it safe. Discovered Bailey attempting [and failing] to close the bathroom door so she could use the facilities. Closed door successfully.
[Edit] 9. Upon Drew's return, talked to him about stuff and tried to help him feel a LITTLE better. Success undetermined.

So I'm wondering if anything else will happen to bring me up to ten for the night. XD And I think I like taking care of people. And to take care of people you have to be awake. Which I usually am. [Within reason] I know a lot about people I care about just because I'm awake, around and willing to listen when shit happens. And I've discovered that in some cases I don't even mind when they wake me up at weird hours.

Life's pretty good. Spring break wasn't long enough, especially for the sheer amount of driving I did during it. I literally did some sort of weird triangle across the state. Why does my sister have to live practically on the Alabama state line. :| Geeze, man. I've been languishing in bed basically since I got back because I don't want to go anywhere near my car for a few days if I can help it. Though I did cave and put more gas in it today just in case. And got donuts! So that's breakfast for tomorrow! \o/

Last night was hilariously fantastic. And I'm never going to stop finding it funny how THREE PEOPLE can come up with I think THIRTEEN CHARACTERS for ONE LOG. It. Was amazing. I laughed so haaaard. XDDD; ILU GUYS. And Michelle knows I have plans for a post soon. >D Beware, as soon as I have an evening not-so-bizarre when people are about and not having a ton of fun at cons [zomgstilljealous], IT WILL HAPPEN. And it will be glorious.

So I think someone finally caved and changed the radio station here at work. Because I've listened to oldies here for probably the last six months to a year and I DEFINITELY heard that annoying Delilah song earlier. You know, the massively overplayed one? I thought maybe the station was just having a weird day on Saturday because I had definitely heard James Taylor on Friday and no one else had been in the shop, but they played Jimmy Eat World's The Middle and Mambo #5.

But yeah. Hey There Delilah or wtfever wouldn't even fall on a late-90's or whatever day. So SOMEONE has changed the station. Which I guess is refreshing. XD;

I got my notification that Trinity has RECEIVED MY APPLICATION~ So that's really and truly taken care of. *crosses fingers*

Spoilers for One Piece 491 are circulating. There's a full script out there but no full raw to play with. Those usually show up around this time tomorrow. *waits impatiently* *and even more impatiently for a properly scanlated chapter* It's interesting stuff! I'm curious. :D Which means I kinda want NEXT week already. Whoops. I should stop wanting time to speed along.

My extra-userpics expired yesterday, apparently, as my icon list got MUCH smaller. But seeing what I have left is pretty funny. All One Piece except for 1 Bleach and 1 Gundam Seed Destiny. Huh. I guess that illustrates which icons I use most frequently! Still, want the rest of them back because I have about 30 more OP icons, I do believe. 66 of my usual 113 are OP. >.>

Fandom To-Do List:
-Write something for a belated Sanji Birthday
-Write that cracked out Gan Fall/Gol D. Roger thing [probably need to reacquaint myself with Skypeia first though. Bah.]
-Write what I'm calling a multimedia fic. THOUGHTS: Would anyone read a fic that is MEANT to be read while listening to a specific, provided song? My main question is whether or not it would be possible to get the timing right so most people can keep up with the pacing. It's...not exactly a slow song. Gonna be tricky.
-Stop missing posts on grandlineonline, damnit.

Edit: So I couldn't last another five minutes without my icons. Impulse buying, much?

xredribbon and I went a little crazy on GLOL last night and now I am dead. And have things to do. And MIGHT have rehearsal tonight when I thought I didn't and would be able to go home and SLEEP.

If I do, I will be very >O Because we've NEVER had Monday rehearsal and the play doesn't open for AGES, why?!?! Shoot me.

But I think. Despite it all. It was worth it.

Oh and nickelodeon, sorry for spamming the shit out of your post. But it's a new record. It officially has more comments than the FIRST post. By one. And that post was ALSO yours.

Geeze, you're spammable.

So I'm so tired right now it's stupid. There's no way I'm staying up late tonight, hahaha.

Saw the lunar eclipse last night, which was really cool and had a great time hanging out with evilpsychojoe until stupid o'clock in the morning. Which sort of explains why I'm so DEAD today.

So to keep myself entertained and AWAKE at work, I took a page out of nickelodeon's book.

You can find 79 caps from One Piece Episode 4 HERE. Yeah, you read that right. 79. I think I have a problem when it comes to those Red Haired Pirates. *___*

We got a new girl working at the shop now, which is nice because it means it's NO LONGER just on me and Mallory to be there 5 days a week. \o/ Which means I get Saturday off. Which means I'm going to volunteer at the costume shop all day instead. Which basically just makes me insane.

Hi folks, guess what? You get to read just me blathering. Lucky you. Though I guess I won't blame you if you just scroll on past. This is going to prove to be very dorky.

Now, first of, I have discovered the best, and possibly one of the most hilarious ways to pass time. Watching One Piece in German. Now I know that doesn't SOUND terribly amusing, especially if you don't SPEAK German, but to me, it's downright amazing. I can understand about HALF of what they're saying and I'm totally picking up new vocabulary and I think it's pretty much a win-win situation. Plus, it's just downright funny. Falkonaugen Mihawk? Eisburg? The Sogeking themesong? One of the things I've noticed is the German dub is a LOT FARTHER ALONG than the English one. And I encourage anyone to search "deutsch, one piece" on youtube and watch random clips because some of the voices are HILARIOUS.

In other watching news, I finally have actually seen all of Firefly. Not entirely in order YET, as I saw the last four episodes over the Christmas hols and am only just now caught back up to that point from the beginning. I really like it. Which is surprising on one count because I hates Buffy and Angel when I was forced to watch them every day after school and unsurprising on another because they're, well. Space pirates. I scared myself half to death last night though. Reavers are creepy at the best of times, but at 2 am in the living room by yourself? Yeah, downright terrifying and I don't recommend it. BUT I DO RECOMMEND FIREFLY ON THE WHOLE. HIGHLY! It's sort of HILARIOUS.

I'm also still flabbergasted by how much I love writing fic for One Piece. I wrote TWO yesterday. The one properly posted and then a Smoker/Ace fic in the comments for xredribbon. So fun.

OH! And that meme. The nice one where you pick ten people who make your day a little shinier! I'd paste the instructions but I don't have them handy. Tagged by takewing though, and it's just such a sweet meme I had to do it. Was gonna post it yesterday but posted fic instead. Whoops. And I could only really think of 8. So hey. No real order. ( Find that under here! )