So, I'm chillin', done with school, it's all cool, and I thought I'd recount some of the moneymoney I've been making over the last week. Just 'cause.

I sold back an old textbook I used this summer for $23.50 (didn't think I'd get anything for it, tbh! I didn't even buy it from the uni bookstore)
I picked up a paycheck for $9.
I got a reimbursement check for $60, my PTS dues
Put in my new housing requisition, $3000 worth.
E-mailled a prof for a letter of recommendation for a summer research proggie
Went by my place of employment and made my case to be paid more than $9. Should be closer to 80, tbh. It's a strong case, seeing how I worked the hours. Did I ever tell you guys that I never got paid for my first day at Whatta-burger? No one showed me how to clock in, so I never did it. Jerks.
Sold that iPod I mysteriously won in a random drawing for $120. It's worth $200 from apple, I asked $170, and got jewed down, but I don't mind too much. That's $120 I wouldn't've had before, and some little hispanic girl apparently gets a merry christmas. Whatev. If the mom wasn't paying out the yazoo for her iphone data plan, I probably could've gotten all $170, but that's just being greedy for something that fell into my lap.
and a handful of survey checks.

And now you all know the secret to my internet generosity. Money falls into my lap and I give it away. Does that make me a good person or a dumbass? My mom would probably say it's a God thing, but I think you all know I don't think that's true. But it always seems to me that the appropriate results befall the appropriate people. I guess that's a privileged white girl outlook.

Now, back to kicking ass. If I kick enough ass, asses will start to kick themselves for me, saving me a lot of time and effort. Hi'yah!

Mosquito bites don't leave bruises, do they?

I have infinity more cuts and scratches and lacerations from the time of my last post, thanks to Lola. She loves me harsh.

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
jume goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Silk Spectre.
baloki gives you 19 green lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
lekana gives you 1 milky white apple-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
lilredsarah tricks you! You get a scratched CD.
momijitsuki gives you 1 light blue grapefruit-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
mystickeeper gives you 2 tan lemon-flavoured gummy worms.
piepants tricks you! You lose 7 pieces of candy!
shifty_lynx tricks you! You get a rotten egg.
shiny_mcheiny gives you 11 mauve passionfruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
shlupquack gives you 14 blue chocolate-flavoured wafers.
shoeshine_boy gives you 1 mottled green root beer-flavoured gummy worms.
jume ends up with 42 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, and a rotten egg.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

from protos and ann

The Chemical Brothers - Hold Tight London: 208 plays
Jim Croce - A Long Time Ago: 145 plays
DJ Satomi - Waves: 128 plays
Elliott Smith - Bottle Up and Explode!: 126 plays
Françoise Hardy - Mon Ami Le Rose: 78 plays

Anyways, I'm grateful to everyone who indulged me in my last post. Thank you very much <3

Just wanted to whore this picture out one more time xD

Just look at all these awesome songs
SHADOW DANCER - PALMS OUT SOUNDS OF SUMMER MIX - JULY 2009

BECK // Alcohol
RHYTHM & SOUND // No Partial
THE BUGGLES // I Love You (Miss Robot)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS // Wherever You Are
BANDULU // Selah
μ-ZIQ vs. THE AUTEURS // Underground Movies
THE SABRES OF PARADISE // Return Of Carter
RIC OCASEK // Jimmy Jimmy
THE FLAMING LIPS // Are You A Hypnotist??
HALF COUSIN // Tiles
JONNY L // I Let U
THE CARS // Panorama
AIR // Mike Mills
JON BRION // So Now Then
BROADWAY PROJECT // Revolution Waltz
JEAN MICHEL JARRE // Ethnicolor II
RED SNAPPER // Crusoe Takes A Trip
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE // No One Knows
MOTORBASS // Fabulous
THE CLASH // Guns Of Brixton
PLAID // Coat
HERBIE HANCOCK // Chameleon
MIKE & RICH // The Sound Of Beady Eyes
ULTRAMARINE // British Summertime
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE // Soldier Girl
BRIAN ENO // Signals
FRIDGE // Cut Up Piano & Xylophone
TUNNG // Bullets
PETER GABRIEL // Games Without Frontiers
PAVEMENT // Summer Babe
BEASTIE BOYS // Jimmy James
BOARDS OF CANADA // In A Beautiful Place In The Country
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT // Mammagamma (Instrumental Version)
JUNIOR WALKER & THE ALL-STARS // What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)?
DJ KRUSH // Meiso (DJ SHADOW Klub Mix)
REPEAT // Drifting Sounds Of Wikiki
INCOGNITO // Out Of The Storm (CARL CRAIG's Planet E Special Mix)
PAUL GIOVANNI & MAGNET // Willow's Song
SQUAREPUSHER // Tetra-Sync
GRANDADDY // The Warming Sun
MASSIVE ATTACK // Unfinished Sympathy
DOVES // There Goes The Fear
THE BYRDS // Eight Miles High
SIMIAN // One Dimension
RELOAD // Le Soliel Et La Mer (GLOBAL COMMUNICATION Remix)
BOLA // Forcasa 3
DIOS // Just Another Girl

I was around!

(I heard this on kxua last weekend and it was pretty awesome. Or I think I heard it on kxua. The DJ mentioned it, but I'm not good at realizing if they're talking about the last track or previous ones, etc)

link: http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2009/07/sounds-of-summer-12-shadow-dancer.html

Your goal: type an entire LJ entry while touch typing. No eyes, no one spotting you for typos. Just your fingers and the cool feel of keys beneath your skin. A long drive on a cool night with the wind in your hair, the stars shining bright, looking for nowhere to go, content with being alone. Perfect.

I've been driving all night, m hand's wet on the wheel
THere's a cvoice in my head that drives my heel.
It's my baby calling says she needs me here.
And it's a half past four and I'm shifting gears.

I guess I could continue typing things, but I'm not sure what to say. I'm trying to drink a cup of coffee right now that has a reese's cup dropped into it. So far, no peanut butter coffee.

Reese's cups do bring out the conspiracy theorist in my dad though. He confided in me that he has a suspicion that manufacturers have shares in paper/plastics companies as well as landfills.

I asked him if he were serious, and he said no, he was just trying to see if I was functioning on a critical level yet this morning.

Thanks dad!

This one seemed particularly relevant, considering the nick I was using.
[23:03:22] <Hermione Granger> dude
[23:03:23] <Hermione Granger> it's canon
[23:03:25] <Hermione Granger> right there
[23:03:26] <Utamaru> Hermione Granger: I suggest you seek professional help, as you don't seem to realize that *you* are Right!

I swear, they know just how to get me aggravated in the worst way (sorry foa).

YES I WANT TO STAY UP UNTIL 1:30 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THIS FUCKING FLOAT TRIP IDEA BECAUSE YOU GUYS WILL MAKE US DRIVE TWO HOURS IN THE FUCKING EARLY MORNING ON OUR DAY OFF. omg.

Yes, I realize most children butt heads with their parents as they grow up, but it seems like mine are particularly worthless at planning vacations. Going to florida with them was a huge headache
(ask stu)

Put itunes/winamp/etc on shuffle
20 (I did 21, sue me) first lines of songs compose a poem
the 21st (22nd) is the title of the poem.

You cannot quit me so quickly
Sit by my side, come as close as the air
She's so wonderful
A self-fulfilling prophecy of endless possibility
You're on your own my little nightmare, you cannot stay here
I'm stuck here in the middle of
Can't stop addicted to the shindig

O Green World.
The colors have built up in my mind.
Got woken in the night by a mystic golden light.
We might kiss
In the velvet darkness
Don't worry.
It's funny how your worst enemies always seem to
Là.

If you're alone and you need a friend
We skipped the light fandango.
What will you do when you get lonely?
I was born by the river in a little tent.
So lately, been wondering
Don't kid yourself
No one knows what it's like.

I almost had 200 lj friends, but I decided it was time to prune. This isn't like what other people call pruning, it's just getting rid of accounts other people don't use anymore.

I took the time to prune my contacts lists on IM also. There were some who hadn't signed in for a year, who I couldn't remember who they were, etc, baleeted.

IM contact organization:

Basic division into groups by website I know them from: eoff, dolling, wofs, school. Obviously some of these groups are larger and have more active people than others.

Then people I really like to talk to/am/have been close with are in a group
Then a group for people I talk to often. They're all set to be visible when they're offline so I can find and leave them messages easily.

Thanks to massive allergy attack, I am kinda loopy this evening, making it the perfect night to crochet. That's when I decided that I thought the hat I made was way too big so I unravelled it all and started over. And now it's looking too small. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

but yeah, kinda spacey atm.

I just wanted to shout out to all the TOCcers still floating out there. <3

In Watchers of the Skies, a certain Frenchman who was obsessed with finding a satellite of Mercury was called a "mauvais coucheur" by another Frenchman. In the 7^th grade, I was deeply amused by this phrase, but unfortunately, the on-line translations of the time rendered it as 'bad customer' rather than 'bad bedfellow', which completely obliterated the meaning, of course. My flirty attempt to use it on the object of my crushation at the time, fell flat on its face.

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
		I. . . really. . . N/A?
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 11
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 15
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: I can, I haven't. I haven't even used up 15 icons yet.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Not so much. I just pick whatever is cute or pretty
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Final Fantasy (5)
AND THE SECOND MOST: Star Wars and Harry Potter (1)
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Rinoa/Squall (implied?)
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: None of them actually, unless you count meeko's, but I've never used them ;)
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: obviously
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: I think they are
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: pretty fun

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

I really couldn't think of any current icons I have uploaded as being 'stolen ideas'. I mean, if there was the Yuna minimovie one, that would've definitely be there, or the cavaliers, I don't know, these are all pretty original/simple. Feel free to speak up otherwise, though xD

( Go to your LJ Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2007. Post the first line (or such) of it in your journal, and that's your  )

I was looking in my posts last year and in 2006 and it's incredible how different I feel now. In 2006, I seemed to be a hyper high schooler, and last year, I was angstomatic 9000

Rules:

1. Bold the ones that are true.
2. Italicize the ones that are sort of true.


General

* I am 5'4 or shorter.
* I think I'm ugly.
* I have many scars.
* I tan easily.
* I wish my hair was a different color.
* I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
* I have a tattoo.
* I am self-conscious about my appearance.
* I have/had braces.
* I wear glasses.
* I'd get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free, scar-free.
* I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
* I have had more than two piercings.
* I have had piercings in places besides my ears.
* I have freckles.


Family/home life

* I've sworn at my parents.
* I've run away from home.
* I've been kicked out of the house.
* My biological parents are together.
* I have a sibling less than one year old.
* I want to have kids someday.
* I have children.
* I've lost a child.


Embarrassment

* I've slipped out a "lol" in a spoken conversation.
* Disney movies still make me cry.
* I've snorted while laughing.
* I've laughed so hard I've cried.
* I've glued my hand to something. Nothing that caused a major inconvenience xD
* I've laughed till some kind of beverage came out of my nose.
* I've had my trousers rip in public.


Health

* I've had stitches.
* I've broken a bone. just a tooth
* I've had my tonsils removed.
* I've sat in a doctor's office with a friend. I waited for stu for a looooong time in the waiting room, though.
* I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
* I've had serious surgery.
* I've had chicken pox.

Travelling

* I've driven over 200 miles (320km) in one day.
* I've been on a plane.
* I've been to North America.
* I've been to Niagara Falls.
* I've been to Japan.
* I've been to Europe.
* I've been to Africa.


Experiences

* I've been lost in my city.
* I've seen a shooting star.
* I've wished on a shooting star.
* I've seen a meteor shower.
* I've gone out in public in my pajamas. college is good for that;)
* I've pushed all the buttons in a lift.
* I've been to a casino.
* I've been skydiving.
* I've gone skinny dipping. not with anyone else though ;_;
* I've played spin the bottle.
* I've crashed a car.
* I've been skiing.
* I've been in a play.
* I've met someone in person from the internet.
* I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
* I've seen the northern lights. <- I really want to
* I've sat on a roof top at night.
* I've played chicken.
* I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
* I've eaten sushi.
* I've been snowboarding.


Relationships

* I'm single.
* I'm in a relationship.
* I'm available.
* I'm engaged. almost!
* I'm married.
* I've gone on a blind date.
* I've been the dumpee more than the dumper.
* I have a fear of abandonment
* I've been divorced.
* I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
* I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
* I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
* I've kept something from a past relationship.


Sexuality

* I've had a crush on someone of the same gender.
* I've kissed a member of the same gender.
* I've had sex with someone of the opposite gender.
* I've had sex with someone of the same gender.
* I've had sex with more than one person at the same time.
* I am a cuddler.
* I've been kissed in the rain.
* I've had sex outdoors.
* I've hugged a stranger.
* I have kissed a stranger.
* I have had sex with a stranger.


Honesty/crime

* I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
* I have lied to my parents about where I am.
* I am keeping a secret from the world.
* I've cheated while playing a video game. <- I inherited passwords to games, so it was natural early on xD
* I've cheated on a test. <- it was a spelling quiz in first grade xD
* I've driven through a red light. Maybe at the last minute!
* I've been suspended from school.
* I've witnessed a crime.
* I've been in a fist fight.
* I've been arrested.
* I've shoplifted. <- no but the JC Penneys security sure accused me of it though.


Drugs/alcohol

* I've consumed alcohol.
* I have/do smoked cigarettes. <- Just cigars
* I have/do smoked pot.
* I regularly drink.
* I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
* I take cough medication when I'm not sick.
* I've done hard drugs.
* I've been addicted to an illegal substance.
* I can't swallow pills.
* I can swallow about five pills at a time no problem.


Random

* I can sing well. <- the jury's out on it
* I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
* I open up to others too easily.
* I watch the news.
* I don't kill bugs. I don't kill good bugs
* I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for sake of being able to rhyme.
* I fucking swear regularly.
* I sing in the shower.
* I am a morning person.
* I paid for my mobile phone ring tone.
* I'm a snob about grammar.
* I am a sports fanatic.
* I play with my hair.
* I have/had "x"s in my screen name.
* I love being neat.
* I love spam.
* I've copied more than 30 cds in a day.
* I bake well.
* My favourite colour is either white, yellow, pink, red or blue. red+blue :)
* I don't know how to shoot a gun.
* I am in love with love.
* I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
* I laugh at my own jokes.
* I eat fast food weekly.
* I believe in ghosts.
* I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
* I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
* I am really ticklish.
* I love white chocolate.
* I bite my nails.
* I play video games.
* I'm good at remembering faces.
* I'm good at remembering names.
* I'm good at remembering dates.
* I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.

* My answers are totally honest.

My first thought: "I wonder when I can visit it".