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[Dec. 19th, 2009|12:38 pm] |
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Well. Life is good :)
Classes are over. Now all I have to focus on academically is my beloved thesis. I did some analysis today, and even had time to dance. This past week was amazing, and spent with some of the most wonderful people I rarely have a chance to see <3 Phoenix and I had a tentacle party in the back of Rachel's car, and Hannah made me waffles :D :D!! And I got to introduce them all to my girlfriend, which was fantastic.
Now I have to go to work and spend a few hours with the most idiotic person I've ever met, but I'm considerably less annoyed about it than I usually am. I feel awake and happy and on-task.
Maybe I'll even start updating my LJ more often. Hah! |
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[Nov. 12th, 2009|02:35 pm] |
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In searching Google with the keywords "Caribbean tourism advertisements," I get this image:
Fuck the Mayan calendar - the end of the world is here, and its name is Twilight. |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2009|12:44 pm] |
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Holy f- ATTENTION LIVEJOURNAL.
My phonology midterm is DONE. Not only is it done, but I am actually incredibly confident that it is CORRECT. Do you realize how often that happens with me and theoretical linguistics? About never. And usually my confidence is more of a shaky "Well at least I have something semi-intelligent on paper that can be backed up if you ignore all of these glaring inconsistencies." This time I'm really, truly positive that I did the problem right.
I just went from having a weekend of tears to a weekend of minimal homework, seeing as how I have been busting my ass the past two days and have gotten most of it finished in preparation for slitting my wrists over this midterm. I still have a presentation to give on Tuesday, but I have read the chapter I'm doing twice and have 3 pages of questions for the class. AND it's not due for another four days.
I'd go to my friend's and celebrate, but my bras are currently in the dryer. Oh well. Celebration can wait for the spin cycle to finish! |
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[Sep. 27th, 2009|12:00 am] |
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AH!
Lacuna Coil was so so so so good. I would totally go see them again. Even though I'm really meh about the new album, they played "Fragile" and "Our Truth" and "Heaven's a Lie" and Cristina is unearthly sexy, so it all balanced out!
Now if only my ears would stop ringing, I'd be all set. |
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[Sep. 14th, 2009|02:31 pm] |
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So while I was getting some stuff done, I was watching a marathon of Discovery's "A Haunting." There's a very specific trend that occurs in that show. First, a couple is involved, and one is being haunted while the other struggles to understand what's going on, until they BOTH witness something and are instantly bonded over it. Second, the haunting is invariably the result of some evil entity - never just a restless, bored spirit - and the only course of action is to involve the church. Third, when one member of the family hears a weird noise, they go after it with a gun.
A gun. Who goes after a ghost with a gun?
Anyway, the show's horribly stupid, but amusing background noise. It's so formulaic I can't imagine anyone actually believing it, but maybe I watch too much Ghost Hunters and have too much respect for legitimate paranormal research and investigation to buy that crap.
Next decent paycheck, and I'm totally getting one of these. Fwahaha. |
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[Sep. 4th, 2009|10:41 pm] |
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| | excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lacuna Coil - Reverie | ] |
So I just bought tickets to...
All That Remain with Lacuna Coil @ The Lost Horizon (9/26/2009,6:00 pm EST)
The joy that I feel at finally seeing one of my favorite bands is overwhelming :D How I am going to survive an entire evening staring at Cristina Scabbia, however, I've yet to figure out. |
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[Sep. 3rd, 2009|11:25 pm] |
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Primary academic pet-peeve:
Professors changing due-dates/adding assignments AFTER class. It's been what, THREE days since I started classes? It's already happened once.
Time to get cracking on another, unexpected article so that I can have my 4-page response ready by Sunday night (class isn't until Tuesday morning). Did I mention I'm working from 2-10 tomorrow, 1-10 Saturday, and 11-7 Sunday?
Fuh. Thank god I only have two classes this semester. |
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[Jul. 1st, 2009|11:06 pm] |
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New nose rings.
Are.
AWESOME.
*so pleased* |
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[Jun. 27th, 2009|12:33 pm] |
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Mmm. Ok. I am doing pretty well with my to-do list today, despite waking up at 10am. Did some laundry, bought some new nose rings online (RIP my lovely Indian nose ring...still thanking the gods that when Isabelle knocked it out the stud broke, and it didn't rip my nostril in half), made a flower for my boss's kid, and I have 3 hours until I have to go to work. Still need to dance (oh lord, between family and...well, more family, I haven't danced or even gone to class in about a month D:) and clean a little bit. Then my day will have been short, but productive.
I have two weeks until I have to entertain again (Yee! But that will be fun entertaining...). If no one dies in the interim, I'll be a happy lady. |
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[Jun. 6th, 2009|02:38 pm] |
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Fwahahaha. My mom said I could get a snake - FINALLY.
Now I just have to figure out where. The guy from the local exotic pets store never messaged me back on MySpace, so I guess it'll be a mail-order deal. Any suggestions, anyone? |
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[Jun. 1st, 2009|07:19 am] |
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| | bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Sirenia - Seven Keys and Nine Doors | ] |
All right, so I have been waiting for a song to catch my ear to prompt a choreography for a few months now. Since February really, when I did my last choreography. I was listening to my ipod this morning while walking my uncle's dog (wooo dog-sitting!), and...well, the good news is that a song finally jumped out at me. The bad news? It's by Collide.
Oyyy, you know, I wanted to do something fast this time around to recover from my Teltar Apredun experience, but it looks like I get to destroy my muscles again. OH WELL - it's what I'm good at, I guess >.>
And now, off to work. I realize that I have too many friends, and one hell of a time trying to see them all in a week. Sorry guys :( |
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[May. 25th, 2009|10:43 am] |
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| | Sirenia - Glades of Summer | ] |
Taught some ladies a bunch of tribal moves last night (that they caught onto incredibly quickly), and am now delightfully sore. Also ate some really tasty but totally unhealthy potatoes last night, and feel gross. Ohwell.
Off to Rochester after work today! Excited excited. It's been a while since I've been. I should stop sitting around being lazy at the computer and actually pack some stuff. I want to do some yoga before I leave.
Whee stuff!!
As of this summer, I'm pretty certain that I'm not going to be attempting a phD program - at least not right out of my master's program - so I hope you DC ladies and gents still have your eyes out for job openings :p |
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[May. 24th, 2009|01:31 am] |
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| | jubilant | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lacuna Coil - Our Truth | ] |
This entry is going to be almost completely opposite the one I wrote a mere half a day ago.
Tonight's show was amazing. It was so amazing. It was a dance gathering like I haven't experienced since back at Je'Bon, or drum circles at Studio Yoga, or Folk Tours. Maybe not quite as big a deal as Folk Tours, and not nearly as intimate as Je'Bon or drum circles, but the feeling and the sentiment and the energy was the same, on some important level for me. Maybe I just haven't been around it for too long...too busy, too jaded, too wrapped up in troupe drama (not really drama...no, more like troupe "happenings") to remember why I really dance. Too focused on endings rather than possible new beginnings, and the fact that dance will ALWAYS be my saving grace. It has saved me on so many other occasions (even when I think I'm done, that my Taurus personality has finally shed its interest and I should give up and let go). I don't know why I didn't think it would save me this time around, too.
I can feel the usual passion I feel toward the art creeping back into me, and I feel like I've finally recovered from the last couple horrible months. I may have finally let go of the stress that built up steadily from months on end of countless papers and bottomless schoolwork, life-changing experiences, and the steadily-declining health of family members. I have yet to fully recover from Pepper's death, and there's still a huge, horrible void in my life that she once occupied, but it feels like a pit that is possible to climb out of now, rather than scaling an endless wall.
Sometimes I just need to be shocked back into reality.
Interestingly (and probably less poetically), tonight I also ran into, of all people - Shems. It was funny because I was watching her dance, sitting with Trina and Sara, and kept whispering "God she looks JUST like this girl I know, but it can't be, because she lives five hours away and anyway why would Shems come all the way to Homer, NY? I don't even know why -I'M- in Homer, NY." Not two minutes later and I get hug-attacked from the side. Holy shit - I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. It was like my two dance worlds collided - the one that most recently saved me and the one that fully solidified my love - and it left me reeling, but I think I almost cried from the sheer joy it brought. As weird as that sounds. It was almost symbolic. Sorry, Shems, if I inadvertently oggled and gushed at you, but I WAS incredibly glad to see you, albeit completely and utterly surprised.
What a totally unexpected happening. Wow. Still totally out of it.
I need to force myself to sleep before I pass out at the keyboard. I have to work tomorrow, which is lame. Let's see if this renewed passion lasts past this evening's bellydance afterglow. I've a feeling it will though. Now I just need to find a way to get myself to various workshops - I have been slacking. |
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[May. 12th, 2009|02:31 pm] |
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Thanks, everyone, for your sentiments about my puppy. It still sucks - a lot - but it helps knowing that I'm not the only one who misses her.
Here's hoping the summer gets a little bit better as time goes on. Also, I'm sorry if I have missed any phone calls, texts, or messages otherwise sent in the past few days. I've spent the last couple of hours trying to catch up, but I probably missed something.
Going to go entertain myself somehow. Seems like there aren't enough hours in the day. |
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[May. 4th, 2009|11:39 pm] |
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Dear Gayatri:
You are broke. Stop buying ponies.
Thanks,
Me
I'm gonna go watch pretty girls in bad sci fi shows on TV now, because I don't have to be in bed, because I don't have to wake up and go to class or do homework tomorrow :D :D :D |
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[May. 3rd, 2009|09:15 pm] |
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| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Emilie Autumn - Misery Loves Company | ] |
Nnnnngh...ok, so need to get the following CDs as soon as I get the iTunes giftcard my mother mentioned she was getting me:
Lacuna Coil - In A Reverie
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Sirenia - Nine Destinies and a Downfall
The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia
And maybe The Birthday Massacre, but I might just pick and choose the songs I want there.
AH GOD...music...after the hell that was today, I feel the need to bury myself in good music. And maybe a bath. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2009|10:08 am] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | Delerium - Stopwatch Hearts | ] |
Ahem:
"In order to address issues with the dual talent specialization system, all players will have their talents points refunded. Players who have purchased dual talent specializations will have both specializations reset. Glyphs will not be affected by this reset."
Who called it? Who did? Me. I did.
I'll have these damn trees memorized before too long. |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2009|05:39 pm] |
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| |  cold | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Feel for You - Nightwish | ] |
GUISE...it's that magical, apparently-reoccurring time where I need YOUR help writing my term papers! This one should be super easy, too! Here's the deal:
I have compiled a list of sentences, and I need native English speaker intuition on the validity of them. I'm not talking about a grammar lesson - I mean, if you heard someone say these, would you not bat an eye and keep on with the conversation, or would you say "Wait what?" Could you hear yourself saying any of these, under any circumstances? In general, are they acceptable English sentences, in natural, unmonitored speech? If any are "sorta" acceptable, say why, or how they might be made to sound better; if some sound better than others and you feel the need to grade them in terms of acceptability, that's cool too.
All I REALLY need is a 'yes' or 'no,' although extrapolating on your answer is definitely encouraged. I need to fill up another four pages at least, so feel free to ramble and be quoted :3
Thanks guys :) here are the sentences:
1. Zoe kicked Rachel the ball.
2. Nick explained Julia the answer.
3. Annette explained Aideen the answer to the question on the test that she got wrong.
4. I flipped my friend a coin.
5. Almare whispered Amarthiel the secret code.
(Hannah, I hope you don't mind my borrowing your character names here ;D)
6. Saragoth illustrated Rohan the problem.
7. Emilie shoved Amanda the crate.
8. Kris hauled Grant the paper bag.
9. Gayatri hauled Sangeeta the paper bag full of fruits and vegetables.
That's all for now...might be more later. Isn't Dative Alternation fun? <3 |
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[Apr. 22nd, 2009|12:18 pm] |
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| |  busy | ] |
So I just realized that my last 4 or 5 posts are entirely about homework. And that's pretty sad. So let me write about something not related to homework (although I am honestly having a pretty hard time, since all I really want to do is talk about how I'm on PAGE FUCKING FIVE of my syntax paper from hell, and I'm aiming to have it finished by Friday...hee).
Went to dance class last night. I'm HORRIBLY rusty, and was exhausted beyond belief, but it was good to get back into it and I'm excited to start really working on stuff once school's over. I still have one more choreography to pull together in order to satisfy my New Year's dance resolutions. I made one choreo for my February Amtgard performance (even if I never was happy wit it, the audience liked it well enough, so I guess that's something), so I have one left to do before August. I'm gonna seriously whip myself into shape this summer. I haven't gotten horribly OUT of shape, but it's definitely time to work off my winter laziness. I have pop-locks to master, after all.
...I know I didn't want to discuss homework, but really - I just constructed sentence examples all with the names of my Warcraft characters, because it was easiest and if I don't have a stockpile of awesome names to use in my examples, I get stumped and spend twenty minutes debating between "Zoe" or "Annette." Jesus I'm a loser. |
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[Apr. 21st, 2009|03:12 pm] |
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Okay...I finished the rough draft of my discourse analysis (HOLY CRAP) and after five hours of straight editing, can't bring myself to do more work. I really, really need to work on my Syntax paper...but good god, I just need to take a b-
Scratch that, servers are up earlier than listed. Syntax can wait, I pulled my academic weight today. |
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