I know I have been not-very-active on here lately, and just.  Bleh.  I am so sorry and I'm trying to read y'all's posts even if I don't have time to comment.  But I saw this meme floating around and wanted to post it before I forgot/it got too outdated/some other dumb excuse I made up to keep myself from posting.

I know very little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. But here’s a thought: why not take this opportunity to tell me a little something about yourself. Any old thing at all. Just so the next time I see your name I can say: “Ah, there’s [Your name here]… they like money and cereal.” I’d love it if everyone who’s friended me did this. (Yes, even you people who I know fairly well.) Then post this in your own journal (you don't have to, but it would be awesome). In return, ask me anything you’d like to know about me and I’ll give you an answer.

In other-life news...nothing much exciting. Will probably try to get a post together sometime soon. Thanks for sticking with me. ♥

It's been one hell of a week. Done with one presentation, one quiz, one essay. For Monday, another (longer) essay and two more presentations, both of which have projects attached. For Tuesday, a test. And tomorrow, a shitton of rehearsing for various wind ensemble performances/somehow finding time to do all the regular homework that I have to do for classes that aren't doing their finals early.

I've at least been trying to read all the entries on my f-list, and in lieu of being able to actually comment on every one, I've been trying to hit threads on the holiday love meme as I see them. There's a few things I would've liked to post about here but I don't have the energy by the time I get through all the things I have to do.

holiday love meme 2012
my thread here

Back to work cataloguing awesome women in the history of the web, and next time I talk about overloading on credits, someone hit me on the head, hard.

First off, a big HELLOOOOOOO to all of my new friends from the wonderous_stuff friending meme!  I look forward to getting to know you all, and I also look forward to the day where LJ returns the feature where you can type out a name and then highlight it and it will turn it into a proper username link!  But I mainly look forward to the first thing there, because that is something that's going to actually happen. ;)

To be honest, this is pretty much the WORST TIME EVER for you to have added me on LJ because I'm coming up on finals so I have a ton of presentations and essays and studying to be done and actually thinking about all these things sends me into a minor panic.  On top of that, I was for some reason super tired when I woke up, and still have a bit of a headache despite the fact that I slept for, like, three hours upon coming home from class.  So I'm sorry if any of the comments I left you sounded delirious or anything; I am usually at least a bit better at making sense. I swear. :P

I don't have an about post at all, but I do have an about tag that has previous answers to Questions People Asked me.  Or you can simply ask me questions here and I will answer them and it will be fun times (and probably require less reading on your part, but no guarantees: I ramble like mad).

I feel like I should talk about something real-life-y here but what do I say is anyone here interested in hearing about how I'm writing an essay on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and it is the most awesome thing ever?  Or about how I should be doing a research project on Important Women in Internet History but am not because where do I even staaart and what is life?  Well, even if you weren't, now you know! :D And that's about enough of this for the day because I seriously need to work on this project, but I suppose I'll do an actual entry about Things and Stuff sometime in the future when I don't have any impending deadlines. 

Hope you're all well!

guys I am a mega-asshole and definitely need to check my LJ more often, but more on that later because first,


If you are an American, that is.  If you are undecided on who to vote for, pick Obama he's better read this post by John Green and hopefully it will help you make a decision.  And then get down to your polling places and be involved in this country's politics, because the only possible way to head off corruption in politics is to involve yourself, not to shut yourself away in a closet because all the candidates suck. 

Okay back to that bit about me being an asshole; I AM SORRY I just read through everyone's entries from the past week or so and didn't really comment much because I have an essay due at midnight that is still in rough draft-ish form finished, finally, and I hope it is okay.  But uh I got into the terrible habit of avoiding my flist because it used to be so full that missing even a couple of days = ~40 unread entries and I could not do that with my current workload. But since I did a friends cut that is not so much an issue anymore because I miss that many entries maybe in a week, which is totally do-able. So if (when) you see me other places on LJ and you haven't seen me around your journals for awhile, feel free to pester me and/or hurl insults in my general direction. No, seriously.  Because I'm mad at myself for missing the fun Halloweentimes that apparently happened 'round here and I would have loved to give you all tricks.  Or treats.  But probably tricks because haha NO TIME EVER FOR THINGS.

Anyhow, news: I feel like I have a lot of bitching/angst that needs to come out at some point (yay!) but at this point, I'm gonna leave it with UGH I had my schedule for next semester all planned out and then they went and changed the time of some of the classes I'd planned to take, thus invalidating six credits. :| Soooo now I have to get that all planned out and my time to sign up for classes is tomorrow (well, technically today), so I am a little bit irritated at whoever thought that would be a good idea.

That's all for now because the only thing that's keeping me vertical right now is the coffee I had after dinner, and I have a full day tomorrow.  Later! ♥

In the past week, literally the only time I've spent not doing homework is the time I spent watching Revolution and Supernatural.

I never thought I would say this, but I am sick of essays.
And I have to find a thesis for another one that we haven't even talked about yet by Wednesday, ugh.  :|  And I've done no research for it and I don't even have a subject to research soooo haha finding a thesis is gonna be a lot of fun.

Midterms are ~officially~ over now since grades came out on Friday.  I did pretty okay; there are a few that I want to pull up, but I don't think (I hope?) I'll have a problem with that.
I still have a test next week because my teacher gave one a couple of weeks before midterms and didn't want to throw too many tests at us.  Thank goodness.

I would still give anything for a day off right now, though. It's a constant fight for me to not crawl back into bed and tell my homework to go fuck itself.  And it's not even that hard of work. Just reading, and reading, and reading.

I don't have anything else to talk about because I have done nothing else.  I am dying to open up PS, since I've been lurking TPP during homework breaks and snagging caps that look pretty.  Not quite as good as getting to caphunt for myself, but at this point, I'll take what I can get.  Seriously, though I need to look at Revolution caps like whoa; that show is gorgeous.

Homework breaks today = catching up on 2 weeks of LJ.  I'll try to keep the comment spam to a minimum, for everyone's sake. ♥

I'm really sorry to do this, but school has been kicking my ass this semester, and I just don't have as much time for LJ as I used to.  The amount of stuff on my f-list is beginning to overwhelm me as much as my homework, and I have to make it smaller somehow.



* ish.  I know some of you aren't very active, so I'll keep that in mind when doing the cut.  I won't be doing it for ~a week, and this post will stay public after that if you get here late. 

If you've been thinking about de-friending me, though, go ahead and there will be no hard feelings.  Again, I'm sorry to do this, but I'd rather have a group of people that I can keep up with rather than being a shitty friend to a few people. ♥
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Well, happy Labor Day, everyone! I spent a lot of the day catching up on things, because I always have a horrible time of it the first couple of weeks in a semester.  At least my classes this semester seem really interesting and awesome (for the most part).

→ History: just run-of-the-mill pre-Civil War US history.  I'm not super pumped for this class, but my teacher said he wanted to focus on race and gender relations in the time period so perhaps it will be interesting? At the very least it will be easy, because it's a Freshman-level course. \0/

→ Analyzing Literature: basically a prereq to all of the other awesome lit courses I can take.  We're reading Jane Eyre, which I have no strong feelings about so far, and then a lot of short stories and poems (including some by Atwood and Eliot!).  My professor for this is really sweet and also a tecnology nerd, so yay. :D

→ Reading Media Critically: There are two things you need to know about this class.  The first is that the professor had us introduce ourselves by telling her our name, our major, and which TV character we related with most; she related with River Song. (Points to anyone who can guess the character I picked.)  The second is that I get to analyze any text I want all semester, and I am in the midst of writing up a proposal so that this text may be Dollhouse.  This is, as you may have guessed, an Officially Awesome class.

→ Sound Design: This is just one of those random classes that I have to take for EMAC, but I am quite musically inclined, so I think I may enjoy it if I can kind of focus on that aspect of it all semester.  

→ Intro to Film: seems like it's going to be a pretty typical film course.  I've always kind of wanted to take one, though, so that works for me!  The reading has been super interesting so far because I am an art nerd like that.

→ Introduction to EMAC: basically a survey course of all the places one can go in EMAC.  What I'm most excited for about this is that the professor has flipped the classroom, which is a method I love because it allows students to guide themselves and teach themselves and it's so much better than showing up and listening to lectures.  I'm also really interested in some of the topics we'll be covering this semester (which is good, seeing as how they're the options for my major).

→ The Digital Society: I am SO EXCITED for this course.  My advisor allowed me to take one of the prereqs as a co-req, so I get to spend a semester learning about awesome things like the intersection of privilege and the Internet and how our identity affects the way we behave online and yeah. :D There are a couple of people in it who were in my gender studies class last year, and it just promises to be a really fun and interesting time.

Then, of course, I'm doing band and pep band again.  Those are both really nice stress relief, haha.  I'm just thankful that my classes are all pretty interesting this semester, because I don't think I'd have a chance of making it through so many credits without really caring about the work I was doing.  I just hope I'll make it to December still alive, haha. 
I am still going to post the photos that everyone asked for and such, but this post is kind of long already, so....look for that later.  If you still want to ask me to take pictures of something, that's here!

UGH yes so hi I am back at last.  I have been trying to at least read my f-list these past few weeks, but that went...sometimes less well than others because I was so busy. XD  But now I am here and ready to start being an actual friend again, so drop me links to anything super important I might have missed! 

And now, for a quick wrap-up of my life lately.

Likes:
Being able to sleep in, being around mountains again, all the TV finales (Castle, Community, Supernatural), The Avengers, Inspector Spacetime, the fact that Costco now carries Doctor Who DVDs, free time.

Dislikes:
Not being around people who understand my nerd/geek/fangirl references and jokes, Dan Harmon getting booted from Community, LJ changing things around again so my mod timesaving hacks no longer work, a summer job unexpectedly falling through.

Notes to people:
fantastique - ahhh I am so sorry I suck at life. I WILL START WORKING ON OUR STUFF TOMORROW I SWEAR.  Or maybe the next day. Anyhow. Soon.

geckoholic - apologies here as well for me sucking at life. If you still need/want my comments, hit me up and I will finish 'em off and send 'em out.

wickedgrdn - SORRY FOR NOT FINISHING THAT PROFILE EVER. It is very, very close to the top of my to-do list for tomorrow.

absolutelybatty and wickedgrdn (again) - I'd like to try to get capsource running this week, so I'm going to advertise/try to get some more mods tomorrow.  If you guys want to pop over there and claim day(s) to post before everyone else/start posting caps/do any ~moderate-y business, go for itttt.

everyone whose birthdays I missed: there were a lot of you, but HAPPY HAPPY (LATE) BIRTHDAY!  And why is it that about half of my f-list has birthdays in April/May, seriously. XD

Oh god I am going to sleep now, because I have no idea why, but I am pretty tired now.  Later! <3

I still plan to answer all the questions people asked in my intro post, but I will do that after I stop talking to people on friending memes (which will hopefully be soon).  This is just a quick question to all the graphics makers out there.

Over the past week, I've seen three people asking for caps so they didn't have to go caphunting.  I know I've been in that position as well before.  I was thinking it would be nice to have a comm where the mods routinely posted handpicked caps to save us the time of flipping through galleries.  I snagged a name as a precursory measure, but I want to see what you guys think before I ~start anything.

1. Would you be interested in using such a comm to find caps? If so, what would you want from it?
2. If you have any ideas or want to help out, drop me a line.

Thanks!